US10438404B2
Embodiments herein describe an AR system which communicates with light sources in a real world environment to simulate the light sources having an effect on AR content being displayed in the AR system. In one embodiment, the AR system determines the light characteristics of the light sources such as their color, specularity, beam spread, brightness, or illumination pattern. These light characteristics can contribute to the ambient light in the real world environment which affects the appearance of the physical objects in the environment. The AR system can adjust how the AR content is displayed to simulate the AR content being affected in a similar manner by the light sources. As such, the AR content appears to be more like a physical object (rather than a virtual object) thereby providing the user with a more immersive experience.
US10438388B2
A control method of a server is provided. Location information is extracted from photographed data. The photographed data is linked to a course of travel having a pre-stored street image, by applying a predetermined standard based on the extracted location information. The photographed data is provided together with the linked course of travel having the pre-stored street image.
US10438382B2
An image processing apparatus, comprises an information acquiring unit that acquires three-dimensional data representing characteristic information on an object at a plurality of voxels; a shape information acquiring unit that acquires information on a surface shape of the object; a distance calculating unit that calculates, for each of the voxels, a distance between a surface of the object and a position inside the object corresponding to the voxel, based on the information on the surface shape; a filtering unit that performs, for each of the voxels, filtering processing, including blur processing in accordance with the calculated distance; and an image generating unit that generates a two-dimensional image, based on the three-dimensional data after the filtering processing.
US10438374B2
A method for calibrating a vehicle camera of a vehicle includes at least one task of reading in and one task of setting. In the reading in, at least one first camera image and one second camera image are read in, which represent images recorded by at least the vehicle camera during a camera movement of the vehicle camera at a standstill of the vehicle. In the setting, a calibration parameter for calibrating at least the vehicle camera is set, using the first camera image and the second camera image.
US10438371B2
A three-dimensional bounding box is determined from a two-dimensional image and a point cloud. A feature vector associated with the image and a feature vector associated with the point cloud may be passed through a neural network to determine parameters of the three-dimensional bounding box. Feature vectors associated with each of the points in the point cloud may also be determined and considered to produce estimates of the three-dimensional bounding box on a per-point basis.
US10438367B2
A parallax calculating apparatus comprises first parallax calculating means for calculating a first parallax on a basis of a reference image for all pixels in the reference image using SGM method, second parallax calculating means for calculating a second parallax on a basis of the reference image for at least a part of pixels among pixels in the reference image using BM method, and final parallax calculating means for calculating a final parallax of each of pixels in the reference image based on the first and second parallaxes. The final parallax calculating means calculates the first parallax as the final parallax for a pixel for which only the first parallax has been calculated and calculates a parallax where a decimal part of the first parallax is replaced with that of the second parallax as the final parallax for a pixel for which the first and second parallaxes have been calculated.
US10438359B2
The present application relates to systems and methods used to characterize or verify the accuracy of a tracker comprising optically detectable features. The tracker may be used in spatial localization using an optical sensor. Characterization results in the calculation of a Tracker Definition that includes geometrical characteristics of the tracker. Verification results in an assessment of accuracy of a tracker against an existing Tracker Definition.
US10438350B2
The present approach relates, in some aspects, to a multi-level and a multi-channel frame work for segmentation using model-based or “shallow” classification (i.e. learning processes such as linear regression, clustering, support vector machines, and so forth) followed by deep learning. This framework starts with a very low resolution version of the multi-channel data and constructs an shallow classifier with simple features to generate a coarser level tissue mask that in turn is used to crop patches from the high-resolution volume. The cropped volume is then processed using the trained convolution network to perform a deep learning based segmentation within the slices.
US10438346B2
The present invention relates to methods and devices that may be used to extract spatial frequency information. In one embodiment, the invention provides an instrument configured to extract data using a two-dimensional (2D) Hilbert transform technique, and providing spatial frequency information from a sample. In another embodiment, the invention provides a spatial frequency domain imaging (SFDI) device adapted for demodulation using two or less imaging frames.
US10438333B2
An apparatus for image correction is configured to execute a second image generation process that includes execution of a process for emphasizing a contrast for a first image to generate a second image, execute a ratio calculation process that includes calculation, based on a relation between a frequency distribution of at least one of a luminance value, an edge strength and a color component in the first image or the second image and a value of the at least one for each pixel, of a synthesis ratio of the first image to the second image for the pixel, and execute a synthesis process that includes synthesis of the first image and the second image based on the synthesis ratio for each pixel.
US10438330B2
A device and method for compensating dead pixels of an image includes estimating brightness changing trends at two sides of a dead pixel in image data and determining dead pixel brightness compensation values corresponding to the two sides of the dead pixel. Difference values between the brightness changing trends and between the dead pixel brightness compensation values at the two sides of the dead pixel along each predetermined direction is determined and a weighting factor corresponding to the difference values is determined. The dead pixel brightness compensation values corresponding to the two sides of the dead pixel along each predetermined direction are subjected to a weighting calculation based on the weighting factor to obtain a compensation result for the dead pixel.
US10438329B2
The method provided in the present disclosure includes: obtaining an image photographed by a camera, and performing face detection on the image by using a face detection algorithm, to obtain a face pixel set from the image; positioning a facial feature contour mask over the face pixel set, to obtain a to-be-examined pixel set from the face pixel set, the to-be-examined pixel set including: a plurality of pixels within an image area except pixels masked by the facial feature contour mask in the face pixel set; performing edge contour detection on the to-be-examined pixel set, and extracting one or more blemish regions from the to-be-examined pixel set, to obtain a to-be-retouched pixel set, the to-be-retouched pixel set including: a plurality of pixels within an image area belonging to the blemish regions; and retouching all pixels in the to-be-retouched pixel set, to obtain a retouched pixel set.
US10438320B2
An image processing method is provided. The method is configured to process the color-block image output by the image sensor. The face region of the color-block image is determined. A part of the color-block image beyond the face region is converted into a first simulation image using a first interpolation algorithm. A part of the color-block image within the face region is converted into a second simulation image using a second interpolation algorithm. The complexity of the second interpolation algorithm is less than that of the first interpolation algorithm. The first simulation image and the second simulation image are merged into a simulation image corresponding to the color-block image. An image processing apparatus and an electronic device are provided. With the image processing method, the image processing apparatus and the electronic device, distinguishability and resolution of the image are improved, and time required for processing the image is reduced.
US10438318B2
Embodiments described herein provide for blind spot rendering optimizations for eye tracking head mounted displays. One embodiment provides an apparatus comprising first logic to receive eye-tracking data from an eye tracking system, second logic to determine a blind spot region for a scene based on the eye tracking data, and third logic to provide identifying data for the blind spot region to a renderer. The renderer is configured to render pixels of the scene that fall within the blind spot region at a lower rendering quality relative to the remainder of the scene.
US10438314B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a graphics processing system. The graphics processing system includes a screen-space pipeline and a tiling unit. The screen-space pipeline is configured to perform visibility testing and fragment shading. The tiling unit is configured to determine that a first set of primitives overlaps a first cache tile. The tiling unit is also configured to first transmit the first set of primitives to the screen-space pipeline with a command configured to cause the screen-space pipeline to process the first set of primitives in a z-only mode, and then transmit the first set of primitives to the screen-space pipeline with a command configured to cause the screen-space pipeline to process the first set of primitives in a normal mode. In the z-only mode, at least some fragment shading operations are disabled in the screen-space pipeline. In the normal mode, fragment shading operations are enabled.
US10438313B2
Systems and methods for GPU command streaming in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for receiving and processing an encoded GPU command stream includes obtaining an encoded GPU command stream from at least one hosting server system using a rendering system, decoding the encoded GPU command stream into a decoded GPU command stream using the rendering system, obtaining a set of high density assets using the rendering system, mapping a first set of runtime generated identifiers to a second set of runtime generated identifiers using the rendering system so that the second set of runtime generated identifiers is correctly associated with the set of GPU commands, and producing a set of images using the rendering system by processing the decoded GPU command stream and the set of high density assets using a processor.
US10438312B2
Graphics processing renders a scene with a plurality of different rendering parameters for different locations on a screen area. A rendering parameter context is set up for each of a plurality of zones and each zone is assigned a zone index. An object covering at least two zones of the screen area is set up in memory. These zones are assigned to corresponding zone indices as part of setting up the object. A draw is issued for the object. Alternatively, graphics depicting one or more objects mapped to a screen area are processed. The screen area includes a plurality of zones, each having a different set of rendering parameters. Primitives belonging to one of the objects that covers at least two of the zones are received. Each primitive is assembled to screen space by iterating each primitive over each zone it covers using the rendering parameters of the respective zone with each iteration.
US10438311B2
In a watermark embedding method and apparatus, a layered three-dimensional model is aligned in a printing direction based on a layering direction of the layered three-dimensional model. Then, a watermark having a predetermined pattern is embedded into the aligned three-dimensional model in a direction orthogonal to the printing direction so that the embedded watermark is not associated with the printing direction.
US10438308B2
Embodiments of the disclosed technology include systems and methods for identifying one or more entities associated with activities. In an example implementation, a method includes determining one or more geographical regions proximate to the plurality of locations associated with the one or more activities; determining connections between one or more identities of a population and a plurality of related entities associated with the one or more identities; determining geographical information associated with related entities; weighting one or more metrics for each of the identities based on the geographical information associated with the related entities and the or more geographical regions proximate to the plurality of locations associated with the one or more activities; scoring the one or more weighted metrics; and providing, based on the scoring, an indication of a likelihood that the one or more identities of the population are associated with the one or more activities.
US10438303B2
A method of coupon distribution is used in connection with a demand response (DR) event. The method includes clustering DR customers into customer clusters based on energy use behaviors of the DR customers. Suggested coupons are received from merchants, each coupon including load serving entity (LSE) and merchant contributions. Based on energy price forecast, the suggested coupons, and customer information, a coupon distribution is found to maximizes a financial benefit to the LSE and includes an optimal number of the suggested coupons to be distributed to the customer clusters. The suggested coupons are distributed to the customer clusters per the coupon distribution and collecting responses to the suggested coupons indicating participation. Based on the customer responses, the method includes estimating energy curtailment contributions of the DR customers and an actual energy price for the DR event and communicating to an independent system operator an energy transaction bid based thereon.
US10438302B2
In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method comprises causing a camera to continuously capture surroundings to generate multiple images and causing a display device to continuously display the multiple images as the multiple images are generated. In addition, the method comprises processing each of one or more of the multiple images. The processing comprises identifying at least one of a plurality of diseases and calculating at least one disease score associated with the at least one disease for a particular image; causing the display device to display information regarding the at least one disease and the at least one disease score in association with a currently displayed image; receiving input specifying one or more of the at least one disease; and causing the display device to show additional data regarding the one or more diseases, including a remedial measure for the one or more diseases.
US10438295B2
Method and system for e-commerce transaction data accounting are disclosed. A method comprises: a second server receiving transaction data from a first server; the second server analyzing the received transaction data to identify a classification of the received transaction data; the second server obtaining historical transaction data from a second database based on the classification of the received transaction data, wherein the second database obtains transaction data that meet a preset condition from a data warehouse system and compares the transaction data that meet the preset condition with previously obtained transaction data to update inconsistency in the transaction data that meet the preset condition; and the second server combining the received transaction data and the historical transaction data to produce current transaction data.
US10438280B2
Systems and methods are provided for auction bid notifications via wearable devices. In general, an auction system can be configured to provide an auctioneer of a live auction with a haptic notification of a bid having been made. In an exemplary embodiment, the haptic notification can be provided to an auctioneer via a wearable device worn by the auctioneer. In at least some embodiments, the haptic notification can be provided to an auctioneer in addition to one or both of a visual notification and an auditory notification indicative of the bid having been made.
US10438267B2
The present invention provides a product search device, system, method and program capable of causing a customer who searches for products to be confident that even if more products are searched for, there will be no better products. In a preferred aspect of the present invention, a representative design selection unit receives an instruction to select a desired representative design via a user interface of an information terminal or directly. A first display image search and formation unit searches for products adopting the selected representative design from a product database and creates first product list data. A product image selection unit receives an instruction to select a desired product from the first product list data. A second display image search and formation unit searches for products having a second feature amount near a second feature amount of the selected product from the product database and creates second product list data.
US10438265B1
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide systems, apparatus and methods for design creation, tracking and management utilizing a system network with a user interface device and a network server. Embodiments further disclose creation, tracking and management of skincare layouts. The device with a network communication component facilitating communication with a server. The device may operate to facilitate the creation of a skincare layout for a person and share the layout with the server. The server may include a database of information related to the users and skincare layouts as well as historical information, and the server may provide reminders, marketing and other communications based upon such information. Reports may be created to reflect the skincare layouts, product purchases, or other analytics regarding the information.
US10438263B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a method and system for recording purchase data performed by a first terminal device and a second terminal device. During operation, the first terminal device receives a command to record purchase data. In response to receiving the command to record purchase data, the first terminal device scans a digital object identifier generated by the second terminal device. The digital object identifier includes purchase data acquired by the second terminal device. The first terminal device then extracts and records the purchase data from the digital object identifier.
US10438262B1
A virtual browsing experience may be implemented that allows a user to move a mobile device within a physical environment in order to control browser navigation to different items on an associated display. The virtual browsing experience improves the user's ability to recall where previously-viewed items are located in the virtual browsing environment. In some embodiments, a mobile device may determine its position and/or orientation in a physical environment, and when movement of the mobile device is detected, a user interface on an associated display may digitally navigate through multiple items according to the position and/or orientation of the mobile device. The position and orientation of the mobile device may be determined from position information or data obtained by a sensor device of the mobile device, and appropriate subsets of items can be determined for display based on detected movement of the mobile device.
US10438250B2
A vehicular parking automatic charging apparatus used in a vehicle includes a position acquirer that acquires a position of the vehicle, an area determiner that determines whether or not the position of the vehicle is in a charge parking area, a parking determiner that determines that the vehicle is placed in a parking state and that the parking state of the vehicle is ended, and a charging processor that executes a charge start process for starting charging on a basis that the position of the vehicle at a time when the parking determiner determines that the vehicle is placed in the parking state is in the charge parking area, and that executes a charge end process for ending the charging on a basis that, after execution of the charge start process, the parking determiner determines that the parking state of the vehicle is ended.
US10438249B2
A method for facilitating the order of commercial products in connection with the display of media content, whereby a player comprises a media production component and an interactive e-commerce component embedded therein. The player with the e-commerce component can be virally copied and propagated from one web page to any number of other web pages.
US10438246B1
Tiered advertisement bidding is disclosed. One or more quality metrics associated with a user profile are determined. An advertisement bid is selected from a plurality of tiered bids based at least in part on the determined quality metrics. Determining the quality metrics can include determining a conversion assessment. Determining the quality metric can also include determining whether a need associated with a user profile has been met for a category. In some cases, persona detection is performed with respect to the user profile.
US10438239B1
A system may include a digital promotions server that includes a processor and a memory coupled thereto for storing digital promotions products each having a respective promotional value associated therewith. The system may also include a mobile wireless communications device that includes a display, an input device, and wireless communications circuitry carried by a portable housing. A controller may be coupled to the wireless communications circuitry and the display and configured to retrieve selected digital promotions from the digital promotions server and display graphical representations each corresponding to one of the selected digital promotions. The controller may also be configured to cooperate with the input device to determine a pattern of movement of a user's finger connecting the graphical representations, and generate a new digital promotion having a promotional value that is greater than a sum of respective promotional values of the connected the graphical representations.
US10438221B2
Techniques for generating matchups of sale and coupon deals are described. For example, deal data that pertains to a sale deal and a coupon deal is received. A sale brand identification and a coupon brand identification are identified based on the deal data. A first set of deal data including the sale brand identification and corresponding to the sale deal, and a second set of deal data including the coupon brand identification and corresponding to a coupon deal are determined based on the deal data. A matchup of the sale deal and the coupon deal is generated based on matching the sale brand identification and the coupon brand identification, detecting a sale deal type in the first set of deal data and a coupon deal type in the second set of data, and determining that a sale deal's and a coupon deal's validity periods overlap and have not expired.
US10438220B2
A system for dynamic psychologically friendly pricing comprising a pricing engine that may generate payment structures and price values, a customer segmentation server that may analyze user behavior, and a pricing analysis server that proposes new price values based on analysis results, and methods for the generation and modification of payment structures.
US10438219B2
Methods and systems consistent with the present disclosure identify useful ways/means of maximizing levels of participation from a target audience based on identifying a strong positive sentiment toward real-world decisions performed by members of a group of persons. Members of a particular group of persons may be considered a human swarm or a skilled human swarm that provide information relating to factors that prevent group members from making a commitment. Members of a human swarm may have been selected based on a series of tests that identify skilled persons. Once a particular sentiment is identified, that sentiment may be broadened or extended by combining information or by identifying differences (contrasts) between factors, answers, assessments, or forecasts provided by humans as compared to a machine intelligence, via an iterative process that statistically raises a level of participation with members that have strong sentiments regarding a class of products or services.
US10438201B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for authorizing and performing a user defined selected transaction based on receiving notification from a wearable device associated with the user that the wearable device sensed a predefined action. The system is configured to transmit a data sensing packet to a wearable device comprising software code configured to cause the wearable device to process actions of the user that are sensed by the wearable device; receive a selected transaction from the user that the user wishes to be performed based on the wearable device sensing a predefined action; associate the selected transaction with a response token to be communicated to the system when the wearable device senses the predefined action; transmit the response to the wearable device; receive the response token indicating that the predefined action was sensed by the wearable device; and perform the selected transaction.
US10438197B2
Systems and methods for public ledger authentication includes receiving a first previous authentication public ledger address and a first current authentication public ledger address from a user. A verified static user key is identified in a public ledger using the first previous authentication public ledger address. A second current authentication public ledger address is then provided to the user for use in the current authentication attempt. Authentication attempt information is determined that includes a number of authentication attempts by the user, and used in a hash operation with the verified static user key to generate a first user authentication key. A second user authentication key is retrieved from the public ledger that was sent from the first current authentication public ledger address to the second current authentication public ledger address in a transaction, and the user is authenticated if the second user authentication key matches the first user authentication key.
US10438195B2
Merchants convert consumer account data to a common tokenized format by requesting wallet accounts for consumers not currently enrolled at a wallet platform. The tokenized card numbers replace merchant-stored personal account numbers (PAN) and allow merchants to use a common communication format for processing all transactions. When a consumer creates a new wallet account, existing ‘shadow’ accounts are added to the new wallet account.
US10438194B2
Systems and techniques for managing creation, delivery, and redemption of stored value tokens such as gift cards and electronic gift cards. An interface presented to a donor at a terminal allows the donor to specify details of a token, including token value and whether the token is to be associated with a particular retailer or group of retailers. The donor is also able to specify restrictions on the use of the token. For example, the donor may prohibit the purchase of particular categories of products or may specify categories of products authorized for purchase and the amount that may be spent for each category. The donor is also able to specify particular products to be purchased. A token definition is stored and a token associated with the definition is delivered to a recipient. When the recipient presents the token for redemption, the token is redeemed according to the definition.
US10438190B2
An electronic device may include a printed circuit board having a physically unclonable function (PUF) source. The electronic device may also include an integrated circuit (IC) chip positioned on the printed circuit board, and the first PUF source may be embedded in or formed on the printed circuit board external to the IC chip. The IC chip has processing circuitry that is configured to determine PUF data based on the PUF source. The processing circuitry is further configured to determine a cryptographic key or authentication token based on the PUF data and to perform at least one secure operation using the cryptographic key or authentication token.
US10438187B2
Disclosed is a technique for establishing a secure communication session between a mobile device and a card reader. The technique can involve using a trusted, remote validation server to validate security information of both the card reader and a POS module in the mobile device prior to, and as a precondition of, the card reader and the POS module establishing a secure communication session with each other. In certain embodiments the POS module sends the security information of both the card reader and the POS module to the validation server. The security information can include cryptographic keys of the POS module and the card reader and additional security information related to the POS module and its software environment.
US10438178B2
Embodiments of the disclosure enable electronic funds to be managed for a program that includes a plurality of parties including a participant and a sponsor. One or more metrics corresponding to a participation of the participant in the program are received. If the received metrics satisfy one or more predetermined thresholds, a quantity of the electronic funds is determined for distribution to the plurality of parties. A first instruction to transfer a first portion of the determined quantity of the electronic funds to a first financial account associated with the participant is generated, and a second instruction to transfer a second portion of the determined quantity of the electronic funds to a second financial account associated with the sponsor is generated. Aspects of the disclosure provide for a computing system for managing electronic funds for a program.
US10438172B2
Systems and methods are provided for analyzing a history of meetings, the attendees, date of occurrence, and other content to determine the value of the meetings and the attendees. The importance of people and the meetings they attend can be derived based on patterns of attendees. In one embodiment, the meta-data of meetings and the attendees can be used to determine value without requiring time-consuming manual steps or manual evaluation of people and their titles. A graph of meetings and its attendees can be generated and used by one or more automated software agents to place value to the content of the meeting, its agenda, and other meeting collateral such as meeting briefs/attachments of meetings. Accordingly, embodiments dramatically reduce the need for human examination of meeting history.
US10438168B2
In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for facilitating dynamic customization of reporting tools in an on-demand services environment in a multi-tenant environment according to one embodiment. In one embodiment and by way of example, a method includes importing, by a database system, a first application from a computing system associated with a third-party entity, where the first application is associated with the third-party entity and first one or more reporting forms of a plurality of reporting forms. The method may further include integrating, by the database system, the first application with a second application to generate an integrated application, where the second application includes a local application and is independent of the first application. The second application may be associated with second one or more reporting forms of the plurality of reporting forms. The method may further include associating, by the database system, a set of integrated properties of the integrated application with a reporting tool, and displaying, by a display device, the reporting tool to be used to facilitate building of one or more reports based on the set of integrated properties, where the one or more reports include at least one of the first and second one or more reporting forms.
US10438164B1
This disclosure describes interactive data processing systems configured to facilitate selection by a human associate of tentative results generated by an automated system from sensor data. In one implementation, an event may take place in a materials handling facility. The event may comprise a pick or place of an item from an inventory location, movement of a user, and so forth. The sensor data associated with the event is processed by an automated system to determine tentative results associated with the event. In some situations, an uncertainty may exist as to which of the tentative results accurately reflects the actual event. The system may then determine whether the event is to be merged with one or more temporally and spatially proximate events and, if so, the sensor data and tentative results for the merged event is sent to a human associate. The associate may select one of the tentative results.
US10438160B1
Repurpose Intelligence System for repurposing expired food stuffs and ensuring that locked-up nutrients in these expired food stuffs find their way into the supply chain so that their values is realized.
US10438156B2
Systems and methods to provide a training solution for a trainee are disclosed. In some embodiments the method comprises receiving a training requirement comprising a training outcome and a training configuration wherein the training configuration defines a trainee state, determining a training environment based on a relevancy function of the training environment to the training outcome, determining a training content based on a relationship function of the training content to the trainee state and determining a training solution comprising the training environment and the training content. In some embodiments, the relationship function comprises a POMDP model and the relevancy function comprises a best fit curve.
US10438153B2
Workers are given guidance about which goods are to be picked up out of a storage unit. A warehouse system is provided, which includes: position information obtaining means for searching, in a storage unit, in which a plurality of articles of goods each including an identification code section are stored, the position of the identification code section that is related to the identification code of one of the plurality of articles of goods that is an object to be worked on, and obtaining information of this position; and position guidance means for giving guidance to a worker about the position of the article of goods that is the object to be worked on, based on the information obtained by the position information obtaining means.
US10438151B2
This application discloses a system implementing tools and mechanisms to receive a target rate for each option available for inclusion in a harness family, determine combination take rates for different combinations of the options based on the target rates for the options, and utilize the combination take rates and the combinations of the options to identify one or more wire harnesses, each including a different set of the options, in the harness family. The tools and mechanisms can determine the combination take rates by estimating values for the combination take rates corresponding to the combinations of the options, and iteratively adjusting the values for the combination take rates based on the target rates for the options.
US10438149B2
The present disclosure describes a system, method and computer readable medium capable of verifying healthcare encounters. In one embodiment, an electronic verification process is described which may utilize geographical information to determine the proximity of a health care worker to the patient during a scheduled healthcare visit. The proximity information may then be compared to a threshold value and an electronic signature screen may be presented to the patient based upon the results of the comparison. In one embodiment, a time stamp may be generated and stored to provide confirmation as to the time that the patient's electronic signature was obtained via the electronic signature screen. Verification information stored by the system may be used to simplify the verification process, hasten payments to healthcare organizations and protect against healthcare fraud.
US10438146B2
A roaming transport distribution management apparatus and method are provided. A controller selects transports within a defined service zone in response to customer transit requests from customer locations for customer pick-up and delivery inbound or outbound directions from the hub. A hub manager varies the position and/or the size of an exclusive coverage area of each transport within the overall service zone to insure a dense accumulation of transports over the entire service zone and alters the position of other transports in response to the movement of a transport inbound or outbound from the hub with a passenger. The hub manager can vary the size of the exclusive coverage area of each transport to account for population and request call densities and the number of available transports. In addition, the transport system may be used to transport goods from a delivery source to a customer designated location within the service zone as well as coupling the goods with the customer at a central hub when the customer arrives at the central hub.
US10438142B2
A software application is provided designed to encourage collaboration between professional disciplines related to land development and construction projects. A graphical risk analysis system is provided based on answers to interdisciplinary questions related to risks. Use of the system promotes a complete checklist of interdisciplinary and informational consultation which, when completed, reduces the risk related to land development.
US10438123B2
A cognitive publication subscriber method, system, and non-transitory compute readable medium receiving a signal from a signal generating device and a subscriber cognitive state including filtering the signal being received by a plurality of subscribers based on the subscriber cognitive state and routing the signal to a subscriber of the plurality of subscribers, the subscriber cognitive state of the subscriber receiving the signal being based on a threshold.
US10438120B2
A framework and interface for invoking and assimilating external algorithms and interacting with the algorithms in-session and real-time are described. Embodiments include reproducible, updatable nodes that can be leveraged for data-driven analysis whereby the data itself can direct the algorithm choice, variables, and presentation leading to iteration and optimization in an analysis workflow. Embodiments include an entire discovery or diagnosis process executed on a particular data set, thereby divorcing the discovery or diagnosis process from a specific data set such that the same discovery or diagnosis process, phenotype identification, and visualizations may be repeated on future experiments, published, validated, or shared with another investigator.
US10438116B2
The present disclosure relates to a neuromorphic arithmetic device. The neuromorphic arithmetic device may include first and second synapse circuits, a charging/discharging circuit, a comparator, and a counter. The first synapse circuit may generate a first current by performing a first multiplication operation on a first PWM signal and a first weight, and the second synapse circuit may generate a second current by performing a second multiplication operation on a second PWM signal and a second weight. The charging/discharging circuit may store charges induced by the first current and the second current in a charging period, and may discharge the charges in a discharging period. The comparator may compare a voltage level of the charges discharged in the discharging period and a level of a reference voltage. The counter may count output pulses of an oscillator on the basis of a result of the comparison by the comparator.
US10438105B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for an electronic label system. An electronic label may include a reflective component configured to reflect light transmitted by a light source. The electronic label may also include a light blocking device configured. The light blocking device may prevent at least a portion of the light transmitted by the light source from reaching the reflective component when in a first configuration. The light blocking device may also allow the light transmitted by the light source to reach the reflective component when in a second configuration. The electronic label also includes a processing device configured to control operation of the light blocking device. The light blocking device further includes a power generation device configured to generate power for the light blocking device and the processing device.
US10438101B2
There is provided an adornment having a machine readable code integrated therein for establishing a communication channel over a network between a computing device and a server, the adornment comprising an adornment body sized and shaped for wearing on an appendage of a body of a human, wherein the machine readable code comprises a plurality of gems which are inlaid in the adornment body, wherein the machine readable code encodes an identifier for establishing the communication channel between a computing device imaging said plurality of gems and a remote data storage device storing at least one media content item designated for presentation on a display of the computing device.
US10438100B1
A method of generating dimensioning assist information for an item includes: obtaining data associated with a physical size of a graphical dimensioning aid associated with the item; generating dimensioning assist information by encoding the data into a machine-readable data object carried by the item. A method of dimensioning an item includes, at a dimensioning system: capturing an image of the item and the graphical dimensioning aid carried by the item; detecting an edge of the item within the captured image; determining a measurement of the edge; detecting the graphical dimensioning aid within the captured image; determining a measurement of the graphical dimensioning aid; decoding a physical size of the graphical dimensioning aid from a machine-readable data object carried by the item; and dimensioning the edge based on the measurement of the edge, the measurement of the graphical dimensioning aid, and the physical size.
US10438089B2
The technology relates to technology for detecting a predetermined image using a template of the predetermined image. The method includes detecting a color, reducing the color to a range of the color, converting to a grayscale plurality of images, extracting at least one edge of the grayscale images, identifying each component in the images, conducting binarization for the each component, obtaining a threshold value, normalizing the template, and matching the template to the predetermined image.
US10438071B2
A distributed system is disclosed for mining, correlating and analyzing locally obtained traffic video data. The system comprises a central controller configured to correlate traffic counting meta data gathered at a thoroughfare, to transmit control information to specify one or more traffic counting events to be monitored by at least one video unit located at the thoroughfare and to receive traffic counting meta data from the at least one video unit. The at least one video unit located at the thoroughfare, is configured to process a video stream from a video camera while monitoring the traffic counting events at the thoroughfare specified by the central controller, to analyze and evaluate the traffic counting event, to encode traffic meta data characterizing the analysis, and to transmit the meta data to the central controller. Further meta data can be acquired by mining the meta data history or any captured raw video footage.
US10438062B1
Systems and methods for tracking a subject using an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) are disclosed. The UAV includes an onboard camera to capture/stream multiple images. The camera captures reference images of a subject to be stored in memory; the reference images may portray gestures performed by the subject and associated with specific command procedures. The camera may capture subsequent images portraying the subject; the control system may, based on cascade recognition, identify the subject and a stored gesture to a determined confidence level. Once the subject and gesture are positively identified, the control system and/or propulsion system of the UAV may execute the associated command procedures to change the position, velocity, or heading of the UAV.
US10438056B2
The present invention relates to a face recognition system and a face recognition method, mainly comprising a lighting preprocessing module, a feature generation module, a facial feature library module, and a feature matching and recognition module. In the face recognition method, the inputted face image is first light-difference optimized by means of the lighting preprocessing module, then a feature vector of the face image is generated by means of the feature generation module; then, the feature vector to be recognized is matched with all of the feature vectors in the feature library and computed to arrive at an identity result corresponding to the feature vector to be recognized. In the technical solutions of the present invention, the identity of a face image to be recognized may be determined in real time for a system whose computing resources are limited, using a short period of time and having high accuracy.
US10438051B1
A server system stores a database of records. Each record stores a digital image of a pet, facial recognition markers, and owner identification information. An owner may register his/her pet using a cellular telephone and a mobile app. The owner is prompted to supply a digital photograph of the pet and to enter eye and nose location information. The system generates therefrom facial recognition markers and stores the markers in a record. If a lost pet is found, a finding user can use a cellular telephone to take a picture of the animal and to enter eye and nose location information. The system generates markers and compares the markers in a facial recognition process to other stored markers to identify records of animals that resemble the lost pet. If the record of the lost pet is identified, then owner identification information in the record is used to contact the owner.
US10438046B2
The disclosed technology provides optical anti-proofing techniques in fingerprints sensing in devices or systems that use fingerprint identification for controlling access. The disclosed technology uses a fingerprint sensor to detect a contact input associated with a source of a fingerprint; generates an image signal from the fingerprint sensor responsive to the detected contact input that is indicative of one or more images of the fingerprint; uses an optical biometric sensor that is separate from the fingerprint sensor to generate a biometric marker detection signal indicative of a biometric marker different from the fingerprint; and processes, by processing circuitry, the generated image signal and the biometric marker detection signal to determine whether the detected contact and the associated one or more fingerprint images are from a finger of a live person who makes the contact input.
US10438040B2
Some disclosed methods involve controlling an ultrasonic sensor system to transmit ultrasonic waves and receiving signals from the ultrasonic sensor system corresponding to ultrasonic waves reflected from a finger positioned on a platen. The methods may involve obtaining fingerprint image data corresponding to the signals and determining a change in a force of at least a portion of the finger on the platen corresponding to the signals.
US10438031B2
Systems and methods to determine motion parameters of physical objects using radio frequency identification (RFID) tags attached to the objects. In one embodiment, a method implemented in a radio frequency identification (RFID) system includes determining a motion parameter of the RFID tag based on detecting a Doppler frequency shift in a radio frequency signal received from the RFID tag.
US10438030B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods are described that relate to location-based indications. An apparatus may include a frame, a sensing device, and a computing device. The frame may include a first set of members spaced apart and oriented in a first direction. At least one member of the first set of members may include an indicator area. The frame may also include a second set of members spaced apart and oriented in a second direction. At least two members of the second set of members may extend between the first set of members to define a container receiving area. The sensing device may be disposed adjacent to the container receiving area and configured to detect movement of containers with respective to the container receiving area. The computing device may be communicatively coupled to the sensing device and configured to cause presentation of indicators within the indicator area.
US10438025B2
A memory device is disclosed. The memory device includes a memory bit array comprising a plurality of memory bits, wherein each memory bit is configured to present an initial logic state when the memory device is powered on, and an erasion circuit, coupled to the memory bit array, and configured to alter an intrinsic characteristic of at least one of the memory bits so as to alter the initial logic state of the at least one memory bit.
US10438016B2
In particular embodiments, a data processing data inventory generation system is configured to: (1) generate a data model (e.g., a data inventory) for one or more data assets utilized by a particular organization; (2) generate a respective data inventory for each of the one or more data assets; and (3) map one or more relationships between one or more aspects of the data inventory, the one or more data assets, etc. within the data model. In particular embodiments, a data asset (e.g., data system, software application, etc.) may include, for example, any entity that collects, processes, contains, and/or transfers personal data (e.g., such as a software application, “internet of things” computerized device, database, website, data-center, server, etc.). For example, a first data asset may include any software or device (e.g., server or servers) utilized by a particular entity for such data collection, processing, transfer, storage, etc.
US10438014B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can detect a set of images locally stored on a computing system. The computing system can be associated with a first user. One or more facial recognition processes can be applied to the set of images. It can be determined, based on the one or more facial recognition processes, that a subset of images, out of the set of images, is associated with a second user. One or more options for the first user to share the subset of images with the second user can be provided.
US10438008B2
A system and method of enabling row level security through security policies is disclosed herein. In this system and method, a computing device may be communicatively coupled to a storage device. The computing device may further be activated and maintain data that comprises a plurality of rows. When executed by the computing device, the system and method may process a data definition language statement comprising a security policy definition. Further, the system and method may receive a query language statement comprising a request to access a first column of a row from the plurality of rows. The system and method may process the request and determine if access may be granted to a user based on the security policy definition in the system.
US10438003B2
Embodiments for secure data storage that include systems and methods that receive, from a second system maintained by a second entity, a data payload to be stored by the system; secure the data payload at a first time; store the secured data payload; receive a request for access to the data payload; and provide certification, corresponding to a second time subsequent to the first time, that the data payload has not been altered since the first time.
US10438001B1
A technique for assessing and quantifying a cyber security risk is provided that includes a cyber resilience platform for obtaining reliable data from a vast set of available metrics, standardizing the data, and extracting meaning from the data to inform cyber security decisions. The disclosed technique provides visibility of a dynamic cyberspace landscape by identifying key factors that impact types of cyber security risk. These key factors can be used to distinguish between users of different risk types for various cyber threats and to identify actions affecting loss probabilities associated with a cyber threat. Strengths and weaknesses in a customer's cyber security profile are identified, including configuration settings that impact the effectiveness of cyber security protection measures and a cyber security score indicative of the customer's risk exposure.
US10437989B2
A processing device having a skew controller configured to measure skew values between a plurality of signal lines coupled to the processing device; and a security module configured to store the skew values, and to compare new skew values with the stored skew values, wherein when the new skew values do not equal the stored skew values, the processing device is configured to perform an alarm action.
US10437988B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer readable mediums for utilizing smart components to monitor connected devices. In one embodiment, a system includes a computing device and a covering device which covers at least a portion of the computing device. The computing device includes one or more input/output (I/O) interfaces. The covering device may be a smart cover, a security screen protector, or other type of smart covering component. The covering device intercepts, via a first I/O interface, a signal generated by the computing device. The covering device analyzes the signal to determine if a security policy is being violated. The covering device performs a security action responsive to determining that a security policy is being violated. In one embodiment, the covering device covers a display of the computing device and the covering device utilizes photoresistor technology to read the display of the computing device on a pixel-by-pixel basis.
US10437981B2
An electronic system is provided. The electronic system includes a first electronic device and a second electronic device. The first electronic device generates a new key every certain time period. The second electronic device establishes a connection with the first electronic device to receive the new key therefrom to store the new key as a latest received key. When the first electronic device receives an input event under a locked status, the first electronic device requests the second electronic device to transmit the latest received key thereto, determines that whether the latest received key is the same as the new key and switches to a power on and unlocked status automatically when the latest received key is the same s the new key.
US10437967B2
A novel code signing system, computer readable media, and method are provided. The code signing method includes receiving a code signing request from a requestor in order to gain access to one or more specific application programming interfaces (APIs). A digital signature is provided to the requestor. The digital signature indicates authorization by a code signing authority for code of the requestor to access the one or more specific APIs. In one example, the digital signature is provided by the code signing authority or a delegate thereof. In another example, the code signing request may include one or more of the following: code, an application, a hash of an application, an abridged version of the application, a transformed version of an application, a command, a command argument, and a library.
US10437960B2
A method, system, computer program product and apparatus related to managing and disseminating information in a health care facility is disclosed. The system may comprise a plurality of input devices, a processor connected to the input devices and a plurality of electronic output devices connected to the processor. The output devices may include a master patient information display, an electronic patient room information display, a master precaution display, a patient hourly rounding display and an individual room precaution display. The method may comprises receiving from at least one input device data associated with a plurality of patients, and displaying for each patient the information, based on the data received, that is associated with each patient, and then updating on each output device the information when it changes.
US10437946B1
Using pin planning for core sources includes identifying, using a processor, a first pin configuration and a second pin configuration for a core source of a behavioral description of a circuit design. The second pin configuration is generated by a pin planning operation. The first pin configuration of the core source can be compared with the second pin configuration of the core source using a processor. Responsive to detecting a difference between the first pin configuration and the second pin configuration, the core source can be automatically update, using the processor, based upon the second pin configuration.
US10437932B2
A determination method executed by a computer including a memory and a processor coupled to the memory, includes receiving a plurality of sentences and designation of terms included in the plurality of sentences, generating, for each term for which the designation is received, information indicating a relation between the term and each of other terms included in one of the plurality of sentences containing the term, extracting, for each term for which the designation is received, information indicating a specific relation from the generated information indicating the relation, generating characteristic information that uses the extracted information as a feature, and determining similarity between a plurality of the terms based on the generated characteristic information for each term.
US10437920B2
An aided translation method and a device thereof, belonging to the field of Human-Computer Interaction. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining a destination from the itinerary information of a user; translating the pre-stored personal form-filling information of the user from a source language to a target language when the language of the destination is different from that of the user's usual place of residence, wherein, the target language is the language of the destination; and displaying the personal form-filling information in the target language. The method and a device solve the problem of users in filling in the arrival/departure card caused by unfamiliarity with foreign languages and the form-filling formats, and achieve an effect that users can fill in the arrival/departure card easily by reference to the personal form-filling information displayed in the target language.
US10437918B1
A server device includes a memory and a processor. The memory can include an image and code representing a webpage including the image. The processor can be configured to select a portion of the image based on resources associated with encoding the image and based on resources associated with communicating the webpage to a user device, encode the selected portion of the, transmit the webpage, the encoded portion of the image and an indication that the webpage includes the portion of the image to the user device, encode the at least one image, and transmit the encoded image and an indication that the encoded image corresponds to the portion of the image. The user device can render the webpage, including the portion of the image, on a display, receive the image, and replace the portion of the image with the image using a zoom out rendering technique.
US10437916B2
A pop reader of a browser searches HTML code for a webpage with a plurality of links for a first link specified with a first target file name comprising a pop type element. The pop reader, responsive to detecting the first link specified with the first target file name comprising the pop type element, inserts a first command into the HTML code to disable the first link and set an event to pop up a first menu layer of a plurality of layers of a cascading menu and inserts a second command to specify the content of the first menu layer from a file accessed for the first target file name. The browser, responsive to detecting the event, displays the first menu layer with the specified content by the second command within the interface displaying the webpage.
US10437911B2
A plurality of graphical elements may be represented as a document object model (DOM) having a plurality of nodes, each node representing a different graphical element, the DOM having an ordering of the nodes, each node having a z-value of front or back, indicating that the corresponding graphical element is to be displayed in a front layer for a z-value of front or a back layer for a z-value of back. The z-value of one or more of the plurality of nodes corresponding to one or more graphical elements to be moved to the front layer or back layer may be altered. The DOM can then be reordered so that the one or more graphical elements to be moved to the front layer or back layer are at the front or back of the DOM, while maintaining the ordering between nodes having z-values of front and the ordering between nodes having z-values of back.
US10437898B2
Systems and methods described herein allow multiple actors to cooperatively establish a common pool of funds to be dynamically applied to purchasing online advertising keywords associated with ad units. Participants of the portfolio of advertising keywords and associated ad units may contribute a desired amount, and receive a proportionate amount of traffic, which may be automatically controlled so that output traffic is proportionate. Participants may also contribute to a common pool of funds, and the systems and methods may automatically determine an equitable amount of money each participant should be charged, based on the amount visitor output is driven to the respective participants.
US10437897B2
A system and method are presented for recommending packages of domain names. One or more computer servers receive a query including at least one keyword from a user. A business category associated with the user is identified and a first ranking of top level domain names for the business category is identified. A package of candidate domain names is generated containing a candidate domain name for each top level domain in the first ranking of top level domain names. The package of candidate domain names relevant to the query is displayed for selection and registration by the user.
US10437893B2
Provided are methods, systems, and computer program products that generate a plurality of query queues that correspond to a plurality of row-based identifiers corresponding to a plurality of physical memory locations in at least one of a plurality of associative memory networks in response to a semantic-space based query that includes at least one query search element, determine count information responsive to the plurality of query queues and compute information distances between the at least one query search element and ones of associative memory query result elements to determine closeness values corresponding to the information distances.
US10437892B2
Methods and computer storage media are provided for generating entries for documents in a forward index. A document and its document identification are received, in addition to static features that are query-independent. The document is parsed into tokens to form a token stream corresponding to the document. Relevant data used to calculate rankings of document is identified and a position of the data is determined. The entry is then generated from the document identification, the token stream of the document, the static features, and the positional information of the relevant data. The entry is stored in the forward index.
US10437891B2
The present invention provides a system, method and apparatus for electronically searching for an item by receiving a search request comprising a requested category and one or more requested attributes of the item and storing the search request in a search index based on the requested category and the requested attribute(s). The search index includes one or more categories and each category is defined by a taxonomy of attributes. The search index is then searched for any previously stored search requests that match the requested category and the requested attribute(s), a result of the search is determined and a search response that includes the result of the search is sent.
US10437882B2
Methods and devices for initiating a search of an object are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed that includes receiving video data recorded by a camera on a wearable computing device, where the video data comprises at least a first frame and a second frame. The method further includes, based on the video data, detecting an area in the first frame that is at least partially bounded by a pointing device and, based on the video data, detecting in the second frame that the area is at least partially occluded by the pointing device. The method still further includes initiating a search on the area.
US10437881B2
An information retrieval arrangement for a host vehicle is configured to retrieve information of at least one surrounding vehicle, surrounding the host vehicle. The arrangement includes a registration plate reading arrangement configured to read registration plate information of a surrounding vehicle and an information retrieving unit configured to retrieve from a database at least one dimension of the surrounding vehicle, based on the read registration plate information. A method of retrieving information of at least one surrounding vehicle using an information retrieval arrangement is also disclosed, as well as a lane change assist arrangement including an information retrieval arrangement, and a vehicle including an information retrieval arrangement.
US10437876B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media can acquire shape data representative of one or more polygons. At least one serialization format can be produced based on the shape data. The at least one serialization format can be packaged into a proprietary package that is representative of the one or more polygons. At least a portion of the proprietary package can be utilized for one or more applications.
US10437874B2
A method, an apparatus and computer program code is provided. The method comprises: responding to user input by making at least one alteration to a recording of a real scene in a first image content item; determining at least one altered characteristic of the recording of the real scene; determining whether one or more further image content items, different from the first image content item, have a recording of a real scene comprising the at least one determined altered characteristic; and causing at least one further image content item, having a recording of a real scene comprising the at least one determined altered characteristic, to be indicated to a user.
US10437869B2
According to an aspect, automatically adding new concepts to a concept graph includes receiving a string of text, searching a corpus of data to locate additional text related to the string of text, and extracting concepts from the additional text. The extracted concepts include a subset of concepts in the concept graph. The adding new concepts also includes determining whether the string of text should be linked to an existing concept in the concept graph, performing the linking based on determining that the string of text should be linked to the existing concept in the concept graph and, based on determining that the string of text should not be linked to an existing concept in the concept graph, adding a new concept to the concept graph. The new concept is associated with the string of text.
US10437849B2
A method and an apparatus for implementing storage of a file in an Internet Protocol (IP) disk, where the method includes receiving an operation request for a target file, converting operation information of the operation request into a key value of the target file, acquiring, according to the key value, an identifier of a target IP disk corresponding to the operation request, and sending, to the target IP disk identified by the identifier, the operation request carrying the key value such that the application stability can be improved.
US10437840B1
Various systems and methods are provided for performing soft entity resolution. A plurality of data objects are retrieved from a plurality of data stores to create aggregated data objects for one or more entities. One or more retrieved data objects may be associated with the same entity, based at least in part upon one or more attribute types and attribute values of the data objects. In response to a determination that the one or more of the retrieved data objects should be associated with the same entity, metadata is generated that associates the data objects with the entity, the metadata being stored separately from the data objects, such that the underlying data objects remain unchanged. In addition, one or more additional attributes may be determined for the entity, based upon the data objects associated with the entity.
US10437835B2
Systems and computer program products to, responsive to receiving a case by a deep question answering (deep QA) system, identify, in a corpus of information, a first variable for which a value was not specified in the case, compute an importance score for the first variable based on a concept in the corpus, wherein the concept is associated with the first variable, and upon determining that the importance score exceeds an importance threshold, determine that specifying a value for the first variable increases a confidence score of a response returned by the deep QA system beyond a confidence threshold.
US10437833B1
Briefly stated, the invention is directed to retrieving a semantically matched knowledge structure. A question and answer pair is received, wherein the answer is received from a query of a search engine. A question is constraint-matched with the answer based on maximizing a plurality of constraints, wherein at least one of the plurality of the constraints is a similarity score between question and answer, wherein the constraint matching generates a matched sequence. For one or more answer sequences, a subsequence is found that are not parsed as answer slots. Query results are obtained from another search engine based on a combination of the answer or question, and the non-answer subsequence. And a KB based is refined on the query results and the constraint matching and based on a neural network training, for a further subsequent semantic matching, wherein the KB includes a dense semantic vector indication of concepts.
US10437832B2
Some database tables include a relational field, where a record of the table stores a foreign-key reference value that identifies a related record of a second table. While fulfilling a request comprising a query over the database, the system may identify a context of the request, wherein the context is supplemental to the query, and wherein the context relates to the relational field. For example, a security policy may permit a requester to query the first table, but restrict the requester from accessing the second table that the relational field of the first table references, where dereferencing the relational field may cause unexpected results. Instead, the system may evaluate the context of the request, and may fulfill the request based on the context by providing a response that substitutes, for the value that references the second table, a substitute value that does not reference the second table.
US10437823B2
Disclosed is a handwritten contents aggregation device including: an obtaining unit configured to obtain a first file and a second file in each of which written information indicating handwritten contents is added to a same original file; and a processor configured to: analyze the first file and the second file and extract the written information from the first file and the second file, prepare a third file by aggregating the written information extracted from the first file and the written information extracted from the second file in the original file, and output the third file.
US10437820B2
An example method of loading data from a database includes receiving, at a cache node, a current query and a data chain that includes a sequence of ordered queries. The method also includes determining whether a hash of the current query matches a hash of an expected query in the data chain. The method further includes retrieving a result set of the current query from a local cache in response to determining that the hash of the current query matches the hash of the expected query. The method also includes sending the result set of the current query to a client.
US10437819B2
Among other things, a method of generating a computer program based on an SQL query includes receiving a SQL query, including a reference to a first data set stored at a first data source, and including a reference to a second data set stored at a second data source different from the first data source, determining that the SQL query includes two or more commands, the commands including a first union-type operation, and a first aggregation operation, and determining that the SQL query describes that the first union-type operation shall be applied to at least a portion of data from the first data set, and applied to at least a portion of data from the second data set, determining that the SQL query describes that the first aggregation operation shall be applied to data resulting from the first union-type operation, and generating the computer program.
US10437810B2
A facility maintains a cardinality schema to manage indications of property cardinality on behalf of a database such as a graph database that is indifferent to the cardinality of properties stored within it. The facility can add cardinality indications to the cardinality schema for a property based on (1) semantics used to refer to one or more values of the property in an update request, (2) the number of values specified for the property in an update request, or (3) an explicit client declaration of the property's cardinality. Where a query or update request against the database uses cardinality semantics for a property that are inconsistent with the cardinality schema's indication for the property, the facility can reject the query or update request. The facility can also use the cardinality schema to automatically complete incomplete queries using the proper cardinality semantics for each involved property.
US10437808B2
A method of managing a database system using a swarm database system that communicates a request to read data to at least a subset of nodes. Checking the identifier by each respective node in the subset of nodes to determine if the requested read data is stored in the node. Providing the read data to the first node if the respective node in the subset includes read data.
US10437806B2
An information processing apparatus includes a determination unit and an output unit. If data included in a database with an index is updated, the determination unit determines whether to perform an index update process so that the index update process will be performed with a determined probability. If the determination unit determines to perform the index update process, the output unit outputs an index update request.
US10437800B2
Embodiments for a system using a migration data placement tool between storage systems based on data access by a processor. Data may be cataloged in a migration data placement tool by receiving events from a plurality of heterogeneous storage systems. The events may be migrated into the migration data placement tool using analytics to determine data placement of the data in a target storage system according to the data identified as hot data, warm data, or cold data. The data may be placed according to the migration template during migration to the target storage system.
US10437798B2
Implementations of the present disclosure include methods, systems, and computer-readable storage mediums for receiving a key, the key corresponding to an object that is stored in a hybrid memory system, searching a SPLAY tree based on the key to identify a node of the SPLAY tree, determining a type of memory that the object is stored on in the hybrid memory system, the type of memory including one of a first type of memory and a second type of memory, selectively adjusting an endurance counter associated with the object based on a location of the node within the SPLAY tree, and the type of memory that the object is stored on in the hybrid memory system, and selectively migrating the object between the first memory type and the second memory type based on the EC associated with the object.
US10437791B1
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums which monitor, archive, and version file system elements stored in one or more different network based file storage systems for one or more different users. Any changes to file system elements stored in the network based file storage systems are recorded and versioned. The system may allow users to revert to a previous version of a file system element, recover a deleted file system element, and the system allows for audits to determine which users placed a file system element in which network based file storage systems and determine which users had access to the file system element in the network based file storage systems. As a result, the disclosed system improves the end-user experience by providing versioning and auditing capabilities as well as allowing organizations to monitor and control their digital property in network based file storage systems.
US10437789B2
The invention prevents improper deletes of file system objects during rescan synchronizations of local and remote (cloud) file systems. File and folder deletes are validated (confirmed) during a rescan synchronization using events generated for a steady state synchronization process. Any improper deletes are fenced and not allowed to proceed during synchronization. A method for synchronizing local (LFS) and remote (RFS) file systems includes monitoring the LFS for changes, generating a first set of events as part of a first synchronization routine (e.g., a steady state synchronization routine), generating a second set of events as part of a second (rescan) synchronization routine, validating selected events of the second set with events of the first set to determine whether each of the selected events of the second set is valid or invalid, and synchronizing the file systems based on the events of the second set excluding those that have been invalidated. Storage systems are also disclosed.
US10437780B2
A system, apparatus, and method for processing queries wherein the query includes a request to access or delete data and accessing metadata associated with the set of data, the metadata defining data characteristics of the set of data and identifying at least sets of data that need or not need to be accessed or deleted based on the metadata without accessing the actual data in the set of data; also methods to optimize processing of some operations based on the collected metadata on data.
US10437779B2
In an approach for creating a screen capture, a computer selects at least a portion of visual output on a computing device, wherein the selected visual output includes one or more instances of application software. The computer identifies metadata associated with the one or more instances of application software in the selected visual output. The computer creates a screen capture file that includes the selected visual output and the identified metadata.
US10437773B2
An electronic system includes a slave device, multiple master devices and logic circuitry. The slave device is configured to communicate with a single master device in accordance with a single-master communication protocol. The multiple master devices are respectively configured to communicate with the slave device in accordance with the single-master communication protocol. The logic circuitry, which is disposed respectively in the multiple master devices, is configured to exchange control signals indicative of whether the slave device is available for access, so as to prevent simultaneous access attempts to the slave device by more than one of the master devices.
US10437766B2
A data storage device is provided. The data store device includes a first printed circuit board (PCB) comprising a main transmission line formed on at least one surface of the first PCB and/or within the first PCB, a memory controller and a plurality of nonvolatile memory devices. The memory controller is provided on the first PCB. The plurality of nonvolatile memory devices are provided on the first PCB. The plurality of nonvolatile memory devices are connected to the memory controller through a channel and exchange data with the memory controller. The channel includes a data transmission line connecting data pads of the memory controller and the nonvolatile memory devices. The data transmission line comprises the main transmission pattern and an open stub contacting the main transmission pattern. The open stub does not contact any other conductor other than the main transmission pattern.
US10437758B1
A memory request management system may include a memory device and a memory controller. The memory controller may include a read queue, a write queue, an arbitration circuit, a read credit allocation circuit, and a write credit allocation circuit. The read queue and write queue may store corresponding requests from request streams. The arbitration circuit may send requests from the read queue and write queue to the memory device based on locations of addresses indicated by the requests. The read credit allocation circuit may send an indication of an available read credit to a request stream in response to a read request from the request stream being sent from the read queue to the memory device. The write credit allocation circuit may send an indication of an available write credit to a request stream in response to a write request from the request stream being stored at the write queue.
US10437748B1
Apparatus, methods, and computer-readable storage media are disclosed for core-to-core communication between physical and/or virtual processor cores. In some examples of the disclosed technology, application cores write notification data (e.g., to doorbell or PCI configuration memory space accesses via a memory interface), without synchronizing with the other application cores or the service cores. In one examples of the disclosed technology, a message selection circuit is configured to, serialize data from the plurality of user cores by: receiving data from a user core, selecting one of the service cores to send the data based on a memory location addressed by the sending user core, and sending the received data to a respective message buffer dedicated to the selected service core.
US10437747B2
System and method for improved transferring of data involving memory device systems. A memory appliance (MA) comprising a plurality of memory modules is configured to store data within the plurality of memory modules and further configured to receive data commands from first server and a second server coupled to the MA. The data commands may include direction memory access commands such that the MA can service the data commands while bypassing a host controller of the MA.
US10437742B2
A peripheral device class identifier is generated for a class of peripheral devices, and is used to identify a setup record that indicates how to install or otherwise set up the class of peripheral devices on a computing device. The peripheral device class identifier is a combination of three components: a vendor identifier, a namespace identifier, and a namespace entry identifier. The vendor identifier is an identifier of the vendor of the class of peripheral devices. The namespace identifier is an identifier of different collections or groups of types of peripheral devices or types of functionality of peripheral devices. The namespace entry identifier is an identifier of a particular type of peripheral device (or particular functionality) of the different collections or groups of types of peripheral devices (or types of functionality of peripheral devices).
US10437738B2
A storage device includes memory devices and a controller. The controller translates a logical address received from a host to a physical address for the memory devices. The controller manages first correspondence information associated with correspondence relationships between logical addresses and physical addresses. The controller manages translation information that includes information of a minimal perfect hash (MPH) function. The MPH function is generated by using logical addresses indicating a memory region of a reference size as key values, when a size of a memory region indicated by logical addresses managed in the first correspondence information reaches the reference size. The controller manages second correspondence information associated with correspondence relationships between the logical addresses used as the key values and the MPH function of the translation information.
US10437732B2
In an embodiment, a processor includes at least one core and a first cache memory including a first plurality of sets having a first plurality of cache lines and associated metadata to store address information, recency information and a first indicator to indicate whether the cache line is associated with an oversubscribed set of a second cache memory. A first cache controller may be configured to base an eviction decision with regard to a first set of the first plurality of sets including a first cache line at least in part on the first indicator of the first cache line. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10437729B2
In an approach for purging an address range from a cache, a processor quiesces a computing system. Cache logic issues a command to purge a section of a cache to higher level memory, wherein the command comprises a starting storage address and a range of storage addresses to be purged. Responsive to each cache of the computing system activating the command, cache logic ends the quiesce of the computing system. Subsequent to ending the quiesce of the computing system, Cache logic purges storage addresses from the cache, based on the command, to the higher level memory.
US10437722B2
Subject matter disclosed herein relates to management of a memory device.
US10437710B2
In some examples, a method may include receiving, by a system comprising a processor, for a first invocation of a first test of a plurality of code coverage tests run at overlapping times, a first report indicating a first subset of files of application code covered by the first test. The method may include generating, by the system, a test-to-file map associating the first subset of files to the first test. The method may include receiving, by the system, a second report indicating a second subset of files of the application code covered by a second invocation of the first test. The method may include modifying, by the system, the test-to-file map to associate the second subset of files to the first test.
US10437708B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system for refreshing data within the testing environment by sanitizing production data. In particular, the system may process real-world data obtained in the production environment and automatically replace sensitive or confidential information with realistic substitute data, then provide the sanitized data to the systems within the low level testing environment. The system may account for differences in table schema amongst a plurality of disparate databases within the production environment and the low level environment, thereby allowing the system to provide sanitized data only to the extent that it is needed for testing purposes. Furthermore, the system selectively provides sanitized test data on an as-needed basis, removing the need to continuously generate testing data.
US10437695B2
A fault information providing server which is connected to a processing server group configured from a plurality of servers, and which provides information related to a fault that occurred in the processing server group to a user of a service provided by the processing server group, comprises: a fault occurrence/recovery management unit which manages fault occurrence of the processing server group; a log management unit which manages log information related to a history of service provided by each server of the processing server group; a rule management unit which manages rules related to a service impact representing an impact on the service caused by the fault; a service impact calculation unit which calculates the service impact based on the log information and the rules; and a service impact notification unit which notifies the service impact calculated by the service impact calculation unit to the user.
US10437685B2
Described is memory system enabling memory mirroring in single write operations for the primary and backup data storage. The memory system utilizes a memory channel including one or more latency groups, with each latency group encompassing a number of memory modules that have the same signal timing to the controller. A primary copy and a backup copy of a data element can be written to two memory modules in the same latency group of the channel and in a single write operation. The buses of the channel may have the same trace length to each of the memory modules within a latency group.
US10437674B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for employing variable amounts of parity sectors. In certain embodiments, an apparatus may comprise a processor configured to generate a first number of parity sectors for write data to be written to a nonvolatile memory, and store the write data and a second number of parity sectors to the nonvolatile memory, the second number of parity sectors being a subset less than all of the first number of parity sectors. The processor may further select additional parity sectors from the first number of parity sectors based on error metrics for the write data, store the additional parity sectors to the nonvolatile memory, and perform error recovery on the write data based on the additional parity sectors.
US10437665B2
A memory device, a memory system, and corresponding methods are provided. The memory device includes a non-volatile random access memory. The non-volatile memory includes a suspect bit register configured to store addresses of bits that are determined to have had errors. The non-volatile memory further includes a bad bit register configured to store addresses of bits that both (i) appeared in the suspect bit register due to a first error and (ii) are determined to have had a second error. Hence, the memory device overcomes the aforementioned intrinsic write-error-rate by identifying the bad bits so they can be fused out, thus avoiding errors during use of the non-volatile random access memory.
US10437655B2
A hardware-locked encrypted backup (HWLE-BU) that is locked to a single hardware device using the device's unique hardware identity, based on a Physically-Unclonable Function (PUF) or other suitable means providing a unique hardware identity. The HWLE-BU is bound to a specific hardware identity such that only the physical device that created the HWLE-BU can decrypt it, i.e., restoring HWLE-BU data requires utilizing the same physical hardware device in the decryption process.
US10437654B2
A device may receive, from a consumer device, an application programming interface (API) request that includes information associated with a consumer of data and information associated with a producer of the data. The data may be collected by one or more data sources associated with the producer. The device may identify a consumer context, associated with the consumer, based on the information associated with the consumer. The device may identify a producer context, associated with the producer, based on the information associated with the producer. The device may generate an API response based on the consumer context and the producer context. The API response may include data in accordance with the consumer context and the producer context. The device may provide, to the consumer device, the API response to permit the consumer to view or access the data.
US10437637B1
Systems and methods are disclosures for scheduling code in a multiprocessor system. Code is portioned into code blocks by a compiler. The compiler schedules execution of code blocks in nodes. The nodes are connected in a directed acyclical graph with a top node, terminal node and a plurality of intermediate nodes. Execution of the top node is initiated by the compiler. After executing at least one instance of the top node, an instruction in the code block indicates to the scheduler to initiate at least one intermediary node. The scheduler schedules a thread for execution of the intermediary node. The data for the nodes resides in a plurality of data buffers; the index to the data buffer is stored in a command buffer.
US10437631B2
An operating system hot-switching method, applied to a mobile terminal running multiple operating systems, where the multiple operating systems include one foreground operating system and at least one background operating system, a current foreground operating system is a first operating system. The method includes obtaining an operating system switching instruction, where the operating system switching instruction includes an identifier of the second operating system and a switching identifier, releasing, according to the switching identifier, a hardware resource occupied by the first operating system, and switching the foreground operating system from the first operating system to the second operating system. Hence, the operating system hot-switching method ensures, to some extent, mutually exclusive access to and coordinated use of a hardware resource by multiple operating systems, thereby ensuring use reliability of the hardware resource after switching of an operating system.
US10437630B2
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods, and computer program products for processing of electronic files using multiple technology applications in a distributed network. Specifically, the present invention is directed to establishing technology applications and/or platforms as participants on block chain framework for direct and real-time visibility into discreet processing events associated with the processing of the electronic files. In some embodiments, the invention enables tracking and monitoring of end-to-end processing status during processing of the electronic files in real-time, without requiring transmission of electronic file data between applications, while allowing for compatibility of data in multiple formats, and hence executing end-to-end processing of electronic files.
US10437629B2
Systems and methods are described for managing initialization of virtual machine instances within an on-demand code execution environment or other distributed code execution environment. Such environments utilize pre-initialized virtual machine instances to enable execution of user-specified code in a rapid manner, without delays typically caused by initialization of the virtual machine instances. However, because the number of pre-initialized virtual machine instances maintained at an on-demand code execution environment is typically limited, insufficient number of pre-initialized virtual machine instances may be available at the on-demand code execution environment during times of heavy use. Embodiments described herein utilize pre-trigger notifications to indicate to the on-demand code execution environment that subsequent requests to execute user-specified code are likely to occur. The on-demand code execution environment may therefore pre-initialize additional virtual machine instances in preparation for the subsequent requests, reducing delay that would be required to initialize the instances after obtaining to the requests.
US10437621B2
In some implementations, a method includes receiving, from a virtual machine, a request to create a proxy agent configured to monitor an application executing on the virtual machine, wherein the proxy agent is associated with the virtual machine and wherein the virtual machine is unable to host the proxy agent. The method also includes creating the proxy agent based on the request to create the proxy agent. The method further includes receiving monitoring data for the application executing on the virtual machine via the proxy agent. The method further includes transmitting a status of the application or the monitoring data to a server.
US10437620B2
Embodiments described herein relate to systems and methods for identifying virtual machines in a network. The systems and methods comprise a virtual asset tool that can interface with a virtualization manager to receive metadata identifying virtual machines hosted by a plurality of physical machines. The virtual asset tool can subscribe to updates associated with the virtual machines, such as changes to the virtual machines, or additions or deletions of virtual machines. In response to receiving an update, the virtual asset tool can modify an asset record associated with the virtual machines and any corresponding descriptions. In embodiments, the virtual asset tool can schedule vulnerability scans for any or all of the virtual machines.
US10437611B2
A widget manager facilitates management of widgets in a dashboard layer. Management functions can include enablement, preview, importation, exportation, organization, installation, deletion, acquisition, etc.
US10437608B2
A microminiature personal computer that is connected to external devices using standard interfaces for information input and output. The microminiature personal computer has an interconnected processor, a memory, a security module, a network module, and connectors. At least part of memory should be non-volatile to keep operating system, drivers to work with external devices, programs and data. The microminiature personal computer does all its processing and all its programs are running inside its memory while external computing device is used only for information input and output through a connector and a windowing system thus ensuring security of both systems and lack of unauthorized interaction between them.
US10437605B1
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a processing platform that includes a plurality of processing devices each comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing platform is configured to implement virtual resources of one or more clouds for use by applications of at least one application management domain. The processing platform further comprises an application manager configured in accordance with a multi-layer application management architecture. The application manager implements at least one of a startup procedure, a shutdown procedure, a reboot procedure and an isolation procedure for at least a portion of each of one or more of the applications. A given instance of at least one of the startup procedure, the shutdown procedure, the reboot procedure and the isolation procedure is applied to a particular designated set of controlled components. The given instance is configurable under user control so as to provide a customized version of the corresponding procedure.
US10437604B2
An electronic apparatus and a booting method thereof are provided. The electronic apparatus includes an inputter configured to receive a power-on command, and a memory configured to store task-processing information of tasks for each booting mode. The electronic apparatus further includes a processor configured to, in response to the reception of the power-on command, determine a booting mode, based on use information of the electronic apparatus, determine a priority order and an affinity of each of the tasks for the determined booting mode, based on the task-processing information of the tasks for the determined booting mode, and process the tasks for the determined booting mode, based on the determined priority order and affinity of each of the tasks for the determined booting mode, to boot the electronic apparatus.
US10437581B1
Concepts and technologies of handling firmware for machine to machine devices via a service provider network are provided herein. In an embodiment, a computer system can provide an Internet of Things platform. The computer system may include a processor configured to intercept, via a service provider network, an activity message sent from a machine-to-machine device. The processor can obtain a firmware version identifier and an equipment identifier from the activity message. The processor can determine that a firmware update package is available for the machine-to-machine device, and in response, generate a schedule command that instructs a firmware scheduler to send a firmware update request to a firmware-over-the-air server. The processor can provide the schedule command to the firmware scheduler on behalf of the machine-to-machine device.
US10437577B2
A system described herein may facilitate the retrieval and installation of an application (or “app”) at a user device, based on a single user interaction (e.g., a single click, double click, selection, etc.). A one-touch app install (“OAI”) system may communicate with an application programming interface (“API”) that is installed on the user device to provide an app installation package for a requested app. the API may have appropriate permissions with an operating system of the user device to install the app on the user device.
US10437567B2
The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for use in an electronic design environment. Embodiments may include defining, using at least one processor, a grammar object system including one or more of objects, elements, values and relationships. Embodiments may include generating a technology grammar binary representation, based upon, at least in part, the grammar object system and receiving a technology ASCII representation. Embodiments may further include parsing at least one of the technology grammar binary representation and the technology ASCII representation to generate a technology binary representation and providing the technology binary representation to at least one of a graphical user interface or a database.
US10437562B2
An apparatus and method are described for designing an accelerator for processing sparse data. For example, one embodiment comprises a machine-readable medium having program code stored thereon which, when executed by a processor, causes the processor to perform the operations of: analyzing input graph program code and parameters associated with a target accelerator in view of an accelerator architecture template; responsively mapping the parameters onto the architecture template to implement customizations to the accelerator architecture template; and generating a hardware description representation of the target accelerator based on the determined mapping of the parameters to apply to the accelerator architecture template.
US10437556B2
Systems and methods for controlling access to a dataset management system using quotas are provided. For example, a request to perform an action in a dataset management system may be obtained from an entity, and a quota record associated with the entity may be selected. Further, it may be determined if the entity has sufficient quota to perform the action. In some examples, when the entity has sufficient quota to perform the action, the request may be allowed. In some examples, when the entity has insufficient quota to perform the action, the request may be denied.
US10437555B2
Systems and methods for presenting location related information after a user arrives at a place. In an aspect, when a user gazes at a display of a standby device, information presentation begins. In other aspects, when a user shakes a device or says certain words to a device, and then gazes at it, a presentation starts.
US10437547B2
A device includes a first processor and a first display coupled to the first processor, the first processor being configured to generate first display data, pertaining to elements of a first active application currently being executed on the device, for display on the first display, and generate link data pertaining to a subset of the elements of the first active application; wherein the first processor is configured to output the generated link data to a second display. A system and method pertaining to the device are also described.
US10437543B2
The invention relates to a display control apparatus (1) for dynamically controlling the display of information in a vehicle (3). The display control apparatus (1) comprises a controller (12) having at least one electronic processor (13). The at least one electronic processor (13) is configured to control first and second displays (4, 5). In dependence on a determined gaze direction of the vehicle driver, the at least one electronic processor (13) controls a switching module (16) to cause a first information data set (INF1) displayed on said first display (4) to be displayed on said second display (5). The present invention also relates to a method of controlling the display of information in a vehicle (3). One aim is to shift the driver's view back to the road.
US10437540B2
A computer generated method disclosed. The method includes examining a print job data stream spooled in a spooled print production file, identifying one or more white space regions within documents in the print production file and inserting content into each of the white space regions.
US10437529B1
An example of an apparatus includes a network interface to receive print data and context data associated with a portable computing device. The apparatus includes a memory storage unit to store the print and context data, wherein the memory storage unit includes a database of printing devices. The apparatus includes a processor to monitor the context data and to select a printing device from the database based on the context data. The apparatus includes a security evaluation engine to determine whether the printing device and the portable computing device are connected via a secure network. The apparatus includes a print engine to route a print job generated from the print data automatically to the printing device when the printing device and the portable computing device are connected via the secure network and to store the print job in a queue when the printing device is outside the secure network.
US10437528B2
A method includes: associating content with erasure completion information indicating the content has been erased; forming an image of the content and an image at a time of formation indicating the erasure completion information; in a case where an erasure image is formed to be superimposed on at least a part of the image of the content on the recording medium, forming an image at a time of discarding indicating the erasure completion information and the erasure image, where the image at the time of discarding is associated with the content; and in a case where the erasure completion information is identified by the image at the time of formation and the image at the time of discarding included in single image data output when the image capturing device image-captures the recording medium, determining that the content associated with the erasure completion information has been erased.
US10437523B2
A transmit packet processing system includes a memory, one or more processors in communication with the memory, and an operating system. The one or more processors execute a packet processing thread and a rearming thread. The OS maps a receive ring into a first memory of an application and maps the first memory into kernel memory. The packet processing thread reads a receive ring. The packet processing thread retrieves the packet information within the receive ring. The packet processing thread processes the packets. The packet processing thread notifies the rearming thread that a batch size limit is reached and the rearming thread requests the OS to rearm the plurality of descriptors. The OS receives the request and initializes the first descriptor of the plurality of descriptors.
US10437515B2
A method for execution by a computing device of a dispersed storage network includes obtaining resource information for a subset of storage units of a storage unit pool. W available storage units of the storage unit pool are identified in response to receiving a store data request. W choose S combinations of selecting S number of storage units of the W available storage units are identified. A plurality of rating levels is calculated based on the resource information, where each of the plurality of rating levels are assigned to a corresponding combination of the W choose S combinations. One combination of the W choose S combinations is selected based on the plurality of rating levels. Storage of data of the store data request is facilitated utilizing the S number of storage units of the selected one combination.
US10437492B1
A host device can offload certain copy operations to an I/O adapter device coupled to the host device. The I/O adapter device can perform a copy operation to copy data from a source storage volume to a destination storage volume. The source storage volume and the destination storage volume can be local or remote to the I/O adapter device. The copy operations can be performed for replica creation, online migration or for copy-on-write snapshots.
US10437491B2
A method of writing data into a memory device is disclosed. The method comprises utilizing a pipeline to process write operations of a first plurality of data words addressed to a memory bank. Further, the method comprises writing a second plurality of data words and associated memory addresses into a cache memory, wherein the cache memory is associated with the memory bank and wherein further each data word of the second plurality of data words is either awaiting write verification associated with the memory bank or is to be re-written into the memory bank. The method also comprises detecting a power down signal and responsive to the power down signal, transferring the second plurality of data words and associated memory addresses from the cache memory into a secure memory storage area reserved in the memory bank. Finally, the method comprises powering down the memory device.
US10437486B2
A Tenant-Aware Storage-Sharing Engine (TASTE) (225) is described. The TASTE (225) may include storage (510) for information about a set of available storage devices (705, 710) at a data center (105). A reception logic 505) may receive storage device requirements (415) from a tenant (145, 230). Selection logic (515) may then select a subset of the available storage devices (705, 710) that satisfies the storage device requirements 415) of the tenant (145, 230).
US10437483B2
A computing system includes: a host memory including a driver and an address map; a host central processing unit, coupled to the host memory, configured to divide a command to a command packet with the driver, map the command packet to the address map, and deliver the command packet based on the address map over a command address medium.
US10437455B2
A method for activating an application function includes obtaining an activation instruction sent by a user within a blank space accessible to the user on an application interface and activating at least one application function according to the activation instruction. The method allows the user to send the activation instruction from within the blank space accessible to the user on the application interface and activate a corresponding application function, without the need of operating a preset function button as in existing technologies. The technical solution is not limited by application scenarios and has a higher flexibility thus facilitating a convenient and rapid activation of a corresponding function and improving the convenience for the user to use application functions.
US10437448B2
A security system that creates a display using a set of steps including a user input of a security system having a secured area receiving a respective name from the user for each of a plurality of security sensors, a processor matching each of the respective names to one of a plurality of respective names of sensor locations within a Building Information Model (BIM) of the secured area, the user input receiving from the user a specific designation of a corresponding location of each of the plurality of security sensors within a geographic coordinate system of the BIM, a processor of the security system correlating each of the respective names with the corresponding location of the security sensor within the BIM and a processor of the security system mapping each of the plurality of security sensors to a location within the BIM model based upon the name of the device.
US10437445B2
Functionality is described herein for directly interacting with parts of a data visualization. For instance, the functionality allows a user to directly interact with data items to filter them out from the data visualization, and later restore them to the data visualization. The functionality also allows a user to directly interact with an axis to sort the data items in the data visualization. The functionality also allows a user to directly interact with a label of the data visualization to choose a new label, and to reorganize the information represented by the data visualization in response thereto. Further, before finalizing any update to the data visualization, the functionality may provide a preview of the updated data visualization.
US10437443B1
Methods, computer software, apparatuses, and systems are described comprising at least one processor operatively coupled with a display, memory, and at least one input device and further configured to: store a first application, a second application, and a third application, utilizing the memory; detect a first user input, utilizing the at least one input device; in response to the first user input, present, utilizing the display, a plurality of reduced windows including a second application reduced window associated with the second application and a third application reduced window associated with the third application both exterior to a first window associated with the first application that is presented without overlap between the first window and the plurality of reduced windows; detect a second user input in connection with the second application reduced window associated with the second application, utilizing the at least one input device; in response to the second user input in connection with the second application reduced window associated with the second application, present, utilizing the display, a second window associated with the second application for presenting second information associated with the second application, adjacent to the first window associated with the first application; detect a third user input, utilizing the at least one input device; and in response to the third user input, change, utilizing the display, the presentation of the first window and the second window, such that a first size of the first window and a second size of the second window are both changed.
US10437440B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for an analytic data export tool. An embodiment by visualizing, by a computing device, a plurality of available analytic data in a graphical user interface; receiving, by the computing device, a data selection input, wherein the data selection input comprises an interaction with the visualized plurality of available analytic data; packaging the plurality of available analytic data in a data package according to the data selection input; and exporting the data package according to one of a plurality of displayed export options displayed in the graphical user interface.
US10437434B2
A layout creation system is for jointly creating order data that determines a layout of a photo book by two or more users of two or more clients connected to a server via a network, and the system retains one piece of joint order data jointly created by the two or more users; receives an instruction to divide the joint order data as input by a relevant user; creates divided order data having the same layout as the joint order data in accordance with the instruction to divide the joint order data; and associates the divided order data with sharing users sharing the divided order data.
US10437431B2
An improved user interface is provided for displaying selectable software functionality controls and for presenting logical groupings of particular functionality controls associated with a selected top-level functionality. Underneath a row of top-level functionality tabs, functionalities controls associated with a given top-level functionality tab are presented in logical groupings. Selection of a particular tab switches modes of the user interface to present controls for functionalities associated with the selected tab.
US10437427B2
A system and method for document processing includes a three-dimensional touch interface, a processor and associated memory. The processor generates thumbnail image data from received electronic document data and document format data corresponding to the electronic document data and the thumbnail image data. The memory stores associatively the electronic document data, the thumbnail image data and the document format data. The touch interface displays a thumbnail image from the thumbnail image data and generates user input data in accordance with application of one of a plurality of detectable pressure levels to the thumbnail image. The processor commences a document processing operation in accordance with the user input data and the document format data.
US10437426B2
A selection display apparatus includes a display controller which makes a window area in which an item key(s) for selecting an item is(are) displayed according to categories, a window selection key area in which window selection keys for selecting a category of items to be displayed in the window area are displayed, and a specific category selecting key for selecting a specific category among the categories be displayed in a display; a first key controller which, when one window selection key among window selection keys displayed in the window selection key area is operated, makes the item key corresponding to a category indicated be displayed by the window selection key in the window area; and a second key controller which, when the specific category selecting key is operated, makes the item key corresponding to the category indicated by the specific category selecting key be displayed in the window area.
US10437415B2
A device includes circuitry configured to acquire detection data from at least one sensor corresponding to a motion of a finger of a user. The circuitry is also configured to set a window based on the acquired data. The circuitry is also configured to identify a gesture based on a second motion performed by the user and to control a display based on the gesture.
US10437412B2
In particular embodiments, a consent receipt management system is configured to track and analyze one or more attributes of a user interface via which data subjects are requested to provide consent (e.g., consent to process, collect, and/or store personal data) in order to determine which of the one or more attributes are more likely to result in a successful receipt of consent from a data subject. For example, the system may be configured to analyze one or more instances in which one or more data subjects provided or did not provide consent in order to identify particular attributes and/or factors that may increase a likelihood of a data subject providing consent.
US10437408B2
A window management method in an electronic device and an electronic device thereof are provided. The method includes receiving, by a controller, a user input event generated in association with a selection of an item displayed in a display area of a display; and outputting, to the display, by a display control module, a plurality of windows corresponding to the selected item and information indicating at least one output capable window corresponding to the selected item and available to be output in a specified form in a specified area.
US10437403B2
A touch panel according to the embodiment includes: a cover substrate including an active area and an unactive area; an intermediate layer on the cover substrate; and an electrode on the intermediate layer, wherein the intermediate layer includes an acrylic resin composition.
US10437400B2
A touch input device includes a touch sensing element having at least two input parts partitioned by at least one partition line, a plurality of force sensors mounted on a bottom surface of the touch sensing element, and at least one support member mounted on the bottom surface of the touch sensing element to provide reaction force to an elastic sensing element in a vertical direction and serving as the partition line. In at least one of the two input parts, a moment based on a shearing force may be canceled by the support member.
US10437397B2
A capacitive touchscreen includes a substrate and a transparent conductive layer arranged on the substrate. The conductive layer includes a sensing area. The sensing area has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The capacitive touchscreen further includes multiple transparent and conductive first electrodes, multiple transparent and conductive second electrodes, and transparent and nonconductive patterns. Each first electrode includes a first trunk extending from the first side toward the second side. Each second electrode includes a second trunk and a wiring coupled to the second trunk. Both the second trunk and the wiring extend from the first side toward the second side, and each second trunk cooperates with a corresponding first trunks to be operable to sense a touched position. The transparent and nonconductive patterns are located between the first and second electrodes to electrically isolate the first electrodes from the second electrodes.
US10437386B2
A display panel having a touch sensor includes a pixel array, touch sensor blocks, a touch inspection pad unit, and an image inspection pad unit. In the pixel array, a plurality of pixels is disposed in a matrix form. The touch sensor blocks are connected to respective pluralities of the pixels in the pixel array. The touch inspection pad unit divides the touch sensor blocks into odd-numbered touch sensor blocks and even-numbered touch sensor blocks and a first touch inspection pad is coupled to the odd-numbered touch sensor blocks, while a second touch inspection pad is coupled to the odd-numbered touch sensor blocks. The image inspection pad part is commonly coupled to the odd-numbered touch sensor blocks and the even-numbered touch sensor blocks.
US10437381B2
Described herein is a car entertainment and navigation system that includes a user interface controller, a detecting circuit, and a selection circuit. The detecting circuit includes a selection circuit, capacitance-sensing circuitry to determine a location of a touch proximate to one or more electrodes of the touch screen display based on capacitance measurements of a plurality of electrodes of the touch screen made during a first mode of operation of the detecting circuit, and user-detecting circuitry to determine a location of a user corresponding to the touch based on signal measurements of a capacitively-coupled signal at the one or more electrodes made during a second mode of operation of the detecting circuit. The selection circuit is configurable to selectively couple the capacitance-sensing circuitry to the plurality of electrodes during the first mode and selectively coupling the user-detecting circuitry to the one or more electrodes during the second mode.
US10437375B2
The present invention provides a buffer unit for the touch-control driving circuit of the display device, the display device comprises a display panel, which includes gate lines, common electrode lines, pixel electrodes and a common electrode, the common electrode lines are used as touch-control scanning signal lines in the touch-control driving circuit, wherein the buffer unit comprises an input terminal connected to an output of a shift register unit in a gate driving circuit and an output terminal connected to a corresponding gate line, the buffer unit is used to adjust a voltage input to the gate line to a target voltage in a touch-control phase, and a difference between the target voltage and a voltage of the pixel electrode is smaller than a first value when a high level signal is applied to the touch-control scanning signal line.
US10437374B2
A display device including a bottom cover, a window disposed on the bottom cover, a frame disposed between the bottom cover and the window, a display panel disposed between the frame and the window, a bracket disposed between the display panel and the frame, and a pressure sensing portion disposed between the bracket and the display panel, in which the frame includes a base portion disposed between the bottom cover and the bracket, a first support portion protruding from an edge of the base portion toward an edge of the window, and a second support portion protruding from the first support portion, disposed between an edge of the bracket and the base portion, and spaced apart from the base portion.
US10437369B2
A software defined input operation sensing system, including: at least one input operation sensing device, each having at least two sensing functions; at least one driving unit, used for driving the at least one input operation sensing device according to at least one operation configuration command, each of the at least one operation configuration command including a sensing function selecting instruction for selecting a sensing function from the at least two sensing functions, and/or a sensing spec setting instruction for determining a sensing signal detection mode and a sensed data output format; and at least one processing unit for configuring the at least one driving unit according to an application program to determine at least one content of the at least one operation configuration command, and the at least one processing unit including at least one function library for use in determining the at least one operation configuration command.
US10437367B2
A display apparatus includes a basement, a display functional layer, a first electrode, a guard electrode, and a detection controller. The basement has a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The display functional layer is arranged on the side of the second surface of the basement. The first electrode is arranged between the basement and the display functional layer and detects an object in contact with or in proximity to the first surface. The guard electrode is arranged between the first electrode and the basement and supplied with a guard signal. The guard signal suppresses a change in capacitance generated between the first electrode and the guard electrode. The detection controller is a controller to which a signal based on a change in capacitance of the first electrode is output from the first electrode.
US10437363B2
The invention discloses an In-Cell touch panel and a touch display device. The In-Cell touch panel includes: a color filter substrate; a common electrode disposed on the color filter substrate; an array substrate disposed opposite the color filter substrate; an IC disposed on the array substrate; a plurality of data lines and a plurality of gate lines disposed perpendicular to the data lines are disposed on the array substrate; the common electrode is divided into a plurality of common electrode lines, where the common electrode lines also function as drive electrodes or sense electrodes, and the IC is a timesharing IC used for providing the In-Cell touch panel with display signals and touch drive signals and detecting the touch signals of the In-Cell touch panel. The In-Cell touch panel provided by the present invention can effectively reduce the requirement for load of the timesharing IC by the In-Cell touch panel.
US10437361B2
The present invention provides a method for forming a touch panel, at least comprising the following steps. Step S1: a patterned first electrode layer is formed on a cover lens. A display region and a non-display region are defined on the cover lens, and the patterned first electrode layer is formed within the display region; step S2: a shielding layer is formed on the cover lens and disposed within the non-display region; step S3: an insulating layer is then formed on the shielding layer and on the patterned first electrode layer, a plurality of via holes are formed on the insulating layer, thereby exposing parts of the patterned first electrode layer; and step S4: a patterned second electrode layer is formed on the insulating layer within the non-display region, and the patterned second electrode layer is electrically connected to the patterned first electrode layer through the via holes.
US10437348B2
A patient support apparatus, such as a bed, stretcher, cot, operating table, chair, or the like, includes a support surface for an occupant, a user interface, and a control system. The user interface includes multiple sensing layers to detect when a user touches the user interface. The control system activates only a first one of the sensing layers when the patient support apparatus is in a sleep mode, and upon the first sensing layer detecting a user touching the user interface while in the sleep mode, the control system activates that second sensing layer. One of the sensing layers may be resistive and the other capacitive. One of the layers may also detect a position at which the user touches the user interface, while the other layer may only detect that the user interface was touched, but not detect the position of the touch.
US10437347B2
The technology disclosed relates to tracking motion of a wearable sensor system using a combination a RGB (red, green, and blue) and IR (infrared) pixels of one or more cameras. In particular, it relates to capturing gross features and feature values of a real world space using RGB pixels and capturing fine features and feature values of the real world space using IR pixels. It also relates to enabling multi-user collaboration and interaction in an immersive virtual environment. It also relates to capturing different sceneries of a shared real world space from the perspective of multiple users. It further relates to sharing content between wearable sensor systems. In further relates to capturing images and video streams from the perspective of a first user of a wearable sensor system and sending an augmented version of the captured images and video stream to a second user of the wearable sensor system.
US10437332B1
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods that enable inclusion of emotional context in indirect communications based on measured physiological signals of a user. A method of operation of a human mind interface (HMI) system includes determining that a user is preparing an indirect communication, and receiving a measurement of physiological signals related to the user's brain activity. The method includes identifying, within a plurality of stored brain patterns, a brain pattern that corresponds to the measurement received from the physiological sensors; determining, within a plurality of stored emotional states, an emotional state that is linked to the identified brain pattern; and determining, within a plurality of stored expressions, an expression that is linked to the determined emotional state. The method includes augmenting the indirect communication of the user with the determined expression to yield an augmented indirect communication, and sending the augmented indirect communication to the recipient.
US10437320B2
Techniques to control power and processing among a plurality of asymmetric cores. In one embodiment, one or more asymmetric cores are power managed to migrate processes or threads among a plurality of cores according to the performance and power needs of the system.
US10437316B2
On a typical motherboard the processor and memory are separated by a printed circuit data bus that traverses the motherboard. Throughput, or data transfer rate, on the data bus is much lower than the rate at which a modern processor can operate. The difference between the data bus throughput and the processor speed significantly limits the effective processing speed of the computer when the processor is required to process large amounts of data stored in the memory. The processor is forced to wait for data to be transferred to or from the memory, leaving the processor under-utilized. The delays are compounded in a distributed computing system including a number of computers operating in parallel. The present disclosure describes systems, method and apparatus that tend to alleviate delays so that memory access bottlenecks are not compounded within distributed computing systems.
US10437315B2
In one embodiment, a processor core has one or more execution units, a first memory array having a first protection circuit to provide soft error protection to the first memory array, and a control circuit. A power controller coupled to the core may include a protection control circuit, in response to an update to an operating voltage to be provided to the core, to cause the core to disable the first protection circuit. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10437310B2
Technologies for secure hybrid standby power management include a computing device with a processor supporting low-power idle standby. An operating system writes a power management sleep request, such as an ACPI S3 request, to a power management control register of the computing device. The processor traps the write to the power management control register and executes a firmware sleep mapper that causes the processor to enter an idle standby power state such as S0ix. The firmware sleep mapper may be included in a firmware isolated memory region. The address of the firmware sleep mapper may be included in a model-specific register of the processor. The processor may verify the firmware sleep mapper before execution. In response to a wake event, the processor resumes the firmware sleep mapper, which switches the processor to real mode and jumps to a waking vector of the operating system. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10437300B2
An electronic device has a connecting unit configured to connect to an external device by cable and receive external power from the external device, and a control unit configured to execute a predetermined function using the external power. The electronic device logically determines a power supply capability of the external device connected to the connecting unit, and determines whether the external device is capable of power supply at the logically determined power supply capability. If it is determined that the external device is not capable of power supply at the logically determined power supply capability, a prohibited state in which the predetermined function cannot be executed using the external power is set to the control unit.
US10437299B2
An electronic device includes a first housing portion, a second housing portion, a circuit board, a battery, a display screen, and a heat-dissipating structure. The second housing portion is coupled together with the first housing portion. The circuit board and the battery are received within the second housing portion. The heat-dissipating structure is arranged between the circuit board and the display screen. The heat-dissipating structure includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface and defines an opening passing through the first surface and the second surface. The heat dissipating element is located in the opening.
US10437287B2
A flexible display device includes a flexible substrate body including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, a display layer on the first surface of the flexible substrate body, a substrate extension portion bent from a side of the flexible substrate body, the substrate extension portion extending along the second surface of the flexible substrate body and overlapping the flexible substrate body, and a sensor layer interposed between the flexible substrate body and the substrate extension portion to detect a movement input to the display layer.
US10437285B2
A mobile frame includes an upper frame and a lower frame. The upper frame includes an upper outside frame and an upper inside frame. A first coupling portion, of the upper frame, includes a first continuous slot module, a second continuous slot module and a first magnetic coupling device. The lower frame includes a lower outside frame and a lower inside frame, and the lower inside frame is coupled to the lower outside frame. A second coupling portion of the lower frame includes a second magnetic coupling device. A plurality of magnetic elements are positioned between the first and the second continuous slot modules.
US10437279B2
An apparatus includes a clock tree circuit, a first phase interpolator circuit and a second phase interpolator circuit. The clock tree circuit may be configured to generate a first clock delayed from a system clock by a constant time. The first phase interpolator circuit may be in a calibration loop and configured to generate a second clock with a programmable phase delay relative to the first clock. The programmable phase delay may be controlled by a control value. The calibration loop may be configured to determine the control value that results in a given delay between the system clock and the second clock. The second phase interpolator circuit may be in a normal signal path and configured to generate a third clock with the given delay relative to the first clock using the control value such that the third clock is offset from the system clock by the given delay.
US10437276B2
A regulator control circuit includes a regulator configured to provide an output voltage by regulation using one of an input voltage and a dropped input voltage, to a load; and a heat dissipation circuit configured to sense a change in the input voltage, and provide the dropped input voltage to the regulator when the input voltage is sensed to be equal to or higher than a preset level.
US10437270B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor and a storage resource communicatively coupled to the processor. The storage resource may be configured to monitor one or more operating parameters of the storage resource indicative of vibration external to the storage resource affecting performance of the storage resource, determine whether the one or more operating parameters exceed respective threshold values, and in response to determining that the one or more operating parameters exceed a respective threshold value, communicate an indication from the storage resource to a subsystem of the information handling system that the storage resource is experiencing excessive vibration from sources external to the storage resource.
US10437265B2
A pumping energy savings estimator is provided which, based on valve opening data collected for a control valve of a pump-valve system operating in an industrial process, determines an actual maximum (Δporg, ˜50% open) of valve operating region of the control valve of the pump-valve system. User can select a new maximum (Δpnew, ˜70% open) of valve operating region for the control valve. Then the estimator, based on the determined actual maximum of valve operating region and the selected new maximum of valve operating region, energy saving potential (Δpsave) in the pump-valve system. The potential energy savings may be put into practice by replacing the original pump with a new smaller pump, or more preferably, replacing or processing the impeller of the original pump, such that the control valve will operate with the selected new optimal maximum opening of valve operating region.
US10437259B2
Disclosed are systems, devices, and methods for controlling an aerial vehicle. An exemplary method may include receiving data indicating a location and an altitude of the aerial vehicle, receiving data indicating a destination of the aerial vehicle, determining a vector from the location of the aerial vehicle to the destination of the aerial vehicle, receiving prevailing wind pattern data regarding winds at the location and altitude of the aerial vehicle, planning a path for the aerial vehicle to move along the vector based on the prevailing wind pattern data, and causing the aerial vehicle to adjust the altitude of the aerial vehicle based on the prevailing wind pattern data and the planned path.
US10437258B2
The present disclosure provides a vehicle-mounted automatic drive control system, its control method and a vehicle containing the vehicle-mounted automatic drive control system. The vehicle-mounted automatic drive control system comprises at least one sensor, a controller, and a drive control feedback portion. The at least one sensor is coupled to the controller. The drive control feedback portion is coupled to the controller. The at least one sensor is configured to detect at least one object in an environment of the first vehicle and to send a detection result to the controller. The controller is configured to transmit a control signal to the drive control feedback portion if the detection result satisfies a preset condition. The drive control feedback portion is configured, upon receiving the control signal from the controller, to perform an operation such that the first vehicle can adjust a first driving status thereof.
US10437250B2
A method for operating a vehicle, whereby the vehicle, parked at a parking position in a parking facility, is guided autonomously from the parking position to a loading station and parked autonomously at the loading station, so that the vehicle can be loaded at the loading station. Also described is a related vehicle and computer program.
US10437249B2
A vehicle control apparatus is mounted on a vehicle including an emergency stop function to detect an abnormal state of a driver and automatically stop the vehicle. The vehicle control apparatus provides control at a time of stopping the vehicle and includes process execution sections and a process stop section. The process execution sections perform predetermined emergency processes in response to the emergency stop function stopping the vehicle; the emergency processes control instruments mounted on the vehicle and use a battery of the vehicle as a driving power source. The process stop section stepwise stops at least part of the emergency processes performed by the process execution sections based on a predetermined stop sequence.
US10437248B1
A method of controlling position of a marine vessel in a body of water includes determining, at a control module, a relative heading instruction describing a position of the marine vessel relative to a position of the sun. A target global position for the marine vessel is received, and a position of the sun relative to the target global position is determined based on a current date and a current time. A sun adjusted heading is calculated for the marine vessel based on the position of the sun and the relative heading instruction. A current heading of the marine vessel is determined, and propulsion devices on the marine vessel are controlled to position the marine vessel at the target global position and align the current heading of the marine vessel at the sun adjusted heading.
US10437245B2
Apparatus for controlling a device of a motor vehicle includes a communication unit configured to shift the device of the motor vehicle from an idle mode to an active mode by sending a first wireless signal. The apparatus is configured to specify a frequency and/or a channel for transmitting and/or receiving the first wireless signal in the active mode and to control the device so that the device is only shifted from the idle mode to the active mode when the first wireless signal is received at the specified frequency and/or the specified channel.
US10437238B2
A cell controller of a system includes: a sensor management part that collectively manages information from a sensor; a workpiece management part that monitors at least one of the stroke and the state amount of a workpiece, the stroke and state amount being included in the information from the sensor; and a task management part that selects the workpiece to be handled based on the task request from a machine controller and at least one of the stroke and the state amount of the workpiece, and transmits information on the workpiece to be handled to the machine controller.
US10437233B2
A device may receive information associated with an entity-specific designation of a role, and determine a standardized designation of the role that corresponds to the entity-specific designation of the role after comparing the information associated with the entity-specific designation of the role and information associated with a set of standardized designations of roles. The device may receive information associated with a set of tasks that is associated with the role, and compare the information associated with the set of tasks and information associated with a set of automation-capable tasks. The device may determine a set of automation scores associated with the set of tasks, and provide information associated with the set of automation scores to permit an action to be performed based on the set of automation scores.
US10437229B2
A numerical controller includes a machining program creation unit for receiving an input of a machining program including a cycle command, a tool path creation unit for creating a plurality of tool paths based on the machining program, a display unit for displaying the machining program and the plurality of tool paths, and a correspondence relation management unit for recording a relation between an argument of the cycle command and the plurality of tool paths in an information table, wherein the correspondence relation management unit receives a selection of a selected tool path corresponding to one of the plurality of tool paths, and specifies an argument of the cycle command corresponding to the selected tool path with reference to the information table, and the display unit displays the specified argument in a different form from a form of another argument in the machining program.
US10437227B2
A motor drive system includes a power supply unit configured to supply DC power to a DC link, a servo amplifier for drive configured to convert the DC power in the DC link to AC power and supplies the AC power to the servomotor for drive as a driving power, a power storage device configured to store DC power from the DC link or supplies DC power to the DC link, an abnormality detection unit configured to detect the abnormality of the power storage device, and a control unit configured to, when the abnormality detection unit detects the abnormality of the power storage device, control the operation of the servo amplifier for drive such that the output of the servomotor for drive is limited to a value smaller than the output before the abnormality detection by the abnormality detection unit.
US10437224B2
A numerical controller controlling a five-axis machining machine having three linear axes and two rotation axes acquires a linear-axis-caused compensation amount associated with a combination of an instructed linear axis position and linear axis movement direction and an rotation-axis-caused compensation amount associated with a combination of an instructed rotation axis position and rotation axis movement direction, calculate a translation/rotation compensation amount based on the linear-axis-caused compensation amount and the rotation-axis-caused compensation amount, and adds the calculated translation/rotation compensation amount to the instructed linear axis position.
US10437220B1
A machine control system comprising one or more modules with non-transitory computer-readable storage medium to store configuration instructions, one or more of the one or more modules operating as a node to control the one or more modules, and the one or more modules orienting into a hierarchy of modules in response to receiving a system objective to produce an output from the system objective by determining a combined operating space of the one or more modules in the hierarchy of modules, selecting an action from the one or more actions in the combined operating space, sending a message to one or more modules to perform the action, and performing the action by activating the one or more components per the configuration instructions.
US10437218B2
The system includes a crosspoint switch in a local data collection system having multiple inputs individually assigned to any of multiple outputs including a first input connected to a first sensor and a second input connected to a second sensor. The multiple outputs include a first and second output configured to be switchable between a condition in which the first output switches between delivery of the first sensor signal and the second sensor signal and a condition in which there is simultaneous delivery of the first sensor signal from the first output and the second sensor signal from the second output. Unassigned outputs can be switched off producing a high-impedance state. The local data collection system is configured to manage data collection bands that define a specific frequency band and at least one of a group of spectral peaks, a true-peak level, a crest factor derived from a time waveform.
US10437214B1
Disclosed are various embodiments that relate to multi-agent decision system based at least in part on a dual's dual problem formulation. The embodiments limited the amount of information exchanged among autonomous entities. The embodiments can incorporate existing AC optimal power flow (OPF) software systems. In one embodiments, a subgradient-based iterative method is used.
US10437211B2
A simulation system includes a control device for controlling a control object; and an information processing device configured to exchange data with the control device. The control device includes a computation unit configured to execute sequence control and motion control of the control object; and an output unit configured to output a fixed interval of data related to the sequence control and the motion control of the object. The information processing device includes a storage module configured to store design data representing at least a portion of the configuration of the control object; and a visualization module configured to present a visual representation of the behavior of the control object around a period in time that satisfies a predetermined criteria using the fixed interval of data output from the control device, and the design data, where the fixed interval of data from the control device the visualization module uses is the fixed interval of data over a predetermined period that includes the period in time.
US10437206B2
A control apparatus is provided, which includes: a processor; and a memory device that stores instructions to be executed by the processor, the memory device including a determination section that determines a control command according to sensor information, on the basis of a control rule capable of being set by a user for determining the control command controlling a device, and a control section that controls the device in accordance with the control command determined by the determination section, wherein the control rule specifies a first stage and a second stage, the first stage outputting a plurality of independent first values based on a plurality of first input values from a plurality of different types of sensors, and the second stage outputting a command if a second value based on the plurality of first values meets a predetermined condition.
US10437205B2
A control system and a control method of manufacturing injection molding products are provided. The control system includes an injection molding machine, an information input interface, a computing server and a data conversion device. At first, product information is inputted through the information input interface. The product information is transmitted to the computing server, and then the computing server determines injection molding parameters according to the product information. The injection molding parameters are transmitted to the information input interface. After data conversion through the data conversion device, the injection molding machine is controlled to manufacture the injection molding products according to the converted injection molding parameters.
US10437196B2
A cooling device, which is included in an image forming apparatus, includes first and second conveying belts facing each other to hold and convey a recording medium therebetween, a first cooling body in contact with the first conveying belt to cool the recording medium, a second cooling body in contact with the second conveying belt to cool the recording medium, a heat dissipating body to dissipate heat of each cooling medium absorbed from the first and second cooling bodies, a cooling medium entering passage to flow each cooling medium from the heat dissipating body toward respective inlets of the first and second cooling bodies, and a cooling medium exiting passage to merge each cooling medium discharged from respective outlets of the first and second cooling bodies and flow the merged cooling medium to the heat dissipating body.
US10437195B2
An image forming apparatus includes a sheet feeding cassette configured to store a recording sheet, a conveyance unit configured to convey the recording sheet stored in the sheet feeding cassette, and an image forming unit configured to form an image on a photo sensitive member, and to transfer the image onto the recording sheet conveyed by the conveyance unit. A power supply unit is configured to convert an alternating current (AC) voltage of a commercial power supply into a direct current (DC) voltage, and is configured to supply the AC voltage and the DC voltage. A first heater heats the sheet feeding cassette, and generates heat with the AC voltage supplied by the commercial power supply, and a second heater heats the photosensitive member of the image forming unit, and generates heat with the DC voltage supplied by the power supply unit.
US10437193B2
A cleaning device scrapes off and removes toner that has adhered to a surface of a rotating photoreceptor, and includes: a cleaning member formed of an elastic body; a leaf spring member for pressing the cleaning member against the surface of the photoreceptor; and a support portion supporting the leaf spring member. The cleaning member is fixed to one end of the leaf spring member, and the other end of the leaf spring member is fixed to the support portion with a cushioning member formed of an elastic body interposed therebetween. The cushioning member is fixed to the other end of the leaf spring member by an adhesive.
US10437189B2
An image forming apparatus is provided with: an image forming unit having a photosensitive member, a charger, and a developer carrier, the image forming unit being configured to transfer the developer image to a recording sheet to form an image on the recording sheet; a motor configured to drive the photosensitive member and the developer carrier; a controller configured to control the motor and the charger, and a re-conveyance mechanism configured to reverse the recording sheet discharged from the image forming unit and to convey the recording sheet back towards the image forming unit. The controller is configured to turn off the charger after the motor is turned off, during a time period after the recording sheet is discharged from the image forming unit until the recording sheet is re-conveyed to the image forming unit by the re-conveyance mechanism.
US10437179B2
A printer includes a controller that operates an actuator of a transfer assist blade (TAB) mechanism with reference to an actuator profile. The actuator profile identifies an actuator waveform and a plurality of pulse trains for the actuator waveform. The actuator profile and the data associated with it are developed with reference to the drive train for the TAB mechanism. The actuator profiles enable the TAB mechanism drive train to achieve optimal operation over a wide range of media types, substrate speeds, pitch modes, and other print job parameters.
US10437171B2
A regulating portion includes a first contact portion, a second contact portion, opposed surface portion, and a second opposed surface portion. When, in a plane orthogonal to the rotation axis direction of a developer bearing member, the fixed end and the free end of a supporting member are connected by an imaginary straight line, a contact position where the first contact portion contacts the developer bearing member is located on the downstream side, in the rotation direction of the developer bearing member, of a point of contact of a tangent line parallel to the imaginary straight line with the outer periphery of the developer bearing member.
US10437170B2
Provided is an image forming apparatus configured to acquire a density of a test print image at each position in the main scanning direction, which is read by the image reading unit after a first test print image is formed, to correct a setting value of an exposure amount of an exposure device to a first light amount, which is higher than a reference light amount that is an exposure amount when the first test print image is formed, in an area where the acquired density is lower than a target density, to correct the exposure amount of the exposure device to a second light amount, which is lower than the reference light amount, in an area where the acquired density is higher than the target density, and to form a second test print image. On the basis of the second test print image, density correction is performed.
US10437167B2
Provided in one example herein is a liquid electrophotographic ink composition. The composition includes a charge director, a non-polar carrier fluid comprising a polymer; and ink particles each including a polymeric resin and a pigment dispersed in the resin. The ink composition also includes a tackifier.
US10437164B2
A toner for developing an electrostatic image including a binder resin, a coloring agent, and a releasing agent are provided. A particle of the toner satisfies conditions of Equation (1) (W(L)/T(L)≤0.1 and Equation (2) 15
US10437162B2
A vessel having a seal that is protected from the liquid material within the vessel by a volume of gas. The vessel has a partition that divides the vessel into two volume spaces such that the seal that is in gaseous communication with the first volume space is protected from the liquid material in the second volume space by a volume of gas in the first volume space.
US10437160B2
A Lorentz actuator includes: a magnet arrangement; a coil arrangement; and a current controller for supplying a current to the coil arrangement; wherein the magnet and coil arrangement are moveable relative to each other in a main direction, wherein the coil arrangement has a first and second coil portion that are separately operable by the current controller, such that when the same current is supplied to the first coil portion as is supplied to the second coil portion, Lorentz forces generated in the main direction by the first and second coil portions are also the same, and wherein the current controller is configured to supply a current to the first and second coil portions with a phase difference in order to compensate for parasitic reluctance and/or Lorentz forces in an auxiliary direction perpendicular to the main direction.
US10437151B2
There is provided a composition for forming a resist underlayer film for lithography that can be used as an underlayer anti-reflective coating that decreases the reflection of irradiated light during exposure from a semiconductor substrate toward the photoresist layer that is formed on the semiconductor substrate and in particular, can be suitably used as a flattening film for flattening a semiconductor substrate having a recess and a project by embedding, in a lithography process for production of a semiconductor device. A resist underlayer film-forming composition for lithography comprising (A) an alicyclic epoxy compound having an alicyclic skeleton and one or more epoxy groups, and a light absorption moiety, in the molecule, (B) a thermal acid generator, and (C) a solvent.
US10437150B2
Underlayer films of high-energy radiation resists applied onto semiconductor substrates in a lithography process for producing semiconductor devices and that are used to prevent reflection, static electrification, and development defects and to suppress outgassing during the exposure of resist layers with high-energy radiation are prepared from compositions including a film component having an aromatic ring structure or a hetero ring structure. The film component having an aromatic ring structure or a hetero ring structure is contained at a proportion of 5 to 85% by mass. The film component may be a compound having an aromatic ring structure or a hetero ring structure, and the compound may be a polymer or a polymer precursor including a specific repeating unit. The aromatic ring may be a benzene ring or fused benzene ring, and the hetero ring structure may be triazinetrione ring.
US10437149B2
Provided is a photosensitive resin composition, including: a polymer compound which has a polycyclic structure and a sulfonamide group in a main chain thereof; and an infrared absorbent, wherein the polycyclic structure has at least one structure selected from the group consisting of a fused cyclic hydrocarbon structure and a fused polycyclic aromatic structure.
US10437148B2
The resist material according to the present invention contains a compound represented by the following formula (1): wherein each R0 is independently a monovalent group having an oxygen atom, a monovalent group having a sulfur atom, a monovalent group having a nitrogen atom, a hydrocarbon group, or a halogen atom; and each p is independently an integer of 0 to 4.
US10437145B2
A pellicle includes a pellicle frame, a pellicle membrane, and an attaching element, a first surface of the attaching element having exposed pores.
US10437115B2
A liquid crystal display device includes a display-device substrate having a transparent electrode; an array substrate having a pixel electrode, a source line, a gate line, and a conductive line; a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the display-device substrate and initially aligned vertically; and a controller that drives the liquid crystal layer by supplying an image signal to the source line and applying a liquid crystal driving voltage across the transparent electrode and the pixel electrode in synchronization with the image signal, the controller applying a voltage to the conductive line after the liquid crystal driving voltage is applied to the pixel electrode and while the liquid crystal driving voltage is not applied to the pixel electrode, thereby generating an electric field oriented in a direction intersecting the source line in a plan view between the conductive lines.
US10437105B2
An optical film includes a negative C-plate, a light diffusion layer on the negative C-plate, and a polarizer on the negative C-plate where the polarizer includes a linear polarizer and a retardation plate on the linear polarizer, the light diffusion layer includes a first light-transmissive base and a plurality of first rods that have a different refractive index from that of the first light-transmissive base and are aligned at a first inclination angle within the first light-transmissive base, and the negative C-plate has an x-axis refractive index Nx, a y-axis refractive index Ny, and a z-axis refractive index Nz, where “Nx>Nz” and “Ny>Nz.”
US10437103B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, LEDs disposed behind the display panel and spaced from the display panel to emit light toward the display panel, a bottom chassis configured to accommodate the LEDs, and a reflective member disposed inside the bottom chassis and configured to reflect a light portion incident thereon toward the display panel. The reflective member includes a reflective bottom portion corresponding to a front surface of the bottom chassis, and reflective inclined portions obliquely formed to face a rear surface of the display panel and having a plurality of holes thereon. The reflective inclined portions include a first region that corresponds to an LED and a second region that is between two neighboring LEDs, and the first region has a higher hole density than the second region, and the first region is closer to the LED than the second region.
US10437094B2
An array substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The array substrate includes: a plurality of pixel units arranged in an array, each of the pixel units including a first transparent electrode and a color filter unit opposite to each other. A first insulating layer is disposed between the first transparent electrode and the color filter unit, a protrusion is provided between adjacent first transparent electrodes, and a vertex of the protrusion is higher than an upper surface of the first transparent electrode.
US10437091B2
To suppress a variation in characteristics of a transistor due to a released gas from an organic insulating film so that reliability of a display device is increased. The display device includes a transistor, an organic insulating film which is provided over the transistor in order to reduce unevenness due to the transistor, and a capacitor over the organic insulating film. An entire surface of the organic insulating film is not covered with components (a transparent conductive layer and an inorganic insulating film) of the capacitor, and a released gas from the organic insulating film can be released to the outside from exposed part of an upper surface of the organic insulating film.
US10437082B2
An electro-optic modulator (EOM) includes a first electro-optic (EO) material configured to receive light. The first EO material has an optic axis that is not parallel to the optical axis of the EOM. The optic axis indicates the direction through the first EO material along which a ray of light passing through the first EO material experiences no birefringence. The EOM also includes a polarization rotator that receives light output from the first EO material. The rotated light passes through a second EO material. The second EO material is positioned in the EOM such that its optic axis is not parallel to the optical axis of the EOM. The second EO material compensates for the birefringence and/or higher-order optical effects of the first material, thus reducing optical transmission errors of the EOM. The EOM may provide a wider field of view for imaging systems.
US10437072B2
Provided is a line beam forming device that can divide a laser beam into beam segments in a first direction (y-axis) perpendicular to the traveling direction (z-axis) of the laser beam, and arrange and emit the beam segments with regular intervals in a second direction (x-axis) perpendicular to the traveling direction of the laser beam, using a single mirror set composed of a plurality of mirrors. The line beam forming device of the present invention can be used for an excimer laser which is a multimode laser beam generator with high beam divergence, a high-power DPSS laser, or a laser diode, can obtain high-density energy by condensing beams, can obtain a beam profile having uniform intensity in both of a long axis and a short axis, and can combine a plurality of laser beams without being influenced by the properties of an incident beam.
US10437069B2
There is provided a display control device capable of ensuring the user's field of vision while keeping the user safe when the user is using a see-through head-mounted display, the display control device including: a situation acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a situation where a see-through display is being used, and a display control unit configured to perform display control on the see-through display using the information acquired by the situation acquisition unit so that a display of the information on the see-through display gradually becomes clearly visible.
US10437067B2
Systems, devices, and methods for preventing eyebox degradation in wearable heads-up displays (“WHUDs”) are described. A WHUD may provide an eyebox defined by multiple spatially-separated exit pupils, where the size of the eyebox is influenced by the spacing between the exit pupils. A larger eyebox is achieved with larger spacing between the exit pupils but a larger spacing between exit pupils is susceptible to the formation of gaps or blind spots in the eyebox (eyebox degradation) if bright environmental light causes the user's pupil to constrict to a size that is smaller than the spacing between the exit pupils. A material of variable chromism is included in the user's field of view to reduce the perceived brightness of environmental light and thereby prevent the user's pupil from constricting to a size smaller than the spacing between the exit pupils.
US10437064B2
A waveguide display having an input image generator providing image light projected over a field of view; a waveguide having first and second external surfaces; and at least one grating optically coupled to the waveguide for extracting light towards a viewer. The waveguide has a lateral refractive index variation between said external surfaces that prevents any ray propagated within the waveguide from optically interacting with at least one of the external surfaces.
US10437057B2
A virtual reality system includes a first information processing device, a virtual reality headset, a biometric data acquisition device, a first sensor, and a second sensor. The first information processing device creates virtual reality content. The virtual reality headset is worn by the user and displays the virtual reality content received from the first information processing device to the user. The biometric data acquisition device acquires biometric data of the user. The first information processing device adds an image making the user recognize the position and the direction of the biometric data acquisition device to the virtual reality content on the basis of position and direction information created by the first sensor and the second sensor.
US10437053B2
A projection display device for a vehicle which allows visual recognition of a virtual image of a display image from a predetermined eye point, the device includes: a projection portion which projects light to be imaged as the display image on a display surface which is formed by a light reflection member in a windshield of a vehicle or in the vicinity of the windshield; an optical system which guides the light projected from the projection portion to the display surface; and an adjustment mechanism which adjusts the light before being introduced to the optical system so as to allow light derived from a curved image of which at least a part is curved to be introduced to the optical system.
US10437052B2
An image display device includes a light source to emit light, an image forming element to form an image with the light emitted from the light source, a micro-lens array to be irradiated with the light forming the image, the micro-lens array including a plurality of lens columns arranged in a second direction, each lens column including micro-lenses being arranged in a first direction, the first direction and the second direction being perpendicular with each other, and a projection optical system to project light passing through the micro-lens array toward a transmitting and reflecting member.
US10437051B2
An eye tracker comprises a light source; a detector; and first and second waveguides. The first waveguide comprises an input coupler for coupling source light into a waveguide path and a first grating for coupling light out of the waveguide path onto an eye. The second waveguide comprises a second grating for coupling light reflected from the eye into a waveguide path and an output coupler for coupling light out of the waveguide path onto the detector. The second grating is optically configured for imaging the eye onto the detector.
US10437045B2
An optical switch, including an input collimator array, an input micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) chip, an output MEMS chip, and an output collimator array. An included angle (β) exists between a surface of a micromirror array on the output MEMS chip and a surface of a lens array of the output collimator array, micromirrors of the micromirror array on the output MEMS chip are arranged at an equal spacing (L) both in a direction parallel to a first direction and in a direction perpendicular to the first direction, where the first direction is a direction of an intersection line of planes to which the surface of the lens array of the output collimator array and the surface of the micromirror array on the output MEMS chip belong, and lenses of the lens array of the output collimator array are arranged with the same arrangement of micromirrors of the output MEMS chip.
US10437044B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a MEMS light valve, which includes: a fixed grating partitioned into first regions and second regions, which are arranged alternately, wherein the fixed grating comprises reflective units configured within the first regions for reflecting at least part of incident light and the second regions do not reflect light; and a movable grating located at a side of the fixed grating to which outside light is incident and movable in a plane where the movable grating is located, wherein the movable grating is capable of block part or all of the reflective units during moving. The embodiments of the present disclosure are adopted to manufacture of a MEMS light valve and a display device including the MEMS light valve.
US10437042B2
Phosphor elements comprising phosphors in a host material having a phosphorescence-emitting surface with surface nanostructures are disclosed. Phosphor wheels having such phosphor elements, methods of making such phosphor elements, and methods of using such phosphor elements are also disclosed.
US10437040B2
An imaging device includes: a holder that has a substantially hollow cylindrical shape having first and second end portions, both of the first and second end portions being opened in a longitudinal direction of the holder, the holder having a cutout portion on a side surface of the first end portion; a lens group provided inside the holder and configured to collect light incident from the second end portion of the holder; an optical member provided inside the holder and configured to transmit or reflect the light collected by the lens group; and an image sensor configured receive the light from the optical member. Part of an outer surface of the optical member is a columnar surface, and the columnar surface of the optical member abuts on an inside of the holder. Part of the image sensor is attached to the side surface of the holder through the cutout portion.
US10437035B2
Disclosed are a microaspiration-based lung window apparatus for obtaining a microscopic image of in vivo lung tissue and a method for using the window apparatus to obtain cell-level and molecular level microscopic images of in vivo lung tissue while maintaining physiological respiration and circulation of an animal without interference. In one embodiment, a lung window apparatus comprises an open window having the upper and lower parts open, a cover glass placed over the upper part and lung tissue coming in contact with the lower part; an aspiration tube extending from one side of the open window to an aspiration apparatus enabling the inside of the open window to be in a vacuum state; and a tilting mount placing unit extending from one side of the open window having a tilting mount to enable the cover glass and an object lens of a confocal microscope system to stay parallel to each other.
US10437029B2
Systems are presented with special mechanical means to switch a set of lens elements to form a compound lens from a storage position to an imaging position. In the storage mode, these arrangements offer highly efficient space saving schemes suitable for use in application where space is a premium. In the imaging mode, a plurality of lens singlets are brought together on a common imagine axis whereby they operate to form very high quality images at a single image plane. Singlet lenses are held in a lens mount device of a disk element. A plurality of similar cooperating disk elements move against adjacent coupled disks to cause well-regulated desirable motion and positioning. Specifically, portions of the disk include a cam system which permits smooth movement as disk elements are counter rotated with respect to each other thus driving the preferred positioning.
US10437026B2
Providing a zoom lens system having excellent optical performance with a high zoom ratio, an imaging apparatus, and a method for zooming the zoom lens system. The system including, in order from an object, a first group G1 having negative refractive power, a second group G2 having positive refractive power, a third group G3 having negative refractive power, and a fourth group G4 having positive refractive power. An aperture stop S is disposed between the second group G2 and the fourth group G4. Upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, each group is moved such that a distance between the second group G2 and the third group G3 increases, a distance between the third group G3 and the fourth group G4 decreases, and the aperture stop S is moved together with the third group G3. Given conditions are satisfied.
US10437015B2
Present embodiments provide for optical imaging lenses. An optical imaging lens may include five lens elements positioned sequentially from an object side to an image side. By controlling the convex or concave shape of the surfaces of the lens elements and designing parameters satisfying at least one inequality, the optical imaging lens may exhibit better optical characteristics and the total length of the optical imaging lens may be shortened.
US10437011B2
An imaging lens includes a first lens group; a second lens group; and a third lens group, arranged from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes a positive first lens, a negative second lens, and a third lens. The second lens group includes a fourth lens and a fifth lens. The third lens group includes a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The first to seventh lenses are arranged on an optical axis with a space in between respectively. The seventh lens is formed in a shape so that a surface thereof on the object side and a surface thereof on the image plane side have positive curvature radii. The surface of the seventh lens on the image plane side is formed in an aspheric shape having at least one inflexion point. The first and third lenses have specific Abbe's numbers.
US10437010B2
The present disclosure relates to optical lens, in particular to a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens includes, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The first lens is made of plastic material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of glass material, the sixth lens is made of glass material, and the seventh lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens satisfies the following conditions: −10≤f1/f≤−3.1; 1.8≤f6/f7≤10; 1.7≤n5≤2.2; 1.7≤n6≤2.2; and −10≤(R1+R2)/(R1−R2)≤0.8. The camera optical lens can obtain high imaging performance and a low TTL (Total Track Length).
US10437003B2
An optical fiber distribution system is provided. The system includes a distribution cable having a plurality of cable optical fibers. The system includes a plurality of optical fiber tethers each including a tether optical fiber optically coupled to a cable optical fiber. The tethers provide access to and distribute the optical network at positions along the length of the optical fiber. The system is configured to provide access area organization and/or low profiles, such as through staggered tether lengths, tether webbing and/or access area sleeve arrangements.
US10436999B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are directed to a fiber optic apparatus for retrofit fiber optic connectivity. The fiber optic apparatus is configured to reduce the size and footprint of a typical fiber optic cabinet for retrofit deployment within existing copper infrastructure, while allowing a user to provide and manage fiber optic network connections between a network provider and a plurality of subscribers. In an exemplary embodiment, the fiber optic apparatus decreases width by vertically aligning features of the fiber optic apparatus, and decreases depth by angled mounting of splitter parking and horizontal positioning of vertically stacked ribbon-fanout kit (RFK) sets. Further, the fiber optic apparatus includes flexible tubing attached to a detachable strain relief bracket configured for removal the detachable strain relief bracket from the frame and reattachment to the telecommunications cabinet to facilitate flexibility in mounting of the fiber optic apparatus and fiber deployment.
US10436995B2
A cable, which extends in a longitudinal direction, has a cable core and a cable jacket. The cable jacket is extruded around the cable core. The cable is distinguished by the fact that the cable jacket has a plurality of chambers and, overall, is designed, in particular, in the manner of a hollow profile, and by the fact that a functional material different from the material of the cable jacket is introduced within at least one of the chambers. The functional material is preferably a flame proofing agent, but numerous other materials and, in general, functional elements are also conceivable. We further describe a method for producing the cable.
US10436992B2
An interconnect system includes a first circuit board, first and second connectors connected to the first circuit board, and a transceiver including an optical engine and arranged to receive and transmit electrical and optical signals through a cable, to convert optical signals received from the cable into electrical signals, and to convert electrical signals received from the first connector into optical signals to be transmitted through the cable. The transceiver is arranged to mate with the first and second connectors so that at least some converted electrical signals are transmitted to the first connector and so that at least some electrical signals received from the cable are transmitted to the second connector.
US10436990B2
Methods and systems for two-dimensional mode-matching grating couplers may include in a photonic chip comprising a grating coupler at a surface of the photonic chip, the grating coupler having increased scattering strength in a direction of a light wave traveling through the grating coupler: receiving an optical signal from a first direction within the photonic chip; and scattering the optical signal out of the surface of the photonic chip. A second optical signal may be received in the grating coupler from a second direction within the photonic chip. The second optical signal may be scattered out of the surface of the photonic chip. The increasing scattering strength may be configured by increased width scatterers along a direction perpendicular to the direction of light travel. The increased scattering strength may be configured by a transition of shapes of scatterers in the grating coupler.
US10436985B2
The invention relates to a method for producing an optical waveguide (1), the surface of which is at least partly coated with a coating material. The coating material contained in a target (4) is removed using laser radiation (6) of a processing laser or converted into another aggregate state. The coating material is then deposited on the surface of the waveguide (1) and forms a coating thereon, said coating modifying the light guidance. It is the object of the present invention to provide an improved method for producing optical waveguides, in which guidance of undesired electromagnetic radiation and/or guidance of radiation in undesired areas of the waveguide is avoided. To this effect, the present invention proposes that the laser radiation (7) reflected from the target (4) or transmitted through the target heats-up the waveguide (1), said laser radiation (6) being polarized and impinging the target (4) at a specified angle (α) between 10° and 80° relative to the surface normal.
US10436984B2
An optical network comprises a fiber distribution cable and a terminal assembly. The terminal assembly receives a plurality of optical fibers from the fiber distribution cable and distributes one or more individual fibers to one or more single fiber bare-fiber holders that hold and protect each single fiber prepared and configured for splicing via an individual splicing element. The splicing element includes an alignment mechanism having a base plate and a clamp plate. At least one of the base plate and clamp plate is formed from a silica material and at least one of the base plate and clamp plate includes an alignment groove or channel configured to receive the first and second optical fibers in an end-to-end manner. The splice element also comprises an optical adhesive disposed in at least a portion of the alignment groove, wherein the optical adhesive is curable via actinic radiation.
US10436982B1
Structures including waveguide bends, methods of fabricating a structure that includes waveguide bends, and systems that integrate optical components containing different materials. A first waveguide bend is contiguous with a waveguide, and a second waveguide bend is spaced in a vertical direction from the first waveguide bend. The second waveguide bend has an overlapping arrangement with the first waveguide bend in a lateral direction.
US10436972B2
A backlight unit includes an LED, a light guide plate, a light collecting portion, an opposite end portion, and a total reflection regulator. The light guide plate includes a light entering end surface opposed to the LED and a light exiting surface that is one of plate surfaces. The light collecting portion includes light collecting pieces extending on the light exiting surface in a normal direction to the light entering end surface and arrayed in an orthogonal direction perpendicular to the normal direction. The opposite end portion is on an opposite side from the light entering end surface. A section of the opposite end portion includes a curved end surface. The total reflection regulator is disposed on at least a portion of the curved end surface and configured to regulate the amount of light in the opposite end portion to be totally reflected by the curved end surface.
US10436956B2
Examples include a method for fabricating a grating mirror using a computing device that comprises calculating a target phase change across the grating mirror. The target phase change may correspond to a target wavefront shape in a beam of light reflected from a grating patter. The method may also comprise generating the grating pattern comprising a plurality of lines with line widths, line period spacings, and line thicknesses corresponding to the target phase change across the grating mirror using the computing device. In such examples, a set of coordinates may be generated using the computing device with each coordinate identifying a location of a line of the plurality of lines, a line width of the line, a line period spacing of the line, and a line thickness of the line.
US10436955B2
The present invention relates to a layer system, comprising a metallic substrate (1) having the following layers applied on a side (A) thereof from the inside to the outside in the specified order: 4) a layer composed of a material selected from among substoichiometric oxides and oxynitrides of titanium and zirconium or from among metals, selected from among titanium, zirconium, molybdenum, platinum, and chromium or an alloy using one of these metals or of at least two of these metals, 5a) a layer composed of a nickel alloy having chromium, aluminum, vanadium, molybdenum, cobalt, iron, titanium, and/or copper as an alloying partner, or composed of a metal selected from among copper, aluminum, chromium, molybdenum, tungsten, tantalum, titanium, platinum, ruthenium, rhodium, and alloys using one of these metals, or of at least two of these metals, or composed of iron, steel or stainless steel, provided the layer may only consist of aluminum if the reflector layer 6) is formed of aluminum and that, in this case, the aluminum of layer 5a) has been sputtered, 6) an optically dense, high-purity metal reflector layer, 7) a layer selected from among substoichiometric oxides of titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, tantalum, niobium or chromium and from among metals selected from among chromium, titanium, zirconium, hafnium, vanadium, niobium, tantalum, tungsten, molybdenum, rhodium, and platinum and alloys using one of these metals or at least two of these metals, 9) a layer having a low refractive index (“LI layer”) in relation to a directly adjoining layer 10) (“HI layer”), and 10) a layer directly adjoining layer 9) and having a higher refractive index (“HI layer”) in relation to layer 9) (“LI layer”). The layer system can be used, e.g. as a surface reflector, preferably in applications with LEDs, particularly MC-COB for LEDs, as a solar reflector or as a laser mirror, in particular for color wheels in DLP laser projectors.
US10436949B2
An optical lens includes: (i) a temporary coating for protection against degradation at least partially covering a surface of the lens, the temporary protective coating including an outermost layer mechanically degradable through friction and/or contact, and (ii) a removable film having a first side and a second side, which adheres to the outermost layer of the temporary protective coating through its first side, the first side of the removable film including at least one surface portion, which, when applied to the outermost layer of the temporary protective coating, includes at least one adherent zone and at least one non-adherent zone distributed across the surface portion.
US10436942B2
Statistically representing point-to-point photovoltaic power estimation and area-to-point conversion of satellite pixel irradiance data are described. Accuracy on correlated overhead sky clearness is bounded by evaluating a mean and standard deviation between recorded irradiance measures and the forecast irradiance measures. Sky clearness over the two locations is related with a correlation coefficient by solving an empirically-derived exponential function of the temporal distance. Each forecast clearness index is weighted by the correlation coefficient to form an output set of forecast clearness indexes and the mean and standard deviation are proportioned. Additionally, accuracy on correlated satellite imagery is bounded by converting collective irradiance into point clearness indexes. A mean and standard deviation for the point clearness indexes is evaluated. The mean is set as an area clearness index for the bounded area. For each point, a variance of the point clearness index is determined and the mean and standard deviation are proportioned.
US10436939B2
The disclosed embodiments include a method, apparatus, and computer program product for generating hybrid computational meshes around complex and discrete fractures for the purpose of reservoir simulation. For example, one disclosed embodiment includes a method that comprises receiving a set of 3D fracture surfaces with geometry that has been discretized in a 2D manifold by a collection of polygons. The method defines a family of non-intersecting 2D slicing surfaces for slicing the set of 3D fracture surfaces. The method then uses the intersection of the 2D slicing surface with the 2D manifolds defining the fracture surfaces to create a set of 2D fractures on each slicing surface. Following a series of steps, the method generates three-dimensional shells connecting a set of stadia corresponding to each fracture on each 2D slicing surface to a corresponding set of stadia on a neighboring 2D slicing surface for creating a three-dimensional model.
US10436933B2
Systems, methods, and devices for evaluating an earth formation intersected by a borehole. Apparatus may include at least one radiation detector configured to generate an analog electrical signal responsive to a plurality of radiation events, comprising absorption of incident ionizing radiation at a corresponding energy level, and an ionizing radiation spectrometer configured to convert each analog electrical signal from the at least one radiation detector into a plurality of digital signal pulses corresponding to the radiation events and resolve the plurality of digital signal pulses into radiation count information representative of the radiation events. Spectrometers include an input channel for each detector of the at least one radiation detector comprising an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) and configured to convert the analog electrical signal for each detector into the plurality of digital signal pulses; and at least one processor configured to generate the radiation count information.
US10436931B2
Electromagnetic sensors which provide high coupling gain between the transmitter and receiver of a dielectric tool include a conductive pad having a cavity filled with dielectric filler, and an electrical conductor that provides electrical current to a conductive feeder placed inside the dielectric filler. During operation, current is fed to the conductive feeder to thereby produce an electric monopole that feeds electromagnetic power into the cavity, which then radiates out into the formation as electromagnetic signals. Because of the design of the electromagnetic sensors, the transmitter/receiver coupling gain and SNR are optimized over the entire range of the dielectric constant (i.e., 5≤ϵr≤80).
US10436927B2
A method can include receiving seismic data of a geologic environment; receiving a background model that is a part of a partitioned model of the geologic environment; predicting reflections using the background model; determining incoherence of an offset-dependent matching filter based at least in part on the reflections and the seismic data; based at least in part on the incoherence, adjusting the background model to generate an adjusted background model; and outputting the adjusted background model.
US10436912B1
The present disclosure provides a method for ARAIM fault detection based on extraction of characteristic value of pseudo-range measurement, comprising: calculating a sum of integrity risks of each of fault modes and a maximum value of the integrity risks of each of the fault modes, calculating a quantity of the fault modes by using a ratio of the sum of integrity risks of each of fault modes to an integrity risk of a largest fault, and using a sample quantity of corresponding pseudo-range measurement values as an effective sample quantity; using a ratio of a time duration T to the effective sample quantity as an effective sampling duration; sampling samples of pseudo-range measurement values that are gathered by a receiver within the effective sampling duration, to obtain an effective pseudo-range measurement set; and by using the effective pseudo-range measurement set, calculating a test statistic, and performing integrity fault detection.
US10436906B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for determining a range and relative speed of objects in an environment. An example method includes causing a laser light source to emit a plurality of light pulses, both incoherent and coherent. The light pulses interact with an environment to provide reflected light pulses. The method includes providing a local oscillator signal based on a coherent light pulse. The method also includes receiving, at a detector, the reflected light pulses, and the local oscillator signal. The method additionally includes determining, based on at least one of the reflected light pulses, a presence of an object in the environment. The method yet further includes determining, based on another reflected light pulse and the local oscillator signal, a relative speed of the object with respect to the detector.
US10436885B2
A system calibrates one or more sensors mounted to an autonomous vehicle. From the one or more sensors, the system identifies a primary sensor and a secondary sensor. The system determines a reference angle for the primary sensor, and based on that reference angle for the primary sensor, a scan-start time representing a start of a scan and a scan-end time representing an end of a scan. The system receives, from the primary sensor, a primary set of scan data recorded from the scan-start time to the scan-end time. The system receives, from the secondary sensor, a secondary set of sensor data recorded from the scan-start time to the scan-end time. The system calibrates the primary and secondary sensors by determining a relative transform for transforming points between the first set of scan data and the second set of scan data.
US10436880B2
The invention relates to an appliance for detecting objects in a detection region, with a radiation device for emitting an electromagnetic scanning beam into at least a part of the detection region and with a device for modulating the scanning beam as well as with a detection device for the detection of reflected radiation from at least a part of the detection region and with a device for evaluating the time response of the detected, reflected radiation, in dependence on the modulation of the scanning beam.According to the invention, one can envisage the radiation device comprising a radiation source radiating a diffusion device scattering the radiation at least partly into the detection region, in order to be able to apply an as powerful as possible laser as a t source without endangering the eye safety or the general safety of persons.
US10436878B2
A method of localizing portable apparatus (200) obtains: a stored experience data set comprising a set of connected nodes; captured location representation data provided by at least one sensor associated with the portable apparatus, and a current pose estimate of the portable apparatus within the environment. The pose estimate is used to select a candidate set of the nodes that contain a potential match for the captured location representation data. The pose estimate is used to obtain a set of paths from path memory data, each said path comprising a set of said nodes previously traversed in the environment under similar environmental/visual conditions. The set of paths is used to refine the candidate set. The captured location representation data and the refined candidate set of nodes is compared in order to identify a current pose of the portable apparatus within the environment.
US10436877B2
A wireless positioning system for detecting a positioning coordinate of a person comprises a wireless positioning device for sending a wireless broadcast signal comprising a device identity code and a motion vector; a plurality of wireless base stations for receiving the wireless broadcast signal and sending a positioning signal comprising a wireless broadcast signal and an RSSI; and a positioning server for receiving the positioning signal and calculating the positioning coordinates of the wireless positioning device according to the positioning signal. Wherein, when the received positioning signal is insufficient to calculate the positioning coordinates, the positioning coordinates are calculated based on the last positioning coordinate plus the motion vector. Compared with the prior art, the wireless positioning system of the present invention uses the RSSI to cooperate with the motion vector. The wireless positioning range is expanded with more accuracy.
US10436876B2
A method for determining the location of a mobile device that has placed an emergency communication includes determining that an emergency communication has been made by a mobile device having a wireless radio and receiving, from the mobile device, an identifier of a first device detected by the wireless radio. If the first device is not fixed, the method includes sending a first location request to the first device to determine a first location of the first device. The method also includes determining a location of the mobile device based upon the first location and providing the mobile device location to a recipient of the emergency communication.
US10436875B2
Various methods for determining a configuration of a communications system are provided, including methods for determining system node positions. One example method includes generating a node attribute information segment, and adding the node attribute information segment to an attribute information message at a position within the attribute information message indicative of a position of a node within a series string of communications connections. Some of the methods may be implemented within the context of an asset locating system that analyzes the timing of wireless signals to determine a location of the source of the signal. Related systems and apparatuses are also provided.
US10436874B2
Systems and methods for calibration and operation of a source-measure unit (SMU). The system may include a functional unit and output terminals coupled to the functional unit. An excitation signal may be applied to a capacitor by the SMU. The capacitor may be included in a calibration circuit. The method may include obtaining one or more of a current calibration coefficient (CCC) or a voltage calibration coefficient (VCC). The CCC may correspond to a current-range setting and the VCC may correspond to a voltage-range setting. The CCC may be obtained from a value of a first current and a value of a second current developed in the capacitor responsive to the excitation signal. The VCC may be obtained from a value of a first voltage and a value of a second voltage developed across the capacitor responsive to the excitation signal.
US10436871B2
A new low rank tensor (LRT) imaging strategy/methodology, specifically for quantitative cardiovascular magnetic resonance (CMR) multitasking, includes performing a low-rank tensor image model exploiting image correlation along multiple physiological and physical time dimensions, a non-ECG data acquisition strategy featuring minimal gaps in acquisition and frequent collection of auxiliary subspace training data, and a factored tensor reconstruction approach which enforces the LRT model.
US10436868B2
A magnetic resonance tomography system includes a computer configured to implement signal processing of transmit signals and/or receive signals. The signal processing is configured to implement a mixer, an upsampler, a decimator, a filter, or any combination thereof.
US10436862B2
In an MRI apparatus, an imaging that produces almost no sound is implemented without extending an imaging time, not only for three-dimensional imaging, but also for two-dimensional imaging. A gradient pulse in a pulse sequence provided in the MRI apparatus is adjusted by using a basic waveform having a distribution of frequencies where strength dwindles substantially as the frequency increases from zero, and the waveform is convex upward or downward varying smoothly. An application time and strength are adjusted so that almost no sound is produced. Any imaging executable by a conventional pulse sequence can be implemented without producing almost any sound, using the conventional pulse sequence with little change.
US10436858B2
An imaging system and method are disclosed. An MR image and measured B0 field map of a target volume in a subject are reconstructed, where the MR image includes one or more bright and/or dark regions. One or more distinctive constituent materials corresponding to the bright regions are identified. Each dark region is iteratively labeled as one or more ambiguous constituent materials. Susceptibility values corresponding to each distinctive and iteratively labeled ambiguous constituent material is assigned. A simulated B0 field map is iteratively generated based on the assigned susceptibility values. A similarity metric is determined between the measured and simulated B0 field maps. Constituent materials are identified in the dark regions based on the similarity metric to ascertain corresponding susceptibility values. The MRI data is corrected based on the assigned and ascertained susceptibility values. A diagnostic assessment of the target volume is determined based on the corrected MRI data.
US10436850B2
A power storage apparatus including a battery and a control circuit controlling charging/discharging of the battery, wherein the control circuit determines, when a predetermined time period that has elapsed after the charging/discharging of the battery was ended is shorter than a polarization elimination time period extending from a time at which the charging/discharging of the battery was ended to a time at which polarization of the battery was judged to have been eliminated, an estimated open-circuit voltage for the battery after the elimination of the polarization of the battery; determines the difference between a first estimated charge state and a charge state determined by a time at which the estimated open-circuit voltage was estimated; and determines a second estimated charge state by summing the state of charge determined by the time at which the estimated open-circuit voltage was estimated and the product of the difference and the reflection coefficient.
US10436846B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for estimating a full-charge battery cell capacity without a coulomb counting device. First and second measured voltages of the battery cell are measured during a charging or discharging period. The first and second measured voltages of the battery cell are converted to percentages of remaining battery life. The amount of charge delivered to the battery cell and/or delivered from the battery cell during charging/discharging is calculated. The change in the percentage of remaining battery life is compared to the amount of charge delivered to the battery cell and/or delivered from the battery cell to calculate various battery cell evaluation calculations, including a full-charge battery cell capacity.
US10436845B2
Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling a battery are disclosed. Systems can include a battery having an output voltage and an output current when delivering power, a load driven by power delivered from the battery, battery output voltage and current sensing circuits, and processing circuitry coupled to the battery output voltage and current sensing circuits. The processing circuitry may be configured to obtain sensed battery output voltage and current values, and to estimate values for at least three battery state parameters by concurrently fitting the voltage and current values to at least two different equations.
US10436843B2
A system and method according to various embodiments can include a programmable current sink circuit that comprises a digital-to-analog converter (DAC). The DAC is programmable to set an adjustable magnitude of current sink so that a proper amount of current is jointly sunk from a plurality of inputs to generate a total sink current. With the adjustable current sink, redundant inputs, such as dual modular redundancy or triple modular redundancy, or simplex inputs can jointly sink the proper amount of current.
US10436840B2
A distributed test circuit includes partitions arranged in series to form a scan path, each partition including a scan multiplexer, a test data register, and a segment insertion bit component. The scan multiplexer of each partition provides inputs to the corresponding test data register of the each partition. Broadcast control logic generates a select signal to the scan multiplexer of each partition to place the test circuit in a broadcast mode when the select signal is asserted, and to switch the test circuit to a daisy mode when select signal is de-asserted. The segment insertion bit is operable to include or bypass each partition from the scan path.
US10436839B2
A device comprising includes an output terminal and a first current path from the output terminal to a first reference voltage. The first current path includes a series connection of current electrodes of a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor receives at a control electrode a signal to set a desired level of current to be conducted by the first current path. The second transistor generates at a control electrode a feedback signal indicative of an actual current conducted by the first transistor.
US10436836B2
An unbalanced multiplexer and a scan flip-flop including the unbalanced multiplexer, wherein the unbalanced multiplexer includes a first transmission circuit transmitting a first input signal to an output terminal according to a logic state of a selection signal; and a second transmission circuit transmitting a second input signal to the output terminal according to the logic state of the selection signal. A delay characteristic of a first transmission path from a first input terminal to the output terminal along which the first input signal of the first transmission circuit is transmitted, and a delay characteristic of a second transmission path from a second input terminal to the output terminal along which the second input signal of the second transmission circuit is transmitted, are set differently.
US10436833B2
Provided is a technique capable of preventing occurrence of partial discharge. An evaluation apparatus includes a probe disposed on an undersurface of an upper component; a sidewall part disposed on the undersurface of the upper component and enclosing sides of the probe; and a first gas supplying part. The first gas supplying part is capable of supplying a gas to a to-be-measured object that is placed on a stage when the sidewall part comes in proximity to the stage, and to a space enclosed by the stage, the sidewall part, and the upper component when the sidewall part is in contact with the stage.
US10436829B2
A device for measuring electrical properties of electrical contacts within an electroplating apparatus has a disc-shaped structure like that of a wafer. Multiple conductive pads are formed to collectively circumscribe an outer periphery of the disc-shaped structure. Adjacently positioned ones of the conductive pads are electrically isolated from each other. The device includes a current source that supplies electric current at a first terminal and sinks electric current at a second terminal. The device includes measurement circuitry, having first and second input terminals, that determines a value of an electrical parameter based on signals present at the first and second input terminals. The device includes switching circuitry for connecting selected ones of the conductive pads to the first and second terminals of the current source and to the first and second input terminals of the measurement circuitry at a given time. The device also includes an onboard power supply.
US10436824B2
Accordingly, the embodiments herein provide an energy measurement information labeling system at a power penetration point. The energy measurement information labeling system includes an energy measuring apparatus configured to collect power information including a power signal, at the power penetration point, for a plurality of load apparatuses. Further, the energy measuring apparatus is configured to generate and transmit a data set for each of the load apparatus which matches one of an operating status and a change pattern of operating status of each the load apparatus through a signal correlation depending on power usage features of the individual load apparatuses. Further, the energy measurement information labeling system includes a power information labeling server configured to receive the data set, and reclassify the data set according to the operating characteristics of each of the load apparatuses.
US10436823B2
A method includes obtaining a voltage phasor, a current phasor and a mechanical rotor angle of a source end generator. A receiving end generator impedance and a line impedance between the source end generator and a receiving end generator is also estimated. Furthermore, a swing angle between an internal voltage of the source end generator and an internal voltage of the receiving end generator as a function of obtained voltage phasor, current phasor, mechanical rotor angle and the impedances is estimated. A power swing condition is then determined based on the estimated swing angle.
US10436818B2
A method of making a cantilever MEMS probe module includes the steps of forming a cantilever MEMS probe on a first surface of a circuit substrate by a MEMS fabrication process in a way that the cantilever MEMS probe has a support post electrically and mechanically connected with an electric contact of the first surface, a cantilever arm connected with the support post, and a needle connected with the cantilever arm, and forming a through hole penetrating through the first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface of the circuit substrate and corresponding in position to the needle and a part of the cantilever arm by using a cutting tool to cut the circuit substrate from the second surface toward the first surface of the circuit substrate. A probe module made by the method is disclosed too.
US10436813B1
A Surface Plasmon Scanning-Tunneling Chemical Mapping (SPSTM) system is disclosed that determines identification characteristics of a target material. An optical beam source launches an optical beam that propagates through a transparent optical element to a material layer to excite surface plasmons of the material layer. An optical probe with a nanometer-sized tip is positioned over a nanometer-sized region of the target material, which is positioned on the material layer, to measure a probe signal associated only with the surface plasmons that tunnel from the material layer through the nanometer-sized region of the target material and collected by the optical probe. An optical property analyzer is configured to determine at least one optical property associated with the nanometer-sized region based on the probe signal associated with the surface plasmons collected by the optical probe. The optical properties identify identification characteristics associated with the nanometer-sized region of the target material.
US10436810B1
A method for tracking movement and turning angle of a mobile robotic device using two optoelectronic sensors positioned on the underside thereof. Digital image correlation is used to analyze images captured by the optoelectronic sensors and determine the amount of offset, and thereby amount of movement of the device. Trigonometric analysis of a triangle formed by lines between the positions of the optoelectronic sensors at different intervals may be used to determine turning angle of the mobile robotic device.
US10436808B2
A laboratory sample distribution system is presented. The system comprises a number of sample container carriers, a transport plane, a number of electro-magnetic actuators, a number of position sensors and a position determination unit. The position sensors and the position determination unit enable improved sample container carrier position detection on the transport plane. A laboratory automation system comprising such a laboratory sample distribution system is also presented.
US10436807B2
It is an object to prevent impersonation in breath measurement by using a portable device. After breath is introduced into a breath introduction inlet 11 of a breath introduction device 1, a first image group is acquired by continuously capturing images over a predetermined period, and after drinking determination based on the introduced breath from the breath introduction inlet 11, the portable device is provided with an imaging device 11 that acquires a second image by capturing an image again and outputs whether or not each image in the first image group and the second image are the images of the same person.
US10436805B2
Test strips for determining the activity of a coagulation factor in a blood sample are provided. The strip comprises a support, a sample inlet port for deposition of a blood sample, and a reaction area comprising a blood coagulation reagent. The sample inlet port is connected to the reaction area, and the coagulation reagent comprises blood plasma deficient in the coagulation factor for which activity is to be measured, an ionic citrate source an ionic calcium source, and either one or more coagulation contact phase activator reagents and phospholipids or a mixture of tissue factor and phospholipids. The disclosure further relates to in vitro methods for measuring an activity of a coagulation factor.
US10436793B2
The presently disclosed subject matter provides methods using mass spectrometry for direct profiling of N-linked glycans from a biological sample. In addition, the embodiments of the present invention also disclose novel methods, known as targeted analyte detection (TAD), for improving the detection limit of MALDI-MS. These methods take advantage of the carrier effect of the added standard analytes, which occurs due to the generic sigmoidal shape of the calibration curve. The functionality of TAD depends on the relative enhancement of sensitivity over the increase of the standard deviation at the analysis of target analytes with spiking in exogenous concentration. At certain ranges of exogenous concentration, the increment in the sensitivity overcomes the standard deviation, resulting in an improved LOD. Theoretically, exogenous concentrations approximately at 1 LODorig would generate the optimum LOD improvement. TAD is a cost-effective LOD improvement method, which is not limited to a certain group of analytes, or detection methods or instruments. It can be applied to enhance the detection of any analyte with different detection methods, provided that the analyte of interest can be extracted or is available in synthetic form.
US10436785B2
The invention provides antibodies that bind specifically to human indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 (IDO1), and methods of using the same. The antibodies are capable of binding to a sequence comprising SEQ ID NO: 1 and specifically bind to human IDO1 in formalin fixed paraffin embedded tissues. The antibodies are useful in a number of different analytical techniques, including immunohistochemistry (IHC) and immunocytochemistry (ICC).
US10436783B2
This invention provides a method for easily collecting antigens possessed by microorganisms without the use of special equipment. The method for collecting microbial antigens comprises: allowing a specimen containing microorganisms to pass through a filter membrane with a pore diameter that does not allow microorganisms to pass therethrough; capturing the microorganisms in the specimen on the filter membrane; applying a microbial destruction reagent capable of microbial membrane destruction to the filter membrane comprising the microorganisms captured thereon to destruct the captured microorganisms on the filter membrane; and collecting antigens in the filtrate.
US10436780B2
A particle sensing system which includes a plurality of micro-lenses which focus light from an unfocused or loosely focused light source onto a corresponding plurality of focus regions on a surface containing plasmonic structures. The absorption of light by the plasmonic structures in the focus regions results in heat dissipation in the plasmonic structures and consequently increases surface temperature in the focus regions. When an electrical field is applied to a sample fluid in contact with the surface, multiple electrothermal flows are induced in the fluid which rapidly transport suspended particles to the focus regions on the surface. The particles can then be captured and/or sensed.
US10436779B2
There is provided a biosensor for detecting pathogens in a sample. The detection is based on colorimetry. The biosensor comprises one or more particle supports and a magnetic material attached to a planar support. The biosensor embodies magnetic particles that are functionalized using a chemical substrate specific to the pathogens to be detected. The sensor may allow for a simultaneous detection of a plurality of pathogens in the sample. Also, the sensor may be disposable. Moreover, the sensor may be integrated in a portable detection device.
US10436770B2
An interlock data collection and calibration system has a device computer, and a gas sample delivery system for delivering a first gas sample and a second gas sample to the ignition interlock device, the first and second gas samples having different predetermined concentrations of alcohol. The device computer includes a calibration program for calibrating the ignition interlock device using the first gas sample, and then delivering the second gas sample to the ignition interlock device to verify that the ignition interlock device correctly determines the second alcohol concentration of the second sample gas.
US10436766B1
A monitoring apparatus is adapted to monitor lubricant in a hydraulic fracturing pump system, and includes a gateway and one or more sensors configured to be in communication with the gateway. The one or more sensors are configured to measure quality of the lubricant, a pressure of the lubricant, and a temperature of the lubricant. The gateway is configured to receive sensor data associated with the quality of the lubricant, the pressure of the lubricant, and the temperature of the lubricant. To monitor the lubricant, the gateway is configured to: store the sensor data on the non-transitory computer readable medium; transmit to another computing device the sensor data and/or representative data based on the sensor data; visually indicate a status of the quality of the lubricant; visually indicate a status of the pressure of the lubricant; visually indicate a status of the temperature of the lubricant; or any combination thereof.
US10436760B2
The invention relates to a humidity indicating composition comprising (a) an organic pH indicator dye compound, (b) a Bronsted base comprising an organosilane, (c) a moisture-curable binder, (d) an optional rheology additive and (e) an optional alkaline filler.
US10436758B2
A method for determining an ultraviolet (UV) cure level of a material is disclosed. For example, the method includes receiving an object with the material that is cured via a UV light source, controlling a heat source to heat the material, measuring a parameter of the material in response to the heat, determining the UV cure level of the material based on the parameter that is measured and a predefined response of the material at a temperature associated with the heat, and generating a signal to display the UV cure level in response to the determining.
US10436752B2
A particulate measurement apparatus comprises a control section, which provisionally determines in an anomaly determination process that a corona core wire is in a short anomaly state when a linear voltage is equal to or lower than a particular voltage value and increments a sensor anomaly counter CNS or a chassis anomaly counter. The control section determines that the corona core wire is in a short anomaly state when the count value of one of the anomaly counters is equal to or greater than a determination threshold.
US10436751B2
A dielectric barrier discharge ionization detector Includes: a dielectric tube; a high-voltage electrode connected to an AC power source and circumferentially formed on the outer wall of the dielectric tube; upstream-side and downstream-side ground electrodes and circumferentially formed above and below the high-voltage electrode; a discharging section for generating electric discharge to create plasma, from a gas containing argon; and a charge-collecting section for ionizing sample-gas components by the plasma and detecting an ion current formed by the ionized components. The detector also satisfies one or both of the following conditions: the upstream-side ground electrode is longer than a creeping discharge initiation distance between a tube-line tip member at the upper end of the dielectric tube and the high-voltage electrode; or the downstream-side ground electrode is longer than a creeping discharge initiation distance between the high-voltage electrode and the charge-collecting section.
US10436748B2
This disclosure describes methods, apparatuses, and systems to determine the presence of a chemical substance in an environment, by detecting one or more chemical substances in the environment by using at least one sensor that performs one or more electrochemical tests on one or more chemical samples in the environment, and generates one or more electrical signals corresponding to the chemical samples in the environment. The methods, apparatuses, and systems may also receive and process the one or more electrical signals corresponding to the one or more samples from the environment, wherein the methods, apparatuses, and systems compare the electrical signals to electrical signals corresponding to profiles of known chemical substances in the environment to determine if a match exists. The methods, apparatuses, and systems may compare the electrical signals to baseline threshold values of known chemical substances in the environment to determine if there is an excess or lack of the chemical substance. The methods, apparatuses, and systems may compare the electrical signals to both the stored profiles and baseline threshold values of known chemical substances in the environment to determine if known chemical substances are present in the environment. The methods, apparatuses, and systems may display an alert to confirm, deny, or require further testing to confirm or deny the presence of known chemical substances.
US10436747B2
There is provided a method for sensing the translocation of a molecule through a nanopore. In the method, there is directed to an inlet of a nanopore a molecule that is disposed in a first ionic solution of a first ionic concentration. The molecule is caused to translocate through the nanopore from the inlet of the nanopore to an outlet of the nanopore and into a second ionic solution of a second ionic concentration that is different than the first ionic concentration. An electrical potential, local to that ionic solution, of the first and second ionic solutions, which has a lower ionic concentration, is measured while the molecule is caused to translocate through the nanopore.
US10436746B2
Electrochemical and bio sensors using metal oxide semiconductors and method of making the same are described herein. The sensor includes a gate electrode, a dielectric layer over the gate electrode, a channel layer over the dielectric layer, and source and drain electrodes formed on the channel layer to provide a field effect transistor structure. The channel layer is a metal oxide semiconductor film that has a substantially uniform thickness of at least 3 nm thick and less than 10 nm thick. The metal oxide semiconductor film is functionalized with molecules attached thereto that are open to make contact with a fluid for detection of at least one component or at least one physical or chemical property of the fluid.
US10436744B2
A method of making a low dimensional material chemical vapor sensor comprising providing a monolayer of a transition metal dichalcogenide, applying the monolayer to a substrate, applying a PMMA film, defining trenches, and placing the device in a n-butyl lithium (nbl) bath. A low dimensional material chemical vapor sensor comprising a monolayer of a transition metal dichalcogenide, the monolayer applied to a substrate, a region or regions of the transition metal dichalcogenide that have been treated with n-butyl lithium, the region or regions of the transition metal dichalcogenide that have been treated with n-butyl lithium have transitioned from a semiconducting to metallic phase, metal contacts on the region or regions of the transition metal dichalcogenide that have been treated with the n-butyl lithium.
US10436741B2
A method of measuring a hydrogen diffusivity of a metal structure is provided. The method includes providing a hydrogen charging surface at a first location on an external surface of the structure, and a hydrogen oxidation surface at a second location adjacent to the first location on the external surface of the structure. A hydrogen flux is generated and directed into the metal surface at the charging surface. At least a portion of the hydrogen flux generated by the charging surface and diverted back toward the surface is detected, and a transient of the diverted hydrogen flux is measured. The hydrogen diffusivity of the metal structure is then determined based on the measured transient.
US10436732B2
A wear indication sensor comprising: a resistor strip configured to be operably attached to the surface of an engine component, the resistor strip including a first end and second end; a plurality of lead wires comprising: a first lead wire electrically connected to the first end proximate an aft end of the engine component; a second lead wire electrically connected to the first end proximate a forward end of the engine component; a third lead wire electrically connected to the second end proximate the aft end of the engine component; and a fourth lead wire electrically connected to the second end proximate the forward end of the engine component; and a measurement device electrically connected to each of the plurality of lead wires, wherein the measurement device is configured to measure a resistance of the resistor strip between each of the plurality of lead wires.
US10436731B2
A miniature gas sensing device includes a silicon-based substrate including an opening. A first membrane is formed over the silicon-based substrate and a first portion of the first membrane covers the opening. A gas sensing layer is formed over a number of electrodes disposed over a first surface of the first portion of the first membrane and one or more heating elements. A permeable enclosure encapsulating the gas sensing layer can maintain thermal energy density over the gas sensing layer at a level sufficient to destroy a target gas to allow measuring a zero baseline.
US10436725B2
A method of operating a radiation inspection system includes identifying a regulatory region along a predetermined path where public access is restricted based upon criteria other than radiation exposure, measuring a radiation exposure level from a radiation source of the radiation inspection system within the regulatory region, irradiating a target within the regulatory region using the radiation source and without erecting a physical barricade, and determining a restricted area around the radiation source. The restricted area corresponds to an area where a radiation exposure rate exceeds a predetermined threshold. The radiation exposure rate may be determined by the radiation exposure level from the radiation source and a speed of the radiation inspection system. The method may include operating the radiation inspection system to dynamically adjust the restricted area so that it does not extend beyond the regulatory region. The radiation inspection system may be moveable along the predetermined path.
US10436722B2
The invention provides a positive/negative phase shift bimetallic zone plate and production method thereof, wherein the positive/negative phase shift bimetallic zone plate comprises: a first metallic material having a positive phase shift; a second metallic material having a negative phase shift at a working energy point; wherein the first metallic material and the second metallic material are alternately arranged, so that the second metallic material replaces the blank portion in a cycle of a traditional zone plate.
US10436716B2
A substance analysis system and method are provided, the system disposable a variable stand-off distance from a substance in situ, including an emitter disposed to emit radiation onto the substance in situ, and a detector disposed the variable stand-off distance from the substance in situ, the detector comprising a receiver defining a substantially collimated collection path over the variable stand-off distance.
US10436712B2
The present invention relates to devices and methods for spectrometric analysis of light-emitting samples. The device comprises a particle beam source, which generates a primary particle beam directed to the sample in such a way that the primary particle beam is incident on the sample and photons are released from the sample due to the interaction between primary particle beam and sample material. Moreover, the device comprises a plurality of light-pickup elements, which are suitable for capturing the photons released from the sample, wherein the light-pickup elements capture the photons emitted in the respectively assigned solid-angle range. Furthermore, the device comprises conduction elements, which are embodied to forward captured photons to an evaluation unit, and an analysis system, which comprises a plurality of evaluation units in such a way that photons captured by each light-pickup element are analyzed spectrally.
US10436708B2
Described is a method for quantifying the amount of optically interfering gas impurities in a gas detection system comprising a sample gas inlet, a reference gas inlet, a gas modulation valve, and an infrared absorption gas detector used for analysis of methane or natural gas, wherein the gas modulation valve alternatingly connects the sample gas inlet to the gas detector during a sample gas time period and the reference gas inlet to the gas detector during a reference gas time period. The method includes measuring an infrared absorption for at least two different sample gas concentrations in the gas detector achieved via respective different ratios from the sample gas time period and the reference gas time period, and comparing amplitudes of different measurement signals of the at least two different sample gas concentrations with calibration functions to assess an actual gas impurity concentration in the sampled gas.
US10436707B2
A method for detecting the presence of an analyte (1) in a solution (2) comprising: providing at least a first and a second probes (A, B) different from each other, each probe (A,B) comprising a nanoparticle conjugated with a receptor specific to the analyte (1); contacting the solution (2) suspected of including the analyte (1) with the first and the second probes (A, B) to form a sample solution (3), wherein the sample solution (3) comprises aggregates (4) comprising the analyte (1) combined with the first and the second probes (A, B); illuminating the sample solution (3) with a light source having at least a first and a second exciting wavelengths (λeA, λeB) different from each other wherein the first and the second wavelength are chosen to get specific optical responses from the first probe (A) and the second probe (B) respectively when illuminated; detecting as a function of time the light scattered by the first probe (A) at a first detection wavelength (λdA) and the light scattered by the second probe (B) at a second detection wavelength (λdB) to get a first signal and a second signal respectively; and detecting temporal coincidences between said first signal and second signal.
US10436697B2
A system, method, and apparatus are provided for flow cytometry. In one example, the flow cytometry system includes dual laser devices and dual scatter channels to measure velocity of particles in a core stream of sample fluid. The total flow rate of the sample fluid and the sheath fluid around the sample fluid is controlled, and thus held constant, by a feedback control system controlling a vacuum pump based on differential pressure across ends of a flow channel in the flow cell.
US10436696B2
Methods and systems for determining permeability, as a function of pore pressure, and porosity of a subsurface formation. The method includes positioning a sample in a sample assembly comprising of a gas and a pressure gauge, inside a pressure vessel comprising gas or liquid and a pressure gauge, measuring a first gas pressure, pi, of the sample inside the pressure vessel, applying a second gas pressure, po, to the pressure vessel, the second gas pressure being greater than the first gas pressure, measuring a third gas pressure, p, at time, t, at location, x, from the inlet of sample inside the pressure vessel, determining a total gas mass per unit volume of the subsurface formation, m, and determining the permeability, k, of the subsurface formation as a function of pore pressure based at least in part on the first gas pressure, the second pressure, the third gas pressure, and the gas density, with a single test run.
US10436688B2
Heating arrangement for a materials testing device, the materials testing device comprising at least one surface measurement probe adapted to be brought into contact with a surface of a sample, the heating arrangement comprising a probe heater comprising: an infrared emitting element adapted to emit infrared radiation; a reflector having a reflective surface arranged to direct said infrared radiation towards a distal end of said surface measurement probe. According to the invention, the reflector comprises a first focal point and a second focal point, the infrared emitting element being situated substantially at said first focal point.
US10436685B2
A method for processing particles contained in a liquid biological sample is presented. The method uses a rotatable vessel for processing particles contained in a liquid biological sample. The rotatable vessel has a longitudinal axis about which the vessel is rotatable, an upper portion having a top opening for receiving the liquid comprising the particles, a lower portion for holding the liquid while the rotatable vessel is resting, the lower portion having a bottom, and an intermediate portion located between the upper portion and the lower portion, the intermediate portion having a lateral collection chamber for holding the liquid while the rotatable vessel is rotating. The method employs dedicated acceleration and deceleration profiles for sedimentation and re-suspension of the particles of interest.
US10436684B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include a solid phase sorbent for preparation of analytical samples. The solid phase sorbent includes particles that are surface modified with an α-cyclodextrin moiety. Also provided is a method of reducing matrix effects in an analytical sample. In some embodiments, the method includes contacting a sample comprising a matrix-interfering agent and an analyte with α-cyclodextrin modified particles to produce a contacted sample wherein the matrix-interfering agent binds to the α-cyclodextrin modified particles; separating the α-cyclodextrin modified particles from the contacted sample to produce a matrix-reduced composition; and detecting the analyte in the matrix-reduced composition. Systems for practicing the subject methods are provided that include the subject solid phase sorbent.
US10436679B2
An ashtray is disclosed for use with a smoking machine for smoking a smoking article. The ashtray comprises directional fins underneath the ashtray for directing airflow over the smoking article. This can allow the direction of airflow to be confined to a well-defined path, and turbulence in the airflow to be reduced.
US10436676B2
Methods of analyzing a cyclo-mechanical engine include detecting an engine signal associated with a plurality of cycles of the cyclo-mechanical engine, comparing a first sample of the engine signal with a second sample of the engine signal to determine a cycle length of the cyclo-mechanical engine, and analyzing the engine signal to detect a variation in the cycle length of the cyclo-mechanical engine over time based on the determined cycle length. Related systems and computer program products are also disclosed.
US10436666B2
An interface circuit for a sensor including: a first injection-locked oscillator having: a first input coupled to a sensor, a free-running oscillation frequency of the first injection-locked oscillator being controlled by a signal from the sensor; and a second input coupled to receive a synchronization signal at a reference frequency, the first injection-locked oscillator being adapted to generate an output signal at said reference frequency, the output signal being phase shifted with respect to the synchronization signal as a function of the signal from the sensor.
US10436664B2
Embodiments relate generally to a sensor device, method, and system are provided for housing a sensor. An example force sensor includes an actuation element, a sense die, and a universal housing for holding a sense die. The universal housing has a top wall, a bottom wall, two side walls, and a back wall that define a cavity. The sense die is disposed within the cavity. The top wall defines an aperture having a first central axis therethrough. The housing defines an opening between the top wall and bottom wall extending from an exterior of the housing to the cavity. The opening has a second central axis and is configured to receive the sense die therethrough. At least a portion of the actuation element extends from the cavity through the aperture. The first central axis is orthogonal to the second central axis.
US10436658B2
Aspects of the present relate to automated load cell identification. A method is provided. The method generally includes sending, from a load cell to a remote processing system, identification information associated with the load cell; and determining whether the load cell is valid for use during makeup of a threaded connection of a first threaded tubular to a second threaded tubular based on the identification information associated with the load cell. The load cell identification information may include a measurement range of torque values supported by the load cell. The method can include comparing the measurement range of torque values to a job defined range of torque values associated with the makeup of the threaded connection; and determining that the load cell is valid for use based on the comparison. The identification information can be used to detect the load cell type, range, and calibration data before tubular makeup to ensure data quality and safety at work.
US10436655B2
A photonic displacement sensor comprises a photonic fiber including a) a core section having a first band gap aligned along an extended longitudinal axis, and b) a cladding section surrounding the core section having a second band gap. The first band gap is adapted to block a spectral band of radiation centered on a first wavelength that is directed along the longitudinal axis, and the second band gap is adapted to block a spectral band of radiation centered on a second wavelength that is directed transversely to the longitudinal axis, and wherein displacement is detected based on a shift in at least one of the first and second band gap of the photonic fiber, enabling an intensity of radiation to be detected that is in proportion to the displacement in the photonic fiber.
US10436654B2
An interaction force detection apparatus includes a sensor, a driving element, a moving element, and a connecting element. The connecting element is connected to the driving element and the sensor. The driving element is adapted to interact with the moving element, so as to generate a pair of forces. The pair of forces includes a first force and a second force, and a magnitude of the first force is equal to that of the second force. The sensor detects the first force exerted on the driving element, and the second force is exerted on the moving element to generate a movement.
US10436651B2
Low-cost techniques for sensing ambient temperatures in a container or package using phase change materials are provided. In one aspect, a temperature sensor is provided. The temperature sensor includes: at least one phase change material configured to transition from an amorphous state to a crystalline state upon exposure to temperatures above a predetermined threshold temperature for a given duration. A method of monitoring temperature exposure of a consumer good using the temperature sensor is also provided.
US10436649B2
Embodiments of icing resistant total temperature probes with integrated ejectors are provided. One air data probe comprises: a base; a body having a leading and trailing edges: a first passage defining a first annulus; a temperature sensor within the first passage; a heat shield defining an exterior wall of at least part of the first passage, wherein the sensor is positioned within the shield; a second passage comprising a second annulus defined by a space between the shield and the body; an intake port having an intake aperture that opens to the first and second passages; a separate heated airflow passage, the heated airflow passage having an air input port configured to couple to an air supply source and following a path within the probe body; an integrated air ejector coupled to heated airflow passage to motivate air into the intake aperture and through the first and second air passages.
US10436646B2
We disclose herein an infra-red (IR) detector comprising a substrate comprising at least one etched portion and a substrate portion; a dielectric layer disposed on the substrate. The dielectric layer comprises at least one dielectric membrane, which is adjacent to the etched portion of the substrate. The detector further comprises a first sensing area and a second sensing area each located in a dielectric membrane and a plurality of thermocouples. At least one thermocouple comprises first and second thermal junctions. The first thermal junction is located in or on the first sensing area and the second thermal junction is located in or on the second sensing area.
US10436627B2
The oil level sensor is associated with a tank containing oil and has a float movable along guides and which can float on the oil of the tank, so as to move with the oil level, a permanent magnet movable with the float, and an electronic card provided with magnetic switches sensitive to said magnet. The guides of the spherical float are positioned about the float and the contacts of the guides with said float are limited to three substantially linear zones.
US10436620B2
An excitation circuit includes a first switch connected between a third signal line and a first signal line supplied with a first DC voltage, a second switch connected between the third signal line and a second signal line supplied with a second DC voltage higher than the first DC voltage, third to sixth switches that reverses a polarity of a voltage on the third signal line to change a direction of an excitation current, a switching control circuit that switches the first switch at intervals shorter than intervals at which an excitation polarity is switched so that the excitation current has a first target value, and a switching control circuit that turns on the second switch when the absolute value of the excitation current is smaller than a second target value less than or equal to the first target value and that turns off the second switch when the excitation current is larger than the second target value.
US10436615B2
A sensing system includes a sensor assembly that is communicably connected to a computer system, such as a server or a cloud computing system. The sensor assembly includes a plurality of sensors that sense a variety of different physical phenomena. The sensor assembly featurizes the raw sensor data and transmits the featurized data to the computer system. Through machine learning, the computer system then trains a classifier to serve as a virtual sensor for an event that is correlated to the data from one or more sensor streams within the featurized sensor data. The virtual sensor can then subscribe to the relevant sensor feeds from the sensor assembly and monitor for subsequent occurrences of the event. Higher order virtual sensors can receive the outputs from lower order virtual sensors to infer nonbinary details about the environment in which the sensor assemblies are located.
US10436612B2
A capacitance probe monitors the distance between a blade tip and a fan, compressor or turbine case. The capacitance probe may be attached to a liner, and may travel with the liner as it radially expands due to thermal changes. The capacitance probe may include a circuit board sensor with a metallic plate, and one or more capacitors. The metallic plate may be encapsulated within an insulating material. A plurality of soft leads may be in electrical communication with the circuit board sensor, allowing a lower lead weight, reduced size and increased flexibility. The soft leads may also be embedded in the liner. In this way, the capacitance probe can record more accurate distance measurements and promote a gas turbine engine's continued and efficient operation.
US10436610B2
An operation input detection device includes an operation input detection unit, a change amount accumulation unit, a section variation amount calculating unit, and a noise determination unit. The operation input detection unit detects an operation input on an operation input unit based on a sensor output of a capacitance sensor. The change amount accumulation unit accumulates a change amount of the sensor output in a determination section. The change amount of the sensor output is a difference of a detection value of the sensor output detected as each sampling timing from a previous value of the sensor output. The section variation amount calculating unit calculates a section variation amount of the sensor output.
US10436608B2
A method and an inductive proximity sensor for detecting an object having at least one coil, wherein at least one transmission current pulse can be applied to the coil by a control and evaluation unit and having the control and evaluation unit for outputting an object detection signal, wherein the control and evaluation unit is configured to scan at least one induced voltage pulse that is generated by the transmission current pulse at the coil in at least one section from or after the point in time of the application of the transmission current pulse up to the point in time of the complete attenuation of the voltage pulse and to form scan values, whereby the voltage pulse is digitized.
US10436605B2
Embodiments relate to apparatus (200) and methods for distinguishing data of a plurality of multidimensional magnetic field sensors (120). A first sensor arrangement (100-1) comprises a first magnetic field source (110-1) and a first multidimensional magnetic field sensor (120-1), wherein the first magnetic field source and the first magnetic field sensor are arranged relative to one another in a first manner characteristic for the first sensor arrangement. At least one second sensor arrangement (100-2) comprises a second magnetic field source (110-2) and a second multidimensional magnetic field sensor (120-2), wherein the second magnetic field source and the second magnetic field sensor are arranged relative to one another in a second manner characteristic for the second sensor arrangement.
US10436577B2
The invention relates to a full-field statistical & characterizing method of fluid micro-explored strain for alloy microstructure, comprising the following steps: a. grinding and polishing the surface of an alloy sample to mirror with no grinding defects, and then determining a to-be-measured area on the surface of the alloy sample; b. utilizing a white light interferometry 3D surface profiler to perform initial morphology measurement on the surface of an alloy sample; c. utilizing an isostatic pressing technology to obtain the microstructure deformation on the surface of the alloy sample, and then utilizing a white light interferometry 3D surface profiler to perform deformed morphology measurement on the surface of the alloy sample to obtain a changing spectrum of micro morphology of the microstructures on the surface of the alloy; and d. performing trans-scale and rapid quantitative statistical distribution characterization on the morphology change before and after isostatic pressing of the microstructures in the to-be-measured area of the alloy, so as to obtain a corresponding full-field metallography. In the present invention, the sample pretreatment is simple, the analysis speed is rapid, the scanning area is large, and the requirement of high throughput trans-scale analysis can be satisfied, so as to instruct the extraction of the material metallography feature unit.
US10436573B2
Various balanced detection systems which reduce alignment requirements of free space optics based balanced detection configurations are discussed. One example system includes a light source, a beam divider, sample optics, return optics, and a processor. The light source generates a light beam. The beam divider separates the light beam into reference and sample arms. The sample optics deliver the light beam in the sample arm to a light scattering object to be imaged. The return optics direct light to a balanced detection system, which has a balanced detection beam divider for combining light scattered from the object and light from the reference arm and directing the combined light into two detection channels and two detectors for collecting the combined light in the two detection channels and generating signals in response thereto. The processor processes the signals and generates image data of the object based on the processed signals.
US10436572B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a compact and highly-accurate three-dimensional shape measurement apparatus. The three-dimensional shape measurement apparatus according to the present invention causes a part of a measurement light to proceed in a direction which is different from a direction with respect to a subject as an angle measurement light, and detects a rotation angle using the angle measurement light.
US10436570B1
The present invention provides a Michelson interferometer for capturing images of a vibrating sample comprising a coherent light source. The light source may be adapted to illuminate a sample with a constant brightness across the sample. The interferometer may also be configured to generate a 3D representation of a sample using a single frame for a predetermined phase of the sample. The 3D representations may be combined to create a 3D video representation of the vibrating sample.
US10436568B2
A wheel blank inspection device is composed of a rack, a lower adjusting guide rail, a lower adjusting cylinder, a first left sliding table, a first gear rack, a first right sliding table and the like. A wheel rotates a circle at a low speed, when a first piezoelectric sensor, a second piezoelectric sensor and a third piezoelectric sensor do not pick up signals and probes of a first intelligent meter, a second intelligent meter and a third intelligent meter are in a compressed state all the time, the wheel blank is qualified, otherwise, the wheel blank is deformed greatly and unqualified. After inspection, the qualified blank enters a normal lower transfer roller bed, and the unqualified blank enters a reject roller bed.
US10436566B2
An indium phosphide substrate, a method of inspecting thereof and a method of producing thereof are provided, by which an epitaxial film grown on the substrate is rendered excellently uniform, thereby allowing improvement in PL characteristics and electrical characteristics of an epitaxial wafer formed using this epitaxial film. The indium phosphide substrate has a first main surface and a second main surface, a surface roughness Ra1 at a center position on the first main surface, and surface roughnesses Ra2, Ra3, Ra4, and Ra5 at four positions arranged equidistantly along an outer edge of the first main surface and located at a distance of 5 mm inwardly from the outer edge. An average value m1 of the surface roughnesses Ra1, Ra2, Ra3, Ra4, and Ra5 is 0.5 nm or less, and a standard deviation σ1 of the surface roughnesses Ra1, Ra2, Ra3, Ra4, and Ra5 is 0.2 nm or less.
US10436563B2
A checking fixture for a steering knuckle. In use, a workpiece is mounted on the checking fixture, three locating points of the workpiece in the X direction respectively correspond to a supporting pin I, a supporting pin II and a supporting pin III, a locating taper hole limiting the motion of the workpiece in a YZ plane corresponds to the floating pin, and a locating point of the workpiece in the Y direction levelly fit to a supporting surface of a locating pin; after location is completed, the workpiece is tightly clamped by a jacking clamp, a press clamp I and a press clamp II. The checking fixture for the steering knuckle can measure the position accuracy of each hole of the steering knuckle workpiece, and can detect whether the relative height of the flange plane of the workpiece relative to the X-direction locating points is qualified.
US10436562B2
Surface measurement probe comprising: a hollow probe body extending along a longitudinal axis and comprising a proximal end adapted to be mounted to a test apparatus and a distal end; a retaining arrangement situated inside the probe body and extending along said longitudinal axis, the retaining arrangement being arranged to maintain the surface measurement probe in an assembled state; a probe tip supported at the distal end of the probe body and arranged to contact a sample; a bead situated inside the probe body and interposed between the probe tip and the retaining arrangement, the bead comprising a thermally-insulating material.
US10436551B1
A mounting system for a concealed carry holster for securing the holster to a storage location. The mounting system uses a belt clip of the holster to attach the holster to a bracket. The bracket has a spring action restraint that cooperates with the belt clip to retain the holster in the mounting system. The restraint is accessible from a front of the holster to allow easy removal from the bracket.
US10436534B2
A firearm includes a firing mechanism and a sensor device. The sensor device includes a subscriber identity module configured to communicate with a server over a signaling channel of a wireless communications network. The Sensor device is configured to enable/disable the firing mechanism in accordance with instructions received by the SIM from the server. Movements and/or attempted operations of the firearm may be monitored using an application running on a mobile device, which application receives information concerning the firearm over the signaling channel of the wireless communications network.
US10436528B2
An aluminum alloy brazing sheet which is thin but has excellent weldability and post-brazing strength. An aluminum alloy brazing sheet having a core material comprising an aluminum alloy, an Al—Si based brazing filler metal clad on one surface of the core material and a sacrificial anode material clad on the other surface of the core material: wherein the core material comprises certain amounts of Si, Fe, Cu and Mn and certain amounts of one, two or more selected from Ti, Zr, Cr and V; the sacrificial anode material comprises certain amounts of Si, Fe, Mg and Zn; in a cross section parallel to the longitudinal direction and along the thickness direction, the interface between the core material and the sacrificial anode material includes 300 pieces/mm or less of an Al—Mg—Cu based intermetallic compound; and the core material and the sacrificial anode material have an unrecrystallized structure.
US10436525B2
Fractionation, the process used by refineries to break down carbon chains of petroleum compounds so that the desired carbon compound can be achieved. This process typically involves high heat, distillation, re-boiling, and energy intensive cooling processes. This application discloses an invention that will condense vapor produced by a pyrolysis reactor. This system uses one standard cyclone; three cascading cyclones with internal cyclonic rotation fins that force incoming vapor to maintain a fixed amount of rotation regardless of the vapor's velocity, heat sinks that increase condensation, reversing fins that force gases to reverse direction inside the cyclone decreasing vapor velocity to increase heat loss; a main collection tank that allows for the controlling of the fuel flash point; a compact low temperature coil cooler that uses 100 percent of the cooling surface that allows for the production of higher quality fuel; and, bubblers/scrubbers that produce back pressure into the pyrolysis reactor.
US10436524B2
The mixed louver spiral fin is a development of the conventional spiral fin-and-tube heat exchanger having louvers at the surface of the fin. Louvers are made on the fin surface for enhancing heat transfer performance. The louvers made are perpendicular and parallel with the radius of the fin. The mixed louver spiral fin can be used for building heat exchangers with heat exchange between fluids, such as gas, liquid, or gas-liquid two phases or application in heat exchangers for waste heat recovery.
US10436513B2
A modular oven includes a plurality of interlockable insulated panels for user assembly into a cubic structure of an oven. The panels include a top panel, a bottom panel, a left panel, a right panel, a back panel, and a front panel. The front panel can be pivotally mounted to the left or right panel and serves as a door for the modular oven. The top panel and the bottom panel are selectively coupled to the left, back, and right panels by mounting pegs. The bottom panel is provided with a heating element on one side and a plurality of casters on the other side to facilitate transporting the oven. A control module is selectively coupled to one of the panels to control operations of the oven. The oven may also be provided with a trolley system to facilitate transport of workpieces to and from the oven.
US10436512B1
A base component may be uses in a thermoprocessing system that includes the base component and at least one recipient enclosure for sealing a process chamber of the thermoprocessing system from an exterior thereof. The base component includes a main hub, and the main hub includes: an energy penetration for providing a heating or cooling energy from an exterior of the process chamber to the process chamber; a media inlet penetration for transporting a media from an exterior of the process chamber to the process chamber; and a media outlet penetration for transporting a media from the process chamber to an exterior of the process chamber.
US10436511B2
The invention relates to a pulsed combustor assembly (A) for dehydration and/or granulation of a wet feedstock, in particular a viscous feedstock such as a feedstock containing natural fibers, sugars and/or vegetable starches, comprising a combustion chamber (16), at least one fuel supply line (23), at least one air supply line (26), and at least one pulsed air generator, wherein the pulsed air generator is connected to the air supply line (26) for generating at least a first pulsed air stream with a pulse frequency f1 entering the combustion chamber (16).
US10436509B2
An electrode roll drying device includes a drying oven housing an electrode roll, an outer-side heater configured to heat the electrode roll, an axial-side heater configured to heat the electrode roll, a pressure reducer configured to reduce internal pressure of the drying oven, a sensor configured to detect a temperature of an outermost portion of the electrode roll, and a control unit configured to control operation of the outer-side heater, the axial-side heater, and the pressure reducer. The control unit is configured to operate the outer-side heater and the axial-side heater to heat the electrode roll from the outer-side and winding core side, and, when the temperature of an outermost portion reaches a target temperature, stop operation of the outer-side heater, operate the pressure reducer to reduce the pressure within the drying oven, and carry out the heating by the axial-side heater and the pressure reduction by the pressure reducer.
US10436507B2
Process and apparatus for producing pressurized gaseous nitrogen by cryogenic separation of air. The distillation column system includes a high pressure column, a medium pressure column, a main condenser and top condenser both being condenser-evaporators. Compressed and purified feed air is cooled in a heat exchanger and introduced to the distillation system. A gaseous nitrogen stream from the high pressure column is condensed in the main condenser. Bottom liquid of the medium pressure column is evaporated and gaseous nitrogen from the medium pressure column is condensed in the top condenser. Liquid nitrogen from the medium pressure column is pressurized and introduced to the high pressure column. A second gaseous nitrogen stream from the high pressure column is recovered as pressurized gaseous nitrogen product. A portion of the compressed and purified feed air is work-expanded and then warmed in the main heat exchanger.
US10436506B2
Selective recovery of C2 to C4 hydrocarbons is achieved through the use of a converging-diverging nozzle, or de Laval nozzle. The vapor stream comprising C2 to C4 hydrocarbons is fed into an inlet of a de Laval nozzle having a throat. The vapor stream may have an initial temperature of between 0° C. and 100° C., and an initial pressure of between 200 psig and 500 psig. In the de Laval nozzle, the vapor stream expands after passing through the throat of the de Laval nozzle, producing a vapor stream having reduced temperature and pressure. Then, C2 to C4 hydrocarbons condense from the reduced-temperature vapor stream as liquid droplets, which may be recovered. Fractionation of C2 to C4 hydrocarbons by means of a de Laval nozzle is possible; the technique allows selective recovery of a stream enriched in propene from a mixture of propane and propene.
US10436500B2
Disclosed herein is a refrigerator having dividers movable in the left-right direction to efficiently use the internal space of a container and enabling a tray or a shelf used in the fridge room to be used in the freezer room as well by preventing the gap between the dividers from narrowing to a certain distance or less to put the tray on the dividers. A refrigerator includes a main body, a storage compartment formed inside the main body with an open front, a door configured to open and close the open front of the storage compartment, a container contained in the storage compartment to store groceries therein, and a plurality of dividers arranged to be movable inside the container in the left-right direction and dividing the internal space of the container, wherein the divider includes pinion gears configured to guide movement of the divider along guide rails arranged on the front and rear walls of the container, a fixer configured to fix the divider to prevent movement of the divider, and a gap maintaining bar configured to prevent the gap between the dividers from narrowing to a certain distance or less.
US10436499B2
A refrigerator comprises a cabinet having a storage compartment, a main door rotatably coupled to the cabinet and opening and closing the storage compartment, a door opening provided in the main door and in communication with the storage compartment, a sub door opening and closing the door opening, and a basket assembly provided in the door opening and comprising a basket movable forward and backward, wherein the basket assembly comprises a front plate provided under the basket, a front assembly provided under the front plate and configured to move the front plate forward, a rear plate provided under the front rail assembly, and a rear rail assembly provided under the rear plate and configured to move the rear plate backward.
US10436498B2
A refrigerator provides visual information indicating a map of the refrigerator and technical operations of the corresponding regions. The refrigerator includes a voice recognition function using a proximity sensor. The refrigerator has input/output (I/O) management functions for foods stored therein. The refrigerator communicates with a peripheral device over a network.
US10436496B2
A blade included in an impeller is formed so that, when viewed in a vertical cross-sectional view of the blade, a pressure surface of the blade and a suction surface of the blade opposite to the pressure surface are curved more in the direction in which the impeller rotates, in their areas farther from the axis of rotation of the impeller and closer to the exterior of the blade, and are arched so that a portion near the center of the blade is most distant from a straight line connecting the inner end and the outer end of the blade, the pressure surface and the suction surface form a curved surface including at least one circular arc, and a straight portion of the blade is formed to be connected to the curved surface on its one side, and extend toward the inner end of the blade on its other side.
US10436489B2
Disclosed are a method and a device for controlling refrigerant in an air conditioning system. The method includes: S1: comparing a superheat degree of each outdoor unit with an average superheat degree; S2: if the superheat degree of a present outdoor unit is higher than the average superheat degree, and a first different between the superheat degree of the present outdoor unit and the average superheat degree is greater than a present value, increasing a refrigerant amount entered into the present outdoor unit; and S3: if the superheat degree of the present outdoor unit is lower than the average superheat degree, and a second different between the average superheat degree and the superheat degree of the present outdoor unit is greater than the present value, decreasing the refrigerant amount entered into the present outdoor unit. Therefore, the refrigerant amount entered into each outdoor unit is adjusted from systemic overall perspective.
US10436485B2
A packaged terminal air conditioner unit (PTAC) includes a sealed system having an outdoor heat exchanger and an indoor heat exchanger fluidly coupled through a line filter assembly. The line filter assembly includes a housing defining an indoor port having a first cross sectional area and being fluidly coupled to the indoor heat exchanger, a bypass port having a second cross sectional area smaller than the first cross sectional area, and an outdoor port fluidly coupled to the outdoor heat exchanger. A line filter is coupled to outdoor port for filtering the flow of refrigerant passing in one direction and a check valve within the housing prevents flow through the line filter in the opposite direction. A bypass conduit provides fluid communication between the bypass port and the outdoor conduit to bypass the line filter.
US10436480B2
The present invention regards a thermally driven, environmental control unit including, in a closed fluid-flow, non-pressurized circuit, a mixing heat exchanger, a heat recovery unit, a fractionator/evaporator, and one or more condensers. The system is designed to include at least one solute and a solvent, selected so that the mixture of each solute and the solvent produce an enthalpy change of between about 5 to 30 kJ/mol for cooling and −10 to −200 kJ/mol for heating. A plurality of pumps are integrated into the system to move the solute and the solvent, and a mixture thereof, among the various components of the present invention. The unit further includes a liquid loop coupled with the mixing heat exchanger and an air handler to provide warm or cool supply air. The present invention further regards a process for cooling or heating air using enthalpy change of solution associated with the dissolution of a solute in a solvent, at relatively constant atmospheric pressure, and separation of the solute from the solvent for re-use in the process.
US10436462B1
A vent bypass system is created by forming a bypass hole through a vent cover door of two adjacent vent cover doors. A tube flange is extended from a bottom surface of the vent cover door, concentric with the bypass hole. A first vent cover door covers an entry vent and the second vent cover door covers an exit vent. One end of a flexible tube is secured to one of the two tube flanges and the other end of the flexible tube is secured to the other one of the two tube flanges. Air/gas blown into the room will bypass circulating through the room by going through the flexible tube from the entry vent to the exit vent. Any suitable means to connect the various vents can be used, such as, but not limited to any pipe, hose, tube, conduit, or the like.
US10436458B2
Air heat exchangers are composed of a first air heat exchanger through a fourth air heat exchanger, which are formed in a L shape, which include long side portions and short side portions in a state where one end portion sides in an extension direction of tubes, in which a coolant is flowed, are bent; and each of the short side portions is disposed at a short hand side of a rectangular shape, in such a way that an arrangement shape of the first air heat exchanger through the fourth air heat exchanger is formed as a frame shape having a rectangular shape viewed from a plane.
US10436455B2
The concepts relate to reducing energy loss associated with hot water systems. One example is manifest as a system with an automatic hot water recovery apparatus and selective hot water isolation devices. In one example a selective hot water isolation device is configured to be connected in fluid flowing relation with a first water line and a second water line and the selective hot water isolation device is configured to control water cross-over from the second water line into the first water line based upon water flow through the first water line.
US10436451B2
A gas burner having a switchable flame includes a combustion chamber having a bottom and a circumferential crenellated wall with a plurality of fuel exit ports disposed in the circumferential crenellated wall. The fuel exit ports are directed generally inwardly toward the combustion chamber and also upwardly from the bottom of the combustion chamber. The gas burner additionally includes a burner base and a swirl spreader disposed above the burner base which defines a top portion of the circumferential crenellated wall of the combustion chamber. An annular burner cap set includes an inner flame burner cap and a vertical flame burner cap where the inner flame burner cap and the vertical flame burner cap are selectively and alternatively positioned on the circumferential crenellated wall to define an inner flame state and a vertical flame state, respectively, of the fuel exit ports.
US10436445B2
An assembly for controlling a gap between a liner and a stationary nozzle within a gas turbine includes an annular liner having an aft frame that is disposed at an aft end of the liner, and a mounting bracket that is coupled to the aft frame. The assembly further includes a turbine having an outer turbine shell and an inner turbine shell that at least partially defines an inlet to the turbine. A stationary nozzle is disposed between the aft frame and the inlet. The stationary nozzle includes a top platform portion having a leading edge that extends towards the aft frame and a bottom platform portion. A gap is defined between the aft end of the aft frame and the leading edge of the top platform portion. The mounting bracket is coupled to the outer turbine shell, and stationary nozzle is coupled to the inner turbine shell.
US10436438B1
The customizable holiday decoration is a display device. The customizable holiday decoration displays a sentiment. The customizable holiday decoration has a mechanical component and an electrical component. The mechanical component of the customizable holiday decoration physically moves the sentiment. The electrical component of the sentiment illuminates a plurality of lights, generates audible sounds, and powers the mechanical component of the customizable holiday decoration. The customizable holiday decoration comprises a backing plate, a decorative plate, a plurality of legs, a drive mechanism, and a control system. The decorative plate attaches to the backing plate. The mechanical component and the electrical component attach to the decorative plate. The mechanical component comprises the plurality of legs and the drive mechanism. The electrical component comprises the control system.
US10436437B1
A lighting fixture and method resist bio-fouling of a window of the lighting fixture when submerged and exposed to biological organisms within a surrounding environment. Ultraviolet radiation is directed to the window from a source within the fixture, enabling transmission of the ultraviolet radiation through the window to an outer surface of the window to combat biological organisms to which the outer surface of the window is exposed when submerged, and allowing light from a source behind the window to be projected effectively through the window and into the surrounding environment.
US10436433B2
A lighting apparatus and method for making the same are presented. In some aspects the apparatus includes a plurality of LED light sources mounted to a metal circuit board in a housing of the apparatus. In other aspects a light-permissive potting compound is disposed in the space between the LEDs and circuit board and the housing of said apparatus so as to permit exit of light from said LEDs while providing mechanical protection for the circuit board and LEDs and removing heat generated from said LEDs.
US10436427B1
A Light and Power Distribution System for Non-Occupied Structures for providing electrical and lighting capabilities without the need for an electrician or inspections. The Light and Power Distribution System for Non-Occupied Structures includes a main housing assembly coupled to a wall of a structure; a main power connection cable for electrically coupling to an electrical service; and at least one electrical outlet operationally coupled to the main housing assembly and electrically coupled to said main power connection cable.
US10436422B1
Apparatus and methods of attaching accessories to LED lamps and for providing active accessories in LED lamps are disclosed. The active accessories include single-function active accessories as well as multi-function active accessories.
US10436421B2
To provide a phosphor wheel capable of restraining vibration caused by a driving unit for rotatably driving a wheel and reducing noise in a high frequency band. The phosphor wheel includes: a wheel substrate that has a surface on which a fluorescent material is provided; a driving unit that rotates the wheel substrate; a support portion that supports the driving unit and is fixed to a housing; and a buffer member that is provided to fill a space between the support portion and a part of the housing.
US10436418B2
To provide a wavelength conversion member, molded body, wavelength conversion apparatus, sheet member, light emitting apparatus, light guide apparatus and display apparatus particularly capable of suppressing the black discoloration occurrence of a resin layer positioned immediately above a light emitting device as compared with conventional techniques, the present invention provides an LED apparatus having a storage portion, an LED chip disposed inside the storage portion, and a resin layer filled inside the storage portion, the resin layer is comprised by having a first resin layer on the side close to an LED device, and a second resin layer on the side far from the LED device, a light scattering agent is included in at least the first resin layer, and quantum dots are not included in the first resin layer and are included in the second resin layer.
US10436410B2
A lighting device (1) for a motor vehicle headlight, having at least one illumination module (2) for emitting visible light, at least one optical component (3) deflecting and/or shaping the light of the illumination module (2) and a holding module (4) which is connected with the illumination module (2) and in which the at least one optical component (3) is supported, the illumination module (2) comprising at least one laser light source (2a) and a light conversion element (2b), the light of the at least one laser light source (2a) being directed onto the light conversion element (2b), which converts the light into visible light and emits it into the optical component (3), the holding module (4) having at least one first and one second guidance means (4b′, 4h), the first guidance means (4b′) being able to move the optical component (3) in a first direction (x) with respect to the light conversion element (2b), and the second guidance means (4h) being able to move the optical component (3) in a second direction (z), the first and the second directions (x, z) being different from one another.
US10436408B2
A lighting device, which may be employed e.g. as a retrofit bulb for vehicle lamps, includes a light radiation source, e.g. a LED source, and a beam-narrowing optical system facing the light radiation source, for propagating a narrowed light radiation beam of the same source along a longitudinal axis of the device. Arranged distally of the beam-narrowing optical system along said longitudinal axis, there is moreover provided a cascaded arrangement of: a light-condensing lens, a light-driving lens, a filament-like body including annular reflective surfaces extending around the longitudinal axis and exposed to light radiation from the light radiation source propagated through the light-condensing lens and the light-driving lens, a distal mirror member having a reflective surface facing towards the filament-like body, to reflect light radiation towards annular reflective surfaces in said plurality of annular reflective surfaces.
US10436407B2
A modular headlamp assembly includes low beam headlamp module for providing illumination in a predetermined light distribution pattern. The low beam headlamp module includes a low beam heat sink and mounting assembly having a low beam heat sink portion with first and second sides. A low beam reflector member is attached to the low beam heat sink and mounting assembly such that the low beam heat sink portion bisects the reflector low beam member into first and second segments. A plurality of LED light sources is supported by the low beam heat sink portion. The reflector assembly and plurality of LED light sources produce a light distribution pattern extending at least 40 degrees in a first horizontal direction and at least 40 degrees in a second horizontal direction, with the light distribution pattern having a sharp horizontal cutoff line parallel to and below a horizon.
US10436404B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a lighting device structure that can increase the degree of freedom of a light emitting surface and realize an effect of changing the shape and the three-dimensional feeling of light and there is provided a lighting device including a light guide layer in which light exit surfaces are formed on one surface and on the other surface opposite to the one surface; a light emitting module that is embedded in the light guide layer and disposed at an outer periphery of a light exit surface of the light guide layer; and a light-transmitting printed circuit board that mounts an light emitting device on the light emitting module and is disposed under the light guide layer.
US10436396B2
The present invention provides an artificial candle includes a hollow cylinder, an electric wire, and a light bulb. The light bulb includes a light source with a long strip shape, a cup sleeved on and fixed to the electric wire at a position near the first end of the electric wire, an outer cover covered on the cup, and an inner cover sleeved on the light source and defining a receiving space with the cup for receiving a part of the light source and the second end of the electric wire. The light transmitted of the inner cover is less than that of the outer cover and that of the cup. The inner cover is configured for reflecting light emitted from the part, received in the receiving space, of the light source towards the wire holder and an exposed part of the electric wire. A simulating effect of flame is improved.
US10436391B2
Disclosed is a lighting device (100) comprising a plurality of solid state lighting (SSL) elements (20) such as LEDs that can be manufactured in a cost-effective manner and that emulates the appearance of an incandescent lighting device. The lighting device has a luminous arrangement comprising opposing tubular portions (12, 14) in between which strip-shaped portions (16) that carry the SSL elements radially extend. The luminous arrangement is mounted on a support structure (30) fitted inside a transmissive body (1 10) of the lighting device. A luminaire including the lighting device, a method of manufacturing the luminous arrangement and a method of manufacturing the lighting device are also disclosed.
US10436383B1
An apparatus for supporting an object at a window of a building comprises a first member, a second member, and a third member. The first member extends along at least a partial width of the window and abuts an interior surface of the building. The first member is configured to support the object by exerting an outward force on the interior surface of the building in response to a downward force exerted by the object. The first member also comprises at least two sections extending from the interior of the building to the exterior of the building. These sections may extend from the interior of the building to the exterior of the building about respective distal ends of the first member. The sum of the forces applied on the surfaces of the building are sufficient to secure the object to the building.
US10436382B2
Support brackets for supporting panels, architectural panel systems, and methods of installing architectural panels on support structures. Support brackets can include opposite sides, four quadrants, through holes containing studs extending from one side of the plate, and a center hole. Architectural panel systems can include support brackets attaching architectural panels to a support structure, first fasteners attaching the support brackets to the architectural panels, and second fasteners attaching the support brackets to the support structure. Methods of installing an architectural panel system can include attaching architectural panels to support brackets with first fasteners, positioning the support brackets on a support structure, and attaching the support brackets to the support structure with second fasteners, for example, that extend through the support brackets. Architectural panels can include interior cutouts that pass sunlight to form aesthetic patterns of sunlight and shade in an occupied space.
US10436373B2
The present disclosure provides an assembly including a base structure, a pinhole patch and solder. The base structure includes a body that defines a pinhole. The pinhole patch extends at least partially into and at least partially fills the pinhole. An outer surface of the pinhole patch is disposed adjacent and is mechanically joined to a pinhole surface that defines the pinhole. The solder is disposed over at least a portion of the outer surface of the pinhole patch that bonds the pinhole patch at least to the pinhole surface that defines the pinhole. A subassembly is also disclosed. The subassembly includes a pinhole patch and flux.
US10436371B2
The present invention provides a pipe structure including: a pipe through which a gaseous body having a higher temperature than a temperature of a surrounding atmosphere flows; a cover that covers an outer peripheral portion of the pipe, and defines a plurality of vents from which the gaseous body leaking from the pipe flows out; and a line-shaped sensor that passes a position corresponding to each of the plurality of vents, and is sensitive to a temperature or a concentration of the gaseous body outside the cover, wherein the sensor includes a range in which the sensor rises upward from the position corresponding to the vent.
US10436368B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure include an apparatus for transporting fluids including a chassis having wheels and a hitch, the hitch arranged at a first end and the wheels arranged at a second end. The apparatus also includes a high pressure trunk line extending along a length of the chassis, the high pressure trunk line having high pressure inlets for coupling one or more lines directing high pressure fluids into the high pressure trunk line. The apparatus includes one or more low pressure lines, the one or more low pressure lines arranged proximate the high pressure trunk line and having suction outlets along the length of the chassis. The apparatus includes an inlet manifold positioned at the second end of the chassis, the inlet manifold being coupled to the one or more low pressure lines to supply a low pressure fluid to the one or more low pressure lines.
US10436364B2
A structure of a resin-made pipe joint includes a joint body having a cylindrical shape, a sleeve having a cylindrical press-inserting portion which is press-insertable into the joint body and a cylindrical coupling portion which is press-insertable into a tube, and a fastening member for fixing the tube which is in a state where the coupling portion is press-inserted, to the joint body through the sleeve. The sleeve contains a sealing surface in an outer circumferential surface of the press-inserting portion, the sealing surface being closely contactable with an inner circumferential surface of the joint body, and comprises a non-contacting surface between the press-inserting portion and the coupling portion, the non-contacting surface forming a space with respect to the inner circumferential surface of the joint body, when the sealing surface is closely contacted with the inner circumferential surface of the joint body.
US10436358B2
A fill valve assembly for a toilet tank is described. The fill valve assembly includes a two part design. The fill valve assembly includes a fill valve that connects or engages with a shank. A connection between the fill valve and the shank is located in an interior of the tank, which is easily accessed. The fill valve may be easily replaced by disconnecting the fill valve from the shank.
US10436354B1
The invention described herein relates to reservoirs within appliances. The present invention includes a reservoir made of a length of reservoir tubing. In particular embodiments, the length of the reservoir tubing is formed in an overlapping circular portion and conforms to the available space requirements within an appliance. Particular embodiments of the present invention include reservoirs, reservoir systems including a reservoir, processes for forming a reservoir, and processes for forming the aforementioned reservoir systems.
US10436348B2
An apparatus for monitoring the usage of at least one maintainable part or component of a transfer valve or coupling comprises: data storage means for storing data representative of at least one attribute of the maintainable part or component of the valve or coupling; monitoring means for monitoring usage of the valve or coupling; and processing means for comparing the monitored usage of the valve or coupling against the at least one attribute of the maintainable part or component of the valve.
US10436343B2
A valve assembly for a faucet includes a valve body, a valve cartridge received within the valve body and including a valve stem defining a longitudinal axis, a handle operably coupled to the valve stem of the valve cartridge, and a magnetic coupling operably coupled between the valve body and the handle. A spring biases the magnetic coupling downwardly toward the valve body, and biases the downwardly facing surface supported by the handle downwardly toward an upwardly facing surface supported by the valve body.
US10436340B2
A breaker valve assembly for a nuclear reactor containment includes a valve body, a valve body insert, and a lid. The valve body includes a first side wall defining a chamber, a first opening in a top portion of the first side wall, and a second opening in a bottom portion of the first side wall. The second opening communicates with the first opening of the valve body. The valve insert body includes a second side wall defining a second chamber, and a third opening in a bottom portion of the second side wall. The valve insert body is nested in the valve body. The lid is arranged on an upper edge of the side wall of the valve insert body. The valve insert body is configured to move substantially vertically with respect to the valve body.
US10436330B2
A valve assembly includes a valve body with an upstream inlet and a downstream outlet and a valve element which is engageable with and disengageable from a valve seat to open and close the valve assembly. The valve body defines a bore with an axis for receiving the valve element. At least part of the bore and of the valve element have cooperating shapes which permit axial movement of the valve element in the bore and prevent rotation of the valve element in the bore. A rotatable actuator is provided, with a connection between the actuator and the valve element operable to convert rotation of the actuator into axial translation of the valve element.
US10436329B2
A valve includes a housing defining therein a channel, a valve seat on an inner surface of the housing at a middle of the channel, a valve body member seated on and unseated from the valve seat to close and open the channel, and a stem spaced from the valve seat and rotatable around a first axis parallel with an opening surface of the valve seat. The valve body member and the stem respectively have a restricting hole and a restricting projection mutually slidably engageable to form a cam mechanism. The cam mechanism, in conjunction with rotation of the stem, reciprocates the valve body member between the seated position and the unseated position, and rotates the valve body member to be in a posture along a flow direction of a fluid flowing through the housing at the unseated position.
US10436322B2
The present disclosure provides a sealing ring assembly having a first ring and a second ring, configured to seal a high-pressure region from a lower pressure region of a piston and cylinder device. Accordingly, the sealing ring assembly includes a high-pressure boundary and a low-pressure boundary. Each ring may be segmented, and the first and second rings interface along a surface. Along the surface at the interface, a groove open to the lower pressure region aids in pressure locking the sealing ring assembly. A pocket in the second ring allows for high pressure gas to aid in balancing radial forces on the sealing ring assembly. As the sealing ring wears, the first and second rings remain engaged with one another.
US10436312B2
A control system for an automatic transmission, when hydraulically controlling the speed ratio of a belt type continuously variable transmission that transmits power from an engine to driving wheels by shifting or speed change, limits the shift speed to or below a predetermined value when an accelerator pedal is off and the engine rotational speed is at or below a predetermined speed. As a result, it is possible to avoid a driver from feeling uncomfortable when shifting with the accelerator off.
US10436308B2
A transfer input shaft 51 of a transfer device 5 of a power transmission system PT has a first connection hole 51a that extends in a rotational axis direction from an end face on the side of a transfer input gear 55 that meshes with a final driven gear 42, and that connects the inside of a transmission case 61 and the inside of a transfer case 53. The transmission case 61 has a rib 62 that receives lubricating fluid scraped up by a final driven gear 42, and guides it toward the first connection hole 51a, in a position facing the end face of the transfer input shaft 51.
US10436307B2
An axle housing for a vehicle is provided. The axle housing includes a polymeric composite body. The polymeric composite body includes a polymer and a plurality of reinforcing fibers. The polymeric composite body has a modulus of greater than or equal to about 10 GPa. The polymeric composite body defines an inner surface and at least one bearing region. The inner surface defines an interior cavity. The interior cavity is configured to receive an internal gear set including a bearing. The at least one bearing region includes a bore. The at least one bearing region is configured to be disposed around the bearing of the internal gear set. The axle housing may unibody, such that a body portion is free of joints or seams, or it may include multiple pieces. Methods of manufacturing composite axle housings are also provided.
US10436305B2
A belt-driven continuously variable transmission in which a collision noise of a broken chain belt can be suppressed is provided. In the transmission, a chain belt is applied to belt grooves of pulleys to transmit power therebetween, and a speed ratio is varied by changing a width of the belt groove of at least one of pulleys. The transmission comprises: a guiderail that is contacted to the chain belt to suppress vibrations in the chain belt and that is allowed to rotate with a change in an inclination of the chain belt; and a pushing mechanism that applies a load to the guiderail to rotate the guiderail to alter an inclination of the chain belt in a direction to increase the speed ratio when the chain belt is broken.
US10436297B2
An operation device includes a stationary portion, a movable portion configured to move in a predetermined direction within a predetermined range, and a load adjuster configured to adjust a movement load of the movable portion. An elastic portion that is elastically deformable is provided to the movable portion. The load adjuster is provided to the stationary portion and provided with a press portion configured to press the elastic portion in a direction intersecting with the moving direction of the movable portion.
US10436287B2
A multi speed transmission in planetary design for a vehicle, the transmission having a housing, a first shaft (1) as a drive (AN), a second shaft (2) as an output (Ab) axially parallel to the drive, three planetary gear sets (RS1, RS2, RS3), additional shafts (3-10), and six shifting elements (K1, K2, K3, K4, K5, B1) actuatable to realize several gear ratios. The transmission further includes machine elements (ST1, ST2) that transfer torque between the drive (AN) and the output (Ab). The first shaft (1) is connected to the planetary gear carrier (PT1) of the first planetary gear set (RS1) and is connectable at least to the sun gear (SR2) of the second planetary gear set (RS2) and to the ring gear (HR3) of the third planetary gear set (RS3). Additionally, the second shaft (2) is connected to the first machine element (ST1) and to the second machine element (ST2).
US10436282B2
A damper device includes: a pressing plate; a rotation plate disposed to oppose the pressing plate; an elastic member elastically linking the pressing and rotation plates, and in which bending is generated when relative twist of the pressing and rotation plates is generated; and seats provided on both end surfaces of the elastic member The seat has a projected surface, the pressing plate has a recessed surface corresponding to the projected surface, the seats and the pressing plate come into surface-contact with each other in a case where the relative twist is not generated, one seat and the pressing plate come into surface-contact with each other, and a void is formed between the other seat and the pressing plate, in a case where the relative twist is generated, and the void increases as an angle of the relative twist increases.
US10436281B2
A hydraulic engine mount, capable of preventing a rattle noise, improving Noise, Vibration, and Harshness (NVH) performance by lowering dynamic characteristics of the hydraulic engine mount in an idling state, and capable of generating a high damping value in a state having a relatively large amount of vibration displacement, includes a case having a hydraulic fluid sealed therein, a nozzle plate having a lower nozzle plate and an upper nozzle plate coupled to an upper portion of the lower nozzle plate, and dividing an inside of the case into an upper fluid chamber and a lower fluid chamber, a first membrane disposed on the upper portion of the lower nozzle plate such that a first edge portion of the first membrane is tightly coupled to the upper portion of the lower nozzle plate, and provided with at least one first communicating hole, a second membrane disposed on a lower portion of the upper nozzle plate such that a second edge portion of the second membrane is tightly coupled to the lower portion of the upper nozzle plate, and provided with at least one second communicating hole, and a separation plate allowing the first membrane and the second membrane to be apart from each other so as to provide a flow space between the first membrane and the second membrane.
US10436279B2
A torque rod, in which a front rubber and a rear rubber are respectively disposed at front and rear sides of a partition of a case fixed to a sub-frame and in which a pipe portion of a rod connected at a front end portion thereof to a power train passes through the front rubber, the partition, and the rear rubber and is coupled to an end plate, may include an attenuation device configured to cause flow of a liquid therein according to a load or vibration transferred from the rod, wherein the attenuation device is separably mounted between the rod and the end plate.
US10436276B2
A damping valve includes a valve body with a stepped opening for receiving a preloading spring which acts on a tension rod at which is arranged a valve disk which at least partially closes a flow-out orifice of a flow channel which connects two opposite valve body sides to one another, and, in addition to the preloading spring force, a damping force which counteracts a swiveling movement of the valve disk acts on the tension rod. The additional damping force is formed by a displacer on the tension rod side. The display together with a portion of the stepped opening, forms a restrictor chamber.
US10436274B2
A device for triggering a gas spring comprises an actuating device and an actuating element connected to the actuating device and acts on an end-side trigger of the gas spring. The actuating element acts on the trigger and is designed as a lever arrangement which reduces or multiplies the force and/or distance and which comprises an actuating lever connected to the actuating device. The device also comprises one trigger lever, which interacts with the actuating lever and acts on the trigger, and a housing. The housing has a gas spring connection unit. The upper end region of the gas spring can be connected to the trigger, which is guided into the interior of the housing. The gas spring connection unit has a continuous opening with an inner thread. In a clearance, there are devices that clamp and/or form-fittingly fix the upper end region of the gas spring in the housing.
US10436272B2
A friction material comprises a base and a porous friction generating layer penetrating into and integral with the base. The base presents a bonding surface. The porous friction generating layer presents a friction generating surface facing opposite the bonding surface of the base. The porous friction generating layer comprises fibers and friction adjusting particles, and about 30 to about 95% of a total surface area of the fibers is in contact with the friction adjusting particles. A curable resin is dispersed throughout the porous friction generating layer and the base.
US10436268B2
A method of manufacturing a brake disk made of gray cast iron is disclosed. The method includes casting a disk body using gray cast iron containing 3.1 wt % to 3.7 wt % of C; machining a surface of the cast disk body; nitriding the disk body by exposing the machined surface to a temperature in the range of 540° C. to 580° C. for 50 min to 70 min, and coating the nitrided disk body.
US10436262B2
A control device for a power transmission mechanism is provided, performing control so that a driving wheel reliably obtains torque when a vehicle is started. In a vehicle having a power transmission mechanism that includes a power transmission path transmitting power from a power source to a first driving wheel and a second driving wheel, and a power transmission element arranged in the power transmission path between the power source and the second driving wheel, a control device for a power transmission mechanism includes a control section controlling a fastening force of the power transmission element so as to control power transmission capacity of the power transmission mechanism from the power source to the second driving wheel, wherein when the control section acquires that the vehicle transitions from a traveling state to a stop state, the acquisition triggers the control section to increase the power transmission capacity.
US10436256B2
A drive transmission device includes: a first rotating member that rotates with driving power received from a driving source, a second rotating member that rotates with driving power from the first rotating member, and a driving-side engagement member and a driven-side engagement member for transmitting the driving power of the first rotating member to the second rotating member, wherein the driving-side engagement member and the driven-side engagement member engage with each other in a state in which the first rotating member is rotating whereby a power applying portion and a power receiving portion engage with each other while resisting against a second biasing power.
US10436246B2
A bearing support includes at least one sliding bearing defined by the bearing support and/or at least one rolling-element bearing having an outer raceway defined by the bearing support. The bearing support is formed from a fiber-plastic composite and includes an integrally formed sliding surface of the sliding bearing and/or an integrally formed raceway for rolling elements of the rolling-element bearing, and the fiber-plastic composite includes a matrix into which spatially oriented sliding fibers, for example, PTFE fibers, are embedded in a region of the sliding surface of the sliding bearing and/or a region of the raceway of the rolling-element bearing.
US10436243B2
A crankshaft for an in-line internal combustion engine includes at least two bearing points, and crank throws which include a first and a last crank throw. Each of the crank throws includes a counter-weight element. The first and the last crank throw each additionally include an additional weight. The crank throws are arranged angularly offset with respect to each other so that at least two of the crank throws are arranged in angular coincidence with each other. The crank throws and their respective counter-weight elements are arranged to provide for a mass balance. The first and the last crank throw, as seen in an axial direction of the crankshaft, are arranged in angular coincidence with each other. The additional weight of the first and the last crank throw are arranged in a mirrored manner, as seen in the axial direction of the crankshaft.
US10436229B2
Provided is a hydraulic drive system for a work machine configured with a single solenoid proportional valve for a regeneration circuit, wherein substantially the same actuator speed can be secured irrespective of whether or not hydraulic fluid discharged from a hydraulic actuator is regenerated for driving of another hydraulic actuator. The hydraulic drive system includes: a regeneration line that connects a bottom-side hydraulic chamber of a hydraulic cylinder 4 to a portion between a hydraulic pump device 50 and a second hydraulic actuator 8, and a regeneration flow rate adjustment device that supplies, at an adjusted flow rate, at least part of the discharged hydraulic fluid to a portion between the hydraulic pump device 50 and the second hydraulic actuator; a discharge flow rate adjustment device that discharges, at an adjusted flow rate, the discharged hydraulic fluid to a tank; one electric drive device 22 that simultaneously controls the regeneration flow rate adjustment device and the discharge flow rate adjustment device; and a control unit 27 that outputs a control command to the electric drive device in such a manner that falling speed of a first driven body does not vary significantly, irrespective of the magnitude of the regeneration flow rate caused by the regeneration flow rate adjustment device.
US10436214B2
A system is provided, including an airfoil. The airfoil includes a first suction portion of a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z of a suction side as set forth in TABLE I to a maximum of three decimal places, wherein the X and Y values of the suction side are coordinate values that couple together to define suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z coordinate value, the suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile are coupled together to define the first suction portion, the airfoil includes an airfoil length along a Z axis, the first suction portion comprises a first portion length along the Z axis, the first portion length is less than or equal to the airfoil length, and the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances.
US10436212B2
The invention relates to a fan, in particular for a small turbine engine such as a jet engine, having a hub ratio corresponding to the ratio of the diameter of the inner limit of the air intake section (26) at the radially internal ends of the leading edges of the fan blades (10), divided by the diameter of the circle through which the outer ends of the fan blades pass, which has a value of 0.25 to 0.27.
US10436208B2
A method of correcting surge control parameters that includes providing a dynamic compressor having a compressor, driver, surge valve, and control system. The control system establishes surge control parameters such as surge detection lines, surge limit lines, and then detects the onset of a surge in the dynamic compressor. When the surge is detected the control system measures variables of the dynamic compressor such as fluid pressure, fluid speed, power, speed and valve position and based on these variables the control system automatically corrects the surge control parameters based on these variables at the time of the onset of the surge is detected. Advisory information is provided by control system to user for corrective actions to prevent surge.
US10436203B2
A poppet valve for a piston compressor having a catcher, a valve body with a plurality of inlet ducts opening into a valve seat, and a plurality of closing elements which can be moved in an axial direction. Each inlet duct is assigned a closing element, and the valve seat is arranged to lie opposite the associated closing element in the axial direction in such a way that the valve seat can be closed by way of the closing element A spring is arranged between the catcher and the closing element, to bring a pre-stressing force on the closing element, which pre-stressing force is oriented towards the valve seat. The spring encloses an inner space. A guide part which runs in the axial direction is arranged on the catcher, on which guide part the closing element is mounted such that it can move, in the axial direction.
US10436194B2
A motor-driven compressor includes a compression unit that includes movable and fixed scrolls and a compression chamber, an electric motor that includes a rotor and drives the compression unit, a motor drive circuit that drives the electric motor, an injection port that draws intermediate pressure refrigerant into the compression chamber, a controller that performs rotation control on the rotor, and a voltage detector that detects a terminal voltage of the electric motor. The compression unit compresses low pressure refrigerant drawn into the compression chamber to discharge high pressure refrigerant. The controller is configured to output a stop instruction to deactivate the rotation control of the rotor, determine a rotation condition of the rotor based on the voltage detected by the voltage detector after outputting the stop instruction, and perform, based on the determination, restart preparation control that includes outputting a lock instruction to electrically stop rotation of the rotor.
US10436189B2
Embodiments of a compressor cutoff are presented. In an embodiment, the present invention includes apparatus for cutting off the flow of gas/liquid in the event of compressor failure or breakdown. In this embodiment, gas/liquid flows from its source through one or more passageways into a first input chamber, and also through one or more other passageways into a second input chamber, where the first and second input chambers are separated by a stop plunger. During the down-stroke of the compressor's piston, gas/liquid in the first chamber passes (or is drawn) through an inlet valve of the piston bore, and during the up-stroke of the piston that gas/liquid is forced through an outlet valve to a tank or other compressed gas/liquid receptacle. So long as the compressor operates normally, the pressure in the two input chambers (i.e., on each side of the stop plunger) will be substantially equal, thereby keeping the stop plunger in place. If, however, the compressor fails in a manner that exposes gas/liquid in the piston bore to the atmosphere, or otherwise results in a decrease in pressure in the piston bore, the pressure in the first input chamber will fall below the pressure in the second input chamber, thereby causing the stop plunger to move to a position in which it blocks the flow of gas/liquid from entering the inlet valve of the piston bore.
US10436181B2
The present disclosure is directed to a method for determining an estimated rotor shaft position of a rotor shaft of a wind turbine. The method includes generating, with a rotor shaft position sensor, a measured rotor shaft position signal associated with a measured rotor shaft position of the rotor shaft. The method also includes generating, with a plurality of accelerometers positioned in an axisymmetric arrangement, a plurality of rotor hub acceleration signals associated with a plurality of rotor hub accelerations of a rotor hub coupled to the rotor shaft. The method further includes determining, with a controller, a phase adjustment based on one of the plurality of rotor hub acceleration signals or a predetermined correction value. Furthermore, the method includes adjusting, with the controller, the measured rotor shaft position by the phase adjustment to determine the estimated rotor shaft position of the rotor.
US10436180B2
An apparatus and method for removing or installing a bearing unit at the downwind end of the bedplate in wind turbine uses a frame erected at the downwind end of the bedplate. The frame has cradle members located such that the bearing unit can be slid out of the bedplate and supported on the cradle members, or supported on the cradle members and pushed into the bedplate.
US10436156B2
An air fin for a heat exchanger has air channels defined by corrugations, the corrugations having generally planar flanks joined by alternating crests and troughs. Perforations extend through portions of at least some of the flanks and are aligned within two spaced apart planes. A rectangular aperture extends through at least two consecutive ones of the corrugations, and is bounded by the two planes. A method of making the air fin includes forming perforations into a continuous strip of metal sheet at regular intervals, corrugating the strip to form crests and troughs between the perforations, and punching out a portion of the strip at regular intervals. The punching out includes shearing webs between the perforations, and results in the formation of the rectangular aperture.
US10436153B2
Fuel vapor temporary storage device includes a collecting tank which is configured to collect fuel and a temporary storage device is configured to collect gas-phase components that are released from fuel located in the collecting tank. A compressor is configured to supply compressed air to the device. A first line creates a fluid connection between the collecting tank and the temporary storage device. A second line creates a fluid connection between the compressor and the temporary storage device. The temporary storage device receives the gas-phase component via the first line and receives compressed air from the compressor via the second line. The temporary storage device has a third line configured to discharge the collected gas-phase components from the temporary storage device to an internal combustion engine when the compressor is supplying compressed air via the second line.
US10436136B2
System, method, and apparatus for controlling performance of an engine in response to a set of outputs from a device to an engine control unit. The engine control unit receives profile parameters that are related to outputs of the device. The engine control unit receives a first signal from a device, engages a high idle functionality in response to a first value of the first signal, and engages a high performance functionality in response to a second value of the first signal.
US10436134B2
When it is determined that the combustion state during the catalyst warm-up control is unstable, an additional ignition is performed on the TDC side relative to the discharge period CP. In a first countermeasure example, an additional ignition period CP2 is provided on the TDC side relative to the ignition period CP1 at the normal time while performing normal ignition and injection. A second countermeasure example is carried out when it is determined that the combustion state is still unstable despite the first countermeasure example. In the second countermeasure example, an additional ignition period CP3 which is a longer period than the additional ignition period CP2 is provided instead of the additional ignition period CP2.
US10436130B2
A combustion engine for a vehicle has an intake duct through which a fuel gas/air/exhaust gas mixture can be fed to a combustion unit of the combustion engine, and an exhaust gas recirculation system feeding in an exhaust gas from the combustion unit at an exhaust gas admission region to the gas fed to the combustion unit. A measuring device that determines the fuel gas/air/exhaust gas mass flow and the fuel gas/air/exhaust gas temperature is arranged in the intake duct upstream of the combustion unit and downstream of the exhaust gas admission region. A temperature sensor is arranged both in the exhaust gas recirculation system and in the intake duct, in each case upstream of the exhaust gas admission region, in addition to the measuring device, to determine a recirculated exhaust gas mass flow and/or an air mass flow fed to the combustion unit.
US10436128B2
A control system of a vehicle includes: an engine; a plurality of accessories including an air conditioner; a battery; a generator; and an ECU configured to automatically stop the engine, control the generator to charge or discharge the battery, inhibit the engine from being automatically stopped, calculate a first stop time as a length of time for which the engine can be automatically stopped, during operation of the air conditioner, calculate a first electric quantity as an estimated quantity of electricity consumed, calculate a second stop time as a length of time for which the vehicle is predicted to be stopped in the future, calculate a second electric quantity as an estimated quantity of electricity consumed, and determine the SOC target value, based on the first electric quantity and the second electric quantity.
US10436121B2
A propulsion system includes a fan, a gear, a turbine configured to drive the gear to, in turn, drive the fan. The turbine has an exit point, and a diameter (Dt) is defined at the exit point. A nacelle surrounds a core engine housing. The fan is configured to deliver air into a bypass duct defined between the nacelle and the core engine housing. A core engine exhaust nozzle is provided downstream of the exit point. A downstream most point of the core engine exhaust nozzle is defined at a distance from the exit point. A ratio of the distance to the diameter is greater than or equal to about 0.90.
US10436119B2
An assembly for passing an electrical harness through a wall includes a tubular metal end piece passing right through the wall and housing the electrical harness. The assembly further includes a sleeve made from heat-shrinkable material extending around an end part of the tubular end piece and of the electrical harness. The assembly further includes structures for extracting heat from the tubular end piece that are arranged on the side of the end piece surrounded by the heat-shrinkable sleeve.
US10436116B2
A gas turbine engine includes a fan, an engine static structure, a geared architecture to drive the fan and supported relative to the static structure, a fan drive turbine to drive the geared architecture, a first member secured to the geared architecture, and a second member secured to the engine static structure and configured to cooperate with the first member to limit movement of the geared architecture relative to the static structure. A fan drive gear system and method are also disclosed.
US10436114B2
A gas turbine engine has a combustor supported in a gas generator case. A baffle apparatus is attached to the gas generator case, surrounding an upstream section of the combustor to create at least one passage for directing an air flow discharged from a compressor diffuser to pass therethrough for cooling the combustor. The at least one passage extends from an upstream end of the combustor and has a passage exit immediately upstream of a dilution hole in the combustor. The baffle apparatus is configured to increase a velocity of the air flow entering the at least one passage and passing over the combustor.
US10436111B2
A retaining member particularly suitable for use as part of a foreign material exclusion device that can be used to temporarily seal an area of a construction from foreign material or debris, wherein the retaining member includes a post adapted to be inserted through a body of the foreign material exclusion device and cap having a rim and a fitting, the latter mateably engageable with an end of the post. The post and fitting each include through bores that are alignable such that they can be connected, for example with an extraction member of the foreign exclusion material device. Foreign material exclusion devices including the retaining member are disclosed.
US10436108B2
An internal combustion engine includes a cylinder with a combustion chamber and a piston selectively changing the volume of the combustion chamber. The combustion chamber receives a mixture of air, hydrogen and a liquid fuel consisting essentially of water and a flammable, preferably non-fossil, substance. The contents of the combustion chamber are ignited generating power.
US10436106B2
A required opening correction amount is calculated based on a target supercharging pressure and an actual supercharging pressure, a target opening is calculated based on a required opening and the required opening correction amount, an actual operating position of a wastegate valve is determined to correspond to a fully closed position when the wastegate valve is in a fully closed condition, an actual opening of the wastegate valve is calculated based on the fully closed position and the actual operating position, an operation amount of an actuator for aligning the target opening with the actual opening is calculated based on the target opening and the actual opening, and when the target opening corresponds to the fully closed condition and the actual operating position is not decreased at or above a prescribed rate, the fully closed position is updated to the actual operating position.
US10436095B2
The exhaust line comprises an injection segment including at least one cup having a large upstream face directly sprayed with the exhaust gases and dividing a circulation passage into an upstream space and a downstream space. The injection segment comprises at least one circumferential conduit fluidically connecting the upstream space to the downstream space. The cup defines at least one injection channel and at least one guiding area laid out so as to guide as far as said injection channel a portion of the exhaust gases spraying the large upstream face. An injection device includes a reagent injector that is oriented to inject the reagent substantially with a co-current or counter-current of the exhaust gases in the injection channel, with the latter extending from the injector as far as the inlet of the conduit.
US10436092B2
An exhaust purification system includes an exhaust after-treatment apparatus which is provided on an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and which includes catalysts for purifying exhaust gas, a catalyst temperature retention control module for executing a catalyst temperature retention control in which an intake air flow is reduced to thereby suppress a reduction in the temperature of the catalysts when the internal combustion engine is in a motoring state where fuel injection into the internal combustion engine is stopped, and a prohibition module for prohibiting the execution of the catalyst temperature retention control in a case where an activation of an exhaust brake system is detected while the internal combustion engine is in the motoring state.
US10436088B2
A snap-action valve assembly for an exhaust system and a method for manufacturing the same is provided. The valve assembly includes a first conduit and a second conduit that is partially received in the first conduit. A valve flap is disposed within the first conduit for controlling exhaust flow. A shaft supports the valve flap in the first conduit for rotation between open and closed positions. The first conduit has first and second slots, each extending from an open slot end to a closed slot end. First and second bushings subassemblies supporting the shaft are disposed within the slots between the second conduit and the closed slot ends. Each of the first and second bushing subassemblies includes an alignment system in the form of protrusions that limit insertion of the first and second bushing subassemblies into the first and second slot to a single orientation.
US10436082B2
The invention concerns a method for operating a gear pump, in particular for delivering engine oil in an oil circuit of a vehicle, wherein a delivery device is provided with at least two gear wheels, in particular with external toothing or configured as spur gears and arranged in a housing, wherein by means of the gear wheels a fluid to be conveyed can be delivered starting from at least one housing inlet through to at least one housing outlet, and wherein the gear wheels are arranged behind each other viewed in the axial direction (x). According to the invention, an adjustment device is provided, by means of which the gear wheels can be twisted and/or displaced relative to each other depending on the pressure conditions inside the housing, in particular depending on the vacuum pressure at the housing inlet and/or depending on the fluid back-pressure at the housing outlet.
US10436081B2
A method for reducing noise generated from an electric oil pump (EOP) is reduced while driving a vehicle which has only the EOP without a mechanical oil pump (MOP) limits revolutions per minute (RPM) of the EOP to 70% or less of a maximum RPM during a low noise driving mode and rotates the EOP at the maximum RPM during a high noise driving mode.
US10436079B2
A variable valve drive for a lifting valve, such as a charge-exchange valve of an internal combustion engine, that is periodically movable between closed and open positions indirectly by way of a cam via a rocker lever. The variable valve drive includes a switchable rocker lever arrangement for the actuation of the lifting valve, having a transmission rocker lever and a valve rocker lever which are mounted pivotably on different rocker lever axles parallel to the camshaft axis. The valve rocker lever, is in operative contact with the lifting valve at a first end, and has a roller, at a second end. The transmission rocker lever, is in engagement with a cam of the camshaft and, is operatively connected to the roller of the valve rocker lever.
US10436072B2
This application provides elastomeric shock absorbers for turbine transportation. Example engine mounts may include a first plate, a second plate, and an elastomeric bearing positioned between the first plate and the second plate. The engine mount may be configured to absorb or dampen vibration along an X-axis, a Y-axis, and a Z-axis of a turbine during transportation.
US10436062B2
An article includes a ceramic wall that defines at least a side of a passage. The ceramic wall includes a flow turbulator that projects into the passage. The flow turbulator is formed of ceramic matrix composite. A gas turbine engine is also disclosed. The gas turbine engine includes a compressor section, a combustor in fluid communication with the compressor section, and a turbine section in fluid communication with the combustor. At least one of the turbine section or the compressor section including the article.
US10436052B2
A leaf seal for sealing off a shaft rotating around an axis, particularly in a gas turbine, is disclosed. The leaf seal includes a plurality of leaves arranged spaced apart from one another, where the leaves are produced integrally with a basic element supporting the leaves by a generative production process. A process for producing a leaf seal for sealing off a shaft rotating around an axis is also disclosed.
US10436039B2
A gas turbine engine component includes a structure having a surface configured to be exposed to a hot working fluid. The surface includes a recessed pocket that is circumscribed by an overhang. At least one cooling groove is provided by the overhang.
US10436035B1
A gas turbine engine has a fan tip air angle and/or a fan blade tip air angle in a defined range to achieve improved over all performance, taking into account fan operability and/or bird strike requirements as well as engine efficiency. The defined ranges of fan tip air angle and/or a fan blade tip air angle may be particularly beneficial for gas turbine engines in which the fan is driven by a turbine through a gearbox.
US10436031B2
A cooled turbine runner, in particular a high-pressure turbine runner for an aircraft engine, with turbine blades that are radially arranged at a circumferential surface of a rotor disk, wherein respectively one turbine blade with a profiled blade root is inserted into a correspondingly profiled disk finger groove at the circumferential surface of the rotor disk,and wherein a cooling device is provided with at least one cooling air supply channel that extends at least substantially axially and at least over a part of the axial length of the blade root, and with at least one cooling channel that branches off from the same and extends in the interior of the turbine blade up to an outlet opening at its surface. At an inflow side of the blade root, a plug with a cooling air passage is arranged in the cooling air supply channel, wherein the cooling air passage has a geometry that forms a micro-compressor.
US10436028B2
A system includes an optical computing device having an optical multiplexer that receives a sample light generated by an optical interaction between a sample and an illumination light is provided. The system includes sensing elements that optically interact with the sample light to generate modified lights, and a detector that measures a property of the modified lights separately. Linear and nonlinear models for processing data collected with the above system to form high-resolution spectra are also provided. Methods for designing optimal optical multiplexers for optimal reconstruction of high-resolution spectra are also provided.
US10436024B2
A geologic survey system includes a plurality of acoustic sources spaced at intervals over a target area of a terranean surface. Each of the plurality of acoustic sensors is configured to generate a seismic energy wave. The system also includes a plurality of acoustic sensors positioned in a plurality of boreholes formed in a geologic formation, where the boreholes have a depth sufficient to reach a geologic datum. The system also includes a control system communicably coupled to the plurality of acoustic sensors and configured to perform operations including receiving, from the plurality of acoustic sensors, data associated with reflected acoustic signals generated by the plurality of acoustic sources and received by the plurality of acoustic sensors; determining, based on the received data, a subsurface topology of the geologic formation; and generating a subsurface model of the geologic formation based on the determined subsurface topology.
US10436020B2
An example casing and cement evaluation tool may include a tool body and a rotating portion coupled to the tool body. A first transducer may be coupled to the rotating portion at a radial offset from a longitudinal axis of the tool. A second transducer may be coupled to the rotating portion at a different radial offset from the longitudinal axis of the tool.
US10436018B2
Systems, devices, and methods for estimating a value of a downhole parameter of interest. Aspects include an apparatus for evaluating a tubular. The apparatus may include a sensor including an electromagnetic acoustic transducer (EMAT) device configured to be conveyed into the tubular. The EMAT device may include measurement circuitry comprising at least one conductive coil; and a magnet array comprising magnets arranged with a corresponding direction of magnetization of each magnet oriented according to a configuration producing a greater magnetic flux on a first side of the array than on a second side opposing the first side. The magnetic flux produced from the second side may be substantially zero. In embodiments, the configuration of magnets comprises at least a first set of permanent magnets in a linear Halbach configuration.
US10436009B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of rotary steerable drilling, particularly to an apparatus for testing the function and performance of a rotary steerable tool in a horizontal or inclined state. The apparatus comprises a rotary steerable tool testing bench configured to provide a horizontal state and an inclined state for a rotary steerable tool so as to simulate a horizontal drilling state or a directional drilling state on the ground; and a rotary steerable tool function and performance testing unit disposed on the rotary steerable tool testing bench to test the function and performance of the rotary steerable tool in the horizontal drilling state or the directional drilling state. The apparatus in the present invention can test the function and performance of a push-the-bit rotary steerable tool under horizontal and inclined conditions on the ground in a lab.
US10436000B2
The present disclosure relates to a particularly effective well configuration that can be used for SAGD and other steam based oil recovery methods. Fishbone multilateral wells are combined with SAGD, effectively expanding steam coverage. Preferably, an array of overlapping fishbone wells cover the pay, reducing water use and allowing more complete production of the pay.
US10435995B2
Oilfield management includes obtaining a binary variable array describing configurable elements of an oilfield design, partitioning the binary variable array into subgroups, and applying a transformation function to each subgroup to obtain an integer variable for each subgroup. An optimization problem is solved on the binary variable array by treating the integer variable as a continuous variable to obtain a solution, and the transformation function of each subgroup is applied to the solution to obtain a design pattern. Based on the design pattern, the oilfield design is generated.
US10435993B2
Systems and methods for stimulating wells include a frac window system positioned in a first wellbore adjacent a secondary wellbore extending from the first wellbore so that an opening in the frac window system aligns with a window in the first wellbore casing. The frac window system includes an elongated tubular with annular seals along the outer surface above and below the opening in the elongated tubular, and further includes an orientation device carried within the tubular. A main bore isolation sleeve is positioned within the frac window system to seal the opening, isolating the secondary wellbore from pressurized fluid directed farther down the first wellbore. A whipstock seats on the orientation device so that a surface of the whipstock is aligned with the secondary wellbore window of the first wellbore casing. The whipstock guides a straddle stimulation tool into the secondary wellbore from the first wellbore.
US10435987B2
A technique facilitates control over at least one flow control assembly position to control fluid with respect to a tubing string. The flow control assembly is disposed along the tubing string and comprises a flow control valve and a motor to control the operational position of the flow control valve. The flow control valve may comprise a plunger and a seal system to provide a seal between the plunger and a surrounding structure. Additionally, the flow control valve comprises a pressure balanced system. The pressure balanced system serves to balance pressure acting on the plunger such that the motor is able to move the plunger by simply overcoming friction of the seal system without overcoming a pressure differential otherwise acting on the plunger.
US10435978B2
In one aspect the invention provides a ball injecting apparatus for releasing balls into the wellbore of a well. The apparatus comprises a body having an interior capable of housing one or more balls, at least one window in the body to allow for fluid communication between the body's interior and outside atmosphere. The window also provides for placement and removal of the balls into and out of the body's interior. An opening of suitable dimensions is provided on the body to allow the balls to exit the apparatus. A ball retaining and release mechanism retains and selectively releases the balls out the opening. The interior of the ball injecting apparatus is open to atmospheric pressure during operations. System and method aspects are also provided.
US10435975B2
Disclosed is a mechanical force generator for use in a drillstring that provides a sinusoidal or near sinusoidal oscillating output, comprising: a rotatable cam plate connected to a mass, the cam plate having two opposed oblique bearing surfaces rotatable through a bearing, wherein upon rotation, the two opposed oblique bearing surfaces cam against the bearing to oscillate the mass longitudinally, wherein the bearing comprises opposing bearings for bearing against the opposed oblique bearing surfaces and wherein at least one bearing adjusts to follow the respective opposed bearing surface and maintain engagement.
US10435969B2
A control mechanism for a drill string tool is configured to activate the drill string tool by hydraulically actuated movement of the switching element to an activated position, with drilling mud serving as actuating medium. Movement of the switching element to the activated position is automatically regulated, so that tool activation is conditional upon application of above-threshold downhole drilling fluid conditions for at least a predetermined switching duration. A switch regulator that regulates movement of the switching element to the activated position can be configured to regulate a rate of movement of the switching element such that a substantially constant switching duration is maintained regardless of fluctuations in the magnitude of an actuating pressure differential during above-threshold downhole drilling fluid conditions.
US10435963B2
A system and method directed to passively compensating for the vertical movement of an offshore platform due to fluctuations of the sea level. The system, which is deployed from the offshore platform, includes an inline motion compensator, a top drive assembly and a static lift frame that are coupled together. In an embodiment, the inline motion compensator comprises an elongated vessel containing a piston which defines a blind chamber and a compensation chamber of the elongated vessel. The compensation chamber is filled with pressurized gas, which along with an elongated rod disposed therein, is used to compensate for the relative movement between the offshore platform and a hydrocarbon well assembly that it is coupled to system.
US10435951B2
A system and method for drilling is disclosed, the system including a drill string with at least one drill pipe, a bottom hole assembly and a drill bit. The bottom hole assembly includes a downhole mud motor for rotating the drill bit, and a steering motor coupled between the mud motor and the drill pipe. The downhole mud motor includes a bent housing. The drill pipe is continuously rotated to minimize friction, regardless of whether the drill bit is turned using rotary drilling or drilling with the downhole mud motor. Tool face orientation may be controlled by operating the steering motor at the drill pipe speed, but in an opposite rotational direction to thereby hold the mud motor and bent housing stationary with respect to the formation. Steering motor speed may be increased or decreased to adjust tool face orientation.
US10435942B1
A pet door includes an elongated, rectangular panel having a first side edge hingedly attached to the free, pivotal side edge of an exterior door. The panel is formed of an upper section that is foldable onto a lower section to allow the device to be compactly transported or stored. The lower section includes an opening having a movable hatch positioned therein that allows a pet to freely pass through the panel. The upper section of the panel includes a triangular flap hingedly attached to a top edge that is securable to the upper edge of the exterior door. Accordingly, the exterior door is partially opened and the panel is pivoted against the door frame to block the space formed therebetween. The flap is secured to the top edge of the door to overlay the triangular space formed between the exterior door and frame header. Therefore, the panel forms a secure barrier between the open door and the exterior while allowing a pet to freely enter and exit the building.
US10435940B2
A welded steel door including a pan having a bottom surface forming a first face of the door and flanges extending on opposite edges thereof forming opposite side edges of the door, the flanges having a lid engaging surface spaced from the bottom surface, a lid having a top surface forming a second face of the door opposite the first face, opposite edges of the top surface each having a hem mated with a respective lid engaging surface of each flange, the hem including a portion of the top surface folded back on itself, and a plurality of welds securing the lid to the pan. The welds extend between the portion of the top surface of the lid folded back on itself of each hem and the respective lid engaging surface of each flange and are thereby concealed.
US10435938B2
A vacuum insulated glass (VIG) window assembly and method for making same is provided in which a variation in the final edge seal height is preferably 0.20 mm or less, more preferably about 0.15 mm or less. Controlling final edge seal height variations substantially reduces breakage of the glass substrates of the VIG window assembly during vacuum pump-down of the cavity between the glass substrates. Edge seal height variation may be controlled, for example, by controlling initial dispensing of green frit material, controlling temperature variations during firing, and/or controlling cycle times during firing.
US10435932B2
The present disclosure includes a fastenerless hinge system which enables a thin form factor low cost design. A hinge system described herein may include a hinge bracket and a hinge wing. The hinge bracket includes an elevated portion thereby providing a hollow region and one or more spring tabs. The hinge wing is slidably coupled to the hinge bracket through the hollow portion. Advantageously, a hinge system consistent with the present disclosure does not include fasteners such that the “Z” height of the computing device may be minimized in addition to reducing costs.
US10435924B1
A vehicle door handle is provided that includes a deployable handle body located on a door, keypad contacts on an outer side of the handle body, an actuator configured to deploy the handle to a deployed position, a plurality of proximity sensors located on the handle body and generating activation fields, and a controller processing signals generated by the sensors to determine an input command for controlling the actuator and to determine a keypad input. The controller may sense ice on the handle and determine ice thickness and may control the actuator to break the ice based on the ice thickness.
US10435922B2
A handle bezel assembly for a vehicle includes a handle bezel and a cover. The handle bezel has a first fastener opening formed therein. The first fastener opening is configured to receive a first fastener to secure the handle bezel to a closure panel assembly. The cover is movably connected to the handle bezel. The cover is movable between a first position preventing access to the fastener opening and a second position allowing access to the fastener opening.
US10435918B2
A container is disclosed that has a housing and a lid. The lid has a planar portion and a latch that is freely movable parallel to the planar portion of the lid. The latch has a retention feature and a first reference surface that is perpendicular to the planar portion of the lid. There is a latch mechanism coupled to the housing that has an engagement element configured to engage the retention feature of the latch and a first alignment feature having a first alignment surface. The first alignment feature is configured to laterally displace the latch in a first direction such that the first reference surface aligns with the first alignment surface when the lid is brought together with the housing with the fastener laterally displaced away from the engagement element in a second direction that is opposite to the first direction.
US10435917B2
A door lock with integrated door position sensor includes rectangular magnets positioned behind the door strike to maximize magnetic field strength in available space limited by industry-standard dimensions for the door strike. A beveled or stepped mounting opening for the sensor is formed in a front plate of the door lock and behind a non-magnetic faceplate. The shape of the mounting opening allows the magnetic field to penetrate deeply through the faceplate and front plate to actuate the door position sensor. The sensor may be used in mortise locks or bored locks. In an alternative embodiment, the sensor is spring mounted to eliminate all mounting tolerances and ensure that the sensor is maximally forward and flush against the back of the non-magnetic faceplate.
US10435915B2
A rekeyable lock cylinder includes a plug body with a keyway opening along a longitudinal axis and a multiple of channels transverse to the axis. A rekeying feature located adjacent to the keyway opening.
US10435914B2
A locking device is provided including a housing, a barrel, an interchangeable core (IC), and a prong driver. The housing extending along a longitudinal axis and including a first slot. The barrel slidably disposed in a hollow interior of the housing, where the barrel is slidable along the longitudinal axis. The barrel including a second slot and a hollow interior to retain the IC. The IC including a key hole and coupled to the prong driver. The prong driver including an engaging element extending from the prong driver perpendicularly to the longitudinal axis into the first slot and the second slot. When a proper key is inserted into the key hole and rotated, the engaging element is rotated within the first and second slots to allow the barrel to slide along the longitudinal axis to lock and unlock the locking device.
US10435913B2
Various implementations comprise a method and apparatus for constructing a concrete structure in stages. In various implementations, an apparatus includes a base, a support column located on the base, and a movable scaffolding rotatably coupled to a top of the support column. According to various other implementations, a method for assembling a tower stage includes: (1) providing a base platform; (2) coupling a pole to the base platform; (3) disposing two or more staves around the pole; (4) coupling the staves together to form the tower stage; and (5) removing the tower stage from the platform.
US10435912B2
The invention relates to a kit of parts (100) for building a support base (1) for a pole-like element (2), wherein the kit of parts (100) comprises at least three substantially L-shaped elements (3), each L-shaped element (3) being arranged with an upright part (3A) extending along a body portion (101) of the pole-like element (2) in a direction parallel to a longitudinal axis (z) of the pole-like element (2) and with a foot part (3C) extending outwardly from a lowermost portion (102) of the pole-like element (2), wherein the kit of parts (100) further comprises a first holding means for holding a substantially right-angled part (3B) of each L-shaped element (3) in proximity of the lowermost portion (102) of the pole-like element (2).
US10435911B2
A stanchion such as a utility pole has an energy absorbing layer positioned proximate to the ground and surrounding the pole to absorb energy due to vehicular impact.
US10435895B2
An adjustable platform extension bracket for work platform systems comprises a post member having two posts joined by a plurality of positional structures. A first connection portion forms a first channel such that the first connection portion is symmetrical along an axis parallel with and passing through the channel. The post member is slidingly engaged in the first channel such that at least one of the positional structures is positionable in the channel. The bracket does not require any diagonal support. The dimensions of work platforms, particularly suspended work platform systems, may be extended using the adjustable platform extension bracket.
US10435884B2
A method of assembling an insulation batt includes coupling a first stiffening layer to an insulation layer; coupling a second stiffening layer to the insulation layer; and compressing the insulation layer between the first stiffening layer and the second stiffening layer. The method can further include stacking a plurality of compressed insulation batts; and placing a strap around the plurality of compressed insulation batts.
US10435880B1
A storm water management system and methods of assembling the same are provided. The system has open columns having corbels that support a slab spanning between adjacent columns. The system is assembled by positioning a first plurality of slabs end-to-end and spaced apart from a second plurality of slabs. The column is seated into an opening formed between the first and second plurality of slabs. A first corbel extends from a first side of the column and over laps an edge portion of a slab of the first plurality. A second corbel extends from a second side of the column and over laps an edge portion of a slab of the second plurality.
US10435877B2
A flush toilet includes a toilet bowl part, flush water conduits that guides flush water toward the toilet bowl part, a bubble passage provided separately from the flush water conduits, the bubble passage that guides bubbles toward the toilet bowl part, and a bubble generator provided in the bubble passage, the bubble generator that generates bubbles.
US10435871B2
The present invention relates to a drinking and service water supply device (1) of a building with at least one circulation pipe (3) leading to at least one consumer (12) and with a regulating valve installed in the circulation pipe, and in a coordinated aspect to a regulating valve (18) for hot-water circulation systems, comprising a valve housing (20) into which a thermostatic element (25) which is controlled by water temperature is installed as a setting member for a regulation member (30) which cooperates with a valve seat (34) with a flow opening (35) between inlet and outlet channel (21, 22) of the valve housing (20) for regulating the water flow rate. It is desired in drinking and service water supply devices that strongly cooled-down hot water is replaced as rapidly as possible by heated water to avoid, if possible, germ formation in the water and a drop of the water temperature at the consumer. For the improved solution of these problems the present invention wants to indicate a direction-dependent regulation element (37; 41, 30) which with a flow (V) through the regulating valve (18) in one direction increases the flow coefficient Cv of the regulating valve (18) independently of the position of the setting member and with a flow through the regulating valve (18) in opposite direction does not cause an increase of the flow coefficient Cv.
US10435863B2
A control system for a construction machine maintains operability of a swing combined operation even when the power supplied from an engine or storage device varies. The control system includes a target path computation section that receives an operation amount of the front implement operation device, an operation amount of the swing operation device, a speed of the front implement drive unit detected, and an angular speed of the swing structure drive unit, and that computes a target path of a claw tip position of the front implement drive unit; and an actuator power computation section that regulates power supplied to the front implement drive unit or the swing structure drive unit in such a manner that a claw tip of the front implement drive unit follows the target path the front implement operation device and the swing operation device are operated simultaneously.
US10435859B2
A cementitious composite for in-situ hydration includes a structure layer having a first side and an opposing second side, a cementitious material disposed within the structure layer, a sealing layer disposed along and coupled to the first side of the structure layer, and a containment layer disposed along the opposing second side of the structure layer. The structure layer has an intersection at the sealing layer and the containment layer that is at least partially fiberless. The cementitious material includes a plurality of cementitious particles. The containment layer is configured to prevent the plurality of cementitious particles from migrating out of the structure layer.
US10435853B2
A cut and cover method of constructing grade separation structures includes partially burying precast substructure elements with associated trench boxes under live traffic. Once the precast substructure elements are buried, the substructure is completed and the bridge span is installed. Other methods include installing precast superstructure elements with a formwork system and forming a bridge substructure and excavating underneath the superstructure once the superstructure is formed.
US10435852B2
A method for determining the compaction state of a subgrade to be compacted using a roller compactor comprising at least one compactor drum having an oscillation-inducing arrangement and rotatable about a drum axis of rotation comprising the following steps: during at least one period of oscillating movement of the compactor drum, repeatedly determining the acceleration of the compactor drum in an first direction, representing a first acceleration value; in association with each first acceleration value, determining an acceleration of the compactor drum in a second direction representing a second acceleration value in order to provide acceleration value pairs, each consisting of a first acceleration value and a second associated acceleration value; and for at least one oscillation period, defining a compaction state value representing the compaction state of the subgrade based upon the period of oscillation determined for said acceleration value pairs.
US10435849B2
A module (100) for a system for the laying of underground and railroad and tram lines both in tunnel and on the surface, in particular railroad and tram lines, comprising a supporting slab (101) for the tracks (6), with substantially parallelepiped shape, the slab having at least four peripheral housings (1), passing from the extrados to the intrados and suitable to house respective adjustable levelling devices (120).
US10435841B2
The present invention provides a pulp product (e.g., paper) comprising cellulose and nanocellulose, wherein the nanocellulose is derived from the cellulose in a mechanical and/or chemical step that is separate from the main pulping process. The pulping process may be thermomechanical pulping or hydrothermal-mechanical pulping, for example. The pulp product is stronger and smoother with the presence of the nanocellulose. The nanocellulose further can function as a retention aid, for a step of forming the pulp product (e.g., in a paper machine). Other embodiments provide a corrugated medium pulp composition comprising cellulose pulp and nanocellulose, wherein the nanocellulose includes cellulose nanofibrils and/or cellulose nanocrystals and the nanocellulose may be hydrophobic. The nanocellulose improves the strength properties of the corrugated medium. In some embodiments, the cellulose pulp is a GreenBox+® pulp and the nanocellulose is derived from the AVAP® process.
US10435836B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus and a method for receiving and straightening four edge pieces of cloth, the apparatus having a machine direction parallel with a delivery direction of the straightened cloth, the apparatus comprising; at least three charger stations, each for receiving a piece of cloth and locating a pair of adjacent fore edge corners of the cloth, a set of spreader clamps for releasably receiving the pair of adjacent fore edge corners, at least two grippers, each for conveying the pair of fore edge corners from the charger station to the set of spreader clamps, where the grippers are configured to move along at least a portion of a first path transversally to the machine direction, wherein at least one central charger station has a first waiting location for the cloth with the corners being located, the waiting location being retracted opposite the machine direction from the set of spreader clamps away from the first path.
US10435835B2
A laundry treatment apparatus includes a cabinet and a drawer retractably provided in the cabinet. An accommodation unit is disposed in the drawer and defines a space configured to receive washing water. A water supply channel is connected to a water supply source and is configured to supply washing water to the accommodation unit. The laundry treatment apparatus includes a body along which a water supply channel is provided, the body being rotatably provided at the cabinet. A body guider is provided at the cabinet and is configured to guide a rotational movement of the body.
US10435833B2
Laundry washing machine (1) having an outer casing (2), a washing tub (3), arranged inside the casing (2), a rotatable drum (4), arranged in axially rotating manner inside the washing tub (3) and designed to receive laundry to be washed, and a detergent dispensing assembly (12), designed for supplying laundry detergent into the washing tub (3). The washing machine also has a water softening system (14), designed to receive fresh water from a water mains (13) and reduce the hardness degree of the fresh water in order to supply softened water the detergent dispensing assembly (12) and/or to the washing tub (3), during one or more softened water laundry washing phases, and a control panel (28) configured to allow operator to input information associated with washing performance/s. A controller (15) is configured to control the water softening system (14) in order to perform a washing program comprising one or more softened water laundry washing phases based on input washing performance/s information.
US10435831B1
An apparatus includes a dispensing bottle including a reservoir and a spray nozzle in fluid communication therewith, and a homogenous solution housed within the reservoir. Such a homogenous solution includes between 40% and 45%, by weight, of a wrinkle remover; between 40% and 45%, by weight, of a fabric softener; and between 10% and 20%, by weight, of a viscosity reducer. Advantageously, the solution is an aqueous mixture having a viscosity level between 1.0 and 2.0 centipoise at 25 degrees Celsius wherein, upon actuating the spray nozzle, the solution is caused to expel outwardly and away from the reservoir due to its low viscosity characteristics.
US10435829B2
The invention relates to a method for making a spunbonded high loft nonwoven web comprising crimped multicomponent fibers, the process comprising continuously spinning the fibers, directing the fibers to a spin-belt by deflectors and/or air streams, laying down the fibers on the spinbelt and pre-consolidating the fibers after laydown using one or more pre-consolidation rollers to form a pre-consolidated web, wherein a first component of the fibers comprises a PP homopolymer and a second component of the fibers comprises a PP/PE copolymer, wherein the pre-consolidation rollers are operated at a temperature of smaller 110° C. and/or a linear contact force of smaller 5 N/mm.
US10435827B2
A scouring article including a monolithic nonwoven pad with a semi-densified fibrous layer that is integral to the monolithic nonwoven pad and that provides a major surface of the monolithic nonwoven pad, and methods of making and using.
US10435817B2
The present invention generally relates to nanoscale wires, and to methods of producing nanoscale wires. In some aspects, the nanoscale wires are nanowires comprising a core which is continuous and a shell which may be continuous or discontinuous, and/or may have regions having different cross-sectional areas. In some embodiments, the shell regions are produced by passing the shell material (or a precursor thereof) over a core nanoscale wire under conditions in which Plateau-Raleigh crystal growth occurs, which can lead to non-homogenous deposition of the shell material on different regions of the core. The core and the shell each independently may comprise semiconductors, and/or non-semiconductor materials such as semiconductor oxides, metals, polymers, or the like. Other embodiments are generally directed to systems and methods of making or using such nanoscale wires, devices containing such nanoscale wires, or the like.
US10435816B2
An oriented alumina substrate for epitaxial growth according to an embodiment of the present invention includes crystalline grains constituting a surface thereof, the crystalline grains having a tilt angle of 1° or more and 3° or less and an average sintered grain size of 20 μm or more.
US10435814B2
A single-crystalline metal is created on a substrate by liquefying a metal material contained within a crucible while in contact with a surface of the substrate, cooling the metal material by causing a temperature gradient effected in the substrate in a direction that is neutral along the surface of the substrate and, therein, growing the single-crystalline metal in the crucible.
US10435805B2
The present invention relates to a method for at least partly coating an electrically conductive substrate with an electrocoat material, comprising at least contacting the substrate with an aqueous coating composition (A) as step (1), which is carried out in at least two successive stages (1a) and (1b), i.e., first at an applied voltage in a range from 1 to 50 V (1a), which is applied over a duration of at least 5 seconds, and then in a range from 50 to 400 V (1b), the voltage applied in (1b) being greater by at least 10 V than the voltage applied in (1a), with (A) comprising at least one cathodically depositable binder (A1), at least one organic monocarboxylic or polycarboxylic acid which has no nitrogen atom(s), and/or anions thereof (A3) and trivalent bismuth (A4), with (A3) and (A4) each being present in (A) in an amount such that their stoichiometry to one another allows at least 50 mol % of (A4) to be present in the form of a salt and/or complex of components (A3) and (A4), with the molar fractions of any zirconium ions and aminopolycarboxylic acids present in (A) to be lower by a factor in each case of 100 or of 15, respectively, than the molar fraction of (A4) present in (A); to a use of (A) for at least partly coating the substrate with an electrocoat material; to at least partly coated electrically conductive substrates obtainable by the method; and to articles or components produced from such substrates.
