US10210957B2
A portable apparatus for borating a continuous flow of water includes metering assemblies provided with corresponding grinders and feeders; a feeder for supplying water to the circuit; a meter and/or flow regulator for adapting the concentration of the products supplied to the water; a pumping arrangement for conveying the mixture to a mixing reactor; a reactor with a mechanical mixer; a recirculation line of the mixer; and a supply pumping arrangement, preferably forming two units in independent cages or containers, including a crane arrangement for supplying the boration products in big bags.
US10210956B2
Method for real-time vascular modeling and assessment. Modeling, in some embodiments, comprises receiving a plurality of 2-D angiographic images of a portion of a vasculature of a subject, and processing the images to automatically detect 2-D features, for example, paths along vascular extents, which are projected into 3-D to determine homologous features among blood vessels and construct 3-D vascular extents and determine other vascular characteristics. Assessment, in some embodiments, comprises processing models selectively different from one another to produce one or more vascular indexes which indicate a diagnostic preference, for example, to perform a medical intervention such as a stent implantation. Speed is achieved, for example, by the method being optimized for determining the effects of a medical intervention. In some embodiments, results are produced quickly enough to allow use of the method to perform PCI within the same catheterization used to perform diagnostic imaging.
US10210953B2
A substantially real-time voice, text, and messaging communications system employs application triggers for communications. A system provides communication between an executable application and a worker The system comprises at least one repository including, mapping information associating predetermined indicators conveyed by transaction messages with tasks performed by corresponding workers and communication routing information for use in establishing communication with the corresponding workers. A filter automatically accesses transaction messages processed by an executable application and uses the mapping information to identify a predetermined indicator in a received transaction message and a particular worker associated with the received transaction message. A communication interface generates voice message data representing a voice message for communication to the particular worker in response to identifying the predetermined indicator in the received transaction message and uses the routing information to wirelessly communicate the voice message data to a voice message reproduction device borne by the particular worker. The voice message conveys information concerning content of the received transaction message.
US10210952B2
A system and method for performing automated contact and information delivery includes one or more doctor office interface devices, and one or more medical facility interface devices that communicate with a site owner system over a network. The system and method permit a doctor office to designate one or more medical professionals to receive messages about a patient at a medical facility, based on the circumstances of the case. The system and method provide a connect on call module for facilitating direct communication between the facility employee and the identified medical professional utilizing both textual and audio/visual mechanisms without revealing the confidential contact information of the medical professional to the facility employee.
US10210951B2
Techniques are described for detecting the presence or absence of certain molecules, analytes, or substances present in the oral cavity or characteristics of the saliva in the oral cavity. In particular, aspects of the invention disclose a systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer-readable media for detecting bio-markers.
US10210946B2
According to some aspects, a low-leakage switch is provided. In some embodiments, the low-leakage switch includes a plurality of pass transistors in series that selectively couple two ports of the low-leakage switch and a node biasing circuit coupled to a node between the plurality of pass transistors. In these embodiments, the node biasing circuit may adjust a voltage at the node to change the gate-to-source voltage of the pass transistors and, thereby, reduce the leakage current through the pass transistors when the low-leakage switch is turned off. The node biasing circuit may also include circuitry to reduce the leakage current introduced by the node biasing circuit into the node when the low-leakage switch is turned on.
US10210942B2
Provided is a semiconductor memory device and a method of operating the same. The semiconductor memory device may include a memory unit including a plurality of memory blocks; a voltage supply circuit configured to generate a plurality of operating voltages and output the generated operating voltages to at least two global line groups during a program operation on the memory unit; a pass circuit configured to couple word lines of the memory blocks to the at least two global line groups; and a control logic configured to control the voltage supply circuit and the pass circuit such that during a program verify operation of the program operation, a program verify voltage is applied to a selected memory block of the memory blocks, and a set voltage is applied to a share memory block sharing with the selected memory block among unselected memory blocks.
US10210941B1
A memory device and associated techniques for optimizing the channel boosting level in an unselected NAND string during a read operation for a selected NAND string. A tracking circuit tracks an indicator of a floating voltage of unselected word lines of a block. For example, this can include tracking a time since a last sensing operation, and determining whether a power on event has occurred without a subsequent sensing operation. In response to a read command, the indicator is used to set parameters in the read operation which can reduce disturbs. This can include setting a duration and/or a magnitude of a select gate voltage pulse during the increase of the voltage of the unselected word lines. The duration and/or a magnitude of the control gate voltage pulse can also be set based on a temperature.
US10210932B2
Provided are, among others, memory circuits or devices and their applications in electronic devices or systems and various implementations of an electronic device which includes a semiconductor memory unit including one or more column, a data line, and a data line bar connected with a column selected among the one or more columns. Each of the one or more columns may include a plurality of storage cells each configured to store 1-bit data, each storage cell including a first and a second variable resistance elements; a bit line connected to one end of the first variable resistance element; a bit line bar connected to one end of the second variable resistance element; a source line connected to the other ends of the first and second variable resistance elements; and a driving block configured to latch data of the data line and the data line bar.
US10210930B2
A nonvolatile semiconductor storage apparatus is provided. To a data node and a reference node, a first transistor and a second transistor are respectively connected. In a data state determining operation, in the case where voltage is applied to the data node and reference node, the first and second transistors operate as precharge transistors in a first operation mode, and operate as mirror transistors in a second operation mode. The first and second operation modes are switched.
US10210918B2
Apparatuses and methods for determining a phase relationship between an input clock signal and a multiphase clock signal are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a clock path configured to receive a clock signal and provide internal clock signals and a command path configured to receive a command and propagate the command through the command path responsive to the internal clock signals and provide an internal command having a timing that reflects a timing of the clock signal. The example apparatus further includes a data clock path configured to receive a data clock signal and provide multiphase clock signals based on the data clock signal and provide a delayed multiphase clock signal, and further includes a clock synchronization circuit configured to receive the delayed multiphase clock signal and latch a logic level of the delayed multiphase clock signal responsive to the internal command.
US10210916B1
A reading circuit is provided in the invention. The reading circuit includes a pre-charger, a bit-line selecting circuit, and a latch circuit. The pre-charger receives a pre-charging control signal and the pre-charger is opened or closed according to the pre-charging control signal. The bit-line selecting circuit is coupled with the pre-charger at a node and selects a bit line for reading data according to a selecting signal. The latch circuit is coupled with the pre-charger at a node and outputs and latches the data of the bit line.
US10210912B2
Managing temperature of a semiconductor device having a temperature inverted processor core and stacked memory by operation of an integrated thermoelectric cooler. The thermoelectric cooler is operated to pump heat from a stacked memory device that requires a cool operating temperature to a temperature inverted processor core that maintains a higher operating temperature until threshold operating temperatures are achieved.
US10210910B2
HDD case (100) accommodates HDD device (60) having a disk medium and forms HDD unit (50). HDD unit (50) is removably disposed in an accommodating section of an electronic device. HDD device (60) has a substantially rectangular shape. Besides, HDD case (100) has a pair of side sections (120) located parallel to slot-in/pull-out directions in which HDD unit (50) is slotted into the accommodating section and is pulled out from the accommodating section. Further, protruding section (121) is formed on side sections (120) such that a part of side sections (120) is protruded on the outer side of HDD case (100). In a state where HDD case (100) is accommodated in the accommodating section of the electronic device, protruding section (121) makes contact with the side surface of the accommodating section.
US10210905B2
A flight path management system manages flight paths for an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV). The flight path management system receives a sequence of controller inputs for the UAV, and stores the sequence of controller inputs in a memory. The flight path management system accesses the memory and selects a selected section of the sequence of controller inputs corresponding to a time period. The flight management system outputs the selected section to a playback device in real time over a length of the time period.
US10210903B2
A production system having a first production path, a second production path, and a control system that causes the first production path to generate a show in a first aspect ratio and the second production path to generate the same show in a second aspect ratio. Moreover, the product system can product a show from live material and from archived material. This aspect operates by producing a first show including multiple stories, segmenting the first show, and storing the show segments in an archive. Then, the system produces a second show using live portions as well as show segments retrieved from the archive. The product system can include a media manager that interacts with a server that may be integrated with the production system. The media manager automatically assigns channels/ports of the server when accessing material stored in the server.
US10210897B1
A disc pick-and-place device for picking and clamping multiple discs and unloading the multiple discs is provided. The disc pick-and-place device includes a supporting body, multiple picking members and a driver. The picking members are disposed around a support body and flexibly abut the edges of the discs. Each picking member includes a flexible rod, a first carrying portion and a second carrying portion. The first carrying portion and the second carrying portion are located on the flexible rod and separated by an interval. The first carrying portion and the second carrying portion partly overlap with each other in an axial direction of the flexible rod. The driver is for driving each flexible rod to rotate and move each first carrying portion and each second carrying portion to a disc releasing position or a disc holding position.
US10210894B1
According to one embodiment, a magnetic recording medium includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer includes a first magnetic region, a second magnetic region, and a nonmagnetic region provided between the first and second magnetic regions. A direction from the second magnetic region toward the first magnetic region is along a first direction. The second layer includes third, fourth, and fifth magnetic regions. At least a portion of the fifth magnetic region is provided between the third and fourth magnetic regions. The third magnetic region overlaps the first magnetic region in a second direction crossing the first direction. The fourth magnetic region overlaps the second magnetic region in the second direction. The fifth magnetic region overlaps the nonmagnetic region in the second direction. An easy magnetization axis of each of the first to fifth magnetic regions is aligned with the second direction.
US10210881B2
A protected extended playback mode protects the integrity of audio and side information of a spatial audio signal and sound object and position information of audio objects in an immersive audio capture and rendering environment. Integrity verification data for audio-related data determined. An integrity verification value is computable dependent on the transmitted audio-related data. The integrity verification value can be compared with the integrity verification data for verifying the audio-related data transmitted in the audio stream for generating a playback signal having a mode dependent on the verification of the audio-related data A transmitting device transmits that integrity verification data and the audio-related data in an audio stream for reception by a receiving device. The audio stream, including the audio-related data and integrity verification data are received by the receiving device. The integrity verification value is computed by the receiving device, compared with the integrity verification data, and a playback signal is generated depending on whether the integrity verification value matches the integrity verification data.
US10210875B2
An audio watermarking system conveys information using an audio channel by modulating an audio signal to produce a modulated signal by embedding additional information into the audio signal. Modulating the audio signal includes segmenting the audio signal into overlapping time segments using a non-rectangular analysis window function produce a windowed audio signal, processing the windowed audio signal for a time segment to produce frequency coefficients representing the windowed time segment and having phase values and magnitude values, selecting one or more of the frequency coefficients, modifying phase values of the selected frequency coefficients using the additional information to map the phase values onto a known phase constellation, and processing the frequency coefficients including the modified phase values to produce the modulated signal.
US10210869B1
A system, device and method for validating a 911 caller is provided. A recording is received that includes a voice sample of a caller, the recording associated with an incident. A voiceprint for the caller is generated from the voice sample. A communication device of a responder responding to the incident is identified. An indication of the voiceprint for the caller is transmitted to the communication device, to cause: a comparison of the voiceprint with sound received at the communication device; and, in response to the comparison, an initiation of an action.
US10210861B1
In one embodiment synthetic training data items are generated, each comprising a) a textual representation of a synthetic sentence and b) one or more transcodes of the synthetic sentence comprising one or more actions and one or more entities associated with the one or more actions. For each synthetic training data item, the textual representation of the synthetic sentence is converted into a sequence of phonemes that represent the synthetic sentence. A first machine learning model is then trained as a transcoder that determines transcodes comprising actions and associated entities from sequences of phonemes, wherein the training is performed using a first training dataset comprising the plurality of synthetic training data items that comprise a) sequences phonemes that represent synthetic sentences and b) transcodes of the synthetic sentences. The transcoder may be used in a conversational agent.
US10210851B2
This disclosure is directed to a drum hoop comprising a rim and tension bolt attachment moieties. The tension bold attachment moieties are attached to the rim and configured so that when the drum hoop receives a drumhead, the drumhead fits in the drum hoop snugly and there is little, or no, excess space between the drum hoop and drumhead.
US10210843B2
Embodiments herein provide a method for automatically adapting content on a HMD device. The method includes receiving the vital parameters of the user while viewing an immersive view of the content on the HMD device. Further, the method includes determining that the vital parameters of the user meet a threshold criteria. Further, the method includes generating a modified immersive view including at least one visual element of the content modified based on the behavioral parameters of the user. Further, the method includes causing to display modified immersive view on the HMD device.
US10210833B2
A display device includes a primary display area which comprises a first display area and a second display area which is unique from the first display area, a control unit configured to display an image in the primary display area, an image signal generating unit configured to generate display data based on externally input image data for a single image. The image signal generating unit comprises a memory which stores display-position information indicating a display location of a first image displayed in the primary display area. The display data comprises first and second display data to be displayed in the first display area and the second display area, respectively. The first display data is generated based on the externally input single image data and the display-position information. The control unit is configured to cause a first image to be displayed in the first display area based on the first display data.
US10210825B2
According to one embodiment, a display device, includes a first main pixel including first to third sub-pixels, a second main pixel including fourth to sixth sub-pixels, a display driver which produces video signals to be written to the respective sub-pixels of the first and second main pixels and supplies the video signals to the respective sub-pixels via signal lines, any one of the first to third sub-pixels and any one of the fourth to sixth sub-pixels sharing one of the signal lines.
US10210823B2
A light deflector includes a first light deflecting member disposed on a transparent substrate and has a refractive index that varies depending on a magnitude of an electric field applied thereto. The light deflector may adjust the refractive index by applying electric fields differently according to regions of the first light deflecting member or time divisions. The light deflector may have a smaller size than a light deflector including an optical device, and may easily adjust the refractive index.
US10210821B2
A light source apparatus includes: a light-emitting unit having a plurality of light-emitting diodes having mutually different light emission colors; a setting unit configured to seta drive mode; and a control unit configured to drive the light-emitting unit in such that each of the plurality of light-emitting diodes emits light periodically, by a drive method corresponding to the drive mode set by the setting unit, wherein in a case where the light-emitting unit is lit with a predetermined light emission brightness, in a light-emitting diode from among the plurality of light-emitting diodes, a drive current value during a lighting period is lower and a lighting period during one cycle is longer in a second drive mode than those in a first drive mode.
US10210817B2
The present application discloses a circuit for driving a light emitting diode light source assembly having a plurality of light emitting diode groups, each group having at least one light emitting diode. The circuit includes a processor configured to determine a set brightness level, calculate a number of light emitting diode groups required to be on to achieve the set brightness level, and select the number of light emitting diode groups to be turned on at allocated positions in the light emitting diode light source assembly; and a driving sub-circuit configured to turn on the number of light emitting diode groups at the allocated positions. The number of light emitting diode groups is a positive integer N, N is less than a total number of the plurality of light emitting diode groups.
US10210816B2
An image display apparatus (and a method for dimming a light source) includes a light source and display units that spatially modulate a light from the light source on the basis of an input video signal to form an image, and performs dimming control to adjust luminance of the light source in stages. The image display apparatus includes a light source dimming unit that determines whether to perform dimming control on the basis of the input video signal, acquires a dimming rate, which is a ratio of brightness of an input image to a maximum luminance output from the light source, and sets the output of the light source to the maximum luminance output when a dimming rate of a frame immediately before a frame determined not to be subjected to dimming control is lower than a threshold.
US10210812B2
There is provided a display panel including a plurality of white subpixels configured to display a white image, a gate line connected with the white subpixels and extended in a row direction, and an in-pixel gate driver including in-pixel elements exclusively in the white subpixels and connected with the gate line to supply a gate signal to the gate line.
US10210802B2
The invention provides a driver circuit for OLED display panel, which comprises: a plurality of control signal output units (10), and a plurality of pixel light-emitting driver units (20) arranged in an array form, the plurality of control signal output units (10) respectively receiving a feedback control signal reflecting the ageing information of the OLED in a different active area of the OLED display panel, and each control signal output unit (10) correspondingly outputting an adjustable light-emitting control signal to at least a pixel light-emitting driver unit (20) according to the received feedback control signal to adjust the light emission time of the corresponding pixel light-emitting driver unit in a frame cycle so as to compensate the reduced luminance caused by aged OLED and improve the uneven luminance problem of OLED display panel.
US10210799B2
The invention provides a pixel compensation circuit and a display device. Control terminals of first and second switches connects first and second light-emitting control terminals, first terminals of the first and second switches are connected; a control terminal of a third switch receives a first signal, a first terminal connects a second terminal of the first switch, a second terminal connects a first terminal of a driving switch; an anode of a diode connects a second terminal of the driving switch, a cathode connects a second voltage terminal; a control terminal and a first terminal of a fourth switch receive second and third signals, a second terminal connects a control terminal of the driving switch; a first capacitor connects the control terminal of the driving switch and a second terminal of the second switch, a second capacitor connects the second terminals of the first and second switches.
US10210795B2
An LED display module is disclosed. The LED display module includes a substrate; a plurality of multi-pixel packages arrayed in a matrix with rows and columns, respectively, each of the multi-pixel packages including a package substrate and two or more pixels located on the package substrate and each of the pixels including a red LED chip, a green LED chip, and a blue LED chip; and a driver IC adapted to independently control the pixels of the multi-pixel packages. Anode terminals of the LED chips in the pixels adjacent in the row direction are connected in common to one another such that the pixels are scanned in rows in response to scan signals.
US10210790B2
An electroluminescent display includes an array of pixels, each including a capacitor, an electroluminescent (EL) device, a first group of transistors and a second group of transistors. The first group of transistors, coupled between a first terminal of the capacitor and a data input, provides a compensation voltage according to data received at the data input. The compensation voltage is composed of a threshold voltage of each of the first group of transistors. The second group of transistors passes a current through the EL device that has a magnitude independent of a threshold voltage of the second group of transistors. In a first phase, a voltage level at the first terminal of the capacitor is reset. In a second phase, data is stored in the capacitor and received via the first group of transistors, and the compensation voltage is generated. In a third phase, the current is passed.
US10210786B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a color compensator calculating a mixed color coordinate of a mixed light of an image light and an external light based on a first color coordinate of the image light, a second color coordinate of the external light, and a luminance ratio of a second luminance value of the external light to a first luminance value of the image light and compensating the first color coordinate based on the mixed color coordinate to generate an output image data, and a panel driver providing a driving signal to the display panel to display an image corresponding to the output image data.
US10210771B2
A system for transferring data comprises an input interface and a processor. The input interface is configured to receive event information from a vehicle event recorder including an event type for each event associated with the event information. The processor is configured to determine a historical coachable profile for event types associated with the event information and select a group of events to transfer based at least in part on the historical coachable profile for the event types.
US10210770B2
A landscaping stencil including a flat body having at least one removable cut out formed in a shape for delineating an area for landscaping material. A three-dimensional landscaping stencil including a three-dimensional wall formed in a shape for delineating an area for landscaping material. Kits for landscaping. A method of landscaping by placing a landscaping stencil including a flat body having at least one removable cut out formed in a shape for delineating an area for landscaping material on top of a planting area, removing the at least one removable cut out, and filling landscaping material in the shape left by the least one removable cut out. A method of landscaping by placing a three-dimensional landscaping stencil including a three-dimensional wall formed in a shape for delineating an area for landscaping material on top of a planting area, and filling landscaping material in the shape.
US10210738B2
A system and method for gas exposure monitoring of a work area are described. The system may include components that receive an alarm data item from a sensor device. The alarm data item may be generated in response to a first user being exposed to a gas concentration measured by the sensor device. A processor may receive a location of the sensor device in the work area based on a location identifier of the sensor device. A second user located within a predetermined vicinity of the sensor device may be identified. The second user may be identified by the processor. The system may transmit an indication of the alarm data item received from the first user and the location of the sensor device in the work area to the second user. The transmission may be automatic on detection of the second user's location.
US10210730B2
A security system to detect a concealed item carried by a traveler in motion, the security system includes a camera configured to capture an image series of the traveler in a Eulerian or Lagrangian frame of reference, wherein the captured image series contains motions generated by the concealed item; an alarm system configured to produce an alert signal; and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to magnify motions generated by the concealed item to generate perceptible motions, provide an output image series that contains the perceptible motion, detect characteristic kinematic behaviors of the concealed item from the output image series, measure characteristic kinematic quantities of the characteristic kinematic behaviors, determine a presence of the concealed item from the characteristic kinematic quantities, and activate the alarm system to produce the alert signal.
US10210719B1
A security-monitoring platform adapted to automatically handle and route security alerts to security personnel through personnel assistant devices. The personnel assistant devices preferably include location and availability information that can be conveyed to the security-monitoring platform. The system and method includes analyzing location information for the security alert source with respect to the availability and location information for each personnel assistant device to identify one or more security guards that can handle the security alert. The system is able to automatically perform these tasks without having to first be routed through a queue for analysis from a security-monitoring platform operator. As a result, the system and method overcomes this major issue in the industry of delayed processing of security alerts and is able to more efficiently and effectively process a plurality of security alerts simultaneously.
US10210717B2
Various embodiments are configured to detect a foreign object that has been implanted into or onto a device, such as a secure POS terminal. The implanted object can be a device that is designed to skim data (such as account information from a transaction card or other transaction device) and transmit the skimmed data to a nearby receiver using an RF transmission, such as Bluetooth or WIFI. The RF transmission can be detected by a RF detector in the POS terminal, the detected signal is converted to a voltage signal, and is input to the ADC port of a microprocessor where it is subsequently analyzed to determine if the RF transmission is from a foreign object. The POS terminal may forward collected data on the RF transmission to a cloud/backend server. Further analysis may occur at the cloud/backend server.
US10210713B2
According to various embodiments, an apparatus may laser project a customized ordering of numbers onto a roulette wheel.
US10210695B2
An article dispensing apparatus capable of dispensing repeatedly the lowest-positioned article from a stack of articles while keeping the second lowest-positioned article in a stable situation is provided. A retainer for retaining the stack of articles is formed in a storing space of a storing section. In a dispensing section for dispensing the lowest-positioned article from the stack through the dispensing opening, a pusher includes an article placement portion on which the remainder of the articles is placed after the lowest-positioned article is dispensed from the stack. During the dispensing operation, the remainder of the articles is received temporarily on the article placement portion of the pusher in such a way that a lowest-positioned article of the remainder (i.e., the second lowest-positioned article in the stack) keeps its ordinary attitude in the storing space.
US10210690B1
A housing can include a first part and a second part. Each of the first part and the second part can include a first surface, a second surface, a third surface, a fourth surface, and a fifth surface. The second surface can form a first edge with the first surface. The third surface can form a second edge with the second surface. The fourth surface can form a third edge with the third surface. The first part can be attached, via an attachment, to the second part so that the first surfaces form an exterior surface of the housing, the second surfaces abut each other, the third surfaces abut each other, the fourth surfaces abut each other, and the fifth surfaces define an interior space of the housing. The attachment can be within the interior space and can include an ultrasonic weld. The housing can house an antenna.
US10210673B2
Methods and systems are provided for determining barometric pressure. In one example, an onboard vacuum pump is utilized to draw a vacuum at a constant flow rate across a reference orifice, and the resulting vacuum level is converted to a barometric pressure. In this way, other sensors for determining barometric pressure in a vehicle may be rationalized without the use of engine operation, and in an example where the other sensors for determining barometric pressure are not functioning as desired, barometric pressure as inferred from the onboard pump may be utilized to adjust engine operation.
US10210672B2
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to controlling a vehicle to selectively collect event data. In one embodiment, a method includes, in response to receiving a collection request from a remote server, identifying defined parameters from the collection request about which data is to be harvested from the vehicle. The defined parameters include at least a content parameter that indicates criteria for determining which data associated with the vehicle is to be collected. The method includes collecting, from one or more vehicle systems of the vehicle, event data as a function of the content parameter and discarding extraneous data that does not match the content parameter. The method includes providing the event data to fulfill the collection request.
US10210645B2
This disclosure relates generally to the field of image processing and, more particularly, to various techniques and animation tools for allowing 2D and 3D graphics rendering and animation infrastructures to be able to dynamically render customized animations—without the need for the customized animations to be explicitly tied to any particular graphical entity. These so-called entity agnostic animations may then be integrated into “mixed” graphical scenes (i.e., scenes with both two-dimensional and three-dimensional components), where they may be: applied to any suitable graphical entity; visualized in real-time by the programmer; edited dynamically by the programmer; and shared across various computing platforms and environments that support the entity agnostic animation tools described herein. The entity agnostic animations created by the techniques described herein may be output directly to the current scene file that a programmer is working on, or they may be output to standalone, reusable entity agnostic animation object files.
US10210643B2
An image processing apparatus generates an image from a captured image, in which an influence of fine particles in an atmosphere has been reduced. The image processing apparatus acquires the captured image, performs correction processing (i) to correct the captured image to reduce the influence of fine particles in the atmosphere, based on a pixel value of a pixel in which a scattered light component is enhanced due to the fine particles, and (ii) to generate a corrected captured image, and outputs an image based on the corrected captured image. The pixel value of the pixel, in which the scattered light component is enhanced due to the fine particles, is determined based on a lower pixel value, except for a minimum pixel value, within a predetermined block that includes the pixel in the captured image.
US10210641B2
A method for displaying graphic layers is provided. The method includes: receiving a plurality of graphic layers; assigning sequence numbers to the graphic layers according to an overlay order; assigning a weight value to each graphic layer according to a manner; establishing a layer order according to the sequence numbers and the weight values; and displaying the graphic layers according to the layer order.
US10210636B2
A method, system, and computer program product provide the ability to ink a drawing. A coarse original sketch is loaded. User input drawing an initial stroke over the coarse original sketch is accepted. A stroke smoothness of the initial stroke is measured. A similarity between the initial stroke and the coarse original sketch is measured to determine a snap affect. The stroke smoothness and the snap affect are combined. The initial stroke is automatically/dynamically, without additional user input, modified based on the combination.
US10210635B2
Reconstruction quality is assessed in medical imaging. An amount of local non-uniformity in a distribution of a statistical measure (e.g., MCDF) is determined. The amount indicates a level of reconstruction quality. A more easily understood amount rather than a rendering of MCDF and/or the amount being a function of local artifacts aids a radiologist in recognizing reconstruction quality and determining whether different reconstruction is warranted.
US10210632B2
A method for reconstructing image data during CT imaging is described. In the method, a plurality of independent data records of projection measured data are captured. A combined data record is then determined based on the captured data records. In addition, morphological information is determined based on the combined data record. A target data record is also determined based on the captured independent data records. A target image data record is reconstructed based on the target data record and the determined morphological information. An image data determination facility and a computed tomography system are also described.
US10210623B2
A system is disclosed for auditing waste retrieved by a service vehicle. The system may have an optical sensor mountable onboard the service vehicle and configured to capture image data associated with the waste as the waste falls into the service vehicle during completion of a waste service activity. The system may also have at least one controller in communication with the optical sensor and being configured to generate at least one of an alert and a recommendation regarding a mix of the waste based on the image data.
US10210616B2
Methods are described for detecting an edge of an object within an image with a fractional differential operator. Methods are also described for calculating 3D information using a strip pattern and the disclosed edge detection method. The fractional differential operator may be a modified Riesz space fractional differential operator. When calculating the fractional derivative of the image, a kernel approximation, in which a scaled Gaussian kernel function or a simplified scaled Gaussian kernel function, is applied to discretize the modified Riesz space fractional differential operator locally. The disclosed method improves the accuracy of edge detection, eliminates the need of applying additional fractional integration for noise suppression, and requires a smaller mask length to achieve desired accuracy.
US10210613B2
The present embodiments relate to detecting multiple landmarks in medical images. By way of introduction, the present embodiments described below include apparatuses and methods for detecting landmarks using hierarchical feature learning with end-to-end training. Multiple neural networks are provided with convolutional layers for extracting features from medical images and with a convolutional layer for learning spatial relationships between the extracted features. Each neural network is trained to detect different landmarks using a different resolution of the medical images, and the convolutional layers of each neural network are trained together with end-to-end training to learn appearance and spatial configuration simultaneously. The trained neural networks detect multiple landmarks in a test image iteratively by detecting landmarks at different resolutions, using landmarks detected a lesser resolutions to detect additional landmarks at higher resolutions.
US10210609B2
Integrated deep learning and clinical image viewing and reporting are provided. In some embodiments, a clinical image is received. An annotated image is generated from the clinical image by application of a deep learning system. At least one clinical finding is generated from the clinical image by application of the deep learning system. The annotated image and the at least one clinical finding are provided to a user. A structured report is generated based on the annotated image and the at least one clinical finding.
US10210606B2
Methods and systems for measuring overlay error between structures formed on a substrate by successive lithographic processes are presented herein. Two overlay targets, each having programmed offsets in opposite directions are employed to perform an overlay measurement. Overlay error is measured based on zero order scatterometry signals and scatterometry data is collected from each target at two different azimuth angles. In addition, methods and systems for creating an image-based measurement model based on measured, image-based training data are presented. The trained, image-based measurement model is then used to calculate values of one or more parameters of interest directly from measured image data collected from other wafers. The methods and systems for image based measurement described herein are applicable to both metrology and inspection applications.
US10210593B2
A graphics processing unit (GPU) may dispatch a first set of commands for execution on one or more processing units of the GPU. The GPU may receive notification from a host device indicating that a second set of commands are ready to execute on the GPU. In response, the GPU may issue a first preemption command at a first preemption granularity to the one or more processing units. In response to the GPU failing to preempt execution of the first set of commands within an elapsed time period after issuing the first preemption command, the GPU may issue a second preemption command at a second preemption granularity to the one or more processing units, where the second preemption granularity is finer-grained than the first preemption granularity.
US10210590B2
In one embodiment, a computing device receives receive a request for particular content associated with an application. The device may determine, based on a first recycling policy associated with a first recycler, that the first recycler associated with the application includes a display object that is capable of being used for containing the particular content. The device may encapsulate the display object with the particular content in a wrapper object and return the wrapper object encapsulating the display object in response to the request. The device may receive an indication that the display object is no longer needed, and extract the display object from the wrapper object. The display object may be stored in the first recycler. The wrapper object without the display object may be disposed in accordance with a second recycling policy associated with a second recycler associated with an operating system of the computing device.
US10210589B2
A system and method for mapping standard measurements to local measurements. The system and measurements reading a structured report information object, matching the standard measurements from the structured report information object to corresponding existing local measurements from a local measurement database and generating a summary page including the matched standard measurements and the corresponding existing local measurements and further including unmatched standard measurements that do not correspond to local measurements.
US10210584B2
The present invention provides for reconciling an electronic statement of events. In this regard, the present provides for presenting, within a GUI, display of events that a user has designated as reconciled in a condensed view, such that the typical single line of text or multi-line text that represents an event is either diminished or removed from the GUI. In additional embodiments of the invention, in response to presenting the condensed view, a second listing, a chart and/or a table may be presented in the GUI alongside the events yet to be reconciled, which lists or indicates the events that have been reconciled. As a result the user is provided with an “at a glance” view of reconciled events/transactions and can readily ascertain the progress that is being made toward completion of the reconciliation process.
US10210583B2
An apparatus and method for an integrated automated bill and budget reconciliation, cash flow allocation, and payment software system are disclosed.
US10210578B2
A system and method in accordance with example embodiments may include automated receipt and bill collection, aggregation, and processing. Additionally, a system and method in accordance with example embodiments may a customer opt-in, scan one or more electronic messages including receipts and bills, retrieve transaction information from one or more electronic messages, associate retrieved transaction data with existing database data, and utilize the associated data to provide contextual information to a user.
US10210566B1
Disclosed are method and apparatus that host auctions for completing payment transactions that benefit a party of the transactions. The technique transmits bidding invitations for completing a payment transaction to multiple payment processors. Among the received auction bids, the technique selects a winning bid from an individual payment processor that offers a best benefit to a party involved in the payment transaction (e.g., a consumer or a merchant). Through the auction process, the technique enables a cost-effective routing for completing the payment transaction.
US10210564B2
Embodiments provide a method for viewing online products in real-size. The method includes a computing device receiving one or more instructions to view an image of an online product in real-size on a selected surface. The device then determines one or more dimensions of the online product and projects the image of the online product on the selected surface, where one or more dimensions of the projected image are equal to the one or more dimensions of the online product.
US10210552B2
A system for controlling a charging of an electric vehicle, wherein a charging at one electric vehicle charging station affect a charging at another electric vehicle charging station is disclosed. The system includes: an electric power grid, a first electric vehicle charging station connected to the electric power grid, and a second electric vehicle charging station connected to the electric power grid, wherein the first electric vehicle charging station facilitates a charge transfer for an electric vehicle at the second electric vehicle charging station using a mobile device. The mobile device relays communication from the electric vehicle charging stations to the cloud server. The charge transfer request received at the cloud server is authorized using identification information and credit account information received from the mobile device. The cloud server sends a response enabling the charge transfer from the second electric vehicle charging station to the electric vehicle.
US10210544B2
A system and method comprises one or more processors coupled to a memory and reads instructions from the memory to perform the step of determining that a user is near the store, determining an object for recommending to the user from an inventory for the store, rendering a digital image of an avatar wearing the object, and instructing a device to display the digital image of the avatar wearing the object.
US10210532B2
A system and method is disclosed for integrating a trading partner into an XML based Internet. The system is operable to access the Internet to register a business name with one or more XML naming systems and register a business name with one or more XML naming systems. The system is further operable to receive an XML based address from the one or more XML naming systems. The system is still further operable to assign the XML based address to an authoritative XML naming system and map the XML based address to the Internet.
US10210522B1
Techniques for detecting counterfeit checks include using sensors to determine correspondence between a portion of sensed check information and related information; analyzing behavior related to accounts to a check deposit transaction; and controlling check depositing through user interface controls or communication. These techniques can be employed individually or in combination.
US10210519B2
In one embodiment, accessing information associated with a financial activity conducted by a user who belongs to a social network; determining one or more social connections of the user within the social network; and determining legitimacy of the user using the information in connection with the financial activity based on the one or more social connections of the user.
US10210512B2
A payment system transaction authorization server computer, or another computer, performs calculations to determine a transaction count value stored in a payment device for which a transaction authorization request was sent to the authorization server computer. The computer in question “guesses” appropriate transaction count values, and then attempts to duplicate an encryption calculation result that was originally generated by the payment device and that was included in the transaction authorization request.
US10210510B1
Identity certificates such as SSL certificates can be issued in such a way that their use can be disabled upon short notice. In one embodiment, private signing information associated with a certificate is used by an infrastructure service on behalf of an entity, without making the private signing information accessible to the entity. In another embodiment, short-term certificates are dynamically issued to an application based on a previous certificate authorization.
US10210507B2
Performing transactions using virtual card values is disclosed, including: generating a virtual card value corresponding to a transaction; sending a request to a card management server, wherein the request includes the virtual card value and a transaction amount corresponding to the transaction; receiving an indication from the card management server that the virtual card value and the transaction amount have been successfully stored; generating a merchant-related locator based at least in part on identifying information associated with a merchant server and the virtual card value; sending the merchant-related locator to a client device; and receiving, from the card management server, a request to transfer the transaction amount from a user account associated with a cardless payment server to a funds account associated with the merchant server.
US10210495B2
An image recognition system includes an imaging device and a processor. The processor is configured to detect an image of an article within an image captured by the imaging device, in response to detection of the image of the article, start a code detection process and an image recognition process to select one or more candidates. When the code symbol is detected within a predetermined period of time after the code detection process is started, the processor decodes the code symbol and determines an article associated with the decoded code symbol as the article within the captured image. When the code symbol is not detected within the predetermined period of time, and said one or more candidates are selected within the predetermined period of time, processor determines one of said one or more candidates as the article within the captured image.
US10210492B2
A beverage holder apparatus includes a chip unit attached to a beverage holder and adapted to communicate with a chip unit reader to perform a payment transaction to purchase the beverage. The chip unit stores an account identifier associated with a financial account, and transmits the stored account identifier to the chip unit reader to perform the payment transaction.
US10210488B2
Systems and methods for making a payment on behalf of a payer to a payee are provided. A request to make a payment on behalf of a payer to a payee is received at a first payment service provider. The first payment service provider supports a first payment network within a plurality of payment networks that each include a respective plurality of payers and payees. The payer is one of the plurality of payers and payees associated with the first payment network, and the payor is not one of the plurality of payers and payees associated with the first payment network. A second payment network within the plurality of payment networks with which the payee is associated is identified by the first payment service provider. A payment instruction to make the payment to the payee is transmitted by the first payment service provider to a second payment service provider associated with the second payment network.
US10210484B2
A method, system, and/or computer program product alters a functional characteristic of a computer used by an invitee to a new meeting. A request to create a new meeting invitation for a new meeting to an invitee is received. Content from a previous meeting to which the invitee was invited is retrieved, where the first content includes a similar subject as the subject of the new meeting and whether the invitee attended the previous meeting. Based on this content, a date, time, and duration of the new meeting is determined, and a new meeting invitation is transmitted to an invitee's computer used by the invitee. A server receives a response to the new meeting invitation and a status of the invitee, and initiates an alteration of a functional characteristic of the invitee's computer based on the response from the invitee and the status of the invitee.
US10210483B2
A user creates appointments by selecting dates on a displayed calendar. A pattern may be automatically detected in response to the user selecting calendar dates on the calendar. For example, a pattern may automatically be detected when a user selects two Mondays in a row when selecting appointment dates. In response to automatically detecting a pattern, a list of recurring appointments is automatically created. The automatically created appointments may be shown on the calendar. The automatically created appointments may also be shown in a list of an appointment user interface. A user may interact with the appointments in the appointment user interface. For example, a user may select one of the displayed appointments from the list and change appointment information related to the selected appointment. A start date and an end date may also be specified using the appointment user interface.
US10210461B2
A method for performing assisted knowledge discovery includes receiving a dataset. Each of a plurality of analytical techniques is applied to the received data set to generate a plurality of corresponding analytical results. A composite validation metric is applied to each of the plurality of analytical results. The composite validation metric is a single scoring/ranking function that is created from a plurality of different scoring/ranking functions. The plurality of analytical results is presented to a user arranged in accordance with the results of the applying the composite validation metric to each of the plurality of analytical results. A selection from the user from among the plurality of analytical results is recorded. The user's selection is used to modify the composite validation metric such that the analytical techniques responsible for generating the selected analytical result is scored/ranked more highly.
US10210457B1
A system and method are disclosed for estimating a number of unique users (e.g., the number of unique users accessing a website, etc.). In one aspect, one or more transactions occurring during a time frame and a plurality of unauthenticated unique identification records associated with the transactions are identified. The time frame is segmented into disjoint time intervals, and a respective bit pattern is determined for each of the unauthenticated unique identification records. A set of churn patterns is determined based on the bit patterns, and a number of expected unauthenticated unique identification records is determined based on the bit patterns and the churn patterns. A number of unique users is estimated based on the size of the set of churn patterns and the number of expected unauthenticated unique identification records.
US10210455B2
Generating, updating, and using a knowledge graph. Concepts in a knowledge graph can have relations to one another. These relations may be expressed as confidence values. A training data set may be split into two portions, with the first portion used to update confidence values for existing relations between concept pairs, using the knowledge graph. These confidence values can be used, together with the second portion used to update confidence values for known phrases that express known relations. These confidence values, in turn, can be used, together with the first portion, to increase the accuracy of the original confidence scores with respect to existing relations. The process may be iteratively employed, with each iteration increasing the accuracy of confidence scores.
US10210452B2
Apparatus and methods for high-level neuromorphic network description (HLND) framework that may be configured to enable users to define neuromorphic network architectures using a unified and unambiguous representation that is both human-readable and machine-interpretable. The framework may be used to define nodes types, node-to-node connection types, instantiate node instances for different node types, and to generate instances of connection types between these nodes. To facilitate framework usage, the HLND format may provide the flexibility required by computational neuroscientists and, at the same time, provides a user-friendly interface for users with limited experience in modeling neurons. The HLND kernel may comprise an interface to Elementary Network Description (END) that is optimized for efficient representation of neuronal systems in hardware-independent manner and enables seamless translation of HLND model description into hardware instructions for execution by various processing modules.
US10210449B2
In a wireless communication device, radiation conductors including a first and second end portions are reformed on an upper surface of a radiation conductor base material. First and second terminal electrodes are provided at a same or substantially the same interval as the first and second end portions, on a lower surface of a RFIC element. A seal includes an adhesive surface larger than a principal surface of the RFIC element. The RFIC element is arranged on the upper surface of the radiation conductor substrate so that each of the first and second terminal electrodes comes into contact with the first and second end portions. The seal is pasted to the radiation conductor substrate so as to cover the RFIC element.
US10210444B2
A cooking assistance method includes: receiving, from a first food, first food information indicating the first food; receiving appliance identification information for identifying the cooking apparatus for cooking the first food; obtaining first setting details regarding cooking to be performed by the cooking apparatus, based on the received first food information and the received appliance identification information, the first setting details being associated with the first food and the cooking apparatus; and transmitting first setting information indicating the obtained first setting details to the cooking apparatus.
US10210440B2
A print output control device operably connected to a printer, is configured to periodically check a first buffer sequentially storing print data received from the printer; accumulate, when the print data is stored in the first buffer, the stored print data in a second buffer; store, when status information on the printer is included in the print data, the status information in a status storage unit; store, when a first function is executed, in a third buffer, the print data accumulated in the second buffer to send back the stored print data as an acquisition value for the first function; and store, when a second function is executed, in a third buffer, the print data accumulated in the second buffer from when the second function is executed to send back the stored print data as an acquisition value for the second function.
US10210429B2
An online system predicts gender, age, interests, or other demographic information of a user based on image data of the user, e.g., profile photos, photos the user posts of him/herself within an online system, and photos of the user posted by other users socially connected with the user, and textual data in the user's profile that suggests age or gender (e.g., like or dislikes similar to a population of users of an online system). The online system similarly predicts a user's interests based on the photos of the user. The online system applies one or more models trained using deep learning techniques to generate the predictions. The online system uses the predictions to build more information about the user in the online system, and provide improved and targeted content delivery to the user that may have disparate information scattered throughout different online systems.
US10210428B1
A device that includes a master boss and a slave boss. The slave boss is configured to iteratively send execute and output commands to a first plurality of nodes implemented by a node engine identified in a first boss table in response to receiving an execute command from the master boss. The master boss is configured to iteratively send execute and output commands to the slave boss and a second plurality of nodes implemented by the node engine identified in a second boss table. Each node is configured to receive a first correlithm object, fetch a second correlithm object based on the first correlithm object in response to receiving an execute command, and output the second correlithm object in response to receiving an output command.
US10210427B2
An image matching technique locates feature points in a template image such as a logo and then does the same in a test image. Feature points from the template image are then matched to the feature points in the test image. An additional matching technique boosts the number of points that match each other. The additional points improve the match quality and help discriminate true from false positive matches.
US10210426B2
The invention relates to a method for determining an unknown position, i.e. height and/or orientation, of a light source within a locality. The determination is based on a first image of a scene within the locality acquired by a camera in such a manner as to contain a light footprint of light emitted by the light source from the unknown position. The method includes steps of processing the first image to determine one or more characteristics of the at least the portion of the light footprint within the first image, comparing the determined characteristics with one or more corresponding known characteristics of a light footprint of light emitted by the light source from a known position to determine a deviation between the determined and the known characteristics, and determining the unknown position of the light source based on the determined deviation.
US10210421B2
An object tracking device includes a short-term processing portion and a long short-term processing portion that are implemented by circuitry and work in a collaborative manner to track an object. The short-term processing portion includes a filter that tracks the object based on short-term memory and spatiotemporal consistency. The long short-term processing portion performs key-point matching-tracking and estimation based on a key-point database in order to track the object. A controller determines an output of the object tracking device based on the processing conducted by the short-term and long short-term processing portions of the tracking device, respectively.
US10210418B2
A method detects an object in an image. The method extracts a first feature vector from a first region of an image using a first subnetwork and determines a second region of the image by processing the first feature vector with a second subnetwork. The method also extracts a second feature vector from the second region of the image using the first subnetwork and detects the object using a third subnetwork on a basis of the first feature vector and the second feature vector to produce a bounding region surrounding the object and a class of the object. The first subnetwork, the second subnetwork, and the third subnetwork form a neural network. Also, a size of the first region differs from a size of the second region.
US10210406B2
A method and system for simultaneously generating a global lane map and localizing a vehicle in the generated global lane map is provided. The system includes a plurality of image sensors adapted to operatively capture a 360-degree field of view image from the host vehicle for detecting a plurality of lane markings. The image sensors include a front long-range camera, a front mid-range camera, a right side mid-range camera, a left side mid-range camera, and a rear mid-range camera. A controller communicatively is coupled to the plurality of image sensors and includes a data base containing reference lane markings and a processor. The processor is configured to identify the plurality of lane markings by comparing the detected lane markings from the 360-degree field of view image to the reference lane markings from the data base and to fuse the identified lane markings into the global lane map.
US10210403B2
A method, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed to estimate the accuracy of feature prediction in an image. Methods may include: receiving a binary ground truth map of pixels and a prediction map of pixels where pixels corresponding to features of an environment are assigned a 1 or a 0, and pixels not corresponding to features of the environment are assigned the other of a 1 or a 0; determining at least one feature within each of the ground truth map and the prediction map based on pixels including the at least one feature; computing the overlap of pixels of the at least one feature from the ground truth map with the pixels of the at least one feature from the prediction map; matching the at least one feature from the ground truth map with the at least one feature from the prediction map in response to the overlap of pixels satisfying a predetermined value; and establishing a precision of the prediction map based on the overlap of pixels.
US10210398B2
Systems and methods for determining flows by acquiring a video of the flows with a camera, wherein the flows are pedestrians in a scene. The video includes a set of frames, wherein motion vectors are extracted from each frame in the set, and a data matrix is constructed from the motion vectors in the set of frames. A low rank Koopman operator can be determined from the data matrix and a spectrum of the low rank Koopman operator can be analyzed to determine a set of Koopman modes. Then, the frames are segmented into independent flows according to a clustering of the Koopman modes.
US10210397B2
The present disclosure provides for a method, device, and computer-readable storage medium for performing a method for discerning a vehicle at an access control point. The method including obtaining a video sequence of the access control point; detecting an object of interest from the video sequence; tracking the object from the video sequence to obtain tracked-object data; classifying the object to obtain classified-object data; determining that the object is a vehicle based on the classified-object data; and determining that the vehicle is present in a predetermined detection zone based on the tracked-object data.
US10210394B2
An apparatus being adapted to determine an occupancy in a designated area, said apparatus comprising a memory and a controller, said controller being configured to determine at least one passage time; wherein said passage time is a time for a detected passage into and/or out of said area based on said image stream, determine an average occupancy time, determine if a passage into said designated area is estimated to occupy the designated area by comparing the time for the passage with the average occupancy time, and determine an estimation of the present occupancy in the designated area to equal the number of such passages.
US10210392B2
Disclosed is a method and system for detecting an interaction event between two or more objects in a surveillance area, via the application of heuristics to trajectory representations of the static or dynamic movements associated with the objects. According to an exemplary embodiment, trajectory interaction features (TIFs) are extracted from the trajectory representations and heuristics are applied to the TIFs to determine if an interaction event has occurred, such as a potential illegal drug deal involving at least one pedestrian and at least one vehicle.
US10210387B2
A method and apparatus for detecting and classifying objects associated with a vehicle are provided. The method includes capturing a first image and a second image of a cabin of a vehicle, dividing the first image and the second image into a plurality of regions, comparing a first region of the first image to a second region of the second image, in response to detecting a difference between the second region and the first region, classifying an object present in the difference between the second region and the first region and labeling the classified object, and providing a notification of the classified object to at least one from among an occupant of the vehicle and an operator of the vehicle.
US10210376B2
In one embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed for determining a difference between a sample position and an in-focus position, as well as a vision inspection system. In a first step image data depicting a sample is captured. Next, a feature set is extracted from the image data. Thereafter, the feature set is classified into a position difference value, corresponding to the difference between the sample position and the in-focus position, by using a machine learning algorithm that is trained to associate image data features to a position difference value.
US10210369B2
Systems and methods for use with a handheld mark reader that reduce the time between activation of the reader's trigger and the reader returning a successful decode response. At least one pre-trigger image can be acquired and at least one pre-trigger image parameter determined. Post-trigger image acquisition or analysis of post-trigger images can be implemented based upon the at least one pre-trigger image parameter.
US10210361B1
A checkout counter includes a support surface for a standing person to place and remove items. A powered conveyor transports placed items in a direction from a first end of the conveyor toward an opposite end. The conveyor has a discharge end, and part of the support surface extends toward the opposite end beyond the conveyor. An upward-oriented bar code scanner in the support surface reads bar codes as an attendant passes them over the scanner. At least one bag mount extends laterally from the support surface and the support surface define an attendant cockpit located laterally of the checkout counter near the discharge end, allowing an attendant to stand in the cockpit facing the counter at a substantially right angle. The attendant can handle items discharged from the conveyor, pass them over the scanner, and place them in a bag without having to twist or turn his or her body.
US10210360B2
An assembly usable with a bottom hole assembly in a wellbore can include a fixed housing member coupleable to a bent housing member at a housing coupling location. The bent housing member can rotate relative to the fixed housing member and can include an offset opening for receiving a drive shaft. The assembly can include an RFID tag positioned on a piston that is slideably positioned within the fixed housing member. An RFID reader can be positioned on the fixed housing member for detecting the RFID tag in response to the RFID tag being in a detectable range of the RFID reader. The RFID reader can also be for transmitting information about the RFID tag for controlling a motor to rotate and position the drive shaft at a selected angular position.
US10210359B2
According to one embodiment, a reading apparatus for reading a wireless tag includes a housing having a chamber and an opening providing an entrance to the chamber, a door attached to the housing and covering the opening when closed and permitting access to the chamber when opened, and an antenna within the housing and configured to emit a radio wave to read information from a wireless tag inside the chamber, a radiation surface of the antenna being parallel to a first inner wall surface and a second inner wall surface of the housing facing each other. The distance between the first and second inner wall surfaces is at least one half of a wavelength of a radio wave emitted from the antenna, and is a length based on an odd number multiple of a quarter of the wavelength.
US10210356B2
An Internet of Things (IoT) enabled multi signal diffusion integrated system smartly tracks assets in different environments, using a combination of Radio Frequency Identification (RFID), Wi-Fi and Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) technologies. The system includes an electrical plug embedded with one smart tracking device, or XenGraft. XenGraft has two different modes known as battery mode and non battery mode. XenGraft comprises different modules which are BLE module, RFID module and Power Sensor module. Each of these modules perform functions like finding asset locations, scanning for RFID signals, or tracking the current operational status of the assets. In non battery mode XenGraft communicates information towards a remote system server by a proprietary hop-by-hop communication architecture, via any local Wi-Fi network, or via any traditional cellular communication networks. In battery mode XenGraft communicates information towards the remote system server by a proprietary hop-by-hop communication architecture or via any local Wi-Fi network.
US10210355B1
A combination of a RFID antenna and an illumination device contains: a casing, a lighting unit, and a RFID antenna. The casing includes a metal plate and a fixing frame which has an opening and being mounted on a front end of the metal plate. The lighting unit includes a light guide plate and multiple light emitting elements, wherein the lighting unit is defined between the metal plate and the fixing frame, the light guide plate is fixed between the metal plate and the fixing frame, and the light guide plate has a transporting face facing the opening of the fixing frame so that the lights illuminate to the transporting face of the light guide plate from the multiple light emitting element. The RFID antenna is accommodated in the front end of the metal plate and is defined between the light guide plate and the metal plate.
US10210350B2
An embodiment includes an electronic device, comprising: a control intellectual property (IP) including a plurality of first special function registers (SFRs); a basic operation IP including a plurality of second SFRs and coupled to the control IP through a first path and a second path; and a random number generator configured to generate a random signal; wherein the control IP is configured to: select one of the first path and the second path based on the random signal; and set the second SFRs using the selected path.
US10210345B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to a system, method, or computer program product for generating communicable linkages that collectively provide a cloud-based dynamic credential selection and implementation system. The system generates a user profile containing user preferences, historic trends, and user resources based on information collected from a user and user associated accounts. The dynamic credential selection and implementation system is triggered by the user signaling the system of a proposed transaction. The system requests updated resource characteristics from resource managers. The user profile, resource characteristics and transaction characteristics are evaluated and ranked by the dynamic credential selection and implementation system before completion of the transaction, which in some embodiments requires user approval of the selected resource.
US10210343B2
A method for sharing identity information is disclosed. The method is performed at one or more devices. The one or more devices obtain identity information of a user and facilitate storing, at a first device, a document that includes the identity information of the user. The document is stored in one or more encrypted containers. The one or more devices receive, from a second device of a third party, a request for at least a part of the identity information of the user. A request is sent to a client device, requesting authorization to release the requested part of the identity information to the third party. Device authorization to release the requested part of the information to the third party is received from the client device. In response to receiving the authorization, the one or more devices facilitate sending the requested part of the information to the third party.
US10210341B2
A system uses information submitted in connection with a request to determine if and how to process the request. The information may be electronically signed by a requestor using a key such that the system processing the request can verify that the requestor has the key and that the information is authentic. The information may include information that identifies a holder of a key needed for processing the request, where the holder of the key can be the system or another, possibly third party, system. Requests to decrypt data may be processed to ensure that a certain amount of time passes before access to the decrypted data is provided, thereby providing an opportunity to cancel such requests and/or otherwise mitigate potential security breaches.
US10210340B2
A mobile device is provided. The mobile device comprises a storage device storing one or more files and a serial port for connecting the mobile device to a remote system. The mobile device further comprises a user interface allowing a user of the mobile device to select a file stored on the storage device such that when the mobile device is connected to the remote system via the serial port, the remote system can only access the selected file.
US10210339B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to request authorization and authentication. Examples include to intercept a request from a processing pipeline of a device. The device to determine whether the request is authorized and authentic. The device to generate a cancellation request if the request is not authorized or not authenticated. The device to provide the cancellation request to the processing pipeline of the device.
US10210336B2
Preliminary program analysis of an executable may be performed. A security vulnerability level of a portion of the executable may be determined based on the preliminary program analysis. The security vulnerability level of the portion may be compared to a security vulnerability threshold. The precision of runtime monitoring of the portion may be tuned based on the comparison.
US10210330B1
The disclosed computer-implemented method for detecting malicious processes that encrypt files may include (i) identifying a backup file created by a backup process on the computing device, (ii) detecting an attempt to alter the backup file by a process that is not the backup process, (iii) determining, based at least in part on the attempt to alter the backup file being made by the process that is not the backup process, that the process is a malicious process designed to encrypt files on the computing device so that a legitimate owner of the files cannot access the files, and (iv) performing a security action in response to determining that the process is malicious. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10210326B2
Disclosed is a computer and method in a computer that detects attachment of an external device. A determination may be made whether the external device is trusted or untrusted. When the external device is deemed to be trusted, a first device stack may be instantiated in a first OS executing on the computer to conduct interactions with the external device. When the external device is deemed to be untrusted, a second device stack may be instantiated in a second OS executing on the computer to conduct interactions with the external device.
US10210319B2
A mobile terminal including a touch screen configured to display screen information; and a controller configured to in response to a preset touch applied to the touch screen, move the screen information on the touch screen along a touch direction of the preset touch so as to sequentially display additional screen information on the touch screen, and display guide information on the touch screen for performing an authentication process to view secured information corresponding to the screen information when a last portion of the screen information is displayed in response to the preset touch.
US10210315B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for managing and tracking commands associated with a change on a managed computer system. The managed computer system receives a log-on of an administrator onto the managed computer system, determines the lockdown level of the managed computer system by querying a managing computer system, and retrieves a list of authorized commands under the lockdown level from the managing computer system. The managed computer system determines, by querying the managing computer system, whether an authorized change on the managed computer system exists. The managed computer system removes the lockdown level to receive from the managing computer system authorization of commands that have been locked down, in response to determining that the authorized change exists. The managed computer system sets the lockdown level with the authorized commands on the managed computer system, in response to determining that the authorized change does not exist.
US10210312B2
Systems and methods for quantification and presentation of medical risk arising from unknown factors
Example methods of quantifying known and unknown risks of an adverse drug event in an individual based on various factors are disclosed. In some embodiments, factors include known drug-drug interactions and unknown phenotypes of cytochromes. Quantification may be based on severity of the adverse drug event/and or probability of occurrence in some embodiments. Example methods of displaying the quantified risk are also disclosed. In one embodiment, the risk of individuals is aggregated to display the risk of a population.
US10210300B2
A layout file for an integrated circuit has drawn geometries. Variable fill geometries are added to local areas based on densities of the drawn geometries in windows associated with the local areas and on the global density of all the drawn geometries in the layout file. Each window has a separate local area associated with it. The densities of the variable fill geometries in the local areas are not all equal. Densities of the fill geometries are higher in local areas associated with windows having lower densities of the drawn geometries, and for lower values of the global density. The layout file is stored in a computer-readable medium which may be used to produce a photomask for manufacturing an integrated circuit.
US10210298B2
An integrated circuit for configuring memory block portions is provided. The integrated circuit may include a memory block that is partitioned into first and second memory block portions. The first memory block portion has a first memory type and the second memory block portion has a second memory type that is different than the first memory type. The integrated circuit further includes a control circuit configured to receive configuration data. The configuration data may include memory partition information for repartitioning the first and second memory block portions into first and second repartitioned memory block portions when a portion of the first memory block portion is unused. The memory partition information may also include a memory partitioning constraint, which includes a start point address for the second repartitioned memory block portion and a number of at least one memory segments to be partitioned in the second repartitioned memory block portion.
US10210294B1
A method of enabling a simulation of a circuit design is described. The method comprises generating, using a computer, an initial representation of the circuit design; simulating the circuit design using the initial representation by driving input signals to the circuit design based upon a simulation event listing; capturing event data associated with a plurality of timestamps in a first file while simulating the circuit design; identifying a plurality of events associated with a timestamp of a plurality of timestamps; reordering events of the plurality of associated with the timestamp; and generating a replay module used to drives input signals to the circuit design. A system for enabling a simulation of a circuit design is also described.
US10210291B2
Methods for analyzing a power system is presented. In some embodiments, a method may analyze system data, reduce the analyzed system data based on a set reduction level, model a device and a high voltage direct-current (HVDC) system interlinked to the device, and reflect the modeled result to the reduced system data.
US10210289B2
A method for designing three-dimensional freeform surface is provided. An initial surface and a first three-dimensional rectangular coordinates system are established. A number of feature rays are selected. A number of intersections of the feature rays with a first freeform surface are calculated, wherein the intersections are a number of feature data points. The first freeform surface is obtained by surface fitting the feature data points. An equation of the first freeform surface includes a conic term and a freeform surface term. The first freeform surface is taken as the initial surface for an iteration process.
US10210278B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimizing digital components. In one aspect, the system includes a digital component server that identifies a digital component to be presented in an electronic document. The system also includes a digital component distribution server that interacts with the digital component server to determine that the electronic document includes a particular item that identifies a same entity as the digital component that was identified to be presented in the electronic document. The system combines at least a portion of the digital component with content from the particular item to form an optimized digital component. The optimized digital component is integrated into the electronic document rather than presenting either of the particular item or the digital component individually.
US10210274B2
A computer implemented method for filtering audience viewing of uniform resource locator (URL) data utilizing hashtags including: identifying a hashtag input by a first user; identifying at least one user preference of the first user, the at least one user preference related to data sharing preferences of the first user on an electronic platform; generating a uniform resource locator (URL) based on the identified hashtag and the identified at least one user preference of the first user; and using the URL, filtering data communication on the electronic platform, thereby displaying a privatized stream of data when the first user accesses the identified hashtag, the privatized stream of data accessible by a second user, the second user being authorized to view the privatized stream of data based on the data sharing preferences of the first user.
US10210267B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for processing spoken query terms. In one aspect, a method includes performing speech recognition on an audio signal to select two or more textual, candidate transcriptions that match a spoken query term, and to establish a speech recognition confidence value for each candidate transcription, obtaining a search history for a user who spoke the spoken query term, where the search history references one or more past search queries that have been submitted by the user, generating one or more n-grams from each candidate transcription, where each n-gram is a subsequence of n phonemes, syllables, letters, characters, words or terms from a respective candidate transcription, and determining, for each n-gram, a frequency with which the n-gram occurs in the past search queries, and a weighting value that is based on the respective frequency.
US10210264B2
A vehicle-repair support system including a communication terminal and a server is provided. The communication terminal obtains vehicle information from a vehicle. The server receives vehicle information from the communication terminal and supports repair of the vehicle. The server comprises an inquiry unit, a search unit and a search result notification unit. The inquiry unit makes an inquiry to a repair requester about a vehicle condition. Based on a result of the inquiry made by the inquiry unit, the search unit makes a search for information about similar cases which involve a symptom similar to a symptom of the vehicle targeted for the repair. The search result notification unit notifies a result of the search made by the search unit to the communication terminal.
US10210259B2
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to the visual display of tags and provide a method, system and computer program product for contributor characteristic based tag clouds. In an embodiment of the invention, a tag cloud generation method can include loading tags for resources in a social bookmarking system, determining a personal characteristic for each of the end users applying the tags to the resources, and rendering a tag cloud for the tags based upon the personal characteristic of the end users and not based upon the frequency of use of the tags alone.
US10210256B2
Provided is a method and system for indexing documents in a collection of linked documents. A link log, including one or more pairings of source documents and target documents is accessed. A sorted anchor map, containing one or more target document to source document pairings, is generated. The pairings in the sorted anchor map are ordered based on target document identifiers.
US10210245B2
A natural language question answering method and apparatus belong to the field of information retrieval and processing. The method includes: acquiring a natural language question N; converting the natural language question N into a query semantic graph Qs, each edge in the query semantic graph Qs representing one semantic relation in the natural language question N; searching an RDF graph G for a subgraph matching the query semantic graph Qs; and obtaining an answer to the natural language question N according to the subgraph.
US10210237B2
To reduce time and labor in identifying a similar category among a plurality of categories into which objects are classified. Based on a predetermined operation performed by a user with respect to two objects among a plurality of objects classified into some of a plurality of predetermined categories, the information processing system deduces the two objects as comparison targets. Then, based on the number of times at which the two objects are deduced as comparison targets, the information processing system determines two categories into which the two objects are respectively classified as similar categories.
US10210235B2
A data warehouse is constructed using the relational mapping of a transactional database without reconstructing the data relationships of the transactional database. First, an application programmer analyzes an object model in order to describe facts and dimensions using the objects, attributes, and paths of the object model. Each of the dimensions has an identifier that correlates an item in the transactional database to a dimension record in the data warehouse. The fact and dimension descriptions are saved to a description file. Second, a Data Warehouse Engine (DWE) then access the description file and uses the object model, fact and dimension descriptions, and object-relational mapping to map transactional data to the data warehouse.
US10210232B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses can provide staged migration from one or more user accounts from a source system to a destination system using an application local to the source systems. The automated staged data migration can provide coordinated staged data migration of large amounts of data in a single automated process. The system can provide automated and remotely controlled staged migrations of data that may perform source system type detection and work with multiple types of systems.
US10210231B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a method, computer program product, and system for optimizing data analysis. A set of analytics are received and a plurality of subsets of the set of analytics is generated. An optimization goal(s) is defined. The plurality of subsets of analytics are applied to a set of data. The output of applied analytics are recorded on a data storage device by the computer. Performance values of the computer applying the plurality of subsets of analytics are recorded and displayed. An optimal subset of the plurality of subsets of analytics is calculated, using recorded performance values and outputs of the applied plurality of subsets of analytics, being based on the optimization goal. A set of applied analytics are displayed, where the set of applied analytics includes a number of subsets of analytics of the plurality of analytics that meet the criteria of the optimal subset.
US10210228B2
Metadata is managed for different distributed federated workspaces. A distributed metadata infrastructure is provided for supporting at least two different distributed federated workspaces. The distributed metadata infrastructure monitors the at least two different distributed federated workspaces to identify common metadata between the at least two different distributed federated workspaces. The distributed metadata infrastructure presents a consistent view of the common metadata.
US10210224B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to systems, methods, and computer program products for a high performance data copy utility that is operable to dynamically copy data from a source database to a target database in an object-relational database environment. High performance is realized by defining, prior to copying the data, performance boundaries of the source and target environment, such as the quantity of data (i.e., commit points) and quantity of parallel processes (i.e., parallel threads) applicable to a copy job. Moreover, the copying schema of the present invention allows for data to be copied from one database to another database without the need higher level privileges, such as database administrator (DBA) or data definition language (DDL), which would otherwise require changing the structure of the database. In this regard, embodiments of the present invention rely solely on lower-level data manipulation language (DML) privileges configured for inserting, updating and deleting data structures.
US10210221B2
Techniques for a system capable of performing low-latency database query processing are disclosed herein. The system includes a gateway server and a plurality of worker nodes. The gateway server is configured to divide a database query, for a database containing data stored in a distributed storage cluster having a plurality of data nodes, into a plurality of partial queries and construct a query result based on a plurality of intermediate results. Each worker node of the plurality of worker nodes is configured to process a respective partial query of the plurality of partial queries by scanning data related to the respective partial query that stored on at least one data node of the distributed storage cluster and generate an intermediate result of the plurality of intermediate results that is stored in a memory of that worker node.
US10210219B2
Methods, systems, and media for displaying information related to displayed content upon detection of user attention are provided. In some implementations, a method for presenting information to a user is provided, the method comprising: detecting a presence of a user; retrieving content and associated content metadata; causing the content to be presented to the user in response to detecting the presence of the user; detecting a user action indicative of user attention to at least a portion of the content presented to the user; and in response to detecting the user action, causing information to be presented to the user, wherein the information presented to the user corresponds to the content metadata associated with the portion of the content.
US10210218B2
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for processing a file to generate a recommendation using a database system. A database can be maintained. The database can store data objects identifying historical keywords for a user and weights associated with the historical keywords. Information identifying a file can be received. The file can be processed to extract file keywords. A query attribute can be generated based on the historical keywords, the file keywords, and the weights. It can be determined that the query attribute conforms to a designated characteristic associated with the user. Data indicating a recommendation of the file can be generated in response to determining that the query attribute conforms to the designated characteristic. The data indicating the recommendation can be provided as at least a portion of a feed item of a feed of a social networking system. The feed can be displayed in a user interface on a display device associated with a user of the social networking system.
US10210210B2
An access plan including multiple indexes is selected for accessing data of a database system. A filtering status of each index within the selected access plan is determined based on information available at execution of the selected access plan. The order of the indexes within the selected access plan is modified based on the filtering status of the indexes, and the selected access plan is executed with the modified order of the indexes. The execution of the selected access plan is interrupted in response to accessing a threshold amount of data and the filtering of the indexes of the selected access plan is estimated. A processing order for the indexes is determined based on the estimated filtering. The execution of the selected access plan resumes based on the determined processing order.
US10210207B2
Aspects include a method that includes receiving a structured query language (SQL) database command at a processing device configured to manage a table space of a relational database, the database command including a merge statement. The method also includes identifying a group of target records from the database command, and associating each target record with one of a plurality of portions of the table space, and in response to determining that the group of target records is associated with more than one portion of the table space, sorting the target records into a plurality of sub-groups, each sub-group associated with a different portion of the table space. The method further includes generating a sub-task associated with each sub-group, the sub-task prescribing aspects of performing the merge operation using an associated sub-group respective sub-group, and performing all of the sub-tasks on the memory space in parallel.
US10210203B2
Searching stored content is disclosed. A first mapping is created from an object to one or more stored relational database tables. A second mapping is created from the object to an indexer schema. One or both of the following is done: 1) using the first mapping to translate a search request expressed in an abstract query language to a first query language associated with the relational database; and 2) using the second mapping to translate the search request to a second query language associated with the indexer schema.
US10210202B2
A user performs a gesture with a hand-held or wearable device capable of sensing its own orientation. Orientation data, in the form of a sequence of rotation vectors, is collected throughout the duration of the gesture. To construct a trace representing the shape of the gesture and the direction of device motion, the orientation data is processed by a robotic chain model with four or fewer degrees of freedom, simulating a set of joints moved by the user to perform the gesture (e.g., a shoulder and an elbow). To classify the gesture, a trace is compared to contents of a training database including many different users' versions of the gesture and analyzed by a learning module such as support vector machine.
US10210196B2
An all-in-one data storage device includes a secondary memory providing read data in response to a read command, an internal hardware filter that filters the first read data according to filtering condition data in order to output filtered data, a primary memory, a host controller, and a memory controller that stores the filtered data in the primary memory and thereafter communicates the filtered data to the host controller.
US10210193B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a computer program product for processing tabular data. In various embodiments, an electronic document is received through a network, along with associated metadata. A plurality of table markers, or tabular data markers, are identified, in response to analyzing the received electronic document for said markers. References and citations associated with the plurality of tabular data markers are identified. A graphical representation of the relationship between identified tabular data markers and the identified references is generated. A uniqueness score is calculated, based on the generated graph and an ingestion plan is generated for the received electronic documents based on the calculated uniqueness score value.
US10210184B2
A method and system for utilizing metadata to search for media, such as multimedia and streaming media, includes searching for the media, receiving results, extracting metadata associated with the media, enhancing the extracted metadata, and grouping the search results in accordance with attributes of the enhanced metadata. Enhancing and grouping include adding related metadata to the database of metadata, iteratively using metadata to search for more media related data, removing duplicate URLs, collapsing URLs that are variants of each other, and masking out superfluous terms from URLs. The resultant metadata and media files are available to users and search engines.
US10210178B2
A machine learning image processing system performs natural language processing (NLP) and auto-tagging for an image matching process. The system facilitates an interactive process, e.g., through a mobile application, to obtain an image and supplemental user input from a user to execute an image search. The supplemental user input may be provided from a user as speech or text, and NLP is performed on the supplemental user input to determine user intent and additional search attributes for the image search. Using the user intent and the additional search attributes, the system performs image matching on stored images that are tagged with attributes through an auto-tagging process.
US10210176B2
An information provision system includes: a vehicular mobile terminal; and a server that accesses a registration database and provides a content to the vehicular mobile terminal. The registration database registers a position-interrelated content provision web page that: specifies the content to be provided according to an input condition; and defines a position-interrelated content to be provided when the vehicular mobile terminal satisfies a trigger condition. The system further includes: a position-interrelated content search device that searches for the position-interrelated content corresponding to a same trigger condition as a moving state of the vehicular mobile terminal when the vehicular mobile terminal accesses the position-interrelated content provision web page and the position-interrelated content provision web page defines the position-interrelated content for the vehicular mobile terminal; and an information provision device that provides a user of the vehicular mobile terminal with a searched position-interrelated content when the trigger condition is satisfied.
US10210167B1
Techniques are described for managing access to data storage in a plurality of bitstore nodes. In some situations, a data storage service uses multiple bitstore nodes to store data accessible via a network, such as the Internet. In some situations, multi-level cache systems are employed by each bitstore node and managed, for example to increase throughput of the data storage service.
US10210158B2
Exemplary embodiments relate to detecting, removing, and/or replacing objectionable words and phrases in a machine-generated translation. A classifier identifies translations containing target words or phrases. The classifier may be applied to the output translation to remove target words and phrases from the translation, or to prevent target words and phrases from being automatically presented. Further, the classifier may be applied to a translation model to prevent the target words and phrases from appearing in the output translation. Still further, the classifier may be applied to training data so that the translation model is not trained using the target words of phrases. The classifier may remove target words or phrases only when the target words or phrases appear in the output translation but not the source language input data. The classifier may be provided as a standalone service, or may be employed in the context of a machine translation system.
US10210154B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, in which an input method editor receives a mode control input and determines a language mode based on the mode control input. Upon receiving composition inputs, the input method editor interprets the composition input based on the determined language mode.
US10210145B2
A method of delivering webpages to a browser includes delivering a first webpage using a streaming protocol that optimizes delivery of content of the first webpage where the first webpage includes information that may persist in a browser cache; delivering a second webpage without using the streaming protocol where the second webpage and the first webpage both reference a first resource; and forcing revalidation of the first resource stored on the browser cache.
US10210141B2
Systems and methods provide for replacing a glyph in text displayed by an application with an alternate glyph. A glyph is selected, and the character and font of the glyph are identified. Alternate glyphs for the character in the font are then determined, and a visual indicator is displayed proximate to the glyph in the text to indicate availability of the alternate glyphs. In response to a user action associated with the glyph and/or visual indicator, the alternate glyphs are presented. A user can then select one of the alternate glyphs, and the original glyph in the text is replaced with the selected alternate glyph.
US10210128B2
An apparatus includes a pass-through module that includes connector pins to connect with at least one active portion of a motherboard connector and to separately connect with at least one inactive portion of the motherboard connector. A routing function on the pass-through module redirects a set of bidirectional lanes from the connector pins connected to the active portion of the motherboard connector to the connector pins connected to the inactive portion of the motherboard connector to enable a connection of the set of bidirectional lanes to at least one other motherboard resource connected to the inactive portion of the motherboard connector.
US10210125B2
A method for communication includes posting in a queue a sequence of work items pointing to buffer consisting of multiple strides of a common, fixed size in a memory. A NIC receives data packets from a network containing data to be pushed to the memory. The NIC reads from the queue a first work item pointing to a first buffer and writes data from a first packet to a first number of the strides in the first buffer without consuming all of the strides in the first buffer. The NIC then writes at least a part of the data from a second packet to the remaining strides in the first buffer. When all the strides in the first buffer have been consumed, the NIC reads from the queue a second work item pointing to a second buffer, and writes further data to the strides in the second buffer.
US10210120B2
In an embodiment, an apparatus includes: a fabric of a first communication protocol to communicate with an upstream agent in an upstream direction and to communicate with a plurality of downstream agents in a downstream direction; a switch coupled between the fabric and at least some of the plurality of downstream agents, the switch to couple to a primary interface of the fabric via a primary interface of the switch and to communicate with the fabric via the first communication protocol, the switch further including a sideband interface to interface with a sideband fabric of the first communication protocol; and the at least some downstream agents coupled to the switch via the sideband fabric, wherein the at least some downstream agents are to be enumerated with a secondary bus of a second communication protocol, and the switch device is to provide a transaction received from the upstream agent to a first downstream agent based on a bus identifier of the secondary bus with which the first downstream agent is enumerated. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10210119B2
Operation of an arbiter in a hardware design is verified. The arbiter receives a plurality of requests over a plurality of clock cycles, including a monitored request and outputs the requests in priority order. The requests received by and output from the arbiter in each clock cycle are identified. The priority of the watched request relative to other pending requests in the arbiter is then tracked using a counter that is updated based on the requests input to and output from the arbiter in each clock cycle and a mask identifying the relative priority of requests received by the arbiter in the same clock cycle. The operation of the arbiter is verified using an assertion which establishes a relationship between the counter and the clock cycle in which the watched request is output from the arbiter.
US10210118B2
Circuits and methods for efficient interconnect layout of multiple circuit elements, including integrated circuits (ICs), within a circuit module, while enabling only a single control/status (C/S) connection per module. In a first embodiment, the C/S interfaces of multiple ICs are configured in parallel within a multi-IC module, and coupled through a single module serial bus to a system C/S serial bus. In a second embodiment, the C/S interface of a primary IC is coupled through a single module serial bus to a system C/S serial bus, while a secondary IC is internally serially coupled to a “pass through” interface of the primary IC. In a third embodiment, a dynamic address translation circuit translates device and register address information provided by a master device into corresponding internal addresses, and re-directs command messages from a system C/S serial bus to internal slave devices.
US10210116B2
In certain aspects of the disclosure, an apparatus includes first and second semaphore registers disposed in a first power domain. A common address bus is coupled to the first and second semaphore registers, and a semaphore lock is disposed in the first power domain and coupled to the first and second semaphore registers. The semaphore lock is controlled by the first and second semaphore registers, and controls whether a signal from a second power domain is permitted to propagate to the first power domain. The first and second semaphore registers may be associated with first and second register addresses, respectively, which are selected to provide a substantially maximized Hamming distance between them. The first and second semaphore registers may have a write order expectation enforced between them.
US10210113B2
A diagnostic testing utility is used to perform online path diagnostic tests to troubleshoot components in a path that contribute to performance degradations and check application level data integrity, while traffic is allowed to flow as normal. To perform the diagnostic tests, two HBA or CNA ports at each end of a path are identified and used to send test frames to perform the diagnostic tests. The entire diagnostic procedure is performed without taking any ports or servers offline.
US10210111B2
Systems and methods for minimizing audio glitches when incurring system management interrupt latency
In accordance with these and other embodiments of the present disclosure, a method may include determining whether a system management interrupt is expected to take more than a predetermined threshold duration to complete, determining whether audio data is actively streaming from a processor of an information handling system to an audio controller communicatively coupled to the processor and configured to process audio data communicated from the processor to the audio controller for reproduction to a speaker communicatively coupled to the audio controller, and executing the system management interrupt if the system management interrupt is expected to take less than a predetermined threshold duration to complete or if audio data is not actively streaming from the processor to the audio controller.
US10210107B2
A memory controller of a sender node issues an instruction of a trans-fabric instruction set of instructions to a receiver node across a communication fabric that supports memory semantic operations, to cause a given transaction to be performed at the receiver node in response to the issued instruction.
US10210103B2
A method and device for checking validity of memory access are provided. A cache is established and initialization is performed; a total cache position index is calculated; when a program performs memory access, a graded cache unit is addressed according to the total cache position index, and it is determined whether address information of the memory block is able to be read from the graded cache unit; when the address information is able to be read, it is determined whether an instrumentation-based memory checking tool is needed for checking the validity of the current memory access; when the address information is not able to be read, the validity of the current memory access is checked by an instrumentation-based memory checking tool, and the address information of the memory block is filled into the graded cache unit when the current memory access is determined to be valid.
US10210092B1
Managing data in a computing system comprising one or more cores includes: providing a cache in each of one or more of the cores that includes multiple storage locations; storing data of a first type of multiple types of data in a selected storage location of a first cache of a first core that is selected according to status information associated with the first cache, and updating the status information; and storing data of a second type of the multiple types of data in a storage location within a subset of fewer than all of the storage locations of the first cache and managing the status information to ensure that subsequent data of the second type received by the first core for storage in the first cache is stored in the storage location within the subset.
US10210090B1
This invention involves a particular cache hazard. It is possible that an instruction request that is a miss in the cache occurs while the cache system is servicing a pending prefetch for the same instructions. In the prior art, this hazard is detected by comparing request addresses for all entries in a scoreboard. The program memory controller stores the allocated way in the scoreboard. The program memory controller compares the allocated way of the demand request to the allocated way of all the scoreboard entries. The cache hazard only occurs when the allocated ways match. Following way compare, the demand request address is compared to the request addresses of only those scoreboard entries having matching ways. Other address comparators are not powered during this time. This serves to reduce the electrical power required in detecting this cache hazard.
US10210086B1
Provided are techniques for fast cache demotions in storage controllers with metadata. A track in a demotion structure is selected. In response to determining that the track in the demotion structure does not have invalidate metadata set, demoting the track from cache. In response to determining that the track has invalidate metadata set, the track is moved from the demotion structure to an invalidate metadata structure. One or more tasks are created to process the invalidate metadata structure, wherein each of the one or more tasks selects a different track in the invalidate metadata structure, invalidates metadata for that track, and demotes that track.
US10210085B2
Data temporarily stored in volatile memory (e.g., RAM) on a host machine can be protected using a component such as an NV-DIMM, which includes components such as an ASIC, non-volatile memory, and a battery. If power is lost to the host, the battery provides the ASIC with the power needed to determine data in the volatile memory that is protected. This protected data then can be transferred to the non-volatile memory on the NV-DIMM. When power is restored, an application or other entity can contact the NV-DIMM to recover the data, which can be transferred over a sideband channel to be restored as appropriate for a prior operation. In at least some embodiments, the NV-DIMM can receive a key over the sideband channel that can be used to encrypt and decrypt the data for further security.
US10210082B2
A rate matching technique may be configured to adjust a rate of cleaning of one or more selected segments of the storage array to accommodate a variable rate of incoming workload processed by a storage input/output (I/O) stack executing on one or more nodes of a cluster. An extent store layer of the storage I/O stack may clean a segment in accordance with segment cleaning which, illustratively, may be embodied as a segment cleaning process. The rate matching technique may be implemented as a feedback control mechanism configured to adjust the segment cleaning process based on the incoming workload. Components of the feedback control mechanism may include one or more weight schedulers and various accounting data structures, e.g., counters, configured to track the progress of segment cleaning and free space usage. The counters may also be used to balance the rates of segment cleaning and incoming I/O workload, which may change depending upon an incoming I/O rate. When the incoming I/O rate changes, the rate of segment cleaning may be adjusted accordingly to ensure that rates are substantially balanced.
US10210080B2
A memory system includes nonvolatile physical memory, such as flash memory, that exhibits a wear mechanism asymmetrically associated with write operations. A relatively small cache of volatile memory reduces the number of writes, and wear-leveling memory access methods distribute writes evenly over the nonvolatile memory.
US10210058B1
A redundant service delivery gateway system and method. Configuration information defining roles for redundant service delivery gateways is received via a user interface defined for each of a plurality of redundant service delivery gateways. Configuration information defining one or more redundancy events, a redundancy policy associated with each redundancy event and two or more redundancy sets is also received via a user interface. Each redundancy set is associated with one or more of the redundancy events and each redundancy set includes a master redundancy state and a standby redundancy state. A first redundancy event detected in a first service delivery gateway leads to a transition, in the first service delivery gateway, from a master redundancy state to a standby redundancy state in the redundancy set associated with the first redundancy event.
US10210034B2
An electronic device, for integration with functional circuit modules, includes gates, monitor module, signal control module and record module. The functional modules are operated on clock signal for generating request instruction and response signal. The gate is coupled to the functional modules for transmitting request instruction and response signal to functional module on enable signals. The monitor module is coupled to the functional modules and the gates for generating hold signal. The monitor module generates enable signals on finish signal. The clock signal control module coupled to the functional modules and the monitor module for outputs main clock signal to generate clock signals. The clock signal control module generates record instruction and stop clock signals, and the clock signal control module re-outputs clock signals on finish signal. The record module coupled to the functional modules and the clock signal control module begins to record request instruction and response signal when receiving record instruction.
US10210027B1
A computer implemented method, system, and computer program product comprising computing at a cluster manager and node manager a realized goal state by examining a goal state stack for a set of nodes of a cluster, determining differences between the realized goal state and the actual state of the cluster and nodes, and based on the differences, determining a set of actions to align the actual state with the realized goal state.
US10210020B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving a plurality of requests. Resource utilization is determined for two or more resources in an execution environment. An at-risk resource is identified, from among the two or more resources, with highest utilization among the two or more resources. The method further includes determining, by a computer processor, a subset of requests to be approved that are estimated to have lowest impact on the at-risk resource, based at least in part on historical resource utilization applicable to one or more request types of the plurality of requests. The subset of requests is approved for processing by the execution environment, where the subset of requests excludes one or more unapproved requests. The one or more unapproved requests are held in a waiting queue in lieu of processing the one or more unapproved requests, responsive to the one or more unapproved requests not being approved.
US10210014B2
In a cloud app market, a cloud infrastructure customer can purchase apps for performing services such as rootkit detection and network security for a customer virtual machine run by the cloud infrastructure customer. A cloud infrastructure provider executes a provider virtual machine monitor or hypervisor on cloud infrastructure. The cloud app is provided with a customer virtual machine monitor nested on the provider virtual machine monitor. The customer virtual machine, together with a nested management domain of the customer, execute on the customer virtual machine monitor.
US10210007B2
Techniques are disclosed for performing input/output (I/O) requests to two or more physical adapters in parallel. An address for at least a first page associated with a virtual I/O request is mapped to an entry in a virtual translation control entry (TCE) table. A plurality of physical adapters required to service the virtual I/O request are identified. Upon determining, in each of the identified physical adapters, that an entry in the respective physical TCE table corresponding to the physical adapter is available, for each of the identified physical adapters, the entry in the virtual TCE table is mapped to an entry in the respective physical TCE table corresponding to the physical adapter, and a physical I/O request corresponding to each physical TCE table entry is issued to the respective physical adapter.
US10210005B2
A Data Synchronization and Failover Management (DSFM) system monitors simultaneous execution of non-identical instances of a software application and may label as a particular result of the software application the earliest output corresponding to that result produced by one of the instances. The DSFM may label one of the instances as a primary instance and the other instances as secondary instances and, if the primary instance fails, may re-label one of the secondary instances that computed all of the operations associated with the last result produced prior to the failure of the primary instance, as a new primary instance.
US10210004B2
A method of providing at least one data carrier for a computer system includes downloading at least one image of a data carrier from a predetermined network source by a service processor of the computer system, the service processor being operable independently of a main processor and an operating system of the computer system; storing, by the service processor, the at least one downloaded image in a non-volatile bulk memory; incorporating, by the service processor, the at least one stored image as active data carrier of a virtual memory drive; and emulating a standard interface that accesses the virtual memory drive such that an operating system can access the active data carrier without manufacturer-specific driver software.
US10210002B2
A method provides an expression picture in an instant communication conversation window; acquires information of a user operation activity information from a sending user with respect to the expression picture; searching a first expression database based on the expression picture and the acquired information of the user operation activity; generates a first response message corresponding to the expression picture under the user operation activity; and sends found information related to the expression picture and the acquired information of the user operation activity to a receiving client corresponding to a receiving user to facilitate the receiving client to generate a second response message corresponding to the expression picture under the user operation activity.
US10209993B2
A branch predictor has a block address useable to access a block of instruction bytes of an instruction cache and first/second byte offsets within the block of instruction bytes. Hashing logic hashes a branch pattern and respective first/second address formed from the block address and the respective first/second byte offsets to generate respective first/second indexes. A conditional branch predictor receives the first/second indexes and in response provides respective first/second direction predictions of first/second conditional branch instructions in the block of instruction bytes. In one embodiment, a branch target address cache (BTAC) provides the byte offsets, and the first/second direction predictions are statically associated with first/second target addresses also provided by the BTAC. Alternatively, the byte offsets are predetermined values, and the first/second direction predictions are dynamically associated with the first/second target addresses based on the relative sizes of the byte offsets provided by the BTAC.
US10209989B2
A vector reduction instruction is executed by a processor to provide efficient reduction operations on an array of data elements. The processor includes vector registers. Each vector register is divided into a plurality of lanes, and each lane stores the same number of data elements. The processor also includes execution circuitry that receives the vector reduction instruction to reduce the array of data elements stored in a source operand into a result in a destination operand using a reduction operator. Each of the source operand and the destination operand is one of the vector registers. Responsive to the vector reduction instruction, the execution circuitry applies the reduction operator to two of the data elements in each lane, and shifts one or more remaining data elements when there is at least one of the data elements remaining in each lane.
US10209985B2
Various embodiments of systems, computer program products, and methods to provide descriptor-transformer framework in an integration platform are described herein. In an aspect, an instruction to integrate a plurality of applications is received through a web interface application corresponding to the integration platform. A descriptor file associated with connectivity adapters corresponding to the plurality of applications is retrieved. Further, one or more preprocessor steps and/or one or more postprocessor steps are determined by analyzing the descriptor file. The plurality of applications is integrated by executing an integration flow based on the determined one or more preprocessor steps and/or one or more postprocessor steps.
US10209981B2
According to one embodiment, updating software in a remote device comprises operating on a first image of an operating system code, updating to a second image of the operating system code, wherein updating to the second image comprises operating on the second image while maintaining the first image in memory, and in response to detecting an error in operating on the second image, operating on the first image of the operating system code maintained in the memory accessible by the ECU. Operating on the first image of the operating system code can comprise saving the first image in the memory and executing the first image based on a pointer to the first image. Updating can comprise saving the second image without overwriting or erasing the first image and executing the second image based on a pointer to the second image.
US10209975B2
Implementations are described of a computing device that migrates data and software applications from a first computing device to a second computing device, in order to preserve data and other application-related customizations.
US10209972B2
Embodiments relate to using a local entry point with an indirect call function. More specifically, an indirect call function configuration comprises a first application module having a target function of the indirect function call, a second application module with a symbolic reference to the target function of the indirect function call, and a third application module to originate an indirect function call. A compiler determines and indicates, in the program code, that the function pointer value resulting from a non-call reference of a function symbol is solely used to perform indirect calls in the same module, e.g. local-use-only. A linker or loader can read the indication the compiler made in the program code. The linker or loader use the local entry point associated with the target function if the target function is defined in the same module as the reference and is local-use-only.
US10209968B2
A computer implemented method includes receiving a programming language input having a client portion and a server portion, where client symbols of the client input portion are usable in the server input portion and server symbols of the server input portion are usable in the client input portion. The method includes parsing the input to separate the client input portion from the server input portion, identifying the usage of any client symbols in the server input portion and any server symbols in the client input portion, producing at least one communication service between the separated client and server input portions to support the usage of any client symbols in the separated server input portion and any server symbols in the separated client input portion, and translating the client input portion into an executable client application and the server input portion into an executable server application with communication there between.
US10209967B2
The invention relates to a system and method for identifying occurrences of preventive maintenance on computer source code. The method comprises analyzing source code, defining data sets associated with characteristics of the source code, and applying an operation algorithm to the data sets to thereby identify occurrences of preventive maintenance operations that were carried out on the source code. A first instance of a source code and a second instance of the source code are preferably analyzed, wherein the second instance of the source code is a revised version of the first instance of the source code, a first data set associated with the first instance of the source code and a second data set associated with the second instance of the source code are preferably defined, and the operation algorithm is preferably applied to the first data set and the second data set to thereby identify at least one occurrence of a preventive maintenance operation that was carried out on the source code.
US10209955B2
Feedback mechanisms to the user of a Head Mounted Display (HMD) are provided. It is important to provide feedback to the user when speech is recognized as soon as possible after the user utters a voice command. The HMD displays and/or audibly renders an ASR acknowledgment in a manner that ensures the user that the HMD has received/understood his voiced command.
US10209952B2
A control method for a content reproduction device includes: receiving, from a second content reproduction device connected through a network, acquisition source information on content included in a playlist of the second content reproduction device; and determining whether or not reproduction of the content is possible.
US10209945B2
An information processing apparatus that transmits image data to be displayed in a display unit to a display control apparatus and comprises a capture unit configured to capture the image data to be displayed, a transmission control unit configured to perform control such that the captured image data is transmitted to the display control apparatus, and a detection unit configured to detect an operation performed on the information processing apparatus. In a case where the detection unit detects a predetermined operation for changing a display appearance of the image data to be displayed, the transmission control unit performs control such that information of an amount of change resulting from the predetermined operation is transmitted to the display control apparatus.
US10209941B2
Provided are a mobile terminal having a plurality of display areas and a control method thereof. The mobile terminal includes a main body having a front surface, a side surface, and a rear surface, a display disposed on the front surface and extending from the front surface to the side surface, a wireless communication unit wirelessly communicating with an external device, and a controller receiving identification information of the external device in response to recognition of the external device, and controlling information output on the touch screen on the basis of the received identification information, wherein, on the basis of the identification information of the external device.
US10209939B2
An information processing apparatus including a display unit that is capable of displaying an operation screen provided by a server notifies the server of a content of an instruction from a user via an operation screen provided by the server and displayed on the display unit, and if the server requests execution of a process based on the notified content of the instruction, executes the requested process. The information processing apparatus determines an operation screen displayed on the display unit after notifying the server, and if the operation screen provided by the server is displayed on the display unit, performs control to execute the process requested by the server, and if another operation screen is displayed on the display unit instead of the operation screen provided by the server, performs control to not execute the process requested by the server.
US10209936B2
A method is disclosed for controlling at least one printer engine, the at least one printer engine having plural trays, each of the plural trays is aligned independently for imaging on a sheet of print medium. The method includes obtaining information according to first conditions in which each of the plural trays has been aligned, and the alignment of the each of plural trays is an adjustment to a position of a printable area on the sheet of print medium so that the printable area is centered on the sheet of print medium; obtaining information according to a second condition in which the at least one printer engine executes a print job; judging differences between each of the first conditions and the second condition; selecting a tray for the print job based on the judged differences; and instructing the print engine to execute the print job using the selected tray.
US10209927B2
In a case where a removable recording medium on which complete erasure has not been performed is accidentally removed from an information processing apparatus, information may be at risk of leaking out from the removed recording medium. In a case where physical removal of the recording medium from the information processing apparatus is detected, the information processing apparatus determines whether the removed recording medium is a recording medium on which complete erasure processing of data recorded thereon has been performed. Then, in a case where it is determined that the complete erasure processing of the data has not been performed, a user is notified of a prompt for the complete erasure processing.
US10209926B2
When the storage system according to the present invention receives a request for writing new data to a first logical volume after having received a first pair creating request, the storage system stores the new data in a cache memory. Then when the storage system subsequently receives a second pair creating request, even if the cache memory still has stored therein the data identical to the data that was stored on the first logical volume at the point in time when the storage system received the first pair formation request, and even if this identical data has not yet been copied to the second logical volume, the storage system omits to copy this identical data to the second logical volume.
US10209915B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least one first memory being nonvolatile and a processor configured to read a file from the first memory or to write a file on the first memory. The first memory stores instructions, the instructions, when executed, causing the processor to provide a software layer structure including a first virtual file system layer configured to interface with an application program layer, a compressed file system layer configured to compress at least a part of data of the written file or to decompress at least a part of data of the read file, a second virtual file system layer configured to manage the written or read file, and a first file system layer configured to read at least a part of the file from the first memory or to write at least a part of the file on the first memory.
US10209909B1
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. A given storage element is cloned by making a copy of the given storage element and assigning a new internal identifier to the given storage element and the copy.
US10209908B2
A method, system, and program product for optimizing distribution and availability of data partitions is disclosed. Placement logic is run for data partition distribution which optimizes a configuration of a memory data grid. A determination of a change in performance of the memory data grid after adding new members to the memory data grid is provided. Replication of data partitions in the memory data grid is minimized. Optimum data partition distribution in the memory data grid is determined.
US10209907B2
Representative embodiments disclose how to remove spilled data from an unauthorized system and/or service in a cloud service. Some embodiments allow a user to remove spilled data in a secure fashion without involving an administrator. Spilled data resides in a data structure backed by allocated storage locations. The system presents a user interface allowing a user to enter information that allows identification of the allocated storage locations. The spilled data is removed from the data structure leaving whitespace in the allocated storage locations where remnants of the spilled data can reside. The system creates a copy of the data structure, removing the whitespace. The system connects the copy of the data structure in place of the original data structure. The original allocated storage locations are then overwritten in a secure manner to remove any remnants of the spilled data.
US10209906B2
A technique includes receiving a command in a target port, where the command is provided by an initiator and is associated with a write operation. The technique includes, in response to the command, using the target to process a data transfer for the initiator associated with the write operation. The processing includes, based on a characteristic of the command, selectively using memory for the transfer pre-allocated by a storage array controller prior to receipt of the command by the target port or requesting an allocation of memory for the transfer from the storage array controller.
US10209905B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for reusing a storage block of a file system. The file system is based on a thin provision storage configuration and shares a storage pool with a further file system. The method comprises detecting an unused storage block in a storage space of the file system in response to a predefined trigger event. The method further comprises in response to an unused storage block being detected in the storage space, providing the unused storage block to the storage pool for being reused. According to various embodiments of the present invention, effective utilization of the storage space of the storage pool is achieved.
US10209899B2
Embodiments relate to off-loading aspects of storage virtualization to storage hardware and modifying software to take advantage of hardware virtualization features. A co-design of hardware and software allows a filesystem to provide files such that indirection overhead normally needed to access the content of files can be bypassed while still managing the files as filesystem objects. A storage device manages and exposes a virtual volume which is used to store the content of a file. Virtual volumes can be initialized or populated so that virtual blocks therein align with device storage blocks. A virtual volume can be initialized and populated by parsing a virtual disk file to access virtual disk metadata, which is then used to determine and set features of the virtual volume.
US10209895B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system is provided with a memory cell array, a first command issuing circuit and a controller. The memory cell array includes a plurality of data areas and a plurality of first parity areas. The data areas are arranged in a plurality of banks or in a plurality of chips, and individually store a plurality of data portions constituting access-unit data. The first parity areas are adjacent to the data areas and individually store a plurality of first parity portions constituting the first parity corresponding to the data. The first command issuing circuit issues a first command for the data areas and the first parity areas. The controller accesses the data areas and the first parity areas in response to the first command.
US10209894B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system is configured to operate as one of semiconductor storage devices in a storage array. The memory system includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller. The controller executes a write operation of writing data, received from a host, to the nonvolatile memory. The controller receives, from the host or another semiconductor storage device in the storage array, a notification indicative of a value related to an amount of reduction in write performance of the another semiconductor device. The controller reduces performance of the write operation based on the value notified by the received notification.
US10209888B2
A computer has processors each including computation cores; memories, and an IO device, and includes NUMA nodes. The computer holds pattern management information to manage patterns and comprises a control module to determine a pattern to be applied to the computer. The pattern management information includes policy information including a policy on placement of a transfer-use memory area in the NUMA nodes, a policy on the placement of driver management information in the NUMA nodes, and a policy on allocation of computation cores that execute data transfer in the NUMA nodes, for each of the plurality of patterns. The control module applies each of the patterns to the computer based on the pattern management information, to measure IO performance in each of the patterns, and determine a pattern being highest in IO performance as a pattern to be applied to the computer.
US10209880B2
Various embodiments provide a travel log for manipulation of content. In at least some embodiments, the travel log can be presented as a visual element of a web browser and can enable a user to navigate through visited content (e.g., web pages) via manipulation of the content using touch-based and/or touchless gestures. Implementations can facilitate navigation through content by representing the travel log as a visual “time line” of visited content that can be scrolled via manipulation through a web browser user interface. For example, a user can navigate the travel log to older content by manipulating the travel log in one direction, and can navigate the travel log to newer content by manipulating the travel log in a different direction.
US10209876B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to facilitate the identification of one or more media files within a gallery of media files presented upon a display. In the context of a method, a gallery of media files is caused to be displayed. The gallery of media file is grouped into a plurality of sessions. Each session includes one or more media files. The method also causes display of a scrollbar partitioned into a plurality of segments. Each segment corresponds to a respective session of media files. The method further includes determining the media files of the gallery to be displayed in response to user input selecting a respective segment of the scrollbar. In this regard, the method determines the media files of the gallery to be displayed by determining the media files of the session corresponding to the respective segment of the scrollbar that is selected.
US10209872B2
A mobile computing device that is configured to: display an icon for a native application via an application launcher, the icon comprises a first image, the application launcher being configured to launch the native application into a first state upon receiving a user selection of the first image; receive a data object that includes information regarding a second state of the native application, the information comprises: an access mechanism that provides access to the second state; and a second image that corresponds with the second state; display the second image in association with the icon, the second image being displayed in conjunction with the first image; launch the native application into the first state in response to the user selection corresponding with the first image; and launch the native application into the second state in response to the user selection corresponding with the second image.
US10209867B1
A Document Integration and Viewing System (DIVS) can perform a method that comprises accessing a plurality of electronic documents, assigning each of the electronic documents to an appropriate category of a plurality of user-specified document categories, establishing a sequence for the electronic documents in each of the user-specified document categories, and generating a graphical user interface that includes a plurality of panes. Each of the user-specified document categories is assigned to a different pane of the plurality of panes so that each of the electronic documents is assigned to a corresponding one of the panes. Within each pane, all of the electronic documents assigned to the pane are viewable sequentially in response to user inputs according to the sequence determined for the electronic documents of the corresponding category, with seamless visual transitions between contents of the electronic documents assigned to each pane.
US10209863B2
The present disclosure discloses a method of displaying a cascading menu that includes a plurality of submenus. The method determines a first submenu as indicated for browsing by a user based on a clicking event of the user. When an operation interface of the first submenu is in a collapsed mode, a number of submenus that are currently in an expanded mode within an operation interface of the cascading menu is counted. When the number of submenus that are currently in the expanded mode reaches a defined threshold, at least a second submenu is selected from the submenus that are currently in the expanded mode, and an operation interface of the second submenu is shrunk. The operation interface of the first submenu is expanded. Therefore, a size of the operation interface of the cascading menu will not increase as the number of the expanded submenus increases. As such, the amount of a page space occupied by the cascading menu is reduced and utilization of the page space is improved. The present disclosure further discloses a terminal apparatus.
US10209860B2
A display input device includes an operation display portion and a control portion. The operation display portion includes a display portion and an operation detecting portion, the operation detecting portion being configured to detect an operation performed on the display portion. The control portion executes a first display step, a second display step, an identification step, and a display position setting step. In the first display step, an icon display area in which a plurality of operation icons are arranged is displayed on the display portion. In the second step, a keyboard is displayed on the display portion. In the identification step, operated icons are identified. In the display position setting step, a display position of the keyboard displayed in the second display step, is set to such a position where the keyboard is overlapped on a part or whole of at least one of the operated icons.
US10209857B2
A display control apparatus performs overlapping display of a highlight image against a notification object that is visually recognized through a picture projection plane of a virtual image display apparatus used by a driver of a vehicle such that the highlight image represents the notification object. A target information acquisition section acquires target information including at least a position and a size of the notification object. A display execution section displays a first highlight image and a second highlight image in a display form capable of identifying each of the first highlight image and the second highlight image based on target information acquired by the target information acquisition section. The first highlight image corresponds to a size of the notification object, while the second highlight image results from enlarging the first highlight image at a predetermined magnification percentage.
US10209844B2
A readout device for a capacitive sense matrix includes a computer readable storage medium configured to store capacitance data. The capacitance data represents capacitance values of the capacitive sense matrix. The readout device also includes a readout circuit configured to receive a signal from the capacitive sense matrix, the readout circuit being configured based upon the capacitance data. Also described are a readout method and a method of compensating for variations in capacitance.
US10209843B2
In one general aspect, a method can include identifying contact with a surface of a touch-sensitive input device, identifying a location of the contact on the surface of the touch-sensitive input device, and calculating a change in a mutual capacitance between a first electrode and a second electrode included in a sensor module disposed below the surface of the touch-sensitive input device. The first electrode can be adjacent to the second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode can be located approximate to the identified location of the contact on the surface of the touch-sensitive input device. The method can include estimating a contact-coupled capacitance based on the calculated change in a mutual capacitance between the first electrode and the second electrode, and calculating a force applied to the surface of the touch-sensitive input device at the identified location.
US10209837B2
According to one embodiment, a display device comprises pixel electrodes formed in a display area, drive electrodes opposed to the pixel electrodes, first and second line groups formed in a non-display area, a first switch configured to apply a voltage for display or a drive signal to the drive electrodes, and a scanner configured to control the first switch. In the above structure, the first and second line groups are disposed with a space between the first line group and the second line group, and at least a part of the scanner is disposed in the space between the first line group and the second line group.
US10209834B2
A display with integrated self-capacitance sensors comprises a sensor electrode and a guard layer in the display stack. Touch displays combine internally elements required for the display function and the touch sensing function. In an embodiment, the common voltage layer, VCOM layer, is used as the guard layer and another layer on top of the common voltage layer, for example a color filter layer, is used as the electrode array layer. The functionality of the common voltage layer is alternated between the touch sensing function and the display function. Either function may be used while the other function is disabled.
US10209830B2
A force sensor is disclosed. The force sensor includes a force-sensitive structure that compensates for temperature and other environmental changes through the use of a strain-sensitive element and one or more reference elements. An array of such force-sensitive structures forms a force-sensing layer.
US10209826B2
A touch screen includes a first shield wiring surrounding a plurality of sensor wirings and a plurality of lead wirings, and capacitors. The distance between the first shield wiring and the outermost lead wiring which is the outermost wiring, out of the plurality of lead wirings, is larger than the intervals between the plurality of lead wirings. The capacitors are constituted by first and second electrodes including extending portions which extend in the extending direction.
US10209813B2
A self-capacitive touch sensor panel configured to have a portion of both the touch and display functionality integrated into a common layer is provided. The touch sensor panel includes a layer with circuit elements that can switchably operate as both touch circuitry and display circuitry such that during a touch mode of the device the circuit elements operate as touch circuitry and during a display mode of the device the circuit elements operate as display circuitry. The touch mode and display mode can be time multiplexed. By integrating the touch hardware and display hardware into common layers, savings in power, weight and thickness of the device can be realized.
US10209812B2
A touch substrate and a touch device are provided. The touch substrate includes a thin film transistor, and a common electrode layer and a pixel electrode layer that are transparent. The common electrode layer includes a common electrode and a touch driving electrode that extend along a first direction, and an insulating medium is provided between the common electrode and the touch driving electrode. On the touch substrate, there is further provided a touch sensing electrode that is disposed in a layer different from the touch driving electrode and extends along a second direction, and the touch sensing electrode covers a gap region between the common electrode and the touch driving electrode. Within a period of displaying a frame of image, the touch driving electrode transmits a common electrode signal and a touch scanning signal in a time-division mode.
US10209808B1
Apparatuses and a computer-readable media are provided to: display an object and at least a portion of an interface in a same virtual display layer; detect a single static gesture being applied to the touch screen on the object, the single static gesture varying in pressure between a plurality of discrete touch states; perform a first pressure-dependent step-wise function in response to a first change in the discrete touch states; perform a second pressure-dependent step-wise function in response to a second change in the discrete touch states; and during at least a portion of the gesture and as a function of an increase in a magnitude of the pressure of the gesture being applied to the touch screen on the object, continuously blur the at least portion of the interface such that the at least portion of the interface and the object are displayed in different virtual display layers.
US10209806B1
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for operating a mobile device including a touch screen, a memory, and a vibratory feedback mechanism coupled to at least one processor. A plurality of applications including an application is stored, utilizing the memory. A first pressure signal indicative of a first magnitude of pressure being applied to the touch screen is identified. In response to the first pressure signal indicative of the first magnitude of pressure being applied to the touch screen, a first state is identified, utilizing the at least one processor. In response to the identification of the first state, an operation is performed, utilizing the at least one processor. A second pressure signal is identified indicative of a second magnitude of pressure being applied to the touch screen that is greater than the first magnitude, in connection with the indicia. In response to the second pressure signal indicative of the second magnitude of pressure being applied to the touch screen, a second state is identified, utilizing the at least one processor. In response to the identification of the second state, the mobile device is vibrated, utilizing the vibratory feedback mechanism. Also in response to the identification of the second state, another operation is performed.
US10209804B2
A system and related method for force-sensitive emissive display incorporates a force sensing device, such as a force-sensitive resistor or frustrated total internal reflection (FTIR) assembly, bonded to a flexible film/film resistive touch sensor and an emissive display surface. The film/film resistive touch sensor may detect contact with the display surface and transmit the detected contact to the force sensing device, which determines a magnitude or degree of touch force associated with the detected contact. A display controller of the force-sensitive emissive display system may adjust the displayed content, or execute other responsive actions, based on the detected touch force as well as the position of the contact relative to the display surface, as determined by the film/film resistive touch sensor or by the force sensing device.
US10209798B2
A touch display device includes a plurality of scan lines including first portion scan lines and second portion scan lines; a plurality of data lines crossing the plurality of scan lines; a scan driver outputs a plurality of first portion scan signals to the first portion scan lines in a first display scan period in a frame, a plurality of second portion scan signals to the second portion scan lines in a second display scan period in the frame; and a data driver outputs a plurality of first portion display signals corresponding to the plurality of first portion scan signals in the first display scan period; a plurality of second portion display signals corresponding to the plurality of second portion scan signals in the second display scan period.
US10209787B2
There is provided a mode switching method of a dual mode optical navigation device. The dual mode optical navigation device is configured to be operated on a working surface and has a first bottom surface and a second bottom surface having an included angle with the first bottom surface. The mode switching method includes: determining whether the first bottom surface or the second bottom surface contacts with the working surface; switching the dual mode optical navigation device to a first mode when identifying that the first bottom surface contacts with the working surface; and switching the dual mode optical navigation device to a second mode when identifying that the second bottom surface contacts with the working surface.
US10209785B2
Modifying a tether linked to a cursor based on depth volatility of the cursor is disclosed. Multiple displays show a three-dimensional image that seems to be at the same real world location regardless of the location of the display. One person operates a cursor in the three-dimensional image. Volatility of depth of the cursor from the viewpoint of the cursor operator is tracked. The appearance of the tether is changed in other displays in response to the depth volatility. The tether may include a line from the cursor towards the cursor operator. The tether is not necessarily displayed all of the time so as to not obscure the view of the three-dimensional image. When there is not any depth volatility for some time, the tether is not displayed. In response to high depth volatility, the tether may be displayed as a long line from the cursor.
US10209782B2
An input-based information display method and an input system are provided. The method includes: using context information to perform recognition processing on a received input string, and recognizing a current semantic keyword; determining display information that matches the semantic keyword, and displaying the display information in a form of a pop-up bubble, where the display information includes but is not limited to expression images; and performing display processing on the display information according to an user instruction, where the display processing includes but is not limited to performing an enter-on-screen operation of the expression images. The recognized current semantic keyword of the present disclosure is not limited to a candidate item corresponding to the input string, and the semantic recognition based on the context information may better reflect the user input intention.
US10209774B2
A haptically-enabled system includes an actuator that has a first terminal and a second terminal. The second terminal is coupled to a voltage source, and a first switch is coupled to the first terminal and to ground. A second switch is coupled to the actuator. The second switch is parallel to the actuator.
US10209766B2
A method of displaying a user interface on an electronic device is provided. The method includes displaying the user interface in a normal mode, determining whether or not the normal mode is converted into a low power mode, and if the normal mode is converted into the low power mode, displaying a first simplified user interface, which has at least some information identical to that of the user interface, and is configured by removing at least some information from an image displayed in the normal mode.
US10209762B2
A layered network (10; 11; 12) to provide offload of data in a communication processor (100; 110; 120). The layered network (10; 11; 12) includes a first set (S1) of network elements at a first layer (L1) and a second set (S2) of one or more network elements at a second layer (L2). The network elements of the first set (S1) are configured for processing incoming data and the network elements of the second set (S2) of one or more network elements at the second layer (L2) are configured to process intermediate data received from the first set (S1) of network elements. The network elements of a particular subset (Si1) of the network elements of the first set (Si1) of network elements are connected to only a particular network element (Ei2) of the second set (S2) to transfer the incoming data processed by the network elements of the particular subset (Si1) to the particular network element (Ei2) of the second set (S2). The layered network (10; 11; 12) further includes a powering controller (25) configured to, during offload of the data, put a particular network element (Ei2) of the second set (S2) at the second layer (L2) in an on state only if at least a particular network element (Ei1) of the particular subset (Si1) of the network elements of the first set (S1) at the first layer (L1) is in an on state and at least one of the network elements of the first set (S1) is in an off state. The powering controller (25) is configured to discriminate between chains of network elements formed by at least network elements of the first set (S1) and network elements of the second set (S2) and to have a chain in an on state if a first network element of the chain at a highest layer hierarchy is in an on state.
US10209761B2
Various embodiments of the present technology may comprise a method and apparatus for a power management unit. The power management unit may be configured to operate in conjunction other integrated circuits to mitigate power dissipation. The power management unit may receive temperature information from a temperature sensor and deploy various power management schemes to reduce the leakage power of an SRAM. The power management schemes may be based on the particular characteristics of the SRAM.
US10209760B2
The embodiments disclosed herein describe ways that a browser application or other process can reduce power usage by a computing device. Methods include the process suspending one or more plug-ins on a web page by replacing them with a snapshot taken from the plug-in, and reducing processing on non-media plug-ins and non-visible portions of web pages running in the browser, but not currently in focus, such as when a tab is in the background behind a different tab, when a browser window is minimized, or when the web page is entirely or partially occluded.
US10209755B2
A system comprises a first domain 4 and second domain 6 which communicate via an interface 8. The first domain 4 transmits power state commands to the second domain 6 for controlling transitions of power states at the second domain 6. The power state commands include at least a power up command 50 for triggering a transition to a power up state and a power no-operation command 52 in response to which the second domain remains in the current one of the power states. The no-operation command 52 enables the second domain 6 to be left in either the power up state or a different power state even if the first domain 4 is powered down.
US10209752B2
A method for providing power through a USB port of an electronic device includes connecting a power supply to a USB port of an electronic device, emulating a personal computer (PC) host system such that the electronic device believes that the power supply is a PC host system, retrieving at least one descriptor from the electronic device, identifying the electronic device from the at least one descriptor, and setting a charging voltage based upon the identity of the electronic device.
US10209748B2
An electronic device with a heat-dissipation structure includes a host, a first heat-dissipation tube, a display, a rotation joint, and a second heat-dissipation tube. The first heat-dissipation tube is disposed in the host. The display is pivoted on the host. The display is rotated relative to the host about a rotation axis. The rotation joint is connected to the first heat-dissipation tube. The second heat-dissipation tube is disposed in the display, and connected to the rotation joint. A cooling liquid is filled in the first heat-dissipation tube.
US10209735B1
An apparatus is configured to receive a two-phase input clock and output a four-phase output clock, the apparatus includes a first data latch and a second data latch configured in a ring topology with a negative feedback based on inter-connection through a four-phase level-shifted clock, the first data latch configured to receive a fourth phase and a second phase of the level-shifted clock and output a first phase and a third phase of the output clock along with a first phase and a third phase of the level-shifted clock in accordance with a first phase of the input clock, the second data latch configured to receive the first phase and the third phase of the level-shifted clock and output a second phase and a fourth phase of the output clock along with the second phase and the fourth phase of the level-shifted clock in accordance with a second phase of the input clock.
US10209726B2
Secure voltage adjustment techniques for computing systems and processing devices are presented herein. In one example, a method of controlling operating voltages for a processing device includes initializing a security portion of the processing device after application of input voltages to the processing device as supplied by voltage regulation circuitry according to voltage identifiers (VIDs) established for the processing device. The method includes, in the security portion, generating adjusted input voltages based on at least the VIDs and authenticated voltage offset information stored according to a digitally signed security process, and instructing the voltage regulation circuitry to supply the adjusted input voltages to the processing device.
US10209723B2
A low-voltage differential signaling (LVDS) driving circuit, coupled to a load resistor via a first output end and a second output end, includes: a voltage generating unit, providing a first reference voltage; a first switch, coupled between the voltage generating unit and a first node; a second switch, coupled between the voltage generating unit and a second node; a third switch, coupled between the first node and a third node, the third node having a second reference voltage; a fourth switch, coupled between the second node and the third node; a first resistor, coupled between the first node and the first output end; and a second resistor, coupled between the second node and the second output end. The first resistor and the second resistor are in a series connection with the load resistor.
US10209721B2
Hot water heater systems including electronic mixing valves and methods for controlling such valves are provided. An electronic mixing valve provides a flow of water in a mixed output line. A method includes monitoring an input temperature of cold water supplied to the valve, storing a value of the input temperature, and setting a position limit of the valve based on the stored value, wherein the position limit of the valve is greater than a fully closed position of the valve and less than a fully open position of the valve.
US10209720B2
An irrigation system includes a central pivot and a series of mobile towers connected to the central pivot and to one another by support structure. Each mobile tower has wheels and a motor for driving at least one of the wheels. A control system operates the motors to maintain alignment of the mobile towers and the central pivot while preventing power usage of the system from exceeding a maximum power threshold. The control system determines in which sequence to operate the motors to maintain alignment of the mobile towers while operating no more than a selected number of the motors simultaneously.
US10209718B2
A system and method for collecting and processing sensor data for facilitating and/or enabling autonomous, semi-autonomous, and remote operation of a vehicle, including: collecting surroundings at one or more sensors, and determining properties of the surroundings of the vehicle and/or the behavior of the vehicle based on the surroundings data at a computing system.
US10209709B2
A vehicle system includes a processor programmed to receive sensor signals from a LIDAR sensor. The processor estimates frost accumulation on the LIDAR sensor from the sensor signals and compares the estimated frost accumulation to a predetermined threshold. The processor further prevents a host vehicle from operating in an autonomous mode if the estimated frost accumulation exceeds the predetermined threshold.
US10209708B2
A method, system, and computer program product of controlling driver interaction with an autonomous vehicle (AV) system for a vehicle are provided. In an embodiment, a signal indicating a present state of the driver is received. A signal indicating a past state of the driver is received. A present effectiveness of the driver is determined based on the received signals. A target level of engagement of the driver with the AV system is determined based on the present effectiveness of the driver.
US10209703B2
A communication system is equipped with a mobile terminal and a controller of an industrial machine for forming a shaped product. Mutual communications are carried out between the controller and the mobile terminal. The mobile terminal includes an image capturing unit for capturing an image of an object to be imaged, an image conversion unit which converts the captured image data captured by the image capturing unit and generates converted image data according to an image format rule corresponding to the controller, a setting data creation unit which creates setting data for the converted image data, so that the converted image data can be used by the controller, and a data transmission and reception unit which carries out communications with the controller and transmits the converted image data and the setting data to the controller.
US10209702B2
A tool management system of machine tools includes a reader, a receiver, a storage unit, a processor and a control unit. The reader is configured for reading at least one category parameter of the tool according to a tool index code of the tool. The receiver is configured for receiving real-time process information of the tool with a preset periodicity. The storage unit is configured for storing the tool index code, the category parameter, and the real-time process information. The processor is configured for processing a weighting algorithm to obtain a result according to the category parameter and the real-time process information. The control unit is configured for sending a control instruction according to the result.
US10209697B2
A controller for controlling a synchronized operation of spindle and feed axes. A spindle-axis control section includes an initial-motion control section for accelerating a spindle axis from a starting position; a maximum-acceleration detecting section for detecting a maximum acceleration of the spindle axis during acceleration; a residual rotation-amount detecting section for detecting a residual rotation amount of the spindle axis; a current-speed detecting section for detecting a current speed of the spindle axis; a decelerating-motion control section for decelerating the spindle axis to reach an intermediate speed, after the acceleration; a positioning-motion control section for decelerating the spindle axis to reach the target position after reaching the intermediate speed; and a torque-command limiting section for limiting a fluctuation of a torque command of the position control, instructed to the spindle axis, to a predetermined range over a period until a predetermined elapse condition is satisfied after reaching the intermediate speed.
US10209694B2
An input-output apparatus which is used in a process control system is provided. The input-output apparatus includes a first interface to which a lower-level apparatus is connected; a second interface to which a higher-level apparatus is connected; a third interface to which an external setting apparatus is connected; a switcher which switches between a connection of the second interface to the first interface and a connection of the third interface to the first interface; and a control device which, when in a first state in which the second interface is connected to the first interface by the switcher and the connection of the third interface to the first interface is permitted, controls the switcher to cause transitioning to a second state in which the third interface and the first interface are connected when a connection request to the first interface is input through the third interface.
US10209693B2
An architecture that provides ubiquitous access to a home automation system utilizes both a home database and a configuration database maintained by remote cloud services. In one example embodiment, a system configuration of the home automation system is generated and maintained in a home database accessible on an in-home LAN. The home database is synchronized with a configuration database of cloud services over the Internet. User input is received in a home automation control UI indicating a change to one or more services or scenes provided by hardware elements of the home automation system. When there is connectivity between a device providing the home automation control UI and the in-home LAN, the system configuration in the home database is utilized to effect the indicated change. When there is no connectivity between the device providing the home automation control UI and the in-home LAN, the system configuration in the configuration database of cloud services is utilized to effect the indicated change.
US10209692B2
Disclosed are exemplary embodiments of controllers and methods for controlling a climate control system. In an exemplary embodiment, a climate control system controller for controlling operation of a climate control system of a structure generally includes a processor, memory, and network interface configured to provide the climate control system controller with wireless network connectivity. The climate control system controller is selectively connectable, in response to user input, with each of a plurality of destination servers remote from the structure.
US10209687B2
Feedback is provided to a user based on a setting for a set of energy consuming devices. While a user modifies a thermostat's schedule or provides user commands to adjust a setting for the set of energy consuming devices, a user interface component generates feedback to the consumer in response to an adjusted setting based on a condition for a predetermined function. A positive feedback component generates a positive feedback, such as a positive image in the user interface if the setting meets or exceeds a recommended performance metric for an operational parameter for the set of energy consuming devices. A negative feedback component generates a negative feedback, such as a negative image if the setting meets or exceeds a second condition, such as a discouraged performance metric.
US10209681B2
A safety device includes a monitoring unit, a test block and an output stage having at least one contact member. The monitoring unit includes at least two outputs and provides at least two, different output signals for testing its absence from faults. The monitoring unit provides at least one enabling signal for a switch-off function The test block includes at least one input and is configured to monitor at least one of the output signals of the monitoring unit. The test block also includes at least one output and provides at least one enabling signal for a switch-off function. The at least one contact member of the output stage has at least two inputs and is configured to link at least one of the output signals of the monitoring unit to the at least one enabling signal of the test block.
US10209670B2
An electrophotographic photosensitive drum unit usable in a process cartridge includes a cylinder having a photosensitive layer at an outer periphery thereof and an axis L1. A drum flange is provided at one end of the cylinder, with the drum flange including a recess formed on an inside thereof and a gear portion provided along an outer surface of the drum flange. A detachable member is detachably attached to the drum flange and overlaps parts of the recess as seen along a direction of the axis L1, with the detachable member being provided within the drum flange in the direction of the axis L1.
US10209668B2
An image forming apparatus in which a developer bearing member is disposed below a cleaning member, which cleans a charging member, so as to overlap with the cleaning member when viewed in a vertical direction and includes a base body and an elastic layer covering the base body and having a width in a longitudinal direction of the developer bearing member that accommodates the entire region of the cleaning member in the longitudinal direction. In the longitudinal direction, the cleaning member is disposed at a position where the entire region thereof in the longitudinal direction is accommodated in the width of the elastic layer.
US10209665B2
A cleaning device includes a blade and a seal member including a first portion having first, second and third surfaces and including a second portion having a fourth surface. The first surface opposes a free end surface of the blade. The second surface is connected with the first surface. The third surface is connected with the first and second surfaces and is perpendicular to the free end surface. The fourth surface is parallel to the third surface and the free end surface. A first interior corner line is formed by the free end surface and the third surface so as to be substantially parallel to a thickness direction of the blade. A second interior corner line is formed by the third surface and the fourth surface so as to be connected with said first interior corner line and be substantially parallel to a height direction of the blade.
US10209661B2
An image forming apparatus includes a conveying member, an image forming unit, an image reading unit, a background member and a color sample member. The image reading unit reads a surface of long paper being conveyed by the conveying member, the surface having an image formed by the image forming unit. The long paper is conveyed by the conveying member to pass through between the image reading unit and the background member and avoid passing through between the image reading unit and the color sample member. A switch between a first arrangement where the image reading unit faces the background member via the long paper and a second arrangement where the image reading unit faces the color sample member is made by moving the image reading unit or by moving the background member, the color sample member and the conveying member.
US10209659B2
An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit that forms an image on a recording material; an accepting unit that accepts plural adjustment items; and an adjusting unit that sequentially executes adjustment operations concerning the plural adjustment items, based on an adjustment result of the previously executed adjustment item.
US10209656B1
An image forming apparatus includes a first printer section configured to form an image on a sheet using decolorable toner which is decolored by heating thereof, a second printer section configured to form an image on the sheet using non-decolorable toner, a heating section configured to heat the sheet on which the image is formed, and a controller configured to control the operation of the image forming apparatus based on an electric energy value which is an integrated value of power consumed within a predetermined time period.
US10209655B2
A film for use in a fixing device includes a base layer having a cylindrical shape. An electrode portion is formed at an end part of the base layer in a longitudinal direction of the film. A heat generation portion is formed at a central part of the base layer in the longitudinal direction of the film and electrically connected to the electrode portion. The heat generation portion is formed of a conductive layer made of a same material as a material of the electrode portion. A thickness of the conductive layer is larger in the electrode portion than in the heat generation portion. A surface area of the conductive layer per unit length in the longitudinal direction of the film is larger in the electrode portion than in the heat generation portion.
US10209653B2
An image processing apparatus comprises a heat roller configured to heat a sheet with heat generated by a plurality of heat generating elements and a controller configured to control a current supplied to the heat generating elements from an AC power supply. The controller controls a timing at which the current flows or does not flow to the heat generating elements according to a first set of control parameters, such that a total of a first sum of estimated absolute value magnitudes of a positive polarity current flowing to the heat generating elements during one duty cycle and a second sum of estimated absolute value magnitudes of a negative polarity current flowing to the heat generating elements during the one duty cycle, is lower when the heat generating elements are controlled according to the first set relative when the heat generating elements are controlled according to other sets.
US10209652B1
An image forming apparatus comprises a transfer section, a fixing section, and a controller. The transfer section includes a transfer rotating body for conveying a sheet at a first linear velocity, and transfers a toner image onto the sheet. The fixing section forms a nip sandwiching the sheet with a first rotating body and a second rotating body, and a heating section for heating the sheet onto which the toner image is transferred. The controller executes a sheet acceleration and deceleration control for setting a linear velocity of the first rotating body to a second linear velocity from the first linear velocity before the tip of the sheet reaches the nip, and decelerating the linear velocity of the first rotating body from the second linear velocity to the first linear velocity at the time the tip of the sheet reaches a predetermined range in a sheet conveyance path.
US10209651B2
A fixing device includes a pressure rotator to press against a fixing rotator to form a fixing nip therebetween, through which a recording medium is conveyed. A cleaning web cleans one of the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. A web driver displaces the cleaning web to change a contact portion of the cleaning web, which contacts the one of the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator. A controller performs a temperature maintenance and rotation control to heat and rotate the fixing rotator at a predetermined time when the fixing device is in a standby mode in which the recording medium is not conveyed through the fixing nip. The controller controls the web driver at a predetermined time to perform a standby mode cleaning control to change the contact portion of the cleaning web according to an implementation status of the temperature maintenance and rotation control.
US10209638B2
An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer has a single-layer structure and contains a charge generating material and a compound represented by general formula (1) shown below. In the general formula (1), R1 and R2 each represent, independently of each other: an alkyl group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms and optionally substituted by an alkoxy group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an alkoxycarbonyl group having 2 to 6 carbon atoms; an aryl group having 6 to 14 carbon atoms and optionally substituted by an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms; an aralkyl group having 7 to 20 carbon atoms; or a cycloalkyl group having 3 to 10 carbon atoms. X represents —S— or —SO2—.
US10209634B2
A lithographic apparatus comprising: a positioning stage (WT); an isolation frame (300); a projection system (PS), comprising a first frame (210); a second frame (220); a supporting frame (10) for supporting the positioning stage; a first vibration isolation system (250) and a second vibration isolation system (270), wherein the supporting frame and the first frame are coupled via the first vibration isolation system; a stage position measurement system (400) to determine directly the position of a stage reference of an element of the positioning stage in one or more degrees of freedom with respect to an isolation frame reference of an element of the isolation frame; and wherein the first frame and the isolation frame are coupled via the second vibration isolation system.
US10209625B2
An extreme ultraviolet light generating apparatus may include: a chamber, within which extreme ultraviolet light is generated from a droplet which is supplied to a predetermined region therein; an image forming optical system that forms an image of the droplet supplied to the predetermined region; an imaging element that captures an image of the formed image; a stage that moves the image forming optical system and/or the imaging element in an optical axis direction of the image forming optical system; a light energy measuring unit that measures light energy which is generated when the extreme ultraviolet light is generated; and a control unit that controls the stage based on a measured value of the light energy measured by the light energy measuring unit such that an image formation plane of the image of the droplet formed by the image forming optical system matches an imaging surface of the imaging element.
US10209613B2
An integrated extreme ultraviolet (EUV) blank production system includes: a vacuum chamber for placing a substrate in a vacuum; a first deposition system for depositing a planarization layer having a planarized top surface over the substrate; and a second deposition system for depositing a multi-layer stack on the planarization layer without removing the substrate from the vacuum. The EUV blank is in an EUV lithography system includes: an extreme ultraviolet light source; a mirror for directing light from the EUV source; a reticle stage for placing a EUV mask blank with a planarization layer; and a wafer stage for placing a wafer. The EUV blank includes: a substrate; a planarization layer to compensate for imperfections related to the surface of the substrate, the planarization layer having a flat top surface; and a multi-layer stack on the planarization layer.
US10209609B2
An electronic device has a first device holder and a second device holder each having a heat generating device attached thereto, a first heat conductive plate and a second heat conductive plate which are connected to the first and second device holders, respectively, a first heat dissipating fin disposed by the side of the second device holder which is disposed adjacent to the first device holder, a second heat dissipating fin disposed adjacent to the first heat dissipating fin in the same direction as the first heat dissipating fin, two first heat pipes which connect the first device holder with the first heat dissipating fin so that heat can be conducted therebetween, and a second heat pipe which connects the second device holder and the second heat dissipating fin so that heat can be conducted therebetween and which is disposed between the two first heat pipes.
US10209608B2
A liquid crystal projector apparatus includes: a plurality of display elements configured to individually modulate light of color components different from one another; and a controller configured to control the individual temperatures of the plurality of display elements. When the temperature of the display element in which a temperature rise rate is slowest among the plurality of display elements does not reach a predetermined temperature, the controller controls so that the temperatures of other display elements stay within a predetermined range that takes as a reference the temperature of the display element in which the temperature rise rate is slowest.
US10209603B2
A switching optical antenna that includes: a waveguide including a light input end and a light output end; a ring waveguide coupled with the waveguide through a first directional coupler; a diffraction grating that is disposed within the ring waveguide and that is coupled with the ring waveguide through a second directional coupler; and a refractive index adjusting section that changes a refractive index of at least a portion of the ring waveguide.
US10209593B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel and a display apparatus. The display panel includes a plurality of array units each including a first pixel array and a second pixel array, each of the first pixel array and the second pixel array has at least one domain tilting direction, and, one row of charging gate line and one row of common gate line are disposed between the first pixel arrays and the second pixel arrays of each row of the array units. A first transistor, a second transistor, a third transistor and an auxiliary liquid crystal capacitor are further disposed between the first pixel array and the second pixel array of each of the array units.
US10209582B2
A liquid crystal display device (100) includes a liquid crystal display panel (1) including a first substrate (10), a second substrate (20), and a liquid crystal layer (30). The first substrate includes a first electrode (11) provided for each pixel, and a second electrode (12) for generating a lateral field across the liquid crystal layer in cooperation with the first electrode. The second substrate includes a third electrode (21) for generating a vertical field across the liquid crystal layer in cooperation with the first electrode and the second electrode. Each pixel is capable of switchably presenting a black displaying state where a vertical field is generated across the liquid crystal layer, a white displaying state where a lateral field is generated across the liquid crystal layer, and a transparent displaying state where a rear face side of the liquid crystal display panel is visible in a see-through manner with no voltage being applied to the liquid crystal layer. The first electrode includes a plurality of linear portions (11a), the plurality of linear portions being arranged so that at least one of the following exists in a plurality: the direction that the linear portions extend and the pitch of the linear portions.
US10209581B2
A display panel includes a liquid crystal layer positioned between first and second substrates. The first substrate comprises scan lines and data lines intersected to define pixel regions. Each pixel region comprises an electrode having two extending portions parallel to the extending direction of the data lines and one bending portion positioned between and connecting the two extending portions. A dark pattern including a first dark pattern and plural second dark patterns is generated when a light passes the pixel region. The first dark pattern is corresponding to the bending portion and parallel to the scan line. The second dark patterns correspond to the two extending portions. The first dark pattern has the first and second widths in the first (half of all gray levels) and second gray levels (maximum gray level), respectively. A ratio of the first width to the second width is 2.1 to 3.0.
US10209578B2
A display panel includes a first substrate structure, a second substrate structure and a display medium layer. The first substrate structure includes a first substrate, a transmitting line, a first protrusion structure and a second protrusion structure. The transmitting line, the first protrusion structure and the second protrusion structure are disposed on the first substrate. The second substrate structure includes a second substrate and a first spacer. The first spacer is disposed on the second substrate. The shape of a vertical projection of the first spacer projected on the first substrate is a polygonal shape having a first side, a second side, a third side, a first included angle and a second included angle. The first included angel is between the first side and the third side, and the first included angle is greater than 90 degrees. The second included angle is less than 90 degrees.
US10209573B2
An UV curing mask plate, comprising: a mask layer, wherein: the mask layer is arranged on the substrate, and has a position corresponding to alignment marks, selection marks and an area not covered by the sealing frame glue to be cured; the material of the mask layer is a material with the function of blocking UV light.
US10209567B2
Disclosed is a display device with a capacitive touch panel including a laminate between a display panel and a cover layer, the laminate having a viewing-side polarizing plate; a first conductive layer, a dielectric layer and a second conductive layer constituting a capacitive touch sensor; and a substrate, in which the first conductive layer, dielectric layer, second conductive layer, and substrate are positioned closer to the cover layer than is the viewing-side polarizing plate, the first conductive layer is formed on one surface of the substrate, the dielectric layer is formed on a surface of the first conductive layer opposite to the substrate side, the second conductive layer is formed on a surface of the dielectric layer opposite to the first conductive layer side, the substrate has an optical film with a phase difference of (2n−1)λ/4, where n is a positive integer, the viewing-side polarizing plate has a polarizing film, and a slow axis of the optical film intersects a transmission axis of the polarizing film at an angle of about 45° as viewed in a stacking direction.
US10209566B2
A light-emitting device includes: a base having an upper surface; a plurality of light sources located on the upper surface of the base; a first lenticular lens sheet disposed to face the base with the light sources between the first lenticular lens sheet and the base, the first lenticular lens sheet including a first plurality of grooves; a half mirror located on an upper surface side of the first lenticular lens sheet; and a second lenticular lens sheet disposed on an upper surface side of the half mirror, wherein the second lenticular lens sheet includes a second plurality of grooves extending in a direction that intersects a direction in which the first plurality of grooves of the first lenticular lens sheet extend.
US10209561B2
A backlight module and a display device. The backlight module comprises a plurality of light strips arranged along a first direction on a same plane, where each of the light strips extends along a second direction on the plane and comprises: a printed circuit board and a plurality of light sources. The printed circuit board comprises a first mounting surface and a second mounting surface which are opposite to each other and not parallel to the plane; the plurality of light sources is electrically connected with the printed circuit board and comprises a plurality of first light sources and a plurality of second light sources, where the first light sources are disposed on the first mounting surface of the printed circuit board, and the second light sources are disposed on the second mounting surface of the printed circuit board. The backlight module has relatively high brightness.
US10209560B2
The present application relates to a backlight unit and a display device including the same, and according to one aspect of the present application, there is provided a backlight unit including a light source, a light guide plate disposed at a side portion of the light source, and a light-modulating reflective film disposed below the light guide plate, wherein the light-modulating reflective film includes a first base film, a quantum dot film disposed to be in contact with a bottom of the first base film and including a quantum dot, a reflective film including a diffuse reflection material, and a second base film disposed to be in contact with a bottom of the reflective film, and the reflective film including a diffuse reflection material is disposed to be in contact with the quantum dot film.
US10209553B2
A display device includes: a backlight unit emitting a light; a first substrate on a path of a light emitted from the backlight unit; a pixel electrode on the first substrate; a light amount control layer on the pixel electrode; a first polarizer on the light amount control layer; a color conversion layer on the first polarizer; and an angular filter between the backlight unit and the color conversion layer. The color conversion layer includes a phosphor, and the angular filter blocks 50% or more of a light incident to the angular filter at an incident angle of 30 degrees or more.
US10209548B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel arranged substantially along a second direction. The display panel is curved in a first direction with a first degree of curvature. The second direction crosses the first direction. A first accommodating member receives the display panel. A plurality of flexible circuit boards is connected to one side portion of the display panel. A printed circuit board is connected to the flexible circuit boards. A beading portion is disposed on a lower portion of the first accommodating member. The printed circuit board is disposed on a lower portion of the beading portion. A lower surface of the beading portion includes a curved surface that is curved in the first direction with a second degree of curvature that is smaller than the first degree of curvature.
US10209539B1
A method for making an apparatus, a system, and apparatus, the apparatus and system each comprising a substrate with a top side, wherein the substrate has a set of cavities in the top side of the substrate, wherein the substrate has a set of conductive elements on the top side of the substrate arranged to electrically couple with a set of conductive elements of a photonic integrated circuit (PIC), wherein each cavity of the set of cavities when coupled to the PIC creates a surface tension when exposed to an underfill to cause the underfill to flow around each cavity.
US10209533B2
A diffractive multifocal lens is disclosed, comprising an optical element having at least one diffractive surface, the surface profile comprising a plurality of annular concentric zones. The optical thickness of the surface profile changes monotonically with radius within each zone, while a distinct step in optical thickness at the junction between adjacent zones defines a step height. The step heights for respective zones may differ from one zone to another periodically so as to tailor diffraction order efficiencies of the optical element. In one example of a trifocal lens, step heights alternate between two values, the even-numbered step heights being lower than the odd-numbered step heights. By plotting a topographical representation of the diffraction efficiencies resulting from such a surface profile, step heights may be optimized to direct a desired level of light power into the diffraction orders corresponding to near, intermediate, and distance vision, thereby optimizing the performance of the multifocal lens.
US10209531B2
According to one embodiment, an optical device includes a first light-modulating element transmitting or scattering light, and a second light-modulating element transmitting or scattering the light passing through the first light-modulating element, a driving module alternately performing a first mode of making the first light-modulating element scatter the light and making the second light-modulating element transmit the light, and a second mode of making the first light-modulating element transmit the light and making the second light-modulating element scatter the light.
US10209529B2
An illumination system of an embodiment includes: a solid-state light source; a wavelength conversion element that converts a wavelength of light emitted from the solid-state light source; a light guide tube that allows incoherent light emitted from the wavelength conversion element to propagate and transmit therethrough, and that has a floating property to float in water; and a connection member that connects and retains the light guide tube on a road surface while securing the floating property of the light guide tube.
US10209525B2
A head-up display device includes a housing, a reflecting member, a projection light emitting unit, and a vibration transmitting member. The housing is fixed to a vehicle. The reflecting member is rotatably supported by the housing and is held at a rotation position. The projection light emitting unit projects projection light corresponding to information onto a window of the vehicle through the reflecting member. The vibration transmitting member is provided between the housing and the reflecting member and has elasticity. The vibration transmitting member is fixed to the housing and makes contact with the reflecting member in an elastically compressed state in an entire rotatable range of the reflecting member.
US10209518B2
The present disclosure provides a display apparatus, in which a shift of a transmission or reflection wavelength characteristic due to an incident angle of light is suppressed, and observation of external light necessary for display and image light necessary for display is possible. The display apparatus of the present disclosure includes an image light generator that generates image light by use of light in each of at least a first wavelength band, a second wavelength band, and a third wavelength band, and a light synthesizing part that transmits external light and reflects the image light. The light synthesizing part has a transparent substrate having a concave surface on which the image light is reflected, and a film that is provided on the concave surface of the substrate, reflects the image light, and transmits light in a predetermined wavelength band of the external light.
US10209509B1
An optical scanning device includes: a first mirror; a second mirror; two non-waveguide regions; an optical waveguide region; and a first adjusting element. The optical waveguide region propagates light. The optical waveguide region and the two non-waveguide regions include respective first regions in which a common material exists. The optical waveguide region or each of the two non-waveguide regions further includes a second region in which a first material having a refractive index different from a refractive index of the common material exists. The first mirror allows part of the light propagating through the optical waveguide region to be emitted through the first mirror. The first adjusting element changes at least either the average refractive index of the optical waveguide region or a thickness of the optical waveguide region to change a direction of the light emitted through the first mirror.
US10209507B2
An electrowetting display device comprises a first support plate comprising a first electrode and a second support plate. A seal connects the first support plate to the second support plate. A first fluid and a second fluid, immiscible with the first fluid, are located between the first and second support plates. A second electrode is in electrical contact with the second fluid. An electrical connector connects the first electrode to the second electrode. A barrier structure at least partly surrounds the electrical connector. The electrical connector and the barrier structure are separated from the first fluid and the second fluid by the seal.
US10209504B2
Provided is a light detecting device including: a light path branching unit that branches a single detection light path of fluorescence from a specimen, into a plurality of branched light paths; a plurality of light detectors that are provided to the respective branched light paths branched by the light path branching unit and that include an SSPD or Geiger mode APD to detect the fluorescence; and a signal adder that generates a single image signal in accordance with the detection signals outputted from the plurality of light detectors.
US10209502B2
Provided is a microscope provided with: a scanner that scans an excitation beam coming from a light source; an objective optical system that focuses the scanned excitation beam onto a sample and that collects fluorescence generated at individual scanning positions in the sample; a detector that detects the collected fluorescence; a light blocking member that is disposed between the detector and the system and that partially blocks the collected fluorescence; a switching portion that switches the positional relationship between the member and a light-focusing point of the excitation beam in the sample between an optically conjugate positional relationship, in which an in-focus fluorescence generated at the light-focusing point passes through the member, and a non-conjugate positional relationship, in which the in-focus fluorescence is blocked by the member; and a computing portion that computes a difference between fluorescence signals acquired by the detector in the two positional relationships.
US10209500B2
Provided herein are devices and systems that apply full-field optical coherence tomography (OCT) technology to three-dimensional skin tissue imaging. A special designed Mirau type objective and an optical microscope module allowing both OCT mode and orthogonal polarization spectral imaging (OPSI) mode are disclosed.
US10209499B2
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.
US10209487B2
An optical imaging system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element with positive refractive power, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, and a fifth lens element. Each of the fourth lens element and the fifth lens element includes at least one aspheric surface. The fourth lens element and the fifth lens element are made of plastic. The fifth lens element includes a concave image-side surface and at least one inflection point. An axial distance is formed between each of the first lens element, the second lens element, the third lens element, the fourth lens element, and the fifth lens element, and the optical imaging system further comprises a stop.
US10209486B2
An optical lens assembly includes first, second, third, fourth and fifth lens elements arranged in sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Only the first lens element to the fifth lens element have refracting power, wherein the optical lens assembly satisfies: 3.1≤ALT/AAG, wherein ALT is a sum of thicknesses of the first lens element, the second lens element, the third lens element, the fourth lens element, and the fifth lens element on the optical axis, and AAG is a sum of four air gaps from the first lens element to the fifth lens element on the optical axis.
US10209475B2
A module for distributing optical fibers from a trunk cable includes: an enclosure having bottom, top and side walls; a first fiber optic connector mounted on the bottom wall; a second fiber optic connector mounted on the top wall; a plurality of third connectors mounted to the side wall; a first set of optical fibers routed between the first and second optical connectors; and a second set of optical fibers routed between the first optical connector and the plurality of third connectors.
US10209468B2
An optical fiber unit for air-blown installations includes a number of optical conductors, a first layer of resin material, a second layer of resin material radially outer to the first layer of resin material and a sheath of a thermoplastic material, wherein the second layer of resin material has a secant modulus higher than a secant modulus of the first layer of resin material and wherein the sheath of thermoplastic material is over and in close contact with the second layer of resin material.
US10209459B2
The present invention discloses a type of optical fiber connector, comprising: an external shell; an internal shell, installed within said external shell; an inserted core component, contained within said internal shell and comprising an inserted core and a length of optical fiber pre-installed within said inserted core; and a spring, contained within said internal shell and located behind said inserted core, and being for exerting a pre-set axial force on said inserted core. Said internal shell includes a front part and a rear part; said rear part is assembled on said front part. Additionally, said spring is compressed between said rear part and said inserted core. In the present invention, the rear part can act as a retainer for the compressed spring and can also be for securing the Kevlar fiber extension tube of the optical cable. As a result, in comparison to the prior art, the present invention reduces the number of components of the optical fiber connector and simplifies the structure of the optical fiber connector, thus facilitating rapid on-site assembly of the optical fiber connector.
US10209450B2
Methods for coupling of waveguides with dissimilar mode field diameters, and related apparatuses, components, and systems are disclosed. In one example, a waveguide coupling assembly includes an input waveguide having a first mode, and a transition waveguide having a first transition waveguide section, a second transition waveguide section, and a tapered section. The first transition waveguide section has a second mode and is disposed proximate to the input waveguide such that a phase matching condition is achieved between the input waveguide and the first transition waveguide section, thereby evanescently coupling the input waveguide to the first transition waveguide section of the transition waveguide. The tapered section is optically connected between the first transition waveguide section and the second transition waveguide section, such that the second mode of the first transition waveguide section is converted to the third mode of the second transition waveguide section by the tapered section.
US10209449B2
A structure for coupling an optical signal between an integrated circuit photonic structure and an external optical fiber is disclosed as in a method of formation. The coupling structure is sloped relative to a horizontal surface of the photonic structure such that light entering or leaving the photonic structure is substantially normal to its upper surface.
US10209445B2
Compact photonics platforms and methods of forming the same are provided. An example of a compact photonics platform includes a layered structure having an active region along a longitudinal axis, a facet having an angle no less than a critical angle formed at at least one longitudinal end of the active region, and a waveguide having at least one grating coupler positioned in alignment with the angled facet to couple light out to or in from the waveguide.
US10209443B2
Disclosed is a multi-wavelength transmission apparatus including a wavelength divider to divide an optical signal by wavelength and output wavelength-divided optical signals to different positions, the optical signal being received from an optical circulator, a first cylindrical lens to diverge the wavelength-divided optical signals along an X axis and a Y axis and allow the wavelength-divided optical signals to be promoted in a Z-direction, a second cylindrical lens to diverge optical signals output from the first cylindrical lens along the X axis and the Y axis and allow the output optical signals to be promoted in the Z-direction, and a reflector to reflect optical signals output from the second cylindrical lens toward the second cylindrical lens, the first cylindrical lens being identical in shape to the second cylindrical lens and rotated by 90° in an Y-axial direction based on the second cylindrical lens.
US10209436B2
The present invention provides square seal, a manufacture method of square seal and a manufacture method of a backlight module. The square seal utilizes the roulette design. As being assembled, the redundant material outside the roulette is removed along the roulette to obtain the square seal of narrow frame so that the square seal achieves the narrow frame without the issues of overflow seal and waste material adhesion. The square seal can be easily separated from the waste material to effectively reduce the defect rate. In the manufacture method of the square seal according to the present invention, the square seal inner frame line is first cut on the seal body film material, and then the dotted roulette is formed at position of the square seal outer frame line is pre formed, and finally, the circle of the square seal reserved outer frame line is cut at the periphery of the roulette.
US10209435B2
The present disclosure discloses a backlight module and a liquid crystal display, which relates to the technical field of liquid crystal display. A quantum tube bracket of the backlight module is fixed on the bracket mounting portion by means of a single point of fixation along a length direction of the quantum tube.
US10209431B2
An illumination apparatus including a light-emitting unit and an apparatus-holding section. The light-emitting unit includes a light guide plate with a center portion being opened, a light source that inputs light from a side of an inner wall of the light guide plate, and a reflective film formed on a side of an upper surface of the light guide plate to reflect light propagated in the light guide plate. The light-emitting unit outputs light from a light output surface in opposite to the upper surface of the light guide plate. The apparatus-holding section detachably holds an electronic apparatus, is capable of removing the electronic apparatus from a side of an output direction of light from the light output surface, and includes a center of a surface parallel to the light output surface, which is positioned inside a light output area of the light output surface.
US10209430B2
An LED light source, a backlight module and a liquid crystal display device are disclosed. The LED light source includes: a housing having a light outlet; an LED wafer disposed within the housing, where a light-emitting surface of the LED wafer faces towards the light outlet of the housing; and a light adjustment layer disposed at the light outlet of the housing.
US10209429B2
A luminaire comprises at least one waveguide having a first region that emits a first luminous intensity pattern and a second region that emits a second luminous intensity pattern different from the first luminous intensity pattern. The luminaire further includes a plurality of LED elements and circuitry to control the plurality of LED elements to cause the luminaire to produce a selected one of a plurality of luminous intensity patterns.
US10209422B2
A coherent optical receiver module is disclosed. The module includes a housing, an optical fiber group, a first optical element, and a second optical element. The housing stores a first optical component disposed on an optical path of a local beam and a second optical component disposed on an optical path of a signal beam. The optical fiber group includes a first optical fiber optically coupled to the first optical component and a second optical fiber optically coupled to the second optical component. The first optical element has a first lens disposed on the optical path of the local beam, and transmits the signal beam and the local beam. The second optical element has a second lens disposed on the optical path of the signal beam, and transmits the signal beam and the local beam. The first optical element and the second optical element are placed side by side between the optical fiber group and one end surface of the housing.
US10209417B2
A polarization element, which is obtained from a base material containing a dichromatic dye formed from an azo compound, is characterized in that the single-body transmittance is 35-60%, and a* and b* values, which are acquired for a polarization element or a polarization plate using JIS⋅Z⋅8729, have an a* and b* absolute value that is: less than 1 in a single-body transmittance measurement; less than 2 when two sheets of the base material are arranged parallel to the absorbing axis direction and the a* and b* values are measured; and less than 2 when two sheets of the base material are arranged orthogonal to the absorbing axis direction and the a* and b* values are measured.
US10209413B2
A color filter substrate, a display panel and a display device are provided. The color filter substrate includes a plurality of edge pixels. Each edge pixel includes a plurality of subpixels. Each subpixel is divided by the border line into a display portion at the display region and a non-display portion beyond the display region. The non-display portion is covered with a light-shielding layer. The plurality of subpixels includes a standard subpixel and a plurality of to-be-adjusted subpixels. For each to-be-adjusted subpixel, an additional light-shielding layer is provided at the display portion of the to-be-adjusted subpixel, or the light-shielding layer covering the non-display portion of the to-be-adjusted subpixel is provided with at least one aperture.
US10209411B2
A multilayer mirror for reflecting extreme ultraviolet (EUV) radiation, the mirror has a substrate and a stack of layers formed on the substrate. The stack of layers comprises layers including a low index material and a high index material, the low index material having a lower real part of the refractive index than the high index material at a given operating wavelength λ. The mirror provides a first peak of reflectivity of 20% or more at a first wavelength λ1 in a first wavelength band extending from 6 nm to 7 nm and a second peak of reflectivity of 20% or more at a second wavelength λ2 in a second wavelength band extending from 12.5 nm to 15 nm.
US10209407B2
There is provided an optical film including an acrylic film, and a functional coating layer formed on at least one side of the acrylic film. The functional coating layer includes a water-dispersible resin and at least two kinds of fine particles having different average particle sizes.
US10209406B2
A transparent display device including an emitting area and a transmitting area is provided. An upper AR structure is disposed on an upper substrate. The upper AR structure includes an upper reflection-preventing layer and an upper color-compensating layer having a blue dye. As a result, the transparency of the transmitting area is increased.
US10209404B2
A method for measuring a particles' precipitation rate includes the steps of acquiring at least one first image during a precipitation event through an image acquisition device having a sensor and lens; detecting the particles of the precipitation in the at least one first image by subtracting a background of the first image and setting a brightness threshold for detecting the particles, the particles being visible as a plurality of streaks in the image, wherein a first portion of the plurality of streaks comprises blurred streaks, and a second portion of the plurality of streaks comprises focused streaks; determining an apparent diameter and an apparent length for the plurality of streaks; estimating an actual diameter and an actual length for the plurality of streaks by resolving an equations' system having three equations and three unknowns, namely the actual diameter, the actual length and a depth position of the plurality of streaks, the depth position being the position of each particle from the lens, in which a first equation has the actual diameter as unknown in function of the depth position, a second equation has the actual length as unknown in function of the depth position and a third equation equals the theoretical terminal velocity of the particles with an estimated velocity of the particles in function of the depth position; estimating the velocity of the particles based on the ratio between a net streak length and an exposure time used to take at least one first image; estimating the particles' precipitation rate based on the actual diameter and the velocity (v).
US10209393B2
In some embodiments, a method and apparatus, as well as an article, may operate to estimate a property of an earth formation by generating at least one shale model to represent an earth formation comprised of a non-zero percentage of shale. The shale model includes two curves to represent a relationship between a porosity parameter and a pulsed neutron measurement at two different corresponding percentages of gas saturation, respectively. A matrix model representing an earth formation with 0% shale is combined with one or more shale models to create a formation model. Measured pulsed neutron data is compared with the formation model to estimate a property of the earth formation. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10209389B2
A well-logging method for a geological formation having a borehole therein may include collecting a plurality of nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) snapshots from the borehole indicative of changes in the geological formation and defining NMR data. The method may further include identifying a plurality of fluids within the geological formation based upon the NMR data, determining respective NMR signatures for the identified fluids based upon the NMR data, determining apparent volumes for the identified fluids based upon the NMR signatures, and determining adjusted volumes for the identified fluids based upon the apparent volumes.
US10209371B2
According to one embodiment, a radiation detector includes a scintillator layer, a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and an organic layer. The second conductive layer is provided between the scintillator layer and the first conductive layer. The organic layer is provided between the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer. The organic layer includes an organic semiconductor region having a first thickness. The first thickness is 400 nanometers or more.
US10209364B2
An anti-theft system that is capable of being tracked by and automatically notifies the appropriate authorities when leaving a designated geo-fence area. The anti-theft system includes a storage device having two opaque housing portions that can be secured together along their respective peripheries, providing a cavity. The housing portions are opaque except for a cutout in one of the housing portions. The cavity provides a GPS and a mounting display, wherein the mounting display secure a valuable so that it is partially visible through the cutout, while the GPS is not so visible. The GPS tracks and notifies according to predetermined criteria.
US10209363B2
Embodiments are directed to a system for implementing a restricted-operation region. The system includes an instruction development module configured to be utilized in the development of a set of instructions that implement an operation policy of the restricted-operation region. The set of instructions is configured to, when interpreted, implement the operation policy by controlling at least one function of a vehicle that attempts to operate within the restricted-operation region. The system further includes a first transmitter configured to transmit the set of instructions to the vehicle, wherein a processor of the vehicle is configured to interpret the set of instructions based at least in part on a determination that the vehicle is attempting to operate within the restricted-operation region.
US10209361B2
A tool or attachment jig for mounting an optical triangulation sensor on a turbine blade in a position to measure the gap between the distal tip of the turbine blade and the adjacent shroud. The tool includes a device for indicating the orientation of the sensor. This means that the tool can match a measurement from the optical triangulation sensor with a position on the circumference of the shroud. By taking a plurality of measurements as the turbine blade is rotated with respect to the annular casing, an angular profile for the gap between the turbine blade and the casing can be obtained in a much quicker and more efficient way than a conventional system.
US10209348B2
An optical apparatus includes a photosensitive diode unit, a lens and a microstructure unit. The microstructure unit is arranged between the photosensitive diode unit and the lens. After plural light beams passing through the lens are received by the microstructure unit, travelling directions of the plural light beams are changed. Consequently, at least a portion of the plural light beams is guided to the photosensitive diode unit. In such way, the light collecting efficacy of the photosensitive diode unit is enhanced.
US10209346B2
A radar measurement apparatus works according to the FMCW principle and includes a radar transmission unit, and a radar receiving unit, which is designed to receive a radar received signal reflected on a surface of the medium or other target in a pipe or tube, to convert the received signal into an intermediate frequency signal by mixing with the transmission signal, or a signal derived therefrom, and based on an intermediate signal to determine distance to the surface of the medium or other target. The radar receiving unit applies a phase correction to the intermediate signal produces a phase corrected, intermediate frequency signal, wherein the phase correction lessens or removes a dispersion dependent phase fraction in the phase of the intermediate signal and adds a non-dispersion effects dependent phase fraction. The radar receiving unit is designed based on the phase corrected intermediate signal to determine the target frequency components in the intermediate frequency signal and based on the target frequency components to determine distance to the surface of the medium or other radar.
US10209343B1
An electro-optical imaging sensors system is disclosed for detecting and locating a blast, including muzzle flash, created by the launch of a projectile from a gun barrel, rocket tube or similar device, generally associated with weapons fire. The system is used in conjunction with detection algorithms and provides the azimuth and elevation from the detecting sensor to the location of the blast (the launch location) and also provides the weapon classification.
US10209342B2
An electromagnetic radiation source locating system including an electromagnetic radiation sensor including an antenna configured to detect a radiant energy transmission. A position detector is in communication with the controller and is configured to detect the position of the antenna relative to a reference coordinate system, while an orientation sensor is in communication with the controller and is configured to detect the orientation of the antenna and provide an orientation signal to the controller. A range sensor is configured to detect the distance to an aligned object in the path of a directional vector and provide a distance signal indicative thereof to the controller. An aerial vehicle may be in communication with the controller and configured to drop a marker for guiding navigators to the source of the radiant energy transmission.
US10209337B2
In a method and apparatus for acquiring magnetic resonance (MR) raw data, an MR data acquisition scanner is operated to execute a turbo spin echo (TSE) or a turbo gradient spin echo (TGSE) sequence wherein nuclear spins are excited in multiple slices of the examination object simultaneously by radiating at least one radio-frequency (RF) pulse from an RF radiator of the MR data acquisition scanner, thereby causing the excited nuclear spins in said multiple slices to produce an echo train. A multi-band refocusing pulse is radiated that refocuses nuclear spins in at least one of said multiple slices that follows a first of the multiple slices, and readout gradients are activated to acquire MR signals, with respectively different contrasts, at respectively different readout times of the echo train. The read out MR signals are entered into an electronic memory organized as k-space.
US10209336B2
In a method and apparatus for acquiring magnetic resonance (MR) data, comprising an MR data acquisition scanner is operated, while a subject is situated therein, to acquire calibration data, and raw data for conversion into image data, by executing an accelerated echo planar imaging data acquisition sequence. The calibration data are acquired by executing a simultaneous echo refocusing sequence in which multiple slices of the examination subject are simultaneously excited. The calibration data and the acquired raw data are entered into an electronic memory during operation of said MR data acquisition scanner, and made available from a processor in electronic form, as at least one data file.
US10209318B2
An asymmetric battery testing apparatus tests a battery unit. The battery testing apparatus includes a first wire, a second wire, a third wire, and a testing circuit. The testing circuit includes a test-enabling unit and a control unit. Each wire has a resistance. The test-enabling unit includes a resistor to obtain a first resistor voltage value and a second resistor voltage value. The control unit obtains a battery internal resistance or a battery internal conductance which is a reciprocal of the battery internal resistance of the battery unit according to a battery internal voltage value, a wire voltage value, a first testing voltage value, a second testing voltage value, a testing resistance, the first resistor voltage value, the second resistor voltage value, and the resistances. Accordingly, shorter test time, lower contact failure, higher accuracy, lower power consumption, lower costs, and smaller size are implemented.
US10209313B2
An accumulator and state of charge evaluation method for preparing, during charging and discharging, models for each of deterioration degrees, each representing a relationship between terminal voltage, current and state of charge, for selecting respective models for the times during charging and discharging in accordance with a total charging/discharging amount (Ah), a deterioration degree or an elapsed time of an operation of the accumulator, for further estimating state of charge from current accumulation, and for determining a final state of charge from estimated states of charge including a present state of charge estimated from the models for the times during charging and discharging of the accumulator, while using a time or a total charging/discharging amount (Ah) from a time of full-charging by equal charging of the accumulator up to present time to determine the final state of charge from the plurality of states of charge.
US10209302B2
An interface chip with a built-in self-test mechanism. An electrical physical layer (EPHY) provides a signal to a transmission terminal of the interface chip, and gets a signal from a reception terminal of the interface chip. A digital code generator generates a source code to be scrambled as a scrambled code and then encoded by an encoder and conveyed to the EPHY to be converted into the signal that is provided to the transmission terminal by the EPHY. The EPHY further converts the signal received from the reception terminal into a receiving code to be decoded by a decoder as a decoded code and then descrambled by the descrambler as a restored code. When the transmission terminal is coupled back to the interface chip via the reception terminal, the code checker checks whether the restored code matches the source code.
US10209297B2
An apparatus with a burn-in board containing a microcontroller unit and a heater socket for insitu testing of a packaged integrated circuit while under stress. A method for insitu testing of a packaged integrated circuit while under stress. A method for insitu testing of multiple packaged integrated circuits while under stress.
US10209295B2
A non-contact probe signal loading device is disclosed. The non-contact probe signal loading device includes a probe metal sheet electrically connected to a signal loading terminal, a lower surface of the probe metal sheet facing towards a signal inputting metal sheet into which a signal is to be loaded. A signal transmitting capacitor is formed between the probe metal sheet and the signal inputting metal sheet, and the signal transmitting capacitor functions as a medium to transmit a loaded signal to the signal inputting metal sheet from the probe metal sheet.
US10209293B2
A sensor to monitor health of surge arresters such as metal oxide arresters is disclosed. The sensor including a housing; a sensor assembly contained in the housing, and a voltage measurement strap extending around a periphery of the housing. The voltage measurement strap being electrically connected to the electronics board and configured to measure voltage using electric field. The sensor assembly including: an electronics board to receive, transmit, process, and store signals; a Rogowski coil electrically connected to the electronics board to measure surge currents diverted by the surge arrestor; and a current transformer electrically connected to the electronics board to measure leakage current.
US10209285B2
An electrometer includes a sensing module and a control module. The sensing module includes an electrostatic sensing element. The electrostatic sensing element includes two opposite ends. Each end of the electrostatic sensing element is electrically connected to the control module. When an object with electrostatic charge is near but does not touch the electrostatic sensing element, the resistance of the electrostatic sensing element can be changed. The control module electrically connect to the electrostatic sensing element, the control module measures the resistance variation ΔR of the electrostatic sensing element and converts the resistance variation ΔR into the static electricity potential.
US10209282B2
A remote monitoring system and method for electricity demand of a fused magnesium furnace group. The system has a data acquisition device, a local PC, a cloud server and a remote PC. The data acquisition device has a voltage transformer, a current transformer, an active power transducer, a first slave computer, a plurality of multi-purpose electronic measuring instruments and a second slave computer. The method includes acquiring smelting current and smelting power of each fused magnesium furnace and electricity demand of the furnace group, controlling the switch off/on of each fused magnesium furnace according to the smelting current and the smelting power of each fused magnesium furnace and the electricity demand of the furnace group, sending basic monitoring data to the local PC, and achieving data exchange between the local PC and the remote PC through the Zookeeper technology.
US10209281B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on storage devices, for detecting the power status of an electrical device. In one aspect, an apparatus includes a device that comprises a radio transmitter and a sensor configured to detect the power status of the device. The power status may include information that is indicative of whether the device is powered on or off. The apparatus may also include a processor and a data storage device storing a device identifier associated with the device, and instructions that are operable, when executed by a processor, to cause the processor to perform operations. The operations may include receiving data indicating the power status of the device detected by the sensor, receiving a request for the power status of the device, and transmitting, using the radio transmitter, the device identifier associated with the device and the power status associated with the device.
US10209278B2
A sensor unit has a sensor element which has a substrate and a plurality of optical components, which are integrated into the substrate, and form a plurality of integrated optical sensors. The optical sensors are an optical current sensor based on the Faraday effect, an optical voltage sensor based on the Pockels effect, an optical strain sensor and/or a wavelength sensor. Response signals from the individual sensors are evaluated in an evaluation unit, wherein the response signals from the expansion sensor and/or from the wavelength sensor are preferably used for evaluating the response signals from the other sensors.
US10209276B2
A method of employing a Decision Feedback Equalizer (DFE) in a test and measurement system. The method includes obtaining an input signal data associated with an input signal suffering from inter-symbol interference (ISI). A bit sequence encoded in the input signal data is determined to support assigning portions of the input signal data into sets based on the corresponding bit sequences. The DFE is applied to each set by employing a DFE slicer pattern corresponding to each set, which results in obtaining a DFE adjusted waveform histogram/PDF/waveform database graph for each set adjusted for ISI and accurately captures jitter suppression. The DFE adjusted waveform histogram/PDF/waveform database graphs are normalized and combined into a final histogram/PDF/waveform database graph for determining an eye contour of an eye diagram and jitter measurements.
US10209270B2
An inertial sensor includes a substantially planar, rotationally symmetric proof mass, a capacitive pick-off circuit connected to the proof mass, an electrical drive circuit connected to the four pairs of electrodes. The drive circuit is arranged to apply first in-phase and anti-phase pulse width modulation (PWM) drive signals with a first frequency to the first and third electrode pairs, such that one electrode in each pair is provided with in-phase PWM drive signals and the other electrode in each pair is provided with anti-phase PWM drive signals and to apply second in-phase and anti-phase PWM drive signals with a second frequency, different to the first frequency, to the second and fourth electrode pairs, such that one electrode in each pair is provided with in-phase PWM drive signals and the other electrode in each pair is provided with anti-phase PWM drive signals.
US10209263B2
The invention generally relates to methods of measuring cleaved von Willebrand factor (VWF) fragments. More specifically, the invention relates to methods of measuring the ability of a disintegrin and metalloproteinase with a thrombospondin type 1 motif, member 13 (ADAMTS13) to cleave VWF in vivo. The invention also relates to methods of using various animal models which demonstrate ADAMTS13 activity similar to that of a human. The invention further relates to methods of measuring the cleavage products of rVWF in mammals, particularly in humans and in human plasma.
US10209256B2
Lateral-flow assay and time-resolved fluorescence technologies provide a sensitive tool for detecting norovirus particles in a sample. A flow-through assay device employs norovirus and norovirus G2 antibodies. The lateral-flow assay includes a conjugate pad having conjugated probes. The conjugated probes are particles modified with a binding member that is configured to bind with a norovirus. The particles also have a fluorescent label. A general method of detecting the virus includes (i) preparing a sample with contaminants, (ii) processing the sample and depositing it onto the assay device, and (iii) measuring the fluorescence signal.
US10209249B2
Labelled silica nanoparticles for immunochromatographic reagent, comprising silica nanoparticles containing a labelled substance.
US10209246B2
The present invention relates to a method for determining an estimate of a concentration of analyte particles E(C) as well as an apparatus for use in the inventive method, uses of the inventive method or the inventive apparatus, a sample holder and a kit for use in the inventive method.
US10209244B2
A sample analyzer prepares a measurement sample from a blood sample or a body fluid sample which differs from the blood sample; measures the prepared measurement sample; obtains characteristic information representing characteristics of the components in the measurement sample; sets either a blood measurement mode for measuring the blood sample, or a body fluid measurement mode for measuring the body fluid sample as an operating mode; and measures the measurement sample prepared from the blood sample by executing operations in the blood measurement mode when the blood measurement mode has been set, and measuring the measurement sample prepared from the body fluid sample by executing operations in the body fluid measurement mode that differs from the operations in the blood measurement mode when the body fluid measurement mode has been set, is disclosed. A computer program product is also disclosed.
US10209242B2
In one embodiment, a fluorescence histo-tomography (FHT) system is disclosed. The FHT system includes a housing, a fluorescence camera located within the housing, a white light camera located within the housing, and a fluorescence light source located within the housing. The FHT system further includes a support mount configured to support the housing within a chamber of a slicing apparatus such that the cameras and fluorescence light source are aimed towards a block face of a tissue specimen retained within the chamber.
US10209226B2
A photoacoustic microscope apparatus includes a light source that emits excitation light which generates photoacoustic waves, an objective lens which focuses the excitation light on a specimen, a scanning unit which moves a focused position of the excitation light on the specimen, a photoacoustic-wave detecting unit which has a sensor unit that detects a photoacoustic wave generated, and an image constructing unit which constructs an image based on data from the photoacoustic-wave detecting unit. For the sensor unit, an angle of a range which is capable of receiving the photoacoustic wave incident on the sensor unit is larger than an angle corresponding to a numerical aperture on a side illuminated of the objective lens.
US10209220B2
Provided are an apparatus for measuring an ionic mobility of a harmful material and a reference data obtaining method thereof. The method includes obtaining a measurement signal by detecting a charge of an ion between electrodes, obtaining a noise signal by insulating the electrodes from the ion, aligning the noise signal with the measurement signal, removing a part of the measurement signal aligned with the noise signal, and calculating reference data from a remaining part of the measurement signal.
US10209219B2
Method and systems for monitoring ion mobility spectrometers are provided. The method can include acquiring scan data, and generating a segment data set from the scan data. The method can further include deriving a subset of peak data from the segment data, where the subset of peak data has an associated set of peak metrics, and deriving a value from the subset of peak data associated with a criteria element of the associated set of peak metrics, where the criteria element has an associated range of values. The method can further include providing an indication in the event the value lies outside the associated range of values.
US10209207B2
An X-ray Talbot interferometer includes a source grating having a plurality of X-ray transmitting portions to transmit some X-rays from an X-ray source, a beam splitter grating configured to diffract the X-rays from the X-ray transmitting portions with a periodic structure to form interference patterns, an analyzer grating configured to block parts of the interference patterns, and a detector configured to detect X-rays from the analyzer grating. The X-ray transmitting portions of the source grating are arranged to form a periodic pattern in which spatial frequency components contained in a sideband resulting from modulation caused by the presence of an object are enhanced by superimposing the interference patterns corresponding to the respective X-ray transmitting portions. In the absence of any object, the positional relation between the periodic pattern and the grating pattern of the analyzer grating is substantially the same over the entire imaging field.
US10209203B2
A wafer inspection apparatus including a light emitter configured to emit light onto a to-be-inspected surface of a wafer, an imaging unit configured to obtain an image formed by the light emitted from the light emitter and reflected by the to-be-inspected surface, a moving unit configured to move a to-be-inspected position on the to-be-inspected surface by controlling a position of one of the wafer and the light emitter, and an inspecting unit configured to inspect the to-be-inspected surface by detecting a scatter image formed by the light that is emitted from the light emitter and scattered by a defect of the to-be-inspected surface, where the scatter image is formed outside an outline of the image formed by the light emitted from the light emitter.
US10209197B2
A method for inspecting an aging state of a silicone rubber composite insulating material comprises the following steps: bombarding, for multiple times and by a pulsed laser beam, selected points on a surface of a silicone rubber composite insulating material to be inspected to generate a plasma; collecting spectrum information emitted by the plasma at each bombardment, and extracting, from the collected spectrum information, a spectral property indicator of a specific constituent element of the silicone rubber composite insulating material at each bombardment; and determining aging state information of the silicone rubber composite insulating material according to the change pattern of the spectral property indicator of the specific constituent element with respect to the bombardment depth. The method enables the rapid and accurate inspection of an aging state of a silicone rubber composite insulating material, and avoids the destructive tests required in the prior art.
US10209173B2
A particulate sensor includes: an inner metallic member which is maintained at a first potential and which has a gas introduction pipe into which a target gas is introduced; a tubular outer metallic member which surrounds the radially outer circumference of the inner metallic member and which is attached to a gas flow pipe to thereby be maintained at a ground potential; and an insulating spacer which is interposed between the inner metallic member and the outer metallic member so as to electrically insulate them from each other and which has a tubular gas contact portion which is exposed to the interior of the gas flow pipe and comes into contact with the gas under measurement. The insulating spacer has a heater for heating the gas contact portion. The heater includes a heat generation resistor embedded in the insulating spacer.
US10209166B2
A system for processing biological specimens mounted on microscope slides by adding and removing processing fluids from microscope slides by means of capillary action using a slide holder capable of holding multiple microscope slides, and a spacer positioned in between two slides of a slide pair to create a capillary gap. A capillary gap adjuster can be used to pinch and release one end of the slide pair to create a pulsatile action to mix the reagent within the capillary gap. The system may further include a reagent holder, an absorbent pad, a series of reagent baths, and an incubator for holding one or more slide holders.
US10209163B2
A separator comprising: a first and second chamber, wherein the chambers are generally vertically disposed and parallel to each other; and the chambers have an upper end and a lower end; and the separator comprises an upper body and a lower body, wherein the upper ends are disposed in communication with the upper body, and the lower ends are disposed in communication with the lower body.Further disclosed is a single-chamber separator including a cooler. The cooler surrounds a portion of the chamber, and includes a coolant inlet disposed on a bottom surface, and a coolant outlet disposed on a top surface, and further includes baffles for directing coolant flow in a back and forth manner inside of the cooler.Also disclosed is a dual-chamber separator including a plurality of filters. The filters are disposed in the chambers in surrounding relationship to the tubes.
US10209161B2
A measuring method for an optical element for obtaining a plurality of measurement errors of the optical element is disclosed, which comprises steps of irradiating a laser ray to an overall portion of the optical element, wherein the optical element is supported as one of a horizontal state and a vertical state; rotating continuously the optical element with 360 degrees to reflect the laser ray to obtain a reflected light wavefront picture from the reflected laser ray; analyzing the reflected light wavefront picture to obtain a plurality of aberration characteristics information, respectively, each being one of a sine and a cosine wave functions of a wavefront error for each of the plurality of specified rotation angles; analyzing a plurality of interference factors each for the plurality of measurement errors on each of the plurality of aberration characteristics information, respectively; calculating and extracting a plurality of classified aberration characteristics information for each of the plurality of specified rotation angles of the optical element from each of the plurality of aberration characteristics information according to the plurality of measurement errors, respectively; and analyzing each of the plurality of classified aberration characteristics information to obtain an error amount corresponding to each of the plurality of measurement errors, respectively.
US10209158B2
An apparatus and a method for detecting leakage in a hydrogen tank of a hydrogen fuel cell vehicle are provided. Particularly, leakage is detected due to failure of an airtight seal of a solenoid valve in a hydrogen tank based on a change of the sensing value of a high pressure sensor which represents a hydrogen tank pressure during a process of performing a wakeup operation at the time of key-off of a vehicle.
US10209155B2
A semiconductor device includes: a first substrate with one side on which a sensing unit for a physical quantity is arranged and multiple diffusion wiring layers electrically connected to the sensing unit are arranged by impurity diffusion; and a second substrate having one side which is bonded to the one side of the first substrate. An air tight chamber is provided between the first substrate and the second substrate. The sensing unit is sealed in the air tight chamber. The first substrate includes an outer edge portion as a portion of the one side of the first substrate surrounding multiple diffusion wiring layers, and multiple diffusion wiring layers are arranged in an inner edge portion. The outer edge portion has an impurity concentration which is constant in a circumferential direction along an edge of the first substrate.
US10209153B2
The invention relates to a pressure indicating device for indicating a pressure in a first fluid system, said pressure indicating device including a first port via which it is fluidically connected to the first system, which pressure indicating device furthermore comprises a cylinder with a preloaded piston that can be displaced therein in an axial direction, during which movement fluid contained in the first system can act on the piston surface. The invention is characterized in that said piston has an opening in its piston surface, which opening can be made to communicate with a second system via a second port, said piston comprising a diaphragm which is impermeable to a first fluid but permeable to a second fluid, said diaphragm separating the first port from the second port.
US10209140B1
A portable temperature probe. The probe has a handle probe assembly with a longitudinal, steel, antimicrobial, heat-conductive element. A removable, hollow, stainless steel sheath is provided for enclosing and protecting the probe assembly. The heat-conductive element is hardened to resist bending and silver plated for maximum heat-conductivity. The sheath can be carried in a pocket to keep the probe easily accessible, sanitary, and protected from bending. A magnetic closure on the sheath allows the probe to be quickly accessible for removal and storage. The entire unit can be sanitized along with other kitchen utensils without corroding.
US10209139B2
A temperature change detection apparatus for monitoring temperature change in various portions of a large space includes a trip logic unit configured to execute a trip operation based on receipt of a trip signal at the trip logic unit; a plurality of temperature sensors each including a sensing portion composed of optical fiber cable and each being configured to generate light information indicating an amount of Brillouin scattering that occurs within the sensing portion; a plurality of monitoring units configured such that each monitoring unit determines a temperature value corresponding to each temperature sensor connected to the monitoring unit based on an amount of Brillouin scattering indicated by the light information generated by each of the connected temperature sensors, an each monitoring unit generates a trip signal when a determined temperature value exceeds a running average by more than a threshold amount.
US10209128B2
A light intensity detection circuit, a light intensity detector, a detection method thereof and a display device are provided. The light intensity detection circuit includes a first reverser, a second reverser, a third reverser, a photosensor and an energy storage element. The first reverser respectively outputs a voltage of the first voltage terminal or the second voltage terminal to the energy storage element under the control of the signal input terminal of the light intensity detection circuit. The second reverser and the third reverser are configured to control transmission of photocurrent generated by the photosensor along a first direction or a second direction. The energy storage element controls a voltage of the signal output terminal of the light intensity detection circuit through voltage storage or voltage release.
US10209125B2
A semiconductor device for flame detection, including: a semiconductor body having a first conductivity type conductivity, delimited by a front surface and forming a cathode region; an anode region having a second conductivity type conductivity, which extends within the semiconductor body, starting from the front surface, and forms, together with the cathode region, the junction of a photodiode that detect ultraviolet radiation emitted by the flames; a supporting dielectric region; and a sensitive region, which is arranged on the supporting dielectric region and varies its own resistance as a function of the infrared radiation emitted by the flames.
US10209124B2
According to the invention, a PIR sensor system (100) comprises a first PIR sensor (1) associated with a first sensing region (11) and a second PIR sensor (2) associated with a second sensing region (12). The first and second sensing regions partially overlap and are divided into detection cells (46a-46f) and (45a-45d). Each detection cell is represented by predetermined characteristics of first and second output signals, which signals are based on input signals from first and second sensing elements (4-7) of each PIR sensor. Thereby different detection cells are encoded by a certain combination of signal characteristics (amplitude and sign) of the first and second output signals. Further, the PIR sensor system comprises a processing unit (15) configured to associate the characteristics of the first and second output signals with one of the detection cells for determining in which of the detection cells a heat source is positioned. The invention is advantageous in that production costs of the PIR sensor system are reduced. A calibration method for identifying the correspondence between the detection cells and the output signals at installation is also provided.
US10209120B2
A level sender for a tank includes a sensor device. A driven member is associated with a float assembly. The sensor device is adapted to determine a level of fluid within the tank based on an angular position of the driven member. A float arm is coupled to a float at a first end and is coupled to the driven member at a second end.
US10209113B2
An integrated flow meter includes a support and one or more flow sensitive member(s) integrated with the support. The support is formed by using an injection molding process that overmolds material over an outer surface of the flow sensitive member(s). The materials for the support and for the flow sensitive member(s) preferably are polymeric materials.
US10209108B2
A flow measuring device for measuring flow of a fluid. A housing has a passage which extends between an inlet and an outlet. A shaft is disposed within the housing and is rotatable about a central axis. A flow detector is mounted on the shaft and disposed at least partially within the passage. The flow detector includes a rotatable, generally cylindrical body that rotates about a central axis as the fluid flows. A magnet is disposed within the housing such that the central axis extends through it, and is configured to rotate simultaneously with the body about the central axis. A magnetic encoder is disposed within the housing and configured to sense rotation of the magnet as the flow detector angularly displaces about the central axis so as to detect angular displacement of the flow detector.
US10209104B2
An absolute encoder includes a scale having a sequence of marks, a detector configured to detect a signal corresponding to a plurality of marks of the scale, and a processor configured to obtain an absolute position corresponding to the signal. The processor is configured to select code sequences, from a group of code sequences corresponding to absolute positions, as a candidate group for a code sequence corresponding to the signal, and to select the code sequence corresponding to the signal from the candidate group.
US10209102B2
A position detection apparatus (100) includes a scale (20) including a reference position grating (22), a detector (10), a detection grating (19), and a signal processor (10), the signal processor acquires a relative reference position between the scale and the detector by using a light intensity distribution of a divergent light beam obtained via the reference position grating and the detection grating, the detection grating has a first spatial frequency that is offset by a predetermined frequency offset amount with respect to a local spatial frequency of an interference image from the reference position grating, the detection grating is provided in an optical path between the scale and a light receiver of the detector, and the light receiver detects a component of a second spatial frequency that is lower than the first spatial frequency in the light intensity distribution transmitting through the detection grating.
US10209099B2
In a device and a method for monitoring a clock signal of a position measuring device, which is connected to sequential electronics via a data transmission channel, and the data transmission channel has a data line, via which data signals are transmittable from an interface unit of the position measuring device to an interface unit of the sequential electronics, the interface unit of the position measuring device including a pulse generation unit, by which a test pulse is able to be generated based on the time pattern of the clock signal, and is transmittable via the data line to the interface unit of the sequential electronics. The interface unit of the sequential electronics includes a pulse measuring unit, by which a pulse duration of the test pulse in the time pattern of a clock signal of the sequential electronics is measurable in a functionally reliable manner and by which a measured value representing the pulse duration is able to be output to a control unit for analysis.
US10209098B2
A radial position sensor that measures a radial position of a rotor within a stator is provided. The radial position sensor provides measures the radial position of the rotor along a first axis radial to a rotation axis of the rotor and along a second axis perpendicular to the first axis. The radial position sensor includes four magnetic poles, among which two poles are diametrically opposed along the first axis and two other poles are diametrically opposed along the second axis.
US10209097B2
In an inductive displacement measuring sensor for measuring the distance, the spatial orientation, the thickness, the material properties or the like of a target object, which sensor has a transmitter element which emits a pulsed signal and a receiver element for detecting a pulse response caused by the emitted pulsed signal in the target object, provision is made, in particular, for the detected pulse response to be immediately evaluated using an artificial neural network.
US10209089B2
A method and system for navigating a vehicle using automatically labeled images. The system includes a camera configured to capture an image of a roadway and an electronic processor communicatively connected to the camera. The electronic processor is configured to load a map that includes a first plurality of features and receive the image. The image includes a second plurality of features. The electronic processor is further configured to project the map onto the image; detect the second plurality of features within the image; and align the map with the image by aligning the first plurality of features with the second plurality of features. The electronic processor is further configured to copy a label describing one of the first plurality of features onto a corresponding one of the second plurality of features to create a labelled image and to use the labelled image to assist in navigation of the vehicle.
US10209088B2
An approach is provided for route calculation using a navigation system by considering potential mistakes. Using the navigation system, at least one route is calculated. A map database is queried to identify intersections along the at least one route. A predicted probability of a user making a routing mistake at the intersections is calculated. A travel time, travel distance, or a combination thereof that is predicted to result from the routing mistake is calculated. The travel time, the travel distance, or a combination thereof represents a predicted severity of the routing mistake. At least one route is recalculated to accept or avoid the intersections based on the predicted probability and the predicted severity of the routing mistake. The recalculated route is presented in a user interface as an optimal route.
US10209083B2
An approach is provided for node-based map matching. The approach involves processing probe data to sort a plurality of probe points according to sessions keys. The approach also involves selecting a subset of the plurality of probe points within a threshold distance of a node of a map representation of a transportation network. The approach further involves initiating a map matching of the probe points of each session key to the map representation by, for said each session key: (1) determining a closest probe point to the node; (2) determining another closest probe point to a neighboring node, wherein the neighboring node is connected to the node by at least one link; and (3) projecting the plurality of probe points between the closest probe point to the node and the another closest probe point to the neighboring node onto the link.
US10209079B2
Routing information (e.g., routing information displayed in an electronic map or provided as verbal travel directions) is generated and presented to a user in a tailored manner. A request for routing information is received from a user. Spatial data, temporal data, social data, or topical data is retrieved that is related to the user and/or to a location or change of location of the user. Based on the retrieved data and the routing information, information display data is generated, and is provided to an electronic device of the user to generate an information display. An attribute of the information display is configured/modified based on the location information and/or on the spatial data, temporal data, social data, and/or topical data. For example, a display attribute and/or an audio attribute of the information display may be modified.
US10209069B2
An offset calculation circuit comprising a data obtaining unit for sequentially obtaining two-axis or three-axis magnetic detection data as a set of data points of a two-axis coordinate system or a three-axis coordinate system; an offset recording unit for recording offset components of the magnetic detection data as an offset point of the two-axis coordinate system or the three-axis coordinate system; and an offset calculation unit for calculating a first reference line or a first reference plane put between first and second data points among the set of data points, and subsequently moving the offset point recorded in the offset recording unit in a direction toward the first reference line or the first reference plane to calculate a first offset candidate point.
US10209068B2
A strapdown heading sensor includes an elongated housing and a compass module at least partially positioned within an inner cavity of the elongated housing. The compass module is cantilevered within the inner cavity of the elongated housing.
US10209051B2
A method and apparatus for carrying out contact measurement on at least one tooth flank of a gearwheel workpiece including the steps of: predetermining or defining a maximum region relating to the tooth flank, predetermining or defining a critical region relating to the tooth flank that overlaps the maximum region at least in part, executing relative movements of a probe of a measuring apparatus to guide the probe along the tooth flank to obtain actual measured values with a first resolution for a plurality of locations on the tooth flank within the maximum region, and obtain actual measured values with a second resolution for a plurality of locations on the tooth flank within the critical region, wherein the second resolution is higher than the first resolution.
US10209050B2
A wheel center bore size qualification detection device includes an upper crossbeam, large guide posts, small guide posts, a center go/no go gauge no go end, a center go/no go gauge go end, small guide sleeves, large guide sleeves, a stand, jaws, small air cylinders, a coupling flange A, a coupling flange B, a lower crossbeam, bases, a large air cylinder, a centering pin A, centering pins B, a mobile sensor bracket, a mobile sensor, a detection connecting rod and bracket, a backing plate, connecting bolts and a fixed plate. The device provided has the characteristics of accurate location, practical structure, high detection accuracy, high efficiency, work safety and reliability and the like.
US10209042B2
A cartridge casing comprises a casing tube having a first end and a head cap. The first end of the casing tube abuts and is joined with the head cap such that an orifice in the first end of the casing tube is aligned with a passage in the head cap to define a flash passage. The head cap and casing tube are held together by a deformable member.
US10209035B2
New targeting systems, hardware and techniques are provided, in which an auxiliary probe is first launched and deployed at a target. Extremely precise, deliberate targeting for future projectiles, weapons or non-lethal measures is then made relative to the position and orientation of the probe. In one embodiment, a system enables a sniper to plan measures with extreme precision within an environment, evaluate their effectiveness, and execute them extremely rapidly once satisfied. A user may create, set, adjust and execute Impact Point indicators, corresponding with projected points of impact of a projectile on a target subject within a target environment. The system may counteract and otherwise adjust for certain ballistic and environmental factors in a firing mechanism to maintain such an Impact Point fire ready, in real time. Yet the system is unobtrusive, allowing the user to engage ordinary targeting activity.
US10209033B1
A sighting/training device configured to be mounted to a pistol handle of a gun incorporates a light source, a power source, and a control. The device has at least two operating modes and a switch to select one of the modes. In a first operating mode the light source emits light when a button grip is pressed by a user, and does not emit light when the button grip is not depressed. In a second mode the light source emits light when a sound, such as the sound of a gun firing pin, is detected.
US10209027B2
A retention structure of a crossbow contains a fixer including a seat, a rolling element, a resilient element, and a shock absorber. The seat has an affix sheet, a fitting tube, at least one threaded aperture, an accommodation aperture, and an engagement portion. A diameter of the engagement portion is less than that of the accommodation aperture. The seat contacts with the connection mount. At least one screwing element screws with the at least one threaded aperture via the at least one locking orifice. The rolling element is housed in the accommodation aperture of the seat and is limited by the engagement portion. The resilient element is housed in the accommodation aperture and abuts against the connection mount and the rolling element. The shock absorber has a through hole and fits on the fitting tube of the seat by using the through hole.
US10209003B2
A thermal management system for a electronics cabinets having an electronics heat source therein. The thermal management system includes a first passive thermal device having an evaporator portion and a condenser portion. The thermal management system can also include a heat sink in contact with air inside the cabinet and in thermal contact with the evaporator portion of the first passive thermal device, wherein the heat sink is contained within the sealed cabinet. The condenser portion of the first passive thermal device can be in contact with a liquid to liquid heat exchanger.
US10209002B2
Disclosed herein is a refrigerator. The refrigerator includes a body having a storage compartment therein, a storage body provided to be inserted into or withdrawn from the storage compartment, and a rail device configured to connect the body and the storage body slidingly and to guide insertion and withdrawal of the storage body, wherein the rail device includes a first rail member having a first guider therein, a second rail member slidingly coupled to the first rail member, and a first retainer disposed at an insertion position between the first rail member and the second rail member when the first rail member is inserted into the first retainer and having a first guide protrusion inserted into the first guider movably, formed in the first retainer, and the first guider limits a range of movement in an insertion direction of the first retainer when the first retainer is inserted into the first guider so that the first retainer is located at the insertion position.
US10209001B2
A domestic refrigerator includes a housing surrounding a receiving area for food and a dispensing unit disposed in the housing. The dispensing unit is constructed to dispense refrigerated pourable goods and has a container for receiving the refrigerated goods and a discharge channel coupled to the container for discharging the refrigerated goods from the container to the exterior of the housing. A first closure element is provided for closing the discharge channel. A second closure element, which is separate from the first closure element, is also provided for closing the discharge channel. The second closure element lies closer to the container than the first closure element when viewed along the discharge channel.
US10208999B2
A refrigeration heating assembly and method of operation are generally provided herein. The heating assembly may include an inner glass tube, a resistive heating element, an outer glass tube, a first end cap, a second end cap, and a sensor assembly. The inner glass tube may include a continuous inner wall defining a central passage. The resistive heating element may be disposed within the central passage. The outer glass tube may include a continuous outer wall disposed about the inner glass tube. A radial gap may be defined between the glass tubes. The first end cap may be positioned on the outer glass tube and the inner glass tube at a first end. The second end cap may be positioned on the outer glass tube and the inner glass tube at a second end. The sensor assembly may be disposed in fluid communication with the radial gap.
US10208998B2
A bottom mount household refrigerator is provided with an apparatus to permit the dispensing of ice. According to one embodiment, a sealed ice making compartment is provided within the fresh food compartment. The sealed ice making compartment may be located at the bottom, at the top, or along a side wall within the fresh food compartment. According to another embodiment, ice is made in the ice compartment, and lifted upward to a dispensing location through the door of the fresh food compartment.
US10208993B2
A refrigerator, a sealed refrigerant system, and method are provided where the refrigerator includes at least a refrigerated compartment and a sealed refrigerant system including an evaporator, a compressor, a condenser, a controller, an evaporator fan, and a condenser fan. The method includes monitoring a frequency of the compressor, and identifying a fault condition in the at least one component of the refrigerant sealed system in response to the compressor frequency. The method may further comprise calculating a compressor frequency rate based upon the rate of change of the compressor frequency, wherein a fault in the condenser fan is identified if the compressor frequency rate is positive and exceeds a condenser fan fault threshold rate, and wherein a fault in the evaporator fan is identified if the compressor frequency rate is negative and exceeds an evaporator fan fault threshold rate.
US10208989B2
An absorption refrigeration machine may include a first regenerator for primarily regenerating an absorbing liquid absorbing a refrigerant; a second regenerator for secondarily regenerating the absorbing liquid primarily regenerated from the first regenerator; an auxiliary absorber provided with the second regenerator, to allow an auxiliary absorbing liquid to absorb the refrigerant; and an auxiliary regenerator for regenerating the auxiliary absorbing liquid carrying the refrigerant in the auxiliary absorber.
US10208988B2
An air conditioning and heat pump system includes a main heat exchange system, a heat distribution system and an energy efficient arrangement. The energy efficient arrangement includes a first energy saver heat exchanger connected to a first main heat exchanger and the second main heat exchanger of the main heat exchange system, a second pumping device connected to the first energy saver heat exchanger, and a pre-heating heat exchanger supported in the supporting frame at a positioned between a ventilating heat exchanging unit and an air intake opening of a ventilating device. The pre-heating heat exchanger is connected to the second pumping device and the first energy saver heat exchanger.
US10208978B2
A power-generating system comprising an energy-converting module that converts non-electrical waste energy generated by one or more components of an HVAC system into electrical energy, and, a control module that directs the electrical energy to one or more electricity-consuming components of the HVAC system.
US10208976B2
An air-conditioning ventilation system of the present invention includes one or a plurality of air circulation devices configured to circulate air among a plurality of rooms, one or a plurality of air-conditioning apparatuses provided in at least one of the plurality of rooms, a human detector provided in each of the plurality of rooms and configured to detect a human present in a corresponding one of the rooms in which the human detector is provided, an optimal air-conditioning ventilation operation estimating unit configured to estimate presence or absence of any human in each of the plurality of rooms, or a human presence ratio representing a number of humans present per unit time in each of the plurality of rooms, on a basis of a past result of detection by the human detector, and a controller configured to control the air circulation device and the air-conditioning apparatus on a basis of a result of estimation by the optimal air-conditioning ventilation operation estimating unit.
US10208975B2
A smart pet-crate is disclosed. The smart pet-crate provides a den-like habitat for an animal and is configured with electronics that include sensors to detect aspects of the animal's environment and environmental conditioners to adjust the environment within the pet crate in response to the detected aspects. The conditioned environment within the pet crate will provide comfort to the animal, which may help to reduce the animal's fear/anxiety. The smart pet-crate may be communicatively coupled to a body sensor worn by the animal and a computing device used by a human to form a pet care system, allowing for remote control of the pet crate and interaction with the animal. For the particular embodiment of a smart music playing pet crate, a method for selecting songs from a playlist based on sensing and computing the animal's preferences is also disclosed.
US10208963B2
A cooking appliance may include a cabinet with a cavity that defines a cooking space, an upper panel disposed above the cavity and that is configured to define an upper appearance of the cooking appliance, a front panel disposed in front of the cavity and that is configured to define a front appearance of the cooking appliance, a door that is configured to open and close the cavity, a side panel that is disposed on a side of the cavity and that is configured to define a side appearance of the cooking appliance, a rear panel that is disposed behind the cavity and that is configured to define a rear appearance of the cooking appliance, and a frame bracket that is mounted to a front upper portion of the cabinet and that is configured to secure the upper and front panels to the cabinet.
US10208962B2
A bracket for retaining glass used to cover the window of a door of an oven appliance and an oven appliance with such brackets. The bracket supports the glass in position at the window. Embodiments of the bracket may provide features including use on either side of the oven door, use of a shorter length of glass, and other features that can facilitate manufacture.
US10208960B2
A method is provided for operating a gas turbine installation which has at least one compressor for compressing combustion air, at least one combustion chamber for combusting a supplied fuel, using the compressed combustion air, and also at least one turbine which is exposed to throughflow by the hot gases from the at least one combustion chamber. Both a first fuel on a carbon base, especially in the form of natural gas, and also a second fuel, in the form of a hydrogen-rich fuel or pure hydrogen, are used as fuel. A reduction of the CO2 emission without basic modifications to the installation is achieved by the first and the second fuels being intermixed and combusted together in the at least one combustion chamber.
US10208953B2
A modulating burner apparatus includes a variable speed blower feeding a multi-chamber burner having first and second burner chambers. A manifold system communicates the blower with the burner, and a flow control valve member is located between the blower and the second chamber of the burner. The flow control valve is configured to provide fuel and air mixture from the blower to only the first burner chamber at lower blower speeds of the blower and to both the first and second burner chambers at higher blower speeds of the blower.
US10208947B2
A boiler control system executing on a cloud platform facilitates remote control system analysis and generation of suitable set point parameters for a given boiler application. The system includes a system interface component, a modeling component and a correlation analytics component. The system interface component collects industrial data associated with a set of boilers and demand data associated with a set of loads. The system interface component also stores the industrial data and the demand data on a cloud platform. The modeling component generates a boiler behavioral model for storage on the cloud platform based on analysis of the industrial data and the demand data. The boiler behavioral model defines at least one correlation between efficiency and capacity associated with the set of boilers. The correlation analytics component determines at least one set point parameter for the set of boilers based on analysis of the boiler behavioral model.
US10208938B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to a lighting device (1) comprising an exit window (2) and a light source substrate (3) arranged to carry at least one solid-state light source (4), the at least one light source (4) being arranged to emit light through the exit window (2). The exit window (2) is shaped to allow a front surface of the light source substrate (3) to be brought into physical contact with a surface of the exit window facing the light source substrate (3), and in that the light source substrate (3) is held in physical contact with the exit window (2), thereby enabling thermal contact between the light source substrate (3) and the exit window (2). Since thermal contact between the exit window and the light source substrate is secured, the heat transfer of the lighting device will be improved.
US10208919B2
A retrofit light emitting diode (LED) lamp is provided for replacement of ballast driven fluorescent lamps. The retrofit LED lamp comprises a plurality of light emitting diodes. The plurality of light emitting diodes is mounted on a metal core printed circuit board (MCPCB). A PCB circuit is provided for driving the plurality of LEDs that further comprises a bridge rectifier made of a schottky diode.
US10208918B2
The present disclosure provides a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes a plurality of first light sources and a diffusion plate. In a 3D display mode, the first light sources belong to different scanning areas, each of which corresponds to a display area. The backlight module further includes a barrier structure provided corresponding to the respective scanning areas and configured to prevent light emitted by first light sources in the scanning areas other than a current scanning area from entering into a display area corresponding to the current scanning area. In the backlight module of the present disclosure, the barrier structure is provided corresponding to each scanning area, which can prevent light emitted by first light sources in other scanning areas from entering into the display area corresponding to the current scanning area.
US10208916B2
Disclosed is a system for thermally distributing hot air generated in a vehicle headlamp. A channel is defined between different chambers in the headlamp to allow for air circulation, thus reducing hot spots inside the housing around light sources which might compromise internal structures or devices.
US10208914B2
A compact optical assembly includes a linear array of LEDs and a plurality of reflectors. The reflectors include two concentric reflecting surfaces that surround the LED light sources. The inner reflecting surface reflects the majority of the light emitted from the LED light source and the outer reflecting surface reflects light emitted through longitudinal channels in the inner reflecting surface. The concentric reflecting surfaces cooperate to create a wide-angle beam of light with a desired dispersion pattern.
US10208911B2
An optical unit includes a light source, a rotary reflector that rotates about an axis of rotation and includes a reflective surface that reflects light emitted by the light source, and a projection lens including an incident surface on which reflected light from the rotary reflector is incident. A shade is provided between the projection lens and the rotary reflector. The shade blocks at least a portion of light that has been incident on an emission surface of the projection lens at an angle within a predetermined range, that has been condensed by the projection lens, and that travels toward the reflective surface of the rotary reflector.
US10208902B2
A light source assembly includes a housing assembly and at least two sets of disparate light sources that are coupled to the housing assembly. The sets of disparate light sources include a first plurality of disparate light sources; and a second plurality of disparate light sources. Each plurality of disparate light sources includes a first light source that generates a first light beam having a first center wavelength and a second light source that generates a second light beam having a second center wavelength that is different than the first center wavelength. The first plurality of disparate light sources generates a first output beam that is directed along a first central beam axis. The second plurality of disparate light sources generates a second output beam that is directed along a second central beam axis that is spaced apart from the first central beam axis by at least approximately sixty degrees.
US10208900B2
A fluorescence light source device includes a wavelength conversion member that emits fluorescence by excitation laser light. The wavelength conversion member has an excitation laser light receiving surface including a periodic structure having a periodic array of conical or truncated projections with an aspect ratio, which is a ratio of the height of the projection to the pitch in the periodic structure, of not lower than 0.2. The wavelength conversion member is formed from a phosphor composed of a polycrystal and contains a micro-scatterer with a refractive index of not lower than 1.0 for scattering the excitation laser light and fluorescence emitted from the phosphor. A ratio (T/R) between a light transmission percentage T [%] in the wavelength conversion member and a light reflection percentage R [%] in the wavelength conversion member is 1 to 20.
US10208897B2
An LED tube lamp is disclosed. An installation detection circuit is configured in the LED tube lamp configured to receive an external driving signal. The installation detection circuit is configured to detect during one or more pulse signals whether the LED tube lamp is properly installed on a lamp socket, based on detecting a signal generated from the external driving signal. The installation detection circuit includes a switch circuit coupled to the pulse generating circuit, wherein the one or more pulse signals control turning on and off of the switch circuit. The installation detection circuit is further configured to: when it is detected during one or more pulse signals that the LED tube lamp is not properly installed on the lamp socket, control the switch circuit to remain in an off state to cause a power loop of the LED tube lamp to be open; and when it is detected during one or more pulse signals that the LED tube lamp is properly installed on the lamp socket, control the switch circuit to remain in a conducting state to cause the power loop of the LED tube lamp to maintain a conducting state.
US10208895B2
Disclosed herein are a pump tower installation structure of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) storage tank and a manufacturing method thereof. The pump tower installation structure of the LNG storage tank includes an adaptor disposed at a predetermined area of an opening portion formed at an inner hull disposed on an upper side of the LNG storage tank, and a cover having through-holes corresponding to pipes of the pump tower installed at the storage tank, and disposed at a remaining area of the opening portion to be connected with the adaptor.
US10208894B1
A compact Dewar for imaging systems having multiple detector elements to support multiple imaging systems.
US10208890B1
A support frame is provided to be mounted to one or more support platforms having respective holes defined therein. The support frame comprises an elongate rigid column having a longitudinal axis extending from a proximal end to a distal end opposite the proximal end, at least the distal end and an associated portion of the elongate rigid column configured to extend through the one or more support platform holes. A platen bracket is connected to the elongate rigid column nearer the proximal end than the distal end, and a support platen is connected to the platen bracket. At least one flange is positioned along the elongate rigid column nearer the distal end than the proximal end, and extends transversely from the longitudinal axis of the elongate rigid column. The one or more flanges are configured to interface with at least one of the one or more support platforms.
US10208888B1
An adjustable holder assembly is disclosed that has a mounting structure and a display support with a center of gravity and being rotatably coupled to the mounting structure for rotation about an axis of rotation. The display support has a support structure and an adjustable counterweight assembly with a counterweight and an adjustment mechanism connected to the counterweight. The counterweight is spaced apart from display support's axis of rotation. The adjustment mechanism is adjustable to move the counterweight in a direction normal to the axis of rotation to move the center of gravity toward or away from the support structure. The adjustable counterweight is configured to provide a force feedback to a user pressing on an input portion of the computer tablet by moving the center of gravity toward or away from the support structure.
US10208883B2
A pressure control apparatus includes a main line section and a branch line operably joined to and extending from the main line section. A housing around the branch line has a first wall and a second wall opposed to the first wall, and a first opening is in the first wall. A plug is operably positioned in the branch line, and the plug has a first position that prevents fluid flow through the branch line and a second position that permits fluid flow through the branch line. A loop extends from the plug, and a lever pivotally connected to the second wall and extending through the loop and the first opening in the first wall positions the plug to the first and second positions.
US10208882B2
A magnetic pressure pulse attenuator can include a variable volume and at least two magnetic devices. A magnetic force between the magnetic devices varies in response to a pressure change in the volume. A fluid system can include a fluid volume with a variable pressure therein, and a magnetic pressure pulse attenuator including a variable volume in communication with the fluid volume. The variable volume can vary in response to a pressure variation, and the attenuator can further include a magnetic actuator which increases a magnetic force in response to an increase in the pressure. A method of attenuating pressure pulses in a fluid system can include connecting a variable volume of a magnetic pressure pulse attenuator to a fluid volume of the fluid system, the attenuator including a magnetic actuator which generates a magnetic force, and the force increasing in response to a pressure increase in the variable volume.
US10208875B1
A quick-connect plumbing device for exemplary use in connection of an appliance, such as a water heater, to supply line of a dwelling, among other uses. Preferably, the connection creates a dielectric coupling between the appliance and supply line to disconnect electrical communication between the supply line and appliance. The device typically includes a length of rigid conduit structured to form a sweat solder connection to a cooperating solderable plumbing element at a first end, and to form a threaded connection to a cooperating threaded plumbing element at an opposite second end, with a resilient seal element being carried at the second end. The threaded connection can be formed by an internally-threaded nut axially affixed to the conduit to permit nut rotation to axially compress the seal element between the conduit and the threaded plumbing element.
US10208874B2
A retaining clip configured to secure an elongate member to a generally planar panel is described herein. The retaining clip includes a first side wall, a second side wall opposite the first side wall, and an end wall interconnecting the side walls. The side walls define a gap configured to receive the panel. The retaining clip includes further includes a resilient first cantilevered prong projecting into the gap from the first side wall and a resilient second cantilevered prong projecting from into the first gap from the second side wall. Free ends of the first and second prongs are characterized as having a pair of pointed barbs on distal edges of the first and second prongs. The pointed barbs are configured to increase a removal force required to remove the panel from the first gap. A method of forming such a retaining clip is also described.
US10208873B2
A fluid valve is suitable for use with a hydraulic circuit of an item of aircraft equipment. The fluid valve includes a valve body having one inlet, two outlets and a communication channel with an external pressure source. The fluid valve further includes an electric solenoid actuator located in the valve body and having a movable ferromagnetic pilot. A valve member is movable inside valve body to at least partially block a passage between said inlet and one of the two outlets. The valve member at least partially defines first and second cavities. A fixed limiter is disposed within the communication channel such that a displacement of the movable pilot causes a variation in pressure in one of the first and second cavities to produce a force for moving the valve member.
US10208872B2
In the case of a valve-actuating device (1) having a first valve (3) and a second valve (38), it is provided to form, on the first valve (3), a pressure chamber (14), which can be filled with a pressure from a first inflow (16) via a filling opening (15), wherein the first valve (3) separates the first inflow (16), in a closed position, from a first outflow (19), and wherein the pressure chamber (14) can be emptied into the first outflow (19) via an outflow opening (18), and the outflow opening (18) can be opened and closed by a closure element which can be activated by an operating element (2).
US10208870B1
A solenoid valve includes a coil housing, a coil barrel and an actuator. The coil barrel is mounted in the coil housing, is coiled with multiple coils, and has a valve gate formed on a bottom of the coil barrel. The actuator is moveably mounted in the coil barrel and has a piston, a magnetic shaft, a spring mounted between the piston and the magnetic shaft, and a sealing pad abutting the piston. The actuator is driven by the coils to move the piston. The piston has two notches being able to break a vacuum state, and can be pushed upward easily and efficiently to save electricity.
US10208868B2
The invention is a divider block assembly suitable for use at high fluid pressures. Applicant has found that a sufficiently deep counterbored hole allows a mounting bolt to apply the sealing pressure well below the divider block surface, which can reduce or eliminate the compressive force on the metal around the piston bore, thereby reducing or eliminating distortion of the piston bore of the divider block and providing.
US10208864B1
A through hole plug having a body configured to fit snugly within a drain hole for sealing engagement therewith. The body includes a corrugated surface formed of a plurality of annular ribs, wherein the plurality of annular ribs form concentric rings of substantially equal radii that extend around a circumference of the body and along the length of the body. The body further comprises a bore positioned in a center of the body, the bore extending continuously within the center of the body along the length of the body. The through hole plug includes a threaded bolt positioned within the bore. The bolt includes a top end having a handle for maneuvering the bolt in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction while inserted within the bore. The threaded bottom portion of the bolt extends beyond the length of the body and fastens to an annular flange, the annular flange having a threaded aperture sized to receive and mate with the threaded bottom portion of the bolt.
US10208863B2
A valve having a valve closure member in a valve housing is provided. The valve closure member has a shaft received within an aperture of the closure member and extending out of the housing. One or more locking apertures are formed between an inner surface of the aperture of the valve closure member and an outer surface of the shaft, the locking apertures being angled outward from an axis of the shaft and toward the interior end of the shaft. One or more locking members are inserted into and engage each of the locking apertures, the locking members securing the position of the shaft relative to the valve closure member such that rotation of the shaft rotates the valve closure member between an open position and a closed position and such that internal pressure from within the valve housing increases the engagement between the locking members and the locking apertures.
US10208856B2
A pneumatic shifting force assistance device for a manual transmission is provided, comprising a housing structure having a compressed air inlet, ventilation, control rod, and an output unit comprising a working piston defining two pneumatic working chambers. A valve arrangement is provided between the control rod and output unit, bringing about a pneumatic sequential control from the outlet unit to the control rod by acting on the working chambers. The valve arrangement comprises two piston structures, two annular sealing edges, two valve slides which interact with the sealing edges, and two valve seats. At least one piston structure/valve slide pair is paired with a throttle device such that a throttle seal arranged on the output unit interacts with a throttle passage arranged on the corresponding valve slide or piston structure, where the effective cross-sectional area of the throttle passage depends on the position of the component within the throttle passage.
US10208854B2
A vehicle implements a method of selecting gear ratios that utilizes two shift schedules, one for flat terrain and one for hilly terrain. Initially, the vehicle switches between the shift schedules based on estimation of the road gradient of a recently traversed route. When the vehicle switched between the shift schedules, the vehicle stores location information associated with the switch. When stored information about previous shift schedule switches is available, the information is utilized, in combination with navigation system data, to switch shift schedules at more appropriate times.
US10208844B2
A drive device has a spindle drive having a threaded spindle and a spindle nut arranged on the threaded spindle. The spindle drive is configured to drive a first component element and a second component element so as to be axially movable relative to one another. The spindle drive is reversibly rotatably drivable around an axis of rotation extending coaxial to the threaded spindle by a rotatably driven driveshaft arranged in a housing so as to be fixed with respect to rotation. A brake device prevents axially relative movement of the first component element and second component element relative to one another through axial application of force to the first component element and/or second component element.
US10208835B2
A speed reducer includes: a case; an input shaft rotationally driven by an electric motor and having an eccentric shaft portion; an externally toothed gear wheel rotatably supported on the eccentric shaft portion; an output shaft rotatably supported on the case coaxially with the input shaft and having an internally toothed gear wheel; a guide plate formed with a guide recess recessed parallel to the input shaft, and disposed between the input shaft and the externally toothed gear wheel; a guide protrusion provided in the case to protrude parallel to the input shaft to guide sliding of the recess; and a guide portion provided between the externally toothed gear wheel and the guide plate to guide movement of the externally toothed gear wheel relative to the guide plate, thereby guiding the externally toothed gear wheel so as to be revolvable but non-rotatable in cooperation with the recess and the protrusion.
US10208832B2
A centrifugal pendulum-type vibration absorbing device that includes a support that rotates together with any one of the rotary elements of the damper; and a mass that is supported by the support so as to oscillate freely, wherein the centrifugal pendulum-type vibration absorbing device is designed to have an effective order that is greater by at least a correction amount associated with the hysteresis of the damper than an order of vibration that is generated in the driving device to be damped.
US10208829B2
A valve for a vibration damper having a valve housing and a valve slide movable in the valve housing for at least partially closing at least one flow path of a fluid flowing through the valve. The valve has an input side and an output side. The pressure impingement surfaces of the valve slide for an opening pressure and for a closing pressure are substantially equal, and the valve slide has a constriction via which a pressure difference between opening pressure and closing pressure can be generated. At least one channel connects the interior space of the valve slide to the exterior space of the valve slide.
US10208825B2
An anti-vibration device for a vehicle has a first torque rod assembly having a first rod with one end fixed to an engine and the other end fixed to a vehicle body, an inertial mass supported on the first rod, and an actuator that reciprocates the inertial mass in an axial direction of the first rod, and a second torque rod assembly having a second rod with one end fixed to the engine and the other end fixed to a sub-frame that is installed on the vehicle body via an elastic member.
US10208820B2
A railroad car spring type brake shoe key for connecting a brake shoe to a brake head, wherein the brake shoe key includes a body or shank and a head integrally formed with the body or shank, and wherein the key has a reduced mass head, an alternative configuration head, a surface treatment, or two or more of these modifications that reduces the likelihood that the head will weaken and/or break off the body of the brake shoe key.
US10208816B2
This disclosure includes anti-reverse rotation apparatuses, rotors for use therein, and related methods. Some apparatuses include a stator defining an interior volume and one or more arcuate contact surfaces within the interior volume, and a rotor rotatably coupled to the stator and at least partially disposed within the interior volume, the rotor having a hub, two or more shoes, each pivotally coupled to the hub and extending between a first end and a second end that is farther from the hub than is the first end, wherein each of the shoes is rotatable relative to the hub between: (a) a first position in which the second end of the shoe contacts at least one of the arcuate contact surface(s) of the stator; and (b) a second position in which the second end of the shoe does not contact the arcuate contact surface(s) of the stator.
US10208811B2
A selectable one-way clutch includes a clutch module and at least one electromagnetic actuator module. Each electromagnetic actuator module includes at least one electromagnetic actuator assembly having a coil assembly, a locking strut, and a connection member mechanically interconnected to the locking strut for moving it between released and deployed positions in response to energization of the coil assembly.
US10208810B2
The present invention relates to a frictionally acting device (2) comprising a disk pack (28) made from a first disk set (30) which is connected rotationally fixed to a first disk carrier (16) and a second disk set (36) which is connected rotationally fixed to a second disk carrier (18), wherein the disks (32, 34; 38, 40, 42) of the two disk sets (30, 36) are arranged alternating one after another and can be frictionally engaged with one another, the disks (32, 34) of the first disk set (30) are designed as friction lining disks, and an end disk arrangement (54; 56) is assigned to the disk pack (28). The end disk arrangement (54; 56) has an end disk (58; 60) connected rotationally fixed to the first disk carrier (16) and an intermediate disk (62; 64) which follows the end disk (58; 60), is connected rotationally fixed to the first disk carrier (16), and is designed as a friction lining disk with a friction lining (72; 74) fixed to the side facing away from the end disk (58; 60), said friction lining (72; 74) can be frictionally engaged with a disk (38; 42) of the second disk set (36). In addition, the present invention relates to a method for manufacturing an intermediate disk (62; 64) and to a use of an intermediate disk (62; 64) manufactured in such a way.
US10208806B2
A compliant safe joint and manufacturing method thereof. The compliant safe joint includes an input axis circumferentially connected to a motor shaft of a DC motor; a movable bridge circumferentially mounted on the input axis and slidable along a axial direction of the input axis; multiple bearings, each of the multiple bearings having an inner ring fixed to the movable bridge and having an outer ring; a stationary bridge rotatably mounted on the movable bridge and having a helicoid surface, the outer ring of each bearing being movable along the helicoid surface; and a flexible component connected to the movable bridge. The stationary bridge rotates about the input axis when a torque which exceeds a predetermined threshold is applied to the stationary bridge by the motor shaft, such that the bearings move with respect to the helicoid surface to cause the flexible component to be compressed and extended through the movable bridge.
US10208793B2
A slide mechanism for use in elevation device comprises: a support seat, longitudinally disposed with at least three wing pieces spaced from each other, wherein at least one lateral surface of each of the wing pieces is respectively and longitudinally pivoted with at least one roller, one of the wing pieces is extended with a neck part having a front end disposed with a connection arm; and a sleeve, having a circumference defined at the top end longitudinally formed with a rail slot, wherein an inner circumference thereof is longitudinally formed with a positioning slot at a location corresponding to the at least one rollers and allowing a guide rail to be disposed and positioned, an outer circumference of each of the rollers is formed with a guide slot sleeved in the guide rail, so that the rollers can be respectively and longitudinally slid along the corresponding guide rail.
US10208766B2
Pre-assembled blade (20) for fans (10) for cooling the coolant contained inside the radiator (1) of operating machines and/or vehicles, comprising a blade body (20a) rigidly connected to an axial shank (21), a part of which situated radially on the outside of the blade body is in the form of a cylindrical pin (21b); wherein the shank (21) has a part axially on the outside of the blade body in the form of a cylindrical pin (21b), holes (21c) with internal female threading being formed inside the pin (21b); and in that the blade (20) comprises —a blade flange (22) comprising. a hollow cylindrical body (22a), the opposite end bases of which comprise respectively: a flat edge (22b) provided with through-holes (22c). an inset annular seat (22d); a disk (23) provided with through-holes (23a) and an eccentric recess (23d) for stably containing with friction a pin (24) which is also eccentric, for rotationally actuating the blade about its axis; —screws (25) designed to pass through the through-holes (23a) in the disk (23) and mate with the female thread of the holes (21c) in the pin (21b) in order to fix relative to each other the disk (23), flange (22) and pin (21b), thus ensuring a definite angular alignment of the blade relative to the pin (24) during pre-assembly.
US10208763B2
A fluid pump includes a rotor with at least one rotatable impeller blade, the rotor having a compressed state and an expanded state, and a support device coupled to an outer radial edge of the at least one impeller blade. The support device is changeable between a first state in which the support device is radially compressed associated with the compressed state of the rotor, and a second state in which the support device is radially expanded associated with the expanded state of the rotor. In the expanded state of the rotor, the at least one impeller blade extends at least partly radially inward from the support device. The support device is a ring that at least partly surrounds the at least one impeller blade, the ring having a longitudinal axis parallel to an axis of rotation of the rotor.
US10208760B2
A controller for a rotary machine includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor. The memory is configured to store operating modes of the controller. The operating modes include a normal operating mode and a fault tolerant operating mode. The controller is configured to receive a signal from at least one sensor and determine an operating state of the rotary machine based on the signal. The controller is also configured to switch the operating modes based on the determined operating state of the rotary machine and regulate at least one electromagnetic bearing and at least one flow control device. The controller is further configured to adjust at least one of the at least one electromagnetic bearing and the at least one flow control device in the fault tolerant operating mode.
US10208756B2
A mounting assembly for a ceiling fan, adapted to attach a rotating fan blade assembly to a ceiling suspension and electric motor assembly. The electric motor assembly includes an electrical rotor and an electrical stator, the stator being horizontally disposed within the rotor and connected to the rotor via a double row angular ball bearing.
US10208753B2
The speed of a cooling fan of a scroll pump is controlled such that fan-generated noise can be kept low. The scroll pump includes a pump head, a pump motor, the fan, a controller and one or more sensors. The pump head includes a plate scroll set in which a tip seal is provided to create a seal between the blade and the opposing plates of the plate scrolls of the set. The speed of the fan is cycled by the controller, and the power draw on the pump motor as a result is checked. These results are used to infer the state of the pump, i.e., to discriminate several different states of the pump from one another, including a state in which a new tip seal is being worn in, and to control the speed of the fan accordingly.
US10208745B2
A fluid transport system includes at least one flow control device and a multiphase pump configured to transport fluid. At least one pump sensing device is configured to measure at least one operating characteristic of the multiphase pump. A controller is programmed with a pump map including a correlation of the at least one operating characteristic of the multiphase pump with at least one operating characteristic of the fluid. The controller is configured to determine an estimated value of the at least one operating characteristic of the fluid based on the measured value of the at least one operating characteristic of the multiphase pump and the pump map. At least one regulating device coupled to at least one flow control device is modulated based on the estimated value of the at least one operating characteristic of the fluid.
US10208738B2
The present invention provides a fuel supply system having improved assembly and pulsation reducing efficiency. A housing (20) of a fuel supply system (1) is formed by joining a first housing member (20a) forming one end side of a tubular chamber (23) in the direction of the backward and forward movement of a plunger (10) and a second housing member (20b) forming the other end side. A pulsation reducing mechanism (60) includes a tubular bellows damper (61) housed in the tubular chamber (23).
US10208736B2
A high-pressure fluid mixing pump control system and a fluid suction control method, the system comprises a transmission threaded rod and a resolver sensor, wherein: one end of the transmission threaded rod is connected to an oil cylinder piston of a mixing pump, while the other end of the transmission threaded rod is connected to the resolver sensor either directly or via a rotary element that rotates coaxially with the transmission threaded rod. The high-pressure fluid mixing pump control system implements precision control via a mechanical means, converts a linear motion of the piston into a rotary motion, and utilizes the resolver sensor for precision measurement of a rotation angle, thus acquiring a piston displacement amount, and finally acquiring a suction volume. At the same time, an accelerator and an electric brake are also designed, for controlling starting and stopping of the mixing pump.
US10208735B1
A thermal engine includes a thermal battery with a thermal mass for storing regenerative wind and solar energy using a solar lens and mechanical friction generated by the rotation of a wind turbine. The thermal engine comprises a thermal battery; a thermal engine; means of charging the thermal battery using natural energy including a solar lens; a wind turbine; and charging by electrical means. The invention further comprises a means of converting stored thermal energy to mechanical power using non-combustible fluids to drive devices such as an electric generator, a water pump; a means of using said thermal energy to directly heat homes and industrial facilities; a means of using said thermal energy for cooling homes and industrial facilities.
US10208727B2
A fluid conditioning module having a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet is provided. The fluid conditioning module includes a first pump element, a second pump element, a pressure regulator, a controller, and a prime mover to impart rotational motion in the first and second pump elements. A first pump inlet is in fluid communication with the fluid inlet. A filter inlet is in fluid communication with a first pump outlet and a second pump outlet, and a filter outlet is in fluid communication with the fluid outlet. A pressure regulator inlet and a pressure regulator outlet are in fluid communication with the filter outlet and a recirculation conduit, respectively. The control valve has a first position and a second position, which allows fluid flow through the recirculation conduit. The controller adjusts operation of one or more of the prime mover and the control valve based upon a predetermined parameter.
US10208720B2
An intake manifold made of synthetic resin includes first, second and third members stacked in sequence and welded to form the intake manifold; a collector extending inside the intake manifold in a direction of a line of cylinders, a part of wall of the collector being formed by the third member; a plurality of branch passages formed substantially by the first and second members and wound around an outer periphery of the collector; and a connector passage leading from the collector to an outer peripheral side of the branch passage. The first, second and third members are respectively provided with first, second and third cylinder portions that are coaxially arranged with each other in a position between adjacent two branch passages. The connector passage is formed by the first, second and third cylinder portions with the connector passage communicating with an inside space of the collector.
US10208712B2
A control system of an engine including a cylinder and a fuel injector, the fuel mixing with air to form a mixture gas and combusting inside the cylinder is provided, which includes a water injector for injecting supercritical water or subcritical water into the cylinder, and a controller. Within a high engine speed operating range, the controller controls the water injector to inject the one of supercritical water and subcritical water into the cylinder for a given period including a top dead center of the cylinder on compression stroke, such that when an injection amount of the one of supercritical water and subcritical water reaches half of a given injection amount, a crank angle of the engine corresponds to a retarding side of the top dead center, the given injection amount being a total amount of the supercritical water or subcritical water injected for the given period.
US10208711B2
A gas injector for directly injecting a gaseous fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine, including a valve closure element for releasing and closing a passage opening, the valve closure element opening in the direction of a flow direction of the gas injector, a sealing seat between the valve closure element and a valve body, a flow-guiding element being situated downstream of the sealing seat in the flow direction of the gas injector and configured to form a gas jet to be injected into the combustion chamber.
US10208709B2
A gas turbine engine includes a fan forward of a primary flowpath inlet. The fan includes multiple fan blades distributed radially about, and connected to, a hub. A fan nacelle is positioned radially outward of the fan and includes an inner diameter. The inner diameter is sloped relative to an engine axis such that a forward portion of the fan nacelle has a smaller inner diameter than an aft portion of the fan nacelle. A fan blade spacer is disposed between a radially inward facing surface of at least one fan blade and a radially outward facing surface of the hub. The fan blade spacer has a radial thickness at least equal to a slope drop of the fan nacelle.
US10208708B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a thrust reverser system of an aircraft comprising: a translating cascade sleeve, a blocker door, and a kinematic mechanism configured to actuate the blocker door, the kinematic mechanism comprising: a first link coupled to the translating cascade sleeve, a second link coupled to the first link and a fixed structure, and a third link coupled to the first link and the blocker door.
US10208705B2
In the engine having a plurality of wire harnesses, a groove section is formed by conductive walls configured to surround a part of the outer peripheral surface of selected one of the wire harnesses. Another one of the wire harnesses is attached to a wire harness cover fixed to the engine by a plate section extended from the groove section in such a manner that the another one of the wire harnesses is disposed adjacent to the selected one of the wire harnesses with one of the walls being interposed inbetween.
US10208704B2
Pressurized lubricating oil is accumulated in the bearings of opposed pistons and accumulated oil is dispensed therefrom for bearing lubrication and also for cooling the undercrowns of the pistons by jets of oil emitted from the bearings.
US10208702B2
A method for producing a piston may include forming a piston blank in a first forming tool such that the piston blank surrounds a ring carrier configured to receive a piston ring via positive engagement after producing the ring carrier by a sintering process. The piston blank, at least in a circumferential region disposed at a piston head, may be composed of a light metal alloy suitable for forging. The method may also include removing the piston blank from the first forming tool and placing the piston blank in a second forming tool, and inserting a holding-down tool into the second forming tool to hold the ring carrier down. The method may further include pressing a final forming punch into the second forming tool to deform the piston blank and form a piston.
US10208695B2
The invention relates to a control apparatus of an engine. The apparatus carries out a minute-injection for injecting a minute amount of a fuel so as not to generate an engine torque when a required engine load is zero. The apparatus calculates at least one coefficient for correcting a heat release gravity position calculated when the minute-injection is carried out such that it corresponds to its base position and/or for correcting a heat release rate corresponding the gravity position calculated when the minute-injection is carried out such that it corresponds to its base rate. When the required engine load is larger than zero, the apparatus controls the gravity position corrected by the coefficient to its target position.
US10208691B2
A process and a system for preventing pre-ignition in an internal combustion engine (ICE) includes detecting an ionization level of a combusted gas from a cylinder of the ICE during gas exchange and for a given combustion cycle i. When the ionization level is greater than a reference ionization level a pre-ignition countermeasure prior to and/or during an immediate subsequent combustion cycle i+1 is executed. The ionization sensor may be part of a spark initiating device of the ICE or be a separate ionization sensor.
US10208690B2
A starting control method for a vehicle having an engine may include determining, by an ECU, whether engine RPM rises when the engine is started, determining whether combustion-related parts are normal, when the engine RPM does not rise over a starter RPM, determining whether a cam position sensor and a crank position sensor are normal, when it is determined that the combustion-related parts are normal, performing control to offset a recognized crank angle by 360 degrees, when it is determined that the cam position sensor and the crank position sensor are normal, and restarting the engine based on the offset crank angle.
US10208677B2
A gas turbine system includes a combustor configured to combust an oxidant and a fuel in the presence of an exhaust gas diluent to produce combustion products, an oxidant supply path fluidly coupled to the combustor and configured to flow the oxidant to the combustor at an oxidant flow rate, and a turbine configured to extract work from the combustion products to produce an exhaust gas used to generate the exhaust gas diluent. The turbine causes a shaft of the gas turbine system to rotate when the work is extracted from the combustion products. The system also includes an electrical generator that generates electrical power in response to rotation by the shaft, and a controller that performs load control in response to a target load by adjusting the oxidant flow rate along the oxidant flow path as a primary load control parameter.
US10208672B2
A gas turbine engine assembly is provided having a gas turbine engine and a fuel supply in flow communication with the gas turbine engine. An accumulator is positioned in flow communication between the fuel supply and the gas turbine engine to store fuel pressure in fuel flowing from the fuel supply to the gas turbine engine.
US10208667B2
A nose cone may have a spinner including a main portion and an axially extending stepped portion. The nose cone may also have an annular aft support ring radially secured to the axially extending stepped portion. The nose cone may further include a fairing, which may be secured to the stepped portion.
US10208662B2
An internal combustion engine provided with a cylinder block which can move relative to a crankcase is provided with a block movement mechanism arranged at just one side of the left and right of the internal combustion engine, a support member supporting a side surface of the cylinder block, and a pushing member pushing against a side surface of the cylinder block at the opposite side to the side surface supported by the support member. Further, the support member supports the side surface of the cylinder block at the side of arrangement of the block movement mechanism, while the pushing member pushes against the side surface of the cylinder block at the opposite side to the side of arrangement of the block movement mechanism.
US10208661B2
When it is detected that an exhaust cut valve is stuck in a closed state, a control device stops feedback control and maintains a wastegate valve in a completely open state in each of an open operation range and a closed operation range. When it is detected that the exhaust cut valve is stuck in an open state, the control device stops the feedback control and maintains the wastegate valve in the completely open state in the closed operation range, whereas the control device performs the feedback control in the open operation range.
US10208654B2
In order to achieve stable combustion in an internal combustion engine, the engine includes a fuel injection valve having a first nozzle hole and a second nozzle hole, and an spark plug disposed at a position through which the swirling flow flows, and which is at the downstream side of the flow of the swirling flow from an extension line of the first nozzle hole and at the upstream side of the flow of the swirling flow from an extension line of the second nozzle hole, for igniting a spray of fuel injected from the fuel injection valve, wherein the first nozzle hole and the second nozzle hole are formed in such a manner that the shortest distance from the extension line of the first nozzle hole to the spark plug becomes longer than the shortest distance from the extension line of the second nozzle hole to the spark plug.
US10208641B2
A gas turbine engine assembly may include a combustion chamber for igniting a fuel and air mixture that generates a core stream flow. The gas turbine engine may also include a hot section cowling for directing the core stream flow through the engine assembly. The hot section cowling may include an inside surface and an outside surface opposite the inside surface. The gas turbine engine assembly may additionally include a plurality of thermoelectric generator (TEG) assemblies that are thermally attached to the outside surface of the hot section cowling. Each TEG assembly may include a multiplicity of thermoelectric generator (TEG) devices that generate an electric current based on a temperature differential across each of the multiplicity of TEG devices. The TEG devices may include different materials that are used in different heat zones along the hot section cowling between the combustion chamber and an exhaust end of the engine.
US10208640B2
A method for controlling an exhaust gas purification apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention is to improve performance of a three-way catalyst (TWC) purifying exhaust gas exhausted from an engine and includes determining heat load of the three-way catalyst by use of a temperature sensor and an exhaust gas flow rate sensor; measuring oxygen storage capacity (OSC) stored in the three-way catalyst according to the heat load; determining an inflection point by use of change amount of the OSC; and controlling catalyst heating period differently around the inflection point.
US10208634B2
A columnar-type hydraulic tappet, provided with a housing, a plunger moving axially with respect to the housing being mounted in an inner cavity of the housing, a high pressure cavity used for a hydraulic medium extending between a lower end surface of the plunger and a lower side of the housing, a first ring groove being arranged below a head portion of the plunger, a second ring groove being arranged at a central portion of the plunger, a plunger central wall being between the first ring groove and the second ring groove, the second ring groove being a concave wide ring groove, wherein at least one plunger oil inlet hole being arranged on the plunger concave wide ring groove or the plunger central wall, a bottom portion edge of the plunger oil inlet hole containing flanging facing towards an inner cavity of the plunger.
US10208633B2
A hydraulic support element including a housing with a central bore and a bottom face that is provided on one axial end of the housing, a piston that is arranged in the bore of the housing, the piston is connected to a bottom closure so as to define a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber is defined between the bottom face and the bottom closure. A valve is provided between the first pressure chamber and the second pressure chamber to regulate a fluid connection between the pressure chambers, and a seal formed between the piston and the bottom closure with the bottom closure being affixed to the piston in a detachable manner.
US10208626B2
A manifold mounting arrangement comprising: a discrete manifold module; a clevis arrangement having a clevis straddling a flange and pivotally secured to the flange by a clevis pin; and a locking bar configured to be coupled to the clevis and to constrain the manifold module relative to the clevis arrangement in the locality of the locking bar. The invention finds utility for mounting case cooling manifolds to turbine casing for a gas turbine engine.
US10208624B2
The present disclosure is applicable to all gear trains using a journal bearing as a means of supporting gear shaft rotation. It is related in some embodiments to a system and method for supplying lubricant to the journal bearings of a gear-turbofan engine gear train when the fan rotor is subjected to a wind-milling condition in both directions, either clockwise or counter-clockwise.
US10208617B2
A carrier segment of a carrier section for circumscribing an array of circumferentially spaced turbine blades of a gas turbine engine, the blades being disposed radially inwardly of a turbine casing, the carrier segment including a carrier wall disposed radially inwardly of the casing and radially outwardly of the turbine blades, and the carrier wall including one or more portions facing the casing, wherein at least one of the one or more portions of the carrier wall is provided with one or more impingement apertures therein for passage therethrough of air of a predetermined temperature, heating air, from a feed source into impingement onto the turbine casing. The application of heating air onto the casing during transient stages of enhanced engine power, e.g. during step climbs, results in better matching of radial expansion of the casing relative to the turbine blades, thereby enabling improved blade tip clearance control.
US10208616B2
A turbomachine, particularly an aircraft engine, having a rotor, which is mounted rotatably around its longitudinal axis in a stator, and which has at least one row of rotating blades, which is formed by a plurality of rotating blades, is disclosed, wherein the stator has at least one abradable layer, and wherein each rotating blade has a blade tip that is lowered radially inward, at least in sections, proceeding from a leading edge on the side of the rotating blades in the direction of a trailing edge on the side of the rotating blades, and with a blade tip region that extends downstream from the leading edge runs into the abradable layer during operation of the turbomachine.
US10208612B2
A sealing band arrangement for a gas turbine including first and second adjoining rotor disks each including a disk arm having a slot. The sealing band arrangement includes at least one first seal strip segment located within the slots, wherein the seal strip segment includes first and second ends. The sealing band arrangement also includes a tab section that extends from the first end in order to form an underlap seal with an adjacent second seal strip segment. The underlap seal enables a thickness of the first and second ends to be substantially equivalent to a thickness of the first seal strip segment in order to improve wear life of the seal strip segment. The sealing band arrangement further includes at least one wide portion formed in the first seal strip segment wherein the wide portion is wider than a remaining portion of the first seal strip segment.
US10208609B2
A turbine operable with a first fluid and a second fluid is provided. The turbine includes a shaft and having a dry gas seal area, a balance area, and a shaft surface. The turbine also includes a stationary component coupled to a housing and having a first side and a second side and defining a channel in flow communication with the shaft surface. A heat exchange assembly is coupled to the housing and in flow communication with the shaft and the stationary component. The heat exchange assembly includes a first flow path coupled in flow communication with the dry gas seal area and the channel and configured to direct the first fluid along the first side. Heat exchange assembly also includes a second flow path coupled in flow communication with the balance area and channel and configured to direct the second fluid along the second side.
US10208602B2
A film cooled component may comprise a cooling chamber and a first ligament centered about a first axis. The first ligament may be in fluid communication with the cooling chamber. A first meter may be disposed at an end of the first ligament. A first diffuser may extend from the first meter to a surface of the film cooled component. The first diffuser may comprise a first tapered sidewall oriented at an angle of between 5 degrees to 15 degrees relative to the first axis. The first diffuser may further comprise a first non-tapered sidewall oriented at an angle less than 5 degrees relative to the first axis.
US10208600B2
A radial turbine includes a housing, a rotor mounted on a shaft, an inlet channel for supplying a defined working medium, and an outlet channel. The rotor includes working cavities, with a generally spiral shape, which conduct the defined working medium from the inlet channel to the outlet channel, located near the center of the rotor. The working cavities have a generally rectangular cross-section, with a width (W), parallel to an axis of rotation of the rotor, and a height (H), parallel to a radius of the rotor. The width (W) is greater than the height (H), and the height (H) is not greater than six times a thickness of a boundary layer of the defined working medium.
US10208596B2
A cutting apparatus suitable for creating tunnels and subterranean roadways includes independently pivoting supports that each carry a respective independently pivoting arm and a rotatable cutting head. Each cutting head via the supports and arms, is configured to slew laterally outward in a sideways direction and to pivot in a vertical upward and downward direction. The supports and arms are mounted on a linear moving sled carried by a main frame.
US10208595B2
An arrangement and method of utilizing rock drilling information in a mine whereby drill holes are drilled in a surrounding rock material by a first mining vehicle. During drilling measuring data is produced and is inputted to a monitoring device for analyzing procedures. The monitoring device produces rock condition data of the rock material being drilled. The produced rock condition data is then implemented in a second mining vehicle.
US10208592B2
A method of controlling a longwall mining system, the longwall mining system including a longwall shearer, a conveyor, and a plurality of roof supports, such that the method includes creating, by a controller, a load profile of the conveyor representing a distribution of mineral along a length of the conveyor, calculating, by the controller, a desired change in the load profile based on the load profile of the conveyor, and controlling, by the controller, the longwall mining system to adjust the distribution of mineral on the conveyor based on the desired change in load profile.
US10208591B2
A method and an apparatus for characterizing a fluid provide for flowing a sample fluid through a microfluidic flow line in a first direction and into contact with a microfluidic sensor, measuring a property of the fluid sample using the microfluidic sensor; and after measuring the property of the fluid sample, flushing the microfluidic sensor by flowing a solvent through the microfluidic flow line in a second direction that is opposite the first direction.
US10208589B2
A drilling equipment tracking system includes a piece of drilling equipment and a traceability tag coupled to the piece of drilling equipment. The traceability tag has a unique identifier. A mobile device is configured to obtain the unique identifier and access a remote server containing an equipment file corresponding to the piece of drilling equipment based on the unique identifier.
US10208585B2
The present invention provides a groundwater monitoring system and method. The system in one aspect uses sound-based distance measurement techniques to measure groundwater level with one transducer generating an acoustic burst and another receiving it. At least one sonic transducer is installed in each of a processor-based controller and traveling probe. The system may use an accelerometer and the pressure sensor installed in the probe to measure groundwater thickness. While the probe moves upward or downward in the groundwater, water properties measured by sensors installed on the probe and corresponding depths of the measuring spots to the groundwater surface level measured by the pressure sensor are recorded. The system measures and saves data, including groundwater level, groundwater thickness, and a depth-related profile of water properties. In certain embodiments, the probe includes a microprocessor operable to control the transducer and sensors mounted thereto and effect two-way communication with the controller.
US10208582B2
The present disclosure describes various embodiments related to methods for determining salinity of water in a borehole of a formation and the water in the formation. Various methods may use inelastic and capture gamma-ray spectra obtained from a pulsed neutron logging tool. Various embodiments may use a ratio of chlorine from a capture spectrum to oxygen from an inelastic spectrum for a near and a far detector to calculate apparent salinity ratios for water in a borehole and a formation. From the apparent salinity ratios, a borehole salinity and a formation salinity may be calculated using a tool characterization database and without using formation water saturation for the calculation. Other embodiments may be disclosed or claimed.
US10208576B2
A pump system and a method for pumping viscous or partially viscous media out of a borehole. The pump system includes a well pipe which is installed in the borehole and a motor which is coupled to an eccentric screw pump, the eccentric screw pump including one or more stators and one or more rotors which are received in the stator(s) so as to rotate eccentrically. One or more connection mechanisms fix the eccentric screw pump in the well pipe in a force-fitting and/or formfitting manner. For the purpose of removing the eccentric screw pump from the borehole, the eccentric screw pump is held by means of the one or more connection mechanisms with an axial freedom of movement.
US10208573B2
An apparatus comprising a charge tube for a perforating gun assembly used in harvesting energy in a wellbore and a retaining projection formed on an end of the charge tube. When the charge tube is inserted into a gun body, the retaining projection engages with the gun body of the perforating gun assembly to restrict movement of the charge tube with respect to the gun body when engaged with the gun body. The retaining projection can comprise a plurality of collet fingers on an end of the charge tube that engage with the gun body to longitudinally retain the charge tube. The retaining projection can comprise at least one alignment finger that limits radial movement of the charge tube with respect to the gun body. The retaining projection can comprise a plurality of centralizing bend tabs that restrict radial movement of the charge tube when inserted into the gun body.
US10208572B2
Method and apparatus are presented for perforating a subterranean formation so as to establish fluid communication between the formation and a wellbore by perforating a tubular with a mechanical perforator. The mechanical perforator comprises a perforator housing, a mandrel slidably positioned within the perforator housing, and at least one penetrator outwardly extendable from the perforator housing. When shifted axially the mandrel causes at least a portion of the at least one penetrator to extend outwardly from the perforator housing to perforate the tubular.
US10208571B2
A well screen assembly includes a tubing including a center bore and at least one aperture through the tubing between an outer radial surface of the tubing and an inner radial surface of the tubing; a filtration screen positioned around the tubing; a housing positioned around the tubing and including a fluid chamber in fluid communication with an outlet of the filtration screen; and a flow control device positioned in fluid communication with the outlet of the filtration screen and the at least one aperture to reduce a wall shear stress on at least one of the tubing or the at least one aperture.
US10208565B2
This disclosure relates to system and method for delaying actuation using a destructible impedance device. In one embodiment, a delayed actuating system can comprise a base pipe comprising a first portion of an orifice, a sliding sleeve around the base pipe, the sliding sleeve comprising a second portion of said orifice, further said sliding sleeve maneuverable into a first position, wherein said first portion of said orifice rests at least partially over said second portion of said orifice, a second position, a distance away from said second position. Further, the delayed actuating system can comprise a biasing device biasing the sliding sleeve toward the second position, and a destructible impedance device at least partially in side said orifice, the destructible impedance device preventing the sliding sleeve from leaving the first position.
US10208559B2
A degradable seal member for downhole tools, the member being a diameter-expandable annular seal member, the diameter-expandable annular seal member comprising: two or more annular members distributed along an axial direction, the annular members being formed from a degradable polymer material having hardness in a range from A60 to D80; a plug for well drilling; and a method for well drilling using the degradable seal member for downhole tools.
US10208558B2
A system and a method are disclosed herein that relate to powering a pumping system within a downhole tool. The system may include a turbine having a shaft extending therefrom, in which the turbine is configured to convert energy from a fluid received therein into rotational energy for the shaft. The system may further include a pumping system coupled to the shaft of the turbine, in which the pumping system includes one or more driving devices coupled to one or more displacement units. The displacement units may have a cavity formed therein, in which the cavity is configured to receive a fluid therein. The driving devices may then be configured to drive the displacement units such that the fluid is received within the cavity of the displacement units.
US10208556B2
An improved method and apparatus for dropping a ball, plug or dart during oil and gas well operations (e.g., cementing operations) employs a specially configured tool body assembly having valving members (e.g., safety or kelly values) and valving members holding plugs, balls, or darts to be dropped. In one embodiment, the ball(s), dart(s) or plug(s) are contained in a sliding sleeve that shifts position responsive to valve rotation. An optional indicator indicates to a user or operator that a ball or plug has passed a selected one of the valving members. A transmitter (or transceiver) provides an ability to generate a wireless signal that is received by receivers (or transceivers) on the tool body assembly. Each receiver (or transceiver) controls an electrical actuator that engages a valving member or the indicator. Wireless signals can be used to open or close a valve or to reset a “tripped” indicator.
US10208555B2
A monitoring system for a blowout preventer (BOP) includes an ultrasonic transceiver configured to be coupled to a body that supports a movable component of the BOP. The system also includes a reflector configured to be positioned within a channel formed in the body. The ultrasonic transceiver is configured to emit an acoustic wave and the reflector is configured to reflect the acoustic wave to facilitate transmission of the acoustic wave from the ultrasonic transceiver to the movable component of the BOP and to facilitate transmission of a reflected acoustic wave from the movable component to the ultrasonic transceiver to enable the ultrasonic transceiver to generate a first signal indicative of a position of the movable component. The system further includes a controller configured to receive the first signal from the ultrasonic transceiver and to determine the position of the movable component based on the first signal.
US10208553B2
A downhole retrieval tool includes a mandrel; an inner sleeve disposed around the mandrel; a plurality of magnets coupled to the inner sleeve; and an outer sleeve disposed around the plurality of magnets, wherein the inner sleeve and the plurality of magnets are rotatable relative to the mandrel. In another aspect, an assembly tool for handling a magnet includes an anchor; a conveyance movable relative to the anchor; and a magnet holder coupled to the conveyance, wherein the magnet holder includes an arm for retaining the magnet.
US10208551B2
A system for use in a well includes a completion system having a shoulder contact region, an electric submersible pumping system deployed downhole via a cable for landing on the completion system, a tubular member coupled to the electric submersible pumping system and extending downhole from the electric submersible pumping system, and a shoulder mechanism slidably mounted on the tubular member for engagement with the shoulder contact region during landing, the shoulder mechanism being selectively settable along the tubular member to counter tensile loading in the cable. The shoulder mechanism is set against the tubular member via anchors actuated against the tubular member, and the anchors are actuated by a piston movably mounted within a housing of the shoulder mechanism.
US10208547B2
A method, system and apparatus for producing hydrocarbons from a low permeability reservoir formation. A wellbore with a plurality of fractures designated as one of a first or a second set of fractures is provided. A first fluid conduit is formed by an annulus between an outer casing of a tubular and an inner tubular member, and is arranged to transport produced hydrocarbons. An interior of the inner tubular member forms a second fluid conduit which is arranged to transport an injection fluid. A set of first openings is provided in fluid connection with the first fluid conduit, each first opening being located to substantially align with one of a first set of fractures. A set of second openings is provided in fluid connection with the second fluid conduit, each second opening being located to substantially align with one of a second set of fractures. A high pressure fluid is injected into the second set of fractures, which pushes hydrocarbons located in the low permeability reservoir towards the first set of fractures, thereby increasing the recovery rate of hydrocarbons in the low permeability reservoir.
US10208546B2
A stabilizer assembly for incorporation in a drill string. The stabilizer assembly includes a tubular member and a stabilizer sleeve slidably disposed about the tubular member. The tubular member has a first castellated portion extending externally around the tubular member, and the stabilizer sleeve has a second castellated portion engaging the first castellated portion. The tubular member includes a first shoulder extending externally around the tubular member, and the stabilizer sleeve further includes a second shoulder extending internally around the stabilizer sleeve. The first and second shoulders at least partially define an annular space between the tubular member and the stabilizer sleeve. A key is disposed within the annular space such that an axial load path between the tubular member and the stabilizer sleeve is substantially through the first and second shoulders and the key and substantially not through the first and second castellated portions.
US10208545B2
A drilling string stabilizer tool comprises a cylindrical body and a plurality of stabilizer blades mounted on the outer surface of the cylindrical body. The stabilizer blades have an elongated shape and a monolithic structure with an upper stabilizing part and a lower mounting part. Between each two adjacent blades there can optionally be a hydrodynamic flute for improving the flow of liquid and cuttings during drilling and tripping.
US10208536B2
A screen system for use with a sliding panel of a window or door to screen an opening as the sliding panel or door is opened. The screen is attached to the edge of the sliding panel adjacent the opening, and is wound onto a spindle. The spindle is rotatably mounted adjacent the screen opening so that the screen can be unwound from or wound onto the spindle. A cord is connected between the sliding panel and the spindle pulley via an idler pulley. The spindle is caused to rotate to wind the screen onto the spindle as the sliding panel is slid towards the closed position. While the screen is wound off the spindle, the cord is wound onto the spindle pulley and vice versa. A tension adjustment arrangement is provided for adjusting the tension in the cable as the screen is wound and unwound from the spindle.
US10208534B2
A rail, such as a head rail, for an architectural covering. The rail includes a housing having elongate walls extending along a length of the housing and defining therebetween a width of the housing. A drive shaft is rotatable about a drive axis extending along the length of the housing and is configured to wind and unwind lift cords of the architectural covering. A spring assist module, e.g. a spring motor has an output shaft rotatable about an output axis with rotation of the drive shaft. The spring motor is mounted in the housing with the output axis parallel to the drive axis, but offset from the drive axis with respect to the width of the housing and the output shaft is connected directly to the drive shaft for rotation therewith.
US10208528B2
A window assembly is disclosed that includes a double-hung window aesthetic with an alternative opening procedure and mechanism. The window assembly may include various hardware systems. The hardware systems may include locking portions to assist in locking sash members to a frame and balance assembly for moving the sash members. The window assembly may be formed of selected materials.
US10208526B1
An apparatus for reviving the appearance of a frame structure in a commercial window utilizes extruded plastic U-shaped channels adapted to fit over each element of the frame structure. The plastic channels are mixed with a selected color so that no painting is required. The channels are preferably attached to the frame structure by adhesive strips. Ends of the channels at frame structure intersections are covered by connectors overlaying ends of the channels.
US10208520B2
A method of adjusting the closing force of a door coupled to a door closer assembly having a bias element. The method includes determining the kinetic energy of the door without using the weight or other dimensions of the door. The determined kinetic energy is used to adjust the closing force of an electro-mechanical door closer that includes a spring and a motor. The door includes the use of one, some of, or all of an accelerometer, an angular position sensor, a time to close, a breaking torque, and a controller to identify values of acceleration, velocity, and/or position of the door. The identified values are provided to the controller, which is configured to calculate the kinetic energy of the door. The calculated kinetic energy is used to determine the closing velocity of the door closure to ensure proper operation of the door at the point of installation.
US10208519B2
A concealed hinge for a turn-tilt window with a fixed frame and leaf includes of a pair of scissors with a first arm and second arm, that are connected by a central hinge and which are hingeably connected by a first end to a mounting slat that is intended to be mounted on the frame, and have a hinge at a second end for coupling to the leaf. The first arm is connected by its first end to the mounting slat with a fixed frame hinge with a peg fastened to the mounting slat and the second arm is connected by its first end to the mounting slat by a shiftable frame hinge with a peg that is shiftably affixed in a guide slot of the mounting slat, whereby in the closed situation of the scissors, the mounting slat serves as a support for the tilting movement of these scissors.
US10208516B2
In an aspect, a door control system is provided for a vehicle door and includes a pushrod and a locking device. The pushrod has a first end connected to one of the vehicle body and the vehicle door. At least a portion of the locking device is mounted to the other of the vehicle body and the vehicle door. The locking device includes a leadscrew, a leadscrew nut mounted on the leadscrew, a housing including a guide path, and a brake. The pushrod has a second end connected to the leadscrew nut. The leadscrew nut is constrained against rotation but is slideable along the guide path by movement of the pushrod, which causes rotation of the leadscrew. The brake is positionable in a braking position in which the brake prevents rotation of the leadscrew, and a release position in which the brake permits rotation of the leadscrew.
US10208505B2
A smart security device comprising: a housing, electronics in the housing, the electronics comprising a tag configured to be uniquely associated with the smart security device and automatically and periodically emitting a Bluetooth signal; a cable having a free end and a secured end secured to the housing in electrical connection with the electronics; and a lock assembly in the housing, the lock assembly comprising a body comprising a cable passage for passing the free end of the cable therethrough and for immobilizing the cable therein, a lever having a free end and a pivoting end pivotably connected to the body and having a resilient plate configured to exert a force on a cable immobilizer against the cable when the lever is brought into contact with the body while the cable is in the cable passage, and a fastener to secure the lever to the body.
US10208503B2
Erectable shelter frame structures including a plurality of rib assemblies. Preferably, each rib assembly has a receptacle for receiving a respective end of a purlin arrangement, the other end of which is attached to a receptacle of a subsequent rib assembly. The joints are formed by toggle clamps that assist in facilitating the ease by which the shelter structure can be assembled or disassembled. Methods of construction and disassembly of the shelter frame structure are also disclosed.
