US10557420B2
A fresh air supply device for an internal combustion engine may include a housing and a flap arrangement arranged in the housing. The flap arrangement may include at least one flap for controlling a fresh air flow through a fresh air path to a respective cylinder of the internal combustion engine. The flap arrangement may include a common actuator shaft connected to the at least one flap in a torque-proof manner and mounted rotatably about an axis of rotation in a plurality of bearings of the flap arrangement. The actuator shaft may have at least one actuator shaft section in which the actuator shaft has a right-angle bend configured to interact with a stop present on the housing for limiting rotational movement of the actuator shaft.
US10557401B2
Disclosed are two-valve, split-layout engine cooling systems, methods for making and method for operating such cooling systems, engine coolant valve assembly configurations, and vehicles equipped with an active thermal management system for cooling select powertrain components. A disclosed thermal management system includes a radiator for cooling coolant fluid, and a coolant pump for circulating coolant fluid received from the radiator. A set of conduits fluidly connect the coolant pump to an engine block, a cylinder head, and an exhaust manifold. Another set of conduits fluidly connect the engine block, cylinder head, and exhaust manifold to the radiator, coolant pump, and one or more oil heaters. A first valve assembly is operable to regulate coolant flow between the coolant pump and the radiator. A second valve assembly is operable to regulate coolant fluid flow, individually and jointly, between the engine block, cylinder head, exhaust manifold, radiator, coolant pump, and oil heater(s).
US10557395B2
A thermoelectric generating unit is configured to generate based on a temperature difference between a cold side and a hot side. A heating part includes a plate-like hollow member and tubular member. The hollow member is provided along a hot-side surface of a thermoelectric transducer, and forms a plate-like cavity inside. The tubular member forms a tubular cavity which communicates the plate-like cavity, with two open ends of the tubular member being positioned distantly from each other and connected to the plate-like hollow member. The tubular member is heated from outside by a hot fluid. The plate-like cavity and the tubular cavity form a circulation path in which a heating medium charged in the cavities circulates.
US10557393B2
A porous material includes aggregate particles, and a binding material that contains cordierite and zircon particles and binds the aggregate particles together in a state where pores are formed.
US10557390B2
A honeycomb filter, including: a honeycomb structure, wherein the honeycomb structure further includes a platinum group element-containing catalyst layer and a trapping layer, the platinum group element-containing catalyst layer is disposed at least on an entire surface of a side of an inner surface of the partition walls surrounding either one of the inflow cells or the outflow cells, the trapping layer does not contain a platinum group element, and the trapping layer is disposed in a range of at least up to 50% with respect to an overall length of the honeycomb structure starting from the outflow end face and is not disposed in a range of at least up to 40% with respect to the overall length starting from the inflow end face, in an extending direction of the cells of the honeycomb structure.
US10557380B2
A system for recycling heat or energy of a working medium of a heat engine for producing mechanical work is described. The system may comprise a first heat exchanger (204) for transferring heat from a working medium output from an energy extraction device (202) to a heating agent to vaporise the heating agent; a second heat exchanger (240) for transferring further heat to the vaporised heating agent; a compressor (231) coupled to the second heat exchanger (240) arranged to compress the further-heated heating agent; and a third heat exchanger (211) for transferring heat from the compressed heating agent to the working medium. A heat pump is also described.
US10557379B2
A gas turbine plant including a gas turbine and a compressor is provided with a steam turbine plant including a steam turbine and a condenser, and, an exhaust heat recovery boiler. Steam from the exhaust heat recovery boiler is directly flown to the condenser of the steam turbine plant through a bypass control valve. A pressure sensor detects pressure in a turbine bypass system. A controller outputs, based on a set value from an input device and a process value from the pressure sensor, an open level instruction value to the control value so as to make the process value consistent with the set value in a predetermined sampling cycle. A corrector corrects the set value from the input device in a direction in which the open level instruction value decreases when the open level instruction value from the controller becomes a value that substantially fully opens the control valve.
US10557357B2
A seal structure includes: a first member and a second member facing a combustion gas flow passage; a third member on an outer side of the combustion gas flow passage; a heat-resistant coating on at least one of a first end face and a second end face, both of the first end face and the second end face being closer to the combustion gas flow passage; and a contact part in each of the first end face and the second end face, further on the outer side of the combustion gas flow passage than the heat-resistant coating. The contact part is configured to restrict relative movement of the first member and the second member by directly or indirectly coming into contact with the first member and the second member in a state where a clearance is left between the heat-resistant coating and the end face facing the heat-resistant coating.
US10557356B2
Bayonet connection key includes upper and lower blocks shaped to be inserted one at a time into a key space, having laterally spaced apart upper and lower flat first and second side contact surfaces, and means for retaining blocks against each other. Bolt or screw may be disposed through an aperture in retaining plate and screwed into threaded hole in upper block pressing retaining plate against lower block. Upper block may include axially spaced apart upwardly extending forward and aft lugs, aft lug shorter than forward lug, and inwardly extending upper stop lug at aft end of upper block. Alternatively bendable tab extending axially forward from a front end of the lower block may be bent up contacting upper block for retaining blocks in key space. Upper block may include forward and aft lugs of same radial length and inwardly extending stop lug at aft end of lower block.
US10557353B2
A fan blade having a damping system is provided. The fan blade comprising: a fan blade body having one or more compartments within the fan blade body; a damping material located within at least one of the one or more compartments; one or more partial ribs originating at the fan blade body and extending into at least one of the one or more compartments, wherein each of the one or more partial ribs terminate at a distal end; and one or more damping plates, wherein each of the one or more damping plates are attached to a distal end of a partial rib, wherein the damping material is located between the damping plate and the fan blade body.
US10557342B2
A surface excitation ranging method includes installing a customized grounding arrangement for a power supply located at earth's surface, wherein the customized grounding arrangement fulfills an impedance criteria or ranging performance criteria. The method also includes conveying an electrical current output from the power supply along a target well with a metal casing. The method also includes sensing electromagnetic (EM) fields emitted from the target well due to the electrical current. The method also includes using distance or direction information obtained from the sensed EM fields to guide drilling of a new well relative to the target well.
US10557334B2
A flow meter well tool includes a volumetric well flow meter to be positioned in a wellbore. The volumetric well flow meter includes a hollow cylindrical tubing to be positioned in the wellbore. The tubing splits well fluid through the wellbore into an internal fluid through the volumetric well flow meter and an external fluid through an annulus between the wellbore and the volumetric well flow meter. The hollow cylindrical tubing includes an internal portion, where an internal cross-sectional area of the internal portion is less than an internal cross-sectional area of the hollow cylindrical tubing.
US10557333B2
A segregated flow mechanism of oil and water usually takes place in the presence of strong gravity forces in subsurface environments, having specific geometrical and petrophysical properties undergoing simultaneous flow of multiphase fluids. The segregated flow of oil and water is modeled as a two-layer reservoir system, based on the observed data. Accurate estimates or measures of the values of phase mobility of oil and water, in addition to the actual flow capacity of the formation are provided. Reliable reservoir characterizations and reserve estimations are provided based on the in-situ conditions of oil and water in the reservoir.
US10557330B2
A system for cleaning a wellbore can include a bottom hole assembly that is designed to be run downhole into a wellbore after the wellbore has been drilled and before the wellbore has been cleaned. A control sub-assembly is mounted on and carried by the bottom hole assembly. The control sub-assembly is designed to be positioned within the wellbore. Multiple cleaning sub-assemblies are interchangeably mounted on and carried by the bottom hole assembly. Each cleaning sub-assembly is designed to be positioned within the wellbore. The multiple cleaning sub-assemblies include at least two of the following sub-assemblies: a scraping sub-assembly that scrapes an interior of the wellbore, a brushing sub-assembly that brushes the interior of the wellbore, or a magnetic sub-assembly that magnetically captures debris within the wellbore.
US10557324B2
A diverter assembly may include a diverter body assembly. The diverter body assembly may also include a diverter body, the diverter body fluidly coupled to the annulus of a wellbore via a casing or riser, and the diverter body including one or more diverter outlet ports fluidly coupled to the annulus of the wellbore. The diverter body assembly may also include an upper packer assembly. The upper packer assembly may include a packer sleeve, the packer sleeve mechanically coupled to the diverter body. The packer sleeve may include one or more breach lock slots. The upper packer assembly may also include an upper packer body having one or more packer breach lock tabs engaged with the breach lock slots of the packer sleeve. The diverter assembly may also include a diverter support housing, the diverter support housing coupled to the diverter body assembly.
US10557320B2
In one embodiment, a skate configured to engage a tubular while moving along a catwalk trough is provided. The skate comprises a frame having a drive system configured to move the tubular along the catwalk trough, a grip device coupled to the frame and configured to grip a pin end of the tubular, and a controller in communication with the drive system that controls movement of the frame based on movement of a box end of the tubular.
US10557315B2
An apparatus for mounting one or more transducers to a drill pipe. The apparatus comprises a sub-pipe having a bore and a transducer-holding assembly, wherein the transducer-holding assembly is insertable into the bore of the sub-pipe from an axial end of the sub-pipe. The apparatus further comprising a tension collar connected to the bore-defining surface of the sub-pipe and bearing upon the transducer-holder.
US10557311B2
A hybrid drill bit includes both fixed cutting elements and rotational cutting elements thereon. The fixed cutting elements are affixed to a bit body and define a peripherally-located fixed cutting structure disposed radially outward of the rotational cutting elements. The rotational cutting elements define a centrally-located counter-rotational cutting structure including two hemispherical counter-rotational cutting members mounted for counter-rotation with respect to one another on an axis generally perpendicular to a bit body rotational axis.
US10557308B2
A hole in geologic material, such as a wellbore, may be extended by impacting the working face of the hole with high velocity projectiles. A tube may be placed within the hole, and the lower end of the tube may be sealed to prevent ingress of material from the hole into the tube. A projectile may be accelerated through the tube, such as by igniting a combustible gas mixture to impart a force to the projectile. The impact of the projectile may extend the hole. In some cases, accelerated projectiles may be used in conjunction with a drill bit to drill a wellbore or other type of hole.
US10557305B2
A transmission stopping device for a cordless curtain includes a box assembly and a stop wheel assembly disposed in the box assembly. The stop wheel assembly includes a torsion wheel and a stop wheel. The stop wheel is provided with balls therein. A rotation-stopping assembly is provided between the stop wheel and the box assembly. The cooperation between the balls of the stop wheel and the rotation-stopping assembly in the box assembly ensures that the ascent and descent of a curtain achieves an accurate positioning.
US10557303B1
A water trough window seal trim assembly for preventing water leakage includes a plurality of trim sections comprising a top trim section, a left trim section, and a right trim section. Each of the plurality of trim sections comprises a bottom piece, an exterior perpendicular piece, an interior perpendicular piece, and a parallel piece. The bottom piece has an exterior end, an interior end, a top face, and a bottom face. The exterior perpendicular piece is perpendicularly coupled to the top face at the exterior end. The interior perpendicular piece is perpendicularly coupled to the top face proximal the interior end. The parallel piece is perpendicularly coupled to each of the exterior perpendicular piece and the interior perpendicular piece to form a water trough. A pair of corner connectors perpendicularly couples each of the left trim section and the right trim section to the top trim section.
US10557292B2
A door closer device for a vehicle includes a latch, a drive force transmission mechanism and a cancellation mechanism cancelling a closing operation of the drive force transmission mechanism. The drive force transmission mechanism includes a drive force transmission portion rotatable between a transmission position where the latch is configured to receive a drive force of an actuator and a non-transmission position where the latch is configured not to receive the drive force of the actuator. The cancellation mechanism includes a first operation portion and a second operation portion, the first operation portion engaged with the drive force transmission portion to be rotated irrespective of the second operation portion, the second operation portion engaged with the drive force transmission portion to be rotated irrespective of the first operation portion, the first and second operation portions rotating the drive force transmission portion from the transmission position to the non-transmission position.
US10557283B2
A hydroponic tent is provided which comprises a tent fabric cover having an inner surface which is at least in part light-reflective, and a tent frame to support the tent fabric cover in an assembled condition. The tent frame comprises a plurality of support legs, a plurality of support linkages positioned at or adjacent to an in use upper end of the support legs, the plurality of support linkages being interconnected so as to allow the tent frame to collapse in concertina. There is further provided a hanging frame assembly having first and second support bars and at least one bridging bar, the first support bar being engagable with the tent frame at or adjacent to one of the plurality of support linkages, the second support bar being engagable with the tent frame at or adjacent to another one of the plurality of support linkages, and the at least one bridging bar being supportable between the first and second support bars.
US10557281B2
A land-based drilling rig includes a first substructure and a second substructure, the second substructure being positioned generally parallel to the first substructure. The land-based drilling rig also includes a drill rig floor coupled to the first and second substructures, the drill rig floor including a V-door. The side of the drill rig floor has the V-door defining a V-door side of the drill rig floor, where the V-door side of the drill rig floor is parallel to the first substructure. The first and second substructures pivotably support the drill rig floor. The land-based drilling rig also includes a mast, the mast mechanically coupled to one or more of the first substructure, the second substructure, and the drill rig floor. The mast is pivotably coupled to one or more of the first substructure, the second substructure, and the drill rig floor by a mast pivot point. The mast includes a V-door side, the V-door side of the mast parallel to the first or second substructure. In addition, the land-based drilling rig includes a mast hydraulic lift cylinder coupled to the mast at a mast lift point and a choke manifold, the choke manifold positioned on the drill rig floor.
US10557280B2
A beach umbrella post having a suction system whereby the post of the beach umbrella is configured to suction sand when inserted into a soft surface via a plunger enabling the beach umbrella to anchor without the use of external weights or digging tools. The beach umbrella post with integrated suction also includes a release mechanism to expel sand from the inner compartment when use is ended.
US10557278B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to pool cleaners that remove debris from water using a plurality of cyclonic flows, or that include a removable impeller subassembly, a check valve for a debris canister, a particle separator assembly having a handle that locks to the pool cleaner, a modular roller drive gear box, or a roller latch that secures a roller to the pool cleaner. Exemplary embodiments are also directed to the check valve and the roller latch themselves. Exemplary embodiments are directed to a filter medium for pool cleaners that includes embossments providing flow channels for water, and to roller assemblies for pool cleaners. Exemplary embodiments are directed to pool cleaners including alternative pump motor engagements. Exemplary embodiments are directed to pool cleaners power supplies that include a potted and contoured power board assembly, and to kickstands therefor. Exemplary embodiments are directed to a pool cleaner caddy, and removable wheels therefor.
US10557277B2
A wave pool and wave generating mechanism are disclosed. The wave pool includes a bathymetry that includes a dynamically shapeable reef along a length or circumference of a channel that defines the wave pool. The wave generating mechanism includes a foil that has a shape for bi-directionality based on an adjustment of a yaw angle of the foil. The foil can be further controlled to increase or decrease certain surface areas or other angles of interacting with water in the wave pool.
US10557276B1
In a mobile stage system, a pair of hydraulic actuators at each end of the stage, in combination with certain structural elements, provides all of the necessary movement to transition the mobile stage system from the transport position to a deployed position, i.e., raise the roof and deploy an outer deck panel of the stage. The roof includes a first upper panel and a second upper panel, which rotate upward while the outer deck panel rotates downward. The upper deck panels of the mobile stage are automatically locked into place when in the deployed position by way of the linkage members connecting the outer deck panel to the upper panels.
US10557274B2
Method and apparatus are disclosed for drywall banjo apparatus for applying joint tape. An example tool for applying joint tape to a corner drywall joint includes a base and a wheel configured to rotatably couple to the base and roll along the corner drywall joint. The wheel includes a body that defines an outer surface. The outer surface includes a first angled surface configured to press the joint tape against a first drywall defining the corner drywall joint, a second angled surface opposite the first angled surface and configured to press the joint tape against a second drywall defining the corner drywall joint, and a rounded vertex defined between the first angled surface and the second angled surface. The rounded vertex is rounded to deter the wheel from perforating the joint tape.
US10557269B2
A method for producing an injection molded and anti-skid mat providing a lower mold half and an enclosing upper mold half, the mold halves defining therebetween an interior cavity which is a negative of the mat to be produced. A cavity defining surface is configured in the bottom mold half with locations for preplacement of a plurality of underside adhering portions. A flowable plasticized/rubberized material is communicated through a channel in at least one of the mold halves in order to fill the interior cavity, the material setting and cooling prior to removing the upper mold half and the formed mat.
US10557255B2
Provided is an unpowered and automatically flushing toilet seat, for a water tank, having detachable and waterproof functions. A loading lever rotates, for the descending movement of a toilet seat, and presses a loading member, thereby enabling enhancement of the transmission efficiency of the force and smooth operation. Since the loading member maintains the loaded state until a toilet paper time and flush control unit presses and releases the loading member, which has been moved and loaded by the pressing of the loading lever, a user can easily acquire time for discarding toilet paper.
US10557252B2
A flow control valve for a liquid conduit, such as a fire hydrant valve for insertion in a fire hydrant conduit, comprises a fixed valve body mountable inside the liquid conduit, a displaceable valve body, and an actuator assembly operatively engageable with the displaceable valve body. The fixed valve body has a peripheral wall and defines a longitudinal passageway, and at least one upstream port and a downstream port. The displaceable valve body is inserted into the longitudinal passageway of the fixed valve body and is linearly displaceable therealong between a closed configuration and at least one open configuration. The actuator assembly is operable to linearly displace the displaceable valve body along the longitudinal passageway of the fixed valve body between the closed configuration and the at least one open configuration.
US10557251B2
The first engine speed or a work machine is higher than the minimum engine speed, and the second engine speed is higher than the first engine speed and lower than the maximum engine speed. The ratio of the change in the target engine speed to the change in the operation amount of the engine speed instructing device when the operation amount of the engine speed instructing device is changed from the operation amount for instructing the minimum speed to the operation amount for instructing the first engine speed is larger than the ratio of the change in the target engine speed to the change in the operation amount of the engine speed instructing device when the operation amount of the engine speed instructing device is changed from the operation amount for instructing the second engine speed to the operation amount for instructing the maximum speed.
US10557248B2
The present application relates to the field of immersed tube jointing, and more particularly relates to a post-grouting method for an immersed tube joint base. The post-grouting method includes the following steps: before locked backfilling of immersed tubes to be implanted, disposing a grouting tube capable of outputting solidifiable slurry in a furrow below immersed tubes; and after the locked backfilling, grouting the immersed tubes by using the grouting tube. For the purposes of adjusting postures and heights of the immersed tubes in case of abnormal settlement during installation, solving the problems on the stabilities and the service lives of immersed tube joints due to settlement of gravel mattresses or a geologic structure thereunder after installation, and enabling the immersed tubes to achieve a better bearing effect on a load during use, the present application provides the post-grouting method for the immersed tube joint base.
US10557246B2
An assembly supports a concrete slab foundation above a ground surface while being poured and hardened. The assembly includes forms, each of the forms having a frame. Lower rollers are mounted to each of the frames for rolling each of the forms onto the ground surface. Upper rollers are mounted to each of the frames at an elevation above the lower rollers. Upper decks are placed on top of the upper rollers. Each of the upper decks has an upper surface configured to receive the concrete while being poured and hardened. The upper rollers of each of the forms are in rolling engagement with a lower side of one of the upper decks, enabling the forms to be rolled out from under the upper decks after the slab foundation has hardened.
US10557243B2
The invention relates to an arrangement for supporting a thin-walled steel pile (5; 17; 26; 35) in an impact pile driving device, the arrangement comprising a supporting surface (4; 14; 23; 31), to which the steel pile (5; 17; 26; 35) can be supported, and in which arrangement the supporting surface (4; 14; 23; 31) is provided with one or more absorbing surfaces (6; 16; 25; 33) to be placed against the end of the wall (8; 18, 26; 36) of the steel pile (5; 17; 26; 35). In the arrangement according to the invention, the absorbing surface (6; 16; 25; 33) is configured to shape the end of the wall (8; 18; 27; 36) of the steel pile (5; 17, 26; 35) coming against the absorbing surface (6; 16; 25; 33), by the effect of the impact driving of the steel pile (5; 17; 26; 35), so that at least the part of the wall (8; 18; 27; 36) at the absorbing surface (6; 16; 25; 33) of the wall (8; 18; 27; 36) is shaped against the absorbing surface (6; 16; 25; 33), wherein the movement of the wall (8; 18; 27; 36) in the direction of a plane transverse to the direction of impact driving of the steel pile is prevented, at least at the head of the steel pile (5; 17; 26; 35). Also, the absorbing surface (6; 16; 25; 33) in the supporting surface (4, 14; 23; 31) can be configured to be shaped by the effect of the impact driving of the steel pile (5; 17, 26, 35) so that the absorbing surface (6; 16; 25; 33) is shaped against the part of the wall (8; 18, 27; 36) of the steel pile (5; 17; 26; 35) at the absorbing surface (6; 16; 25; 33), whereby the movement of the wall (8; 18; 27; 36) at the head of the steel pile (5; 17; 26; 35) is prevented. The invention also relates to a method for arranging the support of a steel pile (5; 17; 26; 35) in an impact pile driving device.
US10557241B2
In a piling construction management method a support strength of a hole bottom is measured with a penetration testing device before erecting a piling in a piling hole. The piling is erected in the piling hole when the measurement is at least a prescribed value. The penetration testing device has a knocking block with an integrated penetration shaft and the block is struck by a drive hammer in free-fall. The penetration testing device determines the support strength from the number of impacts required for the penetration shaft to penetrate to a prescribed depth from the hole bottom.
US10557228B2
An appliance that includes an additive delivery assembly is provided. The additive delivery assembly includes features that deliver a controlled amount of additive to a chamber of an appliance. Methods for delivering an additive to a chamber of an appliance are also provided.
US10557221B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for covers for electronic display elements with improved visibility. In one embodiment, an example cover for an electronic device may include a first fiber segment, a second fiber segment coupled to the first fiber segment, where the first fiber segment and the second fiber segment together form an opening in the cover, and an optically clear adhesive. A first portion of the optically clear adhesive may be disposed in the opening. The optically clear adhesive may have a refractive index value of between about 1.3 and about 1.6, and a first thickness of the first portion may be less than a second thickness of the cover. The cover may be transmissive to visible light.
US10557220B2
One variation of a method for producing a smart yarn includes: aligning a set of sensing elements offset along a lateral axis in a magazine, wherein each sensing element in the set of sensing elements includes a sensor, a first conductive lead extending from a first side of the sensor along a longitudinal axis perpendicular to the lateral axis, and a second conductive lead extending from a second side of the sensor opposite the first side and along the longitudinal axis; wrapping a set of fibers into a yarn within a wrapping field; feeding a leading end of a first sensing element, in the set of sensing elements, from the magazine into the wrapping field; releasing the first sensing element from the magazine into the wrapping field; encasing the first sensing element between the set of fibers within the yarn; and repeating this process for the set of sensing elements.
US10557211B2
In assembly of a conventional plating apparatus, a position of a processing tank is adjusted so that the processing tank is disposed at an ideal position. This adjustment takes time and effort to assemble a plating apparatus, and assembly of the plating apparatus requires a high cost. The invention provides a substrate transporting apparatus provided with a substrate holder for holding a substrate, a holder griping mechanism that grips the substrate holder, a substrate transporting section that transports the substrate holder, a rotation mechanism that rotationally moves the holder griping mechanism around a vertical direction as an axis, and a linear motion mechanism that linearly moves the holder griping mechanism in a direction perpendicular to a plane defined by a transporting direction of the substrate holder by the substrate transporting section and a vertical direction.
US10557206B2
The present disclosure relates to membranes for use in electrolysis systems. The teachings thereof may be embodied in a method for checking a membrane of an electrolyzer comprises two volumes separated by the membrane and produces two product gases from a starting liquid. The method may include: detecting an electrolysis current strength during electrolysis, measuring a liquid flow rate of the starting liquid between the two electrolyzer volumes, calculating a ratio of the measured liquid flow rate and the detected electrolysis current strength, and using the calculated ratio as an indication of membrane leaktightness.
US10557202B2
Embodiments of the invention may generally provide a method and apparatus that is used to prepare new and used substrate support assemblies for use in typical semiconductor processing environments. Embodiments of the present invention generally relate to a method of coating a new substrate support assembly or a used substrate support assembly that is being refurbished. The deposited coating may include a surface enhancement and/or protective material that is configured to protect one or more of the components exposed to the processing environment during a semiconductor process. The substrate support assembly may be coated with a protective material and during the coating process, the substrate support assembly is maintained at a temperature that is less than or equal to 150° C. by flowing a coolant through channels formed in a base of the substrate support assembly.
US10557194B2
A method for depositing a coating of a source material onto a panel is disclosed. The method includes providing a cathodic arc, the cathodic arc including a target surface, the target surface disposed along a target deposition axis and able to emit the source material as a generally cloud of source material vapor and a generally conical stream of liquid particles of the source material. The method further includes positioning the panel relative to the target surface based on a deposition angle, the deposition angle being between the target surface and an outer limit of the generally conical stream of liquid particles o the source material. The method may further include emitting the source material from the target surface as the generally conical cloud of source material vapor and coating the edge with the cloud of source material vapor to provide an edge coating.
US10557171B2
The technology described herein is directed to the diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment of kidney fibrosis, e.g., chronic kidney disease.
US10557169B2
Modified nucleic acid adapters are provided that collectively provide a mixture of nucleotides at the 3′ end of 5′ adapters and at the 5′ end of 3′ adapters such that at least one adapter in each set has any given nucleotide at position 1, i.e., the nucleotide position available for ligation to a small RNA, and has any given nucleotide at position 2 adjacent to position 1 for use in overcoming bias during nucleic acid manipulation, such as small RNA characterization and/or profiling by, e.g., deep sequencing, along with methods for use of the modified adapters in small RNA characterization. The modified adapters have at least two mixed nucleotides at the adapter terminus to be ligated to a nucleic acid such as a small RNA.
US10557166B2
The present invention provides methods and compositions for tagging long fragments of a target nucleic acid for sequencing and analyzing the resulting sequence information in order to reduce errors and perform haplotype phasing, for example.
US10557165B2
According to one embodiment, a method for detecting target nucleic acid includes the following steps. (A) A reaction field is formed by placing a reaction mixture on an electrode, and the reaction mixture contains the sample, a primer set, an amplification enzyme, 4 mM to 30 mM of magnesium ion, and a redox probe. The redox probe has an oxidation reduction potential, which generates an electric signal of which amplitude increases. (B) The reaction field is maintained under an amplification reaction condition. (C) The electric signal is detected with the electrode. (D) Existence or quantity of the target nucleic acid is determined.
US10557160B2
Recombinant bacterial cells are provided that comprise a stable non-canonical amino acid translation pathway. In some aspects, the bacteria comprise nucleic acids encoding a non-canonical amino acid translation pathway (e.g., a tRNA for incorporation of a non-canonical amino acid, such selenocysteine); a marker polypeptide that includes the non-canonical amino acid. Recombinant tRNA and selection marker coding sequences are likewise provided.
US10557156B2
A bacterium that constitutively produces monophosphoryl lipid A (MLA) and a method of producing MLA by using the bacterium may simply produce MLA and a derivative thereof without acid hydrolysis, reduce a probability of natural mutation, and increase yields of MLA and a derivative thereof by constitutive expression of the MLA and derivative thereof.
US10557152B2
The present invention provides for a genetically modified yeast cell comprising at least six or more of the following modifications: increased expression of Mus musculus fatty acid reductase, acetyl-CoA carboxylase, fatty acid synthase 1, fatty acid synthase 2, a mutant of the bottleneck enzyme encoded by ACC1 insensitive to post-transcriptional and post-translational repression, and/or a desaturase encoded by OLE1, and reduced expression of DGA1, HFD1, ADH6, and/or GDH1. The present invention provides a method for constructing the genetically modified yeast cell, and a method for producing a fatty alcohol from the genetically modified yeast cell.
US10557150B1
In an illustrative embodiment, automated instruments comprising one or more flow-through electroporation devices or modules are provided to automate transformation of nucleic acids in live cells.
US10557146B2
The present invention provides a mutant wheat plant resistant to powdery mildew and producing method thereof, wherein the mutant wheat plant comprises a loss of function mutation in a TaMLO-A1, TaMLO-B1 and TaMLO-D1 nucleic acid sequence. The present invention also provides a method for determining the presence or absence of a mutant TaMLO-A1, TaMLO-B1 and TaMLO-D1 nucleic acid or polypeptide in a wheat plant.
US10557135B2
Provided herein is a new class of nucleic acid tagging molecules which are essentially free of homopolymer stretches. The tagging molecules can tag a plurality of individual target molecules for detection with a high degree of accuracy. The tagging molecules can be used to tag at least 105 or 106 individual target molecules. The tagged individual target molecules can be subjected to high throughput sequence analysis.
US10557132B2
A microfluidic cartridge, configured to facilitate processing and detection of nucleic acids, comprising: a top layer comprising a set of cartridge-aligning indentations, a set of sample port-reagent port pairs, a shared fluid port, a vent region, a heating region, and a set of Detection chambers; an intermediate substrate, coupled to the top layer comprising a waste chamber; an elastomeric layer, partially situated on the intermediate substrate; and a set of fluidic pathways, each formed by at least a portion of the top layer and a portion of the elastomeric layer, wherein each fluidic pathway is fluidically coupled to a sample port-reagent port pair, the shared fluid port, and a Detection chamber, comprises a turnabout portion passing through the heating region, and is configured to be occluded upon deformation of the elastomeric layer, to transfer a waste fluid to the waste chamber, and to pass through the vent region.
US10557125B2
The present invention is within the field of industrial protein production. The invention provides a novel expression system using dihydroorotate dehydrogenase (DHODH) as a selection marker in combination with leflunomide or a metabolite thereof, notably for use in mammalian cell lines. Expression vectors encoding DHODH, cell lines comprising said vectors and methods of producing recombinant proteins are also provided.
US10557118B2
Compositions and methods are provided for preventing or treating neoplastic disease in a mammalian subject. A composition is provided which comprises an enriched immune cell population reactive to a human endogenous retrovirus type E antigen on a tumor cell. A method of treating a neoplastic disease in a mammalian subject is provided which comprises administering to a mammalian subject a composition comprising an enriched immune cell population reactive to a human endogenous retrovirus type E antigen, in an amount effective to reduce or eliminate the neoplastic disease or to prevent its occurrence or recurrence.
US10557113B2
A picktool manipulator device collects a specimen from a culture medium. In a first mode of operation, a picktool is allowed to move in an axial direction relative to support structure of the device. A detector may generate a signal in response to movement of the body in the axial direction so as to determine a height at which the picktool contacts the medium. The device may operate in the first mode when collecting a specimen from a culture medium. A second mode of operation constrains or precludes axial movement of the picktool. In some cases, the device may operate in the second mode when receiving a new picktool or discarding a used picktool.
US10557108B2
The combination of an enzyme substrate and an enzyme capable of accelerating the modification of said substrate, provides a triggered release system which works especially well. The use of the enzyme-triggered release system can retain a rinse benefit agent during the wash stage and release it during the subsequent rinse stage.
US10557107B2
A cleaning composition and process for cleaning post-chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) residue and contaminants from a microelectronic device having said residue and contaminants thereon. The cleaning compositions are substantially devoid of alkali hydroxides, alkaline earth metal hydroxides, and tetramethylammonium hydroxide. The composition achieves highly efficacious cleaning of the post-CMP residue and contaminant material from the surface of the microelectronic device without compromising the low-k dielectric material or the copper interconnect material.
US10557104B2
Some variations provide an automated system for solvent extraction of a feed stock to produce a botanical extract, fats, oils, or other desirable solute, comprising: an extraction reactor; a distillation unit; and a second-stage purge chamber or a second-stage purge process utilizing the extraction reactor itself. The second-stage purge chamber or process receives or holds the solid material along with a heated inert non-condensable gas and/or solvent vapor, to recover residual solvent contained in the solid material. Other variations provide a process comprising: feeding a raw material and a solvent into an extraction reactor; generating dissolved material in rich solvent and extracted solid material; distilling the rich solvent to generate purified product and recovered solvent; conveying the solid material and a heated inert non-condensable gas and/or solvent vapor into a second-stage purge chamber, or holding the solid material in the same vessel, to recover residual solvent; and recovering the purified product.
US10557103B2
The refrigerator lubricating oil of the present invention contains: a base oil containing, as a major component, a polyol ester (A) of a fatty acid (a1) that is a fatty acid having a number of carbon atoms of from 3 to 18 and a polyol (a2) that is selected from neopentyl glycol, trimethylolethane, trimethylolpropane, trimethylolbutane, pentaerythritol, and dipentaerythritol; and a disulfide and/or trisulfide compound (B), and the disulfide and/or trisulfide compound (B) is blended in an amount of from 30 to 10,000 ppm by mass in terms of sulfur equivalent based on the total amount of the refrigerator lubricating oil.
US10557095B2
A process for the gasification of a solid carbonaceous feed, the process comprising the steps of: introducing a batch of the solid carbonaceous feed into a sluice vessel, while an internal pressure in the sluice vessel is at a first pressure; introducing at least recycled CO2 into the sluice vessel via one or more gas inlets covered by the solid carbonaceous feed, to pressurize the sluice vessel from the first pressure to a second pressure exceeding the first pressure, during a predetermined time period; closing the one or more gas inlets; opening a feed outlet of the sluice vessel to supply the batch of the solid carbonaceous feed to a feed vessel for feeding the solid carbonaceous feed to a gasification reactor; closing the feed outlet; venting the sluice vessel to reduce the internal pressure to the first pressure; and repeating the process.
US10557094B2
A method for inhibiting corrosion on internal metal surfaces of an overhead condenser of a crude distillation unit in which hydrocarbons, water and amine hydrochlorides condense, the method includes adding to the overhead condenser an amine composition in an amount and at a rate sufficient to maintain the pH of water condensate in the condenser above a pH of about 5, the amine composition made of a mixture of four amines wherein the amines are monoethanloamine, methoxypropyl amine, morpholine and cyclohexylamine present in a weight ratio ranging from about 25:30:25:20 to about 30:40:15:15. Further, a system and method assess the corrosion rate and optimize the dosage of neutralizing amine composition during the operating conditions of overhead condensing system.
US10557092B2
Systems and methods are provided for production of base stocks with a viscosity index of at least 120 and/or a sulfur content of 300 wppm or less and/or a kinematic viscosity at 100° C. of 3.0 cSt to 8.0 cSt by hydroconversion of a raffinate from aromatic extraction of a feed. The base stocks can further have a reduced content of 3+ ring naphthenes, such as 4.0 wt % or less, or 1.0 wt % or less. The base stocks can be produced by performing an elevated amount of feed conversion relative to 370° C. during hydroconversion of the raffinate, and optionally additional conversion during catalytic dewaxing of the hydroconverted raffinate. The base stocks can optionally be blended with additional base stocks and/or lubricant additives for production of lubricant compositions.
US10557086B2
A process of forming a resveratrol-based flame retardant small molecule with a phosphonate/phosphinate molecule that includes a chloride group and a terminal functional group.
US10557085B2
The invention relates to a photoalignment composition comprising at least a single photoalignment polymer, preferably a homo- or a copolymer having at least one photoreactive group; and at least a single solvent of formula (I) (R—CO—O—R′), wherein R and R′ are independently from each other straight-chain or branched alkyl chain, with the proviso that at least one alkyl chain is branched. Further, the present invention relates to the use of this composition for coating or printing, especially for printing, more especially for inkjet or offset printing processes, and most especially for an offset printing process. In addition, the present invention relates to the use of the photoalignment composition for the preparation of orientation layers for liquid crystals and in the construction of unstructured and structured optical elements and multi-layer systems, especially liquid crystal displays, LCDs.
US10557063B2
A double-sided black adhesive tape having a hollow particle-containing adhesive agent layer, wherein a surface of the hollow particle is subjected to a black pigment adhesion treatment.
US10557055B2
Conformable coating composition are described comprising a (meth)acrylate copolymer comprising interpolymerized monomer units of fluorinated monomer and a volatile solvent having a solubility parameter from 4.9-12.5 (cal/cm3)1/2. In some embodiments, the fluorinated monomer has a Tg <30° C. In some embodiments, the dried coating exhibits no blocking and no greater than 75% failure at an elongation of 100%. Also described is a conformable film comprising a dried coating composition of the coating compositions described herein, articles comprising a layer of the conformable film on a substrate, and a copolymer comprising interpolymerized units of fluorinated monomer(s), silane monomer(s); and one or more monomers having a Tg ≥50° C.
US10557051B2
A method for producing an ink includes providing nanoparticles having a size of 0.1 to 20 nm maximum by wet milling using a solvent and covalently bonding, by means of a coupling reaction, short-chain, branched organic stabilizer molecules to the surface of the nanoparticles. The method additionally includes absorbing the stabilized nanoparticles in a solvent for producing the ink and dispersing the stabilized nanoparticles.
US10557049B2
Provided are an aqueous dispersion including a microcapsule that contains a core and a shell; a dispersant that is at least one of a carboxylic acid (A) represented by Formula (A) or a salt of the carboxylic acid (A); and water, a method for manufacturing the aqueous dispersion, and an image forming method using the aqueous dispersion [in Formula (A), L represents a divalent linking group, X represents O, NH, or, NR2, R1 represents a hydrocarbon group having 9 or more carbon atoms, R2 represents a hydrocarbon group having 1 to 20 carbon atoms, and n represents 0 or 1].
US10557045B2
A pigment dispersion is disclosed comprising (a) at least one pigment and (b) a polymeric dispersant comprising residual units derived from polymerization of a mixture of monomers comprising (b1) at least one ethylenically unsaturated hindered amine light stabilizing monomer and (b2) at least one additional ethylenically unsaturated monomer different from monomer (b1). Coating compositions comprising the same are also disclosed as are substrates coated at least in part with such coatings.
US10557038B2
An erosion resistant article such as rotor blades for helicopters and wind turbines having the leading edge surface protected from damage from high speed impingement of rain or sand with a protective coating formed from specific polyurethane or polyurea coating having a defined set of minimum physical properties where the protective coating can be applied as a liquid coating and cured in place or as a preformed complementary shaped covering to protect the leading edge against erosion damage in service.
US10557027B2
The present invention is directed to a heterophasic propylene copolymer (HECO), a polyolefin composition (PO) comprising the heterophasic propylene copolymer (HECO), an automotive article comprising the heterophasic propylene copolymer (HECO) and/or the polyolefin composition (PO) and a process for the preparation of the polyolefin composition (PO) as well as the use of the heterophasic propylene copolymer (HECO) for improving the mechanical properties of a polyolefin composition (PO).
US10557026B2
The present invention relates to a composition comprising polypropylene, polyethylene and a compatibiliser, wherein said compatibiliser is a non-aromatic polyester having an average M/E ratio of at least 10, wherein M is the number of backbone carbon atoms in the polyester not including the carbonyl carbons and E is the number of ester groups in the polyester.
US10557020B2
Polymer composites are provided, and more particularly, polymer composites of ground date pits disposed in a polymer matrix. The composites can be formed by a process of preparing reinforced polymer composites having a fibril melt fracture surface, including blending a mixture of date pit particulate with a thermoplastic polymer; melting the mixture; and forcing the melt through a die to produce the polymer composite having a fibril containing surface.
US10557019B2
Provided herein, inter alia, are a carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composite and a method for manufacturing the same. The carbon fiber-reinforced polymer composite may improve interfacial bonding force by modifying the surface of carbon fibers with an amphiphilic block copolymer and then forming a composite of the surface-modified carbon fibers with a polymer.
US10557017B2
A method of decreasing aldehyde content in a polymeric material such as polyethylene terephthalate which includes contacting the polymeric material with a compound including first, second and third fragments each having a moiety and a moiety NH.
US10557011B2
This invention relates to the field of contaminated plastic waste decomposition. More specifically, the invention comprises methods and systems to decompose contaminated plastic waste and transform it into value-added products.
US10557005B2
A painted article includes a primer layer between a substrate and a paint layer, of which the substrate is the product of a substrate forming composition including an olefin block copolymer and a polypropylene polymer having a density from 0.89 g/cm3 and 0.92 g/cm3. The substrate is free of (1) phthalate-based plasticizer, (2) halogen-containing polymer, and (3) leachable, small polymeric units derived from styrene monomer.
US10557000B2
A method for preparing an oblate polymer particle from a spherical polymer particle includes squeezing a polymer film including spherical polymer particles. A pair of polymer sheets are used to uniformly deform the film. With this method, more uniform oblate particles may be prepared, and a yield rate thereof may be improved.
US10556998B2
An antioxidant combined with UHMWPE prior to subjecting the UHMWPE to crosslinking irradiation. In one exemplary embodiment, the antioxidant is tocopherol. After the antioxidant is combined with the UHMWPE, the resulting blend may be formed into slabs, bar stock, and/or incorporated into a substrate, such as a metal, for example. The resulting product may then be subjected to crosslinking irradiation. In one exemplary embodiment, the UHMWPE blend is preheated prior to subjecting the same to crosslinking irradiation. Once irradiated, the UHMWPE blended product may be machined, packaged, and sterilized in accordance with conventional techniques.
US10556996B2
A method is disclosed for production of solutions of aminophosphonic acids and polymeric sulfonic acids in aprotic solvents. Membranes for membrane methodologies are produced from said solutions. Said membranes can also be doped with phosphoric acid.
US10556992B2
To provide a method of manufacturing polyarylene sulfide (PAS) while efficiently recovering an organic amide solvent at a low energy cost, without using an organic solvent, from washing wastewater produced by washing a raw material mixture containing PAS and an organic amide solvent using a solvent containing water; a method of manufacturing PAS by reducing the amount of water supplied when washing the raw material mixture using a solvent containing water; and PAS manufactured by these methods. A method according to the present invention includes: a step of mixing a solvent containing water and a raw material mixture that contains PAS and an organic amide solvent, and then washing the PAS; a step of obtaining a separated liquid by solid-liquid separation; and a step of separating the separated liquid into distilled vapor having a smaller amount of the organic amide solvent and a recovered liquid having a larger amount of the organic amide solvent by heating, where the heating is performed utilizing an increase in temperature based on compressing the distilled vapor and/or compressing a heat medium heat-exchanged with the distilled vapor.
US10556991B2
A resin blend is provided including a blend of a benzoxazine resin and a phthalonitrile resin. The benzoxazine/phthalonitrile resin blends prior to cure have more favorable processing and curing properties compared to the phthalonitrile resins alone, enabling greater ease in manufacturing.
US10556987B2
The present invention provides a polycarbonate resin containing a repeating unit represented by formula (A) in the amount of 1-99.5 wt %, the polycarbonate resin also containing an oligomer having a specific structure in a total amount that constitutes a content of 2.5 wt % or lower. (In formula (A), R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a phenyl group, a C1-6 alkyl group, or a C1-6 alkyloxy group).
US10556977B2
Methods are provided to efficiently produce butyl rubber via a slurry polymerization process. The process comprises providing at least two monomers, wherein at least one monomer is an isoolefin and at least one monomer is a multiolefin. The monomers are combined with an initiator and an organic diluent comprising 40-60 volume % of methyl chloride and 40-60 volume % of 1,1,1, 2-tetrafluoroethane and polymerized.
US10556971B2
A method for controlling the temperature of the inner surface of a transfer line dryer, and thus controlling the temperature of a polymer product flowing through the transfer line dryer, is explained. Also provided is a transfer line dryer apparatus that is useful for implementing the disclosed method.
US10556968B2
The present disclosure provides anti-CD73 binding molecules, e.g., antibodies and antigen binding fragments thereof. Also provided are pharmaceutical formulations comprising the disclosed compositions, and methods for the diagnosis and treatment of diseases associated with CD73-expression, e.g., cancer. Such diseases can be treated, e.g., by direct therapy with the anti-CD73 binding molecules disclosed herein (e.g., naked antibodies or antibody-drug conjugates that bind CD73), by adjuvant therapy with other antigen-binding anticancer agents such as immune checkpoint inhibitors (e.g., anti-CTLA-4 and anti-PD-1 monoclonal antibodies), and/or by combination therapies where the anti-CD73 molecules are administered before, after, or concurrently with chemotherapy.
US10556965B2
This document provides methods and materials related to treating cancer. For example, methods and materials for using particles (e.g., nanoparticles) containing (a) one or more molecules having the ability to bind to a cancer cell (e.g., a human breast cancer cell) and (b) one or more molecules having the ability to bind to an APC (e.g., a human macrophage) to treat cancer are provided.
US10556964B2
Provided are compositions comprising a MSBODY and a cytotoxic immune cell (e.g., Cytokine-induced killer cell) to form Armed Activated CIK cells (ACCs), wherein the MSBODY comprising a first antigen binding moiety that has specificity for a tumor antigen, and a second antigen binding moiety that binds to the cell. Provided are also methods preparing a composition comprising a MSBODY and a cytotoxic immune cell, and methods for treating patients with CIK cells armed with bispecific antibodies.
US10556958B2
Methods of using CD37 agents, including, but not limited to, antibodies and immunoconjugates, that bind to CD37 to deplete B-cells (e.g., non-cancerous B-cells) and methods of treating autoimmune and inflammatory diseases are further provided.
US10556950B2
The invention provides methods for using and compositions of humanized antibodies that bind tau protein that is phosphorylated at the serine at position 413.
US10556942B2
The present invention relates to the purification of TNFR:Fc fusion protein. More specifically related to process of purification of TNFR:Fc fusion protein wherein the HCP is reduced. The present invention is directed to the use of mixed-mode chromatography and/or affinity chromatography to produce TNFR:Fc fusion protein which is substantially free of at least one of the protein degrading enzyme present in HCP.
US10556937B2
The present invention relates to cosmetic compositions comprising polypeptides obtained or obtainable from Salmonidae hatching fluid, methods of producing said compositions and their use in various cosmetic applications to the skin, particularly for improving the cosmetic appearance of skin of a mammalian animal.
US10556935B2
The present invention provides compositions comprising randomized in-frame fusion polynucleotides and methods for introducing them into a host organism to obtain desirable phenotypic changes that modulate tolerance to stress, thus creating novel characteristics of the transformed organism.
US10556933B2
Populations of polypeptide variants based on a common scaffold, each polypeptide in the population comprising the scaffold amino acid sequence EXXXAXXEIX XLPNLTXXQX XAFIXKLXDD PSQSSELLSE AKKLNDSQ (SEQ ID NO: 1) or AKYAKEXXXAXX EIXXLPNLTX XQXXAFIXKL XDDPSQSSEL LSEAKKLNDS Q (SEQ ID NO: 2), wherein each X individually corresponds to an amino acid residue which is varied in the population are disclosed. Also populations of polynucleotides, wherein each member encodes a member of a polypeptide population are disclosed. Furthermore, combinations of such polypeptide populations and such polynucleotide populations are disclosed, wherein each member of polypeptide population is physically or spatially associated with the polynucleotide encoding that member via means for genotype-phenotype coupling.
US10556927B2
Provided are a conotoxin peptide κ-CPTx-bt103 and a derivative polypeptide. The amino acid sequence of the conotoxin peptide is indicated by SEQ ID NO: 1. Also provided are a conotoxin peptide preparation method and uses of the conotoxin peptide in the treatment of diseases related to a calcium ion channel.
US10556924B2
The present invention relates to a novel process for the preparation of Pasireotide of formula 11 [Cyclo [Phe-{4-(OCO—NH—CH2—CH2—NH2)) Pro}-Phg-DTrp-Lys-Tyr(Bzl)]]. The invention also relates to a novel intermediate compound of formula 8 and process thereof which is used for preparation of compound of formula 11.
US10556913B2
The present invention relates to a new process for the preparation of thieno-indole derivatives of formula (Ia) or (Ib), exploiting an asymmetric synthesis for the preparation of key (8S) or (8R) 8-(halomethyl)-1-alkyl-7,8-dihydro-6H-thieno[3,2-e]indol-4-ol intermediates, and to useful intermediate compounds of such process.Thieno-indole derivatives are described and claimed in GB2344818, WO2013/149948 and WO2013/149946, which also disclose processes for their preparation.Thieno-indole enantiopure derivatives can now be advantageously prepared through a new asymmetric synthesis of the key 8-(halomethyl)-7,8-dihydro-6H-thieno[3,2-e]indol intermediates, which, avoiding the chiral resolution step, provides benefits in terms of reducing time and costs of the whole process for their preparation. The synthesis starts from the N-alkylation of 5-amino-4-halo-3-alkyl-1-benzothiophene-7-ol derivatives with enantiopure glycidyl 3-nosylate, followed by intramolecular 6-endo-tet cyclization using alkyl Grignard reagents; Mitsunobu activation of the secondary alcohol promotes internal spirocyclization, affording the 4,4a,5,6-tetrahydro-8H-cyclopropa[c]thieno[3,2-e]indol-8-one derivatives; finally, stereo-electronically controlled regioselective cyclopropane opening yields the key enantiopure 8-(halomethyl)-1-alkyl-7,8-dihydro-6H-thieno[3,2-e]indol-4-ol intermediates; which can be further derivatized following teachings disclosed in WO2013/149948 or WO2013/149946, to prepare the final thieno-indole derivatives of formula (Ia) or (Ib).Such compounds are disclosed to be alkylating compounds with cytotoxic activity, therefore useful as such in the treatment of a variety of cancers and in cell proliferative disorders, or, conjugated with different types of nucleophiles, in the preparation of Antibody Drug Conjugated derivatives.
US10556911B2
Compounds of formula (I) are A2B receptor antagonists: Wherein R1 is optionally substituted aryl or an optionally substituted 5- or 6-membered heteroaryl ring; R2 and R3 are independently selected from hydrogen, C1-C6 alkyl, C3-C8 cycloalkyl, C3-C8 cycloalkyl-(C1-C6)-alkyl, aryl-(C1-C6)-alkyl optionally substituted in the ring part thereof, a 5- or 6-membered monocyclic heterocyclic group optionally linked via a C1-C6 alkylene chain and optionally substituted in the ring part thereof, benzimidazol-2-yl-methyl, pyrid-3-yl-carbonyl, or (1-methyl-piperidin-4-yl)-carbonyl-methyl; or R2 and R3 taken together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form an optionally substituted 5- or 6-membered ring; R4 is C1-C3 alkyl, C2-C3 alkenyl, —N(—R5)—R6, or optionally substituted heteroarylmethylamino; and R5 and R6 are independently selected from hydrogen or C1-C3 alkyl; or R5 and R6 taken together with the nitrogen atom to which they are attached form an optionally substituted 4- to 6-membered saturated ring.
US10556910B2
The present invention provides halichondrin analogs, such as compounds of Formula (I). The compounds may bind to microtubule sites, thereby inhibiting microtubule dynamics. Also provided are methods of synthesis, pharmaceutical compositions, kits, methods of treatment, and uses that involve the compounds for treatment of a proliferative disease (e.g., cancer). Compounds of the present invention are particularly useful for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, prostate cancer, and sarcoma. The included methods of synthesis are useful for the preparation of compounds of Formula (I)-(III) along with naturally occurring halicondrins (e.g., halichondrin B & C, norhalichondrin A, B, & C, and homohalichondrin A, B, & C). Also included are methods for interconverting between the halichondrins, norhalichondrins, and homohalichondrins and their unnatural epimers at the C38 ketal stereocenter through the use of an acid-mediated equilibration.
US10556908B2
The present invention is directed to imidazo[1,2-a]pyrazine derivatives of Formula I, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, which are LSD1 inhibitors useful in the treatment of diseases such as cancer.
US10556902B2
Compounds of formula (I) wherein A, R, W, Q, n and m have the meaning according to the claims can be employed, inter alia, for the treatment of tauopathies and Alzheimer's disease.
US10556901B2
There are provided compounds of formula I, wherein X, Ak, s, A, R1 and R2 have meanings given in the description, which compounds have antiinflammatory activity (e.g. through inhibition of one or more of members of the JAK family) and have use in therapy, including in pharmaceutical combinations, especially in the treatment of inflammatory diseases, including inflammatory diseases of the lung, eye and intestines.
US10556900B2
The present invention is directed to bicyclic heteroaryl benzamide compounds of formulas (I): which are tropomyos-in-related kinase (Trk) family protein kinase inhibitors, and hence are useful in the treatment of pain, inflammation, cancer, restenosis, atherosclerosis, psoriasis, thrombosis, a disease, disorder, injury, or malfunction relating to dysmyelination or demyelination or a disease or disorder associated with abnormal activities of nerve growth factor (NGF) receptor TrkA.
US10556899B2
Provided is a method for preparing a tropane derivative, maraviroc, including reacting a compound of formula (II) with a compound of formula (I), wherein the compound of formula (II) is prepared by the steps of acetylation of a compound of formula (III), activation and substitution of a compound of formula (IV) by a chlorination agent, cyclization of a compound of formula (V), and debenzylation of a compound of formula (VI) by hydrogenation. Hence, the present disclosure provides a method for preparing maraviroc with good yield and simple operation.
US10556893B2
The present invention provides compounds having the general structural formula (I) (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable derivatives thereof, as described generally and in classes and subclasses herein, and additionally provides pharmaceutical compositions thereof, and methods for the use thereof for the treatment of any of a number of conditions or diseases involving fibrosis and proliferation, and where anti-fibrotic or anti-proliferative activity is beneficial.
US10556892B2
Disclosed herein, inter alia, are compositions and methods for modulating the activity of N-acylethanolamine acid amidase for the treatment of a pathological state, including pain, an inflammatory condition, or a neurodegenerative disorder.
US10556884B2
Compounds of formula (I), wherein the substituents are as defined in claim 1, and the agrochemically acceptable salts salts, stereoisomers, enantiomers, tautomers and N-oxides of those compounds, can be used as insecticides and can be prepared in a manner known per se.
US10556882B2
Described herein are amorphous and crystalline forms of the androgen receptor modulator 4-[7-(6-cyano-5-trifluoromethylpyridin-3-yl)-8-oxo-6-thioxo-5,7-diazaspiro[3.4]oct-5-yl]-2-fluoro-N-methylbenzamide. Also described are pharmaceutical compositions suitable for administration to a mammal that include the androgen receptor modulator, and methods of using the androgen receptor modulator, alone and in combination with other compounds, for treating diseases or conditions that are associated with androgen receptor activity.
US10556881B2
Aspects of the present disclosure include compounds that activate Nrf2. Such compounds find use in the treatment of autoimmune and inflammatory diseases and disorders, such as for example psoriasis and multiple sclerosis. Embodiments of the present disclosure also relate to pharmaceutical compositions that include these compounds, methods of using these compounds in the treatment of various diseases and disorders, processes for preparing these compounds and intermediates useful in these processes.
US10556876B2
The invention relates to process for the preparation of gamma valerolactone (GVL) from levulinic acid (LA), said process comprising a) subjecting LA to a hydrogenation reaction comprising hydrogen and a solid catalyst system comprising a metal and a support in the liquid phase, to yield a first reaction mixture comprising GVL, hydroxypentanoic acid (4HPA), and water; b) removing water from said first reaction mixture; and c) subjecting the mixture obtained in step b) to a further reaction under conditions suitable to convert said 4-HPA to GVL, to yield a further reaction mixture. Steps b) and c) can be integrated. Optionally, water can be removed from the further reaction mixture. The process may include recycling the—optionally at least partially dewatered—further reaction mixture back to step (b). This is particularly advantageous when the first reaction mixture is low in, or even free of levulinic acid. Alternatively, the further reaction mixture or at least partially dewatered further reaction mixture can be submitted to a distillation step, whereby the distillate can be collected to recover GVL.
US10556875B2
A series of double-component, bis O2-aryl diazeniumdiolate derivatives are provided, of which each molecule can release up to four nitric oxide molecules. These compounds show cytotoxic activities to cancer cells, such as human leukemia, breast cancer and lung cancer. Among them, the compound 3 showed the highest specific activity against human leukemia cells.
US10556869B2
The present invention relates to a process for providing the compound of formula I, comprising the step of reacting a compound of formula VII with a base in the presence of an alkaline- or alkaline earth metal salt (MX), wherein LG is a leaving group. The presence of an alkaline- or alkaline earth metal salt was surprisingly found to render said reaction highly reliable in terms of the yield and purity of the compound of formula I obtained. In a further aspect, the present invention relates to the compound of formula I, having less than an amount of 1.50% or less than an amount of 1.25% or less than an amount of 1.00% or less than an amount of 0.75% or less than an amount of 0.50% or less than an amount of 0.25% or less than an amount of 0.10% of the compound of formula VIII.
US10556864B2
To provide a light-emitting element having high luminous efficiency and to provide a light-emitting device and an electronic device which consumes low power and is driven at low voltage, a carbazole derivative represented by the general formula (1) is provided. In the formula, α1, α2, α3, and α4 each represent an arylene group having less than or equal to 13 carbon atoms; Ar1 and Ar2 each represent an aryl group having less than or equal to 13 carbon atoms; R1 represents any of a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted biphenyl group; and R2 represents any of an alkyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, a substituted or unsubstituted phenyl group, and a substituted or unsubstituted biphenyl group. In addition, l, m, and n are each independently 0 or 1.
US10556860B2
The present invention provides hTERT modulators and methods for producing and using the same. In particular, the present invention provide a compound of the formula as described herein. Some aspects of the invention are based on the characterization of the effect of hTERT core promoter region mutants on the 5-12 G-quadruplex structure and its stability. It is believed that some of the compounds of the invention bind selectively to the G-quadruplex in the hTERT core promoter mutant, which results in reversal of the effect of mutant promoter activation.
US10556859B2
The present application relates to a novel phthalonitrile compound and a use thereof. The phthalonitrile compound has a novel structure and can exhibit excellent effects in a use known for which a phthalonitrile compound can be applied. The use of the phthalonitrile compound can be exemplified by a material or a precursor such as a phthalonitrile resin, a phthalonitrile dye, a fluorescent whitening agent, a photographic sensitizer, or an acid anhydride.
US10556855B1
The present invention relates in part to novel cationic lipids and their use, e.g., in delivering nucleic acids to cells.
US10556849B2
A method for producing methanol allows the temperature of the catalyst layer to fall within an appropriate temperature range, reduces energy used, and achieves higher carbon yield. In a synthesis loop including at least two synthesis steps and two separation steps, a first mixed gas is obtained by mixing the final unreacted gas with a fraction of the make-up gas, methanol is synthesized from the first mixed gas after preheating, a first unreacted gas is separated from the obtained first reaction mixture, a final mixed gas is obtained by finally mixing the unreacted gas and a fraction of the make-up gas, the final mixed gas after preheating is further increased in pressure and then methanol is synthesized, a final unreacted gas is separated from the obtained final reaction mixture, and the reaction temperature of the catalyst layer is controlled by the indirect heat exchange with pressurized boiling water.
US10556848B2
There are provided methods and systems related to use of one or more lanthanide halides in an electrochemical oxidation of metal halide in anolyte where the metal ion is oxidized from lower oxidation state to higher oxidation state at an anode; and then further use of the one or more lanthanide halides and the metal halide with the metal ion in the higher oxidation state in a halogenation reaction of an unsaturated hydrocarbon or a saturated hydrocarbon to form one or more products comprising halohydrocarbon.
US10556846B2
The invention relates to the field of petrochemistry and petroleum refining, and more-specifically to methods and devices for producing a concentrate of aromatic hydrocarbons from liquid hydrocarbon fractions, which involve feeding initial components into a mixer, heating said components, feeding same to a reactor in which the heated components are converted into aromatic hydrocarbons in the presence of a catalyst, separating same into liquid and gas phases, feeding the gas phase into the mixer, and feeding the liquid phase into a rectification column, from which an aromatic hydrocarbon concentrate is collected, and can be used in petroleum refining and in petrochemistry for producing a concentrate aromatic hydrocarbons. According to the invention, methanol is additionally fed into the mixer. Hydrocarbon components which remain in the rectification column following collection are at least partially fed into the mixer. The liquid phase is additionally separated into liquid hydrocarbons and water, the liquid hydrocarbons are fed into the rectification column, and the water is removed. The composition of the liquid aromatic hydrocarbons, which are fed into the rectification column, is measured. In accordance with the results of the measurements, the flow rate of the initial components fed into the mixer is adjusted, and/or the temperature of the rectification column is adjusted. A proposed installation carries out the said method. The achieved technical result consists in increasing the efficiency of producing concentrates of aromatic hydrocarbons, and in increasing the content of alkylbenzenes, particularly xylenes.
US10556834B2
The invention provides novel methods and compositions that mitigate the occurrence of hazing of products made from carbonatable calcium silicate-based cements. The methods and compositions of the invention may be applied in a variety of cement and concrete components in the infrastructure, construction, pavement and landscaping industries.
US10556828B2
The method includes the steps of functionalizing a polyaryletherketone (PAEK) polymer, and blending the PAEK polymer with water to form a sizing composition. The method may further include the step of applying the sizing composition to a fiber. The method may further include the step of heating the fibers, coated with sizing composition, for example to between 300° C.-400° C. In some methods, the functionalized PAEK polymer comprises functionalized polyetherketoneketone (PEKK). In yet other methods, the functionalized PAEK polymer comprises sulfonated PEKK (sPEKK).
US10556827B2
A product is provided that includes a volume-colored monolithic glass or glass ceramic element and to a method for producing same. The glass or glass ceramic element has a first region in which the coloration is modified so that light transmission of the first region differs from light transmission of a second, adjacent region. The light scattering in the region of modified coloration in the glass or glass ceramic remains the same as light scattering in the second, adjacent region with non-modified light transmission.
US10556824B2
A low-emissivity (low-E) coating includes first and second infrared (IR) reflecting layers of or including a material such as silver. The coating includes a bottom dielectric portion including a layer of or including silicon zirconium oxynitride, and a center dielectric portion including a layer of or including zinc stannate. The coating is configured to realize a combination of desirable visible transmission, consistent and low emissivity values, thermal stability upon optional heat treatment such as thermal tempering, desirable U-value, desirable LSG value, and desirable coloration and/or reflectivity values to be achieved. In certain example embodiments, an absorber layer sandwiched between a pair of dielectric layers may be provided in. Coated articles herein may be used in the context of insulating glass (IG) window units, or in other suitable applications such as monolithic window applications, laminated windows, and/or the like.
US10556815B2
In some embodiments, the present invention provides a recombinant protein comprising an affinity tag configured to attach the recombinant protein to a silicate surface, fused to a hydrogen sulfide scavenging enzyme.
US10556805B2
A process for recovering sulfur from a tail gas stream comprising the steps of providing a tail gas stream to a chemical looping combustion (CLC) unit, the tail gas stream comprising a sulfide component, providing an oxygen carrier to the CLC unit, the oxygen carrier comprising a calcium carbonate, providing an air stream to the CLC unit, the air stream comprising oxygen, and reacting the sulfide component in the CLC unit with the calcium compound and the air to produce a product effluent, the product effluent comprising calcium sulfate.
US10556799B2
Aluminum (Al) hydrocarbon precursor compositions are provided that can be used for vapor deposition of transition metal carbide thin films, for example aluminum-doped transition metal carbide thin films such as Al-doped titanium carbide thin films. In some embodiments, the precursor compositions comprise one or more isomers of tritertbutyl aluminum (TTBA). In some embodiments the precursor compositions comprise at least 50% of Isomer 1 of TTBA, at least 50% of Isomer 2 of TTBA, or at least 20% of a combination of Isomer 1 and Isomer 2, where Isomer 1 has the formula Al(tert-Bu)2(iso-Bu) and Isomer 2 has the formula Al(tert-Bu)(iso-Bu)2. A container containing a precursor composition comprising at least 50% of Isomer 1 or Isomer 2 or at least 20% of a combination of Isomer 1 and 2 of TTBA can be attached to a vapor deposition reactor and used to deposit transition metal carbide thin films such as Al-doped titanium carbide thin films by atomic layer deposition or chemical vapor deposition.
US10556791B2
Monolithic integration of microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) sensors with complementary oxide semiconductor (CMOS) electronics for pressure sensors is a very challenging task. This is primarily due to the requirement for a very high quality thin diaphragm to provide the pressure dependent MEMS deformation that can be sensed and, when seeking absolute rather than relative pressure sensors, a sealed reference cavity. Accordingly, a new manufacturing process is established based upon back-etching and bonding of a monolithic absolute silicon carbide (SiC) capacitive pressure sensor. Beneficially, the process embeds the critical features of the MEMS within a shallow trench formed within the silicon substrate and then processing the CMOS circuit. The process further benefits as it maintains that those elements of the MEMS element fabrication process that are CMOS compatible are implemented concurrently with those CMOS steps as well as the metallization steps. However, the CMOS incompatible processing is partitioned discretely.
US10556790B2
The present disclosure relates to a MEMS package having a cap substrate with different trench depths, and a method of fabricating the MEMS package. In some embodiments, a first trench in a first device region and a scribe trench in a scribe line region are formed at a front side of a cap substrate. Then, a hard mask is formed and patterned over the cap substrate. Then, with the hard mask in place, an etch is performed to the cap substrate such that an uncovered portion of a bottom surface of the first trench is recessed while a covered portion of the bottom surface of the first trench is non-altered to form a stopper within the first trench. Then, the front side of the cap substrate is bonded to a device substrate, enclosing the first trench over a first MEMS device.
US10556776B2
An illustrative example elevator traveling cable includes a plurality of conductors configured for conducting at least one of electrical energy and communication signals. A jacket covers the plurality of conductors. At least one load bearing member supports a weight of the traveling cable and comprises liquid crystal polymer.
US10556766B2
Refers to the present invention, a device (1) that will be fabricated with appropriate material, with several dimensions, to be adapted to a computerized numeric platform, for the structural glazing process, which is a technique of fixing the glass and the frame, through application of the high adhesion double-sided tape between them, the structure remains hidden on the inner side, in two basic steps, one being application and cutting of the high adhesion double-sided tape over the glass sheet, and the other is (applying) correct pressure on them, for the purpose of replacing the current manual process.
US10556765B2
A registration system for a printing device and a method for controlling the same are disclosed. For example, the registration system includes at least one sensor to detect a position of a print media, at least one laterally adjustable nip, wherein the laterally adjustable nip moves along an inboard direction and an outboard direction, a motor coupled to the at least one laterally adjustable nip to move the at least one laterally adjustable nip a desired amount of movement based on the position of the print media and a width of the print media, and a processor communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor and the motor to calculate a desired amount of movement based on the position of the print media and control the motor to move the at least one laterally adjustable nip by the desired amount of movement.
US10556761B2
An automatic truck unloader for unloading/unpacking product, such as boxes or cases, from trailers and containers is disclosed. In one embodiment, a mobile base structure provides a support framework for a drive subassembly, conveyance subassembly, an industrial robot, a distance measurement subassembly, and a control subassembly. Under the operation of the control subassembly, an industrial robot having a suction cup-based gripper arm selectively removes boxes from the trailer and places the boxes on a powered transportation path. The control subassembly coordinates the selective articulated movement of the industrial robot and the activation of the drive subassembly based upon the distance measurement subassembly detecting objects, including boxes, within a detection space, and dimensions of the trailer provided to the control subassembly.
US10556747B2
A conveyance device has a drive route part wherein conveyance carriages travel at predetermined intervals, which is connected to a storage route part having a drive conveyer chain that supports the conveyance carriages for free travel. The drive route part has a drive conveyer chain including spaced carriage propulsion claw parts. The conveyance carriages have moved pins that horizontally extends in the left/right direction and which are freely detached/re-fitted in the up/down direction with the carriage propulsion claw parts. The conveyance device has a carriage-positioning mechanism which positions a conveyance carriage at a fixed position wherein the moved pin is positioned immediately before a guide ring for a corresponding one of the carriage propulsion claw parts, and has a carriage pushing-out mechanism which pushes out the conveyance carriage positioned at the fixed position, at a timing when the moved pin is fitted to the carriage propulsion claw part.
US10556743B2
A storage and retrieval system including a vertical array of storage levels, each storage level having storage locations, a multilevel vertical conveyor system configured to transport the uncontained case units to and from the vertical array of storage levels, each storage level being configured to receive uncontained case units from the multilevel vertical conveyor system, at least one autonomous transport confined to each storage level, the at least one autonomous transport being configured to transport the uncontained case units between respective storage locations and the multilevel vertical conveyor system, and a controller configured to effect operation of the multilevel vertical conveyor system and at least one autonomous transport for assembling orders of uncontained case units of different types without moving bundles of the same uncontained case unit type throughout the storage and retrieval system.
US10556736B1
A baby bottle with a liquid compartment and a separate dry goods compartment is described. The dry goods compartment and the liquid compartment may be removably sealable from each other by rotating a lower-annular-member with respect to an upper-annular-member; wherein these two annular-members may be disposed between a bottle-main-body and a nipple-member. Each of these two annular-members may have its own respective opening and shelf-portion and may be rotated with respect to each other from an open-configuration to a closed-configuration. In the closed-configuration, dry goods, such as dry baby formula, may be temporarily stored within the dry goods compartment, in a substantially dry condition, separated from a liquid within the liquid compartment. When desired these two annular-members may be rotated into the open-configuration, to allow the dry goods to substantially fall into the liquid compartment, to facilitate mixing with the liquid in the liquid compartment.
US10556735B2
The present application discloses a vacuum sealed container, including a container body, a container lid, a vacuum generator and at least one magnifier. The container body includes a first wall and a bottom surface, wherein the first wall and the bottom surface define an accommodation space. The container lid is coupleable to the container body. The vacuum generator coupled to the container lid to evacuate fluid from the accommodation space. The at least one magnifier coupled to the bottom surface of the container body and are molded integrally. In addition, the at least one magnifier and the bottom surface of the container body are light-permeable, wherein the at least one magnifier is a lens. A method for using the aforementioned vacuum sealed container is also disclosed.
US10556729B2
A gas barrier packaging material precursor, includes a support; an adhesion layer on one surface of the support; and a barrier layer and a protective layer formed adjacent each other on the adhesion layer. The adhesion layer contains a silicon compound composite. The protective layer is formed of a coating liquid containing a polyvalent metal compound, a polyester resin, and a dispersant, with the polyvalent metal compound being about 40 to about 90 mass % relative to 100 mass %. When the barrier layer is separated from the gas barrier packaging material precursor to measure an infrared absorption spectrum of the barrier layer by a transmission method, a ratio (α/β) of a maximum peak height (α) of absorbance in a range of about 1490 to about 1659 cm−1 to a maximum peak height (β) of absorbance in a range of about 1660 to about 1750 cm−1 is less than about 1.
US10556723B2
A cover assembly for protecting a chemical container according to the present disclosure includes: a first cover member encompassing a part of an inner container; a second cover member encompassing the other part of the inner container; and a binding member for connecting the first cover member and the second cover member, wherein the binding member includes a binding body formed at any one of the first cover member and the second cover member and coupled to the other.The cover assembly for protecting a chemical container, which is the present invention, is configured such that the outside of a glass bottle accommodating a chemical is formed with a protection member capable of being separated into two or more layers, thereby suppressing a negative influence on the surroundings thereof by minimizing leakage of the solution to the outside even if the glass bottle is broken by an impact when a worker handles or moves the glass bottle.
US10556714B2
In a container treatment device, retaining-and-centering units hold a container as it traverses a transport path that passes through a set of treatment stations, each having a rotor that propels a retaining-and-centering unit along the transport path. Sometimes, a retaining-and-centering unit becomes defective and must be removed from the transport path. A storage-and-replacement device receives a defective retaining-and-centering unit that is removed from the transport path and supplies a replacement. This occurs with no interruption of operation.
US10556713B2
A method of fulfilling an order comprising at least one product is provided. The method includes receiving an order comprising at least one product, determining a suitable case from a plurality of available cases for holding the at least one product, said determining being a function of one or more characteristics of each product of the at least one product and one or more characteristics of the plurality of available cases; forwarding information identifying the suitable case to a case former; providing a case blank corresponding to said suitable case to said case former; erecting a suitable case from said case blank corresponding to said suitable case with said case former; and prior to the loading said suitable case with said at least one product, labelling said suitable case with at least one label.
US10556711B2
A thermo-sealing machine for filling containers with liquids and sealing them, comprising a bearing structure on which a bell member is mounted, at a higher position than that of support means for supporting at least a container to be filled and sealed, said bell member comprising a metering device, die-cutting means and sealing means, for die-cutting and sealing a film slidable between said bell member and the container to be filled, said machine being provided with an anti-polluting and operator safety system.
US10556709B1
An energy-efficient launch system that utilizes the principles of whip dynamics to launch payloads at high speeds is described. The launch system may include a marine vehicle having an onboard power source. A tapered, superconducting cable may be retractably connected to the marine vehicle via a winch and electrically connected to the power source. One or more aerial vehicles may be coupled to and receive power via the cable. To launch a payload at the end of the cable, the marine vehicle, winch, and/or aerial vehicles may be operated in coordination to create, propagate, and accelerate a whip waveform along the cable toward the payload.
US10556708B2
An apparatus for supporting a payload includes a first support member coupled to the payload and a flexible member configured to be electrically coupled to the first support member and the payload. The payload is configured to rotate around a first rotational axis relative to the first support member. The flexible member is configured to (i) wind around a portion of the first support member or the payload when the payload is rotated in a first direction around the first rotational axis, and (ii) unwind from around the portion when the first support member is rotated in a second direction opposite the first direction around the first rotational axis. The flexible member is configured to transmit sensor data indicating a spatial disposition of the payload or the first support member.
US10556705B2
A method of redistributing motor power of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) includes determining, with aid of one or more processors, an operating state of a motor of the UAV. The motor is configured to drive a corresponding rotor to generate lift for the UAV. The method further includes determining, with aid of the one or more processors, how to redistribute power from the motor between a plurality of components when the motor has an operating state that is a decelerating state, and redistributing the power in accordance with the determination of how to redistribute the power.
US10556696B2
In some implementations, in an emergency in the vehicle, an emergency evacuation path is illuminated using the light emitted from the emergency evacuation rope where at least a portion of the emergency evacuation path extends to a location outside the vehicle. Egress of occupants along the emergency evacuation path is enabled using an emergency evacuation rope.
US10556675B2
Systems and methods for aircraft autobraking are disclosed. The systems and methods may allow for autobraking in both manned and autonomous aircrafts, and may assist in maintaining a desired course during autobraking. The systems and methods may include an aircraft control mode executive module configured to receive manual and/or autonomous brake signal inputs and deceleration signal inputs. The systems and methods may also include various modules configured to aid in calculating, transmitting, and executing pedal brake commands on a braking system, such as, an autobrake controller, a pedal balance controller, an autobrake pedal executive module, a pedal executive module, and/or a pedal braking controller.
US10556674B2
An aircraft comprises a landing gear assembly on a part of which is mounted a motor for driving a wheel of the landing gear assembly, for example to enable the aircraft to perform taxiing manoeuvres. The motor is a liquid-cooled motor and the liquid that is used to cool the motor is hydraulic fluid, preferably hydraulic fluid taken from a hydraulic system that already exists on the aircraft to supply other consumers of hydraulic fluid pressure on the aircraft. The hydraulic fluid thus has other utility (i.e. other than cooling the motor) on the aircraft and therefore has a significant volume (and therefore a significant heat capacity). There may be a need to convert from high pressure hydraulic fluid to a lower pressure supply.
US10556668B2
An artificial force feel generating device for generation of an artificial feeling of force on an inceptor of a vehicle control system, the inceptor being adapted for controlling a servo-assisted control unit of the vehicle control system via a mechanical linkage, wherein at least one first force generating device and at least one second force generating device are mechanically connected to the inceptor, the first force generating device being provided for generating a nominal force acting in operation on the inceptor and the second force generating device being provided for generating a tactile cue force acting in operation on the inceptor, the first and second force generating devices being arranged in parallel. The invention relates further to an aircraft comprising such an artificial force feel generating device.
US10556664B2
Disclosed is a panel for an aircraft structure, including a laminated skin of layers of metal of which in each case two are joined together by a fibre-reinforced adhesive layer, as well as a laminated doubler of layers of metal and at least one fibre-reinforced adhesive layer in each case between two layers of metal, wherein the doubler has a smaller size of perimeter than the skin and is bonded to an outermost layer of metal of the laminated skin by a fibre-reinforced supplementary adhesive layer, with the feature that at least one part of the perimeter of the fibre-reinforced supplementary adhesive layer is staggered inwards relative to the corresponding perimeter of the doubler and that that part of the inwards-staggered perimeter of the fibre-reinforced supplementary adhesive layer is delimited by a glued edge. Also disclosed is a method for manufacturing such a panel.
US10556658B1
A marine drive includes an engine; an exhaust conduit that conveys exhaust gases from the engine to an idle relief outlet on the marine drive, wherein the idle relief outlet discharges the exhaust gases to atmosphere when the marine drive is operated at an idle speed; and an idle relief muffler having a muffler inlet that receives the exhaust gases from the exhaust conduit, a muffler outlet that discharges the exhaust gases to the idle relief exhaust outlet, and a drain for draining water from the idle relief muffler. The muffler inlet conveys exhaust gases into the idle relief muffler in a direction that is oriented away from the muffler outlet and away from the drain, such that water in the exhaust gases is encouraged to separate from the exhaust gases and then drain from the idle relief muffler via the drain.
US10556656B2
There is disclosed a watercraft paddle apparatus operable by a user's legs and feet. In an embodiment, the watercraft paddle apparatus comprises a pair of rails positioned side-by-side and mountable to a watercraft, each rail configured to slidably receive a pedal mechanism adapted to slide back and forth along each rail. Each pedal mechanism includes a downwardly extendable paddle adapted to engage a water surface on which the watercraft is floating during a backward stride and to lift from the water surface on a forward stride, whereby a user can operate the pedal mechanism in each rail using an alternating walking or skiing motion. In an embodiment, each pedal mechanism is supported laterally by a front axle with a pair of wheels on either end of the front axle engaging the parallel rails. In another embodiment, each pedal mechanism is attached.
US10556648B1
A water propulsion electric powered water recreation surf board with an integrated water propulsion jet to provide additional thrust for maneuvers and different selectable thrust levels as needed during the maneuver. The water propulsion electric powered water recreation surf board includes a body having an upper surface and bottom surface and a water propulsion system integrated into the body including a water inlet on the bottom surface, and a water propulsion nozzle and propeller on the upper surface. An electric motor connects to rotate propeller for drawing water into the propulsion system and expels a pressurized column of water through the water propulsion nozzle. A removable rechargeable battery is connected with the electric motor and a controller with a user control pad on the top surface of the body to allow the user to control the operation of the water propulsion system.
US10556643B2
A boat pontoon having a concave V-shape on a bottom portion thereof, generally straight vertical sides, a flat top panel member, and a removable and replaceable skid pad running longitudinally along the bottom of the pontoon. Vertically oriented gussets are positioned on an interior of the pontoon, to provide structural integrity and additional strength. In a preferred embodiment, a buoyant foam is provided within the interior cavity of the pontoon.
US10556640B2
An unmanned semi-submarine, including a main hull; airfoil buoyancy chambers; an antenna; a radar; a propeller; a rudder; and compartments. The airfoil buoyancy chambers include a front buoyancy chamber and a rear buoyancy chamber. The front buoyancy chamber and the rear airfoil buoyancy chamber are longitudinally distributed on the main hull. The radar and the antenna are disposed on the top end of the front buoyancy chamber. The rudder is disposed on the rear buoyancy chamber. The propeller is disposed at the tail of the main hull to drive the unmanned semi-submarine. The horizontal sections of the front buoyancy chamber and the rear buoyancy chamber are symmetrical airfoil. The compartments include a front equipment compartment, a rear equipment compartment, a control equipment compartment, a battery compartment, and a propelling compartment. The compartments are separated from one another using watertight walls.
US10556639B2
A wireless control system for engagement with a transmission system for a servomotor coupled with sprocket assemblies of remote controlled systems, and within vehicles, including bicycles, is disclosed. The system selectively shifts a chain to each of a plurality of provided sprockets reduces various complications associated with cable slack and precision shifting among an ordered sequence sprockets. The wireless control system allows a user to direct a derailleur to translate drive means from one position to another along a desired path.
US10556634B2
A bicycle control system is basically provided with an electronic controller. The electronic controller is configured to control at least one of an electric indicator and an electric actuator of a height adjustable seatpost in accordance with a condition of a battery to supply electricity to the electric actuator.
US10556624B2
A vehicle underbody assembly including a pair of rockers, a pair of side rails, a first cross member, a second cross member, and a fuel tank is provided. Each of the pair of side rails is secured to a rearward portion of one of the rockers. The first cross member extends between the side rails and is thermally treated to form a first central hard strength zone between two first soft strength zones. The second cross member is arranged with the pair of side rails and the first cross member to form a rectilinear frame and is thermally treated to form a second central hard strength zone between two second soft strength zones. The fuel tank is secured between the pair of side rails so that the fuel tank is located within a rectilinear frame formed by the pair of side rails and the cross members.
US10556607B2
A system is provided having a vehicle. The vehicle includes a chassis, and a first network bus extending from internally in the chassis to a first network port attached externally to the chassis at a first side of the vehicle. The vehicle includes a second network bus extending from internally in the chassis to a second network port attached externally to the first chassis at a second side of the vehicle. The first network bus has a first electrical configuration and the second network bus has a second electrical configuration that is different than the first electrical configuration.
US10556593B2
A series hybrid vehicle is equipped with an engine, a first motor generator, and a second motor generator. The vehicle has a reduction gear that is a first power transmission mechanism for engaging the engine with the first motor generator, a reduction gear that is a second power transmission mechanism for engaging the first motor generator with a vehicle drive shaft, and a clutch that is capable of engaging the first motor generator with one of the two reduction gears in a switching manner. The vehicle further has a transmission that switches between transmission gear ratios and engages the second motor generator with the vehicle drive shaft.
US10556590B2
A vehicle and a control method of the vehicle are provided. The vehicle includes an engine management system to drive an engine to adjust a driving torque of the engine to accelerate the vehicle, a communicator to receive road gradient information, and a controller configured to control the engine management system such that running speed of the vehicle follows a target speed. The controller predicts an increase amount of speed of a next downhill section based on the road gradient information, and determines a start point of coasting control of a current section for maximizing a coasting distance based on the predicted speed increase amount.
US10556588B2
A vehicle traveling control apparatus includes a determiner, a selector, and a switcher. The determiner determines a feature quantity of a third vehicle traveling ahead of a second vehicle for a plurality of targets present in front of the second vehicle traveling ahead of a first vehicle as an own vehicle when generating a target route and controlling a follow-up traveling of the first vehicle. The selector selects, among the plurality of targets, the third vehicle to be followed by the first vehicle based on a determination result of the feature quantity, when the second vehicle departs from a position in front of the first vehicle. The switcher switches the target route from a first target route generated based on a traveling trajectory of the second vehicle to a second target route generated based on a traveling trajectory of the third vehicle upon the departure of the second vehicle.
US10556585B1
A LIDAR system includes a laser emitter configured to emit a laser pulse in a sample direction of a sample area of a scene. A sensor element of the LIDAR system is configured to sense a return pulse, which is a reflection from the sample area corresponding to the emitted laser pulse. The LIDAR system may compare a width of the emitted laser pulse to a width of the return pulse in the time-domain. The comparison of the width of the emitted pulse to the width of the return pulse may be used to determine an orientation or surface normal of the sample area relative to the sample direction. Such a comparison leads to a measurement of the change of pulse width, referred to as pulse broadening or pulse stretching, from the emitted pulse to the return pulse.
US10556576B2
A brake booster for a brake master cylinder of a motor vehicle includes a drive motor that is connected/connectable by a gear unit to a pressure piston for the brake master cylinder, the gear unit converting a rotational motion of the drive motor into a translational motion of the pressure piston to actuate the brake master cylinder, and the gear unit including a rotatable spindle nut and a non-rotatable spindle rod having intermeshing trapezoidal threads that have have a flank clearance and a tip clearance that are greater than a bottom clearance.
US10556575B2
A low-pressure vehicle braking system and method of operation that controls the supply of brake fluid based on the pressure differential between left and right master cylinders associated with the different wheel brakes allowing for pressure harmonization between the left and right wheel brake circuits and a brake system module suitable for installation on an existing vehicle.
US10556566B2
A cargo blind end cap assembly of a vehicle comprises an end cap to receive a cargo blind bar and a seat belt retainer to retain and release a seat belt tongue. The seat belt retainer is coupled to the end cap.
US10556560B2
A guard for a vehicle includes a support tube. A pivoting step includes a pivot tube portion movable about the support tube between a stowed position and a deployed position and a step portion. A spring member is disposed between the support tube and pivot tube biasing the pivot tube toward one of the stowed position and deployed position.
US10556559B2
An apparatus and method for improving the safety and performance of an automobile in crash events is disclosed. The apparatus includes a front crash pad, rear crash pad, and a connection beam. Both crash pads and the connection beam are coupled to an automobile in such fashion as to absorb and dissipate energy by converting kinetic energy into strain energy.
US10556550B2
A terminal mounting support is provided. The terminal mounting support is adapted to fix a terminal onto a fixing member, the terminal mounting support includes: a first support and a second support oppositely arranged, wherein the first support is fixedly connected to the second support, and at least one of the first support and the second support is provided with a connection structure for being fixedly connected to the terminal; and a first buffer material layer arranged between the first support and the second support, wherein an accommodation space for accommodating at least a portion of the fixing member is formed in the first buffer material layer.
US10556546B2
A mount is disclosed for attaching a fixture to a tubular structure. The mount includes an extended mounting member having an inner surface shaped to conform to the tubular structure, and a flat outer surface having a plurality of attachment locations for facilitating attachment of the fixture to the extended mounting member. The mount also includes a plurality of securing members having an inner surface shaped to conform to the tubular structure, each securing member removably attachable to the extended mounting member so as to removably secure the extended mounting member to the tubular structure. The flat outer surface of the extended mounting member includes a plurality of mounting holes to accept bolts to attach the fixture thereto, or the flat outer surface can have an L-track tie-down rail formed therein to secure easily removable L-track fasteners attached to the fixture to attach the fixture to the extended mounting member.
US10556540B2
A vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus is configured to be provided in an own vehicle and to perform image display related to information on a situation of surroundings of the own vehicle. The own vehicle includes a windshield. The vehicle surroundings monitoring apparatus includes an image generator and an image display. The image generator is configured to generate an image expressing an environment of the surroundings of the own vehicle. The image includes an own vehicle forward image having a view substantially equivalent to a view of a forward region of the own vehicle that is viewable by an occupant of the own vehicle through the windshield at a time of normal driving of the own vehicle. The image display is configured to be disposed on forward side of the occupant of the own vehicle and faces the occupant, and to display the image generated by the image generator.
US10556533B2
A vehicle comprises a seating assembly including a seatback pivotally movable relative to a seat about an axis, the seatback including a bottom portion and a top portion disposed further away from the axis than the bottom portion; and a seatback support element having a first portion coupled to the vehicle at a position other than the seatback and a second portion where the seatback interacts with the seatback support element, the seatback support element resisting pivotal movement of the seatback about the axis. The seatback support element can further includ3 a third portion coupled to the vehicle at a position other than the seatback. The second portion is between the first portion and the third portion along a length of the seatback support element. The first portion is coupled to the vehicle forward of the axis of the seatback and the third portion is coupled rearward of the axis.
US10556531B2
A multi-headrest assembly for a vehicle includes first and second headrests for first and second seats of the vehicle, respectively, and a multi-headrest mount having a crossbar and first and second brackets coupled to and spaced along the crossbar for supporting the first and second headrests, respectively. The crossbar has a length for defining a space between the first and second headrests for aligning the first and second headrests with the first and second seats, respectively, when mounted in the vehicle. The multi-headrest assembly further includes first and second seatback portions configured to be coupled to and supported by the first and second brackets, respectively.
US10556530B2
A component of a vehicle seat and method for the production thereof includes a cover having a plurality of panels with each panel including a peripheral mating surface. The plurality of panels are mated together at the peripheral mating surfaces to form a cavity and foam is injected into the cavity of the cover.
US10556528B2
A cushion frame for use in a vehicle seat includes a side frame extending in a seat front-rear direction, a bracket supporting the side frame and a coupling member. The bracket includes a lower end portion having a fixing portion fixed to a vehicle directly or indirectly. The coupling member is fixed to an upper end portion of the bracket to hold the upper end portion at a position offset in a seat width direction relative to the side frame and to fix the upper end portion to the side frame. A welding region of the coupling member, projected on a virtual plane orthogonal to the seat width direction, extends along an outer periphery of the coupling member in a specified area including an intersection between the outer periphery of the coupling member projected on the virtual plane and a bracket normal line.
US10556527B2
A vehicle seat provided with a seat cushion and a seat back, wherein the seat back is provided with: a urethane pad in which the surface is covered by a trim cover; and a pressure means in which a laterally extending shaft and a pair of pressing parts in the vertical direction relative to the shaft are formed on the reverse side of the urethane pad toward the side covered by the trim cover, and a configuration is adopted such that the shaft extending in the lateral direction of the pressure means rotates or swings, thereby causing the upper-side pressing part among the upper and lower pair of pressing parts to press the upper side of the urethane pad forward and the lower-side pressing part to press the lower side of the urethane pad forward.
US10556521B2
A shaft housing hole has a shaft insertion hole into which the rotating shaft section of an engagement member is inserted. Also, the shaft housing hole has slits extending from the lower end of the shaft insertion hole along the side surface of the shaft insertion hole toward an upper connection wall section. The upper side wall section of an upper rail has shaft restriction sections formed by the shaft housing hole. The shaft restriction sections have front ends with which the side surfaces of the rotating shaft section are in contact.
US10556509B2
A touch input device includes: a frame having a plurality of frame holes; a flexible printed circuit board coupled to one surface of the frame and having a plurality of holes corresponding to the plurality of frame holes; a sensor electrode disposed on the flexible printed circuit board; and a sensor integrated circuit (IC) electrically connected to the sensor electrode and configured to sense a change in capacitance value of the sensor electrode.
US10556489B2
A quarter window assembly for a soft top cover assembly that is removable. The quarter window assembly is connectable to the soft cover assembly. The quarter window assembly has a hard corner assembly mountable to features connected to a vehicle. The hard corner assembly is an injection molded plastic assembly. The quarter window assembly also has a panel carrying at least one window, and the panel is secured to the hard corner assembly.
US10556488B2
A volatile organic compound purge system is provided for a motor vehicle. The purge system includes a blower and a computing device. The computing device is configured to operate in a shipping mode whereby the blower is periodically operated to draw fresh air into and purge volatile organic compounds from an interior of the motor vehicle as the motor vehicle is being shipped from a first point to a second point.
US10556487B2
The present disclosure provides an accumulating/receiving device for a heat pump system. The accumulating/receiving device includes a body, an inlet, a first outlet, and a second outlet. The body defines therein a space. The body is disposed downstream of an outside heat exchanger. The inlet is connected to the outside heat exchanger through a first conduit. The first outlet is connected to an inside heat exchanger through a second conduit. The second outlet is connected, through a bypass conduit, to a third conduit. A liquid of the refrigerant flows out of the body through the first outlet in a cooling mode. A vapor of the refrigerant flows out of the body through the second outlet in a heating mode.
US10556485B2
A system includes a blower, a blower sensor, and at least one processor. The blower sensor is operably coupled to the blower and configured to obtain blower operational information. The at least one processor is operably coupled to the blower and the blower sensor, and is configured to determine an operational-based power using the blower operational information; determine an operational-based density using the operational-based power; and control the blower using the operational-based density.
US10556479B2
A gyroscope-based rotation damper for a motor vehicle, includes a flywheel that is driven via a drive, rotates around an axis of rotation at an angular velocity (ωφ), the flywheel being mounted in a gimbal on the motor vehicle structure by way of a first bearing element and a second bearing element. The flywheel is mounted rotatably around the angle of rotation (φ) at the first bearing element, and the first bearing element is rotatably mounted at the second bearing element around a first angle of rotation (θ) around a first axis aligned orthogonal to the axis of rotation of the flywheel, and the second bearing element is mounted rotatably around a second angle of rotation (ψ) around a second axis aligned orthogonal to the first axis, as well as a controller unit for controlling a shaft drive.
US10556476B2
An agricultural vehicle includes a frame and a plurality of suspension assemblies coupled to the frame. The plurality of suspension assemblies configured to together increase or decrease a vertical distance between the frame and a surface supporting the agricultural vehicle. The agricultural vehicle also includes a plurality of wheels. One wheel of the plurality of wheels is coupled to each suspension assembly, and at least two wheels of the plurality of wheels are movable about a steering axis. The agricultural vehicle further includes at least two actuators. Each of the at least two actuators is coupled to a respective suspension assembly of the plurality of suspension assemblies and is configured to move one of the at least two wheels.
US10556466B2
A tire comprising: a carcass; and inclined belt layers and a circumferential belt layer, wherein: the circumferential belt layer satisfies a correlation that X≥750 when it is defined that X=Y×n×m, where Y is a Young's modulus in GPa of the cords forming the circumferential belt layer, n is a number of the cords implanted per 50 mm of width, and m is a number of layers of the circumferential belt layer; the inclined belt layers comprise at least two inclined belt layers having different tire widthwise widths; and a tire widthwise width W1 of an inclined belt layer having a widest width and a tire widthwise width W2 of an inclined belt layer having a narrowest width satisfy a correlation that W2≤0.6W1.
US10556462B2
Disclosed is an aluminum wheel for a vehicle, in which a resonance tube is coupled to a rim of the wheel, wherein a first surface of the resonance tube is fitted into a well groove formed in a well of the rim, and a second surface of the resonance tube comes into contact with the rim by a pressure member including a steel wire and a fixing member.
US10556459B2
A writing instrument excellent in handwriting density and temporal stability. The writing instrument includes a ball-point pen tip attached to the front end portion of the ink storage cylinder; and a ball-point pen refill having an ink composition for a writing instrument loaded therein. The ink composition for the writing instrument is a thermochromic ink containing at least a thermochromic microcapsule pigment. The writing instrument includes a pressurization mechanism for applying a pressure to the back end of the ink composition for the writing instrument.
US10556456B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a supporting section configured to support a medium; a first ejecting section capable of ejecting a pretreatment liquid onto the medium supported by the supporting section; a first holding section configured to hold the first ejecting section; and a leveling section provided on the first holding section and being capable of moving between a leveling position in contact with an ejection region to which the pretreatment liquid is ejected and a non-leveling position in non-contact with the ejection region of the medium.
US10556454B2
A printer includes a holder configured to house rolled recording paper, a cover that is attached to the holder to be openable and closable relative to the holder, and a contact part that is attached to the cover and configured to contact the recording paper. The contact part is configured such that the contact part substantially point-contacts the recording paper, and positions on the contact part contacting the recording paper change as the recording paper is unrolled.
US10556439B2
An image-recording apparatus includes a cartridge including a first storage chamber, a tank including a second storage chamber, a head, and a detection component for detecting a residual amount of liquid in the second chamber. The cartridge is connectable to the tank. The first storage chamber and second storage chamber are both allowed to communicate with an atmosphere. The tank includes a first base portion and a first protruding portion protruding from a lower end portion of the first base portion in a first direction perpendicular to a vertical direction. Internal spaces of the first base portion and the first protruding portion communicate each other to constitute part of the second storage chamber. The detection component is positioned: above the first protruding portion; to overlap with the first base portion as viewed in the first direction; and to overlap with the first protruding portion as viewed in the vertical direction.
US10556429B2
Provided is an inkjet print head capable of favorably cleaning an ejection port surface and also of improving landing accuracy of ejected ink onto a print medium. For that purpose, a conductive layer formed of a conductive material is formed on a support substrate, flattening processing is executed, and a liquid ejection substrate is mounted on the support substrate with good positional accuracy without protrusion of a sealant for protecting an electric connection portion of the liquid ejection substrate from the ejection port surface.
US10556419B2
A method for operating a three-dimensional object printer compensates for inoperative ejectors. The method identifies image data values associated with an inoperative ejector that stored in a memory with other image data values for a three-dimensional object to be printed by the three-dimensional object printer. The method replaces the image data values associated with the inoperative ejector with image data values associated with an operative ejector that correspond to a material that is different than a material ejected by the inoperative ejector and operates a plurality of ejectors with reference to the other image data values and the replaced image data values to enable the operative ejector to eject drops of the material that is different than the material ejected by the inoperative ejector into the three-dimensional object at positions where the inoperative ejector would have ejected material.
US10556418B2
Methods and systems, including medium-encoded computer program products, for generating internal structures usable in additive manufacturing include: obtaining a three-dimensional (3D) model of an object to be created by a 3D printer; determining a first slice of the 3D model; and generating first slice data that represents a portion of an internal structure in the first slice of the 3D model of the object, the slice data being usable for fabricating the first slice of the object during a 3D printing process, wherein the portion of the internal structure (i) includes cell structures corresponding to a respective point of a plurality of points with corresponding locations within the interior region, wherein each of the cell structures include an empty space inside the cell structure and (ii) includes a determined quantity of the cell structures based on an analysis of the 3D model.
US10556417B2
The present invention relates to a method for printing a three-dimensional structure comprising the steps of providing structural parameters defining the shape of the three-dimensional structure in a first step, converting the structural parameters into an intensity image having multiple pixels which are arranged in a two-dimensional pattern and which comprises at least different intensities in a second step and controlling the print head in dependency of the intensity image in order to print the three-dimensional structure in a third step, wherein the print head moves to a certain position and deposits at least one droplet of printing material when processing a certain pixel and wherein the number of droplets and/or the amount of printing material deposited at the certain position by the print head is chosen in dependency of the intensity of the corresponding pixel.
US10556416B2
Surfaces 1, 2 are bonded together by a heat activated adhesive 3 that is applied to a surface 2 to cover an area greater than the area that is to form the bond, the two surfaces 1, 2 are brought together and the adhesive 3 activated so that it creates the bond and also covers the exposed edges of the surfaces to provide an aesthetically pleasing and coatable corrosion and rust protective layer.
US10556414B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for the full-surface connection of contact surfaces, which form a cavity between them and extend in an antiparallel manner, of a first, transparent joining partner and a second joining partner, comprising the steps of: providing and arranging the first joining partner, the second joining partner and a blank made of an elastic material, such that the blank is disposed in the cavity formed between the contact surfaces extending in an antiparallel manner, and wherein the blank has an outer adhesive layer; heating the blank by irradiation with microwave radiation and/or infrared radiation (IR); curing or cross-linking the adhesive layer of the blank in order to form a layer structure of the first joining partner, the blank and the second joining partner.
US10556411B2
A water barrier laminate (11) including a plastic base material (1) that faces the atmosphere of a high water content, as well as a first inorganic barrier layer (3), a water-trapping layer (5) and a second inorganic barrier layer (7) formed in this order on the plastic base material (1) on the side that does not face the atmosphere of the high water content, wherein an auxiliary water-trapping layer (10) is formed on the second inorganic barrier layer (7) on the side opposite to the water-trapping layer (5) to trap the water from the side surface, the auxiliary water-trapping layer (10) being located on the surface that faces the atmosphere of a low water content or being located in a region at a distance of not more than 20 μm from the surface that faces the atmosphere of the low water content.
US10556410B2
The invention relates to providing a method for obtaining a multilayer film for thermally inducible shrink labels, products thereof and use of such products.
US10556409B2
Provided is a polyethylene film showing more excellent blocking resistance in unwinding from the film roll state and more excellent blocking resistance between sealants after lamination with a base material, and having transparency and excellent heat sealing property even at low temperatures. A polyethylene film wherein in at least either face, a ratio between an arithmetic mean roughness in a machine direction of film (Ra(MD)), and an arithmetic mean roughness in a direction perpendicular to the machine direction (Ra(TD)) satisfies the following formula (1): 1.2≤Ra(TD)/Ra(MD)≤3.6 (1) (Ra(MD): arithmetic mean roughness [μm] measured in the machine direction of film, and Ra(TD): arithmetic mean roughness [μm] measured in the direction perpendicular to the machine direction of film).
US10556402B1
Described herein is/are cold foil adhesive methods for manufacturing temporary tattoo laminate devices, wherein the tattoos incorporate metallic foil and other decorative components. The methods provide a surprisingly rapid and efficient method for creating tattoo laminate devices which provide crisp, clear multi-color images temporary tattoos for the skin. The methods described herein provide a way to produce, in an offset printing press or flexographic printing press, numerous tattoo laminate devices at very high speeds, with unlimited colors, and crisp, clear images.
US10556393B2
A method of manufacturing a tire is provided that includes curing the tire (10) in a curing press (12) and applying microwave energy at a given frequency band into the tire. The interaction between the microwave energy and the tire is monitored to obtain a complex reflection coefficient. A root-mean-squared error is calculated using the measured complex reflection coefficient and a reference reflection coefficient. The reference reflection coefficient is from a fully cured tire made from the same material as the tire. Continuous monitoring of the interaction takes place to obtain the complex reflection coefficient along with continuous calculation of the root-mean-squared error at different times during the curing of the tire in the curing press. The calculated root-mean-squared errors are used to determine whether to stop the curing of the tire in the curing press.
US10556378B2
A three-dimensional object is manufactured by selective sintering by means of electromagnetic radiation, wherein the powder comprises a polymer or copolymer having at least one of the following structural characteristics: (i) at least one branching group in the backbone chain of the polymer or copolymer, provided that in case of the use of polyaryletherketones (PAEK) the branching group is an aromatic structural unit in the backbone chain of the polymer or copolymer; (ii) modification of at least one end group of the backbone chain of the polymer or copolymer; (iii) at least one bulky group within the backbone chain of the polymer of copolymer, provided that in case of the use of polyaryletherketones (PAEK) the bulky group is not selected from the group consisting of phenylene, biphenylene, naphthalene and CH2- or isopropylidene-linked aromatics; (iv) at least one aromatic group non-linearly linking the backbone chain.
US10556374B2
Disclosed herein, amongst other things, is a method for converting a design of an original preform that is blow moldable to form a container into a converted preform having less molding material that is blow moldable to form the same container. The method includes retaining a neck finish and body of the original preform on the converted preform. The method further includes replacing the original base of the original preform with a converted base having an outer base surface that joins with an outer body surface of the body at an base split-line of the original base and that fits offset within an outer body surface of the original base, whereby the converted preform has a reduced total length, disregarding any gate vestige that may be formed thereon, relative to a total length of the original preform.
US10556370B2
A parison transfer apparatus includes a die core and at least two parison expansion rollers disposed below the die core and having a conical shape. The die core extrudes a parison having a form of a single sheet or cut into a plurality of sheets in an arc shape toward a space below the die core. The parison expansion rollers are arranged to abut against the vicinity of respective side end portions of the arc-shaped parison having the form of the single sheet or the plurality of sheets as a result of the cutting. The parison expansion rollers are configured to be rotated in a direction opposite to a downflow direction of the parison to pull the side end portion of the parison such that a width of the side end portion expands and a shape of the parison changes from the arc shape into a flat plate shape.
US10556366B2
A void former to form a void in an earth retaining cast block during casting, the void configured to locate a strap for a strap stabilised earth structure.
US10556360B2
A punch for punching a sheet of material, the punch having a body formed with a fissure for receiving the sheet of material, a pivot shaft defining a pivot point, and a lever pivotably mounted about said pivot shaft has an open position and a closed position. A block is provided which is positionable between the lever and the body. The body is provided with longitudinal support ridges and the lever is provided with side ridges, with the pivot point positioned in substantially the same plane as the longitudinal support ridge so that when the punch is closed, the side ridges of the lever pass outside of the support ridges of the body in a nesting relationship, allowing the punch to form a flat profile when closed.
US10556358B2
A perforation system and method of perforating a flexible work piece. The perforation system includes a punch tool having at least one punch head defining a vertical axis. The punch head has a first shape. A die is positioned along the vertical axis and includes an ejection port having a second shape. The first shape overlaps the second shape to provide for punch-to-die contact that results in a clean cut along a perimeter of the second shape.
US10556354B2
The invention refers to an electric shaver comprising a shaver housing, a shaver head and at least one cartridge mounted in or on said shaver housing. The adaption of the cutter element to the contour of the skin to be shaved is improved by permitting at least one additional movement of the at least one cutter unit relative to the shaver head.
US10556353B2
A robot arm control device includes a pressure sensing module, a workspace defining module and a control module. The pressure sensing module, arranged on a robot arm, detects whether an object hits or touches the robot arm to switch the operating mode of the robot arm. The workspace defining module includes a sensing region arranged on a peripheral area around the robot arm. The workspace defining module determines whether the object enters an operating space according to the position of the object in the sensing region, and sets the working range and the working mode of the robot arm according to which operating space the object has entered. The control module, connected to the robot arm, the pressure sensing module and the workspace defining module, switches the operating mode and outputs a motor driving signal to the robot arm according to the working mode of the robot arm.
US10556337B2
A method of controlling a robot includes: generating a plurality of behavior objects corresponding to a plurality of behaviors to be performed by the robot; calculating an expected time expected to be taken by the robot to perform each of the behaviors; mapping each of the behavior object to the expected time; adding the behavior objects to a behavior flow list; and displaying the behavior flow list.
US10556333B2
A machine-tool device includes at least one control and/or regulation unit. The at least one control and/or regulation unit is configured to (i) at least one of control and/or regulation of a drive unit and (ii) determine at least one actual rotational speed of the drive unit from a signal of at least one sensor element taking the form of an acceleration sensor. The machine-tool device further includes at least one sensor unit which includes the at least one sensor element taking the form of the acceleration sensor.
US10556332B2
The invention relates to a driving device comprising a hand-held housing in which there is accommodated a piston member for transmitting energy to a fastening element to be driven in, an interchangeable propellant and a combustion chamber arranged between the propellant and the piston member, said combustion chamber extending preferably about a central axis (A), and an actuator by means of which the energy that is transmissible from the propellant to the piston member is variable in a settable manner, wherein a discharge channel connected to the combustion chamber can be opened by means of a movable slide of the actuator, wherein a starting position of the piston member is variable in a settable manner by means of a second actuator.
US10556331B2
An impact device for an electric nail gun having a flywheel includes a swing arm unit and an impact unit. The impact unit includes an impact member adapted to be disposed between the flywheel and the swing arm unit, and a magnetic element set mounted to the impact member, spaced apart from the swing arm unit to form a gap therebetween, and providing a magnetic force which magnetically attracts a magnetically conductive component of the swing arm unit. The swing arm unit is movable between a pre-firing position where the impact member is not in contact with the flywheel, and a firing position where the impact member is in contact with the flywheel such that rotation of the flywheel drives the impact unit to move on the swing arm unit.
US10556325B2
An improved ratcheting clamp is a clamp with an improved design for clamping and holding work pieces to be joined together at 90 degrees or other angles such as in welding or carpentry operations, by handling the clamp with one hand and allowing the free hand to handle the work pieces instead of requiring two hands to operate the clamp. The clamp uses a cam and torsion spring to keep constant pressure of one work piece against the other work piece.
US10556321B2
A surface modified abrasive particle may include a core abrasive particle and a coating functionally connected to a surface of the core abrasive particle. The core abrasive particle may have a median particle size of at least about 0.06 microns. The coating may include a compound selected from the group consisting of dopamine, tyrosine, dihydroxyphenylalanine, norepinephrine, epinephrine, normetanephrine, 3,4-dihydroxyphenylacetic acid, tannic acid, pyrogallic acid or combinations thereof.
US10556319B2
A grinder includes a motor, a housing, a spindle and a cover. The spindle protrudes downward from the housing, is driven by the motor, and thereby rotates. The cover at least partially covers a tool accessory mounted on the spindle. The cover includes a first cover part and a second cover part. The first cover part is fixed to the housing and at least partially covers the tool accessory from above. The second cover part is held such that it is capable of moving relative to the first cover part. The grinder is configured such that the area of the tool accessory covered by the cover changes in accordance with the relative movement.
US10556307B2
A machine tool includes a trough which collects chips; a mobile unit which is located above the trough and moves in the longitudinal direction of the trough on a bed, is configured from a first beam member, a second beam member, and a connecting member connecting the first beam member and the second beam member, and is formed with a hollow that opens toward the trough from above; a first guide which supports the mobile unit in such a manner that the mobile unit is movable in the longitudinal direction of the trough; a second guide which faces the first guide across the trough, and supports the mobile unit in such a manner that the mobile unit is movable in the longitudinal direction of the trough; and a cradle, both ends of which are supported by the first beam member and the second beam member.
US10556303B2
The present invention provides manufacturing method of a heat exchanger that, even if the position of a tube opening portion of a tube of a heat exchanger for which tube expansion is conducted, varies depending on the type of a heat exchanger, a mechanism adjusting the stop position of a flare plate as well as any complicated adjusting work therefor are not necessary and a heat exchanger in which flares in the same shape and in constant certain depth are formed at an opening portion of a tube of various kinds of heat exchangers having different total lengths in the longitudinal direction, and a device for a heat exchanger manufacturing method, and an air conditioner and/or outdoor unit thereof equipped with a heat exchanger manufactured using said manufacturing method.
US10556298B2
A welded joint having high strength and good hydrogen embrittlement resistance is provided. A welded joint is a welded joint obtained by welding a base material using a welding material. The base material has a chemical composition of, in mass %: C: 0.005 to 0.1%; Si: up to 1.2%; Mn: 2.5 to 6.5%; Ni: 8 to 15%; Cr: 19 to 25%; Mo: 0.01 to 4.5%; V: 0.01 to 0.5%; Nb: 0.01 to 0.5% Al: less than 0.05%; N: 0.15 to 0.45%; O: up to 0.02%; P: up to 0.05%; and S: up to 0.04%, and a balance being iron and impurities, and which satisfies Equation (1). The welding material has a chemical composition which satisfies Equations (1) and (2). Ni+0.65Cr+0.98Mo+1.05Mn+0.35Si+12.6C≥29 (1) 0.31C+0.048Si−0.02Mn−0.056Cr+0.007Ni−0.013Mo≤−1.0 (2)
US10556276B2
A chuck includes a body having a nose section with an axial bore and a plurality of passageways formed therein, and a plurality of jaws disposed in the passageways. A nut for driving the jaws is rotatably mounted about the body and a sleeve defining a first recess and a second recess is rotatable with respect to the nut between a first rotational position and a second rotational position. An array of locking teeth is fixed to the body and a pawl member with an engagement portion is non-rotatably fixed to the nut. The engagement portion is received in the second recess and engages the locking teeth when the sleeve is in the second rotational position, the engagement portion being compressed so that an amount of force is exerted on the nut in the closing direction by the engagement portion.
US10556275B2
A system for securing different first and second drill tools to a drill head including a socket is provided. The system includes a chuck adapted for positioning at least partially within the socket of the drill head, the chuck including a first opening for receiving the first drill tool. An adapter is configured for forming a selective locking engagement within the first opening of the chuck, the adapter including a second opening for receiving the second drill tool. The selective locking engagement may comprise a “twist lock” engagement, and the adapter may be arranged for receiving a roof bolt. Related methods are also disclosed.
US10556265B2
A coiling machine includes a material guide, first pin, second pin, pitch tool, cutting tool, heating device, temperature sensor, and controller. A material is bent between the first pin and the second pin to form an arc part between the first pin and the second pin. The controller select control data corresponding to the temperature of the material from a plurality of control data corresponding to a processing temperature. Then, the positions of the first pin and the second pin are controlled such that a radius of curvature of the arc part increases when the temperature of the material increases, and the position of the cutting tool is controlled such that a gap between the center of curvature of the arc part and the cutting tool increases.
US10556262B2
A tool storage device is disposed on a side of a press brake. In the tool storage device, a lower tool holder is lifted up from lower tool holder support members, is moved forward or backward, and both end sides in a left-and-right direction of the lower tool holder are lowered after being passed through recessed portions formed on the lower tool holder support members (step (a)). The lowered lower tool holder is conveyed forward, and is positioned to a same height as a height of a lower tool mounting portion in a lower table (step (b)). The lower tool held in the lower tool holder is transferred to the lower tool mounting portion by a tool replacement device, and is mounted on the lower table (step (c)). The lower tool mounted on the lower table is returned into the tool storage device (step (d)).
US10556261B2
A system and method that includes, in an embodiment, a prism, a camera, a light source, and a plate. The system, in an embodiment, is configured for scanning a roll and generating an image of the roll surface. The prism, in an embodiment, is positioned below the camera and above the plate. In an embodiment, the plate is positioned below the prism and above the roll surface. In an embodiment, the light source is positioned above the prism. In an embodiment, the light source and the prism are positioned to provide light to the roll surface at an angle of at least 75 degrees measured from a line normal to the roll surface. In an embodiment, the prism is configured to refract light from the light source, the camera is a line scan camera that includes a row of pixel sensors, and the light source includes light emitting diodes.
US10556258B2
A method for cleaning a machine for liquid or semi-liquid food products having a container forming a processing chamber, a mixer inside the processing chamber, and a thermal treatment mechanism to exchange heat with the processing chamber. The method includes a) pasteurizing a basic mixture or finished product in the container at a first time interval; b) performing the following operations at a second time interval: emptying the basic mixture from the container, washing the container using a washing fluid, filling the container with a cleaning fluid and subjecting the cleaning fluid in the container to a heating thermal treatment; c) disassembling and cleaning at a third time interval components of the machine which make contact, in use, with the basic mixture or product, where the first time interval is less than the second time interval and the second time interval is less than the third time interval.
US10556256B2
A novel technique is provided for preserving a liquid pharmaceutical preparation safely and stably. The nano-bubble water of the present invention, which is produced in the presence of a surfactant, a hydrophilic resin and/or an electrolyte and contains not less than 2.0×108 bubbles/mL of nano-bubbles, shows a superior antibacterial action, and can be used as a base of a liquid pharmaceutical preparation showing safe and stable preservation property.
US10556249B2
A robotic end effector includes a line painting system and a spray painting system for painting features on a surface. The line painting system includes a flexible wick for flowing lines onto the surface.
US10556248B2
A sprinkler includes a compartment that surrounds its riser portion in an offset or asymmetrical configuration. More specifically, the distance of the compartments walls from those of the riser vary (i.e., increase or decrease) at different locations surrounding the riser. Put another way, the riser is closer to one side of the compartment than other sides of the compartment. This non-concentric configuration allows larger components to fit inside the compartment than would otherwise fit if the riser was symmetrically surrounded by the compartment.
US10556246B2
The liquid ejecting device uses pressurized gas to eject liquid as a spray of fine particles and is provided with internal gas-flow passageway to supply pressurized gas, and a nozzle section with a slit-shaped liquid ejecting opening to discharge liquid. The nozzle section is near the end of the an elongated main unit of the liquid ejecting device, and gas jet openings to discharge pressurized gas are established between inclined nozzle surfaces and sidewalls of the main unit. The liquid ejecting opening is connected with liquid-flow passageway and the gas jet openings are connected with the gas-flow passageway. Viewed in cross-section, the inclined nozzle surfaces are formed such that their extensions intersect above the liquid ejecting opening on a line extending from the liquid ejecting opening, and pressurized gas is discharged as jets along the inclined nozzle surfaces to intersect in a manner that sandwiches the liquid in between and breaks-up the liquid-flow to produce a spray of fine particles.
US10556241B2
An electrostatic precipitator is provided. The electrostatic precipitator includes an electrode part including a high voltage electrode with voltage applied thereto and a ground electrode coiled in a circumferential direction along with the high voltage electrode while being spaced apart from the high voltage electrode, and a plurality of turning flow paths inclined with respect to an axial direction of the electrode part between the high voltage electrode and the ground electrode.
US10556234B2
An integrated system to isolate and diagnose circulating tumor cells (CTCs) within a cellular sample includes an isolating mechanism to isolate and trap large biological cells at a detection zone from among the cellular sample based on cells size, and includes a diagnosing mechanism to diagnose CTCs among the trapped large biological cells, based on cells electrical impedance.
US10556232B2
A fluid analysis cartridge with improved test reliability and an associated fluid analysis cartridge assembly are disclosed herein. A fluid analysis cartridge assembly includes a sample collecting member having a sample collecting chamber and a fluid analysis cartridge configured to be connected to the sample collecting member. The fluid analysis cartridge includes a sample receiving chamber configured to receive a sample collected by the sample collecting member and at least one hole arranged on one side of the sample receiving chamber and opened by connection of the sample collecting member to the fluid analysis cartridge to the at least one hole. The sample receiving chamber stores a buffer solution to be mixed with the sample.
US10556230B2
The present invention provides a photocatalytic composition comprising: a photocatalyst; and an adsorbent material.
US10556227B2
A hydroprocessing catalyst or catalyst precursor has been developed. The catalyst is a unique crystalline ammonia transition metal molybdotungstate material. The hydroprocessing using the crystalline ammonia transition metal molybdotungstate material or a decomposition product thereof may include hydrodenitrification, hydrodesulfurization, hydrodemetallation, hydrodesilication, hydrodearomatization, hydroisomerization, hydrotreating, hydrofining, and hydrocracking.
US10556225B2
Methods for regenerating a spent catalyst are disclosed. Such methods may employ a step of chlorinating the spent catalyst in the gas phase, followed by decoking the chlorinated spent catalyst, and then fluorinating the de-coked catalyst in a fluorine-containing solution of a fluorine-containing compound.
US10556219B2
A continuous chemical reactor may include a primary reaction unit and at least one secondary reaction unit. The primary reaction unit has a stirring device and a first temperature regulating device, and a feed inlet provided at an upper portion thereof. The secondary reaction unit is sleeved outside the primary reaction unit, and a reaction chamber is formed therebetween. By adding reaction materials to the primary reaction unit via the feed inlet and adjusting the temperature of the reaction materials by the first temperature regulating device, the reacted materials enter the reaction chamber, and the heat generated in the reaction chamber can be used to adjust the temperature of the materials in the primary reaction unit to more effectively use the heat, and the product after reaction can be discharged from a discharge hole at the lower end of the secondary reaction unit, thereby achieving continuous production.
US10556215B2
The invention relates to a method for obtaining a magnesium fluoride (MgF2) sol solution, comprising the steps of providing a magnesium alkoxide precursor in a non-aqueous solvent and adding 1.85 to 2.05 molar equivalents of non-aqueous hydrofluoric acid, characterized in that the reaction proceeds in the presence of a second magnesium fluoride precursor selected from the group of salts of strong, volatile acids, such as a chloride, bromide, iodide, nitrate or triflate of magnesium, or of a catalytic amount of a strong, volatile acid; and/or an additive non-magnesium fluoride precursor selected from the group of salts of strong, volatile acids, such as a chloride, bromide, iodide, nitrate or triflate of lithium, antimony, tin calcium, strontium, barium, aluminium, silicium, zirconium, titanium or zinc. The invention further relates to sol solutions, method of applying the sol solutions of the invention to surfaces as a coating, and to antireflective coatings obtained thereby.
US10556213B2
A catalytic reactor comprises a floating tray fluid distributor and optionally also an integrated particle separator which is modular build to be assembled inside the reactor and which has support members enabling the floating tray to be floating supported by the catalyst bed inside the reactor.
US10556211B2
A method of producing diamonds comprises the steps of producing a carbonaceous powder comprising nano-structured carbonaceous material and a transition metal and thermally treating the powder. The carbonaceous powder is produced by electrochemical erosion of graphite in a molten salt, the transition metal being incorporated into the carbonaceous powder during the electrochemical erosion. The step of thermally treating the carbonaceous powder is carried out in a non-oxidising atmosphere at a temperature of between 350° C. and 300° C., at a pressure of lower than 1 GPa. The method allows diamond to be produced at low pressures and low temperatures.
US10556210B2
There is provided a process for the prevention or reduction of surge wave instabilities during the transport in a flowline of a three phase gas condensate comprising a gas phase, an aqueous phase and a condensate phase, characterized in that a dispersing agent is added to the three phase gas condensate which is able to disperse the aqueous phase in the condensate phase or the condensate phase in the aqueous phase, and a means for the prevention or reduction of surge wave instabilities during the transportation of a three phase gas condensate.
US10556203B2
A method and device for the desulphurisation of a hydrogen sulphide-containing gas flow, in particular for combustion in a gas turbine, wherein the gas flow is brought into contact with a washing agent containing a catalytically active component for the absorption of the hydrogen sulphide and forming elementary sulphur, wherein the catalytically active component is reduced in the formation of the elementary sulphur, wherein the washing medium containing the reduced catalytically active component is supplied to a regeneration stage, in which the reduced catalytically active component is converted back via oxidation with an oxygen-containing gas supplied to the regeneration stage, and wherein the oxygen-containing gas is supplied to the regeneration stage from a compressor of a gas turbine. Air from the compressor of a gas turbine is used for purifying a washing medium used for the desulphurisation of a gas flow.
US10556196B2
A screen panel assembly includes a screen panel and a raised screen component disposed thereon. The raised screen component includes an inclined screen surface that defines a first plane oriented at a first angle relative to the screen panel and a wedge surface positioned at a back side of the raised screen component. The inclined screen surface has a front edge that is aligned with a top surface of the screen panel and is substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the screen panel, the first plane being substantially perpendicular to a displacement vector along which the screen panel assembly is accelerated by a vibratory separation device. The wedge surface is adapted to disrupt a flow path of a flow of a material mixture flowing in a longitudinal direction across the screen panel by redirecting the flow around opposing sides of the raised screen component.
US10556194B2
A primary separation apparatus for separating natural gas from high pressure, high velocity production streams comprising a liquid dispersion of water, sand, natural gas, and isolation plug cuttings.
US10556188B2
A bath toy system including a water play space delimiter arranged to be located in a water-filled bath and to define a water play space separate from a remainder of the water filled bath, a water spray assembly generating at least one water spray within the water play space and at least one floatable fanciful element floatable on the water within the water play space.
US10556176B2
A vibration control system includes a first vibration command generation module that generates first vibration data representing a first time waveform, a second vibration command generation module that generates second vibration data representing a second time waveform, a selection module that selects, when the first vibration data generated by the first vibration command generation module and the second vibration data generated by the second vibration command generation module are input, vibration data representing a time waveform greater in amplitude every prescribed period based on an amplitude of the first time waveform represented by the first vibration data and an amplitude of the second time waveform represented by the second vibration data, and a vibration control module that causes a terminal to vibrate based on the vibration data selected by the selection module.
US10556168B2
A lighting system for a treadmill is described. The treadmill includes a tread that rotates around a front axle and a rear axle. The tread defines a cavity and comprises slats each having a tread surface and an underside. Each slat is attached at longitudinal ends to a respective belt that rotates on bearings around the front axle and the rear axle. The slats are configured with a space between adjacent slats. The lighting system comprises lights located in the cavity. The lights are configured to emit light away from the cavity through the space between the adjacent slats along at least a portion of the treadmill. A controller is in communication with the lights and is configured to control the lights.
US10556158B1
A golf club head includes a metal frame having a sole opening, a composite laminate crown joined to the frame, a composite laminate sole insert joined to the frame and overlying the sole opening, and a thermoplastic composite component overmolded on the sole insert. The composite component may include a weight track, ribs, supports or other features. A method of making the golf club includes the steps of forming a frame having a sole opening, forming a composite laminate sole insert, forming a composite laminate crown insert, injection molding a thermoplastic composite head component over the sole insert to create a sole insert unit, and joining the sole insert unit and crown insert to the frame.
US10556151B1
A self-propelled personal flotation apparatus provides a motorized flotation board which includes internal water propulsion equipment and associated push-button controls. In use, a user straps the apparatus onto their chest area, enters a body of water such as a lake, a pond, or a pool, and is propelled across the water surface.
US10556141B2
A diving board having a shell including a top surface with one or more pockets formed thereon. The pockets are recessed inwardly from the top surface of the shell and sized to receive a non-slip tread surface therein. The tread surface may be made from any of a variety of suitable materials, such as a composite material primarily comprising cork, and arranged such that the tread surface is substantially flush relative to the top surface of the shell when seated therein. An adhesive layer may be used to adhere the tread surface in the pocket of the shell.
US10556139B2
A network-type temperature-controlled hanging extinguishing system includes: a main fire-fighting pipe which has at least one fire-extinguishing medium support port; at least one fire-extinguishing medium pressure bearing tank communicated with the main fire-fighting pipe; at least one fire sprinkler valve which is communicated with the main fire-fighting pipe and includes a memory alloy part adapted for controlling opening and closing a valve body; and at least open nozzle which is communicated with the fire sprinkler valve, such that when the fire sprinkler valve is opened, the fire-extinguishing medium is sprayed, and when the fire sprinkler valve is closed, the fire-extinguishing medium is stopped spraying. An amount of the fire-extinguishing medium pressure bearing tanks is different from that of the open nozzles; a user is able to select an appropriate amount of fire-extinguishing medium pressure bearing tanks as required to reduce the manufacturing, assembly and maintenance cost of the entire system.
US10556136B2
A half facepiece respirator has a shaped support piece supporting and fixing the position of a particle or paper filter insert or outsert with either the support piece or the particle filter incorporating a face sealing component. Placed within the shaped support piece, a grille may be placed in the lower section of the shaped support piece. Additionally the half facepiece includes a head harness having a release mechanism.
US10556132B2
The present invention comprises methods and devices for modulating the activity or activities of living cells, such as cells found in or derived from humans, animals, plants, insects, microorganisms and other organisms. Methods of the present invention comprise use of the application of ultrasound, such as low intensity, low frequency ultrasound, to living cells to affect the cells and modulate the cells' activities. Devices of the present invention comprise one or more components for generating ultrasound waves, such as ultrasonic emitters, transducers or piezoelectric transducers, composite transducers, CMUTs, and which may be provided as single or multiple transducers or in an array configurations. The ultrasound waves may be of any shape, and may be focused or unfocused.
US10556127B2
In order to provide a neutron therapy apparatus which give multi angles neutron beam irradiation, the neutron therapy apparatus includes: a beam shaping assembly including a moderator and a reflector surrounding the moderator, wherein the moderator moderates neutrons to a predetermined energy spectrum and the reflector guides deflected neutrons back to enhance the neutron intensity in the predetermined energy spectrum; a neutron generator embedded inside the beam shaping assembly, wherein the neutron generator generates neutrons after irradiated by an ion beam; at least a tube for transmitting the ion beam to the neutron generator, wherein the tube defines at least an axis; deflection magnets for changing the transmission direction of the ion beam; a collimator for concentrating neutrons; and an irradiation room for receiving a irradiated object, wherein the beam shaping assembly rotates around the axis of the tube.
US10556125B2
Solutions are provided herein that specifically accounts for biological effects of tissue during radiation planning (such as treatment planning). In one or more embodiments, the biological effects may be calculated by accessing a knowledge base to determine reference data comprising at least one biological characteristic corresponding to the at least one organ, predicting a biological effect for the plurality of identified structures based on the biological characteristic corresponding to the at least one organ, and generating or modifying a radiation plan based on the biological effect. By incorporating biological data and fraction dose information, dose-estimation models can be created and trained to more accurately estimate dose absorption and effectiveness. Moreover, existing estimation models may be adapted to create dose estimations that account for the biological efficiency of target structures.
US10556123B2
The present invention provides method and apparatus for treating tissue in a region at depth while protecting non-targeted tissue by cyclically applying cooling to the patients skin, and preferably to the region, and by applying radiation to the patient's skin above the region to selectively heat tissue during and/or after cooling is applied. At least one of cooling and radiation may be applied by successively passing a continuous output applicator over the patient's skin. Treatment may also be enhanced by applying mechanical, acoustic or electrical stimulation to the region.
US10556112B1
Short pulse width spinal cord modulation for inhibiting pain with reduced side effects and associated systems and methods are disclosed. In particular embodiments, modulation signal has pulse widths in the range of from about 10 microseconds to about 50 microseconds may be applied to the patient's spinal cord region to address chronic pain without using paresthesia or tingling to mask or cover the patient's sensation of pain. In other embodiments, modulation in accordance with similar parameters can be applied to other spinal or peripheral locations to address other indications.
US10556110B2
A method, systems, and devices are disclosed. An example method includes determining whether an external unit of an implanted medical device is coupled to an implanted unit of the implanted medical device. In response to determining that the external unit is coupled to the implanted unit, the example method includes causing the external unit to operate in a first operating mode. In response to determining that the external unit is not coupled to the implanted unit, the example method includes causing the external unit to operate in a second operating mode.
US10556107B2
Nerve stimulation systems and methods are disclosed for providing modulation of nerve targets in the lower limbs typically at or below the knee. For example, transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS), percutaneous nerve stimulation, and implantable stimulation systems and methods are disclosed for providing stimulation to the saphenous nerve (SAFN). Additionally, systems and methods are provided for co-stimulating the posterior tibial nerve (PTN) and SAFN in combination with unique stimulation, and with control and display of OAB therapy protocols for multiple sites. Systems and methods of treatment can provide for management of usage and compliance monitoring, obtain and operating upon patient input responses to queries and management of payments and permissions related to provision of therapies for various disorders. Monitoring of usage and compliance can be managed both locally and remotely from a user. Stimulation provided in combination with a passive implantable component is also disclosed.
US10556105B2
A shield located within an implantable medical lead may be terminated in various ways. The shield may be terminated by butt, scarf, lap, or other joints between insulation layers surrounding the lead and an insulation extension. For lap joints, a portion of an outer insulation layer may be removed and a replacement outer insulation layer is positioned in place of the removed outer insulation layer, where the replacement layer extends beyond an inner insulation layer and the shield. The replacement layer may also lap onto a portion of the insulation extension. Barbs may be located between the replacement layer and the inner insulation layer or the insulation extension. The shield wires have ends at the termination point that may be folded over individually or may be capped with a ring located within one of the insulation layers of the jacket.
US10556101B2
A system for electrostimulation therapy includes two or more electrodes of different metals or metal alloys. The electrodes can be optionally provided on a flexible non-conducting substrate with a binder, thereby acting as a bandage or patch. Alternatively, the electrodes can be in the form of a needle, such as acupuncture needle, bracelets, armbands, wristbands, necklaces, or jewelry pieces. A method for electrostimulation therapy includes the steps of attaching a first electrode to a user or soil of a plant at a first location and attaching at least one additional electrode to the user or the plant at other locations for a predetermined period. The electrodes are not connected to a voltage or current source. Because at least two electrodes are of different metals, they cause an electrical current to flow via at least a portion of the user or the soil of the plant.
US10556096B2
According to some embodiments, a system for treating skin includes a handpiece assembly comprising a tip and a main body portion, the main body portion comprising an interior cavity and at least one canister configured to store at least one of a treatment material and a waste material. The treatment material and/or the waste material is in fluid communication with the tip.
US10556095B2
A breathing enhancement system for use with eyewear having a compressible liner. The breathing enhancement system includes a pair of clips configured to be selectively attachable to the eyewear and adapted to compress the compressible liner when attached to the eyewear to define a compressed portion of the compressible liner. A clip liner is adapted to engage with and extend between the pair of clips, with the clip liner being configured to reside within the compressed portion of the compressible liner. A pair of nasal appliques are configured to be selectively placeable on respective lateral portions the nose of a user, with each nasal applique being adapted to be magnetically urged toward a respective one of the pair of clips in response to placement of the eyewear adjacent the nose of the user to cause the nasal passage of the user to open.
US10556087B2
A method of providing repetitive motion therapy comprising providing access to audio content; selecting audio content for delivery to a patient; performing an analysis on the selected audio content, the analysis identifying audio features of the selected audio content, and extracting rhythmic and structural features of the selected audio content; performing an entrainment suitability analysis on the selected audio content; generating entrainment assistance cue(s) to the selected audio content, the assistance cue(s) including a sound added to the audio content; applying the assistance cues to the audio content simultaneously with playing the selected audio content; evaluating a therapeutic effect on the patient, wherein the selected audio content continues to play when a therapeutic threshold is detected, and a second audio content is selected for delivery to the patient when a therapeutic threshold is not detected.
US10556086B2
Methods of administering therapeutic gases containing high concentrations of nitric oxide, particularly concentrations above 2,000 ppm. The therapeutic gas may be administered at a certain dosing rate, such as less than 166 micrograms of nitric oxide per second. Also, methods of administering a therapeutic gas containing nitric oxide to a patient, wherein a dose of nitric oxide is administered from a portable device that includes a delivery system and a mini-cylinder. Methods can also include intermittent administration of nitric oxide pulses.
US10556076B2
A cuff pressure adjusting device includes: a gas feeding unit which feeds a gas into a cuff by a pressing manipulation performed by a user; a cuff pressure detection unit which detects a pressure in the cuff; and a display unit which displays the pressure detected by the cuff pressure detection unit. The gas feeding unit includes: an elastic hollow body which is deformed so as to reduce an inner volume with reception of a pressing manipulation; and a support member which is disposed adjacently to the elastic hollow body in a direction along which the pressing manipulation is performed.
US10556072B2
An improved aerosol dispensing apparatus includes an aerosol container, a discharge piece, an actuator, a flow control canister valve assembly attached to the aerosol container, a battery, and an electronically controlled flow control valve electronically connected to the battery and in fluid communication with the flow control canister valve assembly. The aerosol container and the attached flow control canister valve assembly are further attached to the actuator and the actuator is mounted for slidable movement within the discharge piece. The flow control canister valve assembly is movable between an open position wherein a volume of an aerosol formulation is directed from the aerosol container through the flow control canister valve assembly to the electronically controlled flow control valve, and a closed position wherein the aerosol formulation is not permitted to flow through the flow control canister valve assembly to the electronically controlled flow control valve.
US10556066B2
An assembly comprises an electric consumer, an electric voltage source adapted to power the electric consumer, and user operated actuation means. The electric voltage source is operatable between a first state in which a first voltage is generated and a second state in which a second higher voltage is generated. The user operated actuation means is operatable from a first to a second state and adapted to thereby operate the electric voltage source from the first to the second state, and operatable from the second state to the first state and adapted to thereby operate the electric voltage source from the second to the first state.
US10556063B2
A pump operations module having a base function includes only base function programming in the module itself but is configured to autonomously execute advanced delivery programs stored in its buffer. An advanced interface module (AIM) is used to prepare the advanced delivery programs and upload them to the pump operations module as well as monitor the performance of those modules. However, the advanced interface module does not control the execution of those advanced delivery programs by the pump operations modules. In the event that the patient's condition requires a change in the present advanced delivery program, the AIM is used to create a revised advanced delivery program and upload it to the pump for storing and executing from the pump's buffer memory.
US10556061B2
A device, kit, and method for producing medically-deliverable intravenous solution may include supplying a liquid to a housing, pumping the liquid through the housing while purifying the liquid, metering concentrated intravenous solution into the liquid to create a medically-deliverable intravenous solution, and dispensing the medically-deliverable intravenous solution.
US10556059B2
An infusion pump drive and its methods of use are disclosed. In one embodiment, the infusion pump drive may include a transmission component and a spring in line with the transmission component. Displacing the transmission component may compress the spring to apply a force causing fluid to dispense from an associated reservoir. Depending on the particular embodiment, the transmission component may either be displaced continuously or displaced multiple times to dispense fluid from the reservoir.
US10556058B2
A clip for holding a flexible elongated medical device. In embodiments, the clip has a hinge; first and second jaws movable with respect to each other about the hinge from a closed position to an open position, each of the jaws having a contact surface, the contact surface of the first jaw being disposed against the contact surface of the second jaw when the clip is in the closed position and away from the contact surface of the second jaw when the clip is in the open position; and flexible material disposed on at least one of the jaws, the flexible material comprising the contact surface. The invention also includes methods of holding a flexible elongated medical device.
US10556052B2
A control system controlling blood gas values in blood processed by an oxygenator, wherein the oxygenator generates arterial blood by exposing venous blood to oxygen from an oxygenation gas supply, comprises a monitoring arrangement to determine a level of the blood gas values in the arterial blood and a controller that is responsive to the monitoring arrangement and configured to control parameters of the oxygenation gas supply to the oxygenator. This allows the blood gas values to be adjusted toward a pre-determined level.
US10556050B2
A blood pump device comprising: a centrifugal blood pump having: a pump housing defining an inlet to receive blood and direct blood onto an impeller, the pump housing having a top bezel and a central column directed into the middle of a cavity within the pump housing; the impeller is adapted, in use, to rotate in the cavity around the central column and to be suspended on a pivot bearing mounted between the middle of the lower surface of the impeller and the middle of the upper surface of the central column; the impeller is stabilised, in use, by the rotation of blades generating a centrifugal force acting on the blades in radial direction away from the central column.
US10556029B2
An ozone generation device has a casing; a wall body partitioning a space surrounded by the casing into at least a first chamber and a second chamber; a first opening and a second opening provided in a part of the casing to communicate an outer side of the casing and the first chamber; a blower communicating the first chamber and the second chamber; a third opening provided in a part of the casing to communicate the outer side of the casing and the second chamber; a light source body provided between the blower and the third opening in the second chamber and configured to emit ultraviolet light; and an electrical body provided in a position between the first opening and the second opening in the first chamber and configured to supply electric power for driving the light source body.
US10556028B2
To simplify management of a sterilization process of a filling nozzle, a method for sterilizing a filling nozzle is provided. In the method for sterilizing a filling nozzle, hot water or a liquid chemical agent is fed to drink supply piping that feeds a drink to a plurality of filling nozzles at the same time, the hot water or liquid chemical agent is discharged from all the filling nozzles, a flow rate of the hot water or liquid chemical agent is detected at all the filling nozzles, a representative temperature of the hot water or liquid chemical agent upstream or downstream of at least one filling nozzle is measured, and the sterilization process is ended when both the flow rate at each filling nozzle and the representative temperature reach respective target values.
US10556024B2
The present invention, in some aspects, provides methods, reagents, compositions, and kits for the radiolabeling of proteins, for example, of proteins useful for positron emission tomography (PET) or single-photon emission computed tomography (SPECT) (e.g., for diagnostic and therapeutic applications), using sortase-mediated transpeptidation reactions. Some aspects of this invention provide methods for the conjugation of an agent, for example, a radioactive agent or molecule to diagnostic or therapeutic peptides or proteins. Compositions comprising sortagged, radiolabeled proteins as well as reagents for generating radiolalebed proteins are also provided. Kits comprising reagents useful for the generation of radiolabeled proteins are provided, as are precursor proteins that comprise a sortase recognition motif.
US10556021B2
The present invention provides a nanocarrier having an interior and an exterior, the nanocarrier comprising at least one conjugate, wherein each conjugate includes a polyethylene glycol (PEG) polymer. Each conjugate also includes at least two amphiphilic compounds having both a hydrophilic face and a hydrophobic face. In addition, each conjugate includes an oligomer, wherein at least 2 of the amphiphilic compounds are covalently attached to the oligomer which is covalently attached to the PEG. The nanocarrier is such that each conjugate self-assembles in an aqueous solvent to form the nanocarrier such that a hydrophobic pocket is formed in the interior of the nanocarrier by the orientation of the hydrophobic face of each amphiphilic compound towards each other, and wherein the PEG of each conjugate self-assembles on the exterior of the nanocarrier.
US10556015B2
The invention provides compositions and methods for effective lysosomal targeting mediated by PCSK9. In particular, the compositions and methods provided by the invention may be used to treat lysosomal storage diseases such as Pompe Disease and Sanfilippo Syndrome Type B, and they may be used for targeting lysosomal enzymes to the various muscles of the human body.
US10556012B2
Described herein are compositions comprising a prostaglandin FP receptor agonist (PFPRA) compound and a fatty acid ester (e.g., isopropyl myristate), optionally comprising an ointment base such as a hydrocarbon base (e.g., petroleum jelly) and/or an organic alcohol (e.g., propylene glycol), that, when topically applied to the skin, locally delivers a therapeutically effective amount of the PFPRA compound to subcutaneous fat under the skin, and methods of preparation. The therapeutic effect is, for example, reduction of the subcutaneous fat under the skin. Further provided are methods of reducing body fat in a subject comprising topically administering the composition to the subject.
US10556006B2
Disclosed herein are methods of modulation of the viability of a cell using fusion proteins comprising a transporter peptide sequence and a MYC polypeptide. Further disclosed herein are methods of modulating an immune response using the fusion proteins. Further disclosed herein are methods of identifying agents capable of modulation of the viability of a cell or an immune response. Further disclosed herein are agents and compositions capable of modulation of the viability of a cell or an immune response.
US10556005B2
A novel adjuvant composition is provided that is excellent in safety and convenience as compared to the conventional adjuvant such as Alum. An adjuvant composition comprising citrullines, which are water soluble substance present in the living body, and/or a salt thereof; a vaccine composition comprising said adjuvant composition and an antigen; a process for preparing said adjuvant composition and said vaccine composition; and a method for administering said adjuvant composition and said vaccine composition are provided.
US10555995B2
Porcine pestivirus designated herein as atypical porcine pestivirus (“APPV”) (Genbank accession no. KR011347.1). Immunogenic compositions to induce an immune response against porcine pestivirus infection in a pig are described, which APPV antigenic agents (e.g., isolated whole virus, derivatives thereof, functional fragments thereof, and combinations of the foregoing). Methods of vaccinating against porcine pestivirus infection using the immunogenic compositions are also described. The methods can be also applied for clinical research and/or study, including diagnostic methods for detecting pestivirus infection using monoclonal antibodies specifically binding to APPV epitopes.
US10555991B2
Provided herein is a single component sealant formulation (e.g. in a liquid form), methods for its preparation, and use. The formulation includes fibrinogen; vitamin K-dependent clotting zymogens comprising at least Factor II (FII) and Factor X (FX).
US10555989B2
Methods for treating learning disabilities associated with fetal alcohol syndrome and other neurological disorders by administering SK channel blockers, antagonists, inhibitors or modifiers like tamapin.
US10555985B2
A refined Indigo Naturalis extract or Indigo-producing plant extract containing at least 65% (w/w) an indirubin derivative based on total weight of active ingredients is described. Also described are a pharmaceutical composition containing the refined extract, and the use of the pharmaceutical composition for treating or alleviating a disease or condition.
US10555976B2
Compositions, systems and methods of improving the health of the microbiome of an individual's skin relate to the provision of skin contacting formulations containing beneficial bacteria and other microbe components to foster the growth and maintenance of a healthy skin microbiome.
US10555951B2
A method and medicament comprising 4,4,4-trifluoro-N-[(1S)-2-[[(7S)-5-(2-hydroxyethyl)-6-oxo-7H-pyrido[2,3-d][3]benzazepin-7-yl]amino]-1-methyl-2-oxo-ethyl]butanamide or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt or hydrate thereof for treating leiomyosarcoma is provided.
US10555935B2
The present invention is directed to inhibitors of histone deacetylases (HDACs) such as HDAC6, and their use in the treatment of diseases such as cell proliferative diseases (e.g., cancer), neurological (e.g., neurodegenerative disease or neurodevelopmental disease), inflammatory or autoimmune disease, infection, metabolic disease, hematologic disease, or cardiovascular disease.
US10555927B2
Pharmaceutical preparations include at least one component that enhances sexual response and at least one other compound that enhances sexual sensitivity and pleasure. The component that enhances sexual response enhances blood flow to the genital region. Examples include compounds that dilate blood vessels, such as compounds that increase the amount of nitric oxide (NO) in the blood. The component that enhances sexual sensitivity and pleasure includes one or more cannabinoid compounds from the plant genus Cannabis, including extracted compounds, synthetic forms, and derivatives thereof. Examples include tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the main psychoactive constituent of Cannabis, and cannabidiol (CBD), which is less or non-psychoactive and modulates THC activity. The ratio of THC/CBD can be selected depending on age, gender, physical health, and/or psychological condition of the user.
US10555926B2
The present invention relates to cabazitaxel for use in a method for treating an AR-V7-positive patient suffering from prostate cancer comprising determining the AR-V7-status in said patient and administering cabazitaxel. The invention also relates to a method of identifying patients with prostate cancer, eligible for treatment with cabazitaxel comprising testing a biological sample from the patient for the presence of AR-V7 circulating tumor cells, wherein the patient is eligible for treatment with said cabazitaxel if circulating tumor cells in said sample test positive for AR-V7. The invention further relates to a kit of parts for determining the AR-V7-status in isolated tumor cells of a patient with prostate cancer.
US10555918B2
This disclosure relates to methods of treating or preventing cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) mediated diseases such as cystic fibrosis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, chronic pancreatitis, chronic bronchitis, asthma, mucus formation, comprising administering an effective amount of a 2-amino-N′-benzylidene-acetohydrazide compound or derivative thereof to a subject in need thereof. In certain embodiments, the 2-amino-N′-benzylidene-acetohydrazide compound is ((E)-N′-(3,5-dibromo-2,4-dihydroxybenzylidene)-2-(m-tolylamino)acetohydrazide; or (E)-N′-(3,5-dibromo-2,4-dihydroxybenzylidene)-2-(p-tolylamino)acetohydrazide.
US10555913B2
The present invention relates to the use of multiple doses of Cladribine combined with beta interferon for the treatment of multiple sclerosis in patients who are refractory to at least one conventional therapy.
US10555912B2
Provided herein are use of polymeric excipients, specifically polyvinyl alcohols, optionally in conjunction with sugars, as cryoprotectants to prevent aggregation of PEG-containing particles. Also provided are PEG-containing particles comprising such polymeric excipients.
US10555905B2
A retaining system for a solenoid assembly of a liquid adhesive dispensing system includes a quick-release mechanism configured to secure the solenoid assembly in place. The quick-release mechanism engages an air tube of the solenoid and thereby secures the entire solenoid assembly to a manifold. The quick-release mechanism can release the solenoid, facilitating easy removal of the entire solenoid assembly, by a simple turning, pushing, or pulling action on the quick-release mechanism. The released solenoid can then be removed and replaced, thereby minimizing downtime caused due to the replacement of a faulty solenoid.
US10555902B2
The present invention relates to a solid pharmaceutical dosage forms and methods for preparing the solid pharmaceutical dosage form that contains fingolimod or its pharmaceutically acceptable salts, conjugates or complexes thereof. The solid pharmaceutical dosage forms may rapidly disintegrates in a patient's oral cavity.
US10555900B2
The subject matter of the present invention is pertinent to the field of vaginal delivery of pharmaceutically active agents. Embodiments of the instant invention disclose methods for treating a variety of progesterone related disorders by vaginal administration of a pullulan capsule and a fill formulation comprising one or more antiprogestins dispersed in a mixture of isopropyl palmitate or isopropyl myristate and a polyethylene glycol.
US10555898B2
Disclosed are methods useful for the topical therapeutic treatment of skin malignancies including skin cancers and cutaneous metastases using compositions containing nanoparticles of paclitaxel or other taxanes.
US10555893B2
The present disclosure relates to leave-on hair styling compositions comprising: (a) beeswax: (b) one or more glucoside emulsifiers; (c) two or more ester oils and/or emulsifying esters; (d) water; (e) one or more monomeric polyols; and (f) one or more fatty acids and/or fatty alcohols. In some cases, the compositions also include caramel. The leave-on hair styling compositions do not require synthetic film-forming polymer nor do they require silicones. The leave-on hair styling compositions are particularly useful in methods for imparting durable styling or shaping benefits, frizz control, and/or curl definition with a soft feel to hair.
US10555888B2
The invention relates to nail compositions including water, at least one high molecular weight latex comprising at least one styrene group, at least one latex lacking styrene groups, and at least one low molecular weight sulfopolyester compound, as well as to methods relating to application of such nail compositions.
US10555885B2
The present invention relates to a low-viscosity cosmetic composition and methods using a natural emulsifying agent. More specifically, the present invention relates to a cosmetic composition using a naturally derived saccharide-based surfactant in place of a chemical surfactant and realizing a low-viscosity formulation to offer safety to the skin, feel good on the skin with fast absorption, give stability to the formulation and add luster to the skin in an effective manner.
US10555881B2
A composition is provided, including an emulsion of an aqueous phase in a lipophilic phase, wherein the composition includes water, more than 8 wt % butylene glycol, one or more nonionic polysaccharides, and one or more lipophilic materials. The composition may be prepared by a method including the steps of a) mixing the one or more lipophilic materials with an aqueous mixture including water, the one or more nonionic polysaccharides, and the butylene glycol at a temperature in a range from 30 to 70° C. until homogeneity is reached; b) cooling the product of step a) to room temperature; and optionally c) adding ethanol and/or aluminum starch octenylsuccinate to the product of step b) with mixing. A method of caring for a keratin material in an animal includes applying an effective amount of the composition to the keratin material.
US10555872B1
A convenience kit for sterilizing and delivering liquids into the safety of a sterile environment inside a plastic bag (which can be disposed in a field environment) wherein a so sterilized liquid is dispensed into a vessel which is capped and sealed before removal from the bag. The convenience kit can be provided in a solitary format or, as a subkit combined with other associated items in a more inclusive convenience kit. In short, convenience kits made according to the present invention provide opportunity for accomplishing an aseptic liquid sterilizing transfer, a task which is commonly associated with on-hand capability of a laminar flow hood, in field environments and other areas which are remote from facilities having laminar flow hoods.
US10555870B2
A system for improving cardiac output of a patient suffering from pulseless electrical activity or shock and yet displays myocardial wall motion including: a sensor to detect myocardial activity to determine the presence of residual left ventricular pump function having a contraction or ejection phase and a filling or relaxation phase, a device to prompt the application of or apply a compressive force repeatedly applied to the chest based on the sensed myocardial activity such that the compressive force is applied during at least some of the ejection phases and is ceased during at least some of the relaxation phases to permit residual cardiac filling, thereby enhancing cardiac output and organ perfusion.
US10555868B2
A foot massaging assembly for massaging a user's feet includes a stand that may be positioned on a support surface. The stand may be vertically oriented on the support surface. A massage unit is slidably coupled to the stand. A bottom side corresponding to each of a user's feet may be rolled on the massage unit. Thus, the massage unit may massage the user's feet. The massage unit is selectively positioned at a selected point along the stand.
US10555866B2
A collapsible wheeled walker with two side frames and two height adjustable upper body supports. The apparatus includes a plurality of wheel direction locks each coupled to a wheel and adapted to lock the wheel in fixed moving direction or to release the wheel to turn freely. The apparatus may include a seat that is slidably attached to the two side frames and is movable between a front position for walking inside the frames and a rear position sitting. The apparatus may be converted to a transport chair by locking front wheel and releasing the rear wheels, and sliding the movable seat to the rear position. It may include an X-folder that facilitates collapsing the walker to a small footprint. It may also include two forearm gutters as part of the upper body supports that give the user an upright walking posture for health benefits.
US10555863B2
In one example, a therapy system is provided that includes an inner layer and an outer layer including first and second portions and disposed outside of the inner layer. A therapeutic device, such as a cold pack for example, is provided that is configured to be positioned inside the inner layer. The therapy system also includes an adjustable tightening mechanism connected to the first and second portions of the outer layer and operable to change a position of one of the first and second portions relative to the other of the first and second portions so as to adjust a magnitude of a compressive force exerted by the outer layer on an extremity of a user when the extremity is positioned within an opening defined by the inner layer.
US10555862B2
Methods and systems are provided for an armboard adjustment assembly for a patient support table. In one embodiment, an armboard adjustment assembly is configured to retain a rotational position of an armboard of a patient support table via a plurality of one-way clutches, and in another embodiment the armboard adjustment assembly is configured to retain the rotational position of the armboard via a pair of friction pads. In this way, the armboard may be moved into a continuous plurality of positions between a fully lowered position and a fully raised position.
US10555861B2
A dynamic headset system is provided. The dynamic headset system includes a head cradle configured to receive a head of a subject and having a bottom surface configured to face a platform on which the dynamic headset apparatus is placed. The dynamic headset system further includes a device including an instrument adjacent to the head of the subject when the head of the subject is in the head cradle.
US10555855B2
The various embodiments disclosed herein relate to wheelchair systems for transporting a mobility-challenged passenger onto an aircraft and transfer that passenger into an aircraft seat. The implementations include systems with lift systems, belt systems, and/or transfer ramps.
US10555840B2
A method for making a disposable absorbent core comprises depositing absorbent particulate polymer material from a plurality of reservoirs in a printing roll onto a substrate disposed on a grid of a support which includes a plurality of cross bars extending substantially parallel to and spaced from one another so as to form channels extending between the plurality of cross bars. The plurality of reservoirs in the first peripheral surface are arranged in an array comprising rows extending substantially parallel to and spaced from one another. A disposable absorbent article and apparatus for making an absorbent article are also disclosed.
US10555837B2
Intraocular apparatus is provided, having an anterior side and a posterior side, and configured for use with an extraocular imaging device. The intraocular apparatus includes a photovoltaic energy receiver, or an RF energy receiver, on the anterior side which receives energy from outside the eye to power the intraocular apparatus. Additionally, the intraocular apparatus includes a photodiode on the anterior side of the intraocular apparatus which receives data from the extraocular imaging device. An application-specific-integrated-circuit (ASIC) is positioned on the posterior side of the intraocular apparatus and includes (i) circuitry configured to process the data from the photodiode into an image, (ii) an electronic display, e.g., a light-emitting diode (LED) display, which emits light representing the image, and (iii) at least two through-silicon vias connecting the ASIC to the photovoltaic energy receiver and to the photodiode. Other applications are also described.
US10555836B2
A welding helmet includes a helmet housing; a headband structure for securing the helmet housing; a Head Up Display (HUD)-type auto-darkening filter secured in the helmet housing; and a light-permeable protective sheet installed in front of the HUD-type auto-darkening filter in the helmet housing, wherein the HUD-type auto-darkening filter comprises a head-up display which is used to reveal operating parameters of the auto-darkening filter, and the head-up display is arranged between a body of the auto-darkening filter and the protective sheet such that when the auto-darkening filter is in a transparent state the luminously revealed operating parameter of the auto-darkening filter can be imaged via the protective sheet into the eyes of an operator who wears the welding helmet.
US10555835B2
A laser eye surgery system used to treat vitreous bodies includes a laser source, a ranging subsystem, an integrated optical subsystem, and a patient interface assembly. The laser source produces a treatment beam that includes a plurality of laser pulses. The ranging subsystem produces a source beam used to locate one or more structures of an eye. In some embodiments, the ranging subsystem includes an optical coherence tomography (OCT) pickoff assembly that includes a first optical wedge and a second optical wedge separated from the first optical wedge. The OCT pickoff assembly is configured to divide an OCT source beam into a sample beam and a reference beam. The integrated optical subsystem is used to scan the treatment beam and the sample beam. In other embodiments, Purkinje imaging, Scheimpflug imaging, confocal or nonlinear optical microscopy, ultrasound, stereo imaging, fluorescence imaging, or other medical imaging technique may be used.
US10555832B2
An intraocular lens (IOL) injector assembly comprising an injector body having a shuttle reception opening defined at least in part by a first sidewall and a second sidewall, and a shuttle comprising a first wing including a first portion of a shuttle lumen wall and a second wing including a second portion of a shuttle lumen wall. The first wing and the second wing are coupled together by a hinge. When in a closed state, the first portion of the shuttle lumen wall and the second portion of the shuttle lumen wall define at least a portion of an operative shuttle lumen. The shuttle and sidewalls are configured such that the first wing and the second wing interfere with the first sidewall and the second sidewall, respectively, as the shuttle passes through the shuttle reception opening, such that the closed state of the shuttle is attained.
US10555819B2
An intervertebral implant for implantation in an intervertebral space between vertebrae. The implant includes a body extending from an upper surface to a lower surface. The body has a front end, a rear end and a pair of spaced apart first and second side walls extending between the front and rear walls such that an interior chamber is defined within the front and rear ends and the first and second walls. The body defines an outer perimeter and an inner perimeter extending about the internal chamber. At least one of the side walls is defined by a solid support structure and an integral porous structure, the porous structure extending from the outer perimeter to the inner perimeter. The porous structure embeds or encapsulates at least a portion of the solid support structure.
US10555809B2
A replacement heart valve assembly has a stent frame and a replacement valve. The replacement valve has a plurality of leaflets and a valve frame. The leaflets are attached to the valve frame. Further, the assembly has a plurality of suspension struts attached to the stent frame and the valve frame. The valve frame is suspended within the stent frame via the suspension struts. In some embodiments, the assembly further has a sealing member attached to the stent frame to prevent leakage around the replacement heart valve assembly.
US10555787B2
A bone screw comprising a shaft, in which the shaft comprises a bore that is configured to fit a magnet. In addition, a bone plate comprising apertures that can fit the bone screw. The bone plate may be fastened to bone using the bone screws, and the bone screws may be oriented to generate attractive or repulsive forces. Further, a disc-shaped housing that comprises a magnet.
US10555783B2
A robotic assembly is configured to support, insert, retract, and actuate a surgical instrument mounted to the robotic assembly. The robotic assembly includes an instrument holder base member, a motor housing moveably mounted to the instrument holder base member, a carriage drive mechanism operable to translate the motor housing along the instrument holder base member, a plurality of drive motors, a plurality of gear boxes, and a plurality of output drive couplings driven by the gear boxes. The robotic assembly includes a sensor assembly that includes an orientation sensor, a sensor target, and a sensor shaft drivingly coupling the sensor target to a corresponding one of the output drive couplings.
US10555780B2
Systems and methods for introducing and driving flexible members in a patient's body are described herein. In one embodiment, a robotic method includes positioning a flexible elongated member that has a preformed configuration, wherein at least a part of the flexible elongated member has a first member disposed around it, and wherein the first member includes a first wire for bending the first member or for maintaining the first member in a bent configuration, releasing at least some tension in the first wire to relax the first member, and advancing the first member distally relative to the flexible elongated member while the first member is in a relaxed configuration.
US10555773B2
In order to achieve a prediction approximating an actual change with time of a pixel value in a tissue with higher accuracy, provided is a simulator, which is configured to predict a change with time of a pixel value in a tissue of an object, including: an object information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on the object; a protocol acquisition unit configured to acquire an injection protocol for a contrast medium; a tissue information acquisition unit configured to acquire information on the tissue; and a prediction unit configured to predict, based on the information on the object, the injection protocol, and the information on the tissue, a change with time of a pixel value of each of a plurality of compartments obtained by dividing the tissue along a blood flow direction.
US10555763B2
A dynamic subsidence plate is described having a first plate member and a second plate member in sliding engagement that may infinitely subside between a first and second assembled position. The plate includes a lock assembly associated with the first and second plate members. The lock assembly includes a ramp portion, an interference portion, and a bearing member situated between the ramp portion and the interference portion. The lock assembly of the plate is configured to allow movement of the first member with respect to the second member in a first direction in an infinite number of positions between a first assembled position and a second assembled position. Further, the lock assembly alternatively prevents movement of the first member with respect to the second member in an opposite second direction between the first and second assembled positions.
US10555759B2
A polyaxial pedicle screw includes a screwed shaft section for anchoring the pedicle screw in a vertebra, on one axial end of which a shaft head is configured which is coupled in a rotating and/or pivoting manner as well as in a tensile-force transmitting manner to a receiving sleeve for a longitudinal support. The receiving sleeve has a fastening means for selective positional fastening of the receiving sleeve with respect to the shaft section, the fastening means at least consisting of an inlay/pin mounted in the receiving sleeve and acting on the shaft head, and a locking element acting on the inlay/pin. The inlay/pin is configured with attachment points or engagement elements, which are not covered or overlapped by the locking element, for the provisional introduction of a compressive force on the inlay/pin parallel to the locking element.
US10555757B2
A bone positioning device can include a fixation pin for attachment to a first bone and a fixation pin for attachment to a second bone. A first block having an aperture can be included for slidably receiving a fixation pin, and a second block having an aperture can be included for slidably receiving a fixation pin. A multi-axis joint can connect the first block and the second block, where the multi-axis joint allows the first second blocks to move with respect to each other about more than one axis.
US10555752B2
The present disclosure relates to a mechanical thrombectomy device that includes a catheter assembly with a basket assembly formed of a proximal hub and a distal hub; a flexible tube having a first end attached to the proximal hub and a second end attached to the distal hub; and a plurality of basket wires. The flexible tube may be laser-cut to allow for bending, elongation, and compression. The basket wires each have a first end attached to the proximal hub and a second end attached to the distal hub. The basket wires are disposed around the flexible tube and configured to expand to a preset shape. The basket assembly is attached to a distal end of a rotatable shaft. A drive assembly is configured to rotate the rotatable shaft to rotate the basket assembly. The basket assembly when rotated is configured to macerate a material proximate to the basket assembly.
US10555750B2
An apparatus includes a body, a shaft assembly, an end effector portion, a data storage component, a reader, and a use control. The shaft assembly extends distally from the body and includes a support portion. The end effector portion is configured to selectively couple with the support portion of the shaft assembly. The data storage component is associated with the end effector portion and contains data uniquely associated with the end effector portion. The reader is adapted to read the data from the data storage component. The use control is adapted to enable operation of the end effector portion if the data meets at least one usage parameter.
US10555748B2
An apparatus includes a body assembly, an acoustic waveguide, an ultrasonic blade, a liquid dispensing feature, and a control module. The liquid dispensing feature is positioned distally relative to the body assembly. The liquid dispensing feature is positioned adjacent to the ultrasonic blade. The liquid dispensing feature is configured to deliver a flow of cooling liquid to the ultrasonic blade. The control module is operable to regulate fluid flow through the liquid dispensing feature.
US10555747B2
A power morcellation system, apparatus, and methodology. Structurally, the device includes a sturdy, pliable (e.g., able to be inserted and retracted through a 10-15 mm morcellator port), distensible, waterproof/watertight retaining bag/pouch/carrier to be deployed into the pelvic cavity of the subject. The device further includes a plurality (e.g., three (3)) of port tube channels extending outwardly from the bag, wherein the interior of each channel is in communication with the interior of the bag. Each channel has an open end (opposite from the end that terminates in the bag) through which a laparoscopic/robotic camera and other instruments (e.g., camera, control instrument) may pass. A smaller tube channel also extends outwardly from the bag and can be suited as an insufflation port channel, among other uses. The bag also includes a large opening surrounded by an elastic drawstring for receiving the specimen to be removed within the bag.
US10555740B1
A device to increase intra-abdominal compartment pressure for the controlling of internal hemorrhages is presented. The device controls internal hemorrhaging by supplementing the occlusion effectiveness of a pneumatic tourniquet with a shaped device that increases the overall internal pressure in a human compartment, such as the upper abdomen, to assist in the cessation of bleeding in that region. One side of the device includes a flat base that is adapted to be placed against a patient at the targeted body site. The other side has a generally corrugated shape that is sized to receive an inflatable, wedge-shaped bladder from the pneumatic tourniquet. The overall shape of the invention includes a tapered upper end that corresponds with the inferior angle of the lower ribs in a human torso so that when pressed against the patient by the pneumatic tourniquet bladder a uniform distribution of pressure occurs over the upper abdomen region.
US10555736B2
Guidewires suitable for use in a system for implanting a lung volume reduction device are disclosed. The guidewire includes an outer sheath having proximal and distal ends, and comprising a proximal section, a transition section, and a distal section. The proximal section extends from the proximal end of the sheath to the transition section, and the distal section extends from the transition section to the distal end of the sheath. The distal section defines a bore extending from the transition section to the distal end of the sheath and an inner core having proximal and distal ends. The inner core extends through the bore of the distal section of the sheath, wherein the inner core is fixed to the sheath at the transition section, and wherein the distal end of the inner core is fixed to the distal end of the sheath at the distal end of the sheath.
US10555729B1
A method for anchoring one or more tensile members to bone includes: providing an anchor, including: a housing including a body portion and an extension portion interconnected by a breakaway structure which is configured to retain structural integrity under a first predetermined tensile load and to separate under a second predetermined tensile load which is greater than the first predetermined tensile load; a collet disposed in the hollow interior; and a sleeve movable parallel to the central axis between first and second positions; passing one or more tensile members through a central bore of the collet; seating the housing into a bore formed in the bone; and driving the sleeve from the first position towards the second position under the first predetermined tensile load, so as to swage the collet around the one or more tensile members.
US10555711B2
An apparatus for low dose mammography including: (1) a monochromatic X-ray beam generator that emits a first beam of monochromatic line emission X-ray photons having an energy at or nearly above an absorption edge of a first element to induce emission of Auger electrons when the first element is irradiated with the X-ray photons; and (2) an X-ray detector including (a) a pixel or plurality of pixels including an array of pixel sensors each of which has (i) a direct conversion layer configured for receiving the X-ray photons and for converting the X-ray photons into a transient electric charge, the direct conversion layer comprising the first element such that the line emission X-ray photons causes a cascade of Auger electrons that form the transient electric charge, and (ii) a semiconductor collection layer configured for receiving Auger electrons of said electric charge from the conversion layer; and (b) processing electronics for converting the electric charge received in the collection layer into a radiographic signal. Also, a method for using the apparatus for low dose mammography.
US10555707B2
A patient support system includes a support beam that may translocate along an axial axis of a medical imaging system. At least a portion of the support beam may be disposed within a central bore of the medical imaging system. The patient support system also includes a patient support removably coupled to the support beam and including a backing that may support a patient during an imaging procedure and a restraint extending a longitudinal length of the backing. The restraint includes a first end coupled to the backing and a second end that may be removably coupled to the support beam, and the restraint may secure the patient support to the support beam and to restrain the patient within the patient support.
US10555705B2
Systems and methods for providing sensitive and specific alarms indicative of glycemic condition are provided herein. In an embodiment, a method of processing sensor data by a continuous analyte sensor includes: evaluating sensor data using a first function to determine whether a real time glucose value meets a first threshold; evaluating sensor data using a second function to determine whether a predicted glucose value meets a second threshold; activating a hypoglycemic indicator if either the first threshold is met or if the second threshold is predicted to be met; and providing an output based on the activated hypoglycemic indicator.
US10555699B2
A method for use in detecting and monitoring effects experienced by a subject taking a first drug, drug A, and at least one other substance, substance B, the method comprising: (a) obtaining a plurality of measured values of a physiological characteristic of the subject over a time period; (b) comparing the measured values to a predefined signature, the drug A signature, associated with the first drug, and thereby calculating a measure, Adiff, of the difference between the measured values and the drug A signature; (c) comparing the measured values to a predefined signature, the substance B signature, associated with the at least one other substance, and thereby calculating a measure, Bdiff, of the difference between the measured values and the substance B signature; (d) comparing the measured values to a predefined signature, the DO signature, associated with a desired physiological state of the subject, and thereby calculating a measure, DOdiff, of the difference between the measured values and the DO signature; and (e) combining Adiff and DOdiff to produce an output.
US10555698B2
Assessing the sleep quality of a user in association with an electronic device with one or more physiological sensors includes detecting an attempt by the user to fall asleep, and collecting physiological information associated with the user. The disclosed method of assessing sleep quality may include determining respective values for one or more sleep quality metrics, including a first set of sleep quality metrics associated with sleep quality of a plurality of users, and a second set of sleep quality metrics associated with historical sleep quality of the user, based at least in part on the collected physiological information and at least one wakeful resting heart rate of the user, and determining a unified score for sleep quality of the user, based at least in part on the respective values of the one or more sleep quality metrics.
US10555692B2
Disclosed herein are a method and a device for sensing sugars, using terahertz electromagnetic waves. By the method, even a trace amount of sugars in a liquid state can be accurately discriminated and sensed, with high sensitivity and selectivity, using a sensing chip that works in a terahertz electromagnetic wave band. Using the method, sugars even at low concentrations can be accurately analyzed with high sensitivity and selectivity in which terahertz electromagnetic waves are irradiated onto sugars through a sensing chip having a meta unit in which a pattern is formed to amplify a frequency corresponding to an absorption frequency of a sugar of interest.
US10555687B2
Described herein is an apparatus and method for generating a pain score for a patient. The method includes the steps of generating a PLR response signature for each drug of a plurality of drugs and further initiating a light stimulus to the patient, and measuring a corresponding PLR response. The method includes initiating a neuro-stimulus to the patient, the neuro-stimulus being initiated over a set of frequencies, each frequency being associated with a unique intensity, and stimulating a unique nerve fiber type of the patient, and measuring a PRD response of the patient for the initiated neuro-stimulus. Further, the method includes determining, for each nerve fiber type, a threshold response based on the measured PRD, determining a weight for each threshold response based on the PLR response, and combining the determined weight for each threshold response to obtain a pain score for the patient.
US10555685B2
A compensation circuit has a predetermined, known complex impedance and is located in a handle of a catheter or in a distal end of a cable that connects to the catheter. The compensation circuit is probed with a pilot signal produced by a compensation control. The compensation control measures the complex impedance, which is the combination of the circuit's known impedance as well as that of the cable and then determines the difference between the measured and the known complex impedances which represents that which is attributable to the cable, and is used to cancel out such cable-related contributions to complex impedance in other electrical connections in the same cable. In another aspect, an unknown tissue is identified as one of a plurality of possible tissue types such as regular myocardium, scar and fat based on the measured phase angle of the complex impedance of the unknown tissue.
US10555680B2
A method and system for mapping an anatomical structure includes sensing activation signals of intrinsic physiological activity with a plurality of mapping electrodes disposed in or near the anatomical structure, each of the plurality of mapping electrodes having an electrode location. A vector field map which represents a direction of propagation of the activation signals at each electrode location is generated to identify a signature pattern and a location in the vector field map according to at least one vector field template. A target location of the identified signature pattern is identified according to a corresponding electrode location.
US10555679B2
There is set forth herein an apparatus comprising: a non-contacting array of sensors adapted for positioning at a position spaced from and proximate a position of a patient; and a signal processing circuit in communication with the array of sensors, wherein the signal processing circuit is configured for: generating a plurality of time varying signals using the array of sensors; processing the plurality of time varying signals; and outputting one or more indicator based on the processing. The apparatus can be adapted for use in a variety of applications including emergency applications such as live birth applications in which neonate resuscitation protocols are observed.
US10555672B2
A method, including pressing a distal end of a medical probe against a wall of a body cavity, and receiving from the probe first measurements of a force exerted by the distal end on the wall. The method also includes receiving from the probe second measurements indicating a displacement of the wall in response to the force. The method further includes estimating a thickness of the wall based on the first and the second measurements.
US10555668B2
Provided is an information processing apparatus configured to acquire more optical coherence tomographic images in a smaller amount of imaging time while suppressing reduction in longitudinal resolution. The information processing apparatus includes: a sampling unit configured to sample interference light between return light from an object to be inspected which has been scanned with measuring light and reference light corresponding to the measuring light; a data extracting unit configured to partially extract, from an output from the sampling unit, data included in the output at a longer sampling interval than an interval for sampling the interference light by the sampling unit so as to generate a plurality of data sets; and a forming unit configured to form tomographic information on the object to be inspected based on the generated plurality of data sets.
US10555661B2
An endoscope system includes: a first processor configured to process a first imaging signal acquired by a first endoscope; a second processor communicably connected to the first processor and configured to process second imaging signal acquired by a second endoscope; a mode switch configured to switch a processing mode of image processing; an image processor configured to execute first image processing on the first imaging signal when the mode switch switches the processing mode to a first processing mode and to execute second image processing on an signal input from the second processor when the mode switch switches the processing mode to a second processing mode; and a video-signal output unit configured to generate a video signal for display based on an output signal from the image processor and output the video signal to an external device.
US10555660B2
An image processing apparatus includes: a narrowband image acquisition unit configured to acquire a narrowband image showing inside of a lumen; a white light image acquisition unit configured to acquire a white light image showing the inside of the lumen; and a composite image generation unit configured to combine information of the narrowband image to the white light image, according to a depth of a submucosal object, to generate a composite image for display.
US10555658B2
A mop comprising a mop handle with a grip end and a mopping end and includes spline ribs that surround a surface of the mop handle. The mop includes a ratchet sleeve surrounding the mop handle and is rotatable in first and second directions. The ratchet sleeve includes a flexible collar with an inward-facing integral pawl on an interior portion of the flexible collar. The mop includes a mop head at the mopping end of the mop handle. The mop head has a first end connected to the mopping end and a second end connected to the ratchet sleeve. The flexible collar is flexible between a locked position where the pawl engages with the spline ribs preventing rotation of the ratchet sleeve in the first rotational direction, and an unlocked position where the pawl disengages the spline ribs allowing rotation of the ratchet sleeve in first and second rotational directions.
US10555655B2
A method for controlling a robot cleaner includes: a step of controlling at least one of a first rotation member and a second rotation member to rotate depending on a traveling mode to travel the robot cleaner in a specific proceeding direction; a step of identifying whether or not an obstacle is detected from a sensor; and a step of setting a reference surface depending on the obstacle and controlling the first rotation member and the second rotation member to perform a wall movement pattern along the reference surface, in the case in which the obstacle is continuously detected.
US10555640B1
A low cost cooking appliance to support food items above a rack, pan or equivalent. In a preferred embodiment the present invention includes an array of substantially vertically oriented points. The points detachably supported on a base structure. The disassembled elements can be stored and transported in a compact form. The base structure preferably includes a function to at least partly shield the food from direct heat from below.
US10555614B2
A bottom bed combination includes a first bed bottom, a second bed bottom, two fastening units and a plurality of stands. The first bed bottom includes a first bed frame, a first bed board, a plurality of first bases a first linkage and a first electric cylinder. The second bed bottom includes a second bed frame, a second bed board, a plurality of second bases, a second linkage and a second electric cylinder. Each of the fastening units includes a mount mounted on the first bed frame and the second bed frame, and a pin extending through the mount, the first bed frame and the second bed frame. The stands are respectively secured on the first bases, the second bases and the fastening units.
US10555610B2
The telescopic seating systems, and foldable chairs and related components for use within telescopic seating systems, of the present disclosure may incorporate occupant support elements within a space between a top surface of a seat frame structure and a bottom surface of the seat frame structure. Springs may be attached to the top surface of the chair frame structure and configured to extend into the space. Alternatively, or additionally, a chair cushion may extend into the space.
US10555609B2
A pressure-sensing chair according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a first electrode having a first conductive region formed in a first direction; a second electrode having a second conductive region formed in a second direction; a sensing sheet including an intermediate layer arranged between the first electrode and the second electrode; a first elastic body arranged on the sensing sheet and having a first elastic modulus; and a plurality of second elastic bodies arranged in the first elastic body and having a second elastic modulus, which is greater than the first elastic modulus.
US10555605B1
A method and system to create a modular shelving or storage unit. Different pieces are provided which are configured to be joined together (by sliding) without using any adhesive and can form a box. A plurality of boxes can then be joined together by sliding them together to form a plurality of joined boxes. As such, a custom, modular shelf can be easily constructed by a user simply by joining the pieces which are already provided to him/her. In this manner, custom shelfs can be easily constructed which would fit most any area of physical space.
US10555602B1
A height-adjustable table includes a base, at least two height-adjustable table legs, a retaining frame, a tabletop, a motor box, a controller, a power adapter, and a hand controller. Through the hand controller connected to the controller of the motor box in cooperation with the controller to control the motor, the motor drives the movable inner tube of each table leg to move up and down through the driving rod to achieve the lifting and lowering of the tabletop. The user can adjust the height of the tabletop by simply manipulating the hand controller. The adjustment is more convenient.
US10555599B2
A loadout exchange system includes a back panel and a front panel. The back panel has a front side with a hook and loop surface, a back side with a MOLLE-compatible surface, one or more tab locks, and one or more straps. The front panel has a front side with a MOLLE-compatible surface, a back side with a hook and loop surface, one or more pull tabs, and one or more tuck tabs with a hook and loop surface. The front surface of the back panel and the back surface of the front panel are complimentary and thus configured to mate with each other to be removably secured to each other. The tab locks and pull tabs also have complimentary hook and loop surfaces and are thus configured to mate with each other to be removably secured to each other.
US10555596B2
Bags or carriers are provided that can be transformed into protective vests and used as body armor and ballistic shields. The carriers can be assembled in a first arrangement that enables individuals to store and transport items. The carriers can quickly and easily be converted to or deployed in a second arrangement which enables the individuals to wear the carriers as protective vests. One or more shoulder straps can be detached from the carriers for use as tourniquets, doorway securing structures, and tools for dragging injured victims.
US10555593B1
A lip applicator carrier system includes a carrier that has a housing, a plurality of reservoirs that receive lip balm or another lip applicator, and a clip to attach the carrier to a vehicle visor. The reservoirs may be c-shaped with an open bottom to allow placement of the lip balm via a press fit/snap fit.
US10555592B2
A topical applicator for administration of a composition to a target area. The topical applicator having an applying portion with a cavity defined by at least one side wall, a dividing portion that may be adaptable in shape and/or at least partially permeable, such that it allows a composition to move through it to the cavity, and a target-area contacting portion adapted to create a seal between the cavity and the target area to which the composition is being applied.
US10555586B1
A band is capable of retaining a substrate saturated with a fragrance. A user dons the band around a portion of their body. The band incorporates a plurality of perforations enabling the fragrance emitting from the substrate to permeate an immediate area adjacent the band.
US10555585B2
A closure is shown and described, preferably for an orthosis, which has a belt assembly, having a first closure part (1) and a second closure part (21), which can be releasably connected to one another, wherein the first and the second closure parts (1, 21) have connecting means for belts of the belt assembly, wherein the first closure part (1) has a pin (3), wherein the second closure part (21) has a connection end (23) and a coupling end (25), and between the connection end (23) and the coupling end (25) a guide track (37) extending in a closure plane is provided, which extends from an entrance opening (41) to a guide track end (43), wherein the pin (3) has a first section (7) and a second section (9), wherein the dimensions of the first section (7) perpendicular to the direction of extension of the pin (3) correspond to the dimensions of the guide track (37) in the closure plane at the guide track end (43), and wherein the dimensions of the second section (9) perpendicular to the direction of extension of the pin (3) are greater than the dimensions of the guide track (37) at the guide track end (43), so that the second section (9) restricts a movement of the pin (3) relative to the second closure part (21) perpendicular to the closure plane.
US10555579B2
A plastic composition includes a polymer component. The polymer component includes an ethylene-vinyl (EVA) copolymer, a first ethylene-α-olefin copolymer having a hardness ranging from 55 Shore A to 60 Shore A measured according to ASTM D2240, a second ethylene-α-olefin copolymer having a hardness ranging from 85 Shore A to 90 Shore A measured according to ASTM D2240, and polypropylene (PP). The plastic product made from the composition has a loss factor ratio of tan δ(−20° C.) to tan δ(40° C.) at a frequency of 10 Hz, which ranges from 2.5 to 3.8. A midsole and a method of producing the midsole are also disclosed.
US10555577B2
A massaging boot assembly for massaging a foot includes a boot that may be worn on a foot. A massage unit is coupled to the boot and the massage unit selectively massages the foot when the boot is worn. The massage unit is selectively turned on and off. A heating unit is coupled to the boot such that the heating unit is in thermal communication with the boot. The heating unit is selectively turned on to selectively heat the foot thereby enhancing therapeutic relief of the foot.
US10555568B1
The premature infant clothing is a therapeutic garment. The premature infant clothing is configured for use with a patient. The patient is a low birthweight infant receiving medical therapy. The therapy further comprises medical tubing. The premature infant clothing comprises a plurality of panels and a plurality of detachable fasteners. The plurality of panels are interconnected using the plurality of detachable fasteners to form a plurality of garments. Each of the plurality of panels is a textile. The plurality of detachable fasteners removably attach one or more panels selected from the plurality of panels to form a garment selected from the plurality of garments. The plurality of detachable fasteners are adjustable such that any detachable fastener selected from the plurality of detachable fasteners can be reconfigured to accommodate the insertion of the medical tubing through the selected detachable fastener.
US10555564B2
Pants with novelty crotch opening. The pants include leg encircling portions and a crotch area with two overlapping panels that bias toward a closed position. Each panel includes a free edge that is pulled laterally to place the crotch area in an open position. When the crotch area is not being held open or has no interposing object holding it open, the crotch area immediately returns to a closed position. The crotch panel does not include fasteners such as buttons or snaps and to an outside observer does not appear to have an opening.
US10555562B2
The disclosed garment is uniquely constructed to provide stretchable, comfortable, non-binding night-time breast support to large-breasted women without any horizontal bands or binding around the chest or middle of the body. It effectively addresses the 3-way support needs (up, in, and apart) providing a garment that is robustly supportive, creating a pleasing shape and silhouette, while being comfortable, breathable, and not constrictive in any way using no wires and no horizontal banding around the chest and torso.
US10555557B2
An electronic cigarette and a method for controlling heating and atomization of electronic cigarette are provided. The electronic cigarette includes a power supply device (1), a heating element (2) and a control device (3). The control device (3) includes a storage module (35) storing a plurality of temperature variation parameters corresponding to a plurality of temperature variation curves and a plurality of preferable atomization temperatures corresponding to a plurality types of liquid solutions; a temperature detection module (31) for detecting a temperature variation of the heating element (2); and a control module (32) comparing the temperature variation parameters of the heating element (2) detected by the temperature detection module (31) with the temperature variation parameters stored in the storage module (35), obtaining the preferable atomization temperature of the liquid solution, and controlling the heating of the liquid solution by the heating element at the corresponding preferable atomization temperature.
US10555555B2
A method of controlling an aerosol-generating system, and the associated system, are provided. The system includes an aerosol-generating article and an aerosol-generating device having a detector configured to detect the presence of the article and to distinguish the article from other articles configured for use with the system, based on a spectroscopic signature of a taggant incorporated within a material of the article. The method includes detecting the presence of the article; determining whether the article includes a taggant; comparing the spectroscopic signature of the detected taggant with a look-up table of taggant spectroscopic signatures corresponding to articles configured for use with the system; preventing activation of the device, including preventing the supply of power to a heating element unless the detected taggant spectroscopic signature corresponds to an article configured for use with the system; and activating the device if the detected signature corresponds to the article.
US10555553B2
There is provided a smoking article comprising an aerosol generating substrate and a mouthpiece attached to the aerosol generating substrate. The mouthpiece includes a segment comprising a filtration material comprising polylactic acid, and an additive for reducing phenols. The mouthpiece further comprises one or more wrappers circumscribing the segment, the one or more wrappers have a combined basis weight of at least about 50 grams per square metre (gm-2).
US10555549B2
A roasting drum has a main body and at least one opening formed through the main body. The main body has a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and multiple drums. The multiple drums are mounted around one another in sequence, are fastened to one another, and communicate with one another. Each one of the multiple drums has a blending blade formed on an inner surface of the drum. The blending blade is spiral and extends from the first end toward the second end. The blending blade of one of the multiple drums twists along a clockwise direction from the first end toward the second end. The blending blade of another one of the multiple drums that is mounted around the drum twists along a counter-clockwise direction from the first end toward the second end.
US10555548B2
An ozone generator includes at least four independent ozone generation control channels that energize at least four independent ozone generation plates. The at least four independent ozone generation control channels allow for multiple modes of operation, including sterilization, disinfecting, and managing, in addition to interleaved operation, which significantly extends the useful life of the individual ozone generation plates. The ozone generator is placed in a preexisting conditioned airflow that enters a conditioned airspace enclosed by a container. Being placed in the preexisting conditioned airflow, the ozone generator does not require a fan or other air movement device to actively transport ozone-enriched air or oxygen through the ozone generator.
US10555547B2
A meat dewatering assembly (10) includes a support frame (12), a twin screw dewatering unit (14), a drive assembly (16) coupled with the unit (14), and a perforated housing (60). The unit (14) has a pair of tapered, non-parallel, intermeshed, helically flighted screws (52, 54) presenting nip clearances (59) between the fighting (55). The drive assembly (16) serves to counter-rotate the screws (52, 54). In use, emulsified meat is passed into the housing (60) during counter-rotation of the screws (52, 54), in order to compress the meat within the clearances (59) and thereby express water from the meat. Adjustment collars (38) permit selective size alteration of the nip clearances (59).
US10555543B2
The present invention relates to the use of pea proteins to substitute at least partially the milk proteins in confectionery traditionally made with milk. It also relates to the confectionery product obtained after this substitution.
US10555542B2
Disclosed are methods for separating non-soy plant materials to produce a fat-enriched fraction, a reduced-fat plant extract, reduced-fat plant protein compositions, a crude oil, plant gums, a degummed oil and a protein-fat sediment. Also disclosed are food products containing or prepared from the reduced-fat extracts, fat-enriched fraction, gums, oils, protein-fat sediments and reduced-fat protein compositions.
US10555527B2
The present invention discloses methods for prevention and prophylactic treatment of plant diseases by application of glyphosate to a plant in need of treatment. In certain embodiments, soybean plants in need of treatment at vegetative and reproductive growth stages prior to or subsequent to infection, may be treated with glyphosate in order to prevent infection or suppress disease development, symptomatology, and yield loss. Application of a fungicide (e.g. a strobilurin fungicide such as pyraclostrobin or picoxystrobin) together with glyphosate, is also contemplated. Soybean diseases that may be treated in this manner include Soybean Sudden Death, Brown Stem Rot, Stem Canker, and Charcoal Rot, among others.
US10555526B2
The present invention relates to novel oxadiazoles of the formula I or an N-oxide and/or their agriculturally useful salts and to their use for controlling phytopathogenic fungi, or to a method for combating phytopathogenic harmful fungi, which process comprises treating the fungi or the materials, plants, the soil or seeds to be protected against fungal attack, with an effective amount of at least one compound of the formula I, or an N-oxide, or an agriculturally acceptable salt thereof; and to mixtures comprising at least one such compound and at least one further pesticidally active substance selected from the group consisting of herbicides, safeners, fungicides, insecticides, and plant growth regulators; and to agrochemical compositions comprising at least one such compound and to agrochemical compositions further comprising seeds.
US10555522B2
The present disclosure provides methods of improving disease tolerance of a crop plant by improving and/or inducing long-term disease tolerance of the crop plants against one or more of fungal, bacterial, and viral diseases. The methods provided in the present disclosure have desirable properties and related advantages compared to other methods known in the art.
US10555520B2
The present invention provides a pesticide composition comprising a pesticidal active ingredient and a compound represented by chemical formula (I) or chemical formula (II) R—O-(EO)w-(PO)x-(EO)y-(PO)z-H (I) R—O—(PO)w-(EO)x-(PO)y-(EO)z-H (II) (wherein, EO represents an ethyleneoxy group, PO represents a propyleneoxy group, R represents an alkyl or alkenyl group having 8 to 20 carbons, w represents on average an integer in the range of 1 to 25, x represents on average an integer in the range of 1 to 25, y represents on average an integer in the range of 1 to 25, and z represents on average an integer in the range of 1 to 25). Further the present invention provides a method for potentiating the efficacy of the pesticidal active ingredient comprising using a compound represented by chemical formula (I) or chemical formula (II) in combination with a pesticidal active ingredient.
US10555512B2
A spinning reel includes a reel body, a handle, a spool shaft, a spool, a rotor, a reciprocating mechanism, and a clutch mechanism. The handle is rotatably disposed on the reel body. The spool shaft is supported by the reel body. The spool moves in an axial direction of the spool shaft together with the spool shaft. The rotor rotates about the spool by rotation of the handle and winds a fishing line around the spool. The reciprocating mechanism moves the spool shaft back and forth in the axial direction when the rotation of the handle is transmitted thereto. The clutch mechanism switches between a transmitting state to transmit the rotation of the handle to the reciprocating mechanism and a non-transmitting state to terminate the transmission. The reciprocating mechanism enables the spool shaft to move in the axial direction when the clutch mechanism is in the non-transmitting state.
US10555509B2
A structurally sound circular crab trap suitable for commercial crab fishing, designed to be stacked one inside another to facilitate transport.
US10555508B2
A transgenic non-human animal is provided. In certain embodiments, the animal comprises a genome comprising an immunoglobulin heavy chain locus comprising: a) a transcribed gene encoding a fusion protein comprising, from N-terminus to C-terminus: i. a scaffold comprising a first binding domain; and ii. a heavy chain constant region operably linked to the scaffold; wherein the scaffold is capable of specifically binding to a target in the absence of additional polypeptides; and b) a plurality of pseudogenes that are operably linked to the transcribed gene and that donate, by gene conversion, nucleotide sequence to the part of the transcribed gene that encodes the binding domain.
US10555502B1
A stuffed toy includes a body and a head connected to the body, the body and the head together defining an internal space and forming an exterior of the stuffed toy. The stuffed toy includes a container at least partially filled with a cat attractant material which emits an aroma. The container is disposed within the internal space of the stuffed toy and has an opening in a portion of the internal space corresponding to the head such that the emitted aroma is greater at the head of the stuffed toy as compared to along the body.
US10555501B2
A collar for mounting around the neck of an animal, such as a dog, the collar including i) a first part with an inside for receiving the head of the animal, the first part having a flared shape, such as the shape of a truncated cone, and including a peripheral flexible wall defining the flared shape, the wall extending between a first opening leading into the inside and an opposite second opening leading into the inside, and ii) a second part joined to the first part at the second opening, the second part defining a sleeve for extending around the neck, wherein the peripheral flexible wall including a recess extending towards the first opening and defining an enlargement of the second opening.
US10555492B1
A soybean cultivar designated 81430038 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 81430038, to the plants of soybean cultivar 81430038, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 81430038, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 81430038. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 81430038. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 81430038, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 81430038 with another soybean cultivar.
US10555483B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01067598. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01067598. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01067598 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01067598 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10555480B1
The invention relates to the soybean variety designated 01068350. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the soybean variety 01068350. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the soybean variety 01068350 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing soybean plants by crossing the soybean variety 01068350 with itself or another soybean variety and plants produced by such methods.
US10555479B1
A soybean cultivar designated 71342318 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 71342318, to the plants of soybean cultivar 71342318, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 71342318, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 71342318. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 71342318. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 71342318, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 71342318 with another soybean cultivar.
US10555476B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH265634. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH265634, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH265634 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH265634.
US10555475B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV690087. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV690087, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV690087 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV690087 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV690087.
US10555469B2
New soybean varieties designated ‘2441083’, ‘2441085’, and ‘2441246’ are described. ‘2441083’, ‘2441085’, and ‘2441246’ are soybean varieties exhibiting stability and uniformity.
US10555464B1
An insert assembly converting an otherwise discarded plastic drum or bucket, and other non-corroding and waterproof containers, into a self-regulating, watering container for growing plants. It has a platform to support grow media in which plant roots become established and receive water and/or nutrients. It also has at least one cylinder, which supports the platform and contains additional grow media. Furthermore, the insert assembly preferably uses open or closed cell gasket material around the perimeter edge of the platform, that assists in maintaining separation between the grow media and the water and/or nutrient in the reservoir under the platform in the bottom portion of the bucket, drum, or other container. Grow media in the cylinder provides fluid communication with the water/nutrient in the reservoir and the grow media supported by the platform via small openings, transferring water and/or nutrients from the reservoir to plant roots via a wicking effect.
US10555463B2
A method for maintaining soil moisture for a garden via a sump pump includes installing an irrigation sump pump in a sump pit; providing a water storage container; connecting a first conduit to the irrigation sump pump and the water storage container, the first conduit promotes water transfer from the sump pit to the water storage container; disposing at least one water distribution member at a predetermined area of a garden; connecting a second conduit to the water storage container and at least one water distribution member, the second conduit promotes water transfer from the water storage container to the one or more water distribution members; controlling the water level in the sump pit; controlling the water level in the water storage container from exceeding a predetermined high water level via an overflow pipe; installing at least one moisture measuring member or controller for determining a moisture content for at least one predetermined area of the garden; and distributing water upon a predetermined area of a garden when the moisture content is determined to be below a predetermined low moisture parameter, whereby water in the sump pit is distributed upon at least one predetermined area of the garden to increase soil moisture when the soil moisture level for the at least one predetermined area of the garden is determined to be below a predetermined low moisture parameter.
US10555460B2
A system for harvesting produce from a tree has a drone capable of hovering, a video camera gathering visual data of movement, a cutting implement, a remote control station with a display screen, wireless circuitry, and input mechanisms to control movement of the drone and operation of the cutting implement, and circuitry in the body of the drone enabling two-way communication with the remote control station, transmission of video data from the video camera, and response to commands from the remote control station. The video data from the camera on the drone is displayed on the display screen of the remote control station, and an operator viewing the display screen operates the input mechanisms, maneuvering the drone to position the cutting implement relative to produce in the tree, and triggers the cutting implement by command, severing a stem to separate the produce, causing the produce to fall from the tree.
US10555454B2
A row unit for a seeding machine. The row unit includes a frame, a first gauge wheel arm pivotally coupled to the frame, a first gauge wheel coupled to the first gauge wheel arm, a second gauge wheel arm pivotally coupled to the frame, a second gauge wheel coupled to the second gauge wheel arm, and a depth sensor having a potentiometer coupled to the first gauge wheel arm.
US10561049B2
An EMI shield for a wireless power transmitter is presented. The EMI shield includes a patterned metallic layer that when positioned over a transmitting coil of the wireless power transmitter capacitively couples to the transmitting coil to capture electromagnetic radiation while allowing magnetic power to pass. In some embodiments, the patterned metallic layer may be a comb filter.
US10561039B2
A frame for dampening vibrations in a printed circuit board (PCB) assembly is provided. The frame includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface and multiple ridges extending from at least one of the first and second surfaces. The ridges define recesses, and at least one of the recesses is configured to accommodate an electronic component of a PCB in the PCB assembly. Also provided is a PCB assembly including a PCB and the frame.
US10561038B2
An equipment rack, mounting break thereof, and associated methods. The bracket is secured to a frame assembly of the equipment rack by a releasable snap-fit connection. The snap-fit connection can maintain engagement of the bracket with abutments of the frame assembly and/or maintain mated connections of the bracket with the frame assembly. The brackets can be used to mount electrical power distribution units, cable baskets, or other equipment.
US10561032B2
A printed circuit board accommodation casing includes: a support surface that abuts on a first planar portion of a printed circuit board; a side wall portion located outside in a planar direction of the printed circuit board, the first planar portion of which is abutted by the support surface; and an engagement protrusion formed on the side wall portion, in which a crushing margin, which is crushed against the first planar portion of the printed circuit board, is set on the engagement protrusion at a location where the support surface does not abut on the first planar portion of the printed circuit board.
US10561029B1
An electronic device includes a first electronic module, a second electronic module, and a shifting distance S. The first electronic module includes first electronic units arranged in rows, wherein the top row of first electronic units defines the first base line. The second electronic module is adjacent to the first electronic module. The second electronic module includes second electronic units arranged in rows, wherein the top row of second electronic units defines a second base line. There is a shifting distance S between the first base line and the second base line. The shifting distance S satisfies 0
US10561022B2
A display device includes a display panel having a display region and a pad region on a side of the display region, a first printed circuit board spaced apart from the pad region and includes a first driving controller configured to generate a plurality of signals, a second printed circuit board adjacent to the first printed circuit board, a first driving film connected to the first printed circuit board, a second driving film connected to the second printed circuit board, a first signal transmission film connected to the first printed circuit board and including first signal transmission wirings, and a second signal transmission film connected to the second printed circuit board and the first signal transmission film and including second signal transmission wirings.
US10561020B2
A process includes utilizing a pin array that includes multiple segmented pins for forming selectively plated through holes. The process includes forming a PCB laminate structure that includes multiple spinel-doped core layers and multiple through holes. Each spinel-doped core layer includes a heat-activated spinel material incorporated into a dielectric material. The process includes aligning individual segmented pins of a pin array with corresponding through holes of the PCB laminate structure, where each segmented pin includes heated segment(s) and insulating segment(s). The process includes inserting the segmented pins of the pin array into the corresponding through holes and generating heat within each heated pin segment that is sufficient to form metal nuclei sites in selected regions of the spinel-doped core layers adjacent to portions of the through holes that contain the heated pin segments. The metal nuclei sites function as seed layers to enable formation of selectively plated through holes.
US10561016B2
A flexible circuit board and an electronic device including a flexible circuit board are provided. The flexible circuit board may include a substrate having a bending area and a non-bending area, a wiring pattern layer provided on the bending area and the non-bending area, a plating layer provided on the wiring pattern layer and including an open area in an area corresponding to the bending area, and a protective layer that directly contacts one surface of the wiring pattern layer exposed at the open area and a side surface of the plating layer. The protective layer may have a larger thickness than a thickness of the plating layer.
US10561012B2
Disclosed are apparatus and methods related to ground paths implemented with surface mount devices to facilitate shielding of radio-frequency (RF) modules. In some embodiments, a method for fabricating a radio-frequency module includes providing a packaging substrate, the packaging substrate configured to receive a plurality of components and the packaging substrate including a ground plane. In some embodiments, the method includes mounting a surface mount device on the packaging substrate, and forming or providing a conductive layer over the surface mount device such that the surface mount device electrically connects the conductive layer with the ground plane to thereby provide radio-frequency shielding between first and second regions about the surface mount device.
US10561010B2
A coolant tube for a plasma arc torch is provided. The coolant tube includes an elongated coolant tube body including a distal portion configured to engage an electrode and a proximal portion configured to engage a body of the plasma arc torch. The coolant tube also includes a first electrically conductive element coupled to the distal portion of the elongated coolant tube body. The first electrically conductive element is configured to physically contact an electrode. The coolant tube further includes a second electrically conductive element coupled to the proximal portion of the elongated coolant tube body. The second electrically conductive element is configured to physically contact the body of the plasma arc torch. The elongated coolant tube body defines a current path and a fluid path between the body of the plasma arc torch and the electrode.
US10561006B2
A method for facilitating space experiences for at least a first space user and for at least first and second different spaces, the method comprising the steps of storing first and second space experience specifications for the first and second different spaces, respectively, wherein the first and second space experience specifications indicate space affordance settings for the first and second spaces, respectively, sensing a trigger event associated with at least one of the first and second different spaces, where the sensed trigger event is associated with the first space, using the first space experience specification to control the first space affordances and where the sensed trigger event is associated with the second space, using the second space experience specification to control the second space affordances.
US10561005B1
A light emitting diode lamp string system with a sequencing function includes a light emitting diode driving apparatus and a light emitting diode lamp string. In a predetermined sequence testing mode, the light emitting diode driving apparatus sequentially sends a plurality of predetermined sequence testing signals to the light emitting diode lamp string to find out the damaged light emitting diode lamp. In an extended sequence testing mode, the light emitting diode driving apparatus respectively sends a plurality of extended sequence testing signals to the light emitting diode lamp string to find out the new light emitting diode lamp. A sequencing method performs a predetermined sequence testing mode to detect a failure address code, and performs an extended sequence testing mode to detect a replacement address code, and replaces the failure address code with the replacement address code in a testing sequence.
US10560997B2
A lamp driver for an LED lamp includes a voltage input port which is adapted to connect the lamp driver to a power source. A boost converter circuit is connected to the voltage input port. A voltage output port is adapted for connecting an LED to the lamp driver. A shutdown circuit provides a shutdown signal, which is connected to the voltage input port for detecting an input voltage of the voltage input port and is connected to the boost converter circuit for controlling at least one active component of the boost converter. The shutdown circuit is arranged to shut down the boost converter circuit when a shutdown voltage at the voltage input port is detected. During the shutdown of the boost converter circuit, the voltage output port still provides an operation voltage for the LED.
US10560992B2
An LED-based light includes one or more LEDs, a sensor arranged to detect a brightness level in an area resulting from the combination of light emitted by the LEDs with light from at least one ambient light source other than the LEDs, and operable to output a signal corresponding to the detected brightness level, a controller operable to regulate an amount of power provided to the LEDs in response to the signal, a light transmitting housing for the LEDs, the sensor and the controller and a connector shaped for connection with a light socket disposed at an end of the housing.
US10560980B2
A method for controlling wireless communication between a mobile device and an electronic device includes enabling wireless connection between the mobile device and the electronic device via a first wireless communication link; maintaining the wireless connection for a period of time so as to enable communication of information between the mobile device and the electronic device using the first wireless communication link; and terminating the wireless connection between the mobile device and the electronic device in response to a timeout event.
US10560976B2
In one implementation, the method comprises, in response to obtaining a request to associate an electronic device with the one or more WLAN termination nodes: generating, between a base station and a networking device, a control link based on a first identifier associated with the base station; generating, between the networking device and a first WLAN termination node, a control link based on a second identifier that corresponds to a pseudonym for the base station; and associating the first and second identifiers in a control table. The method further comprises: instantiating, between the base station and the networking device, a first data tunnel associated with a first tunneling protocol; instantiating, between the networking device and the first WLAN termination node, a second data tunnel associated with a second tunneling protocol; and associating the first and second data tunnels.
US10560969B2
A communication apparatus that performs wireless communication using a first communication system and a second communication system includes a determining unit that determines an operation mode selected from a first operation mode and a second operation mode, the first operation mode being an operation which is used in the second communication system and in which the communication apparatus communicates with a different communication apparatus in a wireless network created by the communication apparatus, the second operation mode being an operation which is used in the second communication system and in which the communication apparatus communicates with the different communication apparatus in a wireless network created by an external apparatus, and a storing unit that stores information, based on the selected operation mode, used to establish a connection with one of the wireless networks.
US10560966B2
Management of receiver sensitivity in a packet based wireless communication system is achieved by controlling a clear channel sensing process which determines if the channel is clear for use, governed by a sensitivity to use of the channel. The sensitivity of the clear channel sensing process is effected by monitoring transmission performance over a plurality of emissions, and making adjustments to the sensitivity based on comparison of that performance with a performance criterion.
US10560964B2
A method for performing channel access in an unlicensed band by a base station in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present invention may comprise the steps of: sensing, in an unlicensed band, a carrier for transmitting a downlink signal; and transmitting the downlink signal when power detected by sensing the carrier is less than an energy detection threshold set by the base station, wherein the energy detection threshold is set to be equal to or less than a maximum energy detection threshold determined by the base station, and when another radio access technology (RAT) sharing the carrier exists, the maximum energy detection threshold is adaptively determined depending on the bandwidth size of the carrier, using the value, in decibels, of the ration between a reference bandwidth and the bandwidth of the carrier.
US10560960B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method at a communications device of a first type that is operable on both a licensed carrier and an unlicensed carrier. The method comprises performing channel sensing on the unlicensed carrier, at different sensing slots within a time duration, for respective links directed to at least two communications devices of a second type that are operable on both the licensed carrier and the unlicensed carrier. The time duration is specified as a portion of a subframe in a frame structure used on the licensed carrier. The method also comprise scheduling transmission on a channel that is determined to be available based on corresponding channel sensing. Correspondingly, there is also provided an apparatus embodied at or as at least part of a communications device of a first type, e.g. a base station that is operable on both a licensed carrier and an unlicensed carrier.
US10560958B2
A signal processing device of a base station being connected to one or more wireless devices of the base station is provided. The signal processing device includes a memory and a processor configured to transmit wireless device setting information to the one or more wireless devices via a front-haul interface during a predetermined time frame, transmit a downlink packet, which is obtained by packetizing downlink baseband data, to the one or more wireless devices via the front-haul interface, receive an uplink packet through the front-haul interface, obtain uplink baseband data and inherent control information by performing uplink packetization on the received uplink packet, and process the uplink baseband data based on analysis of the obtained inherent control information.
US10560947B2
The present disclosure relates to a terminal device, in which a sending module sends, in a first uplink subframe on a first carrier, an uplink reference signal to a network device, where the first carrier is a carrier on which the terminal device sends neither uplink data nor uplink control information in uplink; and a processing module determines a first power headroom PHR, where the first PHR is a PHR of a transmit power of the terminal device in the first uplink subframe or a PHR of a transmit power of the terminal device in the first uplink subframe on the first carrier. Special carriers are introduced, and uplink reference signals are sent on the special carriers, so that information, such as downlink channel characteristics, of these special carriers can be obtained by the network device.
US10560940B2
One or more processors in a communication system allocate a selected connectivity path from a plurality of connectivity paths supported by a plurality of access technologies. The selected connectivity path is allocated to a service flow between a communication device and a core network. One or more available access channels are assigned to the service flow for the selected connectivity path. Network conditions and performance of the service flow are monitored on the one or more available access channels. The selected connectivity path is modified based on the network conditions and the performance of the service flow seamlessly to the existing applications or service flows. In some cases, criteria for modifying the selected connectivity path are modified for a predetermined time interval in response to modifying the selected connectivity path, e.g., by modifying threshold values that are used to determine whether to modify the selected connectivity path based on a comparison of the threshold values to the network conditions or the performance of the service flow.
US10560937B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). A method for determining transmitting resources in vehicle to vehicle/pedestrian/infrastructure/network (V2X) communication is provided. The method includes determining, by a user equipment (UE), a set {ti} consisting of configurable V2X subframes within one system frame period, by the UE, determining information about a bitmap for configuring a resource pool, determining, in the set {ti}, subframes belonging to the resource pool, by the UE, selecting, after resource reselection, the position of a resource for initial transmission, determining, in the resource pool, the subframe position of the reserved resource according to a resource reservation subframe interval Prsv and the number of resource reservations, readjusting the position of the reserved resource when a certain condition is satisfied, and transmitting, by the UE, a physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) on the determined resource for initial transmission and the reserved resource.
US10560929B2
A resource request method and system, a device, and a network side node are provided. The method includes the following steps: A target device sends a first target device message to a relay device. When receiving the first target device message, the relay device sends a first relay device message to a network side node according to the first target device message. The network side node receives the first relay device message, and sends first grant information to the target device according to the first relay device message. The first grant information includes a data transmission resource allocated by the network side node to the target device. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, energy consumption of a sending device, that is, a target device, can be reduced while the sending device obtains a transmission resource.
US10560921B2
Various examples provide a method for radio resources management. An MCE or a GCSE AS or a UE receives usage information of eMBMS radio resources, and adjusts radio resources in response to a determination that there is an overload state. The MCE may re-configure the eMBMS radio resources. Alternatively, the UE or the GCSE AS may establish a unicast channel for transporting a GCSE service which was transmitted on an overloaded eMBMS bearer, and release the eMBMS bearer. The technical mechanism can make effective use of radio interface resources and reduce data loss.
US10560916B2
Approaches are described for providing paired-timing connectivity event handling in wireless communications networks. For example, received radio signals can be decoded into bit data streams, and raw connectivity events can be derived from the bit data stream, each raw connectivity event indicating a connectivity measurement corresponding to connectivity at an associated event time between invoked user and provider terminals of the network. The raw connectivity events can be used to compute paired-timing connectivity events (PTCEs), which can effectively correlate connectivity events invoking some or all of the same terminals within a particular time window. The PTCEs can be used to compute network connectivity mapping values, and a stored multidimensional network map can be updated in accordance with the network connectivity mapping values. In some cases, events (e.g., handoffs, terminal locating, etc.) can be directed, at least in part, according to the stored multidimensional network map.
US10560908B2
A method and system for including a base station that configures a first user equipment (UE) that is in a radio resource control connected state with the base station. The UE is configured to be a synchronization source and transmit a first device-to-device synchronization signal (D2DSS) by using a synchronization resource that comprises a time resource, a frequency resource or a time and frequency resource. The base station instructs the first UE to transmit the first D2DSS using the synchronization resource. The base station signals the UE to configure the UE separately from the signal to transmit the D2DSS, and both of the signals are performed with radio resource control signaling from the base station to the UE.
US10560906B2
Provided are a wireless communication terminal device and a power allocation method, wherein transmission channel quality information, regarding a Pcell having a high probability that UCI is multiplied therein, can be accurately estimated by an SRS having high priority in power allocation, and an eNB can instruct appropriate transmission power to an UL channel which transmits the subsequent UCI. A power scaling detection unit detects whether or not a total transmission power value of the UL channels transmitted by the plurality of CC exceeds the maximum transmission power specific to the UE. When a plurality of SRS are simultaneously transmitted using a Pcell and a Scell, and power scaling occurs, a power scaling control unit performs power allocation so that transmission power of the SRS of the Pcell has the higher priority than that of the SRS of the Scell.
US10560905B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. In addition, a method of a terminal in a wireless communication system, includes: receiving system information including first uplink waveform information for an initial access; transmitting a radio resource control (RRC) connection request message based on the first uplink waveform information; receiving an RRC connection response message including second uplink waveform information for uplink data transmission; and transmitting data based on the second uplink waveform.
US10560894B2
HVAC components having improved efficiency are described. In one embodiment, excessive sleep current draw in a battery-powered device having a microcontroller is detected by measuring a voltage drop across a MOSFET device coupled in a for ward-conducting orientation in series between the battery and the microcontroller, causing a transistor to conduct when the voltage drop exceeds a predetermined threshold to generate a first trigger signal, integrating the first trigger signal to generate a second trigger signal, and generating an interrupt to the microcontroller. In another embodiment, a battery-saving method of operating an HVAC component includes maintaining the HVAC device in the sleep mode, receiving a user input to wake the device, transmitting a data request and returning the HVAC component to the sleep mode, waking up the HVAC device to poll an adjacent network node storing a cached response, displaying the response, and returning the HVAC device to sleep.
US10560892B2
Methods and apparatus relating to advanced graphics Power State management are described. In one embodiment, measurement logic detects information about idle transitions and active transitions of a power-well of a processor. In turn, determination logic determines performance loss and/or energy gain based at least in part on the detected information and power-on latency of the power-well of the processor. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US10560878B2
A communication system includes, of multiple terminals, a UE with a floor granted that transmits data to an MCPTT server, and a terminal other than the UE that receives the data from the MCPTT server. The UE uses either of a first service performing communication with the MCPTT server in radio connection with a base station, or a second service performing communication with the MCPTT server in radio connection with a relay terminal. The UE, when switching a radio connection destination from the base station to the relay terminal during use of the first service or when switching the radio connection destination from the relay terminal to the base station during use of the second service, buffers the data generated during the switching of the radio connection destination, and after completion of the switching of the radio connection destination, transmits the buffered data to the MCPTT server.
US10560872B2
Methods and systems to establish and execute price offerings among the lenders and borrowers in a bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage. The method comprises establishing a price offering among a lender and borrower in a bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage. The method further includes executing the price offering upon acceptance of a lender to the bandwidth-sharing ad hoc network for shared bandwidth usage.
US10560869B2
A method by which a terminal performs frequency measurement in a wireless communication system, and a device supporting the same are provided. The terminal can receive a distribution parameter from a serving cell and performs, on the basis of the received distribution parameter, frequency measurement on a neighboring frequency having a lower or the same priority as that of a serving frequency regardless of a cell selection condition of the serving cell.
US10560868B2
A delegate wireless terminal can receive and store messages sent to it by a receiving network node. The wireless terminal can identify a message label based on a mapping for the received message. A transmitting network node can transmit a message label to a receiving network node across a backhaul link. The receiving network node can transmit a message label to the wireless terminal. The wireless terminal can identify a stored message that corresponds to the received message label, and send the corresponding message to the receiving network node. The receiving network node can then transmit the message to its intended destination.
US10560856B2
A phase shifter, an antenna, and a base station are provided. The phase shifter in the present invention includes a feed unit, a tapping element, a conductor section, and a ground element, and the feed unit is electrically connected to the tapping element. The tapping element is electrically connected to the ground element when being shifted by a preset angle by using a port of the conductor section as a start position, so that a transmit signal is reflected to an input port of the feed unit, and whether a cable is correctly connected is determined according to the signal of the input port, thereby signal transmission accuracy of an antenna is ensured.
US10560853B2
Embodiments provision captive portals on network access points (NAPs). In response to a request from a NAP owner, a cloud service associates a NAP with the NAP owner and provides a control channel for configuring the NAP. The NAP owner inputs configuration settings describing the captive portal. The cloud service processes the configuration settings to generate configuration data. The cloud service transmits the configuration data to the NAP. The NAP applies the configuration data to configure the NAP. Some embodiments configure Wi-Fi hotspots with captive portals for gated access to the Internet.
US10560843B2
A method for acquiring security related information for Proximity based security (Prose) search and prose communication by User Equipment (UE) in a mobile communication network is provided. A security communication method for UE for prose includes transmitting an attach request to an evolved Node B (eNB), receiving an attach response that includes security related information for the prose from the eNB, and performing device-to-device communication using the security related information.
US10560837B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting a local home network identity (LHN ID) in a wireless communication system is provided. A first evolved NodeB (eNB) transmits an X2 Setup Request message including a LHN ID of the first eNB to a second eNB, and receives an X2 Setup Response message including a LHN ID of the second eNB from the second eNB. The first eNB may determine whether or not to trigger a secondary eNB (SeNB) addition procedure according to the LHN ID of the second eNB. When it is determined that the LHN ID of the second eNB is the same as the LHN ID of the first eNB, the first eNB may trigger the SeNB addition procedure.
US10560827B2
A method for transmitting and receiving a broadcast signal by an access network to a plurality of terminals of a two-way wireless communication system. An information signal is formed from the broadcast information destined for the terminals. A pilot signal is formed and a broadcast signal including the information signal SI1 and the pilot signal is transmitted. The information signal and the pilot signal are transmitted on different respective central frequencies having a predefined frequency gap.
US10560825B2
A digital intercom system has first and second master stations. Each master station has hardware and software configured to allow duplex communication between a plurality of communication devices. The software is further configured to run a plurality of settings for directing communication between the communication devices of each master station. The master stations are configured to allow duplex communication between the devices of each master station. Inter-master channels define parameters for communication between the communication devices of each master station. The settings of the master stations can be modified based on input entered into a browser based program run on a first input/output device by a user.
US10560821B2
Methods, apparatuses and products for associating external devices to vehicles and usage of said association. One method obtains information from one or more mobile devices that are connected to the external device. The information is used to determine that the external device is associated with a vehicle, whereby another mobile device is enabled to determine that it is being located on the vehicle based on the mobile device being connected to the external device. Another method obtains an indication that a mobile device is connected to an external device. A database is accessed to retrieve an associated of the external device with a vehicle, whereby it is deduced that the mobile device is located in or on the vehicle. In response to the deduction, a predetermined action may be performed.
US10560817B2
A method for transmitting data between a network node of a mobile communication network and a mobile terminal, implemented by the network node after receiving a data packet intended for the mobile terminal. The method includes: sending an alert message to the mobile terminal after receiving the data packet; receiving in response a service request from the mobile terminal; determining in accordance with a parameter received during a phase of attaching the mobile terminal to the network, a channel among a data transport channel and a signaling channel of the mobile network; when the data-transport channel is to be used, establishing a data-transport channel between the mobile terminal and the network node and transmitting the data packet via the data-transport channel; and when the signaling channel is to be used, inserting the data to be transmitted into a signaling message and transmitting the signaling message towards the mobile terminal.
US10560815B2
A wireless PTT communication system may include mobile wireless PTT communications devices, each configured to send a PTT call request, a wireless network coupling the mobile wireless PTT communications devices, and a PTT server. The PTT server may be configured to when a number of the mobile wireless PTT communications devices in a given talkgroup is greater than or equal to a first threshold, then cause each mobile wireless PTT communications device of the given talkgroup to report a respective location. The PTT server may be configured to when a number of the mobile wireless PTT communications devices in the given talkgroup is less than the first threshold, then disable each mobile wireless PTT communications device of the given talkgroup from reporting the respective location.
US10560812B2
Method and apparatus for performing MBMS communications and method and apparatus for receiving MBMSs
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and apparatus for performing MBMS service communications and a method and apparatus for receiving an MBMS service. Specifically, there is provided a method for performing MBMS service communications, comprising acquiring location area information of an MBMS service distribution; and notifying a UE of the location area information of the MBMS service distribution. Further, there is provided a method for receiving an MBMS service, comprising receiving location area information of an MBMS service distribution; comparing location information of a UE with the location area information of the MBMS service distribution; and determining whether to read an MCCH and MCCH information change notification based on a comparison result.
US10560810B2
A method for identifying a suggested application on a mobile device is disclosed. The method includes detecting an event, determining a first location of the mobile device, identifying that the first location is within a first location region of a plurality of predetermined location regions, and then measuring one or more sensor values at one or more times. The measured sensor values may then be used to create a first-data point. In response to identifying the first location region, a plurality of clusters of data points may be retrieved. A first cluster of the plurality of clusters corresponding to the first data point may then be identified. The method may further include identifying a set of one or more applications, and then providing a message to the user based on the identified set of one or more applications.
US10560808B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for ranking devices based on a distance from a merchant device. One of the methods includes displaying, in a point-of-sale system, a listing of buyers located proximate to the point-of-sale system, the buyers having indicated using their mobile devices a desire to pursue a financial transaction in association with the point-of-sale system. The point-of-sale system determines relative distances of the mobile devices of the buyers with respect to the point-of-sale system and arranges the displayed listing in the point-of-sale system based at least in part on the determined relative distances.
US10560799B1
Systems and methods of adjusting computing device applications, such as smartphone applications, based on external beacon identifiers are described. Based on the identifier of the beacon detected by the smartphone, the smartphone application communicates with a backend server to receive location-specific information based on the identifier of the detected beacon. The location-specific information includes a location-specific user interface. In some arrangements, the location-specific user interface includes a designated user authentication level that varies from other location-specific user interfaces.
US10560795B1
Provided are a forming method for a personalized sound zone and a forming system thereof. Using The forming method for a personalized sound zone, by calculating a control filter reflecting the characteristics of individual speakers, a numerical error and resultant occurrence of noise may be reduced when the filter is calculated, and an effective personalized sound zone may be formed only with directivity without a control filter at a frequency band in which sound between seats are separable according to distances.
US10560791B2
Wires and coils within an electrode assembly electromagnetically interact and cause mechanical motion of the assembly. This mechanical motion can be used to supplement or replace the electrical stimulation provided by a standard cochlear implant and provides targeted acoustic stimulation to the cochlea.
US10560790B2
A hearing device, a hearing system and a method for improving a hearing impaired person's ability to perceptually separate a target sound from competing sounds, the target sound and the competing sounds forming a composite sound signal having a given frequency range, where the method comprises the steps of: (i) subdividing the frequency range of the composite sound signal into a plurality of frequency sub-bands; (ii) grouping frequency sub-bands based on comparable characteristics of the plurality of frequency sub-bands; (iii) for each of the groups calculating a group envelope; and (iv) multiplying the signal in the frequency sub-bands of each individual group by a function or functions that enhance(s) peaks of the group envelope and/or attenuates energy in troughs in the group envelope. The comparable characteristics may be the correlation between the envelope of each of the bands in the specific group of frequency sub-bands and the corresponding group envelope.
US10560776B2
An in-ear microphone allowing assessment of sound pressure level directly of an individual's ear canal without intervening conduits between the sound source (i.e., ear canal) and the microphone is provided. Sound from an in-ear communications device may also be isolated from ambient noise using an in-line noise detector for recording the noise from the in-ear communications device.
US10560771B2
In accordance with an embodiment, microelectromechanical microphone includes a holder and a sound detection unit carried on the holder. The sound detection unit includes a planar first membrane, a planar second membrane arranged at a distance from the first membrane, a low-pressure chamber formed between the first membrane and the second membrane, a reduced gas pressure relative to normal pressure being present in the low-pressure chamber, a reference electrode arranged at least in sections in the low-pressure chamber, where the first and second membranes are displaceable relative to the reference electrode by sound waves to be detected, the reference electrode includes a planar base section and a stiffening structure provided on the base section, and the stiffening structure is provided on a side of the base section that faces the first membrane or/and on a side of the base section that faces the second membrane.
US10560768B2
Articles of manufacture, systems and methods facilitating sound diode receptacles are provided herein. In one embodiment, an article of manufacture comprises: an inner wall; an outer wall, wherein the inner wall and the outer wall form a double walled receptacle; a speaker device located in an inner region of the receptacle; and a control device having circuitry disposed in an inner region of the receptacle and configured to generate an output of sound that is emitted from the speaker device.
US10560766B2
One embodiment is directed to a wireless drop terminal (WDT) for use in a fiber-to-the-home (FTTH) network. The wireless drop terminal comprises a fiber interface to optically couple the wireless drop terminal to an optical line terminal (OLT) of the FTTH network via at least one optical fiber and a wireless interface communicatively coupled to the fiber interface. The wireless interface is configured to wirelessly communicate with a wireless optical network terminal (W-ONT) over a directional wireless drop. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10560764B2
Systems and methods for taking sensor measurements is provided. The system includes a sensor configured to detect sensor inputs from a signal source and generate a sensor output signal. The system further includes a synchronization adaptor configured to receive the sensor output signal, to transmit a timing synchronization signal on a communication channel, and to transmit the sensor output signal on the communication channel.
US10560763B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe smart sensor technology. In an example, a smart sensor module may connect to a sensor using two connectors. Similarly, an external device may connect to the smart sensor module using two connectors, such that, in a pass-through operating state, a signal from the sensor is passed through the smart sensor module to the external device, thereby causing the smart sensor module to appear as an ordinary sensor and enabling the external device to sense the signal from the sensor. In another example, the smart sensor module may have an alternate operating state, wherein additional functionality is enabled, including, but not limited to, communication with a controller, activation of a light emitting diode (LED) or other indicator, or the retrieval and/or storage of information. The operating state may be selected based on the manner in which the external device connects to the smart sensor module.
US10560760B2
Despite the massive advances in digital electronics, telecommunications networks, and electronic devices in the past 20 years our engagement with video content is essentially unchanged to that of the first video recorders as it is merely where we access it and upon what we access it that have changed. It is still a passive experience. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to provide multimedia content that facilitates user engagement and transactions directly through their viewing of the multimedia content in shareable multimedia content elements. Such engagement and transactions may be accessing additional informational content linked to specific elements within the multimedia content or triggering the purchase of an item contained within the multimedia content.Embodiments of the invention may support monetization, analytics, secondary multimedia content, website functionality and micro-websites.
US10560759B1
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method comprising: obtaining media content, such as video; receiving a request from a user and/or user equipment (UE) to view the media content; identifying a predicted field of view of the user; sending the predicted field of view to the equipment of the user at a normal priority; monitoring a line of sight (or actual field of view) of the user; determining a field of view error as a difference between the line of sight and the predicted field of view; and sending the field of view error to the equipment of the user at a higher priority. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US10560754B2
A display control system to generate a virtual environment in a vehicle includes an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to receive an input that corresponds to a selection of a video to be displayed on one or more display mediums provided in the vehicle. A relevance factor is determined between a current travel route of the vehicle and a travel route associated with the selected video. The relevance factor is determined in an event the vehicle is in motion along the current travel route. One or more video parameters of the selected video are adjusted based on the determined relevance factor. Display of at least the selected video on the one or more display mediums is controlled in the vehicle in motion in accordance with the adjusted one or more video parameters of the selected video.
US10560746B2
Systems and methods for identifying, assembling, and publishing content are described. A content item, such as a video, having a first time length, is identified by a system to be included in a program scheduled for a first time period. The video may be hosted on a third party system. A first span of time within the first program is allocated for the video, wherein the first span of time is longer than the first time length. The system determines, prior to or at the first time period, a time difference between a current length of the video and the first span of time. At least partly in response to determining that the video has a time length shorter than the first span of time, the system selects supplemental content based at least in part of the determined time difference to be streamed to user terminals over a data network within the first time period.
US10560740B2
Disclosed example audience measurement apparatus include first estimator means for determining a first audience metric based on set-top box return path tuning data obtained from a plurality of set-top boxes located in a first geographic area, second estimator means for determining a second audience metric from a portion of audience measurement data corresponding to a second geographic area different from the first geographic area, the portion of the audience measurement data associated with monitored sites in the second geographic area having second set-top box characteristics that correspond with first set-top box characteristics of the plurality of set-top boxes located in the first geographic area, and third estimator means for (i) determining a ratio of the first audience metric to the second audience metric, and (ii) processing the audience measurement data based on the ratio to determine an audience exposure metric estimating exposure to media in the first geographic area.
US10560734B2
In various embodiments, methods and systems for implementing video segmentation are provided. A video management system implements a video segment manager that supports generating enhanced segmented video. Enhanced segmented video is a time-based segment of video content. Enhanced segmented video is generated based on a video content cognitive index, segmentation dimensions, segmentation rules and segment reconstruction rules. The video content cognitive index is built for indexing video content. Segmentation rules are applied to the video content to break the video content into time-based segments, the time-based segments are associated with corresponding segmentation dimensions for the video content. Segment reconstruction rules are then applied to the time-based segments to reconstruct the time-based segments into enhanced segmented video. The enhanced segmented video and corresponding values of the segmentation dimensions can be leveraged as distinct portions of the video content for different types of functionality in the video management system.
US10560727B2
A virtualization server is disclosed. The disclosed virtualization server comprises a plurality of CPUs, a plurality of GPUs, a plurality of graphic shared memories, a plurality of streaming CPUs, and a plurality of network cards, and allocates a CPU, a GPU, a graphic shared memory, a streaming CPU, and a network card to each terminal, in consideration of the number of terminals connecting to the virtualization server, the properties of applications executed by the terminals, bandwidths between the virtualization server and the terminals. Since the virtualization server can allocate a resource which matches with the performance required by each terminal, the virtualization server can be flexible to respond to an increase of the number of terminals and efficiently use resources.
US10560725B2
An indication is received, from a content viewing device used by a remote viewer, that specifies a video content sub-area of interest within streamed video content viewed by the remote viewer. Original video content outside of the video content sub-area of interest is designated as a region not of interest (RNOI) within the streamed video content. A transmission rate of image changes of the original video content within the RNOI is reduced within the streamed video content. Image disparity between the video content sub-area of interest and the RNOI is reduced by continuing to transmit the image changes of the original video content within the RNOI at the reduced transmission rate. Bandwidth consumed to transmit the streamed video content is reduced in relation to the reduced transmission rate of the image changes of the original video content within the RNOI.
US10560723B2
A device for coding video data is configured to determine a context for a first syntax element based on already coded information for a current block of video data, wherein a value for the first syntax element indicates whether there is at least one non-zero transform coefficient level associated with the current block of video data; and code the first syntax element based on the determined context.
US10560715B2
The invention relates to the encoding or decoding of at least one portion of an image by predicting the at least one portion using at least one predictor, the at least one predictor being determined as a function of at least one reference image portion and as a function of values of a plurality of items of motion information. After having obtained a value of a first item of the plurality of items, a value of a second item is evaluated as a function of the obtained value of the first item, the second item being an item of the plurality of items and being distinct from the first item. Next, the at least one predictor is determined as a function of the at least one reference image portion and as a function of the first and second items.
US10560705B2
This invention makes it possible to increase an encoding efficiency and reduce redundant processing. For this, an encoding apparatus includes a first encoder which encodes a run length in which identical pixels continue, a second encoder which prediction-encodes a pixel of an encoding target, a first determiner which determines whether a pixel of interest is located within a predetermined range on a line on which the pixel of interest is located, thereby determines whether to apply the second encoder to the pixel of interest, and a second determiner which, if the pixel of interest is located outside the predetermined range, determines, by referring to an already encoded pixel located around the pixel of interest, which one of the first encoder and the second encoder is to be applied to the pixel of interest.
US10560700B1
A method includes reducing, at an encoder, an encoding bit rate of video data in response to a first indication of available bandwidth for transmission of the encoded video data. The method includes reducing an encoding frame size of the video data in response to the encoding bit rate falling below a first threshold. The method also includes increasing the encoding bit rate in response to a second indication of the available bandwidth. The method further includes increasing the encoding frame size in response to the encoding bit rate rising above a second threshold. The second threshold is greater than the first threshold.
US10560696B2
A machine learning based initial quantization parameter (QP) prediction method, which can effectively optimize RC performance A machine learning framework for initial QP prediction is proposed, where learning labels are built with the criterion of maximizing rate-distortion (RC) performance, which is proved to be much more effective than the QP determination method with the only consideration on sum of the absolute transformed difference (SATD) complexity. Instead of target bits per pixel for intra frame, target bits per pixel for remaining frames is used as sample data to avoid empirically setting intra frame bit allocation, thus improve the prediction accuracy as the real-time updated remaining bits can better reflect the real-time requirements on the level of QPs. In addition, a clipping and decision approach based on the previous initial QP and the target bits per pixel for all remaining frames is proposed, which can help fast QP adaption and quality smoothness.
US10560691B2
A system including a processing device and an exchangeable camera connected thereto for detecting a machine-readable security feature of a valuable document. The system is calibrated by means of processing device correction data, which relate to characteristics of the processing device, and camera calibration data, which relate to the characteristics of the processing device and of the camera connected thereto. The camera includes a memory configured to store the processing device correction data and the camera calibration data relating to the System in which the calibration is carried out, and the processing device includes a memory configured to store the processing device correction data and the camera calibration data relating to the system in which operation for detecting a machine-readable security feature of the valuable document is carried out.
US10560687B2
A LED-based integral imaging display system as well as its control method and device, including: a parameter matching step: matching the parameters of the lenslet array and LED in the display part of said LED-based integral imaging display system to obtain the display parameters. The display parameters include the basic parameters of the display part, and the corresponding optical imaging models, which match with the basic parameters, in different stereoscopic display modes. A video source acquisition step: according to the display parameters, acquiring the integral imaging video sources required by LED-based integral imaging naked-eye stereoscopic display, which is used for the to-be-displayed 3D image.
US10560673B2
An image recovery apparatus and method are provided, where the image recovery apparatus calculates a reference color image based on a linear correlation between a color channel image and a luminance channel image, and corrects the luminance channel image based on residual information that indicates a difference between the reference color image and the color channel image, to recover an image.
US10560670B2
The present technology relates to an imaging apparatus, an imaging control method, and a program capable of obtaining a color image using infrared light without decreasing the frame rate. The imaging apparatus includes an imaging element including a first pixel and a second pixel, and a control unit that controls an exposure period of the imaging element and an emission period of the infrared light from the infrared light emission unit. The control unit controls to provide an exposure period of the first pixel and the second pixel in each of frame periods and provide a single exposure period being a period in which the first pixel alone is exposed, and controls so as to emit the infrared light within the single exposure period. The present technology is applicable to a surveillance camera, for example.
US10560665B1
In accordance with one aspect of the invention, there is provided a method of autonomously operating a vehicle. The method provides at least two cameras in operable communication with the vehicle for providing substantially similar views relative to the vehicle. The at least two cameras receive information relating to the views. The method also provides a laser in operable communication with the vehicle for selectively shining a single discrete mark on at least a portion of the views provided by the at least two cameras. Further, the method determines whether the information received by the at least two cameras is ambiguous regarding the views. The method activates the laser on at least a portion of the views based on whether the information received by the at least two cameras is ambiguous.
US10560651B2
The present technology relates to an imaging element, an imaging method, and a piece of electronic equipment that permit faster processing. A column AD signal processing section and a ramp signal generation section are provided. The column AD signal processing section has, for each pixel column, an AD conversion section. The plurality of pixels arranged in the same column are connected to the AD conversion section via a vertical signal line. In parallel with reset operation or signal transfer operation, the pixel signals output from the pixels connected via other vertical signal lines are converted from analog to digital form by the AD conversion section. The ramp signal is supplied to the AD conversion sections that perform AD conversion of the pixel signals and is not supplied to the AD conversion sections that do not perform AD conversion. The present technology is applicable, for example, to CMOS image sensors.
US10560648B2
Image captured with an image capture device with a rolling shutter may be deformed due to changes in imaging sensor orientation during image capture. Image deformities may occur due to rolling shutter that exposes rows of pixels to light at slightly different times during image capture. Deformities such as wobble, for example, and/or other deformities may be corrected by constructing an output image. The output image may be constructed by determining corresponding pixels within the input image. The location of the input pixel may be determined by performing one or more fixed point iterations to identify one or more input pixels within the input image. A value of the output pixel within the output image may be determined based on a value of a corresponding pixel within the input image.
US10560647B2
A driving circuit and a driving method, an active pixel sensor, an image sensor, and an electronic device. The driving circuit includes: a reset circuit, a photoelectric sensing circuit, a signal forming circuit, a signal conversion circuit, and a signal output circuit. The reset circuit resets the photoelectric sensing circuit and the signal forming circuit; the photoelectric sensing circuit performs photoelectric conversion on incident light irradiation to form a photoelectric voltage signal; the signal forming circuit transmits the photoelectric voltage signal to the signal conversion circuit, and transmits a compensated photoelectric voltage signal to the signal conversion circuit; the signal output circuit transmits a second voltage to the signal conversion circuit and the signal forming circuit and outputs a photoelectric current signal; the signal conversion circuit forms the compensated photoelectric voltage signal and outputs the photoelectric current signal to signal output circuit.
US10560644B2
An image processing method, including: obtaining image data of a photographed original image, and obtaining ambient infrared intensity I that is used when the original image is photographed; obtaining infrared image data corresponding to I according to a preset correspondence between tested infrared intensity and infrared image data; obtaining corrected image data according to the image data of the original image and the infrared image data corresponding to I; and obtaining a corresponding corrected image according to the corrected image data, and outputting the corrected image.
US10560630B1
The invention relates to the field of cameras, in particular to a camera which has a far-near focus switching function and includes a camera body, a display screen assembly and a lens assembly, wherein the camera body is connected with the display screen assembly through a rotating shaft, and the lens assembly is located in the camera body. The camera has the beneficial effect of realizing close-range shooting and long-range shooting without any assistance by means of random switching between a near-focus lens and a far-focus lens, and being easy to operate and lower in cost.
US10560619B2
An adapter (10) for pivoting a lens relative to an image sensor in a camera has lens-side and housing-side supporting rings (20, 30) that slide relative to one another by cylindrically curved sliding surfaces (22, 32) facing one another. A virtual cylinder axis (Z) of the sliding surfaces (22, 32) lies in a plane of the image sensor. A transmission lever (50) with first and second lever arms (51,52) is mounted on the lens-side supporting ring (20) and pivots about an axis (H) parallel to the virtual cylinder axis (Z). The first lever arm (51) extends in a circumferential direction on the lens side of the lever axis (H) and is coupled to an adjusting ring (42) mounted rotatably on the lens-side supporting ring (20). The second lever arm (52) extends axially of the housing side and is supported on an anchor (70) fixed to the housing-side supporting ring (30).
US10560617B2
A device includes a housing having a first transparent area and a second transparent area and a multi-aperture imaging device arranged inside the housing and including a beam deflector. The device includes a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm, the portable device having a first operating state and a second operating state. In the first operating state, the beam deflector deflects an optical path of the imaging device such that it passes through the first transparent area and that the second diaphragm at least partly optically closes the second transparent area. In the second operating state, the beam deflector deflects the optical path of the imaging device such that it passes through the second transparent area. In the second operating state, the first diaphragm at least partly optically closes the first transparent area.
US10560616B2
A camera body includes a DCL terminal, a DLC terminal, and a LCLK terminal, that perform communication with a lens apparatus by a first voltage, or a second voltage that differs from the first voltage. The camera body also includes a DLC2 terminal that is only used when communication using the DCL terminal, DLC terminal, and LCLK terminal is performed by the first voltage. The DLC2 terminal is disposed adjacent to the LCLK terminal.
US10560604B2
An example system includes a color engine to separate an image into a plurality of color components. The system also includes a halftone engine to generate a plurality of halftone images based on the plurality of color components and a plurality of halftone screens. For each halftone screen, the halftone cell centers for that halftone screen occur at regular or semi-regular distances relative to a dot pitch. The plurality of halftone screens forms a high frequency moire pattern when the halftone screens are overlaid on each other. Each of the halftone screens have a granularity metric less than a threshold.
US10560601B2
A technique for laying out images included in a plurality of image groups into which a plurality of images is divided in such a way that an image including an object of a type desired by a user is included in each of the image groups. A user instruction related to the object type is received, and a plurality of images is divided into image groups so that an image including an object corresponding to the object type is included in each of the plurality of image groups.
US10560591B2
Systems and methods to automatically transfer audiovisual content include camera devices, client computing devices, and centralized servers. A camera device captures audiovisual content and notifies an external entity, e.g., a (client) computing device or a centralized server. The external entity may effectuate transfer of the content to other computing devices and/or destinations. Operations on the audiovisual content, including but not limited to tagging, transcoding, clipping, speed changes, and/or image cropping, are synchronized and propagated across different computing devices and the centralized server such that any user from any computing device can be presented with the latest version of any particular audiovisual content.
US10560590B2
An information processing apparatus which is capable of preventing communications with a desired external apparatus from becoming impossible due to settings on a proxy server. The proxy server is used to carry out communications on a main line with an external apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus via the Internet. On a sub line, communications are carried out with an external apparatus connected to the information processing apparatus via a local network. The main line or the sub line is selected as a line to be used. Communications with the external apparatus connected to the line to be used are carried out via the proxy server. When the line to be used is the sub line, communications are carried out directly with the external apparatus, which is connected to the line to be used, without using the proxy server.
US10560588B2
A method for proactively creating a photobook includes identifying a group of images by a computer system and automatically creating a design for a photobook by the computer system without receiving a user's request for designing a photobook if the number of images in the group is determined to be within a predetermined range. Pages of the photobook incorporate a plurality of images in the group. The method further includes presenting the design of the photobook to a user for preview and receiving an order from the user for a physical manifestation of the photobook based on the design.
US10560579B1
A system and method for communicating in a communication network, comprising presenting a communication comprising data over a communications network to a router, said router being adapted to route the communication to one of a plurality of available network destinations; automatically executing a communication targeting algorithm in the router, based at least in part on the data, wherein the communication targeting algorithm operates to contextually jointly analyze a plurality of parameters extracted from the data and a plurality of contextual parameters, to determine an optimum target for the communication, wherein the optimum target varies in dependence on both the data and the context of the communication; and routing the communication in dependence on the algorithm execution.
US10560573B2
An apparatus and a method for managing communications, wherein the apparatus includes an input component adapted to receive signaling information from a caller communication terminal that is trying to establish a connection with a called communication terminal which is unavailable, an output component adapted to send at least a non-availability message to the caller communication terminal, and a processor configured for determining attempting information on the basis of data generated by the caller communication terminal during a communication attempt, and generating, on the basis of the signaling information and the attempting information, the non-availability message or at least a configuration message allowing the communication between said caller and called communication terminals.
US10560570B2
Devices that connect via a WLAN and Internet to communication network, e.g. a Public Switched telecommunication network (PSTN) can call e.g. an emergency centre. The method proposed, defines enables the device that initiates a call setup via a WLAN to provide the emergency centre with geographical location information by retrieving this information locally by e.g. a GPS module. The operator of the phone of the subscriber maintains a database wherein the identity of the Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) is recorded. The subscriber is enabled to add devices that generally have no SIMs (non-SIM devices), such as tablets to the database. In determining whether a WLAN based call setup to the emergency centre is allowed, it is checked with the database whether a record for the non-SIM device is present, and valid.
US10560565B2
Disclosed is an operating method of an electronic device. The operating method includes acquiring phase information of the electronic device while a first application is executed; determining whether the electronic device is rotated based on the phase information; and executing a second application when the electronic device is rotated.
US10560559B2
A light-emitting device or a display device that is less likely to be broken is provided. Provided is a light-emitting device including an element layer and a substrate over the element layer. At least a part of the substrate is bent to the element layer side. The substrate has a light-transmitting property and a refractive index that is higher than that of the air. The element layer includes a light-emitting element that emits light toward the substrate side. Alternatively, provided is a light-emitting device including an element layer and a substrate covering a top surface and at least one side surface of the element layer. The substrate has a light-transmitting property and a refractive index that is higher than that of the air. The element layer includes a light-emitting element that emits light toward the substrate side.
US10560557B2
There is disclosed a mobile terminal including: a display; a middle frame including a supporting portion and a side portion provided around the supporting portion to define a lateral external appearance; a main board including a ground; a first wireless communication unit configured to transceive a first signal; a second wireless communication unit configured to transceive a second signal; and a rear case configured to cover a rear surface of the main board, wherein the side portion includes a plurality of conductive members of which ends are divided into slits, and the plurality of the conductive members includes a common antenna electrically connectable with the first wireless communication unit and the second wireless communication unit and configured to receive the first signal and the second signal; and an independent antenna electrically connectable with the first wireless communication unit and configured to receive the first signal.
US10560556B2
The present invention relates to a mobile terminal comprising: a terminal body; a cover covering the terminal body and having a slit formed in one area thereof; and an elastic body provided on the slit and having both ends coupled to the cover adjacent to the slit. When an external force is applied to the cover, the elastic body is elastically deformed while being coupled to the cover.
US10560549B1
A configuration deployment system stores configuration settings for a plurality of applications disposed at one or more computing hosts. The configuration settings are stored in a versioned repository and are organized in a hierarchical namespace structure. To deploy the configuration settings, a deployment service monitors the configuration settings at the configuration repository and identifies when a new configuration setting or a new version of an existing configuration setting is available in the configuration repository. The new configuration setting is transmitted to a computing device for use in an application. The application applies the changed configuration setting upon verifying that the change is compatible with the application.
US10560548B2
Disclosed herein is a delivery system including a delivery apparatus. The delivery apparatus includes a setting information acquisition section configured to acquire setting information set to a terminal on which an application is executed on the basis of the setting information, a terminal section configured to have at least part of functions of the terminal and execute an application in accordance with an instruction from the terminal on the basis of the setting information acquired by the setting information acquisition section, and a delivery section configured to deliver image information based on the execution of the application to one of the terminal and a terminal related to the terminal.
US10560543B2
Methods and systems for improving performance of an HTTP cache are provided. According to one embodiment, an HTTP request is received by an ADC for a resource associated with a server on behalf of which the ADC is performing load balancing. The ADC determines based on a local HTTP cache whether it can service the request. The request is parsed to identify a header. The existence or non-existence of locally cached content matching the request is identified by comparing portions of the identified header with corresponding portions of header information of cached content based on a vary rule defining when two headers are meaningfully different. Therefore, the identified header need not exactly match an entirety of the cached information for a cache hit to be found. Responsive to a cache hit, the ADC responds to the request with an HTTP response containing the identified locally cached content.
US10560539B1
In an example embodiment, a proxy server receives a request from a web browser operated on a client device, the request including a call for computer code written in a scripting language. The request is forwarded to a web server to obtain the computer code written in the scripting language. The computer code written in the scripting language is automatically instrumented by adding instrumentation code to the computer code written in the scripting language, the instrumentation code configured to, when executed, measure one or more metrics and report the resultant measurements. Then the instrumented computer code written in the scripting language is sent to the web browser for execution.
US10560510B2
In certain embodiments, a network edge device comprises a memory storage, a networking component configured to communicate with a mobile device and a database comprising application attributes, and a processor. The processor, in certain embodiments, is located within the network edge device and is operable to receive application traffic from the mobile device (the application traffic being associated with an application), classify the application traffic by associating the application traffic with an application ID, and send a query comprising the application ID to the database comprising application attributes. In addition, the processor, in certain embodiments, is operable to receive a response, from the database comprising application attributes, comprising one or more application attributes associated with the application, wherein the response is based in part on the application ID, and to enforce a policy based in part on the application attribute.
US10560500B2
In an example, a method for recording media content using a mobile device includes establishing a communication session between a control system and the mobile device over a communication network and receiving, by a mobile device, a trigger signal transmitted by a control system over a communication network. The method also includes, responsive to the trigger signal, recording media content using a camera of the mobile device. The method further includes storing the recorded media content in a memory of the mobile device, terminating the recording, and, after terminating the recording, uploading the stored multimedia from the mobile device to a server. After uploading the media content to the server, the method includes receiving a signal indicating that the multimedia was successfully uploaded. The method still further includes, responsive to the signal, deleting the media content from the memory.
US10560496B2
Exemplary methods, computer systems, and computer program products for automatic registration of devices in a computer environment are provided. In one embodiment, the computer environment is configured for monitoring a fibre channel. In response to one of a fabric login (FLOGI) and a fixed disk (Fdisk) received from one of an initiator and a target disk, executing each of an automatic name server registration, a state change registration, and a management server registration to identify at least one of the plurality of devices, and signing up one of the initiator and the target disk for the automatic name server registration, the state change registration, and the management server registration, wherein port initialization is eliminated for the initiator.
US10560485B2
A method and system for connecting a communication to a client including at a system bridge, establishing a client subscription connection with a client device; receiving an incoming communication request at the system bridge; publishing an incoming communication notification from the system bridge to the client device; receiving a client communication at the system bridge; and merging the incoming communication request into the client communication at the system bridge.
US10560483B2
A system for cybersecurity rating using active and passive external reconnaissance, that uses a web crawler that sends message prompts to external hosts and receives responses from external hosts, a time-series data store that produces time-series data from the message responses, and a directed computational graph module that analyzes the time-series data to produce a weighted score representing the overall cybersecurity state of an organization.
US10560478B1
Enforcing a policy is described. System log messages are received, via an interface, from a network device. At least a portion of the received system log messages are parsed to obtain an IP address and to obtain a user identifier. A policy to apply to a session associated with the IP address is determined, based at least in part on the user identifier. The policy is applied to the session.
US10560474B2
Systems and methods for mapping IP addresses to an entity include receiving at least one domain name associated with the entity. Embodiments may further include determining one or more variations of the at least one domain name based on analysis of domain name data collected from a plurality of domain name data sources that mention a variation of the at least one domain name. Some embodiments may also include identifying one or more IP addresses pointed to by the one or more variations of the entity's domain name based on analysis of IP address data collected from a plurality of IP address data sources. Additional embodiments include assigning weights to each of the identified one or more IP addresses and creating a mapping of IP addresses to associate with the entity based on analysis of the weighted one or more IP addresses.
