US10402838B2
There is disclosed apparatuses and methods for performing stepwise regression analysis on industry data. These apparatuses include a processor and memory which comprise circuits and software for performing the instructions on a storage medium comprising accessing a set of data specific to a business environment wherein the set of data comprises a set of values for a set of variables that describe a business environment; receiving a selection of a first variable from the set of variables; generating a correlation table, wherein the correlation table is generated by determining a correlation between the first variable and each remaining variable in the set of variables; and rank-ordering each of the remaining variables in the set of variables based on the correlation; and displaying the correlation table.
US10402817B1
A device may receive an authorization request, associated with a transaction made by a user device as part of a checkout procedure of a website, that includes a virtual transaction card identifier of a virtual transaction card that is being used for the transaction, and a first merchant identifier for a merchant associated with the website. The device may perform a first authorization procedure to determine whether the first merchant identifier, included in the authorization request, satisfies a threshold level of similarity with a second merchant identifier associated with a request to generate the virtual transaction card that occurred prior to receiving the authorization request. The device may determine whether to forego a second authorization procedure based on a result of the first authorization procedure, and cause an authorization response, that includes an indication of whether the transaction is approved, to be provided to another device associated with the merchant.
US10402815B2
Embodiments of the invention facilitate payment transactions by integrating the image capture and image processing capabilities of certain mobile devices with the card-based payment transaction infrastructure. In some embodiments, a camera contained in a mobile device is used to capture an image of a barcode that is visible on the surface of a substrate. The barcode may represent or otherwise encode one or more of payment account data, consumer authentication data, consumer profile data, or other relevant information. In some embodiments, the captured image may be processed by the mobile device to extract the payment account data, authentication data, or other relevant data. This data may then be communicated to a data processing element that is connected to, or forms part of, a payment processing network in order to conduct the desired payment transaction.
US10402813B2
A provisioning system for enabling a mobile communication device to operate as a financial presentation device (FPD) presentable to providers of goods or service is provided. The provisioning system relies on a transaction processing system that normally routes authorization requests from merchants to issuers of FPDs for purposes of authorizing FPD transactions. The transaction processing system stores security keys of all issuers in order to validate transaction data sent from the merchants. The provisioning system monitors authorization requests routed through the transaction processing system and retrieves an authorization request of a financial transaction initiated with a particular FPD. The provisioning system then transmits the FPD data contained in the retrieved authorization request and the security key stored in the transaction processing system to a secure memory element of the mobile communication device to enable the mobile communication device to operate as a FPD.
US10402810B2
A method includes receiving, by a server via a network, transaction information descriptive of a money transfer transaction initiated at a point of entry device. The transaction information includes information that identifies a location of the point of entry device. The method includes determining, by the server, receipt information to be included in a receipt for the money transfer transaction. The receipt information may be determined based, at least in part, on the transaction information, and at least a portion of the receipt information included in the receipt satisfies regulatory requirements associated with the location of the point of entry device. The method includes generating, by the server, the receipt that includes the receipt information, and transmitting the receipt from the server to the point of entry device via the network.
US10402807B1
A payment processing system is configured to support purchase transactions generated by merchant point-of-sale (POS) devices. Information regarding the purchase transactions is archived and periodically analyzed using machine learning to create a predictive model relating transaction attributes to bank interchange fees. The predictive model is then used to estimate interchange fees that are later passed on to merchants. This allows more accurate settlement with merchants in situations where reports regarding actual interchange fees are not yet available.
US10402803B1
A method of initiating a banking transaction at a banking terminal is provided. The method includes optically capturing machine readable identification data of the banking terminal by a mobile device of a customer. A terminal identifier of the banking terminal is determined based on the machine readable identification data. Account information and the terminal identifier are transmitted from the mobile device for delivery to a server. The account information is associated with the customer and stored in the mobile device. The method also includes the step of transmitting the account information from the server to the banking terminal using the terminal identifier and receiving a customer transaction request from the customer at the banking terminal.
US10402801B1
Embodiments disclosed herein generally related to an automated teller machine (ATM) and a method of operating the same. In one embodiment, an apparatus is disclosed herein. The apparatus includes a body, a display, two or more currency dispensing components, two or more currency cartridges, two or more tracks, and a controller. Each currency dispensing component is dedicated to a specific currency denomination. The two or more currency cartridges are configured to store currency. Each currency cartridge dedicated to a specific currency denomination. Each track extends between a currency dispensing component and a currency cartridge. The two or more tracks are configured to transmit currency from the two or more currency cartridges to the two or more currency dispensing components. The controller is in communication with the display, the two or more currency dispensing components, the two or more currency cartridges, and the two or more tracks.
US10402793B2
The disclosed embodiments include computerized systems and methods for generating secured block-chain-based ledger data structures that track subdivide ownership and usage of one or more assets, such as Internet-connected devices. In one instance, an apparatus associated with a rules authority of the secured block-chain-based ledger may detect an occurrence of a triggering event related to at least one of partial ownership interests in the assets, and may access and decrypt a set of rules hashed into the secured block-chain-based ledger using a confidentially-held master cryptographic key. The apparatus may identify a rule associated with the detected event, and perform one or more operations consistent with the rule, including a generation of additional data blocks reflecting a change in at least one of the partial ownership interests, and additionally or alternatively, processes that adaptively monitor a compliance of one or more partial owners with an Imposed usage restriction.
US10402791B2
The present invention concerns a system and method for electronic money withdrawal. This operation is implemented by a transfer of electronic money from the user electronic wallet to a money distribution authority, typically a bank. Advantageously, a strong authentication occurs previously with the bank. The transfer includes the ATM identifier. A delivery identifier is delivered to the user. The user is then goes to the ATM and proceeds to the withdrawal with its GSMT id and delivery id. Accordingly a robust and reliable withdrawal is possible. It may be actually done at the ATM without the mobile device handling the electronic wallet.
US10402789B2
Attendance tracking via mobile devices may be provided. Once a meeting begins, a plurality of mobile devices present at the meeting may be identified. An attendance report for a plurality of attendees at the meeting may be provided based on the presence of each of the identified plurality of mobile devices.
US10402786B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for managing projects in a content management system. For example, the content management system can create a project folder (e.g., shared folder) for managing data associated with a project. The project folder can be shared with content management system users (e.g., project members) who are contributors to the project. The content management system can store project data (e.g., content items, communications, comments, tasks, etc.) related to the project in the project folder. When the project folder is selected by a user, the content management system can generate a project folder view that presents the project data associated with the project folder and/or project in a convenient and easy to access graphical user interface. The content management system can aggregate project data from various content items associated with the project and present the project data in a single graphical user interface.
US10402777B2
The present disclosure provides a method of image processing comprising: obtaining by an imaging device a low resolution version and a high resolution version of a retail image, the high resolution version of the retail image being a temporary file to be erased automatically after a predetermined time period; transmitting to a server the low resolution version of the retail image; upon receipt of a request from the server, the request including data representative of a contour of an unidentified item in the low resolution version of the retail image, cropping a high resolution item image from the high resolution version of the retail image, the high resolution item image corresponding to the contour of the unidentified item; and transmitting the high resolution item image to the server thereby enabling updating an item database.
US10402775B2
Systems and methods for re-routing parcels being delivered to attended delivery/pickup locations that have no capacity and/or ability to take delivery of the parcels. In various embodiments, in response to determining that the attended delivery/pickup location doesn't have sufficient capacity and/or ability to accept delivery of the parcel, the system is configured to: (1) re-route the parcel to a different location; or (2) hold the parcel for later delivery. In some embodiments, the system is configured to determine an appropriate response to determining that the attended delivery/pickup location cannot accept delivery of the parcel substantially automatically. In other embodiments, the system is configured to provide the parcel recipient with one or more re-routing options.
US10402774B1
An intelligence platform determines that a package was delivered to a location, and receives real-time information associated with the package or location. The real-time information includes sensor data received from one or more sensor devices disposed proximate to the package, or third party data received from one or more third party devices associated with a geographic region that includes the location to which the package was delivered. The intelligence platform determines, using a machine learning model, a score for the package based on the real-time information, where the score predicts a measure of vulnerability of the package, and determines whether to retrieve or protect the package based on the score. The intelligence platform selects an unmanned vehicle (UV) to retrieve or protect the package based on vehicular data, and transmits instructions to the UV to cause the UV to navigate to the package and retrieve or protect the package.
US10402766B1
Systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed for visualizing and simulating operational activity and resources associated with an organization, which may be an airline. One or more data values may be aggregated. The data values may identify operational activity information and resource information associated with the organization. Data structures may be generated based on the aggregated one or more data values. Each of the data structures may represent at least part of an operational activity or resource associated with the organization. A process flow data structure may be generated based on the data structures. The process flow data structure may represent at least some of the operational activity of the organization with respect to time. A report may be generated based on the generated data structures and the generated process flow data structure. The report may identify one or more performance metrics associated with the organization.
US10402751B2
A method includes performing, by a processor: receiving a document containing subject matter related to a course of action, the document comprising a plurality of sub-documents that are related to one another in a time sequence, converting the document to a vector format to generate a vectorized document that encodes a probability distribution of words in the document and transition probabilities between words, applying a machine learning algorithm to the vectorized document to generate an estimated vectorized document, associating the estimated vectorized document with a reference document; predicting future subject matter contained in a future sub-document of the document based on the reference document, and adjusting the course of action responsive to predicting the future subject matter.
US10402750B2
In one embodiment, a method includes accessing a first set of entities, with which a user has interacted, and a second set of entities in a social-networking system. A first set of vector representations of the first set of entities are determined using a deep-learning model. A target entity is selected from the first set of entities, and the vector representation of the target entity is removed from the first set. The remaining vector representations in the first set are combined to determine a vector representation of the user. A second set of vector representations of the second set of entities are determined using the deep-learning model. Similarity scores are computed between the user and each of the target entity and the entities in the second set of entities. Vector representations of entities in the second set of entities are updated based on the similarity scores using the deep-learning model.
US10402749B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for customizable machine learning models. In some implementations, data is received, including (i) example data sets and (ii) data specifying one or more criteria to be assessed. A set of multiple models is trained, where each model in the set of models is trained using a training data set comprising a different subset of the example data sets. Output of the models is obtained for various example data sets, and a combination of n-grams is selected based on the outputs. The example data sets are used to train a classifier to evaluate input data with respect to the specified one or more criteria based on whether the input data includes the n-grams in the selected combination of n-grams.
US10402747B2
We present the architecture of a high-performance constraint solver R-Solve that extends the gains made in SAT performance over the past fifteen years on static decision problems to problems that require on-the-fly adaptation, solution space exploration and optimization. R-Solve facilitates collaborative parallel solving and provides an efficient system for unrestricted incremental solving via Smart Repair. R-Solve can address problems in dynamic planning and constrained optimization involving complex logical and arithmetic constraints.
US10402744B2
A method and associated system for an automatically self-learning audit of a bidirectional synchronization means for synchronizing a source system and a target system. A processor identifies a mismatch between an element of production data of the source system and an analogous production-data element of the target system. If the mismatch is caused by an issue known to the synchronization means, the processor takes corrective action known to resolve the mismatch. Otherwise, the processor attempts to identify a resolution and, if successful, applies the resolution, teaches the resolution to the synchronization mechanism, records the solution, and resends data from the correct system to the incorrect system. If unable to identify a resolution, the processor implements a next-best solution that allows continued operation despite the unresolved mismatch. The processor then generates a report of the mismatch and continues searching for other mismatches in the loaded data models.
US10402743B1
In some aspects, a heterogeneous computing system includes a quantum processor unit and a classical processor unit. In some instances, variables defined by a computer program are stored in a classical memory in the heterogeneous computing system. The computer program is executed in the heterogeneous computing system by operation of the quantum processor unit and the classical processor unit. Instructions are generated for the quantum processor by a host processor unit based on values of the variables stored in the classical memory. The instructions are configured to cause the quantum processor unit to perform a data processing task defined by the computer program. The values of the variables are updated in the classical memory based on output values generated by the quantum processor unit. The classical processor unit processes the updated values of the variables.
US10402729B2
A technology for path determination using robust optimization is provided. In accordance with one aspect, a network graph of a network is generated. The network graph comprises nodes corresponding to points in the network, and edges which connect the nodes. Costs for each edge of the network are determined and modeled using reference point, upper bound and lower bound parameters. A user input which includes a source node, destination node, and cost target may be received from a client device. A resultant path connecting the source node and destination node are determined by solving a target-oriented robust optimization problem, which optimizes a cost of the resultant path based on the modeled costs of the edges. The resultant path is displayed on a user interface of the client device.
US10402727B2
New methods of data processing include a suite of tools which may be used for, among other purposes, history matching of hydrocarbon reservoir models. The suite of tools includes asynchronous techniques for solving optimization problems, visualization tools for providing an audit trail of users' work, and a low cost grouping technique for efficient processing and displaying of scatter plot and other graphical data.
US10402704B1
Various examples are directed to methods and systems for object recognition in an image. A computer vision system may receive a patch comprising a plurality of pixels arranged in a grid. The computer vision system may determine a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows in the patch. The plurality of columns may be based at least in part on a column target sum and the plurality of rows may be based at least in part on a row target sum.
US10402703B2
In one embodiment, a method includes identifying a shared visual concept in visual-media items based on shared visual features in images of the visual-media items; extracting, for each of the visual-media items, n-grams from communications associated with the visual-media item; generating, in a d-dimensional space, an embedding for each of the visual-media items at a location based on the visual concepts included in the visual-media item; generating, in the d-dimensional space, an embedding for each of the extracted n-grams at a location based on a frequency of occurrence of the n-gram in the communications associated with the visual-media items; and associating, with the shared visual concept, the extracted n-grams that have embeddings within a threshold area of the embeddings for the identified visual-media items.
US10402693B2
A configuration of a pattern classification apparatus capable of implementing pattern classification is provided. The apparatus generates feature data base on an image and classifies a predetermined pattern by referring to the feature data.
US10402688B2
Systems and methods for providing an augmented input data to a convolutional neural network (CNN) are disclosed. Wafer images are received at a processor. The wafer image is divided into a plurality of references images each associated with a die in the wafer image. Test images are received. A plurality of difference images are created by differences the test images with the reference images. The reference images and difference images are assembled into the augmented input data for the CNN and provided to the CNN.
US10402685B2
Identification of a determinative subset of features from within a group of features is performed by training a support vector machine using training samples with class labels to determine a value of each feature, where features are removed based on their the value. One or more features having the smallest values are removed and an updated kernel matrix is generated using the remaining features. The process is repeated until a predetermined number of features remain which are capable of accurately separating the data into different classes. In some embodiments, features are eliminated by a ranking criterion based on a Lagrange multiplier corresponding to each training sample.
US10402671B2
System and methods for automatic solar panel recognition and defect detection using infrared imaging
Methods and systems are provided for detecting a defect in a solar panel. The method includes initially imaging, via an infrared camera, a group of solar panels. Then, identifying, via a computer system configured for solar panel defect detection, the individual solar panels in the group of solar panels. Finally, identifying, via evaluation of an infrared image obtained by the infrared camera, a defect in at least one of the group of solar panels.
US10402655B2
A system and method are provided for analyzing a video. The method comprises: sampling the video to generate a plurality of spatio-temporal video volumes; clustering similar ones of the plurality of spatio-temporal video volumes to generate a low-level codebook of video volumes; analyzing the low-level codebook of video volumes to generate a plurality of ensembles of volumes surrounding pixels in the video; and clustering the plurality of ensembles of volumes by determining similarities between the ensembles of volumes, to generate at least one high-level codebook. Multiple high-level codebooks can be generated by repeating steps of the method. The method can further include performing visual event retrieval by using the at least one high-level codebook to make an inference from the video, for example comparing the video to a dataset and retrieving at least one similar video, activity and event labeling, and performing abnormal and normal event detection.
US10402640B1
A method for schematizing fields in documents involves segmenting an image of a document into snippets, classifying a first, a second, and a third snippet of the snippets as a first label, a second label, and a data field, respectively. The method further includes generating, for a combination of the first label and the data field, a first image to be classified, and classifying the first image to be classified to obtain a first classification score. The method further includes generating, for a combination of the second label and the data field, a second image to be classified, and classifying the second image to be classified to obtain a second classification score. The method also includes determining that the first classification score is greater than the second classification score and identifying, based on the determining step, that the data field is associated with the first label.
US10402638B1
A digital camera processing system with software to manage taking photos with a digital camera. Camera software controls the digital camera. A downloaded software component controls the digital camera software and causes a handheld mobile device to perform operations. The operations may include instructing a user to have the digital camera take photos of a check; displaying an instruction on a display of the handheld mobile device to assist the user in having the digital camera take the photos; or assisting the user as to an orientation for taking the photos with the digital camera. The digital camera processing system may generate a log file including a bi-tonal image formatted as a TIFF image.
US10402634B2
According to an embodiment, an information processing device includes a memory and processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to receive an image and area information indicating a first area. The processing circuitry is configured to detect an object from the image. The processing circuitry is configured to, based on positional relationship between the first area and the object, estimate probability of occurrence of an event in the first area.
US10402632B2
Technology is disclosed for inferring human attributes from images of people. The attributes can include, for example, gender, age, hair, and/or clothing. The technology uses part-based models, e.g., Poselets, to locate multiple normalized part patches from an image. The normalized part patches are provided into trained convolutional neural networks to generate feature data. Each convolution neural network applies multiple stages of convolution operations to one part patch to generate a set of fully connected feature data. The feature data for all part patches are concatenated and then provided into multiple trained classifiers (e.g., linear support vector machines) to predict attributes of the image.
US10402631B2
Techniques for distinguishing objects (e.g., an individual or an individual pushing a shopping cart) are disclosed. An object is detected in images of a scene. A height map is generated from the images, and the object is represented as height values in the height map. Based on height properties associated with another object, it is determined whether the other object is associated with the object. If so determined, the objects are classified separately.
US10402629B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for facial recognition using fractal features are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of accessing data encoding a facial image, the facial image including a face. The actions further include generating a hierarchical graphical model of the face in the facial image, the hierarchical graphical model including more than nodes from at least one level, each level approximating the face within a contour. The actions further include applying a bank of filters to the face at a particular node, each filter spanning more than one scale and at least one direction. The actions further include analyzing filter responses from the bank of filters applied at each direction to obtain a similarity measure that consolidates filter responses from filters applied at more than one scale. The actions further include generating a vector representation.
US10402622B2
An authentication apparatus comprises a prism member, an imaging unit, and a visible light source configured to radiate visible light to a living body. The prism member has a substantially trapezoidal shape with at least one side face thereof formed in an expanded shape from a living body authentication face against which an authentication portion of the living body is put, toward an imaging face that is parallel to the living body authentication face. The visible light source is disposed below the imaging face and near a side of an expanded side of the imaging face. The imaging unit is disposed below the imaging face.
US10402610B2
In one embodiment, a printed LED area comprises a random arrangement of printed LEDs and a wavelength conversion layer. The LED area is embedded in an object to be authenticated, such as a credit card or a casino chip. The object may include a light guide for enabling the generated light to be emitted from any portion of the object. In one embodiment, when the LEDs are energized during authentication of the object, the existence of light emitted by the object is sufficient authentication and/or provides feedback to the user that the object is being detected. For added security, the emitted spectrum vs. intensity and persistence of the wavelength conversion layer is detected and encoded in a first code, then compared to valid codes stored in the database. If there is a match, the object is authenticated.
US10402599B2
An operating method of a card reader supporting high-speed data communication. The method comprises: if a card reader determines that a first in-place flag is not valid, then the card reader sends a card query instruction in a contactless field, sends a speed adjustment configuration instruction to a contactless card upon receiving of query response data returned by the contactless card, and determines whether response data indicating successful speed adjustment configuration and returned by the contactless card is received; and if so, then the card reader configures communication speeds thereof, such that a received first instruction is sent to the contactless card with a first communication speed, and an operation result returned by the contactless card is received with a second communication speed, otherwise the card reader configures the communication speeds thereof, such that a received first instruction is sent to the contactless card with a third communication speed, and an operation result returned by the contactless card is received with a fourth communication speed, wherein the first communication speed is greater than the third communication speed, and the second communication speed is greater than the fourth communication speed. The above method can shorten interaction time between a contactless card reader and a contactless card, thereby improving user experience.
US10402593B2
There is provided mechanisms for determining a verification path for each leaf of a tree. A method is performed by a tree manager processor. The method comprises acquiring leaf values of leaves of a tree. The method comprises determining a root value from a leaf to the root value of the leaves. The method comprises determining a verification path for each of the leaves. The verification path for each of the leaves is determined such that the size of each verification path is independent from the number of leaves. Each verification path comprises a partial result and a function that enables determination of said root value from its leaf value and said partial result. The partial result for the verification path for leaf is determined as a one-way function depending only on other leaves such that the verification path for leaf prohibits re-computation of any other leaf value from said partial result.
US10402592B2
A method for operating an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: entering a content sharing mode capable of sharing content with a first electronic device; outputting first content shared with the first electronic device; entering a content sharing mode capable of sharing content with a second electronic device; determining the authority to decide a display layout, with respect to the second electronic device; transmitting display layout information to the second electronic device upon determining that the second electronic device has the authority to decide the display layout; and receiving, from the second electronic device, display layout determination information including information on output positions of content shared with the first and second electronic devices. Accordingly, it is possible to provide various optimized display layouts of a screen displaying content of connected electronic devices.
US10402587B2
A method includes obtaining first text information in a first format, converting the first text information to an offset value from a base time in a second format, generating an encryption key, encrypting the offset value with the encryption key to produce an encrypted offset value in the second format, converting the encrypted offset value to second text information in the first format, and outputting the second text information as encrypted text corresponding to the first text information.
US10402582B2
The systems and methods disclosed herein transparently provide data security using a cryptographic file system layer that selectively intercepts and modifies (e.g., by encrypting) data to be stored in a designated directory. The cryptographic file system layer can be used in combination with one or more cryptographic approaches to provide a server-based secure data solution that makes data more secure and accessible, while eliminating the need for multiple perimeter hardware and software technologies.
US10402579B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus to provide private information retrieval are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a protected data enclave to store a first portion of data such that entities other than the first trusted hardware processing unit are unable to access the first portion of the data. The example apparatus includes a request processor to determine that a data element specified in a first request from an entity is stored in a second trusted hardware processing unit. The request processor is to send an encrypted request for the data element to the second trusted hardware processing unit, and send an encrypted dummy request to a third trusted hardware processing unit. The request processor is to determine whether an encrypted dummy response has been received from the third trusted hardware processing unit, and whether an encrypted response including the data element has been received from the second trusted hardware processing unit.
US10402573B1
A breach resilient data storage system and method which encrypts, fragments, and stores data across a plurality of data stores, thereby requiring data being retrieved to be retrieved, recombined and decrypted before being accessible. The breach resilient data storage system and method includes, a plurality of storage containers, a client device from which data may be securely stored and securely stored data may be accessed, and a storage coordinator and a key keeper which track the encryption data and the placement and retrieval of fragmented data across the storage containers. Because the encrypted data is stored in fragmented bits, with none of the storage containers knowing what it is storing or having complete access to the complete set of data, a single compromised node in the system cannot be used to compromise the entire system or access any data.
US10402568B2
Methods and systems for performing an authenticated boot; performing a continuous data protection; performing automatic protection and optionally a consolidation; and performing other defenses and protection of a protected computing device (such as a computer system) are provided. The aspects include integrating security mechanisms (which may include a “call home” function, role and rule-based policies, validating technologies, encryption and decryption technologies, data compression technologies, protected and segmented boot technologies, and virtualization technologies. Booting and operating (either fully or in a restricted manner) are permitted only under a control of a specified role-set, rule-set, and/or a controlling supervisory process or server system(s). The methods and systems make advantageous use of hypervisors and other virtual machine monitors or managers.
US10402561B2
An apparatus and method of a hardware isolated secure element protecting a plurality of mission critical subsystems are provided. The method includes performing an actuation operation received across an unsecure path that modifies the state of a mission critical subsystem, performing a diagnostic operation received across the unsecure path that requests state information of the mission critical subsystem, storing information used to determine which of the diagnostic operation and the actuation operation received across the unsecure path are performed, and flashing an execution image of an electronic control unit when the execution image of the electronic control unit is received across the unsecure path.
US10402559B2
A system includes one or more protected nodes within a protected system, where each protected node is configured to be coupled to a storage device. The system also includes a server configured to perform a check-in process so that one or more files on the storage device are (i) accessible by the one or more protected nodes within the protected system and (ii) not accessible by nodes outside of the protected system while the storage device is checked-in. The server is also configured to perform a check-out process so that the one or more files on the storage device are (i) accessible by the nodes outside of the protected system and (ii) not accessible by the one or more protected nodes within the protected system while the storage device is checked-out. The server could be configured to modify a file system of the storage device during the check-in process.
US10402552B2
The present disclosure describes an integration platform providing a secure collaboration platform that simplifies and optimizes interactions between multiple users by facilitating secure cross-platform communications among users of the platform. Additionally, the present platform can provide a designated collaboration workspace for interactions within the platform.
US10402548B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an authentication system and method which can reduce a burden on a user while ensuring security by using a combination of a plurality of authentication methods. A method for authentication of the present invention comprises the steps of: obtaining a first authentication performance value for each transaction based on initial input information at a transaction; determining whether or not additional authentication is required for authentication of a person by comparing the first authentication performance value and the authentication performance threshold value required for authentication of a person; presenting, if the additional authentication is required, a plurality of authentication methods from which one authentication method or a combination of authentication methods can be selected so as to satisfy an additional authentication performance value obtained using the first authentication performance value and the authentication performance threshold value; and obtaining a second authentication performance value based on additional input information using the one or more authentication methods selected from the plurality of presented authentication methods, and determining whether to authenticate by comparing the additional authentication performance value and the second authentication performance value.
US10402544B2
A monitoring system can monitor computing processes in clouds. The monitoring system can verify software license compliance in the computing processes instantiated in the clouds. The monitoring system can generate and maintain a software license knowledge base. The software license knowledge base can include the software license requirements for various software programs. To generate the software license knowledge base, the monitoring system can communicate with various sources (software vendors, clouds, publicly available sources, etc.) to determine license requirements for the various software programs.
US10402535B2
A method and system for personalized computation of tissue ablation extent based on medical images of a patient is disclosed. A patient-specific anatomical model of the liver and liver vessels is estimated from medical image data of a patient. Blood flow in the liver and liver vessels is simulated. An ablation simulation is performed that uses a bio-heat model to simulate heat diffusion due to an ablation based on the simulated blood flow and a cellular necrosis model to simulate cellular necrosis in the liver based on the simulated heat diffusion. Personalized tissue parameters of the bio-heat model and the cellular necrosis model are estimated based on observed results of a preliminary ablation procedure. Planning of the ablation procedure is then performed using the personalized bio-heat equation and the cellular necrosis model. The model can be subsequently refined as more ablation observations are obtained.
US10402527B2
Embodiments are directed towards a reconfigurable stream switch formed in an integrated circuit. The stream switch includes a plurality of output ports, a plurality of input ports, and a plurality of selection circuits. The output ports each have an output port architectural composition, and each is arranged to unidirectionally pass output data and output control information. The input ports each have an input port architectural composition, and each is arranged to unidirectionally receive first input data and first input control information. Each one of the selection circuits is coupled to an associated one of the output ports. Each selection circuit is further coupled to all of the input ports such that each selection circuit is arranged to reconfigurably couple its associated output port to no more than one input port at any given time.
US10402524B2
Methods according to the disclosure include: predicting process-sensitive geometries (PSGs) in a proposed IC layout based on violations of a set of processing constraints for the proposed IC layout, the set of processing constraints being calculated with a predictive model based on a training data repository having a plurality of optical rule check (ORC) simulations for different IC layouts; identifying actual PSGs in a circuit manufactured using the proposed IC layout; determining whether the predicted PSGs correspond to the actual PSGs in the manufactured circuit as being correct; in response to the predicting being incorrect: adjusting the predictive model based on the actual PSGs, wherein the adjusting includes submitting additional ORC data to the training data repository; and flagging the proposed IC layout as incorrectly predicted; and in response to the predicting being correct, flagging the proposed IC layout as correctly predicted.
US10402522B1
Aspects of the present disclosure address improved systems and methods for region-aware clustering in integrated circuit (IC) designs. Consistent with some embodiments, the method may include identifying a clustering region for each clock driver included in an IC design based on locations of sinks and blockages, and timing constraints. The CTS tool finds representative locations for each clock driver within their respective clustering regions. Given the representative location for each clock driver, the CTS tool applies point-based clustering to the clock drivers of the IC design to obtain one or more clusters.
US10402515B2
An environmental monitoring system including a base station. The base station may receive at least two reports from at least one environmental sensor in an environment; compute, based on values of physical properties of a simulated object and the at least two reports, a simulated condition of the simulated object within the environment; and transmit, to a computing device, the at least two reports and/or the computed simulated condition of the simulated object. A method of operating a base station of an environmental monitoring system. At least one computer-readable storage medium encoded with executable instructions that, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to perform a method of operating a base station of an environmental monitoring system.
US10402503B2
The invention relates to a method for determining a grasp set of n gripping points for a common end effector of a robot, said end effector being used for grasping a plurality of parts, each part having its own geometry, the method comprises: (a) providing said plurality of parts in a CAD form; (b) meshing each of said parts; (c) determining for each of said parts all the possible grasps that are capable of holding the respective part by any k-contacts points end effector; (d) calculating a quality measure for each of said determined grasps; (e) calculating an allowable range for said calculated quality measures; (f) for each part, parametrizing each of its grasps that are found to be within said allowable range, by a feature vector; (g) performing a cross-part intersection between said grasps that are found to be within said allowable range, and determining those grasps that are intersected between parts; and (h) from among said intersected grasps, selecting a single grasp having a highest quality measure, said selected grasp is used for grasping said plurality of parts by said end effector.
US10402501B2
Provided are systems, computer-implemented methods, and computer-program products for a multi-lingual device, capable of receiving verbal input in multiple languages, and further capable of providing conversational responses in multiple languages. In various implementations, the multi-lingual device includes an automatic speech recognition engine capable of receiving verbal input in a first natural language and providing a textual representation of the input and a confidence value for the recognition. The multi-lingual device can also include a machine translation engine, capable of translating textual input from the first natural language into a second natural language. The machine translation engine can output a confidence value for the translation. The multi-lingual device can further include natural language processing, capable of translating from the second natural language to a computer-based language. Input in the computer-based language can be processed, and the multi-lingual device can take an action based on the result of the processing.
US10402499B2
A method includes performing, with at least one processing device, natural language understanding using both (i) a semantic word and clause representation generated from syntactically-labeled context and (ii) a syntax generated from common semantic relations between sequential words and clauses. The semantic word and clause representation and the syntax could be generated iteratively. The method could include generating the semantic word and clause representation, where a significance of particular items of context is modified by a presence of words or clauses from a given lexicon of amplifiers along a syntax tree. The method could also include generating the syntax, where multiple semantic relations are considered to be equivalent if the multiple semantic relations have identical representations in an auto-associative memory. The semantic word and clause representation could include content semantics constructed from closest nodes in a syntax tree to a clause.
US10402493B2
Systems comprising a user interface configured to receive text input by a user and a text prediction engine configured to receive the input text and generate text predictions. The text prediction engine may comprise a general language model and a context-specific language model. The text prediction engine is configured to generate text predictions from the general language model and the context-specific language model and combine the text predictions. The text prediction engine may comprise first and second language models and a first context-specific weighting factor associated with the first language model. The text prediction engine is configured to generate text predictions using the first and second language models, generate weighted probabilities of the text predictions from the first language model using the first context-specific weighting factor; and generate final text predictions from the weighted predictions generated from the first language model and the predictions generated by the second language model.
US10402490B1
Various aspects of the subject technology relate to systems, methods, and machine-readable media for edit distance based spellcheck. A system may include a search engine using edit distance based spellcheck covering a set of valid words in a language model describing probabilities for each candidate word. The subject system first identifies strings that are one edit away from a source word, selects at least one of the strings with the highest probability in the language model and uses that selected string as the spelling correction. If there are no valid words found, the subject system determines the edit distance between the source word and all candidate words in the language model whose length differential with the source word is smaller than a threshold and whose first character is the same as that of the source word, and selects the candidate word with the highest language probability and lowest edit distance.
US10402488B2
A method for configuring an automated dialog system uses traces of interactions via a graphical user interface (GUI) for an application. Each trace includes interactions in the context of a plurality of presentations of the GUI. Elements of one or more presentations of the GUI are identified, and templates are associated with portions of the trace. Each template has one or more defined inputs and a defined output. For each template of the plurality of templates, the portions of the traces are processed to automatically configure the template by specifying a procedure for providing values of inputs to the template via the GUI and obtaining a value of an output. The automated dialog system is configured with the configured templates, thereby avoiding manual configuration of the dialog system.
US10402486B2
A document annotation system receives a document in an original format including content. The system converts the document to an intermediate format including page data elements representing pagination within the document. The system converts the intermediate format to a display format including data marker elements linking a portion of the content to a pin cite based on the page data elements. The system detects annotations to the display format and generates citations based on the annotations.
US10402483B2
Disclosed is a screenshot processing method including: generating a screenshot of a displayed screen; determining at least one target area, to which a preset function is added, from a whole area of the generated screenshot; and generating a screenshot file where data for executing the preset function is combined with the screenshot.
US10402476B2
An example method involves (i) accessing first data defining multiple portions of a content item, wherein at least a plurality of the portions represent text; (ii) selecting, from the plurality of portions representing text, a subset of the portions representing text, wherein the selecting is based on each portion of the selected subset having a particular characteristic; (iii) based on the text represented by the portions of the selected subset, generating second data that represents a concatenation of the text represented by the portions of the selected subset; and (iv) providing output based on the generated second data.
US10402470B2
An electronic document having a current layout can be presented in an application user interface. Based on a detected interaction with an object in the electronic document, an intent can be determined. The determined intent can be used to identify different sets of commands that result in corresponding visual representations that are likely to satisfy the determined intent. Different activation regions can be defined within the electronic document. A different command set, each identified from the determined intent, is associated with each different activation region. Movement and release of the selected object to a position within an activation region is detected, and the command set associated with the activation region is executed to perform a multi-step operation that modifies at least the current layout of the electronic document to result in the corresponding visual representation.
US10402466B2
Feature extraction logic is operated on a digital source text to organize a machine memory into a source feature representation of one or more of a system, an apparatus, a process, and a composition of matter. The source feature representation is applied as a control sequence to a database management system for a digital database to produce a group of correlated feature representations that exceed an overall feature correlation threshold with the source feature representation. Transformation logic is operated on the correlated feature representations to produce a digital multiplex of graphical drawings depicting the correlated feature representations.
US10402464B2
The invention provides methods and apparatuses for opening a webpage, invoking a client, and creating a light application. The method for opening a webpage comprises: receiving a webpage opening request containing a link; according to the link, searching a preset application list for a client application and/or a light application corresponding to the link; and when the client application and/or the light application exists in the application list, opening the client application and/or invoking the light application to open a webpage corresponding to the link. Thereby, a webpage corresponding to a link can be opened in a more friendly manner, the use of a user is facilitated, the efficiency of acquiring information by the user is improved, and the user experience is enhanced.
US10402453B2
Aspects discussed herein present a solution for utilizing large-scale knowledge graphs for inference at scale and generating explanations for the conclusions. In some embodiments, aspects discussed herein learn inference paths from a knowledge graph and determine a confidence score for each inference path. Aspects discussed herein may apply the inference paths to the knowledge graph to improve database lookup, keyword searches, inferences, etc. Aspects discussed herein may generate a natural language explanation for each conclusion or result from one or more inference paths that led to that conclusion or result. Aspects discussed herein may present the best conclusions or results to the user based on selection strategies. The presented results or conclusions may include generated natural language explanations rather than links to documents with word occurrences highlighted.
US10402442B2
Described herein are technologies pertaining to automatically summarizing contents of a dataset and visualizing a summary of the dataset together with summaries of other datasets. A schema that defines the structure and content of a dataset is received, and pre-processing is undertaken on the schema to generate an enriched schema. Portions of the enriched schema are selected to generate a semantic summary of the schema, which is included with at least one exemplary entry of the dataset to generate a summary of the dataset.
US10402439B2
Systems and methods are described to address shortcomings in conventional conversation systems by executing a customized supplemental function for a natural language query based on the user's profile. In some aspects, the systems and methods receive a user query for a media asset, determine a query template in the user's profile matching the user's query, and identify and execute a supplemental function corresponding to the query template in addition to responding to the user's query. The user's profile is customized on the user's usage patterns of an interactive media guidance application. By monitoring the user's usage patterns and learning from the user's actions in conjunction with the user's natural language queries on which supplemental functions to execute, the interactive media guidance application may provide a smarter and more efficient user experience.
US10402431B2
A method and system for identifying search terms for placing advertisements along with search results is provided. The advertisement system selects a description of an item that is to be advertised. The advertisement system then retrieves documents that match the selected description. The advertisement system generates a score for each word of the retrieved documents that indicates relatedness of the word to the item to be advertised. After generating the scores for the words, the advertisement system identifies phrases of the words within the documents that are related to the item. The advertisement system then generates search terms for the item to be advertised from the identified phrases. The advertisement system submits the search terms and an advertisement to a search engines service for placement of a paid-for advertisement for the item.
US10402419B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, from a client system of a first user, a text query comprising a character string of n characters, generating a plurality of suggested queries based on the text query, where each suggested query comprises the character string of the text query and one or more query tokens, and where at least one of the query tokens of each suggested query partially matches the character string of the text query, and sending, to the client system responsive to receiving the nth character of the text query, instructions for displaying one or more suggested queries to the first user, where at least one of the suggested queries is displayed with a preview of one or more search results matching the suggested query.
US10402415B2
An intelligently distributed stage data mining system is disclosed herein, including an intelligent central server, a first WLAN receiving and transmitting unit, a local cluster control unit, a second WLAN receiving and transmitting unit, a third WLAN receiving and transmitting unit, a self-adaptive multi-dimensional transmission processing unit, a plurality of ZigBee receiving and transmitting units and a distributed data extraction unit. The intelligent central server is used for sending data acquisition and stage correction instruction to the local cluster control unit, and for receiving the stage real-time data uploaded by the self-adaptive multi-dimensional transmission processing unit. The local cluster control unit is used for receiving the data acquisition instruction sent by the intelligent central server, and forwarding instructions to the self-adaptive multi-dimensional transmission processing unit.
US10402409B2
In one embodiment, for each one of a plurality of web pages, a number of instances of page events for the one of the plurality of web pages and a number of instances of a particular subset of the page events for the one of the plurality of web pages may be ascertained and based upon the number of instances of page events for the one of the plurality of web pages and the number of instances of the particular subset of the page events for the one of the plurality of web pages, a virality score for the one of the plurality of web pages may be determined. The virality score may be determined independent from numbers of instances of page events associated with other web pages. The plurality of web pages may be ranked based upon the virality scores associated with the plurality of web pages.
US10402407B2
An aspect provides a method, including: obtaining, at an information handling device, user input search data; accessing contextual data; refining, using one or more processors, the user input search data based on the contextual data; searching, using one or more processors, a repository of stored tag data with refined user input search data to identify one or more stored tags matching one or more stored objects; and returning, using one or more processors, one or more results of the searching, the one or more results indicating one or more stored objects associated with stored tag data. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10402398B2
Aspects described herein provide solutions to problems posed by a user. Input that includes a specified subject may be received from a user. A specified descriptor for the specified subject may be obtained from a hierarchical taxonomy associated with the specified subject. An information repository may be searched based on the specific descriptor, and entries stored at the information repository that are associated with the specific descriptor may be indicated in a list of results. The specific descriptor may be iteratively generalized to obtain generalized descriptors, and the information repository may be searched based on the generalized descriptors. The generalized descriptors may also be specialized to obtain specialized descriptors, and the information repository may be searched based on the specialized descriptors. The list of results may include entries stored at the information repository that are respectively associated with the generalized descriptors and the specialized descriptors.
US10402397B1
Systems and methods are provided that allow federated data from various source systems to be accessed and analyzed through a data analysis platform. The federated data may be stored in different formats. The data analysis platform can receive the federated data in whatever format it has been stored at its respective source system. A script can be used to generate temporary representations (or temporary objects) for the federated data by transforming the federated data. Moreover, the temporary representations or temporary objects can be further transformed into a data analysis platform-specific format. A user of data analysis platform may access and/or manipulate either the temporary representations or objects as well as the data analysis platform-specific objects. Temporary objects can be transformed automatically into corresponding platform-specific objects when necessary to provide an enhanced capability or operation on the objects.
US10402385B1
Systems and methods for live reindexing include receiving, at a dispatch server, a request to reindex a database, wherein, at the time the request to reindex is received, the dispatch server is configured to send queries for information in the database to a first index server, the first index server comprising a first index of information in the database. The systems and methods further include, responsive to receiving the request to reindex and while the database is live, generating a second index of the information in the database, storing the second index at a second index server, and configuring the dispatch server to use the second index server as a live index server and to no longer use the first index server as a live index server.
US10402383B2
A computer-implemented method implemented by a database management system (DBMS). The DBMS includes a database with a data table with a plurality of data columns and a condition table with condition columns and a score column. The DBMS receives a request and extracts a data vector from each data column and a condition vector from each condition column. For each of the data vectors, the DBMS computes a match vector selectively including identifiers of the rows in the condition table whose condition value is identical to an attribute value of said data vector, then, the DBMS selectively returns the rows of the condition table whose respective identifier is contained in each of the computed match vectors as the result to the client application for enabling the client application to identify assignments of the data records and the score values of matching condition table rows.
US10402375B2
A cloud content states framework is described herein. In implementations, a framework is configured to perform operations for management of cloud content files at the computing device on behalf of cloud storage providers. The framework is operable to manage states for cloud content files accessible from multiple cloud storage services. The framework also manages and outputs state indicators with file system representations of the cloud content files. The states include at least a set of primary states indicative of synchronization status controlled by the framework. The states may also include custom states associated with cloud storage services that are defined via an interface exposed by the framework. In operation, states associated with cloud content files are recognized in connection with rendering a user interface with cloud content file representations. Then, state indicators that reflect the recognized states are exposed along with cloud content file representations in the user interface.
US10402372B2
An apparatus includes a processor component to receive a node device identifier defining an ordering among multiple node devices and among multiple blocks of data distributed among the multiple node devices, and transmit a size of a first subset of the multiple blocks stored within the node device to a control device. In response to receiving instructions to receive a second subset from another node device, perform operations including: receive and store the second subset; group the blocks of data of the first and second subsets into multiple segments in an order that corresponds to the ordering among the multiple blocks, wherein each segment is sized to fit minimum and maximum sizes for transmission to storage device(s); transmit the multiple segments to the storage device(s); and relay multiple segment identifiers from the storage device(s) to the control device in an order corresponding to the ordering among the multiple segments.
US10402363B2
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and architectures for storage interposers are provided herein. In one example, a storage interposer module includes Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) switch circuitry receives storage operations over a host connector that are issued by one or more host systems and transfers the storage operations for storage by one or more storage devices over drive PCIe interfaces. The storage interposer module also includes a control module configured to monitor the storage operations in the PCIe switch circuitry via a control interface coupled between the PCIe switch circuitry and the interposer control module, and selectively direct delivery of each of the storage operations to corresponding storage areas among the one or more storage devices based at least on information monitored about the storage operations in the PCIe switch circuitry.
US10402361B2
Efficient communication between storage controllers can be performed. A storage system includes one or more backend switches that connect a first processor, a second processor, and one or more storage devices to each other. Each backend switch identifies a destination of a frame by referring to the frame received from the first processor. In a case where the destination of the frame is the second processor, each backend switch translates a first address, included in the frame, for specifying a location on the second memory in an address space of the first processor, into a second address for specifying the location on the second memory in an address space of the second processor, and transfers the frame including the second address to the second storage controller.
US10402360B2
A building management system including a system manager, a zone coordinator, and one or more zone controllers configured to monitor and control building zones. The system manager includes a system bus datalink having an active node table stored therein. The zone coordinator includes a second system bus datalink and a zone bus datalink. A system bus connects the first system bus datalink to the second system bus datalink. A zone bus connects the zone bus datalink to the one or more zone controllers. The active node table includes a plurality of nodes, each node representing a system bus device communicating on the system bus. The system manager is configured to monitor the active node table for new nodes and to identify a new system bus device communicating on the system bus in response to a determination that the active node table includes a new node.
US10402355B2
An address space field is used in conjunction with a normal address field to allow indication of an address space for the particular address value. In one instance, one address space value is used to indicate the bypassing of the address translation used between address spaces. A different address space value is designated for conventional operation, where address translations are performed. Other address space values are used to designate different transformations of the address values or the data. This technique provides a simplified format for handling address values and the like between different devices having different address spaces, simplifying overall computer system design and operation.
US10402342B2
Technologies are described for re-configurable non-volatile memory structures and systems for FPGA, as well as, non-volatile static random access memory (nvSRAM) cells with multiple non-volatile memory (NVM) bits. Proposed structures may quickly switch/reconfigure look-up tables (LUTs) and/or reconfigure FPGA routings. Memory structures according to some embodiments may reduce the switching/reconfiguring times to one or a few clock cycles. Thus, fast or real time FPGA reconfiguration is enabled, one LUT may serve multiple functions, thereby, a fraction of current FPGAs may be used to perform multi-functions, which may substantially reduce FPGA chip areas. Structures according to embodiments may further provide simple routing for entire system by re-configuration and enhanced data security by avoiding external data transmission.
US10402326B1
A system that includes circuitry to access memories in both coherent and non-coherent domains is disclosed. The circuitry may receive a command to access a memory included in the coherent domain and generate one or more commands to access a memory in the non-coherent domain dependent upon the received command. The circuitry may send the generated one or more commands to the memory in the non-coherent domain via communication bus.
US10402324B2
According to an example, a processor generates a memory access request and sends the memory access request to a memory module. The processor receives data from the memory module in response to the memory access request when a memory device in the memory module for the memory access request is busy and unable to execute the memory access request.
US10402323B2
In one embodiment of the present invention a cache unit organizes data stored in an attached memory to optimize accesses to compressed data. In operation, the cache unit introduces a layer of indirection between a physical address associated with a memory access request and groups of blocks in the attached memory. The layer of indirection—virtual tiles—enables the cache unit to selectively store compressed data that would conventionally be stored in separate physical tiles included in a group of blocks in a single physical tile. Because the cache unit stores compressed data associated with multiple physical tiles in a single physical tile and, more specifically, in adjacent locations within the single physical tile, the cache unit coalesces the compressed data into contiguous blocks. Subsequently, upon performing a read operation, the cache unit may retrieve the compressed data conventionally associated with separate physical tiles in a single read operation.
US10402321B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for determining the location for volumes of data being initially stored within a storage space, regardless of the physical location of the data. The storage space includes stripes composed of volumes, which can be logically represented as a utilization histogram of stripe locations offset from one another. Sometime the stripes are fully allocated with one large volume or partially allocated with multiple, arbitrary-sized smaller volumes. When there are multiple smaller volumes that do not utilize all of the available stripe space, gaps form. To minimize the creation of such gaps, when a volume of data is initially stored, a start location to place the volume of data is selected by using selection criteria as guidance.
US10402320B1
A fused object includes a head and a tail. A head template is not modifiable. A tail template is modifiable. Modifying a tail template includes verifying the validity of a transition from a current tail template to a new tail template. The validity of the transition is determined by analyzing the type transitions per memory slot. If the type transition, for each memory slot, constitutes a type-compatible transition, then the transition from the current tail template to the new tail template is valid. If the type transition, for any memory slot, is not type-compatible, then the transition from the current tail template to the new tail template is not valid. A fused object may be associated with a repeating tail. A tail template associated with a fused object is repeated multiple times in the tail of the fused object.
US10402319B2
Apparatuses and methods for concurrently accessing different memory planes are disclosed herein. An example apparatus may include a controller associated with a queue configured to maintain respective information associated with each of a plurality of memory command and address pairs. The controller is configured to select a group of memory command and address pairs from the plurality of memory command and address pairs based on the information maintained by the queue. The example apparatus further includes a memory configured to receive the group of memory command and address pairs. The memory is configured to concurrently perform memory access operations associated with the group of memory command and address pairs.
US10402318B2
A mapping table updating method, a memory control circuit unit and a memory storage device. The method includes: receiving a first data corresponding to a first logical address from a host system; loading a first logical address-physical address mapping table according to the first logical address; sending a command sequence to a rewritable non-volatile memory module; in the process of writing the first data into a first physical programming unit according to the command sequence by a control circuit of the rewritable non-volatile memory module, updating the first logical address-physical address mapping table; and after writing the first data into the first physical programming unit by the control circuit, storing the updated first logical address-physical address table back to the rewritable non-volatile memory module.
US10402317B2
A mapping information rebuilding technique for a flash memory is introduced. Mapping information of data that has been stored in the flash memory is recorded in a plurality of logically-grouped tables. System information blocks are provided to store the mapping information by using the logically-grouped table as a management unit. A grouping list is stored in at least one pre-defined physical address of each system information block to list logical group numbers of the logically-grouped tables stored in the physical pages of the corresponding system information blocks. In each system information block, more physical pages are used in storing the logically-grouped tables than are used in storing the grouping list.
US10402306B2
A device for tracing a computer program comprises a non-transitory memory having instructions and one or more processors in communication with the memory. The one or more processors execute the instructions to generate trace code from a trace specification program to trace the computer program. The one or more processors calculate values by executing the computer program and the trace code records, in parallel, the values at a predetermined location in execution of the computer program.
US10402305B2
To provide new instruction and device suitable for tracing execution of a computer program. In an embodiment, a CPU is configured so as to supply a constant to a trace unit in response to decoding of a first instruction having an immediate field indicating the constant. In addition, the trace unit is configured so as to output trace data including the constant in response to execution of the first instruction in the CPU.
US10402288B2
A universal serial bus (USB) testing method includes selecting a selected test mode from test modes, creating a USB communication link between a USB device and a testing fixture board, generating, by the testing fixture board, a test-triggering instruction corresponding to the selected test mode according to the selected test mode, sending the test-triggering instruction to the USB device with the USB communication link, generating, by the USB device, a testing packet corresponding to the selected test mode according to the test-triggering instruction, and outputting the testing packet repeatedly from at least one external port of the USB device.
US10402285B2
A plurality of database modification statements are received as part of a database transaction that implicates data stored within a database. Thereafter, lock requests are initiated that requesting the database to lock the implicated data. At least one database operation by at least one of the database modification statements is then executed prior to receiving responses from at least a portion of the lock requests. After confirming that prior lock requests made by the transaction are successfully processed, a commit to make changes to the corresponding implicated data permanent is initiated. The implicated data can then be caused to be unlocked after the commit completes. Related apparatus, systems, techniques and articles are also described.
US10402279B2
Techniques to back up data are disclosed. In various embodiments, a copy of a free block map as of a first time associated with a first backup is stored in persistent data storage. Writes made subsequent to the first backup to blocks not listed as free in the copy of the free block map as of the first time are tracked in a persistently-stored change block tracking log. A free block map as of a second time and the previously-stored copy of the free block map as of the first time are used to determine which blocks listed as free in the free block map as of the first time have been written to since the first time. At least a subset of blocks determined to have been written to since the first time are including in an incremental backup.
US10402274B2
Power loss in a client device is detected. In response to the detecting of the power loss, an electronic card is alerted that the power loss is about to occur, where the electronic card includes a volatile storage and a non-volatile storage. A transfer of data from the volatile storage to the non-volatile storage is triggered in response to the alert.
US10402273B2
The disclosed technology is generally directed to IoT device update failure recovery. In one example of the technology, after writing an updated release to memory, a determination is made whether the updated release is valid. The updated release includes a plurality of image binaries. If the updated release is determined to be valid, the updated release is made the current release. A determination is made as to whether the current release is stable. Upon determining that the current release is unstable, an auto-rollback is performed. Performing the auto-rollback includes, via at least one processor, automatically: obtaining an uncompressed backup of a previous release; making the uncompressed backup of the previous release the current release; and executing the uncompressed backup.
US10402268B2
A method begins with a computing device receiving a request to acquire digital content from a digital content provider and forwarding the request to a dispersed storage network (DSN) pre-paid module. The method continues with the DSN pre-paid module validating the request, generating a plurality of sets of at least a threshold number of digital content read requests, and sending the plurality of sets of the at least a threshold number of digital content read requests to the digital content provider via the computing device when the request to acquire the digital content is validated. The method continues with at least one of the DSN pre-paid module and the computing device receiving a plurality of sets of at least a decoded threshold number of encoded data slices and decoding the plurality of sets of the at least a decoded threshold number of encoded data slices to produce the digital content.
US10402267B2
A memory system may include: a memory device including a plurality of memory blocks each having a plurality of sub memory blocks; and a controller suitable for performing an error correction operation to the memory blocks during a read operation to the memory blocks, updating a characteristic list for the memory blocks at each error correction operation to the memory blocks, classifying the memory blocks and the sub memory blocks according to the updated values in the characteristic list, and performing a program operation to the memory blocks according to the classification.
US10402263B2
A method for handling load faults in an out-of-order processor is described. The method includes detecting, by a memory ordering buffer of the out-of-order processor, a load fault corresponding to a load instruction that was executed out-of-order by the out-of-order processor; determining, by the memory ordering buffer, whether instant reclamation is available for resolving the load fault of the load instruction; and performing, in response to determining that instant reclamation is available for resolving the load fault of the load instruction, instant reclamation to re-fetch the load instruction for execution prior to attempting to retire the load instruction.
US10402262B1
A method, computer program product, and computer system for receiving, at a computing device, an I/O request directed to a compressed data portion of a file system. A field associated with the compressed data portion may be determined to be invalid. An error may be generated in response to determining that the field associated with the compressed data portion is invalid. The file system may be maintained in an online status while the compressed data portion is invalid.
US10402259B2
The embodiments described herein provide systems and methods for recovering resources in processing devices. Specifically, the embodiments described herein provide techniques for recovering leaked resources allocated to hardware engines in a hardware processing core. As one example, the recovery of resources allocated to hardware engines can be facilitated by making a specified register available to monitoring software. When leaked or otherwise stuck resources are identified, the monitoring software can set the register to trigger the recovery of those resources. This recovery of resources can be then performed by stopping the execution of processes in the hardware engines, invalidating the resources previously allocated to the hardware engines, initializing the resources, and starting the handling of new processes in the hardware engines. This process effectively recovers those resources, and allows those hardware engines to quickly resume operations.
US10402257B2
A problem with a computing system is detected, a root cause is identified and a solution is also identified. Diagnostic data is obtained and an issue signature is generated that maps the issue to failed components and product functionality.
US10402251B2
The present application relates to a direct memory access, DMA, controller for a data processing system and a method of operating the DMA controller is provided. The DMA controller comprises a transfer table, a data path processing block and a comparator logic block. The table comprises at least one transfer descriptor comprising information about a source and destination of a DMA transfer. The data path processing block is provided to be coupled to a system interconnect of the data processing system and configured to receive data from the source of the DMA transfer and to transfer the received data to the destination of the DMA transfer. The comparator logic block is configured to validate the value of the received data against a predefined value range for range checking and to initiate one or more failed range check actions in response to a failed range checking.
US10402249B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for classifying a failure. The method comprises obtaining a log associated with a failure and identifying a key event in the log, and the key event indicates a predetermined situation. The method further comprises determining a similarity between the failure and each of a set of historical failures based on the key event, and the set of historical failures have been classified into at least one category. The method further comprises classifying the failure based at least partly on the similarity. Embodiments of the present disclosure enable classifying the failure fast and accurately by determining the similarity associated with key event between failures.
US10402244B2
A system for identifying abnormal resource usage in a data center is provided. In some embodiments, the system employs a prediction model for each of a plurality of resources and an abnormal resource usage criterion. For each of a plurality of resources of the data center, the system retrieves current resource usage data for a current time and past resource usage data for that resource. The system then extracts features from the past resource usage data for that resource, predicts using the prediction model for that resource usage data for the current time based on the extracted features, and determines an error between the predicted resource usage data and the current resource usage data. After determining the error data for the resources, the system determines whether errors satisfy the abnormal resource usage criterion. If so, the system indicates that an abnormal resource usage has occurred.
US10402239B2
A method of hosting a first application (e.g., a virtual application) inside a second application (e.g., a control displayed by a web browser). The method includes executing the first application inside a runtime environment generated at least in part by a runtime engine. The executing first application calls user interface functions that when executed inside the runtime environment generate a first user interface. The runtime engine captures these calls, generates messages comprising information associated with the captured calls, and forwards the messages to a user interface manager that is a separate application from the runtime engine. The user interface manager receives the messages, translates the information associated with the captured calls into instructions for the second application, and sends the instructions to the second application. The control receives the instructions sent by the user interface manager, and displays a second user interface for the first application based on the instructions.
US10402235B2
A computer-implemented method and computer processing system are provided. The method includes synchronizing, by a processor, respective ones of a plurality of data parallel workers with respect to an iterative distributed machine learning process. The synchronizing step includes individually continuing, by the respective ones of the plurality of data parallel workers, from a current iteration to a subsequent iteration of the iterative distributed machine learning process, responsive to a satisfaction of a predetermined condition thereby. The predetermined condition includes individually sending a per-receiver notification from each sending one of the plurality of data parallel workers to each receiving one of the plurality of data parallel workers, responsive to a sending of data there between. The predetermined condition further includes individually sending a per-receiver acknowledgement from the receiving one to the sending one, responsive to a consumption of the data thereby.
US10402231B2
Systems and methods are described for adjusting a number of concurrent code executions allowed to be performed for a given user on an on-demand code execution environment or other distributed code execution environments. Such environments utilize pre-initialized virtual machine instances to enable execution of user-specified code in a rapid manner, without delays typically caused by initialization of the virtual machine instances. However, to improve utilization of computing resources, such environments may temporarily restrict the number of concurrent code executions performed on behalf of the given user to a number less than the maximum number of concurrent code executions allowed for the given user. Such environments may adjust the temporary restriction on the number of concurrent code executions based on the number of incoming code execution requests associated with the given user.
US10402230B2
Methods and systems for performing the methods are disclosed. The methods include splitting a large execution load/execution component link generation job, into a number of smaller execution load/execution component link generation jobs, and conditionally subsplitting one or more of the smaller execution load/execution component link generation jobs. The methods also include solving each of the smaller execution load/execution component link generation jobs to generate links between data packets corresponding with execution loads of each smaller execution load/execution component link generation job and data packets corresponding with execution components of each smaller execution load/execution component link generation job.
US10402229B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving a request to execute a custom process over a target system, the custom process including one or more operations, determining, for each operation of the custom process, a set of entities implicated by a respective operation based on an operations graph of the custom process, and relations paths of the respective operation, determining, for each set of entities, a sub-set of entities based on one or more constraints of the respective operation, providing, for each operation of the custom process, an operation process that is to be executed over one or more entities of a respective sub-set of entities, combining operation processes into a single custom process, and initiating execution of the single custom process.
US10402218B2
A processor may include a register to store a bus-lock-disable bit and an execution unit to execute instructions. The execution unit may receive an instruction that includes a memory access request. The execution may further determine that the memory access request requires acquiring a bus lock, and, responsive to detecting that the bus-lock-disable bit indicates that bus locks are disabled, signal a fault to an operating system.
US10402216B1
The present disclosure relates to live support integration in a virtual machine based development environment. According to one embodiment, a method generally includes obtaining, by a virtual machine in the virtual machine based development environment, a token from a secure location. In some embodiments, upon determining, that the token is authentic, the virtual machine determines system configuration information relating to the virtual machine. In certain embodiments, the virtual machine establishes a communication channel with a remote support device using the token. The establishing may comprise transmitting, by the virtual machine, the system configuration information to the remote support device and enabling two-way communication between the virtual machine and the remote support device.
US10402213B2
Techniques are provided for identifying and removing one or more layers of a software appliance. Layers may be identified and removed quickly and efficiently, without disrupting the distribution or provisioning of the software appliance, and without disrupting desired operations of the software appliance as a whole. In various implementations, it may be necessary or desirable to re-package the same or modified layer(s) within the software appliance at a later point in the distribution cycle of the software appliance. For example, one or more operating system layers may be identified and removed from a software appliance. Then, when the software appliance is distributed and provisioned in a cloud or other network context, a same or different version of the operating system layer(s) may be utilized in re-packaging the software appliance for one or more customers.
US10402212B2
A method is provided for making available an assistance suggestion for a user of a motor vehicle. The method determines information on the availability of helpers and displays the available helpers based on that information. After selecting a helper by the user, the method sets up a communication link between the user and the selected helper, makes available assistance information to the selected helper, and receives an assistance suggestion which is based on the assistance information made available.
US10402207B2
A system for chassis management includes a plurality of motherboards of a chassis, a plurality of baseboard management controllers (BMCs), and at least one chassis level component. Each of the plurality of BMCs is associated with one of the plurality of motherboards. The plurality of BMCs are interconnected via a first communication bus. The plurality of BMCs and the at least one chassis level component are interconnected via a second communication bus. One BMC of the plurality of BMCs is configured to operate as a virtual chassis management controller (VCMC) for the chassis. The VCMC is configured to exchange data with other BMCs of the plurality of BMCs over the first communication bus and manage the at least one chassis level component over the second communication bus.
US10402196B2
A logic circuit in a processor including a plurality of input registers, each for storing a vector containing data elements, a coefficient register for storing a vector containing N coefficients, an output register for storing a result vector, and an arithmetic unit configured to: obtain a pattern for selecting N data elements from the plurality of input registers, select a plurality of groups of N data elements from the plurality of input registers in parallel, wherein each group is selected in accordance with the pattern, and wherein each group is shifted with respect to a previous selected group, perform an arithmetic operation between each of the selected groups and the coefficients in parallel, and store results of the arithmetic operations in the output register.
US10402190B2
The invention relates to a method for authorized updating of first operating software of a field device which is used in an automation technology installation, wherein an authentication test of second operating software for the field device is performed, which second operating software is signed by means of a first private key associated with the installation, wherein, within the scope of the authentication test, the signature, generated by the first private key, of the second operating software is authenticated by means of a first public key associated with the installation, and wherein, in the event that the authentication test has been performed successfully, the first operating software located on the field device is at least partially replaced by the second operating software.
US10402180B2
The present disclosure is directed to a technique to reduce latency in feedback-based system performance determination. A system receives, from an application developer device, indications of an in-application event and a first input value for an application content delivery profile. The system receives, via an interface from an application developed by an application developer and executed by a computing device remote from the data processing system and different from the application developer device, a ping indicative of an occurrence of the in-application event on the computing device. The system merges data from the ping with internal data determined by the data processing system to generate merged data. The system determines a predicted performance for the in-application event and provides an indication of the predicted performance. The system configures, responsive to the indication of the predicted performance, the application content delivery profile with a second input value.
US10402174B2
Disclosed are examples of systems, apparatus, methods and computer program products for overriding component attributes in a web application builder. A database system maintains a multi-tenant database associated with a number of users and a number of web application components each with one or more component attributes. The system displays a user interface for the web application builder framework with a layout including a number of web application components, and processes decorator rules for rendering the components. The system also processes decorator override rules for some attributes of the components. The system displays the prepared user interface with decorator rules and overrides, and, based on a user request to access one or more attributes of the components, presents those attributes for display with the decorator override rules applied.
US10402171B1
Implementations of data compilers may include: a physical device including a physical parameter, the physical parameter including at least three states. The data compiler may also include a data stream generated from the physical parameter. The data stream may include a plurality of bits. Each bit may be coded with one of a 0, a 1, and an X; the 0, the 1, and the X may correspond with one of the at least three states of the physical parameter, respectively. The data compiler may also include an exclusive OR (XOR) data processor. The XOR processor may be configured to randomize the at least three states of the data stream and output a randomized output data stream.
US10402167B2
A binary logic circuit for approximating a mathematical function over a predefined range as a series of linear segments, each linear segment having one of a predetermined set of fixed gradients and a corresponding base value, the binary logic circuit comprising: an input for receiving an input variable in the predefined range; a plurality of logic chains each comprising: a binary multiplier adapted to perform multiplication by a respective one of the set of fixed gradients using h−1 binary adders, where h is the extended Hamming weight; and a binary adder adapted to add a base value to the input or output of the binary multiplier; and selection logic configured to select one of the logic chains in dependence on the input variable so as to provide, for the received input variable, an approximate value of the mathematical function.
US10402164B1
In one embodiment, a data recovery system sorts data elements of a data array by representation. The data recovery system allocates a representation array corresponding to a position of a corresponding data array element after sorting. A scan module of the data recovery system assigns index values to the representation elements of the representation array based on the values of the data elements of the data array without moving the data elements of the data array. A sort module of the data recovery system swaps the data elements of the data array based on the index values of the representation elements of the representation array corresponding to the data elements. The sort module swaps representation elements of the representation array corresponding to the swapped data elements of the data array.
US10402153B2
Creation and control of channels that provide access to content from various audio-provider services
Example implementations may relate to creation and control of channels. In particular, a computing device may receive a first channel-addition request indicating content from a first audio-provider service and may responsively send to a server an instruction to establish a first channel that provides access to content from the first audio-provider service via an application-program account. With this arrangement, a subsequent second channel-addition request may then similarly lead to establishment of a second channel that provides access to content from the second audio-provider service via the application-program account. After channel-additions, the device may determine a first selection of the added first channel and may responsively cause content from the first audio-provider service to be output by an audio output device. Then, the device may determine a second selection of the added second channel and responsively cause content from the second audio-provider service to be output by the audio output device.
US10402152B2
The present invention enables a user to share his/her listening experience selectively with others without sharing headphones and without disturbing others who do not want to listen. In a preferred embodiment, a first listener can accomplish this by storing in a Portable Electronic Device or similar device a library of listening experiences, listening to one of the listening experiences, and while listening to that one listening experience streaming the one listening experience to at least one other Portable Electronic Device or similar device. A second listener at the other Portable Electronic Device can then listen to the same listening experience as the first listener at the same time. It is expected that the listening experiences will typically be songs or other music but the invention may be practiced with any type of audio content. The first listener may also create a playlist of the listening experiences in the library and make the playlist available to others. Others may use the playlist to access the library and listen to one or more listening experiences stored in the library. Also, utilizing the same interface and communication methodologies as described above, the technology platform detailed in this application can be used for commercial purposes to stream location based content, audio and otherwise, to a connected network of Portable Electronic Devices. Commercial uses of this functionality include providing commercial establishments with the ability to create synchronous (users come into a stream at the exact point that it is being streamed in real time) and or asynchronous (users can select and start a transmission from the beginning) featured channels (location based) where they can stream any self created or otherwise authorized content to other Portable Electronic Devices in their range.
US10402149B2
An electronic device includes one or more sensors having at least an audio sensor and one or more processors. The one or more sensors detect multiple persons within an environment about the electronic device and identify at least one person as an authorized user of the electronic device. The audio sensor receives audio input from the environment, and the one or more processors filter the audio input into authorized user generated audio input and other audio input, record audio signals representing the authorized user generated audio input, and preclude the recording of other audio signals representing to the other audio input.
US10402146B2
A mobile terminal includes: a display unit configured to display information; a short-range communication module configured to transmit information on a screen of the display unit to a display device in order to perform a screen mirroring function; and a control unit configured to control the display unit and the short-range communication module, wherein the control unit controls the screen mirroring function based on a type of a screen that the mobile terminal displays.
US10402137B1
An image forming apparatus and a control method of an image forming apparatus having high convenience are provided. The image forming apparatus includes an image transfer system and a processor. The image transfer system is configured to be switchable between a first position, where printing is performed in a first mode, and a second position, where printing is performed in a second mode. The processor, when executing a print job by switching a position of the image transfer system to a position set in advance as a home position at a waiting time for printing, switches the position of the image transfer system to a position corresponding to the print job and sets the home position based on a result of comparison between a print history in a first mode and a print history in a second mode.
US10402136B2
A printing system includes a terminal apparatus and a printing apparatus. The terminal apparatus includes: a first inputting section; and a processor configured to: transmit a print request for printing an object image indicated by object data to the printing apparatus; receive first input authentication information inputted by a user; and transmit the first input authentication information to the printing apparatus. The printing apparatus includes: a second inputting section; a printing section; a processor configured to: receive the print request; store the object data and associated authentication information included in the print request while associating with each other in a first memory; receive the first input authentication information; determine whether the first input authentication information matches the associated authentication information; receive input of second input authentication information from the user; and determine whether the second input authentication information matches the associated authentication information.
US10402132B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a management system comprises a first information generation section, a second information generation section, a storage section and a determination section. The first information generation section generates first information indicating that a processing of forming an image on a sheet is executed at the time information instructing formation of the image is input. The second information generation section generates second information indicating that a processing of decolorizing the image formed on the sheet is executed at the time information instructing a processing of decolorizing the image is input. The storage section stores the first information and the second information. The determination section determines whether or not the processing of decolorizing the image formed on the sheet is executed on the sheet by a predetermined time point preset in the management system based on the first information and the second information.
US10402126B1
According to one embodiment, a method for configuring a print job in a print shop workflow can comprise defining, by a print job processing system of the print shop, one or more available print configurations for the print shop and one or more recommendation rules for applying the available print configurations. A file for a print job submitted to the print shop can be received and evaluated based on the defined one or more available print configurations and the defined one or more rules. One or more recommendations for configuring the submitted print job can be generated based on the evaluating of the received file. The submitted print job can be processed according to one of the generated recommendations and the print shop workflow.
US10402123B2
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for sharing alias addresses among logical devices for a control unit managing access by hosts to logical devices configured with capacity from attached physical devices. An alias management group of logical devices and alias addresses assigned to the logical devices is configured. A plurality of requests to establish an association of the host with a logical device and the alias addresses assigned to the logical devices in the alias management group are received from a host. Acknowledgment is made to the host that the association is established in response to determining that the host is assigned the logical devices and alias addresses of the logical devices in the alias management group. The host can use one available alias address assigned to any one of the logical devices to access any one of the logical devices indicated in the association.
US10402105B2
Systems and methods for replicating data from a first site to a second site remote from said first site are described. An embodiment includes storing compressed data on a hard disk appliance, reading said data without decompressing said data, sending said data over a wide-area-network (WAN) in a compressed state, and storing said data on a second hard disk appliance remote from said first hard disk appliance in its compressed state without performing an additional compression operation.
US10402104B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus for a data storage device, an adapter, an array controller, a data storage device, and a relevant method. The apparatus for the data storage device comprises: a power management module configured to detect power-off of a power supply and to switch to a backup battery unit in the data storage device in response to detecting the power supply. The apparatus is configured to cause the backup battery unit to supply power only to the volatile memory in the data storage device. By using a solution according to the present disclosure, for example, preserving time for data may be prolonged in the case of power-off.
US10402095B1
The system, devices, and methods disclosed herein relate to online data expansion in disaster recovery enabled data storage systems. We disclose embodiments that allow storage devices, which are coupled to one another in a disaster recovery, data replication-type scenario, to perform storage expansion in most cases without having to disable remote replication during the expansion. The teachings of this patent application facilitate methods of expansion for data storage device pairings where the data storage devices are the same size or where the primary storage device is smaller than the secondary storage device. In both of these situations, expansion occurs without disabling disaster recovery. In the situation where the secondary storage device is larger than the primary device, expansion is allowed, with the caveat that disaster recovery must be disabled briefly. Moreover, in situations where remote replication is lost or disabled, it is possible to expand a primary or secondary storage device independently, and then to enable expansion of whichever device was not expanded once remote replication is reactivated.
US10402091B1
A first cache stores descriptors of very hot (i.e., recently-written) segments, while an overflow second cache stores descriptors of less-hot segments (i.e., those updated somewhat recently but not updated again in some time). When this second cache becomes full, the information contained within the second cache may be converted into a set of index structures that identifies the LESS-hot segments. These index structures may either be stored in a space-efficient manner or they may be stored in persistent storage rather than in memory. These index structures may build up over time. The oldest of these index structures represent the segments which have been updated the least recently, and are therefore the coldest. In some examples, a garbage collection process may be run first on the segments that are identified by the coldest index structures. The index structures can be further arranged into utilization ranges, so that low utilization segments may be further prioritized for garbage collection.
US10402079B2
A novel approach to displaying content on user devices may include initializing a gesture-to-refresh functionality with a view of a page of a non-native application running on a client device. The non-native application can be platform-independent. Each page of the non-native application can have its own gesture-to-refresh functionality. User gesture events such as touch or mouse events relative to the view presented on a display of the client device are continuously monitored by the gesture-to-refresh functionality which detects and tracks the view when dragged by a dragging gesture from a first position to a second position on the display. The view is refreshed when the second position of the view reaches or exceeds a predetermined threshold. The view is allowed to return to the first position upon release of the dragging gesture when the second position of the view is less than the predetermined threshold.
US10402078B2
First content displayed on screen may be translated by the user, for example by dragging. Second content may then be displayed in the area of the screen that is exposed by the translation of the first content. In some embodiments there is a conceptual link between the first and second content, for example the second content may be metadata relating to the first content. In effect, a multi-layered user interface is provided. The translation may be performed in response to a special user input, for example a multi-touch drag.
US10402075B2
Systems and methods for data visualization are disclosed. An example method includes: detecting a first movement of a first User Interface (UI) element on a slider bar; determining that the first UI element is located within an active portion of the slider bar. The active portion comprises at least a sub-portion of the slider bar. The method also includes, determining that a second UI element is located within the active portion of the slider bar; determining a relative position of the first UI element to the second UI element; and assigning transaction priorities to a first entity identified by the first UI element and to a second entity identified by the second UI element based on the relative position. The method optionally includes causing a transaction involving the first entity and the second entity to be executed based on the transaction priorities.
US10402073B2
An electronic device displays a user interface of a first software application that includes one or more draggable objects and one or more control objects; and, detects a contact on a touch-sensitive surface at a first location while a focus selector is displayed over a first draggable object and a movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface to a second location that corresponds to a first control object. In accordance with a determination that the contact at the first location satisfies object selection criteria, the device moves the first draggable object to the first control object in accordance with the movement of the contact across the touch-sensitive surface to the first control object. In accordance with a determination that the contact at the second location satisfies first intensity criteria, the device performs a first predetermined operation that corresponds to activation of the first control object.
US10402071B1
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to a technique for generating simultaneous zoom in windows on a touch sensitive device. A first portion of the user content is zooming into by touching the display screen in a proximity of the first portion using the touch input device while retaining an original zoom size of a first remaining portion of the user content. A second portion of the user content from the first remaining portion is zoomed into by touching the display screen in a proximity of the second portion using the touch input device while retaining a zoomed in first portion and an original zoom size of a second remaining portion of the of the first remaining portion, the original zoom size of the first and the second remaining portions being the same.
US10402068B1
Features are disclosed for dynamically generating a navigation interface for rendering content related to an item. To generate the interface, the system analyzes the content available and organizes the content in an intuitive way that keeps the user oriented as they explore the product. Some aspects also consider the access device rendering the interface to ensure the interface includes content that is appropriately selected and formatted for presentation via the access device.
US10402062B2
Some embodiments of the invention provide a GUI for a media editing application that provides visual cues (e.g., colors and/or lane sets) for media clips that are assigned different tags (or roles) in a media presentation. The GUI of the media application of some embodiments displays media clips of a composite media presentation, in which at least some of the media clips are associated with tags. The GUI also provides GUI controls for associating media clips associated with different tags with different colors and for displaying the media clips based on the clips' associated color. In some embodiments, the GUI includes a tool for arranging clips into groups based on assigned tags. The tool of some embodiments, upon selection, defines a set of lanes for each tag and displays any anchored clip that is associated with a tag in the set of lanes associated with the tag.
US10402061B2
An assisted content authoring productivity tool can provide a set of content related to at least one topic determined from a user's expression of intent. The content can include topics that are not obviously related to the user's topic, but identified from indirect cluster connections found in a graph model of information such as, but not limited to, an online encyclopedia like Wikipedia. A document can be populated with topic anchors so a user can return to or have generated a set of content related to a particular topic. The topic anchor can include a graphical user interface including a topic exploration object that, when selected, initiates a command to request information related to that topic.
US10402058B2
The present disclosure provides a message display method and a terminal device. The terminal device obtains message sources published on a social platform; classifies the message sources into read messages and unread messages according to states of the message sources; provides a user interface associated with the social platform, the user interface including a first tab and a second tab for indicating the states of the message sources; respectively associates the unread messages with the first tab, and the read messages with the second tab; receives a message source refresh request from the user interface; and in response to the message source refresh request, displays the unread messages under the first tab of the user interface.
US10402050B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display and a processor configured to control to display of the display one or more first objects related to a selected item if the item is selected by a first gesture from among one or more items displayed on the display, and control to display on the display one or more second objects for performing a function of a selected first object if the first object is selected by a second gesture continuing from the first gesture from among the one or more first objects.
US10402048B1
System and method for preventing undesirable smart device communications. A system includes memory for storing a list of contacts, the memory integrated into a smart device; and a locking application configured to permit a user to select and lock one or more contacts included within said list of contacts such that the user is unable to communicate with the selected one or more contacts via said smart device. The locking application may be further configured to permit a user to select a pre-established time period during which the one or more selected contacts remain locked. Challenges may be presented to the user to unlock the contacts in advance of the lockout time expiring. Optional features include GPS tracking, rewards, ride and networking modules.
US10402046B2
Desired content may be selected from a content server and added to a wishlist or a shopping list. If the desired content is added to a wishlist, a receiving device other than the device from which the selection(s) were received may be identified or selected. The receiving device may be identified based on capabilities of the receiving device (e.g., ability to play music or video). A sample of the desired content may be selected, generated and/or customized based on the capabilities (e.g., resolution, storage capacity) of the receiving device. The sample may then be transmitted to the receiving device at a predefined time or once specified conditions have been met. Content added to a shopping list may be purchased by a user and downloaded to a selected device. The selected device may be the device on which the content was selected or an alternate device.
US10402045B2
A computer device has a display and a user interface which receives user input. A processor receives data representing the user input. The processor controls the display to transition from displaying a first image to displaying a second image. When there is no longer a user input and the transition has not been completed, the processor determines which of the first and second images is to be displayed.
US10402038B2
Generally discussed herein are techniques, software, apparatuses, and systems configured for managing a navigation stack of an application including multiple primary user interfaces (UIs). In one or more embodiments, a method can include providing data to multiple primary UIs that causes each of the multiple primary UIs to present a view of a plurality of views of an application state of the software application, receiving data indicating the application state of the application has changed, and pushing a workflow activity of the application onto a navigation stack, wherein each workflow activity includes data corresponding to a configuration of a view model module and a list of views associated with the configuration, the view model module provides the data that causes the plurality of views to be presented on the multiple primary UIs in response to the configuration being loaded on in the view model module.
US10402037B1
Approaches are described for determining and displaying recommended content on a lock screen of a computing device. For example, a lock screen can include recommended content that can display user-specific offers and/or other information determined to be relevant to the user. One of a full-screen template, a banner template, or a notification template include the recommended content. The recommended content can include selectable elements that, when selected, can cause the computing device to perform an action such as launching an application, providing additional displays, etc. Using display information, the computing device can determine a display schedule, whereby the display schedule can be used to set a frequency at which the recommended content is displayed, a time at which the recommended content is displayed, the type of template used to express the recommended content, placement of the recommended content on a display screen, among other such display options.
US10402028B2
A transparent conductive film includes a transparent insulating substrate, a first electrode, and a second electrode, in which a first thin metal wire 38 of the first electrode has a first front surface 38A being directed to the viewing side and having a line width W1A, and a first back surface 38B being directed to the side opposite to the viewing side and having a line width W1B, a second thin metal wire 39 of the second electrode has a second front surface 39A being directed to the viewing side and having a line width W2A, and a second back surface 39B being directed to the side opposite to the viewing side and having a line width W2B, the W1A, W1B, W2A, and W2B are 0.5 to 10 μm, W1A is larger than W1B and W2A is larger than W2B.
US10402027B2
Transmitter axis projection for capacitive sensing is disclosed. Transmitter axis projection includes having processing system. The processing system includes sensor circuitry configured to be coupled to transmitter electrodes and receiver electrodes. The sensor circuitry is configured to drive the transmitter electrodes with first transmitter signals and receive first resulting signals from the receiver electrodes, and drive only a first subset of the receiver electrodes with second transmitter signals and receive second resulting signals with the transmitter electrodes. The processing system further includes processing circuitry connected to the sensor circuitry and configured to partition the receiver electrodes into the first subset of receiver electrodes and a second subset of receiver electrodes, and generate a transmitter axis projection from the second resulting signals.
US10402023B2
Provided is a technique which enables the avoidance of a temporal damage to a panel module, and keeps a voltage load on a display panel circuit node from becoming excessively large even if a constant voltage is applied to the node for a longer time exceeding a display drive term in a non-display drive term, provided that a display frame period is divided to have display and non-display drive terms. In performing display and touch-sensing actions on condition that a display frame period is divided to include display and non-display drive terms, an operation source voltage supplied to a panel module during the non-display term where touch sensing is performed is smaller, in absolute value, than that supplied in the display term, whereby a voltage load applied to an input circuit node of a panel module for a longer time exceeding the display term is kept from being excessively large.
US10402019B2
Provided is a display device that includes a display panel defined with an active area displaying an image and an inactive area outside the active area, the display panel including a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; a plurality of pixels on the first surface of the substrate in the active area, each pixel including a pixel drive circuit; a transparent conductive layer on the second surface of the substrate covering the active area and a part of the inactive area; and a metal pattern on the second surface of the substrate in the inactive area, the metal pattern electrically connected to the transparent conductive layer, receiving an electrical signal and having a lower resistance than the transparent conductive layer, wherein the metal pattern serves as a conductive path to reduce a potential difference with respect to the electrical signal in an entire area of the transparent conductive layer compared to a display device without the metal pattern.
US10402011B2
A touch screen display device includes: an image corrector for converting first image data for displaying on pixels to second image data for displaying on the pixels, and for generating a lookup table based on the conversion; and a processor for correcting second touch positions based on the second image data to first touch positions based on the first image data using the lookup table. A method of driving a touch screen display device includes converting first image data for displaying on pixels to second image data for displaying on the pixels, generating a lookup table based on the conversion, and correcting second touch positions based on the second image data to first touch positions based on the first image data by using the lookup table.
US10402009B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for decreasing latency between an acquisition of touch data and processing of an associated rendering task in a touch sensitive device having a touch sensing system capable of producing touch data at a touch sampling rate and having a display system that displays frames at a refresh rate. In an embodiment, the system estimates at least one of (a) a period of time for sampling touch data from the touch sensing system, (b) a period of time for computing touch event data from sampled touch data, and (c) a period of time for rendering of a frame to a frame buffer. The system determines a period of time Tc for (a) sampling touch data from the touch sensing system, (b) computing touch event data from sampled touch data, and (c) rendering of a frame to a frame buffer, based at least in part on the estimate. The system determines a point in time Tr at which the display system will be refreshed from the frame buffer. A sampling start time is computed based at least in part upon Tr and Tc. Sampling of the touch sensing system is initiated to obtain sampled touch data at the sampling start time. Touch event data is computed from the sampled touch data, and a frame that reflects the touch event data is rendered to the frame buffer prior to the time Tr. The display is then refreshed from the frame buffer.
US10401997B2
A touch display device includes a substrate, an insulating layer, light emitting units and a touch layer. The light emitting units are disposed in a display region of the substrate. The insulating layer is disposed on the light emitting units. The touch layer is disposed on the insulating layer, and the touch layer includes mesh units, a first connecting wire and a first anti-static electricity connecting part. Each mesh unit has a mesh opening, and the light emitting units are disposed in the mesh openings. The first connecting wire is disposed in a peripheral region of the substrate, and the first anti-static electricity connecting part is disposed between a first portion of the mesh units and the first connecting wire. The first connecting wire is electrically connected to the first portion of the mesh units through the first anti-static electricity connecting part.
US10401994B2
In various embodiments, electronic devices such as thin-film transistors and/or touch-panel displays incorporate bilayer capping layers and/or barrier layers.
US10401990B2
A pressure sensing input equipment includes a substrate, a first surface and a second surface, an electrode layer, and a pressure sensing chip. The first surface and the second surface are disposed oppositely. The first surface includes a pressure sensing region and a non-pressure sensing region, in which the area of the non-pressure sensing region is complementary to the area of the pressure sensing region. The electrode layer includes a plurality of pressure sensing electrodes disposed in the pressure sensing region to detect pressure magnitude. The pressure sensing electrodes include a first end part and a second end part. The pressure sensing chip is electrically connected to the pressure sensing electrodes, and the pressure sensing chip determines pressure magnitude by detecting the resistance variation after the pressure sensing electrode was pressured. Such design can achieve double functions that detect touch position and pressure magnitude of the pressure sensing input equipment.
US10401985B2
An active stylus includes a signal processing section. The signal processing section during operation in a first mode, while supplying a downlink signal DS1, obtained by modulating a pulse train signal with a pen pressure level P, to an electrode, determines whether it is necessary to switch to a second mode. The signal processing section during operation in the second mode, while supplying a downlink signal DS2, obtained by modulating a sine wave signal with the pen pressure level P, to the electrode, determines whether it is necessary to switch to the first mode. The signal processing section switches to operation in the second mode when determining that such is necessary, and switches to operation in the first mode when determining that such is necessary. The active stylus may be used with two position detection devices, one supporting only the first method and the other supporting only the second method.
US10401982B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including at least one receiving hole exposed to an outside, a magnet disposed inside the housing and adjacent to the at least one receiving hole, an input module configured to be insertable into the at least one receiving hole and including a ferrite core configured to block or redirect part of a magnetic field generated from the magnet, a sensor unit disposed inside the housing and configured to sense the magnetic field generated from the magnet, and a controller configured to sense whether the input module is inserted into the at least one receiving hole by a signal according to a strength of the magnetic field sensed by the sensor unit.
US10401980B2
A mouse device with a button feedback mechanism is provided. The mouse device includes a mouse body and a button module. The mouse body includes an upper case, a lower case and a hollow cylinder. The button module includes a button, an elastic element, an attracting element and a suspension arm. The elastic element is disposed within the hollow cylinder and located under the pressing part. The button is contacted with the elastic element. The attracting element is installed on the upper case. The suspension arm includes a connection segment and a free segment. The connection segment is penetrated through the hollow cylinder and connected with the elastic element. The free segment is located under the attracting element. Consequently, the mouse device provides the sound feedback and the touch feedback.
US10401957B2
Present disclosure relates to a system for providing a simulated environment and a method thereof. The system comprises a first wearable device and a computing unit. The first wearable device is configured to output a first scenario of the simulated environment, wherein a virtual object is being displayed in the first scenario. The first wearable device is further configured to track a first direction of a first object and provide a first indicator in the first scenario according to the first direction. The computing unit is configured to determine which portion of the virtual object is pointed by the first indicator, to store first information corresponding to the portion of the virtual object being pointed, and to perform an operation according to the first information.
US10401951B2
A method to transition focus of a display corresponding to an object's motion tracked by a video camera or like device is disclosed. In one implementation, the display shows one or more windows or user interfaces on the display. The object's motion can be used to select one of the windows or user interfaces on the display and manipulate content presented in the window or user interface. In another implementations, the object's motion can manipulate a three-dimensional graphical icon in a three-dimensional display environment, for example, by rotating it. In another implementation, the method further tracks motion of a second object and shifts focus of the display corresponding to the motion of the second object. In another implementation, a second display may be added to mirror the focus transition corresponding to the object's motion.
US10401948B2
An information processing apparatus includes processing circuitry that is configured to issue a control command relating to a real object based on a displayed positional relationship between the real object and a predetermined object. The real object being a tangible, movable object and the predetermined object being at least one of another real object and a virtual object.
US10401938B1
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for reaching power targets across different clock domains are described. In various embodiments, a first processor complex and a second processor complex operate while powered by a same, single power plane, but with respective clock domains. When a request is detected to change an operating mode of a particular core from one of the processor complexes to an operating mode which does not provide the worst-case power supply load on the single power plane, an amount of voltage margin to recover from the operational voltage is determined based on the second operating mode prior to granting the request and based on each other core in the complexes operating in respective current operating modes. An operational voltage less the determined voltage margin to recover is assigned to the processor complexes while different clock frequencies are assigned to the processor complexes.
US10401933B2
An apparatus comprising a receiver configured to receive a plurality of power measurements from a plurality of power sensors, and a processor coupled to the receiver and configured to determine an amount of power used by a processing element in a data center by determining a summation of the plurality of power measurements, determine a data to Watt ratio that indicates an amount of data that may be processed by the processing element per unit of power used, determine an estimated execution time for processing the amount of data by the processing element, and determine an estimated energy consumption that indicates an amount of energy to be used by the processing element to process the amount of data.
US10401925B2
An electronic apparatus having a cooling device that can reduce size and cost thereof while maintaining sufficient cooling performance of cooling a portable information apparatus is disclosed. The electronic apparatus includes a portable information apparatus and a cooling device. The portable information apparatus includes a heat-dissipation heat sink thermally connected to a heating body. The cooling device includes a cooling unit for absorbing heat from the heating body. The cooling unit includes a heat-receiving heat sink that is thermally connected to a heat-dissipation heat sink when the portable information apparatus is connected to the cooling device, and a radiator that dissipates heat absorbed in the heat-receiving heat sink to outside. The radiator is disposed on an exhaust path from an air outlet of the portable information apparatus while the portable information apparatus is connected to the cooling device.
US10401919B2
According to one embodiment, an electronic device includes a first housing including an antenna for wireless communication, and a second housing including a speaker for audio output configured to be used in a state where the second housing overlaps the first housing. When the antenna and the speaker are seen through from an upper surface side of the first housing, a location of the antenna and a location of the speaker do not relatively overlap each other.
US10401911B2
According to one example, a ceramic housing for an electronic device includes a surface and an elastomer, where the elastomer covers from ten percent to eighty-five percent of a total surface area of the surface.
US10401903B2
A touch panel includes: a base member having a folding axis which extends in a first direction, a folding area including the folding axis, and a non-folding area adjacent to the folding area; a touch cell which senses an external touch signal, and at least a part of which overlaps the folding area; a pad disposed on the base member, and disposed to be spaced apart from the touch cell when viewed in a plane; and a first driving wiring having a first part and a second part, wherein at least the first part extends in a diagonal direction with respect to a direction in which the folding axis extends, and which connects the pad and the touch cell. At least a part which extends in the diagonal direction overlaps the folding area.
US10401902B1
An electronic device including a hollow housing and a display assembly. The hollow housing includes a wall, a circular opening disposed through the wall, and a first attachment mechanism positioned on the housing proximate to the circular opening. The display assembly includes a circular display screen and a display frame coupled to the circular display screen. The display frame is disposed within the circular opening and has a second attachment mechanism disposed proximate a periphery of the display frame to engage the first attachment mechanism and secure the display assembly to the hollow housing.
US10401901B2
Disclosed is a wearable device. The wearable device includes an optical signal transmission unit configured to transmit optical signals, an optical signal sensing unit configured to receive reflected optical signals, a data processing unit configured to process the reflected optical signals, and a coordinate generating unit configured to generate 3-dimensional coordinate from the processed data.
US10401899B2
A register clock driver for a DDR5 memory is presented. A register clock driver (RCD) can include a logic having one or more input channels, each of the one or more input channels receiving input signals; and a plurality of ranked output ports associated with each of the one or more input channels, the logic providing the input signals received on each of the one or more input channels to the associated plurality of ranked output ports according to control signals. The RCD can operate in a default mode, wherein input signals from the input channels are output to both of the output ports associated with that channel, or can operate in a non-default mode where input signals from the input channels are sent to the appropriate ranked output port associated with that channel. In either case, unused signaling on the output ports is held high.
US10401898B2
A signal processing circuit includes a clock generating circuit, a divider circuit, a converter, and an amplifier. The clock generating circuit outputs a first clock. The divider circuit divides the first clock to output a second clock having a frequency lower than a frequency of the first clock. The converter converts an input signal into a digital signal based on a first clock output from the clock generating circuit and a second clock output from the divider circuit. The amplifier, disposed between the clock generating circuit and the divider circuit, has a phase variation property opposite to a phase variation property of the divider circuit. The phase variation property of the divider circuit indicates a relationship between a phase variation amount of an output signal with respect to an input signal in the divider circuit and an ambient temperature of the divider circuit.
US10401897B2
A braking-stopping unit for the defined stopping and braking of a manually operable command issuer for ship's drives includes an external rotor with a circular opening forming a bearing ring and an inner rotor arranged in the opening, which are arranged in a rotationally movable manner relative to each other. One of the two rotor elements is statically fixed in its position and the other rotor element is designed either with a manually operable actuator or constructed so as to be connectable to such an actuator. The inner rotor includes at least three spring arms which are radially arranged in the circumferential direction, wherein said spring arms can be pushed into a respective recess arranged in the outer surface of the inner rotor. The spring arms act in each case radially non-positively on the running surface of the bearing ring via the braking and stopping means.
US10401889B2
A current generator includes an amplifier having a first terminal configured to receive a first voltage, a tunable resistance circuit coupled to an output terminal of the amplifier through a first transistor, a calibration circuit coupled to the tunable resistance circuit, and a second transistor. The second transistor includes a gate terminal coupled to the output terminal of the amplifier and a drain terminal coupled to a load. The calibration circuit is configured to adjust a resistance setting of the tunable resistance circuit.
US10401882B2
An artificial intelligence air conditioner system and a method of controlling an air conditioner system are disclosed. The air conditioner system may include a plurality of air conditioner devices located or installed at a plurality of air conditioner sites in a decentralized fashion. A control setting having at least one of the plurality of air conditioner devices as a control device may be created irrespective of an installation position and a connection state of each air conditioner device, such that the control setting is immediately applied, or application of the control setting is released through simple manipulation, thereby providing an easy and rapid monitoring and controlling operation of the air conditioner system in a remote fashion.
US10401880B2
Embodiments include a modular fuel pump apparatus for an aircraft refueling chassis and related devices, systems and methods. In one exemplary embodiment, a pump module includes a hydraulic motor driven by a hydraulic pump connected to a chassis motor. A chassis engine is operated at a substantially constant RPM, which causes the hydraulic pump to output hydraulic fluid to the pump module at a substantially constant hydraulic pressure. The speed of the hydraulic motor can be varied by a proportional flow control valve disposed between the hydraulic pump and the hydraulic motor, thereby varying the speed of the fuel pump and the flow rate of the fuel. A controller is configured to operate the pressure control valve such that the flow of the fuel is maintained at a predetermined flow rate.
US10401867B2
A method for autonomously controlling a feed mixing vehicle, a vehicle having an autonomous controller, a computer program for carrying out the method, and a control device. The vehicle has a chassis, working elements for carrying out partial tasks, scanners/sensors for transmitting data, and a computer for controlling all the processes. The scanners/sensors acquire spatial data of the surroundings and generate therefrom a 3D map of the current geometry of the surroundings. The current geometry of the surroundings is placed in relationship with an area that is released to be traveled on by the autonomous vehicle, with the result that the navigability of the travel path of the autonomous vehicle is checked, and in the case of detected non-navigability the travel path is adapted autonomously to the requirements of the situational spatial surroundings and is replaced by an alternative travel path.
US10401865B1
A light detection and ranging (LIDAR) device scans through a scanning zone while emitting light pulses and receives reflected signals corresponding to the light pulses. The LIDAR device scans the emitted light pulses through the scanning zone by reflecting the light pulses from an array of oscillating mirrors. The mirrors are operated by a set of electromagnets arranged to apply torque on the mirrors, and an orientation feedback system senses the orientations of the mirrors. Driving parameters for each mirror are determined based on information from the orientation feedback system. The driving parameters can be used to drive the mirrors in phase at an operating frequency despite variations in moments of inertia and resonant frequencies among the mirrors.
US10401843B2
A control system is configured to operate a plant to achieve an optimal value for a performance variable of the plant. The system comprise a feedforward controller configured to receive a measurable disturbance to the plant and generate a feedforward contribution to a control input to the plant using the measurable disturbance. The system also comprises an extremum-seeking controller configured to receive the performance variable from the plant and generate an extremum-seeking contribution to the control input to drive the performance variable to the optimal value. The system further comprises a control input element configured to generate the control input by combining the extremum-seeking contribution and the feedforward contribution and provide the control input to the plant.
US10401834B2
In an example, a method for generating control data for production of a three-dimensional object is described. A model of the three-dimensional object is obtained as a array of voxels, and it is determined for each voxel whether that voxel comprises part of a first or a second sub-object of the three-dimensional object. Each first sub-object voxel is mapped to a volume coverage representation defining print material data for that voxel. The second sub-object voxels are mapped to a volume coverage representation defining common print material data for the voxels of second sub-object. Control data for printing the first sub-object is generated from the print material data for that voxel common print material data for the Control data for printing the second sub-object is generated according to the volume coverage representation for the second sub-object.
US10401831B2
A POS system includes a plurality of electronic device, at least a specified one of which automatically generates and updates a history data at intervals, and an intelligent device installed in the specified electronic device for automatically updating and showing a life percentage information of the specified electronic device according to the history data. The intelligent device includes: a signal transmission module electrically connected to the specified electronic device for receiving the history data therethrough; a processing unit generating a life percentage value according to the history data of the specified electronic device, and issuing a life percentage status signal indicative of the life percentage value; a storage module for storing the history data; and a prompt displaying module visibly disposed for displaying the life percentage information in response to the life percentage status signal.
US10401829B2
A machine learning device that can optimize an equation for estimating a thermal displacement amount of a machine element based on the operating state of the machine element. The device acquires operating state data of the machine element, acquires a measured value for the thermal displacement amount, stores the operating state data and measured values for the thermal displacement amount of the machine element as training data associated together as a label, sets an equation for calculation the thermal displacement amount based on the operating state data, calculates an estimated value for the thermal displacement amount by substituting the operating state data into this equation, determines whether a difference between the estimated value for the thermal displacement amount and the measured value for the thermal displacement amount is no more than a predetermined threshold.
US10401828B2
Disclosed is a method for deducing geometrical defects of an optical article turning machine, including a defect value deducing step, during which at least one geometrical defect value is deduced based at least on an indicative information of an optical and/or geometrical data related to an optical and/or geometrical characteristic of a checking piece (10).
US10401825B2
According to an example, a method for area occupancy information extraction may include receiving a signal from a sensor, and determining a number of occupants moving within a first area based on the signal. The method may further include determining when an occupant is moving and a direction of motion of the occupant based on the signal, and determining a most likely trajectory based on the direction of motion of the occupant. The method may also include controlling, by a processor, a service in the first area based on the determination of the number of occupants, the determination of when the occupant is moving and the direction of motion of the occupant, and/or the determination of the most likely trajectory.
US10401822B2
This start limiting device (1) is provided with a start prohibiting means (11) which prohibits starting a device (2) when movement of said device (2) is detected, and a start prohibition releasing means (14) which releases the prohibition by the start prohibiting means (11) on starting the device (2); when movement of said device (2) is detected, the start prohibiting means (11) prohibits starting the device (2) such that the prohibition on starting the device can be released by the start prohibition releasing means (14). This start limiting device (1) is provided with a command receiving means (12) which receives a prescribed command, and the start prohibition releasing means (14) is configured to release the prohibition on starting the device until it is determined that a prescribed time condition has been satisfied from the time that the command receiving means (12) receives the aforementioned command.
US10401813B2
A system for controlling an electrical drive including the steps of: receiving an input reference value for a first mechanical variable; estimating a second mechanical variable for a predefined time based on a model based on: a first equation for predicting a future state of the drive system a second equation for predicting at least an actual value of the second mechanical variable; and selecting a first future value from development of the second mechanical variable.
US10401812B2
A home automation installation includes several sensors, several pieces of controlled home automation equipment, and a control unit communicating with the sensors and the controlled home automation equipment. To control this installation, it is provided to select a control scenario by the control unit for at least one parameterized sensor from among the sensors, at a current moment belonging to a periodic time range from among one or more time ranges associated with the parameterized sensor, and as a function of at least one current value of the signal coming from the parameterized sensor, then to send, by the control unit to at least one of the pieces of controlled home automation equipment, at least one order depending on the selected control scenario. To parameterize the control unit, a procedure is provided consisting of choosing a sensor to be parameterized from among at least one periodic activation time range and/or at least one periodic inhibition time range and associating at least one control scenario with at least one state or a change of state of the signal from the sensor to be parameterized.
US10401808B2
Fluid data collected while drilling a wellbore in a drilling operation that includes a first well trajectory is received. A first productivity metric for a next section of the wellbore on a continued trajectory of the first well section trajectory is determined, based at least in part on the fluid data. A second well section trajectory for the next section of the wellbore different from the continued trajectory of the first well section trajectory is determined. A second productivity metric for the second well trajectory is determined. The drilling operation is adjusted if the first productivity index differs from the second productivity index by more than a threshold amount.
US10401804B1
CAD modeling method, system, and apparatus provide an on-demand mate controller for controlling settings of mating relationships in a CAD model. The names of mates of a CAD model assembly are auto-populated into an ordered list in the mate controller. The mate controller enables user interactive re-ordering of the listed names. With the mate controller, a user may temporarily unlock a mate, visually position assembly components, and relock the mate resulting in refined mate settings and degrees of freedom of assembly components. The mate controller enables a user to interactively change order of positions of the model assembly which in turn affects order of position changes in motion studies of the model assembly. The mate controller saves per position data of the model assembly including mate values and component degrees of freedom. The saved per position data can be readily used to create animations.
US10401801B2
An electronic timepiece includes a counter, a near field communication unit, a standard electric wave receiving unit and a control unit. The counter is configured to count current time. The near field communication unit is configured to communicate with a terminal by near field communication electric waves and to receive first time information. The standard electric wave receiving unit is configured to receive standard electric waves and to acquire second time information. The control unit changes current time counted by the counter, based on the first or second time information.
US10401799B2
A terminal apparatus includes an ending operation detection section for detecting that an operation to stop an audio output of an alarm has been made; and a wake-up determination section for determining, as wake-up timing of the user, timing when the operation has been detected.
US10401791B2
In one aspect, each pixel of a holographic display screen emits light in a narrow angle, and micro-mirrors control the angle in which the light is emitted. The light that is emitted is modulated so that the image for the left eye is emitted when the pixel is pointed by means of its micro mirror at a viewer's left eye and light for the image for the right eye is emitted when the pixel is pointed at the viewer's right eye.
US10401778B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming section that forms an image on a continuous medium, a transport unit that transports the continuous medium, and a detection unit that detects breakage of the continuous medium transported by the transport unit from a transport state of the continuous medium.
US10401776B2
An image forming apparatus that highly precisely suppresses misregistration of an image relative to a sheet due to sub-scanning skew and a control method are provided. The image forming apparatus includes: displacement rollers including at least a pair of rollers conveying a sheet that is being conveyed, toward a transfer section; a detection section that detects a position of a side end part of the sheet; and a hardware processor that performs processing for displacing the displacement rollers based on displacement control information and correcting the displacement control information for next and subsequent sheets based on a detection result of detection by the detection section after the displacement of the displacement rollers.
US10401775B1
A sheet guiding device includes: a first guiding unit that is grounded and guides a sheet transported; and a second guiding unit that is disposed on a downstream side of the first guiding unit and grounded with a resistance higher than a resistance with which the first guiding unit is grounded, and that guides the sheet transported to the first guiding unit to a transfer position interposed between an image carrier that carries a toner image and a transfer unit that transfers the toner image on the image carrier onto the transported sheet by pinching the sheet between the image carrier and the transfer unit and applying an electric field across the image carrier and the transfer unit. The first guiding unit has a dimension decrease area in which on a surface, in contact with the sheet, of the first guiding plate on the downstream side in the sheet transport direction, a dimensional value of a portion including a first material that is a same as the first material used as a material of another surface, in contact with the sheet, of the first guiding plate on an upstream side of the downstream side in a sheet width direction crossing the sheet transport direction is decreased at a more downstream position in the sheet transport direction.
US10401774B2
An image forming apparatus includes a roller, a motor, a control circuit, an interlock switch, and a regeneration diode. The roller is configured to transport a printing sheet or a document sheet. The motor is configured to drive the roller and the motor is supplied electric power from a predetermined power supply system. The control circuit is connected to the predetermined power supply system. The interlock switch is arranged between the motor and the control circuit in the power supply system. The regeneration diode is arranged to the interlock switch. Further, the control circuit includes a processor that acts in accordance with a program, and increases power consumption of the processor by changing an action of the processor if the interlock switch breaks power supply from the power supply system to the motor.
US10401771B2
An image forming apparatus, to which an external measurement device is connectable, including an image processor, a printer, a sensor arranged on a conveyance path, a controller that performs first processing for generating color processing condition based on a measurement result of measurement images of the sensor, the measurement images including a first measurement image and a second measurement image, wherein a length of the second measurement image in a conveyance direction is longer than a length of the first measurement image in the conveyance direction, and performs second processing for generating conversion condition, based on a measurement result of predetermined measurement images by the sensor and measurement data output from an external measurement device, wherein a length of a predetermined measurement image included in the predetermined measurement images in the conveyance direction is longer than the length of the first measurement image in the conveyance direction.
US10401770B2
In order to provide a discriminating device in which high discrimination accuracy is achieved by appropriately setting parallelism of a plurality of light beams caused to enter a recording material, provided is a discriminating device including: a light guiding member configured to guide a plurality of light beams from a light source to an irradiated surface; an image pickup element configured to receive a light beam from the irradiated surface; and an optical system configured to guide the light beam from the irradiated surface to the image pickup element, wherein the plurality of light beams include a plurality of first light beams which are emitted from the light guiding member and enter a first effective region of the irradiated surface, and wherein the plurality of first light beams form an angle of 7° or less with each other within a first cross section parallel to the irradiated surface.
US10401768B2
A signal level adjustment apparatus includes a detector configured to detect both a plurality of peak levels of an input signal having a sinusoidal waveform or a substantially sinusoidal waveform and a plurality of bottom levels of the input signal; and a level adjuster configured to adjust, in a predetermined zone of the input signal, levels of the input signal based on the plurality of peak levels and the plurality of bottom levels detected by the detector.
US10401754B2
An exposing unit includes a holding member, an abutting pin protruding on both sides in the vertical direction at the rear side of the holding member, a second support portion provided further to the rear side than the holding member, and a movement mechanism that causes the holding member to move between an exposure position and a retracted position. The second support portion has a gap formed where the rear side of the holding member moves in the vertical direction, and this gap restricts movement of the holding member in the left-and-right direction. The holding member that is moved from the retracted position toward the exposure position by the movement mechanism is guided by the gap formed in the second support portion so that the abutting pin abuts a fitting portion.
US10401744B2
The present invention provides a method for calibrating an encoder which includes a scale and a light receiving unit configured to receive light reflected by the scale, and detects a change in relative position between the scale and the light receiving unit, the method comprising a measurement step of measuring a deformation amount of a surface shape of the scale, a specifying step of specifying, based on a measurement result in the measurement step, a range which includes a portion of a surface of the scale, where the deformation amount exceeds a threshold, and within which a detection value of the encoder is corrected, and a determination step of determining a correction value for correcting the detection value of the encoder within the range specified in the specifying step.
US10401743B2
A control system configured to control a parameter of a dynamic system, wherein the parameter depends on an output signal. The control system comprises a set-point generator and a feedforward, wherein the set-point generator is arranged to provide a set-point signal to the feedforward. The feedforward is arranged to provide the output signal based on the set-point signal, wherein the feedforward is arranged to perform a non-linear operation on the set-point signal. The non-linear operation is based on a non-linear functional relationship between the output signal and the parameter.
US10401727B2
A resist composition including a polymeric compound having 0 to 20 mol % of a structural unit containing a polar group-containing aliphatic hydrocarbon group, and an acid generator compound represented by general formula (b1-1) in which R101 represents a hydrocarbon group having at least 1 hydroxy group as a substituent; Y101 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group containing an oxygen atom; V101 represents a single bond, an alkylene group or a fluorinated alkylene group; R102 represents a fluorine atom or a fluorinated alkyl group of 1 to 5 carbon atoms; M′m+ represents an organic cation having a valency of m.
US10401719B2
A light source apparatus includes a light source, a disk held to be rotatable about a rotation axis, a wavelength conversion member arranged on the disk and configured to convert a wavelength of light from the light source, and a storage member configured to store the disk, wherein, inside of the storage member, a plurality of circumferential wall portions centering on the rotation axis is arranged integrally with the storage member.
US10401717B2
A projecting device is provided. The projecting device is adapted to assembling with an electronic device. The projecting device comprises a main body, a light emitting portion, a rotating portion, and an adjusting portion. The main body includes a first opening and a second opening. The light emitting portion is disposed in the main body, and transmits a light through the first opening. The rotating portion is disposed in the main body and connected with the light emitting portion. The adjusting portion is disposed in the second opening and connected with the rotating portion. The light emitting portion drives the rotating portion to rotate through the adjusting portion to adjust the angle of the light.
US10401704B2
A wavefront of a light beam that exits an acousto-optic material is estimated; a control signal for an acousto-optic system that includes the acousto-optic material is generated, the control signal being based on the estimated wavefront of the light beam; andthe control signal is applied to the acousto-optic system to generate a frequency-chirped acoustic wave that propagates in the acousto-optic material, the frequency-chirped acoustic wave forming a transient diffractive element in the acousto-optic material, an interaction between the transient diffractive element and the light beam adjusting the wavefront of the light beam to compensate for a distortion of the wavefront of the light beam, the distortion of the wavefront being at least partially caused by a physical effect in the acousto-optic material.
US10401691B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a plurality of gate lines, a plurality of data lines and a plurality of sub-pixels (11) formed by the plurality of gate lines and the plurality of data lines intersecting with each other, and the plurality of sub-pixels (11) forming an array. In the array formed by the plurality of sub-pixels (11), a ratio of a width in a row direction to a height in a column direction of each sub-pixel (11) is greater than 1:3, and a first row of sub-pixels and a second row of sub-pixels are alternately arranged in the column direction. Each sub-pixel (11) in the first row of sub-pixels and its adjacent sub-pixel in the second row of sub-pixels have different colors. Each sub-pixel (11) in the second row of sub-pixels and its adjacent sub-pixel in the first row of sub-pixels have different colors. The sub-pixel (11) in the second row of sub-pixels and the sub-pixel (11) in the first row of sub-pixels which are provided in a same column are staggered by a distance of d in the row direction, where 0≤d
US10401690B2
Provided is a method of producing a flexible cell unit enclosed by a border seal and filled with an electro-optic material. The flexible cell includes a first and a second substrate separated by a controlled distance maintained by spacers. The method includes providing two continuous sheets of flexible plastic material to form the first and second substrates and depositing an electro-optic material on at least one substrate. The electro-optic material is non-encapsulated, non-polymeric, and contains less than 1% polymerizable material. The method also includes pairing the first and second substrates while roll-filling the flexible cell with the electro-optic material using one or more lamination rollers so that the electro-optic material completely fills the controlled distance between the first and second substrates.
US10401683B2
A display for emitting display light comprising: (a) a light source for emitting a source light; and (b) a filter positioned in the path of said source light, said filter comprising at least short, medium and long filters, wherein said short filter is configured to transmit short-primary light from said source light, said short-primary light comprising a violet portion having wavelengths from 400 to 440 nm and at least a second portion having wavelengths above 440 nm such that said short-primary light is perceptually blue, said short-primary light having a short-primary SPD having a short-primary power between 380-780 nm and a blue power between 440-500 nm, wherein said blue power is less than 5% of said short-primary power.
US10401682B2
A display device is provided and a display unit of the display device capable of generating color of light close to or identical to blue primary color of DCI-P3 color gamut includes a light emitting unit and a light converting layer disposed on the light emitting unit. The display unit emits an output light under an operation of the highest gray level, the output light having an output spectrum. An intensity integral of the output spectrum from 380nm to 493nm defines as a first intensity integral, an intensity integral of the output spectrum from 494nm to 580nm defines as a second intensity integral, a ratio of the first intensity integral over the second intensity integral defines as a first ratio, and the first ratio ranges from 5 to 20.
US10401658B2
Provided is an optical modulator including: a relay substrate; a first transmission line that is provided on a flat surface of the relay substrate, and transmits an electrical signal along the flat surface; a second transmission line that is provided separately from the relay substrate, is electrically connected to the first transmission line, and transmits, to the first transmission line, the electrical signal that has been input from an outer side in a direction that is not included in the flat surface; a modulation unit that modulates an optical signal by using the electrical signal that is transmitted by the first transmission line and the second transmission line; and a shield that shields a radiation component of the electrical signal that is radiated from the second transmission line.
US10401652B2
Some embodiments provide a lens including a lens body and an optical filter configured to attenuate visible light in a plurality of spectral bands. Each of the plurality of spectral bands can include an absorptance peak with a spectral bandwidth, a maximum absorptance, and an integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth. An attenuation factor obtained by dividing the integrated absorptance peak area within the spectral bandwidth by the spectral bandwidth of the absorptance peak can be greater than or equal to about 0.8 for the absorptance peak in each of the plurality of spectral bands.
US10401646B2
An eyeglasses assembly structure is disclosed herein. It comprises a lens having two connecting parts at two ends thereof, two assembly members, and a pair of temples respectively and pivotally connected to the two assembly members. Each of the two connecting parts of the lens has an orientation trough. Each of the two assembly members has an embedding slot for engaging with each of the two connecting parts of the lens and a button having a positioning block for correspondingly engaging with the orientation trough.
US10401633B2
In various embodiments, laser delivery systems feature one or more optical elements for receiving a radiation beam and altering the spatial power distribution thereof, a lens manipulation system for changing a position of at least one optical element within the path of the radiation beam, and a controller for controlling the lens manipulation system to achieve a target altered spatial power distribution on a workpiece.
US10401628B2
An image generating section reads image data from an image storing section to generate an original image in keeping with the attitude of a head-mounted display. A lens distortion correcting section generates a primary image by correcting beforehand the original image in a manner canceling out the distortion thereof that appears when viewed through lenses of the head-mounted display. A different image embedding section generates an embedded image by embedding a different image into an unused area of a rectangular format for transmitting the primary image. An HDMI transmitting section transfers the embedded image to the head-mounted display.
US10401626B2
An image display apparatus includes image displaying sections that present displayed images to a user and allow the user to visually recognize outside light, a first light adjusting member that is disposed on an outside-facing side of the image displaying sections and adjusts the transmittance based on outside light incident on the first light adjusting member, and a second light adjusting member that is disposed between the image displaying sections and the first light adjusting member and adjusts the transmittance in accordance with the transmittance of the first light adjusting member.
US10401620B1
A system and method for a head up display (HUD) can mitigate glare. The head up display can include a waveguide combiner including an input grating and an output grating and a glare mitigator disposed to prevent glare through the output grating from reaching an eye box. The glare mitigator can be a shade, a diffuser, a dimming element, or other device for mitigating glare. The glare mitigator can be an active or passive glare mitigator.
US10401619B2
An imaging device includes: a photoelectric conversion unit; and a correction unit that corrects the angle of light incident on the photoelectric conversion unit, the correction unit being located on the side of the light incident on the photoelectric conversion unit. The correction unit has a curved surface, and the surface shape of the curved surface is a spherical surface. The surface shape is a shape according to a predetermined equation involving the radius of the spherical surface, the distance from the center of the optical axis of the imaging plane to the edge of the imaging plane, and the refractive index of the material forming the correction unit.
US10401616B2
Disclosed herein is a control circuit for a movable mirror. The control circuit includes driving circuitry configured to drive the movable mirror with a drive signal to effectuate oscillating of the movable mirror, opening angle determination circuitry configured to determine an opening angle of the movable mirror, and amplitude control circuitry. The amplitude control circuitry is configured to a) first cause the driving circuitry to generate the drive signal as having an upper threshold drive amplitude, and b) then later cause the driving circuitry to generate the drive signal as having a nominal drive amplitude, as a function of the opening angle of the movable mirror being equal to a desired opening angle.
US10401610B2
A spectrally encoded endoscopic probe. The probe has a light guiding component, a light focusing component, and a grating component. The probe is configured such that a set of light beams of multiple wavelengths are diffracted by the grating component in different orders at substantially the same angle. The set of light beams includes at least 3 light beams. Each light beam among the set of light beams is associated with a different wavelength.
US10401605B2
A system, including a structured illumination stage to provide a spatially modulated imaging field is provided. The system further includes a spatial frequency modulation stage to adjust the frequency of the spatially modulated imaging field, a sample interface stage to direct the spatially modulated imaging field to a sample, and a sensor configured to receive a plurality of fluorescence emission signals from the sample. The system also includes a processor configured to reduce a sample scattering signal and to provide a fluorescence emission signal from a portion of the sample including the spatially modulated imaging field. A method for using the above system to form an image of the sample is also provided.
US10401596B2
A projection optical system capable of performing magnification projection of an image displayed on an image display surface, with a 40° half angle of view, or more includes, in an order from a magnification side: a first optical system; and a second optical system, wherein the second optical system forms an intermediate image of the image, the first optical system performs magnification projection of the intermediate image, and the following conditional expressions (1) and (2) are satisfied: 1
US10401586B2
A fiber optic module for use in a fiber optic terminal. The fiber optic module includes a body having a front end, a first body section including a first group of adapters on the front end and a first fiber routing arm having a first fiber retaining element at a free end of the first routing arm, and a second body section in stacked alignment with the first body section, wherein the second body section includes a second group of adapters on the front end and a second fiber routing arm having a second fiber retaining element at a free end of the second routing arm. The first body section and the second body section define an internal volume containing an optical splitter. The fiber optic module may also include a handle coupleable to the first body section.
US10401580B2
Fluid cooled optical fibers are disclosed. An exemplary fiber comprises a fiber body including a distal end, an inner cap surrounding said distal end, an outer cap surrounding said inner cap, and a tube attached to said outer cap. The tube and outer cap may define a first flow channel, the outer and inner caps may define a second flow channel, and the outer cap may including one or openings for placing the first flow channel in communication with the second flow channel. Associated systems also are disclosed.
US10401572B2
Optical fiber ferrules with complementary mating geometry that are suitable for making optical connections are disclosed along with fiber optic connectors and cable assemblies using the same. In one embodiment, the fiber optic ferrule includes a body having a plurality of optical pathways and a mating geometry that has at least one guide pin that is monolithically formed in the body of the fiber optic ferrule and at least one spring retention feature disposed on a rear portion of the ferrule. The ferrule reduces the number of parts required for a fiber optic connector and allows quick and easy assembly. The disclosure is also directed to fiber optic connectors and cable assemblies using the ferrule.
US10401566B2
A system may include a polarization rotator combiner. The polarization rotator combiner may include a first stage, a second stage, and a third stage. The first stage may receive a first component of light with a TE00 polarization and a second component of light with the TE00 polarization. The first stage may draw optical paths of the first and second components together. The second stage may receive the first component and the second component from the first stage. The second stage may convert the polarization of the second component from the TE00 polarization to a TE01 polarization. The third stage may receive the first component and the second component from the second stage. The third stage may convert polarization of the second component from the TE01 polarization to a TM00 polarization. The third stage may output the first component and output the second component.
US10401565B2
An object of the present invention is to reduce the manufacturing cost of a semiconductor device. A semiconductor device includes a SOI substrate that has an optical waveguide including a semiconductor layer. The optical waveguide is covered with an interlayer insulating film. Wiring parts are formed on the interlayer insulating film. Moreover, a thin film part having a smaller thickness than the wiring parts is formed above the optical waveguide and is integrated with the wiring parts.
US10401563B2
Disclosed herein is an optical fiber comprising a plurality of dopant concentration profiles in a core of the optical fiber; where the first dopant concentration and the second dopant concentration are each varied in a stepwise manner and wherein a ratio of the first dopant concentration to the second dopant concentration is operative to result in an interaction of a fundamental optical mode at a given wavelength with a plurality of acoustic modes thereby increasing a ratio of Brillouin Scattering intensity ratio of secondary, tertiary or quarternary peak relative to a Brillouin Scattering intensity of a primary peak to be greater than 0.4 in a Brillouin Scattering spectrum.
US10401562B2
In various embodiments, the beam parameter product and/or beam shape of a laser beam is adjusted by directing the laser beam across a path along the input end of a cellular-core optical fiber. The beam emitted at the output end of the cellular-core optical fiber may be utilized to process a workpiece.
US10401555B2
A light guide plate according to one or more embodiment is formed of a panel transparent to visible light, and includes: a plurality of first prisms arranged along one surface of the light guide plate and distributed in a first pattern to reflect the visible light emitted from a first light source and entering the light guide from an input surface toward another surface of the light guide plate; and a plurality of second prisms arranged in a second pattern to reflect the visible light emitted from a second light source and entering the light guide from the input surface toward said other surface of the light guide plate. Each first prism includes a reflection surface directly facing the first light source, and each second prism includes a reflection surface directly facing the second light source.
US10401540B2
The disclosure relates to an optical element, including: a substrate, a first coating, which is disposed on a first side of the substrate and is configured for reflecting radiation having a used wavelength (λEUV) in the EUV wavelength range, and a second coating, which is disposed on a second side of the substrate, for influencing heating radiation that is incident on the second side of the substrate. The disclosure also relates to an optical arrangement having at least one such optical element.
US10401537B2
A fluidic lens may include an optical surface configured for deflection dominated by bending stress. An adjustable concentric load may be applied to the optical surface to cause a clear aperture region of the optical surface to deflect with generally spherical curvature. Adjusting the concentric load controls the radius of curvature. An adjustable uniformly-distributed load may be applied to the optical surface by fluid pressure that causes the clear aperture region to deflect with an aspheric shape. Adjusting the pressure controls the asphericity of curvature. First and second fluids having similar densities and different refractive indexes may be disposed on either side of a deflectable optical surface to help balance gravitational loading on either side of the optical surface, thereby reducing gravity-associated aberrations.
US10401536B2
The invention concerns an item comprising a substrate having at least one main surface coated with a layer A in direct contact with a hydrophobic outer layer B, characterized in that said layer A has been obtained by depositing, under ion beam, activated species from at least one compound C, in gas form, containing, in the structure of same: at least one carbon atom, at least one hydrogen atom, at least one Si—X group, in which X is a hydroxy group or a hydrolysable group chosen from the H, halogen, alkoxy, aryloxy and acyloxy groups, —NR1R2 in which R1 and R2 separately designate a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group or an aryl group, and —N(R3)—Si in which R3 designates an alkyl group or an aryl group, said compound C being neither tetramethyldisiloxane nor tetraethoxysilane, nor vinylmethyldiethoxysilane, nor hexamethylcyclotrisilazane, said layer A not being formed from inorganic precursor compounds.
US10401532B2
An imaging locating device includes a first locating apparatus, a position sensor, and an evaluation apparatus. The first locating apparatus is configured to detect locating data in relation to objects to be located. The objects are concealed under an examination surface. The position sensor is configured to detect position data of the locating device in relation to the examination surface. The evaluation apparatus is configured to determine a first at least two-dimensional map information items by assigning the locating data of a first category from the first locating apparatus to the position data. The evaluation data is further configured to determine at least one further at least two-dimensional map information item. The at least one further at least two-dimensional map information item differs from the first at least two-dimensional map information item.
US10401530B2
A method for quality control of gamma-gamma well logging data within a borehole for mineral exploration, including receiving, at a computing device, raw well logging data; identifying and formatting data sets from the raw well logging data; applying at least one quality control process to the formatted data sets, the at least one quality control process being selected from: a linear verification process comparing linearity of density data readings between a long and a short spaced sensor in a probe; a density range verification process comparing density readings at the probe with density ranges for the borehole lithology; a diameter comparison process comparing actual diameter of the borehole at a depth with density readings at the depth; and a residual verification process for verifying a proportionality between densities measured by the long spaced sensor and short spaced sensor; compiling the results and providing an output of the compiled results.
US10401528B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving one or more datasets including measured vertical electric and magnetic fields excited by one or more radial and azimuthal electric field antennas from a downtool into one or more processors, wherein each of the one or more datasets corresponds to a different position of the one or more radial azimuthal electric field antennas, simultaneously inverting the one or more datasets using the one or more processors, and as a result of the simultaneous inversion, generating by the one or more processors a three-dimensional (3D) image of a portion of the geological formation.
US10401527B2
Devices and methods for detecting chemicals are disclosed. A device configured for use in a wellbore includes a sensor including a quantum tunneling composite (QTC) material configured to exhibit a change in electrical resistance responsive to the sensor contacting a target chemical. The sensor includes electrical resistance measuring circuitry operably coupled to the QTC material and configured to measure the electrical resistance of the QTC material and output a sensor signal indicating the electrical resistance. A method comprises deploying the sensor into the wellbore, measuring the electrical resistance of the QTC material, and determining the presence of the target chemical responsive to detecting changes in the electrical resistance of the QTC material. Another method includes selecting at least one of the QTC material and an active material to interact with a target wellbore chemical to change the electrical resistance of the QTC material.
US10401524B2
A system and method allows determining the movement of subsurface fluids, gases or solids in the subsurface structure of interest. This allows quantitatively determining the results of surface and subsurface equipment and materials changes. These simple observations may result in significant improvements in field efficiency.
US10401522B2
Systems, methods, and devices for evaluating proper cement installation in a well are provided. In one example, a method includes receiving acoustic cement evaluation data parameterized using a first parameterization. A subset of the acoustic cement evaluation data is compared to expected nominal values of the acoustic cement evaluation data. When the subset of the acoustic cement evaluation data does not substantially conform to the expected nominal values of the acoustic cement evaluation data, all or part of the acoustic cement evaluation data is corrected to cause the subset of the acoustic cement evaluation data to more closely match the expected nominal values of the acoustic cement evaluation data. The corrected acoustic cement evaluation data may be used to estimate a presence of solids, liquids, and/or gases behind the casing.
US10401515B2
A method for estimation of water properties from seismic data can include determining a number of travel times for at least one event based, at least in part, on predefined values for a plurality of water properties, determining an alignment of data values for each of the number of travel times determined for the at least one event, and determining an estimation of a plurality of undetermined water property values based, at least in part, on the alignment of the data values for each of the number of travel times producing a high quantitative measure of a coherence value.
US10401514B2
Method of estimating azimuthal amplitude gradient is disclosed. This method uses a correlation of seismic attributes within a sliding volume of data to obtain azimuthal gradient.
US10401510B2
The invention is a gamma ray detector that locates a source, both horizontally and vertically. The detector comprises a tubular shield surrounded by scintillator panels. Gammas incident from one side can fully strike the scintillator facing the source, but are blocked from reaching the scintillators on the opposite side of the shield. The scintillator counting rates thus indicate the lateral direction of the source. By iteratively rotating toward the highest-counting scintillator, the detector converges to the source. An additional, central detector can be mounted within the tubular shield. When analyzed with the outer scintillators, the central detector determines the overall angular separation between the source and the detector axis, thereby locating the source in two dimensions automatically. The invention enables rapid detection and precise localization of clandestine nuclear and radiological weapons, despite shielding and clutter obfuscation, while quickly passing clean loads.
US10401506B1
A system of particle detectors can determine the location of a source without rotations or iterations. Embodiments of the system may comprise a middle detector flanked by two shield plates, with two side detector panels exterior to the shields. The middle detector may be positioned toward the front and orthogonal to the side detectors. By comparing a ratio of the detector data to a predetermined angular correlation function, the system can determine both the sign and magnitude of the source angle in real-time. Embodiments of the system can rapidly and automatically localize sources including nuclear and radiological weapons materials, whether in vehicles or cargo containers, and can provide improved sensitivity in walk-through personnel portal applications, enable enhanced detection of hidden weapons by a mobile area scanner, and enable a hand-held survey meter that indicates the radiation level as well as the location of the source of radiation.
US10401502B2
A wireless device includes a wireless antenna, a power supply, and a movement sensor, the wireless device configured for triggered sending of wireless signals to one or more receiving devices to determine location of the wireless device, and the wireless device comprising a connection for external power, a connection for programming, and a connection for self-charging.
US10401500B2
Embodiments relate to methods for efficiently encoding sensor data captured by an autonomous vehicle and building a high definition map using the encoded sensor data. The sensor data can be LiDAR data which is expressed as multiple image representations. Image representations that include important LiDAR data undergo a lossless compression while image representations that include LiDAR data that is more error-tolerant undergo a lossy compression. Therefore, the compressed sensor data can be transmitted to an online system for building a high definition map. When building a high definition map, entities, such as road signs and road lines, are constructed such that when encoded and compressed, the high definition map consumes less storage space. The positions of entities are expressed in relation to a reference centerline in the high definition map. Therefore, each position of an entity can be expressed in fewer numerical digits in comparison to conventional methods.
US10401498B2
The present invention relates to vision sensors based on an active illumination. An imaging system includes an imaging sensor and is adapted to process an image of a scene being illuminated by at least two different illumination sources each having a wavelength in the near infrared range. In a variant, the imaging system is adapted to use an illumination source having a modulation frequency below the modulation frequency used to perform a three dimensional time of flight measurement. In a variant, the imaging system is adapted to acquire a reduced number of samples per frame than used in time of flight measurements.
US10401494B2
An optical proximity detector includes a plurality photodetectors (PDs) and a winner-take-all (WTA) circuit. Each of the PDs has a respective field of view (FOV) and produces a respective analog current detection signal indicative of light incident on and detected by the PD. In an embodiment, the WTA circuit includes a comparator and a multiplexor (MUX). The comparator compares the analog current detection signals produced by the PDs and produces a selection signal in dependence thereon. The MUX receives the analog current detection signals produced by the PDs and outputs one of the analog current detection signals in dependence on the selection signal produced by the comparator. Circuitry, which is shared by the PDs, produces a digital detection signal corresponding to the one of the analog current detection signals output by the MUX. Such design can be used to reduce power consumption, size and cost of an optical proximity detector.
US10401490B2
This document describes apparatuses and techniques for radar-enabled sensor fusion. In some aspects, a radar field is provided and reflection signals that correspond to a target in the radar field are received. The reflection signals are transformed to provide radar data, from which a radar feature indicating a physical characteristic of the target is extracted. Based on the radar features, a sensor is activated to provide supplemental sensor data associated with the physical characteristic. The radar feature is then augmented with the supplemental sensor data to enhance the radar feature, such as by increasing an accuracy or resolution of the radar feature. By so doing, performance of sensor-based applications, which rely on the enhanced radar features, can be improved.
US10401488B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and machine readable media that enable object localization with an RFID infrastructure. Localization is performed by modeling the distance-decaying behavior of received signal strength. Selection of optimally performing tag types and the use of uniformly sensitive tags of those optimal tag types further enhances localization accuracy. When these components are combined, RFID becomes a feasible way to locate moving and stationary objects in a 3D environment that includes other objects, as well as noise and signal pollution.
US10401487B2
The disclosure relates to a radar device for a vehicle, enabling distance and velocity of a target approaching at a high speed in a short distance to be measured while securing a detection performance of the target. The radar device includes at least: a transmission unit configured to transmit, as a transmission signal, a multi-chirp signal having different slopes through the transmission antenna; a reception unit configured to receive, through the reception antenna, a reception signal that is the transmission signal reflected on the target located before the vehicle, in which the transmission signal is transmitted by the transmission unit; and a signal processing unit configured to calculate a frequency difference between the transmission signal and the reception signal, frequency variation according to a distance of the target, and frequency variation according to the velocity of the target to measure the distance and velocity of the corresponding target.
US10401486B2
A method for locating objects using an FMCW radar in which a ramp-shaped frequency-modulated radar signal is transmitted whose modulation pattern has a plurality of successive ramps having different gradients, received radar echoes are mixed down with the transmitted signal into a baseband, the baseband signal is recorded ramp-by-ramp and transformed into a respective spectrum, for each signal peak found in the spectrum, a noise estimation is carried out in order to distinguish between radar targets and noise or clutter, and by comparing the frequency positions of the mutually corresponding signal peaks in the spectra obtained for various ramp gradients, the distances and relative velocities of the radar targets are determined.
US10401472B2
A system and method for determining the range, angle, and elevation of a target object having a radio transceiver relative to a known location is provided. The system includes a primary radio transceiver located an initially unknown distance from the target object, and at least one auxiliary radio receiver located a known distance and angle relative to a reference bearing from the primary radio transceiver. The system further includes a processing unit in communication with the primary radio transceiver and at least one auxiliary receiver. The processing unit is capable of calculating the range between the primary and the target object and the angle to the target object relative to the reference bearing. The method includes the steps of: (1) acquiring range data between at least a primary radio transceiver of the system and the target object using two way ranging; (2) transmitting the range data to a processing unit that is in communication with the primary radio transceiver and at least one auxiliary radio receiver; (3) calculating the range between the primary radio transceiver and the target object using two way ranging algorithms at the processing unit; (4) acquiring time of arrival data for signals exchanged between the target object and the at least one auxiliary radio receiver; and (5) determining the angle of the target object relative to a reference bearing from the primary radio transceiver of the system by running the time of arrival data from the tracked object through an algorithm.
US10401470B2
As at least part of a location network, there is provided a trigger node and multiple listening nodes. The trigger node wirelessly transmits a trigger signal to the mobile device, the trigger signal being configured to cause the mobile device to wirelessly emit a signal in response to receiving the trigger signal. The listening nodes listen for the response signal that was transmitted from the mobile device in response to the trigger signal, and thereby at each respective one of a plurality of the listening nodes that wirelessly receive the response signal from the mobile device, a respective measurement is taken of the response signal as received at the respective listening node, for use in performing a localization to determine the location of the mobile device based on one or more of these measurements.
US10401466B1
A system for identifying a drone is adapted to determine a base threat value for a drone. The system includes a scanning system, configured to obtain data that is stored in a pattern database. A timer that has a data structure for storing a counter initialized to a predetermined value, the timer being operable to iteratively increment the counter if the counter value is less than a timer increment. A microprocessor is programmed with instructions to receive information from the scanning system about the drone. Then, to store the information in a pattern database. After that, to determine a base threat value of the drone based on the information stored in the pattern database. Finally, to communicate the base threat value to a user so that the user can determine whether the drone is a friend or a foe.
US10401463B2
Magnetic resonance (MR) imaging of an area (144) of a subject of interest (120) includes issuing a breath-hold command to the subject of interest (120), performing motion detection of the subject of interest (120) to detect a breath-hold condition in the area (144) of the subject of interest (120), upon detection of the breath-hold condition in the area (144) of the subject of interest (120), performing k-space (154) sampling of the area (144) of the subject of interest (120) with a given resolution, processing the k-space (154) samples covering the area (144) of the subject of interest (120) to obtain a MR image of the area (144) of the subject of interest (120).
US10401460B2
In a method and apparatus for recording a magnetic resonance dataset of a volume of interest of an object, at least one gradient moment is calculated as a function of at least one jump in susceptibility that is present in the volume of interest, between two sections of the volume of interest. An excitation pulse is radiated and at least one compensation moment is activated in a part volume of the volume of interest, for the at least partial compensation of a gradient moment caused by the jump in susceptibility. The signal generated by the excitation pulse is read out.
US10401454B2
In a method and apparatus for the automatic assignment of at least one combination image of an examination object to a spin species represented in a combination magnetic resonance (MR) image, an information MR dataset is obtained and evaluated in a computer to determine information about the examination object from the captured information MR dataset. At least two MR datasets are acquired at one of at least two echo times in each case following an excitation by a multi-contrast measurement. At least one combination image is determined from the at least two MR datasets, and spin species represented in the at least one combination image are assigned on the basis of the information determined from the information MR dataset. By using additional information about the examination object determined by MR technology an automatic unambiguous global assignment of the correct spin species is enabled.
US10401449B2
A magnetic resonance imaging apparatus according to an embodiment includes a processing circuit and a sequence control circuit. The processing circuit calculates, based on an imaging sequence to be executed in magnetic resonance imaging, a value of a current flowing through a closed circuit by using an equivalent circuit and determines, prior to an execution of the imaging sequence, based on the value of the current, whether it is acceptable to execute the imaging sequence. The sequence control circuit executes the imaging sequence. The equivalent circuit is an equivalent circuit for a circuit that includes a gradient coil and that has a first circuit and a second circuit. The first circuit is connected to a power supply and has self-inductance. The second circuit includes at least one closed circuit having mutual inductance with the first circuit.
US10401443B1
A system for mapping magnetic fields around a transmission coil is presented. The method includes selecting a selected induction loop from an array of selectable induction loops arranged adjacent the transmission coil, detecting current from the selected induction loop, the current being generated by a magnetic field from a transmission coil, to obtain measured values; and comparing measured values with expected values.
US10401436B2
A method is described for managing an operating state of a battery energizing a mobile device. Active elements of a “gas gauge” IC component of the mobile device are configured or programmed based on instructions related to tracking capacity aging of the battery. An event is targeted based on the configured or programmed instructions. The targeted event corresponds to reaching an end of a discharge state of the battery, or to reaching a midpoint (relative to full charge) of a charging state of the battery. A relaxation state is induced in the battery upon the targeted event occurring.
US10401433B2
A method and apparatus for estimating battery life are provided. A method of estimating battery life may involve estimating first status information of a battery based on battery information acquired from the battery, estimating second status information of the battery using a partial cycle model corresponding to a battery degradation pattern for a partial cycle, and calculating the battery life based on a comparison between the first status information and the second status information.
US10401431B1
A system for identifying which electrical outlets are electrically connected to a circuit breaker, including an electrical outlet faceplate cover having a plurality of electrical outlet openings and a fastener located between the plurality of electrical outlet openings such that the electrical outlet faceplate cover is located over an electrical outlet, a circuit breaker panel having at least one circuit breaker located on the circuit breaker panel, and a near field communications tag located on a back side of the electrical outlet faceplate cover, wherein the near field communications tag is operatively connected to the fastener such that the near field communications tag contains information related to which of the at least one circuit breakers is electrically connected to the electrical outlet.
US10401429B2
The disclosure describes a novel method and apparatuses for allowing a controller to select and access different types of access ports in a device. The selecting and accessing of the access ports is achieved using only the dedicated TDI, TMS, TCK, and TDO signal terminals of the device. The selecting and accessing of device access ports can be achieved when a single device is connected to the controller, when multiple devices are placed in a daisy-chain arrangement and connected to the controller, or when multiple devices are placed in a addressable parallel arrangement and connected to the controller. Additional embodiments are also provided and described in the disclosure.
US10401424B2
Neutron soft error rate derivation is calculated from data at the low energy neutron radiation. An outline value of an SEU cross-section function corresponding to a given neutron energy value is outputted. This outline value and the low energy neutron spectrum data are used to calculate an error count basic value of errors to occur over time. An error count actual measurement value over time is calculated from an error count during radiation of low energy neutrons and low energy neutron radiation time. The error count basic value and the error count actual measurement are used to calculate a proportionality coefficient of the SEU cross-section function. While holding a natural neutron spectrum, an error rate calculator outputs a neutron flux corresponding to a neutron energy value. The neutron soft error rate is calculated by an integration operation of multiplying the SEU cross-section function with the natural neuron spectrum.
US10401414B2
A method of testing a receptor of a wind turbine includes a step of moving an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) close to the receptor of a wind turbine blade mounted to a hub of the wind turbine, and performing an electric continuity test on the receptor.
US10401413B2
An apparatus includes an interruption circuit in a power delivery path, and a fault detection circuit configured to provide a fault signal to selectively cause the interruption circuit to interrupt power delivery, wherein the fault detection circuit includes a fault detection integrated circuit and a sensing coil configured to sense a differential current between a phase conductive path and a neutral conductive path in the power delivery path. A processor is configured to selectively control a fault simulation circuit to simulate a fault in the power delivery path, detect a response of the fault detection circuit to the simulated fault, and determine if the response of the fault detection circuit is an expected response. The processor provides an override signal to the interruption circuit to prevent the interruption circuit from receiving a fault signal from the fault detection circuit during, and for a predetermined time after, the simulated fault.
US10401401B2
A system comprises of a plurality of current consumption monitors, such as self-powered power sensors (SPPSs) that collect information from energy consuming equipment. The monitors check periodically the current consumed by the equipment and the results are stored in memory. Periodically the data collected is processed respective of each monitor to determine the ratio between the total number of cycles, i.e., the number of times an equipment consumed energy, to the number of cycles in which the equipment consumed energy for a period of time that is shorter than a predetermined threshold of time. Upon detection of a change in the ratio over a period of time an alert is provided. In one embodiment the equipment may be caused to shut down responsive of an appropriate alert.
US10401400B2
An electricity meter includes a disconnect switch connected to a service transformer, a line-side sense circuit, a load-side sense circuit, and a measurement and control circuit. The disconnect switch is configured to receive a phase voltage and an anti-phase voltage from the service transformer. The line-side sense circuit includes a first sense circuit configured to detect the phase voltage delivered to the electricity meter and a second sense circuit configured to detect the anti-phase voltage delivered to the electricity meter, the first sense circuit and the second sense circuit are each connected to a floating reference node. The load-side sense circuit is configured to detect the existence of a phase load and an anti-phase load at a service entrance. The measurement and control circuit is configured to receive a phase output voltage and an anti-phase output voltage from the line-side sense circuit and further configured to receive a phase load output voltage and anti-phase load output voltage from the load-side sense circuitry.
US10401399B2
The present disclosure illustrates a low-power voltage detection circuit, including a threshold voltage detection circuit, a leakage detection circuit and a low-voltage detection circuit. By utilizing the above-mentioned threshold voltage detection circuit and leakage detection circuit, the voltage variations caused by leakage, temperature or process can be detected in the more efficient and power saving way.
US10401398B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method for characterizing a fluid injector that includes receiving a collection of waveform data, identifying a pull locus, determining a detection threshold level value, identifying a first subset of the collection of data representative of a selected first electrical waveform of the collection of electrical waveforms, identifying an opening value, identifying a representative closing value, identifying an anchor value, identifying a second subset of the collection of data based on the collection of data, the pull locus, the first subset, and the opening value, identifying a maximum electrical value, identifying an opening locus based the collection of data, the anchor value, and the maximum electrical value, identifying a hold value, and providing characteristics associated with the fluid injector comprising the pull locus, the opening locus, the hold value, the anchor value, and the representative closing value.
US10401389B2
Provided herein are electric and magnetic field probes for measuring and mapping distributions of such fields on, for example, circuits, antennas and materials.
US10401388B2
A rectangular probe of a probe card device includes a metallic pin and a metallic reinforcing body. The metallic pin includes a middle segment, a first connecting segment and a second connecting segment respectively extending from two opposite ends of the middle segment, a first contacting segment extending from the first connecting segment in a direction away from the middle segment, and a second contacting segment extending from the second connecting segment in a direction away from the middle segment. The metallic reinforcing body is integrally formed on the middle segment. The Young's modulus of the metallic reinforcing body is larger than that of the metallic pin. The electric conductivity of the metallic pin is larger than that of the metallic reinforcing body. An outside diameter jointly formed by the metallic reinforcing body and the middle segment is larger than an outside diameter of the second connecting segment.
US10401387B2
A manufacturing method of contact probes for a testing head comprises the steps of: providing a substrate made of a conductive material; and defining at least one contact probe by laser cutting the substrate. The method further includes at least one post-processing fine definition step of at least one end portion of the contact probe, that follows the step of defining the contact probe by laser cutting, the end portion being a portion including a contact tip or a contact head of the contact probe. The fine definition step does not involve a laser processing and includes geometrically defining the end portion of the contact probe with at least a substantially micrometric precision.
US10401385B2
A method of testing an integrated circuit of a device is described. Air is allowed through a fluid line to modify a size of a volume defined between the first and second components of an actuator to move a contactor support structure relative to the apparatus and urge terminals on the contactor support structure against contacts on the device. Air is automatically released from the fluid line through a pressure relief valve when a pressure of the air in the fluid line reaches a predetermined value. The holder is moved relative to the apparatus frame to disengage the terminals from the contacts while maintaining the first and second components of the actuator in a substantially stationary relationship with one another. A connecting arrangement is provided including first and second connecting pieces with complementary interengaging formations that restricts movement of the contactor substrate relative to the distribution board substrate in a tangential direction.
US10401372B2
The present teachings provide apparatuses and methods for automated handling of samples, e.g., biological or chemical samples. The apparatuses and the methods of the present teachings allow automated performance of various sample manipulation steps without manual intervention. In a preferred embodiment, the present teachings provide apparatuses and methods for automated enrichment of templated beads produced by PCR.
US10401367B2
A method of analyzing protein-protein interactions includes binding the first proteins to the substrate where the first proteins are tagged with the first markers which bind specifically to the biomolecules immobilized on the substrate or the first proteins bind specifically to the biomolecules immobilized on the substrate; incubating the substrate bound first proteins with cell lysate containing the second proteins which are tagged with second markers; analyzing the interactions between the first proteins and the second proteins in the cell lysate, and obtaining the first analytic value representing the kinetic picture of the interactions; incubating the substrate bound first proteins with cell lysate mixture of a cell lysate consisting of the second markers-tagged second proteins and another cell lysate comprising other proteins including unlabelled second proteins and obtaining the second analytic value; comparing and analyzing the first and the second analytic values.
US10401366B2
According to the present teachings, systems, compositions, kits and methods for protein melt analysis are provided that utilizing a dye that is a dipyrrometheneboron difluoride compound. In some embodiments, a method comprises preparing a sample by mixing at least one protein with a dye, and applying a controlled heating, while recording the fluorescence emission of the sample.
US10401363B2
Monoclonal antibody for the diagnosis, treatment and/or prevention of brain tumors and brain lesions
The invention relates to the use of the monoclonal antibody NILO1 for the diagnosis, treatment and/or prevention of brain tumors and lesions. Particularly, the invention relates to methods for the diagnosis of brain tumors and brain lesions in which cells marked with said antibody, or with immunologically active fragments thereof, are detected. The invention also relates to the use of said monoclonal antibody, or immunologically active fragments thereof, as a medicament for the treatment and/or prevention of brain tumors and brain lesions. In a preferred embodiment of the invention, the monoclonal antibody NILO1, or its immunologically active fragments, are humanized.
US10401358B1
Two Borrelia burgdorferi recombinant proteins were expressed in E. coli. These two proteins were generated from (a) the full length dbpA gene combined with the invariable region 6 of the VlsE gene (dbpA/C6), and (b) the full length OspC gene combined with the coding sequence for amino acids 1-121 of the E. coli maltose binding protein gene (OspC/MBP). Methods of using these recombinant proteins for detecting anti-Borrelia burgdorferi antibodies in patient sera and diagnosis of Lyme Disease are described.
US10401356B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an analyte-measuring sensor using a thermoresponsive polymer, which is a novel analyte-measuring sensor capable of quantitatively measuring a target analyte with higher sensitivity. The analyte-measuring sensor of the present invention comprises a labeled particle capable of specifically reacting with a measurement target analyte, a thermoresponsive polymer, a charged substance exhibiting a positive or negative zeta potential in a solution, and a metal particle, and said metal particle is coated with a copolymer of said labeled particle, said charged substance and said thermoresponsive polymer.
US10401349B2
Certain embodiments of the invention are directed to evaluating and identifying cells by recording and interpreting a time-dependent signal produced by unique cell respiration and permeability attributes of isolated viable cells.
US10401347B2
Disclosed are methods, materials and devices for approximation of blood volume in a fluid, such as in a biological fluid collected during a surgical procedure. The method and devices include the use of a RBC flocculant, such as polyDADMAC, and an approximate blood hematocrit for the type of animal, as well as a calculated RBC packing ratio corresponding to the collection device being used. Also provided is a Blood Indicator Panel (BIP), comprising a series of markings calculated from an observed red blood settlement volume, the average animal type hematocrit, and a calculated RBC packing ratio “η” value for the collection device. Pediatric (about 200 ml or 250 ml size container), adult human (about 1,000 ml-1,500 ml) and veterinary (about 500 ml-2,500 ml) collection containers are also disclosed, that include a RBC flocculant, for use in approximating blood volume in a fluid.
US10401341B2
A gas concentration image (i.e., concentration vs. position data) in a cross section through a gas plume is obtained. Such measurements can be obtained by using a 2D array of gas sample inlets, or by moving a 1D array of gas sample inlets through the gas plume. By combining a gas concentration image with ambient flow information through the surface of the gas concentration image, the leak rate (i.e., gas flux) from the leak source can be estimated. Gas samples are simultaneously acquired by filling two or more gas sample storage chambers. This is the default operation mode, which is convenient to regard as recording mode. The other operating mode is a playback mode, where the gas samples in the gas sample storage chamber are sequentially provided to a gas analysis instrument. Gas collection via line pixels can be used to compensate for vertical wind speed variation.
US10401338B2
This invention provides a plasma treatment detection indicator that uses a fibrous base material or a synthetic resin base material comprising a coloring pigment as a base material and in which fine fiber pieces or coloring pigment is prevented from being generated in a powder form from the base material in plasma treatment. More specifically, this invention provides a plasma treatment detection indicator comprising a base material and at least a color-changing layer that changes color in a plasma treatment atmosphere, the color-changing layer being disposed above part or all of a surface of the base material, (1) the base material being a fibrous base material or a synthetic resin base material comprising a coloring pigment, and (2) a resin-based or inorganic transparent cover layer that covers all of the surface of the base material being disposed between the base material and the color-changing layer.
US10401335B2
Valves, pumps, detectors, sample loops, fraction collectors and the like are individually incorporated into modules that are mountable at individual mounting sites on a base unit which also supports one or more chromatography columns. Each module includes fluid connections to other modules and a microcontroller joining the module to a computed and monitor through an electronic connector at each mounting site. The fluid connections between the modules and the column(s) are removed from the electronic connections and accessible to the user. A software platform may recognize the modules and their locations, coordinate fluid connections between the modules, and provide a variety of control, monitoring, data generating and data processing functions to generate chromatographic data. The software platform may also provide graphical tools for designing chromatographic methods from a library of phases.
US10401333B2
The invention relates to a method, to a device, and to the use of a method for the gas-chromatic separation and determination of volatile substances in a carrier gas by means of a chromatographic separating capillary (1), wherein the separating capillary and/or an enveloping capillary (2) surrounding the separating capillary (1) is electrically conductive and is heated with current in the form of a resistance heater and is cooled by a forced convective flow by means of a fluid in the form of a gradient flow field in such a way that a continuous temperature gradient arises over the length of the separating capillary.
US10401322B2
A separation unit is a configuration that is arranged vertically, and thus bubbles generating from the electrode will not negatively influence the contact location between the transfer membrane and separation unit. An anode (32) is arranged at a position separated by a certain distance in the conveying direction (X) of the transfer membrane (1) from the dispensing part (50a) of an electrophoresis gel chip (50). An insulating electrode cover (35) for setting free bubbles generating from the anode (32) is arranged at an upper part of the anode (32).
US10401318B2
The present invention provides an improved breath analyzer and breath test method to determine the presence of a gastrointestinal disorder in a subject's digestive tract.
US10401311B2
The present invention provides a method and a device for measuring a formation elemental capture gamma ray spectrum, pertaining to the field of oil-gas exploration and well logging technologies. The method comprises: performing moderation on neutrons emitted from a neutron source according to a neutron capture cross section of a test sample; and adjusting a relative location of the test sample with respect to the neutron source, so that a standard capture gamma ray spectrum of the test sample is measured and obtained at a location where a thermal neutron flux reacting with atomic nucleuses of the test sample reaches a first predetermined value. The present invention performs moderation on a neutron source according to neutron capture cross sections of different test samples to measure and obtain elemental capture gamma ray spectra of the test samples, thereby obtaining various formation elemental capture gamma ray spectra with higher accuracy.
US10401301B2
An optical test system includes a stage region to accommodate an object to be tested, a first incident optical system which changes a first polarization state of a first light beam to a second polarization state and provide the first light beam in the second polarization state to the stage region in a first direction at a first incident angle which is not a right angle, a second incident optical system which changes a third polarization state of a second light beam to a fourth polarization state and inputs the second light beam in the fourth polarization state to the stage region in a second direction at a second incident angle which is not a right angle, and a main optical system to detect a first reflected light beam reflected from the stage region at a first reflection angle different from the first and second incident.
US10401300B2
A defect observation method for observing a defect on a sample detected by another inspection device with a scanning electron microscope including the steps of: optically detecting the defect using the position information for the defect: illuminating the sample including the defect with an illumination intensity pattern having periodic intensity variation in two dimensions by irradiating a plurality of illumination light beams onto the surface of the sample while phase modulating the light beams in a single direction and successively moving the light beams in small movements in a direction different from the single direction, imaging the surface of the sample that is illuminated by the illumination intensity pattern having periodic intensity variation in two dimensions and includes the defect detected by the other inspection device, and detecting the defect detected by the other inspection device from the image obtained through the imaging of the surface of the sample.
US10401297B2
Detecting threat materials used in explosives is performed by receiving a sample, and selecting an area of interest on the sample suspected of containing a threat material indicative of an explosive. Detection also includes interrogating the area of interest with a Raman laser producing a Raman spectrum, and comparing an amplitude of a first spectral region in the Raman spectrum to a first predetermined threshold. Detection further includes performing a verification, if the determination indicates that the area of interest includes the threat material, by checking the interrogated area of interest for a secondary indicator of the presence of the threat material, by comparing an amplitude of a second spectral region in the Raman spectrum, which is different from the first spectral region in the Raman spectrum, to a second predetermined threshold, and activating an indicator if the verification indicates that the area of interest contains the threat material.
US10401290B2
A method for suppressing a spurious pulse following a measurement pulse in a measurement signal using a circuit includes generating a square-wave signal from the measurement signal. A delayed square-wave signal is generated by delaying the square-wave signal by a time span τ1. The delayed square-wave signal is input into a control input of a switching arrangement. The measurement signal or a signal derived therefrom is input into an input of the switching arrangement. The signal at the input of the switching arrangement is switched to a first output of the switching arrangement based on the delayed first square-wave signal at the control input of the switching arrangement. The time span τ1 is matched to the measurement signal such that the switching arrangement is not switched to the first output during the spurious pulse. A signal at the first output is output as an output signal of the circuit.
US10401289B2
A fluorescence image analyzer, analyzing method, and pretreatment evaluation method capable of determining with high accuracy whether a sample is positive or negative are provided. A pretreatment part 20 performs pretreatment including a step of labeling a target site with a fluorescent dye to prepare a sample 20a. A fluorescence image analyzer 10 measures and analyzes the sample 20a. The fluorescent image analyzer 10 includes light sources 121 to 124 to irradiate light on the sample 20a, imaging part 154 to capture the fluorescent light given off from the sample 20a irradiated by light, and processing part 11 for processing the fluorescence image captured by the imaging part 154. The processing part 11 extracts the bright spot of fluorescence generated from the fluorescent dye that labels the target site from the fluorescence image for each of a plurality of cells included in the sample 20a, and generates information used for determining whether the sample 20a is positive or negative based on the bright spots extracted for each of the plurality of cells.
US10401286B1
Embodiments herein relate to identifying whether a threshold amount of material is on a surface. In particular, an apparatus may have an inspection module to receive an image of a surface captured by a camera, where the surface is illuminated by a light source positioned at an angle to the surface. The apparatus may then analyze the received image to identify a measurement of light intensity of one or more portions of the surface; and determine, based on the analysis, whether each of the one or more portions of the surface includes a threshold amount of a material on the surface.
US10401285B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus for measuring surface properties of a polishing pad which measures surface properties such as surface topography or surface condition of a polishing pad used for polishing a substrate such as a semiconductor wafer. The apparatus for measuring surface properties of a polishing pad includes a laser beam source configured to emit a laser beam, and a photodetector configured to detect scattered light that is reflected and scattered by the polishing pad, an optical Fourier transform being performed on the detected scattered light to produce an intensity distribution corresponding to a spatial wavelength spectrum based on surface topography of the polishing pad. The laser beam is applied to the polishing pad at such an incident angle that the laser beam does not reach a bottom portion of a pore formed in the surface of the polishing pad.
US10401275B2
The invention relates to an analysis method for supporting classification, a determination method for determining analysis parameters Ys, Ei, Ii, σi for the analysis method, a computer program product, and an optical analysis system for supporting classification, with which system analysis parameters Ys, Ei, Ii, σi can be defined on the basis of first and second calibration data. The parameters provide classification support according to the discriminant analysis and on the basis of measured values Pi of optical characteristics i, in particular of organic dispersions, and the information content thereof for classification, in particular the diagnosis of disease; and permit a classification proposal or a diagnosis proposal in comparison with a threshold Ys.
US10401269B2
A pallet tester includes a pallet positioning station for positioning a pallet on a conveyor, and a pallet impact station adjacent the conveyor and aligned with the pallet positioning station. The pallet positioning station includes a pallet push arm movable between a retracted position and a pallet positioning position. The pallet impact station includes a carriage assembly to impact the pallet, and a latching mechanism coupled to the carriage assembly. A controller moves the pallet push arm to the retracted position to receive the pallet for positioning, and moves the pallet push arm to the pallet positioning position to move the pallet towards the pallet impact station until an impact side of the pallet is aligned with an impact reference plane. The controller also operates the latching mechanism to raise the carriage assembly, and to release the carriage assembly when a height of the carriage assembly corresponds to a desired release height so that a predetermined impact force strikes the pallet at the impact reference plane.
US10401268B2
A rig for testing mode II fatigue of a composite component. The rig includes a clamp for clamping one end of the component. A first contact arrangement is provided for contacting one side of the component and a second contact arrangement is provided for contacting an opposing side of the component, the first and second contact arrangements being spaced from the clamp. A loading fork is provided for applying load to the component. The loading fork includes a first and a second portion arranged such that in use, when the loading fork is loading the component in one direction the first portion contacts the first contact arrangement and the second portion is spaced from the second contact arrangement, and when the loading fork is loading the component in an opposite direction the first portion is spaced from the first contact arrangement and the second portion contacts the second contact arrangement.
US10401266B2
In a first aspect, the invention relates to the use of a UV-polymerizable composition as an embedding medium for biological samples. The UV-polymerizable composition is a composition with a refractive index ranging from n=1.45 to n=1.6 after a polymerization process. In another aspect, the invention relates to a method for producing embedded biological samples using said UV-polymerizable composition and to the embedded biological samples themselves. The biological samples can be used in a wide variety of areas, such as diagnostics among others, and are suitable in particular for RNA-based diagnostics.
US10401262B2
A building management system includes sensors configured to measure a plurality of monitored variables and fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) system configured to identify an operating state associated with the monitored variables. The FDD system includes a communications interface configured to receive samples of the monitored variables from the plurality of sensors. The FDD system includes a direction extractor configured to use locations, in a multidimensional modeling space, of a plurality of stored operating states to extract a direction from each of the stored operating states to each of the other stored operating states. The FDD system includes a fault diagnoser configured to use the extracted directions in a voting-based diagnosis to determine an operating state for each of the samples of the monitored variables.
US10401257B2
A device for testing a flow field state within a high-speed train bogie cabin; the periphery of a bogie consists of apron plates and end plates; the test device comprises: a plurality of test points evenly distributed on the inner walls of the apron plates and end plates, a plurality of image pickup devices installed in the bogie cabin, a smoke generator communicating with an inner cavity of the bogie via pipes, and one or more smoke exits provided on top of the bogie; each test point is connected to a test tape, and the distance between the test points is more than twice the test tape length. The test device monitors and records in real time the air flow direction at the end plates and apron plates by means of viewing of a fluorescent test tape. Also provided is a method of testing a flow field state within a high-speed train bogie cabin.
US10401249B2
A method for detecting an unbalanced payload condition in a machine is disclosed. The method includes detecting, by a first sensor, a pressure exerted on each of one or more struts in the machine by a payload. The method further includes detecting, by a second sensor, one or more operational parameters associated with machine. Furthermore, method includes determining, by a controller, a center of gravity of the payload based on detected pressure, the one or more operational parameters, and one or more dimensions of the machine. Additionally, the method includes determining, by the controller, a force being exerted, by the payload, on each traction member of the machine based on the center of gravity of the payload. The method further includes detecting, by the controller, the unbalanced payload condition when the force, being exerted on at least one traction member of the plurality of traction members, exceeds a threshold value.
US10401248B2
A pressure sensor chip according to the present invention includes a non-bonding region that is provided in a stopper member and connected to a periphery of a pressure introduction hole. A plurality of protrusions are discretely formed on at least one of a first surface and a second surface that face each other in the non-bonding region. Passages between the protrusions serve as channels between the periphery of the pressure introduction hole and a peripheral edge of the non-bonding region. Accordingly, stress concentration does not occur at a diaphragm edge and the expected withstand pressure can be obtained.
US10401241B2
Sensor arrays are provided for sensing pressure and/or moisture over a two-dimensional sensing surface. The sensor arrays comprise ionically conductive materials. Individual sensor elements in the sensor arrays may comprise piezoionic ionically conductive materials, piezoresistive ionically conductive materials and/or capacitive sensor elements having electrodes fabricated from ionically conductive materials. Two-dimensional pressure maps and/or moisture maps of the sensing surface may be obtained by implementing methods comprising scanning over individual sensor elements in the sensor arrays.
US10401240B2
In order to provide a highly flexible and more highly sensitive ultrathin sheet for a pressure sensor, a pressure sensor, and a method for producing the sheet for a pressure sensor, a pressure sensor sheet (10) of the present invention is provided with a first electrode sheet (1a), a second electrode sheet (1b), and a flocculent pressure-sensitive conductive layer (3) composed of tangled conductive fibers (2) which is disposed between the first electrode sheet (1a) and the second electrode sheet (1b) and undergoes a change in resistance value when compressed, wherein the conductive fibers (2) extend along a direction parallel to the two electrode sheets and are stacked in a perpendicular direction, and the conductive fibers that constitute the pressure-sensitive conductive layer have spaces provided therebetween.
US10401239B2
A system and method are disclosed for measuring stress in a composite structure including an integral sensor network. The composite structure is formed in layers with each of the layers formed from parallel fibers. At least one of the layers includes a plurality of fiber sensor cells distributed among the parallel fibers. Each of the fiber sensor cells has an inner fiber core and a non-conductive layer formed over the inner fiber core. A controller is electrically coupled to each of the fiber sensor cells and configured to determine a level of stress in the composite structure based on a change in a resistance level of the inner fiber core of each of the fiber sensor cells. The fiber sensor cells may be in a single direction or may be in a weave pattern with a first group arranged at a non-zero angle with respect to a second group.
US10401237B2
Embodiments of a certification system for use with an environmental monitoring system that may monitor environmental parameters of multiple different environments. The certification system, which includes one or more computing devices, monitors the certification of environmental sensors of the system. When the certification system detects that the certification of a sensor in a first environment satisfies a condition, such as that the certification is to expire within a threshold period of time, the system triggers the distribution of a certified sensor to an operator of the first environment to replace the sensor for which the certification is to expire. For example, the system may trigger the environmental monitoring system to send a newly-certified sensor to the first operator of the first environment.
US10401213B2
A pan scale for weighing and ejecting fiber components onto a mixing belt includes an upwardly open container having a plurality of side walls and a bottom formed by a single piece comprising a rotatably hinged bottom flap rotatable from a closing position abutting on one of the side walls into an open position folded away from such side wall, or two pieces comprising rotatably hinged bottom flaps that are rotatable away from one another from an inner closing position abutting against one another into an outer open position. The single bottom flap or at least one of the two bottom flaps includes a retaining device on a bottom surface thereof. Upon opening of the respective bottom flap, a part of the fiber components are retained in the container by the retaining device up to a partial opening angle (β) of the bottom flap.
US10401212B2
An automated hopper and belt conveyor apparatus that can be used to feed bulk material into a mixer in order to create a feed mixture for farm animals. The automated hopper and belt conveyor apparatus includes a support frame that supports a hopper and an inclined belt conveyor that operate under control of a controller to accurately feed a desired quantity (in weight) of a bulk material item from the hopper to the mixer by forward-direction operation of the inclined belt conveyor. Excess bulk material that has been loaded into the hopper (bulk material over the desired quantity in weight) is reclaimed by the controller controlling opening a rear gate of the hopper and reverse-direction operation of the inclined belt conveyor.
US10401211B2
Provided is an electronic balance of electromagnetic force type including a weight automatic loading mechanism which can place and remove a weight by its own mechanism without use of either an external balance weight or a built-in balance weight. An electronic balance of electromagnetic force type is provided with a beam equilibrium setting unit that sets two or more equilibrium states of the beam position detecting unit. By making conversion ratios of upper and lower light receiving circuits nonequivalent, an imaginary weight is generated by utilizing the operating principle of the electromagnetic balance of electromagnetic force type.
US10401208B2
A plastics meter housing, in particular for a fluid meter, contains a bowl-like body having a base and a thereto adjoining annular wall having hollow connection pieces integrally formed thereon and leading into the interior of the body. On the outer side of the base are configured a plurality of ribs, which radiate from a center, branch and run to the base rim. On the outer side of the wall is a plurality of wall ribs which at least partially intersect and run over at least a part of the wall height.
US10401207B2
The present approach relates to establishing metrics for the computation of uncertainty boundaries for mean values for pressure and temperature drop error and mean values for mass flow error. Using such metric, sensor inaccuracies may be accounted for in the calibration and/or estimation processes of a virtual flow meter. For example, these values may be employed in the assessment of improvement in a calibration process of virtual flow meters, which will facilitate maintaining the accuracy of such virtual flow meters.
US10401205B2
Disclosed is a valve including: a body; a closure member; and a closure member control rod, the control rod extending inside the body at least partially within a fluid flow area. The control rod includes, in the fluid flow area, at least one flowmeter including: a tubular body having two axial ends; a flow measuring device supported by the tubular body and associated with the tubular body so as to enable a flow of fluid flowing outside the tubular body to be measured, and the electrical connection; and an electrical connection extending outside of the tubular body and passing through the tubular body by at least one fluid-tight passage.
US10401195B2
A displacement detection unit includes a magnet and a magnetic detector. The magnet includes a first magnetic-pole region polarized into a south pole and a second magnetic-pole region polarized into a north pole, and generates a magnetic field around the magnet. The magnetic detector is movable relative to the magnet in a first direction, and detects a change in the magnetic field and thereby detects a displacement of the magnet in the first direction. The magnet includes a transition section in which a ratio of a magnetic volume of the second magnetic-pole region in a second direction to a magnetic volume of the first magnetic-pole region in the second direction gradually varies in the first direction. The second direction is orthogonal to the first direction.
US10401194B2
A sensor is provided for determining at least one rotation characteristic of a rotating element. The sensor includes a sensor wheel, which is connectable to the rotating element, including at least one first reading track. The reading track includes a first plurality of magnetic event timers. The sensor furthermore includes at least one magnetic sensor for detecting magnetic events generated by the first plurality of magnetic event timers. The first reading track is designed in such a way that, over a complete circumference of the sensor wheel, a magnetic field strength of the first plurality of event timers changes step-by-step from a first maximum north pole to a first maximum south pole.
US10401192B2
Disclosed is a method for counting events occurring during a period T carried out by a mechanical counter including two toothed wheels with the same pitch, the occurrence of an event causing the rotation of each wheel by an angle corresponding to the pitch of the teeth thereof, the method including: counting or calculating, for each wheel at the end of T, the difference in the number of teeth between the initial and final position thereof, the step being at least partially carried out either by an optical unit, requiring the presence on each wheel of at least one marker, or by a unit for measuring the angular displacement of each wheel and associated calculation unit; and calculating the number of occurred events N in accordance with the difference between the values counted or measured and in accordance with the number of teeth of the wheels.
US10401189B2
A computing device includes a display screen and is configured to generate and display an interactive map identifying at least one route segment. The route segment may be generated in view of a current location of the computing device and at least one of arises within a destination area, and/or connects the current location of the computing device with at least one destination or a service provider. The computing device may be configured to receive a selection of at least one of a route segment, a destination area, a destination, and a service provider and to activate at least one additional process for execution thereby. One additional process may include activating a navigation module configured to generate directions between the current location and the selection. The additional process may include outputting the directions in a humanly perceptible format. A route segment may be based on historical data.
US10401188B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method of providing data associated with a point of interest (POI), comprising determining, based on a location of a POI, a portion of digital map data of a geographic region, said digital map data comprising a plurality of segments representing navigable elements of a navigable network within the geographic region, and generating POI-map data associated with the POI indicative of at least some segments within the portion of digital map data.
US10401182B2
Systems and methods are provided for generating restriction-based navigation directions to avoid areas having location-dependent driving restrictions. An electronic device receives a user request for navigation directions from an origin location to a destination location. The electronic device determines multiple sets of navigation directions between the origin location and the destination location, and compares each set of navigation directions to locations associated with driving restrictions to identify driving restrictions that apply to the user's request for navigation directions. Based on rules associated with an identified driving restriction, and user-provided information related to the identified driving restriction, the electronic device determines whether the identified driving restriction applies to the user. Then the electronic device identifies a set of navigation directions that avoids locations associated with the identified driving restriction, and presents the identified set of navigation directions on a map display.
US10401178B2
This specification describes a method comprising causing a trackable device to transition between a first positioning mode and a second positioning mode, wherein, in the first positioning mode, the trackable device causes wireless transmission of one or more data packets each including a data portion for enabling determination of a bearing between the trackable device and a locator device and, in the second positioning mode, the trackable device causes wireless transmission of one or more data packets which do not include the data portion for enabling determination of the bearing between the trackable device and the locator device.
US10401170B2
Systems and methods for providing automatic detection of inertial sensor deployment environments are provided. In one embodiment, an environment detection system for a device having an inertial measurement unit that outputs a sequence of angular rate measurements comprises: an algorithm selector; and a plurality of environment detection paths each receiving the sequence of angular rate measurements, and each generating angular oscillation predictions using an environment model optimized for a specific operating environment. The environment model for each of the environment detection paths is optimized for a different operating environment. Each of the environment detection paths outputs a weighting factor that is a function of a probability that its environment model is a true model of a current operating environment given the sequence of angular rate measurements; and wherein the algorithm selector generates an output based on a function of the weighting factor from each of the environment detection paths.
US10401166B2
The invention comprises an apparatus and method for real-time readout of a recreational drone or UAV altitude. The invention includes an airborne sensor/transmitter unit and a ground based receiver/display unit. The airborne unit is removably attached to the flying vehicle and carried aloft. The ground based receiver/display unit is associated with the ground based operator (pilot) of the UAV. The airborne unit comprises an altitude sensor module, an RF transmitter module and a microcontroller/processor system. The ground based receiver/display unit comprises an RF receiver module, a microcontroller/processor system and a display system. UAV altitude sensed by the altitude sensor is transmitted to the ground unit for display in real-time. The invention facilitates the pilot's situational awareness, enhances safe operation and aids in compliance with applicable regulations.
US10401157B2
An optical inner surface measurement device is provided; which includes a motor; a rotary optical fiber configured to be rotated by the motor; a fixed optical fiber configured not to rotate relative to the rotary optical fiber; and a runout detection sensor configured to measure a runout amount of the rotary optical fiber, wherein an optical path conversion device is arranged at a tip end of the rotary optical fiber, at a back of the motor, both end surfaces of the rotary optical fiber and the fixed optical fiber face each other with a minute clearance, and reflected light, which is captured by the optical path conversion device, from a measurement target object inner surface is guided to a measurement machine body by way of the rotary optical fiber and the fixed optical fiber and is analyzed by a computer to produce inner surface measurement data, and the inner surface measurement data is corrected based on the runout amount detected by the runout detection sensor.
US10401156B2
A computer-implemented method for determining a quantification of the deformation of the sample is implemented using a computer device in communication with a memory. The method includes receiving, by the computer device, a first image of the sample and a second image of the sample. The method also includes registering the first image to the second image using a warping function. The warping function maps a plurality of pixels in the first image to a plurality of pixels in the second image. A first displacement field for the sample is determined based on the warping function, where the first displacement field includes at least a portion of the warping function. A first quantification of the deformation of the sample is determined based at least in part on the displacement field.
US10401155B2
A method of inspecting a structure including a photonic material using a movable inspection apparatus includes irradiating a section of the structure, receiving radiation diffracted from a photonic material in the section of the structure, determining a deformation of the photonic material as a function of at least one of i) an intensity of the radiation received ii) a position of the radiation received and iii) a wavelength of the radiation received, and determining if a magnitude of the deformation is higher than a threshold. If the magnitude of the deformation is higher than the threshold data is stored concerning the deformation of the photonic material; contrarily, if the magnitude of the deformation is not higher than the threshold: the inspection at the location of the photonic material is stopped and the inspection apparatus is moved in order to inspect another section of the structure.
US10401153B2
An optical method of measurement and an optical apparatus for determining the spatial position of at least one luminous object on a sample. A sequence of at least two compact luminous distributions of different topological families is projected onto the sample, and light re-emitted by the luminous object is detected. At least one optical image is generated for each luminous distribution on the basis of the light detected. The optical images are analyzed to obtain spatiotemporal information regarding the light re-emitted by the luminous object, or location of the luminous object.
US10401152B2
A position detection apparatus that illuminates light from a light source unit onto an object and that receives reflected light from the object on a light receiver to detect position information of the object, includes a detector (10) and a signal processor (102), the detector includes a first grating (15) in an optical path between the light source unit and the object, a second grating (16) in an optical path between the object and the light receiver, and a third grating (17) in an optical path between the second grating and the light receiver, the signal processor acquires the position information of the object based on a phase variation of the second periodic image detected by the light receiver, and the position information of the object is information related to a distance from the detector to the object.
US10401145B2
A method for calibrating an optical arrangement for determining dimensional properties of a measurement object and a coordinate measuring machine implementing the method are disclosed. The optical arrangement has a camera and a projector for projecting a first periodic pattern onto a projection area. The optical arrangement is moveable relative to a workpiece table along a first axis. A matte surface is arranged on the workpiece table at a first position relative to the optical arrangement. A second periodic pattern, which is separate from the first periodic pattern, is provided and shifted on the matte surface. Images of the second pattern are recorded using the camera and at least one distortion aberration of the camera is determined using the second periodic pattern. The first periodic pattern is projected onto the matte surface and first and second coordinates of at least one pattern point of the projected first periodic pattern are determined, the second coordinate with respect to a second axis, which is perpendicular to the first axis. The matte surface is displaced relative to the optical arrangement to a second position along the first axis and the aforementioned steps are repeated for a plurality of relative positions of the matte surface along the first axis.
US10401142B2
A system and a method for providing an indication about positioning unreliability are described. The system comprises a scanner for scanning a surface geometry of an object and accumulating 3D points for each frame using shape-based positioning; a pose estimator for estimating an estimated pose for the scanner using the 3D points; an unreliable pose detector for determining if the estimated pose has an under constrained positioning and an indication generator for generating an indication that the unreliable pose estimation is detected. In one embodiment, a degree of freedom identifier identifies a problematic degree of freedom in the estimated pose. In one embodiment, a feature point detector detects a reobservable feature point and the pose estimator uses the feature point with the 3D points to estimate the estimated pose and the unreliable pose detector uses the feature point to identify the estimated pose as an unreliable pose estimation.
US10401136B1
A tracking apparatus for use in tracking an arrow, crossbow bolt, or other suitable projectile, includes an electronics unit configured to be connected to a shaft of the projectile. The electronics unit includes a radio frequency (“RF”) module. The RF module is electrically associated with a head of the projectile to cause the head to function as a first RF radiating element. The RF module is electrically associated with the shaft to cause the shaft to function as a second RF radiating element. One of the first RF radiating element and the second RF radiating element can be a poise, and the other of the first RF radiating element and the second RF radiating element can be a counterpoise.
US10401129B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are disclosed for drone interdiction. A projectile is capable of being launched to intercept a drone. The projectile may include a set of tethers that deploy from the projectile for securing the drone. The projectile may include a recovery device that deploys from the projectile for controlling a descent of the drone.
US10401127B2
A protected firing platform protection system protects personnel from contact with the protected firing platform. In an embodiment, the protected firing platform protection system is adapted for use with a protected firing platform of a military vehicle. The protected firing platform protection system includes a blanket. The blanket has a carrier and a protective insert. The carrier has an interior. The protective insert is disposed in the interior. The blanket is attached to the protected firing platform.
US10401124B1
A firearm accessory mount can be used to mount an aiming device to a firearm. The accessory mount can include a base plate having a top and bottom side. A first scope mounting ring and a second scope mounting ring can be coupled to the base plate and separated a distance from each other. Each of the scope mounting rings can be coupled to different portions of an aiming device, such as a rifle scope. A threaded aperture can extend through the base plate and can be positioned between the scope mounting rings. A leveling screw can be inserted in the aperture and have a substantially flat top surface that extends above the top side of the base plate. When coupled to the accessory mount, a portion of the aiming device can contact the top surface of the leveling screw to level the aiming device.
US10401119B1
A small pistol device that shoots red paint pellets is intended to be used for personal protection. The pistol is disguised to appear as a rectangular cellular phone. The pistol is intended to be worn discreetly upon a user's belt using a clip. During a confrontation, a user would fire a paint pellet at the perpetrator causing the release of paint. It is intended that the perpetrator would think they have been shot, thereby providing an opportunity for the user to escape.
US10401118B2
A method provides a visual reference for establishing an archery sight setting for an archery sight employed when aiming a bow. The method includes receiving, with the touch screen display, a user-input identifying at least one feature of selected archery equipment, the selected archery equipment including the archery sight and the bow and establishing, by the processing device, the archery sight setting based at least in part on at least one feature identified by the user-input, the archery sight setting established to provide a desired level of accuracy for the selected archery equipment. The method also includes outputting, by the processing device, the archery sight setting for display in the touch screen display and employing the archery sight setting as a visual reference for adjusting the archery sight to locate at least one sight pin at a height to provide the desired level of accuracy for the selected archery equipment.
US10401117B1
A Keyway Trigger System with a dry fire prevention nock is provided for use in a crossbow. The System ensures proper, full engagement of the dry fire prevention nock with a crossbow string such that the crossbow will only fire when an arrow is loaded correctly. The nock is received in a slotted opening forming a keyway adapted to be engaged by surfaces of the profiled dry fire prevention nock such that only when an arrow is properly loaded into the keyway, aligned with trigger latch members and fully engaged with the crossbow string then the trigger moves from a non-firing position to a firing position allowing the arrow to be fired. The Keyway Trigger System prevents dry fire and partial dry fire, eliminates risk of damage to the crossbow, eliminates potential risk of injury to a user, and improves accuracy and reliability of the flight trajectory of the arrow.
US10401109B2
A cocking device for a firing pin spring of a firing pin of a weapon, the firing pin being integrated into a breech. This firing pin spring is cocked during the pre-run of the control slide, by means of a cocking slide on the weapon, said cocking slide having a cocking curve, in which a pin of a cocking rocker is engaged.
US10401104B2
Magazine release button interference pin assembly and AR-style lower receiver functions to prevent the depression of the magazine release button on an AR-style rifle while the upper receiver is closed or locked onto the lower receiver. Magazine release button interference pin assembly and AR-style lower receiver prevents magazine release and reloading while the upper receiver is closed or locked onto the lower receiver. Magazine release button interference pin assembly and AR-style lower receiver is a magazine release button interference pin assembly as well as a specially machined lower receiver to accept the magazine release button interference pin assembly. Magazine release button interference pin assembly includes a special magazine release button interference pin with at least two protrusions, a spring, and a retaining pin.
US10401098B2
At least some aspects of the present disclosure feature a tubular convective device, comprising: a blown film forming a tube when inflated, the blown film having a first portion and a second portion, wherein the first portion and the second portion are separated longitudinally, and a plurality of apertures disposed on the first portion of the blown film. At least some aspects of the present disclosure feature a tubular convective system including a plurality of tubular convective devices, where adjacent tubular convective devices are connected.
US10401094B2
A water-cooled heat rejection heat exchanger is provided and includes a housing having first and second opposing end plates and sidewalls extending between the end plates to form an enclosure, at least the first end plate including first and second inlet/outlet pairs for first and second fluids, respectively, a plurality of plates disposed within the enclosure between the first and second end plates to define a first fluid pathway disposed in fluid communication with the first inlet/outlet pair and a second fluid pathway disposed in fluid communication with the second inlet/outlet pair and a plurality of brazed formations disposed between adjacent ones of the first end plate, the plurality of plates and the second end plate to isolate the first fluid pathway from the second fluid pathway.
US10401083B2
The plant is used for producing oxygen by cryogenic air separation. The plant has a high-pressure column, a low-pressure column and a main condenser. An argon-elimination column is in fluid connection with an intermediate point of the low-pressure column and is connected to an argon-elimination column head condenser. An auxiliary column has a sump region, into which gas is introduced from the argon-elimination column head condenser. The head of the auxiliary column is connected to a return flow liquid line, in order to introduce a liquid stream from the high-pressure column or the head condenser. The liquid stream has an oxygen content which is at least equal to that of air. At least one part of the crude liquid oxygen from the sump of the high-pressure column is fed to the auxiliary column at a first intermediate point.
US10401080B2
A method for operating a refrigerator appliance includes operating a dispenser of the refrigerator appliance to initiate a flow of liquid water or ice into a container positioned within a dispensing recess of the dispenser in response to a user input at a user input panel of the refrigerator appliance, receiving one or more signals from a sensor positioned at the dispensing recess after operating the dispenser to initiate the flow of liquid water or ice into the dispensing recess, and detecting a presence of the container in the dispensing recess based at least in part on the one or more signals from the sensor only after operating the dispenser to initiate the flow of liquid water or ice into the dispensing recess. A related refrigerator appliance is also provided.
US10401079B2
A handle assembly for mounting to a door of a refrigerator includes a main body member having first and second end portions separated by an intermediate portion. Each of the first and second end portions includes a cavity adapted to receive an end insert formed of soft material. Each of the end inserts includes an attachment member. The handle is mounted to a front face of the door through interengagment of the attachment members and base members provided on the door without scratching the surface of the door.
US10401078B2
A refrigerator door and a manufacturing method of the same are disclosed. The refrigerator door includes a front panel that includes a first through hole and an input unit, a door liner, an upper cap decoration unit configured to seal an upper side of a first space defined between the front panel and the door liner, a frame attached to an inside of the front panel and defining a second space, a display assembly provided between the frame and the front panel and configured to emit light through the first through hole, and a touch sensor assembly provided between the frame and the front panel, the touch sensor assembly being fixed to a rear of the front panel at a position that corresponds to a location of the input unit. The upper cap decoration unit includes a communication hole for communicating with the second space and includes a cap cover.
US10401076B2
The present invention relates to a cooling and/or freezing apparatus with at least one cooled internal space and with at least one door provided with at least one handle, the at least one door configured to close the cooled internal space, wherein the apparatus includes at least one dispenser with at least one delivery opening for the delivery of at least one medium, in particular water and/or ice, wherein the handle includes the delivery opening of the dispenser.
US10401065B2
Provided is an expansion valve, including: a case having a valve chamber formed therein; and a valve element arranged in the valve chamber. The case includes: a side wall portion to which a first pipe is connected; and an end wall portion to which a second pipe is connected. The end wall portion has a fluid communication hole to be opened and closed by the valve element. The fluid communication hole is formed so that the following expression is satisfied: L<λ/2, where L represents an axial length of the fluid communication hole, and λ represents a resonance wavelength.
US10401064B2
A heat pump performs a simultaneous air-conditioning and heating operation through the addition of a flow path switching apparatus. The heat pump may include a plurality of outdoor units, a plurality of indoor units, and a plurality of flow path switching apparatuses that switch a flow path between an outdoor unit and an indoor unit. A refrigerant flow path may be formed from the outdoor unit to the indoor unit via a high-pressure gas pipe. The flow path switching apparatuses may switch a flow path so that a refrigerant flow path is formed from the indoor unit to the outdoor unit via a low-pressure gas pipe. The heat pump may further include an indoor unit mode controller that is connected to the plurality of outdoor units through a liquid pipe, and which is connected to each of the plurality of flow path switching apparatuses.
US10401060B2
In an air conditioning apparatus, an expansion valve is determined to be in a fully closed state when a refrigerant temperature in an outlet of an indoor heat exchanger and a refrigerant temperature in an inlet or an intermediate part of the indoor heat exchanger satisfy a closed-valve condition. The temperature in the outlet is detected by a gas-side temperature sensor. The temperature in the inlet or the intermediate part is detected by a liquid-side temperature sensor. The closed-valve condition is in relation to a refrigerant evaporation temperature obtained by converting a refrigerant pressure in an intake side of a compressor to a refrigerant saturation temperature, and in relation to an air temperature of an air-conditioned space cooled by the indoor heat exchanger. The pressure in the intake side is detected by an intake pressure sensor. The air temperature is detected by an indoor temperature sensor.
US10401055B2
A heat exchanger tube includes a first pass for at least partially combusting a fuel and the first pass having a modified shape including a minor diameter and major diameter that reduces the external pressure drop of an external fluid flowing across the heat exchanger tube. A HVACR system includes a heat exchanger tube with a first heat exchange pass that at least partially combusts a fuel and has a modified shape. A method of making a heat exchanger including configuring a first heat exchange pass such that the major diameter of modified portion of the first heat exchange pass is oriented towards an incoming direction of the process fluid.
US10401035B2
A knob assembly for a gas cooktop is provided that includes a receptacle mounted between a valve and a knob. The knob directly mounts to a knob control rod and is configured to mount in a vertical plane perpendicular to a plane defined by a horizontal support surface for a cooking receptacle. The receptacle includes a receptacle abutment wall, a receptacle wall extending from the receptacle abutment wall, and a control rod aperture wall formed through the receptacle abutment wall. The control rod aperture wall is sized and positioned to support insertion of the knob control rod therethrough. The receptacle abutment wall is configured to abut a back of a control panel when the knob assembly is mounted to the control panel. The receptacle wall is sized and positioned within a knob aperture wall formed through the control panel when the knob assembly is mounted to the control panel.
US10401032B2
A device comprising a combustion toroid for receiving combustion-induced centrifugal forces therein to continuously combust fluids located therein and an outlet for exhaust from said combustion toroid.
US10401029B2
A device for cooling a wall of a component of a gas turbine, where a flow passes parallel to the wall, having at least one inflow duct provided in the wall that issues into a recess of the wall for supplying cooling air, wherein a center axis of the inflow duct is aligned to an impact wall of double-convex design inside the recess.
US10401027B2
A non-return valve having an accumulation damper movable relative to a housing and shaped like a bowl to accumulate condensate running down from the chimney. The non-return valve has a smaller floating damper made of a material having a density less than water for resting against the accumulation damper when the appliance is in standstill and sealing the drainage holes in the accumulation damper when the condensate accumulation is below a threshold. Once condensate accumulates in the accumulation damper beyond the threshold, the floating damper is buoyed by the condensate thereby breaking the seal with the drainage holes and permitting the condensate to drain through drainage holes in the accumulation damper. When the appliance is operational, exhaust from the appliance lifts the floating damper and, in some cases, the accumulation damper also, to permit exhaust of combustion gases up the chimney.
US10401015B2
A light source module includes at least one light source emitting light, and a body supporting the light source. The body includes a heat sink absorbing heat from the light source and dissipating the heat to the outside, an insulating layer having electrical insulating properties, the insulating layer being provided on at least one surface of the heat sink, and a conductive layer provided on the insulating layer to enable electric current to flow therein. The conductive layer includes an electrically conductive layer providing a path region in which electric current is applied to the light source, and a heat dissipation conductive layer diffusing generated by the light source. Accordingly, it is possible to obtain effects such as rapid fabrication processes, inexpensive fabrication cost, facilitation of mass production, improvement of product yield, and promotion of heat dissipation. Furthermore, it is possible to obtain various effects that can be understood through configurations described in embodiments.
US10401006B2
Disclosed is a compact portable light tower that can be stacked or nested. The light tower employs a scissors lift mechanism to raise a set of bar lights from a housing having a height of about 28″ and a length of about 60″, to an extended height of about 360″. The scissors lift is extended and retracted by use of a linear actuator. Batteries or an engine/generator assembly is employed for operation of the actuator and light bar. The housing can be stacked for ease of storage and transportation. Outriggers provide stabilization of ground engagement.
US10401005B1
A self-rightening riser base self-rightens a riser coupled thereto when knocked from a desired orientation by an object. A riser coupler aperture in the riser base is oversized to allow the riser to move and deflect. A floating flange is configured an offset distance under the cap and is attached to the cap by spring bolts that extend down through the cap to the floating flange. The riser is coupled to the floating flange by a riser coupler. The spring bolt apertures in the cap are oversized to allow the spring bolts to move therein and therefore allow the floating flange and riser coupled thereto to deflect. An electrical fixture may extend through the riser coupler and through a conduit in the riser to an electrical fixture, such as a light. A grommet may be configured in the riser coupler aperture of the cap and prevent water from passing therethrough.
US10400990B2
A light module for a lighting equipment of a motor vehicle including at least one semiconductor light source, which is arranged on a circuit carrier and with a reflector, which is coated with a lacquer and which comprises a mounting section that is coated with the lacquer, which features a broad side and a narrow side and onto which the circuit carrier is attached by a glue connection. The mounting section comprises a surface, out of which projections protrude, which are coated with the lacquer and on which the circuit carrier rests with a distance to the remaining surface of the mounting section and wherein the glue connection is carried out by a glue that is applied next to the projections or between the projections on at least part of the remaining surface of the mounting section.
US10400988B2
A light emitting module may include a board, at least one light source unit provided on the board, an optical member provided on the at least one light source unit, and a reflection unit provided between the board and the optical member in an inclined state beside at least one light source unit. The reflection unit may be provided closer to the optical member than to the board and may include a pattern having lower reflectance than other constructions of the light emitting module.
US10400978B2
A vehicle taillight is disclosed. The vehicle taillight comprises an at least partially light transmissive layer and at least one light generating layer configured to substantially coat a portion of the transmissive layer. The light generating layer comprises a plurality of electrodes and a plurality of LEDs in a semiconductor ink disposed between the electrodes. The light generating layer is operable to emit an excitation emission. The taillight further comprises at least one photoluminescent layer proximate at least one of the electrodes configured to convert the excitation emission to an output emission.
US10400974B2
An illumination device, a headlight, and a movable body are provided which can increase luminosity and resolution at a central region or a peripheral region in an illuminable region. A primary lens is placed at a light emission side of a plurality of light sources, and the primary lens includes a plurality of light guides corresponding in a one-to-one relationship to the plurality of light sources. A size of a light exit surface of a light guide corresponding to a light source which illuminates a central region in the illuminable region of the headlight is set to differ from a size of a light exit surface of a light guide corresponding to a light source which illuminates a peripheral region surrounding the central region.
US10400968B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to devices and methods for facilitating the operations and usage of electronic candle devices. In one exemplary aspect, an imitation candle device is disclosed. The imitation candle device comprises a body; a flame element protruding from top of the body; one or more light sources providing illumination for the flame element to produce an appearance of a true fire flame; a tapered chamber with an opening; a sensor component positioned at an end of the tapered chamber, the sensor component operable to produce an electrical signal in response to an input signal; and an electronic control circuitry coupled to the power supply operable to: receive the electrical signal, classify the electrical signal into a category among a plurality of categories, and control at least an output of the one or more light sources based on the electrical signal and the category of the electrical signal.
US10400964B2
A retrofit LED lighting fixture for retrofitting alight source in a small recessed area. The retrofit LED lighting fixture has a junction box (200) installable through a luminaire housing (100) to fit within the small recessed area. A light engine module (300) is removably attached within the luminaire housing (100).
US10400957B2
An LP gas evacuation system for evacuating LP gas from a vehicle fuel tank includes an inlet port for connection to an excess flow valve associated with the vehicle fuel tank to receive LP gas from the vehicle fuel tank, an outlet port for connection to a storage tank, and a pump coupled between the inlet port and the outlet port. The pump is operable to pump the LP gas from the vehicle fuel tank via the inlet port to the storage tank via the outlet port. The pump is a pneumatically driven displacement pump that can effectively pump both liquid phase LP gas and gas phase LP gas. The pump has seals formed from a material substantially resistant to degradation by contact with the LP gas. The LP gas evacuation system further includes a pneumatic pressure regulator configured to receive a supply of compressed air and to provide compressed air at a desired pressure to the pump. A housing of the evacuation system has a control panel including a switch to selectively supply the compressed air to the pump, pressure gauges to display LP gas pressure at the inlet port and the outlet port, and a sight glass coupled between the pump and the outlet port to permit visual inspection of the LP gas being transferred from the pump to the storage tank.
US10400954B2
A gas delivery system including: a feeder for feeding a gas to a tank; a pressure storage container unit which has a plurality of pressure storage containers, and sends out the gas to the feeder; a gas supply unit; and a controller. The controller implements a storing operation that a specified pressure storage among the plurality of pressure storage containers is supplied with the gas until a pressure of the specified pressure storage container reaches a reference pressure or greater, after finish of a delivery of the gas to one tank carrier, and a sending operation that the gas is sent out from another pressure storage container except the specified pressure storage container to the feeder, and then sent out from the specified pressure storage container to the feeder on a receipt of a shift indication from the feeder, at a delivery of the gas to a subsequent tank carrier.
US10400949B1
A hanger system has a mount and a removable insert. The mount is formed from a single material and has mounting apertures to affix the mount to a wall or other vertical surface. The mount has a pocket to receive a keystone portion of the insert. The insert is formed from a single material and has an aperture extending therethrough that allows a separate device or component to be affixed. The insert mates to the mount when the keystone portion of the insert is received by a keystone pocket in the mount. The mount has tapered surfaces that contact complimentary tapered surfaces on the keystone portion of the insert. The user installs the mount to the surface with fasteners in the mounting apertures. The insert is mated to the mount by placing the keystone portion in the keystone pocket.
US10400948B2
An apparatus (1) for regulating at least one fluid flow in a vehicle (5), having a first fluid regulation unit (20), in particular a pump or a valve, for regulating a first fluid flow, and a first holder (20) with a receiving region (22) for the first fluid regulation unit (10) and with a first fastening means (28), wherein the first fluid regulation unit (10) is arranged in the receiving region (22) of the first holder (20), and wherein the first fastening means (28) is provided for fastening the holder (20) to the vehicle (5). The first holder (20) has at least one connecting means (26) for connecting the first holder (20) to a second holder (70).
US10400946B2
The display supporting apparatus includes a base, a first arm, a second arm, and a display attachment bracket designed to be fixedly securable or attachable to a display. The display support apparatus further includes a mechanism for providing a constant orientation in relation to the base for the plane bisecting the range of rotation of the second arm about the pivot axis between the first arm and the second arm even as the first arm moves pivotally relative to the base.
US10400936B2
Conduit system for conveying fluids is described. The conduit system comprises a conduit, a tubular, and a sealing component. The tubular is positioned radially interior of an inner surface of the conduit along a length. The tubular comprises a polymeric material. The sealing component is positioned proximate the distal end of the tubular in an annulus formed between an outer surface of the tubular and the inner surface of the conduit, the sealing component constructed and arranged to seal the annulus. Methods for reducing corrosion of or providing pressure integrity to a conduit are also described.
US10400930B2
A quick-disconnect coupling including a hollow coupler body having opposite open ends and defining an adaptor-receiving socket therein, a gasket housed within the coupler body at a base of the adaptor-receiving socket, the gasket having a sealing ring and a bellows portion, and at least one locking tab connected to the coupler body such that the at least one locking tab is able to pivot relative to the coupler body between a locking position and an unlocking position for purposes of locking and releasing an adaptor to the coupler body.
US10400927B2
An earthquake-resistant flexible slip joint apparatus includes a joint outer part including an outer portion, an end connection portion, and an inner portion, and a slip inner part, wherein a pressurizing space is formed to be surrounded by the outer portion, the end connection portion, and the inner portion of the joint outer part, the inner portion includes a packing portion at a region thereof spaced apart from the end connection portion, the inner portion further includes an inner crimped portion and the packing portion, and an adhesion between the inner portion and the slip inner part increases due to a pressure of a conveyed fluid, the pressure being applied via the pressurizing space, and the inner crimped portion is elastically deformed when the slip inner part moves in up, down, left, and right directions, so that the conveyed fluid does not leak to the outside.
US10400923B2
A gasket capable of sealing against multiple sealing surfaces, comprising an inner seal ring for sealing against inner sealing surfaces, an outer seal ring for sealing against outer sealing surfaces, one or more intermediate seal rings for sealing against one or more intermediate sealing surfaces, and a connector member for connecting the inner seal ring, one or more intermediate seal rings and the outer seal ring. In some embodiments, the gasket includes a retaining feature for securing the gasket in place and a removal feature for removing the gasket. In some embodiments, the various components of the gasket (e.g., seal rings, connector members, retaining feature, etc.) are composed of different materials (e.g., metal, metal alloy, plastic, rubber, ceramic and/or glass).
US10400920B2
A double skinned feed or scavenge pipe assembly comprises; an inner pipe (22) and an outer pipe (23) enclosing the inner pipe and defining an annular space (24) between the inner pipe and the outer pipe and a sleeve (28) configured to slip over the outer pipe (23). Complementary threads (29) are provided on an outer wall of the outer pipe (23) and an inner wall of the sleeve (28). A lock, for example in the form of a locking nut (31) is positioned over the outer pipe (23) when the complementary threads (29) of the outer pipe and sleeve are engaged. The configuration of the assembly is such that, in use, the sleeve (28) is slidable between a first position where the inner pipe (22) is accessible and a second position wherein the inner pipe (22) is completely enclosed.
US10400919B2
A tube and method for sizing the effective inside diameter of the tube to a smaller effective inside diameter is provided. The method uses rollers that apply focused pressure to the tube to create a crease that reduces the effective inside diameter without substantially changing the outside envelope of the tube. The crease may be either a radius or squared. Reducing the effective inside diameter of the tube creates radiused surfaces for a self-tapping screw to cut threads.
US10400917B2
In a locking structure of a cable tie, the cable tie includes a strap portion and a head portion. A first locking hole at a proximal end of the strap portion, and a second locking hole of the head portion, are formed in a shape wherein their widths in a short-side direction of the strap portion are longer than those in a longitudinal direction of the strap portion, and include a first inner wall surface and a second inner wall surface, respectively, that extend in a direction substantially orthogonal to the longitudinal direction of the strap portion, on the side nearer to the proximal end of the cable tie. The distal end of the strap portion has a protruded portion that protrudes through the first locking hole and into the second locking hole.
US10400915B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of magnetically controlled valve and pump systems that can be used to control and facilitate fluid flow in fluidic devices. Various types of magnetically controlled valves and pumps are described as well as methods of magnetically-controlling such valves and pumps.
US10400911B2
The present disclosure relates to pressure relief and pressure regulating valves. More particularly, the disclosure relates to a miniature in-line fuel pressure regulator having a regulator body that includes a housing member and an adjusting member, a pin axially disposed within the regulator body, the pin including an upper end having a circumferential groove, a lower end having a fluid inlet, one or more fluid discharge ports, and a fluid passageway connecting the fluid inlet to the one or more fluid discharge ports, an elastomeric O-ring conformingly positioned within the circumferential groove on the upper end of the pin so that the elastomeric O-ring contacts the raised annular valve seat when the fluid pressure regulator is closed, and a biasing member coupled to the pin and configured to maintain the elastomeric O-ring in contact with the raised annular valve seat to control an opening pressure of the fluid pressure regulator.
US10400900B2
A multiport ball valve body has one entry port and at least two exit ports disposed transversely to the ball valve body entry port. A ball disposed in the body has one entry port and one exit port that is disposed transversely to the ball entry port. The ball can be rotated to selectively align the ball exit port with one of the at least two body exit ports. Holes through the ball admit part of the fluid flow into the cavity between the ball and the body, and internal parts are exposed, such that the cavity and the internal parts are kept flushed.
US10400899B2
Fluid flow control apparatus for use with fluid valves are disclosed. An apparatus includes a plug for a sliding stem fluid valve. The plug has a first portion slidably coupled to a second portion. The apparatus also includes a cavity formed in an outer circumferential surface of the plug by the first portion and the second portion. A dimension of the cavity changes when the first portion slides relative to the second portion to displace a seal disposed in the cavity. The seal sealingly engages a cage of the fluid valve when the second portion contacts a seat of the fluid valve.
US10400894B2
A sensor device is provided for detecting a shifting position of a vehicle transmission. The vehicle transmission includes a transmission chamber, in which transmission elements are arranged. The sensor device includes a bar element, which extends from the transmission chamber into a secondary chamber sealed off from the transmission chamber and is arranged such that the bar element can be moved in dependence on the shifting position. The bar element has an interface arranged in the transmission chamber for coupling the bar element to a transmission element positioned in dependence on the shifting position and an accommodating segment arranged in the secondary chamber. The sensor device also has a transducer element, which is attached to the accommodating segment of the bar element. The sensor device also has a detecting device for detecting a position of the transducer element depending on the shifting position or a motion of the transducer element depending on a change in the shifting position.
US10400884B2
The invention relates to a method for the manufacturing of a bearing element of a shift device for a motor vehicle transmission. In a first process step a bearing element is provided, which comprises at least one projection and a coupling joint for the mechanical coupling of a selector lever in order to select a shift position of a motor vehicle transmission. The projection is overmolded by means of an assembly injection molding process with a bearing bushing material in order to form a bearing bushing to mount the bearing element in a moveable manner.
US10400883B2
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a gear comprising: gear teeth, a cone wall having an interior surface that forms a chamber, where the gear teeth extend circumferentially from a distal end of the cone wall, a dam that extends radially inward on the interior surface and is axially disposed between the cone wall and the gear teeth, and at least one aperture formed in the cone wall to allow fluid on the interior surface to exit the chamber, where the at least one aperture is located a first distance from the gear teeth along a length of the gear and the dam is located a second distance from the gear teeth along the length of the gear, and where the first distance is greater than the second distance.
US10400882B2
A product and method for assembling multiple components using an interference fit. An assembled product includes a first component, with a second component configured to mate with the first component so that the second component is removable from the first component for a positional adjustment. A third component is configured to mate with the first component and to be engaged therewith by a first interference fit. The first interference fit is configured to impart a resultant reaction in the first component that creates a second interference fit between the first and second components.
US10400881B1
A gear housing includes a first receptacle, a second receptacle, an elongated receptacle, a connecting portion, and a mounting arm. The first receptacle is configured to house a worm wheel. The second receptacle is configured to house an output gear. The elongated receptacle is configured to house a first portion of a shaft of a drive assembly. The elongated receptacle extends at least partly alongside the first receptacle and the second receptacle. The connecting portion is connectable to another housing that houses a second portion of the shaft of the drive assembly. The mounting arm extends outward from the first receptacle. The mounting arm is disposed between circumferentially adjacent fastening components along a periphery of the first receptacle. The first fastening component is disposed at a juncture between the first receptacle and the second receptacle. The second fastening component overlaps a part of the elongated receptacle.
US10400877B2
Drive device for a motor vehicle, includes a differential for distributing a torque that can be supplied via a drive shaft to two output shafts and a superimposition gear coupled with the differential one of the output shafts and an additional motor for superimposing torques supplied from the output shaft, from the differential and from the additional motor, wherein the differential is coupled via a torque reducing transmission ratio device with the superimposition gear, wherein the superimposition gear includes a switching device that can be controlled with a control device, wherein the superimposition gear superimposes in a first switching mode torques supplied to the switching device from the output shaft.
US10400874B2
A torque converter that is downsized in an axial direction utilizing existing space is provided. A pump impeller, a turbine runner, a lockup clutch, an elastic damper, and a planetary unit are held in a housing. A torsional vibration damping device is arranged concentrically with the lockup clutch. An input element is arranged concentrically with the lockup clutch while being connected to the lockup clutch and a drive member. An output element is connected to a driven member.
US10400860B2
A transmission arrangement with a first rotatably mounted drive-side shaft paired with a first drive toothing; a second rotatably mounted drive-side side shaft paired with a second drive toothing; a rotatably mounted ouput-side shaft paired with an output toothing; a first number of first planet shafts, each of the first planet shafts being paired with a first planet toothing and a third planet toothing; and a second number of second planet shafts, each being paired with a second planet toothing and a fourth planet toothing. The first drive-side shaft and the second drive-side shaft are coaxially relative to each other; the first planet toothing engaged with the first drive toothing; the second planet toothing engaged with the second drive toothing; and the third planet toothing and the fourth planet toothing are engaged with the output toothing.
US10400857B2
Provided is a silent chain. The silent chain includes a first guide plate having a first outer groove in a rear surface thereof, a second guide plate spaced apart from the first guide plate in a first direction, a first middle plate disposed between the first and second guide plates, at least one first inner plate disposed between the first middle plate and the first guide plate and having first inner grooves in a rear surface thereof, at least one second inner plate disposed between the first middle plate and the second guide plate, and a first connection pin configured to connect the first and second guide plates, the first and second inner plates, and the first middle plate to each other. The first inner groove and the first outer groove are located on an imaginary first line.
US10400843B2
A damper includes a cylinder, a piston, a piston rod, a rod-side fluid chamber, a piston-side fluid chamber, an annular fluid chamber, and a stopper mechanism. The cylinder includes an inner tube and an outer tube. The rod-side fluid chamber is defined by the piston in the inner tube on a lower end side. The piston-side fluid chamber is defined by the piston in the inner tube on an upper end side. The annular fluid chamber is between the inner and outer tubes. At least one communication hole communicates the rod-side fluid chamber with the annular fluid chamber. A communication passage communicates the rod-side fluid chamber with the annular fluid chamber. A check valve in the communication passage allows fluid to flow from the annular fluid chamber to the rod-side fluid chamber and disallows the fluid to flow from the rod-side fluid chamber to the annular fluid chamber.
US10400840B2
A test stand for an unmanned aerial vehicle comprising: a base arranged to make contact with the ground; a frame extending from the base, the frame comprising at least a first side portion and a second side portion that define a space therebetween; and a mount slidably attached to the frame within the space, the mount configured to affix to an unmanned aerial vehicle such that the mount and the unmanned aerial vehicle slide within the defined space in a direction parallel to the frame during a test flight.
US10400838B2
A caliper hardware clip including a frame having a top edge, a bottom edge, and a front surface, a first recess formed in the front surface to receive an end of a first brake pad, a second recess formed in the front surface to receive an end of a second brake pad, a separator integrally formed with the frame, the separator including a bridge portion extending forward from a central portion of the top edge of the frame, a first spring arm extending down and left from a left side of the bridge portion along the front surface of the frame, and a second spring arm extending down and right from a right side of the bridge portion along the front surface of the frame.
US10400837B2
A brake carrier and a method of manufacture. The brake carrier may have leading and trailing brake pad abutments. The leading brake pad abutment may have an unmachined leading wall surface and an unmachined leading floor surface. The trailing brake pad abutment may have a trailing wall surface and a trailing floor surface, at least one of which may be machined.
US10400826B2
A method for forming a propshaft assembly that includes: providing a propshaft tube having a wall member that defines an inner tubular surface; providing a yoke with a yoke body and a pair of yoke arms that extend from the yoke body, the yoke body defining first and second locating portions and an adhesive groove that is disposed between the first and second locating portions; assembling the yoke to the propshaft tube such that the first locating portion engages the inner tubular surface in a slip-fit manner and the second locating portion engages the inner tubular surface in an interference-fit manner; heating the propshaft tube and the yoke; and injecting an adhesive through the propshaft tube into the adhesive groove when the propshaft tube and the yoke are at a temperature that is greater than or equal to a predetermined minimum adhesive injection temperature. A propshaft assembly is also provided.
US10400824B2
An oil seal structure includes: a bearing unit for a shaft, being provided in a housing hole of a bearing housing; a damper positioned outside the bearing unit in a radial direction of the shaft to absorb vibration of the shaft; a seal body portion facing the damper through a gap in an axial direction of the shaft; a partition wall positioned between the damper and the seal body portion to divide the gap into a first space on the damper side and a second space on the seal body portion side; and a guide portion provided in the partition wall to be closer to an oil drain port than the shaft and having: an inner side in the radial direction of the shaft, being positioned on the first space side; and an outer side in the radial direction of the shaft, being positioned on the second space side.
US10400823B2
A cage segment for a bearing rotatable around an axis being able to receive a plurality of rolling elements configured to travel on two annular raceways respectively on inner and outer rings of the bearing, and including an inner wall that extends circumferentially in the form of a cylinder, the axis of symmetry being the axis (X1), an outer wall that extends circumferentially in the form of a cylinder, the axis of symmetry being the axis (X1), two end portions that are circumferentially opposed, which extend radially with respect to the axis (X1) and which connect together the inner wall and the outer wall, a plurality of successive pockets for receiving the rolling elements, so that two successive pockets are circumferentially delimitated by a radial beam, The radial beam extending radially with respect to the axis (X1), the radial beam comprising two end portions so that one end portion connects with the inner wall and the other end portion connects with the outer wall, The radial beam provides a first recess that extends axially with respect to the axis (X1).
US10400814B2
A system to prevent fouling in rigging is provided that includes a first plate configured to be received on a first side of a thimble for a cable end, and a second plate configured to be received on a second side of the thimble. The first plate and second plate are configured to enable the thimble to receive a ring of a shackle assembly, but to block at least one end of the shackle assembly from entering an eye of the thimble while the first and second plates are on the first and second sides of the thimble.
US10400803B2
A friction connecting means includes a receiving element and engagement elements. The receiving element has a pressure pocket provided with a carbon fiber composite material layer.
US10400789B2
In a compressor, comprising a housing including a flow-through air guiding section with an inlet duct, a wheel chamber formed downstream of the inlet duct for accommodating a compressor wheel, and a spiral duct formed downstream of the wheel chamber, wherein flow slots are formed in a transition region connecting the inlet duct with the wheel chamber, and the transition region extends both in the directions of the inlet duct and of the wheel chamber along a leading edge of the compressor wheel, the flow slots each extend along an axial first length (L1) and along a radial length (RL) with a cross-section (Q), which cross-section (Q) changes over the axial first length (L1) of the flow slots.
US10400787B2
A sealing device is described, for separating a first compartment from a second compartment in a turbomachine, a wet gas being processed in the first compartment. The sealing device comprises a rotary component and a stationary component. A sealing member is arranged between the rotary component and the stationary component. The device further comprises an annular wet-particles collector and an oil-jet element, mounted on the rotary component for rotation therewith. The oil-jet element is surrounded by the annular wet-particles collector, such that wet particles contacting the oil-jet element are projected by centrifugal force into the annular wet-particles collector.
US10400780B2
The present invention relates to an improved structure of fan blades, which comprises a hub, a connecting part, and a plurality of fan blades. The connecting part has a coupling section and a plurality of slits. The connecting part is sleeved around the perimeter of the hub through the coupling section. The slits are circularly disposed close to the perimeter of the connecting part. The fan blades individually have a first end and a second end; the first ends are individually embedded in the slits and combined with the connecting part. Be means of the present invention, the disadvantage of the combination through a non-integrated structure of the fan blades and the hub in the prior art can be overcome.
US10400778B2
A centrifugal pump including a pump chamber, a wear plate, and a rotatable impeller is disclosed. The wear plate has a suction inlet. The pump chamber includes a high pressure region around the impeller within the pump chamber. The impeller's front face has portion located adjacent the wear plate to form a recirculation zone in fluid communication with the high pressure region. Another portion of the impeller's front face forms a small running clearance between it and a portion of the wear plate. That running clearance is interposed between the recirculation zone and the suction inlet. The wear plate includes plural deflector vanes projecting into the recirculation zone. A portion of the front face of the impeller includes plural pump-out vanes in the recirculation zone. The deflector vanes cooperate with the pump-out vanes to expel abrasive particles and prevent them from collecting and eroding the running clearance.
US10400775B2
A vacuum valve attached to a vacuum pump configured to generate regenerative power to perform a stop operation upon blackout, comprises: a first power input section to which power is input from a commercial power source; a second power input section to which the regenerative power generated at the vacuum pump is input; and a valve source circuit to which the power input to each of the first and second power input sections is supplied. When the power from the commercial power source is supplied to the first power input section, the vacuum valve is operated by the supplied power, and when the power from the commercial power source is stopped, the vacuum valve is operated by the regenerative power.
US10400764B2
A valve seat includes a generally cylindrical body that defines a bore extending axially therethrough and has an outer surface. An enlarged diameter portion extends axially from the generally cylindrical body and defines a shoulder surface and an annular surface disposed opposite the shoulder surface; the annular surface is configured to form a seal with a displaceable portion of a valve. An annular notch is formed in the outer surface of the generally cylindrical body, and it extends a distance from a shoulder surface. The annular notch decouples a stiffness of the enlarged diameter portion to thereby increase a radial compressibility of the generally cylindrical body. An annular channel is formed in the outer surface of the generally cylindrical body and is disposed axially below the annular notch. The annular channel is configured to receive a hydraulic fluid to compress radially the generally cylindrical body.
US10400763B2
The present invention belongs to the technological field of the head fastening and its components to the block of a compressor, such as those used in cooling systems of household appliances. The head fastening arrangement of cooling compressor includes a head arranged by the cylinder of the cooling compressor and having a head lid; at least one supporting device also arranged by the cylinder; at least one element of union of the head lid to the supporting device, wherein the element of union is capable of transmitting force that presses the head lid and the supporting device against the cylinder.
US10400761B2
A long stroke pumping unit includes a tower, a counterweight assembly movable along the tower, a crown mounted atop the tower, and a drum supported by the crown and rotatable relative thereto. A belt has a first end connected to the counterweight assembly and a second end connectable to a rod string, and the belt extends over the drum. A linear electromagnetic motor is used to reciprocate the counterweight assembly along the tower. The linear electromagnetic motor includes a traveler mounted to an exterior of the counterweight assembly and a stator extending from a base of the tower to the crown and along a guide rail of the tower. The pumping unit further includes a sensor for detecting position of the counterweight assembly.
US10400755B2
Provided is a state monitoring system that monitors a state of an apparatus provided in a wind turbine, including a wireless measuring unit including a sensor provided to the apparatus, and a data collection. The wireless measuring unit includes a memory storing measured data obtained from the sensor, and a wireless communication unit transmitting the measured data obtained from the sensor to the data collection device. When the data collection device has not been able to receive the measured data from the wireless measuring unit, the data collection device requests the wireless measuring unit to retransmit the measured data.
US10400744B2
A wind turbine blade assembly includes a rotor blade having exterior surfaces defining a pressure side, a suction side, a leading edge and a trailing edge, each extending between a blade tip and a root. The rotor blade additionally defining a span and a chord. The blade assembly further includes a plurality of micro boundary layer energizers positioned on a surface of the pressure side of the rotor blade. The plurality of micro boundary layer energizers extending one of above or below a neutral plane of the rotor blade. The micro boundary layer energizers are shaped and positioned chordwise to delay separation of a boundary layer at a low angle of attack. A wind turbine including the blade assembly is additionally disclosed.
US10400740B2
When traversed by a flow of water, a hydraulic machine rotating part rotates around an axis of rotation. It includes runners which are distributed around the axis of rotation and each extend between a leading edge and a trailing edge. Each runner can include a first part which defines its leading edge and a second part which is attached to the first part and defines the trailing edge at least in part. The second part can be elastically deformable or displaceable in a reversible manner with respect to the first part, under the action of the flow of water, the second part defining, when the machine operates, the direction of the flow of water downstream of the runner.
US10400715B2
A stand-alone air filter assembly has a unitary molded plastic preform shell, with the preform shell including an inlet section, an outlet section, and a hose connection section integral with a downstream end of the outlet section. A filter media pack including a fluted filter media member is fitted inside the inlet section of the preform shell through which unfiltered air enters the air filter assembly. The outlet section of the preform shell through which filtered air leaves the air filter assembly converges from a larger, first cross-sectional area of the inlet section to a smaller, second cross-sectional area at the downstream end of the outlet section, and the outlet section includes one or more sensor ports that are each configured to support a sensor for measuring a characteristic of the filtered air leaving the air filter assembly. The hose connection section includes an annular hose bead interface formed around an outer circumference thereof for sealing engagement with a hose fluidly coupling the air filter assembly to an air intake on an engine.
US10400714B2
A heat exchanger for cooling heated gas using a liquid coolant includes a tubular housing with one or more intake apertures circumferentially spaced around a coolant distribution portion of the housing. A tube retention cap sealedly engages the front end of the tubular housing, and includes at least one gas tube orifice. An annular coolant chamber surrounds the coolant distribution portion, which distributes liquid coolant around the intake apertures and directs coolant into the cavity and within the tubular housing. Positioned within the tubular housing is at least one elongated gas tube, which is sealedly engaged with the tube orifice. Liquid coolant flowing in, through a coolant inlet, is directed around the annular coolant chamber and distributed into the cavity of the tubular housing, immersing the elongated gas tube and facilitating heat exchange from the heated gas flowing through the elongated gas tubes immersed within the liquid coolant.
US10400712B2
An intelligent pressure management system that controls the pressure inside a cryogenic tank between variable target vapor pressure values and/or ranges that are set as a function of system operating conditions, by actuating an actively controllable valve disposed on a gaseous fluid vapor conduit; and in some embodiments, additionally by actuating an actively controllable valve on a liquefied gaseous fluid conduit, based on a signal received from a pressure sensor that measures the pressure inside the pressurized tank. The variable target vapor pressure values and/or ranges are determined as a function of at least two system operating conditions which can include the vapor volume in the storage space; the fluid flow demanded by the use device; and a measured temperature parameter that correlates to the temperature of the fluid exiting a heater.
US10400710B2
A third stream duct producing a third air stream at reduced pressure that is exhausted through a separate nozzle that is concentric with the main or primary engine nozzle. The third stream exhaust air from the separate concentric nozzle is exhausted to a location at which pressure is ambient or sub-ambient. The location at which the third stream air is exhausted contributes to the thrust of the aircraft. The airstream from the third air duct is exhausted through an exhaust nozzle of the third duct that is positioned at the interface between the aft of the airframe and the leading edge of the engine outer flaps. This location is a low pressure region that has a recirculation zone. The exhaust of third stream air to this low pressure region substantially reduces or eliminates this recirculation zone and associated boat tail drag, thereby improving the efficiency of the engine.
US10400709B2
A gas turbine engine has a fan rotor including at least one stage, with the at least one stage delivering a portion of air into a low pressure duct, and another portion of air into a compressor. The compressor is driven by a turbine rotor, and the fan rotor is driven by a fan drive turbine. A channel selectively communicates air from the low pressure duct across a boost compressor.
US10400707B2
A method and system for processing an engine block that includes a cylinder liner. The engine block having a first material with different coefficient of thermal expansion than a second material forming the cylinder liner. The method includes providing an insulating barrier to the cylinder liner, and quenching the engine block. The insulating barrier provides a lower cooling rate to the second material forming the cylinder liner than a cooling rate for the first material forming the engine block during the quenching.
US10400703B2
An example system includes a controller configured to: receive pressure information indicative of a pressure level of the pressurized fuel between an electro-mechanical valve and an engine; based on the pressure level being below a first threshold pressure, send a first signal to open the electro-mechanical valve; determine, based on the pressure information, that the pressure level is increasing upon sending the first signal; in response to the pressure level increasing, send a second signal to activate a pump; determine that the pressure level has increased to a second threshold pressure; and provide information indicating that the engine is ready for operation.
US10400702B2
Methods and systems are provided for fueling an engine of a vehicle during an exit from a deceleration fuel shut-off (DFSO) condition. In one example, a method may include fueling the engine using a compression stroke direct injection during the exit from the DFSO condition to reach a first engine torque threshold, and may further include increasing a separation between the compression stroke direct injection and a spark to gradually increase the engine torque to a second, higher engine torque threshold, and thereafter transitioning engine fueling from the compression stroke direct injection to an intake stroke direct injection. In this way, torque bumps may be reduced during DFSO exit.
US10400701B2
Multiple mode control system for a vehicle includes a vehicle control unit operatively configured with manual override switch, one or plurality of sensors, audio output means and electronic control unit (ECU). The vehicle control unit includes processor configured with Read Only Memory, random access memory, analog to digital converter, switch driver and an optional communication engine and hard disk drive. The engine of the vehicle is configured with electronic control unit.
US10400696B2
A method for starting an internal combustion engine comprises the steps of: providing an internal combustion engine having at least one cylinder and a piston supported at a crankshaft for repeated reciprocal movement in the cylinder so as to define a main combustion chamber, the internal combustion engine further having an ignition device arranged in said cylinder with an igniter portion and a fuel injector which are both arranged at a pre-chamber, wherein the pre-chamber has a plurality of orifices for providing fluid communication between said pre-chamber and the main combustion chamber, injecting fuel in the pre-chamber, and igniting the injected fuel in the pre-chamber for pre-heating of the pre-chamber prior to injecting fuel in the main combustion chamber for combusting the injected fuel in the main combustion chamber.
US10400693B2
A turbocharger system for an engine of a vehicle includes a variable geometry turbine configured to receive exhaust gas from the engine. The variable geometry turbine includes adjustable vanes and a vane actuator to adjust the adjustable vanes between at least an open position and a closed position. The turbocharger further includes an intake duct configured to receive intake air; a first compressor rotationally coupled to the variable geometry turbine and fluidly coupled to the intake duct to compress at least a first portion of the intake air; an electric compressor fluidly coupled to the intake duct to selectively compress at least a second portion of the intake air; and a manifold conduit fluidly coupled to the first compressor and the electric compressor and configured to receive and direct the first and second portions of the intake air to a manifold of the engine.
US10400685B2
A method for correction of intake pulsation is provided. The method includes calculating a basic air charge amount of a cylinder or a charge amount conversion coefficient based on a measurement value of a sensor disposed in an intake system of an engine. A basic pulsation compensation coefficient for correcting an intake amount from a basic waveform of pulsation is calculated based on opening/closing of an intake valve and engine RPM. The basic pulsation compensation coefficient is then corrected when the basic waveform of the pulsation is changed.
US10400675B2
An apparatus and method of cooling a gas turbine engine including a core with a compressor section in which the compressor section includes a closed loop cooling circuit having a pump, at least one heat pipe extending from at least one of the stationary vanes, a heat exchanger located within the bypass air flow, and a coolant conduit passing fluidly coupled to the pump and heat exchanger and passing by the heat pipe. The pump pumps coolant through the coolant conduit to draw heat from the heat pipes into the coolant to form heated coolant, the heated coolant then passes through the heat exchanger, where the heat is rejected from the coolant to the bypass air to cool the coolant to form cooled coolant, which is then returned to the heat pipes.
US10400674B2
A cooled fuel injector system of a combustor section of a gas turbine engine is provided. At least a part of the fuel injector system is exposed to core gas flow traveling through the engine. The cooled fuel injector system includes a source of a first cooling fluid and a fuel injector system component. The first cooling fluid is at a temperature lower than a temperature of the core gas flow proximate the fuel injector system. The fuel injector system component includes a vascular engineered structure lattice (VESL) structure, which VESL structure is in fluid communication with the source of the cooling fluid.
US10400663B2
A piston comprises a crown portion with a contoured bowl having a reentrant surface extending from the top squish surface that connects to a lower sidewall surface that connects to a swirl pocket surface disposed adjacent the bottom bowl surface.
US10400658B2
An intelligent sea water cooling system including a first fluid cooling loop coupled to a first side of a heat exchanger and to a thermal load, a second fluid cooling loop coupled to a second side of the heat exchanger, a pump for circulating fluid through the second fluid cooling loop, and a controller connected to the pump. The controller may monitor a temperature in the first fluid cooling loop and may adjust a speed of the pump to keep the temperature within a preferred operating range. If the speed of the pump is reduced to a predefined minimum pressure pump speed, the controller may start a timer t1 having a predefined duration. If the timer t1 expires and the temperature has not increased relative to when the timer t1 was started, the controller may reduce the speed of the pump below the minimum pressure pump speed.
US10400653B2
A method of controlling a particulate filter of an internal combustion engine is disclosed. A regeneration cycle of the particulate filter is initiated. During the regeneration, a value of an exhaust gas temperature at an outlet of the particulate filter is determined and a value of a residual soot quantity stored into the particulate filter is estimated on the basis of the measured value of the exhaust gas temperature at the outlet of the particulate filter. The regeneration cycle may be started and stopped based on the estimated residual soot quantity.
US10400649B2
A slope Δt1HC in a linear area of sensor output characteristics for a mixed atmosphere of CO and THC and a slope Δt1NH in the linear area of the sensor output characteristics for NH3 are specified in advance at a time when a time t1 has elapsed since a start of use of an engine. In performing calibration of an NH3 sensor when a time t2 (greater than the time t1) has elapsed, a slope Δt2HC in the linear area of the sensor output characteristics for the mixed atmosphere is specified, a value Δt2NH is calculated from an equation Δt2NH=Δt2HC/(Δt1HC/Δt1NH), and the calculated value Δt2NH is determined as a new slope in the linear area of the sensor output characteristics for an NH3 gas.
US10400648B2
Provided is a method for controlling a vehicle exhaust gas treatment system, wherein the system includes an engine and a selective catalytic reduction device configured to receive exhaust gas from the engine and reductant from an injector. The method comprises determining a need for a reductant injection, determining a need for reductant injector noise abatement, and subsequently conducting one or more reductant injection events during one or more engine combustion events. A vehicle combustion event comprises combustion of fuel within a cylinder of the ICE. Determining a need for reductant injector noise abatement comprises determining if an engine speed is below a threshold, if a speed of the vehicle is below a threshold, if a decibel level of a vehicle audio system is below a threshold, or if a hands-free telephone system is being utilized by a passenger of the vehicle. The engine can be a diesel engine.
US10400642B2
A method for operating an oil circuit for a vehicle, the oil circuit being configured to supply oil to an internal combustion engine, wherein the oil circuit includes an oil cooler, and wherein at least one temperature sensor measures the temperature of the oil flowing through the oil circuit, downstream of the oil cooler and upstream of the internal combustion engine, the temperature sensor being connected for signaling purposes to a regulating and/or control device, includes: controlling and/or regulating, by the regulating and/or control device, the temperature of the oil flowing through the oil circuit, such that the temperature measured by the temperature sensor has a defined target temperature value; and setting and/or adjusting, by the regulating and/or control device, as a function of a drive power of the internal combustion engine, the defined target temperature value so as to reduce fuel consumption of the internal combustion engine.
US10400641B2
A fluid supply system may include a component and a bypass valve including a valve body arranged in a control channel. The valve body may be adjustable at least between a first position and a second position, the valve body cutting off a fluid channel to the component when in the first position and cutting off a bypass channel bypassing the component when in the second position. The valve body may divide the control channel into a first chamber and a second chamber. The valve body may include a leakage opening connecting the first chamber and the second chamber. The system may also include at least one detection device configured to detect a property of a fluid and transmit the detected property to a control device. The control device may be configured to close a switchable valve arranged in the leakage channel when the detected property reaches a predefined condition.
US10400638B2
A camshaft phaser arrangement configured for a concentric camshaft assembly having an inner camshaft and an outer camshaft is provided. The camshaft phaser arrangement can facilitate independent phasing of intake and exhaust valves. The camshaft phaser arrangement includes a first driven wheel and a second driven wheel, both configured to be driven by a driving wheel. A first camshaft phaser is connected to the first driven wheel and configured to be connected to either the inner or outer camshaft. A second camshaft phaser is connected to the second driven wheel and configured to be connected to either the inner or outer camshaft which is not connected to the first driven wheel. A motion transfer assembly can connect the second camshaft phaser to the concentric camshaft assembly. One or both of the camshaft phasers can be an electric camshaft phaser or a hydraulic camshaft phaser.
US10400637B2
The invention relates to a variable valve control device (1) for internal combustion engines of the reciprocating-piston design having at least one gas exchange valve, which can be actuated by a camshaft (3) by means of a cam device (4) that is connected to the camshaft (3) for conjoint rotation and that has at least two different cam tracks (7, 8), which camshaft is supported in such a way that the camshaft can be rotated about a camshaft axis (2), wherein, selectively, one of the cam tracks (7, 8) can be activated and at least one other cam track (8, 7) can be deactivated by means of a control device (10), and wherein the control device (10) has at least one control element (11), which is guided axially, in particular within the camshaft, and by which at least one cam device (4) that is supported on the camshaft (3) for conjoint rotation but axially movably and that has at least two different cam tracks (7, 8) can be adjusted by means of at least one driving piece (12). In order to enable reliable and fail-safe variable valve actuation in the simplest possible manner, at least one blocking element (20) is provided for blocking and releasing the axial adjustment motion of the cam device (4), wherein the blocking element (20) has a control stud (21) fixedly connected to the cam device (4) and a—preferably stationary—control disk (22) arranged coaxial to the camshaft (3), wherein the control disk (22) has, in at least one angular region, at least one control opening (25) for receiving the control stud (21).
US10400632B2
An airplane unducted propeller turboshaft engine having a gas generator and a receiver including a propulsion assembly carrying least one propeller, the engine including a first casing, a second casing, and a third casing, the third casing being provided between the first and second casings and surrounding at least a portion of the gas generator, a reinforcing shell presenting a first attachment zone mounted on the first casing, second attachment zone mounted on the second casing, and a wall provided between the first and second attachment zones and surrounding the third casing, wherein the reinforcing shell further includes at least one pipe segment integrated in the wall.
US10400628B2
A method for repairing a turbine housing of an air cycle machine that includes removing damaged material from a journal bearing bore of the turbine housing and forming the journal bearing bore. Next, the inner diameter of the journal bearing bore is determined and a cylindrical insert is formed. The cylindrical insert includes a first end, a second end, an inner surface, a step located at the first end, and an outer surface with an outer diameter that provides a diametric interference with the inner diameter of the journal bearing bore. The second end of the cylindrical insert is inserted into an inlet of the journal bearing bore up to the step. The cylindrical insert is secured to the turbine housing and both are stress relieved by heating. Following the stress relief, the inner surface of the cylindrical insert is formed and seal grooves are formed on the inner surface.
US10400613B2
The present invention relates to a method for producing a blade or blade arrangement of a turbomachine, which features the following steps: producing a blade (4) from at least one blade material, machining the blade in at least one region of the blade by a surface machining process, cleaning the surface of the blade depositing an erosion protection coating (10) of at least two layers of different hardness by physical vapor deposition in the at least one region, machining the erosion protection coating (10) by a coating smoothing process in order to establish a defined surface roughness. Furthermore, the invention relates to correspondingly produced blades or blade arrangements.
US10400593B2
A well system including a drill string having an inlet and extending from a surface location into a wellbore and defining an annulus between the drill string and the wellbore; a fluid circuit that circulates a treatment fluid, the fluid circuit extending from the inlet, through the drill string to a bottom of the wellbore, back to the surface location within the annulus, and back to the inlet; and one or more ultrasound devices arranged at-line, off-line, or in-line with fluid circuit to monitor the treatment fluid and track a real-time particle size distribution (PSD) of one or more particles suspended within the treatment fluid.
US10400591B2
Systems and methods for acoustic testing of laminated rock to determine total organic carbon content
Provided in some embodiments are systems and methods for preparing oriented samples of a laminated rock having different lamination orientations, for each of different stress-levels, transmitting an acoustic pulse through each oriented sample while tri-axially compressing the oriented sample at the stress-level to generate test data indicative of acoustic velocities through the laminated rock at different combinations of lamination orientations and stress levels, determining acoustic velocities through the laminated rock at the different combinations of lamination orientations and stress levels based on the test data, generating a rock model for the laminated rock based on the acoustic velocities, and determining a property of a second laminated rock (e.g., total organic carbon (TOC) content) based on the rock model for the laminated rock.
US10400590B1
Method and system for determining a distribution of rock types in geological cells around a wellbore
A method includes acquiring measurement data from a plurality of measurements corresponding to different depths within a wellbore. Using a processor, a distribution of rock types in each cell of a plurality of geological cells around the wellbore is determined from the measurement data. Petrophysical characteristics of each cell of the plurality of geological cells are calculated from the distribution of rock types.
US10400586B2
A drill string can include at least one transmit antenna and at least one receive antenna. The transmit antenna transmits at least one electromagnetic signal into a region of an earth formation. The receive antenna receives the signal from the region of the earth formation. The transmit antenna comprises one of a magnetic dipole and an electric dipole, and the receive antenna comprises the other of the magnetic dipole and the electric dipole. At least one characteristic of the region of the earth formation is determined, based at least partially on the signal received by the receive antenna. A homogeneous part of the electromagnetic signal may be reduced, to thereby increase a depth of detection of the characteristic.
US10400581B2
Locating while drilling systems and methods are disclosed. Some method embodiments include drilling a borehole with a bottom-hole assembly (BHA attached to a drill bit, pausing the drilling to determine a survey position of the bit, obtaining measurements with BHA sensors while drilling, processing the BHA sensor measurements with a model while drilling to track a current position of the bit relative to the survey position, the model accounting for deformation of the BHA, and steering the BHA based on the current position of the bit.
US10400578B2
A method for in-situ determination of a wellbore formation pressure through a layer of cement, the method includes detecting an output pressure signal from a pressure sensor disposed in a housing in the cement outside a wellbore casing; detecting a first temperature signal from a first temperature sensor disposed in the housing; and calculating a temperature compensated output pressure signal based on the output pressure signal and the first temperature signal.
US10400572B2
Various embodiments include apparatus and methods to generate and use drillability exponents. Data acquired from downhole sensors can be used to determine drillability exponents. The drill exponents can be used in number of processes to enhance various features of a drilling operation. 5 Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed.
US10400564B2
The present invention relates to an in situ staged steam extraction method for removing petroleum products from a heavy oil or bitumen reservoir from subterranean locations. Specifically, each injection stage comprises a different steam composition. A steam composition may consist essentially of steam or may comprise one or more enhanced oil recovery agent.
US10400557B2
An apparatus includes a string that extends into a well and a tool that is disposed in the string. The tool is adapted to form a seat to catch an object communicated to the tool via a passageway of the string in response to the tool being perforated.
US10400547B2
A method for selecting a bottomhole assembly, including performing a first dynamic simulation of a first bottomhole assembly, performing at least a second dynamic simulation of the first bottomhole assembly, in which the at least a second dynamic simulation includes a different constraint than the first dynamic simulation, and outputting results for both the first dynamic simulation and the second dynamic simulation, in which the results include at least one output showing performance as a function of position along the bottomhole assembly.
US10400542B2
A downhole completion system includes a production casing installed in a borehole and an annular barrier system to be expanded in an annulus between a production casing and a wall of a borehole or another well tubular structure downhole for providing zone isolation between a first and second zones. An annular barrier has a tubular metal part adapted to be mounted as part of the production casing. The downhole completion system further includes a sensor device which is in communication with the first zone and/or second zone, respectively, the sensor device being adapted to measure the first pressure of the first zone and the second pressure of the second zone for verifying the zone isolation.
US10400541B2
A female undersea hydraulic coupling member is equipped with a plurality of pressure-energized metal seals configured to seal between the body of the female member and the probe of a corresponding male hydraulic coupling member in response to ambient hydrostatic pressure and/or hydraulic fluid pressure. Pressure-energized metal seals may also be provided to seal between the body of the female coupling member and a removable seal retainer or seal cartridge. In one particular preferred embodiment, the pressure-energized seals are back-to-back metal C-seals separated by annular seal supports having a generally T-shaped cross section and retained on one or more shoulders in the body of the female member by a removable seal cartridge.
US10400532B2
A downhole tool includes a tool body and a first anchoring device integrated with the tool body. The first anchoring device includes at least two linear actuators within and non-perpendicular to the tool body, each of the at least two linear actuators configured to move a corresponding contact pad between a retracted position and an anchor position. The first anchoring device also includes at least one guide component coupled to each contact pad to restrict movement of a corresponding contact pad to a predetermined path.
US10400530B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, assemblies, and methods for facilitating fluid flow during/after landing of logging tools in a bottom hole assembly. In operation, a memory logging tool is lowered through a longitudinal bore of a drill pipe string and landed in a bottom hole assembly disposed at the end of the drill pipe string. Drilling fluid is pumped behind the logging tool to assist with downward movement of the tool. As the logging tools land, partial fluid flow path is blocked by the logging tools. The fluid pressure can rise in response to the narrowing of the fluid flow path. Facilitating fluid flow through and/or around the logging tools can put the rising fluid pressure in a proper range for powering the logging tools to land and monitoring purposes.
US10400527B2
In a method to degrade filtercake in a hydrocarbon reservoir using downhole in-situ heat generation, a filtercake breaker, configured to degrade filtercake at a temperature, is mixed with a drilling fluid. The drilling fluid mixed with the filtercake breaker is flowed through a hydrocarbon reservoir in which a wellbore is being drilled. A filtercake forms in a portion of the hydrocarbon reservoir responsive to flowing the drilling fluid. A temperature of the portion of the hydrocarbon reservoir is less than the temperature at which the filtercake breaker is configured to degrade filtercake. Multiple filtercake chemicals are flowed to the portion of the hydrocarbon reservoir. The multiple filtercake chemicals, when mixed, are configured to react in an exothermic reaction to release heat to increase the temperature of the portion of the hydrocarbon reservoir to at least the temperature at which the filtercake breaker is configured to degrade filtercake.
US10400525B2
A rod positioning device for aligning a drilling rod with a rod string having complementary mating threads, comprising a base, an arm mounted to the base about a first rotation axis, and a rod-gripping device mounted on the arm. The arm is for displacement about the first rotation axis between a rod loading position and a rod alignment position. The rod-gripping device is for operating between a rod-gripping configuration and a rod-releasing configuration. The rod-gripping device comprises jaws for gripping the drilling rod while the rod-gripping device is in the rod-gripping configuration and the arm is in the rod loading position, and guiding elements mounted on the jaws, the guiding elements aligning the drilling rod with the rod string and enabling longitudinal displacement of the drilling rod to contact the rod string.
US10400512B2
In one embodiment, a top drive system includes a quill; a motor operable to rotate the quill; a gripper operable to engage a joint of casing; a connector bi-directionally rotationally coupled to the quill and the gripper and longitudinally coupled to the gripper; and a compensator longitudinally coupled to the quill and the connector. The compensator is operable to allow relative longitudinal movement between the connector and the quill.
US10400509B2
A smart window controller includes circuitry configured to establish a representative model of one or more building zones based on occupancy, construction, lighting, or cooling properties of a building. A lighting control strategy is implemented for the one or more building zones based on the representative model or one or more user preferences input at a first user interface screen of an external device. Automatic operations of one or more smart windows, cooling systems, or artificial lighting systems are controlled based on trigger points associated with the lighting control strategy, and a performance level of the lighting control strategy for the one or more building zones is determined based on one or more predetermined financial metrics.
US10400501B1
A window installation and a wall panel and methods for construction thereof. The window installation includes a window liner in which a window unit can be installed. The window liner includes jambs, a header, and a sill that circumscribe the window unit and an exterior flange that depends outwardly from external edges thereof. The wall panel is a prefabricated panel that includes framing with sheathing and insulating members disposed on an exterior surface thereof and forms an opening in which the window liner is received. An external sheathing of the wall panel is formed with a larger opening dimensioned to receive the exterior flange of the window liner. The window liner and window unit can be removed from the wall panel to ease movement and transport of the wall panel and to reduce risks of breaking the window unit during manufacture and transport.
US10400499B2
A driving device includes an electric motor including a stator and a rotor rotatable relative to the stator, and a gear train connected to the rotor. The stator includes a cylindrical housing and an endcap mounted to an end of the housing; The gear train includes a gear mechanism with at least one stage, which includes a ring gear, a sun gear, planetary gears and a carrier. The ring gear is directly engaged with the endcap, which limits the position of the planetary gears of the gear train in an axial direction of the gear train.
US10400493B2
An arrangement for spreading apart at least two door leaves which are part of an item of furniture and are hingedly interconnected, from a folded position into a spread-apart position, includes an energy accumulator and a spreading element impinged by the energy accumulator. The spreading element comprises a pivotally supported lever arm with a free end, and a control contour is provided for controlling movement of the spreading element.
US10400490B2
A refrigerator including a hinge assembly that enables a door to selectively slide and pivot. A refrigerator includes a main body, a storeroom arranged inside the main body. The refrigerator includes a door configured to open and close the storeroom, and a hinge assembly configured to support the door to be able to slide and pivot. The hinge assembly includes a hinge body combined with the door and configured to move back and forth in a front-back direction. The hinge assembly includes a first stopper configured to prevent pivoting of the door if the door is able to slide. The hinge assembly includes a second stopper configured to prevent sliding of the door if the door is able to pivot.
US10400486B2
A rotor member in a locking device is rotatably supported in a base member, is connected to a locking member by projecting to the back side from an opening portion formed in a mounting seat face, and drives the locking member in accordance with the operation of an operating member. A first locating portion of the base member abuts or is near an edge portion of the opening. A second locating portion is inserted into a locating hole formed in an opening and closing member. The first locating portion projects further toward the back side than the second locating member.
US10400479B2
The present disclosure relates to a door lock device, and more specifically, to a backset adjustable door zoom up latch capable of adjusting a backset distance according to a variety of backset standards of the door, and a digital door lock device having the same. Accordingly, the backset adjustable locking device according to the present disclosure includes a latch, a holder inserted into the latch, an elastic member installed between the latch and the holder, and a zoom guide inserted into the latch and fastened with the holder to fix the latch to the holder.
US10400476B2
Embodiments of the subject invention relate to a cross connecting locking apparatus for portals such as doors, gates, entryways, entrances, hatches, ingresses, garage doors, windows, fenestrations, or any other sort of passageway situated in a larger nonmovable structure. Specific embodiments are remotely operated and can be locked or unlocked under a variety of environmental and/or user-activated triggering mechanisms.
US10400470B2
A carryable temporary layout blind comprising a frame for elevating the seating elements off the ground, and one or more closeable doors or flaps with a handle for simple and rapid opening and closing. The layout blind is collapsible into a carryable configuration and includes straps for carrying the collapsed blind in a fashion similar to a backpack.
US10400454B1
A structural member with a central portion that has a first piece and a second piece which form a cross-sectional L-shape configuration along a longitudinal axis is disclosed herein. When fastened to a horizontal bar, the first piece of the structural member may come into contact with a portion of the horizontal bar, thereby preventing the structural member from rotating. The structural member includes a connection component that extends from an end of the first piece, and the connection component extends substantially perpendicular to the first piece. The connection component may be configured in at least two different embodiments in that the connection component may include two holes or three holes. The implementation of more than one hole on the connection component allows the structural member to be universal in that it can be implemented on varying sized storage racks that employ different sized horizontal bars.
US10400452B2
Construction panels and other materials, methods for their manufacture, and systems and methods for monitoring environmental conditions with such panels are provided herein. The panels include at least one environmental sensor assembly associated with a panel core and configured to detect an environmental condition of the panel comprising moisture, pressure, or both, and wirelessly communicate data on the environmental condition to a reader.
US10400450B2
Provided is a deck panel for construction, including: two lateral side deck panels forming one side wall and the other side wall which are disposed oppositely, each of the two lateral side deck panels includes a lateral side deck plate, a lateral side truss girder which is disposed on the lateral side deck plate; and a coupling member fixing the two lateral side deck panel.
US10400444B1
A sealed attic insulating and roof ventilating system includes a plenum formed in part by a barrier material attached to adjacent pairs of rafters and having a radiant or reflective upper surface and a corrugated lower surface to which an insulation material may be secured. This arrangement creates an uninterrupted air chamber or ventilation plenum between the barrier material, the adjacent rafters, and the roof decking through which exterior air can circulate unimpeded from the lower vents to the upper vents of the roof. The circulation through the ventilation plenum prevents moisture from accumulating or condensing under the roof decking and warping the roof decking, which ultimately leads to deterioration of the roof decking and failure of the roof covering, and eliminates ice damming on the top surface of the roof covering.
US10400442B2
One aspect of the invention relates to an insulation and ventilation system for a building envelope (e.g. a building wall and/or a building roof). The system includes: one or more interior building envelope layers; an insulation panel having an interior side abutting against at least one of the one or more interior building envelope layers and an exterior side having a plurality of transversely spaced and continuously longitudinally extending grooves interspaced between a plurality of transversely spaced and continuously longitudinally extending protrusions; and one or more exterior building envelope layers located exterior to the insulation panel to provide a plurality of transversely localized venting channels defined at least in part by an interior surface of the one or more exterior building envelope layers and the grooves of the exterior side of the insulation panel.
US10400441B1
The invention concerns a floor-to-wall joint connection “BearStop” device for providing both a water-tight seal, as well as load-bearing and flexibility between two closely abutting or adjacent structures, such as the wall and foundation of a storage tank. Embodiments also provide motion or sliding capabilities to accommodate expansion and contraction in the joint area between the wall and the foundation. A knee section provides a testing channel usable for testing the integrity of the seal.
US10400440B2
An anchor holder for concrete decks comprises a body for being inserted into an opening in a metal deck, the body including an outside vertical wall and an opening for receiving an anchor. The body includes arms normally biased extending outwardly from the vertical wall, the arms being collapsible toward the body when the body is inserted into the opening in the metal deck and expanding outwardly after passing the opening to be disposed below the metal deck. A support is attached to the body, the support to engage a top surface of the metal deck to apply an upward force on the body and keep the collapsible arms engaged against an underside of the metal deck when the body is attached to the metal deck.
US10400438B2
The joining device (100, 100′) comprises a first cover (1) and a second cover (2), each of which has a plurality of through holes (3) that match up with one another in position, for the ends of the rebars of the columns (200, 200A) to pass through. The covers (1,2) are joined together by means of, at least, two transverse webs (4) and several stiffener reinforcements (5,5A), which are arranged in perpendicular to the covers (1,2). The device further comprises connecting means (202, 203, 204, 205) between the ends of the rebars (201,201A) of the columns (200,200A).
US10400435B2
Connecting means for connecting a discharge pipe to a discharge opening of a sanitary installation. The means includes a longitudinal cover plate having a connecting opening for connecting a discharge pipe, a guide in which the cover plate can move to and fro according to its length, and a seal to directly or indirectly seal the movable cover plate in relation to the discharge opening of the sanitary installation.
US10400434B2
A vacuum toilet system having means to diminish stains generated on a lower surface of a shroud when flush is operated with lid closed. The toilet system is structured to make air flow easier into the bowl when lid is closed. The lid is provided with mesh, slit, or air scoop style openings. The system also provides a structure in which flush operation is triggered by detecting a predetermined inclining angle of the lid before it closes. Another aspect is that the lower surface of the shroud is curved for keeping shroud away from the upper surface around the bowl's rim. Another aspect is that the height of the shroud stays extending from the shroud's lower surface is higher compared to the prior art. The system also provides protrusions projecting upward from the bowl's upper surface opposite the shroud stays in a wavy configuration around the bowl's rim.
US10400433B2
A drain cleaning device for cleaning and clearing a clogged drain is provided. The drain cleaning device comprises an elongated shaft having a first end and a second end. A rotator handle is secured to the first end of the elongated shaft with the rotator handle driving the elongated shaft in rotation by rotationally cranking the rotator handle. A hollow handle sheath surrounds the elongated shaft with the handle sheath allowing the elongated shaft to freely slide along a length of the handle shaft and freely rotate within the handle sheath. A resilient plunger head is mounted on an end of the handle sheath adjacent the second end of the elongated shaft. A conical terminal fitting is mounted to the second end of the elongated shaft with the conical terminal fitting movable into and out of the plunger head wherein the drain cleaning device quickly and easily clears any clogged or blocked drain.
US10400431B2
The insert with a rotating mesh for aerators in sanitary fixtures consists of the housing (1) of an insert, the rotating screen (5) and o-ring (6). The housing (1) of an insert has at its bottom part i.e. at the water outlet of the sanitary fixture, two bearings (2) made, the rim (4) for installing a flat sealing between the sanitary fixture and the body of aerator. The rotating mesh (5) has on its rim circumference, preferentially at the most extended part of the rotating mesh (5), i.e. at the extension of diameter of the mesh (5) two axles (7) positioned which fit into the bearings (2) in the housing (1) of the insert, and serve for axle fixing the rotating mesh (5) and thus enabling the rotation of the rotating mesh (5) around the axles (7); the rotating mesh (5) has on its outer circumference, in the upper part, a groove (11) cut, in which o-ring seal (6) is installed for sealing the rotating mesh (5) to the housing (1) of the insert. Optionally, the rotating mesh (5) can include on its circumference, i.e. at the water outlet of the sanitary fixture, also the intake channel (15) for air supply. The intake of air for aeration is provided from the bottom side laterally. Optionally a rotating mesh can be installed directly in the aerator's body without an insert. In this context, the rotating mesh (5) is fixed axially with two screws (12) directly in the body (13) of the aerator in a way that it is rotatable around its axis.
US10400424B2
A joystick lever assembly includes: a base part; an operation part that is mounted on a first side plate of the base part and has rotary elements rotated with respect to each of forward, backward, leftward, and rightward directions by a joystick lever; a first connector connected to one side of the operation part; a second connector connected to a central part of the operation part; a lock part including a lock lever unit that is mounted on the second side plate of the base part and performs a rotary motion in a forward/backward direction, and a lock member that performs a rectilinear motion in a rotary direction of the lock lever on the floor plate according to the rotary motion of the lock lever unit; and a first stopper and a second stopper coupled to the bottoms of the first connector and the second connector.
US10400423B1
A radiator guard may include a front plate, a top plate, spaced side plates, gussets and yoke assemblies. The front plate may have a varied profile such that a first lateral width proximate a top of the front plate is greater than a second lateral width proximate a bottom of the front plate. The top plate may be angled relative to the front plate and the side plates may be fixed near the lateral sides of the front plate such that portions of the front plate proximate the top of the front plate extend laterally outwardly from the side plates. The gussets may be disposed on the rear surface of the face plate at these laterally extending portions and the yoke assemblies may be disposed on the front surface of these portions.
US10400402B1
A barrier wall has a first vertical support and a second vertical support. A first wall panel is disposed between the first vertical support and second vertical support. A second wall panel is disposed between the first vertical support and second vertical support over the first wall panel. An I-beam is disposed between the first wall panel and second wall panel. The I-beam includes a first flange and second flange extending into the first wall panel and second wall panel. A cable is disposed between the first wall panel and second wall panel and attached to the first vertical support.
US10400394B2
A method for treating cellulosic fibers to improve paper, board and tissue quality; the method involves splitting fibers from feed pulp into an original portion containing original fibers and a refineable portion containing original fibers. The refinable portion is refined to create a refined portion containing refined fibers. Varying amounts of the original unrefined fibers and refined fibers are blended together to form a recombined slurry that is processed by a paper machine into an optimized paper product. A master control system and fiber measurement system are integrated with the overall system to regulate all processing.
US10400392B2
A bleaching apparatus comprises a measurement chamber has a first substance, the amount of the first substance in the measurement chamber being known. A dosing unit inputs a second substance to the measurement chamber for causing a chemical reaction between the first substance and the second substance, one of the first substance and the second substance being chlorine dioxide and another of the first substance and the second substance being filtered sample from pulp slurry of a pulp process. At least one sensor performs detection of a property known to depend on the chemical reaction between the first substance and the second substance as a function of time. A data processing unit determines chemical demand of chlorine dioxide for washing loss in a bleaching sub-process on the basis of at least one value in the detected property within a known period of time after the input of the second substance.
US10400391B2
The present invention refers to a process for the preparation of a non-woven microfibrous suede-like synthetic fabric that does not require the use of organic solvents and that makes it possible to obtain a finished product offering a good hand, excellent resistance to yellowing and high durability. It comprises needle-punching a felt of sea/island fibers, (a) impregnation with hot aqueous solution of PVOH having a degree of saponification of at least 94% or (b) impregnation with hot water followed by impregnation with cold PUR, removing the sea component, impregnating with PUR, coagulating the PUR, removing the PVOH, grinding the surface, dyeing and splitting in two sheets.
US10400385B2
A drying machine for drying clothing includes: a housing; a drum configured to receive clothing; a guide apparatus for guiding air in a path through the drum; an air moving apparatus to pull air through the guide apparatus and drum; a heating apparatus for heating air and having on and off conditions; a heat capacitor for storing and releasing heat to air when the heating element is in its off condition and the drum is rotating; power means for components of the drying machine; including at least the drying compartment assembly, rotation means, guide apparatus, air moving apparatus, heating apparatus, and control apparatus; a control apparatus for controlling at least one of the drying compartment assembly, the rotation means, guide apparatus, the air moving apparatus, the heating apparatus, and the power means; and restrictor means for restricting the air flow whereby the drum pressure is lower than ambient air pressure.
US10400378B2
A method for operating a laundry washing machine (100; 300) having a controllable dosing device (120; 191) suitable to supply water from an external water supply line (E) into a container (110; 172) and a metering device (125; 192) arranged between the external water supply line (E) and the container (110; 172) for determining the amount of water flowing through the dosing device (120; 191). The method measures the surplus water flowing through the dosing device (120; 191) after deactivation of the latter in a first water conveying step for conveying a first amount of water from the external water supply line (E) into the container (110; 172) and controls the supply of water in a further water conveying step taking in account the surplus water previously measured.
US10400377B2
A method for controlling a wash process in a washing appliance includes supplying a detergent in the washing appliance; detecting a type of detergent supplied; performing a wash cycle that ends with a washing liquor drain; and performing a rinsing cycle in accordance with the detected type of detergent. When the detected detergent is a powder detergent, water is introduced into the washing chamber for a first rinsing step. Between the washing liquor drain and the first rinsing step, laundry is tumbled in the washing chamber at at least one of a revolving speed lower than a minimum spinning speed so that no spinning is performed between said washing liquor drain and the first rinsing step, or for a time interval different from the corresponding time interval during which the laundry is tumbled in a rinsing cycle where a liquid or gel detergent is detected.
US10400365B2
A two-dimensional fabric (20) used to produce a three-dimensional composite part has a binding system (21) with binding warp threads (23) and/or binding weft threads (24) and a reinforcing system (22) with reinforcing weft threads (25) and/or reinforcing warp threads (26). At least some of the inserted reinforcing threads (25) are shortened reinforcing weft threads (25a) and/or shortened reinforcing warp threads (26a). Their thread length (L) is less than that of the binding weft threads (24) or the binding warp threads (23). The shortened reinforcing thread's (25a), (26a) free ends are located in a respective thread end position (30) or (31). The respective thread length (L) and the respective thread end positions (30), (31) of a shortened reinforcing thread (25a), (26a) in the two-dimensional fabric (20) are predetermined based on the three-dimensional shape of the composite part to be produced to reduce cutting waste when producing preforms and cutting effort.
US10400363B2
A method for depositing a yarn end of a yarn on a bobbin wound on a tube in a defined manner during winding of yarn on the bobbin at a workstation of a spinning and winding machine includes detecting the yarn end on the bobbin via an attending device. After detecting the yarn end, the yarn end is passed to devices at the workstation, and with the devices at the workstation, the yarn end is directed in a defined manner outside of a profile of a standard yarn package wound on the bobbin prior to the yarn end being deposited onto the tube outside of the yarn package profile.
US10400360B2
A rotor spinning machine and associated method are provided for preparing a yarn end for spinning-in at a rotor spinning device, wherein the rotor spinning machine has a rotor housing that is closable with a cover and subjected to negative pressure through a negative pressure channel. A spinning rotor is rotatably mounted in the rotor housing and rotates with an operating rotational speed during a spinning operation. With the method, the yarn end is introduced into the negative pressure channel. The yarn end is then interrupted with a severing structure defined on an open edge of the rotating spinning rotor. During the interruption of the yarn end, the spinning rotor is driven with a defined rotational speed for the preparation of the yarn end that is equal to or less than an operating rotational speed of the spinning rotor.
US10400354B2
A process and apparatus for producing a dimensionally stable melt blown nonwoven fibrous web. The process includes forming a multiplicity of melt blown fibers by passing a molten stream including molecules of at least one thermoplastic semi-crystalline (co)polymer through at least one orifice of a melt-blowing die, subjecting at least a portion of the melt blown fibers to a controlled in-flight heat treatment operation at a temperature below a melting temperature of the at least one thermoplastic semi-crystalline (co)polymer immediately upon exiting from the at least one orifice, and collecting at least some of the melt blown fibers subjected to the controlled in-flight heat treatment operation on a collector to form a non-woven fibrous structure. The nonwoven fibrous structure exhibits a Shrinkage less than a Shrinkage measured on an identically-prepared structure including only fibers not subjected to the controlled in-flight heat treatment operation, and generally less than 15%.
US10400344B2
Provided is an electrode assembly for electrolytic processing in an electrolysis cell comprising an electrode blade comprising a metallic hanger bar portion, a first lug for supporting the metallic hanger bar portion on a first power supply bar, an insulating piece connecting the metallic hanger bar portion to the first lug. The electrode assembly also comprises an electrical switch unit controlling electrical current supply between the first lug and the metallic hanger bar based on a control signal transmitted to a terminal of the electrical switch unit, a control unit configured to transmit the control signal to the terminal of the electrical switch unit, and a power storage unit configured to supply power to the control unit, the power storage unit being charged from the first lug and the hanger bar when the electrical switch unit switches off electrical current supply between the first lug and the metallic hanger bar.
US10400329B2
Siemens reactors for polysilicon deposition may employ faster and/or more economical deposition conditions without reduction in yield, by pre-sorting polysilicon rods into different quality classifications prior to comminution, and further sorting the polysilicon fragments in each classification into further classifications.
US10400320B2
An essentially lead free steel having, in percent by weight (wt-%): Carbon: 0.39-0.43%; Manganese: 0.75-1.00%; Silicon: 0.15-0.35%; Chromium: 0.80-1.05%; Molybdenum: 0.15-0.25%; at least one of Tellurium: 0.003-0.090 wt-%, Selenium: 0.080-0.2 wt-%, Sulfur: 0.065-0.09% wt-%, and Bismuth: 0.03-0.1 wt-%; and the balance being Fe and normally occurring scrap steel impurities. A method for manufacturing an essentially lead free steel by subjecting a hot-rolled steel product to a heat treatment in which the steel product is subjected to a first temperature for a first duration; the steel product is subjected to a second temperature for a second duration, wherein the second temperature is less than the first temperature; and the steel product is subjected to a third temperature for a third time period, wherein the third temperature is greater than the second temperature; and cooling the steel product. After the heat treatment the steel is cold worked to the desired size.
US10400312B2
The invention relates to a rolled product with state T351, having thickness of between 15 and 50 mm, made from aluminum alloy having the following composition, in % by weight, Cu: 3.85-4.15; Mg: 0.95-1.25; Mn: 0.45-0.57; Zr: 0.09-0.16; Ti: 0.005-0.1; Fe: <0.070; Si: <0.060; with Cu+Mg≤5.15; other lesser elements 0.05 each and less than 0.15 in total, the remainder being aluminum.
US10400311B2
A wrought material containing a Cu—Al—Mn-based alloy, in which an existence frequency of a coincidence grain boundary with a Σ value of 3 or less is 35% or more but 75% or less, and which has a recrystallized microstructure substantially formed from a β single phase; and the use thereof.
