US10318870B2
Mechanisms for evaluating an evidential statement in a corpus of evidence are provided. An evidential statement is received for determining a level of confidence in a hypothetical ontological link of an ontology. A source of the evidential statement is identified and a grading of the source of the evidential statement is determined based on a source grading measurement value indicative of a degree of reliability and credibility of the source. An indication of trustworthiness of the evidential statement is generated based on the source grading measurement value. A representation of the indication of trustworthiness of the evidential statement is output in association with the evidential statement.
US10318864B2
A deep learning network is trained to automatically analyze enterprise data. Raw data from one or more global data sources is received, and a specific training dataset that includes data exemplary of the enterprise data is also received. The raw data from the global data sources is used to pre-train the deep learning network to predict the results of a specific enterprise outcome scenario. The specific training dataset is then used to further train the deep learning network to predict the results of a specific enterprise outcome scenario. Alternately, the raw data from the global data sources may be automatically mined to identify semantic relationships there-within, and the identified semantic relationships may be used to pre-train the deep learning network to predict the results of a specific enterprise outcome scenario.
US10318860B1
Techniques are described for powering a chip-enabled card using a wearable computing device. The chip-enabled card is paired with the wearable computing device and a specific signal is generated for the chip-enabled card. When the chip-enabled card is proximate to the wearable computing device, the wearable computing device transmits the specific signal associated with the chip-enabled card through a conducting element in contact with the user's body, through the user's body, and to a touch pad of the chip-enabled card that is also in contact with a portion of the user's body. According to the disclosed techniques, the chip of the chip-enabled card verifies that the received specific signal is associated with the chip-enabled card, and uses the verified specific signal to power subsequent transactions performed by the chip-enabled card. In this way, the chip-enabled card only emits a signal to perform transactions when the user is holding the card.
US10318859B2
A card having a metal layer and an opening or cut-out region in the metal layer, with a dual-interface integrated circuit (IC) module disposed in the opening or cut-out region. A ferrite layer is disposed below the metal layer and a booster antenna is attached to the ferrite layer. A vertical hole extends beneath the IC module through the ferrite layer. The booster antenna may be physically connected to the IC module or may be configured to inductively couple to the IC module. In some embodiments, the IC may be disposed in or on a non-conductive plug disposed within the opening or cut-out region, or the vertical hole may have a non-conductive lining, or a connector may be disposed between the booster antenna and the IC module in the vertical hole.
US10318858B2
A wearable article, system, and method includes a structure configured to enclose a body part, a first antenna, in a first position on or within the structure, tuned to communicate according to a wireless communication modality through air, a second antenna, in a second position on or within the structure, tuned to communicate according to the wireless communication modality through the body part, the first antenna being tuned differently than the second antenna, and a transceiver, operatively coupled to at least one of the first antenna and the second antenna, configured to communicate with an external antenna via the at least one of the first and second antennas according to the wireless communication modality.
US10318853B2
An antenna module includes a magnetic body portion made of a ferrite sheet, a first pattern portion directly formed on one surface of the magnetic body portion and including a first pattern and a first plating layer stacked thereon, a second pattern portion directly formed on the other surface of the magnetic body portion and including a second pattern and a second plating layer stacked thereon, and a via hole formed through the magnetic body portion and having a connection member for electrically connecting the first pattern portion and the second pattern portion formed therein. The first pattern portion and the second pattern portion are formed directly on the magnetic body portion without a substrate portion. Thus, the thickness is reduced by the amount of the thickness of the substrate portion.
US10318851B2
A two-dimensional code generation method includes: performing a multiple system barcode encoding on hidden information to generate multiple system barcode of hidden encoded information; selecting a corresponding two-dimensional code version to encode standard information to generate to-be-determined standard encoded information; selecting a corresponding mask to generate a bit matrix of a two-dimensional code, and extracting the number of black dots in the bit matrix; updating the selected mask and the two-dimensional code version according to the number of black dots and the length of the hidden encoded information to determine a finally selected mask and two-dimensional code version; generating standard encoded information according to the finally selected mask and two-dimensional code version; and generating a two-dimensional code according to the hidden encoded information and the standard encoded information.
US10318848B2
A method of training for image classification includes labelling a crop from an image including an object of interest. The crop may be labelled with an indication of whether the object of interest is framed, partially framed or not present in the crop. The method may also include assigning a fully framed class to the labelled crop, including the object of interest, if the object of interest is framed. A labelled crop may be assigned a partially framed class if the object of interest is partially framed. A background class may be assigned to a labelled crop if the object of interest is not present in the crop.
US10318838B2
A drawing apparatus includes an object insertion portion to which an object is inserted, the object being a finger or a toe having a nail; a light source unit configured to emit light to the nail of the object inserted into the object insertion portion; an image acquisition unit configured to acquire image data of the object with the nail illuminated by the light; and a control unit.The light source unit includes at least one light source disposed obliquely above the nail so that a shadow is formed near a border between the nail and a cuticle part on the root side of the nail by the light emitted from the light source.The control unit detects a position of the border based on the shadow and detects a region of the nail based on the position of the border.
US10318836B2
A system and method of designating regions of interest for surveillance cameras is disclosed. The system enables definition of regions of interest simultaneously across multiple cameras. This is useful when the cameras are positioned to monitor the same region of interest within their scenes. Each camera monitors image data for designation of regions of interest, stores the regions of interest, and analyzes the image data from the cameras based on the regions of interest. Preferably, each camera has an integrated analytics system for analyzing the image data based on the regions of interest. A setup process between a user device (e.g. mobile phone) and the cameras enables definition of the regions of interest. In embodiments, the regions of interest are defined in response to the cameras tracking either the user device or an optical device as an operator moves the devices to outline the regions of interest within the scene.
US10318824B2
A system and method on a vehicle for providing extended detection range of a stop line on a roadway. The system and method includes a front view camera on the vehicle that provides images of the roadway in front of the vehicle and a controller that receives images from the front view camera. The controller is programmed to extract an upper portion of a front view image that is remapped onto an extended bird's eye view image such that the detection range of the stop line is detected.
US10318814B2
A method for analyzing media assets such as video and audio files. The method includes providing access to all the frames of a digital media asset. The method includes, with a microprocessor, running a raw analyzer modules to analyze the asset frames to produce sets of raw analyzer result data that are stored in a data cache in a file associated with the asset. The sets of raw analyzer results are linked to the raw analyzer modules with unique identifiers. The digital media asset is played for the raw analyzer modules, which concurrently analyze the temporally-related frames. The raw analyzer results are stored as data tracks that include metadata for the asset such as immutable parameters including histograms. The method includes using a feature algorithm module to generate an analysis result, such as face identification, for the digital media asset based on the raw analyzer results accessed by the identifiers.
US10318811B1
Methods and systems for detecting and identifying one or more objects in the vicinity using radio frequency signals, excluding visible spectrum frequencies, (the “non-visible RF signals”) and displaying an AR image with an AR element associated with each of the one or more identified objects are disclosed. An exemplary method includes the steps of: detecting and registering one or more objects in the vicinity of a mobile device by non-visible RF signals; tracking the registered objects; rendering the AR elements associated with the registered objects; and displaying an AR image with the AR elements anchored to the associated objects in the visual scan area of the mobile device. This embodiment may further include a step of rendering a special kind of AR elements, called LARI AR elements, that includes a boundary and a cut-out area, and the associated AR effect rendered is limited to the area in the boundary but excluding the cut-out area. As such, in this embodiment, the object with a LARI AR element would appear entirely or partially framed by the AR element in the AR image.
US10318805B2
When the degree of matching between patterns decreases due to a pattern fluctuation or an appearance fluctuation that has occurred during manufacturing steps, a heavy work burden would be placed on an operator. A data processing unit of a pattern matching apparatus calculates a threshold for determination of matching between a first template image and a partial region of a search target image obtained by capturing an image of the surface of a sample, on the basis of a result of evaluation of a similarity between the search target image and a second template image, the second template image having been captured in a wider range than the first template image.
US10318804B2
Systems and methods are provided for quickly and efficiently searching and receiving results for real estate-related information without or at least with minimal human processing of real estate-related documents. Optical character recognition on a plurality of scanned document images is performed to obtain a plurality of textual data representations of the real estate-related documents. Data is extracted from the textual data representations, and subsequently contextualized according to a real estate-related context. Aspects of the extracted data as well as the textual data representations are provided as search results based on one or more searches for real estate-related information.
US10318799B2
The present disclosure discloses a method of predicting an interest of a user and a system thereof. The method comprises receiving, by the system, a first set of inputs related to the user from a first set of sensors, where one or more features of the user are extracted from the first set of inputs. The method further comprises receiving a second set of inputs related to an environment around the user from a second set of sensors, assigning weights to each input among the first set of inputs, identifying a user behavior associated with each of the one or more features of the user and predicting the interest of the user by correlating the user behavior associated with each of the one or more features of the first set of inputs and the weights assigned to each input among the first set of inputs, thus increasing accuracy of prediction.
US10318798B2
A method and device are provided for detecting non-visible content of an object in a non-contact manner. The device includes a light source configured to emit light toward a surface of an object over a period of time. The device also includes an optical sensing component configured to receive a pattern of light from the surface of the object, and to record the received pattern at plural points in time. In addition, the device includes a processing component configured to determine temporal changes in the pattern during the plural points in time, and to detect whether motion is present in the object based on determined temporal changes in the pattern, where the motion represents a frequency source of non-visible content in the object.
US10318790B2
Techniques relate to fingerprint-based processor malfunction detection. A determination is made whether a fingerprint is present in software that is currently executing on the processor of the computer system. The fingerprint includes a representation of a sequence of behavior that occurs on the processor while the software is executing. The fingerprint corresponds to a type of malfunction. In response to determining that the fingerprint is not present in the software currently executing on the processor, monitoring of the software executing on the processor to determine whether the fingerprint is present continues. In response to determining that the fingerprint is present in the software executing on the processor, it is determined that the malfunction has occurred according to a type of the fingerprint that is present.
US10318778B2
Targets to be electro-optically read by image capture are illuminated with illumination light emitted from an illumination light source and directed along an illumination path through a window to the targets, and return light from the targets is captured through the window and projected along an imaging path to an array of light sensors of an imaging system. An optical element is located in both the illumination path and the imaging path, and has a light-reflecting, non-diffusing portion for directing the captured return light incident on the light-reflecting portion along a folded imaging path to the array, and a light-diffusing portion for diffusing the illumination light incident on the light-diffusing portion along a folded illumination path to scatter and blur an image of the illumination light source, to increase an apparent size of the illumination light source, and to reduce a perceived brightness of the illumination light source.
US10318774B2
A housing includes a first tubular portion being tubular, arranged to extend along a central axis extending in a vertical direction, and having a first cavity defined radially inside of the first tubular portion; and a second tubular portion being tubular, connected to a lower portion of the first tubular portion directly or indirectly, and having a second cavity defined radially inside of the second tubular portion. The first cavity is arranged to define a light path along which the incoming light travels, and is connected to the second cavity. The second tubular portion is arranged to house at least a portion of the optical component therein. The first and second tubular portions are defined by a single monolithic member.
US10318773B2
A system and method for determining and tracking a location of a participant traveling along a route wherein the participant being tracked with an RFID tag using an RFID tag reader and a timing system, the system includes a location device associated with the RFID tag and has a location data receiver for receiving location information from a location providing source, and a wireless communication interface and time stamps each received location information, and transmits tag location data over the wireless interface, and a location detection device that is in wireless communication with the location device receives the transmitted tag location data, and transmits the received location data to the timing system, with the timing system associating the received location data with the RFID tag number as provided by the RFID tag reader provided tag reads of the RFID tag associated with the location device.
US10318772B1
Motor control center components are tagged and monitored to produce accurate information on the location and identification of the components in closed and sealed motor control center bays, sections, and enclosures. Wireless polling signals may allow for locating the tagged components, and the tags may store or access component-identifying data and, where desired, condition data for the component or its environment in the motor control center. The data may be collected wirelessly and made available to local or remote monitoring equipment, controllers, workstations, human machine interfaces, and so forth.
US10318771B2
A system comprises two or more item storage bins, each item storage bin comprising: a wireless communication tag emitting a wireless signal having data identifying the item storage bin on which the wireless communication tag is positioned, and an indicator activated by receiving a feedback signal identifying the item storage bin on which the indicator is positioned; and a personal device comprising: a wireless communicator configured to communicate with the wireless communication tags, and a controller coupled to the wireless communicator and configured to identify one of the item storage bins from the wireless signal, and in response to identifying the one item storage bin, sending the feedback signal through the wireless communicator to the indicator.
US10318765B2
A system and method for securing a hypervisor and operating systems that execute on a computing device. An encrypted hypervisor is uploaded to a hardware chip. Prior to being executed, the hypervisor is decrypted using a secure security processor and stored in an on-chip memory. When a processor on the hardware chip executes the hypervisor, at least one on-chip component continuously authenticates the hypervisor during execution. A hypervisor configures a processor with access rights associated with an operating system, where the access rights determine access of the operating system to an at least one resource. A transaction filter then uses the access rights associated with the operating system to monitor the access of the operating system to the at least one resource in real-time as the operating system executes on a processor.
US10318762B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for securing data. One of the methods includes receiving, by a computer system, a network packet for analysis. The method includes determining, by the computer system, to examine the network packet for private data. The method includes identifying, by the computer system, private data in payload of the packet. The method includes encrypting the private data. The method includes storing the encrypted private data in a location separate from the payload. The method also includes obfuscating the private data by adding a reference to the location of the encrypted private data in the payload.
US10318746B2
There is disclosed in an example, a computing apparatus, including: a trusted execution environment (TEE); and one or more logic elements providing a collaboration engine within the TEE, operable to: receive a change to a secured document via a trusted channel; apply a change to the secured document; log the change to a ledger; and display the document to a client device via a protected audio-video path (PAVP). There is also disclosed a method of providing a collaboration engine, and a computer-readable medium having stored thereon executable instructions for providing a collaboration engine.
US10318738B2
Systems and methods may be used to securely booting multiple devices. A method may include initiating a boot sequence at a first device in an array of devices, booting a first distributed boot executive (DBE) on the first device, updating a Platform Configuration Register (PCR) with a first boot measurement, sharing the first boot measurement with a second DBE on a second device of the devices before booting a next boot step at the first device, receiving a second boot measurement from the second DBE, and booting the first device into a next boot stage in response to receiving the second boot measurement from the second DBE.
US10318736B2
Various examples described herein provide for firmware verification on a peripheral device that can couple to a computing device. Before operating firmware is executed on the peripheral device, boot firmware can execute on the peripheral device and cause the peripheral device to generate a hash of the operating firmware. The peripheral device can transmit the hash to a validator external to the peripheral device, such as a management processor. The peripheral device can receive, from the validator, a validation decision based on the transmitted hash. In response to the validation decision indicating invalidity of the operating firmware, the peripheral device can execute recovery firmware to cause the peripheral device to retrieve replacement firmware. Depending on the example, the retrieved replacement firmware may replace the operating firmware or the operating firmware may be updated based on the retrieved replacement firmware.
US10318735B2
In some embodiments, a processor can receive an input string associated with a potentially malicious artifact and convert each character in the input string into a vector of values to define a character matrix. The processor can apply a convolution matrix to a first window of the character matrix to define a first subscore, apply the convolution matrix to a second window of the character matrix to define a second sub score and combine the first subscore and the second subscore to define a score for the convolution matrix. The processor can provide the score for the convolution matrix as an input to a machine learning threat model, identify the potentially malicious artifact as malicious based on an output of the machine learning threat model, and perform a remedial action on the potentially malicious artifact based on identifying the potentially malicious artifact as malicious.
US10318733B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to techniques for detecting malware in a manner that mitigates the consumption of processing and/or storage resources of a processing device. An apparatus may include a first processor component of a processing device to generate entries in a chronological order within a first page modification log maintained within a first storage divided into multiple pages, each entry to indicate a write access made by the first processor component to a page of the multiple pages; a retrieval component of a graphics controller of the processing device to recurringly retrieve indications from the first page modification log of at least one recently written page of the multiple pages; and a scan component of the graphics controller to recurringly scan the at least one recently written page to detect malware within the at least one recently written page.
US10318726B2
A method includes: reading a plurality of words from a one-time program (OTP) memory of a processing chip, wherein each of the words includes secure data for the chip and bits corresponding to a check pattern; comparing the bits corresponding to the check pattern to a preprogrammed check pattern; detecting an error based on comparing the bits corresponding to the check pattern to the preprogrammed check pattern; and performing an action by the processing chip in response to detecting the error.
US10318722B2
Embodiments for using power charge management authorization for a user equipment (UE) by a processor. A power charging session is authorized by firmware of the UE for charging the UE using a cryptographic handshake between the UE and a power charging station.
US10318719B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a digital certificate responsive to an authentication of a user according to a dynamic biometric process, associating the digital certificate with a transaction record for the transaction, storing information associated with authentication conditions of the dynamic biometric process, receiving an access request associated with the transaction, and providing access to the transaction record, the information associated with the authentication conditions of the dynamic biometric process or a combination thereof responsive to the access request, where granting of the access is according to transmitting an access acknowledgement to equipment of the user, or obtaining another authentication to allow permission to access or a combination thereof. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10318713B2
A smart carrier has a housing comprising one or more docking locations configured to accept a secure receptacle, a wireless interface module disposed within the housing, and a processor disposed within the housing and operatively coupled to the one or more docking locations and the wireless interface module. The processor is configured to communicate with an external device through the wireless interface module and with a secure receptacle that is mated with one of the one or more docking locations. The smart carrier also has a battery disposed within the housing and configured to provide all operational power to the processor, the wireless interface module, and the one or more docking locations.
US10318712B2
An apparatus stores and dispenses biologic drug compositions. The apparatus is an automated device that stores a biologic drug under the desired conditions. When authorized, the automated device processes the stored biologic drug by performing the desired processing steps to prepare the biologic drug for administration to a patient. The automated device includes a computing system to transmit patient information to a remote location and receive authorization from a remote location.
US10318705B2
The present application provides for various embodiments of methods for the analysis of high resolution melt (HRM) curve data; where statistical assay variations in melt curve data may result from system noise in an analysis system. Such system noise may arise from various sources, such as the thermal non-uniformity of a thermocycler block in a thermal cycler apparatus, a detection system, etc. Additionally, various methods for the analysis of HRM curve data may provide an identification of a sample without the need for a user inputted information.
US10318702B2
A system is provided with a memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store a cached copy of data representative of a multi-valued decision diagram (MDD). The MDD indicates a Boolean function specifying a buildable space of all possible configurations of features of a vehicle. The processor is in communication with the memory, and programmed to generate a working copy of the data from the cache. The processor is further programmed to generate a restricted buildable space in the working copy of the data while traversing the MDD, including to remove available features from the labels of the outgoing edges deemed invalid according to a feature selection, disconnect outgoing edges having no remaining available features, and replace nodes that have no outgoing edges with the false node.
US10318701B2
A system is provided with a memory device and a processor. The memory device is adapted to store data representative of a multi-valued decision diagram (MDD) specifying a buildable space of all possible configurations of a vehicle. The processor is in communication with the memory and is programmed to identify an invalid configuration, and to generate a restricted buildable space, including to determine an edit distance of each complete path indicative of a number of features to change the invalid configuration of that path to one of the valid configurations, identify a minimum of the edit distances, and remove configurations having edit distances larger than the minimum. The processor is further programmed to identify at least one feature to change the invalid configuration to at least one valid configuration based on the restricted buildable space; and to generate output indicative of the at least one feature to change.
US10318699B1
Disclosed approaches for fixing a hold time violation in a circuit design include determining a first hold budget that is an amount to fix a first hold time violation on a first path of the circuit design. For each connection of a first plurality of connections on the first path, a respective projected setup slack of the connection in allocating the first hold budget to fixing the first hold time violation on the connection is determined. For each connection of the first plurality of connections, a respective connection hold budget based on the first hold budget and the respective projected setup slack is determined. Each connection of the first plurality of connections is adjusted according to the respective connection hold budget.
US10318696B1
Techniques efficiently improve circuit design to reduce its sensitivity to random device variation. A characterizer component can identify a subset of cells for an integrated circuit that can be representative of respective other cells of a set of cells. The characterizer component can analyze the representative cells of the subset to generate a variation profile, and can map the representative cells to physical cells used in the design of the circuit. A cell library comprising cells that are usable, have limited usage, and/or have general usage can be generated based on analysis results from the mapped cells. The circuit can be reconstructed based on the list of available cells using the cell library. The reconstructed circuit can be analyzed, and in case of a cell(s) violating a constraint, the cell(s) can be modified or enhanced to achieve target performance criteria.
US10318694B2
The place and route stage for a hard macro including a plurality of tiles is modified so that some of the tiles are assigned a more robust power-grid tier and so that others ones of the tiles are assigned a less robust power-grid tier.
US10318682B1
Various embodiments provide for analyzing impedance states of a set of nodes in a circuit design and providing a set of reasons for those impedance states. The set of reasons can include a reason regarding why a particular node is reported as being in high-impedance (highz) state or in low-impedance (lowz) state, and the reason may be for a specific time point during transient analysis of the circuit design. Some embodiments are implemented within a debugging utility of an electronic design automation (EDA) software system.
US10318671B2
One example includes predicting social, economic, and learning outcomes for a geographic entity at a future time. The outcomes are predicted using near-real-time student data indicators and correlations between the indicators and the outcomes.
US10318657B2
A system and method is provided that facilitates miter and notch identification for pattern sew line generation. A processor of the system may be configured to access a pattern data that defines a flat shape with cut lines corresponding to locations at which the shape is cut out of a material. Based on the pattern data, the processor may generate a computer-aided-design (CAD) model that includes a plurality of curves that define boundary edges of an object that corresponds to the shape defined by the pattern data. In addition, the processor may automatically identify portions of the boundary edges that correspond to alignment guides including at least one miter alignment guide, notch recess alignment guide, notch projection alignment guide, or combination thereof. Further, the processor may include at least one sew line in the CAD model that is parallel to and offset by the at least one seam allowance distance from at least one boundary edge towards the interior of the CAD model, without being offset by the at least one seam allowance distance from portions of the at least one boundary edge that include the identified alignment guides.
US10318642B2
A paraphrase generation method according to the present disclosure generates one or more paraphrases of an original text by paraphrasing, within an acceptable limit for accepting paraphrasing, one or more of a plurality of fragments included in the original text into another expression in the language of the original text, the plurality of fragments being obtained by dividing the original text in accordance with a predetermined rule.
US10318636B2
Systems and methods for determining action items from knowledge base for execution of operation. The system receives instructions, present in a knowledge base, which are required to execute one or more operations. Thereafter, the system parses the instructions into one or more sentences and assigns a POS tag for each word in the one or more sentences. Further, the system assigns a predefined class for each of the POS tagged word. Based on the predefined class, the system determines the action items. The action item comprises one or more actions and one or more components on which the one or more actions are to be performed. The present disclosure enables automated systems to easily execute one or more operation based on the action items thereby reducing the delay in performance of the automated system due to complexity in interpreting the instructions.
US10318635B2
Mapping of semantics in healthcare may involve accessing first transaction data of a first healthcare entity in a first database, the first transaction data corresponding to a collection of a first number of fields defined for a condition using a first semantic system to store information and calculating a first distribution of information in the first transaction data. Mapping may also involve accessing second transaction data of a second healthcare entity in a second database, the second transaction data corresponding to a second semantic system different than the first semantic system and the second database comprising a second number of fields using the second semantic system to store information, the second number of fields larger than the first number of fields and calculating a second distribution of information in the second transaction data. The distributions may then be compared and a map relating the semantic systems may be generated.
US10318633B2
An approach is provided that receives a word that belongs to a first natural language and retrieves a first set of complexity data pertaining to the word in the first natural language. The approach translates the word to one or more translated words, with each of the translated words corresponding to one or more second natural languages. The approach then retrieves sets of complexity data, with the sets of complexity data corresponding to a different translated word. The approach determines a complexity of the word in the first natural language based on an analysis of the first and second sets of complexity data.
US10318624B1
Providing an infinite or seemingly infinite canvas as a workspace is disclosed. In some embodiments, an ability to add to a displayed canvas and view simultaneously one or more table objects, each of which has associated with it an ability to define the content of a first cell by reference to one or more other cells such that the content of the first cell is updated automatically and without further human intervention if the content of one or more of the one or more other cells is changed, is provided.
US10318621B2
A computer-implemented method for collating and intelligent sequencing of installation documentation includes parsing one or more product installation documents to identify annotations associated with installation procedures. Installation procedure descriptions, parameters, and prerequisites associated with the identified annotations are extracted, and prescriptive step-by-step installation instructions that integrate installation procedures contained within the one or more installation documents are generated.
US10318618B2
A consistent user view system. The system incorporates any changes made by a user in any views shown to that user even when the changes have not propagated to the partitions supplying the view. The system separates the authority for edits from the replicated storage allowing efficient transactions and linear scalability. Documents are read from view-based partitions of a store. Document writes are written to a document-specific partition in a journal and applied to the store. The system stores a copy of pending changes in a user-specific partition. When a user requests a view, the system checks that user's cache for any pending changes applicable to the view. If any applicable changes are found, the changes are applied before showing the view to the user. Pending changes that have been successfully applied to the store are trimmed from the user-specific partition to free up resources.
US10318610B2
A display method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: displaying a display interface including at least one object; obtaining progress information of at least one first object of the at least one object, where the progress information indicates a content position of the at least one first object that was last output; and displaying the progress information of the at least one first object in the display interface.
US10318609B2
A system for deriving the operating state of a machine comprises one or more sensors for making available in each case an output value relating to a current parameter of a component of the machine, and a processing unit which is connected to the sensors and is programmed to derive information about the operating state of machine using a model and on the basis of the measured values of the sensors and/or values derived therefrom. The processing unit can be supplied with a state transition matrix, elements of an emission probability matrix for the probability that an observation is conditioned by a certain state, and a vector for describing an input state, in order to derive the operating states of the machine therefrom. The processing unit is programmed to derive elements of the emission probability matrix from the measured values of the sensors.
US10318608B2
Systems and methods may identify at least a first set of right singular vectors and a first set of singular values of a subset of the matrix, reduce the subset by an amount of energy of a selected data entry of the subset based on the first set of right singular vectors and the first set of singular values, incorporate a new data entry from the matrix into the subset, update the first set of right singular vectors and the first set of singular values of the subset based on the new data entry by a singular value decomposition (SVD) update, and generate the low-rank approximation of the matrix based on the updated first set of right singular vectors and the updated first set of singular values.
US10318607B2
Provided is a computer that does not need quantum coherence or a cryogenic cooling device for a problem to be solved that needs an exhaustive search and a computing program thereof. Spin sj as a variable is caused to follow a local effective magnetic field Bj to introduce a system to a ground state of a problem-setting system. The ground state is a solution. At t=0, the magnetic field Bj is applied in the x-axis direction at all sites and all spins sj are initialized to the x-axis direction. With the lapse of time t, a magnetic field in the z-axis direction and interspin interaction are gradually applied, spin becomes +z-direction or −z-direction finally, and the z-component of spin sj becomes sjz=+1 or −1. When the direction spin sj is caused to follow the direction of the effective magnetic field Bj, a relaxation term to keep the direction of spin sj is introduced to improve convergence of a solution.
US10318591B2
A primary ingestion pipeline configured for use in natural language processing includes annotators configured for annotating documents. The annotators and documents to be annotated are evaluated. Based on the evaluations, an ingestion risk score is generated for each document. Each ingestion risk score represents a likelihood that an associated document will not successfully be annotated by the annotators. Each ingestion risk score is compared to a set of risk criteria. Based on the comparisons, a determination is made that each document of a first set of documents satisfies the set of risk criteria. A further determination is made, based on the comparisons, that each document of a second set of documents does not satisfy the set of risk criteria. In response to these determinations, the first set of documents is entered into the primary ingestion pipeline and the second set of documents is provided special handling.
US10318579B2
Example methods and systems for inserting information into content playing via a playback device are described. In some example embodiments, the methods and systems may identify a break type in content playing. The break type is either a bounded type (e.g., a break in a live broadcast) or an unbounded type (e.g., a podcast, audio book, song or the like stored on the playback device). Thereafter, select an information segment to present during the identified break is selected that is representative of information associated with the playback device, wherein the selected information segment is dependent upon the break type. Thereafter, the information segment is inserted into the content playing via the playback device upon an occurrence of the identified break type.
US10318575B2
A method of managing an image catalog is performed by one or more servers. The process receives from a first user identification of one or more images in an image database. The image database is distinct from the servers. For each of the images, the process analyzes the image to extract keywords that describe the image and creates an index entry in the image catalog. The index entry includes the keywords. The process receives a query from a second user and matches the query to an index entry in the image catalog. The index entry corresponds to a first image in the image database. The process determines whether the second user is authorized to view the first image. When the second user is authorized to view the first image, the process retrieves the first image from the image database and transmits the first image to the second user.
US10318571B2
A method and/or system for programming a dynamic digital media queue may include receiving, from an electronic device, a request for a digital media queue. The request may comprise request data. In response to the request, a search of one or more events may be performed. The search of the one or more events may be based on a current date, a current location of the electronic device and/or the request data. One or more digital media items may be determined based on the search. A recommended digital media queue may be determined. The recommended digital media queue may comprise one or more recommended digital media items. Recommendation data may be sent to the electronic device. The recommendation data may comprise the recommended digital media queue and one or more reasons explaining why the recommended digital media queue comprises the one or more recommended digital media items.
US10318569B1
Smart inventory tags are described herein. In an example, a service provider can determine interaction capability(s) for a tag associated with an item in an inventory of a merchant. The tag can be configured to be positioned proximate to the item offered for sale by the merchant at a physical store of the merchant. The service provider can receive an indication associated with a selection of at least one interaction capability of the interaction capability(s) and, based at least in part on the indication, the service provider can generate encoded information associated with the at least one interaction capability. The service provider can generate an instruction for generating the tag including the encoded information to enable a presentation of a user interface associated with the at least one interaction via a device operated by a user at the physical store of the merchant.
US10318555B2
Methods and apparatus consistent with the invention provide the ability to organize and build understandings of machine data generated by a variety of information-processing environments. Machine data is a product of information-processing systems (e.g., activity logs, configuration files, messages, database records) and represents the evidence of particular events that have taken place and been recorded in raw data format. In one embodiment, machine data is turned into a machine data web by organizing machine data into events and then linking events together.
US10318551B2
Storing and/or accessing data in a transactional database, with use of the following technique: (i) selecting a set of base tables in a transactional database; and (ii) creating a factless materialized query table, having maximum sparsity, for the set of base tables. The set of base tables includes at least two base tables. The set of base tables includes a set of keys including at least two distinct primary keys. The factless materialized query table includes one record associated with each record in the set of base tables. Each record in the materialized query table includes a value for every primary key in the set of base tables.
US10318550B2
The present invention relates generally to management in an autonomous, distributed environment. Aspects of the present invention include employing a distributed, scalable, autonomous resource discovery, management, and stitching system. In embodiments of the present invention a block architecture can be used where each block maintains management of the block rather than the entire environment. In embodiments of the present invention each block includes an autonomous resource discovery, management, and stitching system capable of communicating with autonomous resource discovery, management, and stitching, systems of other blocks to allocate and share resources between blocks.
US10318549B2
A method includes queuing a plurality of changes to a hierarchical index construct including a plurality of index structures. An index structure includes a plurality of nodes and a node is dispersed storage error encoded to produce a set of encoded data slices (EDSs). The method further includes, when triggered, determining a plurality of affected nodes of the plurality of index structures based on the plurality of changes. The method further includes retrieving a threshold number of EDSs and dispersed storage error decoding the threshold number of EDSs to produce the plurality of affected nodes. The method further includes, for a change of the plurality of changes, identifying one or more nodes of the plurality of affected nodes for which the change is applicable and updating each of the one or more nodes based on the change to produce updated one or more nodes.
US10318546B2
The method for test data management may comprise receiving a test data characteristic; retrieving a master copy data from a master copy database; generating a secondary copy data, wherein the secondary copy data comprises a subset of the master copy data corresponding to the test data characteristic; generating a test copy data, wherein the test copy data is a copy of the secondary copy data; and transmitting the test copy data to a test environment. In this manner, the efficiency and resiliency of the system may be enhanced, and the test copy data may be improved so that the network may function according to approved parameters.
US10318533B2
A controller for controlling the processing of a data stream by a data stream processing system having a plurality of data stream management systems, DSMSs. Each DSMS is arranged to execute a respective continuous query to generate an output data stream having continuous query execution results. The controller controls the execution of the continuous query on a windowed portion of a data stream when different DSMSs receive different parts of the data for the windowed portion. The controller selects, for processing of the windowed portion of the data stream, a single DSMS that is to execute the respective continuous query. The controller generates a control signal to cause only the selected DSMS to execute the continuous query using data in the data stream received thereby, so that the continuous query is executed on data in the windowed portion of the data stream only by the selected DSMS.
US10318531B2
In an example embodiment, a hybrid call is introduced. Local data is used to immediately display some search results. The search for local data may be initiated at the same time as a search for non-local data (e.g., server data). A preset number of results from the local data may be displayed first, while remaining results from non-local data may be displayed when such results are returned over the network. By using local data to initially return search results, the time for the searcher to see results is reduced to virtually nothing. Additionally, the local results are typically more relevant to navigational searches than traditional type ahead results.
US10318530B1
The present invention extends to methods, systems, and computing system program products for iteratively calculating kurtosis for Big Data. Embodiments of the invention include iteratively calculating one or more components of a kurtosis in a modified computation subset based on the one or more components of the kurtosis calculated for a previous computation subset and then calculating the kurtosis based on the iteratively calculated components. Iteratively calculating kurtosis avoids visiting all data elements in the modified computation subset and performing redundant computations thereby increasing calculation efficiency, saving computing resources and reducing computing system's power consumption.
US10318524B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating database queries, including receiving an asset template, the asset template associated with an enterprise context and one or more enterprise terms; identifying respective mappings of the one or more enterprise terms to one or more database tables; compiling the asset template based on the mappings to provide a database query; providing for display the database query; verifying the database query based on the displaying; receiving, in response to the verifying, an approval signal associated with the database query; storing the database query; querying a different database utilizing the database query; and in response to the querying, identifying data stored by the different database that is responsive to the database query.
US10318515B2
A method and system for generating a clarity grading look-up table includes collecting actual inclusion parameter data for a plurality of gems, where the actual inclusion parameter data includes an actual clarity grade and an actual inclusion parameter data combination. A mathematical relationship between a clarity grade and a particular inclusion parameter combination is then extrapolated from the actual inclusion parameter data. A derived clarity grade is then assigned to a plurality of inclusion parameter combinations as a function of the mathematical relationship and a set of inputted inclusion parameters. Also, a method and system for providing a clarity grade includes receiving a plurality of inclusion characteristics associated with a gem and parameterizing each of the inclusion characteristics, so that a parameter value is assigned to each inclusion characteristic. The parameter values are then input to a mathematical formula so as to provide a parameterized clarity grade for the gem.
US10318514B2
Reorganizing a data table to improve analytical database performance is presented. Attribute value information for data blocks of the data table is determined. One or more queries having respective query predicates involving the attribute may be received and processed. Data blocks having attribute value information matching a query predicate are selected. The selected data blocks are evaluated for the query predicate of the query. For each part of a set of the parts a false positive rate may be determined. The false positive rate may indicate the fraction of data blocks of the selected data blocks of the part, that each contains less than a determined maximum number of rows that satisfy the query predicate. In response to determining for each part of the set of the parts that the determined false positive rates of the part meet a predefined condition sorting the part by the attribute.
US10318512B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for storing and querying data. According to the embodiments of the present invention, two-layer indexes are created for multi-dimension data, wherein the primary index is created based on two or more dimensions to retrieve respective data units of the data, while the secondary index is created based on specific dimensions to retrieve respective data blocks in the data unit. Correspondingly, when receiving a multi-dimension query request for data, the primary retrieval first determines a data unit including the target data based on a primary index, and then the secondary retrieval quickly locates a data block including the target data based on the secondary index. In this way, the multi-dimension retrieval can be efficiently performed. Moreover, by appropriately setting the size of a smallest data block, the I/O efficiency of data access will be significantly enhanced.
US10318502B2
An intelligent synchronization tool ensures access to desired content in a manner that automatically keeps the content current on the portable media device. A variation threshold or user-specified degree of content variation may be introduced among content downloaded to a user's mobile device to prevent the user from becoming bored. Furthermore, intelligent synchronization may automatically populate the portable media device with popular content to save a user time and/or use passive monitoring techniques to ascertain a user's preferences for subsequent population.
US10318495B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed for snapshots of a non-volatile device. A method includes writing data in a sequential log structure for a non-volatile device. A method includes marking a point, in a sequential log structure, for a snapshot of data. A method includes preserving a logical-to-physical mapping for a snapshot based on a marked point and a temporal order for data in a sequential log structure.
US10318494B2
A facility comprising methods and systems for analyzing and visualizing trends in the usage of data within a shared storage filesystem is disclosed. The facility analyzes the rate at which the filesystem or a portion thereof is used by periodically generating manifests of the usage of the filesystem and comparing one manifest to another manifest. Furthermore, the facility may store additional information relevant to the manifest, such as the time at which the manifest was taken; for each directory, the sum of all of the values determined for items in that directory (including any subdirectories); and so on. In this manner, the facility collects and stores information relevant to developing trend information for each item in the filesystem. The trends analysis and visualizations described herein provide quick insight into the changes deemed most interesting or significant between two times.
US10318487B2
A method, system and computer program product for sharing resources among remote repositories. In a shared file system, a resource identifier and metadata are created for a resource, where the resource identifier is stored in a lock file in a shared volume accessible by the remote repositories. The lock file is then released in response to distributing the associated resource to the remote repositories. Alternatively, in a peer-to-peer system, a request is received to create, read, update or delete a resource stored in a content repository. A resource name, a resource version and/or a resource fingerprint are received in connection with the request to create, read, update or delete the resource in the content repository. A determination is then made as to whether the received resource name, resource version and/or resource fingerprint matches the respective resource name, resource version and/or resource fingerprint stored in a node graph for the resource.
US10318475B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for enabling persistence of application data, using replication over a remote direct memory access (RDMA) network. In an enterprise application server or other environment having a plurality of processing nodes, a replicated store enables application data to be written using remote direct memory access to the random access memory (RAM) of a set of nodes, which avoids single points of failure. Replicated store daemons allocate and expose memory to client applications via network endpoints, at which data operations such as reads and writes can be performed, in a manner similar to a block storage device. Resilvering can be used to copy data from one node to another, if it is determined that the number of data replicas within a particular set of nodes is not sufficient to meet the persistence requirements of a particular client application.
US10318473B2
A method of operating a data transport system on a computing device is disclosed. The method comprises: writing outgoing data in a first memory space on a memory module of a computing device; detecting the outgoing data on the first memory space by a data channel component coupled to the memory module, wherein the first memory space is designated for external data transmission; and generating a transmission signal encoding the outgoing data, via the data channel component, for transmission from the memory module through an inter-device interconnect to an external memory module.
US10318472B2
A multisite sensing system including two or more analyte sensors, an interface device, and a shared bus. The interface device may be configured to receive a power signal and generate power for powering the analyte sensors and to convey data signals generated by the analyte sensors. The shared bus connected to the interface device and each of the analyte sensors and configured to provide the power generated by the interface device to the analyte sensors and to provide the data signals generated by the analyte sensors to the interface device. The interface device may be an inductive element. The shared bus may be a two wire, multiplexed bus. The analyte sensors may be spatially separated for analyte sensing at least two different locations. The analyte sensors may generate data signals indicative of the presence and/or amount of the same analyte or of one or more different analytes.
US10318469B2
A semiconductor memory device comprises a memory cell array and a data inversion circuit. The data inversion circuit is configured to receive a first unit data and a second unit data stored in the memory cell array through different first data lines, determine, while the first unit data is transmitted to a data input/output (I/O) buffer through a second data line, whether to the invert the second unit data based on a Hamming distance between the first unit data and the second unit data, and transmit the inverted or non-inverted second unit data to the data I/O buffer through the second data line.
US10318468B2
An FPGA-based interface signal remapping method, relates to the technical field of nuclear power system, and solves the technical problems of poor reliability, readability and debuggability in the prior art. The method comprises dividing an internal programmable logic of an FPGA chip into two independent modules, with one module being an I/O module and the other module being a Core module, using the I/O module to process signal excursion occurring when an external signal is input to or output from the FPGA chip, signal collision caused by line multiplexing, metastable state in a data transmission process, and a data transmission error between asynchronous clock domains, using the Core module to implement logical processing and computing; and introducing a master clock signal outside the FPGA chip into the FPGA chip through a global clock pin of the FPGA chip. The method provided in the invention is suitable for a nuclear power protection system platform.
US10318463B2
An interface controller coupling the main body of an external electronic device to a host, and the electronic device using the interface controller and a control method for the external electronic controller are disclosed. The interface controller has a control unit and a non-volatile memory. The control unit is configured to transmit a termination-on signal to the host when link information retrieved from the main body has been written into the non-volatile memory. When the host issues a link information request in response to the termination-on signal, the control unit uses the link information stored in the non-volatile memory to respond to the link information request.
US10318457B2
An embedded system and method for controlling such are disclosed. The embedded system includes a direct memory controller comprising a plurality of channels, wherein a plurality of channel arbitration schemes are programmable, wherein the DMA controller is programmable to split a block data transfer on a specified channel into a plurality of separate data transfers, wherein a data transfer on a specified channel can be interrupted between separate data transfers of the data transfer.
US10318442B2
Techniques are described for pairing an input device to a display device in a vehicle infotainment system and choosing communication modes between the input device and the vehicle infotainment system. In certain embodiments, in response to detecting the presence of the input device, and based on an identity of a user associated with the input device or a detected location associated with the input device, a display device may be selected from a plurality of display devices of the vehicle infotainment system. Finally, the system may pair the input device with the selected display device and a communication mode may be selected whereby the input device can communicate with the vehicle infotainment system.
US10318441B2
A measurement apparatus includes a plurality of modules and a main unit for collecting measurement data output from the modules. The housing of the main unit can be carried by a user of the measurement apparatus, and the plurality of modules are removably accommodated in the housing. A controller area network interface circuit of the main unit collects the measurement data output from the modules accommodated in the housing. A main CPU of the main unit outputs the collected measurement data to, for example, a personal computer connected to the main unit. An internal memory and a USB memory connected to a USB memory module store the collected measurement data.
US10318426B1
A storage cloud enabled platform includes storage nodes and application nodes which are the part of the same operating environment. The storage nodes and computation nodes are interconnected inside platform via an interface to provide improved response time and high bandwidth paths for storage applications. The computation nodes may include virtual or non-virtual machines. The interface may support various protocols depending on desired ease of use and response time. For example, a standardized protocol such as SCSI could be used for ease of use and data safety, or a direct data placement protocol could be used to help maximize response rate.
US10318423B2
A request is received to access physical information of a memory unit included in a memory device. A determination is made whether the physical information is available in a physical information table present in a memory cache. If the physical information of the memory unit is available in the table, the physical information is accessed from the table. If the physical information is not available in the table, a global directory in the memory cache is accessed, which indicates locations in a non-volatile memory that store the total number of the physical information blocks. From the global directory, a particular location in the non-volatile memory storing a particular physical information block that includes the physical information of the memory unit is determined. The particular physical information block is loaded into the table and the physical information of the memory unit is accessed from the particular physical information block.
US10318408B2
A method for processing data, includes: acquiring data packets having respective serial numbers and transmitted between a first microcontroller unit (MCU) and a second MCU of a smart device, the second MCU being provided in a Wireless Fidelity (Wi-Fi) module of the smart device; and processing and displaying the acquired data packets based on the respective serial numbers so as to debug the second MCU.
US10318404B2
A programming environment and a simple programming language that runs on Ethernet block-input/output (block-IO) devices and hosting servers. In some embodiments, the ARGEE™ system includes a web-based programming environment that compiles a GUI program into a bytecode program of a virtual machine; and the virtual machine that runs in the device firmware and executes the bytecode program representing the GUI program created by a user. There are many programming languages that provide a web-based programming environment. Some such languages apply to embedded devices. However, the ARGEE™ system, considered as a whole, is unique in that the programming environment is not hosted on the same embedded device it controls. The system reduces the FLASH-memory requirements of the device by hosting the environment on an external server. The system also facilitates a faster update cycle of the environment software, making it easier to distribute changes to customers when environment changes.
US10318400B2
A system and method for evaluating performance of a software application. The present invention includes analyzing by one or more computing devices a plurality of program code lines of the software application stored in one or more computer databases. Further, one or more equivalent program regions within the plurality of program code lines may be identified. One or more markers in the identified one or more equivalent program regions may be inserted and stored in the one or more computer databases. Further, the plurality of program code lines may be compiled and assembled respectively to generate an executable code. The executable code may include a plurality of instructions. Further, performance metrics of the software application may be measured by manipulating the plurality of instructions based on the one or more equivalent program regions identified by the inserted one or more markers and executing the executable code.
US10318394B2
A port controller includes an advertise block configured to determine a cable assembly coupled to the port controller is not compliant with a standard used by the port controller, a comparator configured to determine a current drawn from a power converter coupled to the cable assembly exceeds a capability of the power converter based on comparing a bus voltage to a threshold voltage, and a protection block configured to, in response to determining the current drawn from the power converter exceeds the capability of the power converter, cause the current drawn from the power converter to be reduced.
US10318390B2
In one embodiment, automated storage target selection includes automatically selecting a storage node of a plurality of candidate storage nodes as a function of a plurality of selection criteria. Further, a backup data object is transmitted to the selected storage node. In one embodiment, selecting a storage node includes retrieving stored user-defined parameters for selection criteria for selecting a storage node, retrieving storage node-defined parameters for selection criteria, comparing user-defined parameters and storage node-defined parameters, and selecting a storage node as a function of the comparing. In another aspect of the present description, comparing user-defined parameters and storage node-defined parameters includes broadening a first user-defined parameter to a second user-defined parameter broader than the first user-defined parameter if no candidate storage nodes have a storage node-defined parameter within the first user-defined parameter. Other features and aspects may be realized, depending upon the particular application.
US10318386B1
A computer-implemented method for maintaining remote backups of reverse-incremental backup datasets may include (1) receiving a request to replicate a reverse-incremental backup dataset of a data source (e.g., a local full backup of the data source and/or at least one reverse incremental backup of the data source) from a primary storage system to a secondary storage system and (2) generating, in response to receiving the request, a forward-incremental backup dataset of the data source (e.g., a remote full backup of the data source and/or at least one forward incremental backup of the data source) on the secondary storage system based at least in part on the reverse-incremental backup dataset. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10318382B2
A method includes determining, by a computing device of a dispersed storage network (DSN), a source name for a data object to be scanned for missing encoded data slices. The method further includes issuing list source requests to the set of storage units. When a list source response is not received from a storage unit of the set of storage units within a response timeframe, the method further includes identifying one or more encoded data slices stored on the storage unit as potentially missing encoded data slices; determining a next level missing encoded data slice determination approach for the storage unit based on one or more of: a number of potentially missing encoded data slices, a performance goal, a network loading level, a rebuilding loading level, a predetermination, and an entry of a system registry; and executing the next level missing encoded data slice determination approach.
US10318381B2
A memory device can include three-dimensional memory entities each including a plurality of two-dimensional memory entities. A controller can read data from the memory at a first resolution and collect error rate information from the memory at a second resolution including a portion of a two-dimensional memory entity. The controller can determine a quantity of two-dimensional memory entities that have a greater error rate than a remainder of the two-dimensional memory entities based on the error rate information. The controller can determine a quantity of portions of three-dimensional memory entities that have a greater error rate than a remainder of the portions of three-dimensional memory entities based on the error rate information excluding error rate information for portions of the two-dimensional memory entities associated with the quantity of two-dimensional memory entities. The controller can cull the quantity of the two-dimensional memory entities and the quantity of the three-dimensional memory entities.
US10318375B2
A method of operating a storage controller including (a) receiving host data from a host, for storage within a partition in the storage system, and (b) determining a quantity of error correction code levels based on at least one partition parameter. The method further includes (c) partitioning the host data into a plurality of payloads, (d) providing metadata for the payloads, (e) calculating error correction codes for the payloads and the metadata associated with each of the payloads, and (f) creating a plurality of codewords, each codeword comprising a payload, metadata, and error correction codes corresponding to the payload. The method includes (g) based on the quantity of error correction code levels, either storing the codewords in the storage system or partitioning the codewords into a plurality of further payloads, the further payloads iteratively processed according to steps (d) through (g) to provide the quantity of error correction code levels.
US10318374B2
A method of feedback in a wireless transmit receive unit includes providing a precoding matrix index (PMI), error checking the (PMI) to produce an error check (EC) bit, coding the PMI and the EC bit and transmitting the coded PMI and EC bit.
US10318368B2
In accordance with implementations disclosed herein, there is provided systems and methods for enabling error status and reporting in a machine check environment. A processing device includes an error status register and an error status component communicably coupled to the error status register. The error status component determines that a machine check error (MCE) is a first correctable error (CE) and sets a first error status corresponding to the first CE in the error status register based on a threshold value. The threshold value is based on a type of the first CE.
US10318365B2
Example methods, systems, and apparatus to provide selective memory error protection and memory access granularity are disclosed herein. An example system includes a memory controller to determine a selected memory mode based on a request. The memory mode indicates that a memory page is to store a corresponding type of error protection information and is to store data for retrieval using a corresponding access granularity. The memory controller is to store the data and the error protection information in the memory page for retrieval using the error protection information and the access granularity.
US10318355B2
Techniques herein provide job control and synchronization of distributed graph-processing jobs. In an embodiment, a computer system maintains an input queue of graph processing jobs. In response to de-queuing a graph processing job, a master thread partitions the graph processing job into distributed jobs. Each distributed job has a sequence of processing phases. The master thread sends each distributed job to a distributed processor. Each distributed job executes a first processing phase of its sequence of processing phases. To the master thread, the distributed job announces completion of its first processing phase. The master thread detects that all distributed jobs have announced finishing their first processing phase. The master thread broadcasts a notification to the distributed jobs that indicates that all distributed jobs have finished their first processing phase. Receiving that notification causes the distributed jobs to execute their second processing phase. Queues and barriers provide for faults and cancellation.
US10318353B2
An architecture for a load-balanced groups of multi-stage manycore processors shared dynamically among a set of software applications, with capabilities for destination task defined intra-application prioritization of inter-task communications (ITC), for architecture-based ITC performance isolation between the applications, as well as for prioritizing application task instances for execution on cores of manycore processors based at least in part on which of the task instances have available for them the input data, such as ITC data, that they need for executing.
US10318351B2
Systems and methods for resource provisioning are disclosed. A method includes: generating, by a computer device, a resource provisioning policy for a resource; receiving, by the computer device, a request for an allocation of the resource from an account; applying, by the computer device, the resource provisioning policy to the request based on receiving the request; automatically approving or denying, by the computer device, the request based on the applying the resource provisioning policy to the request; updating, by the computer device, the resource provisioning policy for the account based on the automatic approving or denying the request.
US10318340B2
In one form, a computer system includes a central processing unit, a memory controller coupled to the central processing unit and capable of accessing non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM), and an NVRAM-aware operating system. The NVRAM-aware operating system causes the central processing unit to selectively execute selected ones of a plurality of application programs, and is responsive to a predetermined operation to cause the central processing unit to execute a memory persistence procedure using the memory controller to access the NVRAM.
US10318334B2
A VIRTIO Relay Program allows packets to be transferred from a Network Interface Device (NID), across a PCIe bus to a host, and to a virtual machine executing on the host. Rather than an OvS switch subsystem of the host making packet switching decisions, switching rules are transferred to the NID and the NID makes packet switching decisions. Transfer of a packet from the NID to the host occurs across an SR-IOV compliant PCIe virtual function and into host memory. Transfer from that memory and into memory space of the virtual machine is a VIRTIO transfer. This relaying of the packet occurs in no more than two read/write transfers without the host making any packet steering decision based on any packet header. Packet counts/statistics for the switched flow are maintained by the OvS switch subsystem just as if it were the subsystem that had performed the packet switching.
US10318328B2
A method for managing operating system executed by an electronic device is provided. The method includes obtaining, by a guest module of the guest operating system, information regarding a guest app executable on the guest operating system, providing, by the guest module, the information regarding the guest app to a host module of the host operating system, providing, by the host module, the information regarding the guest app to an app list creation module of the host operating system, combining, by the app list creation module, information regarding a host app executable on the host operating system and the information regarding the guest app, and outputting, by the app list creation module, an app execution list that includes the combined information.
US10318326B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for associating one or more storage-based services with a storage unit accessible by a primary “tier 1” storage device. A storage-based service can include deduplication, compression, data conversion, statistical analysis of the data to be stored, or other storage-based service. A storage unit can be a disk, a file, a virtual disk, or a logical unit of storage (LUN). A virtual machine within the primary “tier 1” storage can perform the one or more storage-based services associated with the storage unit.
US10318312B2
A network adapter includes one or more network ports, multiple bus interfaces, and a processor. The one or more network ports are configured to communicate with a communication network. The multiple bus interfaces are configured to communicate with multiple respective Central Processing Units (CPUs) that belong to a multi-CPU device. The processor is configured to support an Option-ROM functionality, in which the network adapter holds Option-ROM program instructions that are loadable and executable by the multi-CPU device during a boot process, and, in response to a request from the multi-CPU device to report the support of the Option-ROM functionality, to report the support of the Option-ROM functionality over only a single bus interface, selected from among the multiple bus interfaces connecting the network adapter to the multi-CPU device.
US10318305B2
Embodiments are provided for an asynchronous processor with pipelined arithmetic and logic unit. The asynchronous processor includes a non-transitory memory for storing instructions and a plurality of instruction execution units (XUs) arranged in a ring architecture for passing tokens. Each one of the XUs comprises a logic circuit configured to fetch a first instruction from the non-transitory memory, and execute the first instruction. The logic circuit is also configured to fetch a second instruction from the non-transitory memory, and execute the second instruction, regardless whether the one of the XUs holds a token for writing the first instruction. The logic circuit is further configured to write the first instruction to the non-transitory memory after fetching the second instruction.
US10318294B2
Operation of a multi-slice processor that includes a plurality of execution slices. Operation of such a multi-slice processor includes: receiving a first instruction indicating a first target register; receiving a second instruction indicating the first target register as a source operand; responsive to the second instruction indicating the first target register as a source operand, updating a dependent count corresponding to the first instruction; and issuing, in dependence upon the dependent count for the first instruction being greater than a dependent count for another instruction, the first instruction to an execution slice of the plurality of execution slices.
US10318285B1
A system, such as a system of a computing resource service provider, detects changes to a pipeline template package that encodes information associated with application code and infrastructure that may be utilized as part of deploying the application code in stages of a pipeline. An infrastructure template that is usable to provision an execution environment may be generated for a corresponding stage of the development, and may be utilized as part of a process for provisioning an execution environment which may, for example, run tests to verify the quality of the application code.
US10318284B2
A method, computer program product, and system of managing computing tasks includes storing at least one build information element within at least one attribute of a configuration management tool A computing task is generated from within the configuration management tool based upon, at least in part, the at least one build information element. The computing task is initiated from within the configuration management tool. The computing task is deployed on a computing device.
US10318280B2
In accordance with an embodiment, described herein is a system and method for supporting patching in a multi-tenant application server environment. The system can associate one or more partitions with a tenant, for use by that tenant, wherein a partition is a runtime and administrative subdivision or slice of a domain. A patching process can take advantage of high-availability features provided by an application server clustering environment, to apply patches in a controlled, rolling restart, which maintains a domain's ability to operate without interruption, or with zero downtime. The process can be used to automate complex or long running tasks, including preserving an unpatched or prior version of an application server, application, or other software component for possible rollback, or providing automatic reversion in the event of an unrecoverable error.
US10318278B2
Apparatuses, methods and storage medium associated with provision of power management data packages are disclosed herein. In embodiments, an apparatus may include one or more processors, memory to store a power management data package having a first plurality of descriptions of always present fixed platform devices and a second plurality of descriptions of potentially present variable platform devices; and firmware coupled with the one or more processors and memory to provide basic input/output services to an operating system operated by the one or more processors, wherein the operating system has an operational requirement for the power management data package. The basic input/output services may include a service to modify the power management data package to bring the power management data package into compliance with the operational requirement of the operating system. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US10318267B2
A system, method and apparatus for installing software at a mobile electronic device are provided, the mobile electronic device enabled for communication with a computing device. A query for available software for installation on the mobile electronic device receiving is received from the computing device, the query directed to a proxy server rather than a public server enabled as a gateway for software downloads. A list of the available software is generated. The list is modified to produce a modified list of approved software. The modified list is transmitted to the computing device such that the approved software can be selected for installation on the mobile electronic device.
US10318264B2
A method and system for matching features between applications and devices are provided. A feature matching system comprising: a communication unit configured to make communication with external devices; a controller configured to collect features via the communication unit, create device groups having common features between applications and electronic devices, determine a correlation between the features, and match the features between the applications and the electronic devices based at least in part on the device groups; and a database configured to store the collected features and the device groups.
US10318255B2
A method includes receiving stateful code that is called from a first location and executed at a second location. The method includes acquiring contextual information associated with the stateful code. The method includes determining a location for storage of state information based on the contextual information. The method includes, based on the determined location, transforming the stateful code into stateless code. The transforming includes storing state information for the stateful code into storage at the determined location. In response to the determined location being the first location, the stateless code includes: retrieving the state information from the storage; from the first location, sending a call to the second location; at the first location, receiving a response from the second location; and storing the new state information into the storage at the first location. One argument of the call includes the retrieved state information. One return value includes new state information.
US10318251B1
A graphical block diagram can be used to execute multiple operating modes, such as a code generation or simulation mode. The graphical block diagram may include at least a first graphical block used solely in a first operating mode and a second graphical block used solely in a second operating mode. Each of the first and second graphical blocks includes a respective input receiving an input from a defined mode block. The defined mode block produces a mode output indicating a selection of one of the multiple operating modes. Other blocks of the graphical block diagram may be used in more than one operating mode. Depending on the value of the mode output, the graphical block diagram is interpreted according to the first or second operating mode. More than two operating modes are possible. The techniques described herein improve a model-based development platform.
US10318246B2
A computer-implemented computer documentation validation method, system, and computer program product for discovering problems and errors in an entire set of program/software documentation written by humans and flagging the documentation errors to suggest corrections to humans.
US10318244B2
A method is described that involves executing a first instruction with a functional unit. The first instruction is a multiply-add instruction. The method further includes executing a second instruction with the functional unit. The second instruction is a round instruction.
US10318240B2
Setting or updating of floating point controls is managed. Floating point controls include controls used for floating point operations, such as rounding mode and/or other controls. Further, floating point controls include status associated with floating point operations, such as floating point exceptions and/or others. The management of the floating point controls includes efficiently updating the controls, while reducing costs associated therewith.
US10318232B2
Computer-implemented systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for providing virtual monitors. In accordance with some embodiments, a number of virtual monitors in which to provide a virtual desktop and a characteristic of one of the virtual monitors can be identified. A virtual monitor can then be generated based on the characteristic, and a portion of the virtual desktop can be assigned to the virtual monitor based at least in part on the identified number. An image of the portion of the virtual desktop can then be captured from the virtual monitor, and provided for presentation on a monitor of a client device.
US10318214B1
Disclosed is an image processing apparatus, including a receiver that receives a setting of a job; a reader that optically reads an original; a memory that stores the image data; and a hardware processor that instructs the external device to store the image data to be edited, and edits the image data page by page by using the page edit function of the external device, wherein when a temporary storing job for temporarily storing the image data in the memory is executed, the hardware processor judges whether a setting of a setting item for an edit of the image data page by page is changed, and in case that the setting of the setting item is changed, the hardware processor carries out a preceding transmission process in which the image data stored in the memory is transmitted to the external device and is stored in the external device.
US10318212B2
A control device includes a processor. The processor is configured to receive a write request to write content data. The processor is configured to divide the content data into leading first data and subsequent second data. The processor is configured to write the first data to a first storage resource in a first storage group among a plurality of storage groups having operating rates different from each other. The first storage group has a first operating rate higher than operating rates of any other storage groups. The processor is configured to write the second data to a second storage resource in a second storage group. The second storage group has a second operating rate lower than the first operating rate. The processor is configured to activate, in parallel with the writing of the first data, the second storage resource when the second storage resource is in a non-operating state.
US10318208B2
A memory apparatus including a memory cell array, a register unit and a command generator is provided. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells. The register unit is configured to record a plurality of user-defined information. The command generator receives a user-defined command and operates at least two memory operations on the memory cell array according to the received user-defined command and the user-defined information. The user-defined information is generated according to the at least two memory operations. Furthermore, an operating method of a memory apparatus is also provided.
US10318199B2
A method for compressing a group of key-value pairs, the method including dividing the group of key-value pairs into a plurality of segments, creating a plurality of blocks, each block of the plurality of blocks corresponding to a segment of the plurality of segments, and compressing each block of the plurality of blocks.
US10318196B1
Dynamically managing control information in a storage device, including: querying, by an array management module executing on a storage array controller, the storage device for a location of control information for the storage device, the control information describing the state of one or more memory blocks in the storage device; and issuing, by the array management module in dependence upon the location of the control information for the storage device, a request to retrieve the control information for the storage device.
US10318195B2
A memory controller converts controller output signals output from a controller into memory input signals according to the operation specifications of memory chips to operate, and outputs the resultant to the memory chips through a common bus. The memory controller also receives memory output signals output from the memory chips through the common bus, and converts the received signals into controller input signals receivable to the controller. This allows the single memory controller to access the plurality of types of memory chips. As a result, the memory controller can be reduced in chip size, lowering the cost of the memory system.
US10318183B1
A method, computer program product, and computing system for defining a UIS layer within a storage management application, wherein the UIS layer is configured to perform operations including object management within a storage system. A System API layer is defined within the storage management application, wherein the System API layer is positioned beneath the UIS layer and is configured to perform operations including persistence object management within the storage system.
US10318178B1
A method of accelerating copy operations is performed by a data storage appliance. The method includes (a) in response to receiving a copy command to copy from a source extent to a target extent, issuing a buffered read command to read from the source extent down a storage stack of the data storage appliance by a driver running on the data storage appliance, the source extent being part of a first logical disk backed by non-volatile storage of the data storage appliance and the target extent being part of a second logical disk backed by non-volatile storage of the data storage appliance, (b) in response to issuing, receiving at the driver an indication from the storage stack that the source extent is empty, and (c) in response to receiving, issuing a zero-fill command to fill the target extent with zeroes down the storage stack by the driver.
US10318174B2
A computer system includes a host and a storage device. The host provides an input/output request (IO request). The storage device receives the request from the host and sends an interrupt informing input/output completion (IO completion) to the host after completing the IO request. The host adjusts the number of generated interrupts of the storage device using the number of delayed IOs. The computer system may adaptively control interrupt generation of the storage device based on a load status of a CPU or the number of delayed IOs. The interrupt generation of the storage device may be adjusted to obtain a CPU gain without loss of performance or processing time of the computer system.
US10318172B2
Cache operation in a multi-threaded processor uses a small memory structure referred to as a way enable table that stores an index to an n-way set associative cache. The way enable table includes one entry for each entry in the n-way set associative cache and each entry in the way enable table is arranged to store a thread ID. The thread ID in an entry in the way enable table is the ID of the thread associated with a data item stored in the corresponding entry in the n-way set associative cache. Prior to reading entries from the n-way set associative cache identified by an index parameter, the ways in the cache are selective enabled based on a comparison of the current thread ID and the thread IDs stored in entries in the way enable table which are identified by the same index parameter.
US10318170B2
Solid state memory technology is disclosed. A solid state memory component can include a plurality of bit lines, a source line, and a plurality of non-functional memory pillars. Each non-functional memory pillar is electrically isolated from one or both of the plurality of bit lines and the source line. A solid state memory component can include a plurality of pillars located in a periphery portion of the solid state memory component, and memory cells adjacent to each of the pillars. Associated systems and methods are also disclosed.
US10318168B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods for simultaneous in data path compute operations. An apparatus can include a memory device having an array of memory cells and sensing circuitry selectably coupled to the array. A plurality of shared I/O lines can be configured to move data from the array of memory cells to a first portion of logic stripes and a second portion of logic stripes for in data path compute operations associated with the array. The first portion of logic stripes can perform a first number of operations on a first portion of data moved from the array of memory cells to the first portion of logic stripes while the second portion of logic stripes perform a second number of operations on a second portion of data moved from the array of memory cells to the second portion of logic stripes during a first time period.
US10318165B2
A data operating method, device, and system are provided. The method includes: receiving an operation instruction sent by a CPU; when the operation instruction is a read instruction, reading a first data block in the block device and returning to-be-read data in the first data block to the CPU; or when the operation instruction is a write instruction, writing, into a cache, to-be-written data indicated by the write instruction, and writing, into the block device, a second data block that includes the to-be-written data. The method is used to operate data in a block device.
US10318152B2
An approach for modifying a size of a key on a keyboard displayed on a touch screen is presented. Based on a fingertip of a user being aligned with the key at a first proximity, the key is enlarged, key(s) originally on a periphery of the keyboard are moved, and the key(s) are removed from view on the touch screen. After enlarging the size of the key, keys other than the key(s) retain their sizes, each of the keys whose size is retained is moved towards a corresponding edge of the touch screen. After the key(s) originally on the periphery are removed, the keyboard is displayed to include the moved, originally-sized keys and the enlarged key and not include the removed key(s), and cover a surface area equal to an original surface area of the keyboard.
US10318141B2
A computer-implemented method includes a display. The display is for displaying a document, including a plurality of document parts. The method includes an image capture device. The method categorizes each of the plurality of document parts based on a content of each of the plurality of document parts. The method captures images of a user using the image capture device. The method determines a plurality of reading speeds for each of the plurality of document parts. The plurality of reading speeds based on the images of the user for each of the plurality of document parts. The scrolling speed for each of the plurality of document parts is based on the plurality of reading speeds and the content for each of the plurality of document parts. The method scrolls the document via the display based on the plurality of scrolling speeds for each of the plurality of document parts.
US10318139B1
A system, method, and apparatus for external accessory knob using a motion tracking device are disclosed. A portable electronic device may include a housing including a processor coupled to a memory and a motion tracking device. The external accessory knob may be mounted to the housing and may comprise a position holding mechanism. The motion tracking device may be operable to detect perturbation in at least one feedback parameter perturbed by movement of the external accessory knob. The movement may overcome opposition by the position holding mechanism. The processor may receive and compare the perturbed feedback parameter to a motion profile defined by data stored in the memory to identify a characteristic of the movement of the external accessory knob by matching the perturbed feedback parameter with at least one portion of the stored data defining the motion profile associated with known perturbations.
US10318138B2
A harvesting machine capable of automatic adjustment, comprising a plurality of acoustic material flow sensors, a control system, a processor, and application software, wherein the plurality of acoustic material flow sensors are mounted internal to the harvesting machine at points of crop material flow and are capable of sensing an amount of crop material passing by them. The control system operates in a cause-and-affect mode for interactively enabling manual or automatic responses to Mass Material Distribution (MMD) information and equipment-related performance parameters. An interactive combine control method is also provided.
US10318133B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems, for example, for controlling display of an image on a display screen includes, for example, receiving, by one or more processor, data regarding a user selected area relative to a first portion of an image displayed on a display screen to define a second portion of the image, at least a portion of the second portion of the image being outside the first portion of the image displayed on the display screen, and automatically controlling, by the one or more processor, display of the second portion of the image on the display screen based on the user selected area of the image to generally maximize display of the second portion of the image within the display screen.
US10318122B2
Examples disclosed herein relate to determining event and input coverage metrics for a graphical user interface (GUI) control instance. Examples include accessing event and input occurrence data identifying interactions performed on a GUI of an application, determining an event coverage metric for the given GUI control instance based on the event occurrence data, and determining an input coverage metric for the given GUI control instance based on the input occurrence data.
US10318117B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example, a computing device having a controller to present a plurality of associable actions and a plurality of accessories of distinct operational types, associate an action with an input function of a select one of the plurality of accessories, monitor the selected accessory for a stimulation of the input function, and transmit the action to an operating system to launch a first software application or to convey to a second software application the action or an aspect of the action. Additional embodiments are disclosed.
US10318113B2
One or more embodiments of a digital content system allow a user to conveniently search and/or navigate through a collection of digital content items. In particular, a user can interact with a client device to search for and identify one or more digital content items within a collection of digital content items. For example, the digital content system may provide a photo from a collection of photos via a graphical user interface. The digital content system can receive a user input identifying a selection of one or more visual features within the photo. Based on the selected visual feature(s), the digital content system may identify photos from the collection of photos that include the identified visual feature(s) and provide access to the identified photos via the graphical user interface.
US10318110B2
Apparatuses and methods for location-based visualization of geo-reference content are provided. Apparatus may include logic for causing a display of a map having at least one tag displayed therewith, and logic for causing the display of a set of content objects in response to selection of the tag, the set of content objects associated with the tag and the geographical location of the map. The content objects may be displayed in a viewing window adjacent the map and selectable by a user. The content objects may be filtered by a user, e.g., indicating that a content object is incorrectly tagged or geo-referenced. The apparatus may dynamically update the content based on user interaction. The set of tags and content objects displayed may vary based on a particular zoom level and associated tags may be displayed in response to selection of a tag and/or a content object.
US10318109B2
Non-limiting examples of the present disclosure describe an enhanced user interface that improves user interaction for suggestion and placement of emojis in a communication such as a message thread. An emoji, for insertion within a message thread, is selected through a user interface of an application. A plurality of selectable user interface features may be presented through the user interface, where the plurality of selectable user interface features are usable for insert of the selected emoji at different positions within the message thread. The plurality of selectable user interface features may be presented based on an analysis of the context of a message thread including signal data associated with the message thread. A selection may be received of one of the plurality of selectable user interface features. The emoji may be inserted into the message thread at a position that corresponds with the selection of a user interface feature.
US10318107B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can receive a set of information presentation rules, and receive a user interaction with a social network content post. User interaction information is displayed on a user interface for a current user based on the user interaction and the set of information presentation rules.
US10318106B2
Methods and apparatus for controlling a computing device using gesture inputs. The gesture inputs may be operative to move screens corresponding to applications executing on the handheld computing device from one display to another. Additionally, a multi portion gesture may be used to target different screens. For example, a first portion of the gesture may maintain or “pin” a screen in a display such that a second portion of the gesture is operative to move a different screen behind the pinned application.
US10318105B2
Disclosed are a method and a computer system for splitting and merging files via a motion input on a graphical user interface. The method comprises determining existence of a motion input; splitting the file into split multiple partial files based on pre-configurations; and generating multiple partial file icons representing the split multiple partial files on the graphical user interface. The multiple partial files may be subsequently merged together.
US10318100B2
A user, a manipulator such as a hand, and at least one entity such as a virtual or augmented reality object are in an interface such as a 3D environmental interface. The manipulation distance is the distance between a reference feature of the user and a manipulation feature of the manipulator. The entity distance is the distance between the reference feature and an entity feature of the entity. When the manipulation distance becomes greater than the entity distance, the entity is caused to fade, disappear, move out of the way, shrink, etc. so as to be less of an obstruction to the user's field of view, for example to avoid obstructing more distant entities. Other factors than the manipulation distance and entity distance may be considered in determining whether to reduce the obstructivity of the entity, and exceptions to the obstruction relation may be considered.
US10318098B2
A system and method for a communication analytics system comprising a communication device and a system analyzer and the system analyzer is configured to continuously monitor electronic communications over the one or more communication devices and identify one or more communication activities associated with the electronic communications. The system analyzer is further configured to translate the one or more communication activities into communication data, store the communication data in a database and identify one or more correlations from the communication data.
US10318092B2
A document visualization system includes an extraction unit (1) for processing a first medical record (11) in a collection of medical records (10). The medical records include text (13) in a natural language. The extraction unit extracts an indicator from the text (13), which indicator is indicative of a reference to medical records (21) in the collection of medical records (10). A visualization unit (2) generates a visual representation of the first medical record (11), a visual representation of the second medical record (21), and a visual representation of the reference. A control unit (3) controls the extraction unit (1) to process a plurality of medical records of the collection of medical records (10), to extract indicators from text of the medical records.
US10318084B2
An input device may include a matrix electrode array that includes various transmitter electrodes and various receiver electrodes. The transmitter electrodes may be disposed in a first direction. The receiver electrodes may be disposed in a second direction that is substantially parallel with the first direction. The input device may further include a first set of routing traces coupled to the transmitter electrodes and disposed underneath the transmitter electrodes in the first direction. The input device may further include a second set of routing traces coupled to the receiver electrodes and disposed underneath the receiver electrodes in the second direction.
US10318073B2
A touch apparatus includes a plurality of first sensing electrodes, a plurality of second sensing electrodes, and a plurality of third sensing electrodes. The first sensing electrodes extend along a first direction. The second sensing electrodes are electrically isolated from the first sensing electrodes, and extend along a second direction. The plurality of third sensing electrodes are electrically isolated from the second sensing electrodes, and extend along the first direction. At least some of the first sensing electrodes, at least some of the second sensing electrodes, and at least some of the third sensing electrodes are formed at different film layers respectively.
US10318072B2
Method and system for detecting unintentional touch screen interaction. The method and system includes receiving touch data specifying information about a plurality of inputs on a touch screen, wherein the touch screen comprises a graphical user interface (GUI) comprising a first plurality of logical user interface (UI) elements. The method and system also include determining that the plurality of inputs was unintentional, based on a second plurality of logical UI elements that the plurality of inputs touch. The method and system conclude by prompting a user to verify that the plurality of inputs is intentional.
US10318071B2
A method and apparatus for generating touch blob angle orientation in a touch device are described. In one embodiment, the apparatus comprises a touch processing unit operable to analyze sensor data generated from touch inputs on a touchscreen and generate touch blob information for each detected touch blob; and a filter coupled to the touch processing unit operable to filter blob orientation information from a filter output in response to detection of a finger lifting event.
US10318070B2
A touch detector with a code debugger is provided. The touch detector can include a base, a PCBA with a base-side of the PCBA mounted to the base, a frame mounted to a frame-side of the PCBA, and a debugging device mounted on, coupled to, or soldered to the PCBA for debugging other components soldered to the PCBA. The debugging device can be externally accessible to a user when the base, the PCBA, and the frame are mounted together. The touch detector can also include a battery and/or a USB port, each of which can be externally accessible to the user when the base, the PCBA, and the frame are mounted together.
US10318055B2
A touch control panel includes a substrate including a touch control region and a trace region. The substrate includes metal bridges on the touch control region and first traces on the trace region. The substrate is provided with an insulating layer covering the metal bridges and the first traces and has first via holes located on a position of the touch control region. Second via holes are located at positions corresponding to the first traces. The insulating layer is formed thereon with a metal layer including inductive electrodes on the touch control region and driving electrodes. The inductive electrodes and driving electrode are connected to second traces and the third traces. The second and third traces are connected to the first traces through the second via holes and inductive electrodes are electrically connected to the metal bridges through the first via holes.
US10318054B2
A display device includes: a display section having a screen and a first electrode section provided at a first position in a thickness direction; a second electrode section provided at a second position in the thickness direction; a gap section which is provided between the first electrode section and the second electrode section and is deformable in the thickness direction when the screen is pressed; and a circuit section which is connected to the first electrode section and the second electrode section, displays to the screen, and detects a press onto the screen, and a capacitance value of a first capacitance between the first electrode section and the second electrode section is changeable due to deformation of the gap section. In a force period, the circuit section applies a sensor driving signal to the second electrode section, and detects a sensor detection signal based on the sensor driving signal through the first capacitance.
US10318040B2
There is provided a touch display device including a display panel including a first electrode for touch sensing, a first support that covers a back surface of an edge area of the display panel, a second support on a back side of the first support and that covers an entirety of the back surface of the display panel, and a touch driver configured to: apply a first electrode driving signal to the first electrode, select one of the first support and the second support as a second electrode, and apply a second electrode driving signal to sense a user's touch pressure applied to the display panel.
US10318037B2
A detection method for enhanced 3D detection module includes a plurality of touch units configured to sense positions of touch points, a plurality of pressure-sensitive units configured to sense pressing forces and a signal processing circuit, the detection method including: providing a touch scanning pulse to the plurality of touch units and providing a pressure scanning pulse to at least two of the pressure-sensitive units; generating touch signals by the plurality of touch units in response to the touch scanning pulse sensing the positions of the touch points and generating a superimposed pressure signal by the at least two of the pressure-sensitive units in response to the pressure scanning pulse sensing the pressing forces; and determining a position and a pressing force value of at least one touch point by the signal processing circuit according to the superimposed pressure signal and the touch signals.
US10318032B2
The present invention relates to a capacitive detection device, comprising a plurality of individual capacitive measuring electrodes (12) distributed according to a measuring surface, and connecting tracks (20) respectively connected to said measuring electrodes (12), wherein the measuring electrodes (12) and the connecting tracks (20) are arranged according to two distinct optically clear layers separated by an electrically insulating insulation material (53).The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing the device, and an apparatus comprising the device.
US10318026B2
Disclosed is a touch window including a cover substrate, a first intermediate layer on the cover substrate, an electrode layer on the first intermediate layer, and a second intermediate layer provided on the first intermediate layer. The first intermediate layer has a refractive index different from a refractive index of the second intermediate layer.
US10318022B2
An apparatus includes a housing, a tip that moves with respect to the housing based on applied contact force and a pressure sensor that detects the force applied on the tip. The pressure sensor includes a first element integrated or fixed to the tip and a second element that is stationary with respect to the housing and positioned to face the first element. The first element is formed from a rigid material that is conductive. The second element is conductive and has elastic properties. In addition, one of the first element or the second element is coated with a non-conductive layer. The first element moves toward the second element based on force applied on the tip and deforms the second element based on the force. The sensor additionally includes a circuit to detect capacitance between the first element and the second element.
US10318017B2
A user interface suitable for use in cellular phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs), PC Tablets, as well as laptops, PCs, office equipment, medical equipment, or any other hand-held electronic device, that allows control of the image on the device display by tilting the device to either change the view in perspective, change the magnification, or both, concurrently, by moving the device. Thus, the tilt of the device controls the angle of view of the image, and moving the device perpendicular to the screen controls the magnification.
US10318014B2
An example system includes a display; an optical pointer driver to receive an indication of an optical pointer location on the display; and a graphics driver to receive the indication of the optical pointer location and adjust an illumination of graphics in a vicinity of the indicated location.
US10318012B2
A keyboard arrangement and a method for a digital apparatus, wherein the keyboard arrangement comprising keyboard means for receiving user input data, processing data and for interfacing the digital apparatus, mechanical means for attaching to several types of digital apparatus, protection means for covering and safeguarding the digital apparatus, wherein the said keyboard means utilizing a NFC protocol for setting up a connection with the digital apparatus, for harvesting power from the digital apparatus and for transmitting data to the digital apparatus in response to user-actuation, and said keyboard means receiving a request message powering and turning on the keyboard means, thereafter the keyboard means determining if at least one engage key being pressed at user input means, then the keyboard means receiving data from user input means and processing and transmitting said data to the digital apparatus.
US10318004B2
A haptic device is configured to obtain a predetermined distance and establish a contact position. The haptic device may monitor sensor data in order to determine an activity using a content module and access a lookup table to associate a contact position with the determined activity. A position module will monitor the position of the haptic device and detect when the haptic device is at the contact position. At the contact position, the haptic device will produce a haptic effect. In some embodiments, a display device may be in communication with the haptic device in order to transmit and receive data.
US10318002B2
A magnetorheological transmission device and a method for influencing the coupling intensity of two components, which can be coupled and whose coupling intensity can be influenced. To influence the coupling intensity, a channel is provided, which contains a magnetorheological medium with magnetically polarizable particles. A magnetic field generating unit generates a magnetic field in the channel in order to influence the magnetorheological medium in the channel. An outer component encloses an inner component. At least one of the two components is mounted via a separate bearing. A distance between the outer and inner components at least 10 times as great as a typical mean diameter of the magnetically polarizable particles in the magnetorheological medium. The magnetic field of the magnetic field generating unit can be applied to the channel in order to selectively chain together the particles and/or release them.
US10317992B2
Improving accuracy in understanding and/or resolving references to visual elements in a visual context associated with a computerized conversational system is described. Techniques described herein leverage gaze input with gestures and/or speech input to improve spoken language understanding in computerized conversational systems. Leveraging gaze input and speech input improves spoken language understanding in conversational systems by improving the accuracy by which the system can resolve references—or interpret a user's intent—with respect to visual elements in a visual context. In at least one example, the techniques herein describe tracking gaze to generate gaze input, recognizing speech input, and extracting gaze features and lexical features from the user input. Based at least in part on the gaze features and lexical features, user utterances directed to visual elements in a visual context can be resolved.
US10317990B2
A determination can be made as to whether a user of an augmented reality device is within a threshold distance from a configurable physical apparatus. Responsive to determining that the user is within the threshold distance from the configurable physical apparatus, a communication link can be established between the augmented reality device and a controller of the configurable physical apparatus. The augmented reality device can initiate the controller of the configurable physical apparatus to change the configurable physical apparatus from a first configuration to a second configuration, wherein the second configuration facilitates accessibility of the configurable physical apparatus to the user.
US10317962B2
Techniques for inducing heterogeneous microprocessor behavior using non-uniform cooling are described. According to an embodiment, a device is provided that comprises an IC chip comprising a plurality of cores and a cooling apparatus coupled to the integrated chip that cools the integrated chip in association with electrical operation of the plurality of cores. The cooling apparatus cools a first core of the plurality of cores to a lower temperature than a second core of the plurality of cores. In various embodiments, the cooling apparatus comprises a plurality of channels embedded within the integrated chip and the cooling apparatus cools the integrated chip via flow of liquid coolant through the plurality of channels.
US10317957B2
Modular dense storage arrays are disclosed. In some embodiments, a modular storage array may include a chassis configured to receive a plurality of drive bay modules, a first of the plurality of drive bay modules configured to receive a first plurality of storage drives in the absence of a drive adaptor, each of the first plurality of storage drives having a first form factor, and a second of the plurality of drive bay modules configured to receive a second plurality of storage drives in the absence of the drive adaptor, each of the second plurality of storage drives having a second form factor different from the first form factor.
US10317952B2
An apparatus is provided which comprises: a chassis compartment having a bottom surface and walls orthogonal to the bottom, wherein the chassis compartment comprises: a rectangular opening, which may be designed to accept a microelectromechanical (MEMS) device and four slots, which may be designed to accept one or more magnet(s), extending outwardly from the rectangular opening, wherein each of the slots comprises: an inner opening having a length coextensive with a side of the rectangular opening, and an outer opening having corresponding ends that extend a length of the outer opening beyond the length of the inner opening. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US10317935B2
The present application discloses an electronic apparatus comprising a body, a rotary connection device, a bracket and a base, wherein, the bracket is rotatably connected to the body via the rotary connection device; the base is detachably connected to the body via the bracket. The electronic apparatus is in a first use mode when the body is connected to the base via the bracket. The electronic apparatus is in a second use mode when the base is detached from the bracket. The second use mode is different from the first use mode.
US10317923B2
A load control system, such as a lighting control system, may be configured to control a first electrical load in response to a sensed operational characteristic of a second electrical load. The load control system may include a load control device electrically connected to the first electrical load, and a load-sensing remote control device that is configured to sense an operational characteristic of the second electrical load. The load-sensing remote control device may be configured to communicate with the load control device via wireless communication. The load-sensing remote control device may be configured to transmit messages to the load control device in response to sensing a change in the operational characteristic of the second electrical load. The load control device may be configured to, upon receiving messages from the load-sensing remote control device, control an amount of power that is delivered to the first electrical load.
US10317922B2
A power supply management circuit manages transfer of power that is supplied to a peripheral device from a power supply device. The power supply management circuit includes a current limiter and one or more capacitors. The current limiter limits intensity of first current received from the power supply device through an input terminal to be smaller than or equal to limitation intensity, and outputs second current having intensity limited to be smaller than or equal to the limitation intensity through an output terminal connected to the peripheral device. When the intensity of the first current exceeds the limitation intensity, the capacitors output third current through the output terminal.
US10317921B1
A power supply is disclosed. The power supply includes a first switch and a second switch. The gate of the first switch is coupled to the gate of the second switch. The power supply further includes a cutoff switch coupled between the first switch and an input voltage port. A comparator is included for comparing a voltage at a feedback port with a fixed reference voltage. The comparator opens the cutoff switch when the voltage at the feedback port is lower than the fixed reference voltage.
US10317917B2
A fluid regulator having a valve body defining an inlet, an outlet, a loading port, an access port, and a loading chamber disposed within the valve body and coupled to the loading port. A valve assembly is at least partially disposed between the inlet and the outlet and in communication with the loading chamber and is adapted to cooperate with the loading chamber to adjust fluid flow at the outlet by adjusting a fluid flow rate between the inlet and the outlet. A restrictor is at least partially disposed within the access port and the loading chamber and the valve assembly are adapted to be responsive to a change in loading pressure such that a modified rate is achieved and the restrictor is adapted to adjust a response speed in which the modified rate is achieved.
US10317902B2
A method and system for evaluating inter-vehicle traffic gaps and time instances to perform a lane change maneuver is described. The method includes determining a set of trajectories which respectively constitutes an approximation of the feasible motion of the ego vehicle, evaluating the set of trajectories on the available inter-vehicle traffic gaps and time instances to perform the lane change maneuver over a prediction horizon to select a subset of feasible inter-vehicle traffic gaps and time instances to perform the lane change maneuver and to establish a corresponding set of lane change trajectories, evaluating the set of lane change trajectories on the subset of feasible inter-vehicle traffic gaps and time instances from a safety critical perspective, and selecting a preferred lane change trajectory, with corresponding inter-vehicle traffic gap and time instance, to perform the lane change maneuver.
US10317897B1
An aesthetically pleasing discreet wearable system for interacting with a vehicle, or fleet of vehicles. The wearable system may be worn as a necklace, bracelet, anklet, or the like and allows for communication between a passenger and a vehicle, or fleet of vehicles. A passenger may summon or cancel a ride, alter interior lighting and music levels, or otherwise control a vehicle by interacting with the wearable system. Such interaction includes signals generated by a microphone, by a touch sensor, or by gesture recognition. The wearable system communicates to the passenger a successful summoning of a ride, successfully canceling a ride, and a time to arrival by combinations of vibrations, light emissions, and audio alerts.
US10317885B2
The present disclosure provides an industrial robot safety control system, a back-up safety circuit and a safety module. The safety module includes a first safety circuit and a second safety circuit. The first safety circuit and the second safety circuit receive a warning signal at a same time. The first safety circuit is configured to respond to the warning signal. The second safety circuit include a delay system and an event response circuit. The delay system sets a time delay when receiving the warning signal, wherein, when the delay system does not receive a first control signal indicating that the first safety circuit has responded to the warning signal during the time delay, the delay system controls the event response circuit to respond to the warning signal. The present disclosure may help avoid the problem of common mode failure of the back-up safety mechanism.
US10317859B2
Methods and systems for playing personalized music are described. The methods and systems can automatically play music based on the musical preferences of a user in a vicinity of a music player. The preferences of the user are received or retrieved, and the music played is tailored to the user's preferences. The methods and systems select songs that match or are similar to a musical preference of a user, such as songs in the same genre, style, or by the same artist.
US10317858B2
A framework for centrally controlling a plurality of building automation systems. The architecture and method automates a plurality of existing and new building automation systems comprising access control, HVAC, fire safety etc. in such a way that the plurality of building automation systems can be monitored and controlled from a central dashboard. The central dashboard effectively monitors, takes right decisions and remotely controls the buildings across the globe from a centralized location.
US10317857B2
The embodiments described herein include one embodiment that a control method including executing an infeasible search algorithm during a first portion of a predetermined sample period to search for a feasible control trajectory of a plurality of variables of a controlled process, executing a feasible search algorithm during a second portion of the predetermined sample period to determine the feasible control trajectory if the infeasible search algorithm does not determine a feasible control trajectory, and controlling the controlled process by application of the feasible control trajectory.
US10317854B2
A machine learning device that learns a control command for a machine by machine learning, including a machine learning unit that performs the machine learning to output the control command; a simulator that performs a simulation of a work operation of the machine based on the control command; and a first determination unit that determines the control command based on an execution result of the simulation by the simulator.
US10317852B1
The various technologies presented herein relate to utilizing predictive guidance during one or more phases of a trajectory flown by an interceptor during interception with a target. The trajectory of the interceptor comprises an initial phase, a predictive phase, and a final phase. The initial phase includes the launching of the interceptor and can be unguided. The predictive phase directs the interceptor towards the target, wherein the predictive phase utilizes predictive guidance to control the trajectory of the interceptor based upon a predicted location of the target relative to the current locations of the target and the interceptor. During the predictive phase, a motor(s) can be cycled on and off, causing a period(s) where the interceptor is being propelled by the ignited motor, and a period(s) where the interceptor is propelled by its own momentum after cessation of power from the motor, e.g., unpowered flight.
US10317847B2
An electronic timepiece includes: a latch unit that latches and outputs specification data designating a specification in accordance with a latch signal; a signal output unit that outputs one of a plurality of driving signals including driving pulses at different periods based on the specification data output from the latch unit; a driving unit that drives a motor based on the driving signal output from the signal output unit; and a control unit that generates the latch signal so that the latch signal has at least an active level at a timing before generation of each driving pulse in the driving signal with a shortest period of the driving pulse among the plurality of driving signals.
US10317832B2
A moving member is disposed between an upper guide, which guides a conveyed transfer material and to which a voltage is applied from a power source, and a lower guide, which guides the conveyed transfer material, the upper guide being disposed on an upstream side with respect to a photosensitive drum in a conveyance direction of the transfer material. The moving member is supported by the upper guide, and is capable of abutting against and separating from the lower guide. By being pushed by the transfer material, the moving member transitions from a first state in which the moving member is abutted against the lower guide to a second state in which the moving member is separated from the lower guide.
US10317825B2
An image formation apparatus includes a fixing device, a heater driver, and a controller. The fixing device includes: a heater; a heating member; and a temperature sensor which outputs a signal depending on a temperature of the heater or the heating member. When a target temperature of the heater or the heating member changes from a first target temperature to a second target temperature lower than the first target temperature and before a detection temperature becomes equal to or lower than a first switching temperature which is equal to or lower than the second target temperature, the controller sets control value of the heater by on/off control or proportional control. After the detection temperature becomes equal to or lower than the first switching temperature, the controller sets control value of the heater by proportional-integral control.
US10317813B2
An image forming apparatus includes a control unit: starting up a rotary polygon mirror based on a first signal output by a driving unit thereof; causing a light source to emit a laser-beam while controlling a rotational speed of the rotary polygon mirror based on the first signal to acquire a second signal output from a detecting unit of the laser-beam; turning off the light source after acquiring a phase relation between the first and second signals; causing a charging unit to charge a photosensitive member; making the laser-beam to enter onto the detecting unit without exposing the photosensitive member based on the phase relation in response to the rotational speed reaching a target speed; controlling the rotational speed based on the second signal in response to the laser-beam being entered; and starting image formation in response to the rotational speed converging within a predetermined range including the target speed.
US10317811B2
It is intended to provide a charging member capable of maintaining high charging performance even when used over a long period. The charging member has an electroconductive support and an electroconductive elastic layer as a surface layer, wherein the electroconductive elastic layer has a roughened surface, and the electroconductive elastic layer has an average Martens' hardness Mc of 2 N/mm2 or larger and 20 N/mm2 or smaller measured with an indentation strength of 0.04 mN at a core surface defined according to a three dimensional surface texture standard (ISO 25178-2:2012), and has an average viscosity Vc of 70×10−3 V or smaller measured in a square of 2 μm long×2 μm wide field of view under a scanning probe microscope.
US10317810B2
An improved organic photoconductor drum having a protective overcoat layer and method to make the same is provided. The protective overcoat layer is prepared from a curable composition including nano metal oxide particles sized less than 400 nm in combination with an urethane acrylate resin having at least 6 functional groups.
US10317799B2
A system and a method of producing sub-millimeter scale particles are provided herein. The method includes providing a substrate that has a layer of photosensitive material thereon; exposing a portion of the layer to a structured beam of light that has a cross-sectional shape, and a cross-sectional size. The cross-sectional size of the structured beam of light at the layer of photosensitive material is smaller than a sub-millimeter scale particle. The method also includes moving the substrate or the beam of light relative to each other to follow a path for making additional exposures or continuous exposure to result in a discrete exposed pattern in the layer that corresponds to the particle being produced, and exposing the layer to the light; and processing the layer to remove unexposed material around the discrete exposed pattern and to separate the discrete exposed pattern from the layer to provide the sub-millimeter scale particle.
US10317785B2
The invention provides a light emitting apparatus including a projector color wheel and a light emitting diode (LED) device using a composite material, a method of manufacturing the composite material, and an optical film. The stability of the composite material has been greatly improved. Light emitting devices using the composite material have wide color gamut.
US10317782B2
A laser projection display device, relating to the technical field of laser, including a laser light source having a light source shell, an airtight device fixed on an inner wall of the light source shell, and a laser device provided in the interior of the airtight device. The airtight device having a sealing housing and a gas pressure adjustment structure, the sealing housing is fixed on an inner wall of the light source shell, the gas pressure adjustment structure is arranged on one side of the sealing housing, the sealing housing is communicated with the gas pressure adjustment structure, and the gas pressure adjustment structure is configured to adjust the volume of the airtight device.
US10317770B2
A Mach-Zehnder modulator includes: a first arm waveguide having first to third waveguide portions, the third waveguide portion being curved to couple the first and second waveguide portions with each other; a second arm waveguide having first to third waveguide portions, the third waveguide portion being curved to couple the first and second waveguide portions with each other, and a differential signal conductor having first and second signal conductors for driving the first and second arm waveguides, respectively. The first signal conductor has a first conductor portion and a first intersecting conductor portion connected thereto. The second signal conductor has a first conductor portion and a second intersecting conductor portion connected thereto. One of the first and second intersecting conductor portions includes an upper conducting layer, and the other includes a lower conducting layer. The upper conducting layer extends on the lower conducting layer apart therefrom.
US10317766B2
The display device (10) comprises an array of rows and columns of pixels. The display device further comprises a plurality of commonly controlled first electrodes (FE) for supplying a common signal (DS1) to each pixel (13), a plurality of commonly controlled second electrodes (SE) for supplying a further common signal (DS2) to each pixel, and a plurality of pixel addressing electrodes (AC1, AC2, AC3, AC4) for addressing the individual pixels. At least the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes are routed parallel to one another, such that crossovers between the commonly controlled electrodes are eliminated.
US10317765B2
A method for removing a material from a surface includes passing a laser through a lens such that the laser impinges on the material. The surface from which the material is removed has an array of artifacts thereon with a spacing between the artifacts and a pitch between lines of the artifacts. At least the spacing between the artifacts is varied.
US10317762B2
An active matrix circuit substrate includes a first power supply line, a second power supply line, a third power supply line, a fourth power supply line, a first control line, and a second control line; a pixel electrode and a memory circuit; a common electrode that is electrically connected to the fourth power supply line; a capacitor that is provided between the third power supply line and the pixel electrode; a first switch circuit that is provided between the first power supply line and the pixel electrode and operates on the basis of an output of the memory circuit and a potential of the first control line; and a second switch circuit that is provided between the second power supply line and the pixel electrode and operates on the basis of the output of the memory circuit and a potential of the second control line.
US10317761B2
A liquid crystal display device according to an aspect of the invention includes a display region having a plurality of sub pixels. The sub pixels each include a pixel electrode and a thin film transistor electrically coupled to the pixel electrode. A transient leak current of each thin film transistor included in the sub pixels at both ends of the display region among the sub pixels provided on a line passing through the center of the display region in plan view is smaller than a transient leak current of each thin film transistor included in the sub pixels in a central portion including the center.
US10317760B2
A liquid crystal panel and a liquid crystal device (LCD) are provided. The liquid crystal panel includes a first side, a second side opposite to the first side, and a third side. The liquid crystal panel further includes at least one gate on array (GOA) circuit. The GOA circuit includes a plurality of GOA units, and each of the GOA units includes a signal buffer configured to buffer received gate driving signals and to provide the buffered gate driving signals to the corresponding gate lines. Dimensions of the signal buffer of each of the GOA units are in an increasing order in a direction from the first side toward the second side, or numbers of the signal buffers of each of the GOA units are in an increasing order in the direction from the first side toward the second side.
US10317755B2
An image signal line driver circuit includes first to third source drivers and fourth to sixth source drivers, which are respectively cascade-connected. The output duration of data signals that are provide to these source drivers is increasingly short on the source drivers that are connected further downstream (that is, the amount of pixel data to be output to the next stage is increasingly small). This reduces the power consumption and heat generation of the overall device. Moreover, the phases of the data signals are shifted, thereby reducing EMI. In this way, when a plurality of image signal line driver circuits are cascade-connected, heat generation and power consumption in each driver circuit and/or EMI therebetween is reduced.
US10317750B2
In the present invention, a liquid crystal display device capable of achieving a high contrast ratio and a wide viewing angle, and capable of achieving a high-speed response is provided. The liquid crystal display device in the present invention is configured such that, when viewed in a plan view, at least one contour line of a plurality of linear portions of a first electrode intersects with a branch portion of a second electrode and a branch portion of a third electrode adjacent to each other, a length of a part intersecting with the branch portion of the third electrode is longer than a length of a part intersecting with the branch portion of the second electrode, and a driving operation is performed such that a potential difference between the first electrode and the third electrode is equal to or greater than a potential difference between the first electrode and the second electrode.
US10317747B2
The present disclosure discloses a liquid crystal panel including a first polarizer, an array substrate, a color film substrate, and a second polarizer disposed in this order, a plurality of pixel structures are arranged in the array of the array substrate, the pixel structure includes a pixel electrode; the display area portion of the pixel electrode includes a striped horizontal trunk and a striped vertical trunk, a plurality of stripe branches are divided into four quadrant sub-regions each of which is divided equally between the horizontal trunk and the vertical trunk center; wherein the angle between the absorption axis of the first polarizer and the horizontal trunk is α, the absorption axis of the second polarizer is perpendicular to the absorption axis of the first polarizer, and 0<α<90°. The present disclosure also discloses a liquid crystal display device including a liquid crystal panel as described above.
US10317745B2
A display substrate includes a first switching element electrically connected to a gate line and that extends in a first direction and electrically connected to a data line that extends in a second direction crossing the first direction, an insulation layer disposed on the first switching element, a shielding electrode disposed on the insulation layer and a pixel electrode that partially overlap the shielding electrode. The shielding electrode includes a first portion that overlaps the data line and extends in the second direction and a second portion that overlaps the gate line and extends in the first direction.
US10317722B2
A pixel section which is a display region, and a frame section which is a non-display region surrounding a periphery of the pixel section are defined in a display device. The display device comprises a first display panel including: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate and including a light shielding layer; and a plurality of spacers formed between these two substrate. The second substrate includes a first frame area constituting a portion disposed in the frame section. The first frame area includes a light shielding forming region and a light shielding non-forming region. A spacer disposed in the frame section among the plurality of spacers is formed on the light shielding forming region in the first frame area. The light shielding non-forming region is disposed around the spacer disposed on the light shielding forming region.
US10317720B2
There are provided a light control apparatus, a method for manufacturing the light control apparatus, and a display apparatus including the light control apparatus. The light control apparatus includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, and a plurality of liquid crystal units between the first substrate and the second substrate, and the plurality of liquid crystal units includes a first liquid crystal unit having a droplet including a liquid crystal and a polymer and configured as a polymer dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) and a second liquid crystal unit which is disposed on or under the first liquid crystal unit and configured as a guest-host liquid crystal (GHLC) including a liquid crystal and a coloring member.
US10317716B2
A display apparatus may include a display panel, a touch electrode, a connecting pad, a first inorganic insulation layer, and a second inorganic insulation layer. The display panel may display an image according to image data. The touch electrode and the connecting pad may be formed of the same conductive material and may be spaced from each other. The first inorganic insulation layer may be positioned between the display panel and the touch electrode and may directly contact each of the touch electrode and the connecting pad. The second inorganic insulation layer may directly contact each of the first inorganic insulation layer and the touch electrode. The touch electrode may be covered by the second inorganic insulation layer. The connecting pad may be positioned between two portions of the second inorganic insulation layer and have a side not covered by the second inorganic insulation layer.
US10317707B2
A transmissive optical device comprising: a layer (10) of light absorber material in the solid state, preferably made of a phase-change material with switchable refractive index such as GeSbTe; a partially-reflective layer (12), and a spacer layer (14) between the layer (10) of light absorber material and the partially-reflective layer (12). The spacer layer (14) and an optional coverlayer (16) may be transparent conductive ITO layers which may serve to electrically switch the phase of the phase-change material layer (10), thereby switching the transmission/reflection properties of the transmissive optical device.
US10317705B2
This invention describes ophthalmic devices with media inserts that have photonic elements upon or within them. In some embodiments passive ophthalmic devices of various kinds may be formed. Methods and devices for active ophthalmic devices based on photonic based projection systems may also be formed.
US10317692B2
The present application discloses a stereoscopic display for naked eyes includes a two-dimensional display panel, a stereoscopic module for the naked eyes and a light converting module. The stereoscopic module for the naked eyes is deposited between the two-dimensional display panel and the light converting module. The two-dimensional display panel is used to output a two-dimensional image based on the linearly polarized light; the stereoscopic module for the naked eyes is used to output a three-dimensional image based on the linearly polarized light. The light converting module is used to convert the linearly polarized light to a circularly polarized light and output a three-dimensional image based on the circularly polarized light.
US10317691B2
A visual display assembly useful as an authentication or anti-counterfeiting element. The assembly includes a substrate and, on a surface of the substrate, an array of micro mirrors receiving ambient light. Each mirror includes a reflective surface to reflect the ambient light so as to display an image that appears to float in a plane, which is spaced a distance apart from the surface of the substrate. The image includes a plurality of pixels, and the array of micro mirrors includes for each of the pixels a set of the micro mirrors each having a reflective surface oriented to reflect the ambient light toward a point on the plane corresponding to one of the pixels. Each of the sets of the micro mirrors includes a plurality of the micro mirrors, and the reflected ambient light each set of micro mirrors intersects to illuminate or write a pixel of an image.
US10317688B2
A translucent liquid crystal display panel (2) includes pixel pairs as display units each formed by a left-eye pixel (4L) and a right-eye pixel (4R) and arranged in a matrix shape. A through hole (4Ld) arranged in a color layer (4Lc) of a color filter has a slit shape whose longitudinal direction is identical to the orientation direction of a cylindrical lens (3a) constituting a lenticular lens (3). Similarly, a through hole (4Rd) arranged in a color layer (4Rc) of a color filter has a slit shape whose longitudinal direction is identical to the orientation direction of the cylindrical lens (3a) constituting the lenticular lens (3). This suppresses the phenomenon that a hue is changed by a field-of-view angle and/or an external light condition on the translucent display panel capable of displaying an image directed to a plurality of viewpoints.
US10317685B1
A cloaking device includes an object-side, an image-side, a cloaked region (CR) between the object-side and the image-side, and a reference optical axis extending from the object-side to the image-side. An object-side CR reflection boundary and an object-side optical component sub-assembly are positioned on the object-side and an image-side CR reflection boundary and an image-side optical component sub-assembly are positioned on the image-side. The object-side optical component sub-assembly includes an object-side outward-positioned half-mirror, an object-side inward-positioned half-mirror, and at least one of an object-side outward-positioned reflection boundary and an object-side half-wave plate. The image-side optical component sub-assembly includes an image-side outward-positioned half-mirror, an image-side inward-positioned half-mirror, and at least one of an image-side outward-positioned reflection boundary and an image-side half-wave plate. Light from an object located on the object-side of the cloaking device and obscured by the cloaked region is redirected around the cloaked region via three optical paths.
US10317680B1
An auto-focus head-mounted display (HMD) dynamically generates aberration-adjusted images based on the position and/or orientation of an eye of the user. An aberration-adjusted image is an image distorted to correct aberrations that would otherwise occur at a retina of the user due to image light passing through optics of the HMD that contains one or more optical imperfections. The aberration-adjusted image corrects the aberrations caused by these optical imperfections so that the resulting retinal image is free of optical aberrations due to the HMD while preserving correct eye optical aberrations that correlate with a current accommodative state of the eye.
US10317676B2
A head-up display device is improved in performance by a reduction in size and the satisfactory correction of optical aberration. A head-up display device includes an image display surface that displays an image, a reflective optical surface that is disposed at a position facing an predetermined observation position of an observer, and a projection optical system that projects the image displayed on the image display surface to the reflective optical surface disposed at the predetermined observation position and allows the observer to visually recognize the enlarged image as a virtual image. In a case in which an optical path, which extends from a center of the image display surface and reaches a center of an eye box, is referred to as an optical axis, the projection optical system includes a first mirror and a second mirror in this order from the image display surface and Conditional Expression (1) is satisfied.
US10317667B2
A system and method for quantitative functional neuroimaging through thick brain tissue in live animals. A computational imaging method is disclosed that uses plenoptic image acquisition including a first initialization step that identifies individual neurons by their optical signature and provides a reliable estimate of their position in space and a second stimulation-based image processing step that used acquired calibration data to quickly quantify activity in each identified neuron at video frame-rate.
US10317648B2
A photographing module includes an imaging lens assembly. The imaging lens assembly includes a plurality of lens elements, wherein one of the lens elements is a plastic lens element. At least one surface of an object-side surface and an image-side surface of the plastic lens element includes an effective optical portion and a peripheral portion. The peripheral portion surrounds the effective optical portion, and includes a plurality of rib structures, a first fitting section and an isolation section. Each of the rib structures has a strip shape along a radial direction of an optical axis of the imaging lens assembly, and the rib structures are arranged around the effective optical portion. The first fitting section surrounds the effective optical portion, and is connected to another one of the lens elements adjacent to the surface. The isolation section is disposed between the rib structures and the first fitting section.
US10317647B2
An optical lens assembly includes five lens elements and provides a TTL/EFL<1.0. In an embodiment, the focal length of the first lens element f1
US10317644B2
A four-piece optical lens for capturing image is provided. In order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis includes a first lens with positive refractive power, a second lens with refractive power, a third lens with refractive power and a fourth lens with refractive power. At least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the four lens elements are aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras.
US10317643B2
An optical assembly is disclosed. The optical assembly includes a collimating lens which collimates a divergent laser beam. A conical mirror has a reflecting cover surface and deforms a laser beam, which propagates in the direction of the conical axis, into an annular beam in a propagation plane perpendicular to the conical axis. An optics carrier has a first carrier element on which the collimating lens is fixed and a second carrier element on which the conical mirror is fixed. A connection device has at least one connection element which connects the first and second carrier elements to one another. The at least one connection element is arranged askew to the conical axis of the conical mirror.
US10317640B2
An indexing terminal arrangement includes a terminal housing that receives an input cable; an optical power splitter disposed within the interior of the terminal housing; a first multi-fiber optical adapter coupled to the terminal housing; a first single-fiber optical adapter coupled to the terminal housing; and a pass-through multi-fiber optical adapter coupled to the terminal housing. Split optical signals are provided to the first multi-fiber optical adapter and the first single-fiber optical adapter. Unsplit and indexed optical signals are provided to the pass-through optical adapter.
US10317634B2
Tower systems suitable for use at cellular base stations include a tower, an antenna mounted on the tower, a remote radio head mounted on the tower and a power supply. A power cable having a power supply conductor and a return conductor is connected between the power supply and the remote radio head. A shunt capacitance unit that is separate from the remote radio head that is electrically coupled between the power supply conductor and the return conductor of the power cable.
US10317631B2
[Object] To have excellent maintenance properties and restrain parallel light (collimated light) from being directly emitted to the outside of an optical connector during non-optical coupling.[Solution] An optical communication connector according to the present disclosure includes: a collimating lens configured to collimate light from an optical transmission path; and a diffusion section arranged on a leading end side with respect to the collimating lens, and configured to diffuse the light from the optical transmission path output from the collimating lens. According to this configuration, in the optical communication in which insertion and removal are frequently performed, it is possible to achieve their safety during non-fitting at the same time while having an advantage because of a collimating signal since light from an optical transmission path is diffused.
US10317626B2
An optical circuit switch includes a fiber hole array, a plurality of internal optical fibers, a collimating lens array, a MEMS mirror array, and a reflective surface. The fiber hole array includes an array of receptacles shaped to accept respective internal optical fibers. The collimating lens array is positioned adjacent to the fiber hole array. Each collimator of the collimating lens array optically couples light into or out of a corresponding one of the internal optical fibers. The fiber hole array, the collimator, the MEMS mirror array and the reflective surface are positioned relative to one another such that light exiting each of the internal optical fibers passes through its corresponding collimator and is redirected by a first mirror within the MEMS array towards the reflective surface, which directs the light back towards a second mirror of the MEMS mirror array, which in turn redirects the light towards a second internal optical fiber.
US10317622B2
A right-angle bending waveguide includes a circular-hole-type square-lattice photonic crystal (PhC) and a single compensation scattering rod having a low refractive index. The right-angle bending waveguide is a PhC formed from first dielectric rods having a low refractive index arranged in a background dielectric having a low refractive index according to a square lattice. In the PhC, one row and one column of the first dielectric rods having a high refractive index are removed to form the right-angle bending waveguide. A second dielectric rod having a high refractive index is arranged at a corner of the right-angle bending waveguide. The second dielectric rod is the compensation scattering rod or an air hole. The first dielectric rods are circular rods having the low refractive index or air holes. The right-angle bending waveguide having the circular-hole-type square-lattice PhC and the single compensation scattering rod having the low refractive index has extremely low reflectance and a very high transmission rate, facilitates large-scale optical path integration, and provides a broader space for PhC application.
US10317609B2
A display device includes a display panel, a light source and an optical component which receives light from the light source, outputs the provided light toward the display panel, and includes a light guiding film which guides the light toward the display panel, an optical sheet which is coupled to the light guiding film, and the optical sheet includes a base film and optical patterns disposed between the base film and the light guiding film to adjust the traveling direction of the light, and a reinforcing part filled between the base film and the light guiding film corresponding to a periphery of the optical component.
US10317606B2
An etendue squeezing optic includes light guiding elements that are extruded sideways to guide light to a wide outlet surface for efficient injection into an edge face of a flat light guide such as a backlight panel for a visual display, in combination with a light source optically coupled to the light inlet through an air-gap, so that light entering the optic through the air-gap is confined to a cone of directions determined by a critical angle of refraction into the optic from air at the air-gap.
US10317598B2
An optical film in which heat resistance or moisture resistance is excellent, and visibility is able to be sufficiently ensured. In the optical film used in a display apparatus including a polarizer, Re is 1,000 nm to 30,000 nm, and Rth is −30,000 nm to −1,000 nm. Further, a polarization plate including the optical film, a transparent conductive film including the optical film, a surface protection film including the optical film including the optical film, and a liquid crystal display apparatus including the optical film.
US10317596B2
The present invention relates to a polyene polarizer having an order parameter (S) of about 0.9-1 inclusive and a transmittance of about 43-100% inclusive, a method for manufacturing a polyene polarizer, which can stably produce a thin polyene polarizer having a high transmittance, a high degree of polarization and a high order parameter (S) value, and a polarizing plate and an optical display device each comprising the polyene polarizer.
US10317586B2
Embodiments of the present invention relates to a thin film transistor and a method for manufacturing the same, a display substrate and a display device. The thin film transistor comprises an active layer, a source electrode, a drain electrode and an ohmic contact layer, wherein the ohmic contact layer is disposed between the active layer and the source electrode and/or between the active layer and the drain electrode to improve an ohmic contact property of the active layer with the source electrode and/or the drain electrode. The present invention solves the problem of poor ohmic contact effect between the active layer and the source and drain electrodes in the existing thin film transistor, thereby improving the ohmic contact property of the active layer with the source and drain electrodes and meanwhile improving display effect of images of a display.
US10317581B2
A composition includes a first population of strongly plasmonic nanorods and a second population of strongly plasmonic nanorods. The two populations each have a size range of the nanorods, creating a size range gap between the two populations. This size range gap creates a transparency window that can be seen in an extinction spectrum of the composition, which is characterized by the sizes of the nanorods in both populations. The composition may be included in a filter providing a transparency to a defined wavelength characterized by the size range gap of the nanorods.
US10317572B2
A method, system, and computer program product, include determining a first region based on a first point, a second point and a third point associated with temperature indication information that represents association relationship between temperature and pressure, the first and second points being associated with a same temperature value and different pressure values, a temperature inversion ending at the first point, and the temperature inversion starting from the third point, determining, within the first region, a second region associated with the temperature inversion, and predicting atmospheric condition based on the first and second regions.
US10317571B2
Real-time monitoring, parametric profiling, and regulating contaminated outdoor air particulate matter throughout a region, via hyper-spectral imaging and analysis. Includes: (12) real-time sampling, and hyper-spectrally imaging and analyzing, contaminated outdoor air particulate matter, simultaneously at separate locations throughout the region, for generating local contaminated outdoor air particulate matter data-information packages; (14) real-time measuring outdoor weather-meteorological conditions, simultaneously at the locations, synchronized with the real-time sampling, imaging, and analyzing, for generating local outdoor weather-meteorological conditions data-information packages; (16, 18) real-time processing and analyzing the local data-information packages, for generating sets of local and regional geographical distribution parametric data-information profiles of contaminated outdoor air particulate matter, showing real-time local and regional geographical distributions of qualitative or/and quantitative parameters of contaminated outdoor air particulate matter, via a global data-information processing and communications unit. Particularly suitable for monitoring, profiling, maintaining, operating and controlling, developing, and planning, infrastructure and vehicular traffic, of human populated regions.
US10317570B2
A system and method for measuring a perpendicular wind speed component with respect to a suspended cable span. The method includes monitoring a motion of at least one point of the suspended cable span over a time interval, and determining whether the motion includes Aeolian vibration. If the motion does not include Aeolian vibration, a transverse swing angle of the suspended cable span is measured and the perpendicular wind speed component is calculated as a function of the transverse swing angle. If the motion includes Aeolian vibration, a frequency of the Aeolian vibration is measured and said perpendicular wind speed component is calculated as a function of the Aeolian vibration frequency. The method may include measuring an effective incident radiation and for determining a maximum allowable current rating, or “ampacity”, for the suspended cable span, as well as for supplying electric power over a power line comprising said power span.
US10317561B2
Various embodiments include apparatus and methods to utilize signals acquired from a multi-component induction tool operating in a wellbore. The acquired signals can be correlated to an apparent conductivity of a formation and mapped to components of the apparent conductivity tensor conductivity. A multi-stage inversion scheme can be implemented to determine three-dimensional formation parameters from operating the multi-component induction tool. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10317560B2
Various embodiments include apparatus and methods to operate a drilling operation relative to formation boundaries. The apparatus and methods can include operating one or more transmitters in a borehole in a formation having a thickness between two boundaries, selecting thickness models based on applying responses from operating the one or more transmitters such that the thickness of the formation is between the two thickness models, and generating a value of a distance to a nearest boundary based on linearization of the thickness models with respect to a long distance investigation parameter and a short distance investigation parameter. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10317557B2
A method and device are described for making in situ measurements of the density and viscosity of downhole fluids at subterranean wells. An oscillator circuit is deployed in the well comprising an amplifier, a feedback loop, and an electromechanical resonator. The electromechanical resonator is a component in the feedback loop of the oscillator circuit, and has a resonance mode that determines the frequency of the oscillator circuit. The electromechanical resonator is also in contact with the fluid such that the density and viscosity of the fluid influence the resonant frequency and damping of the resonator. The frequency of the oscillator is measured by a microcontroller. In one embodiment, the oscillator circuit periodically stops driving the electromechanical resonator such that the oscillation decays and the rate of decay is also measured by the microcontroller. The density and viscosity of the fluid are determined from the frequency and rate of decay of the oscillation. This measurement technique provides a faster response time to fluid changes than is possible with conventional measurement methods, and the fast response time opens up new applications for downhole viscosity and density measurements, including determining PVT characteristics, phase diagrams, and flow rates.
US10317556B2
Systems, devices, and methods for evaluating a volume of interest of an earth formation. Methods include estimating a parameter of interest of a volume of the formation using a value of a signal property (frequency amplitude) for a second harmonic mode signal component of a detected acoustic signal from the volume. Methods may include activating a transmitter to propagate an acoustic wave through the volume; producing the detected acoustic signal at a receiver responsive to the acoustic wave; and identifying the fundamental mode signal and the second harmonic mode signal associated with the detected acoustic signal. Methods include estimating an acoustic wave non-linearity parameter (β) for the volume using a relationship between the value of the signal property of the second harmonic mode signal component and a value of the signal property for a fundamental mode signal component of the detected acoustic signal.
US10317543B2
The present disclosure is related to estimation of a far field signature in a second direction from a far field signature in a first direction. For a number of source elements, where the number of source elements corresponds to a seismic source, an impulse response in a first direction and a second direction can be determined. A transfer function that transforms a far field signature of the seismic source in the first direction to a far field signature of the seismic source in the second direction can be determined based on corresponding impulse responses in the first direction and the second direction. An estimated far field signature for the seismic source in the second direction can be determined based on the transfer function.
US10317532B1
A laser is used to emit a diverging laser flash configured to illuminate a detection zone. A pseudoimaging optical receiver system is used to detect reflections from objects in the detection zone. The receiver system includes a time-gated photodetector array that is used to record signatures in a voxel array. A voxel processing module receives the voxel array and detects a reference clutter signal within the array. Potential targets are then detected according to target signals in relation to the reference clutter signal.
US10317531B2
A module for measuring an object located in a position finding zone; the module being configured for generating a primary beam; the module having a scanning mirror structure; the scanning mirror structure being controllable to allow the primary beam to execute a scanning movement within the position finding zone; the module being configured to allow a secondary signal to be detected when the secondary signal is produced in response to the interaction of the primary beam with the object in a deflection position of the scanning mirror structure; the module being configured to generate position finding information as a function of the deflection position of the scanning mirror structure; the module featuring a semiconductor laser component; the semiconductor laser component being configured for producing the primary beam and for detecting the secondary signal.
US10317527B2
An information processing apparatus including: a sonic sensor that outputs a sonic wave and receives a reflected wave of the output sonic wave; and a control unit configured to determine whether a person exists on a periphery of the information processing apparatus based on distance data and background data, wherein the distance data indicates intensity of a reflected wave in fixed time units received by the sonic sensor during a predetermined period of time after a sonic wave is output from the sonic sensor, the fixed time units being obtained by dividing the predetermined period of time, and the background data is past distance data prepared in advance.
US10317526B2
A sensor for outputting a first measurement signal that is dependent on a measurement variable to be detected in a vehicle, including: a sensor circuit having a measuring sensor for generating the first measurement signal on the basis of the measurement variable, and a magnetic field probe for outputting a second measurement signal that is dependent on a magnetic field to be detected.
US10317519B2
A method and system for generating a three dimensional map of an environment based on information acquired by radar. The system includes a ground-based vehicle, and a scanning radar, or combination of radars, that scans the surrounding environment in one or more vertical planes or along azimuth angles. The radar may be an electrical beam steering and scanning radar or a combination electrical beam scanning radar and mechanical scanning radar. Dynamic objects within the environment may also be identified and removed with the remaining static objects being used to generate a three dimensional map of the surrounding environment and to perform localization within the three dimensional map.
US10317511B2
The systems and methods of the present disclosure utilize an advantageous data transmission protocol, which facilitates determining and compensating for transmission delay between nodes in a communications network in order to correlate timing information across multiple nodes. According to the systems and methods presented herein, data may be transmitted from a first node to a second node, wherein the transmitted data includes each of (i) timing information (as measured by a first timing mechanism associated with the first node) characterizing a first set of data and (ii) a transmission time (as also measured by the first timing mechanism). A receiving time (as measured by a second timing mechanism associated with the second node) for the first set of data, may also be determined. Based on these parameters timing information characterizing the first set of data in the context of the second timing mechanism may then be determined.
US10317510B2
An adaptor device includes a first connector (106) configured to interface with an ultrasound probe and a second connector (108) configured to interface with an ultrasound console. An array of lines (120) connects the first connector to the second connector. A pulse generator or generators (110, 112) are configured to output trigger signals responsive to a signal on one or more of the array of lines. An external output (114, 116) is configured to output the trigger signals.
US10317507B2
In various embodiments, position of a user device is estimated by scanning for WLAN packets transmitted within range of the user device, the scanning to include a plurality of phases which are progressed through until WLAN information sufficient to identify at least a threshold number of WLAN APs is obtained, the plurality of phases including an active scanning phase in which the RF module transmits probe request packets and receives one or more probe response packets, and one or more passive scanning phases in which the RF module listens for one or more packets without first transmitting request packets, extracting WLAN information indicating an identity of one or more WLAN APs from the one or more probe response packets or the one or more listened for packets, and providing the WLAN information to a WPS to obtain an estimate of the position of the user device.
US10317505B1
A computer system is provided that includes one or more processors configured to receive a stream of data from a plurality of network connected devices configured to measure physical parameters, and store a user profile including user settings for a plurality of notification subscriptions associated with physical parameters measured by the plurality of network connected devices. Each notification subscription includes programming logic for a trigger condition for a candidate notification based on measured physical parameters and an associated component sound for the candidate notification. The one or more processors are further configured to determine that trigger conditions for a plurality of candidate notifications are met based on the received stream of data, and generate a composite sound output including a plurality of component sounds associated with the plurality of notifications rendered.
US10317499B2
Methods of processing MRI image data to reduce or eliminate motion-related artifacts in MRI images includes: electronically repeatedly acquiring sets of 2D or 3D k-space data of a target region of a subject using at least one MRI pulse sequence; electronically applying a bootstrapping procedure to produce a large number of images from the acquired k-space data; then electronically evaluating the images produced by the bootstrapping procedure; and electronically identifying an image with a minimal motion-related artifact level from the evaluation of the images produced by the bootstrapping procedure.
US10317490B2
Method and magnetic resonance apparatus for determining dephasing factors in MR multiecho techniques
In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus for determining time-dependent dephasing factors c of at least one fraction of a spectral component from at least two spectral components in an examination region in an examination object, the dephasing factors c are calculated directly from at least one first and one second record of MR data that have been recorded by operating an MR scanner of the apparatus with a multi-contrast sequence, using a system of equations that is based on a signal model and that describes the captured records of magnetic resonance data using parameters.
US10317489B2
Method and magnetic resonance apparatus for determining a phase describing map by a min-cut/max-flow
In a method and apparatus for generating a phase-describing map in a firm that is usable to generate magnetic resonance (MR) image data, first and second sets of magnetic resonance echo raw data are acquired from a region of the examination subject, at two different echo times, said first and second sets of magnetic resonance echo raw data originating from two different chemical substance types. First and second image data sets of the defined region are reconstructed respectively from the first and second sets of magnetic resonance echo raw data. An energy function is determined that contains at least one term that places phase-describing values of map points of a phase-describing map in relation to each other dependent on a difference of the respective phase-describing values of the respective map points. The energy function is optimized to obtain an optimized phase-describing map.
US10317486B2
In a method for determining a minimum possible echo time for a radio-frequency coil used in a magnetic resonance scanner, magnetic resonance signals are acquired with the radio-frequency coil in a magnetic resonance measurement of a free induction decay at fixed time intervals, the minimum possible echo time being determined by evaluating the time series of magnetic resonance signals as the instant from which an exponential signal decay was measured.
US10317484B2
A gate driver unit is presented. The gate driver unit includes a first power exchanging coil operatively coupled to a power source. The gate driver unit includes a second power exchanging coil configured to receive power from the first power exchanging coil via a magnetic field and a field focusing element disposed between the first power exchanging coil and the second power exchanging coil and configured to focus the magnetic field onto the second power exchanging coil. The gate driver unit also includes a first circuit coupled to the second power exchanging coil. The gate driver unit includes a gate drive subunit operatively coupled to the first circuit and configured to provide an output signal to a control terminal corresponding to a controllable switch of a second circuit. A magnetic resonance imaging system and a method of contactless power transfer in a magnetic resonance imaging system are also presented.
US10317483B2
In a radio frequency (RF) coil for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, the RF coil includes loops that are radially arranged. At least some areas of each of the loops overlap each other at a central portion of a radial structure formed by the loops.
US10317479B2
A sensor unit for detecting an encoder at a predefined position, having a circuit device and a threshold signal present at the circuit device, and a magnetic field sensor. The magnetic field sensor has a supply and ground terminal and first and second outputs, and outputs an analog sensor signal that is dependent on the distance of the encoder, and a supply unit connected to the supply terminal of the magnetic field sensor, the supply unit having a control input, and the circuit device is connected to the magnetic field sensor. The circuit device is configured to provide the sensor signal as an amplified signal value, and the circuit device is configured to determine an amount from the difference between the amplified signal value and the threshold signal and to control the amplification of the signal value and the supply unit as a function of the magnitude of the amount.
US10317469B2
An alternator system includes an alternator including a housing, a stator having a stator assembly fixedly mounted relative to the housing, and a rotor rotatably mounted relative to the housing. The stator assembly produces one or more phase voltages. A rotor fault detection system is electrically connected to the stator assembly. The rotor fault detection system is operable to detect a rotor fault condition based on a quality of the one or more phase voltages of the stator assembly. An output member is operable to provide a visual output indicating the rotor fault condition is present.
US10317466B2
A semiconductor device addresses to a problem in which a current consumption variation rate increases during BIST execution causing resonance noise generation in a power supply line. The semiconductor device includes a self-diagnosis control circuit, a scan target circuit including a combinational circuit and a scan flip-flop, and an electrically rewritable non-volatile memory. A scan chain is configured by coupling a plurality of the scan flip-flops. In accordance with parameters stored in the non-volatile memory, the self-diagnosis control circuit can change a length of at least one of a scan-in period, a scan-out period and a capture period, and can also change a scan start timing.
US10317460B2
A precision alignment unit and techniques are described that include a tray assembly configured to be used in a testing system, where the tray assembly includes at least one pocket formed in the tray assembly, the pocket configured to contain an integrated circuit chip, and at least one pin pass-through, and a device positioning unit including at least one alignment device configured to extend through the at least one pin pass-through. In implementations, a process for using the precision alignment system that employs the techniques of the present disclosure includes mounting a precision alignment unit to a vacuum chuck of a handler; loading at least one alignment tray into the handler; placing the at least one alignment tray on the precision alignment unit; and aligning at least one integrated circuit chip device disposed on the at least one alignment tray.
US10317440B2
A test unit for testing the inductive charging capabilities of a mobile device and a method therefore is provided. Moreover, a calibrator unit for calibrating the test unit is provided.
US10317434B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for determining an input voltage level of an input voltage received by a connection cable. A monitoring component may determine whether the input voltage level matches one of a plurality of voltage levels. The connection cable may include an indicator component that may indicate which of the plurality of voltage levels matches the input voltage level.
US10317432B2
A current sensor includes a magnetic detection element configured to detect magnetism produced from a current path and a magnetic shield core. The magnetic shield core includes a core portion arranged so as to extend around the current path such that the current path is positioned therein, a gap portion formed by cutting a part of the core portion and in which the magnetic detection element is arranged, and at least a pair of shield portions extending from the core portion toward the outside opposite to the inside of the core portion where the current path is arranged, so as to correspond to the magnetic detection element.
US10317430B2
Provided is a contactor that can be manufactured easily and secure a long stroke. A contactor includes: a flexible board; a plurality of contact point portions that are provided in the flexible board; a plurality of springs that urge the contact point portions respectively toward an inspection target device; and a housing that receives the plurality of springs. Each of the springs has a flat winding portion that is provided at least at an end portion of the spring on the contact point portion side, and a diagonal tight winding portion that is provided at a longitudinally intermediate portion of the spring. A gap is present between the flat winding portion and the diagonal tight winding portion in an uncompressed state of the spring.
US10317426B2
An accelerometer has a plurality of proof masses and a plurality of sense electrodes, which collectively form at least two capacitors. A first sense drive signal is applied to a first capacitor and a second sense drive signal is applied to a second capacitor. Both of the sense drive signals have the same sense drive frequency. Capacitance signals are sensed from each of the first capacitor and second capacitor, and a common mode component of the capacitance signals is determined. A capacitor error is identified based on the common mode component.
US10317418B2
The invention relates to methods of treating stress-sensitive psychiatric diseases arising from trauma in a subject by enhancing ghrelin signaling in the BLA of the subject. The invention also relates to methods of reversing ghrelin resistance.
US10317404B2
Some embodiments provided herein relate to combined assays. In some embodiments, an assay for identifying influenza type A or influenza type B is combined with an assay for determining the sensitivity of an influenza neuraminidase to an antiviral drug.
US10317403B2
The present invention provides an immunoassay analyzer capable of discriminating between normal coloring due to a specific immunoreaction and abnormal coloring due to a cause other than the specific immunoreaction in a measurement region of a sample analysis tool. An immunoassay analyzer 1 of the present invention includes an optical detection unit 4 and a determination unit 5. The optical detection unit 4 includes an optical signal measurement unit for measuring an optical signal at each of two or more different wavelengths including a main wavelength for detecting color change due to the specific immunoreaction and a sub-wavelength(s) other than the main wavelength. The determination unit 5 includes a discrimination unit for comparing the respective optical signals at the two or more different wavelengths and discriminating between the color change due to the specific immunoreaction and color change due to a cause other than the specific immunoreaction based on a comparison criterion determined previously.
US10317396B2
The present disclosure relates to a peripheral diagnostic method for screening Alzheimer's disease in patients based on quantitatively measured complexity of skin-sampled fibroblast networks.
US10317391B2
An electro-optical stimulation and recording system is disclosed, including a substrate and a plurality of wells coupled to the substrate. The system also includes at least one electrode set disposed proximate a respective one of the plurality of wells, wherein the electrode set comprises at least one electrode configured to collect an electric signal associated with at least a portion of the respective well. The system also includes a light-emitting element set corresponding to a respective one of the wells and configured to deliver optical stimulation to at least a portion of the respective well.
US10317384B2
A liquid monitoring system includes a remote measurement device located at a location of the fire hydrant that is in contact with water provided by a water main. The remote measurement device has sensors that measure characteristics of the water and a communication interface that transmits measured information to a communication network device that may be located elsewhere on the fire hydrant. The communication network device communicates with a communication network.
US10317383B2
Methods and arrangements for collecting data related to a water quality sample location. Identifying information of a water quality sample container is electronically obtained, and identifying information of a water quality sample location is electronically obtained. There is placed, in the container, a water sample from the water quality sample location. There is stored the identifying information of the water quality sample container and the identifying information of the water quality sample location; such storing includes associating the identifying information of the water quality sample container and the identifying information of the water quality sample location. Other variants and embodiments are broadly contemplated herein, including methods and arrangements for validating water quality sample data.
US10317382B2
Packaging for electronic components includes provisions to short selected electrodes of the components together. A plastic base portion with a plurality of component receiving cavities carries a flexible, carbonized shorting element which extends between cavities. The cavities include a recess which is adjacent to the shorting element. Components can be inserted into respective cavities, and some of the electrodes will contact the shorting element. Other electrodes will extend into the recess and not be shorted.
US10317379B2
Apparatus and methods for high performance liquid chromatography. The apparatus includes a preparation loop comprising two linear stepping pumps, a sample loop comprising a sample injector, a chromatography column, and a detector device. The detector device can include a flash lamp, a flow cell, and a light sensor comprising an entrance slit, a grating; and a charge-coupled device array.
US10317377B2
Provided herein are methods of liquid column chromatography in which preparative chromatography is performed in-line with analytical chromatography. In particular aspects a monolithic preparative column is used to purify an analyte of interest from a mixture of other substances by applying the mixture to the column, reversing the flow through the column to elute the analyte, which is applied to an analytical column provided in-line with the preparative column. In other aspects, a single monolithic column is used to perform both the preparative chromatography and analytical chromatography steps in succession. In another aspect, a chromatography system is provided to perform preparative and analytical chromatography using a single monolithic column.
US10317373B2
An acoustic testing system includes at least four control microphones, at least four acoustic transducers, an acoustic enclosure with pre-determined reverberant characteristics which contains the at least four control microphones and the at least four acoustic transducers, a control system configured to produce a predetermined acoustic field as measured by the at least one control microphone. A unit under test is also disposed within the acoustic enclosure. Using an acoustic enclosure with pre-determined reverberant characteristics results of the increased proportion of reflected sounds in the area proximate to the unit under test such that less power is required to achieve a given acoustic test level than in a purely direct field acoustic test.
US10317367B2
An eddy-current flaw detector includes a trace data calculator configured to calculate each coordinate with respect to flaw detection points on which an inspection probe is used upon performing an eddy-current testing based on an inputted condition of eddy-current flaw detection and surface shape data of an inspection-object surface measured by a profilometer, and to calculate a normal vector of each flaw detection point; a gap evaluation calculator configured to acquire an evaluation result on a gap between the inspection-object surface and the inspection probe for each flaw detection point; a flaw detection data collector configured to acquire flaw detection data of an inspection object for each flaw detection point; a flaw detection data analyzer configured to evaluate presence/absence of a flaw in the inspection-object surface based on the flaw detection data of the inspection object and the evaluation result on the gap for each flaw detection point.
US10317363B2
A method of screening a sample for at least one compound of interest is disclosed. The method comprises comparing the ion mobility and at least one further physicochemical property of the ions of a compound of interest to the same properties of candidate ions in the sample. The properties of the compound of interest are matched to those of a candidate ion in the sample then the sample may be determined to comprise the compound of interest.
US10317349B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for detecting one or more thermal and/or mechanical properties of a structure. The method may include forming one or more test structures from a material that forms the structure, generating and storing calibration data determined from the one or more test structures, emitting X-ray radiation into the structure, detecting X-ray scatter from the structure, and determining the one or more properties of the structure based on the detected X-ray scatter and the calibration data.
US10317346B2
A method for inspecting a spatial light modulator includes: performing such control that in an inspection target area in an array of mirror elements, the mirror elements in a first state in which incident light is given a phase change amount of 0 and the mirror elements in a second state in which incident light is given a phase change amount of 180° (π) become arrayed in a checkered pattern; guiding light having passed the inspection target area to a projection optical system with a resolution limit coarser than a width of an image of one mirror element, to form a spatial image; and inspecting a characteristic of the spatial light modulator from the spatial image. This method allows us to readily perform the inspection of the characteristic of the spatial light modulator having the array of optical elements.
US10317342B2
Novel and advantageous systems and methods for performing nanometer-scale microscopy using graphene plasmons (GPs) are provided. Sub-diffraction microscopy can be achieved, taking advantage of the extremely small plasmon wavelength and low dissipation of GPs. Nanometer-scale resolution can be obtained under very weak light intensity, which is especially important in the imaging of biological systems.
US10317338B2
A method of determining the carbon content in a silicon sample may include: generating electrically active polyatomic complexes within the silicon sample. Each polyatomic complex may include at least one carbon atom. The method may further include: determining a quantity indicative of the content of the generated polyatomic complexes in the silicon sample, and determining the carbon content in the silicon sample from the determined quantity.
US10317327B2
A particle characterization apparatus is disclosed comprising: a sample cell for holding a sample, a light source for producing a light beam for illuminating the sample in the sample cell, thereby producing scattered light by the interaction of the light beam with the sample; a focussing lens for focussing the light beam within the sample; and a detector for detecting the backscattered light along a detection optical path that intersects the focussed light beam within the sample. The intersection of the light beam and the detection optical path in the sample define a detection region. The apparatus comprises an optical arrangement for varying the volume of the detection region.
US10317323B2
Systems and methods of operating a test apparatus to simulate testing a production aircraft component include assembling a test assembly having a test specimen and a wear protection material disposed on opposing sides of the test specimen, an outer plate disposed on each side of the test specimen in contact with the wear protection material, and a bolt disposed through the test specimen and the outer plates and applying a preload against the wear protection material. The test assembly is secured in a test machine, and the test machine is operated to provide a predetermined displacement of the test specimen relative to the outer plates at a predetermined frequency at a determined frequency of displacement cycles. The preload, the predetermined displacement, and the predetermined frequency of displacement cycles are determined through finite element analysis of an analytical model of the production component.
US10317321B2
The invention provides a method termed protein retention ExM (proExM), in which proteins, rather than labels, are anchored to the swellable gel, using a cross-linking molecule. This proExM strategy can be used to perform nanoscale imaging of immunostained cells and tissues as well as samples expressing various FPs as fluorescent signals from genetically encoded fluorescent proteins and/or conventional fluorescently labeled secondary antibodies and streptavidin that are directly anchored to the gel are preserved even when subjected to the nonspecific proteolytic digestion.
US10317320B2
Embodiments of the invention collect solid, vapor, and/or biological components of the air in air-sampling cartridges that are then transported to an off-site location by pneumatic pressure. Operation proceeds by first collecting a sample of air in an air-sampling cartridge in a sampling position, then advancing a cartridge assembly to move the now-used sampling cartridge into a transport position while simultaneously moving an unused sampling cartridge into the sampling position, and finally using pneumatic pressure to push the used sampling cartridge in the transport position to an off-site location via a transport tube. The sampling operation can begin again while the transport operation is in still in progress. These operations can be pre-programmed locally or triggered by remote communication. Continued operation is possible due to a plurality of unused air-sampling cartridges retained in the cartridge assembly. Since operations can be triggered remotely and air samples are autonomously transported off site, embodiments of this invention eliminate unnecessary risks to human health created by other air-sampling devices, which require an operator to be present at a potentially hazardous sampling site to activate the device or retrieve air samples. Additionally, embodiments of the invention can be installed preemptively to eliminate risks to human health created when an operator must deliver a portable air-sampling device to a potentially contaminated sampling site. Furthermore, embodiments of the invention allow rapid retrieval of air samples following sample collection, which can expedite analysis and identification of aerosols and consequently help minimize human exposure to potentially dangerous and life-threatening chemical and biological contaminants.
US10317317B2
A device for ensuring proper installation of a helical insert is provided. The device includes a head portion, a body portion, and at least one thread-forming member. The body portion has a first section and a second section, and the first section of the body portion depends from the head portion. The second section of the body portion is longer than the length of the helical insert. The at least one thread-forming member is located on the first section of the body portion such that a radial extent defined by the at least one thread-forming member is greater than a radial measure to the inner diametrical surface of the helical insert. A method of using the device is also provided.
US10317309B2
A test system and a corresponding method for testing the seal of a glove which is installed in a port of an isolator, including a test disc which can be connected in a hermetically sealed fashion to the port. The glove and test disc define a sealed glove volume which can be placed under excess pressure. The test disc has a pressure-measuring device with a microprocessor and a memory for recording and storing a pressure profile in the glove volume and a data interface. The glove and port have identification elements which are read by a reading device of the test disc and information concerning the pressure profile along with the identities of the glove and port are transmitted wirelessly to an evaluation unit which estimates and records a residual period of use of the glove. A plurality of gloves in ports can be tested simultaneously.
US10317302B2
A dual channel pressure sensor is provided. The pressure sensor includes a baseplate extending from a housing. The baseplate has a first end, a second end, and a body extending between the first end and the second end. The first end defining a first inlet port and the body defining a second inlet port.
US10317293B2
A sensing element integrated in a semiconductor material chip has a sensing diode of a junction type configured to be reverse biased so that its junction capacitance is sensitive to the local temperature. A reading stage is coupled to the sensing element for detecting variations of the junction capacitance of the sensing diode and outputting a reading acquisition signal proportional to the local temperature of the sensing diode. The sensing diode has a cathode terminal coupled to a biasing node and an anode terminal coupled to a first input of the reading stage. The biasing node receives a voltage positive with respect to the first input of the reading stage for keeping the sensing diode reverse biased.
US10317291B2
A sensor system comprises a first sensor, a second sensor, a high pass filter, and a summation unit. The first sensor senses an environmental parameter and outputs a first electronic signal with a response having a first time constant. The second sensor senses the environmental parameter and outputs a second electronic signal with a response having a second time constant greater than the first time constant. The high pass filter has a filter time constant roughly equal to the second time constant and filters the first electronic signal, outputting a filtered first electronic signal in which changes in a level or value of the first electronic signal with transition times that are less than the filter time constant are passed. The summation unit receives the filtered first electronic signal and the second electronic signal and outputs a sum of the filtered first electronic signal and the second electronic signal.
US10317289B2
A thermal well temperature monitoring assembly with high dielectric strength capability is disclosed consisting of a low relative dielectric constant material in a continuous structure that does not have any air voids or pockets. The low relative dielectric constant structure of the thermal well has at least one internal cavity having an end region. A thermal sensor is at least partially located within the at least one internal cavity. The thermal sensor has one or more wires extending out of the end region of the internal cavity. A first low relative dielectric constant potting material encapsulates at least a portion of the thermal sensor within the internal cavity to remove air voids that decrease dielectric strength. A second low relative dielectric constant potting material fills at least a portion of the end region of the internal cavity to provide mechanical ruggedness and environmental sealing.
US10317288B2
A method for reducing the peak factor of a signal transmitted in a frequency band comprising several channels, the signal using a plurality of channels in the band comprises: a step of clipping the signal, a step of subtracting the clipped signal from the signal, so as to obtain a peak signal, a step of filtering the peak signal with the aid of a multichannel filter configured to comply with a predetermined spectral mask for each of the channels used by the signal, and a step of subtracting the filtered peak signal from the signal. A device for emitting a multichannel signal implementing the method for reducing the peak factor is also provided.
US10317281B2
A compact spectrometer includes an excitation light source configured to generate excitation light and arranged to illuminate a spot on a sample. A dispersive element includes at least one movable component and spatially separates output light emanating from the sample in response to the excitation light into a plurality of different wavelength bands. A moveable component of the dispersive element causes the plurality of different wavelength bands of the output light to be scanned across a detector. The detector includes at least one light sensor that senses the wavelength bands of the output light and generates an output electrical signal in response to the sensed output light.
US10317280B2
The present invention relates to a non-direct measurement temperature-compensating model correction method in the on-line application of a near-infrared spectrum analyzer, which comprises: acquiring a near-infrared spectrum of each sample under different temperature levels; respectively carrying out preprocessing and principal component analysis on the acquired spectra for temperatures and to-be-measured physical property parameters; then merging the obtained spectra to generate new spectral data; using partial least squares to model the spectral data to obtain measured values at the current moment; finally, constructing an on-line recursive algorithm, and thereby on-line near-infrared measurement with a non-direct measurement temperature compensation function is fulfilled. The present invention adopts temperature as a separate latent factor variable to participate in the process of near-infrared modeling, so that when near-infrared measurement is used, by depending on the adaptability of a model to the temperature, physical property measurement under different temperatures can be carried out without direct temperature measurement information or related calculation, and thereby the created model has better universality. The on-line recursive algorithm of the present invention has better adaptability to sample temperatures and other measurement condition changes.
US10317277B2
A reflective device for an optical measuring system and for arranging in a measuring object, including an optical deflection device and a retroreflector. The deflection device can deflect a light beam at the optical deflection device from an incident axis. The retroreflector can reflect the beam parallel to its incoming direction for each of various incoming directions of a light beam onto the retroreflector. The reflective device can be arranged in the measuring object such that a measuring beam of the optical measuring system, pointed at the measuring object and arriving at the optical deflection device in a first direction, is deflected by the optical deflection device onto the retroreflector in a different, second direction and, following reflection at the retroreflector, is deflected by the optical deflection device in reverse parallel to the first direction. An optical measuring system, a flying object and a flying object system are further described.
US10317275B2
A method for determining an operational condition of a vibratory system, comprising receiving vibration signals from one or more sensors associated with the vibratory system preprocessing the vibration signals to remove known noise to create a preprocessed signal, processing the preprocessed signal in both a time domain and a frequency domain to create time domain data and frequency domain data, respectively, and fusing the time domain data and the frequency domain data to determine the existence of abnormal operations.
US10317271B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to processes and software used to standardize the calculation of the weight and CG of a product. The processes and software integrate data from multiple sources and confirm the accuracy of the data. The software program standardizes the calculation of weight and CG by using a central calculation worksheet accessible to all users tasked with determining the weight and balance of a product. The software includes functionality for viewing Bill of Material (BOM) and 3D images, for operating a calculation worksheet, for storing and filtering data, and for reporting data.
US10317270B2
The disclosed invention is an apparatus for securely and adjustably associating a fluid meter a fluid meter test bench. The apparatus comprises two vertical support members each connected by a horizontal support element at one end with at least one latching device defined at its free ends and wherein at least one of the latching devices define a locking member configured to secure the vertical support elements to a fluid meter test bench. The horizontal support element defines an adjustment interface mechanically associated with an adjuster element configured for adjustably securing a flow path element of a fluid meter test bench.
US10317268B2
A liquid level detection device is provided with a fixed body and a rotating body, having a float and an arm. The arm has an insertion portion inserted into the rotating body and an extending portion extending straight and bent relative to the insertion portion. The rotating body has an insertion hole in which the insertion portion of the arm is inserted, a holding portion having a receiving opening receiving the extending portion and holding the extending portion received by the receiving opening, a stopper having an end face and releasing the receiving opening from a blocking state in which the end face blocks the receiving opening, and a protruding wall disposed on an opposite side to the holding portion with the stopper in between and protruding in the opposite direction beyond the end face in the blocking state.
US10317264B1
Systems and methods to measure fluid delivery times in a piping system and more particularly a dry pipe fire protection system. A device is provided that includes at least a solenoid valve for coupling to a network of pipes of a dry pipe sprinkler system and a liquid detector for coupling to the network of pipes to detect a flow of water in the network. A timer is coupled to the solenoid valve. Upon operation of the solenoid valve, the timer simultaneously initiates a start time of a fluid detection test. The timer is preferably coupled to the liquid detector such that upon the detector detecting water, the timer defines a stop time of the fluid detection test.
US10317263B2
A gas flowmeter includes: a device body which air-tightly accommodates a fluid to be measured; an inlet pipe through which the fluid to be measured is made to flow into the device body; and an outlet pipe through which the fluid to be measured is made to flow out from the device body. The gas flowmeter further includes: an ultrasonic flow rate measuring unit which is connected to the outlet pipe and measures a flow rate of the fluid to be measured which flows in the ultrasonic flow rate measuring unit; a connecting pipe which is connected to the outlet pipe; and a flow passage member which is connected to the connecting pipe and has a flow passage shape identical to a shape of the ultrasonic flow rate measuring unit. The gas flowmeter is provided with a support member which fixes the ultrasonic flow rate measuring unit and the flow passage member to each other. With such a configuration, a gas flow meter capable of performing stable flow rate measurement can be implemented.
US10317262B2
A sensor apparatus is provided for measuring characteristics of a wall of a structure and/or a medium in contact with the structure, wherein the sensor apparatus includes a transducer arrangement disposed at least partially around a planar or curved surface of a wall of the structure, or disposed over a region of a planar or curved surface of a wall of the structure. The sensor apparatus includes a transducer waveguide including at least one free distal end whereat one or more driver and/or receiver elements are mounted on one or more sides of the at least one free distal end. Moreover, the transducer arrangement is operable, when interrogating the structure to perform at least one of: switching between selected acoustic wave modes present in an acoustic wave propagation, steering an acoustic propagation direction of the acoustic wave propagation.
US10317257B1
A system for implementing a situational awareness includes a plurality of data gathering devices for observing the physical environment and transforming observations of physical phenomena into digital information; a plurality of field monitoring units with each of the plurality of units communicating with a corresponding plurality of data gathering devices to obtain data therefrom; and an aggregate monitoring unit communicating with each of the plurality of field monitoring units to monitor and control each of the plurality of field monitoring units and collect and store data from the plurality of data gathering devices.
US10317253B2
A scale includes a scale grating formed with a period P. A light source grating includes a grating formed with a period 2P, the light source grating being disposed between a light source and the scale. Interference fringe detection means is configured to be able to detect a bright part of an interference fringe with the period P, the interference fringe being generated by the light source grating and the scale. The interference fringe detection means detects a first interference fringe formed by light coming from the scale and a second interference fringe formed by light coming from the scale, a position of a bright part of the second interference fringe being shifted from a position of a bright part of the first interference fringe by a half of the period P (i.e., P/2).
US10317252B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of performing a measurement with a capacitive sensor includes generating a periodic excitation signal that includes a series of pulses and smoothing edge transitions of the series of pulses to form a shaped periodic excitation signal that includes a flat region between the smoothed edge transitions. The method further includes providing the shaped periodic excitation signal to a first port of the capacitive sensor and measuring a signal provided by a second port of the capacitive sensor.
US10317241B2
A navigation system includes primary and secondary navigation device, and a server. The secondary navigation device transmits geolocation data to the server. The primary navigation device receives user input indicating a destination. The primary navigation device also determines a current route to the destination based on a current location of the primary navigation device, and transmits the current route to the server. The primary navigation device also receives and displays a difficulty index from the server in response to transmitting the current route. The server determines historical routes reflecting historical commutes based on the geolocation data. The server also determines the difficulty index based on the one or more historical routes and the current route, and transmits the difficulty index to the primary navigation device in response to receiving the current route.
US10317233B2
A mapping application that intelligently places distance labels along a route in a map is disclosed. A distance label placed at a particular position of the route shows the distance to the particular location from the starting point of the route. Distance labels allow the user of the map to quickly appreciate the distances between the various points of interest (e.g., maneuvers) along the route. In some mapping applications that display the route as a list of driving directions, the distance labels are placed alongside the list of driving directions, and each distance label is associated with a maneuver in the list of directions.
US10317230B2
A machine learning travel management system is operable to provide end-to-end travel solutions and bookings based on machine-learning-assisted choice and selection of travel destinations. Travel solutions may include travel destination choices, which in many instances is one of the most difficult decisions made by travelers. Additionally, the system may interact with active bands, which comprise wearable RFID devices. The wearable RFID devices may provide for identification and location determination to provide location-based services. Also, the system may include a mobile application that provides mapping of travel routes and waypoints, which can interact with location information determined based on the active bands.
US10317228B2
A vehicle reach area presentation device sets a unit area in which a start point exists as a start area among unit areas into which a region on map data is divided and extracts pieces of probe data including records of past travels within a certain range from the start area. The device sets the unit areas, including goal points recorded in the extracted pieces of probe data, as reach areas, calculates energy consumptions from the start area to the reach areas by using the pieces of probe data, and presents the reach areas to a user while changing display of the reach areas depending on the calculated energy consumptions.
US10317224B2
A route retrieval apparatus includes: a first storage unit storing map data hierarchized for route retrieval in long distance; a route retriever section retrieving and designating a route from a current position to a destination based on the map data in the first storage unit; a second storage unit storing detailed map data for route retrieval in short distance; a provisional destination designator section designates as a provisional destination a position by a predetermined distance along a travel road based on the map data in the second storage unit when the current position is deviated; and a provisional route retriever section retrieving a provisional route to the provisional destination based on the map data in the second map storage unit, and designating as a route. The route retriever section retrieves a new route from the provisional destination to the destination and designates as a route subsequent to the provisional route.
US10317221B2
An object is to provide a novel data processing system. The data processing system includes a portable terminal, a network, a server, and a database. The portable terminal transmits position information to the server through the network. The server transmits, to the portable terminal through the network, a plurality of pieces of object data corresponding to the position information obtained from the database. Imaging data obtained by the portable terminal and the plurality of pieces of object data are compared, and when there is a piece of the object data that does not match the imaging data, the mismatched piece of the object data stored in the database is updated.
US10317218B2
A computer-implemented planetary surveillance system method and apparatus is presented. A first space object detection system is disposed proximate Earth, wherein the first space object detection systems include a first constellation of Planetary Surveillance System Platforms (PSSPs) that provide warning of asteroids approaching Earth and on a path which has a likelihood of impacting Earth. At least one additional space object detection system is also used.
US10317216B1
A wearable device is configured with various sensory devices that recurrently monitor and gather data for a physical environment surrounding a user to help locate and track real-world objects. The various heterogeneous sensory devices digitize objects and the physical world. Each sensory device is configured with a threshold data change, in which, when the data picked up by one or more sensory devices surpasses the threshold, a query is performed on each sensor graph or sensory device. The queried sensor graph data is stored within a node in a spatial graph, in which nodes are connected to each other using edges to create spatial relationships between objects and spaces. Objects can be uploaded into an object graph associated with the spatial graph, in which the objects are digitized with each of the available sensors. This digital information can be subsequently used to, for example, locate the object.
US10317203B2
A dimension measuring apparatus for measuring a dimension between a first data contour which is an evaluation reference of a pattern to be evaluated and a second data contour which is the pattern to be evaluated generates first correspondence information between a point on the first data contour and a point on the second data contour, determines consistency of a correspondence included in the first correspondence information, corrects an inconsistent correspondence, and generates second correspondence information, when associating a point on the first contour data and a point on the second contour data with each other.
US10317200B1
The present disclosure relates generally to wearable devices and methods for detecting relative surface orientation. The wearable devices and methods may include a multi-mode sensor comprising emitter-detector combinations (e.g., sets or pairs) that have various spacings between the light emitter and the photodetector. Proximity curves can be generated based upon the various emitter-detector pair spacings, and used to assess surface distance and angular orientation of the wearable device to a body surface of an individual. In some variations, location and/or orientation of the device relative to the body surface is determined based on mapping data acquired by one or more emitter-detector pairs to surface distance (z distance) values based on proximity curve data stored in a memory of a device controller.
US10317190B2
A vibration measurement device includes: a vibration-inducing section; a laser source; a scanning section for illuminating a partial area of a measurement area on an object with laser light and moving the illumination area; an illumination control section for sequentially illuminating each point within the measurement area with an illuminating duration equal to or shorter than one third of the vibration period; a displacement measurement section for measuring, for each point within the measurement area, an interfering light obtained by splitting an object light from the object into two bundles of light to measure a relative displacement in a back-and-forth direction between two closely-located points within the measurement area; and a vibration state determination section for determining the state of vibration of the entire measurement area, based on the relative displacement in the back-and-forth direction between two closely-located points at each point within the measurement area.
US10317187B2
Methods for determining performance information for an object located within an area include obtaining magnetic field information for the area, measuring first magnetic field data when the object is located at a first position within the area, and determining performance information for the object within the area based on the magnetic field information for the area and the first magnetic field data.
US10317172B1
A boresight device includes a casing designed to be loaded into a chamber of a firearm in the place of a bolt carrier group. The casing may include one or more keyed features to engage with corresponding components of the firearm such that the one or more keyed features align an exit port in the casing to a barrel of the firearm upon loading of the casing into the chamber. The boresight device may further include a laser device for generating a laser beam. The laser device is positioned within the casing to direct the laser beam through the exit port of the casing and along an axis of the barrel when the casing is loaded into the chamber.
US10317170B2
A fireworks launcher assembly can include a sleeve having a cavity defined therethrough, and a firing tube at least partially received within in the cavity of the sleeve. The firing tube can comprising a passage defined therethrough and plurality of rifling features defined about an interior surface thereof. The plurality of rifling features can cause one or more aerial shells loaded into and launched from the firing tube to rotate as the one or more aerial shells move along the firing tube during launching thereof. A wadding insert further can be received at least partially within the passage of the firing tube, and a base portion can be connected to a lower end of the firing tube to maintain the launching assembly in a generally upright orientation before, during, and/or after launching of the one or more aerial shells therefrom.
US10317165B2
The present disclosure generally is related to a modular chassis/stock system for a rifle type firearm that incorporates a recoil reduction assembly. The chassis/stock system includes a buttstock assembly that is configured to include an elongated housing for receiving a mounting body of the recoil reduction assembly.
US10317164B2
What is disclosed is a slideable weight for use on an archery bow. The slideable weight is configured to travel from a position near a limb of an archery bow or a pulley of a compound archery bow toward a midline of the bowstring. This creates a catapult like effect that increases the speed of an arrow released from the bow. The device can conceivably be used on any archery bow, including compound, recurve, or other bow.
US10317158B2
The present disclosure provides a trigger assembly and related method for a firearm (e.g., an AR, SR-25, or M4 style rifle, or another type of firearm). The trigger assembly minimizes inadvertent discharge of the firearm by blocking the trigger from rearward pivoting until pressure is applied to the center portion of the trigger. The system and method employ a configuration wherein a camming surface is engaged with a machine portion of the lower receiver once the trigger assembly is connected to the lower receiver via pivot that extend through the trigger assembly and at least a portion of the lower receiver.
US10317151B2
A water collection system is provided for an indirect evaporative cooler. The water collection system includes a housing having an open bottom, a front wall, a back wall, and two end walls, which together define an interior region of the housing. The water collection system further includes a plurality of tube assemblies each extending through one of the front wall and the back wall of the housing and disposed within the interior region of the housing. The water collection system further includes a plurality of panel assemblies disposed within the interior region of the housing above the plurality of tube assemblies. Each panel assembly is associated with a respective tube assembly to channel fluid to the tube assembly. A method of collecting and distributing water within an indirect evaporative cooler configured to spray water on a heat exchanger is further disclosed.
US10317148B2
The heat exchanger has tubes and a header tank that is located at an end of the tubes in a longitudinal direction and communicates with the tubes. The header tank has a core plate that connects to the tubes and a tank body that is fixed to the core plate. The core plate has a tube connection surface, a sealing surface, and an inclined surface that connects the tube connection surface and the sealing surface with each other. A distance between the tube connection surface and an end surface of the tubes in the longitudinal direction is different from a distance between the sealing surface and the end surface in the longitudinal direction by disposing the inclined surface to incline with respect to the longitudinal direction. The tubes connect to the tube connection surface and the inclined surface in a condition of being inserted to the tube connection surface and the inclined surface.
US10317142B2
A heat exchanger and methods of manufacturing and assembling a heat exchanger, and more particularly to an air-flow heat exchanger having a mechanically assembled header for use in a motor vehicle. The heat exchanger comprises an all-metal bonded matrix including a plurality of substantially parallel metallic tubes and a plurality of metallic fins. The tubes have a heat transfer portion that is elongate in cross-sectional shape, and which comprises two opposing, longer sides, and two opposing shorter sides. At least one of the tubes is mechanically joined at a first end portion thereof to a first header of the heat exchanger by at least one compliant member. The compliant member extends around the first end portion of the tube to provide a seal and to permit relative movement between the mechanically joined tube and the first header due to thermal expansion and contraction of the matrix.
US10317129B2
A refrigerator shelf is provided that includes a carrier plate and overflow protection. The carrier plate has a top side with a middle region for standing containers, with the overflow protection arranged around the middle region. The overflow protection includes, in a first portion, a hydrophobic layer on the carrier plate and, in a second portion which adjoins the first portion, a frame element.
US10317126B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of refrigerator equipment, in particular to a refrigerator having a height-adjustable rack, comprising a door, a guide rail on the door, adjusting grooves arranged on the guide rail, a rack and a reset device. The rack is assembled on the guide rail through a guide groove and is able to move vertically. A manipulating member and a stop block, which are interlocked, are further movably provided on the rack.
US10317125B2
The present invention discloses a refrigerator and relates to the technical field of refrigerators. The refrigerator is invented to settle problems, such as increased external space occupied by a refrigerator when its secondary door is opened, increased difficulty in fetching goods in the refrigerator, and heavy loss of cooling capacity resulted from the full opening of an opening. The inventive refrigerator comprises a main door; an opening is formed on a door body of the main door; a guide rail is provided at an edge of the opening, and a secondary door is fitted on the guide rail; and the secondary door is connected with a driving mechanism which can drive the secondary door to slide along the guide rail, and as the secondary door slides along the guide rail, the secondary door can enclose or open the opening. The refrigerator of the present invention is used for preserving and freezing foods.
US10317116B2
A vehicular air-conditioning device includes a first water-refrigerant heat exchanger and a second water-refrigerant heat exchanger. The first water-refrigerant heat exchanger exchanges heat between a refrigerant of low-temperature and low-pressure and a heat transfer coolant to vaporize the refrigerant. The second water-refrigerant heat exchanger exchanges heat between the refrigerant of high-temperature and high-pressure and the coolant to condense the refrigerant. The coolant circulates through one of the first water-refrigerant heat exchanger and the second water-refrigerant heat exchanger, the other of the first water-refrigerant heat exchanger and the second water-refrigerant heat exchanger, a cooling path for cooling a heat generating component of a vehicle, and a heater core for heating air supplied to a vehicle interior in this order.
US10317104B2
Apparatus, systems, methods, and related computer program products for optimizing a schedule of setpoint temperatures used in the control of an HVAC system. The systems disclosed include an energy management system in operation with an intelligent, network-connected thermostat located at a structure. The thermostat includes a schedule of setpoint temperatures that is used to control an HVAC system associated with a structure in which the thermostat is located. The schedule of setpoint temperatures is continually adjusted by small, unnoticeable amounts so that the schedule migrates from the original schedule to an optimal schedule. The optimal schedule may be optimal in terms of energy consumption or some other terms.
US10317100B2
An HVAC controller may be configured to control one or more HVAC components within an HVAC system. The HVAC controller may include a user interface, such as but not limited to a touchscreen display, that enables a user to view and/or manipulate settings within the HVAC controller including but not limited to parameters within a programmable schedule. In some cases, the HVAC controller may provide the user with a better user experience when viewing or editing the programmable schedule.
US10317091B2
A home cooking appliance includes a housing, a cooking compartment in the housing and accessible through a door in the housing, a cooling air system conveying air through the housing, and an air channel in fluid communication with the cooling air system, the air channel having an outlet exhausting a portion of the air from the cooling air system along a rear wall of the housing.
US10317090B2
The invention relates to an oven door (10) for closing a cavity (2) of an oven (1) comprising a glass portion (11) being at least partially transparent for enabling a user to look into the oven cavity (2), wherein the oven door (10) comprises lighting means (12) implementing an optical user interface for displaying optical information at the glass portion (11).
US10317088B2
A triple ring flame burner composed of a central burner and a toroidal burner that are coupled by a bridge, the central burner comprises a Venturi tube, a mixture chamber, a distribution channel with the toroidal burner composed of a second Venturi tube, a second mixture chamber, a second distribution channel, a stability and flame transfer chamber with a pair of radial walls which divide the distribution channel from the inner crenellated wall to the outer crenellated wall, said radial walls present a plurality of combustion ports that transfer the flame inserted within said radial walls, the inner of the radial walls is in connection with a peripheral crenel for inner stability and transfer and the outer end of the radial walls is in connection with at least one peripheral crenel for outer stability and transfer.
US10317077B2
A device has a canister for attaching to a fuel container with a wick holder passing through the canister for holding a wick in a position to draw fuel from the reservoir for combustion proximate the top cap. A snuffer in the canister has a sleeve extendible from a first retracted position to a second extended position, the second extended position extending the sleeve partially beyond the wick holder. When the canister is upright the snuffer remains in the first lowered position and when the canister is tilted beyond a predetermined angle the spring moves the sleeve to the second extended position.
US10317075B2
Provided is a plastic waste solid fuel incinerator comprising: an incinerator housing which has, on the upper portion thereof, a gas outlet through which combustion gas is discharged; a fuel supply unit which transfers and supplies a plastic waste solid fuel; a first combustion unit which continuously transfers and burns the supplied plastic waste solid fuel; a first air supply unit which supplies air needed for combustion to the first combustion unit; a combustion gas induction unit which induces the combustion gas generated from the first combustion unit toward the lower portion of a first combustion chamber; a second combustion unit which is arranged in the lower portion of the first combustion unit and comprises a downward injection nozzle unit which downwardly injects the combustion gas supplied through the combustion gas induction unit in order to reburn the combustion gas; and a second air supply unit which is arranged in the lower portion of the second combustion unit and supplies the air needed for combustion to the second combustion unit by downwardly injecting the air. Accordingly, there is an advantage of allowing continuous combustion using combustion gas generated during the combustion of the plastic waste solid fuel without using a separate auxiliary fuel, thereby reducing incineration costs.
US10317071B2
A thermal reservoir for storing heat energy that can convert water to steam and thus power steam driven machines and vehicles is enclosed. The thermal reservoir converts electrical energy to heat energy using electrical resistance heating coils and the heat energy is stored with a thermal storage substance consisting primarily of lithium fluoride. Heat loss is minimized with a specially designed insulation layer that surrounds the thermal storage compartment. The thermal reservoir is charged and discharged via a heat exchanging system comprised of nested cylinders and a plurality of heat conducting fins that innervate the thermal storage compartment.
US10317061B2
Various embodiments may relate to a semiconductor lamp having at least one semiconductor light source, including multiple separately produced components, wherein at least two of the components are connected to one another by means of joint extrusion coating. Various embodiments further relate to a method for producing a semiconductor lamp having at least one semiconductor light source. The method includes at least, inserting at least one open driver housing and a cover for the driver housing into an injection mold, and extrusion coating the components inserted into the mold using potting material so that these components are permanently connected to one another by the potting material.
US10317055B2
A lighting device (1) is provided. The light device (1) comprises a first part (2) and a second part (2) which is flexibly connected to the first part (2) so that the lighting device (1) can be in at least two configurations. There is a sensor (7) which detects the configuration of the lighting device (1) and a controller for receiving the sensor signal from the sensor (7) and for providing an output to first light sources and second light sources.
US10317050B2
A light emitting device includes a plurality of oblong flexible substrates, each flexible substrate comprising a sheet-shaped base body and a wiring pattern formed on one face of the base body, and each flexible substrate having a plurality of light emitting sections disposed thereon; a plurality of a reflective layers, each reflective layer being disposed at a periphery of a respective light emitting section above a respective flexible substrate; an insulating reflective sheet made of a light reflecting resin, the reflective sheet having a plurality of through holes located such that the light emitting sections and at least a portion of the reflective layers are exposed via the through holes; and a plurality of adhesive members, each adhesive member adhering a respective flexible substrate to the reflective sheet in regions where the reflective layer is not formed.
US10317049B2
A light irradiation device includes a plurality of light-emitting portions that emit light by being supplied with a current. The light-emitting portions each have a first power supply terminal, and a second power supply terminal; a plurality of light-emitting elements; and a wiring pattern. The wiring pattern has a first wiring region and a second wiring region. Two of the light-emitting portions that are disposed adjacent to each other are disposed such that the space between the respective first wiring regions or the space between the respective second wiring regions is smaller than the space between the first wiring region of one of the light-emitting portions and the second wiring region of the other of the light-emitting portions.
US10317043B2
A light fixture is provided that includes lighting components having one or more surfaces that subtend light emitted by one or more light sources into one or more corresponding subtended spans. Additional light sources are provided within the light fixture to exhibit back lighting effects that may be seen at various locations external to the light fixture and that may highlight other features of the light fixture intended as aesthetic features. Both the forward projected ray sets and the aesthetic lighting may be controlled independently of each other.
US10317042B1
A T-bar type support extends in elongate form and is configured, such as with a spine and rest shelf, for supporting edges of ceiling tiles thereon within a suspended ceiling system. A lighting module is suspended below other portions of the T-bar. The T-bar also includes a reflector plate above the body which extends at least partially laterally and below where the ceiling tiles are supported. A lighting source within the lighting module shines light upwardly which then reflects off of the reflector plate and down into an interior space beneath the suspended ceiling. Legs preferably suspend the lighting module below the reflector plate, with the legs preferably at ends of the T-bar, and with open space between the legs, so that nothing obstructs light shining from the lighting source up against the reflector plate and then down into the interior space beneath the ceiling.
US10317033B2
A vehicle lamp includes: a light source unit including at least one light source configured to generate light; a shield portion located closer to a front of the vehicle lamp as compared to the light source unit, and configured to receive the light generated by the light source and to transmit at least a portion of the received light to form a beam pattern, the shield portion including: a first shield configured to form at least part of the beam pattern; and a second shield having a light transmittance that is configured to be controlled to modify the beam pattern; a drive unit configured to drive the shield portion; and at least one processor configured to control at least one of the shield portion or the drive unit to modify the beam pattern.
US10317026B1
A nightlight is revealed. The nightlight includes a support, a plug, a housing, a bent tube, at least one light emitting diode (LED) and a wire. The bent tube consists of an upper segment, a lower segment and a middle segment connected to each other and having a central axis. A reflective lens is arranged at the middle segment and a LED slot is disposed on an opening of the lower segment for mounting the LED. At least one pattern plate and a projection lens set are mounted in the bent tube. Light emitted from the LED is moved along the central axis of the bent tube and passed through the projection lens set, the pattern plate and the reflective lens to be projected outward. Thus the light with the pattern is projected at an angle by rotating the housing of the nightlight.
US10317024B2
An LED strip light for cabinet lighting includes a strip-shaped lamp holder, and a light-emitting module. The strip-shaped lamp holder includes a first mounting surface and a second mounting surface and two light source slots. The angle between the light source mounting surface formed by the two light source slots and the first mounting surface is an acute angle between 30 and 40 degrees. Two mounting groove is respectively provided on the first mounting surface and the second mounting surface along the extending direction thereof. One mounting groove is a U-shaped groove and another is a V-shaped groove. It is easier to install the LED strip light in the strip-shaped lamp holder and more mounting options can be selected so that the LED strip light is more suitable for cabinets such as shelf laminates, vertical freezers and horizontal freezers, etc.
US10317015B2
Generally disclosed may be an LED lighting module (including but not limited to lamps, light bulbs, or light fixtures) with (i) rapidly replaceable LED light source units, (ii) rapidly replaceable driver circuitry, and (iii) efficient heat transfer. An aspect of the rapid replaceability of the disclosed light source is self-registration of the source's light elements, electronic drive components, and heat sources respectively relative to the optical, power supply components, and heat sink components of a lamp or other lighting device.
US10317012B2
A method for producing a sealed and thermally insulating wall for a fluid storage tank includes attaching plural anchoring elements to a support structure; installing modular formwork elements on the support structure, the modular formwork elements having a shape that protrudes relative to the support structure and that defines, with the support structure and the plurality of anchoring parts, compartments having an open side opposite the support structure; spraying insulating foam into the compartments through the open side to form plural insulating sectors made from sprayed insulating foam; arranging insulating junction elements in a stressed position in which they are stressed between the insulating sectors and capable of expanding when the insulating sectors contract, to ensure continuity of the thermal insulation; and attaching a sealing membrane to the anchoring elements.
US10317010B2
A liquefied gas storage tank includes: an inner shell storing a liquefied gas; an outer shell forming a vacuum space between the inner shell and the outer shell; and a fail-safe thermal insulating layer covering an outer side surface of the outer shell. According to this configuration, the fail-safe thermal insulating layer is not disposed in the vacuum space. This makes it possible to suppress the degradation over time of the degree of vacuum in the vacuum space.
US10317001B2
An axial swaged fitting for permanently joining to a tube to achieve an elastic strain preload condition comprises an annular body including at least one body compression ball cavity. The body laterally surrounds at least a portion of the tube. An annular retainer includes at least one retainer compression ball cavity. The retainer laterally surrounds at least a portion of the body. A compression ball is located concurrently in both of the body compression ball cavity and the retainer compression ball cavity. The compression ball is deformed into both the body and the retainer. An annular collar laterally surrounds at least a portion of the retainer. The collar selectively exerts a predetermined compression force laterally inward toward the tube to urge the at least one compression ball into a deformation contact with at least one of the body compression ball cavity and the retainer compression ball cavity into the elastic strain preload condition.
US10316994B2
The invention provides methods and apparatus for producing a spirally wound pipe or pipe liner, and also to a web for forming a spirally wound pipe or pipe liner. One aspect of the invention provides a method and an associated machine of winding a helically wound pipe from a web (200) having transversely spaced apart connecting formations (310, 320) adapted to interlock when the web is wound in a helical path and adjacent edge portions (300a. 300b) of the web overlap one another, wherein an exterior support means (400) for the connecting formation at the terminus of the pipe being helically wound from the web is provided, and a radially outwardly directed force is applied against an inner face (220) of the web and the support means (400) to pinch connecting formations into interlocking engagement. A further aspect of the invention provides an elongated web (200) comprising a wall portion (210) bound by edge portions (300a. 300b) and adapted to form a pipe by spirally winding said web and joining adjacent said edge portions, wherein a distal end of joined edge portions (330) of the web projecting from the wall portion (210) of the web is less than a spacing distance defined by a spacer rib (350) projecting from the wall portion, when the web is spirally wound and adjacent edge portions are joined together.
US10316990B1
A method of providing a transportable line pipe and distribution hose supply crossing assembly for use in supplying natural gas fueled drilling rig engines or fracking equipment with natural gas, electricity and pressurized air from mobile storage and vaporization facilities. A skid frame and ramp assembly are transported then assembled in end-to-end configuration for a continuous pipeline with a crossing ramp.
US10316984B2
A sealing valve is provided for a sensor that includes a sensing element and a sensor opening that exposes the sensor element. The sealing valve includes a housing that is configured to be mounted to the sensor such that an internal channel of the housing fluidly communicates with the sensor opening. The sealing valve includes a float element configured to float along a surface of the liquid. The float element is configured to move within the internal channel between an open position and a closed position. The float element is configured to close the sensor opening to the internal channel in the closed position. The sensor opening is open to the internal channel when the float element is in the open position. The float element is configured to rise with the surface of the liquid within the internal channel toward the closed position.
US10316982B2
A solenoid actuator is provided that includes a casing. A coil is positioned within the casing. A flux tube and axially separated pole piece are encircled by the coil. An armature is slidably mounted within bores of the flux tube and pole piece. The flux tube and pole piece are separated by a flux choke. A core shunt juxtaposes the pole piece from the flux choke. The core shunt, on major cross-sectional tubular thickness and a minor cross-sectional tubular thickness has an outer diameter of a curved shunt to provide enhanced performance stability.
US10316981B2
A heat pump water heater appliance includes an electronic mixing valve. The electronic mixing valve is positioned within a casing of the heat pump water heater appliance. A mixed water conduit and a heated water conduit of the electronic mixing valve may be positioned coaxially with each other, and a cold water conduit of the electronic mixing valve may be oriented such that the cold water conduit extends orthogonal to the heated water conduit and the mixed water conduit. A plunger is positioned within the valve body at the mixing chamber of the valve body. A motor is coupled to the plunger, the motor being operable to adjust a position of a head of the plunger within the valve body.
US10316979B2
A one-time-use pressure-actuated conduit closure is provided, to selectively withstand fluid pressure from one side of the device until the closure is removed remotely, the closure device being a frangible dome designed to withstand fluid pressures from one side but to rupture upon application of higher pressure on its other side, which provides a mechanism to isolate downhole fluid under (high) pressures in part of a well during operations for a period of time selected by an operator, and then to remove the isolation by breaking the rupture dome remotely by application of extra fluid pressure or other forces from surface. The frangible dome has features in at least one surface to guide and control its breakage to provide controlled shard sizes and shapes and a predictable opening for minimal obstruction of the conduit when broken away.
US10316967B2
CVT controller has rotation speed sensors detecting driving and driven wheel rotation speed; driving and driven wheel speed difference detection unit detecting wheel speed difference Δvfr; and bad road judgment unit judging that road is bad road when Δvfr is first value Δvfr_br or greater. CVT controller further has first belt clamping force increase unit increasing belt clamping force in case where road is judged to be bad road, as compared with case where road is not judged to be bad road; vibration detection unit detecting vehicle speed vibration fvsp; and second belt clamping force increase unit increasing belt clamping force when Δvfr is second value Δvfr_psec or greater or when fvsp is third value fvsp_psec or greater in case where road is not judged to be bad road, as compared with case where Δvfr is less than Δvfr_psec and case where fvsp is less than fvsp_psec.
US10316955B2
The integrated controller calculates the required lubricant flowrate required for lubricating the friction element corresponding to a selected position on the basis of a rotation speed difference in the friction element corresponding to the selected position, and increases the lubricant flowrate supplied to the friction element corresponding to the selected position immediately after switching is made between the forward position and the reverse position and supplies the lubricant flowrate larger than the required lubricant flowrate to the friction element corresponding to the selected position.
US10316953B2
An assembly of a lubrication system for fluid machinery includes a transmission shaft, an oil-injection insulating ring and a labyrinth ring. The transmission shaft defines axially power and passive sides. The power side includes a body unit having first and second bearings. The oil-injection insulating ring located between the first and second bearings sleeves the transmission shaft and connects a fuel-supply looping having outer and inner rings. The outer ring has at least one first hole communicatively connected with the fuel-supply looping. The labyrinth ring having first and second axial ends has outer diameters tapering from the second axial end to the first axial end. The first and second axial ends face the power and passive sides, respectively. A circumference of the labyrinth ring includes circular grooves to form a circumferential step-like structure. The labyrinth ring sleeves the transmission shaft and is embedded into the body unit.
US10316952B2
A plug for a vehicle includes: a body portion; a plurality of insertion portions configured to be inserted into a through-hole provided in a housing; and a flange portion having a notch formed on an outer periphery so as to restrict a rotation of the body portion around an axial center. The insertion portions are formed at two positions opposed to each other across a straight line passing through the notch and the axial center and are provided with retaining lugs engageable with the through-hole.
US10316947B2
A torque converter (10) including a lock-up clutch, the lock-up clutch (20) having an axially displaceable and/or axially elastic actuating element (26) for actuating the lock-up clutch, the actuating element being designed as a component different from the turbine and being mounted on the turbine.
US10316939B2
The present disclosure provides a multiple speed transmission having an input member, an output member, a plurality of planetary gearsets, a plurality of interconnecting members and a plurality of torque-transmitting mechanisms. The plurality of planetary gear sets includes first, second and ring gears. The input member is continuously interconnected with at least one member of one of the plurality of planetary gear sets, and the output member is continuously interconnected with another member of one of the plurality of planetary gear sets. At least eight forward speeds and one reverse speed are achieved by the selective engagement of the five torque-transmitting mechanisms.
US10316937B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle is disclosed. The planetary gear train may include: an input shaft receiving torque of an engine; an output shaft outputting torque; a first planetary gear set including first, second, and third rotation elements; a second planetary gear set including fourth, fifth, and sixth rotation elements; a third planetary gear set including seventh, eighth, and ninth rotation elements; a fourth planetary gear set including tenth, eleventh, and twelfth rotation elements; and a fifth planetary gear set including thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth rotational elements. The planetary gear train improves power delivery performance and fuel economy of a vehicle by achieving ten forward speed stages and one reverse state.
US10316935B2
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle is provided to improve power delivery and fuel efficiency by applying six engaging elements to five planetary gear sets to achieve ten forward speed stages and one reverse speed stage. The planetary gear train includes: an input shaft; an output shaft; first to fifth planetary gear sets each including three rotation elements; three clutches and three brakes as the six engaging elements; and first to ninth shafts. In particular, the third shaft fixedly connects seventh, tenth and thirteenth rotational elements, and the fourth shaft fixedly connects sixth and fifteenth rotational elements. In addition, the fifth shaft fixedly connects third and fourth rotational elements, the sixth shaft fixedly connects fifth and eighth rotational elements, and the seventh shaft fixedly connects ninth and eleventh rotational elements.
US10316934B2
A vehicle transmission system includes a shift cam rotated by rotary power from an output torque of a gearshift actuator motor to change a gearshift position and a rotational position holding mechanism configured to hold a rotational position of the shift cam. The rotational position holding mechanism has a rotatable member that is rotated in synchronization with the shift cam and has a plurality of indented portions along a rotational direction and a stopper member inserted into the indented portion of the rotatable member to hold a rotational position of the rotatable member. An unindented portion between the plurality of indented portions on the outer circumferential surface of the rotatable member is formed on a circular arc curved surface concentric on a rotation center line.
US10316925B2
According to the present invention, there is provided a vibration damping device (10) including a first bracket (11) and a second bracket (12), a first attachment member (14), a second attachment member (15), and an elastic body (16). The second attachment member (15) includes an insertion cylinder portion (22) in which the second bracket (12) is inserted. The insertion cylinder portion (22) is provided with a stopper portion (56) which faces a stopper wall (55) provided in the first bracket (11), in a radial direction (Y) in a side wall portion (57) oriented outward in the radial direction (Y) of the insertion cylinder portion (22). The stopper portion (56) includes a first stopper portion (61) and a second stopper portion (62) which are disposed in a manner of being displaced in an axial direction (X) of the insertion cylinder portion (22). The first stopper portion (61) is constituted by a first elastic portion (58). The second stopper portion (62) includes a rigid member (25). A first distance (D1) between the first stopper portion (61) and the stopper wall (55) in the radial direction (Y) is equal to or shorter than a second distance (D2) between the second stopper portion (62) and the stopper wall (55) in the radial direction (Y).
US10316923B2
There is provided a damper that can reduce a shock when a piston speed reaches a high speed range from a low speed range without deteriorating a ride comfort while the piston speed is in the low speed range. In order to solve the above-mentioned problem, in a damper D of the present invention, since a orifice (7) and an opening/closing valve (9) are arranged in parallel with a bypass passage (B) bypassing a damping passage (3), and a valve opening pressure of an opening/closing valve (9) is made lower than a valve opening pressure of a damping valve (5), a sudden change in an inclination of a damping force characteristic can be moderated at an inflection point of the damping force characteristic even if the damping force is increased while the piston speed is in the low speed range.
US10316917B2
A hydraulic power take-off is provided for use with industrial drives. The hydraulic power take-off has a multiple-force brake system that facilitates actively slowing large inertial loads associated with a heavy rotating mass of an industrial machine. The multiple-force brake system applies different braking forces at different times to control deceleration of the heavy rotating mass in the industrial machine to reduce its stopping time. The multiple-force brake system may include a clutch assembly and a brake assembly. A control system may control the clutch and brake assemblies to provide the multiple-force brake system a relatively higher energy brake engagement state and a relatively lower energy brake engagement. This may include alternating between the higher and lower energy brake engagement states to pulse between high and low pressure braking to facilitate cooling of the system while slowing the large inertial loads.
US10316911B2
A brake backing plate is provided in which a non-compressible core material is sandwiched between two sheet metal stampings to make a lightweight, composite brake backing plate. Each of the stampings has a textured face with a plurality of integrally formed piercing members. By rolling or pressing, the piercing members of the textured faces are fully embedded in the core material, and thus lock the stampings and the core material together.
US10316907B2
A brake apparatus stops a rotor of an external-rotor motor that drives the head or a joint of a home robot. Frictional torque is generated when a friction pad presses a rotor surface even when a power source is switched off. A posture of a moving part, such as the head, of the robot is not abruptly disturbed even though the power source is switched off. Since a light external force is applied to the moving part of the robot in the off state of the power source, a motion in a direction desired by the user takes places without being stiff. The motion of the head of the robot stops when the external force is removed. An intention of the user who touches the robot may be satisfied even when the power source of the robot is switched off.
US10316905B2
The present disclosure relates to a technique of suppressing the occurrence of an impact caused by clutch engagement by differently controlling a clutch depending on whether or not a brake is in operation. Disclosed is a method of controlling a clutch for a vehicle, which effectively reduces engagement impact that occurs when the clutch is engaged by performing control such that a rising slope of clutch torque up to a touch point is gentler when the brake is not in operation than when the brake is in operation.
US10316892B2
Machine and method for hot testing test pieces made of a thermoplastic polymer, in which the test pieces are immersed in a tank full of a heat transfer liquid which is heated; a fan generates, immediately above the tank, an air flow to carry away volatile substances emitted by the tank and the air flow is made to pass through a filtering cartridge housed removably inside a first chamber delimited by a casing, which is provided with an inlet opening, that faces towards the tank and is arranged flush with or immediately above an upper perimetral edge of the tank; the air flow is made to pass sequentially through at least three filtering elements, which are arranged hydraulically in series, including: a pre-filter; at least one activated carbon filter; and a HEPA filter; an hour counter signals when the time has come to replace the filtering cartridge.
US10316891B2
A device with a torque-proof first structural component and second structural component that is connected to the first structural component in a rotatable manner at least in certain areas. Hydraulic fluid can be supplied to lubrication points via the first and second structural components. An interface between the structural components has first and second transition areas arranged at a distance from each other in axial extension of the structural components. During operation, a pressure is applied to the first transition area which is higher than a pressure applied to the second transition area. A sealing appliance is arranged in the area of the interface between the first and second transition areas, which includes a threaded area in an area of a surface of one of the first and second structural components facing towards a surface of the other of the first and second structural components.
US10316886B2
A damper device is attached to a rotating shaft to suppress amplitude at resonance of the rotating shaft. The damper device includes: a damper housing formed annularly and concentrically with the rotating shaft; a plurality of mass bodies annularly arranged around the rotation shaft inside of the damper housing and configured to be movable in the diameter direction by centrifugal force; an annular elastic body, formed of a circular spring-shaped elastic body abutting on the outside of the plurality of the mass bodies, so as to bias the mass body inward; and a biasing member, being a leaf spring-shaped elastic body abutting on the outside of the annular elastic body, so as to bias the annular elastic body inward.
US10316884B2
An algorithm analyzes the motion of an object to determine if a switch needs to be activated or deactivated. Accelerometers measure forces exerted upon an object to determine orientation in pitch, roll, and yaw axes, and to determine motion of the object. When threshold conditions for these orientations and movements are measured, the method combines taking moving averages of pitch, roll, and yaw, and additionally accumulating an integral of yaw to determine if an activation or deactivation condition is met. Should an integral condition not be constantly met while the moving average conditions are being determined, the yaw integral counter resets and the whole process must begin again. This method balances most unintentional activation conditions with activation latency. Another methodology tracks the motion of a wrist flick, similar to casting a fishing line, using acceleration and deceleration parameters.
US10316883B2
A blind nut including an internal threaded portion, a hollow tubular portion adjacent to the internal threaded portion, and a flange with hole, formed at the end on the opposite side to the internally threaded portion. The internal threaded portion is inserted into an attaching hole of the attached-to member, a part of the tubular portion is plastically deformed to expand in diameter, and the attached-to member is held between the deformed expanded diameter portion and the flange. The internal threaded portion includes a first straight portion adjacent to the tubular portion, a first tapered portion with an outside diameter gradually decreasing from the first straight portion, a second straight portion with an outside diameter smaller than the first straight portion, a second tapered portion with an outside diameter decreasing from the first straight portion, and a third straight portion with an outside diameter smaller than the second straight portion.
US10316881B2
A member (10), for bearing a load, including a load receiving portion (12) at which the load is applicable to the member. A strainable portion (14) is connected to the load receiving portion to be strained by the load. A datum (16a) is defined and an elongate portion (18) defines another datum (18a). The datums are arranged such that relative displacement therebetween indicates an amount by which the strainable portion is strained. The strainable portion defines the datum.
US10316879B2
A frame system for a solar cell module, the frame system includes: a first frame member including a first body that is configured to be fixed to a substrate of the solar cell module and a male coupling portion that is protruded from the first body; and a second frame member including a second body that is configured to be fixed to an installation object and a female coupling portion that is configured to be coupled to the male coupling portion, wherein at an outer surface of the male coupling portion, a protrusion including an inclined surface having an upper width smaller than a lower width and a separation prevention surface that is positioned at a lower end portion of the inclined surface is formed, and at an inside of the female coupling portion, a protrusion coupling portion that corresponds to the protrusion is formed.
US10316877B2
A securing device (10) is mountable on an article, and comprises a guide formation (14). A fastening arrangement (18) is movable relative to the guide formation to fasten the article to the securing device. An urging arrangement (26) is operable to urge the fastening arrangement relative to the guide formation between fastening and non-fastening positions. The guide formation is arranged to guide the fastening arrangement to the fastening position. An indicator (38) is movable by the urging arrangement from a non-indicating condition to an indicating condition when the fastening arrangement is moved to the fastening position.
US10316876B2
The invention relates to a connecting element for connecting two aligned C-shaped profile rails (12). The connecting in element (10) is in the form of a sheet metal profile the cross-section of which, adapted to the profile rails (12) to be connected, is such that said sheet-metal profile can be slid into said profile rails (12) from the fronts thereof in a captive manner. A handling tab (14) that is accessible after the connecting element has been slid into a profile rail (12) is moulded onto or mounted on said connecting element.
US10316871B2
A damping device for a clutch actuating device is provided. The damping device includes a first cylinder that is connected to a master cylinder by a first hydraulic line and a second cylinder that is connected to an actuating cylinder by a second hydraulic line and is disposed at a position adjacent to the first cylinder in parallel. A first piston is disposed in the first cylinder and is moved forward and backward by a fluid pressure in the first cylinder. A second piston is disposed in the second cylinder and is moved forward and backward by a fluid pressure in the second cylinder. A pressure transmitting member is supported to perform a seesaw motion when both sides of the pressure transmitting member are in contact with a pressing portion of the first piston and a pressing portion of the second piston.
US10316870B2
A hydraulic cylinder includes a rod insertion hole formed in a piston member, an auxiliary rod provided to a head side end wall member and capable of being inserted into the rod insertion hole, a rod fitting hole formed to pass through the head side end wall member and the auxiliary rod, a movable rod installed in the rod fitting hole and whose end portion toward a head side end wall projects to the exterior, a movement restriction mechanism that prohibits shifting of the movable rod in an unclamping state and permits shifting of the movable rod in a clamping state.
US10316865B2
An ejector has a nozzle, a body, a passage defining member and a drive portion. The body has a refrigerant suction port and a pressure increasing portion. A nozzle passage is defined between an inner surface of the nozzle and an outer surface of the passage defining member and has a minimum sectional area portion, a tapered portion, and an expansion portion. The minimum sectional area portion has a smallest passage sectional area. The tapered portion is located upstream of the minimum sectional area portion in a refrigerant flow direction and has a passage sectional area decreasing toward the minimum sectional area portion gradually. The expansion portion is located downstream of the minimum sectional area portion in the refrigerant flow direction and has a passage sectional area increasing gradually. The passage defining member has a groove that is recessed to increase the passage sectional area of the nozzle passage.
US10316864B2
Devices for producing vacuum using the Venturi effect have a housing defining a suction chamber, a motive passageway converging toward the suction chamber, a discharge passageway diverging away from the suction chamber, and a suction passageway in fluid communication with the suction chamber. A solenoid valve is positioned in the suction passageway and has an elongate sealing member received inside a coil, a first seal seat at a first end of the coil, and a second seal seat at the second end of the coil. The elongate sealing member is translatable within the coil between the first seal seat and the second seal seat, which define an open position and a closed position. Within the suction chamber, a motive exit of the motive passageway is generally aligned with and spaced apart from a discharge entrance of the discharge passageway to define a Venturi gap.
US10316863B2
A jet pump (10) comprising a tubular body (12), a first injection duct (14) which opens into the body (12) via a first outlet nozzle (18), a second injection duct (16) which opens into the body (12) via a second outlet nozzle (20) which surrounds the first outlet nozzle (18), the downstream end (20a) of the second outlet nozzle (20) being situated axially level with the downstream end (18a) of the first outlet nozzle (18), wherein the upstream end (18b) of the first nozzle (18) comprises an axial orifice (30) centered on the main axis of the body (12), and in that the jet pump (10) is configured for either plugging or not plugging the axial orifice (30) of the first outlet nozzle (18).
US10316862B2
A fan comprises a hub and at least one blade coupled to the hub. The blade comprises an inlet portion and an outlet portion. The inlet portion is defined by a longitudinal axis, an inlet edge, and a portion of a distal edge. The outlet portion is defined by the longitudinal axis, an outlet edge, and another portion of the distal edge.
US10316859B2
A turbocharger includes ported shroud compressor housing disposed about compressor wheel having air inlet passage extending axially along and circumferentially about a longitudinal axis, volute base portion operably adjacent to compressor wheel, contour that encircles and complementarily matches compressor wheel, inducer including ring and plurality of extending members, inlet section extending from volute base portion, and recirculation cavity formed in volute base portion and inlet section with recirculation slot and inlet slot for reentry of airflow into inlet section. The ring has inner wall surface defining first section extending axially along longitudinal axis proximate to compressor wheel, second section extending from first section radially away from longitudinal axis, and third section extending from second section radially away from and along longitudinal axis and distal to compressor wheel. The inlet section has first diameter and third section has second diameter being either one of equal to or less than first diameter.
US10316856B2
A casing for use in a turbofan engine is provided. The casing includes an inner hub including a first fluid opening defined at bottom dead center of the casing. The casing also includes an intermediate casing positioned radially outward from the inner hub, an outer casing positioned radially outward from the intermediate casing, and struts spaced circumferentially about the inner hub and extending between the inner hub and the outer casing. The struts include a first strut and a second strut positioned on opposing sides of bottom dead center of the casing such that a first fluid sump is defined between the inner hub, the intermediate casing, and the first and second struts. At least one of said first and second struts includes a flow channel extending therethrough such that a fluid flow path is defined from the first fluid opening, through the first fluid sump, and through the flow channel.
US10316853B2
To design the rotor (6, 6′, 6″, 6′″, 60, 60′) as compressible in the radial direction in a fluid pump, in particular for microinvasive medical use, said rotor is configured as stretchable in its longitudinal direction (16) by push elements and pull elements acting axially on it.
US10316838B2
An apparatus for reducing or eliminating gas lock in a downhole pump is provided. The apparatus has a ported bushing connecting to an upper standing valve at a first, uphole end and connecting to a lower standing valve at a second, downhole end. The apparatus also has one or more vents. In one embodiment, the apparatus is coupled downhole of a traveling valve of a downhole pump such that, on each upstroke, the one or more vents of the apparatus draw liquid from the annulus between the pump and the tubing into the passage between the upper and lower standing valves for opening the upper standing valve to accumulate liquid in the pump barrel below the traveling valve. The accumulation of liquid in the pump barrel below the traveling valve breaks gas lock and opens the traveling valve, ensuring the operation of pumping liquid from downhole to surface.
US10316821B2
A vertical axis wind turbine system having a vertical mast with one or more turbine units supported thereon. The turbine units are of modular construction for assembly around the foot of the mast; are vertically moveable along the height of the mast by a winch system; and are selectively interlocking with the mast to fix the turbine units in parked positions. The turbine system and each turbine unit includes a network of portals and interior rooms for the passage of personnel through the system, including each turbine unit. The electrical generators, and other sub-components, in the turbine units are of modular construction that permits the selective removal and replacement of component segments, including the transport of component segments through the portals and interior rooms of the turbine system while the turbine units remain supported on the mast. The electrical generators are also selectively convertible between AC generators and DC generators.
US10316820B2
A wind turbine system to provide electrical power in areas not connected to the electrical power grid. The wind turbine system includes a frame and a rotatable shaft supported by the frame. A ring and idler gear assembly is coupled to the rotatable shaft. An upper rotor assembly is coupled to the rotatable shaft. The upper rotor assembly is configured to rotate in a first direction and thereby to rotate the rotatable shaft in a first direction. A lower rotor assembly is coupled to the ring and idler gear assembly. The lower rotor assembly is configured to rotate in a second direction which is opposite of the first direction and thereby to rotate the rotatable shaft in the first direction via the ring and idler gear assembly.
US10316816B2
A hydraulic water wheel assembly and system where optimum results are obtained based upon factors such as the height of the channel, the distance between water wheels, the diameter of the discs, and the number, size, dimensions, and arrangement of the wing blades.
US10316815B2
The present invention discloses a device having communication with small gasoline engine igniter, comprising an igniter, a flameout switch and a communication device, and both the flameout switch and the communication device are connected to an igniter flameout port and an iron core of a reference ground. The unique voltage conversion circuit herein makes the signals at MUC sampling port more close to the required theoretical value, to ensure more stable and reliable communications. The design of key input and data display enables the communication device to be used alone without additional computers or other additional equipments, simple and convenient. On the basis of above igniter program, very simple circuit at extremely low costs is added, together with the MCU control program, the invention can have a single-wire bidirectional communication with an external device, so as to achieve operations of controlling MCU internal data of the igniter.
US10316814B2
Disclosed is an engine starting control method for a flexible fuel vehicle (FFV) of supplying the heated fuel to the engine by heating an injector heater during cranking when it is determined that cranking condition and fuel heating condition are satisfied at the time of starting the vehicle having a starting auxiliary device for cranking the engine of FFV and a device for heating the fuel using the injector heater provided in an injector, wherein a pre-injection is auxiliary performed prior to a main injection during cold starting of the engine when the heating time of the injector heater exceeds a predetermined value, allowing stable starting with low fuel consumption at a time of cold starting an engine using ethanol fuel in winter.
US10316799B2
A first electromagnetic valve includes a suction port that communicates with a purge pipe and sucks vaporized gas from a canister, a discharge port that communicates with a first purge pipe and discharges the vaporized gas to a downstream side of a throttle, a branch port that communicates with second purge pipes to which a second electromagnetic valve is attached and causes the vaporized gas to branch off to an upstream side of a compressor, a branch passage that diverges into and communicates with the suction port, the discharge port and the branch port. The branch passage includes a chamber having an inner diameter larger than each inner diameter of the ports.
US10316798B2
Methods and systems are provided for accurately determining the composition of a knock control fluid using sensors already present in the engine system. An intake or an exhaust oxygen sensor is used to estimate the water and the alcohol content of a knock control fluid that is direct injected into an engine cylinder responsive to an indication of abnormal combustion. A change in the pumping current of the oxygen sensor due to the water content of the knock control fluid is distinguished from a change in the pumping current of the oxygen sensor due to the alcohol content of the knock control fluid.
US10316795B2
Provided herein are various improvements to rocket engine components and rocket engine operational techniques. In one example, a rocket engine propellant injection apparatus is provided that includes a manifold formed into a single body by an additive manufacturing process and comprising a fuel cavity and an oxidizer cavity. The manifold also includes one or more propellant feed stubs, the one or more propellant feed stubs protruding from the manifold and formed into the single body of the manifold by the additive manufacturing process, with at least a first stub configured to carry fuel to the fuel cavity and at least a second stub configured to carry oxidizer to the oxidizer cavity. The manifold also includes a plurality of injection features formed by apertures in a face of the manifold, ones of the plurality of injection features configured to inject the fuel and the oxidizer for combustion.
US10316791B2
A piston for an internal combustion engine may include a shaft. A dual-layer coating with an inner layer and an outer layer may be applied to the shaft. The inner layer may include organic binders and solid lubricants. The inner layer may also include hard material particles of at least one of tungsten disulphide (WS2), tungsten carbide (WC), silicon carbide (SiC), and aluminum oxide (Al2O3). The outer layer may include inorganic binders, may be air-hardening, and may have a lower wear resistance than the inner layer.
US10316790B2
A piston including at least one insert disposed between an inner surface of a ring belt and undercrown surface, and/or between the inner surface of the ring belt and a pin boss, to provide reinforcement to the ring belt is provided. The insert reduces thermal and mechanical distortion of the ring belt, and thus increases the piston ring performance, reduces blow-by, and ultimately improves engine emissions. The insert is formed by an additive machining process, such as direct depositing, laser cladding, laser sintering, arc welding, additive welding, plasma transferred arc spraying, plasma welding, arc welding, selective laser sintering, and high velocity oxygen fuel spraying, plasma spraying. According to one embodiment, an intermediate piece is mechanically attached to the piston, and the insert is applied to the intermediate piece, to provide additional reinforcement.
US10316787B2
Provided is a fuel supply device for an internal combustion engine. When fuel pressure in a high-pressure fuel pipe changes as a result of the driving of a high-pressure pump, the changing fuel pressure propagates as pulsation into a low-pressure fuel pipe. A degree of influence of propagation of pulsation decreases as fuel pressure in the low-pressure fuel pipe increases. When the high-pressure pump is in an operating state where the degree of influence of the pulsation of the fuel pressure propagating from the high-pressure fuel pipe on the fuel pressure in the low-pressure fuel pipe is high, boost control for driving a feed pump to raise the fuel pressure in the low-pressure fuel pipe is executed.
US10316786B2
Systems and methods for improving fuel injection of an engine that includes a cylinder receiving fuel from two different fuel injectors is disclosed. In one example, a transfer function or gain of a direct fuel injector is adjusted in response to an exhaust lambda value and a first pulse width of two pulse widths provided to an injector of a cylinder during a cylinder cycle.
US10316769B2
An alternative fueling system configured to consume alternative fuels by renewable identification number (RIN) assignment to enforce neat consumption; or moreover and more specifically, to utilize that RIN assignment whenever neat consumption is possible, thereby lessening usage constraints upon the remaining stock(s) of renewable fuel as an example, and/or to provide purging of the alternative fuel from the engine on shutdown.
US10316765B2
A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an intake-side variable valve timing mechanism and a controller. The intake-side variable valve timing mechanism is configured to continuously advance or retard a phase of a cam that actuates an intake valve. The controller is configured to actuate the intake-side variable valve timing mechanism toward a retardation side and position the intake-side variable valve timing mechanism at a prescribed position, and execute fail-safe control on the basis of a signal from a cam position sensor instead of a signal from the crank position sensor, when it is determined that there is a failure in a crank position sensor of the internal combustion engine.
US10316763B2
A method for controlling valve timing of a turbo engine may include: classifying by a controller control regions depending on an engine speed and an engine load, and the control regions may include first, second, third, fourth, fifth, and sixth control regions. The method further includes: applying a maximum duration to an intake valve and controlling a valve overlap in the first control region; applying the maximum duration to the intake valve and exhaust valve in the second control region; advancing an intake valve closing (IVC) timing and an exhaust valve closing (EVC) timing in the third control region; approaching the IVC timing to a bottom dead center in a fourth control region; controlling a wide open throttle valve (WOT) in the fifth control region; and controlling the WOT and the IVC timing to reduce the knocking in the sixth control region.
US10316759B2
An airflow control system control system for a gas turbine system according to an embodiment includes: an airflow generation system including a plurality of air moving systems for selective attachment to a rotatable shaft of a gas turbine system, the airflow generation system drawing in an excess flow of air through an air intake section; and a mixing area for receiving an exhaust gas stream of the gas turbine system; the airflow generation system: directing a first portion and a second portion of the excess flow of air generated by the airflow generation system into the mixing area to reduce a temperature of the exhaust gas stream; and directing a third portion of the excess flow of air generated by the airflow generation system into a discharge chamber of a compressor component of the gas turbine system.
US10316755B2
A panel for attenuating noise includes a porous first skin, a second skin, and a core connected between the porous first skin and the second skin. The core includes a corrugated body and a stringer body. The corrugated body includes a plurality of corrugations configured from at least a plurality of baffles and a plurality of porous septums. Each of the corrugations includes a respective one of the baffles and a respective one of the porous septums. A first of the corrugations forms a first channel that extends laterally between and longitudinally along a first of the baffles and a first of the porous septums. The stringer body includes a plurality of sidewalls arranged longitudinally along the first channel. Each of the sidewalls is disposed within the first channel and configured to fluidly isolate longitudinally adjacent portions of the first channel from one another.
US10316752B2
The application describes a method of operating a gas turbine during a cool-down phase. The gas turbine provides a compressor, a combustor downstream of the compressor, and a turbine downstream of the combustor, with the turbine providing a turbine vane carrier. The method includes feeding a flow of cooling air from the compressor to the turbine vane carrier, measuring a temperature of the flow of cooling air and measuring a temperature of the turbine vane carrier. In the method, the flow of cooling air is fed at a first flow rate when the temperature of the turbine vane carrier is lower than the temperature of the cooling air, and the flow of cooling air is fed at a second flow rate when the temperature of the turbine vane carrier is higher than the temperature of the cooling air, wherein the first flow rate is higher than the second flow rate.
US10316751B2
a gas turbine engine structure includes a body radially spanning an inner portion and an outer portion. The structure body includes a first passage interior to the structure body. The first passage includes a first opening on one of a radially outward edge and a radially inward edge of the structure, and a second opening on the other of the radially outward edge and the radially inward edge of the structure. A second passage is also included interior to the structure. The second passage is approximately aligned with the first passage, and is disposed between the first passage and one of the first surface and the second surface of the structure. The second passage insulates the first passage from heat transfer through one of the first surface and the second surface.
US10316749B2
Conduits for guiding the motion of an inner diameter shroud of a low pressure compressor of a gas turbine engine are disclosed. The inner diameter shroud has at least three slots formed in one or more radially inwardly extending flanges. Each of the conduits are configured to assemble with a respective one of the at least three slots. Each conduit comprises a bushing having a first panel, and the first panel is capable of being inserted in a respective one of the slots of the inner diameter shroud. The conduit further comprises a bracket capable of being attached to a bearing support of a fan intermediate case of the gas turbine engine. The bushing is capable of being attached to the bracket. A contact between the first panel and the at least one slot of the inner diameter shroud restricts a circumferential rotation of the inner diameter shroud with respect to a central axis of the gas turbine engine when the first panel is inserted in the at least one slot, but allows a radial motion of the inner diameter shroud with respect to the central axis.
US10316742B2
A turbocharger system can include a housing that includes a through bore, a plurality of lubricant bores, a plurality of lubricant bore to through bore openings and a recessed compressor-side surface that defines in part a passage that fluidly couples at least two of the lubricant bores; a rolling element bearing unit disposed at least in part in the through bore of the housing; and, a plate that covers at least a portion of the recessed compressor-side surface of the housing.
US10316731B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system, for controlling a coolant circulating in an engine, including: selecting a reference inlet temperature for a coolant flowing through a coolant inlet of an engine; controlling an open rate of the coolant control valve unit based on the reference inlet temperature; sensing an actual inlet temperature of the coolant flowing through the coolant inlet of the engine; sensing an actual outlet temperature of a coolant flowing through a coolant outlet of the engine; calculating a difference value between the actual inlet temperature and the actual outlet temperature; and varying the reference inlet temperature according to the difference value.
US10316728B2
A sealing device for an exhaust manifold includes a main pipe having a connection portion including a mounting groove formed at an interior circumferential surface; a sub pipe having a protruding portion at one end portion, the sub pipe being coupled to the main pipe in a state in which the protruding portion is inserted into the connection portion; a valve mounted at the mounting groove within the connection portion; and a gasket interposed between the protruding portion and the valve within the connection portion.
US10316719B2
A method and a control assembly for operating an exhaust gas system of a motor vehicle is disclosed. Measuring values are evaluated, which indicate a content of nitrogen oxides in an exhaust gas downstream of a catalytic device. The catalytic device is adapted to diminish the content of nitrogen oxides in the exhaust gas produced by an engine of the motor vehicle. Based on the measuring values a quality of a reducing agent supplied to the catalytic device is assessed. The method includes determining whether reducing agent has been filled into a storage tank. A plurality of measuring values is captured during a predetermined period of time, and a magnitude and a frequency of the plurality of measuring values are taken into account to assess the quality of the reducing agent.
US10316713B2
A recirculation valve for a pump having a regulator spool, a first resilient biasing member and a control valve. The first resilient biasing member biases the regulator spool in a first position in which flow of a liquid from a first port of the pump to a second port of the pump is prevented. The control valve controls the force required to move the regulator spool against the first resilient biasing member to a second position in which flow of the liquid from the first port to the second port is enabled.
US10316701B2
An overhead valve actuation mechanism for an engine includes a camshaft that is rotatably supported by the cylinder head and includes one or a plurality of valve cams. The camshaft operates opening and closing of an intake valve and an exhaust valve via the valve cam. The only one camshaft is disposed within the one cylinder head. The camshaft has an axis center biased to a side of the exhaust valve with respect to a cylinder axis line as viewed from an axial direction of the camshaft.
US10316695B2
The present disclosure is directed to a composite component defining a component aperture extending between a first surface and a second surface. The composite component includes an insert having an insert annular wall positioned in the component aperture. The insert annular wall defines an insert aperture therethrough. An insert flange extends radially outwardly from the insert annular wall and contacts the first surface of the composite component. The insert flange includes a diameter about 1.5 times to about 5 times greater than a smallest diameter of the component aperture defined by the composite component.
US10316689B2
A controller for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The controller is configured to measure a first rotational speed of a shaft of the engine at a first end of the shaft and to measure a second rotational speed of the shaft at a second end. The first end may be coupled to a turbine of the engine and the second end may be coupled to a compressor of the engine. The controller is further configured to determine a shaft twist angle as a function of the first rotational speed and the second rotational speed, determine whether the shaft twist angle is within a predetermined shaft health monitoring range, and record the shaft twist angle. The controller may be configured to generate a maintenance alert in response to determining that the shaft twist angle is within the predetermined shaft health monitoring range.
US10316686B2
An actuation system according to various embodiments can include an actuation ring having a first end and a second end separated by a gap, the actuation ring being configured to be coupled to a blade outer air seal (BOAS). The actuation system can also include an actuator coupled to at least one of the first end or the second end and configured to adjust a size of the gap such that a tip clearance between the BOAS and a blade tip is reduced in response to the size of the gap being reduced.
US10316679B2
A seal structure (2) for sealing a gap between a first structure body (10) and a second structure body (51). The seal structure includes: a peripheral surface formed on one of the first structure body and the second structure body; a plurality of seal fins (5) provided at intervals in the axial direction so as to form clearances (m) together with the peripheral surface and protrusions that form re-adhesion edges between pairs of axially adjacent seal fins; the re-adhesion edges being locations at which leak currents (SL) re-adhere that have passed through a clearance (mA) of an upstream seal fin; and the protrusions forming first cavities in which eddies (B1) are created that flow along the upstream seal fin toward the second structure body, and second cavities in which currents (B2) are created that cause a contraction current effect on a clearance (mB) of a downstream seal fin.
US10316659B2
A mining machine including a frame, a cutting head moveably coupled to the frame and pivotable about an axis that is substantially perpendicular to a first mine surface, and a first actuator for stabilizing the frame relative to the first mine surface. The first actuator is coupled to the frame and includes a first end extendable in a first direction to engage the first mine surface. The extension of the first actuator is automatically controlled based on measurements of at least one indicator of the force between the first actuator and the first mine surface.
US10316656B2
A method includes identifying linearly behaving data within obtained data associated with fluid obtained from a subterranean formation. Shrinkage factor is determined based on the linearly behaving data. A function relating GOR data of the obtained fluid with the determined shrinkage factor is determined. A first linear relationship between optical density (OD) data of the obtained fluid and the function is determined. A second linear relationship between density data of the obtained fluid and the function is determined. An oil-based mud (OBM) filtrate contamination property of OBM filtrate within the obtained fluid based on the first linear relationship is determined. A native formation property of native formation fluid within the obtained fluid based on the second linear relationship is determined. A volume fraction of OBM filtrate contamination within the obtained fluid based on the OBM filtrate contamination property and the native formation property is estimated.
US10316655B2
A method for performing contamination monitoring through estimation wherein measured data for optical density, gas to oil ratio, mass density and composition of fluid components are used to obtain plotting data and the plotting data is extrapolated to obtain contamination levels.
US10316650B2
A downhole tool for analyzing reservoir fluids includes a mechanism for extracting a fluid sample (e.g., single phase liquid sample) from a wellbore, a sample depressurization module to liberate the gas phase from the extracted fluid sample, and a gas sensor utilized to detect one or more components of the gas phase. In certain embodiments, the downhole tool may be a formation testing tool, and the depressurization module may be a bubble point measurement module.
US10316649B2
This disclosure describes a method of calculating fluid distribution from a hydraulically fractured well, especially during a plug-and-perf hydraulic fracturing operation. The Distributed Acoustic Sensing (DAS) data is used to quantify the fluid distribution in separate perf clusters during fracturing, and the result can be used for completion design and optimization, hydraulic fracturing, and ultimately for oil and gas production.
US10316646B2
A well system can include a completion string adjacent to a target formation and a service tool extending within the completion string. When the service tool is in an aligned position with respect to the completion string, the service tool can prevent fluid communication between the target formation and a return conduit to facilitate fluid slurry injection. In such an alignment, a reader of the service tool is positioned within a threshold distance of a tag of the completion string to receive an indicator from the tag. From the tag, the reader receives confirmation that the service tool and the completion string are properly aligned. A pulser of the service tool transmits a signal to a surface location to convey the confirmation. A user may then pump the fluid slurry through an internal fluid flow passage of the service tool to the target formation.
US10316639B2
A system and method for providing information regarding the tortuosity of a wellbore path is provided. The method includes receiving data from a plurality of survey stations of a wellbore survey. The method further includes defining a plurality of reference lines for the wellbore path. The method further includes determining a plurality of displacements of the wellbore path from the plurality of reference lines.
US10316638B1
A method of drilling a well within a target stratum. The method can include drilling based upon a target window created from previously collected and/or extrapolated data. Data is collected while drilling and the target window can be adjusted “on the fly” as well as updating and correcting previously collected data. The method can be repeated to ensure optimal drilling efficiency and minimal down time while drilling.
US10316634B2
Methods and an apparatus to facilitate the creation of casing exit openings in the casing of parent wellbores. Methods and systems for azimuthally and longitudinally aligning drilling assemblies through openings in a parent wellbore casing to allow for drilling multiple lateral wellbores extending outwardly from a parent wellbore. A method of stimulating one or more subterranean zones intersected by multiple lateral wellbores extending outwardly from one or more patent wellbores includes the steps of: simultaneously injecting a stimulation fluid into the lateral wellbores; and stimulating the zones intersected by the lateral wellbores in response to the stimulation fluid injecting step.
US10316632B2
The present disclosure relates to a particularly effective well configuration that can be used for steam-drive based oil recovery methods. Fishbone multilateral wells are combined with steam drive, effectively allowing drive processes to be used where previously the reservoir lacked sufficient injectivity to allow steam drive or cyclic steam based methods.
US10316626B2
A system includes a casing string and a buoyancy assist tool that is disposed in the casing string. The buoyancy assist tool includes a tubular body, a wiper plug assembly, and a degradable member. The wiper plug assembly is disposed inside the central passageway of the tubular body, and the degradable member retains the wiper plug assembly to the tubular body.
US10316622B2
A tracking system includes a tether, a buoyant transmitter assembly coupled to a first portion of the tether, an attachment component coupled to a second portion of the tether. The attachment component is configured to couple the tracking system to an object, and the tether enables the buoyant transmitter assembly to float above the object while the object and the tracking system are submerged in a fluid.
US10316614B2
An example wellbore isolation device includes a mandrel and one or more solid sealing elements disposed about the mandrel and plastically deformable to seal against an inner wall of a casing or an inner wall of a wellbore. A slip wedge is disposed about the mandrel on a first axial end of the one or more solid sealing elements, and a radial shoulder positioned on the mandrel at a second axial end of the one or more sealing elements. At least the slip wedge applies a compressive force on the one or more solid sealing elements and thereby plastically deforms the one or more solid sealing elements into sealing engagement with the inner wall of the casing or the wellbore.
US10316613B2
An oilfield tubular, such as a stinger (1), designed to be installed in a tubing hanger (2) in an XMT (Christmas tree) located on the sea bed, is presented. The oilfield tubular (1) is exposed to the production bore (4) pressure, and includes axial sealing means (6) located on an end (1a) of the tubular (1). The axial sealing means (6) includes a metal c-ring seal (6a), which metal c-ring seal (6a) is smaller in cross section than the thickness (t1) of the oilfield tubular wall (1c). The opening (6b) of the metal c-ring seal (6a) is facing the high pressure side of the production bore (4). This pressure tend to expand the c-profile to firm engagement with contacting surfaces.
US10316606B2
According to one aspect, an apparatus is adapted to be operably coupled to a subsea blowout preventer and includes a first tubular member defining an internal passage, and a second tubular member extending within the internal passage. A sealing assembly is disposed radially between the first and second tubular members, and includes a sealing element. The second tubular member covers the sealing element and thus facilitates protecting the sealing element from any fluid flow through the internal passage. According to another aspect, a sealing element of a connector is protected before engaging the connector with a subsea casing. The connector is engaged with the casing while the sealing element is protected so that the sealing element is fluidically isolated from any fluid flow through the connector. The sealing element sealingly engages the casing.
US10316600B2
Hangers and related tools which actuate without fluid or mechanical communication between the interior of the tool and its exterior are disclosed. Devices as disclosed herein may include a piston for applying actuating force based on the fluid pressure outside of the tool. The piston may be fixed to a tubing wall or other body of the tool with a shear element to prevent the tool from actuating until a certain pressure is applied to piston, such as by the static pressure of wellbore fluid at a certain depth, by pressure applied to the annulus from surface, or a combination thereof. Actuation of the tool may cause latches to expand outwardly to engage a latch receptacle fixed in or along the host tubing or such actuation may lead to other hanging members, such as slips, to engage the host tubing wall in order to suspend the hanging string therein.
US10316596B2
The present invention is a linear actuation system comprising a reversible screw type linear actuator, equipped with at least one reversible electrical motor system and energy storage. The energy storage is charged by linear actuation system functioning as a generator when a mobile rod of the linear actuator is moved by heave and is discharged when the mobile rod is moved by activation of an electric motor of the linear actuation system motor.
US10316586B1
A pressurized fluid flow system for a normal circulation down-the-hole hammer comprises a cylinder coaxially disposed in between an outer casing and a piston which reciprocates due to changes in pressure of pressurized fluid contained inside a front chamber and rear chamber located at opposites sides of the piston, the supply/discharge of fluid to/from these chambers being conducted through sets of supply and discharge channels defined by recesses on the outer surface of the cylinder and arranged in a parallel fashion, the fluid flow into and out of the front and rear chambers being controlled solely by the relative overlap of the piston and the cylinder and channeling of the fluid flow below the inner surface of the cylinder and above the outer surface of the piston. A hammer having this system comprises a drill bit with one or more flushing passages.
US10316573B2
A modular vault assembly including a plurality of vault modules variable in number and including a primary vault and one or more secondary vaults. The secondary vaults are interconnected in successively adjacent relation and a leading secondary vault is connected adjacent to the primary vault. The primary vault and each of the secondary vaults respectively include a master door and a slave door having a locking mechanism disposable in a locked and unlocked orientation. The locking mechanism of the leading secondary vault is manually positioned in the unlocked orientation from an interior of said primary vault and each of said locking mechanisms of a remainder of the secondary vaults is manually positioned, successively, in the unlocked orientation from an interior of a preceding, next adjacent one of the plurality of secondary vaults. Each master and slave door includes a sensor assembly indicating the locked orientation of a corresponding locking mechanism.
US10316566B2
A modular door drive control system for subjecting electrical drive motors to open-loop control and/or closed-loop control to open and close doors or door leaves in different applications includes at least one motor control unit, and a plurality of peripheral adaptation units for adapting the motor control unit or a plurality of the motor control units to match one of the different applications, where the motor control unit or a plurality of the motor control units are selectively connectable to each of the peripheral adaptation units to transmit electrical power for the drive motor, which is respectively connected to the motor control unit, via a common intermediate circuit such that door drive controllers for different applications can be realized with the aid of a modular door drive control system of this kind, without a relatively high level of expenditure on adaptation.
US10316563B2
An opening and closing mechanism includes a dead-center spring element for a swivelable part, and a control curve is provided on a side wall of the swivelable part, and the dead-center spring element engages the control curve via a swivelable control lever to control an opening and closing force progression with the aid of the control curve.
US10316556B2
The present invention is a door barricade having a pivoting locking arm which drops into a floor hole to lock a barricade in place.
US10316555B2
An internal release mechanism for a truck roll-up door closure to a vehicle compartment includes a lift arm disposed on the roll-up door inside the vehicle compartment having a stowed position and a deployed position, a first release mechanism coupled to the lift arm operable to bypass a door lock disposed outside the vehicle compartment in response to the lift arm being moved by an occupant inside the vehicle compartment from the stowed position to the deployed position, and a second release mechanism coupled to the lift arm operable to clear a mechanical door latch disposed outside of the vehicle compartment also in response to the lift arm being moved from the stowed position to the deployed position.
US10316543B2
A spider hub pole retaining assembly may include a hub, poles and a retainer. The hub may include channels extending radially outward in a plane. The poles maybe pivotably coupled to the hub near a center of the hub so as to be pivotable between a first position in which the poles extend radially outwardly through the channels in the plane and a second position in which the poles extend away from the outside of the channels. The retainer may include a top rotatably supported by the hub and hooks extending from the top. The top is rotatable between a retaining position in which the hooks receive the poles when the poles are in the first position and a releasing position in which the hooks are angularly offset with respect to the channels to facilitate withdrawal of the poles from the channels.
US10316536B2
Fabrication of about a thirty-story parking structure where commuters will park and then take elevators to the to of the structure where they will embark on a skiff or small boat and travel down a water trough that goes over the tops of roads, freeways and bridges to the other side of normal traffic bottlenecks, to docking spaces about the third floor of downtown buildings where they will dock their skiffs or boats and disembark on the dock, and their vacated skiffs will go onto a conveyor belt that will take the vacated skiffs to the top of another thirty-story building in the downtown area where commuters wanting to return to the original parking structure will embark on the skiffs going down a similar water slide back to the original parking structure from which they had departed earlier, to get their cars and trucks and drive back to their homes.
US10316528B2
A floor covering as a covering for a subfloor, wherein the floor covering has a layer which is composed of a curable material which is cured in the finished state of the floor covering and into which a reinforcing fabric and at least one electrical component are embedded. The at least one electrical component is connected by way of its bottom side to a subfloor, in particular an unfurnished floor, by adhesive bonding, and the reinforcing fabric covers the at least one electrical component by way of its side which is averted from the subfloor, so that the top side of the at least one electrical component is covered by the reinforcing fabric and the curable material.
US10316526B2
A vertical joint system (10a) for a surface covering panel P having an upper and lower surfaces (16, 18) a plurality of sides (20, 22, 24, 26) located between the upper and lower surfaces. The joint system (10a) has a male part (12) along at least one side (20) and a female part (14) along an opposite side (14). The female part (14) has a protrusion (54) that extends from the lower surface (18) and an outer most female surface (72) on the protrusion (54). The male part (12) has a recess (30) that opens onto the lower surface (18) with a portion of the recess (18) forming an inner most male surface (40). The outer most female surface (72) and the inner most male surface (40) arranged so that when the male part (12) of one surface covering panel is engaged with a female part (14) of a second surface covering panel the outer most female surface (72) overlies the inner most male locking surface (40) at a first location L1 and a second location L2. Datum surfaces (34, 62) are also provided on the male and female parts respectively that are pressed when the male and female parts contact at the location L1. This acts as a clasp to hold the male and female parts together, resisting vertical separation.
US10316515B2
A structural insulated sheathing including a rigid foam insulation board having a first face, a structural member having a second face, wherein the first face of the foam insulation board is laminated to the second face of the structural member over substantially 100% of the interface between the first face and the second face.
US10316492B2
A movable machine including a chassis, a tool coupled to the chassis, an operator control carried by the chassis and a controller. The controller is communicatively coupled to the operator control. The controller being configured to send a force feedback and/or a vibration feedback to the operator control thereby conveying information to the operator. The information is not related to a load encountered by the tool.
US10316490B2
A controller that includes a memory and an electronic processor. The electronic processor receives a first signal and a second signal. The electronic processor determines a retract torque limit based on the first signal and the second signal. The electronic processor sets a retract torque parameter of a crowd motor to the retract torque limit that has been determined. The electronic processor operates the crowd motor at or below the retract torque parameter.
US10316485B1
A retaining wall block generally comprises a block body having a front face with a plurality of support legs extending rearward therefrom, opposed first and second side surfaces, and opposed and substantially parallel upper and lower surfaces. A preferred leg spacing of side support legs allows the side legs of each successive course of blocks to rest on the side legs of the prior-laid rows, while allowing the center legs to float freely. The free-floating center leg may allow attachment of additional stabilization means to the center leg without preventing the blocks from resting directly on the course below.
US10316484B2
A pile guide is provided comprising a base frame and a pile guide member for guiding the pile as it is driven into a substrate when the base frame is resting thereon. The pile guide member comprises plural guide parts each moveable between a operative position and an inoperative position, each guide part being pivotally mounted on the base frame. At least one guide part is operably coupled or couplable with an associated counterweight for opening of the guide member to its inoperative position under gravity, such that, at least in an inoperative position, at least part of the counterweight and the associated guide part are movable with respect to each other. In another aspect, at least one of the guide parts and/or at least one of the counterweights is detachably connected with the base frame and/or with each other. Methods are also provided.
US10316483B2
A method for mechanically stabilizing deep sea sediments, marine raw material deposits and/or submarine slope and/or to a control/conditioning method for the hydraulic properties of deep sea sediments. A gas hydrate-forming substance is injected into marine or submarine sediments, and gas hydrate sediment composites are formed.
US10316480B2
An adjustable snow plow having a center unit; at least one extender wing; a square channel connected to said center unit; at least one mounting bracket connected to said center unit wherein the at least one extender wing is connected to the center unit via the square channel, and the mounting bracket is selectably attachable to a vehicle.The adjustable snow plow is able to vary the width of the plow blade so as to accommodate a number of different locations for which snow may need to be removed. The adjustable plow may be a straight blade plow, or a partially straight blade plow that allows for the user of the adjustable plow to dictate in which direction the desired snow is displaced.
US10316475B2
A paving machine includes an auger drive system secured with a primary auger shaft, and a primary auger sleeve disposed for selective rotation with the primary auger shaft with engagement of a selectively-actuable primary auger clutch. The paving machine further includes at least a first auger extension that is selectively-engagable with the primary auger shaft with engagement of a first auger extension clutch. In this way, the primary auger sleeve and the first auger extension may be separately actuated for rotation with the auger drive system.
US10316465B2
A wet process for cleaning biomass is disclosed, comprising: introducing biomass feedstock to a vibrating separator, to generate an overflow stream and an underflow stream, wherein the overflow stream comprises biomass and large grit, and wherein the underflow stream comprises fines and small grit; introducing the overflow stream to a kinetic separator, to generate an intermediate biomass stream and a large-grit stream; introducing the underflow stream and elutriation water to a hydroclone separator, to generate a wet biomass-fines stream and a small-grit stream; separating water contained in the wet biomass-fines stream and recycling it as elutriation water, to generate a biomass fines stream; and combining the biomass fines stream with the intermediate biomass stream, thereby generating clean biomass. An alternative embodiment for a dry process to clean biomass is also disclosed. The clean biomass may be used in a wide variety of biorefining processes.
US10316462B2
A laundry treatment apparatus is disclosed. The laundry treatment apparatus includes a cabinet having an accommodation space formed therein to accommodate laundry, a door hingedly connected to the cabinet to open or close the accommodation space, a presser for applying pressure to laundry to remove wrinkles from laundry, and a presser-fixing structure for mounting the presser to the inner surface of the accommodation space or the door. The presser-fixing structure includes a support holder protruding from the inner surface of the accommodation space or the door and a presser-fixing recess formed concavely in the rear surface of the presser so as to allow the support holder to be inserted thereinto.
US10316460B2
A dryer exhaust duct power ventilator which is free of any dedicated internal air flow contacting devices for sensing air pressure or measuring fan RPMs and free of any hall effect sensor, but instead utilizes the auxiliary winding of a PSC motor on a centrifugal duct fan to measure the rotation of the motor and fan and thereby determine the pressure in the duct. A clip-on current sensor is located in the dryer power connection compartment and is used to detect operation of the dryer.
US10316459B2
A laundry treatment apparatus includes a tub body configured to store water, a tub cover configured to define an upper surface of the tub body, an introduction aperture defined through the tub cover, a supply aperture provided in the tub cover, and configured to enable supply of water into the tub body, a drum that is rotatably provided in the tub body, and that is configured to receive laundry, the drum including an opening in communication with the introduction aperture, a door configured to open and close the introduction aperture, and an ejection unit configured to eject water introduced into the supply aperture to at least one of the door or to the drum.
US10316455B2
A laundry washing machine (1) is equipped with a treating agents dispenser (20) that includes at least one compartment (23a, 23b, 23c, 23d) adapted to be filled with at least one treating agent. The compartment (23a, 23b, 23c, 23d) has a bottom part (62a, 62b, 62c, 62d) and a side wall (63a, 63b, 63c, 63d) rising from the bottom part (62a, 62b, 62c, 62d). The side wall (63a, 63b, 63c, 63d) superiorly defines a top boundary line (263a, 263b, 263c, 263d). At least one water conveying line (120a, 120b, 120c, 120d) conveys water to the at least one compartment (23a, 23b, 23c, 23d). The at least one water conveying line (120a, 120b, 120c, 120d) includes outlets (29a, 29b, 29c, 29d) facing the at least one compartment (23a, 23b, 23c, 23d) and the outlets (29a, 29b, 29c, 29d) are aligned along a path (273a, 273b, 273c, 273d) which is at least partially adjacent to the top boundary line (263a, 263b, 263c, 263d).
US10316453B2
A top-loading-type washing machine including a drum, a drive module for rotating the drum via a drive shaft, inner and outer pulsators placed in the drum so as to be rotated in opposite directions, and a gearbox connected to the drive shaft for rotating both the pulsators. The gearbox includes a sun gear rotatably connected to the drive shaft, planetary gears rotatably engaged with the sun gear, a ring gear rotatably engaged with the planetary gears, a carrier for connecting the planetary gears so as to be rotated along with the planetary gears, a gear housing to which the ring gear is fixed, the gear housing being coupled to the outer pulsator, and a carrier shaft coupled to the inner pulsator. The top-loading-type washing machine further includes a long-axis bolt fastened to the drive shaft and rotatably inserted into a carrier shaft bore of the carrier shaft.
US10316452B2
A laundry treatment apparatus includes a drawer. The laundry treatment apparatus further includes a cabinet that is configured to receive the drawer. The laundry treatment apparatus further includes a tub that is located in the drawer and that defines a space that is configured to receive water. The laundry treatment apparatus further includes a drum that is located in the tub, that is configured to rotate, and that defines a space configured to receive laundry. The laundry treatment apparatus further includes a spacer that is configured to maintain separation between the drawer and the cabinet, that is configured to prevent the drawer from discharging from the cabinet, and that is removable by a user from outside the cabinet while the drawer is in the cabinet.
US10316448B2
A washing method with polymer solid particles comprises: step 1: washing clothes with the polymer solid particles, the surface of said polymer solid particles is provided with absorption holes; step 2: dehydrating the polymer solid particles and the clothes together; step 3: separating the polymer solid particles from the clothes and collecting the polymer solid particles; step 4: rinsing the clothes; and step 5: dehydrating the clothes. Before separating the polymer solid particles from the clothes, there is a step of dehydrating the polymer solid particles and the clothes together, so the user can easily separate the polymer solid particles from the clothes.
US10316443B2
A braided, open structure composite made with large prepreg tow can be cured without bonding at the yarn crossovers and after removal from the mandrel, it can be used directly as a spring in which the spring constant in bending, torsion, tension or compression can be controlled by the geometry of the braided structure as well as the size of the structural elements. Alternatively the spring may be curved in multiple directions to form complex shapes and then crossovers can be re-bonded to make more rigid open structure composites that would be difficult or impractical to manufacture by conventional techniques.
US10316438B2
A fabric includes base yarns and antistatic spun yarns located in discrete portions of the fabric such that the fabric dissipates static electricity by way of an inductive field and complies with one or more standards for static dissipation in fabric. The antistatic spun yarns may include inductive antistatic staple fibers, and may include less than 20% antistatic fiber. The fabric may be a woven fabric with the antistatic spun yarns inserted into the fabric in both the warp and filling directions in a ratio of antistatic spun yarns to base yarns of from 1:1 to 1:40. The fabrics may be flame resistant and comply with one or more standards for flame resistant fabrics and/or may comply with one or more standards for high visibility apparel. The fabric may have a total antistatic fiber content of less than about 1%.
US10316437B2
Disclosed herein is a yarn plying apparatus which is able to ply two or more than two yarns, for example, a natural yarn, a synthetic yarn or a metal filament. In the present invention, the yarn packages are arranged in a radial shape at a regular interval on the base. The yarns are plied at the plying guide hole formed just above the center of the base, so the length and angles to the plying hole of the yarns moving to the plying hole are constant, whereby the constant tensile force can be maintained. Even when the thusly plied yarns are covered or twisted, the constant twisting can be obtained.
US10316432B2
Provided herein are methods for the manufacture of fibers from solution-phase peptide-based polymers by electrospinning, and compositions produced thereby. In particular embodiments, various embodiments provide electrospinning supramolecular fibers from low concentration peptide amphiphile filaments.
US10316425B2
A substrate holder according to the present invention comprises a first power supply member and a second power supply member which allow power to be supplied to substrates having different properties. The first power supply member comprises a first power supply member end part which extends toward the inside of a substrate holding surface and is disposed at a first position of the substrate holding surface. The second power supply member comprises a second power supply member end part which extends toward the inside of the substrate holding surface and is disposed at a second position of the substrate holding surface. The first position is located on the center side of the substrate holding surface relative to the second position.
US10316416B2
The present invention relates to a diaphragm type electrolytic cell and process of production of commercial quantities of hydrogen from the electrolysis of water. The utilization of both alkaline and acidic electrolyte solutions within the electrolytic cell assists to increase the production of hydrogen and oxygen. Additionally, the efficiency of the electrolytic cell is increased due to the elimination of unwanted side reactions.
US10316413B2
A coated article comprises a substrate and a self-healing coating disposed on a surface of the substrate, the self-healing coating comprising a metallic matrix; and a plurality of micro- or nano-sized particles dispersed in the metallic matrix; the micro- or nano-sized particles comprising an active agent disposed in a carrier comprising a micro- or nano-sized metallic container, a layered structure, a porous structure, or a combination comprising at least one of the foregoing.
US10316412B2
A wafer carrier for use in a system for growing epitaxial layers on one or more wafers by chemical vapor deposition. The wafer carrier includes wafer retention pockets recessed in its body. Each pocket includes a floor surface and a peripheral wall surface surrounding the floor surface and defining a periphery of that pocket. Each pocket has a center situated along a corresponding wafer carrier radial axis. In each of the pockets, a set of bumpers is positioned primarily at a distal portion of the wafer retention pocket opposite the central axis so as to maintain a gap of at least a predefined size between the peripheral wall surface at the distal portion and an edge of a wafer to be placed in the wafer retention pocket.
US10316406B2
Methods of forming an ALD-inhibiting layer using a layer of SAM molecules include providing a metalized substrate having a metal M and an oxide layer of the metal M. A reduction gas that includes a metal Q is used to reduce the oxide layer of the metal M, leaving a layer of form of M+MQyOx atop the metal M. The SAM molecules are provided as a vapor and form an ALD-inhibiting SAM layer on the M+MQyOx layer. Methods of performing S-ALD using the ALD-inhibiting SAM layer are also disclosed.
US10316405B2
The disclosed embodiments include a system and method for manufacturing an integrated computational element (ICE) core. The method comprises varying a distance between a thermal component relative to a substrate holder that holds at least one substrate during a thin film deposition process to improve uniformity of the ICE core. In one embodiment, varying the distance between the thermal component relative to the substrate holder that holds at least one substrate includes moving at least a portion of the substrate holder in at least one direction relative to the thermal component and also moving the thermal component in at least one direction relative to the substrate holder during the thin film deposition process.
US10316401B2
The invention provides a vacuum evaporation device, belongs to the field of vacuum evaporation and can solve the problem of non-uniform thickness of a coating film formed by an existing vacuum evaporation device. The vacuum evaporation device provided by the present invention comprises an evaporation chamber, at least one evaporation source device disposed in the evaporation chamber, and a baffle assembly disposed between the evaporation source device and a substrate to be evaporated. The evaporation source device is disposed within the center region of a base plate of the evaporation chamber. The baffle assembly is provided with a baffle assembly opening used for allowing evaporation substances to pass therethrough and corresponding to the position of the evaporation source device. As the evaporation source device is disposed within the center region of the evaporation chamber, the thickness of a coating film formed on the surface of the substrate is more uniform.
US10316392B2
The present invention relates to a method for converting and separating vanadium, titanium, and iron from the vanadium-titanium-iron concentrate in one step, which includes the steps as below. (1) The vanadium-titanium-iron concentrate is mixed and roasted together with addition agent and reducing agent, and thereby vanadium-containing pig iron and vanadium enriched slag are obtained. (2) The vanadium titanium enriched slag is leached in water and filtered, and thereby vanadium-containing solution and titanium slag are obtained. The technical features of the present invention are as below. By the new process of sodium reduction coupling, a new system of low-temperature smelting multiphase reaction separation is constructed. The reduction of iron, sodiumizing of vanadium, and the melting separation process of the vanadium titanium enriched slag and the iron are achieved in one step. Three products, i.e., the vanadium-containing pig iron, the vanadium-containing solution, and the titanium slag are produced.
US10316391B2
Disclosed herein is a novel approach to the chemical synthesis of titanium metal from a titanium oxide source material. In the approach described herein, a titanium oxide source is reacted with Mg vapor to extract a pure Ti metal. The method disclosed herein is more scalable, cheaper, faster, and safer than prior art methods.
US10316385B2
A high-tensile-strength steel plate is provided with a new chemical composition design that guarantees the same properties as a 50 mm thick steel plate even in a steel plate with a thickness of 100 mm or greater, without the yield stress being affected by the plate thickness. By mass %, the chemical composition includes C: 0.02% to 0.08%, Si: 0.01% to 0.35%, Mn: 1.4% to 2.0%, P: 0.007% or less, S: 0.0035% or less, Al: 0.010% to 0.060%, Ni: 0.5% to 2.0%, Mo: 0.10% to 0.50%, Nb: 0.005% to 0.040%, Ti: 0.005% to 0.025%, B: less than 0.0003%, N: 0.002% to 0.005%, Ca: 0.0005% to 0.0050%, and O: 0.003% or less, with the components additionally satisfying a predetermined relationship.
US10316383B2
There is provided an austenitic stainless steel having a high strength and an excellent hydrogen brittleness resistance and further having an excellent machinability. The austenitic stainless steel of the present embodiment has a chemical composition including: in mass %, C: 0.10% or less; Si: 1.0% or less; Mn: 2.1 to 6.0%; P: 0.045% or less; S: 0.1% or less; Ni: 8.0 to 16.0%; Cr: 15.0 to 30.0%; Mo: 1.0 to 5.0%; N: 0.05 to 0.45%; Nb: 0 to 0.50%; and V: 0 to 0.50%, with the balance being Fe and impurities, and satisfying Formula (1). The austenitic stainless steel of the present embodiment has a grain size number of less than 8.0 and a tensile strength of 690 MPa or more. 15≤12.6C+1.05Mn+Ni+15N (1)
US10316381B2
A method is provided for producing a hot-pressed member including heating a Ni-based coated steel sheet, which includes, on a surface thereof, a Zn—Ni alloy coating layer containing 13% by mass or more of Ni, in a temperature region of an Ac3 transformation point to 1200° C.; and then hot-pressing the steel sheet.
US10316368B2
Provided herein are kits, compositions, and methods for diagnosing and treating interstitial cystitis (IC) and/or interstitial cystitis/bladder pain syndrome (IC/BPS) based on finding lower levels of certain bacteria in a subject's stool sample (e.g., O. splanchnicus, F. prausnitzii, C. aerofaciens, E. sinensis, L. longoviformis, and R. intestinalis). In certain embodiments, then present invention provides probiotic formulations containing live bacteria (e.g., from O. splanchnicus, F. prausnitzii, C. aerofaciens, E. sinensis, L. longoviformis, and R. intestinalis).
US10316352B2
The present invention provides compositions, kits and methods for the selective hybridization and capture of a specific target nucleic acid. The specific target nucleic acid may be present in a heterogeneous mixture of nucleic acids. Selective hybridization and capture provides a target nucleic acid that is substantially free of non-target and/or contaminating nucleic acids. Target nucleic acids that have been selectively hybridized and captured using the current invention are then used in subsequent analysis, wherein the presence of non-target and/or contaminating nucleic acids that interfere with said subsequent analysis have been substantially reduced or eliminated, thereby providing improved analysis results. The invention offers the further advantage of requiring less stringent purification and/or sterility efforts than conventionally needed in order to ensure that enzymes and other reagents used in subsequent analysis, or present in the environment in which an assay is performed, are free of bacterial or other contaminating nucleic acids.
US10316351B2
The present disclosure provides methods, arrays and kits for assessing the quality of genomic DNA samples, especially those obtained from formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) samples. The methods, arrays and kits provided herein use primer pairs specific to regions in the genomes of the organisms from which genomic DNA samples are obtained that have identical or nearly identical copies distributed across multiple chromosomes.
US10316350B2
The present invention provides a method capable of realizing pretreatment process of genetic screening according to a POCT mode. The method includes: making a sample, extraction liquid for extracting nucleic-acid contained in the sample, silica particles, and a filtering material contact with each other; making the filtering material carry composite material of the nucleic-acid and the silica particles thereon; and then delivering the filtering material to a nucleic-acid-amplifying process by means of reaction solution for amplifying nucleic-acid, wherein particle diameters of the silica particles and concentration of the silica particles in the reaction solution for amplifying nucleic-acid are set up within a predetermined range.
US10316344B2
The present invention relates to methods for converting plant cell wall polysaccharides into one or more products, comprising: treating the plant cell wall polysaccharides with an effective amount of a spent whole fermentation broth of a recombinant microorganism, wherein the recombinant microorganism expresses one or more heterologous genes encoding enzymes which degrade or convert the plant cell wall polysaccharides into the one or more products. The present invention also relates to methods for producing an organic substance, comprising: (a) saccharifying plant cell wall polysaccharides with an effective amount of a spent whole fermentation broth of a recombinant microorganism, wherein the recombinant microorganism expresses one or more heterologous genes encoding enzymes which degrade or convert the plant cell wall polysaccharides into saccharified material; (b) fermenting the saccharified material of step (a) with one or more fermenting microoganisms; and (c) recovering the organic substance from the fermentation.
US10316330B2
The invention provides corn event MON 87411, and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising event MON 87411. The invention also provides polynucleotides specific for event MON 87411 and plants, plant cells, seeds, plant parts, and commodity products comprising polynucleotides specific for event MON 87411. The invention also provides methods related to event MON 87411.
US10316323B2
Disclosed are genetically engineered organisms, such as yeast and bacteria, that have the ability to metabolize atypical nitrogen sources, such as melamine and cyanamide. Fermentation methods using the genetically engineered organisms are also described. The methods of the invention are robust processes for the industrial bioproduction of a variety of compounds, including commodities, fine chemicals, and pharmaceuticals.
US10316321B2
The present disclosure describes improved SELEX methods for producing aptamers that are capable of binding to target molecules and improved photoSELEX methods for producing photoreactive aptamers that are capable of both binding and covalently crosslinking to target molecules. Specifically, the present disclosure describes methods for producing aptamers and photoaptamers having slower dissociation rate constants than are obtained using prior SELEX and photoSELEX methods. The disclosure further describes aptamers and photoaptamers having slower dissociation rate constants than those obtained using prior methods. In addition, the disclosure describes aptamer constructs that include a variety of functionalities, including a cleavable element, a detection element, and a capture or immobilization element.
US10316319B2
The present disclosure relates to a composition for diagnosis of liver metastasis of colorectal cancer and the use thereof, and more particularly to a composition for diagnosis of liver metastasis of colorectal cancer, which comprises either a substance for measuring the mRNA level of CCL7 (Chemokine (C-C motif) ligand 7) gene or a substance for measuring the level of a protein which is encoded by the gene. According to the present disclosure, whether liver metastasis of colorectal cancer occurred can be diagnosed by measuring the mRNA expression level of the CCL7 gene or the expression level of the CCL7 protein, and the use of the composition comprising an inhibitor of CCL7 gene allows the treatment of colorectal cancer or the liver metastasis of colorectal cancer.
US10316318B2
The present invention provides oligonucleotide inhibitors of miR-155 and compositions thereof. The invention further provides methods for treating cancer such as a T cell lymphoma in a subject by administering to the subject an oligonucleotide inhibitor of miR-155. The invention also provides methods for reducing or inhibiting the proliferation of malignant T cells by administering an oligonucleotide inhibitor of miR-155.
US10316316B2
The present invention is directed compositions for targeted delivery of RNA interference (RNAi) polynucleotides to hepatocytes in vivo. Targeted RNAi polynucleotides are administered together with co-targeted delivery polymers. Delivery polymers provide membrane penetration function for movement of the RNAi polynucleotides from outside the cell to inside the cell. Reversible modification provides physiological responsiveness to the delivery polymers.
US10316313B2
A composition comprising mesoporous aggregates of magnetic nanoparticles and free-radical producing enzyme (i.e., enzyme-bound mesoporous aggregates), wherein the mesoporous aggregates of magnetic nanoparticles have mesopores in which the free-radical-producing enzyme is embedded. Methods for synthesizing the enzyme-bound mesoporous aggregates are also described. Processes that use said enzyme-bound mesoporous aggregates for depolymerizing lignin, removing aromatic contaminants from water, and polymerizing monomers polymerizable by a free-radical reaction are also described.
US10316301B2
The present invention relates to a method for preparing an expression vector encoding a tailored recombinase, which tailored recombinase is capable of recombining asymmetric target sequences within the long terminal repeat (LTR) of proviral DNA of a plurality of retrovirus strains inserted into the genome of a host cell, as well as to the obtained expression vector, cells transfected with this, expressed recombinase and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the expression vector, cells and/or recombinase. Pharmaceutical compositions are useful, e.g., in treatment and/or prevention of retrovirus infection. In particular, asymmetric target sequences present in a plurality of HIV strains are disclosed, as well as tailored recombinases capable of combining these sequences (Tre 3.0 and 4.0) and expression vectors encoding them.
US10316294B2
This invention provides highly attenuated influenza viruses and vaccines. The attenuated viruses and vaccines proliferate well and have high safety factors. The attenuated viruses providing protective immunity from challenge by virus of the same subtype, as well as cross protection against heterologous viruses.
US10316293B2
The present invention relates to the field of pluripotent stem cell culture and methods facilitate pluripotent stem cell culture at industrial levels.
US10316275B2
The present invention relates to alpha-amylase variants. The present invention also relates to polynucleotides encoding the variants; nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides; and methods of using the variants.
US10316272B2
Detergent compositions and methods of preparing and using the detergent compositions are disclosed. The detergent compositions comprise a polymer system comprising at least one polycarboxylic acid polymer, copolymer, or terpolymer, an alkalinity source comprising an alkali metal carbonate, a nonionic surfactant and water. The detergent compositions are suitable at alkaline pH and reduce or prevent scale formation, improve soil dispersion, and provide effective detergency.
US10316264B2
A water in diesel oil fuel micro-emulsion for internal combustion diesel engines, with a low content of surfactants, a very long shelf-life, a reduced production of pollutants and carbonaceous side-products generated by the combustion and very good engine performance, is described. These emulsions comply with the strict requirements of Italian regulations and are particularly useful as fuels for automotive and heating applications.
US10316259B2
A process for converting hydrocarbon feedstock into olefins and BTX including feeding a hydrocarbon feedstock to a first hydrocracking unit, feeding effluent from the first hydrocracking unit to a first separation section to be separated, feeding a steam including propane to a dehydrogenation unit, and feeding effluent from the dehydrogenation unit to a second separation section.
US10316258B2
A process for the refining of crude oil, comprising a separation unit of the crude oil, consisting of at least one atmospheric distillation unit for separating the various fractions, a unit for the conversion of the heavy fractions obtained, a unit for improving the quality of some of the fractions obtained by actions on the chemical composition of their constituents, and units for the removal of undesired components, characterized in that the heaviest fraction, the atmospheric distillation residue, is sent to the conversion unit comprising a hydroconversion reactor in slurry phase or of the ebullated bed type, into which hydrogen or a mixture of hydrogen and ¾S is introduced in the presence of a suitable nanodispersed hydrogenation catalyst.
US10316245B2
A quantum dot film article includes a first barrier film, a second barrier film, and a quantum dot layer separating the first barrier from the second barrier film. The quantum dot layer includes quantum dots dispersed in a polymer material. The polymer material includes a methacrylate polymer, an epoxy polymer and a photoinitiator.
US10316241B2
The present invention relates to filamentous polymer particles useful in oil, condensate or gas recovery from subterranean locations as hydraulic fracturing fluids, diverting fluids, fluids that make it possible to improve the distribution and the flow profiles of the fluids or products injected (referred to as conformance fluids) or permeability control fluids, sand control gravel pack placement fluids, acid fracturing fluids, and the like. These fluids are stimulation fluids injected in wells which serve also as producing wells for the hydrocarbons initially present in the subterranean formations.
