US10428124B2
The invention relates to Timothy Grass proteins and peptides, subsequences, portions, homologs, variants and derivatives thereof, and methods and uses of Timothy Grass proteins and peptides. Methods include, for example, modulating an immune response; protecting a subject against or treating a subject for an allergic response, allergic disorder or allergic disease; and inducing immunological tolerance to the allergen in a subject.
US10428115B2
Described are Dynorphin A analog compounds and uses thereof for treating pain in humans and lower animals by administering to a human or lower animal in need of treatment. The compounds interact with the bradykinin receptor to relieve pain. Preferred compounds are amphipathic [Des-Arg7]-dynorphin A peptide analogs and specific cyclic dynorphin A peptide analogs.
US10428110B2
Provided are a novel peptide, a polynucleotide encoding the peptide, an expression vector including the polynucleotide, and a pharmaceutical composition including the peptide, a quasi-drug composition including the peptide, and a health functional food composition including the peptide.
US10428106B2
The present disclosure relates to cap analogs, which can result in high levels of capping efficiency and transcription and improved translation efficiencies. The present disclosure also relates to methods useful for preparing cap analogs and using mRNA species containing such analogs, as well as kits containing the novel cap analogs.
US10428102B2
The invention may provide, in part, compounds for use as antiproliferative, chemotherapeutic, antiviral, cell sensitizing or adjuvant agents, and pharmaceutical compositions including the compounds. The compounds may be for use in treating diseases and disorders related to cell proliferation such as cancer, or in treating diseases and disorders which are linked to aberrant control of protein synthesis, such as cancer, viral infection, muscle wasting, autistic spectrum disorders, Alzheimer's disease, Huntingdon's disease and Parkinson's disease.
US10428096B2
Provided are a novel polyketone polymerization catalyst and a method of preparing a ligand, which can reduce production costs and can enable commercial mass synthesis by using ((2,2-dimethyl-1,3-dioxane-5,5-diyl)bis(methylene))bis(bis(2-methoxyphenyl)phosphine) as a ligand constituting the polykeytone polymerization catalyst, the ligand having a simple structure and a small molecular weight while having high activity.
US10428095B2
Compounds, methods of use, and processes for making inhibitors of complement factor D comprising Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or composition thereof are provided. The inhibitors described herein target factor D and inhibit or regulate the complement cascade at an early and essential point in the alternative complement pathway, and reduce factor D's ability to modulate the classical and lectin complement pathways. The inhibitors of factor D described herein are capable of reducing the excessive activation of complement, which has been linked to certain autoimmune, inflammatory, and neurodegenerative diseases, as well as ischemia-reperfusion injury and cancer.
US10428093B2
Herein is described a cell density signaling protein and its tissue-specific lipid cofactor. Constructs, compositions and methods for isolation, purification and use of the protein and the tissue-specific lipid cofactor are described.
US10428090B2
A condensed-cyclic compound and an organic light-emitting device including the same are provided. The compound is represented by the formula wherein ring A, ring B, and ring C are each independently selected from a C5-C30 carbocyclic group and a C1-C30 heterocyclic group, each of L1 to L9 is independently selected from a substituted or unsubstituted C3-C10 cycloalkylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C10 heterocycloalkylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted C3-C10 cycloalkenylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C10 heterocycloalkenylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted C6-C60 arylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C60 heteroarylene group, a substituted or unsubstituted divalent non-aromatic condensed polycyclic group, and a substituted or unsubstituted divalent non-aromatic condensed heteropolycyclic group, and each of Ar1 to Ar6, R1 to R3, R11, and R12 are further defined. The compound may be incorporated into one or more layers of an organic light-emitting diode device.
US10428085B2
An asymmetric benzotrichalcogenophene compound and a polymer are provided. The asymmetric benzotrichalcogenophene compound is a heterocyclic compound having furan, thiophene, selenophene and/or tellurophene subunits. The polymer has an asymmetric benzotrichalcogenophene subunit and can be formed by polymerizing the asymmetric benzotrichalcogenophene compound and an electron-accepting compound. The polymer may be used as a semiconductor active layer material in an organic field effect transistor or a heterogeneous interface material of an organic solar cell.
US10428082B2
The present disclosure relates to triazole derivatives of melampomagnolide B, their synthesis, and their use as anti-cancer compounds.
US10428076B2
The invention provides compounds of the Formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein X, Y, Z, R1, R2, R4, Ra, and the subscripts m, p, and q are as described herein. The compounds or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts can modulate the body's production of cyclic guanosine monophosphate (“cGMP”), and are generally suitable for the therapy and prophylaxis of diseases which are associated with a disturbed cGMP balance. The invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions which comprise compounds of Formula (I) or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof. The invention also relates to methods for use of the compounds or their pharmaceutically acceptable salts in the therapy and prophylaxis of the abovementioned diseases and for preparing pharmaceuticals for this purpose.
US10428073B2
Disclosed in the present invention are a salt type and crystal type of 4H-pyrazolo[1,5-alpha]benzimidazole compound and a preparation method and intermediate thereof. The 4H-pyrazolo[1,5-alpha]benzimidazole compound is represented by formula I:
US10428072B2
The present invention relates to compounds of the Formula (I), or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, pharmaceutical preparation, or pharmaceutical composition thereof, and their use for the treatment of pain, inflammatory disease, neuropathy, dermatological disorders, pulmonary conditions, and cough, as well as inhibiting the Transient Receptor Potential A1 ion channel (TRPA1).
US10428071B2
Disclosed in the present invention is a carboline derivative serving as an bromodomain inhibitor. The carboline derivative in the present invention can be used as an bromodomain inhibitor, and can provide a method and a pharmaceutical composition for controlling diseases intervened by a bromodomain protein.
US10428070B2
The present invention discloses compounds of Formula (I), or pharmaceutically acceptable salts, thereof: which inhibit the protein(s) encoded by hepatitis B virus (HBV) or interfere with the function of the HBV life cycle of the hepatitis B virus and are also useful as antiviral agents. The present invention further relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising the aforementioned compounds for administration to a subject suffering from HBV infection. The invention also relates to methods of treating an HBV infection in a subject by administering a pharmaceutical composition comprising the compounds of the present invention.
US10428069B2
The invention provides novel compounds having the general formula: wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, X, Y, W and n are as described herein, compositions including the compounds and methods of using the compounds.
US10428065B2
A compound which is an isoxazolyl imidazopyridine of formula (I): wherein: R0 and R, which are the same or different, are each H or C alkyl; R9′ and R9″, which are the same or different, are each H or F; X is -(alk)n-, -alk-C(═O)—NR—, -alk-NR—C(═O)— or -alk-C(═O)—; R1 is selected from —S(═O)2R′ and a 4- to 7-membered heterocyclic group which is unsubstituted or substituted; R2 and R2′, which are the same or different, are each H or C1-6 alkyl; or R2 and R2′ form, together with the C atom to which they are attached, a C3-6 cycloalkyl group; R3 and R3′, which are the same or different, are each H, C1-6 alkyl, OH or F; R4 is phenyl or a 5- to 12-membered N-containing heteroaryl group and is unsubstituted or substituted; alk is C1-6 alkylene; R′ is C1-6 alkyl; and n is 0 or 1; or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compound has activity in modulating the activity of p300 and/or CBP and is used to treat cancer.
US10428062B2
Geminal substituted aminobenzisoxazole compounds as agonists of α7-nicotinic acetylcholine receptors
The present invention relates to novel geminal substituted aminobenzisoxazole compounds, and pharmaceutical compositions of the same, that are suitable as agonists or partial agonists of α7-nAChR, and methods of preparing these compounds and compositions, and the use of these compounds and compositions in methods of maintaining, treating and/or improving cognitive function. In particular, methods of administering the compound or composition to a patient in need thereof, for example a patient with a cognitive deficiency and/or a desire to enhance cognitive function, that may derive a benefit therefrom.
US10428061B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I wherein R1, R2, R3, R4a, R4b, R4c, R4d, L, A, Q, W and HET are each as defined herein. The compounds of the present invention are inhibitors of autotaxin (ATX) enzyme activity. The present invention also relates to processes for the preparation of these compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and to their use in the treatment of proliferative disorders, such as cancer, as well as other diseases or conditions (e.g. fibrosis) in which ATX activity is implicated.
US10428050B2
Amine substituted reverse pyrimidine compounds and forms thereof that inhibit the function and reduce the level of B-cell specific Moloney murine leukemia virus integration site 1 (Bmi-1) protein and methods for their use to inhibit Bmi-1 function and reduce the level of Bmi-1 to treat a cancer mediated by Bmi-1 are described herein.
US10428048B2
Disclosed herein are compositions and methods for modulating the androgen receptor.
US10428034B2
The present invention provides, in part, compounds of Formula I: and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof; processes for the preparation of; intermediates used in the preparation of; and compositions containing such compounds or salts, and their uses for treating MAGL-mediated diseases and disorders including, e.g., pain, an inflammatory disorder, traumatic brain injury, depression, anxiety, Alzheimer's disease, a metabolic disorder, stroke, or cancer.
US10428031B2
The present disclosure relates to inhibitors of zinc-dependent histone deacetylases (HDACs) useful in the treatment of diseases or disorders associated with an HDAC, e.g., HDAC6, having a Formula I: where R, L, X1, X2, X3, X4, Y1, Y2, Y3, and Y4 are described herein.
US10428028B2
Disclosed herein are compounds of formula (I), and methods of inhibiting histone deacetylase (“HDAC”) enzymes (e.g., HDAC1, HDAC2, and HDAC3) using compounds of formula (I).
US10428018B2
The present invention relates to compounds according to Formula I: or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compounds can be used as inhibitors of RORy and are useful for the treatment of RORy mediated diseases such as autoimmune and inflammatory diseases.
US10428014B2
Base generator, base-reactive composition containing said base generator, and base generation method
The present invention relates to a compound represented by the general formula (A), a base generator comprising the compound, a base-reactive composition which comprises the base generator and a base-reactive compound, as well as a method for generating a base, etc.
US10428012B2
The present invention relates to a preparation method of 4-isopropylamino-1-butanol, in which using cheap and readily available tetrahydrofuran and acetic acid solution of hydrogen bromide as starting materials to prepare a novel intermediate of 4-isopropylamino-1-acetoxyl butane and further obtain the target product. The present invention has advantages of convenient process operations, mild reaction conditions, economical and environment-friendly benefits, and suitability for industrial production to obtain the product with high purity and high yield.
US10427984B2
Methods for fabricating a ceramic matrix composite are disclosed. A fiber preform may be placed in a mold. An aqueous solution may be added to the fiber preform. The aqueous solution may include water, carbon nanotubes, and a binder. The preform may be frozen. Freezing the preform may cause the water to expand and separate fibers in the fiber preform. The carbon nanotubes may bond to the fibers. The preform may be freeze dried to remove the water. The preform may then be processed according to standard CMC process.
US10427982B2
A method includes: supplying sources or nanoparticles of any one or two or more combinations selected from a group which consists of a carbon source, a doping source, a doped element containing carbon source, and a waste plastic source into a high-temperature and high-pressure closed autoclave, completely closing the high-temperature and high-pressure closed autoclave, and forming a nanoparticle-carbon core-shell structure by a single process by coating a carbon layer on the surface of the nanoparticles or forming a core-shell structure of nanoparticle-doped carbon by the single process by coating a carbon layer doped with the doped element on the surface of the nanoparticles under pressure self-generated in the autoclave and a reaction temperature in the range of 500 to 850° C. by heating the autoclave.
US10427980B2
A preparation method of a ceramic membrane support is disclosed. Take aluminum hydroxide, produced through a carbon decomposing process by a sintering method, as a raw material, pre-sinter the aluminum hydroxide, and obtain a low-temperature alumina product A; add a first amount of mineralizer into the product A, grind after calcining the added product A, and obtain a α-alumina product B; mix the product B with Al2O3.nH2O, calcine after adding a second amount of mineralizer into the mixed product B, and obtain a α-alumina product C; grind, scatter and grade the calcined and heat-preserved α-alumina product C, and obtain polyhedral alumina powders; mix the polyhedral alumina powders, water, humectant and dispersant and then sinter, and finally obtain the porous alumina support. The prepared support is easy to be sintered, is high in alumina purity, is good in corrosion resistance, and is improved in porosity and flux.
US10427972B2
Provided herein are glass based articles comprising SiO2, Al2O3, and two or more metal oxides selected from the group consisting of La2O3, BaO, Ta2O5, Y2O3, and HfO2. The glass based articles typically are characterized by a high fracture toughness (e.g., at least 0.86 MPa*m0.5), a high Young's modulus value (e.g., at least 85 GPa) and/or a stress optical coefficient (SOC) of not more than 3 Brewster (e.g., about 1.3 Brewster to about 2 Brewster). Also provided herein are glass based articles comprising SiO2 and two or more of MxOy, wherein M is Ba, La, Ta, Y, Al or Hf; wherein the total amount of SiO2 is the same or substantially the same as that of a reference glass based article comprising two or more binary compositions of MxOy—SiO2, wherein the reference glass based article has the same molar percentage of each MxOy, and the molar ratio of MxOy to SiO2 in each binary composition is 4/(c*x), wherein c is the number of charges of M.
US10427965B2
A method for loading a blank composed of fused silica with hydrogen, including loading the blank at a first temperature (T1) and a first hydrogen partial pressure (p1), and further loading the blank at a second temperature (T2) which is different from the first temperature and at a second hydrogen partial pressure (p2) which is different from the first hydrogen partial pressure. The first and second temperatures (T1, T2) are lower than a limit temperature (TL) at which a thermal formation of silane in the fused silica of the blank commences. Also disclosed are a lens element produced from such a blank and a projection lens that includes at least one such lens element.
US10427963B2
A method for inhibiting the formation, deposition and adherence of scale to metallic and other surfaces in the equipment, vessels and/or piping of facilities for the handling of oil and gas produced fluid is disclosed. An effective scale inhibiting amount of alginate is added to a produced fluid containing a scale-forming divalent cation. The alginate effectively cross-links with a scale-forming divalent cation, e.g., calcium, forming an alginate gel for subsequent separation and removal from the produced fluid.
US10427959B2
The invention relates to a method for the autonomous generation of safe self-limiting concentrations of chlorine dioxide for the treatment of process water. The method comprises a system that is self-limiting such that variations in water flow-rate and/or feed-rate of chlorite donor does not allow for increased concentrations of chlorine dioxide. The effluent concentration from the system does not exceed 3000 ppm thereby providing a means of generating chlorine dioxide for use where remote applications and/or where unskilled personnel are involved.
US10427955B2
Irradiation chamber for liquid purification apparatus, purification apparatus and beverage dispenser
The invention relates to an irradiation chamber (300) for a liquid purification apparatus using ultraviolet light irradiation against the reproduction of pathogenic microorganisms, comprising an inlet portion (302), an outlet portion (303), and a main portion (301) having an elongated shape, the irradiation chamber (300) having an internal surface defining an cavity, the irradiation chamber (300) being provided with ultraviolet light emitting means configured to irradiate liquid in the irradiation chamber (300) with ultraviolet light, the main portion (301) having a shape enlarged compared to the inlet portion (302). The internal surface of the irradiation chamber (300) defining the cavity is a three dimensional rounded surface, having no edge which forms a recess. The invention also relates to a liquid purification apparatus and to a beverage dispenser.
US10427950B2
Methods and compositions for improving performance of flocculants in an industrial production process. Methods include pH triggered cross-linking reaction between a flocculating agent, such as dextran, and a composition comprising a boronic acid-containing polymer. The pH trigger can be provided by a fluid having a pH of 8 or more. The production process can be a Bayer Process and the fluid is caustic liquor or slurry in the fluid circuit of the Bayer, wherein the reaction time is reduced over conventional methods and the cross-linked dextran composition effectuates improved flocculation of the trihydrate particles.
US10427944B2
A composition for forming a silica based layer, the composition including a silicon-containing polymer having polydispersity ranging from about 3.0 to about 30 and a solvent, and having viscosity ranging from about 1.30 centipoise (cps) to about 1.80 cps at 25° C. Also, a silica based layer is formed of the composition, and an electronic device includes the silica based layer.
US10427933B2
A MEMS device is provided with: a supporting base, having a bottom surface in contact with an external environment; a sensor die, which is of semiconductor material and integrates a micromechanical detection structure; a sensor frame, which is arranged around the sensor die and is mechanically coupled to a top surface of the supporting base; and a cap, which is arranged above the sensor die and is mechanically coupled to a top surface of the sensor frame, a top surface of the cap being in contact with an external environment. The sensor die is mechanically decoupled from the sensor frame.
US10427929B1
A cap wafer bonded to a device wafer by a metal polysilicon germanium material to form a sealed chamber around a semiconductor device is provided. On the cap wafer, a stack of silicon (Si), polycrystalline silicon germanium (SiGe), and polycrystalline germanium (Ge) is formed. This stack of material layers is formed to intentionally have a roughened germanium surface. A metal structure is formed on a second wafer, having an anti-stiction coating layer on the surface of the metal structure. A metal silicon germanium bonding material is formed by placing the metal structure and germanium structure in contact and applying heat and pressure. The roughened germanium layer penetrates the anti-stiction coating layer upon application of the pressure. The germanium that penetrates to the metal is free of interfacial anti-stiction coating and allows for eutectic bond formation upon application of heat.
US10427921B2
In at least one illustrative embodiment, a winch may include first and second end frames, a drum coupled between the first and second end frames and configured to rotate to wind or unwind a cable, a brake configured to resist rotation of the drum when engaged, a switch configured to cause the brake to engage the drum when the switch is activated, a slack arm frame having a first end engaged with the cable and a second end pivotally coupled between the first and second end frames, where the slack arm frame is configured to pivot between a first position when the cable is taut and a second position when the cable is slack, and a cam coupled to the slack arm frame and configured to rotate with the slack arm frame to activate the switch when the slack arm frame is in the second position.
US10427917B2
Support assembly (F5.13.1) moving sliding assembly (F5.13.3), position lock assembly (F5.13.6), push lock rod (F5.13.8), tension spring (F5.13. I0)), threaded cap (F5.13.1 1) and release handle (F5.13.12). Bolt holes (F5.13.2), lower protection rod (F5.13.31) and upper protection rod (F5.1 3.32). Two lower protection rods (F5.13.14) and one upper protection rod (F5.1 3, 15) with strengthening link (F5.13.16). Push lock rod (F5.1 3,8) is equipped to lock sliding assembly (F5.13.3) in to possible positions in in lock down holes (F5.13.9).
US10427915B2
A method to control a transport device like a moving walkway or escalator with a control unit includes, generating visual images of a person traveling on the transport device, analyzing movement of the person based on the visual images, and transferring the control unit into a safety modus based on the analysis. The transport device includes a transport area for accommodating a person to be transported, a plurality of transport elements such as movable pallets or movable steps configured to convey the person located in the transport area in a standing manner, a drive adapted for driving the transport elements, and an image recording device for creating visual images of a sector of the transport area. Based on the recorded images a movement of the person within the transport area is analyzed. Based upon a result of the analysis the control unit is transferred into a safety modus.
US10427907B2
A multiple flexible lance hose take-up drum apparatus or device in accordance with the present disclosure includes a base having three or more support legs and a hollow take-up drum assembly rotatably supported from the base. The drum assembly includes a hollow cylindrical shell, a bottom plate fastened to the shell, a high pressure fluid supply connection and a manifold positioned radially along a bottom plate of the shell for connection to one end of each of a plurality of flexible lance hoses. The base includes an L shaped support arm extending from the bases alongside the shell. A plurality of guide tubes are supported by the support arm and aligned over a rim of the shell for guiding flexible lance hoses into and out of the take-up drum assembly.
US10427905B2
An accumulation device is provided with a loading unit, a tensioning unit, an accumulation unit, and unloading unit and a controller. The tensioning unit comprises multiple fixed rollers capable of rolling, and movable rollers capable of rolling and arranged so as to be capable of moving with respect to the fixed rollers. Substrates are conveyed so as to move back and forth alternately between the fixed rollers and the movable rollers in a wrapped state, and a prescribed tensile force is applied to the substrates by a force acting on the moveable rollers in the direction away from the fixed rollers. The controller performs control so as to maintain the positions of the movable rollers in the tensioning unit constant.
US10427899B2
Disclosed is an automated insert feeding system and related methods, capable of removing bulk-packaged items from a tray or other package, and separating the bulk-packaged items individually for distribution into individual packages in high speed reliable fashion. The disclosed systems can also be loaded with multiple packages of the pre-packaged items for automatic feeding into the system which allows human operators to load several packages and allow the system to work unattended, thereby reducing man-hours spend on the process.
US10427897B2
Provided herein may be a pick-up roller with a front-edge alignment element and a media separation apparatus using the pick-up roller. The pick-up roller may include a pick-up element configured to pick up and transfer a media sheet, and the front-edge alignment element provided at a position opposite to the pick-up element. During a process of picking up a stacked media sheet and transferring it into a space between a feed roller and a separation roller unit, the front-edge alignment element may align in advance a front edge of a media sheet disposed subsequent to the medial sheet that is being transferred, to a position of the entrance between the feed roller and the separation roller unit, and thereafter, the pick-up element may pick up the media sheet aligned by the front-edge alignment element and transfer it into the space between the feed roller and the separation roller unit.
US10427896B2
An image forming apparatus includes a first casing, a pivotable second casing, a pivotable document cover, and a lock mechanism including a movable hook and a fixed hook. The second casing has a document support surface. When the second casing is at a first position in which the second casing covers an upper surface of the first casing, and the document cover is at a fourth position in which the document cover reveals the document support surface, the movable hook is engaged with the fixed hook. When the second casing is at the first position, and the document cover is at a third position in which the document cover covers the document support surface, the movable hook is disengaged from the fixed hook.
US10427894B2
A module connector for holding and/or transporting of bulk goods for connecting a first container module to a second container module, the container modules being joined together have an aligned container inner surface, a first seal arranged between the first container module and the second container module, a second seal arranged between the first container module and the second container module, the first seal is arranged in a recess and the second seal in a groove, the first seal forming an inner seal and the second seal forming an outer seal, the second seal produces a sealing of the interconnected container modules especially if the first seal fails, the first seal has at least one crimp region, which is crimped by a first and/or second flange surface such that one end face of the first seal is situated flush and/or aligned with the container inner surface without forming a cavity in the area of the end face of the first seal as well as a seal element for the module connector for the sealing of the container.
US10427887B2
In a belt buffer including a plurality of buffer belts arranged one above the other, receiving edges of the buffer belts at entry and delivery edges of the buffer belts at an exit of the belt buffer are height-adjustable. The buffer belts can include a plurality of belt modules arranged one after the other.
US10427882B2
A conveyor belt support system for a conveyor having a belt movable along a frame includes a plurality of support slats each extending substantially along a longitudinal axis of the belt. The plurality of support slats is adjustable in position relative to the belt.A processing machine for scanning and portioning a workpiece includes a scanning station configured to scan a workpiece to ascertain at least one physical parameter of the workpiece, a portioning station configured to portion the scanned workpiece, a conveyor for moving the workpiece beneath the scanning station and the portioning station that includes a belt with an open form moveable along a frame, and the conveyor belt support system located beneath at least the scanning station.
US10427878B2
A patch material for repairing a damaged portion of a pressing belt used on an agricultural round baler includes an operative outer polymeric layer having a first thickness, a mounting layer disposed parallel to the operative outer polymeric layer and having a second thickness being less than the first thickness, and at least one fabric layer disposed between the operative outer polymeric layer and the mounting layer. A plurality of linear outlines is defined on the operative outer polymeric layer at an operative top surface thereof. The linear outlines are configured to define a pattern with a plurality of predefined shapes. The plurality of the predefined shapes is configured to border a conical portion of a connecting opening defined on the operative top surface of the operative outer polymeric layer. The connecting opening extends the operative outer polymeric layer, the fabric layer, and the mounting layer.
US10427877B2
A conveyor belt system includes a frame with a conveyor belt driven by at least two rollers so that an upper belt functions as transport surface and a lower belt functions as return, wherein the frame has an upper segment extending substantially above the upper belt and a lower segment extending substantially under the upper belt, wherein the upper segment has at least two upper standing walls with a mutual spacing which, at least at the position of the upper belt, is smaller than the width of the conveyor belt, and wherein the lower segment has at least two lower standing walls with a mutual spacing which is greater than the width of the conveyor belt, wherein the upper belt is supported on either side by a plate extending respectively from below the upper belt to an outer side of the lower standing wall.
US10427865B2
A container includes a housing that has a box and a lid, where the box includes a front wall and a back wall. A hinged connector is connected to the lid at a first hinge line and connected to the back wall of the box at a second hinge line. The container also includes an inner package disposed within the housing. The inner package includes a first layer that defines a flap and a second layer at least partially attached to an inner surface of the first layer, where the second layer defines an access opening through which the consumer goods can be removed. The lid is movable between a closed position and an open position. The inner package is covered by the lid and the box when the lid is in the closed position and at least partially uncovered when the lid is in the open positon.
US10427863B2
A stabilizing member (120) forming an upper valve housing for an aerosol valve (100) having a valve stem (150) for operating the valve (100), the stabilizing member (120) comprises a body (160) having a resilient portion (140) arranged at the periphery of the stabilizing member (120) for snap fitting in a groove (18) of an associated hollow body (12), and a radial projection (145) arranged at the periphery of the stabilizing member (120) and axially displaced relative the resilient portion (140), wherein the radial projection (145) is configured to seal against the associated hollow body (12). The invention further discloses an aerosol valve with such a stabilizing member, as well as a container with such a stabilizing member and a method for providing the container.
US10427848B2
The present application relates to methods for the manufacturing of improved packaging for compressed mineral wool insulation blowing wool fibers, as well as methods for the introduction and distribution of the same.
US10427842B2
A tamper-evident container formed by thermoforming includes a tub having a bottom and a sidewall forming an interior volume. The container has a lid with an edge extending peripherally outward therefrom which is configured to mate with the tub edge to close the container. The lid edge has an inner portion and an outer portion with a perforated section therebetween. The perforated section extends continuously around the entire periphery of the lid, whereby the outer portion forms a tamper-evident seal removable from the inner portion for removing the lid from the tub. Texture elements are distributed around the outer portion of the lid edge which are configured to provide a visual indication of the presence of the tamper-evident seal. The tub edge is disposed beneath the outer portion of the lid edge and extends peripherally outward so that a substantial part of the outer portion of the lid edge does not extend below the tub edge in a vertical direction of the container in an upright orientation. A tab extends from the outer portion of the lid edge and below the tub edge in the vertical direction of the container.
US10427831B2
A deck box includes individual panels and a lid that are able to be assembled to one another without the need for external hardware. A bottom panel has guides or rails extending along the length of the bottom panel at opposing edge regions thereof. A pair of side panels are provided with guides or rails to enable sliding engagement and assembly of the side panels with the bottom panel. The side panels are also provided with guides or rails that extend toward the bottom panel when the side panels are assembled to the bottom panel. Front and rear panels are provided with guides or rails so that each of the front and rear panel can assemble between the assembled side panels, sliding into engagement in a direction toward the bottom panel. A lid has an integrally-molded hinge member that engages with an integrally-molded hinge member of the rear panel.
US10427826B1
This reusable jug allows for storage within attachable pockets, an internal receptacle, or both. Many individuals that routinely exercise carry gallon jugs with them throughout her or his day to stay hydrated. This invention allows each individual to reuse their jug after each use while also utilizing the jug to carry personal items.
US10427814B2
A wire tie assembly and method of tying a wire using the wire tie assembly is provided. Embodiments of the wire tie assembly comprise a gear-train having a main-drive gear continuously driven by a motor, an idler gear having a first and second dwell portions, the idler gear being configured to mesh with the main-drive gear during a portion of the wire-tying cycle and to dwell relative to the main-drive gear during a portion of the wire-tying cycle, and a twister pinion gear having a wire receiving channel and configured to be in mesh with the idler gear during a portion of the wire tying cycle and to dwell relative to the idler gear during a portion of the wire tying cycle. Some embodiments include cam pins coupled to the idler gear and cam followers that engage the cam pins to actuate secondary functions of the wire tying cycle.
US10427813B2
A method of packaging products and a packaging arrangement. A first product unit is wrapped at least in a first protective cover. The first protective cover envelops the first product unit and creates a first wrapped first product unit. A second product is wrapped at least in a second protective cover, such that the second protective cover envelops the second product unit and creates a second wrapped second product unit. The first wrapped first product unit is arranged adjacent to the second wrapped second product unit to create a product unit arrangement. A band is formed circumferentially around the product unit arrangement to create a secured product unit arrangement. The band has at least one graphic. The secured product unit arrangement is wrapped in a protective wrapper. The protective wrapper is heated to shrink the wrapper around the secured product unit arrangement. The graphic remains intact and visible.
US10427808B2
There is disclosed a Payload Ejection System (PES) able to store any set of payloads for launch and eject that set of payloads at a controlled speed with a low tumble rate while accommodating any offset center of mass within a restricted volume. The need for ballasting or balancing is eliminated thus freeing up the design space for these payloads. Insensitivity to center of mass location is enabled by the use of a deployment hinge assembly arrangement which uses two or more non-parallel folding hinge arrangements that allow for linear motion of the output link in one direction while restricting the motion all other directions. One embodiment of the current PES concept uses four (4) hinge panel assemblies, selected to provide optimal stiffness around the entire mechanism. The stiffness of the PES is integral to managing offset center-of-mass locations by allowing the mechanism to translate the effective force vector to the center of mass location.
US10427799B2
A parafoil system having an adjustable trim angle during flight to control glide slope and descent speed of a parafoil is provided. The parafoil system may include a pulley cluster comprising first and second variable trim pulleys, each having a different diameter. The pulley cluster may be coupled to forward and aft suspension lines of a parafoil canopy such that the pulley cluster may rotate to retract or extend the forward and aft suspension lines to adjust the trim angle during flight. The parafoil system may further include a motor for rotating the pulley cluster to extend or retract the suspension lines to adjust the trim angle during flight. By adjusting the trim angle of the canopy during flight, the glide slope and descent speed of the parafoil system may be controlled.
US10427791B2
Trolleys designed for use onboard passenger transportation vehicles. Particular trolleys of this type find particular use onboard aircraft. The trolleys are used for meal and drink service and may be converted for use during waste collection.
US10427789B2
The present disclosure discloses an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), comprising a housing having a top part and a bottom part, a plurality of arms arranged on the top part, each arm having a motor and an airscrew, a battery unit arranged within the housing, a processor arranged within the housing, a sonar unit having a wire connected thereto, and a positioning unit detachably mounted within a mounting groove recessed from the bottom part, wherein the positioning unit is connected to the wire and configured to retract or release the wire. An UAV readily configured for fishing can be provided by embodiments of the present disclosure.
US10427784B2
A system and method enabled to increase efficiency during a VTOL aircraft's transition. A VTOL aircraft enabled to operate multiple lift fans arranged into separately controllable groups, wherein the VTOL aircraft initially has vertical flight but transitions to horizontal flight. A first group of lift fans may be kept at full throttle, a second group of lift fans may be throttled to balance thrust and/or weight, and a third group of lift fans may be shut off.
US10427783B2
To provide a multicopter that enables it to prevent generation of a vortex ring state of a rotor and control lift and thrust efficiently and elaborately. This is solved by a multicopter having a plurality of rotors installed radially to a frame, wherein at least one of the plurality of rotors is provided with a cylindrical duct surrounding and enclosing the rotor; and the duct is formed in a shape making an air flow from an air intake side to an air outlet side of the rotor imbalanced in a circumferential direction of the duct.
US10427780B2
A rotorcraft capable of a hover mode and a forward cruise mode including a fuselage, a first electric propulsion system, a second electric propulsion system, and an electric power control unit to control power to the first and second electric propulsion systems in the hover and forward cruise modes. The first electric propulsion system is a tip jet cold flow system that imparts rotation on a pair of rotor blades disposed above a top surface of the fuselage, and a first electric motor configured to drive the tip jet cold flow system. The second electric propulsion system includes a propeller disposed in the rear of the fuselage and a second electric motor configured to drive the propeller.
US10427772B2
An aircraft comprising a hydrogen-containing envelope, a water-collection system for collecting water from the envelope, an electrolyser to convert the water collected using the water-collection system into hydrogen, and a hydrogen-replenishment system for replenishing the envelope with hydrogen generated using the electrolyser. In one embodiment, generated hydrogen is also supplied to a hydrogen-fueled propulsion system for propulsion of the aircraft.
US10427765B2
The systems and methods described herein provide hands free motor control mechanisms based on the natural and inherent movements associated with an activity of interest, and can be combined with gesture communication based upon defined movements by the participant.
US10427761B2
The present system is directed in various embodiments to marine ladders comprising movement assistance for the transition from a deployed position to a stowed position and to assist in controlling the transition from the stowed position to the deployed position. In certain embodiments, the gas springs and associated pivot point brackets hold the deployed ladder biased in the deployed position with a biasing force that may be overcome by application of force by the user to initiate an automatic stowing process. The initial force to initiate the stowing process is provided by the force of water flowing against an aft-mounted ladder as a result of the boat moving forward. In the case of movement assistance from the stowed to deployed position, the user applies force to initiate the transition while the gas springs apply an opposing force that slows the transition for safety.
US10427759B2
A system can include a float, a winch, a line, and a collapsible fairing. The winch can be coupled to the float. The line can be associated with the winch, where the winch is configured to extend and retract the line. The collapsible fairing can surround the line. Extension and retraction of the line can cause the collapsible fairing to extend and collapse.
US10427757B2
A tube guide assembly for mounting in a rod holder of a vessel. The rod holder has a depth from a cross member to a top surface. The assembly secures a mooring line to the vessel. The assembly includes a tube having a longitudinal axis and a base end dimensioned to be disposed in the rod holder to engage the cross member. The tube has a second end opposite the base end. The second end has a cleat to secure the mooring line. The tube has inverted J-shaped slots opposite one another to receive the cross member therein. A spring-loaded lock assembly is disposed in the tube. The lock assembly has a plunger to press against the cross member and lock the cross member in the J-shaped slots.
US10427752B2
A bicycle operating device comprises a base member, a hydraulic cylinder, a piston, and a fluid passageway. The base member is configured to be mounted to a bicycle. The hydraulic cylinder is provided on the base member and includes a cylinder bore. The piston is movably provided in the cylinder bore. The cylinder bore and the piston define a hydraulic chamber. The fluid passageway is connected to the hydraulic chamber. The fluid passageway is provided inside the base member. The fluid passageway has a length longer than a stroke of the piston.
US10427746B2
An automatic tilting vehicle includes left and right wheels rotatably supported by carriers, a vehicle tilting device, and a control unit. The vehicle tilting device includes a swing member swinging about a swing axis, an actuator that swings the swing member, a pair of tie rods pivotally connected to the swing member and the carriers. The control unit controls the actuator so that the tilt angle of the vehicle conforms to a target tilt angle and determines that the vehicle tilting device is abnormal when a relationship between the swing angular velocity of the swing member and the tilt angular velocity of the vehicle deviates from an allowable range.
US10427743B2
Embodiments described herein provide container mounts for mounting water bottles, bento boxes, tool holders or other containers in an aerodynamic position. According to one embodiment, the container mount can include an attachment member to attach to the bicycle frame or aerobars. One or more container support members are coupled to the attachment member in a fixed orientation or in a manner that allows the position of the support member to be adjusted. The container mounts can be configured so that the container is positioned within the aerodynamic profile of the rider's torso between the rider's arms (when viewed from the front) and is accessible by the rider while the rider maintains aerodynamic form.
US10427732B1
A transportation safety apparatus for a vehicle combination, the vehicle combination including a leading vehicle that pulls a trailing vehicle, the apparatus comprising: a plurality of force sensors for measuring pressure on opposite sides of the trailing vehicle; a wheel direction sensor for measuring aim angle at which tires on the leading vehicle aim said leading vehicle; at least one of: a) a plurality of position sensors for measuring angle difference between the leading vehicle and the trailing vehicle; and b) an angle sensor for measuring centerline angle between a leading centerline of the leading vehicle and a trailing centerline of the trailing vehicle; and a processing unit for signaling jack knife risk based on force measured by one of the force sensors, the wheel direction sensor, and at least one of the angle difference and the centerline angle.
US10427719B2
Interior panels for motor vehicles and methods for making such interior panels are provided. In one example, an interior panel includes a substrate and a skin covering that at least partially overlays the substrate. A foam is disposed between the skin covering and the substrate. A gas-receiving hollow structure is at least partially disposed in the foam. The gas-receiving hollow structure has an opening configured for receiving gas and includes a wall that at least partially surrounds a chamber that is in fluid communication with the opening.
US10427716B2
A hitch assist system and method are provided herein. A device is configured to detect a hitch coupler of a trailer and a controller is in communication with the device. The controller is configured to generate a boundary area projecting from the hitch coupler, define a vehicle backup path toward the trailer if a tow hitch of the vehicle is located inside the boundary area, and determine a steering angle for steering the vehicle along the vehicle backup path.
US10427713B2
A steering apparatus for a vehicle according to the present disclosure includes: a controller configured to transmit steering control signals on the basis of a first input signal from a torque sensor configured to sense torque of a steering shaft and a second input signal from any one of a location sensor, a camera sensor, a distance sensor, a vehicle speed sensor, and a vehicle height sensor; a first steering power assist configured to generate steering force by rotating the steering shaft or supplement steering force of the steering shaft rotating forward or backward, using electric power in response to the steering control signal from the controller; and a second steering power assist configured to switch channels for working fluid, depending on forward or backward rotation of the steering shaft, and steer wheels by operating a tie rod or a knuckle using hydraulic pressure of the working fluid.
US10427712B2
The automatic driving system comprises an electric power steering apparatus and a control apparatus that performs automatic steering control. The control apparatus is programmed to perform determining processing and coping processing. In the determining processing, it is determined whether the automatic driving system is working well or not working well, based on tracking condition of the target traveling route by the vehicle. The coping processing is processing to increase a degree with which the steering intervention by the driver is reflected to a control variable of the electric power steering apparatus when the automatic driving system is determined to be not working well.
US10427710B2
An electric power steering apparatus of vector control system that calculates steering assist command values of dq axes based on at least a steering torque, calculates dq-axes current command values from the steering assist command values, converts the dq-axes current command values into 3-phase duty command values, driving-controls a 3-phase brushless motor by an inverter of a PWM control, and applies an assist torque to a steering system of a vehicle, wherein the electric power steering apparatus has plural dead time compensating functions of which efficiencies to respectively perform a dead time compensation of the inverter are different each other, and performs the dead time compensation by gradually shifting from one of the plural dead time compensating functions to an another dead time compensating function while mixing the plural dead time compensating functions.
US10427702B2
The present device provides a modular utility cart having configurable storage features which provide secure transportation for both large and small items. The basic cart construction includes a bottom platform having casters connected to the underside thereof, a top platform positioned above the bottom platform by four corner posts. The top and bottom platforms, as well as the corner posts, include various structural features which provide the modularity to the utility cart. The supports include notches and pockets that allow for removable bins to be positioned along the supports, as well as supports for shelving of various sizes. The top platform has an integrated tool rail configured to support and suspend items such as hand tools, ladder racks, bins, and additionally includes an adjustable height handle.
US10427697B2
A rail vehicle including a wheel assembly having wheels configured to traverse rails of a railroad track, a controller having a processor in communication with the wheel assembly, and a non-transitory computer readable medium, disposed on the vehicle, and containing instructions, which, cause the following steps in real-time as the vehicle traverses the rails: determine a rail pressure of the wheels on the rails, determine a degree of curvature of the rails as the vehicle moves along the railroad track, determine a minimum rail pressure of the wheels on the rails based on the degree of curvature, determine if the rail pressure is equal to or greater than the minimum rail pressure and adjust the rail pressure of the wheels on the rails to be the minimum rail pressure when the rail pressure is less than the minimum rail pressure to maintain stability of the vehicle on the railroad track.
US10427692B2
A module capable of operating on one of first and second vehicles includes an input table having a superset of input elements, with a first subset of input elements related to a first set of hardware devices on the first vehicle and a second subset related to a second set of hardware devices on the second vehicle. The module includes at least one configuration table with configuration elements corresponding to ones of the superset of input elements, wherein each configuration element has data related to transforming a value associated with an input element. The module includes vehicle function input elements related to function inputs utilized on the vehicles; and structure for determining a value of an input element corresponding to a function input element, transforming the value to a transformed value and linking the transformed value with the corresponding function input element.
US10427691B2
The invention concerns a method for determining the direction of longitudinal travel of a vehicle comprising a step (a) of collecting a first signal (Signal1), representative of a first driving parameter, such as the steering-wheel torque, and of which the sign of the value and/or the sign of the variations is not dependent on the direction of longitudinal travel of the vehicle, a step (b) of collecting a second signal (Signal2), representative of a second driving parameter separate from the first driving parameter, such as the yaw rate, and of which the sign of the value and/or the sign of the variations changes on the basis of the direction of longitudinal travel of the vehicle, then a step (c) of comparing signs during which the sign of the value, or of the variation, of the first signal (Signal1) is compared with the sign of the value, or of the variation, of the second signal (Signal2) in order to deduce therefrom the direction of longitudinal travel of the vehicle, depending on whether said signs are identical or, on the contrary, different.
US10427690B2
A control system comprises a driver condition monitoring part configured to monitor the condition of the driver based on the captured image of the driver monitor camera. The driver condition monitoring part is configured to judge if the face of the driver fits in the angle of view of the driver monitor camera based on captured image of the driver monitor camera and to provide the driver through the information providing system with movement information relating to movement necessary for fitting the face of the driver in the angle of view when it is judged that the face of the driver does not fit in the angle of view of the driver monitor camera.
US10427686B2
A vehicle control system includes: an automated driving controller that automatically controls at least one out of acceleration/deceleration or steering of a vehicle, and that performs automated driving control in one of a plurality of modes having different levels of automated driving; and a informing section that, in cases in which the automated driving mode transitions to one of the plurality of modes in accordance with a travel environment of the vehicle, predicts a timing at which the mode will transition, and informs the predicted timing.
US10427682B2
An adaptive method for controlling a vehicle speed and an adaptive device for using the same is disclosed. The method controls a vehicle speed of a host vehicle that is driving. A front vehicle drives in front of the host vehicle. There is a vehicle distance between the host vehicle and the front vehicle. Firstly, first accelerations of the host vehicle are retrieved and the vehicle speeds corresponding to the first accelerations and the vehicle distances corresponded thereof are retrieved. When all the first accelerations are not zero, the extreme values of the first accelerations are deleted. Finally, the vehicle speed of the host vehicle is controlled according to all the retrieved accelerations, their corresponding vehicle distances, and the vehicle speeds corresponded thereof.
US10427669B2
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for controlling distribution of torque of front and rear wheel of a four-wheel drive (4WD) vehicle, including: a slip control torque calculator configured to calculate slip control torque of the rear wheels from information collected from the vehicle during driving in a 4WD mode; a handling control torque calculator configured to calculate handling control torque for the rear wheels from information collected from the vehicle during driving in the 4WD mode; a weighting factor determiner configured to determine a slip control weighting factor and a handling control weighting factor based on vehicle state information; and a target torque calculator configured to calculate target torque of rear wheel by summing the weighting factors applied to the slip control torque and handling control torque, respectively, wherein the target torque of the rear wheel is a target value of the torque distributed to the real wheel.
US10427665B2
A method for fault detection and accommodation for a controller and actuator system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a controller, a flag at an actuator in response to an excitation voltage and current falling below a threshold value, engaging a sensor in the actuator in response to receiving the flag, receiving, using the sensor a first load cell signal and a second load cell signal in response to the sensor being engaged, determining how actuator is operating brake based on the received flag, first load cell signal, and second load cell signal, adjusting a state of the actuator based on the determination, and reporting the state of the actuator by transmitting a report signal to the controller.
US10427660B2
A hydraulic cylinder retarder includes a hydraulic cylinder mechanism, a hydraulic oil conveying mechanism and a hydraulic oil valve mechanism. A piston component of the hydraulic cylinder mechanism is connected to a transmission device. Resistance to the piston movement of the hydraulic cylinder mechanism is generated by the hydraulic oil conveying mechanism and the hydraulic oil valve mechanism, so as to reduce the operation speed of the transmission device.
US10427641B2
The invention relates to a belt retractor comprising a signal transmitter ring (6) for a magnetic sensor (34), comprising a hub (14) which is connected to the belt reel in a rotationally fixed manner and comprising a signal transmitter portion (20) exhibiting periodically varying material properties when viewed in the circumferential direction, wherein the signal transmitter portion includes a stop (30) by which it abuts against a contact surface (32) associated therewith, and comprising a spring portion (18) acting on the signal transmitter portion relative to the hub so that the stop abuts against the contact surface.
US10427635B2
A method and apparatus for adjusting a front passenger seat in a motor vehicle includes the steps of identifying a user identification apparatus proximate to the motor vehicle, and accessing a user profile associated with the user identification apparatus. The user profile includes a predetermined home position for the front passenger seat. If the front passenger seat is unoccupied, the position of the front passenger seat is adjusted to the predetermined home position.
US10427634B2
An adjustable airbag system for a vehicle. The system includes an airbag assembly having an inflatable airbag within a housing, and an airbag housing orientation mechanism operatively coupled to the airbag housing. The airbag housing orientation mechanism is structured to enable control of an orientation of the airbag housing so as to enable deployment of the airbag to cushion an occupant positioned in either one of a driver side or a front passenger side of the vehicle.
US10427628B2
Apparatus and methods are disclosed for identifying a vehicle using data collected by a personal electronic device residing in the vehicle during its operation. By enabling the vehicle to be identified using data collected by the personal electronic device, embodiments of the invention may allow other information captured by the personal electronic device relating to the user's operation of the vehicle to be associated with the vehicle.
US10427626B2
Provided is a vehicle control device comprising a plurality of constant voltage generation circuits, wherein a specified voltage is supplied to a load even if any one of the constant voltage generation circuits outputs a voltage that exceeds the specified voltage.This vehicle control device is provided with a first and second constant voltage generation circuit that each output a voltage to a load, and when either the first or second constant voltage generation circuit outputs a voltage that exceeds a reference voltage, cuts off the output of that constant voltage generation circuit from the load.
US10427621B2
Disclosed herein is a vehicle tether clip which enables the coupling of latch jaws (13a) to a mounting hole of a pillar panel to be easily released by fastening a male screw member (30) to female screw holes (14) formed in hooks (13). Accordingly, the maintenance of the tether clip can be improved and the tether clip can be reused since the tether clip is not damaged during disassembly thereof.
US10427618B2
A docking system is for docking an electronic device in a motor vehicle. The docking system includes a cradle having a pivotable arm with an internal channel carrying first electrical conductors electrically connected to the electronic device. The cradle securely retains the electronic device. A dock housing includes a recess receiving the arm of the cradle such that the first electrical conductors may be electrically connected to second electrical conductors in the motor vehicle. A latch releasably latches the arm of the cradle within the recess of the dock housing.
US10427616B2
An accessory attachment system comprising a fastening key having an accessory retention cap, a stem extending from the retention cap, and at least one bit extending laterally from a distal end of the stem. The stem configured to be inserted through a key aperture in an accessory to be attached to the vehicle. The system includes a locking bracket connectable to the vehicle adjacent an accessory portal provided in the vehicle. The locking bracket comprises a base plate, a keyhole disposed through the base plate, and at least one inclined securing structure disposed along a circumference of the keyhole. Each securing structure comprises a ramp and a detent. The keyhole is configured to receive the stem distal end and bit(s) therethrough, and each securing structure is configured to engage the bit(s) and interlock the fastening key with the locking bracket upon rotation of the key.
US10427615B2
An assembly includes a body with a longitudinal axis, a lateral axis, and a vertical axis. The assembly additionally includes a cargo area coupled to the body. The cargo area has a first sidewall and a second sidewall spaced from each other along the lateral direction. A first fixation point is disposed on the first sidewall. The first fixation point has a first aperture with a first central axis generally parallel to the vertical axis. A second fixation point is disposed on the second sidewall. The second fixation point has a second aperture with a second central axis generally parallel to the vertical axis. The assembly further includes a removable cargo storage device with a first end and a second end. The first end is provided with a first post cooperable with the first aperture, and the second end is provided with a second post cooperable with the second aperture.
US10427614B2
An article rack includes a base mountable to a top rail of a truck box, a carrier, and a linkage pivotally connected to the base and the carrier. A drive mechanism of the rack has a first wheel fixed to the base, a second wheel fixed to the carrier, and an endless loop trained around the wheels such that pivoting of the linkage about the base pivots the carrier about the linkage.
US10427604B2
A vehicular vision system includes a driver-side exterior mirror assembly, a passenger-side mirror assembly and an interior mirror assembly. The fields of view of the mirror reflective elements of the exterior mirror assemblies are adjustable by the driver via a respective actuator. The exterior mirror assemblies include respective cameras that each have a respective rearward field of view that supplements the field of view of the mirror reflective element when viewed by the driver of the vehicle. A video display is disposed behind the mirror reflector of an interior mirror reflective element such that displayed video images are viewable through the mirror reflector of the interior mirror reflective element. The video display includes a driver-side display portion and a passenger-side display portion that each display images derived from image data captured by the respective camera while not displaying images derived from image data captured by the other camera.
US10427595B2
An exemplary illuminating vehicle assembly includes, among other things, a lens having an outer perimeter, a diffuser beneath the lens, and a light source configured to emit light that passes through the diffuser to illuminate the lens. The light source is disposed outside the outer perimeter. An exemplary illumination method includes, among other things, transmitting light from a light source through a diffuser, and transmitting light from the diffuser through a lens. The light source is outside an outer perimeter of the lens.
US10427594B2
An alert device for a moving device having a variable acceleration includes a sensing unit and a processor. The sensing unit senses the variable acceleration to generate a plurality of acceleration data. The processor determines a first plurality of acceleration data samples and a second plurality of acceleration data samples from the plurality of acceleration data based on two different predetermined sample sizes and a moving average algorithm to correspondingly calculate a first plurality of sample averages and a second plurality of sample averages, obtains a plurality of sample average differences between the first and the second pluralities of sample averages, analyzes the plurality of sample average differences based on a predetermined check algorithm to obtain a derived resultant value, and performs a data comparison between the derived resultant value and a predetermined threshold value to generate a comparison result.
US10427590B2
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention, the apparatus for controlling high lamp in a vehicle includes a camera photographing a subject in front of the vehicle, a brightness measurer measuring brightness from an image of the subject in front of the vehicle photographed by the camera, and a controller controlling the high lamp using a brightness data measured by the brightness measurer.
US10427589B2
The present invention relates to a work lighting (100) for a machine (200) for generating an adaptive working illumination, comprising a plurality of lighting means (10) arranged in the form of a light-emitting matrix (20) to generate the working illumination, and at least one central adjusting unit (60, 70, 80) for separately adjusting the working illumination of the individual lighting means (10) in the light-emitting matrix. The invention further relates to a machine (200) having a work lighting (100) according to the invention.
US10427586B2
A head lamp device of a vehicle comprises a pair of lamp units arranged in a direction perpendicular to a forward and rearward direction of a vehicle body, each of the pair of lamp units including at least one light emitting element; and a lighting circuit unit which is supplied with electric power from a power supply and lights the at least one light emitting element, wherein at least a portion of the lighting circuit unit is disposed in a gap formed between the pair of lamp units in the direction in which the pair of lamp units are arranged.
US10427584B2
A lamp apparatus may include: a light source having a light source installed therein; optics including an inlet configured to receive light irradiated from the light source, a outlet configured to discharge the light inputted from the inlet and having a plurality of facets formed thereon, and an optical connector connecting the inlet and the outlet; a light guide positioned between the light source and the optics, and configured to guide the light irradiated from the light source toward the optics; and a support configured to support the optics or the light guide.
US10427582B2
A load control device includes a camera to capture information of objects of load handled by a load handling device to forward such information to a computer, which compares load data derived therefrom with reference data in a data source and emits a signal to an output device in the case of a certain conflict between the data.
US10427581B2
An improved trailer for loading and unloading a heat exchanger tube bundle is disclosed. The trailer provides for the transport of tube bundles and includes seal pans which capture debris and other materials falling from the tube bundle during transport. The present invention also provides for the periodic placement of slideable supports under a bundle as it is pushed onto a trailer.
US10427577B2
Interior trim assemblies for motor vehicles are provided. In one example, an interior trim assembly for a vehicle interior of a motor vehicle includes an interior trim panel. The interior trim panel has a first outer surface for facing the vehicle interior and a second outer surface on a side opposite the first outer surface. The interior trim panel has an opening formed therethrough. A deployable support sub-assembly is coupled to the interior trim panel. The deployable support sub-assembly includes a support layer and a first moveable arm that is configured to move the support layer from a stowed position adjacent to the second outer surface of the interior trim panel through the opening to a deployed position adjacent to the first outer surface of the interior trim panel.
US10427576B2
A seat reclining apparatus includes a stopper which is movable between a forward-tilt restriction position to stop the seatback at an intermediate stop position in an unlock range, which is set in front of a lockable range in which a reclining mechanism of the seat reclining apparatus allows the angle of the seatback to be adjusted, and a restriction release position to allow the seatback to tilt forward beyond the intermediate stop position, and is situated at the forward-tilt restriction position when the seatback tilts toward the intermediate stop position from the lockable range. The seat reclining apparatus further includes a holding mechanism which keeps holding the stopper in the restriction release position until the seatback returns to the lockable range from a state where the seatback tilts forward beyond the intermediate stop position following a movement of the stopper from the forward-tilt restriction position to the restriction release position.
US10427574B2
A device for sliding a headrest towards the front direction includes a ratchet and a release lever installed in a side link which is a movable part. A release protrusion is formed in the ratchet and disposed almost in parallel with the hinge shaft of the ratchet. The release protrusion of the ratchet is pushed up to release the locking so that the headrest is returned to its original position.
US10427571B2
There is disclosed a vehicular seat element comprising a first major surface, a second major surface and a foam core element disposed therebetween. The first major surface is configured to be in contact with an occupant of the vehicle and the second major surface is configured to be in contact with a support surface of the vehicle. The first major surface comprises a rate sensitive foam element secured with respect to the foam core element. The foam core element and the rate sensitive foam element are different from one another.
US10427559B2
A child restraint includes a seat-support base adapted to be retained on a vehicle passenger seat. The child restraint also includes a juvenile seat mounted on the seat-support base and sized to seat a juvenile.
US10427556B2
A vehicle seat includes a seat bottom coupled to floor of a vehicle and a seat back coupled to the seat bottom to move relative to the seat bottom. The seat back includes a backrest and a backrest adjuster configured to move relative to the backrest to change a shape of the backrest.
US10427553B2
A vehicle seat includes a seat bottom and a seat back coupled to the seat bottom to extend away from the seat bottom. The seat back includes a backrest an a headrest coupled to the backrest to locate the backrest between the headrest and the seat bottom.
US10427549B2
A wireless charging receiver which includes a wireless receiving panel provided with a receiving coil, and an aligning detection module including a first magnetic sensor chip array and a first solenoid set, is disposed on the lower portion of an electric automobile. A wireless charging transmitter comprises a wireless transmitting panel provided with a transmitting coil, a matching detection module including a photosensitive chip array, a second magnetic sensor chip array and a second solenoid set, and a driving device used for driving the wireless transmitting panel to move, is disposed on the ground of a parking area. Magnetic sensor chips of the first magnetic sensor chip array and solenoids of the first solenoid set are disposed around the receiving coil. The wireless charging transmitter. The wireless transmitting panel is disposed on the driving device and is driven by the driving device to be moved and aligned.
US10427547B2
During charging, a quick charging device forms a battery module series circuit by connecting a third contact of a first switch to a second contact of the first switch, and connecting a fifth contact of a second switch to a twelfth contact of the second switch, so as to enable a charger to be connected to the battery module series circuit. During discharging, the quick charging device forms a battery module parallel circuit by connecting the third contact of the first switch to a first contact of the first switch, and connecting the fifth contact of the second switch to a fourth contact of the second switch, so as to enable a load unit to be connected to the battery module parallel circuit.
US10427542B2
A moving body includes: a plurality of linear motors including a first linear motor driven by magnetic interaction with magnetic flux of a magnetic pole path; a position detection sensor configured to detect a position of the moving body; a first electrical angle detection sensor disposed at a position different from the position detection sensor in a path direction of the magnetic pole path and configured to detect an electrical angle of the first linear motor; and a control unit configured to, when one of the position detection sensor and the first electrical angle detection sensor is positioned at a magnetic pole absent section, use the other of the position detection sensor and the first electrical angle detection sensor both to detect a position of the moving body and to detect an electrical angle of the first linear motor.
US10427540B2
A product may include a battery cell, and a housing may contain the battery cell. A cooling assembly may include an impeller that may circulate air in the housing. A turbine may be connected with the impeller so that the turbine and impeller may rotate together.
US10427538B2
A thermal management system for a vehicle includes a vortex tube configured to generate hot and cold airstreams and a valve having hot and cold air inlets connected to the vortex tube to receive the hot and cold airstreams, respectively. The valve further has a vent and a valve outlet. A high-voltage electrical component is connected to the valve outlet by conduit to receive one of the hot and cold airstreams to thermally regulate the component.
US10427526B2
Provided is an electric vehicle in which the state of contact between an electric connection arm and an external power line can be stabilized during traveling of the electric vehicle. In the electric vehicle, when the free end of an electric connection arm contacts an external power line during traveling of the electric vehicle, a posture control device controls the posture of the vehicle body so that the rotation angle of the electric connection arm approaches a target rotation angle or a target rotation angle range.
US10427525B2
A method for controlling a motor vehicle comfort system, wherein the control is carried out with the aid of a touch-sensitive display and user interface assigned to the comfort system. In at least one operating mode, the virtual representation of at least one body having a three-dimensional appearance is generated in a first position on the touch-sensitive display and user interface and at least one function that can be executed by the comfort system is represented on the surface of the body, wherein the body is moved after rotating around a horizontal or vertical axis into another position in which at least one other function which can be executed by the comfort system is represented on the visible surface of the body.
US10427509B2
A system according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a seal having a compressible bulb to provide sealing between a vehicle flange and a moveable panel, and a channel formed in an exterior surface of the bulb. A light source is positioned within the channel to extend along a length of the seal. A method according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, forming a seal to have a compressible bulb that has a channel formed in an exterior surface of the bulb, and installing a light cable within the channel to extend along a length of the seal.
US10427505B2
A roof module for a motor vehicle comprises an RTM frame and a Class-A covering layer, which at least partially covers the frame and is made of polyurethane. A method for manufacturing a roof module comprises the following steps: Initially, a fiber mat is put into a first mold. Then, a reactive resin system is introduced into the closed mold and the resin cures, so that a blank is formed. The blank is put into a second mold, into which subsequently polyurethane is introduced in the open condition. The polyurethane expands, wherein it at least partially forms a Class-A surface.
US10427502B1
An air freshener module is installed in a compartment slot formed in the dashboard of a vehicle. The module includes a body having a front section and a rear section. The rear section has an air inlet port that is adapted for coupling to the vehicle AC tube. The front section defines a plenum or interior housing space configured to receive an air freshener receptacle or holder that is movable between an open state and a closed state. The front end of the interior housing space defines an air outlet port. An air passageway extends between the air inlet port and the air outlet port. During operation, air admitted through the air inlet port is vented into the interior housing spaced occupied by the air freshener holder, enabling air to pass through an air freshener element and thereby communicate odorized air into the cabin. An adjustable closure regulates the amount of air delivered into the plenum.
US10427501B2
An outlet device (1) for ventilation of a vehicle interior has a housing (H) with an outer air guide surface (10a), and inner guide surface (30a), a guiding device (G), and an airflow adjustment member (63). The inner and outer air guide surfaces form an outlet flow channel (22) which extends between an air inlet orifice (11) and an air outlet orifice (12). The outlet flow channel (22) includes a first circumferential section (23a) and a second circumferential section (23b). An inlet air flow which passes the air inlet orifice (11) produces a first air flow component flowing therethrough and the second circumferential section (23b) produces a second air flow component flowing therethrough. The directions of the first and second circumferential sections meet each other in an intersecting point (P) which lies outside the housing (H). The airflow adjustment member allows changes to the ratio of the volumetric flows of the intersecting first and second air flow components.
US10427490B2
The present disclosure discloses a rooftop air conditioning unit for a bus or other vehicle. The air conditioning unit includes a frame, a condenser section mounted on the frame and a HVAC section mounted on the frame. The condenser section is positioned along a central longitudinal axis of the air conditioning unit, and the HVAC section is positioned in a distributed way on the two opposite sides of the condenser section and comprises at least one pair of HVAC modules, each of which includes a box-shaped base of plastic material mounted on the frame, inside which a respective blower, evaporator and heater are mounted.
US10427488B2
An apparatus and method are described where one or more pre-stressed spring elements are disposed between two structures to mitigate or cancel the effect of static loads applied to an component connecting the structures. The apparatus and methods may be used, for example, to reduce the adverse impact of static loads on the performance of top-mounts in a suspension system of a vehicle.
US10427487B2
A characteristic is set to a first transmission force characteristic. A sensitivity is set to a first sensitivity. The maximum value of the square of a product of a value representing the first transmission force characteristic and a value representing the first sensitivity in a predetermined frequency range preset so as to include a frequency at which the value representing the first transmission force characteristic takes a peak value is set to an evaluation indication value. A complex spring constant in the vehicle longitudinal direction of the rear wheel suspension is set so that the evaluation indication value takes the minimum value out of values in a variable range of the evaluation indication value.
US10427485B2
A method of operating a motor vehicle with a chassis system comprising at least two, preferably four vibration damper includes carrying out a body control and a wheel control with the chassis system, and controlling the energy supply for the chassis system via an energy control arrangement. A motor vehicle performing the method is also disclosed.
US10427482B2
A link arm for connecting a first unsuspended mass to a second suspended mass, and its manufacturing method are provided. In some embodiment the arm applies in particular to a suspension system for a motor vehicle, wherein the arm is able to equip a wheel suspension by having triangular housings to receive a stub axle of the wheel and two connecting links to the chassis of the vehicle. In some embodiments, the arm comprises housings to receive a first linkage joint to the first mass, and at least a second linkage joint to the second mass, and comprises: a stiffening portion which comprises a first thermoplastic or thermosetting matrix composite material reinforced with fibers and which comprises a peripheral rim of the arm, and an anti-buckling portion interposed in the stiffening portion and extending from the rim over substantially the entire arm.
US10427480B2
A cushioned protection device may protect a tailgate of a tow vehicle from damage from a trailer. The cushioned protection device may be made from a polyethylene foam block having an internal cavity sized to fit snugly around a top portion of a crank jack attached to the trailer.
US10427477B2
A chain for mounting on a vehicle tire, in particular a sliding block chain, having a chain mesh, which is disposed at least on the tread of a vehicle tire in the mounted state of the chain and has a number of chain strands, each of which is formed by a number of chain links each with essentially straight longitudinal legs which run parallel to one another and are connected to one another at their ends by connecting elements in particular connecting rings. In the mounted state of the chain, the chain links of the chain strands lie on the tread at alternately positive and negative angles with respect to the tread. Wear elements are provided, realized as wear webs, which are fixedly connected to chain links of the chain mesh and which extend parallel to the longitudinal legs of the chain links.
US10427472B2
A pneumatic tire, comprising: a carcass provided in a toroidal shape across a pair of bead cores; a bead filler provided on the outer side in the tire radial direction of each bead core; and a rim guard to protrude on the outer side in the tire width direction for rim protection, wherein a contour of a portion of the rim guard has radius of curvature in the range of 5 mm to 40 mm in a widthwise cross section of the tire, and provided that “1CSH” represents a distance in the tire radial direction between the innermost end and the outermost end of the carcass, a distance in the tire radial direction between the outermost end in the tire width direction of the rim guard and the outermost end in the tire radial direction of a bead filler is in the range of −0.2CSH to 0.05CSH.
US10427468B2
In a pneumatic tire, in which a sub-groove 31 extending in a tire circumferential direction is provided on a shoulder land portion inside a width direction center of the shoulder land in a tire width direction, and the shoulder land portion is divided into an inner portion 34 inside the sub-groove 31 in the tire width direction and an outer portion 35 outside the sub-groove 31 in the tire width direction, the shoulder land portion protrudes to the outside of a tire reference profile line L in a normal direction of the tire reference profile line on a cross-section in the tire width direction and a protrusion height H2 at an sub-groove 31 side end of the outer portion 35 is higher than a protrusion height H1 at a sub-groove 31 side end of the inner portion 34.
US10427466B2
Provided is a tire for winter of which on-snow performance can be improved without compromising anti-wandering performance. A tire for winter comprises a tread part The tread part is provided with: a plurality of first inclined major grooves extending at an incline from one tread end beyond a tire equator and ending without reaching another tread end; first inclined minor grooves provided between the first inclined major grooves; a plurality of second inclined major grooves extending at an incline from the other tread end, in a direction opposite the first inclined major grooves, beyond the tire equator and ending without reaching the one tread end; second inclined minor grooves provided between the second inclined major grooves; a plurality of first longitudinal grooves dividing first land parts; and a plurality of second longitudinal grooves dividing second land parts.
US10427464B2
Disclosed is a pneumatic tire that includes a tread having a pattern asymmetrical about the tire equatorial plane, and that may reduce cavity resonance and has good steering stability. A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion having a pair of tread halves, the tread halves extending between the tire equatorial plane and respective outer ends in the tire width direction of the tread portion, respectively, and having different negative ratios. The tread portion has short fibers fixed to at least a portion of a tire inner peripheral surface of the tread portion, and one of the tread halves with a higher negative ratio has a higher short-fiber fixation area ratio than that of the other tread half.
US10427463B2
The invention relates to a pneumatic tire comprising a carcass and a tread located radially outward of the carcass and extending between the tire sidewalls; the tread providing a radially outermost tread running surface; the tread comprising a first tread layer comprising a first rubber compound and a second tread layer comprising a second rubber compound; wherein the second tread layer is located radially adjacent to the first tread layer; wherein the first rubber compound is compositionally distinct from the second rubber compound; wherein the second tread layer comprises one or more integrally formed extensions of the second tread layer extending radially outwardly toward the tread running surface; wherein each of the integrally formed extensions of the second tread layer comprises a circumferentially continuous groove and a reinforcement zone disposed on a side of the groove; wherein the first rubber compound comprises 100 parts by weight of at least one diene based elastomer, and from 1 to 150 phr of silica; and the second rubber compound comprises a diene base elastomer, from 50 to 120 phr of a filler, wherein at least 20 phr of the filler is a high surface area carbon black having an iodine adsorption number of at least 100 g/kg, from 1 to 45 phr of a methylene acceptor, from 1 to 25 phr of a methylene donor, and from 1 to 30 phr of at least one additive selected from the group consisting of carbamic resins, liquid diene based polymers having a number average molecular weight ranging from 1000 to 25000, and aromatic hydrocarbon resins.
US10427461B1
A tire having a plurality of shape memory alloy (SMA) radial stiffening elements including a first end portion, a second end portion, and an arching middle portion. Each SMA radial element is secured to the rim of a wheel to form arching elements extending about an entire circumference of the tire.
US10427460B2
This tire laminate comprises a film of a thermoplastic resin composition and a layer of a rubber composition, and is characterized in that the rubber composition contains at least one type of rubber component, a condensate of formaldehyde and the compound represented by formula (1) (R1 to R5 in the formula are defined in the specification), at least one type of methylene donor and a vulcanizing agent, and in that there are 0.5-20 parts by mass of the condensate per total 100 parts by mass of the at least one type of rubber component, there are 0.25-200 parts by mass of the at least one type of methylene donor per total 100 parts by mass of the at least one type of rubber component, the mass ratio of the at least one type of methylene donor and the condensate is 0.5:1-10:1, and, based on the total amount of the at least one type of rubber component, the at least one type of rubber component includes 10-80 mass % of rubber in which the vinyl content in side chains of aliphatic unsaturated hydrocarbons exceeds 11 mol %. This tire laminate exhibits improved adhesive strength between the film of the thermoplastic resin composition and the layer of the rubber composition.
US10427458B2
A pneumatic radial tire for a passenger vehicle according to the present invention has an appropriate relationship between a tire cross-sectional width SW and a tire outer diameter OD. Also, a method of using the pneumatic radial tire for a passenger vehicle according to the present invention is to use the above radial tire with at least specified internal pressure.
US10427453B2
A wheel for vehicles, in particular with electric or hybrid propulsor, is provided that is apt to recover at least a part of the energy which is required in order to deform the tire of the wheel during its rotation and to transfer the energy, recovered in this manner, from the wheel to the vehicle on which the wheel is mounted, so that this energy, recovered, is used to generate the electrical energy intended to feed the devices installed on the vehicle, such as in particular the respective electric propulsor.
US10427436B2
A method of creating a test pattern includes: providing a printing apparatus including: a transparent ink print head configured to eject a transparent ink, a first print head configured to eject a first colored ink, and a second print head configured to eject a second colored ink; forming a base-coat on a print medium using the first colored ink; and creating a plurality of ruled lines to measure impact displacement of the transparent ink so as to form a first ruled line set formed by layering the transparent ink over the base-coat, and a second ruled line set formed outside a region corresponding to the base-coat using the second colored ink.
US10427428B2
There is provided an ink-jet recording apparatus including: a transporting roller; a driven roller provided opposite the transporting roller to sandwich the recording medium between the driven roller and the transporting roller, while moving in an approaching-departing direction based on a thickness of the recording medium; a first biasing member biasing the driven roller to the transporting roller; a platen; a recording portion configured to jet ink droplets from nozzles; and a cooperative portion moving along with the movement of the driven roller in the approaching-departing direction to move the platen.
US10427426B2
A hand-held recording apparatus includes a recording section, a housing, and an indicator. The recording section records an image on a recording material in moving in a scanning direction. The housing houses the recording section. The indicator is movable between an indication position at which the indicator opposes the recording material and indicates a recording area of the image of the recording section and a retracted position at which the indicator is retracted from the indication position.
US10427422B2
A printing apparatus includes a movement amount acquiring device which acquires a movement amount of the printing apparatus with respect to a printing medium, a printer which performs printing on the printing medium, and a processor.The processor adjusts a length of a print image to be printed on the printing medium to a value not exceeding a length of a print area set on the printing medium along a first direction, on the basis of the movement amount acquired by the movement amount acquiring device when the printing apparatus is moved relative to the print area along the first direction, and performs control such that the print image with its length adjusted is printed on the printing medium when the printing apparatus is moved relative to the print area along a second direction different from the first direction.
US10427419B2
Provided is a textile printing method that may effectively suppress the risk of ink smearing and that may allow a cured water-soluble, UV-curable resin to be adequately stripped off a fabric so as to dye the fabric in high quality color. A textile printing method includes a pretreatment step of discharging a treatment ink from an inkjet head for treatment toward a fabric to apply the treatment ink to the fabric; a dyeing step of discharging a textile printing ink from an inkjet head for textile printing toward the fabric to apply the textile printing ink to the fabric. In the dyeing step and the pretreatment step, the textile printing ink and the treatment ink are irradiated with ultraviolet light after a respective one of the inks is applied to the fabric.
US10427415B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes an ejection portion and a circuit. The ejection portion has a plurality of ejection ports configured to eject liquid supplied from a liquid storage portion defining a liquid storage space configured to store liquid. The circuit is electrically connected to at least one of a bottom electrode and a side electrode. The circuit is configured to detect a capacitance between the bottom electrode and the side electrode. The bottom electrode is provided at a bottom surface of the liquid storage portion. The side electrode is provided at one side surface of the liquid storage portion and electrically isolated from the bottom electrode.
US10427413B2
A liquid ejection head includes a plurality of liquid chambers each including an energy generating element that generates energy for ejecting a liquid, an ejection opening that ejects the liquid, and a liquid supply opening that supplies the liquid, the liquid flowing in a first direction in the plurality of liquid chambers, and the plurality of liquid chambers being arranged in a second direction that intersects the first direction, and a plurality of first side walls that extend in the first direction and that form walls on both sides of the plurality of liquid chambers. In the liquid ejection head, each of the plurality of first side walls includes a fragmenting portion that fragments each of the plurality of first side walls in the first direction.
US10427409B2
An inkjet printer includes a head including a nozzle configured to eject pigment ink supplied from a tank during a print operation and during a purge operation and a purge mechanism. A controller configured to determine whether to control the purge mechanism to perform the purge operation for discharging the pigment ink from the nozzle and, when determining to control the purge mechanism to perform the purge operation, determine a remaining amount of the pigment ink remaining in the tank. The controller is configured to determine a discharge amount to be discharged from the nozzle when performing the purge operation based on the remaining amount of the pigment ink remaining in the tank and control the purge mechanism to perform the purge operation based on the discharge amount.
US10427408B2
In an example, a printhead maintenance apparatus includes a pump, a current monitor and processing circuitry. The pump may be provided to increase a pressure in a printhead, and the current monitor may monitor a current consumption of the pump. The processing circuitry may determine a rate of change of current consumption of the pump, and compare the rate of change of current consumption to a predetermined threshold.
US10427403B2
Regarding an image forming apparatus for printing an input image and including a print head having a head sensor configured to sense information from the input image printed on a print medium, there is a method of determining a head sensor position parameter in the image forming apparatus. The method includes printing a first swath of the input image on the print medium and determining the head sensor position parameter by performing a sub-method. The sub-method includes capturing, via the head sensor, a target image from the printed first swath, comparing the target image to a reference image for the first swath based upon the input image, and determining the head sensor position parameter based on a relative shift between the target image and the reference image.
US10427395B2
Methods of making vacuum insulated glass (VIG) window units are provided, including activating getters in a process of making VIG window units. In certain example embodiments, at least one getter is activated during and/or at the end of a pump-out/evacuation process in which the cavity between the substrates is evacuated. In certain example embodiments, the getter(s) may be activated (e.g., by at least a laser beam that is directed through a pump-out tube) during and/or at the end of the evacuation process in which the cavity between the substrates is evacuated to a low pressure that is below atmospheric pressure.
US10427393B2
A system and method for making a door having first and second door skins and an internal frame. The top and bottom surfaces of the frame are coated with an adhesive and the frame is placed on a first door skin. The second door skin is then placed on the opposite surface of the frame. The assembled components are then pressed to bond the first and second door skins to the frame with a pressed having platens. Movable shims may be used to vary the pressed force and pressing area.
US10427390B2
A multilayer composite containing the following layers: I. a first layer (layer I) of a molding compound containing at least 40 wt. % of the following components: 1) 60 to 99 parts by wt. of a copolyamide based on hexamethylenediamine, terephthalic acid and an aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 8 to 19 carbon atoms and 2) 40 to 1 parts by wt. of an olefinic copolymer as impact modifier, wherein the parts by wt. of 1) and 2) sum to 100; and II. a second layer (layer II) of a molding compound containing at least 60 wt. % of thermoplastic polyester, has a high heat distortion temperature, a very good impact resistance, a high elongation at break and good layer adhesion.
US10427382B2
A stacked composite material having at least one glass fiber layer, at least two nanocomposite layers comprising multi walled carbon nanotubes dispersed in an epoxy matrix. Each glass fiber layer is sandwiched between two nanocomposite layers and the glass fiber layers are oriented in a unidirectional or a quasi-isotropic orientation with respect to adjacent and non-contiguous glass fiber layers in the stacked composite material. A method of preparing a stacked composite material comprising applying a nanocomposite layer onto a mold, overlaying a glass fiber layer on top of the nanocomposite layer, rolling an aluminum roller over the glass fiber layer, repeating the applying, overlaying, and rolling to form a stacked composite material.
US10427381B2
A laminated metal sheet 1 includes a film 3 including a laminated resin layer including at least two layers with polyester as a main component formed on one face or both faces of a metal sheet 2. A polyester resin layer serving as a lower layer 3a in contact with the metal sheet 2 of the laminated resin layer contains 90 mol % or more of terephthalic acid as a polycarboxylic acid component and contains a polyol component containing ethylene glycol and 1,4-butanediol, in which the polyol component contains 30 to 50 mol % of ethylene glycol, 50 to 70 mol % of 1,4-butanediol, and 10 mol % or less of other polyol components. A polyester resin layer serving as an upper layer 3b of the laminated resin layer contains polyester containing terephthalic acid as a polycarboxylic acid component and 1,4-butanediol as a polyol component both of which are 90 mol % or more of the respective components, has a total thickness of 3 to 25 μm, and has a ratio (I011/I100) of peak intensity (I011) observed in the range of 2θ=15.5 degrees to 17.0 degrees to peak intensity (I100) observed in the range of 2θ=22.5 degrees to 24.0 degrees in X-ray diffraction in the range of 0.2 to 5.0.
US10427374B2
Electronic equipment may include seamless spacer fabric. Seamless spacer fabric may be used as a protective case or cosmetic cover for an electronic device such as a speaker. A seamless spacer fabric may include a seamless fabric outer layer, a spacer fabric inner layer, and an adhesive layer that bonds the seamless outer layer to the spacer fabric inner layer. The spacer fabric layer may have a seam region where one portion of the spacer fabric layer is joined with another portion of the fabric layer. The seamless fabric outer layer may cover the seam region to hide it from view. One or more additional seam hiding layers or strips may be formed on opposing sides of the spacer fabric layer to cover the seam. The seamless spacer fabric may have an array of openings that extends uniformly around the perimeter of the seamless spacer fabric.
US10427369B2
A tire tread extractor used in the manufacture of treads includes a frame, a first nip roller rotatably associated with the frame, and a second nip roller rotatably associated with the frame. The first and second nip rollers are adapted to engage a tire tread at least partially resident in a mold. A driving mechanism associated with the first and/or second nip rollers operates to impart rotational motion thereto. The frame is configured for longitudinal movement along a substantial portion of a longitudinal length of the mold while maintaining the first and second nip rollers in a spaced relation to the mold.
US10427368B2
The invention relates to a multi-layer body (10) and a process for the production thereof. The multi-layer body has a first layer (23) with a first surface (231) and a second surface (232) opposite the first surface (231). The first surface (231) of the first layer (23) is defined by a base plane spanned by coordinate axes x and y, wherein a large number of facet faces (50) are molded into the second surface (232) of the first layer (23) in a first area (31). Each of the facet faces (50) is determined by one or more of the parameters F, S, H, P, Ax, Ay and Az, wherein the parameters of the facet faces (50) arranged in the first area (31) are varied pseudorandomly in the first area (31) within a variation range predefined in each case for the first area of surface and wherein a reflective second layer (24) is applied to each of the facet faces.
US10427361B2
The present invention relates to a fiber-reinforced sheet having excellent strength. The fiber-reinforced sheet according to the present invention comprises a resin and a fiber bundle, and the fiber-reinforced sheet comprises a resin-unimpregnated fiber bundle portion having a surface not impregnated with the resin or a partially resin-impregnated fiber bundle portion having a surface not impregnated with the resin, has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, comprises a sheet body portion and at least one ridge portion protruding from the sheet body portion on the first surface, and comprises the resin-unimpregnated fiber bundle portion or the partially resin-impregnated fiber bundle portion at at least one of the first surface and the second surface.
US10427357B2
A system for manufacturing a display unit including: a transport unit which transports an optical film comprising a polarizing film, an adhesive layer, and a release film, by a predetermined transport length and stops the transport of the optical film; a cutting unit which cuts the optical film in a width direction at a predetermined cutting position without cutting the release film; a separating unit which separates the release film from the polarizing film at the cutting position; and an attaching unit which attaches the polarizing film, from which the release film is separated, to a panel. The transport unit includes a horizontal roll satisfying the following conditional expression: I*n
US10427353B2
The present invention provides high performance polymer (HPP) compositions, methods, processes, and systems for the manufacture of three-dimensional articles made of polymers using molding or 3D printing. The HPP compositions comprise a first HPP dissolved in a solvent and a second HPP present as a solid having particular particle size.
US10427348B2
Automatic process control of additive manufacturing. The system includes an additive manufacturing device for making an object and a local network computer controlling the device. At least one camera is provided with a view of a manufacturing volume of the device to generate network accessible images of the object. The computer is programmed to stop the manufacturing process when the object is defective based on the images of the object.
US10427346B2
A polymeric insert formed by extruding a material including polyamide and a plurality of long fibers to form a column structure having a first profile. A method for making such an insert comprising passing a polymeric material in a substantially flowable state through a die, and substantially simultaneously passing a fiber through the die, wherein during the passing step the polymeric material has a relative viscosity of less than about 60 according to ASTM D789.
US10427344B1
A molding system includes a mold having a mold cavity; a molding machine configured to fill the mold cavity with a composite molding resin including a polymeric material having a plurality of fibers; a processing module connected to the molding machine; and a controller connected to the computing apparatus. The processing module includes a processor configured to generate an orientation distribution of the fibers in the mold cavity based on a molding condition for the molding machine, wherein the orientation distribution is generated taking into consideration a combined effect of a molding pressure and a shear rate on a zero-shear-rate viscosity of the composite molding material. The controller is configured to control the molding machine to perform an actual molding with the molding condition for injecting the composite molding resin into at least a portion of the mold cavity.
US10427341B2
An injection molding machine uses a controller to effectively control its operation. The controller may determine and/or receive information regarding the machine's maximum load capacity, and may also determine a current operational load value of the machine. The controller may cause the machine to operate at any number of combinations of settings of operational parameters which result in the machine operating at or below the maximum load value by adjusting any number of machine parameters associated with the injection molding machine based on feedback sensors measuring real-time operating conditions of the machine.
US10427339B2
A mold for injection molding includes a design-surface-side mold which is capable of forming a design surface of a resin molded product and a non-design-surface-side mold which is capable of forming a mold cavity with the design-surface-side mold. A convex portion is provided in any one of the design-surface-side mold and the non-design-surface-side mold so as to protrude toward the other one. The mold for injection molding is configured to be capable of switching a first mold closing state in which the convex portion is present from any one of the design-surface-side mold and the non-design-surface-side mold over the other one and a second mold closing state in which the convex portion is not present from any one of the design-surface-side mold and the non-design-surface-side mold over the other one.
US10427327B2
A separation device includes a first shredding unit, a first separation unit, a second shredding unit, and a second separation unit. The first shredding unit shreds a processing target containing a first material and a second material. The first separation unit rotates a first tubular portion in a state in which the processing target shredded by the first shredding unit is accommodated therein, thereby separating the second material passing through first holes from the processing target. The second shredding unit shreds the processing target from which the second material passing through the first holes is separated by the first separation unit. The second separation unit rotates a second tubular portion in a state in which the processing target shredded by the second shredding unit is accommodated therein, thereby separating the second material passing through second holes from the processing target.
US10427318B1
A method of creating a wood-based false stone for producing unique decorative cutouts and jewelry includes collecting a plurality of stems from a plant, cutting each of the plurality of stems to a uniform length, and debarking each of the plurality of stems. The debarked plurality of stems is then dyed, dried completely, and saturated with a resin. The saturated plurality of stems is placed in a mold and compressed. The compressed plurality of stems is removed from the mold and cut into a plurality of slices, each of which is in turn shaped into a plurality of cutouts.
US10427317B2
A battery-powered portable cutting tool includes a housing, a cutting element, an electric motor to drive the cutting element to cut, a battery to supply electric current to the motor and a control circuit to control the supply of electric current to the motor from the battery. The control circuit may include a main switch and an auxiliary switch. The control circuit may have an active state in which the main switch allows electric current to flow to the motor and an inactive state in which the main switch does not allow electric current to flow to the motor. The operation of the auxiliary switch causes the control circuit to change between the active and inactive states. The auxiliary switch is arranged to determine whether the tool is in an inappropriate state to be used and, if so, cause the control circuit to change to the inactive state.
US10427316B2
A food processor includes a bowl with a removable lid. Food items are advanced into the bowl through a feed tube formed in the lid where they are cut by a blade assembly. A rotating disk is adjustable relative to the blade assembly to vary the thickness of the food items cut by the blade assembly.
US10427313B2
One variation of a system for buttering and toasting bread buns includes: a butter stage including: a vessel containing liquefied dairy fat and defining a permeable surface, a pressure supply fluidly coupled to the vessel, and a first paddle assembly configured to catch a bun crown dispensed into the butter stage, to compress a sliced face of the bun crown directly against the permeable surface, and to release the bun crown from the butter stage; and a toast stage including a toasting surface arranged vertically below the permeable surface, a heating element arranged behind the toasting surface, and a second paddle assembly arranged vertically below the first paddle assembly and configured to catch the bun crown released from the first paddle assembly, to compress the sliced face of the bun crown directly against the toasting surface, and to release the bun crown from the toasting surface.
US10427312B2
A handle for a shaving razor adapted to releasably support a razor cartridge is provided. The handle includes a handle body and an actuation button actuable to release the razor cartridge. At least part of the actuation button has a substantially spherical shape and is positioned to allow a finger of a user to make contact with the substantially spherical shape when actuating the actuation button.
US10427311B2
A handheld lighting device is provided with a detachable knife assembly. In one example, the handheld lighting device may include a light source that generates a light beam to illuminate a scene, such as a work area. The knife assembly may be coupled to the lighting device using an attachment mechanism. The lighting device may include a slot that may receive a sleeve of the knife assembly such that the knife assembly may be secured to the lighting device. The lighting device may illuminate the work area such that a user may readily see the area that a knife of the knife assembly may cut. The light source of the lighting device may be activated using a multi-access user control that may be L-shaped and actuated from one or more locations on the user control. Additional features and related methods are also provided.
US10427308B2
Provided is a wire body processing structure for a robot having a wrist, a base end of which is connected to a forearm in a rotatable manner about a first axis and a distal end of which has a plurality of working tools attached thereto. The wire body processing structure includes a first flexible conduit disposed along the first axis from the forearm to the distal end of the wrist and also includes a second flexible conduit disposed longitudinally within the first conduit. A first wire body for one of the working tools is extended longitudinally through the second conduit. A second wire body for another one of the working tools is extended longitudinally through a space between the first conduit and the second conduit.
US10427307B2
A cluster tool assembly includes a vacuum transfer module, a process module having a first side connected to the vacuum transfer module. An isolation valve having a first side and a second side, the first side of the isolation valve coupled to a second side of the process module. A replacement station is coupled to the second side of the isolation valve. The replacement station includes an exchange handler and a part buffer. The part buffer includes a plurality of compartments to hold new or used consumable parts. The process module includes a lift mechanism to enable placement of a consumable part installed in the process module to a raised position. The raised position provides access to the exchange handler to enable removal of the consumable part from the process module and store in a compartment of the part buffer. The exchange handler of the replacement station is configured to provide a replacement for the consumable part from the part buffer back to the process module. The lift mechanism is configured to receive the consumable part provided for replacement by the exchange handler and lower the consumable part to an installed position. The replacement by the exchange handler and the process module is conducted while the process module and the replacement station are maintained in a vacuum state.
US10427305B2
A motion capture setup records the movements of an operator, and a control engine then translates those movements into control signals for controlling a robot. The control engine may directly translate the operator movements into analogous movements to be performed by the robot, or the control engine may compute robot dynamics that cause a portion of the robot to mimic a corresponding portion of the operator.
US10427304B2
A system and method for robotic charger alignment comprises receiving at a robotic charger, a device identification of a receiving device; retrieving a reference object (RO) of the receiving device from a database indexed by the device identification; imaging the receiving device to form at least two images having an angle therebetween with respect to a common location on the receiving device; calculating, by an alignment processing device, a stereo disparity depth map from the at least two images; acquiring an acquired point cloud (APC) from the stereo disparity depth map; generating, by the alignment processing device, rotation and translation data by aligning the RO to the APC; inferring an inlet port location from the RO; and moving the robotic charger proximal to the inlet port using the RO, Rot and T data.
US10427301B2
A robot system and a robot controller, by which teaching operation, etc., for a robot can be easily carried out, with respect to a shelf having an unchangeable orientation. The robot controller has: a rotation angle obtaining section configured to obtain a rotation angle of a first rotation axis; a coordinate system calculating section configured to calculate a second coordinate system based on a first coordinate system; a position/orientation calculating section configured to calculate a position and orientation of the robot on a reference coordinate system, based on the rotation angle of the first rotation axis obtained by the rotation angle obtaining section and the teaching position on the second coordinate system; and a motion command generating section configured to generate a motion command for controlling a motion of the operation of the robot, based on the position and orientation of the robot calculated by the position/orientation calculating section.
US10427297B2
A tablet terminal that establishes a wireless connection with one of a plurality of controllers each having identification information and transmits an operation signal for commanding operation of a robot to the wirelessly connected controller, is configured to prevent the robot from being operated by the operation signal when the identification information of the controller to which the base holding the tablet terminal is connected does not coincide with the identification information of the controller to which the tablet terminal is connected.
US10427289B2
A multi-position hook assembly for use in a tool that includes a hook having a first leg and a second leg joined by a top span member, and a mounting member configured for slidably receiving the top span member and releasably locking the hook in a plurality of positions.
US10427282B2
In a rotary impact tool according to an aspect of the present disclosure, an impact mechanism rotates an output shaft by a rotational force of a motor and, when a torque equal to or greater than a given value is externally applied to the output shaft in a direction opposite a rotational direction of the output shaft, the impact mechanism intermittently applies an impact force as a momentary torque to the output shaft in the rotational direction of the output shaft. A protection unit stops the motor or reduces a rotational speed of the motor on condition that an abnormal impact detection unit detects the abnormal impact. A control unit controls activation of the protection unit differently when the rotational direction of the motor is set to a reverse rotational direction in comparison with when the rotational direction of the motor is set to a forward rotational direction.
US10427280B2
An adjustable gripping tool including an adjustable opening to grip and impart work or a rotational force on work pieces (e.g., nuts and bolts) of various sizes is provided. The gripping tool of the present disclosure includes a ratcheting configuration and an adjusting configuration and can change between each configuration. While in the adjusting configuration, an adjusting bolt may be rotated to cause a plurality of jaws or gripping members to converge toward each other or diverge away from each other to adjust the diameter of the opening of the gripping tool. In this way, the plurality of jaws may converge onto work pieces of various sizes to grip the work pieces securely in the opening. The gripping tool may then be changed to the ratcheting configuration. In the ratcheting configuration, a handle of the gripping tool may be gripped and rotated to impart work on the work piece.
US10427277B2
The present invention provides methods and systems an impact wrench having dynamically tuned drive components, such as an anvil/socket combination, and related methodology for dynamically tuning the drive components in view of inertia displacement, as well as stiffness between coupled components, and with regard to impact timing associated with clearance gaps between the component parts.
US10427275B2
This invention relates to a fastener driving device including a variable ratio gear mechanism that enables the ratio of the rotation of the handle to the rotation of a driving bit extending from the handle to be varied to allow the bit to rotate at different speeds from the handle. The device includes a gear mechanism disposed within a housing for the device that includes a locking member. The locking member can be engaged with the gear mechanism to lock the gear mechanism in a configuration for a 1:1 gear ratio. The locking member can be moved with regard to the gear mechanism to provide an increased gear ratio for the gear mechanism when desired.
US10427273B2
A method for the dressing of a multi-thread grinding worm by a dressing roll, wherein the grinding worm has at least two screw channels which are arranged parallel to another, which screw channels extend helically around an axis of the grinding worm and wherein the dressing roll has at least two adjacent dressing profiles which are arranged along an axis of the dressing roll, wherein the dressing profiles of the dressing roll are guided simultaneously through adjacent screw channels of the grinding worm during the dressing of the grinding worm. To improve the precision of the dressing the method includes the steps: a) Execution of a first partial dressing process at which the dressing profiles of the dressing roll are guided simultaneously through first adjacent screw channels of the grinding worm; b) Execution of at least one second partial dressing process at which the dressing profiles of the dressing roll are guided simultaneously through second adjacent screw channels of the grinding worm, wherein the second adjacent screw channels are, compared with step a), offset in the direction of the axis of the grinding worm by at least one screw channel of the grinding worm.
US10427268B2
A finishing device for finish machining of a workpiece, in particular of a crankshaft or a camshaft, comprising a workpiece holder and a rotary drive for rotating the workpiece about the workpiece axis thereof, comprising at least one first finishing tool for machining a main bearing concentric to the workpiece axis and at least one second finishing tool for machining an additional bearing, wherein the finishing tools can be moved along a transport axis which extends via a working area defined by the workpiece holder so that the finishing tools can be moved into an additional area arranged outside the working area.
US10427265B2
A rotating table is maintained in a stationary state by generating a clamping torque while ensuring a long enough lifetime of a plate spring. Provided is a rotating table device including: base members; a rotating member that is supported by the base members so as to be rotatable about an axis; a brake disk that is secured to the rotating member; and a clamping mechanism that clamps the brake disk, wherein the clamping mechanism is provided with a piston that is attached so as to be movable between a clamped position and an unclamped position in a direction along the axis with respect to the base members, a plate spring that is secured to the piston and the base members and that biases the piston toward the clamped position, and a coil spring that is disposed between the piston and the base members, and that constantly biases the piston toward the clamped position.
US10427259B2
A tilt device includes: a drive motor that provides a drive force for swinging a tilt member; an auxiliary cylinder coupled to the tilt member to assist swing of the tilt member by the drive motor; and a control device that performs drive control of the drive motor and the auxiliary cylinder. In the movable range of the tilt member, a moment about the swing axis generated in the tilt member by the gravitational force is always directed to only one side in the rotational direction, and an assistive moment about the swing axis provided to the tilt member by a cylinder pressure is always directed to only the other side in the rotational direction. The control device fluctuates the cylinder pressure such that the assistive moment is less than the moment generated in the tilt member by the gravitational force.
US10427237B2
Methods and apparatus to control a weld current amperage are disclosed. A disclosed example method includes identifying an amperage parameter of a welding device, determining a voltage set point based on the amperage parameter and a voltage correction factor, outputting weld current based on the amperage parameter and the voltage set point, comparing a measured voltage corresponding to the weld current to a threshold, and when the measured voltage satisfies the threshold, and adjusting an amperage of the weld current based on the amperage parameter, the voltage set point, and the measured voltage using a first amperage-voltage relationship.
US10427235B2
An apparatus and method are provided for manufacturing an orthopedic prosthesis by resistance welding a porous metal layer of the orthopedic prosthesis onto an underlying metal substrate of the orthopedic prosthesis. The resistance welding process involves directing an electrical current through the porous layer and the substrate, which dissipates as heat to cause softening and/or melting of the materials, especially along the interface between the porous layer and the substrate. The softened and/or melted materials undergo metallurgical bonding at points of contact between the porous layer and the substrate to fixedly secure the porous layer onto the substrate.
US10427234B2
A method for brazing a metal part onto a surface of a zirconia component. The method involves the steps of altering the surface state of the component to permit the attachment of a first metallization layer, cleaning the component to eliminate the impurities from its surface, depositing a first metallization layer, having mainly titanium, on the surface of the component, depositing a second metallization layer, having mainly niobium, on the first metallization layer, applying the part against the second metallization layer, depositing a gold brazing metal on the part and the second metallization layer, cooling the brazed area in a temperature-controlled manner, and stress-relieving heat treatment being performed under load on the metal part before brazing.
US10427218B2
A powder bed fusion apparatus has an energy beam emitting section for outputting an energy beam, a thin layer forming section for forming a thin layer of a powder material, preliminary heating means for pre-heating the thin layer of the powder material, and control means for controlling modeling, wherein the control means performs forming the thin layer of the powder material, pre-heating the thin layer of the powder material, and modeling based on slice data, in which irradiation of the energy beam is started from the central region of the thin layer, and sequentially moved to a peripheral region of the thin layer.
US10427209B2
A method of forming a part from a blank includes positioning the blank within a forming die. Water is introduced between the blank and the forming die. The water is heated to form steam between the blank and the forming die. The blank is reshaped within the forming die to form the part while the steam is disposed between the blank and the forming die. The steam forms a cushion between the blank and the forming die to reduce friction therebetween. A lubricant is not applied to the blank prior to being positioned in the forming die. Therefore, the formed part does not require a washing step after being formed.
US10427200B2
The present invention provides a mold fixing structure capable of easily performing work in which a mold carried into a machine is fixed to a mold mounting surface of the machine, and work in which the mold fixed to the mold mounting surface is carried out to the outside of the machine.
US10427192B2
This invention relates to a method and apparatus for recycling plastics, electronics, munitions or propellants. In particular, the method comprises reacting a feed stock with a molten aluminum or aluminum alloy bath. The apparatus includes a reaction vessel for carrying out the reaction, as well as other equipment necessary for capturing and removing the reaction products. Further, the process can be used to cogenerate electricity using the excess heat generated by the process.
US10427185B2
A patterning apparatus is provided. The patterning apparatus includes a plurality of liquid jet units arranged in one or more groups and configured to jet an anti-etching liquid onto a surface of a substrate. The patterning apparatus also includes a plurality of exposure units configured to expose light on the anti-etching liquid jetted on the surface of the substrate to heat and cure the jetted anti-etching liquid to form anti-etching patterns on the surface of the substrate. Further, the patterning apparatus includes a control unit configured to control motion status and jetting status of the plurality of liquid jet units and motion status and exposure status of the plurality of exposure units, so as to form the anti-etching patterns at a predetermined line width and thickness.
US10427183B2
Discrete magnetic nanoparticles synthesized using a layer-by-layer technique are disclosed. The nanoparticles contain a magnetic core having a large magnetic moment, a plurality of layers and an exterior coating. The nanoparticles have utility in a wide range of biological and bioanalytical applications.
US10427179B2
A system for metering liquids at very low flows for use with agricultural sprayers is provided. The system may utilize two electronically controlled solenoid valves in series with a storage chamber in between. The flow may be a function of the PWM control of each of the valves, the phase relationship between the control signals, the storage chamber in between, the pressure difference across the metering device, and the fluid being metered.
US10427178B2
A pressurized liquid delivery assembly has at least one liquid delivery module. Each module may include a housing and an associated compartment. The compartment may be located within the housing and may be moveable with respect to the housing to permit access to the compartment by a user. The compartment may define a space adapted to receive a replaceable pressurised receptacle containing liquid to be dispensed by the assembly. A liquid dispenser may be operatively associated with the receptacle and adapted to dispense liquid. The dispenser may include a conduit that may be extendable from a dispensing nozzle to a liquid receiving connector. The liquid receiving connector may be adapted to releasably connect to the liquid receptacle in use.
US10427171B2
The invention relates to a centrifugal separator comprising a casing which delimits and seals off a space in which a rotor is arranged. The rotor forms a separation space which is sealed or isolated from the space, and in which separation space centrifugal separation of a higher density and a lower density component from a fluid takes place. An inlet extends into the rotor for introducing fluid to the separation space, and a first outlet extends from the rotor for discharge of a component separated from the fluid. The space is connected to a pump device which is arranged to remove gas, thereby maintaining negative pressure in said space. The rotor comprises at least one second outlet extending from the separation space to the space for discharge of at least one higher density component separated from the fluid. The invention also relates to a method in such a centrifugal separator.
US10427167B2
A device for separating weakly magnetic first particles, for example hematite particles, from mixture (912) comprising the first particles (913) and less magnetic second particles (914) is presented. The device comprises first magnetizing equipment (901) for producing magnetic field and for moving the mixture so that mutually opposite polarity portions (N, S) of the magnetic field sweep the mixture in a sweeping direction and thereby deflect the direction of movement of the first particles towards the sweeping direction and away from the direction of movement of the second particles. The device comprises also a supply equipment (932) for supplying the mixture to the carrier equipment with the aid of gravitation and a second magnetizing equipment (931) connected to a feed box (920) for producing second magnetic field for deflecting a direction of movement of the first particles differently than a direction of movement of the second particles when the mixture is moved by the gravitation towards the carrier equipment so as to generate, to the mixture arriving at the carrier equipment, a concentration gradient of the first particles. The pre-concentration of the first particles simplifies their separation form the mixture.
US10427163B2
A cuvette carrier comprising: a plurality of walls defining a holding volume for a cuvette; a first and second transmissive region included in the plurality of walls; and a first optical polarizer arranged to polarize light passing through the first transmissive region.
US10427160B2
The compositions and methods described herein are designed to introduce functionalized microparticles into droplets that can be manipulated in microfluidic devices by fields, including electric (dielectrophoretic) or magnetic fields, and extracted by splitting a droplet to separate the portion of the droplet that contains the majority of the microparticles from the part that is largely devoid of the microparticles. Within the device, channels are variously configured at Y- or T junctions that facilitate continuous, serial isolation and dilution of analytes in solution. The devices can be limited in the sense that they can be designed to output purified analytes that are then further analyzed in separate machines or they can include additional channels through which purified analytes can be further processed and analyzed.
US10427159B2
A microfluidic device includes a microchannel having an interior bounded by a side wall, an inlet, a switching region, and a plurality of outlet channels downstream of the switching region. The microchannel is formed in a microfluidic chip substrate and configured to accommodate a flow of liquid through the microchannel. The microfluidic device includes a valve operatively coupled to the switching region comprising a sealed reservoir. A side passage extends between the reservoir and the interior of the microchannel via an aperture in the side wall and is configured to accommodate a volume of liquid between the interior of the microchannel and the reservoir. The microfluidic device includes an actuator integrated into the microfluidic chip and configured to increase an internal pressure of the reservoir and move at least a portion of the volume of the liquid from the side passage into the microchannel to deflect a portion of the liquid flowing through the microchannel.
US10427158B2
A fluidic centripetal apparatus for testing components of a biological material in a fluid is presented. The fluidic centripetal device is adapted to be received within a rotatable holder. The apparatus comprises a fluidic component layer having fluidic features on at least a front face and a bottom component layer bonded to a rear of the fluidic component layer thereby creating a fluidic network through which the fluid flows under centripetal force. In one embodiment, the fluidic feature may be a bottom-fillable chamber coupled to an entry channel for receiving the fluid, the chamber inlet being provided at an outer side of the bottom-fillable chamber. In another embodiment, the fluidic feature may be a retention chamber coupled to an entry channel for receiving the fluid, a container wholly provided in the retention chamber and containing a liquid diluent, the container maintaining the liquid diluent in the container until it releases it in the retention chamber upon application of an external force to the container, thereby restoring the fluidic connection between the liquid diluent and the fluid in the retention chamber. Additionally, the retention chamber can have a flow decoupling receptacle for receiving the fluid, located at the outer side of the retention chamber and interrupting a fluidic connection between the entry and exit of the retention chamber. A test apparatus and a testing method using a fluidic centripetal device for testing components of a biological material in a fluid are also provided.
US10427157B2
A microfluidic analysis device and manufacturing method are provided. The device includes a capillary substrate, a cover substrate adjacent to a cover side of the capillary substrate and/or a bottom substrate adjacent to a bottom side of the capillary substrate, a capillary structure with at least one capillary in the interior of the capillary substrate and/or at the interface of the capillary substrate with the cover substrate and/or with the bottom substrate, and a fluid-conducting arrangement for conducting a fluid through the capillary structure. The arrangement may be designed for compartmenting the fluid using controlled pressure pulses. A linear sensor element extends toward and/or away from and/or along the capillary, a fluid contact end of which and at least an adjacent part of its feed lie in the plane of the capillary, and may be integrated in the device.
US10427156B2
The present disclosure relates to a fluid analysis device which comprises a sensing device for analyzing a fluid sample, the sensing device comprising a micro-fluidic component for propagating the fluid sample and a microchip configured for sensing the fluid sample in the micro-fluidic component; a sealed fluid compartment containing a further fluid, the compartment being fluid-tight connected to the sensing device and adapted for providing the further fluid to the micro-fluidic component when the sealed fluid compartment is opened; and an inlet for providing the fluid sample to the micro-fluidic component. Further, the present disclosure relates to a method for sensing a fluid sample using the fluid analysis device.
US10427155B2
Systems and methods for conducting designated reactions utilizing a base instrument and a removable cartridge. The removable cartridge includes a fluidic network that receives and fluidically directs a biological sample to conduct the designated reactions. The removable cartridge also includes a flow-control valve that is operably coupled to the fluidic network and is movable relative to the fluidic network to control flow of the biological sample therethrough. The removable cartridge is configured to separably engage a base instrument. The base instrument includes a valve actuator that engages the flow-control valve of the removable cartridge. A detection assembly held by at least one of the removable cartridge or the base instrument may be used to detect the designated reactions.
US10427152B2
A diagnostic cartridge and method of performing a diagnostic test are provided. The cartridge includes a body having a sample chamber for receipt of a sample, an analysis chamber, and a reagent-containing dispensing member. A valve member is coupled to the body for selective movement between first and second states. The valve member has a fluid passage with a hydroscopic, gas permeable vent. In the first state, the fluid passage is out of fluid communication with the sample chamber and is registered for fluid communication with the reagent-containing dispensing member. The vent prevents fluid from passing therethrough and allows air to vent therefrom as reagent flows into and fills the fluid passage. In the second state, the fluid passage remains in fluid communication with the reagent-containing dispensing member and is brought into fluid communication with the sample chamber to facilitate transporting the sample to the analysis chamber.
US10427149B2
A laboratory cabinet, for instance a cold chamber, a heating cabinet, a drying cabinet, or an incubator, can have a housing featuring at least one exterior door, featuring at least one interior space which can be closed by means of an interior door, such that the laboratory cabinet features adjustable means, such that as a function of the position of the means, the interior door can be opened together with the exterior door or independently of the exterior door, such that the means are inaccessible when the exterior door is closed.
US10427136B2
This invention relates to a catalyst for alkylating polyalkylene glycol and a method of alkylating polyalkylene glycol using the same, wherein the catalyst enables polyalkylene glycol to be alkylated at a high conversion rate without generating harmful materials and the terminal of polyalkylene glycol can be alkylated using the same. Thereby, the terminal of polyalkylene glycol can be alkylated in an environmentally friendly and economical manner through a simple process.
US10427135B2
Described is the production of water-absorbing polymeric particles by polymerizing a monomer solution or suspension comprising a) at least one ethylenically unsaturated acid-functional monomer which is optionally at least partly present as salt, b) at least one crosslinker and c) at least one initiator, wherein the process further comprises drying the resulting polymer and also optionally grinding the dried polymer and sieving the ground polymer and also optionally surface-postcrosslinking the dried and possibly ground and sieved polymer, and wherein the polymerization is carried out in the presence of aminopolycarboxylic acids and/or salts thereof, in particular in the presence of ethylenediaminedisuccinic acid and/or a salt thereof.
US10427133B2
Disclosed are absorbent articles having a cyclodextrin complex of one or more odor controlling organic compounds wherein the cyclodextrin is a substituted cyclodextrin (wherein the H atom of OH groups in positions 2, 3 and 6 is partially or entirely replaced by a substituent —R) having a substitution degree (DS) of 0.4 or more —R substituents per molecule of cyclodextrin and wherein substitution in position 2 is 20% or above, in position 6 is 20% or above and in position 3 is 50% or below. Cyclodextrin complexes of this type release the odor controlling organic compound much faster and in more complete manner than non-substituted or differently substituted cyclodextrin complexes thus the odor control efficacy is improved.
US10427128B2
A plasma gate device comprises a housing, a gas inlet, first and second dielectrics, and first, second, and third electrodes. The housing includes an internal reactor chamber. The gas inlet receives a source gas that flows to the reactor chamber. The first and second dielectrics are spaced apart from one another, with each dielectric including an upper surface and a lower surface. The two dielectrics are oriented such that the lower surface of the first dielectric faces the upper surface of the second dielectric. The first and second dielectrics form boundaries of the reactor chamber. The first electrode receives a first electric voltage. The second electrode receives a second electric voltage. The first and second electric voltages in combination generate an electric field in the reactor chamber through which the source gas flows creating a positive ion plasma and a cloud of electrons. The third electrode attracts the electrons.
US10427127B2
The present invention relates to an automated radiosynthesis device adapted for enhanced automatic disconnection of a disposable kit once a radiosynthesis has been carried out. The automated radiosynthesis device of the invention therefore reduces the time to remove the disposable kit from the radiosynthesis device and reduces radiation exposure to the operator.
US10427122B1
A manual mixing apparatus that contains two dual chambers with each of the chambers containing a separate and distinct chemical or liquid. Further, the apparatus has a rotatable base that allows the chemicals to be forced out of a nozzle as the base is rotated through a pair of expansion members respectively affixed to moving rear walls which move longitudinally to push a respective chemical into a front mixing tip from which the combined chemicals are discharged.
US10427118B2
An ultrasonic mixing reactor configured for mixing of plant nutrients for greater absorption using cavitation. The reactor includes a venturi nozzle fluidly connected to a nozzle device having at least one annular shaped plate comprised of a plurality of apertures constructed and arranged to create cavitation. The nozzle device is fluidly coupled to a first ultrasonic reactor having a plurality of variable frequency ultrasonic transducers mounted within the first ultrasonic reactor for generating acoustic cavitation of the bulk mixed plant nutrients. The first ultrasonic transducer is fluidly connected to a second ultrasonic reactor having a plurality of variable frequency ultrasonic transducers mounted within the second ultrasonic reactor for generating acoustic cavitation of the bulk mixed plant nutrients. The second ultrasonic reactor discharge is fluidly coupled to a plate static mixer constructed and arranged to create hydrodynamic mixing.
US10427111B2
Provided are a gas separation membrane which has a resin layer containing a compound having a siloxane bond, in which the resin layer containing a compound having a siloxane bond satisfies Expressions 1 and 2, and at least one of gas permeability or gas separation selectivity is high under high pressure; a method of producing a gas separation membrane; a gas separation membrane module; and a gas separator. 0.9≥A/B≥0.55 Expression 1 B≥1.7 Expression 2 In the expressions, A represents an O/Si ratio that is a ratio of the number of oxygen atoms relative to the number of silicon atoms contained in the resin layer containing a compound having a siloxane bond at a depth of 10 nm from the surface of the resin layer containing a compound having a siloxane bond, and B represents an O/Si ratio that is a ratio of the number of oxygen atoms relative to the number of silicon atoms in the surface of the resin layer containing a compound having a siloxane bond.
US10427100B2
A method for nitrogen monoxide (NO) oxidation in catalytic systems is disclosed. The method includes receiving NO-containing exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine system, reacting NO with a stoichiometric amount of oxygen gas (O2), the reacting taking place in the presence of a sorbent and a catalyst, and recovering an amount of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) surpassing the equilibrium limitation of the NO oxidation reaction.
US10427099B2
A mixing system for an exhaust system includes a first mixing device having a plurality of first auger blades and an inlet having a first cross-sectional area. A second mixing device is separate and downstream from the first mixing device and includes a second auger blade. The second mixing device includes an inlet having a second cross-sectional area greater than the first cross-sectional area. A flow path longitudinal centerline of the first mixing device extends at an angle to a flow path longitudinal centerline of the second mixing device. A flow path longitudinal centerline of the first mixing device intersects the second auger blade. The first mixing device is disposed within a first portion of an exhaust pipe and the second mixing device is disposed in a second portion of the exhaust pipe. The second portion has a larger cross-sectional area than the first portion.
US10427098B2
A method for the removal of nitrogen oxides from exhaust, flue or off gas by selective catalytic reduction in presence of ammonia as a reductant, comprising the steps of contacting the exhaust gas together with the ammonia or a precursor thereof with an SCR catalyst comprising a Fe-AEI zeolite material essentially free of alkali metal ions (Alk), having the following molar compositions: SiO2:oAl2O3:pFe:qAlk wherein o is in the range from 0.001 to 0.2; wherein p is in the range from 0.001 to 0.2; wherein Alk is one or more of alkali metal ions and wherein q is below 0.02.
US10427097B2
A desulfurization absorption tower, a method for setting up the same and a method for operating the same. The tower may include an internal anti-corrosion layer that may be used for contacting the flue gas and the desulfurization absorption liquid, may define the tower chamber, and may include stainless steel plate whose thickness is 1.0 mm to 6.0 mm. The tower body may include an external supporting layer that may be used for supporting the anti-corrosion layer and may include carbon steel. The supporting layer and the anti-corrosion layer may be designed to jointly bear a load, wherein the supporting layer may be designed to bear a large part of the load, and the anti-corrosion layer may be designed to bear a small part of the load.
US10427096B2
The present disclosure is directed to the use of elemental or speciated iodine and bromine to control total mercury emissions.
US10427079B2
An air filter assembly includes a filter element having at least one variable dimension, and a frame for engaging and supporting the filter element. The frame may include a plurality of linear segments forming a rectangular configuration, and a plurality of clips for connecting the linear segments together at corners thereof. The linear segments may be L-channel segments, C-channel segments, or may be of other form. Clips may be used for connecting the linear segments together at the corners. The filter element may have a pattern of creases or fold lines to facilitate folding thereof from an expanded configuration to a reduced configuration. A grate may be included for spanning an area bounded by the frame to support the filter element. The grate may have multiple arms and a central hub. An edge treatment may form a seal between the filter element and the frame.
US10427076B2
A method for removing diatomaceous earth and contaminants from a filter, and for filtering liquid using diatomaceous earth is provided. Embodiments of the method can include a washdown process, a backwash process, and a filtering process. Some embodiments can include one or more filter cartridges with cartridge tubes to increase flow during the backwash process. Some embodiments can also include a backwash sprayer to disturb contaminants during the backwash process.
US10427075B2
A gas turbine engine includes an engine static structure that provides a flow path. A metering hole is provided in the engine static structure. A strainer is arranged over the metering hole. The strainer includes multiple holes that have a total area that is greater than a metering hole area.
US10427073B2
A rotary pressure filter apparatus, a sealing device for use with the rotary pressure filter apparatus, and a process of using the apparatus. The rotary pressure filter apparatus is designed to treat a solid-liquid mixture under pressure in successive work zones. A rotary drum moves compartments containing the solid-liquid mixture through the successive zones. The zones are separated by a sealing member, which is designed to reduce pressure fluctuations as the compartments enter a successive zone.
US10427070B1
A triple layer non-plugging screen for use with a vibrating screening machine to filter particles from a liquid has an upper filtering layer made of warp and shute wires that intersect to form an array of small openings, a lower strengthening layer having an array of large openings, and an anti-plugging layer. The anti-plugging layer is sandwiched between the upper filtering and lower strengthening layers and is made of warp and shute wires that intersect to form an array of openings. The upper filtering and anti-plugging layers are oriented within the screen so that at least one of the warp and shute wires of the anti-plugging layer obstructs at least some of the openings in the upper filtering layer. This reduces the likelihood of entrapment of undesirable particles in the obstructed openings of the upper filtering layer.
US10427050B2
A system employs data taken from monitor devices and applies that data to video games, arcade games, computer games and the like (collectively a “game”) to “personalize” the game to real ability and persons. For example, when a monitor device is used to capture airtime (and e.g., heart rate) of a snowboarder, that data is downloaded to a database for a game and used to “limit” how a game competitor plays the game. In this way, a snowboard game player can compete against world-class athletes, and others, with some level of realism provided by the real data used in the game.
US10427048B1
An anti-cheat system may be accessed over a network and stored directly into volatile memory of a user computing system. In some embodiments, this anti-cheat system may scan, or access portions of, the volatile memory of the user computing system to detect whether cheat software or other unauthorized software that may interact with a game application is detected on the user computing system. The accessed portions of the volatile memory may be compared with one or more signatures that are associated with the execution of cheat software on a computing system. The anti-cheat system may be prevented from being stored within non-volatile memory, thereby preventing malicious users from modifying the anti-cheat system.
US10427044B2
A game machine includes an operation acceptor, an output controller, and an evaluator. The operation acceptor is configured to accept an operation. The output controller is configured to display a reference indicator and a movement object, which moves toward the reference indicator, over the display screen. The output controller is configured to change a display position of the reference indicator and a movement direction of the movement object, based on a change condition. The evaluator is configured to evaluate the operation based at least in part on a first timing that the movement object reaches the reference indicator and a second timing that the operation acceptor accepts the operation.
US10427041B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium including a program product for causing a user terminal to realize functions to control progress of a video game is provided. The functions include: a specifying function configured to specify an event in the video game, a set, and a basic privilege, the set being constituted by a plurality of game elements, the basic privilege being given in accordance with progress of the event using the set. The functions also include: a distributing function configured to distribute the basic privilege to the plurality of game elements in accordance with a ratio of a parameter set up to each of the plurality of game elements to a total of the parameters respectively set up to the plurality of game elements.
US10427039B2
A system provides haptic surround functionality. The system determines a location of a virtual event in a virtual environment. The system also determines a location of a first virtual body area of a virtual user in the virtual environment based on a location of a first body area of a user, where the first body area corresponds to the first virtual body area. The system then determines a first haptic effect based on the virtual event, the location of the virtual event in the virtual environment, and the location of the first virtual body area of the virtual user in the virtual environment. The system outputs the first haptic effect by a first haptic output device to the first body area of the user.
US10427037B2
A video game controller can include a body with a top surface and a bottom surface, multiple control inputs (e.g., thumbsticks, directional pads, buttons), and a face plate removably coupleable to the body over the top surface so that the plurality of control inputs extend through the face plate. One or more of the multiple control inputs are removable and replaceable without the use of tools by decoupling the face plate from the body and decoupling the control input from the body without disassembling the body.
US10427024B1
A mechanically propelled snowboard for recreational enjoyment includes a board and a propulsion assembly. A pair of bindings that is coupled to the upper face of the board is configured to couple to feet of a user. The propulsion assembly is coupled to a frame that is coupled to the board and extends from an upper face proximate to a tail section of the board. The propulsion assembly comprises an engine, a pair of wheels, one of which is operationally coupled to the engine, and an endless track that is operationally coupled to the pair of wheels. A lower limit of the endless track is substantially coplanar with a lower face of the board. The engine is positioned to rotate the endless track to propel the board along a surface. A controller is operationally coupled to the engine and is positioned to selectively throttle, brake, and shift the engine.
US10427017B2
Exemplary embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to various components of a system for monitoring and/or tracking a user's performance during an activity involving an instrument that is swung. Exemplary embodiments can include a sensor module configured to be secured to the instrument. The sensor module can detect a swing event and/or an impact between the instrument and an object and can implement power management features to limit or manage a power consumption of the sensor module. The sensor module can transmit swing information to an electronic device associated with the user, which can display the swing information, process the swing information, and/or transmit the swing information to a remote system.
US10427013B2
A ball striking device, such as a golf club head, includes a face having a ball striking surface, an inner surface opposite the ball striking surface, and a thickness defined between the ball striking surface and the inner surface, and a body connected to the face and extending rearward from the face. The face has a modulus gradient across the thickness of the face, such that the modulus of the face varies at different distances from the ball striking surface. The face may also include at least one of an insert, a composite material, a multi-layered structure, and/or a portion treated by a surface treatment to contribute to the modulus gradient.
US10427006B2
Golf ball comprising layer(s) comprised of plasticized neutralized acid polymer composition consisting of mixture of: (a) low molecular weight acid-containing wax(es); (b) non-acid-polymer(s) including at least one low molecular weight non-acid wax such as high density oxidized polyethylene homopolymers; ethylene maleic anhydride copolymers; polypropylene maleic anhydride copolymers; polypropylene homopolymers; ethylene-vinyl acetate copolymers; high density oxidized homopolymers; oxidized copolymers; polyethylene micronized waxes; polytetrafluoroethylene micronized waxes; emulsifiable low molecular weight non-acid waxes; non-emulsifiable low molecular weight non-acid waxes; and/or chemically modified low molecular weight non-acid waxes; (c) organic acid(s) or salt thereof; and (d) plasticizer(s). Molecular weight of each low molecular weight acid-containing wax is about 500 to 7000, or up to 30,000. Interactions between components (a), (b), (c) and (d) advantageously produce layer of ionomeric material having heat stability, processability, and well-retained durability, adhesion, CoR, compression and softer feel without need for blending high and low molecular weight acid-containing polymer(s).
US10427002B2
An apparatus includes a plate configured to support a user standing thereon, a set of fluid chambers configured to support at least a portion of the plate, and an electronic assembly in communication with at least one sensor. The sensor configured to sense a first operating condition associated with at least one of the set of fluid chambers and the plate. The electronic assembly is configured to define a second operating condition based at least in part on a difference between the first operating condition and a predetermined operating condition. The electronic assembly is configured to send (1) a first signal operable to transition each fluid chamber from a first configuration, associated with the first operating condition, to a second configuration, associated with the second operating condition, and (2) a second signal operable to graphically represent data associated with the second operating condition on a display of an electronic device.
US10426997B2
An exercise apparatus includes a pair of apparatuses wearable on feet of a user. Each apparatus is configurable between expanded configurations and compressed configurations to simulate a selected motion when the user wearing the pair of apparatuses travels by foot. One of the apparatuses can move towards an expanded configuration while the other apparatus moves towards a compressed configuration.
US10426996B1
An apparatus for providing therapeutic rehabilitation exercise to bedridden individuals and patients, including comatose individuals. A vertical support column extends upwards from a base, with one or more arms extend from the vertical support column, each providing a rotary mechanism at the distal end, with pedals or handles attached thereto. The individual's feet or hands are secured to the pedals or handles, respectively. Straps, brackets, or other fastening means may be used to secure the feet and hands. An electric motor causes the rotary mechanism to move the pedals or handles in a rotary fashion, thereby providing movement and exercise for the individual's legs and arms.
US10426992B2
In combination with a barbell having a cylindrical surface, wherein an improvement includes a barbell massage apparatus with a spherical member defining an exterior massage-contact surface and at least two arms extending away from the exterior massage-contact surface that respectively flank two sides of the cylindrical surface of the barbell and retain the barbell massage apparatus thereon, wherein the at least two arms at least partially define a U-shaped channel with the cylindrical surface of the barbell disposed therein.
US10426991B2
An exercise device for performing multiple exercise movements. The device includes a track, a track carriage, and a variable resistance system so that users can exercise multiple muscle groups. The resistance system provides assistance to the user during certain exercise movements and increased difficulty during other exercise movements.
US10426990B2
An exercise machine for performing a variety of different exercise routines includes a rotating arm assembly and a swing-away workout station. The workout stations may include a bench seat and a stabilizing support, and may be adjusted to provide for a number of different configurations. For example, the bench seat and the stabilizing support may pivot forward and backward, and the stabilizing support may extend upward and downward for supporting the user's body in different positions, while performing different exercise routines.
US10426982B2
A securing device for securing a person has an axle element attached torque-proofly to a rope drum and rotatably to a support structure, such that, by the axle element, the rope drum is supported rotatably at the support structure. A lever is attached pivotably to the support structure at a deflection point. In a blocking position of the lever, a blocking section is coupled to the rope drum in order to disable a rotation of the rope drum, and in a releasing position of the lever, the blocking section is decoupled from the rope drum and the rope drum is rotatable. A thread section of the lever is coupled to a further thread section of the axle element, such that, upon rotation of the axial element, due to the rotation of the rope drum, the thread section is shifted along the axle element, such that, due to the shifting of the thread section, a rotation of the lever around the deflection point and an adjustment between the blocking position and the releasing position of the lever are effected.
US10426975B2
A therapy planning system (10) includes at least one processor (74, 72) programmed to receive an initial elasticity image of the target generated prior to execution of a fraction of a treatment plan for the target. The target is delinated in the initial elasticity image to segment the initial elasticity image. One or more elasticity images of the target generated during and/or after execution of the fraction are received and delineated to segment the elasticity images. The segmentation of the initial elasticity image is compared against the segmentations of the additional elasticity images to identify motion of the target and/or changes of the target. Based on the comparison, the treatment plan is updated and/or execution of the fraction is controlled.
US10426971B2
A phototherapy device with pain location input phototherapy device for relieving nociceptive pain of a body part of a user by illumination of at least a part of the body part. A controllable light source system (LS1, LS2, LS3) comprises at least one light source arranged on a patch structure (PS) so as to allow phototherapeutic illumination of a body part. A user interface (U_I), e.g. a touch panel (TP), is arranged to receive an input from the user regarding a spatial position on the body where the user feels pain. A control system (CS) is arranged to control the controllable light source system (LS1, LS2, LS3) in accordance with said input from the user, e.g. to spatially intensify illumination at the position where the user indicates a sensation of pain. E.g. the device may be wirelessly controlled from the a smart phone, where a map of the body can be displayed, and where the user indicates on this map where he/she feels pain.
US10426966B2
In some embodiments, a wearable cardioverter defibrillator (“WCD”) system may output a closing human-perceptible indication, after detecting a shockable cardiac arrhythmia, and after further determining that it will not shock. This may succeed in informing the patient that the WCD system will not deliver a shock responsive to the cardiac arrhythmia, which may have just self-terminated. The information may give comfort to the patient who may be conscious, and may recognize that his or her ventricular tachycardia has self-terminated. Moreover, the patient will know that he or she will not be unnecessarily shocked while conscious, and will not even need to press a cancel switch.
US10426954B2
A medical lead is configured to be implanted into a patient's body and comprises a lead body, and an electrode coupled to the lead body. The electrode comprises a first section configured to contact the patient's body, and a second section capacitively coupled to the first section and configured to be electrically coupled to the patient's body.
US10426944B2
An electrode for use with a therapeutic current delivery system can include a flexible, water vapor-permeable, conductive adhesive material; a current dispersing element in contact with the conductive adhesive material; and a non-conductive, flexible, water vapor-permeable, electrically-insulating top layer provided in contact with the current dispersing element. The current dispersing element can be conductive at least laterally along a plane of the electrode. The conductive adhesive material can be conductive in a direction substantially orthogonal to the plane of the electrode and semi-conductive in a direction substantially lateral to the plane of the electrode.
US10426941B2
The present application describes nasal tube devices, methods for placing and securing a nasal tube to a patient, as well as adapters and connectors for a nasal tube. In one exemplary embodiment, the nasal tube has a proximal portion, a distal portion, and one or more lumens. A securing device may be attached to the proximal portion of the nasal tube and may be configured to attach a flexible line of a retention system to the nasal tube. The securing device may also be configured to selectively compress the proximal portion of the nasal tube. In certain embodiments, one or more medical tubes are disposed in the lumen of the nasal tube and may be selectively secured in the lumen with the securing device. The nasal tube device may also have a retention flange for attaching a flexible line of a retention system to the nasal tube.
US10426933B2
Balloon catheter includes an outer shaft including a hypotube and a monolithic multilayer distal outer member and having an inflation lumen defined therethrough, a balloon in fluid communication with the inflation lumen, and an inner tubular member having a guidewire lumen defined therethrough. The monolithic multilayer distal outer member has a proximal end portion and a distal end portion. The monolithic multilayer distal outer member has an inner layer comprising a first polymer having a tensile strength greater than about 8,000 psi and an outer layer comprising a second polymer having a flexural modulus of less than about 130,000 psi at room temperature. A proximal end of the monolithic multilayer distal outer member is coupled to the hypotube. The monolithic multilayer distal outer member is necked to a reduced diameter along at least a portion of a length thereof. The balloon has a proximal balloon shaft coupled to a distal end of the monolithic multilayer distal outer member. The inner tubular member extends distally from a proximal port in the proximal end portion of the monolithic multilayer distal outer member through at least a portion of the balloon.
US10426932B2
An improved catheter insertion assembly having a transparent tubular member open at each end; a plunger assembly slidable within the tubular member having a stem portion at a first end; and at least a partially transparent chamber having a needle base and sealing member on a second end of the plunger assembly; an elongated tubular needle embedded within the needle base and extending there from with the needle in fluid communication with the transparent chamber; a catheter assembly, a transparent cannula and a transparent hub attached to the second end with the tubular needle passing longitudinally through the cannula; a fluid passage formed between the needle and the cannula so that when the plunger is retracted a vacuum is established within the fluid passage and blood is visibly drawn through the fluid passage into the transparent cannula and if volume permits, blood then would be visible in the transparent hub, and then if volume permits blood would be visible in the void of the catheter body (barrel) created by pulling the plunger; and wherein the tubular needle is threaded through a lumen of the cannula; and wherein the sealing member provides a sliding seal between the plunger assembly and the transparent tubular member; and wherein, a fluid communication exists through the needle into the flashback chamber of the plunger apparatus and through a porous vent. The distal end of the catheter device described herein has the addition of an external flange and dual plunger paddles which allow dynamic positioning of the fingers and one handed operation. Furthermore these structures are ergonomically associated to maximize finger surface area operation; and wherein the user can change the orientation of the beveled needle.
US10426922B2
A catheter assembly includes a catheter having a proximal end and a distal end; an expandable device releasably attached to the catheter near the distal end; a generally tubular constraining sleeve extending around and compressing the device to an outer peripheral dimension suitable for endoluminal delivery; a tip fixedly secured to the distal end of the catheter; and a bridge member disposed between the tip and the expandable device so as to fill a gap therebetween as the catheter assembly is bent during endoluminal delivery of the expandable device to a treatment site.
US10426921B2
Medical devices such as catheters can include structure or provision that permit a physician or other health care professional to adjust the stiffness of at least a portion of the medical device. In some instances, the medical device may be adjusted prior to inserting the medical device into a patient. In some cases, the medical device may be adjusted while in use within the patient.
US10426919B2
Ureteral or bladder catheters are provided, including (a) a proximal portion; and (b) a distal portion, the distal portion including a retention portion that includes one or more protected drainage holes, ports or perforations and is configured to establish an outer periphery or protective surface area that inhibits mucosal tissue from occluding the one or more protected drainage holes, ports or perforations upon application of negative pressure through the catheter. Systems, kits and methods for inducing negative pressure to increase renal function also are provided.
US10426918B2
A flushable catheter assembly includes a catheter shaft having proximal and distal end portions. The catheter may include a funnel assembly associated with the distal end portion of the catheter shaft and/or an introducer cap assembly associated with the proximal end portion of the catheter shaft. A groove is defined along at least a portion of an outer perimeter of the funnel assembly or introducer cap assembly, with the groove being configured to receive at least a portion of the catheter shaft for wrapping the catheter shaft around the outer perimeter when disposing of the catheter. Instead of (or in addition to) a groove, one or more channels may pass through the funnel assembly to receive a portion of the catheter shaft for securing the catheter shaft to the funnel assembly for disposal. The catheter assembly and/or its individual components may be formed of a water disintegrable material.
US10426915B2
A surgical instrument includes a handle portion having a distal end, a proximal end, and a substantially hollow body defining a valve chamber therein; a curved incising tube partially housed within the handle portion adjacent the handle portion proximal end, extending a predetermined distance from the handle portion, and in fluid communication with the valve chamber; a local anesthetic inlet tube partially housed within the handle portion adjacent the handle portion distal end, extending a predetermined distance from the handle portion, and in fluid communication with the valve chamber; a local anesthetic delivery actuator disposed on the handle portion, whereby the local anesthetic delivery actuator is selectively operative between opened and closed valve chamber positions.
US10426911B2
Systems, devices, and methods for coupling a tracheostomy tube to a source of humidified breathing gas are disclosed. An adaptor includes a housing, a tracheostomy tube connection device, and a baffle. The housing has an interior surface, an exterior surface, and a breathing gas port. The tracheostomy tube connection device is positioned within the housing and includes an input port for receiving a flow of humidified breathing gas from the breathing gas port and an output port for coupling with the tracheostomy tube. The tracheostomy tube connection device has an internal surface defining a breathing gas passage and an external surface spaced from the interior surface of the housing to create a condensation passage. The baffle may be positioned between the breathing gas port and the input port to cause controlled condensation from the flow of humidified breathing gas by disrupting the flow of humidified breathing gas.
US10426905B2
Apparatuses and methods for improving airway patency are provided. A medial surface of the patient's tongue is constrained with a tongue constraint of an oral device placed in the oral cavity to generate a clear region between the medial surface and the hard palate. The clear region is in fluid communication with the soft palate. The tongue constraint has superior surface and inferior surfaces configured to generate the clear region. Negative pressure is applied within the oral cavity to hold the soft palate in a position in which the airway is at least partially open. The negative pressure is applied through one or more ports of the oral device. The one or more ports remain unobstructed by the tongue when the negative pressure is applied. The applied negative pressure causes the soft palate and tongue form a seal whereby the patient's airway is substantially fluidly isolated from the clear region.
US10426896B2
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure may include an insulin delivery system that includes an insulin delivery device, a user interface that includes multiple user-selectable icons or buttons each representing different meal characteristics, memory to store one or more user-specific dosage parameter, and a processor in communication with the memory and adapted to receive blood glucose data. The processor may also be adapted to determine initial meal characteristics associated with each of the user-selectable icons or buttons based on at least one of the user-specific dosage parameters. The processor may also be adapted to update the meal characteristics associated with each of the user-selectable icons or buttons based upon the blood glucose data.
US10426886B2
The object of the invention is to provide a blood separation device that can reduce the total time for drawing blood to obtain high-concentration platelet liquid, thereby reducing the binding time of the blood donor. The device includes a temporary storage bag (Y2) (also serves as a buffy coat bag) which is a whole blood bag for storing whole blood drawn from a blood donor. The controlling unit of the device controls the device to draw whole blood from the blood donor in parallel with at least either a circulation flow step or an acceleration step, thereby storing the drawn whole blood in the temporary storage bag (Y2).
US10426883B2
A hemodialysis system configured to purge air from a blood circuit comprising: a dialyzer; a dialysis fluid circuit operable with the dialyzer via dialysis fluid inlet and outlet lines; the blood circuit operable with the dialyzer and including an arterial line, a venous line, a blood pump operable with the arterial line upstream of the dialyzer, and a physiologically acceptable fluid source in fluid communication with the arterial line upstream of the blood pump; and an air purging scheme wherein, with the dialysis fluid inlet and outlet lines connected to the dialyzer, air is purged using dialysis fluid or other physiologically acceptable fluid pumped by at least one of the fresh or used dialysis fluid pumps from the dialysis fluid circuit, through the dialyzer, into the blood circuit, in combination with dialysis fluid or other physiologically acceptable fluid from the source introduced directly into the blood circuit.
US10426877B2
A breast milk expression apparatus for manipulating a breast of a user includes an outer shell, and a plurality of circumferentially spaced inner pads coupled to the outer shell. The pads are configured to engage the breast of the user and configured for radial displacement. The breast milk expression apparatus further includes a compression unit coupled to the plurality of pads. The compression unit is configured to cyclically displace the pads radially inwardly against the breast to cause compression of the breast and, following compression of the breast, to permit displacement of the pads radially outwardly from the breast as the breast decompresses.
US10426875B2
An apparatus for cleansing wounds, in which wound exudate is removed from a wound bed and selectively cleansed and returned to the wound. The cleansing means removes materials deleterious to wound healing, and the cleansed fluid, still containing materials that are beneficial in promoting wound healing, is returned to the wound bed. The associated wound dressing and cleansing means are conformable to the wound, and may have irrigant fluid circulated from a reservoir by a device for moving fluid through a flow path which passes through the dressing and a means for fluid cleansing and back to the dressing.
US10426872B2
Tissue scaffolds for neural tissue growth have a plurality of microchannels disposed within a sheath. Each microchannel comprises a porous wall having a thickness of ≤about 100 μm that is formed from a biocompatible and biodegradable material comprising a polyester polymer. The polyester polymer may be polycaprolactone, poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) polymer, and combinations thereof. The tissue scaffolds have high open volume % enabling superior (linear and high fidelity) neural tissue growth, while minimizing inflammation near the site of implantation in vivo. In other aspects, methods of making such tissue scaffolds are provided. Such a method may include mixing a reduced particle size porogen with a polymeric precursor solution. The material is cast onto a template and then can be processed, including assembly in a sheath and removal of the porogen, to form a tissue scaffold having a plurality of porous microchannels.
US10426871B2
Compositions including a surface or film comprising nanofibers, nanotubes or microwells comprising a bioactive agent for elution to the surrounding tissue upon placement of the composition in a subject are disclosed. The compositions are useful in medical implants and methods of treating a patient in need of an implant, including orthopedic implants, dental implants, cardiovascular implants, neurological implants, neurovascular implants, gastrointestinal implants, muscular implants, and ocular implants.
US10426869B2
Biodegradable, magnesium alloys and composites, articles produced therefrom, methods of making the same, and methods of using the same are described.
US10426868B2
A method for manufacturing an animal acellular tissue matrix material and a tissue matrix material manufactured by the same. The tissue matrix material manufactured by the method retains an original basic scaffold structure of a tissue extracellular matrix, with an antigen causing immunological rejection in a human body being effectively removed from the animal tissue. An animal dermal matrix manufactured by the method retains the biological integrity of a natural dermal tissue matrix and can be used for restoration and repair of lesion and missing tissues.
US10426865B2
An absorbent pad includes a batt of cellulose fibers, superabsorbent particles intermixed within the batt of cellulose fibers, and an odor control material intermixed within the batt of cellulose fibers, wherein the odor control material is a particulate material including one or more fatty acid. The odor control material preferably further includes selected inorganic compounds, such as sources of nitrogen, phosphorus and iron. Various embodiments incorporate the absorbent pad in a diaper or other disposable hygiene product.
US10426864B2
A storage apparatus according to an embodiment may include a body having a storage space of storage products and an air purifying module coupled to the body. The air purifying module may include a light emitting diode part disposed along a passage of air to provide ultraviolet light, and a filter part disposed adjacent to the light emitting diode part.
US10426850B2
The present invention provides both a caged collagen mimetic peptide (CCMP) having the formula: L-S-Zm-[Gly-X-Y]n-LGly-X-Y-[Gly-X-Y]n (SEQ ID NO: 19); wherein L is one or more detectable moieties; S is one or more spacer molecules; Zm is any amino acid where m is an integer of 1 to 10; X is proline or modified proline; Y is proline or modified proline; Gly is glycine; n is an integer from 1 to 20; and LGly is a glycine covalently linked to a cage moiety comprising a labile protecting group, as well as a collagen mimetic peptides lacking the labile protecting group (CMP). The inventions are useful for binding collagen and denatured collagen and/or gelatin both in vitro and in vivo, and are useful for targeting any organ or tissue where collagen is present, and can be used for research and diagnostic imaging (both in vivo and in vitro) and also for in vivo therapeutic applications.
US10426845B2
There is described a nucleic acid molecule comprising a nucleotide sequence encoding for a functional preproinsulin protein wherein the nucleotide sequence has at least 86% identity to the sequence of SEQ ID NO. 1. Also described are: vectors comprising the nucleic acid molecule for expressing the preproinsulin protein; host cells comprising the nucleic acid molecule or a vector; a transgenic animal comprising cells comprising the nucleic acid molecule or the vector; a pharmaceutical composition comprising the nucleic acid molecule or the vector; a method of treating diabetes comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of the vector to a patient suffering from diabetes; the nucleic acid molecule for use in therapy; and the nucleic acid molecule or the vector for use in the treatment of diabetes.
US10426843B2
The subject matter disclosed herein relates generally to cancer therapy and to anticancer compounds and imaging agents. More specifically, the subject matter disclosed herein relates to agents that target DOR and their use in the treatment of cancer.
US10426838B2
A composite particle comprising from 50 to 80 parts by mass of cellulose, from 10 to 40 parts by mass of an inorganic compound and from 4 to 11 parts by mass of hydroxypropyl cellulose based on 100 parts by mass of a total of contents of the cellulose, the inorganic compound and the hydroxypropyl cellulose.
US10426837B2
Described herein are neuroactive steroids of the Formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; wherein , A, R1, R2, and R3 are as defined herein. Such compounds are envisioned, in certain embodiments, to behave as GABA modulators. The present invention also provides pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound of the present invention and methods of use, e.g., for treating a subject suffering from a disease or disorder described herein.
US10426828B2
Pharmaceutical suspensions of multimeric-multiepitope influenza polypeptides, processes for their production and their use as immunizing subjects against influenza. In particular, stable aqueous microparticulate suspensions of a multimeric multiepitope polypeptide are disclosed.
US10426827B1
Provided are methods of selecting domains of the dengue hemorrhagic fever virus E protein for generating a neutralizing antibody immune response to the dengue hemorrhagic fever virus. The method comprises priming an individual by administering a mixture of expression vectors encoding fusion proteins or the fusion proteins themselves which comprises the DHFV E antigen fragment linked to the extracellular domain of the CD40 ligand. The expression vector comprises a transcription unit encoding a secretable fusion protein, the fusion protein containing the DHFV E antigen fragment linked to the CD40 ligand. The methods may be used to immunize an individual against all four strains of dengue hemorrhagic fever virus.
US10426826B2
The present invention relates to a Shigella strain, of which the surface exposure of a protective antigen existing on a cellular membrane is increased due to the destruction of a wzy gene of Shigella sp., and to a vaccine composition for treating or preventing shigellosis, containing the mutant Shigella strain as an active ingredient. The Shigella strain of the present invention has a cell wall with a reduced thickness since a gene encoding a protein necessary for polymerization of the O-saccharide antigen is deleted, and as a result, membrane antigens including protein antigens commonly existing in different Shigella spp. are more exposed to immune cells, and thus the Shigella strain can be favorably used as a vaccine composition for treating or preventing shigellosis, derived from various Shigella spp.
US10426814B2
Provided are methods and compositions from reprogramming human glial cells into human neurons. The reprogramming is achieved using combinations of compounds that can modify signaling via Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β), Bone morphogenetic protein (BMP), glycogen synthase kinase 3 (GSK-3), and γ-secretase/Notch pathways. The reprogramming is demonstrated using groups of three or four compounds that are chosen from the group thiazovivin, LDN193189, SB431542, TTNPB, CHIR99021, DAPT, VPA, SAG purmorphamine. Reprogramming is demonstrated using the group of LDN193189/CHIR99021/DAPT, the group of B431542/CHIR99021/DAPT, the group of LDN193189/DAPT/SB431542, the group of LDN193189/CHIR99021/SB431542, a three drug combination of SB431542/CHIR99021/DAPT. Reprogramming using functional analogs of the compounds is also provided, as are pharmaceutical formulations that contain the drug combinations.
US10426813B2
The present invention relates to a method of enhancing endurance of a human subject through administration of alanyl-glutamine or alanyl-glutamine salt. The invention includes unexpected discovery of alanyl-glutamine or alanyl-glutamine salt enhancing durability and endurance of human subject independent of an increase in the blood glutamine level.
US10426812B2
A composition for enhancing treatment of orthopedic ailments stimulates iNOS and enhances treatment of orthopedic ailments when a pharmaceutically effective amount is administered over a sufficient period of time. The composition comprises ginger, Muira puama, Paullinia cupana, and at least one of the group consisting of L-arginine and L-citrulline.
US10426810B2
This invention disclosed a tangerine peel extract, which is obtained from tangerine peels as raw materials through supercritical CO2 extraction. Such tangerine peel extract contains a large amount of flavonoid and terpenoid compositions that can effectively regulate the functions of the spleen and stomach; and has the effect of weight loss. This invention also declares the preparation method of the above mentioned tangerine peel extract, which is simple in technique and highly efficient in extraction. This invention also further declares the application of the above mentioned tangerine peel extract in preparing the healthcare food, which possesses the function of weight loss.
US10426802B2
A sheet-shaped cell culture and method for producing a sheet-shaped cell culture are disclosed having a high activity such as high cytokine productivity and a production method thereof. The method for producing a sheet-shaped cell culture can include freezing cells, thawing the frozen cells and forming a sheet-shaped cell culture. A sheet-shaped cell culture which is produced by the production method and which has a high activity and a method for treating a disease associated with an abnormality of a tissue with the sheet-shaped cell culture.
US10426797B2
Chimeric antigen receptors containing CD33 antigen binding domains are disclosed. Nucleic acids, recombinant expression vectors, host cells, antigen binding fragments, and pharmaceutical compositions, relating to the chimeric antigen receptors are also disclosed. Methods of treating or preventing cancer in a subject, and methods of making chimeric antigen receptor T cells are also disclosed.
US10426786B2
Provided are compositions comprising a benzodiazepine and a neurosteroid, containing one or both of the benzodiazepine and the neurosteroid in a subtherapeutic dose, and administration of such compositions for mitigation of an epileptic seizure. Further provided are compositions comprising a benzodiazepine, a neurosteroid, and an NMDA blocker, and administration of such compositions for mitigation of an epileptic seizure.
US10426782B2
The invention relates to a pharmaceutical composition comprising Compound 1 or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof for the treatment of cancer and a process for its preparation. The invention also relates to administering the pharmaceutical composition to a patient according to an intermittent dosing regimen.
US10426777B2
The invention encompasses methods of treating a patient with cancer, such as glioblastoma. The methods may include the administration of one or more pharmaceutical compositions that are capable of inhibiting TROY to treat the patient with cancer.
US10426772B2
Methods for preventing, inhibiting or treating parasitic flatworm infection in a vertebrate are provided that include administering an effective amount of a composition comprising one or more ergot alkaloids, one or more lysergic acid amides, or one or more dimethoxyisoquinoline derivatives.
US10426770B2
Disclosed herein is an improved process for the preparation of Lurasidone and its pharmaceutically acceptable salts via novel intermediate and use thereof for the preparation of an antipsychotic agent useful for the treatment of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder. Further, present invention provides a cost effective and eco-friendly process for producing Lurasidone hydrochloride of formula (I) substantially free of residual solvent(s) at industrial scale.
US10426765B2
The present invention relates to a new pharmaceutical composition containing nicotinic acid, nicotinamide, tryptophanor related compounds for positively influencing the intestinal microbiota. In certain embodiments, the pharmaceutical composition is partially or entirely released into the small intestine or large intestine.
US10426717B2
Disclosed are glycol esters of dicaffeoylquinic acids, in particular dipropylene glycol esters of dicaffeoylquinic acids (DPG esters of DCQ) and propane-1.3-diol esters of dicaffeoylquinic acids of general formula: wherein R1 is a dipropylene glycol radical or a propane 1,3 diol radical, and any two of the radicals R2, R3, R4 and R5 are a caffeoyl group, the other two being a hydrogen atom. Also disclosed is a plant extract including same, the method for preparing same and a cosmetic composition including the compounds or extracts, intended for preventing or delaying the appearance of skin ageing effects.
US10426715B2
The object is to develop a liposome composition showing superior persistency of moisturizing effect and superior persistency of skin firmness and tightness-imparting effect, as well as superior temporal stability of liposomes. There is provided a liposome composition containing the following ingredients (a) to (e): (a) a phospholipid, (b) a Tremella fuciformis extract, (c) vitamin E or a derivative thereof, (d) a polyhydric alcohol having an IOB value of 1.5 to 5, and (e) water.
US10426703B2
A vial adapter is provided for interconnecting a vial having a closure and a fluid delivery device such as a safety syringe. The vial adapter comprises an adapter housing having a base, a shroud extending or projecting from the base and a cannula extending or projecting from the base for penetrating a rubber seal on the vial closure to thereby establish fluid communication between the vial and the vial adapter. The shroud may comprise a plurality of latitudinal slits or windows within each of which resides a flexion arm connected to the shroud, each flexion arm capable of engaging and/or retaining vial closures of any of a variety of different sizes. The vial adapter may comprise a conduit tip in fluid communication with the cannula to allow transfer of fluid to or from the safety syringe while also preventing inadvertent activation of a safety syringe needle retraction mechanism.
US10426698B2
A pill container and cap for storing and dispensing medication is described. In various embodiments, the pill container comprises an outer shell having an angled corner section, a constriction within the outer shell configured to limit flow of the medication out of the container a cap to seal the container. Various additional features and component are also described.
US10426693B2
Provided is a massage machine enabling an effective massage treatment by a pair of left and right massage members even for users having various sizes or thicknesses of treatment regions. A massage machine according to the present invention includes: a pair of left and right massage members provided so as to hold a treatment region; a rotating shaft provided so as to laterally penetrate the left and right massage members; a drive unit for rotationally driving the rotating shaft; and a conversion part for converting a rotating force of the rotating shaft to a massage operation by the massage members, and in this massage machine, there is provided a horizontal movement mechanism for causing at least one of the pair of left and right massage members to move in a horizontal direction along the rotating shaft by rotating the rotating shaft to thereby make an interval between the pair of left and right massage members variable.
US10426686B2
A driving device including a driving source configured to rotate forward or reversely, a first wire and a second wire connected to the driving source, a first joint connected to the first wire to rotate in a moving direction of the first wire, and a second joint connected to the second wire to rotate in a moving direction of the second wire is disclosed.
US10426681B2
A topper for a patient support surface includes an actively-cooled region that is positioned to deliver air flow under a specific area to provide localized treatment and/or moisture removal to a patient supported on the topper.
US10426676B2
The present invention relates to a curb climbing system for a wheelchair having a pair of rear larger drive wheels, a pair of small caster wheels, and a static hand grip for a caregiver being located at a back region behind an occupant seat; the system comprises: (1) a rear rollover-climb lever mechanically linked to a pivot to permit the caregiver located at the back-end region of the wheelchair to apply a downwards forceful thrust sufficient to shift the lever from an upward-position to a downward-position; and (2) a mechanical torque engagement system to translate the downwards forceful thrust to a rollover rotation torque around a pivot point on a stair-like curb, to climb over the stair-like curb. During climb procedure, a ratchet system provides unidirectional backwards rotation of the rear wheel pair and prevents forward rotation to block the wheelchair from rolling down the stairs for safety.
US10426674B2
Securing system for wheelchairs in vehicles, comprising a rigid bottom frame provided with; —a number of fixation elements which are connected to the if bottom frame and suitable for fixing a wheelchair relative to the bottom frame, wherein each fixation elements comprises a coupling element configured for coupling to a wheelchair, which coupling element is connected with a cable to a retractor, which retractor in unlocked mode exerts a retracting pulling force on the coupling element while the cable can be pulled out, and in locked mode locks the cable so that it cannot be pulled out, wherein the retractors are fixedly connected to the bottom frame and are preferably placed adjacently of each other, and a central securing control for simultaneous operation of the retractors.
US10426661B2
Devices and methods for use in laser-assisted surgery, particularly cataract surgery. Specifically, the use of an optical fiber with a proximal and distal end, wherein the distal end has a non-orthogonal angle with the diameter of the optical fiber, to create an off-axis steam bubble for cutting and removing tissue in an operative region. Where the optical fiber is bent, rotating the fiber creates a circular cutting path for the steam bubble, allowing access to tissues that may normally be blocked by obstructions and obstacles.
US10426656B2
A thermal control unit for delivering temperature-controlled fluid to one or more patient therapy devices (e.g. pads, blankets, etc.) that are in contact with a patient is disclosed. The thermal control unit includes a fluid circuit with an inlet and outlet, a reservoir, a heat exchanger, a pump, and a controller. The thermal control also includes any one or more of the following: (1) an air eliminator with an air filter for filtering air vented from the fluid circuit to the ambient surroundings; (2) a plug that moves in response to changing fluid levels and that fluidly isolates the air filter from the fluid; (3) a second air filter coupled to the reservoir; (4) a check valve to prevent fluid from back flowing into the reservoir; and/or (5) a liquid filter coupleable to the reservoir to filter liquid entering or exiting the reservoir.
US10426655B2
The present disclosure relates to thermal contrast therapy devices, treatment methods for providing thermal contrast therapy, and systems for providing and managing thermal contrast therapy treatments. The thermal contrast therapy devices disclosed herein are configured to provide a sequence of alternating cooling periods and heating periods to one or more areas of a patient's body. A thermal contrast therapy device may comprise a source of hot fluid, a source of cold fluid, and one or more pumps configured to circulate fluid through one or more treatment pads in fluid communication with the device. The thermal contrast therapy devices disclosed herein are configured to rapidly and efficiently transition between alternating cooling periods and heating periods.
US10426645B2
Methods of manufacturing polymeric stents by forming a pattern on a polylactic acid tube using a second harmonic generator laser and polylactic acid polymeric stents having a pattern formed using a second harmonic generator laser.
US10426642B2
A membrane for covering a peripheral surface of a stent is provided, the membrane including a plurality of line openings formed therein. Each line opening may be a straight line opening, for example in the form of a slit, a curved line opening, or any line opening of a suitable shape or curvature, e.g. U-shaped or V-shaped. Blood pressure opens the slits to allow blood to flow through the membrane, while curved line openings create a flap in the membrane that can open to allow blood to pass through. According to further embodiments of the present invention, a method of forming a membrane on a stent and a device for use in a blood vessel are provided.
US10426637B2
A portable electrical motor-driven exoskeleton ankle joint robot with gear transmission and control system which is intended to provide walking assistance in different speed and walking conditions to persons with disability in walking or muscle weakness or joint problem.
US10426636B2
An artificial finger for prosthetics and gripping technology, with a base, a first finger member mounted on the base in articulated manner, at least one secondary member mounted on the first finger member in articulated manner, and a drive for adjusting the secondary member relative to the first finger member and the first finger member relative to the base. At least one reset element is provided for resetting the first finger member and the secondary member, and the first finger member is acted upon with a resetting force which differs from the secondary member.
US10426632B2
An expandable implant includes a top support configured to engage a first portion of vertebral bone, a bottom support configured to engage a second portion of vertebral bone, and a control assembly coupled to the top support and the bottom support and configured to control relative movement between the top support and the bottom support. The control assembly includes a control member including a head and a body portion. The head includes a recess and the body portion includes at least one access port in fluid communication with the recess to enable delivery of fluid to an interior of the implant via the recess and at least one access port.
US10426629B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for distracting tissue and particularly spinal tissue. The device and method may include insertion of at least one elongated member and an augmenting member to form a structure between the tissues to be distraction, such that a dimensional aspect of the structure is augmented upon movement of the augmenting structure.
US10426628B2
An intervertebral prosthesis for insertion between adjacent vertebrae includes an upper plate, a lower plate and a core. The core is retained between the upper and lower plates by a retention feature in the form of central projections on the plates and a corresponding opening in the core. The retention feature is designed to allow the plates to slide over the upper and lower surfaces of the core in the anterior/posterior direction and in the lateral direction and to allow the plates to rotate with respect to each other and the core. The retention feature is also designed to prevent contact between the first and second plates during sliding movement of the plates over the core.
US10426625B2
This set comprising: an anatomic articulating member, having a concave articulating surface intended to articulate with a complementary humeral implant and having an anatomic coupling feature, a reversed articulating member, having a convex articulating surface intended to articulate with a complementary humeral implant and having a reversed coupling feature that is shaped differently from the anatomic coupling feature, and an anchorage member intended to be anchored in a human glenoid, the anchorage member including a body which defines a proximodistal axis and has inner bore extending along the proximodistal axis, the body being provided within the inner bore with both an inner first feature that is designed to cooperate with the anatomic coupling feature when the anatomic coupling feature is introduced within the inner bore, so as to fixedly couple the anchorage member with the anatomic articulating member, and an inner second feature that is designed to cooperate with the reversed coupling feature when the reversed coupling feature is introduced within the inner bore, so as to fixedly couple the anchorage member with the reversed articulating member, the first feature and the second feature being distinct from each other. The body is operable to be axially introduced into the glenoid before being coupled indifferently with one or the other of the anatomic and reversed articulating members.
US10426621B2
Provided is an implantable composite which includes a plurality of resorbable ceramic particles with or without a biodegradable polymer. The resorbable ceramic particles can be granules including carbonated hydroxyapatite and tricalcium phosphate in a ratio of 5:95 to 70:30. Some resorbable ceramic particles are granules, which include carbonated hydroxyapatite and β tricalcium phosphate in a ratio of 5:95 to 70:30. The resorbable ceramic particles have a particle size from about 0.4 to about 3.5 mm. The implantable composite is configured to fit at or near a bone defect as an autograft extender to promote bone growth. Methods of using the implantable composite are also provided.
US10426606B2
A color-coded bioprosthetic valve system having a valve with an annular sewing ring, and a valve holder system with a holder sutured to the ring of the valve, a post operatively connected to the holder, and an adapter sutured to the post and having a color associated with the valve model and/or size. For example, the adapter may be blue to indicate that the valve of the system is a mitral valve of a particular type and/or size. The system may also include a flex handle that is configured to engage with the adapter. The handle has a color associated with the adapter such that a user is able to visually determine that the handle color matches the valve model. For example, the handle may have a grip that is colored blue to match the blue color of the adapter. Accordingly, the color-coded system enables users to confirm easily that the correct accessories such as the sizer or flex handle are being used with the correct valve.
US10426577B2
An implant system and a method of forming the implant system including an implant to be implanted into living bone. The implant includes titanium. The implant includes a first surface geometry on a first portion of a surface of the implant and a second surface geometry on a second portion of the surface of the implant. The first surface geometry includes at least a submicron topography including tube-like structures and the second surface geometry includes a first micro-scale topography, a second micro-scale topography superimposed on the first topography, and a submicron topography superimposed on the first and second micro-scale topographies, the submicron topography including the tube-like structures.
US10426570B2
A medical positioning apparatus including a telescopic member extending between first and second ends and having an adjustable length; a support member for receiving an object; a base member securable to a base; a first joint mechanism movably securing the support member to the first end of the telescopic member; a second joint mechanism including a housing with a top portion directly rotationally connected to the second end of the telescopic member, and at least one side portion directly rotationally connected to the base member and movably securing the base member to the second end of the telescopic member, a locking device operatively connected to the first and second joint mechanisms and the telescopic member, the locking device operable between a locked position and a released position; and a lock activation device to unlock the locking device biased in the locked position.
US10426569B2
A wire stabilization device and method for stabilizing a localization wire during a tissue diagnostic procedure are disclosed. The wire stabilization device includes a device body and a device base. The device body is joined to the device base. The device body includes a base portion, a cover portion, a cover hinge, and a gripping feature. The cover hinge connects the base portion to the cover portion and allows the cover portion to rotate between open and closed positions. The gripping feature holds the localization wire between the base portion and the cover portion. The device base attaches to a patient's skin to stabilize the device body while the localization wire is held between the base portion and the cover portion.
US10426566B2
Methods and systems for performing an ophthalmic surgical procedure include pulsed illumination of target tissue. The systems may include an illumination instrument arranged to illuminate tissue at a surgical site during the ophthalmic surgical procedure. A light source provides illumination to the illumination instrument for emission from the illumination instrument toward the surgical site. A controller communicates with the light source and activates the light source to provide illumination pulses at a frequency above the flickering perception in humans and with enough light for cameral exposure and human light perception. The light source pulses to minimize phototoxicity.
US10426556B2
A method for image guided surgery includes obtaining intraoperative locations including intraoperative fiducial locations for a non-rigid structure and intraoperative rigid structure locations for associated rigid structures, estimating a gravity deformation for the non-rigid structure based on a first rigid registration for preoperative fiducial locations in a computer model relative to the intraoperative fiducial locations and a second rigid registration for the preoperative rigid structure locations for a rigid structure in the computer model with respect to the intraoperative rigid structure locations, modifying the preoperative fiducial locations using first rigid registration and the gravity deformation, determining a third rigid registration for the modified fiducial locations relative to the intraoperative fiducial locations, calculating a non-rigid transformation for the computer model using the volumetric gravity field deformation and first boundary conditions from errors in the third rigid registration, and displaying image data for the non-rigid structure modified to undergo the non-rigid transformation.
US10426551B2
Aspects extend to methods, systems, and computer program products for providing personalized surgery recommendations for eye patients. Surgery types, and surgery parameters can be recommended for a patient based on predicted post-operative UCVA for the patient if the surgery types and surgery parameters were to be used. Predicting post-operative UCVA can be handled as a regression problem based on patient demography and pre-operative examination details. In an additional aspect, surgery parameters are automatically determined and/or optimized for improved post-operative UCVA by including surgery parameters in a regression model.
US10426548B2
According one exemplary embodiment of the present invention, method and system can be provided for applying a laser radiation to at least one portion of a biological structure. For example, a beam of the laser radiation can be provided to the portion, whereas a cross-sectional area of the beam is at most about 1/10th of an entire area of the at least one portion. The beam can be applied to the portion (a) based on a predetermined pattern, (b) while modulating a wavelength of the laser radiation, and/or (c) while monitoring a depth of the application of the laser radiation.
US10426533B2
The present invention relates generally to implants used in medical procedures such as bone fixation or fusion. More specifically, this application relates to fenestrated implants used in bone fixation or fusion.
US10426527B2
This application describes surgical instruments and implants for building a posterior fixation construct across one or more segments of the spinal column. Extension guides are provided that attach to bone anchors implanted within the spine. The extension guides have a guide channel that align with a rod channel in the anchor to help direct the rod to the anchor. Instruments are provided to aid in insertion and positioning or the rod.
US10426526B2
Systems and methods for a guide assembly for introducing a bone anchor to an operative target site. The guide includes an outer sleeve and an inner sleeve. The outer sleeve has a distal anchor engaging end, a proximal end, and a central passage extending from the distal end to the proximal end. The inner sleeve may be situated in the central passage of the outer sleeve. The inner sleeve is movable being between a first position and a second position. The first position permits insertion of the bone anchor in the central passage. The second position releasably fixes the bone anchor to the guide assembly.
US10426523B2
A system for correcting a spinal deformity includes an implant fixed to one side of a vertebra and a rod extending along an axis of the spine on a second side of the vertebra. An adjustment member, which may include a reel, is coupled to the rod. A force directing member, such as a cable, extends between the rod and the adjustment member. The force directing member is retractable toward and extendible from the adjustment member. A method of correcting spinal deformity includes providing an implant, a rod, an adjustment member coupled to the rod, and a force directing member extending between the rod and the adjustment member. The adjustment member can be retractable toward and extendible from the adjustment member.
US10426521B2
The equipment (1) includes at least one connecting bar and at least one anchor member (1) of the “tulip” type and of the so-called “polyaxial” type. According to the invention, the head (3) forms an articulation portion (15). The body (2) forms an articulation cavity (8) for receiving the articulation portion (15), defined by a bearing wall (9). The anchor member (1) includes a ring (20) bearing against said bearing wall (9). The ring (20) and a distal bearing surface of the head (3) includes inter-engagement means (16, 21) having, in a first angular position of the ring (20), a first inter-engagement position of the ring (20) in which play exists between the ring (20) and the bearing wall (9), and having, in a second angular position of the ring (20), a second inter-engagement position in which said play is eliminated such that the head (3) is made immobile, or substantially immobile, relative to the body (2).
US10426517B2
An external distraction apparatus for performing a craniofacial distraction is disclosed. The external distraction apparatus may comprise a stationary member. The stationary member may be configured to be affixed to a head of a patient. The external distraction apparatus may also comprise laterally disposed distractors. The laterally disposed distractors may extend inferiorly from the stationary member and be moveable relative to the stationary member. The external distraction apparatus may comprise a motor and controller. The motor may be powered with the controller to perform a craniofacial distraction in an automated fashion.
US10426509B2
A system and associated method for altering or destroying tissues and anatomical or other structures in medical applications for the purpose of treating diseases or disorders. In one aspect, the system includes a device configured to deploy devices for altering the lobes of a prostate.
US10426504B1
A method and system for femoral condylar resection arthroplasty of the knee, which preserves the undamaged meniscus, whether by arthroscopy or arthrotomy, and only replaces the damaged area of the femoral condyle. In one embodiment, only the distal femoral condyle is replaced and the posterior femoral condyle remains intact. In another embodiment, both the distal and posterior femoral condyle are replaced. The method and system include placing an intercondylar insert between articular surfaces of a distal femoral condyle and a tibial plateau with the knee in extension. The method and system also includes a box retractor having four right angle blades, two for medial structures and two for lateral structures. The blades are at two depths, shallow and deep. The components of the system are preferably of plastic material. The method and system preserve the meniscus on top of the tibial plateau.
US10426503B2
A surgical instrument includes an outer housing shell defining a cavity, the outer housing shell defining an upper outer housing half and a lower outer housing half, wherein the upper outer housing half defines a longitudinal axis and an instrument module selectively insertable into the cavity of the outer housing shell. The instrument module includes an inner housing shell, at least one motor disposed within the inner housing shell, a control board being in electrical communication with the at least one motor and an energy source being in electrical communication with the at least one motor and the control board. The instrument module is inserted into the cavity of the outer housing shell in such a manner that the operative axis of the at least one motor is substantially parallel to the longitudinal axis of the upper outer housing half.
US10426501B2
The present invention relates generally to devices and methods for retrieving or manipulating objects within a lumen. More specifically, embodiments of the invention relate to devices and methods for retrieving or manipulating medical devices from a body lumen. One embodiment of the present invention provides a novel and improved retrieval snare and method of fabricating and using the same. The snare includes a snare wire, having a distal end and a proximal end, for use in the human anatomy, such as but not limited to blood vessels, pulmonary airways, reproductive anatomy, gastrointestinal anatomy, and organs such as the kidneys or lungs. The device enables a user to capture a foreign object located within the human anatomy, grasp said object in a controlled manner, and retrieve and remove said object from the human anatomy.
US10426494B2
An ankle arthroplasty system may have a talar prosthesis and a tibial prosthesis, each of which has an articular surface and a bone engagement surface. Each bone engagement surface may have an anterior-posterior curvature and a medial-lateral curvature with a convex shape. A burr with a rotatable cutting element may be used to form a prepared surface on the talus or the tibia to receive the corresponding prosthesis. A cutting guide may be used to guide motion of the burr; the cutting guide may include a base and an arm movably coupled to the base. One of the base and the arm may have a guide surface, and the other may have a follower that slides along the guide surface to constrain motion of the burr such that the prepared surface has at least one concave curvature and one convex curvature.
US10426492B2
A patient-specific guiding system for guiding an instrument relative to a portion of an anatomical feature of a patient. The patient-specific guiding system includes a patient-specific guide. The guide includes a first portion having a first patient-specific inner surface that conforms to a first surface of the anatomical feature and an outer surface opposite the first patient-specific inner surface. The first portion also includes a guide surface for use in guiding the instrument relative to the anatomical feature. The guide also includes a second portion having a second patient-specific inner surface that conforms to a second surface of the anatomical feature and an outer surface opposite the second patient-specific inner surface. The second portion is removably connected to the first portion.
US10426485B2
Provided herein are a system, method, and apparatus for delivering a therapeutic device, e.g. an embolic coil, from a delivery tube at a target site in a patient's body. A heating element is disposed in the delivery tube that can be actuated remotely, and a layer of low temperature adhesive is applied at the heating element to retain the therapeutic device. The kicker in the form of, for example, a compressed spring is mounted within the delivery tube so as to be in contact with the therapeutic device for applying a constant ejector force that is countered by the adhesive force of the low temperature adhesive. When the heating element is actuated, the spring's ejector force overcomes the softened adhesive's adhesive force to force the therapeutic device out of the delivery tube.
US10426483B2
Materials and methods for reducing or preventing bleeding and associated side effects during and after percutaneous medical procedures.
US10426478B2
A surgical staple cartridge is disclosed. The surgical staple cartridge comprises a cartridge body defining an elongate slot. The surgical staple cartridge further comprises a plurality of staple pushers movably supported in the cartridge body for vertical travel therein. Each staple pusher operably supports at least one staple thereon. The surgical staple cartridge further comprises a plurality of movable drivers operably supported in the cartridge body. Each movable driver corresponds to at least one of the staple pushers and includes a camming surface thereon such that when each movable driver is contacted by an axially moving actuator, at least a portion of each of the movable drivers moves laterally away from the elongate slot to bring the camming surface thereon into camming contact with the staple pusher corresponding thereto to thereby move the corresponding staple pusher vertically within the cartridge body.
US10426477B2
A staple cartridge assembly comprising a cartridge body, a deck, a longitudinal row of staple cavities defined in the deck, a plurality of staples removably stored in the row of staple cavities, and a ramp is disclosed. The cartridge body comprises a proximal end and a distal end. Each staple comprises a base, a first leg extending from the base, and a second leg extending from the base. The base comprises a groove. The ramp is configured to move from the proximal end toward the distal end to eject the staples from the staple cavities. The ramp travels along a path aligned with the bases of the staples. The first legs are positioned on a first side of the path. The second legs are positioned on a second side of the path. The groove of the base is configured to receive the ramp as the ramp travels along the path.
US10426472B2
A suture grasper for retrieving a suture from an internal surgical site includes an inner shaft defining a tissue-penetrating tip, an intermediate shaft disposed about the inner shaft, and an outer shaft disposed about the intermediate shaft. The intermediate shaft defines a plurality of spring fingers movable between a spread position, wherein the spring fingers extend radially outwardly from the inner shaft, and a compressed position, wherein the spring fingers are approximated about the inner shaft. The outer shaft is selectively translatable relative to the inner shaft and the intermediate shaft for moving the spring fingers between the spread position and the compressed position.
US10426468B2
A handheld electromechanical surgical device includes a non-sterile power-pack having a drive component(s) including a rotatable drive shaft extending therefrom, a main processor configured to control each drive component, a battery configured to power each drive component, an electrical receptacle, and a control interface(s) configured to control a functionality of the drive component. A sterile outer shell housing is configured to removably encase the power-pack to define a sterile barrier thus enabling use in a surgical environment without breaking sterility. The outer shell housing includes a coupler configured to transmit a rotation from the rotatable drive shaft through the outer shell housing, a control button(s) operatively positioned such that actuation of the control button actuates the control interface, and a pass-through connector configured to transmit electrical communications from the electrical receptacle through the outer shell housing.
US10426465B1
A device for deploying a staple into desired bone has a staple cartridge for retaining a bone staple and a spring-loaded plunger shaft having a distal end proximal to the bone staple, the plunger shaft being retained in a proximal orientation by a latch. Squeezing a trigger releases the latch, so that the plunger shaft moves to its distal position, striking the staple and deploying the staple distally into a bone site. An additional method step, in the event that one wishes to deploy a differently sized staple, involves detaching the staple cartridge from the device and attaching a differently-sized staple cartridge to the device.
US10426464B2
A staple for attaching a sheet-like implant to tissue or bone may include first and second arms, and first and second flukes. In some embodiments, the first arm has a proximal end and a distal end, and the second arm has a proximal end and a distal end. A bridge extends from the proximal end of the first arm to the proximal end of the second arm. The first fluke has a proximal end abutting the distal end of the first arm, and the first fluke extends distally from the first arm. The first fluke has a lateral extent larger than a lateral extent of the first arm and is mounted eccentrically thereto. The first fluke includes a proximal surface projecting at an outward angle in a proximal direction away from the distal end of the first arm to engage the tissue or bone when inserted therein. The second fluke has similar features. This arrangement causes the first and second flukes to rotate in response to a pullout force on the bridge. Methods for attaching a sheet-like implant to a target tissue are also disclosed.
US10426460B2
The disclosure provides apparatus and methods of use pertaining to syndesmosis reinforcement. Embodiments include a clamp having two jaws that extend toward each other to clamp two bone portions therebetween. The clamp may include an angle gauge and an adjustment mechanism having a force gauge that combine to enable the compression of the two bone portions in an optimal direction or angle and at an optimal, measurable compression force. Embodiments also include a tension instrument configured to knotlessly lock a flexible strand construct between two anchors at the same optimal direction and tension applied by the clamp. Further embodiments include an exemplary syndesmosis reinforcement procedure that employs the clamp and the tension instrument to construct a ligament reinforcement construct that achieves optimal anatomic positioning in both directional alignment and the reduction force applied by the construct. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10426456B2
Apparatus for securing a first object to a second object, the apparatus comprising: an elongated body having a distal end, a proximal end, and a lumen extending between the distal end and the proximal end, the lumen comprising a first section and a second section, the first section of the lumen being disposed distal to the second section of the lumen, and with the first section of the lumen having a wider diameter than the second section of the lumen; at least one longitudinally-extending slit extending through the side wall of the elongated body and communicating with the lumen, the at least one longitudinally-extending slit having a distal end and a proximal end, with the distal end of the at least one longitudinally-extending slit being spaced from the distal end of the elongated body; and an elongated element extending through the lumen of the elongated body.
US10426436B2
An ultrasonic probe includes a multi-dimensionally arrayed transducer, a matching layer, and a backing layer. The transducer includes element groups having different focal distances and simultaneously transmitting ultrasonic signals toward an object. According to the ultrasonic imaging apparatus using the multi-dimensionally arrayed transducer, a multi-focus transmission is performed. Thus, the multi-focus ultrasonic image may be acquired within a short period of time, thereby increasing frame rates, and a high-quality image in which all areas are focused may be quickly acquired.
US10426434B2
A method and a device for nondestructively detecting an elasticity of a viscoelastic medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring with an ultrasonic imaging probe an ultrasonic image of the viscoelastic medium; determining an area to detect the elasticity of the viscoelastic medium according to the ultrasonic image; driving the ultrasonic transducer probe with a low-frequency vibration by a vibrator so as to produce an elastic wave in the viscoelastic medium; producing an ultrasonic wave by the ultrasonic transducer probe, and transmitting the ultrasonic wave to the viscoelastic medium; collecting an ultrasonic echo; calculating an elastic parameter of the viscoelastic medium according to the collected ultrasonic echo.
US10426432B2
A method and a device for nondestructively detecting an elasticity of a viscoelastic medium are provided. The method includes: driving an ultrasonic transducer probe with a low-frequency vibration by a vibrator so as to produce an elastic wave in the viscoelastic medium; producing an ultrasonic wave by the ultrasonic transducer probe, and transmitting the ultrasonic wave to the viscoelastic medium; collecting an ultrasonic echo when the elastic wave is propagated in the viscoelastic medium and the ultrasonic transducer probe stops or almost stops vibrating; calculating an elastic parameter of the viscoelastic medium according to the collected ultrasonic echo.
US10426419B2
In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus for setting acquisition parameters of a scan protocol, in an operator control console, for a planned MR acquisition procedure of slice groups rotated with respect to one another through an angle relative to an axis of rotation, each containing at least one slice, a graphical representation of the slice groups is used for operator specification of the angle and/or the number of slice groups. After a graphical selection of a starting slice group by a user and selection of a radial slice group operating mode when a first operator action of the user is performed via an input device, the slice group number is increased while the angle is reduced. When a second operator action is performed via the input device, the slice group number is reduced while the angle is increased. The graphical representation is simultaneously updated in each case.
US10426415B2
A method and system for receiving energy selective image data relating to an examination object using a counting, digital X-ray detector, together with a counting, digital X-ray detector and an X-ray system are provided. The X-ray detector includes an X-ray converter for direct or indirect conversion of X-rays into an electrical signal, and a matrix including a plurality of counting pixel elements. For each pixel element of the plurality of counting pixel elements, at least one modifiable threshold value, above which an incoming signal is counted using a memory unit, is applicable.
US10426413B2
A patient alarm application provides a way for allowing clinical personnel to monitor and control patient-specific alarm settings. A user interface allows clinical personnel to compare graphical representations of unit population vital signs data with patient-specific vital signs data as well timelines of alarms for the patient. Analysis of the alarm data allows the user interface to show clinical personnel the estimated effects of changes to alarm threshold settings.
US10426398B2
Methods and systems for measuring muscle sarcomere length are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method comprises illuminating a set of muscle fibers with electromagnetic radiation, measuring an intensity of the electromagnetic radiation as reflected from the muscle fibers, the measuring occurring as a function of wavelength, determining wavelengths corresponding to maximums of reflected intensity, and correlating the determined wavelengths with respective muscle sarcomere lengths. In an embodiment, a system comprises an illumination source system for illuminating the set of muscle fibers with electromagnetic radiation, and an analyzer for measuring the intensity of the electromagnetic radiation as reflected from the muscle fibers.
US10426397B2
Hairstyling tool of the comb or hairbrush type, comprising a handle and a body, an electric battery a force sensor, an electronic unit configured to capture and format signals provided by the sensors, a wireless communication means for transmitting data to a remote entity, by means of which information about the movements executed by the tool and the forces it undergoes can be transmitted to the remote entity, the remote entity being able to send information back to the user of the tool about the hair being styled.
US10426396B2
A pressure ulcer detection system includes a support surface assembly including a transparent window, a signal generator/receiver, and an optical fiber embedded at least in part in the support surface assembly. The fiber conveys outgoing radiation from the signal generator/receiver to the window thereby illuminating a tissue site which overlies the window and conveys incoming radiation reflected from the tissue site and through the window back to the generator/receiver. The system also includes a controller in communication with the signal generator/receiver. The controller comprises a processor adapted to assess health status of tissue at the tissue site based on a property of at least one of the outgoing radiation and the incoming radiation, and to communicate an outcome of the assessment to a destination.
US10426394B2
There is provided a method of monitoring a subject, the method comprising obtaining measurements of the movements of the subject over time; obtaining measurements of the skin temperature of the subject over time; and processing the obtained measurements of the movements and the obtained measurements of the skin temperature to identify a urination event of the subject. An apparatus for monitoring a subject is also provided.
US10426390B2
The disclosed apparatus, systems and methods relate to devices, systems and methods for the collection of bodily fluids involving a single-use actuation and retraction mechanism disposed within a collector.
US10426388B2
A method for measuring differential blood oxygen saturation in a solid tumor is described that includes the steps of obtaining a first oxygenation image of a solid tumor before, during, or immediately after a administration of vascular therapy; obtaining a second oxygenation image of the solid tumor after a devascularization time period; and determining a differential blood oxygen saturation value by comparing the first oxygenation image and the second oxygenation image. The differential blood oxygen saturation value can be compared to a blood oxygen saturation necrosis value to provide a prognosis for tumor recurrence, or to guide of the tumor.
US10426386B2
A non-invasive blood glucose level measurement device (1) is provided with a pulse waveform measurement unit (2) having FBG sensors (4) for measuring an acceleration pulse wave of a test subject; and a data-processing unit (3) for calculating the blood glucose level of the test subject at the point in time of measurement of the acceleration pulse wave, from waveform information of the measured acceleration pulse wave, on the basis of a predetermined correlation. The correlation is a calibration curve constructed by carrying out a PLS regression analysis, using the blood glucose level measured by a non-invasive blood glucose method as the objective variable, and a simultaneously-measured acceleration pulse wave as the explanatory variable. A non-invasive blood glucose level measurement device capable of measuring a blood glucose level at about the same measurement accuracy as an invasive blood glucose measurement device can be achieved thereby.
US10426379B2
A system for detecting and recording head orientations of a person includes: a first sensor device capable of providing sensor data regarding a head orientation of a person in a three-dimensional space; a medical data acquisition system configured for storing and outputting the sensor data from the first sensor device; and a processor configured for processing the sensor data from the medical data acquisition system, outputting a first signal representing the head orientation, and generating an image for presentation by a graphical display; wherein the image comprises: a first reference indicator; an orientation indicator, wherein a position of the orientation indicator in the image is determined based on the first signal from the processor, and a feedback indicator when a first condition is met.
US10426378B1
A system and method for automated body mass index is disclosed. The disclosed method operates within a system architecture including one or more computing devices, one or more servers, and one or more databases. A processor operating within the one or more servers executes one or more algorithms for detecting relevant features associated with a potential client's multimedia information. The method may include calculating feature values, such as abdomen circumference, face width, face height, cheekbone width, jaw width, and neck width, and the like as well as calculating the body mass index of the potential client using one or more regression algorithms. A baseline and updated BMI may be determined, and used for determining a baseline and updated value.
US10426376B2
An incubator's closure assembly adapted to shut the aperture of a magnetic resonance imaging device (MRD) having an open bore extended along the MRD's longitudinal axis with a distal end and proximal end, the bore is terminated by the aperture located in the proximal end, into which a neonate's incubator is inserted, thereby shutting the MRD bore aperture. The closure assembly comprising at least one U-shaped conduit having (i) an array of distal and proximal sealing walls, both are substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal axis and having upwards and downwards directions, and (ii) a recess in between the walls having length, in upwards to downwards direction, and width, in distal to proximal direction, each of the proximal wall and the distal wall comprising a cutout at opposite directions, and wherein in the recess, the ratio of length to width is greater than a predefined value n.
US10426375B2
The present disclosure provides methods for targeting a biomedical system. Aspects of the subject methods include determining the trajectory of a targeting device using magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) of a MRI-visible style of a trajectory guide that is compatible with the targeting device. Targeted biomedical systems may be utilized for a variety of purposes including targeted delivery of a therapeutic, holding a therapeutic device, positioning of a therapeutic device and other uses. Also provided are devices and systems that can be used in practicing the described methods including but not limited to trajectory guides and adjustable targeting systems, as well as non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a computing device, cause a computing device to perform steps of the described methods.
US10426369B2
This system is used to rejuvenate youth by targeting the pituitary gland to produce HGH and testosterone. Also, with this system, a personal avatar is created, so that a person with the help of virtual reality, optional, simulate traveling to a specific brain site and giving a stimulation to that site. Also, the personal avatar will travel inside a designated vehicle type for that purpose. Also, The Smart Brain System is a type of a platform that can work with all brain stimulation products. It should become the model that people will use for brain control via the internet. Using this system, the brain is re-wired or re-programmed as to where a stimulation is received within the brain. A person will view a simulation of an electrical stimulation current that transmits to an area of the brain they desire to stimulate. Watching the smart brain simulations enables the mind to have a visual perception of the area of the brain to stimulate. So that by using the mind, vision and sense of hearing and touch, we can show the brain where a stimulation should be received within the brain. Also, using this system will allow the individual to have a more personal role in their brain stimulation therapy. This system can be used in clinical and office settings, although it is primarily for use via the internet. The smart brain system can be produced for use in all languages and marketed to all countries via the internet. The person will log into the smart brain web site. They will be asked to purchase the E-transporter system. It consists of a USB cable that has rectangular panels along its length. These panels are lights, which are programmed to indicate the direction of a current or movement of an object or stimulus within the cable. It will attach at the hand and continue up the arm and onto the back of the neck. Electrode wires with pads branch out at the neck to be placed on the head. This E-transporter and controller have a vibrational capacity, an electrical stimulation capacity, a speech and speech recognition capacity, and a sound effect capacity. It plugs into the computer at the USB port. The user will upload a photo of them self, preferably while wearing the E-transporter, to the web sites database. (This step is optional since a generic photo and E-transporter system can be used). A pre-programmed format will graft a computerized version of the brain into their photo. The therapist or individual will impute the type of brain stimulation they want to generate. When prompted, the program will display a cut-out view of their head displaying the computerized brain inside. When prompted, a pre-programmed video displays a simulated current that transmits to the target region of the brain to be stimulated. When the simulated current enters the target region of the brain, signs and signals will be displayed indicating that the area is being stimulated or that a downloading is in progress. The E-transporter lighting effects, vibrations and tactile properties will work simultaneously with the copy of the E-transporter and simulations that are displayed on the screen. The E-transporter wearable unit and the personal photo enhances the biofeedback that the simulated stimulations are occurring in the individual's own brain. Different concepts of brain design and brain activities can be used. One example would be: simulating the brain as an electronic component and displaying its electronic properties as brain activities. Another example is: simulating the brain as having caves and having a tunnel system that the stimulus travels through etc. The smart brain web site and E-transporter system will be produced by neuroscientists, medical illustrators, computer programmers, video production programmers, graphic designers, business developers, patent attorneys, and many others. Clinical trials are still needed to prove that this type of visual and neuronal feedback is an effective tool for brain stimulation therapy and that it adds a real benefit to brain stimulation therapy that is already being done.
US10426366B2
A stochastic Bayesian nonlinear filtering system and method that improves the filtering of noisy signals by providing efficiency, power, speed, and flexibility. The filter only requires the likelihood function p(observation|state) to determine the system state and works in various measurement models. This allows for the processing of noisy signals to be used in real time, such as in a biofeedback device that senses noisy surface electromyography muscle electrical activity, filters the sensed signal using the nonlinear filtering method, and provides vibrations based on the muscular activity.
US10426365B1
The present invention relates to the design and implementation of a seizure detection or prediction system. The proposed invention computes and selects spectral power ratio features, cross-channel spectral power ratio features, cross spectral power features and cross spectral power ratio features in a patient-specific manner. The selected features are input to a classifier to detect or predict seizures. The proposed algorithm takes advantage of high sensitivity in detecting or predicting seizures and low complexity in implementation. The proposed scheme is general and is suitable for creating a trigger for therapy delivery in a closed-loop therapy system. The therapy could involve either delivery of an anti-epileptic drug or electrical or magnetic stimulation of the brain.
US10426361B2
A method and an apparatus for measuring a time-varying change in an amount of blood in a tissue include exciting a fluorescence agent in the blood, acquiring a time-varying light intensity signal during a pulsatile flow of the blood through the tissue volume, the pulsatile flow having a systolic and a diastolic phase resembling a conventional photoplethysmogram, and processing the acquired signal by applying a modified Beer-Lambert law to obtain the measurement of the time-varying change in the amount of blood in the tissue volume. The instantaneous molar concentration of the fluorescence agent is determined by utilizing a concentration-mediated change in a fluorescence emission spectrum of the fluorescence agent.
US10426356B2
A method and system for communicating estimated blood loss parameters of a patient to a user, the method comprising: receiving data representative of an image, of a fluid receiver; automatically detecting a region within the image associated with a volume of fluid received at the fluid receiver, the volume of fluid including a blood component; calculating an estimated amount of the blood component present in the volume of fluid based upon a color parameter represented in the region, and determining a bias error associated with the estimated amount of the blood component; updating an analysis of an aggregate amount of the blood component and an aggregate bias error associated with blood loss of the patient, based upon the estimated amount of the blood component and the bias error; and providing information from the analysis of the aggregate amount of the blood component and the aggregate bias error, to the user.
US10426354B2
An object information acquiring apparatus includes: a receiving element configured to receive an acoustic wave generated by emission of light from a light source on an object and output an electric signal; an amplifying unit configured to amplify the electric signal; a scanning unit configured to move relative positions of the receiving element and the object; a controlling unit configured to determine a gain of the amplifying unit according to time when the receiving element receives the acoustic wave; and a processing unit configured to acquire characteristics information on the object, using the electric signal. The controlling unit determines the gain of the amplifying unit according to a positional relation between the receiving element and the object.
US10426353B2
An apparatus includes a reception unit configured to receive a photoacoustic wave generated when an object is irradiated with light and output a received signal, and a processing unit configured to obtain an initial acoustic pressure distribution in the object by using the received signal and obtain object information by using an equation representing propagation of the light which includes the initial acoustic pressure distribution and a correction term including a background absorption coefficient distribution of the object.
US10426352B2
An object information acquiring apparatus is provided that includes: a plurality of receiving elements which receive an acoustic wave that propagates from an object, and which convert the acoustic wave to a reception signal; an adaptive beamformer that performs adaptive beamforming of adjusting reception directionality in accordance with the reception signal in use of the reception signal; a delay-and-sum beamformer that performs delay-and-sum beamforming having preset directionality in use of the reception signal; an amplitude modulator that uses one output signal of one of the adaptive beamformer and the delay-and-sum beamformer, to perform amplitude modulation on an output signal of the other one of the beamformers; and a generator that, on the basis of a signal outputted by the amplitude modulator, generates image data on the interior of the object.
US10426348B2
A phenotypic profiling method for drug/dose physiological response of living bodies utilizes feature recognition to segment the information in time-frequency tissue-response spectrograms to construct N-dimensional feature vectors. The feature vectors are used to generate a correlation matrix among a large number of different stimuli in the form of drugs, doses and conditions. Multi-dimensional scaling is applied to the correlation matrix to form a two-dimensional map of response relationships that retains rank distances from the higher-dimensionality feature matrix. The two-dimensional phenotypic profile space displays compact regions indicative of particular physiological responses, such as regions of enhanced active transport, membrane undulations and blebbing.
US10426344B2
To provide a medical service support device, a medical service support method and a medical service support system capable of properly watching patients in accordance with states of the patients. A medical service support device includes an electrocardiogram sensor attached to a patient and measuring electrocardiogram data of the patient, an analysis unit analyzing the electrocardiogram data, an acceleration sensor detecting a motion of the patient, and an attention calling unit transmitting attention calling information and patient identification information for specifying the patient toward the external portion of the device when it is determined that the patient is in a REM sleep state based on an analysis result by the analysis unit as well as determined that the patient has moved to a given state based on a detection result by the acceleration sensor.
US10426331B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for measuring areas of nonperfusion in the retina using OCT imaging. The disclosed methods and systems allow for the automated segmentation and quantification of avascular areas of the retina utilizing information obtained from both structural OCT and OCT angiography (OCTA) data. The disclosed methods include filtering approaches which enhance vessel structure while suppressing noise, dynamic thresholding approaches to mitigate the detrimental effects of within-scan variability and low scan quality, and distance transform-based approaches to improve detection of ischemic regions. When combined with methods such as projection-resolved OCTA, the sensitivity to detect nonperfusion within different plexuses of the inner retina is demonstrated. In the clinical setting of diabetic retinopathy, the disclosed methods and systems show high sensitivity and specificity to detect the mild non-proliferative form of the disease with high reproducibility.
US10426329B2
A multipurpose self-illuminating dental mirror is made up of three detachable assemblies. A first assembly includes a head and shank. The head has a mirrored forward surface and a rear transparent surface that includes one or more rear-facing light sources. The shank is connected to the head at an angle and has one or more forward-facing light sources extending from the shank at the connection of the shank with the head. The light sources of the first assembly are used to provide illumination for the mirrored forward surface of the first assembly. The second assembly includes a handle that encloses one or more batteries used to power the light sources of the first assembly. The third assembly includes a laser pointer and a housing for a pen or stylus. The one or more batteries of the second assembly are also used to power the laser pointer.
US10426326B2
An optical probe for use in medical instrumentation where a sheath is covering the optical probe, wherein the optical probe is configured to correct astigmatism by incorporating asymmetric optical powers.
US10426325B2
An image capturing system, comprising: a light source device that emits illumination light containing wavelength regions; an image pickup device having an RGB filter; and an image processing unit to calculate a first index representing a molar concentration ratio of a first biological substance and a second biological substance contained in the living tissue, wherein the wavelength regions comprise: a first wavelength region corresponding to a B filter; and a second wavelength region corresponding to a G filter, wherein: in the first wavelength region, a value of image data B varies depending on the molar concentration ratio; the second wavelength region contains a plurality of isosbestic points of the living tissue, and, in the second wavelength region, a value of image data G takes a constant value without depending on the molar concentration ratio.
US10426319B2
A imaging device includes: a spotlight emitting unit configured to emit two parallel spotlights; an imaging element configured to capture a measurement frame image having two spot areas irradiated with the spotlights and a plurality of first frame images which do not have the two spot areas, during capturing a moving image; and a controller configured to generate a grid image having a plurality of grid lines arranged at intervals set on the basis of the distance between the two spot areas in the measurement frame image, generate a plurality of second frame images by superimposing the grid image on the first frame images, and display the second frame images on a display unit.
US10426314B2
A fluid pump volute offshoot system for debris diversion and collection, a solids collection system, and related methods, for a pot and pan, or other, similar, washing machine is provided.
US10426311B2
A portable liquid dispensing apparatus is described, which comprises a battery, a heating element, a liquid reservoir, a pump, an outlet, and a pipe, extending from the reservoir to the outlet and passing adjacent the heating element. In operation, the pump drives liquid from the reservoir into and through the pipe while the power source causes the heating element to heat the liquid passing through the portion of the pipe adjacent to the heating element to be expelled from the outlet at a temperature greater than the ambient temperature.
US10426310B2
Provided is a vacuum cleaner including a cleaner body; a moving wheel installed at both side surfaces of the cleaner body to be rotatable for travel of the cleaner body and configured to rotatably support the cleaner body; and a wheel motor assembly provided between an outer surface of the cleaner body and the moving wheel and configured to rotate the moving wheel for the travel of the cleaner body, wherein the wheel motor assembly is rotatably coupled to the moving wheel at a rear of a vertical extension line of a rotating center of the moving wheel.
US10426305B2
A suction unit is proposed which comprises a suction apparatus, a dirt collection container, a filter device, wherein the dirt collection container is connected in terms of flow via the filter device to the suction apparatus, and a cleaning device for the filter device, wherein the cleaning device forms a noise source for noise emissions in a frequency range below 2000 Hz, and wherein at least one perforated-plate resonator is associated with the cleaning device, wherein the at least one perforated-plate resonator has a chamber with a chamber space and with a chamber wall and has at least one perforated plate which covers the chamber space, and wherein the at least one perforated plate is connected, actively with respect to sound, to the cleaning device.
US10426290B2
The present application provides a water distribution system with a flow of water therethrough. The water distribution system may include one or more water lines, a number of flow control passages in communication with the one or more water lines, a number of flow controllers with a number of preset flow rates positioned about the flow control passages, and a number of flow control valves positioned about the flow control passages such that opening one of the flow control valves allows the flow of water to flow through one of the flow control passages with the preset flow rate.
US10426289B2
A brewing material holder includes a closed bottom water dispersing member including ports providing streams of water from just under a holder lid bottom, for uniformly dispersing water into the brewing material in the holder. When water is injected into the holder, the flow of water is captured in the water dispersion member and directed up to the ports and sprayed horizontally or vertically into the brewing material, and sinks into brewing material contained in the brewing chamber. The water dispersion member may be attached to the holder lid or be part of the holder lid. A single centered port may be provided in the bottom of the dispensing member provides an additional spray and also helps drain the dispensing member after use.
US10426282B1
A personal foldable serving tray apparatus that is foldable/un-foldable. In a closed, folded configuration, the foldable serving tray comprises a specific size and shape to fit into a pocket of a serving coat, vest, or apron of waiter, waitress, bartender or other servers. In an open, unfolded configuration, the personal foldable serving tray is used as a flat surface to serve food or drinks. The personal foldable serving tray apparatus includes a wireless electronic location component that allows physical location of the apparatus to be tracked within a physical space such as a restaurant, bar, etc. and displayed on a map and can also be used to measure productivity of waiters using the apparatus and accept secure wireless electronic payments from customers directly on the apparatus.
US10426281B2
Utensils, including forks, with movable components, and associated systems and methods are disclosed. A representative utensil includes a first tool carried by and movable relative to a first arm portion, a second tool carried by and movable relative to a second arm portion, and a hinge coupling the first and second arm portions. A guide structure is coupled to the first and second arm portions to guide motion of at least one of the first and second tools relative to the other.
US10426279B2
A bolster pillow which provides adequate support, without deforming or collapsing, to a user while being lightweight and commercially viable. The bolster pillow includes an internal rigid tube, a cushioned sleeve, an internal cover, and an external cover. The internal rigid tube acts as the structural support element to ensure the overall shape of the bolster pillow and does not change regardless of the number of uses. The internal sleeve envelops the internal rigid tube and extends from a first end to a second end of the internal rigid tube. The cushioned sleeve adds padding to the bolster pillow for increased comfort. The cushioned sleeve is concentrically positioned with the internal rigid tube and is positioned about the internal cover, opposite the internal rigid tube. The external cover tensionably envelops the internal rigid tube, the internal cover, and the cushioned sleeve.
US10426277B2
A filler formed to fit underneath a bed frame is provided. The filler includes a membrane. The membrane may include a top layer, bottom layer, and a sidewall connecting the top layer and the bottom layer together. An internal pocket is formed within the membrane. The internal pocket is capable of receiving and retaining a gas, thereby making the membrane an inflatable membrane. A valve is secured to the membrane and forms a fluid connection from the internal pocket to an outside, allowing users to inflate and deflate the membrane.
US10426276B2
The invention discloses a control system for a baby swing. The control system comprises a driving motor for applying a force and a control device for controlling the driving motor. The control device comprises a gyroscope disposed on a swing arm for detecting an angular velocity of the swing arm when the swing arm passes the lowest point and outputting an angular velocity detection signal; and a control module coupled to an output end of the gyroscope for receiving and responding to the angular velocity detection signal, so as to adjust a duty ratio of the driving motor in energization and change the action time of the driving motor. The control system for the baby swing according to the invention achieves the same swing angle for babies of different weights.
US10426272B2
A buoyant pool lounge chair frame and buoyant pool lounge chair using the same are disclosed. In one embodiment of the buoyant pool lounge chair for supporting a person while the buoyant pool chair is floating in water, frame members collectively form an open chair frame including a back frame and leg frame pivotally coupled thereto. Buoyant cushions are attached to the frame members to form a chair seat, a backrest, and a leg rest. A pair of rear pivotal coupling and clutch assemblies are coupled to the seat frame and to the back frame to adjust and fix the angle of recline of the back frame relative to the seat frame. Similarly, a pair of front pivotal coupling and clutch assemblies coupled to the leg frame and to the back frame to adjust and fix the angle of extension of the leg frame relative to the seat frame.
US10426271B2
A supporting apparatus such as a portable seat that can be opened and closed is disclosed having a plurality of poles hinged to junctions. A part of the poles form the legs and another portion form an anchorage on which a foldable surface is stretched when the apparatus is opened. The apparatus also includes traction elements cooperating with the folding surface and which join one another at the end of the poles that do not converge at the junctions. The configuration preset by the orientation of the poles, along with the structural configuration of anti-prism or other extremely stable and rigid configurations, are such that they spread most of the torsional and bending stresses.
US10426270B2
A folding lounge chair includes a seat section and a back section connected by a canopy section. An optional leg extensions section may be pivotally attached to the front of the seat section. The back section includes an adjustable back stand for adjusting the angle of the back section of the chair. The sections are connected to each other by hinge mechanisms that allow the chair to be folded. The panel section includes two lateral attachment straps. U-shaped ribs may be attached to the lateral attachment strips and a canopy may be formed by a canvas extending over the ribs. The canopy may optionally include events to minimize the effect of strong winds. The canopy may also optionally include pockets for storing items. Two shoulder straps on the back of the back section may be used to carry the chair in the folded position.
US10426262B2
A cantilever shelving system is disclosed and can include a frame structure, a cantilever shelf support structure, and a plurality of load-bearing shelves that can be supported by the cantilever shelf support structure and the frame structure. The shelves can be positioned laterally adjacent to cantilever support arms of the cantilever shelf support structure, and the shelf support surfaces can be coplanar with upper walls of the cantilever support arms. Ends of laterally adjacent shelves do not overlap with a front side of a vertical support member to which the cantilever support arm is mounted. The cantilever shelving system can accommodate various user requirements and can be operably integrated with standard commercial and/or industrial equipment or machinery.
US10426260B2
A desk includes a tabletop and at least one base member supporting the tabletop. A footrest is disposed on the at least one base member beneath the tabletop. The footrest is movable between a stowed position toward a back of the desk and a deployed position toward a front of the desk. At least one mechanism is disposed on the at least one base member and operatively coupled to the footrest. The at least one mechanism moving the footrest between the stowed and deployed positions. A floor mat is disposed with the footrest. The floor mat is movable with the footrest between a stowed mat position and a deployed mat position.
US10426256B2
A bristle insert, in particular for a brush, is formed by at least one bristle pack having a plurality of plastic bristles whose ends are fused to each other to form a self-supporting holding element. A brush with such a bristle insert, and a method for manufacturing such a bristle insert is also provided.
US10426253B2
A cleaning device for cleaning an atomizer, in particular a rotary atomizer, is provided. The cleaning device includes a wet cleaning station having at least one cleaning nozzle for the wet cleaning of the atomizer with a cleaning fluid. The atomizer is introduced into the wet cleaning station in an introduction direction. The cleaning nozzle has a rotatable cleaning trunk for dispensing the cleaning fluid. The cleaning device, in some embodiments, also includes a dry cleaning station. A corresponding operating method is also provided.
US10426252B2
An oral care system includes a dispenser comprising a product tube having a reservoir containing an oral care material and an outlet. In one embodiment, the dispenser may be configured for detachable coupling to a toothbrush. A compression device engages the product tube and pressurizes the tube contents. The oral care material may be dispensed by actuating a valve fluidly coupled to the reservoir and outlet. In one embodiment, actuating the valve includes a flow orifice movable into and out of a flow path through the dispenser. Oral care material may be dispensed by positioning the orifice in the flow path in which the pressurized material flows outwards the product tube. To stop the flow of oral care material, the orifice is removed from the flow path which blocks the path. An operating button is provided in one embodiment to change position of the flow orifice.
US10426251B2
An oral care dispenser system in one embodiment includes a toothbrush and removable dispenser. The dispenser includes an elongated housing with reservoir containing an oral care material, an applicator at a distal end, and an actuator at a proximal end. An elevator disposed in the housing forms a movable wall of the reservoir. The elevator is operably coupled to a drive screw via an extension member threadably engaged with the screw. Rotating the drive screw in a first direction with the actuator distally advances the elevator in the housing to dispense the oral care material. The elevator is retractable by rotating the actuator in a second direction without uncoupling elevator from the extension member.
US10426247B2
A surfboard carrier assembly is provided including first and second ring assemblies. Each ring assembly includes a circular loop made of an elastic cord. Preferably, the circular loop's circumference can be adjusted. In addition, each ring assembly includes a cover which can be manipulated into a hollow doughnut shape so as to encapsulate a circular loop. Moreover, each ring assembly includes a pair of straps for affixing a ring assembly to a vehicle roof rack cross bar.
US10426243B2
There is provided a hair fastener. The hair fastener has an elongate body made of an elastic material stretchable under tension for maximizing holding capability of hair and a locking means at least part of which made of a stiff material. The locking means includes a first member and a second member arranged at opposite ends of the body. The first member and the second member are releasably engageable with each other by way of a mechanical interference fit in that engagement of the first and second members is achieved independent of degree of tension of the elastic body and engagement or disengagement of the first and second members is achieved by way of one hand operation of a user. The fastener is adapted to assume a first configuration in which the first member and second members are engaged before tying the hair and a second configuration in which the first and second members are disengaged whereby removal of the fastener from the hair in the second configuration minimizes movement of the fastener along the length of the hair and thus eliminating or at least reducing frictional contact with the hair. With this construction, majority part of the hair fastener can be made of a high friction material to provide improved gripping or holding security of hair and yet hair is not damage during removal of the fastener from user's hair.
US10426240B2
When a user pushes an operating member to one side in a longitudinal direction of arms, holding of a holding member is released and the arms can be expanded and contracted, while when the user pushes the operating member to the other side in the longitudinal direction of the arms, locking of a locked body by an engaging and disengaging member is released, and a handle body can be pivoted around a pivoting center shaft with respect to a carry case body.
US10426239B2
A receiving device includes a casing, a guiding member, a rotation member, a key, and a pushrod. The casing includes a baseboard, a first side plate, a second side plate, and a receiving member. The guiding member is received in the receiving member and defines a receiving groove. The rotation member rotatably covers the receiving groove and defines a bump element. The bump element is mounted on the first side plate through a first spring. The key is movably arranged in the casing. The pushrod includes a first end, a second end, and a spindle. The key is driven by an external force to drive the pushrod to rotate about the spindle, and the pushrod drives the rotation member to rotate until the receiving groove is no longer covered, thus the receiving groove is opened.
US10426238B2
A case for an electronic device includes: a protective cover having a side wall wherein the side wall significantly covers a side portion of the electronic device and the side wall includes an inner surface and an outer surface wherein the inner surface faces the electronic device and a longitudinal recess is formed on the inner surface; and a longitudinal insert member removably received in the longitudinal recess. The longitudinal insert member includes an inner wall and an outer wall and the inner wall faces the electronic device. The longitudinal insert member is provided with a plurality of holes and the holes are separated by a plurality of partitions. The structure by the holes is effective in protecting the electronic device from impact or shock.
US10426237B2
A buckle structure includes a buckling base and a buckling shaft. An axial hole is defined in the buckling base, an axial channel extending along an axial direction of the axial hole and a circumferential channel extending along a circumferential direction of the axial hole are defined on an internal surface of the axial hole, an opening is defined at an end of the axial channel and the other end of the axial channel communicates with the circumferential channel, the axial channel is provided with a movable block blocking between the axial channel and the circumferential channel and able to selectively retreat from the axial channel and the circumferential channel. The buckling shaft is inserted in the axial hole; a latch protruding from a lateral surface of an end of the buckling shaft is able to move through the opening and along the axial channel and the circumferential channel.
US10426225B2
A convertible shoe may include a sole and a plurality of interchangeable heel portions, each selectively attachable to the sole. The heel portions may each include a mounting surface configured to interface with a heel receiver of the sole. The heel receiver may include a fixed hook and a movable hook, with the movable hook being operable by an actuator coupled to a bottom surface of the sole.
US10426224B2
A shoe construction including an outsole having a first section which includes portions of the forefoot and midfoot areas, a second section which includes portions of the forefoot, midfoot and hind foot areas, and a third section which includes portions of the midfoot and hind foot areas, the first and third sections including a plurality of curved and straight grooves and the second section including a plurality of diagonal grooves, the outsole further including a cavity, raised projections and a pair of protrusions for mating with a projected area and corresponding grooves and recesses on the midsole when the outsole and midsole are mated together, the midsole having a first density in the forefoot area and a second density in the hind foot area, the proximal face of the midsole including a second cavity for receiving the insole, the insole having a top face including a plurality of raised projections.
US10426217B1
A shoe is bisected across the width thereof with each half capable of interlocking with the opposing half by means of intersecting prongs and prong receivers. A single insole is configured to cover the interlocking seem. Each shoe half comes in a variety of styles and shapes.
US10426215B2
A protective helmet including a helmet body, a facemask extending from the front portion to cover at least a portion of a face of a wearer, and one or more adjustment mechanisms securing the facemask to the helmet body. The adjustment mechanism(s) is/are connected to the helmet, include(s) an engagement member engaged with the facemask, is/are selectively engageable with the facemask in at least two vertically spaced apart positions of the facemask relative to the helmet body, and allow(s) toolless adjustment between the vertically spaced apart positions. Adjustment mechanisms and methods of positioning a facemask are also discussed.
US10426214B2
Disclosed are devices, systems, methods, products, and implementations, including a head gear device that includes a helmet adapted to be worn by a user, at least one sensor to measure one or more of, for example, force and/or motion, and one or more moveable members, the one or more moveable members configured to be displaced to apply a counterforce to a head of the user based, at least in part, on detection of one or more of, for example, a force component applied to the user and/or motion undergone by the user.
US10426212B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for a modular helmet apparatus and system comprised of a removable outer shell disposed on an inner frame. The disclosed football helmet provides for enhanced energy diffusion through the use of one or more energy diffusion areas disposed on an outer shell of the helmet, the one or more energy diffusion areas being configured to align with the energy diffusion zones of the frame. Embodiments of the present disclosure enables a user to quickly and easily replace or swap the outer shell of the helmet with a second or replacement shell by selectively coupling the desired outer shell with the frame.
US10426211B1
A handle headgear secures handles and straps to the head of a wearer so that a child riding on the back of the wearer can grab the handles and strap for support. The handle headgear may provide frame strapping for supporting the handles and straps, wherein the frame strapping can be anchored to the head of wearer with chin straps provided by the frame strapping. A substructure may be joined to the frame strapping for further securing the handles and straps.
US10426198B2
At least one example embodiment relates to an e-vaping device. Some example embodiments include a vaporizer assembly, a power supply for supplying power to the vaporizer assembly, a male connector connected to the vaporizer assembly or the power supply and a female connector connected to the vaporizer assembly or the power supply. The male connector may include a first male electrode and a second male electrode encompassed by the first male electrode. The female connector may include a first female electrode and a second female electrode encompassed by the first female electrode.
US10426195B2
In a system comprising an electronic smoking device and a capsule (6), the electronic smoking device includes a housing, an electric power source, an electrically heatable atomizer adapted to atomize a liquid supplied from the capsule (6), an interface adapted to mount the capsule (6) at the electronic smoking device, and control electronics. The capsule (6) comprises a shell (30) having a longitudinal axis and containing a liquid. A first end side (32) of the shell (30) is sealed by a puncturable membrane. The capsule (6) is adapted to be mounted at the electronic smoking device via the interface. The shell (30) has a triangular-like cross-sectional shape (50) transversely to its longitudinal axis, in an area which extends over at least part of the shell (30) in a direction along its longitudinal axis.
US10426189B2
Method of manufacturing a cut stem with increased filling capacity comprises tearing a rod-like stem material having a water content of 20 to 50% by weight, shredding the torn rod-like stem material, and subjecting the rod-like cut stem material to expansion treatment.
US10426186B2
An agitator for a product peel removal system, the agitator comprising: a central axle having a plurality of outwardly projecting arms; and a product lifter at the distal end of at least one of said outwardly projecting arms; and an apparatus for product peel removal comprising: a drum having an inlet for receiving product, an outlet for dispensing of product; and a plurality of perforations through which removed peel may pass; at least one agitator arranged within said drum and rotatable relative to said drum for agitating the product passing between said inlet and outlet; and means for controlling the retention time of product within the rotatable drum independently from the rotation speed of the agitator.
US10426185B2
A taste substance-supplying article is provided with: a taste substance-supplying body having a taste substance that is brought into contact with taste receptors to produce a sense of taste, and a taste-releasing part that retains the taste substance and gradually releases the taste substance; and a fixing part that fixes the taste substance-supplying body to an oral cavity so that the taste-releasing part can be brought into contact with a portion of an area being a part of the oral cavity and having taste receptors. The taste-releasing part is brought into contact with taste receptors, and supplies and causes the taste substance to come into contact with the taste receptors.
US10426178B2
Disclosed is a water based method for extracting caffeine from alkaloid containing substances, in particular tea leaves. The method can be performed without the use of artificial substances. The method allows the other soluble, non-caffeine components of alkaloid containing substances to be part of the decaffeinated product, in particular, components such as catechins and antioxidants. Advantageously, the caffeine extracted from the alkaloid containing substances is reversibly adsorbed to an adsorbent and high percentile of the caffeine can be recovered from the adsorbent.
US10426176B2
A vertical electric cooker and smoker having lower air intake vents and upper exhaust vents which together create a more balanced flow and distribution of smoke and reduce the operating pressure of the system to allow a much larger load of wood chips to be used without refilling. A smoke box is also provided for holding and properly combusting the larger quantity of wood chips in an oxygen deficient environment. The smoke box has a false bottom and discharges the smoke through a circuitous exhaust flow path. Also, the electric heating elements of the cooking and smoking apparatus are contained in an assembly which provides an air gap beneath the smoker box and also shields the smoker box to prevent the wood chips in the smoker box from becoming overheated.
US10426157B2
A hunting decoy having two pairs of receiver slots for receiving a wire wing attachment which is flexible and moves gently when wind or air passes over a cloth clover of the wing attachment. A hook ring attached to the bottom of the wing allows a string to connect the wing to the ground or underneath of the body of the decoy to the other wing to provide a gentle bend to the wings and to prevent them from flying upwards.
US10426152B2
The spool brake device is equipped with a brake unit, a detector, and a controller. The controller controls the braking force by the brake unit based on the rotational speed of the spool detected by the detector. When the rotational speed is less than the predetermined rotational speed, the controller controls the braking force by the brake unit in the regular braking mode. In the regular braking mode, the controller changes the braking force by the brake unit according to the rotational speed. On the other hand, when the rotational speed is equal to or higher than the predetermined rotational speed, the controller controls the braking force by the brake unit in the emergency braking mode, during the period of predetermined time. In the emergency braking mode, the controller makes the braking force by the brake unit larger than the braking force in the regular braking mode.
US10426144B2
A terrarium including a base, a support column, a top, and one or more arcuate panels with a closure is provided. The base can include one or more base channels, and the top can include one or more top channels. The top can be supported entirely by the support column at a first preselected distance from the base. One or more arcuate panels can extend between the top and the base, being disposed in the top channel and the base channel, and forming an opening. Another arcuate panel can form a closure over the opening, with that panel optionally slidable to selectively access an internal compartment of the terrarium. The support column can support the top and assist in holding the arcuate panels, as well as form a ventilation chimney associated with the internal compartment. Related methods of use are provided.
US10426134B2
The disclosure provides an S-shaped folding pet dining table, which includes a tabletop made from a plastic material and two pairs of table legs mounted at bottoms of left and right ends of the tabletop respectively, wherein top of the tabletop is lying on a horizontal plane, the tabletop is bent in an S shape in plan view, and at least two feeding bowl placement holes are formed in a staggering manner according to bending of the S shape of the tabletop; and the two pairs of table legs are both positioned outside front and rear side edges of the tabletop after being oppositely folded, and the two pairs of table legs are staggered according to the bending of the S shape of the tabletop. The dining table reaches a height comfortable for a large/medium dog, the height may be maximized by virtue of a finite space, the structure is simple, and convenience for operation is achieved.
US10426125B2
A soybean cultivar designated 179609121658 is disclosed. Embodiments include the seeds of soybean 179609121658, the plants of soybean 179609121658, to plant parts of soybean 179609121658, and methods for producing a soybean plant produced by crossing soybean 179609121658 with itself or with another soybean variety. Embodiments include methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more genes or transgenes and the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. Embodiments also relate to soybean cultivars, breeding cultivars, plant parts, and cells derived from soybean 179609121658, methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from soybean 179609121658, and the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. Embodiments further include hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing 179609121658 with another soybean cultivar.
US10426120B1
A novel maize variety designated X80M877 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X80M877 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X80M877 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X80M877, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X80M877 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X80M877 and methods of using maize variety X80M877 are disclosed.
US10426111B2
Disclosed is an invention of cotton lines 2-340/1-1422, 1-1422/SCM 3-7-3, 1-1422/2-340, 1-136/2-340, AFIS 1-1422. AFIS 2-340, AFIS 1-136, and SCM 3-7-3, and relates to seeds, plants, plant cells, plant tissue and harvested products, lint, and oil, as well as to hybrid cotton plants and seeds and other plants, cultivars, and varieties produced by essentially deriving such plants, cultivars, and varieties from cotton lines 2-340/1-1422, 1-1422/SCM 3-7-3, 1-1422/2-340, 1-136/2-340, AFIS 1-1422, AFIS 2-340, AFIS 1-136, and SCM 3-7-3. The present invention particularly relates to the development of specific cotton lines for the regulation of palmitic acid for the production of seeds having cottonseed oil content with reduced levels of palmitic acid. The cotton lines of the present disclosure have lower levels of palmitic acid content, and allows for the germination of seed at lower soil temperatures than current commercially available cotton cultivars.
US10426109B2
System and methods for monitoring the growth of an aquatic plant culture and detecting real-time characteristics associated with the aquatic plant culture aquatic plants. The systems and methods may include a control unit configured to perform an analysis of at least one image of an aquatic plant culture. The analysis may include processing at least one collected image to determine at least one physical characteristic or state of an aquatic plant culture. Systems and methods for distributing aquatic plant cultures are also provided. The distribution systems and methods may track and control the distribution of an aquatic plant culture based on information received from various sources. Systems and methods for growing and harvesting aquatic plants in a controlled and compact environment are also provided. The systems may include a bioreactor having a plurality of vertically stacked modules designed to contain the aquatic plants and a liquid growth medium.
US10426106B2
Systems and methods for assessing a field of plants for irrigation having program code to acquire at least one thermal image of a field having a plurality of plants thereon; generate a thermal map of the field from the thermal image providing a thermal value for a plurality of geographically referenced locations in the field; measure at least one weather parameter for the field; calculate a water stress value for each of the plurality of locations using the weather parameter and the thermal value; and estimate a water property value for each of the plurality of locations using the water stress value and a predetermined correlation of the water stress value and the water property value. Thus, the system leverages high-resolution aerial thermal imagery to estimate plant stress with the advantage of obtaining estimates of the water property value, such as the stem water potential (SWP), potentially for every plant in a field, thereby providing a more powerful tool for irrigation scheduling.
US10426104B2
Pressure-compensating emitter. The emitter includes an inlet connected to a source of pressurized water and an orifice in fluid communication with the inlet and extending into a channel including a raised land surrounding an outlet. A compliant membrane is positioned above the land in the chamber wherein pressurized water will cause the membrane to deform into contact with the land to alter flow through the outlet so as to provide a constant flow rate. Parameters of the emitter are selected so that the emitter has a large operating range and an activation pressure of 0.15 bar or below.
US10426081B2
Disclosed herein is a landscaping machine including a protective rollover bar having a left bar portion extending from a left side of an operator seat, a top bar portion extending from the left bar portion above the operator seat, and a right bar portion extending from the top bar portion to a right side of the operator seat. The landscaping machine further includes a storage device attached to the protective rollover bar, the storage device extending between and attached to the left bar portion and the right bar portion. The storage device includes a receptacle that is configured to hold objects during operation of the landscaping machine. Further disclosed herein is a storage device attachable to a landscape machine and a storage device kit.
US10426079B2
A declutching device for a seed drill distribution element including a locking element and a support element on which the locking element is mounted, in which the locking element allows two stable positions relative to the support element and can be moved between these, the locking element being configured, when in a stable position, to be able to declutch the distribution element.
US10433468B2
A modular system for containing electronic components has at least one storage bin and a plurality of Radio Frequency Interference (RFI) shielded electronics enclosures. Each RFI shielded electronics enclosure is at least one hollowed-out body; at least one hollowed-out cover, wherein the at least one hollowed-out cover is adapted to mate with the at least one hollowed-out body; and a plurality of fastening devices adapted to secure the at least one hollowed-out cover to the at least one hollowed-out body.
US10433467B2
A thermal dissipation system for wearable electronic devices transfers heat away from a housing enclosing a heat source and dissipates the heat through a region of the support assembly that is noncontiguous with the housing. The support assembly may be coupled to the housing to enable the housing to be worn by a user. Various regions of the support assembly have different thermal resistances between a thermal conduit and an ambient environment. The thermal resistances may decrease as the thermal conduit becomes farther away from the heat source. The variations in thermal resistances enable modulation of relative heat flux between the various regions. For example, heat may be internally routed through the wearable electronic device to be dissipated through a surface that a user does not typically touch during operation.
US10433464B1
A ducting apparatus, switch, and rack of electronic devices are disclosed in which the ducting apparatus is configured to convey air from a cold aisle at a first face of the rack to a side air inlet of the switch. The ducting apparatus also hinders or prevents exhaust air from the switch from reaching the cold aisle.
US10433457B2
A cooler includes: a narrow flow path that has a narrow cross-sectional area; a wide flow path that is connected to a downstream side of the narrow flow path, is in thermal contact with a heating body, and has a wide cross-sectional area; and at least one rectifying piece that is provided in an upstream portion of the wide flow path that is an upstream side from a position being in thermal contact with the heating body. A fluid refrigerant flows through the narrow flow path and the wide flow path, and heat generated by the heating body is radiated. The rectifying piece includes: a single first angle portion that protrudes toward the upstream side; and a first surface and a second surface that join at an acute angle to form the first angle portion.
US10433453B2
A computer server rack has a platform, configured to support at least one server, with a front end and an opposed back end. The server rack also has a height adjuster coupled to the platform, and a control positioned a first distance from the front end and a second distance from the back end. The first distance is smaller than the second distance, and the control is configured to control the height adjuster to change a height of the back end of the platform.
US10433451B1
A mounting device includes a mounting box, a tray, and a sliding mechanism. The mounting box includes a bottom plate. The sliding mechanism includes a handle and at least one driving member. The driving member is movably coupled to the handle. In a pull configuration of the sliding mechanism, when the handle is rotated toward the bottom plate, the driving member is driven to drive the tray to move along a first direction, and when the handle is rotated away from the bottom plate, the tray is not driven to move. In a push configuration of the sliding mechanism, when the handle is rotated toward the bottom plate, the tray is not driven to move, and when the handle is rotated away from the bottom plate, the driving member is driven to drive the tray to move toward a second direction opposite to the first direction.
US10433446B2
Provided is a screen protector that can be mounted on a terminal and is not peeled due to aging degradation. A protector mounted on a mobile information terminal includes a sheet configured to cover a screen of the mobile information terminal, and an engaging part formed from a periphery of the sheet and configured to be engaged with side faces of the mobile information terminal while holding the sheet on the screen.
US10433443B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus is supplied with electrical power through an electrode panel that includes electrodes and a plate that has at least one transparency. The display apparatus is supplied with an external power through an electrode unit configured to be combined with a rear cover of the display apparatus and have a transparency.
US10433439B2
An improved cover unit for thin flat display panels provides consumers with the ability to purchase and install a cover unit without the aid of a skilled technician. The cover unit is for use with flat panel displays, including ultra-thin displays, which are thin and lightweight. The cover unit is secured to a wall with mounting brackets, and has a housing that supports the frame, display unit, a matte and a roller on which a cover is mounted. The cover has artwork on it, which is displayed when it is rolled down to conceal the flat display panel, but which can be rolled up out of the way when the display unit is in operation. The matte allows for a single cover unit to accommodate a variety of display screen and artwork sizes. In this system, the roller, display unit and matte are easily inserted and removed from the housing.
US10433438B2
A portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a first housing including a first surface and a second surface a second housing including a third surface and a fourth surface, and a hinge. The hinge includes a hinge shaft, a sliding device including a portion configured to slide to an inside or an outside of the second housing to be introduced, or slide from the inside or the outside of the second housing in a specific direction to be extracted in correspondence to a hinge operation of the second housing, and a multi-bar disposed between the first surface and the fourth surface and including multi-bar units to be spread or bent in correspondence to a hinge operation of the second housing.
US10433436B2
A flexible display device may include a display module including a first non-bending area and a first bending area adjacent to the first non-bending area, and a cushion layer disposed on a rear surface of the display module, wherein the cushion layer has a first density in the first non-bending area and a second density in the first bending area, and the first density is lower than the second density.
US10433424B2
An electronic module is disclosed. The electronic module includes a substrate, a plurality of electronic components electrically connected to a first side of the substrate, and another plurality of electronic components embedded in the substrate. In some other embodiments, the electronic module further comprises a heat sink disposed on at least one of the plurality of electronic components to dissipate the heat generated by the at least one of the plurality of electronic components. And, in some other embodiment, the electronic module further comprises a molding body disposed on the plurality of electronic components and, in further embodiments, the heat sink.
US10433421B2
A land grid array (LGA) land pad having reduced capacitance is disclosed. The conductive portion of a land pad that overlaps a parallel ground plane within the substrate is reduced by one or more non-conductive voids though the thickness of the conductive portion of the land pad. The voids may allow the contact area of the land pad, as defined by the perimeter of the land pad, to remain the same while reducing the conductive portion that overlaps the parallel ground plane. Capacitance between the land pad and the parallel ground plane is reduced by an amount proportional to the reduction in overlapping conductive area.
US10433420B2
A circuit board device includes: a printed wiring board; an IC chip provided on an obverse surface of the board and having at least one ground terminal; and a wiring pattern, disposed on the board, for providing a ground potential to the ground terminal of the IC chip. The wiring pattern is disposed on a reverse surface of the printed wiring board. The circuit board device has at least one via that is connected to the wiring pattern and passes through the printed wiring board at a position within a region where the IC chip is mounted on the obverse surface of the printed wiring board.
US10433419B2
A conductive component includes a first electrode pattern made of metal thin wires, and includes a plurality of first conductive patterns that extend in a first direction alternating with first non-conductive patterns. Each first conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of the thin metal wires. The conductive component further includes a second electrode pattern made of thin metal wires, and includes a plurality of second conductive patterns that extend in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction and alternating with second non-conductive patterns. Each second conductive pattern includes break parts in portions other than intersection parts of thin metal wires.
US10433396B1
A portable electrical device, such as an electrical lighting device, comprises a charging channel configured for directing electrical power from the electrical device to a separate electrical device connected via the charging channel (e.g., a charging port). While the charging port is unused, the electrical device generates outputs (e.g., lighting outputs) at a first output power level (e.g., a first brightness). The electrical device also comprises an onboard controller configured to monitor the charging channel, and upon detecting an electrical device connected via the charging channel, the onboard controller decreases the output power to a second output power level (e.g., a second brightness) to conserve power.
US10433372B2
A portable device heats a fluid within a reservoir. The device includes a housing, a cavity, and an energizing element. The housing includes a first longitudinal end, a second longitudinal end, and outer surfaces of the device. The outer surfaces extend from an outer portion of the first longitudinal end to an outer portion of the second longitudinal end. The cavity extends from a cavity port that is positioned on an inner portion of the first longitudinal end to a cavity terminal positioned intermediate the first and second longitudinal ends. Inner lateral surfaces are adjacent the cavity and extend from the inner portion of the first longitudinal end to an outer portion of the cavity terminal. The energizing element is around the cavity. The cavity is positioned intermediate a first energizing element portion and a second energizing element portion. The energizing element provides energy to the cavity.
US10433371B2
According to the invention there is provided an electrothermic composition comprising: at least one carbon component; at least one graphite component, and an optional binder or carrier, wherein the carbon, graphite, and/or their ratio are selected such that that the composition or a material formed from the composition has a thermal coefficient of electrical resistance (TCR) of about zero or is substantially stable over a predefined temperature range. The invention further relates to a product or a material produced or formed by the electrothermic composition. The invention additionally relates to a method of preparing an electrothermic composition comprising the steps of: (i) selecting a predetermined ratio of at least one carbon component and at least one graphite component such that the composition is electrically conductive, electrothermic and will have a TCR of about zero or is substantially stable over a predefined temperature range; and (ii) preparing the composition by mixing said at least one carbon component and said at least one graphite component, optionally in a suitable binder or carrier. Alternative embodiments relate to an electrothermic composition comprising: at least one carbon component; at least a second carbon component; and an optional binder or carrier; wherein the first carbon component, the second carbon component, and/or their ratio are selected such that that the composition or a material formed from the composition has a TCR of about zero or is substantially stable over a predefined temperature range.
US10433369B2
The invention provides a power supply control method based on mobile power sources, comprising a single-chip microcomputer capable of inputting a pulse voltage to a heating circuit and two different control methods: in one method the pulse voltage is controlled to be turned on or off by detecting the current A of the heating circuit; in other method the pulse voltage is turned off when the temperature is detected to reach the preset temperature so as to keep the heating circuit to be activated continuously; even though universal-used mobile power sources are employed by the heating circuit, the mobile power sources doesn't enter a hibernation state; a pulse voltage signal is added to the heating circuit, thus the mobile power sources are continuously activated, ensuring normal operation of the heating circuit and providing significant convenience to the user's use.
US10433367B2
A device, non-transitory computer-readable medium, and method for disengaging a corrective action via a wearable unit are disclosed. In one example, a processor may receive a movement model for a type of motion of a user, collect sensor data associated with the type of motion of the user from a plurality of sensors of a wearable unit, and determine that the sensor data is not in accordance with the movement model. The processor may further provide a corrective action via the wearable unit in accordance with the movement model when it is determined that the sensor data is not in accordance with the movement model, detect a triggering condition for disengaging the corrective action, and disengage the corrective action when the triggering condition is detected.
US10433363B2
Various embodiments provide a user device that dynamically initiates a change to its connectivity configuration. Some embodiments of the user device determine its current connectivity configuration and, based upon its current connectivity configuration, obtains one or more metrics associated with its current operating environment and/or current operating configuration. In turn, the user devices analyzes the metrics to determine whether to alter its current connectivity configuration. Responsive to the analysis, some embodiments modify the current connectivity configuration by modifying a connection type to a wireless networking device.
US10433355B2
In the present specification, provided is a method for relaying, by a NAN proxy server, data communication in a wireless communication system. Here, the method for relaying data communication by an NAN proxy server may comprise the steps of: transmitting server capability attribute information of the NAN proxy server to a first NAN proxy client; receiving connection capability attribute information from the first NAN proxy client; transmitting proxy relay request attribute information to the first NAN proxy client; receiving proxy relay response attribute information from the first NAN proxy client; and performing scheduling for the first NAN proxy client and relaying data communication to the first NAN client. Here, the proxy relay request attribute information may be transmitted if information on a direct connection failure is included in the connection capability attribute information.
US10433352B2
An operation method of a first communication node, which controls a plurality of communication nodes included in a mobile xhaul network supporting mobility, may comprise performing an attach procedure between the first communication node and a second communication node among the plurality of communication nodes; configuring a path for communications between the second communication node and a third communication node for which attach procedure has been completed among the plurality of communication nodes; and supporting communications of the second communication node and the third communication node using the configured path.
US10433350B2
The invention provides for a wireless communications terminal (502), and related system and method, for wirelessly communicating with a network (504, 506). The terminal (502) is arranged to transmit, as part of a wireless connection establishment procedure for forming a wireless connection between the terminal (502) and the network (504, 506), wireless-connection establishment signalling (510) including a small-data indicator to indicate to the network (504) that transmission of an amount of data below a threshold value is required from the terminal (502) by way of the wireless connection to the network (504, 506).
US10433344B2
Disclosed are a method for performing a random access and a terminal, the method comprising: acquiring information on a sequence set and information on a phase pattern vector set to be used during a random access step; selecting, from among a plurality of phase pattern vectors included in the phase pattern vector set, any one phase pattern vector corresponding to the repeating transmission frequency of an RACH signal; transmitting, to a base station, the generated RACH signal for a time period up to the repeating transmission frequency by using the selected phase pattern vector and any one sequence selected from among a plurality of sequences included in the sequence set; and receiving, from the base station, an RACH response signal indicating an estimated sequence and an estimated phase pattern vector.
US10433338B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving a frame in a WLAN. A method for transmitting a frame, performed in a first station, may comprise receiving a first PPDU; determining whether a BSS of the first PPDU is a BSS to which the first station belongs or a BSS to which the first station does not belong; when the BSS of the first PPDU is the BSS to which the first station does not belong and a received signal strength of the first PPDU is higher than a first threshold, setting a virtual carrier sensing by using information included in a preamble of the first PPDU. Therefore, performance of the WLAN can be enhanced.
US10433332B2
Provided are a method for transmitting uplink in an unlicensed band and a device using the same. The device performs a clear channel assessment (CCA) inside a transmission window in an unlicensed band to thereby confirm whether a channel is idle. When the channel is idle, the device transmits an uplink transmission block inside the transmission window in the unlicensed band.
US10433331B2
A terminal device in a wireless telecommunication system which transmits a master information block and a first and a second system information block the first and second system information block comprising first and second scheduling information relating to the timing of at least one additional block of system information. The terminal device configured to receive the master information block of system information that comprises a marker instructing the terminal device to ignore the first scheduling information and process only the second scheduling information.
US10433329B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods for sending and receiving feedback information, user equipment, and an access network device, relate to the field of communications technologies. In one embodiment, UE receives, in a downlink subframe in a preconfigured downlink subframe subset, downlink data that is sent by an access network device by using a downlink shared channel and a DAI index indicator and a DAI total quantity indicator that are sent by using a downlink control channel. The UE determines an uplink subframe for sending feedback information corresponding to the downlink shared channel. The UE determines a codebook of the feedback information according to the downlink assignment index DAI index indicator and the DAI total quantity indicator. The UE performs channel coding on the feedback information according to the codebook. The UE sends the channel coded feedback information.
US10433325B2
A method for scheduling a transmission of packets within a network using a common periodic time window, having a congestion protected section, partitioned into time slots, including time slots dedicated to packets being sensitive to a delay variation.
US10433321B2
The present invention relates to a method in a cellular communication system, for avoiding errors in a HARQ process, wherein an NDI flag is used both for indicating either semi-persistent scheduling, SPS activation or SPS retransmissions, and also for indicating, by toggling of the flag, a new transmission in dynamic scheduling mode. The method comprises the steps of receiving, in a scheduling message, an indication that dynamically scheduled transmission will take place; if a semi persistent resource has occurred for the same HARQ process since a previously received indication for dynamically scheduled transmission, then considering the NDI flag to be toggled regardless of the value of the NDI flag. Thus, if the condition is fulfilled, a UE will always regard the NDI flag as indicating or requesting a new data transmission.
US10433315B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a system and method for providing channel feedback information (CFI) from a user equipment device to a base station. CFI is transmitted from the user equipment device on first and second communication channels. The user equipment device is operable to measure the channel rank of a downlink channel and to select a preferred channel rank that is used to configure the CFI that is transmitted to the base station. The base station is operable to use the preferred channel rank to interpret the CFI transmitted by the user end device.
US10433313B2
Techniques are provided herein to allow a wireless network access point (AP) to more fully use its bandwidth in order to leverage the different bandwidth capabilities of different types of wireless client devices that the AP serves. The AP generates control parameters for usage of a plurality of channels in a bandwidth during a downlink transmission interval. The control parameters comprise information indicating channel assignments that result in multiple downlink transmissions that at least partially overlap in time to different wireless client devices according to their respective bandwidth capabilities. The AP transmits the control parameters in a control frame in advance of the downlink transmission interval on each of the plurality of channels in the bandwidth.
US10433301B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed, from the perspective of the UE (User Equipment). In one embodiment, the method includes maintaining a first timing advance value for uplink transmissions. In addition, the method includes receiving a signaling, via a downlink control channel, to schedule a first uplink transmission in a cell, wherein the signaling includes a first information to assist the UE to determine a specific timing advance value for the first uplink transmission, and the first information indicates an index value used to control an amount of timing adjustment to be applied. The method also includes performing the first uplink transmission in the cell at transmission timing determined at least based on the specific timing advance value.
US10433286B2
Embodiments provide a mobile communications device that includes a processor configured to communicate with a transceiver and a memory. The transceiver is configured to exchange control signals with a network node. The memory contains instructions that when executed by the processor configure the processor to operate the transceiver to exchange the control signals. The instructions further configure the processor to pass a first proper subset of the control signals to a remote device without operating according to the control signals, and to operate according to control signals in a second proper subset of the control signals. The processor is thereby configured to operate on behalf of a remote communication device to support communication between the remote communication device and the network node.
US10433277B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A base station supporting multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) and operating in a shared radio frequency spectrum band may map MBMS transport blocks (TBs) to each carrier in the system bandwidth. The device may perform a clear channel assessment (CCA) on one or more of the carriers, and transmit a portion of the MBMS TBs on carriers with successful CCAs. The portion of the MBMS TBs mapped to carriers with unsuccessful CCAs may be punctured. In various examples, a single TB may be mapped across the carriers, different TBs may mapped to each carrier, or redundancy versions (RVs) may be mapped to each carrier. A region at the frequency boundary of each carrier may be reserved for a guard region, and may not be used for MBMS transmissions when a carrier is associated with a failed CCA.
US10433271B2
A Node-B sends a polling message to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU). The WTRU sends an uplink synchronization burst in response to the polling message without contention. The Node-B estimates an uplink timing shift based on the synchronization burst and sends an uplink timing adjustment command to the WTRU. The WTRU then adjusts uplink timing based on the uplink timing adjustment command. Alternatively, the Node-B may send a scheduling message for uplink synchronization to the WTRU. The WTRU may send a synchronization burst based on the scheduling message. Alternatively, the WTRU may perform contention-based uplink synchronization after receiving a synchronization request from the Node-B. The WTRU may enter an idle state instead of performing a handover to a new cell when the WTRU moves to the new cell. A discontinuous reception (DRX) interval for the WTRU may be set based on activity of the WTRU.
US10433268B2
A device operates in a cellular communications network by detecting a timing signal from a serving base station, obtaining timing information from at least one other base station, and setting a value for a transmission time offset based on the detected timing signals from the serving base station and the at least one other base station. The device then transmits signals to the serving base station using the set value for the transmission time offset. The device may obtain the timing information from at least one other base station by detecting a timing signal transmitted by the at least one other base station, and subtracting the timing difference between the detected timing signals from the serving base station and the one other base station from a predetermined baseline time offset.
US10433265B2
Disclosed in the present application is a method for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS) from a terminal to a base station in a time division duplex (TDD) system. More specifically, the method comprises: a step of establishing a first subframe set and a second subframe set through an upper layer, and step of transmitting the sounding reference signal from a specific subframe to the base station, wherein the first subframe set and the second subframe set are configured by an uplink subframe and/or a special subframe, each of the first subframe and the second subframe is associated with a power control process for transmitting an uplink data channel, and wherein the transmission power of the sounding reference signal is determined on the basis of a specific power control process associated with a subframe set to which the specific subframe belongs, from among the first subframe set and the second subframe set.
US10433261B2
A method of determining a carrier power in a communications system including a processor includes a) setting a power differential between a reference carrier and one or more carriers, b) measuring a number of satisfied users at the power differential, and c) measuring a capacity for the satisfied users at the power differential. The method also includes d) increasing the power differential by a predetermined amount and e) determining, using the processor, that the number of satisfied users at the increased power differential is greater than or equal to the number of satisfied users at the power differential. The method further includes f) repeating a)-c) and g) setting the carrier power at an iterated power level.
US10433259B2
An entity, such as a base station, in a wireless communications network performs power control of a control channel based on one or more characteristics of a message in the control channel. For example, the control channel can be a paging channel. The one or more characteristics include, as examples, the size and/or the type of message in the control channel.
US10433257B2
A power control method and apparatus for an uplink control channel are provided. The method includes: determining, by user equipment, to send first uplink control information on a first PUCCH and in a subframe i; determining transmit power for sending the first uplink control information on the first PUCCH and in the subframe i. In the embodiments of the present invention, the transmit power is determined by using a sum of a base power adjustment value and any one of a first power adjustment value determined according to a quantity of bits of the first uplink control information.
US10433251B2
There is provided, for example, a method, comprising: transmitting, by a wireless device, a data accumulation request to an access node of a wireless network, wherein the data accumulation request comprises at least one downlink accumulation rule for accumulating downlink data; receiving a message from the access node, wherein the message indicates that there is downlink data in the access node for the wireless device; and triggering a service period for receiving the downlink data from the access node upon determining, on the basis of the received message, that the downlink data satisfies the at least one downlink accumulation rule.
US10433249B2
A method and system for synchronized switching of a Transmission Time Interval (TTI) between at least two different TTI length values. A UE 100 transmitting a power report, where a control node 150 or a Base Station 110A evaluates the report and decides, based on the evaluation to order the UE to switch to a different TTI length. The order message comprises the number of TTIs after which a TTI switch has to occur, composed a.o. based on radio environment condition. The UE receives a TTI switch order message and replies with a single message to its serving BS with a message to switch the TTI in a synchronous way.
US10433242B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for selecting a network in an electronic device supporting multiple communications methods by considering channel environment related indicators. The method for determining a network can comprise the following steps of: checking data transmission control information on networks; and determining at least one network to be accessed among the networks based on the data transmission control information on the networks.
US10433241B2
Methods, devices, and systems for registering and discovering a service. An access point (AP) may receive and maintain service information registered by an associated station (STA), and serve as a proxy for a STA to discover service information in a network, and further discover a direct association service and manage direct communication between STAs, thereby meeting a user's demand of selecting a network according to a service requirement.
US10433236B2
Reduced signaling overhead is provided in an apparatus and method for communications within a mesh network. The communications involve using two different beacon signals. A peer beacon contains time synchronization and resource management information to maintain existing links among one or more neighboring peer stations, while a separate network discovery beacon contains mesh network profile information that identifies the mesh network to aid network discovery for wireless communication stations wanting to join the mesh network. Embodiments describe coordination between peer stations to determine which stations are to send the network discovery beacons, so that at any given period of time not all stations need to be transmitting the discovery beacons.
US10433227B2
A base station according to an embodiment comprises: a receiver configured to receive resource information indicating a usage status of radio resources of a node to which an energy saving mode in which consumed power is reduced by stopping a use of at least a part of radio resources is applied. The resource information includes identification information for identifying whether or not the usage status indicated by the resource information is a usage status of radio resources available when the energy saving mode is applied.
US10433218B1
A duration of time a communications device is connected to a first network is monitored. A signal of a second network is detected. Next, it is determined whether a predetermined amount of time has elapsed such that the communications device makes efficient use of the first network, and in response to a determination that the predetermined amount of time has elapsed, a connection of the communications device to the second network is initiated.
US10433217B2
A method and apparatus for redirecting a wireless communication unit (113) from a LTE cell to a neighboring 3G or 2G cell for the purposes of performing a procedure which is available in the 2G or 3G cell but not available in the LTE cell includes the provision of an additional LTE access point (109) within the coverage area of an LTE macrocell. The additional LTE access point (109) is arranged to capture a wireless communication unit (113) which is camped onto the LTE macrocell and redirect it to a 3G/2G cell irrespective of whether or not a better service may be provided in the 2G/3G cell. The invention has application to presence detection where collection of wireless communication units' and subscribers' IDs for such a purpose is possible in 3G and 2G cells but not in LTE cells.
US10433216B2
According to an embodiment, a method for selecting an access network at user equipment in a mobile communication system includes step of receiving, from a base station, first setting information, and step of selecting the access network based on second setting information if the second setting information is received from the base station, or selecting the access network based on the first setting information if no second setting information is received. Using the proposed method, the user equipment can reduce user's inconvenience and save battery by blocking unnecessary offloading and wireless LAN scanning, and also can improve the quality of use and immediately respond to a cell change by preventing a ping-pong phenomenon.
US10433212B2
A device implementing an unscheduled power save mode with peer notification may include at least one processor that may be configured to receive, from a network coordinator device, an acknowledgement of a request to enter an unscheduled power save mode. The processor may be further configured to, responsive to receipt of the acknowledgment, transmit an indication of entering the unscheduled power save mode to at least one other device of the network and then enter the unscheduled power save mode. While in the unscheduled power save mode, the processor may be configured to receive, from the network coordinator device, an acknowledgement of a request to exit the unscheduled power save mode. The processor may be further configured to exit the unscheduled power save mode responsive to the acknowledgment, and transmit an indication of exiting the unscheduled power save mode to the at least one other device of the network.
US10433210B2
Systems and methods for gathering data by an access point in a Wi-Fi system for optimization include periodically or based on command from a cloud-based system performing one or more of i) obtaining on-channel scanning data while operating on a home channel and ii) switching off the home channel and obtaining off-channel scanning data for one or more off-channels; and providing measurement data based on one or more of the on-channel scanning data and the off-channel scanning data to the cloud-based system for use in the optimization of the Wi-Fi system, wherein the measurement data comprises one or more of raw data and processed data.
US10433208B2
A method comprises monitoring, by a control module of a wireless communications terminal, factors related to a first data path for transmission/reception of data communications by the wireless communications terminal over a wireless data communications network. The control module then determines that the first data path is affected by condition(s), by determining that at least one of the factors satisfies a predetermined state reflecting the condition(s) affecting the first data path. The control module then determines a second data path, wherein the second data path is not affected by the conditions affecting the first data path. The control module then switches from the first data path to the second data path for the transmission/reception of the data communications by the wireless communications terminal over the wireless data communications network.
US10433206B2
An apparatus and method for performing procedures (protocols) of a PDCP (Packet Data Convergence Protocol) layer and an RLC (radio layer in an E-UMTS (Evolved Universal Mobile Telecommunications System) which has evolved from UMTS, among radio protocols of a mobile communication system. The PDCP layer performs ciphering on data (i.e., PDCP SDU) received from an upper layer, generates an indicator discriminating ciphered data and non-ciphered data (i.e., an ROHC feedback packet directly generated by the PDCP layer), and transmits the same to a lower layer (i.e., MAC layer). A PDCP SN (Sequence Number) is defined as an algorithm for ciphering the data in the PDCP layer to perform ciphering in the PDCP layer.
US10433197B2
A battery powered node within a wireless mesh network maintains a mapping between temperature and oscillator drift and compensates for oscillator drift based on this mapping. When the mapping includes insufficient data points to map the current temperature to an oscillator drift value, the battery powered node requests calibration packets from an adjacent upstream node in the network. The adjacent node transmits two calibration packets with a transmit time delta and also indicates this time delta in the first calibration packet. The battery powered node receives the two calibration packets and measures the receive time delta. The battery powered node compares the transmit time delta to the receive time delta to determine oscillator drift compared to an oscillator in the adjacent node. The battery powered node then updates the mapping based on the current temperature and determined oscillator drift.
US10433195B2
An approach for the analysis of the impact of over the top (OTT) applications is provided, which operate “over the top” of the network applications, with respect to network performance and power consumption on mobile devices. A wireless network for an application-carrying device separate from wireless communications network test equipment is simulated. A wireless communications interface between the simulated network and the application-carrying device is monitored. The monitoring comprises measuring signaling data on a control plane, and measuring application data on a user plane related to at least one application implemented on the application-carrying device. Cross-layer measurement data is generated based on the measured signaling data and application data. The signaling data and the application data are measured on the basis of a common time reference of the test equipment.
US10433194B2
Systems and methods of cloud-based thermal control of an access point performed by a cloud-based controller include periodically obtaining temperature measurements from the access point comprising one or more radio chips operating therein; responsive to the temperature exceeding a first threshold, causing one or more thermal mitigation techniques to modify operating conditions of the one or more radio chips; and, responsive to the temperature being lower than a second threshold, causing reversion back of the one or more thermal mitigation techniques.
US10433192B2
A mobility manager of a cellular communication network is tested using a test network. The test network has a mobility manager, multiple actual and simulated base stations, and multiple actual and simulated communication devices. To test one aspect of the mobility manager, the number of simulated base stations is increased to nearly the rated capacity of the mobility manager. In addition, simulated communication sessions are established, again so that the number of communication sessions is near the rated capacity of the mobility manager. Communications are then interrupted between the base stations and the mobility manager. Behavior of the mobility manager is monitored after the interruption to determine, among other things, how many communications sessions are lost as a result of the interruption.
US10433181B2
Disclosed relates to a method, device, and system for performing downlink transmission. Specifically, the disclosed relates to a method including when the downlink signal includes a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) and a channel in the specific cell is sensed to be idle for a first predefined interval, wherein the processor performs backoff after the second predefined time in order to perform the downlink transmission, and when the downlink transmission includes a Discovery Reference Signal (DRS) and the channel in the specific cell is sensed to be idle for a second predefined interval, performing the downlink transmission immediately after the second predefined interval, and a device and system therefor.
US10433175B2
The present disclosure provides an access control method, user equipment, and a network device. The UE is connected to the network device, and the method includes: receiving, by the UE, access control information sent by the network device; and determining, according to obtained first application information in a service establishment request and the access control information, whether to send non-access stratum signaling to the network device, so as to determine whether a first application corresponding to the first application information is allowed to access a network. In this way, network resources are saved.
US10433155B2
One embodiment relates to a method to parameterize a communication service delivered by a server of a service provider to a communication module of a user, the communication service being configured in accordance with an availability status, comprising detecting a change in context of use of a portable device of said user separate from said communication module, determining a new availability status as a function of the detected change in context of use, and transmitting a message relating to the new availability status to the server of the service provider or the communication module so that the communication service is configured on the basis of the determined new availability status.
US10433153B2
[Object] To provide a system, a method, and a terminal device capable of performing mobility management of a terminal in a distributed manner.[Solution] A system including a plurality of management devices configured to manage information of one or more terminal devices positioned in management areas. The plurality of management devices have a layered structure in which the management area of the management device in an upper layer includes the management area of the management device in a lower layer.
US10433146B1
A system and method for processing and reporting situational information to emergency service providers in an emergency service communications network is disclosed. An emergency situation is monitored. Responsive to detecting the emergency situation, information relating to the emergency situation is collected. Then, the information is processed and stored in a database. The processed information is then reported to emergency service providers.
US10433144B2
A method, a mobile device, and a computer-readable medium for accessing target data of a uniform resource locator received in a wireless emergency alert message are disclosed. For example, a method may include a processor for receiving a wireless emergency alert message including a uniform resource locator via a cellular broadcast, determining that a non-cellular access network is available for the mobile device, accessing target data from the uniform resource locator via the non-cellular access network, when the non-cellular access network is available, and presenting the target data on the mobile device.
US10433137B2
The present disclosure provides a Bluetooth WIFI gateway device prcomprising a Bluetooth module, a WIFI module electrically connected to the Bluetooth module, a switch circuit electrically connected to the WIFI module, a first voltage regulation circuit electrically connected to the Bluetooth module, and a second voltage regulation circuit electrically connected to the WIFI module and the switch circuit. The beneficial effect of the present disclosure is that the Bluetooth gateway can receive a Bluetooth signal and transmit a WITI signal by the Bluetooth WIFI gateway device that has simple structure and low cost.
US10433136B2
Concepts and technologies disclosed herein are directed to wireless network enhancements via inductance loops as antennas. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a roadside system can measure inductance of an inductance loop associated with a road. The roadside system can determine whether the inductance of the inductance loop is greater than a baseline. If the inductance of the inductance loop is greater than the baseline, the roadside system can determine that a vehicle is positioned over the inductance loop and can utilize the inductance loop to activate a roadside area network. The roadside system can connect a user device to the roadside system via the roadside area network. The roadside system can include a connection to a network via a backhaul to enable communication between the user device and the network.
US10433133B2
A method for indicating authorized authentication media for a vehicle including detecting a key authorized for the vehicle via a first interface; ascertaining the authentication media that are authorized for the vehicle; and outputting an indication if, on the one hand, the key authorized for the vehicle was detected previously and if, on the other hand, at least one authentication medium was ascertained in the course of the ascertaining step, wherein the vehicle communicates with the authentication media via a second interface, which differs from the first interface. Also disclosed is a device and vehicle.
US10433130B2
An information-processing apparatus includes a communication unit that transmits a first command to register in a memory a service provided by an application using a first communicative method. The communication unit transmits a second command to register in the memory a service indicator of the service using a second communicative method different from the first communicative method.
