US10249550B2
The present invention provides a power module and a manufacturing method thereof. The power module includes a carrier board and a lead component stacked relative to the carrier board. The lead component includes an initial plane, plural first pins and plural second pin. The initial plane includes a vertical projection overlapping with the carrier board. The first pins are electrically connected to the carrier board and vertical to the initial plane. The second pins are electrically connected to the carrier board and vertical to the initial plane. An isolation gap is disposed in the initial plane and located between the first pins and the second pins. The initial plane is separated into a first plane and a second plane by the isolation gap, so as to electrically isolate the first pins and the second pins from each other.
US10249549B2
A ceramic circuit board that includes a ceramic insulator layer, grounding pattern conductors, connection lands disposed on a first surface of the ceramic circuit board, and grounding electrodes disposed on a second surface of the ceramic circuit board and connected to the grounding pattern conductors. Each of the grounding pattern conductors contains a metal and an oxide and includes a pattern main portion disposed inside the ceramic circuit board and an extended portion in which a first end thereof is connected to the pattern main portion and a second end thereof is exposed at a side surface of the ceramic circuit board. The metal content of the extended portion is lower than the metal content of the pattern main portion.
US10249548B2
A laminate includes a plurality of buildup layers disposed on a core and a plurality of unit cells defined in the buildup layers. Each unit cell includes: at least one test via that passes through at least two of the buildup layers and that is electrically connected to testing locations on a probe accessible location of the laminate; and two or more dummy vias disposed in the unit cell. The dummy vias are arranged in the unit cell at one of a plurality of distances from the test via.
US10249539B2
Embodiments are directed to a method and resulting structures for forming thin and thick gate dielectric nanosheet transistors on the same chip. A first nanosheet stack having a first sacrificial layer between a first nanosheet and a second nanosheet is formed on a substrate. A second nanosheet stack having a first sacrificial layer between a first nanosheet and a second nanosheet is formed on the substrate. The first nanosheet of the first nanosheet stack is doped and concurrently removed with the first sacrificial layer of the first nanosheet stack and the first sacrificial layer of the second nanosheet stack.
US10249533B1
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a plurality of gate structures spaced apart from each other on a fin, forming an inorganic plug portion on the fin between at least two gate structures of the plurality of gate structures, forming a dielectric layer on the fin and between remaining gate structures of the plurality of gate structures, forming an organic planarizing layer (OPL) on the plurality of gate structures and on the inorganic plug portion, removing a portion of the OPL to expose the inorganic plug portion, selectively removing the inorganic plug portion, and forming a contact on the fin in place of the removed inorganic plug portion.
US10249532B2
Tooling apparatus and methods are provided to fabricate semiconductor devices in which controlled thermal annealing techniques are utilized to modulate microstructures of metallic interconnect structures. For example, an apparatus includes a single platform semiconductor processing chamber having first and second sub-chambers. The first sub-chamber is configured to receive a semiconductor substrate comprising a metallization layer formed on a dielectric layer, wherein a portion of the metallization layer is disposed within an opening etched in the dielectric layer, and to form a stress control layer on the metallization layer. The second sub-chamber comprises a programmable hot plate which is configured to perform a thermal anneal process to modulate a microstructure of the metallization layer while the stress control layer is disposed on the metallization layer, and without an air break between the process modules of forming the stress control layer and performing the thermal anneal process.
US10249525B2
A method and apparatus for of improving processing results in a processing chamber by orienting a substrate support relative to a surface within the processing chamber. The method comprising orienting a supporting surface of a substrate support in a first orientation relative to an output surface of a showerhead, where the first orientation of the supporting surface relative to the output surface is not coplanar, and depositing a first layer of material on a substrate disposed on the supporting surface that is oriented in the first orientation.
US10249524B2
The invention relates to a cassette holder assembly for holding a cassette for storing at least one semiconductor material substrate in an interior space accessible from a front end of the cassette. The cassette holder assembly may have a base plate for receiving the cassette. Two holding members supported by the base plate may be positioning the cassette on the plate in the assembly. The holding members may be substantially identical to each other.
US10249521B2
An apparatus for processing wafer-shaped articles comprises a vacuum transfer module and an atmospheric transfer module. A first airlock interconnects the vacuum transfer module and the atmospheric transfer module. An atmospheric process module is connected to the atmospheric transfer module. A gas supply system is configured to supply gas separately and at different controlled flows to each of the atmospheric transfer module, the first airlock and the atmospheric process module, so as to cause: (i) a flow of gas from the first airlock to the atmospheric transfer module when the first airlock and the atmospheric transfer module are open to one another, and (ii) a flow of gas from the atmospheric transfer module to the atmospheric process module when the atmospheric transfer module and the atmospheric process module are open to one another.
US10249518B2
According to one embodiment, a polishing device includes a stage holding a wafer, a polishing part polishing a film formed on a circumferential edge portion of the wafer, a detector detecting a residual portion of the film on the circumferential edge portion, a first movable part moving the detector along a surface of the circumferential edge portion; and a controller controlling the polishing part based on a state of the circumferential edge portion detected by the detector.
US10249515B2
Electronic device package technology is disclosed. In one example, an electronic device package can include a substrate, an electronic component disposed on the substrate and electrically coupled to the substrate, and an underfill material disposed at least partially between the electronic component and the substrate. A lateral portion of the underfill material can comprises a lateral surface extending away from the substrate and a meniscus surface extending between the lateral surface and the electronic component.
US10249514B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a substrate formed with a recess in a main surface, a conductive layer formed on the substrate and electrically connected to the semiconductor element, and a sealing resin covering the semiconductor element. The substrate is made of an electrically insulative synthetic resin. The recess has a bottom surface on which the semiconductor element is mounted, and an intermediate surface connected to the main surface and the bottom surface. The bottom surface is orthogonal to the thickness direction of the substrate. The intermediate surface is inclined with respect to the bottom surface.
US10249513B2
An electronic device includes: an electronic component including an external connection terminal; and a lead frame (metal member) connected to the external connection terminal. The lead frame is disposed with a pad. The pad overlaps the external connection terminal in plan view, and at least a portion of the pad is located outside the external shape of the electronic component in plan view. The pad and the external connection terminal are connected by means of a conductive bonding member. The pad and the electronic component are bonded together with a resin. The resin extends to a region of the pad located outside the external shape of the electronic component in plan view.
US10249498B2
A method of controlling doping of a substrate, the method comprising: providing the substrate in a process chamber of a doping system; performing a doping process to impart a target dose on a surface of the substrate using a abruptness depth control technique; and controlling selected operating variables of plasma doping in order to meet doping objectives.
US10249491B2
Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) is used for heteroepitaxial film growth at reaction temperatures ranging from 80-400° C. The substrate and film materials are preferably matched to take advantage of Domain Matched Epitaxy (DME). A laser annealing system is used to thermally anneal deposition layer after deposition by ALD. In preferred embodiments, a silicon substrate is overlaid with an AlN nucleation layer and laser annealed. Thereafter a GaN device layer is applied over the AlN layer by an ALD process and then laser annealed. In a further example embodiment, a transition layer is applied between the GaN device layer and the AlN nucleation layer. The transition layer comprises one or more different transition material layers each comprising a AlxGa1-xN compound wherein the composition of the transition layer is continuously varied from AlN to GaN.
US10249480B2
Peak information is collected from an MS/MS spectrum in which the product ions generated from ions originating from a plurality of compounds are mixed. Using one of the m/z values of a plurality of ion species as precursor-ion information and the peak information of the MS/MS spectrum as product-ion information, a database search is performed to find candidate compounds for each compound, and a standard MS/MS spectrum of each candidate compound is obtained. For each combination of the candidate compounds, a virtual MS/MS spectrum is created by integrating the standard MS/MS spectra of those candidate compounds, and the degree of similarity between the virtual MS/MS spectrum and the measured MS/MS spectrum is calculated. If the candidate compounds are correct compounds, the degree of similarity will be high. Accordingly, the compound names and other results are visually presented to users in descending order of the degree of similarity.
US10249476B2
A system for controlling an impedance of a radio frequency (RF) return path includes a matchbox further including a match circuitry. The system further includes an RF generator coupled to the matchbox to supply an RF supply signal to the matchbox via a first portion of an RF supply path. The RF generator is coupled to the matchbox to receive an RF return signal via a first portion of an RF return path. The system also includes a switch circuit and a plasma reactor coupled to the switch circuit via a second portion of the RF return path. The plasma reactor is coupled to the match circuitry via a second portion of the RF supply path. The system includes a controller coupled to the switch circuit, the controller configured to control the switch circuit based on a tune recipe to change an impedance of the RF return path.
US10249475B2
Embodiments of the invention generally provide a cooling mechanism utilized in a plasma reactor that may provide efficient temperature control during a plasma process. In one embodiment, a cooling mechanism disposed in a plasma processing apparatus includes a coil antenna enclosure formed in a processing chamber, a coil antenna assembly disposed in the coil antenna enclosure, a plurality of air circulating elements disposed in the coil antenna enclosure adjacent to the coil antenna assembly, and a baffle plate disposed in the coil antenna enclosure below and adjacent to the coil antenna assembly.
US10249474B2
The scanning charged particle beam microscope according to the present application is characterized in that, in acquiring an image of the FOV (field of view), interspaced beam irradiation points are set, and then, a deflector is controlled so that a charged particle beam scan is performed faster when the charged particle beam irradiates a position on the sample between each of the irradiation points than when the charged particle beam irradiates a position on the sample corresponding to each of the irradiation points (a position on the sample corresponding to each pixel detecting a signal). This allows the effects from a micro-domain electrification occurring within the FOV to be mitigated or controlled.
US10249469B2
An electron emitter assembly includes a plurality of electron emitters, and a removable structure connected to, and fixing a positional relationship among, individual ones of the plurality of electron emitters. A method of assembling an electron emitter assembly includes connecting individual ones of a plurality of electron emitters together with a removable structure, and fixing a positional relationship among the individual ones of the plurality of electron emitters.
US10249449B2
An energy storage device can include a cathode, an anode, and a separator between the cathode and the anode, and an electrolyte where the electrolyte includes one or more additives and/or solvent components selected from vinylene carbonate (VC), vinyl ethylene carbonate (VEC), dimethylacetamide (DMAc), hydro fluorinated ether branched cyclic carbonate, a hydro fluorinated ether ethylene carbonate (HFEEC), hydro fluorinated ether (HFE), and fluorinated ethylene carbonate (FEC). The electrolyte may include a carbonate based solvent and one or more solvent components and/or one or more of vinylene carbonate (VC), vinyl ethylene carbonate (VEC), dimethylacetamide (DMAc), hydro fluorinated ether branched cyclic carbonate, a hydro fluorinated ether ethylene carbonate (HFEEC), hydro fluorinated ether (HFE), and fluorinated ethylene carbonate (FEC).
US10249447B2
A process is provided for manufacturing an alkaline-based hybrid supercapacitor type battery, to an alkaline-based hybrid supercapacitor type battery, and to a process for recycling a negative electrode of an alkali-ion battery. The process for manufacturing the alkaline-based hybrid supercapacitor type battery comprises forming a negative electrode A from an electrode material B originating from a used alkali-ion battery having lost at least some of its initial capacity. Embodiments of the present disclosure are in particular applicable to the field of batteries.
US10249443B2
According to a hermetic terminal based on the present invention, a hermetic terminal (10) to be hermetically fixed to an aluminum electrolytic capacitor (20) includes: a base (11) which has a through hole, is to be attached to a case (16) of the aluminum electrolytic capacitor (20), and is made of a composite material having electrical conductivity; at least one lead (12) which is inserted into the through hole of the base (11), and is made of a composite material having electrical conductivity; and an insulating glass (13) which hermetically seals a gap between the base (11) and the lead (12). Surfaces of portions of the base (11) and the lead (12) which come into contact with an electrolytic solution within the case (16) are composed of a metal material having corrosion resistance to the electrolytic solution.
US10249441B2
A process of forming a photoactive layer of a planar perovskite photoactive device comprising: applying at least one layer of a first precursor solution to a substrate to form a first precursor coating on at least one surface of the substrate, the first precursor solution comprising MX2 and AX dissolved in a first coating solvent, wherein the molar ratio of MX2:AX=1:n with 0
US10249431B2
An electronic component includes a first outer electrode, a second outer electrode, a third outer electrode, and a fourth outer electrode which are provided to correspond to four corners of a second main surface; a fifth outer electrode which is provided on the second main surface; a multilayer body; a first inductor which includes a first end portion and a second end portion; and a first surface mounted electronic component which is mounted on the multilayer body and which includes a sixth outer electrode and a seventh outer electrode. The first end portion is electrically connected to the first outer electrode. The second end portion is electrically connected to the second outer electrode and the sixth outer electrode. The seventh outer electrode is electrically connected to the fifth outer electrode.
US10249429B2
At the position where the lead art of the wire is projecting out from the outer face of the core part and spaced apart from the side face, the bonding part between the lead part and the terminal electrode is formed. The terminal electrode comprises the terminal body installed along the side face of the core body, and the lead supporting part bended from the terminal body towards the bonding part at the near position where the lead part projects out from the side face of the core part. The crossing angle of the lead supporting part with respect to the side face of the core body is less than 90 degrees.
US10249424B2
A cover for magnetizing a shaft of a tissue-penetrating medical device is disclosed including a sleeve member having a hollow body to form a protective closure over the shaft of the tissue-penetrating medical device. The proximal end of the hollow body provides a receiving space for receiving the shaft of the tissue-penetrating medical device. One or more magnet is disposed on the sleeve member. A magnetic shield composed of one or more shielding materials associated with the cover that minimizes any effects to the clinical environment from magnetic fields generated within the cover. Medical devices and methods of magnetizing the shaft of a tissue-penetrating medical device using the cover are also disclosed.
US10249421B2
A superconducting coil, includes a coil body around which a superconducting wire is wound; an electrode member which includes a first surface, a second surface, a base portion, and an extension portion, the first surface facing an outer peripheral surface of the coil body, the second surface being positioned to be opposite to the first surface, the base portion being solder-joined to the superconducting wire of the coil body on the first surface, the extension portion extending from the second surface to the outside of the coil body, and an electrode superconducting wire which extends from the second surface of the electrode member toward the extension portion, and is solder-joined to the base portion and the extension portion.
US10249414B2
In exemplary embodiments, wiring harness assemblies for electrical equipment and related methods are disclosed. In an exemplary embodiment, a wiring harness assembly for electrical equipment generally includes a first connector configured for connecting to a wiring harness, a second connector configured for mounting to a panel, and one or more conductors connecting the first connector with the second connector.
US10249409B2
An assembly can include a housing that includes opposing ends, a longitudinal axis, an axial length defined between the opposing ends, a maximum transverse dimension that is less than the length and an interior space; circuitry disposed at least in part in the interior space; and a coated electrical conductor electrically coupled to the circuitry where the coated electrical conductor includes an electrical conductor that includes copper and a length defined by opposing ends, a polymeric electrical insulation layer disposed about at least a portion of the length of the electrical conductor, and a barrier layer disposed about at least a portion of the polymeric electrical insulation layer.
US10249408B2
An electrical cable including conductors and an insulation member that covers a periphery of the conductors, and a technique of facilitating bending of the electrical cable in a plurality of directions. The electrical cable includes an electrical cable portion having a plurality of linear conductors configured to be connected to a common connection point, and a flexible insulation member configured to cover a periphery of the electrical cable portion. A middle portion between both ends of the electrical cable portion includes a non-twisted portion where at least some among the plurality of linear conductors are provided in a state spaced apart from each other. The insulation member covers a periphery of the non-twisted portion of the electrical cable portion, and fills gaps between the plurality of linear conductors in the non-twisted portion.
US10249406B2
A cable harness (10) includes a plurality of electrical conductors (12) for the contacting of battery cells of a battery module as well as a film-shaped carrier element (14). The electrical conductors (12) are arranged for at least a portion in parallel with each other on the carrier element (14) and are joined to the carrier element (14). A flexible elongated hollow body (16) is arranged in parallel for at least a portion with at least one of the electrical conductors (12) and is joined to the carrier element (14). A battery module has a plurality of battery cells and at least one cable harness (10).
US10249404B2
A ceramic paste composition including carbon nanotubes or a carbon nanotube-metal composite and a silicone adhesive, wherein the silicone adhesive includes 0.1 to 10 wt % of a silanol group, and has a mole ratio of a phenyl group to a methyl group of 0.3 to 2.5. The ceramic paste composition has low sheet resistance, through which an excellent heat generating property, and shielding, absorbing and conducting properties may be implemented in one or more embodiments. Further, though the ceramic paste composition has a very high heat generating temperature of 400° C., as compared with general paste based on carbon nanotubes, the physical properties thereof may be maintained stably. In addition, the ceramic paste may be widely used in various fields including heat generating products such as those for keeping warmth or heating, and products for electromagnetic wave shielding and absorption, electrodes, electronic circuits, antennas, and the like.
US10249396B2
A method for the treatment of an aqueous solution resulting from the dissolution of a spent nuclear fuel in nitric acid, allowing the uranium and plutonium contained in the solution to be extracted, separated and decontaminated in a single cycle, without requiring any operation involving a reductive stripping of plutonium. Applications for the method include the processing of uranium-based and/or plutonium-based spent nuclear fuels.
US10249380B2
An integrated circuit (IC) is disclosed herein for embedded memory testing with storage borrowing. In an example aspect, an integrated circuit includes a functional logic block, a memory block, and test logic. The functional logic block includes multiple storage units and is configured to store functional data in the multiple storage units during a regular operational mode. The test logic is configured to perform a test on the memory block during a testing mode. The test logic is also configured to retain memory test result data in the multiple storage units of the functional logic block during the testing mode.
US10249376B2
A flash memory storage device including a memory cell array and a memory control circuit is provided. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory blocks and a redundant memory block. The memory blocks are configured to store data. The memory control circuit is coupled to the memory cell array. The memory control circuit is configured to perform an erase operation to a current memory block of the memory blocks and record an erase retry count of the current memory block. The memory control circuit determines whether the erase retry count exceeds a threshold value. If the erase retry count exceeds the threshold value, the memory control circuit replaces the current memory block by the redundant memory block erased in advance during a time interval of the erase operation. In addition, an operating method of a flash memory storage device is also provided.
US10249363B2
A memory array has word lines and bit lines. A row decoder is operable to decode a row address and select a corresponding word line. A read-write clock generator is operable to generate a hold clock signal. An address clock generator receives a read address, a write address, a dual port mode control signal, a read chip select signal, and a write chip select signal. When operating in dual port mode, and when operating in a read mode, the address clock generator applies a read delay to the read address and outputs the read address, as delayed, to the row pre-decoder as the address in response to the hold clock signal.
US10249348B2
Apparatuses and methods for generating a voltage are described. An example apparatus includes first, second, and third bias circuits configured to provide first, second, and third bias signals, respectively. The example apparatus further includes a voltage output circuit configured to receive the first, second, and third bias signals. The voltage output circuit includes an output circuit and a current circuit. The output circuit includes an output node, a first node, and an input circuit configured to receive the first bias signal. The output circuit is configured to provide an output voltage at the output node having a magnitude based on the magnitude of the first bias signal. The current circuit includes a first transistor configured to receive the second bias signal and further includes a second transistor configured to receive the third bias signal. The first transistor and second transistor are coupled in parallel and to the first node.
US10249347B2
A normally-off state of an OS transistor is maintained or an on-state current thereof is increased without additionally generating a positive potential or a negative potential. When data is written to a node connecting an OS transistor and a capacitor, a potential supplied to the other side of the capacitor is set to an L level, and when the data is retained, the potential is switched from the L level to an H level. In addition, a power switch for a volatile memory circuit is provided on a low power supply potential side so that the supply of a power supply voltage can be stopped. Accordingly, at the time of data retention, a source and a drain of the OS transistor can be set at a high potential, whereby the normally-off state can be maintained and the on-state current can be increased.
US10249345B2
Memories may include a first bi-directional select device connected between a first access line and a second access line, and a plurality of memory cells, each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells connected between the second access line and a respective third access line of a plurality of third access lines. Each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells comprises a respective second bi-directional select device, of a plurality of second bi-directional select devices, and a respective programmable element, of a plurality of programmable elements, connected in series.
US10249325B2
A pitch detection method. Such a pitch detection method may use a Teager Energy Operator (TEO) with a Pseudo Weigner Ville Transformation (PWVT) to recover speech from noise and to recover low-frequency information of the speech signal in its detection of a pitch value. Also, the pitch detection method may use the combinatory PWVT and the respective state machine for decision making.
US10249324B2
A method for processing sound that includes, generating one or more noise component estimates relating to an electrical representation of the sound and generating an associated confidence measure for the one or more noise component estimates. The method further comprises processing, based on the confidence measure, the sound.
US10249315B2
A method and an apparatus for detecting correctness of a pitch period. The method for detecting correctness of a pitch period includes determining, according to an initial pitch period of an input signal in a time domain, a pitch frequency bin of the input signal, where the initial pitch period is obtained by performing open-loop detection on the input signal; determining, based on an amplitude spectrum of the input signal in a frequency domain, a pitch period correctness decision parameter, associated with the pitch frequency bin, of the input signal; and determining correctness of the initial pitch period according to the pitch period correctness decision parameter. The method and apparatus for detecting correctness of a pitch period according to the embodiments of the present invention can improve, based on a relatively less complex algorithm, accuracy of detecting correctness of a pitch period.
US10249307B2
A method for processing a signal includes receiving a first frame of an input audio bitstream at a decoder. The first frame includes at least one signal associated with a frequency range. The method also includes decoding the at least one signal to generate at least one decoded signal having an intermediate sampling rate. The intermediate sampling rate is based on coding information associated with the first frame. The method further includes generating a resampled signal based at least in part on the at least one decoded signal. The resampled signal has an output sampling rate of the decoder.
US10249303B2
Provided are methods, systems, and apparatuses for detecting, processing, and responding to audio signals, including speech signals, within a designated area or space. A platform for multiple media devices connected via a network is configured to process speech, such as voice commands, detected at the media devices, and respond to the detected speech by causing the media devices to simultaneously perform one or more requested actions. The platform is capable of scoring the quality of a speech request, handling speech requests from multiple end points of the platform using a centralized processing approach, a de-centralized processing approach, or a combination thereof, and also manipulating partial processing of speech requests from multiple end points into a coherent whole when necessary.
US10249295B2
Techniques are disclosed for initiating an electronic file transfer between users based on conversational context. A cognitive service monitors a communication between a given user and another user. The communication is exchanged by a mobile device associated with the given user and a mobile device of the other user. The cognitive service determines a context of the communication. The cognitive service detects, based on the context of the communication, a request between the users to share a file maintained by the given user. Upon successfully validating the request, a transfer of the file to the second user is performed.
US10249293B1
A device may receive audio data based on a capturing of sounds associated with a structure. The device may obtain a model associated with the structure. The model may have been trained to receive the audio data as input, determine a score that identifies a likelihood that a sound is present in the audio data, and identify the sound based on the score. The device may determine at least one parameter associated with the sound. The device may generate a metric based on the at least one parameter associated with the sound, and perform an action based on the metric.
US10249292B2
Speaker diarization is performed on audio data including speech by a first speaker, speech by a second speaker, and silence. The speaker diarization includes segmenting the audio data using a long short-term memory (LSTM) recurrent neural network (RNN) to identify change points of the audio data that divide the audio data into segments. The speaker diarization includes assigning a label selected from a group of labels to each segment of the audio data using the LSTM RNN. The group of labels comprising includes labels corresponding to the first speaker, the second speaker, and the silence. Each change point is a transition from one of the first speaker, the second speaker, and the silence to a different one of the first speaker, the second speaker, and the silence. Speech recognition can be performed on the segments that each correspond to one of the first speaker and the second speaker.
US10249289B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for text-to-speech synthesis using an autoencoder. In some implementations, data indicating a text for text-to-speech synthesis is obtained. Data indicating a linguistic unit of the text is provided as input to an encoder. The encoder is configured to output speech unit representations indicative of acoustic characteristics based on linguistic information. A speech unit representation that the encoder outputs is received. A speech unit is selected to represent the linguistic unit, the speech unit being selected from among a collection of speech units based on the speech unit representation output by the encoder. Audio data for a synthesized utterance of the text that includes the selected speech unit is provided.
US10249285B2
An acoustic conversion device for an active noise control is provided. The acoustic conversion device can effectively suppress or remove noise by controlling variation in a lowest resonance frequency. A volume of a closed space is smaller than an equivalent compliance air volume of a speaker unit. Therefore, motion of a vibration plate, an edge and a damper is suppressed, it is possible to restrain the edge and the damper from being deteriorated with time, variation in lowest resonance frequency can be suppressed, phase of emitted sound can be less prone to be deviated from opposite phase of noise, and it is possible to effectively suppress or remove noise.
US10249282B2
A method of manufacturing an Active Noise Reduction (ANR) device includes providing at a stage during manufacture a pre-completion ANR device in a non-final configuration, the pre-completion ANR device including a plurality of inputs, a plurality of signal processing resources, an output for driving an earphone driver, and a programmable switch arrangement capable of assigning any of the plurality of inputs to any of the plurality of signal processing resources, selecting from the plurality of signal processing resources a subset of signal processing resources to contribute to the output, whereby the remaining signal processing resources of the plurality do not contribute to the output in any mode of operation of the ANR device, and in a configuration step during manufacture, programming the programmable switch arrangement to assign each of at least a subset of the plurality of inputs to a different one of the selected subset of signal processing resources.
US10249279B1
A digital-to-analog converter performs a ΔΣ computation process to start the ΔΣ computation based upon the second clock signal with respect to the digital data of music sound if the ΔΣ computation is not under execution when the control signal is outputted by the signal output process, a control process to inhibit the ΔΣ computation based upon the second clock signal from being started with respect to the digital data of music sound until the ΔΣ computation is not under execution when the ΔΣ computation is under execution, and an output process to convert a computation result of the ΔΣ computation process into an analog signal and output the analog signal.
US10249277B2
A keyboard instrument including a musical instrument case, a speaker which emits sounds in response to instructions from a keyboard section, and a keyboard lid which is switchable between a first arrangement state where the keyboard lid covers at least a portion of the keyboard section and a second arrangement state where the keyboard lid is opened to expose at least a portion of the keyboard section and housed in the musical instrument case, in which the keyboard lid in the second arrangement state is arranged such that a first acoustic space for leading the sounds emitted from the speaker to outside of the musical instrument case is formed between the keyboard lid and a portion of the musical instrument case.
US10249272B2
Percussion instruments such as cajóns including auxiliary devices such as snares are disclosed. The positioning of the auxiliary device or devices with respect to the main body of the percussion instrument can be adjustable so as to produce different sounds depending upon the auxiliary device position. In one embodiment, a lever device on the back of a cajón is used. The lever device is linked to one or more snares by an adjustment rod and/or an auxiliary bar. As the lever device is adjusted, the positioning of the one or more snares and the amount of the snare wires that is in contact with the back of the tapa is adjusted, resulting in different sounds when the cajón is played.
US10249265B2
In one embodiment, a method for presenting content on multiple devices is implemented on a computing device and includes: receiving selection of a multimedia content item, the multimedia content item including at least two media segments each of a different type, defining a first media segment of the at least two media segments as a primary media segment, defining at least a second media segment of the at least two media segments as at least one secondary media segment, allocating the at least one secondary media segment for presentation on at least one secondary presentation device, presenting the primary media segment on the computing device, detecting a current progress in the presenting, and based on said current progress, forwarding to the at least one secondary media segment an indication of an instruction for synchronizing presentation of the at least one secondary media segment with said presenting.
US10249256B2
A display panel includes a plurality of first pixel rows comprising a plurality of first pixels which is connected to a plurality of first data lines, a plurality of second pixel rows comprising a plurality of second pixels which is connected to a plurality of second data lines disconnected to the plurality of first data lines, and a plurality of third pixel rows comprising the plurality of first pixels and the plurality of second pixels, the plurality of third pixel rows which are arranged between the plurality of first pixel rows and the plurality of second pixel rows.
US10249255B2
The present application discloses a method of driving gate lines of a display panel. The method includes generating a gate scanning signal; and providing the gate scanning signal to a gate line of the display panel. The gate scanning signal includes two or more high voltage levels in consecutive two or more time periods of a single scanning stage for turning on each of a plurality of thin film transistors coupled to the gate line.
US10249252B2
The present disclosure provides a color cast compensation method, which includes: obtaining a first gray value of a first pixel electrode currently to be charged; determining a second gray value of a second pixel electrode on a previous row sharing a same data line with the first pixel electrode; and obtaining a target charging voltage of the first pixel electrode based on the first gray value and the second gray value. The present invention solves the problem of display quality affected by rough fonts, caused by jaggies appearing on a triple-gate type display panel.
US10249245B1
The present invention provides a compensation system and a compensation method for AMOLED display. In the system, the initial grayscale data is inputted into the grayscale data converting unit, the initial grayscale data is converted into the initial driving voltage data corresponding to the initial grayscale data by the grayscale data converting unit, and the initial grayscale data is transmitted to the compensation unit; the compensation unit compensates the initial driving voltage data by using the compensation ratio coefficient and the compensation voltage data in the compensation data storage unit and outputs the compensation driving voltage data to the voltage data conversion unit; the voltage data conversion unit then converts the compensation driving voltage data into the compensation grayscale data and outputs the compensation grayscale data to the source driver of the AMOLED display to uniformly compensate the AMOLED display by compensating the initial driving voltage data, which is capable of reducing the required data amount of compensation.
US10249244B2
An organic light-emitting display comprises: a display panel with a plurality of pixels; a plurality of source driver ICs comprising sensing blocks that are connected to the pixels and sense the electrical characteristics of the pixels; and a calibration block that applies test currents to the sensing blocks in order to sense offset variations between the sensing blocks in a preset calibration mode. The calibration block comprises: a plurality of discrete current sources that generate the test currents; and a switch array that connects the source driver ICs and the discrete current sources, wherein two or more neighboring source driver ICs share one discrete current source, and each source driver IC is selectively connected to two or more discrete current sources.
US10249243B2
The present invention relates to a GOA circuit. The GOA circuit of the present invention comprises a plurality of GOA circuit units which are cascade coupled, wherein n is set to be a natural number larger than 0, and the nth level GOA circuit unit comprises: a first thin film transistor (T1), a second thin film transistor (T2), a third thin film transistor (T3), a fourth thin film transistor (T4), a fifth thin film transistor (T5), a sixth thin film transistor (T6), a seventh thin film transistor (T7), an eighth thin film transistor (T8), a ninth thin film transistor (T9), a tenth thin film transistor (T10), a first capacitor (C1) and a second capacitor (C2). Moreover, two control signals (Select1, Select2) are introduced. The present invention provides a new GOA circuit. The circuit possesses MLG function, which can effectively reduce the feedthrough and improve the Vcom uniformity in the panel to promote the quality of the image display.
US10249242B2
The present application discloses an organic light emitting pixel driving circuit, an organic light emitting display panel and a driving method thereof. One embodiment of the organic light emitting pixel driving circuit comprises: a storage unit, a coupling unit, a data writing unit, a light emitting control unit, a reset unit, a data line, a first scanning line, a second scanning line, a light emitting control line, a reference voltage line, an initialization voltage line, a light emitting element and a driving transistor. By writing a compensation voltage to a second electrode of the driving transistor and then to a gate of the driving transistor through the coupling unit, the embodiment avoids a noise from a parasitic capacitance generated by a signal change on the data line to the gate of the driving transistor, therefore a stable display is achieves.
US10249239B2
The present invention provides a driving circuit of pixel unit and a driving method thereof, and a display device. The driving circuit of pixel unit is configured to drive sub-pixel units on a display panel, and comprises a driving power supply signal port connected to the sub-pixel units through power supply signal lines and at least one compensation unit. The driving power supply signal port is configured to transfer a driving voltage output from the driving power supply to each of the sub-pixel units through the power supply signal lines. The compensation unit is configured to perform real-time compensation on voltage drops on the power supply signal lines when the sub-pixel units display different gray levels.
US10249230B2
An image processor includes an average luminance calculator which calculates an average luminance of a current frame based on a first average luminance of input image data corresponding to a partial screen and a second average luminance of previous image data corresponding to an entire screen, a conversion curve generator which generates a luminance conversion curve based on the average luminance, a luminance converter which generates conversion image data by converting luminance data of the input image data based on the luminance conversion curve, and an image merger which generates output image data by merging the conversion image data and the previous image data.
US10249229B2
A power switching circuit and a method for controlling the same are disclosed herein. The power switching circuit includes a frequency control circuit, a pulse modulation circuit, and a switching convertor. The frequency control circuit receives a first reference signal driving a load, from a timing controller, and generates a second reference signal based on the first reference signal. The pulse modulation circuit generates a pulse control signal by performing pulse width modulation (PWM) or pulse frequency modulation (PFM) on the second reference signal. The switching convertor generates the voltage of output power by switching a switching element connected to the output power, in response to the pulse control signal. The pulse control signal is synchronized with the first reference signal driving the load.
US10249227B2
The present disclosure relates to a scanning driving circuit having charge sharing and a display panel. The scanning driving circuit includes: a driving unit is configured to receive a previous scanning signal, a current clock signal and a next scanning signal, and to generate a current scanning signal, a pull-down maintain unit is configured to conduct a pull down process with respect to a pull down controlling signal point of the driving unit, a share unit is configured to receive a first clock signal, a second clock signal, a first voltage signal, and a second voltage signal, and to control an electric potential of a rising edge and a falling edge of the current scanning signal via the first clock signal, the second clock signal, the first voltage signal, and the second voltage signal.
US10249224B2
A terminal device includes an image acquisition section adapted to obtain an image data, and an image transfer section adapted to transmit the image data obtained by the image acquisition section. The image transfer section outputs information related to a processing capacity of the image transfer section to the image acquisition section, and the image acquisition section determines a frequency of outputting the image data to the image transfer section based on the information related to the processing capacity of the image transfer section.
US10249219B2
According to one embodiment, a processing circuit is described including a first input path and a second input path, a processing element configured to receive a first input bit and a second input bit via the first input path and the second input path and configured to perform a logic operation which is commutative with respect to the first input bit and the second input bit and a sorter configured to distribute the first input bit and the second input bit to the first input path and the second input path according to a predetermined sorting rule.
US10249208B2
A system and method for training a pilot to operate an aircraft in sudden-onset reduced-visibility conditions is disclosed. The system includes electrooptic material having an optical transmittance that varies with an electrical signal applied to the material and a power supply to provide the electrical signal to the material. The electrooptic material is disposed to restrict the pilot's visibility outside the aircraft when the electrooptic material is in a low-optical-transmittance state. The system further includes a flight-safety sensor that sets the output of the power supply to correspond to an optical transmittance state of the electrooptic material that does not substantially restrict the pilot's visibility outside the aircraft when flight conditions are deemed unsafe. The method includes reducing the optical transmittance of the material to restrict the pilot's visibility outside the aircraft in a manner unexpected to the pilot at the time of the transmittance reduction.
US10249206B2
Systems and methods are provided for feedback-driven provision of information in relation to a plurality of information resources. Some such methods involve: accessing information resources from one or more information resource repositories to establish a mapping between each information resource and each of the other information resources; maintaining a state table comprising a plurality of state-table records, each state-table record attributing a value to a state-action pair, the state-action pair comprising an indication of a series of one or more actions in relation to the information resources; monitoring actions of a first user in relation to the information resources; receiving a feedback metric related to interaction of the first user with the information resources; using the feedback metric as a basis for updating the values of a subset of the state-table records, the subset of the state-table records comprising state-action pairs which correspond to the monitored actions of the first user in relation to the information resources; and providing output information related to the information resources based at least in part on the updated values of the state-table records.
US10249198B2
Methods, systems, and devices are disclosed for providing conditional access for a drone for accessing a restricted area. Conditional access information associated with conditional access restrictions for the restricted area may be received by the drone. The drone may compare the received conditional access information to one or more access parameters for the drone. The drone may access the restricted area based on the comparison of the received conditional access information and the access parameter. A drone may take corrective action when the received conditional access information does not permit access to the restricted area based on the access parameter for the drone.
US10249195B2
The present invention relates to a lane departure warning device or the like that limits a lane departure warning in a special road environment, in a case where it is confirmed that a driver has a lane departure intention, and so on. It is possible to secure the reliability of a lane departure warning system and to provide a driver's convenience by limiting the lane departure warning in the case where the vehicle enters into a special road region, such as a road junction/branch region by comprehensively considering information captured by a camera of the vehicle, navigation map information, and so on while using a general lane departure warning, and also limiting the lane departure warning even in the case where the driver's lane departure intention is confirmed.
US10249186B2
An system, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium are provided. The system includes a traffic control signal, a wireless interface, a mast, a support base, a wireless control device, and a base station for communicating between the wireless interface and the wireless control device. The method involves receiving input from the wireless control device, generating a control signal for operating the traffic control signals, and transmitting the control signal to the traffic control signals.
US10249175B2
A manual alarm device including a housing and a displacement element mounted in the housing is provided. The displacement element is moveable between a first position and a second position. Only application of a stable force to the displacement element is configured to move the displaceable element between the first position and the second position.
US10249170B1
A computing device includes a rail mount chassis and a processor. The rail mount chassis includes a pressure sensor. The processor monitors the pressure sensor to obtain pressure sensor data; estimates a load exerted on a rail of the rail mount chassis using the obtained pressure sensor data; makes a determination that the load exerted on the rail exceeds a load rating of the rail; and in response to the determination, notifies a user that the rail may be damaged.
US10249168B2
A method includes receiving a first signal indicating a first movement in first predefined zone at a first time. A first activation signal is communicated to cause a first light source in the first predefined zone to be activated and provide downward illumination in the first predefined zone. A second activation signal is communicated to cause a second light source that in a second predefined zone to be activated and provide downward illumination in the second predefined zone. Responsive to an absence of receiving a second signal indicating a second/return movement in the first predefined zone at or before a second time that is after the first time, an alarm signal is transmitted that is indicative of an occurrence of a potential non-normal event.
US10249164B1
Systems and methods for reducing a risk of vertigo flicker caused by a notification appliance are provided. Some systems can include the notification appliance measuring an ambient light level, the notification appliance determining whether the ambient light level is lower than a threshold, the notification appliance activating a constant light source responsive to determining that the ambient light level is lower than the threshold, and the notification appliance activating a flashing light source after activating the constant light source.
US10249162B2
Various embodiments for monitoring safety by a processor. A presence of a living thing is detected inside an enclosed environment to be monitored. The enclosed environment is capable of motion. The presence of the living thing is monitored in combination with at least one environmental factor in the enclosed environment. If the at least one environmental factor exceeds a predetermined threshold, an alert notification to indicate a current status of the environmental factor is provided to a user.
US10249161B2
A magnetic field sensor comprises a power source, an indicator and a microprocessor. The power source supplies current to the indicator. The indicator turns on when a magnetic field is sensed and the indicator turns off when a magnetic field is not sensed. The microprocessor renders the indicator inoperable a predetermined period of time after the magnetic field sensor is powered up.
US10249160B2
Successive products associated with targets to be electro-optically read are swiped, in their respective turns, past a window in a point-of-transaction workstation. A motion detector detects movement of each product. A reader electro-optically reads a target associated with each moving product. If the target associated with each moving product has not been read, then this event is deemed suspicious, and the event is flagged for a security investigation designed to deter product theft by sweethearting.
US10249156B2
Disclosed are an apparatus and a method for providing a haptic effect in an electronic device. The electronic device includes at least one sensor, at least one processor, and a memory electrically coupled to the at least one processor, storing instructions executable by the at least one processor. The instructions implement the method, including detecting at least one haptic event related to content output by the electronic device, detecting movement information indicating movement of a haptic providing module electrically coupled to the electronic device, via the at least one sensor, wherein the haptic providing module includes one or more haptic actuators, and selecting at least one haptic actuator of the one or more haptic actuators based on at least one attribute of the at least one haptic event and the detected movement information.
US10249154B1
The invention discloses an indicating/alarming apparatus which includes an optically transparent polymer plate, a light-shielding layer, a flexible circuit board, a plurality of light-emitting devices and a light-reflecting layer. The light-shielding layer is formed to overlay an upper surface of the optically transparent polymer plate. The plurality of light-emitting devices are soldered on the flexible circuit board. The flexible circuit board is mounted on a lower surface of the optically transparent polymer plate such that the plurality of light-emitting devices are disposed within an opening formed on the lower surface of the optically transparent polymer plate. Each light-emitting device emits a light entering from a light incident face of the opening into the optically transparent polymer plate which guides, due to total reflection, the light to exit from a top side surface, a bottom side surface, a first edge surface, a second edge surface and sites on surfaces whose total reflection is broken. The light-reflecting layer is formed to overlay the lower surface of the optically transparent polymer plate to reflect the light.
US10249150B1
A cash capture operation defeating assembly for an automated teller machine and a method for detecting insertion of a cash capture device into the automated teller machine. The assembly includes a first sensor, a second sensor, and control circuitry for receiving object detection signals from the first and second sensors. When the first sensor detects a first object: (i) if the second sensor previously detected a second object within a predetermined time period before the first object was detected, then the control circuitry determines that a normal paper currency dispense has occurred and that the first and second objects each comprise the paper currency; (ii) if the second sensor has not previously detected the second object within the predetermined time period before the first object was detected, then the control circuitry determines that the first object is potentially a cash capture device.
US10249139B2
This invention in certain example instances relates generally to coin-operated video entertainment systems. More particularly, certain exemplary aspects of the invention provide methods and/or systems for controlling access to a portable coin-operated interactive entertainment device that may be used to play video games and access other forms of entertainment as well as providing features via such portable coin-operated interactive entertainment devices.
US10249138B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for dynamically managing the distribution of prizes in a gaming system. In one aspect, a method includes initializing a digital interactive sweepstakes game, receiving player identification data, receiving player activity data, determining a player activity forecast based on the player activity data, updating a prizing algorithm based on the player activity forecast, applying the prizing algorithm to player activity data to identify a particular player, and distributing a prize to an account associated with the particular player.
US10249128B1
A mobility device rental system that is operable to facilitate the rental of a plurality of mobility assistance devices. The mobility device rental system includes a plurality of rental terminals that are installed at publicly accessible locations. The rental terminals include at least one receiving stall so as to accommodate at least one wheelchair therein. A locking member is secured within the receiving stall so as to retain the mobility assistance device until rental thereof. An operating software is provided that is accessible via the Internet or software application wherein the operating software facilitates the rental process of a mobility assistance device. The rental terminals further include control tags configured to assist in tracking of the mobility assistance devices and maintaining an inventory thereof. The rental terminals include computing devices having graphical displays that are operable to facilitate the rental and return of a mobility assistance device.
US10249127B2
A pay-per-use receptacle, suitable for use in an attended or unattended manner, especially at a trash or waste disposal facility. The receptacle is a generally box-like enclosure, having a payment terminal for receiving a payment and an access door on the front surface for receiving a bag of material (such as trash) after a payment is made. The bag of material is placed on a generally horizontal surface of a rotatable bin, positioned immediately inside the access door. Upon closing the access door, the rotatable bin rotates, thereby moving the deposited bag to a discharge position above a chute guide. The bag is urged from the rotatable bin by the motion of the bin and gravity, and falls downwardly and outwardly through an opening in the rear of the receptacle, into an external bin, dumpster, or compactor. Also disclosed is an ornamental design for a pay-per-use receptacle, and a process for controlling the operations thereof.
US10249122B1
A method for controlling access in a system comprising a portable device associated with a user and an access control device, includes the portable device and the access control device being configured to wirelessly communicate with each other, the method comprising: pairing the portable device and the access control device, upon the portable device detecting proximity to the access control device, determining at the portable device a signal strength over time of a signal received from the access control device, comparing the determined signal strength over time with a previously determined reference signal strength profile, and upon the determined signal strength over time being considered congruent with the reference signal strength profile, controlling the access control device.
US10249120B2
An operation communication system is provided including a server, a mobile device, and a reader device. The server and the reader device communicate data with one another via the mobile device. The mobile device may communicates with the reader device via Bluetooth, for example. The mobile device may communicate with the server via the Internet, for example, Associated methods, devices and apparatuses are also provided.
US10249119B2
In embodiments of a hub key service, a device includes a communication interface for communication coordination with one or more associated devices of the device, and the associated devices correspond to hub members. A hub manager is implemented to generate an electronic key that includes access permissions, which are configurable to enable controlled access for the hub members, such as to a building, vehicle, media device, or location. The hub manager can then correlate the electronic key with the device to enable access to the building, vehicle, media device, or location with the device utilized as the electronic key.
US10249113B2
A secure entry system is provided. The secure entry system includes an authorization apparatus including a reader for reading data, and a record medium, in which the record medium is presented to the reader, and characterized in that the reader and the record medium or a member connected to the record medium include one or more pairs of visible and/or tactile markings which, only when the record medium is correctly presented to the reader, cooperate with one another in a predetermined manner.
US10249105B2
This disclosure relates to a system and method for detecting execution of driving maneuvers based on pre-determined driving maneuver profiles. Some or all of the system may be installed in a vehicle and/or be otherwise coupled with a vehicle. In some implementations, the system may detect execution of driving maneuvers by the vehicle based on pre-determined driving maneuver profiles. The system may include one or more sensors configured to generate output signals conveying information related to the vehicle. In some implementations, the system may detect execution of the driving maneuvers by the vehicle based on a comparison of the information conveyed by the output signals from the sensors to criteria included in the pre-determined driving maneuver profiles.
US10249090B2
Methods for disambiguation and tracking of two or more wireless hand-held controllers with passive optical and inertial tracking within a system having a head mounted virtual or augmented reality display device having a forward facing optical sensor having a field of view, and wherein the display device interfaces with wireless hand-held inertial controllers for providing user input to the display device, with each controller two passive optically reflective markers, one marker being position at or adjacent each end of the controller and being separated by a known distance, and each controller also including an onboard inertial measurement unit for providing inertial data corresponding to its orientation.
US10249086B2
Techniques of refining a model of a complex surface can include deriving a set of refinement rules based on eigen polyhedra in a plane. Such rules reduce the refinement of a mesh in the plane to a scale and translation of the eigen polyhedron. Such refinement rules may then be applied to a non-uniform mesh in three-dimensional space having an extraordinary point in place of conventional refinement rules used in Catmull-Clark surfaces or NURBS surfaces. When these refinement rules are applied to a non-uniform mesh having an extraordinary point, the limiting surface is G1 at the extraordinary point, i.e., the tangent surfaces of the limiting mesh are continuous at the extraordinary point.
US10249084B2
A system and method for tap event location includes a device using a selection apparatus that provides accurate point locations. The device determines a 3-dimensional map of a scene in the view frustum of the device relative to a coordinate frame. The device receives an indication of the occurrence of a tap event comprising a contact of the selection apparatus with a subject, and determines the location of the tap event relative to the coordinate frame from the location of the selection apparatus. The location of the tap event may be used to determine a subject. Data associated with the subject may then be processed to provide effects in, or data about, the scene in the view frustum of the device. Embodiments include a selection apparatus that communicates occurrences of tap events to the device and includes features that allow the device to determine the location of the selection apparatus.
US10249078B1
A system and related method for simulating IR halos in a computer graphics display generates a set of halo candidates corresponding to each new scene by scanning the frame buffer for that scene to flag pixels associated with unocculted light sources as halo candidates, or prospective halo centers around which simulated halos are to be drawn. The system adjusts the defocus value of flagged halo candidates based on their pixel distance and determines whether identified halo centers are new, continuing, or expired by comparing the current scene and its halo candidate list to the preceding (currently displayed) image and its list of current halo centers. The system generates a dual visible/IR image, adding IR-only polygonal halos to the identified halo centers based on pixel attributes. The dual image is projected for viewing by night vision goggles, which the IR-only image and component halos will stimulate.
US10249076B2
The image processing apparatus produces a virtual light source image that is an image of an object lighted by a virtual light source. The apparatus includes a shape acquirer configured to acquire shape information relating to a shape of the object, a light source condition setter configured to set a first virtual light source condition as a condition relating to a virtual light source, depending on an image capturing mode indicating a type of a captured image acquired by image capturing of the object, on image type information indicating a selected one of multiple types of the virtual light source images or on an image capturing condition selected in the image capturing. The apparatus further includes an image producer configured to produce the virtual light source image by using the first virtual light source condition and the shape information.
US10249073B2
Embodiments provide for a graphics processing apparatus comprising multiple compute nodes coupled to a communication layer, a rendering system executing on the multiple compute nodes, wherein the communication layer enables a distributed object executing on one of the multiple compute nodes to communicate with the rendering system, and a distributed framebuffer logic to subdivide a logical screen space for a frame into multiple regions and subdivide ownership of the regions among the multiple compute nodes.
US10249071B2
Provided are devices and methods for generating a view tile for a user interface. In one example, the method may include generating a top image layer comprising a plurality of transparent segments which are capable of representing a plurality of values based on which of the plurality of transparent segments are filled in with a color, generating a background color layer including the color, and overlaying the top image layer on the background color layer to generate a view tile representing a value from among the plurality of values. The generated view tile may provide a quick overview of an item with only a glance without requiring the viewer to read information in detail allowing the viewer to provide their attention to other activities.
US10249067B2
Techniques to control shape interaction in a user interface are described. In one or more implementations, a method is described of controlling user interface shape interaction by a computing device. A shape is displayed in a user interface by the computing device, the shape described using a plurality of points, each of the points having an associated radius. An input is detected, by the computing device, involving modification of the associated radius of least one of the plurality of points. A determination is made, by the computing device, whether modification of the associated radius of the at least one point causes an intersection of the associated radius of one or more of the plurality of points neighboring the at least one point. Responsive to the determination that the modification causes the intersection, the associated radius of the one or more points are modified such that the intersection does not occur. The shape is displayed by the computing device as having the modified associated radius of the at least one point.
US10249066B2
A system and method for reducing streak artifacts in a multiplanar reconstruction image are provided. The method may include: retrieving a first image volume from image data, the first image volume including multiple images, at least one of which includes a streak artifact including multiple streaks of a streak width along a first direction; down sampling the first image volume along the first direction at an image increment equal to the streak width to generate a second image volume; equalizing the second image volume along a second direction to generate a third image volume; up sampling the third image volume along the first direction to generate a fourth image volume; determining an error image volume based on the fourth image volume and the first image volume; correcting the first image volume according to the error image volume; and generating, based on the corrected first image volume, a corrected image volume.
US10249064B2
A medical imaging data processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to: obtain a first data set representative of at least some measurements of a measurement volume obtained by rotation of a medical scanner relative to the measurement volume during a first scanning time period; obtain a second data set representative of at least some measurements of the measurement volume obtained by rotation of the medical scanner relative to the measurement volume during a second scanning time period that overlaps the first scanning time period; and perform a procedure to obtain an estimate of motion between the first scanning time period and second scanning time period based on the first data set and second data set; wherein the obtaining is such as to exclude from the first data set and from the second data set at least some of the data representative of said measurements obtained during an overlap between the first scanning time period and second scanning time period; and wherein a data set representative of measurements obtained during at least one of the first scanning time period and second scanning time period is suitable for use in reconstructing a medical imaging data set representative of at least part of the measurement volume.
US10249052B2
Stereo correspondence model fitting techniques are described. In one or more implementations, a model may be fit to a region in at least one of a plurality of stereoscopic images of an image scene. The model may then be used as part of a stereo correspondence calculation, which may include computing disparities for the region based at least in part on correspondence to the model.
US10249048B1
The present disclosure is directed to a method and system for automatically predicting a blood flow feature based on a medical image. The method may include acquiring, by a processor, image patches and a vessel related feature of a vessel tree. Then, the blood flow feature of the vessel tree may be calculated, by the processor, using a learning network based on both the image patches and the vessel related feature of the vessel tree. The learning network includes a multi-model neural network and a tree structure recurrent neural network connected in series. The method and system of present disclosure can perform a quick and accurate prediction for the blood flow feature, such as FFR, of the vessel tree of a target object (such as certain site of human body or animal body) based on both the medical images and vessel related features of the vessel tree of the target object. The predicted FFR may assist the user in pathological diagnosis or other treatment of the target object.
US10249042B2
According to an embodiment, a method of providing a medical information service is provided. The method for providing a medical information service comprises the steps of: receiving a target image; extracting feature data of the target image; discovering a relative position of the feature data in a disease classification map in which a pre-trained reference image has been quantified; and providing a user with the disease classification map in which the relative position of the feature data has been discovered.
US10249038B2
A DNA flow cell processing method including positioning the flow cell on a stage at a predetermined location relative to a camera, illuminating the flow cell from a side with a first light source to reflect light off the DNA fragment bead locations, obtaining a first image of the flow cell and identifying a first reference pattern of bead locations in the first image, moving at least one of the flow cell and the stage relative to the camera, attempting to reposition the stage at the predetermined location, obtaining a second image of the flow cell, identifying the first reference pattern in the second image, and evaluating a first offset, relative to the camera, between the first reference pattern in the first image and the first reference pattern in the second image.
US10249033B1
User interfaces for managing defects are provided. A defect selection interface may include a set of defect items for selection by a user. The defect selection interface may include one or more first visuals indicating similarity of the set of defect items to other defect items. An issue selection interface may include a set of issue items for selection by the user. Individual issue items may include one or more defect items added to the individual issue items. A defect comparison interface may include a comparison of a defect item to an issue item. The defect comparison interface may include one or more second visuals indicating similarity of the defect item to the issue item. Based on the user's selection, the defect item may be added to the issue item.
US10249025B2
A system and method involve transmitting, using an optical device, a plurality of optical pulses into an atmospheric propagation channel towards a target object. Using an imaging device, more than one optical signals and an image of the target object are detected from the atmospheric propagation channel. The optical signals are produced by interaction between the transmitted optical pulses and the atmospheric propagation channel and include elastic backscatter return signals, inelastic backscatter return signals, and polarization signals. A processor simultaneously processes the elastic and inelastic backscatter return signals, the polarization signals, and information contained within the image of the target to determine estimates of one or more physical parameters of the atmospheric propagation channel. The processor uses machine learning algorithms to enhance/restore the image of the target, to perform pattern-recognition and classification of the target, and to extract additional atmospheric propagation channel physical characteristics.
US10249023B2
Embodiments relate to a patch processor that warps patches of input image data. The patch processor includes a patch direct memory access (DMA) circuit that obtains the patches via direct memory access. The patch processor includes a patch warper circuit that generates warped patches by processing the patches by performing interpolation in a raster scan fashion using a set of coordinates, for example. The patch warper circuit may also process pixels of the patches using an adder or subtractor circuit. In addition, the patch warper circuit may interleave warped patches of different image channels such as RGB or YCbCr colors. The patch warper circuit can also double-buffer the patches and warped patches.
US10249001B2
A particular method includes creating a financial planning goal for a financial planning client based at least in part on a financial planning objective. A financial planning recommendation is associated with the financial planning goal, and data identifying the financial planning goal and the financial planning recommendation is stored in a data store. The method also includes monitoring activity of the financial planning client and at least one other financial planning client to detect a financial planning trend. In response to the detected trend, a financial planning product is selected for potential incorporation into subsequent recommendation(s).
US10248996B2
A mobile end-user device includes a secure mobile payment agent. The mobile device indicates to network transaction servers, operated by various third parties, that it has the mobile payment agent capability. A user operating a not-necessarily-secure device application can indicate to a network transaction server the desire to make a purchase. The network transaction server opens a secure connection to the mobile payment agent, which verifies the transaction server as authorized to use mobile payments. The transaction server can then request that the mobile payment agent complete the desired purchase by having the user perform a confirmation action, after which the agent indicates a completed purchase transaction to the server. The mobile payment agent can communicate with a billing server to provide various aspects of the mobile payment capability.
US10248992B2
A presentation device carries out a product presentation of a product. The presentation device includes a support element which is designed for placing on the head of a user, on which two display units are situated for stereoscopically displaying graphics data in front of the eyes of the user. The user is to be able to view the product at home without computer hardware specially purchased by him/her. For this purpose, the presentation device includes a memory for storing model data of a digital representation of the product, a simulation unit designed for simulating a relative position of the user with respect to the representation, and a rendering unit designed for generating the graphics data. The rendering unit is designed to display a stereoscopic view aimed at the representation from the simulated relative position, by the graphics data.
US10248991B1
Methods and systems for linking items found in images to an electronic catalog are usable to create and display hyperlinks in images stored on the Web. Additionally, these links are usable to direct customers to a merchant's on-line store where they can potentially purchase the items found in the images. Further, the linking of items may be usable to provide incentives to users who identify items within images or who provide linked images. Tokens or other monetary rewards may be presented to these users based on purchases made after the purchaser follows such links.
US10248984B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system is provided. A processor identifies a web page for an item being viewed by a user, where the item is offered for sale by an online marketplace. A processor retrieves at least one contact of the user from a social network. Responsive to a determination the at least one contact reviewed the item, a processor sends a review authored by the at least one contact to the user. Responsive to an indication from the user, a processor initiates an electronic conversation between the contact and the user to discuss the item being viewed by the user.
US10248983B1
Techniques described herein include a system and method for providing item descriptions customized to a skill level associated with a user. In some embodiments, statements related to an item may be stored and maintained by the service provider. Each statement may be associated with one or more skill levels. In some embodiments, statements associated with each skill level may be selected by members of a user community. Upon receiving a request for an item description, a service provider may determine a skill level associated with the requestor and may populate the item description with statements associated with the requestor's skill level.
US10248976B2
Selection of content selection criteria based on entities related by relationship dimensions. In one aspect, a method receives a selection of a seed entity described in entity relation data, the entity relation data defining instances of entities, and for each entity one or more relationship dimensions; generating a set of selected entities; iteratively updating the set of selected entities, each iteration comprising: determining a set of relationship dimensions from the entities in the set of selected entities, each relationship dimension in the set being selected from the one or more relationship dimensions of the entities in the set of selected entities, receiving a selection of one of the relationship dimensions and in response: determining a set of candidate entities from the relationship dimensions and in response to receiving a selection of one or more candidate entities, updating the set of selected entities to include the one or more candidate entities.
US10248967B2
A computer-implemented technique is described herein for shortening an original query into one or more sub-queries. The technique chooses the sub-query(ies) such that they preserve the original intent of the original query. To accomplish this goal, the technique uses graph-based analysis to generate a set of richly descriptive query-context-specific feature values for each sub-query, and then uses those feature values to score the relevance of that sub-query.
US10248962B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for generating sales data reports. One approach is provided for receiving time information, simulation information, and forecast parameters to generate on the fly revenue and profitability reports for past historical data and future forecasts.
US10248961B1
Models are built based on existing histories in one identifier space to infer features of entities in a different identifier space. A source model is built using features of an archetypical population in a given identifier space and the standard population. A join panel, i.e., a set of entities operating across both the given identifier space and a second disjoined identifier space, is scored using the source model. Based on the scores and features associated with the entities in the join panel within the second identifier space, a target model specific to the second identifier space is built. An audience of entities within the second identifier space can then be scored using the target model to identify entities that are similar to the archetypical population.
US10248957B2
A method for modeling agent awareness in an agent based model, the method including the steps of tracking a ratio of indicators for each agent and varying the ratio of indicators for an agent upon the occurrence of a triggering event for that agent. The method further includes using the ratio as a factor to model the agent's awareness.
US10248952B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to systems, methods, and apparatus for allowing an issuer to initiate account provisioning on a mobile device without interacting with an accountholder. The issuer may initiate the process by sending a provisioning information request message to a mobile device with a secure element. The mobile device may recognize the provisioning request message and gather the requisite provisioning information without requiring user input. The provisioning information may include information associated with the secure element of the mobile device. The mobile device may then send a provisioning request message to a provisioning system. The provisioning request message may include the requisite provisioning information to allow the provisioning system to provision the financial account on the secure element of the mobile device.
US10248931B2
A method for collaborative annotating of a program of multimedia content includes enabling a first user to create a program annotation, enabling the first user to store annotation data, and enabling a second user to access the annotation data. The second user may navigate the program using the annotation and/or view the annotation while viewing the program. The first user may create the annotation while viewing the program, for example, by asserting an annotation button on a remote control device. The annotation may include the frame that was displayed when the user created the annotation, text, audio, an image, or video selected by the viewer. The annotations include chronological information indicative of a chronological location of the annotation within the program. The annotations may include “rating annotations” indicating the author's subjective rating of a portion of the program that is in chronological proximity to the annotation's chronological location.
US10248928B2
Systems and methods allow flyers to determine which airport lounges they may access. A flyer specifies an airport and access rules for lounges at the airport are applied to user data of the flyer to identify accessible lounges. A listing of the identified lounges is then displayed to the flyer. Systems and methods further allow management of airport lounge inventory. Inventory can be managed to increase occupancy, as well as to evenly distribute flyers within and across airport lounges.
US10248917B1
Systems and methods for developing and utilizing a contactability profile are disclosed. Contact information may be managed by receiving activity data associated with an entity, processing the received activity data, generating at least one contactability profile associated with the entity based upon a result of the processing, and storing the generated contactability profile.
US10248895B2
A card with a magnetic stripe and increased durability is described. A protective lamina or coating may be disposed on a card with a magnetic stripe to protect the magnetic stripe embedded into the card from scratches, fractures, or chemical damage. An adhesive in the protective lamina is compatible with a material composition of the magnetic stripe such that the bond established onto the card surface is also accomplished with the magnetic stripe. The magnetic stripe has high coercivity and is overlaminated. The overlamination is performed across the entire rear side of the card. Accordingly, stress lines in cards with magnetic stripes can be avoided thereby significantly reducing cracking and fractures in cards.
US10248886B2
At least some of the exemplary embodiments are a method. The method includes obtaining, at an underwater imaging device, a stream of images of geophysical surveying equipment, wherein the geophysical surveying equipment includes a target pattern having a calibrated image size. The geophysical surveying equipment is tracked using the image stream and the target pattern. The method further includes capturing from the image stream, a single image of the images of the geophysical surveying equipment, wherein the single image comprises an image of the target pattern having an apparent size. Based on the calibrated image size and the apparent size, a distance between the underwater imaging device and the geophysical surveying equipment is determined.
US10248880B1
The present disclosure relates to a method and system of processing original handwriting input, the system and method being capable of recognize a plurality of strokes provided on the input recognition interface, the method including: determining a stroke box around each stroke; determining overlap between the stroke boxes; correlating overlapping stroke boxes to one or more characters; providing a character box around each of the one or more characters; determining overlap between character boxes; correlating overlapping character boxes to one or more words; providing a word box around each of the one or more words; provide a word margin around each of the one or more word boxes; determining overlap between each word box to determine a line; wherein each of the characters, words, or lines can be individually selected and rearranged, the system automatically adjusting spacing or placement of surrounding elements to allow for the rearrangement.
US10248879B2
Systems, devices, and methods for monitoring items in a defined physical area can include a primary camera configured to detect a region of interest within a defined physical area and the coordinates of the region of interest in the defined physical area. A plurality of secondary cameras can positioned throughout a defined physical area. One of the secondary cameras can be selected to capture an image of a region of interest based on the coordinates of the region of interest.
US10248877B2
An illumination device includes a light source provided on a surface of a substrate and configured to emit light, and a diffraction optical element having a plurality of diffraction gratings with different pitch and rotating direction, and configured to diffract the light into illumination light that illuminates an illumination region of an illuminating target. The illuminating region is larger than an area occupied by the diffraction optical element and the light source provided on the surface of the substrate.
US10248875B2
Systems and methods for repairing cross-linked biometric records receive a set of biometric records. Each biometric record contains at least one biometric sample in a non-textual modality. One or more of the biometric records in the set of biometric records is potentially a cross-linked biometric record having at least two biometric samples that are associated with different individuals. Crosslink resolution is performed on the set of biometric records by searching for a match between a biometric sample in a given non-textual modality of a given biometric record with each biometric sample of the same given non-textual modality in each of the other biometric records in the set of biometric records. During the crosslink resolution, biometric sample may be removed from one biometric record and merged with another biometric record.
US10248873B2
There are provided an apparatus, a method, and an autonomous moving body which allow a recognition target to be notified with certainty that the recognition target is recognized by an autonomous moving body. A recognition result presenting apparatus according to an embodiment of the present disclosure detects a recognition target (person) present within a predetermined range from an automatic driving vehicle and presents, to the detected recognition target (person), the result of recognition indicating that the automatic driving vehicle recognizes the recognition target (person).
US10248871B2
Methods, systems, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for autonomous lane detection are presented. One example method includes the steps of receiving a signal from a first device; responsive to a comparison of a measured received frequency of the signal to a source frequency of the signal and to one or more thresholds, determining a distance to the first device; and determining a lane in which the vehicle is operating based on the distance and a lane map. Another example method further includes the steps of determining a location and a heading of the first vehicle; and outputting, to a crowdsourcing server, the location, the heading, and the distance to the first device.
US10248865B2
The presentation style of a video is identified. A set of features that represents the video is computed. A pre-learned video presentation style classifier is then used to weight each of the features in the set of features and determine a presentation style that is predominately employed in the video based on the weighting of the features.
US10248858B2
Techniques to capture document data are disclosed. It is determined that a sequence of pages in a stream of document page images comprise a single multi-page document. Data is extracted from two or more different pages included in the sequence. The data extracted from two or more different pages included in the sequence of pages is used to populate a data entry form associated with the multi-page document.
US10248848B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product for an improved facial recognition system are provided. Some embodiments may utilize a weighted block division of an image and capture a property measurement for pixels residing within a block. The measurements may be converted to vectors, compressed, and compared against compressed vectors of enrolled images to identify a characteristic or an image of a matching subject. Training processes may be utilized in order to optimize block divisions and weights.
US10248831B1
A flat-panel display embedded with a fingerprint sensor includes a substrate, a photo sensor formed on a bottom surface of the substrate, a lens region disposed above and substantially aligned with the photo sensor vertically, and a light barrier substantially aligned with the photo sensor vertically and disposed between the photo sensor and the lens region.
US10248824B2
A method, system for encoding or decoding information in physical properties of an object. A tangible product comprises a three dimensional tangible object having modified physical properties; and wherein the modified physical properties are a modification of physical properties, wherein the modification encodes information. A method comprising: obtaining a representation of a three dimensional object having physical properties; obtaining information to encode; determining modified physical properties by modifying the physical properties to encode within the modified physical properties the information; and producing a tangible product, wherein the tangible product is the three dimensional object having the modified physical properties.
US10248823B2
Provided are techniques for the placement of a code on an object that does not interfere and is not displayed in a captured visual image of the object. Also provided are techniques for capturing a first image of an object in the visual light spectrum; capturing a second image of the object in a non-visual light spectrum; extracting metadata, stored in the non-visual light spectrum corresponding to the object from the second image; and storing the first image in conjunction with the metadata. Also provided are techniques for storing the metadata in conjunction with the object in the non-visual light spectrum, wherein the metadata is stored in a quick response (QR) code or a bar code and the non-visible light spectrum is ultraviolet light or infrared light.
US10248820B2
An apparatus and method and electronic device, the apparatus comprising: a memory element configured to store information; a switching element coupled to the memory element; wherein the switching element is configured to be switched from a first state to a second state in response to an input signal provided by a capacitive touch screen and wherein when the switching element is in the second state the information can be read from the memory element by the capacitive touch screen.
US10248818B2
A conductive pattern reading device and method, and an interactive platform. The reading device comprises a sensing circuit board and a medium printed with conductive patterns. The medium is provided with one or more conductive sensing regions, wherein the conductive patterns are printed in corresponding conductive sensing regions. The sensing circuit board comprises one or more conductive sensing blocks corresponding to the conductive sensing regions and further comprises a sensing chip used for sensing and measuring capacitance values of the various conductive sensing blocks. The sensing chip is connected to the various conductive sensing blocks.
US10248817B2
Devices, methods, and software are disclosed for reading RFID tags located in defined spatial locations. In one illustrative embodiment, a system can comprise a processor, a memory, and an RFID reading device including at least one radio frequency (RF) antenna. The system can be configured to read a first plurality of RFID tags attached to items disposed within a first spatial zone and read a second plurality of RFID tags attached to items disposed within a second spatial zone. The system can be further configured to produce a list of identifiers of RFID tags which belong to the second plurality of RFID tags and do not belong to the first plurality of RFID tags. In some embodiments, the system can be further configured, responsive to successfully decoding decodable indicia attached to an item, to match the item to an RFID tag belonging to the list.
US10248810B2
A method of automatically modifying a computer data query is disclosed herein. The modification of the computer data query can be performed to restrict access to data. The computer data query can be modified by receiving the computer data query, identifying tables in the query and retrieving providers associated with the tables identified in the query. These providers can be linked to one or several predicates. These predicates can be retrieved and used to modify the query. The modified query can then be used to retrieve data from one or several tables identified within the query.
US10248809B1
Systems and methods are provided executing jobs immediately upon receipt of a notification. The systems and methods may include receiving, at a cloud compute service, a notification that a sensitive file comprising sensitive data has been received at a file receipt location, the sensitive file being sent by a client device; generating, by the cloud compute service, a container instance in response to the notification; retrieving, by the container instance, the sensitive file from the file receipt location; generating, by the container instance, a stripped file by stripping the sensitive data from the sensitive file based on a configuration file; transmitting, by the container instance, the stripped file to a storage location; deleting the sensitive file and associated file pointers from the file receipt location; and terminating the container instance, wherein terminating the container instance comprises deleting files comprising sensitive data and associated file pointers.
US10248807B2
Examples provided herein enhance the management of permissions based on error reporting in a computing environment. Enhanced permission allocation in a computing environment includes obtaining an error report for an application operating within the computing environment. Based on the error report, permission changes are identified to assist in addressing one or more reported errors. Permission changes can include new, temporary, suspended, updated, modified and/or other permissions for new and/or existing members. Some or all of the identified permission changes can then be allocated to new and/or existing members of the computing environment. Some permission changes may include temporary permissions that provide changed permissions for a limited time period. If an error is not fully addressed, additional evaluation and identification of permission changes can be conducted. Based on this further evaluation, the permission changes can then be updated.
US10248803B2
A method and system of sharing a folder in a file system between an owner and a grantee is provided. An indication of a folder to share with a grantee may be received from the owner. The folder to share may be a subfolder within a parent folder, the parent folder not shared with the grantee. Then, sharing permissions indicating a level of access the grantee has to the folder may be stored with the folder. A virtual folder corresponding to the folder to share may be created on a device of the grantee. The virtual folder maps to all objects within the folder to share and may be stored at a level equal to parent folders of a file hierarchy on device of the grantee.
US10248802B2
Digital rights management using geographic and temporal traits is described. In one or more implementations, a digital medium environment is configured to control access to at least on item of content by digital rights management functionality embedded as part of the content. Data is collected describing geographical traits of a location or temporal traits associated with a request received from the user to access the content. A determination is made from the data using a digital rights management module embedded as part of the content as to whether the geographical or temporal traits meet specified traits of a geographical behavior of a digital rights management policy enforced by the digital rights management module for the at least one item of the content. Responsive to a determination that the specified traits are met, access is permitted to the least one item of the content by the embedded digital rights management module.
US10248798B1
A system and method for performing confidential scanning of a document are provided. Initially, a request from user for a confidential scan of a document through a scanner device associated with the confidential scan system may be received. Further, a first credential may be received from the user. The user may be authenticated based on the first credential data. Upon the authentication, the document may be stored as a hidden document in a predefined path for the confidential scan of the document.
US10248783B2
An embodiment of a method of providing identity services includes: receiving identity data for an individual for which the identity provider has provided an identity; generating a transaction to store an identifier representing the identity data in a data structure on a blockchain of a distributed system; sending the transaction to at least one node of the distributed system; and generating an identity token incorporating the identifier representing the identity data. An embodiment of a method of verifying an identity includes: receiving data extracted from the identity token, wherein the extracted data includes an identifier representing the identity data; determining whether a data structure containing the extracted identifier representing the identity data is stored on a blockchain of a distributed system; and outputting an indication of a validity of an identity associated with the identity data based on the determination.
US10248782B2
A method and system includes: receiving an access request for a protected web application server by the requesting browser application; returning a web page embedded with code that initiates a browser testing session between the requesting web browser and a remote access control server; generating a browser identity inspector based on a selection of two or more predetermined browser identity tests; executing the browser identity inspector to collect runtime environment data of the requesting web browser based on an execution of the selected two or more predetermined browser identity tests at the requesting web browser; compiling the collected runtime environment data into a browser digital fingerprint of the requesting web browser; using the browser digital fingerprint to: identify a browser version and type of the requesting web browser; calculating a browser identity confidence score that indicates a likelihood or a probability that the identified browser version and type is accurate.
US10248774B2
A method for controlling unlocking includes: fingerprint data is received; a dominant frequency of a processor is increased; matching is conducted on the received fingerprint data based on the increased dominant frequency; the mobile terminal is unlocked when the received fingerprint data is matched.
US10248771B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving an enrollment biometric identifier of a user. Determining a matching threshold based on a characteristic of the enrollment biometric identifier of the user. Storing the matching threshold in an enrollment profile for the use in association with the enrollment biometric identifier.
US10248770B2
Techniques for unobtrusively verifying the identity of a user of a computing device are provided. In one embodiment, the computing device can establish one or more verification models for verifying the user's identity, where at least a subset of the one or more verification models is based on enrollment data that is collected in an unobtrusive manner from the user. The computing device can then verify the user's identity using the one or more verification models.
US10248766B2
An analyzing device includes: a particle definition unit configured to define a system including a plurality of particles in a virtual space; a constraint assigning unit configured to assign a constraint to the system defined by the particle definition unit so as to present a flow; and a numerical computation unit configured to numerically compute a governing equation that governs the motion of each particle of the particle system to which the constraint is assigned by the constraint assigning unit. The numerical computation unit identifies particles linked with a disturbance source of the flow. The analyzing device further includes display control unit configured to display identified particles on a display in a mode different from that of the other particles.
US10248765B1
Bodily fluid sample collection systems, devices, and method are provided. The device may comprise a first portion comprising at least a sample collection channel configured to draw the fluid sample into the sample collection channel via a first type of motive force. The sample collection device may include a second portion comprising a sample vessel for receiving the bodily fluid sample collected in the sample collection channel, the sample vessel operably engagable to be in fluid communication with the collection channel, whereupon when fluid communication is established, the vessel and/or another source provides a second motive force different from the first motive force to move a majority of the bodily fluid sample from the channel into the vessel.
US10248758B2
Synthetic nanostructures, proteins that are useful, for example, in making synthetic nanostructures, and methods for designing such synthetic nanostructures are disclosed herein.
US10248757B2
Identifying pathways that are significantly impacted in a given condition is a crucial step in the understanding of the underlying biological phenomena. All approaches currently available for this purpose calculate a p-value that aims to quantify the significance of the involvement of each pathway in the given phenotype. These p-values were previously thought to be independent. Here, we show that this is not the case, and that pathways can affect each other's p-values through a “crosstalk” phenomenon that affects all major categories of existing methods. We describe a novel technique able to detect, quantify, and correct crosstalk effects, as well as identify novel independent functional modules. We assessed this technique on data from four real experiments coming from three phenotypes involving two species.
US10248756B2
Generating anatomically specific movie driven medical image review is provided. Scan data is received representing an anatomy of a patient. A movie generation preset selection associated with the scan data is received. Anatomical landmarks within the scan data are detected. A movie of the patient is generated based on the scan data, the movie generation preset, and the anatomical landmarks.
US10248748B2
We disclose transconductor-capacitor classical dynamical systems that emulate quantum dynamical systems and quantum-inspired systems by composing them with 1) capacitors that represent ℏ termed Planck capacitors; 2) a ‘quantum admittance’ element, which can be emulated efficiently via coupled transconductors; 3) an emulated ‘quantum transadmittance element’ that can couple emulated quantum admittances to each other; and 4) an emulated ‘quantum transadmittance mixer element’ that can couple emulated quantum admittances to each other under the control of an input. We describe a ‘Quantum Cochlea’, a biologically-inspired quantum traveling-wave system with coupled emulated quantum two-state systems for efficient spectrum analysis that uses all of these parts. We show how emulated quantum transdmittance mixers can help represent an exponential number of quantum superposition states in the spectral domain with linear classical resources, even if they are not all simultaneously accessible as in actual quantum systems, and how the quantum cochlea is a very efficient spectrum analyzer for non-destructive readout of these spectral-domain signals.
US10248742B2
Various embodiments for analyzing flight data using predictive models are described herein. In various embodiments, a quadratic least squares model is applied to a matrix of time-series flight parameter data for a flight, thereby deriving a mathematical signature for each flight parameter of each flight in a set of data including a plurality of sensor readings corresponding to time-series flight parameters of a plurality of flights. The derived mathematical signatures are aggregated into a dataset. A similarity between each pair of flights within the plurality of flights is measured by calculating a distance metric between the mathematical signatures of each pair of flights within the dataset, and the measured similarities are combined with the dataset. A machine-learning algorithm is applied to the dataset, thereby identifying, without predefined thresholds, clusters of outliers within the dataset by using a unified distance matrix.
US10248737B2
A method and a system for determining the state of a device in an aircraft, this state being specified by a current version of the device as implemented in the aircraft. The method according to the invention comprises: transmitting a request to a database and receiving in response a list of updates previously performed on the device, each update specifying an earlier version and a later version; and from a directed graph, such that each edge corresponds to an update of a set of updates associated with devices of the type of the device of interest, determining a sub-graph corresponding to the list.
US10248730B2
The disclosure discloses a statistical method and apparatus for webpage access data. The method includes that: an initial dataset of user-accessed page behaviors is collected; first-time access data of a user is extracted from the initial dataset; the first-time access data is judged by using a pre-set judgement model to obtain a judgement result; when the judgement result is contrary to a pre-set result of the pre-set judgement model, dating-back matching is performed in the initial dataset by using the first-time access data to obtain associated access data; and the initial dataset is spliced and repaired based on the associated access data to obtain a repaired dataset. By means of the disclosure, the problem in the traditional art that the user identification accuracy is dissatisfactory due to the loss of Cookie information is solved.
US10248721B2
Various embodiments described herein relate to methods, systems, apparatus and computer-readable media for providing a graphical representation of a plurality of statements in a tree-like structure. At least a portion of the statements is displayed on a screen. Each displayed statement comprises a contents portion and an assigned classification. The statements further have one or more associated quality designations. According to one embodiment, the assigned classification is selected from a set of at least two classifications. Each classification specifies a relationship of an associated statement to another statement in said tree-like structure.
US10248718B2
A device may receive a text, from a text source, in association with a request to generate an ontology for the text. The device may generate a set of word vectors from a list of terms determined from the text. The device may determine a quantity of term clusters to be generated to form the ontology based on the set of word vectors. The device may generate term clusters based on the quantity of term clusters, attributes, and/or non-hierarchical relationships. The term clusters may be associated with concepts of the ontology. The device may provide the term clusters for display via a user interface associated with a device.
US10248717B2
A computer-based media content classification and discovery system includes a computerized database storing content representative identifiers corresponding to content items. Each of the content representative identifiers is keyed to a plurality of author-based, content-centered criteria elements, which are identified by an author of the each of the content items. A plurality of user computer devices is in communication with the computerized database. At least one input selection field is displayed on a GUI of the user computer devices. The input selection field has a plurality of selectable fields which matches at least one of the plurality of author-based, content-centered criteria elements. A result of the filtered selectable fields is displayed on the GUI. The result has a portion of the plurality of content items keyed to the plurality of author-based, content-centered criteria elements.
US10248702B2
Disclosed aspects relate to structured data and unstructured data integration management to provide a valid Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) results-set. A query is received by a database driver. In response to receiving the query, a single data frame having both a set of structured data and a set of unstructured data is constructed in a dynamic fashion by the database driver. Based on the single data frame, a valid JDBC results-set for the query is compiled by the database driver. Accordingly, a query response having the valid JDBC results-set is provided by the database driver.
US10248698B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for affinity based ranking of native applications. In one aspect, a method includes accessing application affinity data for a user device from which a query was received, receiving a set of search results that each identify a respective resource determined to be responsive to the query, wherein one or more of the search results are a native application search results that each include a deep link to a respective one of the native applications installed on the user device from when the query was received, for each of the native application search results, determining the affinity score of the native application, adjusting the search results based on the affinity scores to generate an adjusted set of search results, and providing, to the user device, the adjusted search results.
US10248681B2
A system and method for faster access for compressed time series data. A set of blocks are generated based on a table stored in a database of the data platform. The table stores data associated with multiple sources of data provided as consecutive values, each block containing index vectors having a range of the consecutive values. A block index is generated for each block having a field start vector representing a starting position of the block relative to the range of consecutive values, and a starting value vector representing a value of the block at the starting position. The field start vector of the block index is accessed to obtain the starting position of a field corresponding to a first block and to the range of the consecutive values of the first block. The starting value vector is then determined from the block index to determine an end and a length of the field of the first block.
US10248675B2
A circuit element of a multi-dimensional dynamic adaptive neural network array (DANNA) may comprise a neuron/synapse select input functional to select the circuit element to function as one of a neuron and a synapse. In one embodiment of a DANNA array of such circuit elements, (wherein a circuit element may be digital), a destination neuron may be connected to a first neuron by a first synapse in one dimension a second destination neuron may be connected to the first neuron by a second synapse in a second dimension to form linked columns and rows of neuron/synapse circuit elements. In one embodiment, the rows and columns of circuit elements have read registers that are linked together by signal lines and clocked and controlled so as to output columnar data to an output register when a neuron/synapse data value is stored in the read register.
US10248670B1
Migrating content between enterprise content management systems is described. A source object identifier is identified for metadata tables for content for a source enterprise content management system, based on a migration job definition. The metadata tables are retrieved from the source enterprise content management system, based on the source object identifier. A target object identifier is identified for a target enterprise content management system, based on the metadata tables and the migration job definition. An object identifier map is created that maps the source object identifier to the target object identifier. The metadata tables are stored to the target enterprise content management system, based on the object identifier map. The content for the source enterprise content management system is retrieved. The content is stored as content for the target enterprise content management system.
US10248661B2
A method and device for pulling a virtual machine mirror file includes: obtaining a mirror pulling instruction comprising a timestamp of a mirror file; determining whether the mirror pulling instruction instructs only a base mirror file; if yes, obtaining locally the base mirror file previously dispatched to physical machines; and if not, obtaining locally the base mirror file previously dispatched to physical machines, and obtaining an incremental file matching the timestamp of the mirror file. The amount of data of the virtual machine mirror file to be pulled by the virtual machine mirror management module is reduced by using the base mirror file previously dispatched to physical machines, such that the pulling period is shortened, and the loads of a server where the virtual machine mirror management module is located and the loads of the mirror server are decreased. Accordingly, the creation of the virtual machine may be accelerated.
US10248655B2
A file storage system for storing data of a file received from a client includes a back-end file server in which the data is stored. The system includes a cache appliance in communication with the file server, such that the appliance stores portions of the data or attributes of the file, and uses the stored data or attributes to process file system requests received from the client, and which reads and writes data and attributes to the back-end file server independently. A system for responding to a file system protocol request in regard to a back-end server includes a token server. The system includes a plurality of cache appliances in communication with the token server, each of which receives tokens from the token server to synchronize access to data and attributes caches of the cache appliances, and reading and writing data and attributes to the back-end servers when tokens are revoked, the cache appliance having persistent storage in which data are stored, and the token server having persistent storage in which tokens are stored. A storage system includes a plurality of backend servers. The system includes a token server which grants permission to read and write file attributes and data system, and includes a plurality of cache appliances in communication with at least one of the backend servers and the token server for processing an incoming NFS request to the one backend server. Each cache appliance comprises an NFS server which converts incoming NFS requests into cache manager operations; a token client module in communication with the token server having a cache of tokens obtained from the token server; a cache manager that caches data and attributes and uses tokens from the token client module to ensure that the cached data or attributes are the most recent data or attributes, and an NFS client which sends outgoing NFS requests to the back-end file server. Methods for storing data of a file received from a client.
US10248652B1
Systems, methods, and apparatus of providing a visual writing aid are provided. In one example embodiment, a method includes obtaining data descriptive of a first set of information, wherein the first set of information is presented in a first language. The method includes determining a translation of the first set of information to a second language. The method includes presenting a visual representation of the translation of the first set of information in the second language via a display device. The method includes obtaining data descriptive of a second set of information. The second set of information includes a transcription of at least a portion of the first set of information in the second language generated via a mobile writing device. The method includes determining whether the second set of information corresponds to the visual representation of the translation of the first set of information in the second language.
US10248651B1
Machine learning models can determine whether post-edits to machine translated content are corrective post-edits, which are edits made to correct translation errors caused during machine translation, or content improvement post-edits, which are post-edits that have been made to improve source language content. The corrective post-edits can be utilized to generate or modify labels for strings utilized to train a translation quality estimation system. The content improvement post-edits can be utilized to improve the quality of source content prior to providing the source content to the machine translation system for translation.
US10248640B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are provided for deleting textual input based upon the input-mode in which such textual input is received. Textual input is received via a block-unit-based input and the textual input is converted into a typewritten text segment and displayed in association with a user computing device. The typewritten text segment includes character-units that substantially comprise at least one recognizable block-unit. Upon receipt of a plurality of delete commands, at least a portion of the typewritten text segment is deleted in accordance with the recognizable block-units. That is, one block-unit is deleted for each delete command received. Upon recognition of a boundary between text received via a block-unit-based input modality and a character-based input modality, the action of the delete command is altered such that one character-unit is deleted for each delete command received in accordance with the input modality.
US10248639B2
One embodiment provides a method for recommending a structured field for a form from unstructured text data, the method including: utilizing at least one processor to execute computer code that performs the steps of: obtaining text data from at least one unstructured field, wherein the at least one unstructured field is contained within a completed form generated from a template form; identifying at least one topic associated with the text data; generating a model, wherein the model analyzes use of the least one topic as a structured field; determining, using the model, whether the accuracy of the template form has increased based upon use of the at least one topic as a structured field; and recommending, based upon the determining, at least one modification for a structured field for the template form, wherein the at least one structured field is associated with the at least topic.
US10248628B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for selection of a version of a website from multiple versions of the website, implementations including receiving user interaction data representative of user interactions with respective versions of a website, for each version of the website, determining a posterior distribution, selecting a version of the website based on the posterior distributions, and hosting the version of the website on one or more servers.
US10248625B2
Methods and systems for Assurance-enabled Linde Buzo Gray (ALBG) data clustering is described herein. In an implementation, a user model data from a database available to the processor is obtained. The user model data comprises data elements or users, each of which corresponds to features and feature values associated with the users. These data elements of the user model data are segmented into clusters using our segmentation approach with an initial accuracy criterion parametric value and the output is captured as segment data. The segment data output is checked for initial pareto validity. If successful, iterative segmentation run with incremental accuracy criterion using parameterized value is performed till the segmented clusters are determined valid against pareto validity check. The last successful pareto valid segmented cluster data is considered as the finalized segment output data. For an invalid initial pareto validity check, a segmentation run with a pre-determined accuracy criterion value is done to arrive at the finalized segment output data.
US10248613B2
Data bus activation in an electronic device is provided. In one aspect, a host circuit determines a cumulative potential representing a cumulative fractional bus activation vote on a data line(s) in the data bus. The host circuit activates the data bus when the cumulative potential is greater than a configurable bus activation threshold. In another aspect, a device circuit(s) determines a selected signal strength threshold that is less than determined signal strength of an incoming signal. Accordingly, the device circuit(s) asserts a fractional potential corresponding to the selected signal strength threshold on the data line(s) as a fractional bus activation vote in the cumulative fractional bus activation vote. By activating the data bus based on the cumulative fractional bus activation vote, the host circuit can support timely data bus activation while preventing the data bus from being falsely activated, thus improving robustness of data bus activation in the electronic device.
US10248611B2
A data transmission method and a mobile terminal include taking bytes of data in universal asynchronous receiver/transmitter (UART) format generated by a mobile terminal, simulating UART ports via GPIO ports of a processor of the mobile terminal, and transmitting the bytes of data in UART format divided in batches to a receiving terminal via the GPIO ports. In transmitting the bytes of data in UART format in divided batches to the receiving terminal via the GPIO ports, the processor of the mobile terminal is in a locked state. The processor is in an unlocked state between two adjacent batches of the data transmitting.
US10248598B2
An intelligent storage device signal transmission method includes steps of: electrically connecting intelligent storage module and electronic device; enabling built-in identification system of intelligent storage module uses numeric identification code to identify system type of electronic device and enabling USB communication protocol channel for signal transmission between intelligent storage module and electronic device so that file system of downloaded APP of electronic device can identify file format of intelligent storage module and microprocessor unit of intelligent storage module can define data packet format of DATA block and then transmit data packet to APP of electronic device for data packet resolution. Thus, built-in file system of App of electronic device can identify and solve received data packet and provide file data of resolved data file to data storage software of electronic device for application; and electronic connection between intelligent storage module and electronic device is disconnected after signal transmission is completed.
US10248585B2
Systems and methods for adding a logic layer between FPGA I/O and the core logic of the FPGA. With the extra layer, users can monitor and/or modify the I/O to the FPGA. In addition, users can monitor and/or modify input/output to the core logics of the FPGA, thereby filtering both I/O to the FPGA and the logic blocks of the FPGA. With the filtering in place, a non-intrusive digital scope can be implemented which can, in turn, be used to create a “black box” regarding FPGA I/O during the occurrence of the catastrophic events within the system.
US10248584B2
A device, which may be a peripheral device or a host computing device, comprises a communication interface, a memory and a processor. The processor is arranged to detect imminent disconnection of a communication link between the peripheral device and the host computing device and in response to detecting the imminent disconnection of the communication link, to trigger a data transfer from the host computing device to the peripheral device via the communication interface. The data transfer defines, at least in part, a fixed output data set which, after disconnection, is output via an output device in the peripheral device.
US10248576B2
The present invention provides a DRAM/NVM hierarchical heterogeneous memory system with software-hardware cooperative management schemes. In the system, NVM is used as large-capacity main memory, and DRAM is used as a cache to the NVM. Some reserved bits in the data structure of TLB and last-level page table are employed effectively to eliminate hardware costs in the conventional hardware-managed hierarchical memory architecture. The cache management in such a heterogeneous memory system is pushed to the software level. Moreover, the invention is able to reduce memory access latency in case of last-level cache misses. Considering that many applications have relatively poor data locality in big data application environments, the conventional demand-based data fetching policy for DRAM cache can aggravates cache pollution. In the present invention, an utility-based data fetching mechanism is adopted in the DRAM/NVM hierarchical memory system, and it determines whether data in the NVM should be cached in the DRAM according to current DRAM memory utilization and application memory access patterns. It improves the efficiency of the DRAM cache and bandwidth usage between the NVM main memory and the DRAM cache.
US10248572B2
An apparatus and method are provided for operating a virtually indexed, physically tagged cache. The apparatus has processing circuitry for performing data processing operations on data, and a virtually indexed, physically tagged cache for storing data for access by the processing circuitry. The cache is accessed using a virtual address portion of a virtual address in order to identify a number of cache entries, and then physical address portions stored in those cache entries are compared with the physical address derived from the virtual address in order to detect whether a hit condition exists. Further, snoop request processing circuitry is provided that is responsive to a snoop request specifying a physical address, to determine a plurality of possible virtual address portions for the physical address, and to perform a snoop processing operation in order to determine whether the hit condition is detected for a cache entry when accessing the cache storage using the plurality of possible virtual address portions. On detection of the hit condition a coherency action is performed in respect of the cache entry causing the hit condition. This allows effective detection and removal of aliasing conditions that can arise when different virtual addresses associated with the same physical address cause cache entries in different sets of the cache to be accessed.
US10248571B2
In one example in accordance with the present disclosure, a system may include a wear level handler to start a current rotation of a wear level algorithm through a plurality of cache line addresses in a region of memory and a location storer to store a rotation count of the rotation. The system may also include a data mover to move a cache line from the selected cache line address to a gap cache line address corresponding to the additional cache line address and a metadata setter to set a metadata of the gap cache line address to a value corresponding to the current rotation. The system may also include a current position determiner to determine, based on the value of at least one metadata and the rotation count, a current position of the current rotation after a power loss event.
US10248569B2
A method includes obtaining a trigger instruction responsive to execution of an application reaching a specific location and state, wherein the trigger instruction includes an index into a preload engine offset table and a base address, accessing the preload engine offset table based on the index and base address to determine an offset specific to the application location and state, and prefetching data into cache as a function of the base address and offset.
US10248563B2
In one embodiment, a method includes selectively invalidating data stored in at least one cache line of a cache memory of a processor in response to a determination that a predetermined amount of time has passed since the at least one cache line was last accessed. The predetermined amount of time is shorter than an average round-trip time for the processor to process a plurality of blocks of data stored sequentially to a ring buffer. In other embodiments, methods, systems, and computer program products are described for efficient use of cache memory using an expiration timer.
US10248561B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that detects anomalous events in a virtual machine. During operation, the system obtains time-series garbage-collection (GC) data collected during execution of a virtual machine in a computer system. Next, the system generates one or more seasonal features from the time-series GC data. The system then uses a sequential-analysis technique to analyze the time-series GC data and the one or more seasonal features for an anomaly in the GC activity of the virtual machine. Finally, the system stores an indication of a potential out-of-memory (OOM) event for the virtual machine based at least in part on identifying the anomaly in the GC activity of the virtual machine.
US10248558B2
In some aspects, a method for managing leakage power includes coupling a first supply rail to a cache memory if a processor is in a first performance mode, wherein the processor accesses the cache memory, and coupling a second supply rail to the cache memory if the processor is in a second performance mode. The method also includes detecting gating of a clock signal to the cache memory or the processor, and, upon detecting gating of the clock signal, switching the cache memory from the second supply rail to the first supply rail if the cache memory is currently coupled to the second supply rail.
US10248555B2
Methods and apparatus for managing an effective address table (EAT) in a multi-slice processor including receiving, from an instruction sequence unit, a next-to-complete instruction tag (ITAG); obtaining, from the EAT, a first ITAG from a tail-plus-one EAT row, wherein the EAT comprises a tail EAT row that precedes the tail-plus-one EAT row; determining, based on a comparison of the next-to-complete ITAG and the first ITAG, that the tail EAT row has completed; and retiring the tail EAT row based on the determination.
US10248554B2
Aspects of the present invention include a method, system and computer program product that embeds collected profiling test case information into a binary file of a computer program and subsequently recompiles the program. The method includes a processor specifying one or more test cases to be embedded into a compiled binary file, wherein the one or more test cases relate to at least a portion of a computer program representing a compilation unit; executing the one or more embedded test cases under the computer program; gathering performance data associated with the computer program as the one or more embedded test cases are executed; recompiling the compilation unit based on the performance data; and linking the computer program based on the performance data.
US10248553B2
A test program is run repeatedly (either as a loop that is programmed into the code of the test program itself, or by repeatedly running the test program manually in response to user input instructing repeated run(s) of the test program. At least some run(s) of the test program use a cipher key that was derived and saved by the test program during a previous run of the test program (rather than re-deriving the cipher key based on information provided by the operating system). In this way, if the corresponding cipher key, as stored in the system space of the operating system has become corrupted during previous run(s) of the test program, then the incompatibility between the corrupted cipher key in the system space, and the previously saved cipher key that was previously derived by the test program, will be more easily detected.
US10248552B2
There is provided a computer-implemented method of testing an application. The method obtains first temporary test scripts for testing at least one test case of a first version of the application, and the first temporary test scripts are recorded with first mark data used for testing the first version of the application. The method obtains a first correspondence between the first mark data and test data. The method substitutes the test data for the first mark data in the first temporary test scripts based on the first correspondence to obtain first test scripts for testing the at least one test case of the first version of the application.
US10248543B2
Systems and methods for functionally testing software using computer vision. Systems can include a functional testing computer vision system and a computer vision-based functional testbed system. Methods can include generating a computer vision-based testing package and functionally testing software on at least one virtualized testbed machine using the computer vision-based testing package.
US10248536B2
According to an aspect of some embodiments of the present invention there is provided a method for verifying correctness of application configuration of an application, comprising: for each of baseline and changed source codes of an application analyzing a graph representation of an execution flow of a plurality of application functionalities performed by execution of the respective source code to identify a plurality of functional dependencies between source code segments of the baseline source code and a plurality of functional dependencies between source code segments of the changed source code, wherein each of the functional dependencies is at least one of data dependency and control dependency, identifying a configuration discrepancy according to a match between functional dependencies of the changed source code when compared to the baseline source code, and producing a notification when the configuration discrepancy is found and is not permitted by the configuration.
US10248533B1
A computer-implemented method for determining features of a dataset that are indicative of anomalous behavior of one or more computers in a large group of computers comprises (1) receiving log files including a plurality of entries of data regarding connections between a plurality of computers belonging to an organization and a plurality of websites outside the organization, each entry being associated with the actions of one computer, (2) executing a time series decomposition algorithm on a portion of the features of the data to generate a first list of features, (3) implementing a plurality of traffic dispersion graphs to generate a second list of features, and (4) implementing an autoencoder and a random forest regressor to generate a third list of features.
US10248528B2
A system monitoring method and apparatus comprises: collecting periodically status indicator data of a monitored system to generate a status indicator data sequence; selecting predetermined pieces of status indicator data according to data collecting time in a reverse chronological order; determining a category from predetermined categories, the predetermined pieces of status indicator data belonging to the determined category; selecting, from the historical status indicator data, status indicator data belonging to the determined category and obtained in a collection period as characteristic data of the determined category; calculating a predicted value of a status indicator of the system at a predicting moment using the characteristic data; and determining whether the system is abnormal, based on a difference between the calculated predicted value and a true value of the status indicator of the system collected at the predicting moment. The present implementation can accurately find the abnormality of the system rapidly.
US10248508B1
A data validation service may validate data sets maintained for one or more data sources. Several rule sets may describe various rules used to validate one or more data sets. The rule sets may be automatically applied to respective data sets in order to validate the respective data sets according to a dynamically determined schedule for the application of the rule sets. Reporting events may be detected which correspond to a rule set. In response to detecting a reporting event, a responsive action may be performed as described in the rule set, such as providing notification of the reporting event.
US10248507B1
Technologies are disclosed for validation of condition-sensitive messages (or other electronic files) in distributed asynchronous message workflows. An asynchronous message processing system includes a message producer configured to generate an original message that includes at least one attribute related to a time of arrival of the original message at a message publishing service. A validation service is also included that initially validates a current time and generates alternatives for the original message. The alternatives for the original message are based upon a plurality of potential times of arrival. A gatekeeper service selects one of (i) the original message or (ii) one of the alternatives for the original message based upon a time of arrival. The selected message or alternative for the original message is provided to the message publishing service to publish the selected one of the original message or the selected alternative for the original message to an entity.
US10248504B2
A method includes identifying resources that are affiliated with a range of slice names of a listing request. The method further includes creating an ordered classification of the resources. The method further includes a resource determining whether it is in a last class of the ordered classification. When the resource is in the last class, it processes the listing request to generate a listing response and sends the listing response to another resource in a next lower class. When the resource is not in the last class, it identifies a second resource for proxying of the listing request and sends the listing request to the second resource. The method further includes receiving a cumulated listing response from the second resource. The method further includes processing the listing request to generate the listing response. The method further includes combining the listing response with the cumulated listing response.
US10248486B2
Various systems and methods for providing a memory monitor are provided herein. An integrated circuit and memory are disposed in a computer system. The integrated circuit to monitor main memory includes: a detection circuit to detect that the computer system enters a sleep state; a test circuit to test for the presence of the main memory; and a recovery circuit to perform a recovery process when the test fails.
US10248479B2
The arithmetic processing device includes a first memory control unit configured to control an access to a first memory, a second memory control unit configured to control an access to a second memory. The arithmetic processing device further includes a diagnostic control unit configured to sequentially diagnose parts within the first memory via the first memory control unit, and configured to sequentially store in the second memory via the second memory control unit, diagnostic results of sequentially diagnosing the parts in parallel with the diagnosing the parts via the first memory control unit.
US10248477B2
A system, method and computer program product are provided for sharing information in an automobile vehicle comprising: receiving information in the form of a packet data unit representing datum information carried by an overall message from a first physical network selected from the group consisting of FlexRay, Controller Area Network, Local Interconnect Network and Media Oriented Systems Transport; in response to the receipt of the information, issuing a storage resource request in connection with a storage resource; determining whether the storage resource is available for storing the information; determining whether a threshold has been reached in association with the storage resource request; in the event the storage resource is not available and the threshold associated with the storage resource request has not been reached, issuing another storage resource request in connection with the storage resource; in the event the storage resource is available, storing the information in the storage resource; and sharing the stored information with at least one of a plurality of heterogeneous processes including at least one process associated with a second physical network selected from the group consisting of FlexRay, Controller Area Network, Local Interconnect Network and Media Oriented Systems Transport, utilizing a network protocol different from a protocol of the first physical network.
US10248460B2
A management computer communicates with a host computer and a storage device, and is provided with a memory and a CPU. The memory stores configuration information which includes information about a plurality of storage media having different performance levels provided in the host computer and the storage device, and which associates storage regions provided by the storage media with the host computer. If the CPU receives a request for allocation of a storage region to the host computer, and which includes information about access characteristics of the host computer and the capacity of the storage region to be allocated, the CPU refers to the configuration information, selects a storage medium that provides a storage region having the requested capacity, from among the storage media and the host computer, and generates and outputs a configuration scheme for allocating a storage region from the selected storage medium to the host computer.
US10248458B2
A control method executed by a control device, the control method including identifying a specified time period based on execution history information on previous jobs related to the plurality of systems, the specified time period being a period prior to execution start timing of a first job, update processing for a data storage area from which the first job refers to data is not executed during the specified time period, performing control so that evaluation timing of an amount of the data that the first job refers to from the data storage area is included in the identified time period, determining a specified system among from the plurality of systems based on the amount of the data evaluated at the evaluation timing, and causing the specified system to execute the first job.
US10248449B1
System for launching application containers inside VMs without data duplication, includes first and second VMs on a host; a storage to which the host has access; a container generation module running on the host and configured to interface to VM-side container generation daemons in the VMs; the container generation daemons transmits to the container generation module a request to pull container layers; a host-side container generation daemon processes the request to pull the container layers from the container generation daemons running inside the VMs; and a DAX device residing on each of the VMs. The host container generation daemon sends the request for any missing container layers to a registry, and writes them onto the storage, maps the layers to the VMs as the DAX devices, maps all needed container layers to the first VM and maps any identical container layers to the second VM, without accessing the registry.
US10248447B2
A method relates to receiving, by a processing device of a host computer system executing a hypervisor, a network packet from a virtual port associated with a virtual machine managed by the hypervisor, generating a metadata item associated with the network packet, the metadata item comprising an identifier of the virtual port, recording the metadata item in a data structure identifying an address space of the hypervisor, determining, in view of the metadata item, a transmission mode to transmit the network packet, wherein the transmission mode is represented by at least one of a link aggregation mode or a high availability mode, identifying a network interface controller (NIC) of the host machine for processing the network packet according to the transmission mode, transmitting the network packet to the NIC.
US10248443B2
An example system and method for facilitating virtual cable modem termination system (VCMTS) migration in cable modem network environments is provided and includes spawning, by an orchestration component executing using a processor, a first instance of a virtual network function (VNF) on a first server in a cable modem network, storing state of the first instance as state information in an external database, spawning a second instance of the VNF on a different second server, synchronizing state of the second instance with the state information stored in the external database, and deleting the first instance. In specific embodiments, the VNF comprises a VCMTS.
US10248441B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation comprising receiving, by a first device, metadata describing a first action of a plurality of actions performed on a second device, identifying a target object of the first action based on the metadata describing the first action, and outputting, by the first device: a sequence of images depicting performance of the first action on the second device, a textual instruction specifying how to perform the first action on the first device proximate to the target object, and an audio instruction specifying how to perform the first action on the first device.
US10248434B2
Systems, methods, and software can be used to launch an application. In some aspects, a plurality of process classes is configured. Each of the plurality of process classes includes one or more applications. Each of the process classes is configured to be associated with a template process. Each template process is associated with a different randomized memory layout. A launch request for an application is received. A process class that is associated with the application is determined in response to the launching request. The application is launched using the template process associated with the determined process class.
US10248433B2
A network management apparatus and method for remotely controlling a state of an IT device in order to use WOL to change a remote device from an inactive state to an active state over an IP network. The network management apparatus includes a detection pattern generator, a remote state controller, and a wake-up cause analyzer. By activating an inactivated PC connected over an IP network and positioned at a remote site using WOL to control a state of another IT device interoperating through the IP network as well as a state of the PC, it is possible to inactivate the device without unnecessarily having to leave the device on and then control the device as necessary, thereby reducing power consumption of the device and extending a lifetime of the device.
US10248430B2
One or more embodiments here relate to a processing platform for performing channel management and channel monitoring of a control channel. The processing platform includes a first microcontroller comprising a first core. The processing platform includes a second microcontroller comprising a second core. The second microcontroller is dissimilar to the first microcontroller. The first core is in an active state to perform the channel management of the control channel. The second core is in a monitor state to perform the channel monitoring of the control channel.
US10248419B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for accelerating sorting of data are provided herein. A computer-implemented method includes retrieving a plurality of cache lines of data from an input buffer, wherein each cache line comprises a plurality of elements, scattering the plurality of elements of each retrieved cache line into a plurality of bins, wherein said scattering comprises using one or more vector instructions, forming a bin cache line in a corresponding one of the plurality of bins, wherein the bin cache line comprises a group of the plurality of elements which were scattered to the corresponding one of the plurality of bins, writing the bin cache line from the corresponding one of the plurality of bins to a memory, and loading the bin cache line from the memory to the input buffer.
US10248418B2
Aspects include a computer-implemented method for receiving an instruction at a processor, the instruction associated with a memory block having an address. A clear indicator that indicates whether the memory block is in a cleared state is assessed by the processor. The cleared state is a state of the memory block in which the memory block does not have any data stored therein. The method also includes determining based on the clear indicator whether the memory block is in the cleared state.
US10248416B2
Embodiments include systems, methods, and computer program products to perform an operation for enhancing code review throughput based on separate developer and reviewer profiles. The operation generally includes receiving source code from a first user, determining a set of coding attributes associated with the first user from the first user's developer profile, and determining, for each of one or more second users, coding review attributes associated with the second user from the second user's reviewer profile. The operation further includes evaluating the coding review attributes based on a proficiency score assigned to each coding review attribute. The proficiency score for each coding review attribute indicates a proficiency of the second user in reviewing a coding attribute from the set of coding attributes. The operation further includes selecting at least one of the second users to review the first user's source code based in part on the evaluation.
US10248408B2
A zero downtime upgrade of a source system to a target system is initiated. The source system and the target system operate in a first database layer and a second database layer. Thereafter, differences in structure and/or database type are computed between a source table in the source system and a target table in the target system in each of the two different database layers. The data is then migrated, using the computing differences and in the second database layer, from the source table to the target table. The upgrade procedure is later terminated after completion of the migration of the data. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US10248405B2
A method for updating firmware of a vehicle via an air interface, in which data are exchanged with a backend via the air interface through a connection module, the data are managed by a data management module inside the vehicle, the connection module and the data management module are coordinated by a coordination layer, the connection module and the coordination layer are monitored by a monitoring layer, and the data are requested as needed by the coordination layer for an installation.
US10248403B2
Systems and methods for providing an update to a natively rendered application installed on a mobile device are provided. A method includes sending a message to a server, wherein the message includes identifying information about the application. The method also includes receiving an update from the server in response to the message, wherein the update comprises a module of code that corresponds to less than the entire application. The method further includes updating the application using the received update. The method additionally includes executing the application after the updating. The method also includes, based on the executing the application, natively rendering the application using the operating system of the mobile device.
US10248401B1
A method for installation of user device configured web applications includes receiving a request to install a web application, determining if the request is from a user device or a sync server, determining information about the web application based on at least one of a configuration, a platform and a setting associated with the user device, revising the determined information about the web application if the request is from the sync server, determining a logical location of stored files based on the web application and at least one of the configuration, the platform and the setting associated with the user device, and installing the web application using files stored in the determined logical location.
US10248397B2
Exemplary embodiments for deploying code in a computing sysplex environment are provided. In one embodiment, by way of example only, a system-wide trending mechanism is applied. At least one of an idle time and a low Central Processing Unit (CPU) utilization time of one system in the sysplex environment is matched with an estimated deployment time obtained from at least one of a latest measured period of time and a calculated time trend. A system-wide coordinating mechanism is applied. A staggered code deployment operation is recommended for at least one node of the system at an optimum system time generated from the matching.
US10248396B1
A system for conducting a code review of program source code including translation of content in the program source code may include a source control system. The system may also include a resource file translator to facilitate translation of the content from a first language into second languages. Upon receipt of a code review request, the source control system may notify a workflow manager that the resource files contain the content for translation, and the workflow manager may notify a resource file translator that the program source code contains the content for translation. The resource file translator may cause translation of the resource files into translated resource files. The source control system may receive program source code under review from a code reviewer interface, and the resource file translator may update the program source code under review with the translated resource files.
US10248395B2
A method comprising of analyzing and transforming a program executable at compile-time such that a processor design objective is optimized. A method including analyzing an executable to estimate energy consumption of an application component in a processor. A method including transforming an executable to reduce energy consumption in a processor. A processor framework controlled by compiler inserted control that statically exposes parallelism in an instruction sequence. A processor framework to reduce energy consumption in an instruction memory system with compiler inserted control.
US10248386B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating software complexes. In one aspect, a method includes defining a software complex that is to include a group of software members that share information inherent to the software complex and act on that information. The defining includes receiving selections of design aspects as superordinate design inputs for the software complex and storing the superordinate design inputs in a source data store. The superordinate design inputs are compiled in the source data store using a software complex architectural language compiler. An in-memory model of the software complex is generated as an output of the compilation. Software member emitters are selected. For each selected software member emitter, a software member of the defined type of the selected software member emitter is generated.
US10248377B2
A photoinduction loudspeaker, photoinduction loudspeaker control method and apparatus are provided. The photoinduction loudspeaker includes a loudspeaker and a photoinduction device. The photoinduction device is configured to acquire a light intensity value of an ambient environment where the loudspeaker is located and the photoinduction device transmits the light intensity value to the loudspeaker. The loudspeaker controls its own playing status based on the light intensity value. The photoinduction loudspeaker in the present invention is capable of identifying the ambient environment for selecting its own playing status based on the ambient environment in order to provide more intelligent service for a user.
US10248369B2
The invention relates to a method of assigning a print job to a print job queue of a printer, the method comprising the steps of displaying an overview of print job queue representations on a user interface system, each print job queue representation suitable for showing image items representing print jobs in a print job queue dedicated to a printer of a plurality of printers, selecting a first image item of the overview of print job representation, the image item representing a first print job residing in a first print job queue of which a print job queue representation is displayed in the overview, the first print job queue dedicated to a first printer of the plurality, dragging the first image item to a second print job queue representation displayed in the overview, the second print job queue representation representing a second print job queue dedicated to a second printer of the plurality, dropping the first image item on the second print job queue representation displayed in the overview, removing the first print job from the first print job queue, adding the first print job to the second print job queue, and placing the first image item in the second print job queue representation, wherein the method comprises the step of during dragging of the first image item and before dropping of the first image item providing visual feedback of the impact of at least one of the steps according to the method. The invention also relates to a print fleet system configured to apply the method according to the invention.
US10248362B2
Managing data stored in at least one Data Storage Device (DSD) includes generating a Linear Tape File System (LTFS) write or read command including an LTFS block address. The generated LTFS command is for writing or reading data in an LTFS data partition, writing or reading metadata in the LTFS data partition, or writing or reading metadata in an LTFS index partition. The LTFS block address is translated to a device address for the at least one DSD using state metadata representing a state of the LTFS data partition and/or a state of the LTFS index partition. The data or the metadata is written or read in the at least one DSD at the device address.
US10248359B2
A system, method and apparatus directed to fast data storage on a block storage device. New data is written to an empty write block. If the new data is compressible, a compressed version of the new is written into the meta data. A location of the new data is tracked. Meta data associated with the new data is written. A lookup table may be updated based in part on the meta data. The new data may be read based the lookup table configured to map a logical address to a physical address. Disk operations may use state data associated with the meta data to determine the empty write block. A write speed-limit may also be determined based on a lifetime period, a number of life cycles and a device-erase-sector-count for the device. A write speed for the device may be slowed based on the determined write speed-limit.
US10248358B2
An memory component includes a memory bank and a command interface to receive a read-modify-write command, having an associated read address indicating a location in the memory bank and to either access read data from the location in the memory bank indicated by the read address after an adjustable delay period transpires from a time at which the read-modify-write command was received or to overlap multiple read-modify-write commands. The memory component further includes a data interface to receive write data associated with the read-modify-write command and an error correction circuit to merge the received write data with the read data to form a merged data and write the merged data to the location in the memory bank indicated by the read address.
US10248357B2
A data storage system may have a first data storage device and a second data storage device connected with a host via a network. The network can consist of a network controller having a message module that generates a buffer progression plan and then assigns a first system message to a first buffer and first computing unit of the first data storage device and assigns a second system message to a second buffer and second computing unit of the second data storage device. The respective first and second computing units may then service the first and second system messages.
US10248354B2
A hypervisor manages a read buffer, a write buffer and a queuing buffer in a memory used jointly by the first virtual machine and the second virtual machine, the read buffer, the write buffer and the queuing buffer having the same size. The hypervisor assigns the read buffer to a read area readable by the first virtual machine, assigns the write buffer to a write area writable by the second virtual machine and assigns the queuing buffer to a queuing area of the memory that is inaccessible to the first virtual machine and to the second virtual machine. In response to a first request by the first virtual machine, the hypervisor performs a reader-side exchange of the read buffer for the queuing buffer and in response to a second request by the second virtual machine, the hypervisor performs a writer-side exchange of the write buffer for the queuing buffer.
US10248352B2
There is disclosed a method performed by a computer system for managing a location of an object in a hierarchical storage that includes a plurality of storage layers. In the method, the computer system receives a selection of one storage layer for storing a selected object from among the plurality of the storage layers via a network connected to the computer system. The computer system also moves the selected object to the one storage layer from other storage layer currently that stores the selected object among the plurality of the storage layers. The computer system further excludes the selected object from targets of a predetermined space management that is being applied to objects in the hierarchical storage.
US10248351B1
One embodiment provides a memory controller. The memory controller includes a memory controller circuitry and a set pulse determination circuitry. The memory controller circuitry is to identify an address of a target memory cell to be set. The set pulse determination circuitry is to select a positive polarity set pulse if the target memory cell is included in a positive polarity deck or to select a negative polarity set pulse if the target memory cell is included in a negative polarity deck. Each set pulse includes a respective nucleation portion and a respective growth portion. Each portion has a respective current amplitude and a respective time duration.
US10248350B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a queue management method. The method includes writing a PD queue to a DRAM, where the PD queue includes multiple PDs, and the multiple PDs correspond one-to-one to multiple packets included in a first packet queue. The method also includes writing at least one PD in the PD queue to an SRAM, where the at least one PD includes a queue head of the PD queue. Correspondingly, the embodiments of the present invention further disclose a queue management apparatus.
US10248344B2
A control device of the present invention includes: a storage part which retains a storage device list including an operation performance of each storage device and a power consumption corresponding to the operation performance; and a configuration determination part which, on the basis of the storage device list, determines a storage device combination configuration realizing the minimum power consumption of the whole logical volume formed of a combination of storage devices when the logical volume operates under a set operation performance condition.
US10248343B2
Techniques to utilize a very low power state with a memory subsystem that includes one or more non-volatile memory devices and a volatile memory system. A memory controller is coupled with the one or more non-volatile memory devices and the volatile memory system. The memory controller comprising at least an embedded control agent and memory locations to store state information. The memory controller to selectively enable and disable the one or more non-volatile memory devices. The memory controller transfers the state information to the volatile memory system prior to entering a low power state. Control circuitry is coupled with the memory controller. The control circuitry to selectively enable and disable operation of the memory controller.
US10248342B2
A system includes a memory controller and a memory device having a command interface and a plurality of memory banks, each with a plurality of rows of memory cells. The memory controller transmits an auto-refresh command to the memory device. Responsive to the auto-refresh command, during a first time interval, the memory device performs refresh operations to refresh the memory cells and the command interface of the memory device is placed into a calibration mode for the duration of the first time interval. Concurrently, during at least a portion of the first time interval, the memory controller performs a calibration of the command interface of the memory device. The auto-refresh command may specify an order in which memory banks of the memory device are to be refreshed, such that the memory device sequentially refreshes a respective row in the plurality of memory banks in the specified bank order.
US10248340B2
A memory module may be provided. The memory module may include a normal memory device, a spare memory device, and a row hammering determination circuit. The row hammering determination circuit may be configured to control the spare memory device to perform a data input and output operation, instead of a data input and output operation with the normal memory device in which row hammering has occurred.
US10248337B2
According to one embodiment, a hardware-based processing node of a plurality of hardware-based processing nodes in an object memory fabric can comprise a memory module storing and managing a plurality of memory objects in a hierarchy of the object memory fabric. Each memory object can be created natively within the memory module, accessed using a single memory reference instruction without Input/Output (I/O) instructions, and managed by the memory module at a single memory layer. The object memory fabric can utilize a memory fabric protocol between the hardware-based processing node and one or more other nodes of the plurality of hardware-based processing nodes to distribute and track the memory objects across the object memory fabric. The memory fabric protocol can be utilized across a dedicated link or across a shared link between the hardware-based processing node and one or more other nodes of the plurality of hardware-based processing nodes.
US10248336B1
Efficient deletion of a shared snapshot and other workflows are described herein, including: determining to delete a shared snapshot associated with a first container, wherein the shared snapshot shares with a second container at least a subset of data values that are stored by the shared snapshot, the determination is based at least in part on the shared snapshot sharing data values with not more than a prescribed number of containers other than the second container and an occurrence of a deletion triggering event; and causing zero or more data values that are stored by the shared snapshot and shared with the second container to be associated with the second container prior to deleting the shared snapshot.
US10248335B2
A method, a computer program product, and a computer system for backing up data in a backup storage space. A computer receives a request for backing up a second data file, wherein the second data file is created from a first data file. The computer determines whether a third data file satisfies one or more of predetermined conditions for backup; wherein the third data file is generated when the second data file is created from the first data file and the third data file comprises information for creating the second data file from the first data file. In response to determining that the third data file satisfies the one or more of the predetermined conditions for backup, the computer backs up the third data file, without backing up the second data file.
US10248329B2
A method of improving access to a main memory of a computer system includes providing a main memory including at least a first memory of a first memory configuration and a second memory of a second memory configuration, and providing a choice between the first memory and the second memory for access to the main memory, wherein access to the first memory and access to the second memory can be distinguished by the choice depending on the respective access behavior of the first memory and of the second memory, and the choice is provided by a running application program.
US10248328B2
A computer system comprises a processor, a memory module and input/output devices. The memory module includes a circuit board, a volatile memory unit mounted on the circuit board, a non-volatile memory unit mounted on the circuit board and a control circuit mounted on the circuit board. The volatile memory unit comprises DRAM devices, and the non-volatile memory unit comprises flash memory. The processor is configured to execute an operating system (OS) and an application program and to present a memory address space to the application program. The memory address space including a memory mapped input/output (MMIO) space mapped to the I/O devices, a pseudo MMIO (PMMIO) space mapped to the non-volatile memory unit, and a DRAM space mapped to the volatile memory unit, the PMMIO space including a system main memory local storage (MMLS) area and a memory channel storage area, wherein the DRAM space is partitioned into memory pages, and the MCS space is partitioned into storage blocks.
US10248327B2
A semiconductor memory system and an operating method thereof include: a memory device; and a memory controller including a processor, coupled to the memory device, containing instructions executed by the processor, and configured to provide sets of throttling numbers, select a throttling mode, calculate a garbage collection (GC)/HOST ratio based on at least a part of invalid count of garbage collection (GC) blocks and valid count of BGC blocks, and adjust throttling parameters of commands in accordance with the GC/HOST ratio and a number of erased blocks.
US10248324B2
A secure parallel processing technique for converting any parallel random access machine (PRAM) into an oblivious parallel random access machine (OPRAM), whose distribution of memory accesses is statistically independent of the data (with negligible error), while only inducing a polylogarithmic slowdown to both the total and parallel complexities of the program.
US10248320B2
A method and associated systems for a workload-aware thin-provisioning system that allocates physical storage to virtual resources from pools of physical storage volumes. The system receives constraints that limit the amount of storage that can be allocated from each pool and the total workload that can be directed to each pool. It also receives lists of previous workloads and allocations associated with each volume at specific times in the past. The system then predicts future workloads and allocation requirements for each volume by regressing linear equations derived from the received data. If the predicted values indicate that a pool will at a future time violate a received constraint, the system computes the minimum costs to move each volume of the offending pool to a less-burdened pool. It then selects the lowest-cost combination of volume and destination pool and then moves the selected volume to the selected pool.
US10248316B1
A method and system for writing data, including receiving a request to store a file, where the request has context information. The method further includes generating a metadata portion based on the context information, dividing the file into a plurality of data portions, generating a plurality of blocks where each of the plurality of blocks has the metadata portion and one of the plurality of data portions, and storing the plurality of blocks in a storage array.
US10248313B2
In some examples, a computing device includes at least one processor; and at least one module, operable by the at least one processor to: output, for display at an output device, a graphical keyboard; receive an indication of a gesture detected at a location of a presence-sensitive input device, wherein the location of the presence-sensitive input device corresponds to a location of the output device that outputs the graphical keyboard; determine, based on at least one spatial feature of the gesture that is processed by the computing device using a neural network, at least one character string, wherein the at least one spatial feature indicates at least one physical property of the gesture; and output, for display at the output device, based at least in part on the processing of the at least one spatial feature of the gesture using the neural network, the at least one character string.
US10248312B2
The claimed subject matter is directed to providing feedback in a touch screen device in response to an actuation of a virtual unit in a virtual input device. Specifically, the claimed subject matter provides a method and system for providing visual feedback in response to an actuation of a virtual key in a virtual keyboard. One embodiment of the claimed subject matter is implemented as a method for providing luminescent feedback in response to an actuation of a virtual key in a virtual keyboard. User input in a virtual keyboard corresponding to a virtual key is received. The corresponding virtual key is actuated and registered in response to the user input, and a luminescent feedback is displayed to the user as confirmation of the actuation of the virtual key.
US10248300B2
Techniques are described for polymorph rendering of objects in a collaborative platform and/or other environments, through which the same object is presented differently in the user interface depending on which perspective is being used to render the object. In some implementations, the platform supports multiple renderers and each renderer is associated with a particular perspective. Polymorph rendering may also be described as adaptive rendering, given that the presentation of an object may be adapted to the particular accessors of a work routine, and such adaptation is achieved through use of different renderers to render the object according to different perspectives. A particular renderer can be written once and added to the platform, and that renderer may be applied to a variety of objects. Tools may also be rendered according to various perspectives, given that tools also support the normalized object contract and at least expose the mandatory perspectives.
US10248298B2
Interactive content may be presented to a user that is manipulating a peripheral. One or more state parameters that are related to the position of the peripheral may be determined. The peripheral may be identified from a plurality of possible peripherals. The interactive content may be adjusted based at least in part on the one or more position parameters and/or the identification of the peripheral. Haptic feedback to be provided to the user may be determined based at least in part on the one or more position parameters and/or the identification of the peripheral.
US10248296B2
A method and an apparatus are provided for editing a display of a touch display apparatus. A first screen including at least one object is displayed. An object on the first screen is designated. The touch display apparatus is converted to an edit mode for editing the display, when the object is designated. When a movement of the touch display apparatus is detected, the first screen is converted into a second screen according to at least one of a degree and a direction of the movement. The designated object is displayed on the second screen.
US10248294B2
A modal-less save interface enables a user to provide a filename under which to save a document at any time during operation of the application, without interrupting other user tasks of the application. The user inputs a filename and performs a save operation on a document without navigating menu items or launching a modal window. The modal-less save interface may be provided in a portion of the main application window. For example, the modal-less save interface may be presented in a toolbar, taskbar, status bar, window pane, or sidebar. An application may feature a modal-less access control interface. The modal-less access control interface may be provided in a portion of the main application window. The access control interface may comprise a control, such as link, button, checkbox, text box, or pull-down menu. Upon selection of the control, the application sets one or more access control levels for the current document.
US10248292B2
In the prior art, in electronic picture books having a functionality in which scrolling is performed such that an image seems to be moved when a screen is stroked by a hand, it has not been possible to achieve a special representation that greatly surprises the reader by using the scroll functionality. To solve this problem, provided herein is an electronic picture book in which a partial range of an image is displayed and a display range of the image changes due to the screen being stroked by a hand, shapes, colors, and special effects of element images sequentially change in coordination with change to the display range, and a manner and an extent of the change differ depending on the element image. Moreover, the shapes, colors, and special effects of these element images also undergo a different change in coordination with elapsing of time.
US10248285B2
A method of displaying images on an immersive display. The method includes receiving information from an external sensor or input device of the immersive display, based on the information received, detecting an object that conflicts with a virtual reality space, adjusting at least one dimension of virtual reality space to provide an adjusted virtual reality for display on the immersive display to accommodate for the object, and displaying the adjusted virtual reality on the display of the immersive display.
US10248284B2
To prompt input and provide feedback on input to a user with an interface, inputs and graphical cursors associated with those inputs are defined. Each input may have several forms such as base, hover, engaged, completed, and error. User input is anticipated. The base form of the anticipated input cursor is displayed to prompt the user for the anticipated input. If user hover is detected that matches anticipated input, the hover form is displayed to confirm the match to the user. If user input is detected that matches anticipated input, the engaged form is displayed as confirmation. If user input is completed that matches anticipated input, the completed form is displayed as confirmation. If user hover or input does not match anticipated input, the error form is displayed to indicate mismatch. Not all cursors must have all forms, and some cursors may have multiples of some forms.
US10248274B2
A multi-layer conductive coating is substantially transparent to visible light, contains at least one conductive layer comprising silver that is sandwiched between at least a pair of dielectric layers, and may be used as an electrode and/or conductive trace in a capacitive touch panel. The multi-layer conductive coating may contain a dielectric layer(s), and may be used in applications such as capacitive touch panels for controlling showers, appliances, vending machines, electronics, electronic devices, and/or the like. In certain example embodiments, different electrodes of the touch panel may be formed by different silver based layers of the same or different multi-layer coatings. In patterning the electrodes, different laser scribing wavelengths may be used to pattern different respective silver based layers, of the same or different multi-layer coating(s), in certain example embodiments.
US10248273B2
A stylus and touch sensitive device are disclosed. The stylus includes a stylus transmitter for transmitting a stylus signal. The touch sensitive device includes row conductors, each of which is associated with a row transmitter and a row receiver. The row transmitter is adapted to simultaneously transmit row signals, each on its associated row conductor, each of the row signals being orthogonal to each other of the plurality of row signals transmitted on each other of the row conductors. The row receiver is adapted to detect the stylus signal. Column conductors are provided, each associated with a column receiver that is adapted to detect the presence of each of the row signals transmitted by the row transmitter and the stylus signal.
US10248272B2
The present disclosure provides a touch substrate and a touch screen, which belongs to the field of touch technology. The touch substrate includes a touch region and a black matrix pattern surrounding the touch region, the touch substrate including a plurality of touch electrode patterns, wherein the touch electrode pattern includes a first portion overlapped on the black matrix pattern, and wherein in the first portion, if an included angle formed by a first edge and an extending line of a second edge is less than 120°, the first edge and the second edge are formed to be connected with at least one third edge, such that included angles between two edges adjacent to each other among the first edge, the second edge and the third edge are greater than 120°.
US10248254B1
The present disclosure provides a display panel, a display device and a force touch method thereof. The display panel includes a plurality of force sensors disposed in a display area and a touch electrode including a plurality of touch electrode blocks. Each of the plurality of force sensors includes four force electrodes sequentially interconnected end-to-end, which are a first force electrode, a second force electrode, a third force electrode and a fourth force electrode. One or more of the plurality of touch electrode blocks each are frame-shaped electrodes and each of the plurality of force sensors corresponds to a respective one of the frame-shaped electrodes. Each of the frame-shaped electrodes is provided with a hollow area, and each of the plurality of force sensors is disposed in the hollow area of the respective frame-shaped electrode thereof. The display panel is applied in a display device.
US10248240B2
A touch substrate and a method for forming the same, and a touch display device are provided, relating to the field of display technology. The touch substrate includes a touch region and a light-shielding region surrounding the touch region, a light-shielding pattern is arranged at the light-shielding region; the touch substrate further includes a first touch electrode and a second touch electrode crossing each other and insulated from each other and virtual electrodes at regions defined by the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode, and each virtual electrode is spaced apart from the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode; the first touch electrode, the second touch electrode and the virtual electrodes contact the light-shielding pattern; portions of adjacent virtual electrodes at the light-shielding region are connected to each other via a first bridge, the first bridge is insulated from the first touch electrode and the second touch electrode; and a first ground wire is arranged at the light-shielding region, and the first ground wire is electrically connected to the virtual electrodes connected to each other via the first bridge.
US10248230B2
A window panel for a display apparatus is provided comprising a first reinforced layer formed at a first predetermined depth from entire upper and lower surfaces, a second reinforced layer formed at a second predetermined depth from a side surface connecting an edge of the upper surface and an edge of the lower surface, and a non-reinforced portion formed at at least a portion of the side surface.
US10248228B2
An operation member 30 of an operation input device 20 includes a finger sensor 54 adapted to detect each of a plurality of fingers gripping the operation member 30. A controller 36 specifies the number of gripping fingers Ngf which is the number of fingers 300 gripping the operation member 30 based on the detection result of the finger sensor 54 and switches, in accordance with the number of gripping fingers Ngf, a type of an operation command corresponding to the operation input.
US10248227B2
A wearable terminal device includes a display section configured to display a display image and a processing section. The processing section performs processing for displaying any one kind of information among information of a first information type to information of an N-th information type in respective display regions of first to M-th display regions obtained by dividing the display image, when the display image is switched from a first display image to a second display image, changes the size of at least an i-th display region among the first to M-th display regions, in the first display image, performs processing for displaying information of a j-th information type in the i-th display region at a first information verbosity, and, in the second display image, performs processing for displaying the information of the j-th information type in the i-th display region, the size of which is changed, at a second information verbosity different from the first information verbosity.
US10248222B2
An event signal processing method and an event-based sensor performing the event signal processing method are provided. The event signal processing method includes receiving an activation signal to indicate sensing of an event from a sensor array, increasing the cumulative event number of a sensing area corresponding to the activation signal among sensing areas of the sensor array, reducing the cumulative event number of each of the sensing areas based on a parameter; and determining, as a flickering area, a sensing area among the sensing areas, of which the cumulative event number exceeds a threshold.
US10248205B2
An apparatus comprising: at least one first input configured to receive at least one first sensor signal, the at least one first sensor signal having a first modality; at least one second input configured to receive at least one second sensor signal, the at least one second sensor signal having a second modality different from the first modality; and a codec configured to generate at least one meta signal comprising and stored using separate resources the at least one first sensor signal and the at least one second sensor signal.
US10248203B2
Systems and methods for physics-based tactile messaging are disclosed. For example, one disclosed method includes the steps of receiving a sensor signal from a sensor configured to sense a physical interaction with a messaging device; determining an interaction between one or more virtual message objects and a virtual message environment, the interaction based at least in part on the sensor signal and a virtual physical parameter of at least one of the one or more virtual message objects; and determining a haptic effect based at least in part on the interaction. The method additionally includes the step of generating a haptic signal configured to cause an actuator to output the haptic effect.
US10248194B2
A video camera captures images of retroreflection from the retina of an eye. These images are captured while the eye rotates. Thus, different images are captured in different rotational positions of the eye. A computer calculates, for each image, the eye's direction of gaze. In turn, the direction of gaze is used to calculate the precise location of a small region of the retina at which the retroflection occurs. A computer calculates a digital image of a portion of the retina by summing data from multiple retroreflection images. The digital image of the retina may be used for many practical applications, including medical diagnosis and biometric identification. In some scenarios, the video camera captures detailed images of the retina of a subject, while the subject is so far away that the rest of the subject's face is below the diffraction limit of the camera.
US10248191B2
An apparatus for dynamically determining a displacement of a target sensor in an electronic system is disclosed. The apparatus can comprise a non-line-of-sight sensor rigidly mounted on or proximate to the target sensor and configured to measure a parameter that varies with the displacement of the target sensor. The apparatus further can comprise at least one processor coupled to the non-line-of-sight sensor and configured to compute the displacement of the target sensor based on the parameter, and to compute an adjustment value based on the computed displacement.
US10248188B2
A system and method for generating wireless signals from the physical movement of a person utilizing a movement detection mechanism attached to the person wherein the system allows a person to manipulate the generated wireless signals to selectively control digital responses which may be in the form of sensory-perceivable outputs such as sounds and/or visual effects, for example, through the person's physical movement. Movement sensors attached to the person (e.g., on one foot or both feet) communicate with other system components such as microprocessors, transmitters and/or tactile interface controls, for example, to wirelessly send signal pulses from a person to a computer or mobile device and allow the person wearing the sensors and/or another person to selectively control the dynamics of the digital responses so to create a unique sensory output.
US10248179B2
A method for power throttling upon a system includes: obtaining at least one characteristic information of a power source that is used for providing energy for the system; and, determining an available power range for the system according to the at least one characteristic information, so as to make the system control a behavior of the system according to the available power range.
US10248178B2
A computing system is associated with power consumption based on Power over Ethernet (PoE). Power consumption is compared to a threshold, and a signal is asserted that power consumption is to be limited based on the comparison to the threshold.
US10248177B2
A processor system includes first and second regulators for regulating an adjusted supply voltage. The first and second regulators generate a plurality of control signals to regulate an adjusted power supply voltage and that generate a charge when a droop level falls below a droop threshold value by implementing first and second control loops. A supply adjustment block with the two regulators and control loops are provided for each processor core allowing different cores to have different regulated supply levels all based on one common supply. One regulator is a global regulator while another is a local regulator found in each of the processing tiles. Processing tiles are grouped into two groups wherein one group includes tiles that may powered down to save power. Voltage rails of the two groups are selectively connected to equalize voltage levels when both groups are powered on and operating.
US10248169B2
Electronic devices are provided with a protective housing having one or more housing components. A housing component can be formed from a single sheet of material to appear as if the housing component had been formed from a hollowed out solid block of material. The sheet of material may be deep drawn, forged, and machined to form the housing component. One or more holes may be formed through a portion of the housing component to provide an I/O interface.
US10248158B2
An enclosure assembly of a monitor device includes an enclosure cover having a cover wall extending substantially in a first plane between a plurality of sides, wherein the cover wall includes an interior surface and an opposing exterior surface. The enclosure assembly includes a first stiffener wing and a second stiffener wing each having one or more mounting portions spaced apart from one or more stiffener portions to define one or more wing body ribs, each mounting portion including a mounting surface opposing a corresponding portion of the interior surface of the cover wall. The first stiffener wing includes a first wing body that extends toward a first side of the enclosure cover, and the second stiffener wing includes a second wing body that extends to a second side of the enclosure cover. Additionally, a display and/or a base assembly may be mounted to the enclosure assembly.
US10248156B2
In a data processing device including two sets of circuit pairs which are respectively duplicated in two clock domains which are asynchronous to each other, an asynchronous transfer circuit that transfers a payload signal is provided between the two sets of circuit pairs. The asynchronous transfer circuit includes two sets of a pair of bridge circuits which are respectively connected to the two sets of circuit pairs, and asynchronously transfers the payload signal and a control signal indicating a timing at which the payload signal is stable on a reception side. The two sets of a pair of bridge circuits and the payload signals can be duplicated, but the control signal is not duplicated, and the received payload signal is used for timing control to supply an expected same time difference, to the pair of duplicated circuits. This enables asynchronous transfer between circuits duplicated in the asynchronous clock domains.
US10248147B2
A power supply includes a connector, a power conversion controller to generate a power supply signal at the connector, and a communication and control processor. The communication and control processor is to receive a set of current control parameters including a current limit over a communication link in the connector, receive measurements of current and voltage of the power supply signal, and generate a drive signal for controlling the power conversion controller based on the received current control parameters and the measurements of the current and the voltage.
US10248143B2
A thermostat my include a stored setpoint schedule, temperature sensors providing temperature sensor measurements; and a processing system configured to control an HVAC system based at least in part on the setpoint temperature and the temperature sensor measurements. The processing system may be configured to control the HVAC system by receiving an indication of a first time interval, where energy is available to the HVAC system at a first rate during the first time interval, energy is available to the HVAC system at a second rate during a second time interval that is outside of the first time interval, and the first rate is higher than the second rate; identifying a first one or more setpoints in the plurality of setpoints of the stored setpoint schedule that occur in the first time interval; and decreasing a temperature component of at least one of the first one or more setpoints.
US10248138B2
Some embodiments may include a water supply system for supplying water based on a predetermined planned daily supply amount of water. While the worries supplied, it may be determined whether a second time has reached after a predetermined time passed from a first time. When it is determined that the second time has reached, an accumulated amount of the supplied water may be measured. A difference between the measured accumulated amount of the supplied water and the planned daily supply amount of water may be calculated. The planned daily supply amount of water may be corrected by adding the calculated difference to the planned daily supply amount of water after the second time. Water may be supplied based on the corrected planned daily supply amount of water.
US10248136B2
A flow regulator includes a first sensor determining a first actual value of a first flow parameter of the fluid, a pre-pressure regulator setting a predefinable pre-pressure at a pre-pressure outlet of the pre-pressure regulator, and a regulating pump. The fluid is capable of being supplied to the pre-pressure regulator at a plant pressure in an operating state via an inflow line and a pre-pressure inlet and capable of being conducted further to the regulating pump at the pre-pressure via a flow connection disposed between the pre-pressure outlet and the regulating pump, the pre-pressure outlet being connected to a high pressure connection of the regulating pump in a flow communicating manner via the flow connection such that the fluid is capable of being supplied from the pre-pressure regulator of the regulating pump and guided away from the regulating pump via a low pressure connection into an outflow line.
US10248131B2
The position of a moving object is estimated with high accuracy based on landmark information, and highly accurate state estimation is performed appropriately at high speed. A landmark detection unit obtains a distance between the moving object and each of two or more landmarks as landmark distance information based on observation data obtained by an observation obtaining unit. A candidate area obtaining unit determines a candidate area for a position of the moving object based on the landmark distance information obtained by the landmark detection unit, and obtains candidate area information indicating the determined candidate area. A state estimation unit estimates an internal state of the moving object based on the observation data, the landmark distance information, and the candidate area information to obtain moving object internal state estimation data, and estimates the environmental map based on the candidate area information and the landmark distance information to obtain environmental map data.
US10248123B2
A mobile apparatus includes a main body, a range sensor, an operation device, and a mobile mechanism. The operation device includes a wide route data generation unit that generates a wide route data according to which the main body is moved from a first specified location to a second specified location, a determination unit that determines a location and a posture of a reference object, an approaching route data generation unit that generates an approaching route data according to which the main body is moved from the second specified location to a target location, and a route data switching unit that switches traveling route from the wide rote data to the approaching route data after the approaching route data is generated. The approaching route data generation unit generates the approaching route data while the main body is traveling according to the generated wide route data.
US10248108B2
A schematic for an object to print using a 3D printer is received. Based on the schematic, at least one customizable characteristic of the object that is licensed to a user identified. The at least one customizable characteristic of the object is modified to adjust the print instructions customized for the object. The modified object is printed.
US10248094B2
The disclosed hot cutover box creates an electronic virtual bypass around a terminal strip to which existing control system, new control system, and final control element connections may be made, thereby allowing migration from an existing to a new control system to take place. Sensors allow measurement of a current signal without disrupting electrical continuity and connectors allow the hot cutover box to be introduced to the circuit with no disruption to the controller output. Once the hot cutover box is in place, wiring connections can be removed from the terminal strip as the hot cutover box effectively provides a parallel current pathway around the terminal strip.
US10248091B2
A method and apparatus for providing equipment maintenance are disclosed. The method receives data that is captured by at least one sensor deployed at a location, wherein the data is associated with at least one parameter of an equipment, receives atmospheric data for the location, monitors the at least one parameter of the equipment and the atmospheric data for the location, determines for the at least one parameter, whether an update to a risk measure associated with the equipment is needed, when a deviation from a baseline is detected that is greater than a threshold for a maximum deviation from the baseline, performs the update to the risk measure associated with the equipment, when the update to the risk measure associated with the equipment is needed, and generates a ticket for a remedial action based on the risk measure, when the risk measure triggers the scheduling of the remedial action.
US10248089B2
Flexible control is provided in building automation. By dividing a floor space into segments, different segments may be assigned to rooms. The operation of the building automation likewise includes room level and segment level control functions and corresponding objects. To assign or reassign a given segment to a room, the segment is linked to the room using an identifier of the corresponding room control function. The building automation equipment and corresponding control for the segment is linked to the room operation. The separation of the room and segment functions may avoid any or extensive manual engineering other than re-assignment. The assignment or reassignment of segments to rooms may be performed online (e.g., at a panel or management station), offline (e.g., at a computer or engineering station), or automatically (e.g., moveable wall system).
US10248085B2
A robot design system, and associated method, that is particularly well-suited for legged robots (e.g., monopods, bipeds, and quadrupeds). The system implements three stages or modules: (a) a motion optimization module; (b) a morphology optimization module; and (c) a link length optimization module. The motion optimization module outputs motion trajectories of the robot's center of mass (COM) and force effectors. The morphology optimization module uses as input the optimized motion trajectories and a library of modular robot components and outputs an optimized robot morphology, e.g., a parameterized mechanical design in which the number of links in each of the legs and other parameters are optimized. The link length optimization module takes this as input and outputs optimal link lengths for a particular task such that the design of a robot is more efficient. The system solves the problem of automatically designing legged robots for given locomotion tasks by numerical optimization.
US10248073B2
The present disclosure provides an image forming apparatus capable of preventing members from colliding from each other upon an openable member being closed. An openable member opened and closed with respect to the apparatus body is locked in a closed state by a lock portion located at a lock position, and permitted to open upon the lock portion being moved to a release position. The apparatus body is provided with a movable portion that is moved to a first position if the openable member is opened and to a second position if the openable member is closed. The movable portion includes a block portion that is configured to block a movement of the lock portion from the release position to the lock position if the movable portion is located at the first position.
US10248068B2
An image forming apparatus determines a toner density erroneous detection state based on a patch image density in patch detection auto toner replenishing and, when the toner density erroneous detection state is determined, offsets a target toner density by the amount of erroneous detection so that the actual toner density becomes a desired toner density.
US10248064B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a print job acquisitor that acquires a print job; a hardware processor that calculates, before starting printing based on the print job, a distance in a paper conveying direction in which the printing is continuously executed, and in a case where the distance is equal to or greater than a predetermined distance, allows a user to select at least one image as a print image out of a first image generated on the basis of the print job and a second image different from the first image; and a printing part that prints the print image selected by the user on paper.
US10248061B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on continuous paper; an amount-of-blank setting unit configured to set an amount of blank to be inserted between a plurality of jobs, by user operation; and a control unit configured to cause the image forming unit to form the image such that a blank of the amount of blank set by the amount-of-blank setting unit is inserted between the plurality of jobs.
US10248058B2
The present invention relates to a fixing apparatus including a tubular film, a heater provided at an inside of the film, a protection element provided at the inside of the film, and at least one conductive member provided at the inside of the film. The protection element includes two terminals and a switch that turns off to shut off power to the heater when the heater abnormally generates heat. A first end of the conductive member is electrically connected to one of the terminals of the protection element. The conductive member is not coated with an insulator, and a second end of the conductive member projects out of the film so that the cost of the fixing apparatus is reduced.
US10248054B2
A fuser includes: a rotating body; a roller configured to convey a sheet in a conveyance direction; a pair of bearings supporting the roller; one side frame made of a resin, supporting one of the pair of bearings; another side frame supporting the other of the pair of bearings, and arranged at a distance from the one side frame in the axial direction; and a center frame made of a metal, including a main-body portion arranged on an opposite side of the rotating body with respect to the roller. One end portion in the axial direction of the main-body portion includes a first fixing portion which is fixed to the one side frame, and a second fixing portion which is arranged on an upstream side of the first fixing portion in the conveyance direction, and is fixed to the one side frame.
US10248046B2
An image forming apparatus comprises a controller, an adjustment unit configured to adjust an image forming condition based on an adjustment condition corresponding to a profile of a toner adhesion amount in a sheet conveying direction, and an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet with the adjusted image forming condition while conveying the sheet.
US10248044B2
An image forming apparatus includes a transfer belt rotating in a rotational direction, photosensitive drums, primary transferring parts, static eliminating parts and cleaning parts. The static eliminating part is arranged between the primary transferring part and the cleaning part, and includes a light guide body and a light source arranged at one end side of the light guide body. The static eliminating part irradiates upstream and downstream sides from the light guide body in the rotational direction with the static eliminating light. The image forming apparatus comprises a first light shading part and/or a second light shading part. The first/second light shading part is arranged between the photosensitive drum at a downstream/upstream side from the light guide body in the rotational direction and the light guide body to adjust pre-transfer/post-transfer static eliminating light quantity from the light guide body to the downstream/upstream side photosensitive drum.
US10248035B2
A lithographic apparatus includes a first table to support a substrate; a second table, not being configured to support a substrate, including a sensor unit to sense a property of a patterned beam of radiation from a projection system, the second table to move under the projection system when the first table is moved out from under the projection system during a substrate exchange, the first and second tables being independently movable from each other; and a liquid supply system to supply a liquid to a space between the projection system and the substrate, the first table, and/or the second table, wherein the second table is configured to provide a confining surface at a bottom of a liquid confinement structure when the first table is removed from under the projection system so as to prevent the liquid from leaking out into the remainder of the lithographic apparatus.
US10248034B2
Liquid is supplied to a space between the projection system and the substrate by an inlet. In an embodiment, an overflow region removes liquid above a given level. The overflow region may be arranged above the inlet and thus the liquid may be constantly refreshed and the pressure in the liquid may remain substantially constant.
US10248029B2
A method involving a radiation intensity distribution for a target measured using an optical component at a gap from the target, the method including: determining a value of a parameter of interest using the measured radiation intensity distribution and a mathematical model describing the target, the model including an effective medium approximation for roughness of a surface of the optical component or a part thereof.
US10248028B2
A system and method for optimizing an illumination source to print a desired pattern of features dividing a light source into pixels and determining an optimum intensity for each pixel such that when the pixels are simultaneously illuminated, the error in a printed pattern of features is minimized. In one embodiment, pixel solutions are constrained from solutions that are bright, continuous, and smooth. In another embodiment, the light source optimization and resolution enhancement technique(s) are iteratively performed to minimize errors in a printed pattern of features.
US10248023B1
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: coating a first resist containing a photoacid generator or a thermal acid generator on a semiconductor substrate; forming a first opening portion in the first resist by optical exposure; subjecting a shrink agent containing an acid to a crosslinking reaction by the heat treatment to form a thermoset layer on an overall surface of the first resist; coating a second resist on the semiconductor substrate and the thermoset layer; and forming a second opening portion located above the first opening portion and larger than the first opening portion in the second resist by optical exposure.
US10248017B2
A method for structure design including a processor performing error processing of an initial design file layout. The processor detects a structure design violation at a design cell boundary for a metal layer above (Ma) a via (Vx) at a tip of the Ma for the initial design file layout for a semiconductor structure based on a library of pattern rules. Upon detection of the structure design violation, the processor retargets the Vx for generating a resulting design file layout of the semiconductor structure. A physical semiconductor structure is generated based on the resulting design file layout of the semiconductor structure.
US10248016B2
A reflection type screen including: a base portion which is tabular; and prism portions which are provided on one surface of the base portion, extending in one direction and lined up in a direction intersecting the one direction, wherein the prism portions each have: a pair of surfaces, at least one of the pair of surfaces being inclined with respect to the normal direction of the one surface of the base portion and intersecting the other of the pair of surfaces; and a reflecting layer, being formed on the one of the pair of surfaces and reflecting light, and the reflecting layer includes, on the one of the pair of surfaces, a first thin portion, a thick portion and a second thin portion in this order from a side of an intersection line of the one of the pair of surfaces and the other of the pair of surfaces.
US10248015B2
An apparatus for displaying a scene with blackbody light includes a sheet of nano-structures having a first side and a second side opposing the first side. The first side and the second side are configured to receive light from an environment facing both sides and emit light to the environment facing both sides. Each nano-structure is configured to receive light in a first range of wavelengths resulting in heating the nano-structure and to emit blackbody light due to the heating to display the scene with blackbody light. The apparatus also includes a projector configured to irradiate the nano-structures on one of the sides of the sheet with light in the first range of wavelengths that form the scene to be displayed with the blackbody light emitted from the sheet of nano-structures.
US10248011B2
A projection apparatus includes a light source that emits light, a projection unit that projects an image on a projection surface based on the light emitted by the light source, a projection control unit that controls the light source and the projection unit, a control unit that controls the projection control unit based on schedule information where an operation of the projection apparatus and a time of performing the operation are associated in advance, and a storage unit that stores a number of operations of turning on/off the light source and a total lighting time of the light source. If the control unit performs a power-off operation of the projection apparatus based on the schedule information, the control unit controls whether to turn off the light source based on the power-off operation based on the number of the operations and the total lighting time.
US10247994B2
The present invention provides a pixel unit and a driving method thereof. By electrically connecting the source of the charge sharing thin film transistor to the scan line corresponding to the next row of sub pixels of the sub pixel where the charge sharing thin film transistor is and setting the voltage level of the scan line corresponding to the next row of sub pixels to be the array substrate common voltage when the sub pixel is scanned, the main region and the sub region of the sub pixel have different voltage levels, and the additional arrangement of a line of the array substrate common voltage is not required. In comparison with prior art, the number of wires in the array substrate is reduced and the aperture ratio of the liquid crystal display panel is increased which facilitates the realization of the narrow frame of the liquid crystal display panel.
US10247992B2
A display device includes a first substrate. A first gate line is disposed on the first substrate. First and second data lines intersect the first gate line. A first transistor is connected to the first gate line and the first data line. A second transistor is connected to the first gate line and the second data line. A first passivation layer is disposed on the first and second transistors, the first passivation layer including a first contact hole. A first pixel electrode is disposed on the first passivation layer, the first pixel electrode being connected to the first transistor through the first contact hole. A second pixel electrode is disposed on the first passivation layer, the second pixel electrode being connected to the second transistor through the first contact hole. The first and second transistors are both exposed through the first contact hole.
US10247978B2
A display apparatus including: a main body having an opening at the front part; a backlight unit configured to generate light; and an image forming unit provided in the front part of the main body, and configured to block or transmit the light generated by the backlight unit to create an image, where the image forming unit includes: a pair of transparent substrates disposed to be opposite to each other; a cable configured to transmit image data to the pair of transparent substrates; and a pair of polarizing films respectively disposed on the outer surfaces of the pair of transparent substrates, and wherein an edge part of at least one transparent substrate of the pair of transparent substrates protrudes to connect to the cable, and at least one polarizing film of the pair of polarizing films extends to the main body in a direction in which the at least one transparent substrate protrudes.
US10247969B1
A photon source device includes a substrate and a first waveguide arranged on the substrate. The first waveguide is coupled with a first pair of reflectors defining a first resonant cavity in the first waveguide. The first resonant cavity is configured for outputting a first output wavelength and a second output wavelength. The first pair of reflectors include a partial reflector for the first output wavelength and a partial reflector for the second output wavelength. The photon source device further includes a second pair of reflectors defining a second resonant cavity that intersects with the first resonant cavity. The second resonant cavity is configured for receiving an input wavelength distinct from the first and the second output wavelengths. A first reflector and a second reflector of the second pair of reflectors have a first reflectance and a second reflectance for the input wavelength, respectively.
US10247961B2
Method implemented by computer means for determining an ophthalmic lens adapted to a wearer and to a spectacle frame, the method comprising: providing wearer data comprising the wearer's ophthalmic prescription, providing mounting data comprising at least the tie points of the ophthalmic lens to be mounted in the spectacle frame, providing thickness requirement data comprising the minimum thickness of the ophthalmic lens at the tie points, determining ophthalmic lens data based on the wearer data, the ophthalmic lens data comprising the two optical surfaces of the ophthalmic lens and their relative positions, an oversize creating step (S5), during which the ophthalmic lens determined during the ophthalmic lens data determining step is locally thickened by creating an oversize at the tie points, so that the thickness of the ophthalmic lens at the tie points is greater than or equal to the minimum thickness.
US10247960B2
The invention is directed to a method for making a spectacle lens for a non-presbyopic person wherein the spectacle lens is a ready-to-wear lens and has at least one zone having an optical effect to reduce vision stress. In the method, at least one of the following is provided: the contour of the ready-to-wear spectacle lens and one or several visual points whereat the person looks through the ready-to-wear spectacle lens for one or several visual tasks in the near range. This method step is followed by setting at least one of: a design reference point of the zone, the extent of the zone, the optical effect within the zone based on the provided contour, and the visual points. The spectacle lens is then made with this zone.
US10247954B2
A stage apparatus includes a movable member configured to move in a direction parallel to a predetermined plane, a base member configured to support the movable member to move relative to the base member, and a thrust generator including: a magnet provided on one of the movable member and the base member, and a coil provided on the other of the movable member and the base member. The magnet and the coil generating a thrust to move the movable member in a direction parallel to the predetermined plane. A magnetic flux density of the magnet toward the coil changes along the thrust direction.
US10247951B2
A display has an array of light emitting display pixels occupying pixel areas, and a polarizing light transmissive area between the pixel areas. This polarization can be used to improve the contrast ratio of a transparent 2D display. However, it can also be used to enable a transparent 3D display to be formed without distortion of the see-through transparent display function. For this purpose, the light emitting display pixels can emit polarized light orthogonal to the polarization provided by the light transmissive area.
US10247949B2
A method for adjusting a display device with a holder that can be fitted on the head of a user includes a front section in which two spectacle lenses are arranged which are connected to each other via a central part, an imaging unit secured to the holder, which generates an image, and an imaging optical system secured to the holder which, when the holder is fitted on the head of the user, images the generated image into an exit pupil such that the user can perceive it as a virtual image with his first eye. The first spectacle lens with the coupling-out section is positioned in such a way that the exit pupil of the imaging optical system coincides at least partially with the pupil of the first eye of the user when the holder is fitted on the head of the user.
US10247946B2
A Head Mounted Display (“HMD”) includes a display module to generate image light, an optical combiner, a stacked switchable lens, and control circuitry. The optical combiner combines the image light with external scene light. The optical combiner includes a reflective element coupled to receive the image light and direct the image light in an eye-ward direction. The stacked switchable lens is optically coupled to receive the image light. The stacked switchable lens includes at least a first switching optic and a second switching optic. The control circuitry is configured to selectively activate the first switching optic and the second switching optic. The first switching optic is configured to direct the image light toward a first eyeward region when activated by the control circuitry. The second switching optic is configured to direct the image light toward a second eyeward region when activated by the control circuitry.
US10247942B2
An optical device comprises a transparent plate the first surface of which is reflective; a first partially reflective and partially transmissive layer covering a second surface of the transparent plate opposite the first surface, and a second layer covering the surface of the first layer opposite the transparent plate, wherein the second layer is made of a material having an optical index which differs from the optical index of the transparent plate by less than 10% and preferably by less than 5%, and the second layer comprises, on the surface thereof opposite the first layer, structures forming a diffraction grating suitable for promoting the extraction of light towards the outside of the transparent plate.
US10247940B2
An alignment system uses a self-referencing interferometer that incorporates an objective lens system having a plurality of lens element groups. In an embodiment, the objective is configured and arranged to provide a large numerical aperture, long working distance, and low wavefront error.
US10247939B2
A lens unit includes an optical system for forming an optical image of a subject. The optical system includes an optical member. The optical member is disposed closest to the subject. The optical member includes a subject-side surface having at least one groove provided thereto. The optical member transmits the optical image of the subject.
US10247936B2
Thermochromic filters are constructed using absorptive, reflective, or fluorescent dyes, molecules, polymers, particles, rods, or other orientation-dependent colorants that have their orientation, order, or director influenced by carrier materials, which are themselves influenced by temperature. These order-influencing carrier materials include thermotropic liquid crystals, which provide orientation to dyes and polymers in a Guest-Host system in the liquid-crystalline state at lower temperatures, but do not provide such order in the isotropic state at higher temperatures. The varying degree to which the absorptive, reflective, or fluorescent particles interact with light in the two states can be exploited to make many varieties of thermochromic filters. Thermochromic filters can control the flow of light and radiant heat through selective reflection, transmission, absorption, and/or re-emission. The filters have particular application in passive or active light-regulating and temperature-regulating films, materials, and devices, and particularly as construction materials and building and vehicle surfaces.
US10247926B2
An optical system includes an optical element. When the optical element is disposed on a magnification side with respect to an intersection point between an optical axis and a chief paraxial ray, the optical element is a positive lens. When the optical element is disposed on a reduction side with respect to the intersection point, the optical element is a negative lens. The optical element satisfies all of the following conditional expressions: 30≤νd≤40 1.225≤[nd−(14.387/νd)]≤1.276 0.4300≤[θgF−(2.9795/νd)]≤0.5010 where νd is Abbe number of the optical element, θgF is a partial dispersion ratio of the optical element for g-line and F-line, and nd is a refractive index of the optical element for d-line.
US10247919B1
The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of glass material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of plastic material, the sixth lens is made of plastic material, and the seventh lens is made of glass material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
US10247910B1
An automatic focus system for an optical microscope that facilitates faster focusing by using at least two cameras. The first camera can be positioned in a first image forming conjugate plane and receives light from a first illumination source that transmits light in a first wavelength range. The second camera can be positioned at an offset distance from the first image forming conjugate plane and receives light from a second illumination source that transmits light in a second wavelength range.
US10247898B2
A method of laying an optical fiber comprises providing a continuous optical fiber, a first segment of optical-electrical hybrid cable having a first fiber receiving tube, and a second segment of optical-electrical hybrid cable having a second fiber receiving tube. The optical fiber is laid into the first fiber receiving tube using an air-blowing device. A leading end of the optical fiber is fixed in a transfer apparatus after the leading end passes through an outlet of the first fiber receiving tube. A portion of the optical fiber which has passed through the first segment is wound in the transfer apparatus until the optical fiber is completely laid in the first segment. The leading end of the optical fiber is detached from the transfer apparatus. The portion of the optical fiber which has passed through the first segment is laid into the second fiber receiving tube using the air-blowing device.
US10247894B2
A pressure housing assembly according to exemplary aspects includes: a saddle assembly configured to encase a midpoint access section of a cable; and a pressure housing configured to be mounted on the saddle assembly. The saddle assembly has a first cable SSTL tube opening where a first seal member is provided; and a second cable SSTL tube opening where a second seal member is provided. The pressure housing has a corresponding first cable SSTL tube opening where a third seal member is provided; a second cable SSTL tube opening where a fourth seal member is provided; and a port configured to allow at least one penetrator to be inserted therethrough. The saddle assembly comprises a seal block configured to at least partially surround the midpoint access section of the cable.
US10247886B2
A fiber optic cable slack management module includes a base defining a first cable management spool, an outer face of which is configured to contact cables when cables are pulled away from the base and a second cable management spool, within which the first cable management spool is located. An inner face of the second cable management spool is configured to contact cables when cables are in a relaxed, non-pulled state. The fiber optic cable slack management module defines a cable exit adjacent the first cable management spool and defined at least partially by the inner face of the second cable management spool, the cable exit defined by a channel positioned between the first and second cable management spools.
US10247876B2
Provided is a display device circuit board that includes a flexible substrate having a base portion, a connector mounting portion disposed along a first direction from the base portion, a light emitter mounting portion, and an arm portion connecting the base portion and the light emitter mounting portion, and a connector reinforcing plate provided on one main surface of the connector mounting portion, in which a gap is interposed between the light emitter mounting portion and the connector mounting portion and between the arm portion and the connector mounting portion.
US10247874B2
A glass space partitioning system that is capable of supporting heavy and/or operable glass panels in throughout a range of partially-integrated or fully-integrated configurations, and which integrates an LED-strip light assembly for edge-lighting the glass panels. The system generally includes a framing member comprising a U-shaped horizontal profile with side walls, an intermediate profile attached to the U-shaped profile, a glass pane seated edgewise between a side wall of the U-shaped profile and the intermediate profile, a flexible LED strip cut to length and snap-fit in a vertical orientation against the side wall of the U-shaped profile and adjacent the glass pane for edge lighting, and a cover profile attached to the intermediate profile securing the foregoing.
US10247866B2
An image capture device according to the present disclosure includes: a lens optical system L; an image sensor N on which light that has passed through the lens optical system L is incident and which includes at least a plurality of first pixels and a plurality of second pixels; and an array of optical elements K which is arranged between the lens optical system and the image sensor. The lens optical system has a first optical region D1 which transmits mostly light vibrating in the direction of a first polarization axis and a second optical region D2 which transmits mostly light vibrating in the direction of a second polarization axis that is different from the direction of the first polarization axis. The array of optical elements makes the light that has passed through the first optical region D1 incident on the plurality of first pixels and also makes the light that has passed through the second optical region D2 incident on the plurality of second pixels.
US10247865B2
A bandpass filter may include a set of layers. The set of layers may include a first subset of layers. The first subset of layers may include hydrogenated germanium (Ge:H) with a first refractive index. The set of layers may include a second subset of layers. The second subset of layers may include a material with a second refractive index. The second refractive index may be less than the first refractive index.
US10247858B2
A lens includes immobilized liquid crystals. The liquid crystals in a first region are aligned in a first orientation. The liquid crystals in a second region, located between the first region and a third region and adjacent to the first region and the third region, are aligned in a second orientation that is distinct from the first orientation. The liquid crystals in the third region, located between the second region and a fourth region and adjacent to the second region and the fourth region, are aligned in the first orientation. The liquid crystals in the fourth region, located adjacent to the third region, are aligned in the second orientation. A method for making the lens is also disclosed.
US10247854B2
Example methods and systems for detecting weather conditions using vehicle onboard sensors are provided. An example method includes receiving laser data collected for an environment of a vehicle, and the laser data includes a plurality of laser data points. The method also includes associating, by a computing device, laser data points of the plurality of laser data points with one or more objects in the environment, and determining given laser data points of the plurality of laser data points that are unassociated with the one or more objects in the environment as being representative of an untracked object. The method also includes based on one or more untracked objects being determined, identifying by the computing device an indication of a weather condition of the environment.
US10247847B2
The detection and assay of fissionable material is carried out on a container known or suspected to have a material with at least one fissionable isotope. The material is irradiated with neutrons from two or more different neutron sources. The fission rates inducted at each irradiation energy are acquired with at least one neutron detector. A multispectral active neutron interrogation analysis (MANIA) is carried out to compare the detected fission rates of the neutron spectra with calculated fission rates where an iterative algorithm is carried out on a system of linear equations to solve for the isotopic composition of one or more isotopes to determine the presence, identity, and quantities of fissionable isotopes in said container.
US10247846B2
Various triaxial antenna designs having are provided. Some embodiments include a split-z coil that can include two axial coils with saddle coils in the x- and y-directions located therebetween. The split z-coils can function by having a combined magnetic moment similar to that of a single axial coil located between the two parts of the split z-coil. In some examples, the antenna assemblies can include a protrusion or other non-planar structure.
US10247840B2
A method of logging a well can include conveying an optical waveguide and at least one signal generator with a conveyance into the well, causing the signal generator to generate at least one signal in the well, and receiving the signal as distributed along the optical waveguide. A well logging system can include a conveyance with an optical waveguide, and at least one signal generator which is conveyed by the conveyance into a well with the optical waveguide, whereby the signal generator generates at least one signal received with the optical waveguide.
US10247836B2
An embodiment of a method for restoring detector resolution in an X-Ray fluorescence instrument is described that comprises: measuring a resolution value of a detector in the X-Ray fluorescence instrument using a standard material at a first temperature; determining that the measured resolution value deviates from a target value; and adjusting the temperature of the detector to a second temperature that restores the resolution value of the detector to the target value, wherein the temperature is adjusted by an amount defined by a relationship of temperature change to the degree of deviation of detector resolution from the target value.
US10247829B2
The concepts, systems and methods described herein are directed towards real time carrier phase monitoring and platform attitude solutions on a moving platform. In an embodiment, highly accurate platform attitude and monitored carrier phases can be determined in a single step and use data screening, error bounds inflation and statistical tests to ensure both inputs and outputs of an attitude solution are self-consistent. The method includes determining a carrier phase error level for each of the satellite-receiver tracks, identifying the satellite-receiver tracks having the carrier phase error level greater than or equal to a carrier phase error threshold, generating an attitude correction using the received data from the one or more satellite-receiver tracks having the carrier phase error level less than the carrier phase error threshold and determining a convergence state of the attitude correction. The carrier phase monitoring may be activated or dis-activated based on the convergence level.
US10247828B2
The subject matter disclosed herein relates to positioning systems and location determination using measurement stitching.
US10247824B2
The present disclosure provides an ultrasound imaging apparatus. The ultrasound imaging apparatus includes an ultrasonic probe for transmitting an ultrasound signal toward an object, receiving an echo ultrasound signal reflected from the object, and transforming the echo ultrasound signal to an electric signal; a beamformer for beamforming and outputting the electric signal; an image reconstruction unit for generating a reconstructed image by applying a Point Spread Function (PSF) to an ultrasonic image corresponding to the output signal; and an image post-processor for performing filtering to emphasize a peak point of the reconstructed image. The use of a filter to emphasize a peak point may facilitate an accurate setting of a phase parameter to be used in estimation of a PSF. Accordingly, an almost ideal PSF may be estimated, image reconstruction is performed using the estimated PSF, and thus a high resolution image may be obtained.
US10247823B2
Sonar rendering systems and methods are described herein. One example is an apparatus that includes a transducer element, position sensing circuitry, processing circuitry, and a display device. The processing circuitry may be configured to receive raw sonar data and positioning data, convert the raw sonar data into range cell data based at least on amplitudes of the return echoes, make a location-based association between the raw sonar data and the positioning data, plot the range cell data based on respective positions derived from the positioning data and rotate the range cell data based on a direction of movement of the watercraft to generate adjusted range cell data. The processing circuitry may be further configured to convert the adjusted range cell data into sonar image data, and cause the display device to render the sonar image data with a presentation of a geographic map.
US10247820B2
A spatial cognitive radar system, method of assembling the radar, and method of selecting antenna elements in the radar are described. The system includes a phased array of a plurality of antenna elements and a plurality of receiver channels, the plurality of receiver channels being a value greater than one and less than a number of the plurality of antenna elements. The system also includes a processor to determine a subset of the plurality of antenna elements, equal in number to the plurality of receiver channels, to be used in transmitting or receiving with the spatial cognitive radar system.
US10247810B2
A radar apparatus includes a correlator which, in operation, calculates a correlation value between the digital transmission pulse signals and the digital reception pulse signals, an error estimator which, in operation, estimates, on the basis of the correlation value, an I component error and a Q component error included in the digital reception pulse signals, a correction parameter calculator which, in operation, calculates a correction parameter for correcting the I component error and the Q component error, and an error corrector which, in operation, corrects, on the basis of the correction parameter, the I component error and the Q component error included in at least one of the digital transmission pulse signals and the digital reception pulse signals.
US10247806B2
Methods and apparatus for generating site health information are disclosed herein. An example apparatus configured to receive location data generated based on blink data transmitted by tags and received by receivers deployed at a site includes a processor; and memory including machine-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to: generate a data quality value based on the received location data; generate a receiver health value based on a receive rate of respective ones of the receivers; generate a locate gap value based on amounts of time between location estimations; generate a locate rate based on a ratio of a first amount of the location estimations and a second amount of tracked participants at the site; and generate site health value by combining two or more of the data quality value, the receiver health value, the locate gap value, and the locate rate value; and outputting the site health value.
US10247789B2
An object of the invention is to reduce 1/f noise and white noise at the same time by integrally reducing noise of an MR sensor and noise of an operation circuit part. A magnetoresistive sensor according to the invention includes a plurality of magnetoresistive sensor parts each having a bridge circuit in which four magnetoresistive elements are connected, and outputs of the respective magnetoresistive sensor parts are connected in parallel to one another to an input of an amplifier circuit (see FIG. 2).
US10247788B2
A resistive element includes a resistive region in a semiconductor substrate, a first contact structure and a second contact structure. The semiconductor substrate includes a first main surface area. The resistive region extends in a lateral direction parallel to the main surface area and in a vertical direction perpendicular to the main surface area, and includes a first piezo-resistive coefficient for a current flow in the lateral direction and a second piezo-resistive coefficient for a current flow in the vertical direction. The first contact structure contacts a portion of a first face of the resistive region and the second contact structure contacts a portion of a second face of the resistive region. The resistive element generates a current flow distribution within the resistive region having a lateral component and a vertical component that results in a piezo-resistive coefficient of the resistive element.
US10247785B2
An assembled-battery system, a semiconductor circuit, and a diagnostic method enables appropriate self-diagnosis of a measuring unit. An output value (A-B) output from an analog-to-digital converter through power-supply lines, a cell-selection switch, and a level shifter is summed with an output value (B-VSS) obtained by a directly input reference voltage B being output from the analog-to-digital converter. When the summed value is considered equal the reference voltage A—the voltage VSS, it is diagnosed that an abnormality such as a breakdown has not occurred.
US10247770B2
Various embodiments of a gate oxide breakdown detection technique detect gate oxide degradation due to stress on a per part basis without destroying functional circuits for an intended application. Stress on the gate oxide may be applied while nominal drain currents flow through a device, thereby stressing the device under conditions similar to actual operating conditions. The technique is relatively fast and does not require analog amplifiers or tuning of substantial amounts of other additional circuitry as compared to conventional gate oxide breakdown detection techniques.
US10247767B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for fault detection and direction determination with a phase overcurrent relay using individual phase torques and the negative sequence torque, and with a ground overcurrent relay using the zero sequence torque. A directional element includes a ground element logic circuit, a negative element logic circuit and a phase element logic circuit to evaluate the operation state of the system, detect a fault condition and determine the direction of the fault condition in an electrical power distribution system having multiple sources on a power grid.
US10247756B2
The invention relates to a probe card structure, which comprises printed circuit board structure with a first through hole, a center stiffener with a second through hole, a first probe head module with a first through hole set and a plurality of first probe pins, and a second probe head module provided with a plurality of second probe pins. The first probe head module and the second probe head module are respectively arranged on a lower surface and an upper surface of the printed circuit board structure, wherein those first probe pins are set on a periphery of an opening of the first through hole set; and a portion of the second probe head module penetrating the first through hole, the second through hole, and the first through hole set. The first and second probe head module integrated together can be utilized for 3D IC testing.
US10247755B2
Terminals (2, 502) of a device under test (DUT) are connected to corresponding contact pads or leads by a series of electrically conductive contacts. Each terminal testing connects with both a “force” contact and a “sense” contact. In one embodiment, the sense contact (770) partially or completely laterally surrounds the force contact (700). In order to increase the contact surface, the force contact, in a spring pin (700) configuration contacts the device under test terminal at that portion of the lead which is curved or angled, rather than orthogonal to the pin.
US10247754B2
A measuring device (1) for determining a measured variable has a sensor device (2) that generates at least one primary signal depending on the measured variable to be determined, an electronics device (3), a transition section (4) located between the sensor device (2) and the electronics device (3), an interface (5) arranged in the transition section (4) for transmitting energy and/or signals and having at least one signal line (7) between the sensor device (2) and the electronics device (3) are provided. To provide a measuring device that has an interface for transmitting signals or energy, which is easier to access than in the measuring device of the prior art, the interface (5) and the signal line (7) can be reversibly connected for transmitting signals to one another.
US10247751B2
A system for calculating an internal load of a component includes an acceleration module, a skew matrix module, a center of gravity calculation module, a mass/inertia module, and an internal load module. The acceleration module may obtain a plurality of acceleration measurements associated with a component, where each acceleration measurement is associated with a response point relative to a center of gravity of the component. The skew matrix module may determine a skew matrix based on the response points. The center of gravity calculation module may calculate a center of gravity response for the component based on the plurality of acceleration measurements and the skew matrix. The mass/inertia module may determine a mass/inertia matrix based on measured mass and inertia values associated with the component. The internal load module may calculate an internal load of the component based on the calculated center of gravity response and the mass/inertia matrix.
US10247741B2
The present invention relates to sample analysis cartridges comprising micro-environment sensors and methods for assaying coagulation in a fluid sample applied to the micro-environment sensors, and in particular, to performing coagulation assays using micro-environment sensors in a point of care sample analysis cartridge. For example, the present invention may be directed to a sample analysis cartridge including an inlet chamber configured to receive a biological sample, and a conduit fluidically connected to the inlet chamber and configured to receive the biological sample from the inlet chamber. The conduit may include a micro-environment prothrombin time (PT) sensor, and a micro-environment activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) sensor.
US10247740B2
A detector arrangement is disclosed for a blood culture bottle incorporating a colorimetric sensor which is subject to change of color due to change in pH or CO2 of a sample medium within the blood culture bottle. The detector arrangement includes a sensor LED illuminating the colorimetric sensor, a reference LED illuminating the colorimetric sensor, a control circuit for selectively and alternately activating the sensor LED and the reference LED, and a photodetector. The photodetector measures reflectance from the colorimetric sensor during the selective and alternating illumination of the colorimetric sensor with the sensor LED and the reference LED and generates intensity signals. The reference LED is selected to have a peak wavelength of illumination such that the intensity signals of the photodetector from illumination by the reference LED are not substantially affected by changes in the color of the colorimetric sensor.
US10247735B2
The present disclosure provides compositions for regulating glucose metabolism. The compositions provide for reduced levels of p75NTR and/or reduced binding of p75NTR to a GTPase such as Rab31 or Rab5. The compositions are useful in methods of regulating glucose metabolism, which methods are also provided.
US10247730B2
This invention concerns methods for monitoring the development of and for treatment of ARDS in a patient. The method for monitoring the development of ARDS is based on comparing the level or activity of the biomarkers obtained in a sample drawn at a later point of time to the levels or activities of the same biomarkers in a sample drawn at a previous point of time. A favorable change in the level or activity of a certain biomarker represents a regression of the disease (recovery of the patient), and, conversely, an adverse change in the level or activity of a certain biomarker represents a worsening of the disease. If, for example, the level or activity for one or more of the biomarkers monitored discontinues to show a favorable change or starts to show an unfavorable change, the treatment of the patient is enhanced by administering a therapeutically active agent useful in the treatment of ARDS. The invention concerns further a method for simultaneous determination of a multiple of biomarkers in a sample from a patient, wherein said biomarkers are related to ARDS. The level or the activity of the biomarkers is determined. The invention also concerns a diagnostic kit useful for carrying out the method, particularly a kit comprising a chip, such as a microarray suitable for use in biochip technology.
US10247723B2
Presently disclosed is a lighting system and methods of using the lighting system for in vitro potency assay for photofrin. The lighting system includes a lamp housing, a first lens, an infrared absorbing filter, an optical filter, and a second lens. The lamp housing includes a lamp and a light-port. In operation, broad spectrum light from the lamp exits the lamp housing by passing through the light-port. The first lens then collimates the broad spectrum light that exits the lamp housing through the light-port. The infrared absorbing filter then passes a first portion of the collimated broad spectrum light to the optical filter and absorbs infrared light of the broad spectrum light. The optical filter then passes a second portion of the collimated broad spectrum light to the second lens. The second lens then disperses the second portion of the collimated light to provide uniform irradiation of a cell culture plate. A method of using the lighting system for studying a photosensitizer is also disclosed.
US10247704B2
A change in a surface of a wall is detected by transmitting a pulse of input ultrasonic vibrations into a proximal surface of the wall and then receiving ultrasonic vibrations from that proximal surface. The received ultrasonic vibrations are compared with a previously detected pulse of output ultrasonic vibrations that have been received from the proximal surface in order to identify, for example, a time of arrival of a current pulse of output ultrasonic vibrations. The time of arrival of this current pulse of output of ultrasonic vibrations may be used to detect a change in the surface of the wall, such as a change in the thickness of the wall. Other embodiments can detect a change in the roughness profile of the wall using changes in the received ultrasonic vibrations other than arrival time.
US10247689B2
An electrochemical sensor for sensing a gaseous analyte includes a substrate having at least two electrodes disposed thereon, and a carbon nanotube-polyaniline (CNT/PANI) film disposed on the substrate and in contact with at least two electrodes. The CNT/PANI film includes carbon nanotubes coated with a thin layer of polyaniline. The thickness of the polyaniline coating is such that electron transport can occur along and/or between the carbon nanotubes.
US10247687B2
A soil moisture sensor and a soil moisture sensing system are provided. The soil moisture sensor includes a double groove helical structure having grooves and formed from an insulator. The soil moisture sensor further includes at least a first electrode and a second electrode formed from one or more metals deposited at at least two different locations on the grooves. The soil moisture sensor also includes a processor for processing a soil moisture measurement signal based on a conductivity between the electrodes. The soil moisture sensor additionally includes a wireless transmitter for transmitting the soil moisture measurement signal to a remote location.
US10247683B2
An x-ray interrogation system having one or more x-ray beams interrogates an object (i.e., object). A structured source producing an array of x-ray micro-sources can be imaged onto the object. Each of the one or more beams may have a high resolution, such as for example a diameter of about 15 microns or less, at the surface of the object. The illuminating one or more micro-beams can be high resolution in one dimension and/or two dimensions, and can be directed at the object to illuminate the object. The incident beam that illuminates the object has an energy that is greater than the x-ray fluorescence energy.
US10247682B2
An x-ray imaging system may include an x-ray generator, one or more radiation detectors, a rotary stage, a linear translation stage, a motion control system, and a data acquisition system. The rotary stage has an axis of rotation arranged perpendicular to an axis of an x-ray beam emitted by the x-ray generator. The linear translation stage may be configured to move the rotary stage linearly along an axis aligned with the axis of rotation of the rotary stage. The motion control system may synchronize rotational motion of the rotary stage and linear motion of the linear translation stage. The data acquisition system may comprise processors configured to receive user input parameters. The processors may configure, based at least in part on the user input parameters, the x-ray imaging system to acquire radiographs. The processors may generate a three-dimensional image from the radiographs.
US10247681B2
A microwave measuring device having a transmitting module and a receiving module and an apparatus having these modules are described. The two modules are accommodated either in a common housing or in separate housings. The transmitting module can be coupled to a transmitting antenna and the receiving module can be coupled to a receiving antenna. In order to compensate for measurement errors, in particular temperature-related measurement errors, at least one RF bypass cable runs outside the housing/the housings and can be used to couple the transmitting module and the receiving module while bridging the measuring section defined by the two antennas.
US10247676B1
A thermal microring optical sensor is configured such that a portion of the optical resonator and its associated waveguide are encased within a cladding structure to minimize scattering losses along the waveguide and also provide improved evanescent coupling efficiency between the waveguide and the resonator. Functioning as a thermal sensor, incoming radiation modifies the temperature of the resonator, which changes its resonant frequency and, as a result, the percentage of light that it evanescently couples from the waveguide. The cladding structure also functions as a mechanical support for the resonator disk, eliminating the need for a pedestal to suspend the disk above the support substrate. Thermally-induced buckling of the optical waveguide is also reduced by encasing the susceptible portion of the waveguiding within the cladding structure.
US10247674B2
An integrated Raman spectrum measurement system and a modularized laser module are provided. The modularized laser module includes a laser emitter and an axis adjustment mechanism. The laser emitter is configured to emit a laser beam. The axis adjustment mechanism is connected to the laser emitter and configured to adjust at least two parameters of axis and orientation of the laser emitter. A beam splitter is disposed on the path of the laser beam. A signal collection unit is for collecting at least a part of a signal light from the beam splitter, wherein the signal light is converting by an object after receiving the part of the laser beam.
US10247666B2
A detector has a sensor responsive to a first wavelength, a sensor responsive to a second wavelength, and a sensor for collecting reference readings. A gas sample is analyzed to obtain readings corresponding to the first wavelength, the second wavelength and a reference. A first absorption figure is calculated using the first reading and the reference reading, and a second absorption figure using the second reading and the reference reading. A linearizer function is applied to the first and second absorption figures to calculate first and second concentration figures. The sensor for each wavelength is calibrated for detecting the first gas such that the data collected at each wavelength gives the same reading when only the first gas is present. The ratio of the first concentration figure to the second concentration figure is used to identify whether only the first gas is present.
US10247646B2
A self-contained biological sample processing cartridge includes top and bottom portions that close together to form a sealed chamber therein. The chamber is configured to enable one of one or more biological sample staining procedures appropriate for a biological sample. The top portion includes a chamber top section and valve control elements. The bottom portion includes a chamber bottom section and fluidic valves. One of the fluid valves evacuates the contents of the chamber. One of the valve control elements couples to a respective fluidic valve to control fluid flow for the chamber. The cartridge includes a preloaded reagent component to supply the chamber with the reagent component appropriate for a particular biological sample staining procedure. A user desiring to conduct a particular biological sample staining procedure may select a particular cartridge that is preloaded with the preloaded reagent fluidic valves component appropriate for the particular biological sample staining procedure.
US10247641B2
An automated tread registration system includes a sensing system configured to provide at least one surface model of a first object. The surface model of the first object has at least one pattern with at least one groove and at least one protrusion. The automated tread registration system also includes a user system executing processing software reading data corresponding to the at least one surface model of the first object. The surface model corresponds to a current condition of the first object. The processing software executed by the user system may analyze the at least one surface model of the first object and provide at least one indicative metric based on the analysis of the surface model. The indicative metric may be camber wear, toe wear, heel toe wear, overinflation, underinflation, and/or the like.
US10247631B2
A differential pressure measuring cell comprises a measuring membrane; two opposing bodies; and one converter. The measuring membrane is arranged between the opposing bodies and is connected in a pressure-tight manner to the two opposing bodies, forming in each case one measuring chamber. The opposing bodies each have a pressure duct through which a pressure can be made to act upon the respective measuring chamber. The converter is provided in order to convert a deformation of the measuring membrane, which deformation is dependent upon a difference between the pressures, into an electrical signal; wherein the opposing bodies each have a chamber section oriented toward the measuring membrane and a rear wall section oriented away from the measuring membrane with, between these, a decoupling chamber. The chamber sections each have an equalizing duct between the measuring chamber and the decoupling chamber, wherein the decoupling chamber has a diameter that is at least as large as the diameter of the measuring chamber.
US10247623B2
In an in-tank valve, a detector including a detecting sensor is disposed on an end of a body, and the detecting sensor is accommodated inside a sensor housing. Within the sensor housing, a sensor retaining member is formed in an interior part of an opened sensor accommodating section, and the detecting sensor is disposed therein so as to face toward a first communication hole of the sensor retaining member. Lead wires, which are connected to the detecting sensor, are led out to the exterior in a bending fashion from a wiring port, whereby entry of hydrogen gas to the side of the detecting sensor is prevented by suitably closing the wiring port.
US10247620B2
A wiring board includes an insulating substrate composed of a stack of a plurality of insulating layers, the insulating substrate having an upper face, a lower face, and side faces; and a plurality of line conductors formed of platinum or a metallic material comprising platinum as a main component, the plurality of line conductors each including a first end and a second end located on a side opposite to the first end, the plurality of line conductors being respectively disposed in interlayers between the plurality of insulating layers, in the line conductors, a line width of a line conductor located in an interlayer among the interlayers which interlayer is closest to the upper face or the lower face of the insulating substrate being greater than a line width of a line conductor located in each of the other interlayers.
US10247618B2
An active temperature measurement system includes at least one grounded thermocouple and a processor in communication with the at least one grounded thermocouple. The processor is configured to receive measurements from the at least one grounded thermocouple. The at least one grounded thermocouple is biased by an isolated voltage when the processor is receiving a measurement from the at least one grounded thermocouple.
US10247617B2
Middle-of-line (MOL) metal resistor temperature sensors for localized temperature sensing of active semiconductor areas in integrated circuits (ICs) are disclosed. One or more metal resistors are fabricated in a MOL layer in the IC adjacent to an active semiconductor area to sense ambient temperature in the adjacent active semiconductor area. Voltage of the metal resistor will change as a function of ambient temperature of the metal resistor, which can be sensed to measure the ambient temperature around devices in the active semiconductor layer adjacent to the metal resistor. By fabricating a metal resistor in the MOL layer, the metal resistor can be localized adjacent and close to semiconductor devices to more accurately sense ambient temperature of the semiconductor devices. The same fabrication processes used to create contacts in the MOL layer can be used to fabricate the metal resistor.
US10247615B2
A sensor assembly is provided that allows for a more rapid sensing of thermal changes. In preferred embodiments, the sensor assembly includes a housing, sensor package, bushing, coupling and gasket. The bushing is made from a conductive material like copper or silver and provides a conductive path from the bottom of the sensor package directly into the medium whose temperature is to be sensed or close thereto. A coupling is provided between the conductive bushing the metal housing to prevent heat exchange between the metal housing and the bushing. The gasket is placed in compression and provides a constant force holding the conductive bushing against the bottom of the sensor package.
US10247614B2
Passive detector structures for imaging systems are provided which implement unpowered, passive front-end detector structures with direct-to-digital measurement data output for detecting incident photonic radiation in various portions (e.g., thermal (IR), near IR, UV and visible light) of the electromagnetic spectrum.
US10247613B1
A method of determining the angular orientation of headgear is described. The headgear has tracking points being at least four tracking points, the relative position of the tracking points is calibrated and stored as relative position information, each of the tracking points comprises an infra-red (IR) reflective point. Light reflected from at least some of the tracking points of the headgear is filtered to allow only light in an IR wavelength band to pass. The filtered IR light is imaged to provide a detected image including at least some of the tracking points. At least some of the tracking points in the detected image are identified, and the position of the identified tracking points in the detected image is determined. The angular orientation of the headgear is determined in multiple different angular directions based on the stored relative position information and the position of the identified tracking points.
US10247609B2
A spectrometry device includes a spectroscope, an extraneous light sensor, and a light intensity controller. The spectroscope includes a light source that emits illumination light to a medium and a wavelength-selective interference filter that performs spectroscopy on light incident from the medium. The extraneous light sensor detects the intensity of extraneous light which is incident on the medium. The light intensity controller controls the intensity of the illumination light emitted from the light source such that the light intensity ratio of the illumination light and the extraneous light is equal to a first value.
US10247607B2
An optical arrangement for a spectral analysis system, a method for producing an optical arrangement for a spectral analysis system and a spectral analysis system are disclosed. In an embodiment the optical arrangement includes a carrier substrate having a placement area for a frame and a base area, and a diffraction grating movably arranged in the frame, wherein the frame is arranged on the placement area in an inclined placement position with respect to the base area so that the diffraction grating, arranged in a base position, is inclined with respect to the base area.
US10247606B2
An infrared detection system comprises the following elements. A laser source provides radiation for illuminating a target (5). This radiation is tuned to at least one wavelength in the fingerprint region of the infrared spectrum. A detector (32) detects radiation backscattered from the target (5). An analyzer determines from at least the presence or absence of detected signal in said at least one wavelength whether a predetermined volatile compound is present. An associated detection method is also provided. In embodiments, the laser source is tunable over a plurality of wavelengths, and the detector comprises a hyperspectral imaging system. The laser source may be an optical parametric device has a laser gain medium for generating a pump beam in a pump laser cavity, a pump laser source and a nonlinear medium comprising a ZnGeP2 (ZGP) crystal. On stimulation by the pump beam, the ZnGeP2 (ZGP) crystal is adapted to generate a signal beam having a wavelength in a fingerprint region of the spectrum and an idler beam having a wavelength in the mid-infrared region of the spectrum. The laser gain medium and the ZnGeP2 (ZGP) crystal are located in the pump wave cavity.
US10247603B2
Provided an ultraviolet-sensing sheet that facilitates measurement of ultraviolet irradiance over a wide area, that is suitable in ultraviolet irradiance in a range from 1 to 1,000 mJ/cm2, and that is easier to visually assess for coloring on the cumulative illuminance of ultraviolet, an ultraviolet-sensing kit, and a method for sensing ultraviolet.The ultraviolet-sensing kit comprises a sheet containing an ultraviolet-sensing layer and a film for adjusting ultraviolet-sensitivity, wherein the sheet containing an ultraviolet-sensing layer comprising, a support and an ultraviolet-sensing layer in this order, the ultraviolet-sensing layer comprising a capsule containing a photo-oxidant and a capable of developing color by the photo-oxidant, a mass ratio of the photo-oxidant and the leuco dye is 0.2 to 1.0:1, and the leuco dye being present in an amount of 0.1 to 1.0 g per 1 m2 of a surface area of the ultraviolet-sensing layer.
US10247602B2
A confocal measuring device capable of enlarging a measurement range using a compact device configuration is provided. A confocal measuring device (1A) is configured to include: a diffractive lens (11) that causes chromatic aberration in light emitted from a white LED light source (21); a diffractive lens (13b) that increases chromatic aberration of light passing through the diffractive lens (11); and an objective lens (12) that condenses light into a measurement target range such that the condensed light has chromatic aberration along an optical axis.
US10247592B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to dosing dispensers and in particular to dosing dispensers that may be operated using one hand by raising and filling a dosing chamber followed by lowering and dispensing a product from the dosing chamber and wherein the dose may be selected or adjusted and a user may visually confirm that the proper dose is being loaded and delivered by the dispenser.
US10247581B2
The invention relates to a method of interrogating an interferometric optical fiber sensor system including a laser source configured to generate interrogation light and a sensor array with at least a first reflector and a second reflector. The method includes continuously and repeatedly frequency sweeping the interrogation light from the laser source within a sweep bandwidth (SWB) over a sweep duration (tsw) with a substantially constant sweep rate r=SBW/tsw to produce a swept interrogation light signal, launching the swept interrogation light signal into the sensor array, detecting reflected signals being returned from the sensor array by each of the reflectors, respectively, wherein detection includes mixing a return light signal from the sensor array with a local oscillator signal onto an optical receiver to produce an electrical radio frequency signal, demultiplexing the electrical radio frequency signal into a first signal channel and a second signal channel, corresponding to the first and second reflector, respectively, demodulating each of the first and second signal channel into a first phase response from the first reflector and a second phase response from the second reflector, and subtracting the first phase response from the second phase response to obtain a sensor phase signal.
US10247573B1
Systems and methods for navigation of a vehicle use a processing system. The systems and methods can allow an aircraft to take-off in low visibility conditions. The processing system includes a cross tracker, an error processor and an error estimator. The cross tracker is configured to determine a cross track deviation using a hybrid positon and runway heading data. The error processor is configured to determine the hybrid positon from inertial reference system data and corrected error data, and the error estimator is configured to provide the corrected error data using estimates derived from delta range data from a global navigation satellite system receiver.
US10247558B2
A travel direction determination apparatus is provided, including: a sensor signal acquisition unit that acquires sensor signals from sensors mounted in a mobile device; a first travel direction calculation unit that calculates a travel direction of the user without relying on a walking state of the user; a second travel direction calculation unit that calculates the travel direction of the user based on the sensor signals when the user who holds the mobile device is in a walking state; and a determination unit that determines the travel direction of the user first to the travel direction calculated by the first travel direction calculation unit, and then to the travel direction calculated by the second travel direction calculation unit, responding to changes in the state of the user from non-walking state to walking state.
US10247552B2
A level is selectively coupled to a work piece and includes a housing, an adjustable clamping mechanism configured to selectively couple the housing to the work piece, a first bubble vial coupled to the housing and operable to indicate a first levelness of the work piece, and a second bubble vial rotatably coupled to the housing about a first axis. The second bubble vial is operable to indicate a second levelness of the work piece.
US10247549B2
A shaft accuracy measuring device includes: a measurement unit including a light projecting unit that projects a measuring light and a light receiving unit that receives the measurement light projected by the light projecting unit; a motor installation unit that installs the motor such that the output shaft of the motor is disposed between the light projecting unit and the light receiving unit; and a calculation unit that calculates at least one of axial run-out, center run-out, and face run-out of the motor based on a measurement result of the measurement unit.
US10247548B2
A method for measuring the depth of a surface of a test object may include projecting a colored fringe pattern formed by a sequence of colored fringes onto a surface of the test object, and detecting and evaluating a fringe pattern reflected by the surface of the test object using an evaluation device. The colored fringe pattern and the evaluation device may be designed such that the depth of the surface of the test object is measured based on the sequence of colored fringes of the reflected fringe pattern and based on a sequence of fringe widths of the reflected fringe pattern.
US10247546B2
An image processing system, an imager, an area detection method, and a computer program easily and highly accurately detecting an area where a target object exists in an image acquired by imaging the target object are provided. The image processing system includes a projector for projecting a projection image having a stripe pattern or a grid pattern toward a target object, and an imager for imaging a target object on which the projection image is projected, and the imager includes an input image obtaining module for obtaining an input image acquired by imaging a target object on which the projection image is projected, a height information calculator for calculating height information of each pixel in the input image by using the input image, and a target object area detector for detecting a target object area where the target object exists in the input image, based on the height information of each pixel in the input image.
US10247544B2
[Object] To provide a shape measurement apparatus that is capable of measuring the amount of warpage in the width direction of a strip-shaped body with higher sensitivity.[Solution] Provided is a shape measurement apparatus including: a light source configured to irradiate a surface of a moving strip-shaped body with linear light at a prescribed angle of incidence; a screen configured such that reflected light of the linear light on the surface of the strip-shaped body is projected on the screen; an imaging unit configured to image the reflected light of the linear light projected on the screen; and an arithmetic processing unit configured to acquire the amount of warpage in a width direction of the strip-shaped body on the basis of a line length of the reflected light of the linear light imaged by the imaging unit.
US10247543B2
A method for assessing tyre tread depth and/or tyre condition by taking and analysing a camera image or images of a tyre using portable instrumentation.
US10247537B2
For determining the topology of a grid section of an AC power grid, the grid section comprising a grid connection point, at least one branch branching off from the grid connection point and including a plurality of energy consumption and/or energy generation units, and at least one measurement point in the at least one branch, dependencies of variations of a grid voltage measured at the at least one measurement point based on variations of connection power values of at least some individual ones of the energy consumption and/or energy generation units are determined.
US10247535B2
A Hall detection device for a thickness of a sheet medium is provided, including a mounting rack, a reference shaft and a floating wheel assembly, wherein the floating wheel assembly includes a bracket and at least one floating wheel, one end of the bracket being mounted on the mounting rack via a floating wheel rotary shaft and the other end thereof being rotationally fitted with the floating wheel so as to form a free end, a torsional spring is provided between the floating wheel rotary shaft and the bracket so that the floating wheel elastically bears against the reference shaft, and the bracket is fixedly mounted with a detection block and a sensor for detecting a displacement amount of the detection block.
US10247533B2
A tool which incorporates separated dual-impression pads for measuring the Ischial Tuberosity width of a cyclist more accurately since these dual-impression pads match the newer saddles designs. The accuracy of the measurement is further increased by heavy ferrous balls that indefinitely hold the impressions to give the bike fitter enough time to make an accurate Ischial Tuberosity width measurement. The accuracy of the saddle selection is further increased due to the detachable/portable measurement caliper which can be taken out to the saddles being considered.
US10247532B2
A tubing pipe sizing tool is provided, comprising a main body, a measuring portion, a handle-installing hole, a bump portion, and a handle. The measuring portion is provided on a first part of the main body in a first direction. The handle-installing hole is provided on a second part of the main body in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction. The bump portion is provided around an opening of the handle-installing hole. The handle is configured to engage the handle-installing hole and facilitate pipe sizing. The main body may have a cylindrical shape, and the bump portion facilitates to handle the tool.
US10247523B2
Laminated composite structures, or laminates, may utilize vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs), also termed a nanotube forest, as a layer/ply within a fiber/matrix laminate used as a protection system to mitigate and eliminate penetrating and blunt force damage posterior as a result of impacts with an unknown velocity on the laminated structure. Moreover, a composite may incorporate vertically aligned carbon nanotubes (VACNTs) for ballistic and low velocity impact protection.
US10247519B2
Described embodiments provide methods and apparatus for adjusting a line of sight to a target to compensate for drift. Embodiments can include an optical assembly configured and arranged for viewing an area including the target, a display window for viewing a line of sight to the target, one or more manual operator controls connected to a digital processor configured to adjust offsets to the line of sight, an automatic operating mode configured to automate adjusting the offsets to correct for drift bias of the line of sight to the target, and an operator control switch configured to switch the system between the automatic mode and a manual mode.
US10247515B2
A holographic gun sight has a housing with a viewing end and an opposing target end, a viewing path being defined from the viewing end to the target end. A light source projects a light beam along a path to illuminate a reflection-type holographic optical element (HOE). The HOE reconstructs an object beam with an image of a reticle. The absolute difference between the incidence angle of the light beam on the HOE and the object beam angle is greater than zero and less than or equal to 30 degrees.
US10247502B2
Invention is about the innovation in trigger locking pins which prevent the pistols to be fired involuntarily.
US10247501B2
A firearm and a kit for modifying a firearm is provided. The firearm has an upper receiver, a lower receiver, and a releasable magazine that releases when the upper receiver rotates away from the lower receiver. The firearm further has a firing pin with a striking end that has a cylindrical shape and a substantially sharp shoulder. A hammer is also provided with a depression disposed in a front surface thereof, the front surface configured to strike the striking end of the firing pin when the upper receiver is next to the lower receiver, and the depression configured to align with the striking end of the firing pin when the upper receiver rotates away from the lower receiver.
US10247492B2
A heat exchanger system for cooling liquid having a plurality of finned tube arrays and a plurality of fans for inducing air through the finned tube array comprising: at least one wind deflector installed along the long side of the finned tube arrays on at least one side of the arrays. The present invention for includes a method for minimizing the undesired effect of wind on the operation of a heat exchanger system for cooling liquid having a plurality of finned tube arrays and a plurality of fans for inducing air through the finned tube array, the method comprising the steps of: setting the angle of deflection of the wind deflectors other than the angle of deflection of the uppermost position of the wind deflectors; collecting readings of outlet temperature sensor of the heat exchanger, ambient temperature, wind sensor and inlet air pressure sensor of the heat exchanger; recording readings of outlet temperature sensor of the heat exchanger, ambient temperature, wind sensor and inlet air pressure sensor of the heat exchanger; comparing readings of outlet temperature sensor of the heat exchanger, ambient temperature, wind sensor and inlet air pressure sensor of the heat exchanger to previous readings; and carrying out a correction command if the readings have changed.
US10247491B2
A process of producing shell and tube heat exchangers where the ends of the tubes are secured to a tube sheet while reacting applied FSW forces without introducing a crevice or local deformation near the ends of the tubes. In particular, an interference fit is used to lock the ends of the tubes into the tube sheet without flaring or expanding the tube ends. A FSW process is then used to weld the ends of the tubes to the tube sheet.
US10247485B2
A pipe member is provided that is capable of configuring a heat pipe that can be installed with a high flexibility in accordance with the state of the installation place. A heat pipe configured by using such a pipe member, and a cooling device are also provided. The pipe member includes: an arbitrarily bendable pipe main body whose both ends are closed when used for the heat pipe; a partition wall extended in an axial direction of the pipe main body to partition the inside of the pipe main body into four passages each being utilized as a flow path of the working fluid; and connection paths which allow neighboring passages to communicate with each other out of the four passages.
US10247480B2
A high temperature furnace includes features that provide for multiple heating zones for heating a specimen extending at least partially through a heating chamber defined by the furnace. In one exemplary aspect, the furnace can include multiple heating elements extending at least partially through the heating chamber. Each heating element can be configured in a rod shape, which allows for multiple heating zone capability, better control over the temperature gradient, reduced current to achieve a desired temperature output, and a streamlined furnace shell.
US10247478B2
A monolithic refractory structure includes: a monolithic refractory; a support body which supports the monolithic refractory; and a heat-resistant fiber support material which is buried in the monolithic refractory in a state of being connected to a support surface of the support body. The heat-resistant fiber support material includes a heat-resistant fiber rope which is formed of an inorganic fiber and extends along an X-axis direction perpendicular to the support surface, and a ratio L1/L2 of an X-axis direction length L1 of the heat-resistant fiber rope to an X-axis direction length L2 of the monolithic refractory is 0.35 or more and 0.95 or less.
US10247472B2
A support for a packing column having a support profile with a web section running in the vertical direction and having lower end and an upper end, and having a larger vertical extension than a horizontal extension. The support also has a foot section connected to the upper end of the web section and a head section connected to the lower end of the web section. The head section has an upper face and a sub-section, the width of the upper face being smaller than width of the sub-section and also smaller than the width of the foot section. The support enables a reduced support height and less coverage.
US10247471B2
An argon reflux condensation system and method in which a plurality of once-through condensers are connected to an argon column of an air separation plant to condense argon-rich vapor streams for production of reflux to the argon column. Condensation of the argon-rich vapor streams is brought about through indirect heat exchange with crude liquid oxygen streams that partially vaporize and are introduced into a lower pressure column of the plant for further refinement. The flow rate of the crude liquid oxygen streams are sensed and controlled at locations in the air separation plant where the crude liquid oxygen is in a liquid state and in proportion to the size of the once-through heat exchangers. Prior to flowing into the once-through condensers, the partially vaporized crude oxygen stream enters a phase separator which separates the crude oxygen vapor from the crude liquid oxygen. The separated crude oxygen vapor bypasses the once-through condensers and is mixed with the vaporized oxygen stream that exits the one-through condensers. Feed stream flow rate to the argon column is controlled in response to air flow rate to the plant and product flow rate is controlled in response to the feed stream flow rate to the argon column.
US10247470B2
A refrigerator includes a body having a storage compartment, a door that opens and closes the storage compartment, and a display unit separably provided on a front side of the door. If one side of the display unit is inserted into an inner side of the front side of the door due to rotation, the other side of the display unit is provided to protrude toward a front of the door. With this configuration, the display unit can be easily separated from the door.
US10247466B2
A freezing and refrigerating device comprises a box body and a door body. An air supply path supplying cooling air flow to a storage compartment, an air return path enabling the air flow from the storage compartment to pass, a cooling chamber and a defrosting air return path are defined in the box body, wherein the cooling chamber is provided with an air feeding opening part and an air return opening part and contains an evaporator, a blower and a defrosting heater, and the defrosting air return path is communicated with the air feeding opening part and the air return opening part of the cooling chamber. The air supply path and the defrosting air return path are provided with an air supply door and a defrosting air return door respectively. The present invention further provides a defrosting control method of the freezing and refrigerating device.
US10247464B2
A sealed system for an appliance includes a compressor having a shell and lubrication oil disposed with the shell. A condenser in fluid communication with the compressor such that compressed refrigerant from the compressor flows to the condenser during operation of the compressor. The sealed system also includes a heat exchanger for cooling the lubrication oil during operation of the compressor.
US10247463B1
The solar-powered refrigerating cooler in an insulated container. The interior space of the solar-powered refrigerating cooler forms a temperature controlled space within which items may be stored. The solar-powered refrigerating cooler comprises a refrigeration system that: 1) forms the interior space; and, 2) cools the interior space of the solar-powered refrigerating cooler. The refrigeration system is solar-powered. The solar-powered refrigerating cooler comprises a refrigeration system, one or more USB ports, a cutting board, a bottle opener, an extendable handle, and a power system. The one or more USB ports, the cutting board, the bottle opener, the extendable handle, and a power system are mounted on the refrigeration system.
US10247456B2
A receiver for a refrigeration system includes an enclosure with an inlet for liquid refrigerant at a first end and an outlet for the liquid refrigerant at a second end. A heat exchanger with an inlet and an outlet for refrigerant vapor is surrounded by the enclosure. The heat exchanger includes baffles so that alternatingly positioned flow passages are positioned on opposing sides of the enclosure.
US10247443B2
A method of controlling aerosol production in an aerosol-generating device is provided, the device including a powered aerosol generating element, a flow channel to allow a flow of gas past the element, and a flow sensor to detect air flow in the flow channel, the method including: determining a value of a first parameter related to a change in flow rate; and reducing a supply of power to the element depending on a comparison result between the first parameter value and a threshold value, the first parameter being derived from a combination of a second parameter that is a measure of a flow rate detected by the flow sensor and a third parameter related to the flow rate. Also provided is a method of reducing or suspending aerosol production, based not simply on a detected flow rate, but on another measure indicative of the evolution of the flow characteristics.
US10247436B2
Techniques for controlling a heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC) system at a site are disclosed. A disclosed method includes obtaining or calculating a net load at the site and obtaining a temperature of the site during a time period. The method further includes comparing the net load to a threshold load value and comparing the temperature to a lower threshold temperature or an upper threshold temperature. The method also includes determining one or more operation parameter values for the HVAC system based at least in part on the comparison of the net load to the threshold load value and the comparison of the temperature to the lower threshold temperature or the upper threshold temperature, and setting the HVAC system based on the one or more operation parameter values.
US10247435B2
A method for real-time control of thermal loads in a data center includes storing, in a database, a heat generation data associated with an electronic equipment located in a predetermined area of the data center, transmitting the heat generation data to a data analysis system in communication with a tunable temperature controller, the heat generation data provides a real-time input of an amount of heat generated in the predetermined area, the data analysis system receives and analyzes the heat generation data to determine whether the amount of heat generated in the predetermined area exceeds current settings of the tunable temperature controller, and in response to the amount of heat generated exceeding the current settings of the tunable temperature controller, updating the current settings to provide an amount of cooling that compensates for the amount of heat generated in the predetermined area in association with the electronic equipment.
US10247434B2
According to some embodiments, a heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) system comprises a circulation fan, one or more humidity sensors operable to sense humidity data associated with an enclosed space, and a controller. In operation, the controller receives the humidity data from the one or more humidity sensors and receives air quality data associated with at least one air pollutant. The controller determines, based on the air quality data, that a threshold associated with the air pollutant has been exceeded and determines, based on the humidity data, that a threshold associated with humidity has not been exceeded. The controller operates the circulation fan in response to determining that the threshold associated with the air pollutant has been exceeded and the threshold associated with humidity has not been exceeded, the circulation fan operated for filtration purposes while not servicing any conditioning demand.
US10247433B2
Provided is a humidification and air cleaning apparatus. The humidification and air cleaning apparatus includes: a water tank storing water; a visual body forming at least a portion of the water tank and formed of a transparent material; a watering housing disposed in the water tank, suctioning water stored in the water tank to pump water to an upper side, and spraying the pumped water; a watering motor rotating the watering housing; and a watering blade formed to outwardly protrude from the watering housing. Here, when the watering housing rotates, the watering blade collides with water droplets within a radius of rotation of the watering blade to scatter water droplets.
US10247432B1
In accordance with embodiments of this disclosure, a gas humidifier system includes a reservoir of liquid with at least one selectively permeable tube at least partially submerged within the liquid. A gas stream may be fed into the selectively permeable tube that passes through the liquid reservoir. The selectively permeable tube may be substantially impermeable to the gas flowing therethrough but permeable to vapor (e.g., water vapor) entering the selectively permeable tube from the liquid. Thus, vapor from the liquid reservoir can enter the selectively permeable tube and humidify the gas flowing therethrough.
US10247413B2
Safety devices prevent packaged catalytic converters from being expelled from stacks, or at least reduce the velocity with which such a package may be expelled, in case of an explosion in a bio-fueled appliance, such as a wood-burning stove.
US10247410B2
Gas burner of the type having a cup of the burner accommodating at least one injector for fuel gas, a head of the burner coupled to the cup and including at least one distribution chamber for a first circumferential flame spreader, a mixing chamber for mixing primary air and fuel gas to set up a fuel mixture, the mixing chamber being fluidically connected to the cup and an injector, a duct for transferring the fuel mixture from the mixing chamber into the distribution chamber, and inflow duct of the primary air from the outer environment inside the cup of the burner, as well as a separating element of the transferring duct of the fuel mixture from the inflow duct of the primary air, wherein the separating element could be tightly constrained to the head, or cup of the burner.
US10247402B2
The present invention discloses a lamp device, which comprises a base, a lamp seat installed in the base and electrically connected with a circuit board, at least one USB interface, and a lamp shade hooding the lamp seat thereinside. The USB interface includes a cartridge disposed in the base and a USB socket module disposed inside the cartridge. The USB socket module is separated from the circuit board and electrically connected with the circuit board through cables. A wall of the cartridge has at least one opening. The interface of an external USB data line can be passed through the opening and inserted into the socket of the USB socket module. The USB interface is reduced to a smaller size and requires less space for installation. Therefore, the position for installing the USB interface has higher selectivity, and the overall esthetics of the base is improved.
US10247393B2
A recessed lighting unit includes a light engine and provides angular adjustment of the light emanating from the lighting unit. In one arrangement, the lighting unit includes a heat sink and a module frame that slidingly interact to provide rotation of the light engine in one degree of freedom, for example rotation about a horizontal axis. A rotation mechanism may also be provided for rotating the light engine in a second degree of freedom, for example rotation about the axis of a cylindrical recessed can in which the light engine is disposed. The lighting unit may be configured for use in new construction, or for retrofit applications.
US10247391B2
A stake for holding decorative lights has a stake portion having a pointed end and a head attached to the opposite end of the stake portion. The head has an open center and a top portion. A bulb gripper is pivotably attached to the inner surface of the top portion, such that the bulb gripper can be moved from a position which is co-linear with a centerline through the stake portion to a position which is substantially perpendicular to the centerline through the stake. The bulb gripper has a tab sized and positioned to engage another tab on the head when the bulb gripper is in a position which is substantially perpendicular to the stake portion locking the bulb gripper in place.
US10247380B2
Disclosed is a lighting fixture comprising at least three light functions, said lighting fixture being a trifunctional projector. In particular, a vehicle headlight is disclosed, which has in addition to a dipped beam and a main beam a daytime running light and/or a position light as a further light function.
US10247379B2
In a vehicle headlight comprising a light module (1) with a light source support (3), with at least one light source (17) and a reflector part (5) associated with the at least one light source (17), it being possible for reference elements (24) on the reflector part (5) to be brought into an operative connection with corresponding reference elements (25) on the light source support (3), the light source support (3) can be pushed into a guide part (2) with guide rails (6) for the reflector part (5), and the reflector part (5) has a catch (22) associated with the light source support (3) to displace the reflector part (5) together with the light source support (3) along the guide rails (6), which are designed to bring the reference elements (24) on the reflector part (5) into an operative connection with the corresponding reference elements (25) on the light source support (3) when the light source support (3) is pushed in.
US10247376B2
A light source module and a vehicle headlamp is provided. The light source module and the vehicle headlamp include a circuit board and first and second light emitting modules that are disposed on the circuit board. The first and second light emitting modules are divided by a partition wall. Each of the first and second light emitting modules includes a blue LED light source and a phosphor that is disposed on the blue LED light source. The phosphor is configured to be activated by the blue LED light source to emit first light and includes a phosphor film that is disposed on an exterior of the first light emitting module and the phosphor film is configured to emit a second light.
US10247369B2
A portable and rechargeable lighting apparatus includes an elongated housing having a radially-central cavity extending longitudinally along the elongated housing; one or more light emitting diodes (LEDs) affixed to a surface of the elongated housing and operable to emit light; one or more rods operable to extend coaxially from the radially-central cavity; one or more hooks coupled to distal ends of the respective one or more rods; and a battery operable to power the one or more LEDs.
US10247367B1
A lighting system includes an optic that has at least two reflective surfaces that are oriented such that they face each other. Further, the lighting system includes a plurality of light emitting diodes that are disposed adjacent one end of the optic. Furthermore, the lighting system includes a lightguide that is disposed adjacent an opposite end of the optic such that an edge of the lightguide is retained within and disposed between the at least two reflective surfaces of the optic. The at least two reflective surfaces of the optic reflect and guide light emitted by the plurality of light emitting diodes to the edge of the lightguide. The light then couples into the lightguide through the edge and is guided towards an opposing edge of the light guide. The light exits the lightguide through the opposing edge and/or major surfaces of the lightguide.
US10247366B2
A method and device for emitting electromagnetic radiation at high power using nonpolar or semipolar gallium containing substrates such as GaN, AlN, InN, InGaN, AlGaN, and AlInGaN, is provided. In various embodiments, the laser device includes plural laser emitters emitting green or blue laser light, integrated a substrate.
US10247360B2
An object of the present invention is to enable filling a hydrogen storage alloy uniformly and easily at the time of filling the hydrogen storage alloy. The invention relates to a method for filling a hydrogen storage alloy including, when the hydrogen storage alloy that has been made as a resin composite material by mixing hydrogen storage alloy particles or powder with a resin and carbon fiber is filled into a tank, vibrating the tank at a predetermined frequency to adjust a filling ratio of the hydrogen storage alloy in the tank.
US10247357B2
A system and method for maintaining overpressure in a logging unit or other pressurized space through interruptions is disclosed. A backup air supply comprising tanks mounted to a frame is operatively connected to the ambient environment of the logging unit through a valve assembly which also connects a conventional pressure setup (e.g., pumps and filters from the external environment). The valve assembly comprises two auto valves, a shuttle valve, and a pressure sensor that allow the logging unit to switch from the conventional external air supply to the tanks when the pressure detected from the conventional air supply falls below a predetermined level. The valve assembly is independently housed and may be mounted or detached from the frame housing the backup tanks.
US10247329B2
A cable support for securing at least one cable along a surface comprises an elongated central shaft portion having a through opening defined along a length thereof. A pair of shoulders is defined on opposite sides of the central shaft portion at an interface between forward and rearward ends. The forward end defines a stop sized and shaped to contact and abut the surface. First and second hook structures are provided having interior surfaces extending from opposite sides of the central shaft portion rearward end, curving toward the central shaft portion forward end, and terminating rearward of the stop to define a rearward offset between each first and second hook structure and the stop. Each rearward offset is sized to allow receipt of at least one cable therein when the stop is contacting and abutting the surface.
US10247324B2
A flow control device is used to regulate fluid flow from an upstream supply source to a downstream destination within a plant. At least portions of the flow control device are fabricated from one or more thermostatic materials selected based on the specific thermostatic properties thereof. The basic arrangement of the flow control device includes at least one housing with at least one thermostatic beam and at least one wall fixed thereto to define a void interior area with opposed open ends, and a center plug member with at least one opening in at least one wall thereof arranged within the interior area for temperature dependent fluid flow therethrough.
US10247320B2
A pressure regulating valve including an actuator and a valve body. Communicating passages are arranged between a chamber of the valve body and a chamber of the actuator. Further, a pressure tapping tube is disposed in the chamber of the valve body. One end of the pressure tapping tube is connected to the communicating passage and the other end of the pressure tapping tube is suspended. By adopting this pressure tapping structure in the pressure regulating valve, the performance of the pressure regulating valve in a flow accuracy range is improved.
US10247318B2
Fluid apparatus and related methods are disclosed. An example fluid apparatus includes a housing defining a fluid flow passageway between an inlet and an outlet. The housing has a first valve seat and a second valve seat positioned in the fluid flow passageway. The first valve seat is spaced from the second valve seat. A flow control member is positioned in the fluid flow passageway. The flow control member has a first disk and a second disk. The first disk is to engage the first valve seat and the second disk to engage the second valve seat.
US10247305B2
Provided is an automatic transmission including: an input section to which power generated by a drive source is input; an output section configured to output a drive force; and a gear shifting mechanism configured to change a gear ratio. The power is input to the input section without intervention of a hydraulic power transmission device. The gear shifting mechanism includes a predetermined frictional engagement element for achieving a starting gear ratio of a vehicle. The frictional engagement element includes: a plurality of friction plates arranged with clearances therebetween; a piston movable between a releasing position where the friction plates are brought into a released state, and an engaging position where the friction plates are brought into an engaged state by pressing the friction plates; and an urging mechanism configured to urge the piston so that the piston abuts against the friction plates and the clearances are reduced.
US10247296B2
A gearbox and a method for additively manufacturing the gearbox are provided. The gearbox includes a housing having an integral heat exchanger additively manufactured within the housing. The heat exchanger includes a plurality of heat exchange passageways for transferring heat between two or more fluids. The heat exchanger is defined at any suitable location or locations within the housing, for example, within voids defined between the walls of the housing and components housed within housing, such as driveshafts, gears, bearings, etc.
US10247293B2
An exemplary method may comprise: ascertaining an original distance between a first tooth face and a second tooth face of a sprocket tooth, wherein the sprocket tooth comprises two tooth faces extending from a sprocket core and terminating in a top of the sprocket tooth, wherein an original distance separates the two tooth faces, placing a sprocket gauge on the sprocket tooth, wherein the sprocket gauge comprises: a bottom, and two gauge faces extending from the bottom of the sprocket gauge, wherein the bottom of the sprocket gauge is disposed upon the top of the sprocket tooth and the first gauge face is disposed adjacently on the first tooth; and comparing the original distance defined by the sprocket gauge with an actual distance between the first tooth face and the second tooth face.
US10247284B2
A single-cavity toroidal continuously variable transmission capable of suppressing gyro slippage and achieving mitigation of bearing loss and a longer service life. A pitch circle diameter (PCD) of the output-side bearing is smaller than that of the input-side bearing and a ball diameter of the output-side bearing is smaller than that of the input-side bearing. Therefore, centrifugal force acting on the ball of the output-side bearing on a speed increasing side with a low load can be suppressed. Therefore, gyro slippage can be suppressed and mitigation of bearing loss can be achieved. Furthermore, with a groove R ratio of the output-side bearing smaller than that of the input-side bearing, a longer service life can be achieved even when the pitch circle diameter (PCD) and ball diameter of the output-side bearing are smaller than those of the input-side bearing.
US10247282B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission is provided to improve power delivery and fuel efficiency by applying six engagement elements to four planetary gear sets to achieve multiple speeds. The planetary gear train includes: input and output shafts; first to fourth planetary gear sets respectively including first to third rotation elements, fourth to sixth rotation elements, seventh to ninth rotation elements, tenth to twelfth rotation elements; and first to eighth shafts. In particular, the first shaft is fixedly connected to the second and sixth rotation elements, and the input shaft, the fourth shaft is fixedly connected to the fourth and seventh rotation elements, and the seventh and eighth shafts selectively and respectively connect a transmission housing to corresponding rotation elements of the first and third planetary gear sets.
US10247280B2
A four gearing-arrangement transmission having six shift-elements cooperatively engaging in combinations of three to provide nine forward speeds and one reverse speed. The transmission having a first gearing-arrangement with an end-gear fixedly coupled to a ground. A second gearing-arrangement with one end-gear fixedly coupled to an input and the other end-gear fixedly coupled to an interior-gear of the first gearing-arrangement. A third gearing-arrangement having an interior-gear fixedly coupled to an output. A fourth gearing-arrangement having a fourth interior-gear fixedly coupled to the input.
US10247270B2
A motion conversion mechanism includes: a cylindrical body having an internal screw and third gear teeth in an inner periphery thereof, the internal screw being provided in a screw region that is an intermediate region in an axial direction of the cylindrical body; a shaft body disposed coaxially with the cylindrical body inside the cylindrical body and having first gear teeth and a first external screw in an outer periphery thereof; and a plurality of planetary rollers. First planetary rollers among the planetary rollers mesh with the gear teeth formed in a first gear region and do not mesh with the gear teeth formed in a second gear region, and second planetary rollers among the planetary rollers mesh with the gear teeth formed in the second gear region and do not mesh with the gear teeth formed in the first gear region.
US10247259B2
A device for actuating a clutch-controlled transfer case including a rotatable selector shaft, a clutch cam disk rotatable about a clutch cam disk axis by means of the selector shaft and having a gate, and at least one scissor lever having an end guided in the gate. The gate has at least one curved portion having a continuously increasing radial distance from the clutch cam disk axis. The clutch cam disk defines an opening about the clutch cam disc axis, and the clutch cam disk defines a pair of stops extending radially into the opening. The selector shaft is rotatably positioned in the opening. The selector shaft includes a stopping member in radial alignment with the pair of stops such that the selector shaft can be rotated with respect to the clutch cam disk between two stops.
US10247251B2
A coupling device (K) has a first positive-locking clutch (K0), a second positive-locking clutch (K1), an axially fixed first shaft (W1), an axially fixed second shaft (W2), a connecting shaft (WV) and an actuator (AK). The first shaft (W1), the second shaft (W2) and the connecting shaft (WV) are arranged coaxially to each other. By closing the first clutch (K0), a torque-proof connection between the first shaft (W1) and the connecting shaft (WV) is established, and by closing the second clutch (K1), a torque-proof connection between the connecting shaft (WV) and the second shaft (W2) is established. The actuator through axial displacement of the connecting shaft (WV), shifts both the first clutch (K0) and the second clutch (K1) between an engaged state and a disengaged state, such that the connecting shaft (WV) is movable to a multitude of axial positions to achieve different engaged states of the clutches.
US10247246B2
Coupling a top drive to tools. A drive unit includes a drive stem having torque gear profile, threaded load coupling, torque sleeve movable between first position and second position, a sleeve gear profile engaging the torque gear profile when in second position; or spindle unit and annular motor coupled to the spindle unit; or drive stem having first friction surfaces; transmission unit having second friction surfaces parallel to first friction surfaces; and transmission selector movable to an “on” or an “off” position. A method may include rotating a drive stem of drive unit, threading coupling with a tool stem of tool adapter; moving a torque sleeve of drive unit to engage a torque gear profile of the drive stem and a stem gear profile of the tool stem; or rotating a spindle unit relative to drive stem to contact a counter nut of spindle unit with the tool stem.
US10247239B2
The tilting-pad bearing includes: a plurality of tilting pads arranged around a rotary shaft; a housing including a lubricating oil-supplying hole provided at a position facing a gap formed between the tilting pads disposed next to each other; and a pair of side plates disposed so that the tilting pads are interposed therebetween. The tilting pad is provided with an internal flow passageway through which lubricating oil flow. The internal flow passageway includes a first inflow opening, a second inflow opening, and a discharge opening.
US10247229B2
A method of fastening a sealing bellows to a ball joint as well as to a ball joint is shown comprising a joint housing, a ball stud pivotally received in the joint housing, and a sealing bellows which, related to a joint axis, comprises a first axial end of the bellows resting against the ball stud and a second axial end of the bellows fastened to the joint housing, the joint housing for fastening the sealing bellows comprising a seat of the bellows forming a radial stop as well as an axial stop for the second axial end of the bellows, and wherein a closed retaining ring is provided which is spaced from the joint housing and acts upon the sealing bellows in radial inward direction against the seat of the bellows.
US10247223B2
A multi-glide locking snap hook fastener is disclosed which includes a fastener body and a gate closure. The body includes a curved hook and a base, with the base including a longitudinal bore and a multipart channel extending radially into the bore. The multipart channel includes a first channel segment extending along or across a first part of the base, and a second channel segment extending along or across a second part of the base, with the second channel segment offset at a first angle from the first channel segment. The gate closure is arranged within the bore and includes an elongated shaft and a grip extending from the elongated shaft and into the multipart channel, with the gate moveable both longitudinally and rotatably within the bore. Several different closed configurations are provided, requiring several different and distinct movements to fully open the fastener.
US10247215B2
For joining assemblies, an apparatus includes a bracket, planar supports, and a restraining hook. The bracket includes a first bracket plate and a second bracket plate. The first bracket plate is physically connected to the second bracket plate and is disposed at a specified interior angle to the second bracket plate. Each planar support is formed by bending a corresponding bracket plate inward along a support outer bend as a substantially right angle to the bracket plate, with the planar support disposed toward an interior of the bracket. The restraining hook is in physical communication with the second bracket plate. The restraining hook includes a first hook plate disposed substantially perpendicular to the second bracket plate and a second hook plate in physical communication with the first hook plate and disposed substantially parallel to the second bracket plate.
US10247213B2
The invention relates to an adjustable fastening device including at least one sleeve nut having an aperture with a first internal thread and a through-bore following the same along the longitudinal axis of the fastening device (1), and also including a drum screw with an external thread and a tensioning screw lead-through, in the case of which the drum screw engages, by way of the external thread, in the first internal thread of the sleeve nut. According to the invention, the sleeve nut has on the free peripheral region, which forms the opening of the aperture, a rivet-collar portion and a central sleeve portion, which projects into the aperture in the direction of the rivet-collar portion, wherein the tensioning-screw lead-through of the drum screw is designed to accommodate the central sleeve portion at least in part.
US10247208B2
A speed controller capable of controlling an action speed of an external cylinder in one stroke in a step-wise manner. The speed controller includes a first flow path and a second flow path that allow a first port and a second port to be in communication with each other. The first flow path is provided with a first check valve for allowing flow from the first port to the second port. The second flow path is provided with a first needle valve, and an opening hole of the first check valve is constituted as a part of a flow path. The first needle valve adjusts the flow rate by changing an opening area of the opening hole with a tip portion fixed on a piston in the cylinder chamber. The speed controller further includes a third flow path allowing the first port and the cylinder chamber to be in communication with each other. The third flow path is provided with a second check valve for allowing flow from the first port to the cylinder chamber.
US10247206B2
A fluid circuit includes a pressure fluid source, a switching valve, and a cylinder device having first and second chambers and partitioned by a piston. A first accumulator is configured to communicate with the second chamber when pressure fluid is supplied to the first chamber and to accumulate part of the pressure fluid from the second chamber. A pressure booster is connected in hydraulically parallel to the first accumulator, the pressure booster communicative with the second chamber when the pressure fluid is supplied to the first chamber to boost pressure of the pressure fluid by using part of the pressure fluid from the second chamber. A second accumulator accumulates the pressure fluid whose pressure is boosted by the pressure booster.
US10247197B2
A disc for a fan rotor (with a pilot to connect to a rotating shaft, a hub and a plurality of blades) includes a flat circular portion connecting to the pilot at an inner edge and to the hub at an outer edge; a plurality of first circular cooling holes of a first diameter located around the inner edge of the disc; and a plurality of second circular cooling holes of a second diameter located around the outer edge of the disc, wherein the second diameter is larger than the first diameter.
US10247196B2
A blade module and a fan using the same are provided. The blade module includes a rotating shaft and a plurality of blades. Each blade is connected to the rotating shaft and includes a blade body and an airflow guiding portion. The airflow guiding portion is connected to the blade body and has an opening.
US10247187B2
A variable displacement vane pump has a control slide displaceable within its housing and a first control chamber and a second control chamber for receiving pressurized lubricant. A thermally adjustable control valve is provided in the housing for adjusting pump displacement based on a temperature of the lubricant. In addition to fluid communication channels in the control chambers, at least one vent port is provided in the second chamber. The control valve is configured to control pressure and fluid communication between the chambers along with the control slide. The control valve can help reduce pump displacement at lower temperatures and low engine speeds. At lower temperatures, the second control chamber can be pressurized by the first control chamber. At higher temperatures, the second control chamber can be vented through the control valve and/or the vent port, despite the position of the control slide.
US10247184B2
A pump system includes a first pump and a second pump each having a plunger assembly. The plunger assembly includes a crosshead, a plunger, and a sleeve. The sleeve at least partially surrounds the plunger and an end of the crosshead. The sleeve is configured to create a fluid seal between the plunger and the crosshead.
US10247180B2
A diaphragm pump having a body including a suction connection and a discharge connection, a suction valve and a discharge valve; a control chamber in which the diaphragm is disposed, and a working chamber located on the side of the diaphragm opposite the control chamber; a control pipe suitable for linking the control chamber to a control connection of the body, the control pipe configured to alternately apply a vacuum and a pressure on the diaphragm; the body includes a housing oriented transversely relative to the control pipe, the housing being open towards the outside at one end, and closed at the other end by a bottom including a suction opening and a discharge opening, the diaphragm being positioned close to the bottom, and held by a cap engaged in the housing, the cap having a recess forming the control chamber, linked to a passage communicating with the control pipe.
US10247177B2
Positive displacement machines and methods therefor capable of increasing a load-carrying capacity of a piston-cylinder lubrication interface of positive displacement machines having a cylinder block, a cylindrical bore defined in the cylinder block, a piston reciprocably disposed within the cylindrical bore, and a working fluid within the piston-cylinder lubrication interface to provide a load-bearing function between the piston and the bore wall of the cylinder bore. The method includes providing at least one circumferential groove on a bore wall of the cylindrical bore within the piston-cylinder lubrication interface having an opening facing the piston and that is in fluidic communication with the piston-cylinder lubrication interface so as to contain a portion of the working fluid, and operating the positive displacement machine such that the working fluid enters the cylindrical groove and promotes hydrostatic balancing of pressure of the working fluid within the piston-cylinder lubrication interface.
US10247176B2
A device for choking a fluid flow, with a pot-like base body, in the base of which a first passage opening is arranged, and a closing body guided axially moveably in the pot-like base body against a spring force of a spring element and having a second passage opening that forms a static choke point with a predefined fixed opening cross section. The closing body in combination with the spring element and the first passage opening forms a dynamic choke point with a dynamic opening cross section that is variably adjustable depending on a pressure difference.
US10247172B2
A hanging windmill has a wind turbine and a generator mounted on an airframe supported by a hanger at the center of gravity of the assembly. A stop is provided for preventing the tipping of the airframe on the hanger beyond a point where the blades of the wind turbine strike the hanger.
US10247169B2
A rotor blade for a wind turbine with an aerodynamic device, and an aerodynamic device is provided. The rotor blade includes a main body defining a pressure side and a suction side of the rotor blade, and includes a main body trailing edge section. The rotor blade includes an aerodynamic device with an attachment section for attaching the aerodynamic device to the main body trailing edge section, an aerodynamic section for influencing the aerodynamic properties of the rotor blade, and a buckling section for controlling the orientation and/or the shape of the aerodynamic section with regard to the main body. The aerodynamic device is configured such that it deforms elastically for a force component acting in flapwise direction on the buckling section, and deforms abruptly if a force component of about the size of the stability limit of the buckling section acts in flapwise direction on the buckling section.
US10247168B2
A rotational mechanical transformer has been arranged for transfer and transformation of velocity, force, angular momentum, torque, energy/work, energy density, and pressure, associated with at least one rotating device. The transformer includes an actuator having at least one cylinder arranged to contain the at least one working fluid, an externally supported shaft and a drive shaft having parallel axes orthogonally displaced by a predetermined displacement, and each respectively connected to at least one connecting arm and at least one additional connecting arm. The at least one cylinder includes at least one actuator rod and at least one blind end each respectively connected with at least one revolving eccenter axle and the at least one drive shaft, and have been arranged to allow for angular displacements of the at least one actuator with respect to the parallel axis.
US10247164B2
An ignition apparatus includes an ignition plug, a boost transformer, an ignition power source and a measurement unit. The ignition plug has a center electrode and a ground electrode. The boost transformer supplies the ignition plug with electric power generated in a secondary coil upon supply of AC power from the ignition power source to a primary coil. The measurement unit measures the discharge voltage of the ignition plug. The ignition power source includes a discharge state determining unit that determines the discharge state of the ignition plug based on the measured discharge voltage and a current controlling unit that controls electric current supplied to the primary coil. When a discharge path formed between the center and ground electrodes of the ignition plug is determined by the discharge state determining unit as being in an over-extended state, the current controlling unit reduces the electric current supplied to the primary coil.
US10247162B2
A starter system for start up of a combined heat and power unit comprising a generator which is connectable to the grid. The starter system comprises a variable frequency drive, VFD, operable to receive power from the grid. The VFD reduces the frequency of the power, and provides the reduced-frequency power to the generator to start the generator. The starter system further comprises a bypass relay configured to bypass the VFD. The bypass relay allows direct connection between the grid and the generator after the generator has started. The variable frequency drive is configured to operate temporarily during start up of the combined heat and power unit.
US10247154B2
A fuel pump for conveying fuel includes a conveying unit having a cylinder, a plunger received in the cylinder, a pump spring received in the cylinder, an inner sleeve connected to the plunger, an outer sleeve in contact with the pump spring and in contact with a roller of a cam mechanism, and a locking bolt configured to detachably connect the inner and outer sleeves.
US10247144B2
A method includes operating an internal combustion engine producing, as a byproduct, exhaust gases. The flow of exhaust gases are segregated into a first, relatively hot flow and a second, relatively cold flow. The second flow is directed to an intake of the internal combustion engine for combustion with fresh intake air and fuel. Heat energy from the first flow is stored in a latent heat storage device. Heat energy is released from the latent heat storage device to reduce cold start emissions during a subsequent operation of the internal combustion engine after a period of shutoff.
US10247138B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a track lock assembly that includes a pawl assembly comprising a pawl arm extending from a pawl axis and configured to engage a slot in a slider assembly, a cam arm extending from the pawl axis and having a pawl cam, and a compliant member, and a position lock assembly comprising a first lock arm extending from a lock axis and an actuator configured to urge rotation of the first lock arm between a lock locked position and a lock unlocked position, the first lock arm configured to engage and retain the cam arm in a pawl locked position when the first lock arm is in the lock locked position and disengage the cam arm in the lock unlocked position such that the compliant member is able to urge the pawl assembly to a pawl unlocked position.
US10247134B2
A steel piston with an oil gallery, and process for forming a steel piston oil gallery channel, which corresponds to the complex shape of the combustion bowl in the piston crown. The oil gallery channel is first forged to the basic shape that corresponds to the shape of the walls of the combustion bowl. Machine-turning surfaces in the oil gallery channel can be machine-finished as desired. Surfaces in the oil gallery which cannot be machined with conventional turning operations, such as recesses and protrusions into the channel, are left in the original forged condition.
US10247125B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a fuel injection valve control device with which variability in the injection amount with respect to drive pulse width can be kept to a satisfactory level in each of a plurality of fuel injection devices. The present invention provides a fuel injection valve control device for controlling a plurality of fuel injection devices each equipped with a valve body and a solenoid for opening the valve body, characterized in that the device is configured such that, a prescribed time after voltage has been applied to the solenoid, a holding current is applied, the prescribed time and the holding current being corrected for each of the fuel injection devices, on the basis of the operating characteristics of the fuel injection device.
US10247116B2
An evaporative emissions (EVAP) control system for a vehicle includes a purge pump configured to pump fuel vapor to an engine of the vehicle via a vapor line and a purge valve. The system includes a hydrocarbon (HC) sensor disposed in the vapor line and configured to measure an amount of HC in the fuel vapor pumped by the purge pump to the engine via the vapor line. A controller is configured to: detect an imminent cold start of the engine and, in response to the detecting, perform the cold start of the engine by controlling at least one of the purge pump and the purge valve, based on the measured amount of HC, to deliver a desired amount of fuel vapor to the engine, which decreases HC emissions by the engine.
US10247113B2
A control apparatus for an internal combustion engine, includes circuitry. The circuitry is configured to control a ratio of an amount of low octane number fuel to be supplied to a cylinder to a total amount of the low octane number fuel and a high octane number fuel to be supplied to the cylinder in order to control an overall octane number of fuel to be supplied to the cylinder. The high octane number fuel has a second octane number higher than a first octane number of the low octane number fuel. The circuitry is configured to calculate a maximum octane number of the fuel to be supplied into the cylinder. The circuitry is configured to restrict a power generated by the internal combustion engine based on the maximum octane number.
US10247104B2
A pneumatic starter system for a turbine engine. The pneumatic starter system includes a pneumatic starter and a compressed gas storage unit. The pneumatic starter is configured to cause at least one turbine of the turbine engine to rotate. The compressed gas storage unit is configured to store oxygen rich gas and expel the oxygen rich gas to power the pneumatic starting system to cause the at least one turbine to rotate. The pneumatic starter system also includes a first exhaust path configured to direct at least a first portion of the oxygen rich gas exhausted from the pneumatic starter to a turbine combustion zone of the turbine engine to create an oxygen rich fuel mixture.
US10247101B2
A device for mounting a spark plug in a combustion chamber of a gas turbine engine includes a chimney including a collar extending radially inwards, a washer fastened on an axial end of the chimney so as to project towards the inside of the chimney, and a bushing forming a spark plug guide and including an inner collar and an outer collar that are axially spaced apart from each other by a cylindrical portion. Each collar extends radially outwards. The bushing is floatingly mounted inside the chimney with its collars axially positioned between the collar of the chimney and the washer. The inner collar comes in operation to bear against the collar of the chimney. The outer collar presents an outside diameter (d1) greater than the inside diameter (d2) of the washer.
US10247100B2
Airplanes and jet engines are provided that includes an engine compressor; a combustor in flow communication with the engine compressor; an engine turbine in flow communication with the combustor to receive combustion products from the combustor; and a bleed air cooling system in fluid communication with bleed air from the engine compressor. The bleed air cooling system can include a first precooler in fluid communication with the bleed air from the engine compressor; a cooling system turbine in fluid communication with and downstream from the first precooler; and a discharge conduit from the cooling system turbine that is configured to be in fluid communication with at least one of an aircraft thermal management system and an aircraft environmental control system. Methods are also described for providing cooling fluid from a jet engine.
US10247098B2
An inner diffuser case for a turbine engine includes a fore gas path edge and an aft gas path edge defining a strut, wherein each of the fore gas path edge and the aft gas path edge include a gas path opening, a support cone structure extending radially outward from the strut, wherein the support cone structure is operable to structurally connect the strut to a turbine engine case, a diffuser case skirt structure extending radially inward from the strut, wherein the diffuser case skirt structure is operable to structurally connect the diffuser case strut to an inner support structure of the turbine engine, and at least one direct feed air passage passing radially through the strut including a radially outward upper mixing chamber opening and a radially inward direct air feed opening, the direct air feed opening is connected to a direct air feed.
US10247081B2
An aftertreatment assembly for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The assembly includes an aftertreatment component with an inlet, and a pipe connection fluidly connected to the inlet. The pipe connection includes an adjustable spherical pipe joint that joins two angularly offset pipe sections, and a slip pipe joint that joins two axially aligned pipe sections and that can adjust a combined length of the two axially aligned pipe sections. The assembly allows for compensating the positional and orientational displacements between an exhaust outlet and the inlet of the aftertreatment assembly.
US10247068B2
An oil separating module for an internal combustion engine, including: an oil separator, an oil return arranged such that separated oil can flow through the oil return to an oil sump, a mounting, and a non-return valve having: a valve housing having a throughbore with a first end opening and a second end opening, and a valve body movably mounted in the valve housing such that the valve body transitions between an open position and a closed position. When the first end opening is above the second end opening, the valve body automatically transitions to, or remains in, the closed position when a second end opening pressure is greater than a first end opening pressure by at least a threshold pressure difference, and the valve body automatically transitions to, or remains in, the open position when the second pressure is not greater than the first pressure by at least the threshold pressure difference.
US10247066B2
A relief valve device includes: a housing including a valve chamber, an orifice, and a relief discharge port; a valve body that opens and closes the relief discharge port while moving inside the valve chamber of the housing; a relief valve including an elastic member that elastically biases the valve body in a direction in which the valve body closes the relief discharge port; and an oil control valve that controls the supply of oil into the valve chamber, wherein an inlet port for the oil supplied from the oil control valve and the orifice are configured such that oil can always circulate in the valve chamber.
US10247058B2
Disclosed is an apparatus of adjusting valve timing for internal combustion engine configured to adjust at least one valve timing of an intake valve and an exhaustive valve by torque of a cam shaft and pressure of working fluid, and a method thereof. The method of the present disclosure is such that a rotor is embedded with a hydraulic control valve configured to operate a locking pin member, and the hydraulic control valve is so configured as to have various control positions in order to supply or discharge working fluid in response to engine emergency stop or start and normal engine operational state whereby locking and releasing operations are realized with accurate responsiveness and reliability due to smaller working fluid through a passage and an engine performance can be improved by adjusting the valve timing.
US10247056B2
A camshaft adjusting device including —a vane cell adjuster and —a central locking device (26) for locking the rotor (17) with respect to the stator (16), wherein —at least one first valve functional pin (46) is provided in the rotor hub (30), and the working chambers (20, 21, 22, 23) with different directions of action can be fluidically connected to one another via said valve functional pin, —in a first switch position, the first valve functional pin (46) fluidically connects at least two first working chambers (20, 21) with different directions of action to each other via a non-return valve (9, 10) during a movement from the direction “early” or “late” into the central locking position, —in a second switch position, the first valve function pin (46) fluidically separates the at least two first working chambers (20, 21) with different directions of action, —a bridging line (50) is provided for a fluid-free connection of the two first working chambers (20, 21), and —the bridging line (50) can be switched by a valve pin (45).
US10247052B2
A guide assembly for a valve lifter of an engine. The valve lifter is at least partly received within a bore of a body of the engine and an end portion of the valve lifter is exposed to an outside of the body. The guide assembly includes a pin and a guide. The pin is adapted to be fixedly coupled to the end portion of the valve lifter, while the guide is adapted to be coupled to the body. The guide defines a channel. The pin is received within the channel and cooperates with the channel to facilitate a movement of the valve lifter along an axis of the bore and to restrict a rotation of the valve lifter about the axis of the bore.
US10247049B2
At least one aspect of the technology provides a self-contained processing facility configured to convert organic, high water-content waste, such as fecal sludge and garbage, into electricity while also generating and collecting potable water.
US10247047B2
An embodiment of the present invention is a method of controlling an Organic Rankine Cycle system, the system comprising at least one feed pump (2), at least one heat exchanger (3), an expansion turbine (5) and a condenser (6), the organic Rankine Cycle comprising a feeding phase of an organic working fluid, a heating and vaporization phase of the same working fluid, an expansion and condensation phase of the same working fluid, wherein said method controls an adjusted variable (X), which is a function of an overheating of the organic fluid, by means of a controller (20) that acts by varying a control variable (Y), which is a parameter of the organic fluid in its liquid phase, and wherein the adjusted variable (X) is a temperature difference (ΔT) between a current temperature of the organic fluid in vapor phase at the turbine inlet and a temperature threshold (Tlim), under which the expansion phase involves the formation of a liquid phase of the organic fluid.
US10247046B2
The invention relates to a thermodynamic cycle apparatus, comprising: a working medium; an evaporator for evaporating the working medium; an expansion machine; a condenser, and a pump, wherein the geometrical arrangement of the evaporator is selected such that the condensed working medium can flow from the condenser to the evaporator by force of gravity and the working medium can circulate in a closed circuit via the evaporator and the condenser wherein a predetermined head height of the liquid working medium can be provided at the pump. The invention additionally relates to a method of starting the thermodynamic cycle apparatus the method comprising the following steps: applying heat to the evaporator and evaporating the working medium in the evaporator, wherein the working medium is caused to flow to the condenser; condensing the working medium in the condenser; starting the pump when a predetermined head height of the working medium at the pump is reached or exceeded.
US10247044B2
A power plant with at least one steam cycle and with at least one high temperature thermal energy (heat) exchange system is provided. The high temperature thermal energy exchange system includes at least one heat exchange chamber with chamber boundaries which surround at least one heat exchange chamber interior of the heat exchange chamber. The chamber boundaries include at least one inlet opening for guiding in an inflow of at least one heat transfer fluid into the heat exchange chamber interior and at least one outlet opening for guiding out an outflow of the heat transfer fluid out of the heat exchange chamber interior; at least one heat storage material is arranged in the heat exchange chamber interior such that a heat exchange flow of the heat transfer fluid through the heat exchange chamber interior causes a heat exchange between the heat storage material and the heat transfer fluid.
US10247041B2
A frame employed in a turbine exhaust case of a gas turbine engine includes a frame outer ring, a frame inner ring, and a plurality of frame struts that connect the frame outer ring to the frame inner ring. The frame outer ring includes a plurality of bosses disposed circumferentially around the frame outer ring, wherein at least one of the plurality of bosses includes a mounting surface that receives and secures a removable bracket to the frame outer ring that supports a weight of the frame.
US10247022B2
A seal system for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The seal system includes a fairing. The seal system also includes a finger seal retention unit attached to the fairing, the finger seal retention unit comprising a channel defining an opening between the fairing and the finger seal retention unit. The seal system also includes a finger seal comprising a tab corresponding to the channel of the finger seal retention unit, the finger seal configured to be removably attached to the finger seal retention unit by inserting the tab into the channel.
US10247021B2
A method for installing an inner fixed structure (IFS) seal may comprise disposing a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) member over an inner skin of an IFS, disposing a seal retainer over the CMC member, and coupling the IFS seal to the seal retainer. The CMC member may be configured to thermally insulate the seal retainer from the IFS.
US10247008B2
A turbomachine fan blade preform (10) comprising a pair of mutually opposing panels (12), and a membrane (20) sandwiched between the pair of panels (12). The membrane (20) is of a non-uniform thickness. The thickness of at least a portion of the membrane tapers along its length and/or width, between a relative thicker first region and relatively thinner second region.
US10247003B2
A rotating component for a turbine engine includes a rotor portion protruding radially outward, at least one overweight region is located in the rotor portion, and at least one additively manufactured counterweight region is positioned relative to the at least one overweight region such that the rotating component is circumferentially balanced.
US10247000B2
The present invention discloses a knife holder and base system for milling machine. The knife holder and base system comprises a knife holder provided with a fixed part and a base provided with an inner hole; and the fixed part penetrates the inner hole and is matched with a thread in the fixed part through a bolt to be used, so that the knife holder is fixedly connected with the base. According to the knife holder and base system for the milling machine, after the knife holder of the system structure is inserted in the base, more than two V-shaped faying surfaces and the V-shaped supporting surface serve as transition, the knife holder and the base are tensioned through the tensioning bolt, so that the knife holder and base system is of an integrated structure, and the cutting stress of a knife is transmitted into the base better through the knife holder.
US10246998B2
The present disclosure relates to a downhole packer assembly that includes an outer skin, an inner packer disposed within the outer skin such that inflation of the inner packer is configured to expand the outer skin, and a flexible flowline at least partially embedded within the outer skin. The flexible flowline is configured to flex as the outer skin expands.
US10246996B2
An apparatus for estimating properties of an earth formation includes a carrier connected to a drilling assembly, and a sensor assembly configured to measure at least one return flow parameter of a return fluid at a surface location, the return fluid returning to the surface location from a borehole. The apparatus also includes a processor configured to perform receiving one or more return flow parameter values for a period of time after injection of fluid is stopped, analyzing the one or more return flow parameter values to identify a ballooning event, in response to identifying the ballooning event, estimating at least one of a location and a property of one or more fractures in the formation, and performing one or more aspects of at least one of the drilling operation and a subsequent operation based on at least one of the location and the property of one or more fractures.
US10246992B2
A method and a system of analyzing multiphase fluid flow in at least one well or pipeline is provided, the method comprises characterizing slug flow in the multiphase fluid flow by receiving a plurality of well pressure data from the at least one well, processing the plurality of well pressure data to obtain a time-varying slug amplitude and/or a time-varying slug period for slugs in the slug flow, analyzing the slug amplitudes and/or the slug periods over a period of time to thereby determine a measure of well performance. Also an oil field monitoring system for an oil field comprising a plurality of wells is provided. Each well has a pressure gauge installed to measure a well pressure and is connected to a multiphase fluid flow analyzing system. An oil field unit receives the measure of well performance from the multiphase fluid flow analyzing system, and output the measures of well performance for each of the plurality of wells.
US10246986B2
In some embodiments, a magnetometer mounting apparatus and system may reduce noise and magnetic flux interference by mounting the magnetometer inside a cavity in a collar that fits around a tool insert. The cavity may be sealed with a hatch cover/outsert. Another embodiment mounts a plurality of magnetometers around the periphery of a mounting ring that is coupled to the insert. Yet another embodiment mounts the magnetometers in a gap sub in the BHA. Still another embodiment longitudinally mounts the magnetometers on the insert such that a diagonal distance between two magnetometers is the greatest possible on the insert.
US10246978B2
A well stimulation modeling method and simulation model for modeling a stimulation treatment involving a chemical reaction between a treatment fluid and a porous medium, such as acid treatment of a carbonate formation. In a wormhole initiation stage or mode, the medium of the cells having a solid saturation above a respective critical solid saturation is comprised of matrix material behaving as a single permeability, single porosity system; and in a wormhole growth stage or mode, the cells having a solid saturation equal to or less than the respective critical sold saturation comprise two different interconnected media, the matrix material and a wormhole material, defined to include wormhole-forming material as well as mature wormholes, having fluid mobility as a function of the solid saturation.
US10246973B2
The disclosed embodiments include energy harvesting devices, methods to operate the energy harvesting devices, and downhole power generating systems. In one embodiment, an energy harvesting device includes an outer stator having a first cavity formed therein. The energy harvesting device further includes a rotor disposed within the first cavity, the rotor including a second cavity, at least one radial slot, and a helical slot extending from a first end of the rotor towards a second end of the rotor. The energy harvesting device further includes an inner stator disposed within the second cavity. The energy harvesting device further includes an armature adjacent to the rotor, the armature coupled to at least one winding coupled to an electrical component to provide an electrical current to power the electrical component. The energy harvesting device further includes a housing coupled to the outer stator.
US10246966B2
An isolation device with seal element having substantial elongation properties at a time of setting and insubstantial elongation properties at time of drill out. That is, the seal element may be constructed of materials that are geared toward providing effective temporary sealing, for example to support stimulation operations. The seal is also tailored to change elongation properties over time such that upon sufficient exposure to downhole conditions the elongation properties may be substantially reduced. Thus, drillable removal of the device and seal element may be readily attained without undue concern over stretchable tearing of the element leading to an accumulation of large debris left behind in the well.
US10246962B2
Provided herein are methods and apparatus for collecting and preserving core samples from a reservoir. In some embodiments, a method includes obtaining core samples from a reservoir using a rock and fluid sampling tool and depositing the core samples in a vessel filled with a hydrogen-free fluid such that a portion of the hydrogen-free fluid is displaced by the core samples and the core samples are immersed in the hydrogen-free fluid. The method also includes transferring a gas into the vessel to occupy a space in the vessel and sealing the vessel via a cap on an end of the vessel. Methods of analyzing the core samples core samples collected from a reservoir and a rock and fluid sampling tool are also provided.
US10246956B2
Systems and methods recycle liquid(s) by introducing at least a portion of a first liquid from a first centrifuge into a tank. At least a portion of a second liquid is introduced from a second centrifuge into the tank. The first liquid and the second liquid are mixed together in the tank to produce a mixed liquid. At least a portion of the mixed liquid is introduced from the tank into the second centrifuge. Particles from the mixed liquid are separated using the second centrifuge, thereby producing the at least a portion of the second liquid that is introduced from the second centrifuge into the tank.
US10246952B2
A system for placing and removing pipe from a finger rack of a drilling rig, the system comprising a pipe handling apparatus (140) and a finger rack (139) having at least one finger board (102) having at least two fingers (103 to 106) defining a slot (107 to 109) and a multiplicity of latches (114) arranged therebetween defining a space for a pipe, each latch (114) of the multiplicity of latches selectively movable between an open position and a closed position, the system further comprising at least one camera (101) having said at least one latch (114) of said multiplicity of latches in a field of view, capturing an image of said latch and sending said image to a master control computer (12′), said master computer control computer (12′) programmed with a set of instructions to analyze said image for details indicative of the latch (114) being in an open position or closed position, concluding the latch (114) to be in an open position or closed position and allowing or disallowing a pipe handling apparatus to place or remove a pipe in the finger rack (139) based on said conclusion.
US10246951B2
An assembly for hoisting and lowering a drill string of a drilling rig includes a multiple displacement hydraulic cylinder having a blind end, a rod end, and a single piston rod configured for slidable extension and retraction movement within the interior space of the cylinder. The interior space is defined by three chambers, each chamber having a port allowing switchable flow of hydraulic fluid into and out from the cylinder. The assembly also includes a pumping and switching system with hydraulic fluid connections to each port of the cylinder. The pumping and switching system is configured to switch the direction of hydraulic fluid flow through each of the ports of the three chambers, thereby providing the assembly with a plurality of hydraulic fluid flow path combinations. Each flow path combination provides a different speed-to-force ratio for extending or retracting the piston rod, thereby hoisting or lowering the drill string.
US10246946B2
A method and apparatus for transporting heavy machinery, equipment or other heavy load from one location to another, whereby the apparatus is constructed to steer the load in order to move the load in a desired path to a set position, one embodiment directed to a walking machine including a plurality of lifting assemblies operative to lift the load above the supporting surface and then move or rotate the load relative to the supporting surface by transporting the load via rollers or tracks in the walking machines, the lifting assembly including a steering mechanism using an actuator operative for rotating, via a multi-linkage assembly, whereby the lifting assembly lower structure is rotated relative to the lifting assembly structure to set the walking machine at a desired angle so that lifting assemblies may be driven in a desired walking direction.
