US10896016B2
Provided is a device in which an application having a web browser function is installed. The device controls a display on a local UI using content provided by a message providing service. The device accepts a selection of a link included in the display, determines whether a referrer of a link destination indicates a domain to which the message providing service belongs. If the referrer indicates the domain to which the message providing service belongs, the device controls display using content corresponding to the link destination, and if the referrer does not indicate the domain to which the message providing service belongs, the device controls display of a screen indicating that the link destination cannot be accessed.
US10895999B2
A data reading method is provided. The method includes: using a predetermined read voltage corresponding to a read operation to read a target physical page to obtain a read codeword syndrome of a read codeword; using a first adjust read voltage to read again the target physical page to obtain a first adjust codeword syndrome of a first adjust codeword; generating soft information of each of a plurality of target memory cells of the target physical page according to the read codeword and the first adjust cordword; identifying a target confidence table according to a size relative relation between the foregoing syndromes to find a confidence value of each of the target memory cells from the target confidence table; and performing an adjusted preset decoding operation according to the soft information and the confidence values to obtain a valid codeword, so as to complete the read operation.
US10895994B2
A tape drive-implemented method for encrypting metadata on a magnetic tape, the tape drive-implemented method, according to one embodiment, includes: writing an index to a magnetic tape. The index includes: metadata corresponding to a file stored on the magnetic tape, and metadata corresponding to a directory structure of the file. The tape drive-implemented method additionally includes: using a first key to encrypt a first portion of the metadata in the index corresponding to the file, and using a second key to encrypt a first portion of the metadata in the index corresponding to the directory structure of the file. Other systems, methods, and computer program products are described in additional embodiments.
US10895993B2
Techniques for providing shared access to, e.g., a small computer system interface (SCSI) storage device in a computer network include providing an operational mode on SCSI interfaces with a first media agent and a second media agent such that, in response to inquiry messages on the SCSI interfaces, the SCSI storage device appears as a SCSI target device to the first media agent and the second media agent and mapping data operations between the first media agent and the SCSI storage device and the second media agent and the SCSI storage device to logically unique channel numbers for the first media agent and the second media agent to perform data storage operations over their respective SCSI interfaces by concurrently sharing the SCSI storage device.
US10895991B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a data storage apparatus that includes a non-volatile memory (NVM) and a controller. The NVM includes a first NVM portion and a second NVM portion. The first NVM portion includes a plurality of first cell types. The first NVM portion includes a first sub-portion that is allocated to store file management data. The second NVM portion includes a plurality of second cell types. The controller is coupled to the NVM. The controller is configured to receive a plurality of payload data and a plurality of file management data; store the plurality of file management data at the first sub-portion of the first NVM portion; and store the plurality of payload data at the NVM.
US10895974B2
In one example, a system for topic image flows can include a processing resource and a non-transitory computer readable medium having stored thereon instructions to cause the processing resource to generate an image flow of a plurality of topic headers when a user scroll speed of a document including text exceeds a threshold scroll speed, receive a selection of a topic header from the plurality of topic headers, and display, on a user interface, a portion of the document that corresponds to the selected topic header from the plurality of topic headers.
US10895972B1
Methods and systems for presenting time series for analysis. A method includes presenting a first visualization of summary information for an initial data set of a plurality of batches, presenting a filtered data set of the initial data set having a first batch identifier associated with a first batch and the second batch identifier associated with a second batch, executing a time series connector including transmitting a request to a time series application, the request comprising the first batch identifier, the second batch identifier, and the time series configuration data. The method further includes causing presentation of a user interface comprising a chart including a first plot for first time series data for the first batch identifier and a second plot for second time series data for the second batch identifier, the chart configured to the time series configuration data, and the first plot is aligned to the second plot.
US10895963B2
A client-based application includes sections that are used to define user interface displays for the system. The sections are customizable by a backend system so customizations are accommodated by modified versions of the mobile application.
US10895951B2
A method of sharing an experience between a tapper and a content provider is provided. In this method, at least two interfaces are provided that are configured to allow the tapper and the content provider to join a content sharing community. A third interface is also provided to allow the tapper to select the content provider from a map where at least one of the tapper and the content provider are unknown to the other prior to the tapper selecting the content provider. Then a solicitation is conveyed from the tapper to the content provider to provide a video feed. The method further provides a control that operates the map at selected historical times.
US10895947B2
Mechanisms are provided for a graphical user interface tool for system-wide topology and performance monitoring with per-partition views. A graphical user interface application presents a consolidated view of physical and logical information based on the received performance data. The mechanisms provide real-time performance and utilization information in a visual format relative to the physical components in a topographical layout. The user may drill down to lower levels to view more detailed performance and utilization information.
US10895945B2
A touch sensor includes: a plurality of sensor electrodes formed in a touch active region to form a plurality of sensor patterns; a plurality of sensor lines coupled to the respective sensor electrodes; a touch driver at one side of the touch active region, the touch driver being electrically coupled to the sensor electrodes respectively through the sensor lines; and dummy electrodes respectively arranged at one sides of the sensor electrodes, corresponding to the sensor lines.
US10895940B2
A touch panel includes a base substrate, a first pattern, a first insulation layer, a second pattern, and a second insulation layer. The first pattern is disposed on the base substrate. The first pattern includes a driving line extended in a second direction that crosses a first direction and first sensing electrodes that are electrically connected to the driving line and arranged in the second direction. The first insulation layer is disposed on the first pattern and the base substrate covering the first pattern. The second pattern is disposed on the first insulation layer. The second pattern includes a sensing line extended in the first direction and second sensing electrodes that are electrically connected to the sensing line and arranged in the first direction. The second insulation layer is disposed on the second pattern and the first insulation layer covering the second pattern.
US10895920B2
A pneumatically actuated computer input device comprises an input device circuit member having a hollow body, at least one switch member within the hollow body adapted to send electronic signals to a computer terminal, and a pneumatic actuator within the hollow body adapted to be inflated and press against and activate the at least one switch member. A pneumatic hose connected at a distal end to the pneumatic actuator and extending outward from the hollow body at a predetermined length and adapted to supply air thereto, and a foot pedal connected to the pneumatic hose at an opposite end from the distal end and adapted to control the air supply through the pneumatic hose and to the pneumatic actuator, such that when the foot pedal is pressed the pneumatic actuator is filled with air, expands, and presses against the at least one switch member which then sends an electronic signal to the computer terminal.
US10895919B2
A gesture control method includes receiving first gesture control data. The gesture control method includes converting the first gesture control data into second gesture control data of a standard coordinate system. The gesture control method includes controlling the display screen according to the second gesture control data.
US10895918B2
The present disclosure relates generally to computational devices and gesture recognition. A computational device may include instructions that determine, based on a parameterization for a portion of a symbol, complete predicted symbols. The complete predicted symbols may be used as an input for an application operating on the computational device.
US10895914B2
A interface comprising a hand operated input device with a series of activation points activated by the digits (fingers and/or thumb) of a user; a sensor component measuring a current motion, orientation, and/or position of the input device and a output component interconnected to the activation points and the sensor component for outputting in a series the currently active activation points and the current motion, orientation, and/or position of the input device.
US10895913B1
A user to control the functionality associated with a physical input object for an augmented reality (AR) application. A state control element of a user interface can be displayed through the AR application, and motions of the input object analyzed with respect to element. This can comprise swiping in a first or second direction to cause the physical object to function, or not to function, as a cursor for the user interface. In this way, interactions of the physical object with AR elements will only be analyzed when the object is functioning as a cursor. Foveated rendering or other AR elements can be used during a selection period to provide an indication that an element of the UI interface is in the process of being selected. The user can maintain the position to perform the selection action is intended, or can change the position to cancel the selection.
US10895910B2
An adaptive eye-tracking calibration method includes generating an eye model acting as a current eye model; calibrating the eye model; comparing real-time pupil data set and pupil data set of the current eye model to obtain a pupil data difference when an event happens; and generating a new eye model if the pupil data difference is greater than a predetermined threshold.
US10895904B2
An information processing apparatus communicates with a storage device and includes a serial interface configured to support plural link rates, and a controller. The controller retrieves from the storage device via the serial interface information indicating a relationship between maximum power consumption and power consumption efficiency value for each link rate in a first power throttling mode that gives priority to performance and a second power throttling mode that gives priority to reduction of peak power, the power consumption efficiency value being a value that corresponds to the number of I/Os per watt, select the first or the second power throttling mode based on the retrieved information and a mode specified from one of three modes, and instruct the storage device to limit power consumption based on the selected power throttling mode. The three modes include a first mode that gives priority to performance, a second mode that gives priority to reduction of power consumption, and a third mode that gives priority to reduction of peak power.
US10895899B2
A circuit includes a regulation circuit configured to intercept messages on a configuration channel of a universal serial bus (USB) cable between a USB source device and a USB sink device. The regulation circuit regulates a source capability message from the USB cable configuration channel based on a predetermined power capability of the USB cable.
US10895897B1
A head-mounted-display (HMD) includes a face plate, and a main body. The main body attaches the face plate to cover a front portion of the main body. The main body includes a front plate, a back plate, and a circuit board. The front plate includes at least one first air channel formed at a rear side of the front plate facing away from the face plate for conveying air from a bottom portion of the main body to an upper portion of the main body. Each of the front plates may be formed with windows for receiving an intake air or discharging an outflow air. The back plate is attached to the front plate and located further away from the face plate. The circuit board is located between the front plate and the back plate.
US10895891B1
A tablet computer with a docking sled type arrangement including a payment device of choice is provided. The docking sled can be removed from the tablet computer to provide protection to the payment device. The docking sled employs magnetic force to hold and compress electronic contacts. These contacts provide charging power to the docking sled and bi-directional communication. The docking can be oriented left or right to accommodate both left handed and right handed users.
US10895888B2
A watch is provided that includes a constant current circuit including: a plurality of transistors coupled in series between a first power supply and a second power supply, the first power supply being a power supply of a high potential side power supply, the second power supply being a power supply of a low potential side power supply; a plurality of connection wiring lines each provided for each of the plurality of transistors, and configured to couple the first power supply and a terminal on the first power supply side of each of the plurality of transistors; a non-disconnected fuse provided in a non-disconnected state to one connection wiring line of the plurality of connection wiring lines, and a disconnected fuse provided in a disconnected state to a connection wiring line other than the one connection wiring line of the plurality of connection wiring lines.
US10895886B2
A control system that performs VEE on consumption streams, including: data stores that provides data sets, each of the data sets comprising groups of contiguous values that correspond to correct data; a rules processor that reads the data stores and, for the each of the data sets, that creates anomalies having different durations using only the groups of contiguous values, that generates estimates for the anomalies by employing estimation techniques for each of the different durations and, for the each of the different durations, that selects a corresponding one of the estimation techniques for subsequent employment when performing VEE of subsequent energy consumption data associated with the each of the different durations for the corresponding one of the consumption streams; a peak prediction element that estimates future cumulative energy consumption and that predicts a brown out time; and a peak controller that triggers exceptional measures to manage the cumulative energy consumption in order to preclude a brown out.
US10895883B2
A Heating, Ventilation, and Air Conditioning (HVAC) controller may include a housing, a display, a printed wiring board, a flextail, and a temperature sensor. The housing may be configured to house the display, the printed wiring board, the flextail, and the temperature sensor. The flextail may extend from, for example, the display or other component of the HVAC controller, along the interior surface of the housing, and connect to a connector on the printed wiring board. The temperature sensor may be mounted on the flextail, and connected to the printed circuit board via the flex tail or other connection. In some cases, the temperature sensor may be positioned on the flextail such that when the flextail is connected to the printed wiring board, the temperature sensor is positioned adjacent a lower part of the housing, where less internal heat generated by the internal electrical components of the HVAC controller will reside.
US10895874B2
A method of controlling a flight device includes receiving, by a controller of the flight device, a control request from a target device for requesting a control of the flight device, receiving control data sent from the target device, and converting the control data into an executable instruction for controlling the flight device.
US10895866B1
Position and speed correction are applied to observed values from a position sensor in order to operate an electric motor. Observed position values and observed speed values are obtained from the position sensor for time points during a sampling window, ideal position values and ideal speed values are determined for each of the time points, and position and speed error values are determined based on the observed and ideal values. Stored position information is updated using the position error values and the speed error values. The electric motor is operated using corrected position values and corrected speed values that are determined from the observed position values, the observed speed values, and the stored position information.
US10895860B2
A method operates an industrial control system, which includes at least one stationary control device and at least one control-technology-based manual operator-control instrument, which can be carried by an operator-control person. In at least one of the manual operator-control instruments, at least one data-technology-based identifier is resident, which represents at least the respective hardware version and the respective software status of the respective manual operator-control instrument. The mode of response of the respective control device or of the entire control system in relation to reliability or non-reliability of the establishment of a control-technology-based interaction, in relation to functional response during an active control-technology-based interaction and in relation to functional response in connection with a termination of a control-technology-based interaction between the respective control device and the manual operator-control instrument is determined or influenced in dependence on this data-technology-based identifier. In addition, a correspondingly constructed control system is specified.
US10895852B2
A machine learning includes a state observation unit that observes, as state variables representing a current state of an environment, PID control parameter data indicating the a parameter of the PID control during machining, machining condition data indicating a machining condition of the machining, and machining environment data relating to a machining environment of the machining, a determination data acquisition unit that acquires, as determination data, tool life determination data indicating an appropriateness determination result relating to depletion of the life of a tool during the machining, and cycle time determination data indicating an appropriateness determination result relating to the cycle time of the machining, and a learning unit that learns the machining condition and the machining environment of the machining, and the parameter of the PID control in association with each other.
US10895848B1
Methods and apparatus for selective histogramming are configured to histogram a total number of virtual bins over a plurality of phases using a total number of counters, wherein the total number of counters is less than the total number of virtual bins.
US10895843B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for performing digital holography to analyze dynamics of fluid flow. According to some aspects of this disclosure, a Digital Fresnel Reflection Holography (DFRH) system, which is arranged to utilize light backscattered from particles in a fluid chamber to create a hologram that may be processed to analyze characteristics of fluid flow. The DFRH system may utilize light reflected from an imaging window disposed between a light source and a sampling volume, to be analyzed as a reference wave, to form an interference pattern and resultant hologram. According to some aspects of this disclosure, the DFRH techniques may provide simple, cost-effective mechanisms with improved performance over other techniques for analyzing fluid flow using holography.
US10895839B2
The number of circulatable sheets and the conveying speed of a sheet are decided by referring to a storage unit which stores the number of circulatable sheets and the conveying speed of a sheet in correspondence with the type and size of a sheet, and the resolution of an image to be printed. It is determined whether the conveying speed of the feed surface of a sheet to be fed next to the printing unit and that of a feed surface to be refed next to the printing unit coincide with each other. It is determined whether the conveying speed of the feed surface of the sheet to be fed next to the printing unit and that of the feed surface or the refeed surface of a sheet immediately previously fed to the printing unit differ from each other.
US10895838B2
An image forming apparatus includes a mounting unit to which a developer container is mounted, a controller to control a motor to rotate the mounted container, and a sensor to detect a predetermined portion in which the mounted container is rotated. The controller determines whether the container is mounted based on the detection result of the sensor, wherein the controller controls the motor based on the detection result so that a rotation speed of the mounted container is equal to a predetermined rotation speed. After a door is opened, in a case where, while communication between a communication unit and a memory is maintained, a detection result of the sensor is changed from a first detection result in which the predetermined portion is detected to a second detection result in which the predetermined portion is not detected, the controller determines the mounted container has been manually rotated.
US10895837B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit, an image output unit, a transport unit that transports a recording medium, a display unit that displays a screen, and a controller that controls the units. The controller detects a state change of each unit of the image forming apparatus, and exerts control so as to cause the display unit to display, in accordance with the detected state change of the unit, an image indicating the state change of the unit. The image indicating the state change of the unit includes a color and a figure which represent a reason of the state change.
US10895834B2
A fixing device that includes a rotatable endless fixing member, a fixing heat source which heats the fixing member, a pressure member provided on the outside of the fixing member and facing the fixing member, a nip forming member provided inside the fixing member and forming a fixing nip between the fixing member and the pressure member, a nip forming support member for supporting the nip forming member, a high-thermal-conductive member provided between the fixing member and the nip forming member, an adhesive provided between the high-thermal-conductive member and the nip forming member. The thermal conductivity of the adhesive is larger than the thermal conductivity of the nip forming member and lower than the thermal conductivity of the high-thermal-conductive member.
US10895833B2
A sliding sheet includes a fabric layer is disclosed. The fabric layer includes warp yarns and weft yarns. The warp yarns are interlaced with the weft yarns. The sliding sheet has a first edge extending in a length direction of the sliding sheet. The warp yarns are bent toward a middle portion of the first edge. A method for manufacturing the sliding sheet is also disclosed. An auxiliary yarn is woven with the warp yarns and the weft yarns to form a fabric raw layer. A tension for weaving the auxiliary yarn is adjusted so that the tension of the auxiliary yarn is greater than the tension of the warp yarns, thereby bending the warp yarns in the fabric raw layer toward the auxiliary yarn. The fabric raw layer is heated to fix the shape of yarns, and cut into the fabric layer to form the sliding sheet.
US10895825B2
A developer accommodating container includes a developer accommodating portion, a stirring member, and a drive transmitting member. The developer accommodating container further includes an elastic member fixed to the stirring member at one end portion thereof and capable of expanding and contracting in a direction along a longitudinal direction of the developer accommodating portion. With respect to the longitudinal direction, the stirring member is disposed so as to form (1) a first gap between one end portion thereof and an inner surface of the developer accommodating portion on one side and (2) a second gap between the other end portion thereof and another inner surface of the developer accommodating portion on the other side. The stirring member is supported by the developer accommodating portion so as to be movable in the longitudinal direction relative to the developer accommodating portion.
US10895824B2
A developing roller that suppresses contamination of the surface of a photosensitive member and also obtains a high-quality image. The developing roller includes an electro-conductive substrate, an electro-conductive elastic layer and a surface layer which are stacked in this order, wherein the surface layer has resin particles that are dispersed in a polyurethane matrix, an outer surface of the surface layer has a first protrusion originating in first resin particle and a second protrusion originating in second resin particle, wherein the first resin particle contains polyurethane, an elastic modulus E1 of the first resin particle is 100 to 2000 MPa, an elastic modulus E2 of the second resin particle is 2 to 50 MPa, a maximum height roughness Rz of the outer surface is 6 to 18 μm, and a peak vertex density Spd is 5.0×103 to 5.0×104(1/mm2).
US10895823B2
A developing roller that enables the image density of electrophotographic images to be kept uniform even when used in an environment at a high temperature and a high humidity for a long period. The developing roller includes an electro-conductive mandrel and an electro-conductive layer on the mandrel, having an outer surface constituted by at least a first region which is electrically insulating, and a second region, the second region having higher electro-conductivity than that of the first region, the first region being arranged adjacent to the second region, the first region being disposed on an outer surface of the electro-conductive layer, the first region having a Vickers hardness of 10.0 or more as measured at an outer surface thereof, and the first region having a fracture toughness value of 800 Pa·m0.5 or more as measured at the outer surface thereof by an indentation fracture method.
US10895812B2
Metrology apparatus and methods for measuring a structure formed on a substrate by a lithographic process are disclosed. In one arrangement an optical system illuminates the structure with radiation and detects radiation scattered by the structure. The optical system comprises a first dispersive element. The first dispersive element spectrally disperses scattered radiation exclusively from a first portion of a pupil plane field distribution along a first dispersion direction. A second dispersive element, separated from the first dispersive element, spectrally disperses scattered radiation exclusively from a second portion of the pupil plane field distribution, different from the first portion of the pupil plane field distribution, along a second dispersion direction.
US10895807B2
The invention provides a cured film and a positive type photosensitive resin composition unlikely to cause a decrease in light emission luminance or shrinkage of pixels and high in long term reliability. [Solution] The invention provides a cured film comprising a cured product of a photosensitive resin composition including an alkali-soluble resin (a), a photoacid generating agent (b), at least one compound (c) selected from the group consisting of cyclic amides, cyclic ureas, and derivatives thereof, and a thermal crosslinking agent (d), the thermal crosslinking agent (d) containing an epoxy compound, oxetanyl compound, isocyanate compound, acidic group-containing alkoxymethyl compound, and/or acidic group-containing methylol compound, and the total content of the compound (c) in the cured film being 0.005 mass % or more and 5 mass % or less. The photosensitive resin composition comprises the alkali-soluble resin (a), photoacid generating agent (b), compound (c), thermal crosslinking agent (d), and an organic solvent (e), the compound (c) accounting for 0.1 part by mass or more and 15 parts by mass or less relative to 100 parts by mass of the alkali-soluble resin (a), and the organic solvent (e) accounting for 100 to 3,000 parts by mass relative thereto.
US10895805B2
A method for producing a pellicle according to the one embodiment of the present invention produces a pellicle including a pellicle film and a pellicle frame supporting an outer peripheral portion of the pellicle film. The method includes forming the pellicle film on a substrate, and bonding a pressure-sensitive adhesive sheet, that is elastic and has a pressure-sensitive adhesive force thereof decreased upon receipt of external stimulation, to each of two surfaces of the substrate; making a notch inside a part of the substrate, the part having the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheets bonded thereto; separating a substrate outer peripheral portion outer to the notch of the substrate, in a state where the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheets are bonded to the substrate, to form a pellicle frame; and stimulating the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheets to peel off the pressure-sensitive adhesive sheets.
US10895804B1
A general purpose image and visual effects display apparatus, with associated methods, which is comprised of an array of independently angled reflective or refractive elements wherein the varying angle pattern of each element across said array is designed to reflect or refract specifically designed light and color sources as well as fortuitously located existing colors, in precisely determined patterns, to make apparent to designated viewing or receiving locations a wide range of complex visual effects.
US10895800B2
A segmented light or optical power emitting device and an illumination device are described. The segmented device includes a die having a light or optical power emitting semiconductor structure that includes an active layer disposed between an n-layer and a p-layer. Trenches are formed in at least the semiconductor structure and separate the die into individually addressable segments. The active layer emits light or optical power having a first color point or spectrum. At least one wavelength converting layer is adjacent the die and converts the light or optical power to light or optical power having at least one second color point or spectrum and limits an energy ratio of the pump light or optical power that passes through the at least one wavelength converting layer unconverted to total light or optical power emitted by the light or optical power emitting device to less than 10%.
US10895790B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a display area in which a plurality of pixels are arranged and a non-display area around the display area. The display panel includes: a first substrate; a plurality of gate lines on the first substrate and configured to gate signals to a plurality of pixels; a gate driver on the first substrate, the gate driver including a plurality of stages configured to generate the gate signals to output them to the gate lines; a clock signal line group on the first substrate and including a plurality of clock signal lines configured to transmit clock signals to the stages; a second substrate facing the first substrate; and a common electrode on the second substrate, the common electrode having an opening overlapping the clock signal line group, and a width of the opening being greater than that of the clock signal line group.
US10895788B2
The present application discloses a display panel and a display, wherein a conductive particle is sandwiched between a first substrate and a second substrate of the display panel, and a non-display region on the second substrate is arranged with a plurality of metal traces; the conductive particle is accommodated in a hollow hole on the escape region formed by the metal trace, and one end of the conductive particle is disposed on an adhesive dispensing region formed by the metal trace, and the other end is abutted against the first substrate.
US10895787B2
A liquid crystal panel includes an array substrate, a counter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer therebetween. The counter substrate includes a sub-pixel in-between light blocking section extending in a grid and surrounding the sub pixels, a first projection projecting from the counter substrate toward the array substrate and having a projecting end that is contacted with a part of the array substrate to define a distance between the substrates, and second projections projecting from the counter substrate toward the array substrate and having projecting ends that are spaced from the array substrate. The first projection and the second projections overlap the sub-pixel in-between light blocking section. A distance between a center line of a width dimension of the sub-pixel in-between light blocking section and a center of each second projection is smaller than a distance between the center line and a center of the first projection.
US10895786B2
A liquid crystal display device is provided. The liquid crystal display device of the disclosure includes: a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other; a liquid crystal layer interposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; a column spacer disposed on the first substrate and maintaining a gap between the first substrate and the second substrate; a light blocking pattern disposed on the first substrate and including an extended portion formed around the column spacer; and light blocking metal overlapped with at least a part of a region adjacent to and outside of a boundary of the extended portion that is not parallel to an alignment direction of liquid crystal molecules.
US10895785B2
A liquid crystal display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and a main sealing portion. The second substrate opposes the first substrate. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The main sealing portion is disposed in a circular shape to surround the liquid crystal layer and assembles the first substrate and the second substrate together to seal the liquid crystal layer between the substrates. A distance between opposing surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate in a main attachment region of the substrates where the main sealing portion is disposed is smaller at an innermost peripheral portion than at the other portions.
US10895783B2
A multilayer film including: a first long-length substrate; and an optically anisotropic layer that is formed directly on the first substrate and contains cured liquid-crystal molecules, wherein the first substrate has an orientation-controlling force caused by stretching, and a slow axis of the first substrate is different from a lengthwise direction of the first substrate; an optically anisotropic laminate, a circular polarizing plate, and an organic EL display device having the anisotropic layer; as well as manufacturing method thereof.
US10895773B1
A display device is provided, including a backlight module and a liquid crystal display module. The backlight module is provided with a through hole. The liquid crystal display module includes a display panel and a lower polarizing film and an upper polarizing film arranged on two opposite sides of the display panel. A first via hole is in the lower polarizing film. A second via hole is in the upper polarizing film and arranged corresponding to the first via hole. A light shielding portion is arranged at two side edges of the second via hole. Such configuration avoids light leakage from the first via hole and the second via hole of the liquid crystal display module, and improves shooting performance of the camera module and also enhances market competitiveness.
US10895772B2
A liquid crystal display device includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor in a pixel region over the substrate; a common electrode over the thin film transistor; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; and a liquid crystal layer including a plurality of liquid crystal capsules over the common electrode and the pixel electrode, wherein each of the plurality of liquid crystal capsules includes a shell and a core having a plurality of liquid crystal molecules therein, and wherein a gap distance between the liquid crystal molecules in adjacent liquid crystal capsules is equal to or greater than 20 nm and equal to or smaller than 0.3 times of a capsule diameter of the adjacent liquid crystal capsules.
US10895765B2
In a waveguide-type optical modulation element that modulates light by applying radio frequency signals to an electrode, the realization of the additional broadening of the bandwidth by improving the degree of freedom in the design of the electrode is enabled. An optical modulation element, which includes optical waveguides provided in a substrate and electrodes that control light waves propagating through the optical waveguides and modulates light by propagating radio frequency signals to the electrodes, in which the electrodes include conductive layers made of copper or a copper alloy and protective layers made of a material other than copper and a copper alloy.
US10895763B2
A light control device 10 includes a pair of electrodes 611 and 612 and a stacked structure body 613′ of a plurality of light control layers 613 sandwiched by the pair of electrodes 611 and 612; and each light control layer 613 has a stacked structure of a first insulating layer 614, a first nanocarbon film 615 doped with an n-type impurity or not doped with an impurity, a second insulating layer 617, and a second nanocarbon film 616 doped with a p-type impurity or not doped with an impurity.
US10895761B2
A laser protection eyewear lens includes a lens substrate comprising an embedded wavelength filter having a first filter function, and a multi-layer dielectric filter applied to at least one of an inside and an outside surface of the lens substrate that comprises a second filter function having at least one center wavelength and bandwidth. The first filter function of the embedded wavelength filter and the second filter function of the multilayer dielectric filter produce a combined filter function that attenuates light reflecting off the multi-layer dielectric filter.
US10895751B1
A facial-interface system for a head-mounted display may include a facial interface and a facial-interface adjustment apparatus. The facial-interface adjustment apparatus may include (1) a coupling mount for coupling the facial-interface adjustment apparatus to a head-mounted-display housing, (2) an adjustment protrusion that is movable between a plurality of holding positions relative to the coupling mount, the adjustment protrusion having a facial-interface coupling portion coupled to the facial interface, and (3) a spring that biases the adjustment protrusion in a biasing direction toward the facial interface such that the adjustment protrusion moves between separate holding positions of the plurality of holding positions following application of a compressing force to the adjustment protrusion compressing the spring in a compressing direction opposite the biasing direction. Various other systems, devices, and methods are also disclosed.
US10895743B2
The present invention relates to a display apparatus for superimposing a virtual image into the field of vision of a user of the display apparatus, having spectacles for the user and at least one projection device for producing light rays which are transferred by means of an optical unit of the spectacles into a beam path which produces a virtual image for the user. The optical unit may comprise a ground-glass screen or lens array and a holographic optical imaging unit. The ground-glass screen or lens array and holographic optical imaging unit are arranged in such a way that the light rays produced by the projection device are incident on the holographic optical imaging unit through the ground-glass screen or the lens array and are transferred by the holographic optical imaging unit into the beam path which produces the virtual image for the user.
US10895732B2
A microscopy method, and a microscope for carrying out the method, in which an illumination radiation is directed through an object arranged in an object plane of a microscope, in order to image the object, image data of a first image of the object being acquired with a first configuration of the microscope and image data of a second image of the object being acquired with a second configuration of the microscope. Differences between the image data of the first image and the second image are determined and, in dependence on the determined differences, image data of a contrast image of the object is provided. In the first configuration, a phase mask that has at least one optical gradient transversely in relation to the optical axis of the microscope, by the effect of which a phase gradient of the illumination radiation passing through the phase mask is produced or can be produced, is arranged in an objective pupil of the microscope and, in the second configuration, the phase mask is removed from the objective pupil.
US10895727B1
A microscope has a fiducial mask and fiducial lens generating a collimated mask image onto a beam splitter which directs the optical image to an objective lens where it is directed to an optical discontinuity formed by the change of index of refraction of the inner surface of a fluidic channel. Reflected optical energy is directed through the objective lens, the beam splitter, and a detector lens to a detector. A focused image forms when an inner surface of the fluidic channel is a focal distance from the objective lens, providing for imaging of fluorescent labels at the inner surface of the fluidic channel.
US10895721B2
A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side along an optical axis, a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power, a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power, and a third lens group G3 having positive refractive power. Upon zooming from a wide-angle end state W to a telephoto end state T, a distance between the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2 increases, and a distance between the second lens group G2 and the third lens group G3 decreases. Given conditions are satisfied. Accordingly, a zoom lens having high optical performance with suppressing variations in aberrations, an optical apparatus equipped therewith, and a method for manufacturing the zoom lens are provided.
US10895713B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to actuator frames for scanning mirror systems. In one example an actuator frame for a scanning mirror assembly comprises a mounting member comprising a first side and an opposite second side. A first moveable member comprises a first interior side that defines a first gap and a second gap with the first side of the mounting member. A second moveable member comprises a second interior side that defines a third gap and a fourth gap with the second side of the mounting member. A first hinge connects a central portion of the mounting member with the first moveable member, and a second hinge connects the central portion of the mounting member with the second moveable member.
US10895710B2
An accessory removably attachable to a camera body and including a plurality of terminals, includes: a first terminal; a second terminal through which a first power supply voltage is supplied from the camera body; a third terminal; a fourth terminal; a fifth terminal; a sixth terminal; an eighth terminal that receives a first clock signal of a first cycle from the camera body; a seventh terminal; a ninth terminal; a tenth terminal that outputs a second clock signal of a second cycle to the camera body, the second cycle being longer than the first cycle; and an eleventh terminal, wherein: a distance between the tenth terminal and the second terminal is longer than a distance between the eighth terminal and the second terminal.
US10895709B2
A lens apparatus includes an optical system L0 including a plurality of lenses. The optical system L0 is changeable to a first state in which a focal length of the optical system L0 is a first focal length and a second state in which the focal length is a second focal length shorter than the first focal length, by changing one or some of the plurality of lenses. The maximum image heights and maximum angle of views in the first state and the second state are substantially constant and satisfy a predetermined condition.
US10895708B2
A connector is employed for bonding a locatable tracer wire with a lead wire. A base has a first receiving slot and an axial slot which intersects the receiving slot. A contact plate is slidably receivable in the axial slot and is dimensioned to accommodate a tracer wire and an insulator cover received in the receiving slot at a first axial position and to sever the cover and conductively engage the tracer at a second axial position. A fastener threadably engages the base. Upon tightening the fastener to the base, a shoulder extending from the contact plate is displaced and ultimately stopped so that the plate is disposed at the second position. The lead wire is also secured by the fastener.
US10895699B2
Various optical fiber cables and systems and methods associated therewith are disclosed herein. An optical fiber cable may include a jacket, an optical fiber and a metal wire disposed within a passage defined by the jacket. The metal wire may be coupled to the optical fiber.
US10895698B2
A factory processed and assembled optical fiber arrangement is configured to pass through tight, tortuous spaces when routed to a demarcation point. A connector housing attaches to the optical fiber arrangement at the demarcation point (or after leaving the tight, tortuous spaces) to form a connectorized end of the optical fiber. A fiber tip is protected before leaving the factory until connection is desired.
US10895697B2
Examples described herein include optical adapters. In some examples, an optical connector adapter includes a housing with a first end and a second end, a latch assembly inside the housing, and an adapter optical ferrule. The latch assembly may include two latch arms and an engagement feature to mate the adapter to a number of optical transceiver shells. The engagement feature may protrude beyond the second end of the housing. The adapter optical ferrule is attached to the two latch arms.
US10895685B2
A planar optical waveguide based on two-dimensional grating includes an optical waveguide substrate which is a transparent plane-parallel plate, and a functional grating element which includes a two-dimensional grating having two grating directions with an angle of 60° in between. The two-dimensional grating is either protruded or recessed into the top surface of the optical waveguide substrate. The output image from a micro-projector can enter the optical waveguide and then gets projected to cover the entire area of the functional grating element, enabling a human eye to view the output image across a large eye-box.
US10895680B2
A display device includes a display module and an optical film. The display module has a through hole. At least one optical film is located on the display module and has an alignment through hole aligned with the through hole and an alignment mark surrounding the alignment through hole.
US10895678B2
An ultraviolet curable composition and a waveguide manufactured from the same are disclosed herein. In an embodiment, an ultraviolet curable composition for light shielding of a waveguide, comprises a colorant, an acrylate monomer, a urethane acrylate oligomer, an organosilane and a photopolymerization initiator, wherein adhesion between the cured composition and a glass substrate is 5B or greater by a ASTM D3359 standard and/or is 1,500 mN or greater by a microscratch test (MST).
US10895666B2
A method of identifying hydrocarbon seeps that are connected to hydrocarbon reservoirs and for identifying in situ conditions of hydrocarbon reservoirs is disclosed. The method comprises, obtaining a sample from an area of interest, such as a sediment sample or water column sample near a hydrocarbon seep; analyzing the sample to detect microbial signatures that are specific to families associated with hydrocarbon reservoirs; and using the signature to determine whether the hydrocarbon seep is connected to a hydrocarbon reservoir and to identify properties of the hydrocarbon reservoir.
US10895664B2
A sub adapted for injection into the wellbore and sensing, the sub comprising: (a) an elongated body; (b) an inner bore having multi-material spacers of different radiation transparencies; and (c) an outer wall having recessed portions along an outside diameter, forming circumferential windows configured to align with a radioactive source and sensors and configured to guide a radioactive energy's path into a formation and back to sensor.
US10895652B2
An object radiography apparatus includes a radiation source configured to generate and emit an electromagnetic radiation for radiographing an object, a detector device, which is arranged in such a way that the emitted electromagnetic radiation which passes at least partly through the object impinges at least proportionally on the detector device, and which is configured to generate a radiograph of the object. In addition to the detector device, a sensor arrangement is provided, which is configured to determine a radiation characteristic variable assigned to the radiation source. An evaluation unit is configured to determine or to receive a quality parameter of the detected radiograph, to evaluate the radiation characteristic variable and to make a statement about a state of the detector device and/or of the radiation source on the basis of the quality parameter and the radiation characteristic variable.
US10895643B2
The present disclosure describes intelligent illumination systems that use modulated light. For example, in one aspect, a method includes producing, by a light source, modulated illumination in a visible part of the spectrum, detecting three-dimensional image data based on at least a portion of the modulated light produced by the light source and reflected by a scene, and changing a characteristic of the modulated illumination based on the detected three-dimensional image data.
US10895639B2
A sensor platform being installed on a vehicle traveling on a road or a sports training device, the sensor platform including, a sensor unit configured by an acceleration sensor for capturing environmental data transmitted from an object to be surveyed, a data selector/variable filter for selecting necessary data or limiting data frequency of the environmental data transmitted from the sensor unit, a sound sensor for capturing sound signals from the object to be surveyed, and a processing unit for running computer programs including algorithms for controlling the sensor unit and the data selector/variable filter, processing output data from the data selector/variable filter and the sound sensor, and setting a threshold level, wherein the processing unit processes the output data from data selector/variable filter when the sound signal level is more than the threshold level.
US10895637B1
A method for mapping an object buried in a subterranean surface includes receiving a first input data set. The first input data set is based on a GNSS signal, a SAR signal, and a GPR signal. The method further includes generating a raw image based on the first input data set, comparing the raw image to a calibration data set, identifying an object based on the raw image compared to the calibration data set, transmitting object data to a ground-based post-processing unit, and displaying the object data to a graphic user interface. The calibration data set may be based on material calibration data. The object data may be based on the object identified.
US10895631B2
A sensor includes circuitry and a memory, wherein the circuitry acquires an N×M first matrix having complex-number transfer function components representing propagation characteristics between a transmit antenna element and a receive antenna element, from N receive signals received by each of M receive antenna elements for a predetermined period. The circuitry extracts a second matrix, corresponding to a predetermined frequency range from the first matrix, representing components influenced by a vital sign, and estimates a position of the organism with respect to the sensor by using the second matrix. The circuitry also calculates a first distance, indicating a distance between the organism and the transmit antenna, and a second distance, indicating a distance between the organism and the receive antenna. The circuitry further calculates a radar cross-section value with respect to the organism, and estimates a posture of the organism.
US10895623B2
A method is for performing an angiographic measurement and creating an angiogram of a body region of a patient in a magnetic-resonance system and a magnetic-resonance system for operating such a method. In an embodiment, the method includes acquisition of a body region; division of the angiographic measurement into partial angiographic measurements; displaying the measurement start times, the measurement duration and the measurement end times of the partial angiographic measurements; changing the measuring time points; definition of sequence parameters of the partial angiographic measurements based on the changed measurement start times and/or measurement end times such that the partial angiographic measurement is performable between the associated measurement start time and measurement end time; provision of the sequence parameters of the control unit of the magnetic-resonance system; performance of the partial angiographic measurements; and creation of the angiogram using the partial angiographic measurements performed.
US10895616B2
An apparatus includes a takeup spool disposed at a far end of a magnetic resonance imaging bore. The takeup spool is adapted to release optical fiber, and to retract the optical fiber. The apparatus also comprises a dongle configured to connect to a terminal end of the optical fiber.
US10895615B2
A balun is provided that is suitable for use with miniature coaxial cables and that obviates the need to cut the cable in order to install the balun. A portion of each coaxial cable that extends from the RF receive coils to the RF receiver is wound multiple times around a device to form an inductor. The inductor may be used with or without a separate resonant circuit. If used with a separate resonant circuit, the inductor and the resonant circuit couple with one another to generate a coupled impedance that provides common-mode noise suppression at the frequency of interest. If used without a separate resonant circuit, the inductor formed in the cable provides an inductance and the capacitance between the windings coupled with the inductance provides a series impedance that suppresses common-mode noise at the frequency of interest.
US10895613B2
The invention concerns to a radio frequency (RF) body coil (2), for use in a Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) system, comprising: an RF shield (6), an RF coil element (8), distantly arranged from the RF shield (6), and at least one distance setting element (10), arranged and designed in such a way that the relative distance (12) between the RF shield (6) and the RF coil element (8) is adjustable via the distance setting element (10) which may lead to locally deforming the RF coil element (8) and/or the RF shield (6). Thus, a radio frequency coil for use in an Magnetic Resonance Imaging system is provided that can be tuned to desired resonances in a comfortable and economic way.
US10895611B1
The present invention relates to a sensor suite comprising at least one sensor. More particularly, the present invention relates to a sensor suite for measuring absolute and/or relative position, location and orientation of an object on or in which the sensor suite is employed. The present invention further relates to improved, novel sensor types for use in the sensor suite. More particularly, the present invention relates to an improved, novel magnetometer that is self-calibrating and scalable. Still more particularly, the present invention relates to such a magnetometer that is miniaturized. Further embodiments of the present invention relate to systems and methods for providing location and guidance, and more particularly for providing location and guidance in environments where global position systems (GPS) are unavailable or unreliable (GPS denied and/or degraded environments).
US10895606B1
A method for testing an internal short circuits in an electrochemical cell is provided. A transistor is implanted in the cell, and it is electrically connected to a controllable voltage source. The transistor is joined between positive and negative components of the cell. The transistor is maintained at high resistance before start of testing. The voltage source is used to reduce electrical resistance in the transistor to simulate an internal short circuit in the electrochemical cell. Thermal runaway propagation in the cell is measured.
US10895604B2
Systems and methods to provide a low voltage interface coupleable between an energy storage device or a DC power source (e.g., fuel cell stack, battery) and one or more AC signal diagnostic systems. The low voltage interface reduces a voltage of the DC power source and supplies the reduced voltage to the one or more AC signal diagnostic systems without affecting the results of the measurements obtained by the one or more AC signal diagnostic systems. Such functionality provides a safer method for performing advanced analysis (e.g., EIS, frequency analysis) while utilizing lower cost and/or smaller components.
US10895594B2
An electrical connector assembly includes an insulative housing, a first cover pivotally assembled to the housing, a second cover pivotally assembled to the first cover, and a fan support secured upon the second cover. A plurality of contacts are disposed in the housing. A heat sink is associated with the second cover. A pair of fans are located by two opposite lateral sides of the heat sink and fixed to the fan support so as to induce an air flow along the slots defined between fins of the heat sink in a transverse direction.
US10895591B2
An apparatus for detecting low level pulses of millimeter wave electromagnetic radiation has an electromagnetic field receiver including: a receiving antenna configured to receive an input signal at one or more frequencies ranging from 10 GHz to 100 GHz, and a diode detector coupled to the receiving antenna, the diode detector providing an output voltage signal in response to the input signal. The apparatus also has an electronic signal processor. This produces an amplified voltage signal. The electronic signal processor also produces from the amplified voltage signal a reduced bandwidth, unipolar voltage signal proportional to a peak power of the input signal. The electronic signal processor uses this to produce an amplified reduced bandwidth, unipolar voltage signal. At least the electronic signal processor is encased in an electronically shielded housing.
US10895589B2
A semiconductor device for monitoring a reverse voltage is provided. The semiconductor device includes an intellectual property having an input node and an output node; a passive component connected between the output node and a potential; a monitoring circuit connected to the input node and the output node and powered by a driving power, the monitoring circuit monitoring a difference between an input level at the input node and an output level at the output node to detect a reverse voltage across the intellectual property. The driving power is provided by the output node.
US10895586B2
A semiconductor inspection jig includes: a base on which a semiconductor device is placed; and a substrate provided on the base and including a conductive pattern, wherein the conductive pattern intersects with a lead of the semiconductor device placed on the base from a direction other than a horizontal direction with respect to the lead, and is in contact with an intermediate part of the lead without being in contact with a leading end of the lead.
US10895585B2
Device and system for characterizing samples using multiple integrated tips scanning probe microscopy. Multiple Integrated Tips (MiT) probes are comprised of two or more monolithically integrated and movable AFM tips positioned to within nm of each other, enabling unprecedented micro to nanoscale probing functionality in vacuum or ambient conditions. The tip structure is combined with capacitive comb structures offering laserless high-resolution electric-in electric-out actuation and sensing capability and novel integration with a Junction Field Effect Transistor for signal amplification and low-noise operation. This “platform-on-a-chip” approach is a paradigm shift relative to current technology based on single tips functionalized using stacks of supporting gear: lasers, nano-positioners and electronics.
US10895584B2
A method for commanding a tip of a probe is disclosed, wherein a command signal, representative of the force applied by said tip on the surface of a sample to be analyzed, includes at least one cycle successively defined by: a first step where the value of said command signal decreases from a maximum value (Smax) to a minimum value (Smin) so as to move said tip away from said surface at a predetermined distance called detachment height; a second step where the value of the command signal is maintained constant at said minimum value so as to maintain the tip at said detachment height; a third step where the value of the command signal increases from the minimum value up to said maximum value so as to bring the tip closer towards the surface to be analyzed until the tip comes into contact with the surface; and a fourth step where the value of the command signal is maintained constant at said maximum value to maintain the tip in contact with the surface to be analyzed under a constant force between the tip and the surface to be analyzed; the command signal being controlled between two successive steps to avoid any oscillation of the tip.
US10895580B2
A method for operating a laboratory system comprising instruments for processing samples and a control unit connected by a communication network is presented. The method comprises receiving and identifying a biological sample and retrieving an order list from a database. The list comprises a plurality of targets defining one or more processing steps to be carried out on the biological sample by one or more of the laboratory instruments. The method also comprises selecting a workflow strategy and retrieving workflow acceptance criterion corresponding to the workflow strategy. The control unit determines a sample workflow for processing the sample based on the workflow strategy and determines whether the sample workflow satisfies the workflow acceptance criterion. If the sample workflow does not satisfy the workflow acceptance criterion, workflow strategy and the workflow acceptance criterion is refined and the sample workflow is determined again until it satisfies the workflow acceptance criterion.
US10895576B2
The present invention relates to a method of screening for renal cell carcinoma in a subject, said method comprising determining the level and/or chemical composition of one or both of the glycosaminoglycans (GAGs) chondroitin sulfate (CS) and heparan sulfate (HS) in a body fluid sample, wherein said sample has been obtained from said subject.
US10895563B2
Systems, devices, and methods are provided that facilitate synthesis and analysis of chemical compounds on a convenient and automatable palette-based platform. Palettes utilized for analysis support a variety of functional sites, including test wells, separation devices, and test sites that have rapid thermal equilibration, on a single test fixture. This permits both the performance of a wide variety of tests and of tests with different temperature requirements or responses in parallel, on the same test fixture. Such systems, devices, and methods are particularly suitable for production and characterization of radiopharmaceuticals.
US10895559B2
A system for sampling a sample material includes a probe which can have an outer probe housing with an open end. A liquid supply conduit within the housing has an outlet positioned to deliver liquid to the open end of the housing. The liquid supply conduit can be connectable to a liquid supply for delivering liquid at a first volumetric flow rate to the open end of the housing. A liquid exhaust conduit within the housing is provided for removing liquid from the open end of the housing. A liquid exhaust system can be provided for removing liquid from the liquid exhaust conduit at a second volumetric flow rate. A droplet dispenser can dispense drops of a sample or a sample-containing solvent into the open end of the housing. A sensor and a processor can be provided to monitor and maintain a liquid dome present at the open end.
US10895554B2
A conforming eddy current testing (ECT) probe for performing eddy current testing when placed on the surface of a test object. An eddy current array is fabricated on a flexible substrate. A shape metal alloy (SMA) piece is manufactured to have an original shape that conforms to the surface of the test object, and then affixed to the substrate. The SMA piece has as much or more flexibility than the substrate, so that it can be manipulated into position. Just prior to testing, the SMA piece is actuated to revert to its original shape.
US10895553B2
Provided is a gas sensor improving accuracy of detection of specific gas in measurement gas, while maintaining high responsiveness in detection of the specific gas. A sensor element of a gas sensor includes a first solid electrolyte and second solid electrolyte having oxygen ionic conductivity, a measurement gas chamber into which measurement gas is introduced, a first reference gas chamber and second reference gas chamber into which reference gas is introduced, a first pump cell, a second pump cell, a sensor cell, and a heater. The sensor cell detects a specific gas component in the measurement gas having an oxygen concentration adjusted by the pump cells. The heater is located opposite to a second principal surface of the second solid electrolyte on which the sensor cell is formed.
US10895551B2
A system for “signal-on” electrochemical detection of molecules of interest and to a method implementing said system.
US10895529B2
In order to distinguish between a deterioration in a received optical signal strength resulting from optical axis deviation, and a deterioration in the received optical signal strength due to the effects of dust and the like, this detecting system is provided with: a transmitter provided with a light emitting unit for transmitting a first optical signal and a second optical signal having mutually different wavelengths and divergence angles; and a receiver provided with a detecting unit for receiving the first and second optical signals and outputting a first reception signal indicating the reception strength of the first optical signal, and a second reception signal indicating the reception strength of the second optical signal, and an identification unit for determining a state of propagation of the first and second optical signals on the basis of an amount of variation in the first and second reception signals.
US10895526B2
The present disclosure relates to a measuring apparatus for analyzing a measuring medium. The measuring apparatus includes a probe housing, a radiation source, and coupling and decoupling optics. The optics have a measurement window in the probe housing to direct radiation of the radiation source into a measuring region outside the probe housing and including the measuring medium, and to block measuring radiation from the measuring region. Via the optics, a receiving device detects measuring radiation and generates output data. An additional physical or chemical sensor is integrated into the probe housing and is designed to detect a measurand of the measuring medium and output measurement signals. An electronic measurement unit is configured to collect and process the output data of the receiving device and the measurement signals of the additional physical or chemical sensor.
US10895519B2
Disclosed herein are systems, devices and methods for creep testing selected materials within a high-temperature molten salt environment. Exemplary creep testing systems include a load train for holding a test specimen under a load within a heated inert gas vessel. An extensometry system can be included to measure elongation of the test specimen while under load. The extensometry system can include fixed members and axially translating member that move along with the elongation of the test specimen, and the system can include a sensor to measure the relative axial motion between such components to measure elongation of the test specimen over time. The test specimen can include a cylindrical gage portion having an internal void filled with a molten salt during creep testing to simulate the corrosive effect of the molten salt on the specimen material during testing.
US10895513B2
A pressure detection signal processing device, engine control system, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program are provided. A current-voltage conversion part that converts a current signal corresponding to charge generated by a piezoelectric element in accordance with received pressure into a voltage signal, and digital signal processing parts that perform correction for removing a drift caused by a leakage current of the piezoelectric element on the voltage signal through digital signal processing are provided. The digital signal processing parts include a differentiation processing part that performs differentiation processing on the voltage signal, an integration processing part that performs integration processing on the signal having been subjected to the differentiation processing, and an integration processing part that further performs integration processing on the signal having been subjected to the integration processing.
US10895503B2
A bimodal optical spectroscopy device for producing spectra of autofluorescence and diffuse reflectance signals from a biological sample such as skin. Identified are: an excitation unit including a plurality of monochrome light-emitting diodes and a wideband pulsed lamp; a flexible optical probe including a distally arranged excitation optical fibre, at the centre of the flexible optical probe, to consecutively carry the excitation signals from each element of the excitation unit to the biological sample, and a plurality of distally arranged receiving optical fibres arranged in concentric circles around the excitation optical fibre to carry signals coming from the sample; a detection unit including a plurality of spectrometers, each receiving signals from receiving optical fibres arranged on a single circle in the optical probe; a filter wheel for eliminating excitation signals; and a processing unit for controlling the excitation and detection units and for synchronizing between the units during measurements.
US10895499B2
A spectrometer includes a light conduit configured to align scattered light scattered in a target by light output from a light source into a collimated beam, and a beam block configured to restrict an angle of the scattered light and detect the scattered light via the light conduit or the beam block through a filter array and a detector, thereby achieving miniaturization in a pen type or a flat plate shape while maintaining a spectral characteristic.
US10895491B2
It is an object to provide an animal weight estimation system, an animal weight estimation method, and a program, for suppressing increase of cost and improving safety when measuring a weight of an animal. An animal weight estimation system 1 for estimating a weight of an animal captures the animal, acquires outline data or a feature amount of the animal from a captured image which is captured, measures a distance between the animal and an image capturing position of the animal and estimates a weight of the animal from the acquired outline data and the measured distance when the outline data are acquired, and estimates the weight of the animal form the acquired feature amount when the feature amount is acquired.
US10895489B2
The present disclosure includes a method for monitoring the condition of a component of an electromechanical resonator having a piezoelectrical element which can be excited to mechanical vibration using an electrical excitation signal and the mechanical vibrations of which can be received in the form of an incoming electrical signal. The method steps performed at a first point and a second point in time, including determining an amplification factor of the electromechanical resonator, determining a mechanical quality resonator, and establishing an electromechanical efficiency resonator at least from the amplification factor and the mechanical quality. A change over time in the electromechanical efficiency is calculated from the first point to the second point in time, the change over time in the electromechanical efficiency is compared with a pre-definable threshold, and a condition indicator is determined from the comparison.
US10895480B2
A sensor for measuring the flow rate of a fluid in a flow tube, the sensor comprising sensing means and a sensor body, wherein a portion of the sensing means is located within the sensor body and a first portion of the sensor body is arranged to fasten the sensor body to the flow tube such that the sensor is positioned for sensing the flow rate of the fluid in the flow tube.
US10895475B2
An angular position sensor includes a stator element with at least three coils, a rotor element rotatably mounted with respect to the stator element, and an evaluation unit configured to determine an angle of rotation between the rotor element and stator element. The rotor element is configured to inductively couple with each of the at least three coils with varying strengths based on the angle of rotation. The evaluation unit is further configured to supply the coils with alternating voltage in a cyclical manner and in sequence, so that a first respective part of the coils is supplied with alternating voltage and a remaining part is de-energized. The evaluation unit is additionally configured, in a cyclical manner in sequence with one or more de-energized coils, to detect at least one of a respective phase and an amount of an induced alternating voltage, and to determine the angle of rotation therefrom.
US10895471B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for educating vehicle drivers. Auto insurance claim data may be analyzed to identify hazardous areas associated with an abnormally high amount or severity of vehicle collisions. A virtual navigation map of roads within the hazardous areas may be built or generated. A common cause of several vehicle collisions at a hazardous area may be identified, and a virtual reconstruction of a scenario involving the common cause and/or a road map of collisions locations of may be created. The virtual reconstruction of the scenario may be displayed on a driver education virtual simulator to enhance driver education and reduce the likelihood of vehicle collisions.
US10895446B2
Examples are disclosed that relate to a disposable cover for an object, wherein the cover includes a passive sensing circuit loop. The sensing circuit loop is configured to inductively couple with a reusable sensor readout device that provides power and signal processing. The reusable sensor readout device wirelessly measures a sensor element printed as part of the sensing circuit loop through the inductively coupled channel. In one example, a disposable glove for a human hand includes a sensing circuit loop printed on the disposable glove.
US10895439B2
A modular armor system configured to be readily attached and detached from a frame surrounding a window in a vehicle or other structure, such as a building. The modular armor system may be configured to provide any desired ballistics protection rating. In one embodiment, the modular armor system includes a ballistics-grade armor panel having an outer strike face and an inner surface opposite the outer strike face. The modular armor system also includes a fastener coupled to the ballistics-grade armor panel. The fastener is configured to detachably couple the ballistics-grade armor panel to the frame surrounding the window in the vehicle or other structure.
US10895438B1
A high-speed projectile barrier is disclosed. The barrier includes a core structure and a layer or layers of insulation around the core, surrounded by outer skins. The core is made from liquid material that flows at room temperature and that solidifies at cryogenic temperatures, and filler material. The filler may be, e.g., cellulose, carbon nanotubes, carbon nanofibers, or other high-strength polymeric fibers. Other contemplated filler materials include natural or artificial, layered silicate minerals. A viscosity-enhancing additive may be included. A heat transfer element runs through or around the core and is used to freeze (i.e., solidify) the core. The layers of insulation may be vacuum layers and/or layers of foam rubber, aerogel, glass fiber insulation, or other suitable materials.
US10895436B2
A gun sight clamping system utilizes a resilient device and an over-center cam to attach a gun sight to the rail of a gun. The body of the clamping system is clamped to the rail using a clamping mechanism on one side of the assembly and a resilient device on the other side of the assembly. The resilient device operates in a direction parallel to the clamping direction. A cross bar connects the clamping mechanism to the resilient device and provides a means to squeeze the body of the mount to the rail. As the lever is closed, the cam drives the cross bar, pulling the clamping mechanism against the rail. The resilient device allows the cam to move to an over-center position wherein the unit resists loosening during operation. Once the over-center position is achieved, the spring force of the resilient device holds the cam in the closed position.
US10895434B2
The present invention relates to target acquisition and related devices, and more particularly to telescopic gunsights and associated equipment used to achieve shooting accuracy at, for example, close ranges, medium ranges and extreme ranges at stationary and moving targets.
US10895431B1
A thumb trigger-type archery release includes a trigger that is configured to be pressed by the thumb of an archer to actuate the archery release. The position of the trigger relative to the body of the archery release can be adjusted by the archer via a thumb trigger adjustment mechanism that is part of the archery release. The thumb trigger adjustment mechanism enables fast and convenient positioning of the trigger by loosening and tightening only one fastening member.
US10895430B2
An upper receiver assembly for a firearm having an upper receiver with an integral barrel nut, a handguard assembly and a barrel nut assembly with a barrel and lock nut is provided. The barrel is received by the upper receiver and is secured directly to the upper receiver using the lock nut. The upper receiver also includes an integral handguard mounting member to which the handguard assembly may be directly attached. The upper receiver assembly allows the user to attach both the barrel and handguard assemblies directly to the upper receiver, independently of one another.
US10895427B2
A loadable ammunition magazine for use with a sporting firearm includes a housing defining a cartridge-loading compartment and a follower compartment, a cover that alternately covers and reveals the cartridge-loading compartment, and a follower that urges cartridges in the cartridge-loading compartment towards a mouth of the magazine. A locking assembly prevents the magazine from being detached from the lower receiver of the firearm without disassembly of the firearm action designed for use with AK-47-style rifles having stamped receivers, the locking assembly comprises a locking bar including a horizontal lower flange that is secured by a threaded fastener to the top wall of the magazine housing and a horizontal upper flange that rests on the cross rivet of the receiver. In another embodiment, designed for use with AK-47-style rifles having machined receivers, the locking assembly comprises a locking bar including a horizontal upper flange that is secured by a threaded fastener to the top wall of the magazine housing and a horizontal lower flange that rests on the bottom wall of the receiver.
US10895423B2
The invention relates to a firearm comprising a housing (1) with a rigid barrel (2) arranged therein, a magazine that can be mounted in the receptacle of the housing (1) and provided with cartridges (4), a closure (3) that can be moved with respect to the housing (1) in the longitudinal direction of the barrel (2) and that is used to guide cartridges (4) from the magazine into a cartridge holder (5) or for ejecting empty cartridge cases. The closure (3) is mounted completely inside the housing (1) over its entire movement path. A sear frame (6) is coupled to the closure (3) which is tensioned by means of a closing spring (7) in the direction of the front closed position of the closure (3). The invention also relates to a locking block (8) coupled to the closure (3) when the closure is in the front closed position. The locking block (8) can be tensioned by a locking spring (9) in the direction of said position, and the locking block (8) can be moved when triggering a shot through the closure (3) by compressing the locking spring (9) only for one part of the movement path of the closure (3) until the decoupling position is reached together with the closure (3).
US10895417B2
A method and apparatus for the production of air gases by the cryogenic separation of air with front end purification and air compression can include using an available compressed dry gas such as nitrogen, oxygen, stored purified air, or synthetic air to repressurize the adsorber without diverting any of the purified air just exiting the currently on-line adsorber or changing the flow rate of the main air compressor or air sent to the cold box. This enables the main air compressor (MAC) to operate at a relatively constant flow rate while also sending a relatively constant air flow to the cold box during this repressurization step, thereby reducing the risks of process upsets and minimizing capital expenditures related to the MAC and other warm-end equipments.
US10895414B2
A drawer assembly for a laboratory instrument comprises a drawer loaded with a magazine. The drawer assembly comprises a frame comprising a portion adjacent the drawer that extends in a longitudinal direction. The drawer moves relative to the frame between a retracted position and an extended position. The frame comprises a path having a first portion and a second portion below the first portion. The drawer assembly comprises a rolling element moveable in the path and a lifting mechanism to lift the rolling element from a second portion to a first portion when the drawer is in the retracted position. The path is configured such that the rolling element is located in the first portion and contacts the drawer when the drawer is moved from the retracted position to the extended position and that the rolling element enters the second portion exclusively when the drawer is in the extended position.
US10895409B2
An energy storage system is disclosed. The energy storage system includes a turbo train drive, a hot heat sink, and a reservoir. The turbo train drive is in mechanical communication with a compressor and an expander. The hot heat sink is in thermal communication between an output of the compressor and an input of the expander. The reservoir is in thermal communication between an output of the expander and an input of the compressor. The compressor and the expander, via the turbo train drive, are operable between a charging function for charging the hot heat sink and a discharging function for discharging the hot heat sink.
US10895405B2
The present disclosure is directed to a tankless water heater and systems and methods of using the same. The tankless water heater embodiments of the present disclosure can be configured to have a plurality of independently operable heat exchangers that can be used individually or collectively, in any combination, to heat water based on the level of demand for hot water. Embodiments can be configured for randomly selecting which heat exchangers are used to heat the incoming water. Embodiments of the present disclosure can also be configured to flow water through heat exchangers that are not being used to heat water and direct such water to a recirculation loop.
US10895403B2
An electric heating device for heating fluids, comprising a housing, inlet and outlet connection pieces arranged at inlet and outlet openings of the housing, respectively, a flow path in the housing through which the fluid to be heated flows leading from the inlet connection piece to the outlet connection piece, and an electric heating unit attached to the housing. The flow path comprises inlet and outlet chambers and at least two flow channels running side by side from the inlet to the outlet chambers. A separating wall separates two flow channels from one another. Each flow channel has an inlet section connected to the inlet chamber and defining an inlet flow direction and an outlet section connected to the outlet chamber and defining an outlet flow direction. The inlet connection piece is oriented in the inlet flow direction and/or the outlet connection piece is oriented in the outlet flow direction.
US10895398B2
An embodiment includes an air conditioner, including: a housing including an ambient side and an enclosure side, where the enclosure side faces an enclosure to be cooled by the air conditioner; the ambient side including an interface that fits in a flush-mounted configuration with respect to a wall of the enclosure to be cooled, whereby the entire air conditioner is disposed within the enclosure. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10895397B2
An HVAC controller includes a first input terminal configured to be electrically coupled with a first field wire and a second input terminal configured to be electrically coupled with a second field wire, and a double pole relay including two input terminals and two output terminals. Control circuitry is operably coupled to the temperature sensor and the double pole relay and is configured to determine whether the first field wire is electrically coupled with the first input terminal and whether the second field wire is electrically coupled with the second input terminal.
US10895395B2
An air-conditioner remote controller in an air conditioner system that includes the air-conditioner remote controller and an air conditioner that performs air-conditioning control using room temperature information received from the air-conditioner remote controller, includes: a storage unit to store room temperature information that is information on room temperature measured by a plurality of temperature sensors and store schedule information that sets, for each time zone, a temperature sensor to measure a room temperature to be used as room temperature information in the air-conditioning control of the air conditioner; and a control unit to perform control such that the room temperature information from the set temperature sensor is acquired from the storage unit and the acquired room temperature information is transmitted to the air conditioner in accordance with the schedule information.
US10895393B2
A variable refrigerant flow (VRF) system for a building includes a plurality of outdoor VRF units configured to heat or cool a refrigerant for use in heating or cooling the building and an extremum-seeking controller. The extremum-seeking controller is configured to determine a total power consumption of the plurality of outdoor VRF units, generate a pressure setpoint for the plurality of outdoor VRF units using an extremum-seeking control technique that drives the total power consumption toward an extremum, and use the pressure setpoint to operate the plurality of outdoor VRF units.
US10895386B2
An extractor hood has a box body, an extractor fan with at least one inlet in communication with an internal chamber of the box body, a delivery fan with an inlet in communication with the internal chamber of the box body and a delivery outlet in communication with a delivery conduit, a distributor disposed at the end of the delivery conduit. The distributor has an annular body and a plurality of deflector fins that protrude from the internal surface of the annular body in such a way to generate at least one vortex-shaped flow that rotates around the axis of the distributor under the distributor and in front of the opening of the base portion of the box body through which fumes are extracted.
US10895382B2
The invention discloses a system for effecting a control strategy in a reactive flow field of a turbulent flow system. The system is configured to analyze flow field properties such as velocity, heat release rate, or mixture fraction of a device during the onset of the oscillatory instability using measures from complex network theory such as betweenness centrality, degree, or closeness. The system identifies critical regions in the flow field responsible for the oscillatory instability. Further, the system also identifies optimal control strategies to avoid the onset of oscillatory instabilities by analyzing the relative strength of various network parameters and thereby controlling oscillatory instabilities which are detrimental to the fluid dynamic system. The disclosed method and system provide for optimization of control of oscillatory instabilities in fluid dynamic systems.
US10895380B2
A method for oxidizing a waste stream having hydrogen therein includes flowing the waste stream with hydrogen into an oxidant stream for mixing the streams in a proportion for providing a mixture below lower flammability limits (LFL), including the LFL of hydrogen; and introducing the mixed streams into a ceramic matrix bed of a flameless thermal oxidizer maintained at a temperature above auto-ignition temperature of the mixture. A related apparatus is also provided.
US10895375B2
An LED heat dissipation structure includes a heat sink, a cover plate, and an air blowing device. The heat sink has fins. Gaps between the fins form a plurality of continuous air flow channels, and air discharge ends of the air flow channels (16) extend to a peripheral surface of the heat sink. The cover plate covers the fins, closes openings of the airflow channels at tip portions of the fins, and partially bulges and forms an air inlet chamber communicating with the air flow channels. The air blowing device forcibly blows air into the air inlet chamber.
US10895371B2
The present invention provides a lighting device in which a planar light-emitting panel is supported by, and can be easily attached to and detached from, a support member. The support member has a support side engagement part and covers a large part of a feeding wiring line. The lighting panel has a planar light-emitting panel and a mounting member. The planar light-emitting panel is attachable to the mounting member and has a panel side engagement part on its rear surface. The mounting member is fixable to the support member, and has first and second attaching side engagement parts. The first attaching side engagement part can engage the support side engagement part in a direction substantially orthogonal to the support member at a position overlapping with the planar light-emitting panel. The second attaching side engagement part can engage the panel side engagement part in the orthogonal direction.
US10895369B2
A flashlight assembly includes a body having a head portion at one end and an opposing tapered tail portion and a clamping assembly on a bottom side of the body. The tail portion of the body tapers rearwardly towards a tail end thereof and downwardly from an upper side towards the bottom side, such that the tail end of the tail portion merges with the bottom side of the body and forms an inclined contoured surface extending from the bottom side to the top side. A contoured switch is mounted within the inclined angled surface of the tapered tail portion, and includes a safety bail pivotably movable to selectively mechanically impede operation of the switch.
US10895367B1
A decorative light system including a decorative light assembly and a light fixture assembly is disclosed. The decorative light assembly includes a decorative design that may be customized as per the wishes of the user. Thereby allowing the user to express their creativity and personality. The decorative design may include lighting to illuminate the decorative design and the surrounding area. The decorative design includes a screw in power cord that is connected to an existing light socket of a light fixture. Depending upon the decorative design, the lighting illuminates the entire decorative design, an outline of the decorative design or select parts of the decorative design. Once connected, the decorative design is secured to the light fixture with fastening members. This then allows the user to decorate the lights around their home, both indoors and outdoors. The decorative light system allows for quick and easy beautification.
US10895360B2
A vehicle lamp includes a projection lens and a plurality of light emitting elements arranged in parallel in a required direction behind the projection lens, and is configured to irradiate light emitted from each of the light emitting elements toward a front side through the projection lens. A plurality of diffusing lens elements that diffuse the light emitted from each of the light emitting elements in the required direction are provided on a front surface and/or a rear surface of the projection lens in a stripe shape to extend in a direction orthogonal to the required direction when viewed from the front side of the lamp.
US10895358B2
A laser light source apparatus includes a laser diode, a first optical assembly having one or more lenses for generating a collimated laser beam from light emitted by the laser diode, a doped microstructured glass block configured to generate laser emissions at at least a first wavelength and a second wavelength when pumped by the collimated laser beam, an input beam lens for focusing the collimated laser beam onto an input surface of the microstructured glass block, an optical alignment assembly, an output light guiding assembly, and a housing for containing and supporting the optical alignment assembly and the output light guiding assembly.
US10895350B2
A light-emitting device package includes a metalized substrate, a light-emitting diode (LED) die, and a single primary optic. The metalized substrate includes a top surface, pads on the top surface, and traces extending from the pads. The LED die is mounted on the pads of the metalized substrate. The LED die includes individually addressable segments. Each segment includes one or more junctions. The primary optic is located over the LED die.
US10895349B2
Nanoparticles may be used in the formulation of long chain poly-alpha-olefins, commercially known as Drag Reducer Additives (“DRA”). These nanoparticles may be embedded in the original DRA formulation and/or added at some point in the pipeline application so they can then be used to destroy the DRA polymer by cleaving, interrupting or restructuring the DRA or otherwise breaking its bonds or to agglomerate or coagulate the polymer so it can be removed mechanically or chemically.
US10895348B2
A pressure vessel mounting structure (10) includes a plurality of bands (11) made of a composite material cured about the exterior surface (35) of the pressure vessel (30) to form an integral part of the vessel. The bands (11) may be spaced apart from one another to form a crisscrossing helical grid pattern with opposing ends (21) of the bands extending past a respective end (31) of the pressure vessel (30) and toward a longitudinal centreline (33) of the pressure vessel (30) to form a skirt (17). The skirt (17) provides mounting mounts (15) as well as a vertical standing mount for the vessel.
US10895346B2
A pressure vessel, comprising: a vessel body having a rectangular parallelepiped shape for containing high pressure gas; a dividing wall in the form of a plate and disposed in the vessel body; and a plurality of ribs disposed on an outer surface of the vessel body. The vessel body includes: a top wall having a rectangular shape; a bottom wall having a rectangular shape and facing the top wall; and a surrounding wall joining a peripheral edge of the top wall and a peripheral edge of the bottom wall. The dividing wall is disposed in the vessel body to define a first chamber having a rectangular parallelepiped shape and a second chamber having a rectangular parallelepiped shape in cooperation with the vessel body. Each of the plurality of ribs extends over an entire circumference of the vessel body and along a plane perpendicularly intersecting the dividing wall.
US10895343B2
The jack stand assembly includes a coupling plate with a plurality of openings for receiving the lugs of a wheel hub to fixedly attach the coupling plate with the wheel hub. The coupling plate is operably supported by a support structure which has an adjustable height. The support structure is configured to rotate about a vertical axis to allow the wheel hub to be rotated in a steering motion when the wheel hub is fixedly attached with the coupling plate. A bearing assembly is interposed between the coupling plate and the support structure to allow the wheel hub to rotate about a horizontal axis.
US10895342B2
A composite article has an increased peel strength and includes a first layer including a low surface energy polymer. The composite article also includes a poly(meth)acrylate layer, an epoxide layer, and a polyurethane elastomer layer. The poly(meth)acrylate layer is disposed on and in direct contact with the first layer. Moreover, the poly(meth)acrylate layer includes a poly(meth)acrylate that includes the reaction product of at least one (meth)acrylate that is polymerized in the presence of an organoborane initiator. The epoxide layer is disposed on and in direct contact with the poly(meth)acrylate layer. The polyurethane elastomer layer is disposed on and in direct contact with the epoxide layer. The composite article has a 90° peel strength of at least 50 pli measured using ASTM D6862.
US10895335B2
A hose made from a composition including one or more of EPR, EPDM, a silane-grafted polyolefin and a silicone-modified polyolefin; and one or more of fibers, polyamide powder, and ultra high molecular weight polyethylene powder. A hose comprising an outermost layer formed from a composition comprising: (A) at least one of EPR, EPDM, a silane-grafted polyolefin and a silicone-modified polyolefin; and (B) at least one of an ultra high molecular weight polyethylene powder, a polyamide powder, and fibers.
US10895332B2
An apparatus and a method of extracting buried lead water supply pipe with minimal excavation and which allows removal and containment of the lead pipe. The extraction apparatus includes a frame having an upwardly extending mast, a guide pulley mounted on the frame, and a pulling apparatus. A take-up spool is mounted on the mast between the guide pulley and pulling apparatus and positioned to allow a pipe pulling cable to be wrapped therearound into a non-linear path between the guide pulley and the pulling apparatus. Extracted pipe is pulled into the non-linear path until the pipe is fully extracted from the ground. Multiple spiral loops around the take-up spool by the pulling cable may be necessary to fully contain the extracted pipe. Following extraction, the pipe may be unspooled from the take-up spool, the pulling cable removed for re-use, and the pipe may then be sent for disposal.
US10895327B2
A liquid control valve assembly includes a main casing, three valve bodies and two plungers. The main casing has an external wall formed with an inlet and three outlets, defines a split-flow path, three valve chambers and a balanced channel therein such that the split-flow path is in communication with said inlet and said valve chambers while said balanced channel is in communication with said valve chambers and said three outlets. The valve bodies are disposed in the valve chambers respectively while the plungers are disposed in the balanced channel to move independently so that the liquid can be discharged stably from the outlets.
US10895326B2
A control valve includes a valve housing, a joint member, a valve body, and a sealing tube member. A seal ring, which receives a liquid pressure inside the valve housing and comes into tight contact with the joint member and the sealing tube member, is provided between the joint member and the sealing tube member. The sealing tube member has a biasing pressure receiving surface receiving the liquid pressure inside the valve housing in a direction along a direction of the valve body. The seal ring is disposed at a position where the sealing tube member is not pressurized in the direction of the valve body. An area of a valve sliding contact surface is set to be larger than an area of the biasing pressure receiving surface.
US10895323B2
In the shaft sealing device according to one embodiment, a seal ring includes a machine-interior-side seal ring member, and a machine-exterior-side seal ring member. A ring gap is left between the machine-interior-side seal ring member and the machine-exterior-side seal ring member. A seal gap is left between an inner peripheral surface of the machine-interior-side seal ring member and an outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft and between an inner peripheral surface of the machine-exterior-side seal ring member and the outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft. The inner peripheral surface of the machine-interior-side seal ring member is a flat surface that generally follows along the outer peripheral surface of the rotary shaft, and a groove extending along a direction of rotation of the rotary shaft is formed in the inner peripheral surface of the machine-exterior-side seal ring member.
US10895316B2
A single axis driving system includes a housing with a central portion defining a cavity and a pair of parallel spaced apart flanges formed as an integral part. Coaxial openings are formed through the flanges to define a mounting structure for an axle rotatably mounted in the coaxial openings. An opening is formed between the flanges in the surface of the central portion extending into the cavity. A gear plate is affixed to the axle and positioned to extend through the opening into the cavity for limited rotation with the axle. The gear plate has an arcuate set of gear teeth positioned along a periphery thereof. A driving gear is rotatably mounted in the housing so as to mesh with the arcuate set of gear teeth and a drive motor is mounted on the housing and attached to the driving gear for rotation of the driving gear.
US10895309B2
Disclosed herein is a screw assembly comprising an internal re-circulating path for re-circulating lubricant fluid between a threaded screw shaft and seals provided at the ends of the screw assembly via internal chambers provided within the seals and passages formed within the nut. Also disclosed are seals for use within such assemblies.
US10895294B2
This disc rotor has a hat portion having a cylindrical portion and a sliding plate portion having an insertion hole into which the cylindrical portion is inserted, being connected together with the hat portion in a state in which the cylindrical portion protrudes from the insertion hole. The coupling is achieved by pinching an inner peripheral edge of the sliding plate portion between a first portion and a second portion that are formed in the cylindrical portion. The second portion is formed by plastically deforming an outer peripheral side of the cylindrical portion toward the first portion.
US10895286B2
A polygonal coupling couples torque source to a torque consumer such that input and output portions of the coupling may elastically rotate relative to one another during torque transfer to accommodate rotational speed variations in delivery of torque from the torque source. In an embodiment the torque source is an internal combustion engine with an integrated switchable coupling between the engine crankshaft and a torque transfer segment supporting a motor-generator. The polygonal coupling includes axially-overlapping polygonal-shaped male and female portions which cooperate to pass torque between the output of the integrated switchable coupling and an input of the torque transfer segment. At least one of the male and female portions includes recesses which form flexible arms adjacent to the lobes of the polygonal shape that allow the portions to rotate relative to one another over small angular displacements, and thereby improve damping of crankshaft rotational vibrations.
US10895274B2
Material flow amplifiers as disclosed herein overcome drawbacks associated with known adverse flow conditions (e.g., surface erosion and head losses) that arise from flow of certain types of materials (e.g., fluids, slurries, particulates, flowable aggregate, and the like) through a material flow conduit. Such material flow amplifiers provide for flow of flowable material within a flow passage of a material flow conduit (e.g., a portion of a pipeline, tubing or the like) to have a cyclonic flow (i.e., vortex or swirling) profile. Advantageously, the cyclonic flow profile centralizes flow toward the central portion of the flow passage, thereby reducing magnitude of laminar flow. Such cyclonic flow profile provides a variety of other advantages as compared to a parabolic flow profile (e.g., increased flow rate, reduce inner pipeline wear, more uniform inner pipe wear, reduction in energy consumption, reduced or eliminated slugging and the like).
US10895269B2
A double acting hydraulic pressure intensifier (1) is described comprising a housing (2), a first piston arrangement (7) having a first high pressure piston (8) in a first high pressure chamber (3) in the housing (2) and a first low pressure piston (9) in a first low pressure chamber (5) of the housing (2), a second piston arrangement (10), having a second high pressure piston (11) in a second high pressure chamber (4) in the housing (2) and a second low pressure piston (12) in a second low pressure chamber (6) in the housing (2), and a switching valve (14) having a valve element (15). Such a pressure intensifier should be made compact. To this end the switching valve (14) is located between the first piston arrangement (7) and the second piston arrangement (10).
US10895259B2
This disclosure relates generally to economized screw compressors. Particularly, this synchronized economizer ports on both the female and the male rotor sides of a compressor housing. The economizer ports simultaneously provide gas to a compression chamber formed by male and female rotors. The synchronized male side and female side economizer ports are configured to open and close at opening and closing angles, respectively. The opening angles and the closing angles each differ by at most half of an angular width of a male lobe of the compressor.
US10895255B2
A reciprocating type compressor may include a crank shaft that is coupled to a rotor of a motor to receive a rotational force and a connecting rod that is coupled to a pin of the crank shaft and converts a rotational force of the crank shaft into a linear motion of a piston. The connecting rod may include a first end having a tubular body that includes a pin insertion hole into which the pin of the crank shaft is inserted and a socket that projects from the tubular body, a second end coupled with the piston, and a main body that extends between the first end and the second end and having a ball that is received inside of the socket.
US10895250B1
The present invention is a solar powered emergency water pump system designed to be used in combination with a private water well system to provide water when a power outage or other failure disables the primary pump system. The invention is comprised of the following major components: a solar panel for gathering energy, a battery for storing energy for energy supply at night, a controller for converting and directing energy flow, a microprocessor for system control and diagnostics, a hydraulic pump, a submersible hydraulic motor and lifting pump, tubing or piping for water transfer and a container for storing the emergency water. The system is designed for the pump to run 24 hours a day supplying water at a low rate.
US10895247B2
A nacelle of a wind turbine includes a rear frame structure (1), the rear frame structure (1) having a plurality of truss members (2), and a plurality of joints (3), each joint (3) interconnecting ends of at least two truss members (2). Each joint (3) includes a central portion (6) and at least two connecting portions (7) extending away from the central portion (6), each connecting portion (7) being arranged to form an interface towards a truss member (2), and each connecting portion (7) being significantly more flexible than the central portion (6) and significantly more flexible than the truss members (2). The rear frame structure (1) is capable of improved handling of bending moments due to the increased flexibility of the connecting portions (7).
US10895246B2
The present invention relates to a control method and a wind turbine configured to determine a load signal of at least one component of the wind turbine, and to calculate a damage rate based on this load signal. The control method calculates and monitors the damage rate in real-time, wherein the damage rate is normalised by using a first function defining a first transition phase. A second function is afterwards applied to the normalised damage rate which defines a second transition phase. These transition phases allows for a smooth transition between different operating modes of the wind turbine. The control method may further change the power output of the wind turbine relative to the nominal power output when the output signal of the second function is determined to be stable over at least one time period.
US10895244B2
A rotor blade component for a wind turbine includes a first structural component, such as a spar cap, formed from a plurality of stacked pultruded members. A second structural component, such as a shear web, is fixed to the first structural component at a joint interface. One or more webs form the joint interface, wherein each of the webs has a first section bonded between at least two of the pultruded members in the first structural component and a second section extending across the joint interface and bonded onto or into the second structural component.
US10895242B2
To enable an increase in a torque amount applied to a blade with simple and low-cost means in a natural energy type power generator. An output reinforcement device of a power generator according to an embodiment is an output reinforcement device of a power generator including a rotor that includes at least one blade driven by renewable energy and a hub attached with the blade, the output reinforcement device including a casing that has a tubular shape and disposed to surround the hub, the casing having a through-hole through which the blade is inserted and being configured to rotate together with the rotor.
US10895231B2
A nozzle assembly for a fuel injector includes an injector housing having a casing and a stack within the casing, an outlet check movable within a nozzle cavity in the injector housing, and having a stop positioned within a stop cavity. A clearance is formed between the outlet check and the injector housing and fluidly connects a spring cavity to a stop cavity, and an anti-cavitation vent is formed in the stack and fluidly connects the spring cavity to a low pressure space. The anti-cavitation vent limits pressure changes in the spring cavity during fuel injection such that production of cavitation bubbles in the spring cavity is limited.
US10895221B2
The invention relates to a continuous detonation wave engine and aircraft provided with such an engine. The continuous detonation wave engine (1) operates with a detonation mixture of fuel and oxidant and includes, in particular, a detonation chamber (3) comprising an injection base (10), the length of which is defined along an open line (17), such as to form a detonation chamber (3) having an elongate form in a transverse plane, as well as an injection system (4) arranged such as to inject the fuel/oxidant so mixture into the detonation chamber (3) at at least one segment of the injection base (10).
US10895216B2
A controller of a control device of an internal combustion engine includes: a storage configured to store fuel pressure detected during injection of one port injection valve of port injection valves in association with another port injection valve, of the port injection valves, scheduled to inject fuel after one or two cycles of the fuel pressure pulsation elapsing from injection of the one port injection valve; and a calculator configured to calculate an energization period of the another port injection valve based on the stored fuel pressure.
US10895210B1
Disclosed is an engine drive system that uses an open-type regulator as a regulator that rectifies an output and adjusts a voltage of a magneto AC generator driven by an engine. A means is provided that performs a process of increasing an opening degree of an ISC valve for a limited amount of time when a load of the generator is applied, while the engine is idling. Temporarily increasing an output torque of the engine prevents a rotational speed of the engine from dramatically decreasing, or the engine from stalling, during idling.
US10895206B2
Methods and systems are provided for improving fuel economy by opportunistically lowering engine idle speed below a base idle speed when electrical loads are not present. A hydraulic brake pressure is increased when the idle speed is raised, in anticipation of vehicle propulsion. The brake pressure counteracts any creep torque and unintended vehicle acceleration resulting from the rising engine idle speed.
US10895203B2
A general purpose engine includes: a cooling fan fixed to an engine rotary shaft; a muffler to silence exhaust gases; a muffler covering to cover the muffler; and an auto choke device to control an opening of a choke valve in an air intake passage by the utilization of heat evolved from the muffler. The auto choke device includes: a drive source, which is fitted to the muffler covering in a non-contact fashion to the muffler and exposed to an outer surface of the muffler covering; and a link member to connect between the drive source and the choke valve. The drive source includes a bracket, which is fitted to the muffler covering, and a bimetal fitted inside the bracket. The bracket includes a heat shield extending towards an inner side of the muffler covering, and the heat shield blocks out a cooling wind then flowing towards the bimetal.
US10895198B2
A wastegate is provided in an exhaust bypass passage that allows exhaust gas to bypass a turbine wheel of an exhaust turbine-type forced-induction device. A required boost pressure is set in accordance with a running state of an engine. A controller is configured to control a drive force of the wastegate to a magnitude that achieves the required boost pressure when the required boost pressure is higher than a preset pressure, and control the drive force to a magnitude that achieves a higher boost pressure than the required boost pressure when the required boost pressure is less than or equal to the preset pressure.
US10895195B2
Apparatuses, systems and method for utilizing multi-zoned combustion chambers (and/or multiple combustion chambers) for achieving compression ignition (and/or spark-assisted or fuel-assisted compression ignition) in an internal combustion engine are provided. In addition, improved apparatuses, systems and methods for achieving and/or controlling compression ignition (and/or spark-assisted or fuel-assisted compression ignition) in a “Siamese cylinder” internal combustion engine are provided.
US10895187B2
An exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine according to the present disclosure obtains an electric resistance value of the electrically heated catalyst after the lapse of a predetermined period of time which is a period of time required for condensed water adhered to the electrically heated catalyst to finish evaporating from the start of energization of the electrically heated catalyst, and calculates a heat energy shortage amount which is an amount of heat energy insufficient for raising the temperature of the electrically heated catalyst to a predetermined temperature or above, based on a difference between the electric resistance value thus obtained and a predetermined reference resistance value. Then, the exhaust gas purification apparatus supplies to the electrically heated catalyst an amount of energy required to compensate for the heat energy shortage amount.
US10895185B2
This delivery module includes: a pump for making the liquid flow; and an electronic circuit for controlling the pump. The delivery module further includes a channeling block having two channeling elements which define, when they are superimposed, channels for the liquid and which include: an inlet channel and an outlet channel.
US10895178B2
An actuator for a cam phaser, wherein the cam phaser includes a hydraulic valve that is adjustable by the actuator, wherein the actuator is receivable at a housing section by at least one form locking connection, wherein the at least one form locking connection includes a first form element pair and a second form element pair, wherein the first form element pair includes a first stop and the second form element pair includes a second stop, and wherein the first stop and the second stop are oriented in opposite directions of rotation of the actuator.
US10895167B2
A turbine may include a blade coupled to a rotor, a vane upstream from the blade and coupled to a vane support that defines a metering hole, and a blade outer air seal disposed radially outward from the blade and downstream from the vane support. An impingement surface may be disposed between the vane support and the blade outer air seal. The impingement surface may be oriented at an angle to the metering hole of between 50 degrees and 5 degrees.
US10895164B2
A method for reducing the leakage of an organic working fluid operating within a turbine (10) of an Organic Rankine Cycle system, the method comprising the injection of a fluid flow rate (Q) into a volume (I) at a static pressure lower than the total pressure (P1) upstream of the turbine and located near of at least one labyrinth seal (L1, L11) of at least one stage of the turbine (10), said fluid flow rate (Q) having an initial exergetic content lower than the initial exergetic content of the organic working fluid located inside the turbine and flowing through said labyrinth seal (L1, L11).
US10895156B2
A turbomachine arrangement having a platform cooling device for a blade positioned at a platform of the blade. The cooling device's peripheral edge is in contact with the platform; a first surface portion forms a first cavity between the cooling device and platform and has impingement holes to impinge onto the platform; a second surface portion forms a second cavity between the cooling device and platform; a barrier in contact with the platform forms a connection between two sections of the edge and fluidically separates the first and second cavity. The cooling device is connected at the edge to the blade so the first and second cavity are formed between the cooling device and blade. The blade has a supply passage, connecting a hollow core and the second cavity for supplying cooling fluid to the second cavity and the first cavity is supplied with cooling fluid via the impingement holes.
US10895149B2
A borehole resistivity distribution system includes a cable having an array of transmitters along a shared conductive loop. Each of the transmitters is coupled to a corresponding frequency-dependent material or device. An application of a first drive signal to the cable excites the transmitters, to obtain a first measurement, the first drive signal having a first frequency and a first amplitude. An application of a second drive signal to the cable excites the transmitters, to obtain a second measurement, the second drive signal having a second frequency and a second amplitude. At least the first frequency is different from the second frequency, or the first amplitude is different from the second amplitude. The system further includes a processor coupled to receive the first and second measurements, to derive, based at least in part on the measurements, a resistivity distribution around a borehole.
US10895148B2
A tracer method for online monitoring of downhole zonal contributions of oil, condensate, gas, or water mass flux of a production flow in a petroleum production well, includes arranging distinct tracer carrier systems, each in different production zones in said well, the distinct tracer carrier systems arranged for releasing unique tracers to a fluid of the production zones, the tracers having affinity after downhole release to separate phases of oil, condensate, gas, or water, using an online tracer monitor, conducting sampling of tracer concentrations for at least one of the tracers in said zonal mass fluxes at a high sampling rate, based on said concentration values, estimating the corresponding zonal tracer fluxes for each delivery data point and using said one or more estimated zonal mass fluxes to control one or more Petro Technical processes.
US10895143B2
A method includes providing a Bottom Hole Assembly (BHA) in a wellbore. The BHA includes a rotary steerable system and a downhole attitude correction and control system. The downhole correction and control system includes a first sensor set, the sensors of the first sensor set positioned near ferromagnetic components of a drill string and a second sensor set, the sensors of the second sensor set positioned further from the ferromagnetic components of the drill string than the sensors of the first sensor set. Corrupted data from the first sensor set and reference data from the second sensor set is obtained, the corrupted data including cross-axis magnetometer and accelerometer measurements. The method additionally includes correcting the corrupted sensor data to form corrected sensor measurements and calculating an estimated azimuth from the corrected sensor measurements. The method further includes steering the rotary steerable system based on the estimated azimuth.
US10895142B2
Methods and apparatus for controlling drill string rotation. The apparatus may be a control system for controlling a driver operable to rotate a drill string to form a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation. The control system may include a first controller operable to control rotation of the driver and a second controller communicatively connected with the first controller. During the drilling operations the first and/or second controller may be operable to generate a rotational speed command based on status information indicative of operational status of the drill string, and thereby cause the driver to rotate the drill string based on the rotational speed command.
US10895139B2
A frac manifold isolation tool configured to connect to a zipper spool, and comprising a mandrel that is axially movable and a hydraulic setting tool configured to move the mandrel from an open position, in which fracturing fluid is allowed to flow from a zipper spool to a connected frac tree, to a closed position, in which the mandrel and its associated cup tool prevent fracturing fluid from flowing to the connected frac tree.
US10895135B2
A wellbore jet pump includes a nozzle body with a tapering nozzle passage therein and a pump body with a main passage that receives the nozzle body therein so as to define within the main passage (i) an intake section surrounding the nozzle body, (ii) a mixing section immediately above the nozzle body, and (iii) a diffuser section diverging upwardly from the mixing section. A bypass conduit directs a working fluid downwardly alongside the pump body and upwardly into one of the nozzle passage or the intake section so that produced fluids are drawn into the other one of the nozzle passage or the intake section for subsequent mixing of the working fluid and the produced fluid in the mixing section. In this manner both the working and produced fluids are accelerated before entering the mixing section to increase pump efficiency.
US10895132B2
Methods and systems for predicting well site production are disclosed, including a computer system comprising one or more processor and a non-transitory computer memory storing processor readable instructions that when executed by the one or more processor cause the one or more processor to receive image data of a geographic region around and including a well site; receive well site location data of a location of the well site; analyze well site data to determine well pad location data of a location of a well pad including an area of observation extending beyond and around a well site; determine pixel data of the well pad within the image data for a particular time from the well pad location data; and analyze the pixel data of the well pad for a particular time to determine a volume of flared gas based on the pixel data.
US10895131B2
A method, apparatus, and program product utilize a probabilistic approach to identify areas of interest from multiple realizations of a reservoir model to drive well placement planning under uncertainty. A combined probability map may be generated from opportunity maps generated for multiple reservoir model realizations such that a probability value in various entries of the probability map represents a probability of opportunity values stored in corresponding entries of the opportunity maps meeting an opportunity criterion. One or more areas of interest may then be identified from the probability map.
US10895130B2
A shifting tool for use in a wellbore includes a tubular housing having a bore formed therethrough; a tubular mandrel disposed in the housing and longitudinally movable relative thereto; and an engagement member moveable relative to the housing between an extended position, a released position, and a retracted position, wherein: the engagement member is movable from the retracted position to the extended position in response to movement of the mandrel relative to the housing, and the engagement member is further movable from the extended position to the released position in response to movement of the mandrel relative to the housing.
US10895121B2
A method of monitoring the state of a choke valve in a managed pressure drilling system using a valve state parameter to represent the state of the choke valve includes measuring the flow rate of a material across the choke valve, measuring the pressure differential of the material across the choke valve, obtaining a valve characteristic of the choke valve, and calculating the valve state parameter using the flow rate, the pressure differential and the valve characteristic.
US10895117B2
System and methods for completing a subterranean well include a casing string, the casing string being an elongated tubular member formed of successive casing joints and having a central axis. A plurality of ribs are secured to the casing string, the ribs being elongated members spaced circumferentially around an outer diameter of the casing string. The ribs extend axially from a downhole end of a casing joint to an uphole end of the casing joint.
US10895109B2
A step extension assembly for a tree stand includes a ladder having rungs supported by at least one ladder rail. A bracket frame including attachment portions is attached to the at least one ladder rail. A step base is attached to the bracket frame. The step base includes a stepping surface for supporting a foot of a user. The step base is positioned laterally outboard relative to the at least one ladder rail providing an extended support for a user when entering and exiting the tree stand.
US10895095B2
A closure latch assembly for a vehicular closure system equipped with a latch cinch mechanism for providing a cinching feature and which is configured to retain a ratchet of a latch mechanism in a secondary striker capture position such that the latch mechanism is only required to hold the ratchet in a primary striker capture position.
US10895086B2
A pool cleaning robot that has a water jet electrohydraulic motorized propulsion/pump unit and a waste-collecting body having a battery for powering the unit, the unit and the battery being contained inside a rotary and sealed turret, external to the body of the robot. The robot advantageously has an automatic direction reversing device having a vane secured to the turret with a first end stop and second end stops.
US10895077B2
The present disclosure relates generally to siding, for example, suitable for covering a wall surface. The present disclosure relates more particularly to a frame for a wall panel. The frame includes a support strip extending in a lateral direction across the width of the wall panel and has first and second ends. The frame also includes a row of columns extending in a first direction from the support strip. Each column includes a proximal end attached to the support strip and a free distal end. The row of columns includes a first column disposed at a first end of the row of columns and laterally offset from the first end of the support strip, and a second column disposed at a second end of the row of columns and laterally offset from the second end of the support strip.
US10895073B2
The present invention provides a device configured to effectively absorb repeated shock energy such as a vibration shock by using a composite tube, and the present invention has advantageous effects in that the shock energy caused by a tensile or compressive shock load may be effectively absorbed by the composite tube, and the shock energy absorption device may be applied to a building and used as a vibration control device capable of preparing for repeated earthquakes.
US10895071B2
A structural frame for a building, comprising: adjacent first and second columns; at least one precast concrete floor slab having first and second corner indents located in two adjacent corners and a first elongated edge beam defined between the first and second corner indents, the first elongated edge beam being disposed between the first and second columns such that the first and second columns are received in the first and second corner indents and that the first elongated edge beam abuts the first and second columns; and a first tendon assembly extending between the first and second columns and adapted to be tensioned to compress the first elongated edge beam between the first and second columns, the first tendon assembly including at least one left cable and at least one right cable located symmetrically on either sides of a vertical center plane of the first and second columns.
US10895069B1
An automatic flush toilet includes a toilet stool with a toilet bowl, a water tank unit, a first discharge member, a second discharge member, a pipe unit, a flush valve, a manual actuating unit, an electric switching valve, and a sensor control unit. The electric switching valve is controlled by the sensor control unit to permit water discharged from the first discharge member to flush the toilet bowl. The flush valve is controlled by the manual actuating unit to permit water discharged from the second discharge member to flush the toilet bowl.
US10895063B2
Provided are an energy regeneration device which can regenerate energy of a working fluid discharged from an actuator while controlling a flow rate of the working fluid, and a work machine including the foregoing device. The regeneration device (100) includes a boom cylinder (20), an inertial fluid container (102), an oil tank (110), an accumulator (105), a low-pressure-side opening/closing device (103), and a high-pressure-side opening/closing device (104). A calculation unit (151) calculates a duty ratio for opening/closing the low-pressure-side opening/closing device (103) and the high-pressure-side opening/closing device (104) in accordance with a desired flow rate of a working fluid discharged from the boom cylinder (20). A regeneration control unit (153) selects alternately the low-pressure-side opening/closing device (103) and the high-pressure-side opening/closing device (104) as a destination with which the inertial fluid container (102) communicates in accordance with the calculated duty ratio, and supplies a discharged working fluid to an accumulator (105).
US10895061B2
A motorized vehicle for recycling aggregates includes a chassis and an engine unit, and, mounted on the chassis, a device for collecting aggregates, a crushing chamber supplied with aggregates by the device for collecting aggregates, by mechanical collection or by suction, and configured to crush the aggregates and to supply crushed aggregates to an outlet, a mixing device connected to the crushing chamber to receive at least one portion of the crushed aggregates available at the outlet of the crushing chamber and configured to mix these received crushed aggregates with at least one binder so as to produce a mortar, and a distribution channel configured to distribute the produced mortar at the outlet of the mixing device.
US10895052B2
This invention discloses a method for treating sand or sandy soil in desert or desertified land, comprising spreading water and a solid organic substance in any order or by directly spreading an adhesive and cohesive solution containing the solid organic substance onto the surface of desert or desertified land, and then stirring the solution containing the solid organic substance or mixing water and the solid organic substance with sand on the surface of desert or desertified land in a uniform way by a stirring device to finally form a modified sand material. This sand treatment method can be directly implemented on the surface of desert or desertified land without transporting and discharging the mixture onto the surface of desert or desertified land, and thus saving cost and time.
US10895050B1
A substantially pyramid-shaped wave diverter (1) having circular-shaped ports (6). A system of wave diverters (14) may be placed in an ocean (16) side-by-side off a shoreline (17) and under the surface of water. The system of multiple wave diverters each have circular ports (6) located on each side, some of which may vary in size. The system of wave diverters divert the flow of sand toward the beach (18) and prevents further erosion from the beach.
US10895049B2
An improved material pusher or containment plow employing a floating vehicle-coupling system, a modular composite scraping edge, a front-pivoting wear shoe with an adjustable angle, as well as water-shedding features. The disclosed containment plow and features are provide improved the surface outcome under various snow and ice conditions.
US10895045B2
A screeding machine for screeding an uncured concrete surface includes a screed head assembly movable over the concrete surface via the screeding machine. A pair of elevation sensors disposed at opposite ends of the screed head assembly sense an elevation of the respective end of the screed head assembly. An angle sensor disposed at the screed head assembly senses a pitch angle and/or a roll angle of the screed head assembly. A gyroscope sensor disposed at the screed head assembly senses rotational velocity of the screed head assembly about a lateral axis and/or a longitudinal axis of the screed head assembly. A control uses gyroscope sensor data and angle sensor data to determine pitch angle and/or roll angle of the screed head assembly. The control controls the screed head assembly based on the signals from one or both of the elevation sensors and the determined pitch and/or roll angles.
US10895037B2
Provided is a steel cord for reinforcing a rubber article which can further improve cut resistance when applied to a tire. Provided is a steel cord for reinforcing a rubber article including: one core strand 11 having a layered-twisted structure formed by twisting a plurality of steel filaments 1; and a plurality of sheath strands 12 having a layered-twisted structure formed by twisting a plurality of steel filaments 2, wherein the sheath strands are twisted around the core strand. A ratio S1/S of the sum S1 of cross-sectional areas of outermost layer sheath filaments constituting an outermost layer sheath of the core strand to the sum S of cross-sectional areas of all filaments constituting the core strand is from 0.69 to 0.74, and a ratio Ps/P of the sum Ps of strengths of the sheath strands to strength P of the cord as a whole is from 0.81 to 0.85.
US10895034B2
Disclosed herein is a clothes dryer. The clothes dryer includes a casing in which a first drum is provided, the casing being formed with an introduction opening of clothes, and a door provided at the casing to open or close the introduction opening, the door including a drum assembly. The drum assembly includes a second drum to be rotatable, so that clothes are introduced into and dried in the first and second drums.
US10895033B2
A washing machine includes a washing-basket assembly including a rotatable shaft configured to be rotatably supported. A gear assembly is configured to engage with the rotatable shaft. A foot-peddle assembly is coupled to the gear assembly. This is done in such a way that the foot-peddle assembly, in use, urges a rotatable reciprocating movement of the gear assembly, the rotatable shaft and the washing-basket assembly.
US10895030B1
Various examples are provided related to transporting and sewing material in, e.g., automation of sewing robots. Multiple pieces of layered materials can be transported on a flat planar surface while maintaining the material layer's position and orientation relative to one another during a sewing procedure of these materials along any arbitrary seam shape. In one example, among others, a method includes positioning a second piece of material on a first piece of material located on a sewing plane, positioning a material holding apparatus over the pieces of material to secure position and orientation between the pieces of material, locating the pieces of material with respect to an automated sewing machine by repositioning the material holding apparatus, and sewing the second piece of material to the first piece of material. The methods can eliminate the need of custom-made templates for sewing arbitrarily shaped seams with an automated sewing machine.
US10895028B2
Nonwoven webs formed from modified 1,3-α-D-glucan polymer and methods of forming the nonwoven webs are disclosed. The modified 1,3-α-D-glucan polymer can have a number average degree of polymerization in the range of from 55 to 10,000. The nonwoven webs can be used for personal hygiene wipes, filtration media, apparel or other uses.
US10895022B2
Fibrous elements, such as filaments, and more particularly to fibrous elements employing a polymer and a wetting agent, methods for making such fibrous elements, fibrous structures employing such fibrous elements, methods for making such fibrous structures and packages containing such fibrous structures are provided.
US10895016B2
An electrolytic cell and a method of electrochemical oxidation of manganese(II) ions to manganese(III) ions in the electrolytic cell are described. The electrolytic cell comprises (1) an electrolyte solution of manganese(II) ions in a solution of at least one acid; (2) a cathode immersed in the electrolyte solution; and (3) an anode immersed in the electrolyte solution and spaced apart from the cathode. Various anode materials are described including vitreous carbon, reticulated vitreous carbon, woven carbon fibers, lead and lead alloy. Once the electrolyte is oxidized to form a metastable complex of manganese(III) ions, a platable plastic may be contacted with the metastable complex to etch the platable plastic. In addition, a pretreatment step may also be performed on the platable plastic prior to contacting the platable plastic with the metastable complex to condition the plastic surface.
US10895014B2
A method of processing a metal member having a passivation film on its surface is provided. The method includes a step of heating the metal member for a predetermined period at a temperature of 300° C. or higher.
US10895010B2
Apparatus and method for volatilizing a source reagent susceptible to particle generation or presence of particles in the corresponding source reagent vapor, in which such particle generation or presence is suppressed by structural or processing features of the vapor generation system. Such apparatus and method are applicable to liquid and solid source reagents, particularly solid source reagents such as metal halides, e.g., hafnium chloride. The source reagent in one specific implementation is constituted by a porous monolithic bulk form of the source reagent material. The apparatus and method of the invention are usefully employed to provide source reagent vapor for applications such as atomic layer deposition (ALD) and ion implantation.
US10895009B2
The invention provides metal liquid chromatography components with uniformly coated internal surfaces and methods for achieving the same. The invention addresses the problem of corrosion or interference of metal components in the flow path for LC analyses in which the sample interacts with metal ions or surfaces. The invention also alleviates the difficulties in coating very long metal tubes and very small metal channels with an inert, continuous coating that adheres well to metal surfaces. The metal flow path is rendered inert by the coating, and thus compatible with bioanalytical separations, for example, by using a vapor phase deposition process to coat the inner surfaces with a coating that continuously covers all metal surfaces in the flow path.
US10894990B2
Disclosed are methods for screening biological samples for the presence unknown microbes, such as bacteria and archaea or unknown eukaryotes using rRNA gene sequences or other highly conserved genetic regions, across multiple biological samples using a unique sequence tag (barcode) corresponding to the sample. The screening process tracks the unknown microbe or eukaryote in a diluted sample where the DNA has been prepared using whole genome amplification. The whole genome of the unknown microbe or eukaryote is then sequenced and assembled.
US10894989B2
This invention concerns pathological angiogenesis and cancer, related treatment methods, and related compositions. Also disclosed are related diagnosis kits and methods.
US10894987B2
We found mutations of the R132 residue of isocitrate dehydrogenase 1 (IDH1) in the majority of grade II and III astrocytomas and oligodendrogliomas as well as in glioblastomas that develop from these lower grade lesions. Those tumors without mutations in IDH1 often had mutations at the analogous R172 residue of the closely related IDH2 gene. These findings have important implications for the pathogenesis and diagnosis of malignant gliomas.
US10894985B2
The present invention provides stratification methods and kits to identify whether an individual having an inflammation-related disorder has genotype-specific differential expression of IL-1, i.e., is a “high” or “low” producer of IL-1, such that s/he can be provided an appropriate anti-inflammatory drug and at an appropriate dose. The stratification of high or low IL-1 producers is used to guide assignment of different drug doses and therefore reduce drug toxicity and adverse events in an individual who, without stratification, may be prescribed a higher dose than needed to manage the primary indication. The use of IL-1 stratification of drug dosing would allow a better clinical benefit-risk appraisal in an individual patient.
US10894972B2
The present invention relates to methods of upregulating the high mannose glycoform content of a recombinant protein during a mammalian cell culture by manipulating the mannose to total hexose ratio in the cell culture media formulation.
US10894968B2
A process for forming a fuel or a fuel intermediate using three fermentations includes treating a feedstock to obtain a fermentable carbohydrate, conducting a first fermentation to ferment the fermentable carbohydrate to fermentation product, obtaining biogas produced from a second fermentation that includes anaerobic digestion, and conducting a third fermentation to ferment a gas to produce fermentation product, where the gas contains one or more components obtained or derived from the biogas. An aqueous stream containing fermentation product produced in the third fermentation is used within the process.
US10894967B2
The present disclosure provides a novel aldehyde synthase gene having activity of synthesizing a medium-chain aldehyde. Such gene encodes a protein comprising the amino acid sequence as shown in SEQ ID NO: 2.
US10894966B2
Expression vectors ideal for use in vaccinating individuals against disease based on vaccinia virus and other chordopoxviruses having high expression of recombinant genes and low expression of vector genes in target animals, and low expression of recombinant genes and high expression of vector genes in cells used for propagation.
US10894956B2
Described herein are phospholipid nanogels that can contain a low concentration (less than about 250 μUnits/μL) of an exoglycosidase enzyme. Also described herein are systems and devices that can contain a phospholipid nanogel that can contain a low concentration (less than about 250 μUnits/μL) of an exoglycosidase enzyme. Also described herein are methods of using the phospholipid nanogels described herein and devices and systems that can contain a phospholipid nanogel described herein.
US10894955B2
The present disclosure is intended to identify a substitution mutation that improves enzyme activity of a decarbonylase. An amino acid corresponding to an amino acid 90, 107, 163, or 171 in SEQ ID NO: 2 is to be substituted with an amino acid exhibiting a higher degree of hydrophobicity.
US10894942B2
A transfer device designed to extract an amorphous or semi-solid structure, tissue, or construct from supporting media while maintaining the spatial integrity/organizational architecture thereof. The transfer device can include a controller, an actuator assembly, a plunger, and a needle. The controller can move the transfer device and the plunger independently.
US10894940B2
An apparatus and method to maintain pH within a range conducive for cell growth in a bicarbonate-containing cell culture system without the addition of base. The method relies on the gas transfer characteristics of the bioreactor system to modulate the CO2 transfer to and from the cell culture such that the pH of the cell culture can be maintained within a desired range.
US10894927B2
Processes for making alkylate gasoline compositions that are more “green” and alkylate gasoline compositions containing “green” renewable naphtha and iso octane are described. Exemplary processes for making alkylate gasoline compositions that are more “green” and compositions of alkylate gasoline compositions containing “green” renewable naphtha, iso octane and iso pentane are described. Such compositions allow a higher mixing ratio of the renewable naphtha and/or a higher Research Octane Number (RON), Motor Octane Number (MON) and vapour pressure compared to not adding a combination of iso-octane and iso-pentane.
US10894926B2
Process scheme configurations are disclosed that enable conversion of crude oil feeds with several processing units in an integrated manner into petrochemicals. The designs utilize minimum capital expenditures to prepare suitable feedstocks for the steam cracker complex. The integrated process for converting crude oil to petrochemical products including olefins and aromatics, and fuel products, includes mixed feed steam cracking, fluid catalytic cracking and conversion of naphtha to chemical rich reformate. Feeds to the mixed feed steam cracker include light products from hydroprocessing zones within the battery limits, recycle streams from the C3 and C4 olefins recovery steps, and raffinate from a pyrolysis gasoline and FCC naphtha aromatics extraction zone within the battery limits. Chemical reformate from straight run naphtha streams is used as an additional feed to the aromatics extraction zone and or the mixed feed steam cracker.
US10894913B1
Injectates and method that use surface blocking agents for enhancing subterranean oil recovery are disclosed. The surface blocking agents reduce the adhesion of oil to rock surfaces thereby increasing oil recovery. The surface blocking agents attach to or are attracted to the oils positive nitrogen sites and have an opposing negative charge that is repulsed by the negative rock surface charge.
US10894908B2
The invention discloses a microencapsulated phase change material having a specific Thermal Efficiency Index (TEI). TEI=α(RΔT)*β(RΔH)*γ(RMP)*δ(RTGA@180)*∈(RFW) The problem of achieving effective and efficient microencapsulated phase change material can be solved to yield a commercially useful material having the described combination of physical and chemical characteristics based on the parameters described in the specification. Microcapsules according to the invention are highly effective at delivering enhanced thermal performance as compared to conventional microcapsules.
US10894901B2
The present invention provides a method for producing a polishing composition which can polish an object to be polished at a high polishing speed and with fewer scratches (defects). The present invention is a method for producing a polishing composition, the method including: preparing silica in which an intensity of a peak of a silica four-membered ring structure and an intensity of a peak derived from a silica random network structure when analyzed by Raman spectroscopy satisfy a predetermined requirement; and mixing the silica with a dispersing medium.
US10894899B2
An anti-fogging composition is described herein. The composition includes a nanocellulose comprising cellulose nanofibrils, cellulose nanocrystals, or a combination thereof, and water. A method of preparing an anti-fogging coating includes applying the anti-fogging composition to at least a portion of a surface of a substrate to form a coating. An article including a coating formed from the anti-fogging composition is also disclosed. Coatings prepared from the anti-fogging compositions are water proof, and offer a cost-effective alternative to other anti-fogging coatings.
US10894887B2
A composition for forming protective film against aqueous hydrogen peroxide solution, composition including resin; compound of following Formula (1a), (1b), or (1c): (wherein X is carbonyl group or methylene group; 1 and m are each independently integer of 0-5 to satisfy relation: 3≤1+m≤10; n is integer of 2-5; u and v are each independently integer of 0-4 to satisfy relation: 3≤u+v≤8; R1-R4 are each independently hydrogen atom, hydroxy group, C1-10 hydrocarbon group, or C6-20 aryl group; when R1-R4 are each the C1-10 hydrocarbon group; and j and k are each independently 0 or 1); crosslinking agent and catalyst; and solvent, wherein amount of compound of Formula (1a), (1b), or (1c) is at most 80% by mass relative to amount of resin, and amount of crosslinking agent is 5%-40% by mass relative to amount of resin.
US10894885B2
The invention relates to a crosslinkable composition comprising functionalized monomers comprising a crosslinkable group, a cationic group and a fluorinated group, wherein the composition comprises anions corresponding to the cationic groups of the functionalized monomers, wherein the cationic group is an N-substituted cyclic and in particular heteroaromatic group comprising a 5-membered ring and/or at least two heteroatoms and wherein a spacer which is an uncharged and unfluorinated organyl group and preferably an alkylene group is arranged between the cationic group and the fluorinated group.
US10894878B2
A halogen-free, fire resistant rubber composition for a fire resistant hose includes: 100 parts by weight of elastomer having a blend of: 60 to 70 parts of ethylene vinylacetate elastomer (EVM), a vinylacetate content of EVM being in the range from 60 to 70% by weight; 40 to 30 parts of terpolymer of ethylene, propylene, and a diene elastomer (EPDM), an ethylene content of EPDM being in the range from 30 to 40% by weight and a propylene content of EPDM being from 60 to 70% by weight; at least one fire retardant ingredient; and at least one vulcanizing agent. The vulcanizing agent is a peroxide curative.
US10894863B2
Compositions and methods of producing composite materials for use as a cathode in electrochemical cells. Elemental sulfur is mixed with tungsten sulfide (WS2) to form a composite mixture. Organic comonomers may be added to the composite mixture. The composite mixture is reacted to form the composite material. Electrochemical cells with cathodes containing the composite material demonstrated improved battery performance.
US10894859B2
A copolymerized polyester resin containing a unit (A) represented by the following formula (1), a diol unit (B), and a unit (C) derived from a dicarboxylic acid or an ester-forming derivative of the dicarboxylic acid, wherein a content of the unit (A) based on total units of the copolymerized polyester resin is 10 to 95 mol %, and the copolymerized polyester resin satisfies the following conditions (1) to (3): (1) a glass transition temperature of the copolymerized polyester resin is 90° C. or higher; (2) an amount of heat generated by the copolymerized polyester resin at cooling crystallization is 5 J/g or less; and (3) an absolute value of photoelastic coefficient of the copolymerized polyester resin is 40×10−12 Pa−1 or less: wherein R1 is a hydrogen atom, CH3, or C2H5, R2 and R3 are each independently a hydrogen atom or CH3, and n is 0 or 1.
US10894847B2
Polar silane linkers are provided that attach to resins to form silane-functionalized resins. The functionalized resins can be bound to hydroxyl groups on the surface of silica particles to improve the dispersibility of the silica particles in rubber mixtures. Further disclosed are synthetic routes to provide the silane-functionalized resins, as well as various uses and end products that benefit from the unexpected properties of the silane-functionalized resins. Silane-functionalized resins impart remarkable properties on various rubber compositions, such as tires, belts, hoses, brakes, and the like. Automobile tires incorporating the silane-functionalized resins are shown to possess excellent results in balancing the properties of rolling resistance, tire wear, and wet braking performance.
US10894842B2
A method for producing an oligomer, the method comprising a step of oligomerizing a polymerizable monomer comprising an olefin in the presence of a catalyst comprising an iron complex represented by the following Formula (1) and trialkylaluminum: [In Formula (1), R represents a hydrocarbyl group having 1 to 6 carbon atoms or an aromatic group having 6 to 12 carbon atoms, a plurality of R in the same molecule may be the same or different, R′ represents a free radical having an oxygen atom and/or a nitrogen atom, a plurality of R′ in the same molecule may be the same or different, and Y represents a chlorine atom or a bromine atom].
US10894834B2
The present disclosure provides a CD131-binding protein comprising an antigen binding domain of an antibody, wherein the antigen binding domain binds to or specifically binds to CD131 and neutralizes signaling by interleukin (IL) 3, IL-5 and granulocyte-macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF), and uses thereof.
US10894833B2
The present invention relates to monoclonal anti-Sortilin antibodies which have been found useful in correcting a deficient level of progranulin (PGRN). In particular, these antibodies can be used in the treatment of frontotemporal dementia (FTD) and amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) and other neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimers disease (AD).
US10894823B2
A trispecific inhibitor for treating cancer includes a first targeting domain having a binding specificity conferred by a VEGF binding antagonist; a second targeting domain having a binding specificity conferred by an immune checkpoint regulator binding antagonist; and a third targeting domain having a binding specificity conferred by a Tie2 tyrosine kinase receptor binding antagonist. The targeting domains may contain one or more antibody variable regions, peptide inhibitors, dominant negative proteins, small molecule drugs or combinations thereof.
US10894820B2
The invention relates to an antibody, a fragment or a derivative thereof, for use as an antiretroviral drug targeting a virus belonging to human endogenous retroviruses type W (HERV-W), wherein said antibody, fragment or derivative thereof is directed against HERV-W Envelope protein (HERV-W Env). The invention also relates to a composition comprising said antibody and a retroviral reverse-transcriptase inhibitory drug, for use as an antiretroviral drug targeting a virus belonging to HERV-W.
US10894818B2
Isolated monoclonal antibodies which bind to Ebola virus glycoprotein and related antibody-based compositions and molecules are disclosed. Also disclosed are therapeutic and diagnostic methods for using the antibodies.
US10894816B2
The present invention provides method for promoting the maturation and export of T cells from thymic tissue by contacting the thymic tissue with supraphysiological levels of interleukin (IL)-15. The present invention also provides methods for preventing, alleviating, reducing, and/or inhibiting lymphopenia or peripheral depletion of lymphocytes in a patient in need thereof by administering to the patient IL-15.
US10894814B2
Constructs comprising GDF15, and mutants thereof are provided. In various embodiments the constructs comprising GDF15, and mutants thereof, can be of use in the treatment or ameliorating a metabolic disorder. In various embodiments the metabolic disease or disorder is type 2 diabetes, obesity, dyslipidemia, elevated glucose levels, elevated insulin levels and diabetic nephropathy.
US10894811B2
The present invention relates to fragments of SPLUNC1 protein that bind to calcium channels and inhibit calcium influx into airway smooth muscle and other cells. The invention further relates to methods for regulating calcium influx and treating or preventing disorders responsive to modulating calcium influx through calcium channels.
US10894807B2
Compounds for targeting and agents for imaging, prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) are disclosed. Methods of synthesizing compounds and imaging agents, as well as methods for imaging PSMA are also disclosed. The imaging agents disclosed are suitable for PET and SPECT imaging.
US10894800B2
A polymerizable silane compound that yields a cured product exhibiting a high refractive index and a low Abbe number, used in a polymerizable composition for preparing a molded article having higher transparency. A polysiloxane being a polycondensation product of the compound of formula [1]: (wherein X is a phenyl group having at least one substituent having a polymerizable double bond, a naphthyl group having at least one substituent having a polymerizable double bond, a biphenyl group having at least one substituent having a polymerizable double bond, or a phenanthryl group having at least one group having a polymerizable double bond, Ar1 is a condensed polycyclic hydrocarbon group (optionally substituted with a C1-6 alkyl group), or a hydrocarbon ring assembly group wherein two or more aromatic rings are directly bonded through a single bond (optionally substituted with a C1-6 alkyl group), and R1 is a methyl, ethyl, or isopropyl group).
US10894796B2
The present invention provides methods of preparing a MK2 inhibitor, and intermediates related thereto.
US10894794B1
Compounds for the treatment of hyperglycemia and/or diabetes are provided. The compounds, which inhibit the enzyme dipeptidyl peptidase (DPP-4), are based on the structure where n1=0-2 such as 0 or 1; R1 is i) a saturated or unsaturated, substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic aliphatic ring, alone or fused with cyclopropane or cyclobutene, optionally comprising one or more substituents attached to the ring; or ii) a substituted or unsubstituted monocyclic aromatic ring, optionally comprising one or more substituents attached to the ring; R2 is present or absent and if present is: C═O; (CH2)n where n=0-4; S; SO; SO2; NR where R═H, CH3 or CH2CH3; or NH(CH2)n where n=0-4; and R3 is present or absent and if present is (CH2)n where n=0-4; S; SO; SO2; NR where R═H, CH3 or CH2CH3; or NH(CH2)n where n=0-4; and salts and isomers thereof.
US10894779B2
The present invention provides a process to enhance the productivity such as yield of radioactive fluorine labeled flutemetamol. Provided is a process for producing a radioactive fluorine labeled flutemetamol, which comprises: (a) a step of allowing a labeling precursor represented by the predetermined general formula to react with a radioactive fluoride ion in a presence of a solvent to obtain a radioactive fluorine labeled intermediate represented by the predetermined general formula, and (b) a step of removing the protecting groups from the radioactive fluorine labeled intermediate to obtain a radioactive fluorine labeled flutemetamol, in which the above step (a) is carried out at an internal temperature of reaction solution of 140° C. or higher.
US10894776B2
Disclosed herein are small molecule calpain modulator compositions, pharmaceutical compositions, the use and preparation thereof.
US10894766B2
The present invention deals with a process for the production of alkanesulfonic acids, in particular methanesulfonic acid, and a method of purification of the raw products.
US10894761B2
Disclosed are a recyclable clean fracturing fluid thickener, a preparation method and a recovery method thereof, and a high-temperature resistant clean fracturing fluid, which relate to the stimulation treatment of oil and gas fields. Diethanolamine and thionyl chloride are used as raw materials and reacted to obtain an intermediate, which is then reacted with an unsaturated fatty acid amidopropyl dimethylamine to produce the recyclable clean fracturing fluid thickener. The clean fracturing fluid can be used in the fracturing stimulation treatment of low and medium permeability reservoirs.
US10894755B2
A method of producing p-xylene comprising the steps of separating the reformate feed in the reformate splitter to produce a benzene stream, a combined heavy stream, a xylene stream, and a toluene stream, converting the C9+ aromatic hydrocarbons in the presence of a dealkylation catalyst in the dealkylation reactor to produce a dealkylation effluent, separating the dealkylation effluent in the dealkylation splitter to produce a C9 stream and a C10+ stream, reacting the C9 stream, the toluene stream, the benzene stream, and the hydrogen stream in the presence of a transalkylation catalyst in the transalkylation reactor to produce a transalkylation effluent, separating the p-xylenes from the xylene stream in the p-xylene separation unit to produce a p-xylene product and a p-xylene depleted stream, converting the m-xylene and o-xylene in the p-xylene depleted stream in the isomerization unit to produce an isomerization effluent.
US10894752B2
The invention relates to hydrocarbon feedstock processing technology, in particular, to catalysts and technology for aromatization of C3-C4 hydrocarbon gases, light low-octane hydrocarbon fractions and oxygen-containing compounds (C1-C3 aliphatic alcohols), as well as mixtures thereof resulting in producing an aromatic hydrocarbon concentrate (AHCC). The catalyst comprises a mechanical mixture of 2 zeolites, one of which is characterized by the silica/alumina ratio SiO2/Al2O3=20, pre-treated with an aqueous alkali solution and modified with oxides of rare-earth elements used in the amount from 0.5 to 2.0 wt % based on the weight of the first zeolite. The second zeolite is characterized by the silica/alumina ratio SiO2/Al2O3=82, comprises sodium oxide residual amounts of 0.04 wt % based on the weight of the second zeolite, and is modified with magnesium oxide in the amount from 0.5 to 5.0 wt % based on the weight of the second zeolite. Furthermore, the zeolites are used in the weight ratio from 1.7:1 to 2.8:1, wherein a binder comprises at least silicon oxide and is used in the amount from 20 to 25 wt % based on the weight of the catalyst. The process is carried out using the proposed catalyst in an isothermal reactor without recirculation of gases from a separation stage, by contacting a fixed catalyst bed with a gaseous feedstock, which was evaporated and heated in a preheater. The technical result consists in achieving a higher aromatic hydrocarbon yield while ensuring almost complete conversion of the HC feedstock and oxygenates, an increased selectivity with respect to forming xylols as part of an AHCC, while simultaneously simplifying the technological setup of the process by virtue of using a reduced (inter alia, atmospheric) pressure.
US10894748B1
A method of manufacturing an ordered cellular structure including a series of interconnected unit cells. Each unit cell includes at least one straight wall segment. The method includes irradiating a volume of photo-monomer in a reservoir with at least one light beam from at least one light source to form the ordered cellular structure. Irradiating the volume of photo-monomer includes directing the at least one light beam though a series of interconnected apertures defined in a photo-mask covering the reservoir.
US10894746B2
A CMC article may include a CMC substrate defining a major surface and a plurality of CMC reinforcing pins at least partially embedded in the CMC substrate. Each CMC reinforcing pin of the plurality of CMC reinforcing pins defines a respective long axis. The respective long axes may be oriented at an angle substantially perpendicular to the major surface of the CMC substrate. A method may include inserting a plurality of CMC reinforcing pins into a major surface of a ceramic fiber preform. Each CMC reinforcing pin of the plurality of CMC reinforcing pins defines a respective long axis. As the plurality of CMC reinforcing pins are inserted into the major surface, the respective long axes may be oriented at an angle substantially perpendicular to the major surface. The method also includes forming a matrix of material within pores of the ceramic fiber preform to form a CMC article.
US10894745B2
A ferrite composition includes a main component and an accessory component. The main component includes 43.0 to 51.0 mol % of iron oxide in terms of Fe2O3, 5.0 to 15.0 mol % of copper oxide in terms of CuO, 1.0 to 24.9 mol % of zinc oxide in terms of ZnO, and a remaining part of nickel oxide. The accessory component includes 0.2 to 3.0 pts. wt. of silicon compound in terms of SiO2, 3.0 to 8.0 pts. wt. of cobalt compound in terms of Co3O4 (excluding 3.0 pts. wt.), and 0.2 to 8.0 pts. wt. of bismuth compound in terms of Bi2O3 with respect to 100 pts. wt. of the main component.
US10894744B2
Provided are: an oxide sintered material including an In2O3 crystal phase, a Zn4In2O7 crystal phase and a ZnWO4 crystal phase, wherein the roundness of crystal particles composed of the ZnWO4 crystal phase is 0.01 or more and less than 0.7; a method for producing the oxide sintered material; and a method for manufacturing a semiconductor device including an oxide semiconductor film that is formed by using the oxide sintered material as a sputter target.
US10894735B2
A method for producing a vial with low alkali elution by removing a deteriorated region caused by processing on an internal surface of a vial is disclosed. The method involves forming vials from borosilicate glass tubes including a first step of forming a borosilicate glass tube into a cup-shaped body by formation of a bottom of a vial, and a second step of forming the cup-shaped body into the vial by formation of a mouth of the cup-shaped body.
US10894728B2
A magnetic water treatment system for use in treating water for agricultural and other uses. A magnetic column centered around a perforated shearing tube provides a number of magnets amplified by steel rods to deliver water that has smaller water clusters by treating the water with the application of magnetic fields. Magnetic fields perpendicular to the travel of water and in other directions provide for the efficient treatment of the water.
US10894726B1
Water disinfecting modules, water supply systems, methods of assembling a water supply system as well as method of disinfecting water are provided. The water disinfecting module includes a frame, hot and cold water flow switches and hot and cold UV treatment modules is provided. The frame supports a hot and cold water inlets and hot and cold water outlets. Hot and cold water flow switches are fluidly interposed between the respective inlets and outlets for sensing water flow. Hot and cold water UV treatment modules are fluidly interposed between corresponding inlets and outlets and are coupled to flow switches for activation upon sensing of water flow. All of the components are supported by the frame to form a complete unit. The systems and methods incorporate the use of such a water disinfecting module.
US10894720B1
Certain exemplary embodiments can provide a reactive nano silicate, which can comprise a silica/acid composite comprising reactive functional groups activated by an intramolecular disturber. The reactive functional groups can comprise at least one of —SiH, —SiOH, silazane, durazane, polysilazane, and spiro silazane. The intramolecular disturber can comprise at least one of Fe2O3, Xe2O, SnO2, Al2O3, SiO2, TiO2, or a rare earth element oxide.
US10894715B2
Chlorous acid is generated from a chlorite salt precursor, a chlorate salt precursor, or a combination of both by ion exchange. The ion exchange material facilitates the generation of chlorous acid by simultaneously removing unwanted cations from solution and adding hydrogen ion to solution. Chlorine dioxide is generated in a controlled manner from chlorous acid by catalysis. Chlorine dioxide can be generated either subsequent to the generation of chlorous acid or simultaneously with the generation of chlorous acid. For catalysis of chlorous acid to chlorine dioxide, the chlorous acid may be generated by ion exchange or in a conventional manner. Ion exchange materials are also used to purify the chlorous acid and chlorine dioxide solutions, without causing degradation of said solutions, to exchange undesirable ions in the chlorous acid and chlorine dioxide solutions with desirable ions, such as stabilizing ions, and to adjust the pH of chlorous acid and chlorine dioxide solutions.
US10894713B2
A micro-electromechanical device includes a semiconductor substrate, in which a first microstructure and a second microstructure of reference are integrated. The first microstructure and the second microstructure are arranged in the substrate so as to undergo equal strains as a result of thermal expansions of the substrate. Furthermore, the first microstructure is provided with movable parts and fixed parts with respect to the substrate, while the second microstructure has a shape that is substantially symmetrical to the first microstructure but is fixed with respect to the substrate. By subtracting the changes in electrical characteristics of the second microstructure from those of the first, variations in electrical characteristics of the first microstructure caused by changes in thermal expansion or contraction can be compensated for.
US10894709B2
Provided is a mobile fluid pumping system which may include a reservoir and, a pump actuated by a reversible motor. In the first configuration, the reversible motor is operated in a first direction causing a fluid to flow in a first direction and operated in a second direction causing fluid to flow in a second direction thereby providing means to fill a reservoir and then transfer fluid from the reservoir to a vessel or tank. The fluid delivery device provides means to substantially evacuate fluid from any connectors in the system thereby avoiding problems otherwise associated with remaining fluid that may freeze. Further, the device is designed to provide a closed load and unload system meeting ISO 022241.
US10894700B2
The present invention relates to a support structure for a vehicle provided with a cargo crane having a crane base, said support structure comprising a support beam connectable to said crane base and a support leg, wherein a proximal end of said support leg is connected to said support beam at a pivoting point, such that, said support leg is pivotable around said pivoting point relative to said support beam. The support structure further comprises an actuating device connected to the support leg for pivoting said support leg relative to said support beam, wherein said actuating device is configured to arrange said support structure in at least a tunnel mode and a diagonal mode, by adjusting an extension of said actuating device, such that in the tunnel mode, a distal end of said support leg is positioned to abut against a supporting surface on which the vehicle stands and in the diagonal mode, a knee of the support structure or at least a part of a lateral side of said support leg is positioned to abut against the supporting surface on which the vehicle stands.
US10894692B2
An apparatus feeds a plurality of threads to rotating godets of a melt spinning machine including a manual injector (e.g., a main manual injector) and a cutting device. In order to be able to selectively feed the threads individually or as a bunch, a transfer device and a second manual injector (e.g., an auxiliary manual injector) are associated with the manual injector.
US10894687B2
A web cutting system is provided for use with a single transfer insert placement mechanism having at least one puck for transferring a discrete web and a continuous web feeding mechanism for feeding a continuous web wherein first and second rollers having substantially parallel axes and being aligned with one another form a nip at their juncture, an anvil is attached to one roller, a die is attached to the other roller, a vacuum source is coupled to one of the rollers, a plurality of vacuum apertures is formed in the same roller. One of the rollers is positioned adjacent to the single transfer insert placement mechanism and to the continuous web feeding mechanism. The continuous web is applied to one roller and at least one discrete web is transferred from the puck to the same roller after which a die cutting process of the webs occurs at the nip.
US10894683B2
An example system includes an advancement mechanism to drive print medium into a stacking region, a clamping mechanism, and a controller. The clamping mechanism includes a trailing edge clamping arrangement in a trailing edge portion of the stacking region and at least one downstream clamping arrangement in a downstream portion of the stacking region, the downstream portion being downstream of the trailing edge portion. The controller is to sequentially actuate the trailing edge clamping arrangement and the at least one downstream clamping arrangement when the advancement mechanism transports a print medium into the stacking region.
US10894680B2
A multifeed detection device that detects multifeed by using an ultrasonic wave includes an ultrasonic emitting unit and an ultrasonic receiving unit arranged to oppose each other with a medium transport path interposed therebetween; judges occurrence of multifeed of media based on a detection intensity of an ultrasonic wave received by the ultrasonic receiving unit, and a multifeed threshold for judging multifeed of media; and acquires first information that is information relating to adjustment for the multifeed threshold, and second information for specifying that the first information is the information relating to the adjustment for the multifeed threshold, from a calibration sheet holding the first information and the second information.
US10894675B2
The present disclosure provides rotors for long-stator linear motor systems, having at least two rollers for mounting the rotors on parallel guide rails of the long-stator linear motor system, wherein the rotors comprise at least one rotatable bolster, on which at least one roller, in particular at least one pair of rollers, of the at least two rollers is rotatably mounted, and/or at least one roller with a steering rotational axis with integrated castor, wherein the roller is mounted on a roller axle by means of a bolt, via an asymmetric and/or sloping bore, and further comprises a pendulum ring which is mounted on the bolt and has an external ball or slide bearing.
US10894667B2
A rail-bound transport robot having an approximately box-like container, which is open at the top, for individual release of bulk material, which is provided in its inner space with at least one compartment, which is filled with the bulk material, wherein the transport robot has a loading space open at the top, adapted for receiving the container, and wherein the container rests on a longitudinal conveyor in the transport robot, which engages opening lids from below, which are positioned on the bottom side of container, wherein the bulk material flows outwardly through the opening lids, when the opening lids are opened.
US10894664B1
Autonomous mobile robots include transfer systems that may receive multiple items for delivery to one or more destinations. The transfer systems may be specifically configured to detect and identify items that are placed on loading surfaces, and to independently discharge specific items at selected destinations or to selected recipients. The transfer systems feature loading surfaces that may be defined by a plurality of independently operable conveyors to receive or discharge items, by independently operable floors that allow items to pass therethrough, or by independently operable diverters for detecting and expelling items therefrom. The transfer systems may receive items from, or discharge items to, one or more humans, other robots, or other systems such as conveyors, chutes, robotic arms or other mechanical implements or effectors, and be aligned at any angle or provided at any height, as desired.
US10894658B2
A container for consumer goods includes a rigid outer box, an inner package, an inner frame and a pull tab. The outer box has a hinged lid configured to provide access to an inner volume of the outer box. The inner frame is paperboard having a pre-cut opening configured to provide access to an inner volume of the inner package. The pull tab covers the opening with a first adhesive that releasably adheres an edge portion of the pull tab to the inner frame and a second adhesive that permanently adheres the pull tab to the inner package and the outer box.
US10894655B2
A combination food pad container and dispenser can be constructed from the following components. A sealed elongated container is provided. The container is formed of flexible film material and has at least one surrounding wall, a closed top and a closed bottom and at least one mounting aperture. The aperture is located adjacent the top. The container is sized and shaped to slidably surround a plurality of horizontally stacked food pads. The pads have at least one planar surface. The surrounding wall has at least one openable perforation. The perforation is orthogonal to the planar surface. The perforation has at least one arresting feature. The arresting feature provides an intermediate point for controlling initial opening of the perforation. A single rigid member is provided within the dispenser with the food pads disposed opposite the at least one openable perforation. The rigid member maintains the dispenser in a free-standing vertical orientation.
US10894654B2
The invention discloses an airtight thermal insulation with a large opening therein, comprising a base, a tableware box, a thermal insulation body, a zipper enclosure, an iron wire frame and a strap, wherein the side of the base has the tableware box, the top thereof has the body; the side of the body has an outer pocket, the left and right sides thereof have a handle above the pocket, the interior thereof has the inner lining; two sides of the inner lining top have a zipper tail strap extendedly, the periphery thereof has the velcro; the body top edge has a zipper enclosure; two sides of the enclosure have a side patch top, the enclosure is internally embedded with the iron wire frame comprising left and right ones. The overall structure is simple, the sealing effect is good, the large opening effect is achieved and it has certain promotion value.
US10894651B2
A box (51) containing a two dimensional array of laundry detergent capsules (21) containing laundry detergent composition, the box having a height of no more than 3.5 cm and a method of sending such a box to a consumer using a postal service.
US10894650B1
A fitment for a package with an interior compartment for containment of a flowable material is described. The fitment may have a body with an exterior wall and an interior wall. The interior wall may define a passageway extending through the body from a top opening to a bottom opening. The fitment may have at least one dispersion member with an edge extending into the passageway, the edge dividing at least a portion of a width of the passageway extending between the interior wall. The fitment may include a baffle member having a surface extending into, and at least partially obstructing, the passageway. The fitment may include a flange portion associated with the exterior wall, the flange portion positioned to interface the fitment with the package.
US10894648B2
A compound heat seal structure that, when heat-sealing a bag with a stacked area level difference, reliably seals even a section having different level and that can be easily opened. A compound heat seal structure is provided as a peelable seal in a band shape on a bag and a linear heat seal is added as a peelable seal in that band-shaped peelable heat seal in the longitudinal direction thereof.
US10894632B2
This invention provides a polymer, which is preferably a polyether polymer. The polymer may be used in coating compositions. Containers and other articles comprising the polymer and methods of making such containers and other articles are also provided. The invention further provides compositions including the polymer (e.g., powder coatings), which have utility in a variety of coating end uses, including, for example, valve and pipe coatings.
US10894629B2
In one aspect, a collapsible basket set may include a plurality of baskets, a base, and a pair of connecting members on two opposite sides of the baskets, wherein each connecting member has a plurality of connecting units to form one or more quadrilateral connecting structures pivotally connecting with each other so the basket set begins to collapse when each quadrilateral connecting structure becomes flattener, and the basket set totally collapses when the quadrilateral connecting structures disappears. In one embodiment, each connecting member includes a locking bar to secure the basket set when it is fully extended.
US10894628B2
A container formed from a blank and a method for constructing the container are described. The container includes a bottom wall, two end walls, each end wall including at least an end panel extending from an end edge of the bottom wall, and two side walls. The container further includes an upper reinforcing assembly at least partially extending from each end panel, and a side reinforcing assembly extending from opposing side edges of each end panel.
US10894625B1
A container for alcohol, e.g., a wine bottle, formed of a polycarbonate wall sandwiched between exterior and interior coatings, at least one of which may be an epoxy of 4,4′-isopropylidenedicyclohexanol and 1-chloro-2,3,-epoxypropane, crosslinked with 3-aminopropyltriethoxysilane. The polycarbonate wall may be an extrusion blow molded monolithic form at least 1.5 mm thick, and either or both of the exterior coating and the interior coating may have a thickness between 1 nm and 100 μm, inclusive.
US10894621B2
A carton packing apparatus occupying a small footprint for efficient packing of articles includes a longitudinal frame housing and an article transfer means. The longitudinal frame housing has an article accumulation platform mounted within and in line with the longitudinal direction of the frame housing, wherein articles and cartons are fed transversely relative to the longitudinal direction of the frame housing to an article loading station and a carton receiving station respectively located adjacent opposite ends of the accumulation platform. The article transfer means is movably mounted within the frame housing, the transfer means being movable over an internal pathway substantially in line with the accumulation platform between an article pick up position and article dispensing condition. In an operating condition a predetermined number of articles at the article loading station are transferred to the accumulation platform, and wherein the transfer means transfers a predetermined number of articles on the accumulation platform to the carton receiving station over the internal pathway for filling the carton with the articles.
US10894614B1
A halo light assembly may comprise a laminate transparency and a light source disposed around the laminate transparency. The laminate transparency may comprise a diffusion layer disposed on an internal surface of the laminate transparency. The light source may be disposed adjacent to, and oriented towards, the laminate transparency. The light source may be configured to emit light into the laminate transparency and reflect the light off of the diffusion layer and/or provide a halo effect.
US10894613B2
Systems and methods for an auto-land system for a rotorcraft are provided. The system includes, a search light (SL) assembly configured to receive user input directing the SL to a point of interest (POI) and determine an actual SL orientation and an actual SL range to the POI; and, a searchlight controller operationally coupled to the search light assembly, and configured to: responsive to receiving a command to auto-land at the POI, begin (i) generating a desired trajectory from the rotorcraft actual orientation and rotorcraft actual range to the POI; (ii) generating guidance commands for navigating the rotorcraft in accordance with the desired trajectory; (iii) monitoring an actual SL range and an actual SL orientation; and (iv) generating controlling commands for the searchlight assembly in accordance with the coordinates of the POI.
US10894608B2
A thermal management system for a pulse load on an aircraft. The thermal management system utilizing the reserve fuel from the aircraft to create thermal capacitance such that the instantaneous capacity of the cooling system to remove heat from the aircraft may be sized less than the rate of heat generated by the pulsed load (e.g. laser, radar, rail gun etc.) The reserve fuel is maintained at a temperature in a reservoir and cooled via a cooling system. Fuel from the reservoir is selectively mixed with fuel exiting the pulsed load heat exchanger to provide fuel to the inlet of the heat exchanger at a predetermined temperature, the temperature based at least upon the heat generated by the laser, flow rate of fuel and efficiency of the heat exchanger.
US10894599B1
A hybrid multi-rotor aircraft, includes a plurality of vertical propulsion rotors and at least one forward propulsion rotor. The aircraft also includes a rotor compartment within for each of the vertical propulsion rotors such that a vertical propulsion rotor may be stowed within its respective rotor compartment. A deployable rotor-compartment cover for each rotor compartment is provided and may be moved to an open state to allow the vertical propulsion rotors to be deployed and moved to a closed state to cover their respective vertical propulsion rotors when the vertical propulsion rotors or in a closed state.
US10894597B2
A landing gear assembly, having an electromechanical device for actuating the landing gear and locking and releasing device, includes: a rotary actuator acting on the assembly at the hinge point, having a rotary electric motor connected to an actuating arm, to rotate the assembly around a respective actuation axis with an interconnection so that, in case of power supply failure, the actuator is free to rotate dragged by the assembly by free fall; and a linear actuator, integral to the assembly and movable therewith, and which includes a rotary electric motor and a cam mechanism to transform rotary motion of the motor into an axial motion of a locking pin. The actuation axes of the rotary actuator and of the linear actuator are parallel, and the rotation axis of the rotary electric motor of the linear actuator coincides with the linear actuation axis of the locking pin.
US10894589B1
A ship maneuvering system includes first and second propulsion devices, a shift actuator, and a controller. The shift actuator switches a shift state of each of the propulsion devices. The controller causes the shift actuator of one of the first and second propulsion devices to execute intermittent control during low-speed navigation of the ship. The intermittent control intermittently switches the shift state to a shift-in state and a shift-out state.
US10894588B2
An electromagnet can be used to provide a controlled magnetic field, for example for the purpose of minesweeping. The electromagnet is constructed of a material which has a Curie temperature, such that the electromagnet can be stored at a temperature above the Curie temperature, but deployed below the Curie temperature in use.
US10894586B2
An assembly for a watercraft according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a flotation device defining an elongated slot extending between opposed ends of the flotation device, and an elongated mount that has first and second flanges extending outwardly from a bracket body. The first flange is configured to be mechanically attached to a frame, and the second flange is slideably received in the elongated slot to secure the flotation device. A method of assembly for a watercraft is also disclosed.
US10894582B2
A method of deploying autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs), the method comprising loading the AUVs into a deployment device; submerging the deployment device containing the AUVs after the AUVs have been loaded into the deployment device; towing the submerged deployment device containing the AUVs with a surface vessel; deploying the AUVs from the submerged deployment device as it is towed by the surface vessel; and operating a thruster of each AUV after it has been deployed so that it moves away from the submerged deployment device. A method of retrieving autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) is also disclosed, the method comprising towing a submerged retrieval device with a surface vessel; loading the AUVs into the submerged retrieval device as it is towed by the surface vessel; and after the AUVs have been loaded into the submerged retrieval device, lifting the submerged retrieval device containing the AUVs out of the water and onto the surface vessel.
US10894575B2
A derailleur system is provided that moves the derailleur cage in a substantially rectilinear path. The derailleur is mounted to a frame having a gear cassette mounted thereon. The gear cassette includes an axis of rotation. The derailleur includes a drive member engaging the gear cassette. The derailleur is positioned on the frame adjacent the gear cassette, and including a spatial linkage having a stationary link, a floating link, and a cage assembly having two pulleys each defining an axis of rotation. The drive member engages each of the pulleys. The path of the floating link is substantially linear through substantially its entire range of motion and variously aligns at least one of the pulleys with the gear cassette.
US10894566B2
An arrangement for connecting different parts includes two vehicle components. The vehicle body components include a first vehicle body component taking the form of a sheet metal component with a joining flange and being connected at this joining flange to the second vehicle body component via a welded connection. The joining flange on the first vehicle body component has a turned-over rim and is thereby formed with a doubled sheet metal thickness.
US10894564B2
A vehicle body rear portion structure includes a floor panel, rear wheel houses arranged on both sides of the floor panel in a vehicle width direction, a rear seat disposed between the rear wheel houses, braces each arranged at a vehicle cabin inside part above each of the rear wheel houses, and a cross member extending along the vehicle width direction between the braces. The brace is provided with a front side fastening portion positioned on a front side of the brace in a vehicle body front-rear direction and a rear side fastening portion positioned on a rear side of the brace in the vehicle body front-rear direction. Each of end edge portions on both sides of the cross member in a longitudinal direction abuts against one of the front side fastening portion and the rear side fastening portion and is fastened to the brace.
US10894554B1
A mobile anchor cart assembly includes a cart including a frame defining a front side and a rear side, the front side disposed opposite from the rear side, the frame defining a front foot and a rear foot, the front foot and the rear foot configured to rest upon a ground surface when the cart is in an anchored position, the front foot and the rear foot configured to clear the ground surface when the cart is in a mobile position; at least one tie-off point attached to the frame; at least one handle extending outward from the rear side of the frame, the at least one handle configured to selectively position the cart about and between the anchored position and the mobile position; and an axle assembly mounted on the front side; and a load defining a load center of gravity.
US10894549B2
A vehicle includes a receiving part configured to receive an emergency signal, an alert control part configured to determine a speech speed of an emergency alert based on current position information of the vehicle and map information of surroundings of the vehicle when the emergency signal is received by the receiving part, and an output part configured to output the emergency alert using the speech speed determined by the alert control part.
US10894545B2
A vehicle is configured to perform at least one action (e.g., control of acceleration or navigation of the vehicle) based on analysis of data that is collected regarding a user of the vehicle. In one embodiment, the data is collected from various sources (e.g., computing devices associated with the user) prior to usage of the vehicle by the user. For example, data may be collected from an intelligent appliance located in a building or other fixed structure in which the user lives, or in which the vehicle is stored or charged. The data collected from the fixed structure may relate to activities performed by the user while inside the fixed structure and/or relate to data associated with electronic communications of the user.
US10894541B2
A vehicle speed limiter system installed on a vehicle includes a detection unit to detect a speed limit value of a road while the vehicle is traveling; a setting unit to set the speed limit value; a limiter unit to limit the vehicle speed, based on the speed limit value; an obtainment unit to obtain a stepping amount on an accelerator pedal; a calculation unit to calculate a parameter depending on the stepping amount in a state where the vehicle speed is being limited by the limiter unit; and a display unit to display information based on the parameter, in a case where a speed limit value newly detected by the detection unit is greater than the speed limit value previously set by the setting unit, before the setting unit sets the speed limit value newly detected.
US10894540B2
A vehicle control apparatus includes: a brake control portion which is configured, when a vehicle is stopped, to cause a braking apparatus to keep a stopped state in which the vehicle is held stopped independently of operation of a brake pedal of the vehicle; a driver-assistance control portion which is configured to start a driver assistance operation in response to a manual operation made by the operator, and which is configured, when the stopped state is kept by the brake control portion, to withhold start of the driver assistance operation; and a withhold cancel portion which is configured, when a returning operation of the brake pedal has been made by the operator, to cause the driver-assistance control portion to cancel withhold of the start of the driver assistance operation.
US10894533B2
A method and apparatus for sensing wheel torque of a highly automated driving (HAD) vehicle includes a wheel hub configured to rotate around a rotation axis as the vehicle moves and a brake caliper, including a brake pad, configured to apply a caliper force to the wheel hub. A reaction carriage is interconnected with the brake caliper and is configured to have a reaction force applied to it when the brake caliper applies the caliper force to the wheel hub. The wheel torque sensor includes a hydraulic chamber having a hydraulic fluid and a pressure sensor, interconnected with the hydraulic chamber, that senses pressure applied to the hydraulic fluid in response to the reaction force.
US10894517B2
A doghouse retainer includes a body having an end wall incorporating a clip receiver and a sidewall having an ultrasonic heating concentration feature. A door assembly is provided including a door inner and a door trim panel incorporating such a doghouse retainer. A method of adjusting a gap between two components is also provided.
US10894513B2
A method of forming a component for a vehicle according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, forming the component of an ultra-high-molecular-weight-polyethylene (UHMWPE) and a stiffening filler. A bracket and a running board assembly are also disclosed.
US10894498B2
A container has an anti-vibration property so that the container does not shake in vibration. The container includes a bottom part, a ceiling part facing the bottom part, a sidewall part connecting the bottom part to the ceiling part, and a rack installed to be fixed in an inner space that is surrounded by the bottom part, the ceiling part, and the sidewall part.
US10894491B2
An automatic harness system (1) for a child safety seat comprising one tensioning web (3); a retractor device (2) configured to allow tightening of the tensioning web (3), a locking mechanism, a release mechanism is connected to the retractor device (2). The release mechanism comprises an actuator, where a movement of the actuator from a first position to a second position alternates the release mechanism from the first state to the second state, and vice versa. The actuator's position allows a user to identify whether the release mechanism is in the first state or in the second state.
US10894490B2
A foldable restraint for a seat of a vehicle is disclosed and includes a body. The body includes a bottom side, a back side, and a spine connecting the bottom side and the back side to one another. The bottom side and the back side are configured to rotate towards one another to fold the foldable restraint into a stowed position and the bottom side and the back side rotate away from one another and into a deployed position. The foldable restraint also includes one or more upper engagement mechanisms connected to the back side of the foldable restraint and configured to releasably attach to a support structure of the seat of the vehicle. The foldable restraint also includes one or more lower engagement mechanisms connected to the seat side of the foldable restraint and configured to releasably attach to a support structure of the seat of the vehicle.
US10894487B2
A vehicle includes a protruding body that protrudes upward from a floor surface in a central part of a cabin of the vehicle, wherein the protruding body includes one or more seating portions on an outer periphery thereof such that multiple passengers can sit on the one or more seating portions with a back of each passenger facing inward of the cabin.
US10894470B2
A vehicle battery-carrying floor structure that includes: a bottom plate member that has a plurality of unit members that are arranged in a vehicle body forward and rearward direction and that are joined by joining opposing joint portions, each unit member having a flat plate portion that extends in a vehicle width direction and that has the joint portions formed at an end portion facing the vehicle body forward direction and at an end portion facing the vehicle body rear direction and a partition portion that is disposed upright so as to extend in the vehicle width direction on an upper surface of the plate portion; and side plate members that are provided on an upper surface of the bottom plate member on outer sides in the vehicle width direction of the partition portions and form, with the partition portions, regions that hold battery packs.
US10894466B2
A pickup truck cap having bendable plastic side panels having a bottom side located along a respective riser installed on each pickup truck cargo bed side wall. The side panels are each engaged by a curved respective guide located adjacent each end of each side panel to conform each side panel to curvature of an associated guide. An upper side of each side panel is received beneath a rectangular top assembly included in the cap. Either of side panels are movable upwardly to raise the bottom side thereof up from a respective riser to create an access opening beneath a raised side panel along each side of the cap. A pair of movable side panels can also be arranged to close off access through a cover installed on the cargo bed of a pickup truck.
US10894462B2
A system for controlling a compressor may include an engine controller that controls a fuel injection amount corresponding to an engine load and an opening amount of a throttle by reflecting a required torque required for an air conditioner (A/C), an operation information detector for detecting operation information according to driving state of the vehicle, a compressor that generates pressure during operation of the A/C, an air conditioner relay which is turned on when the air conditioner operates and is turned off when the A/C is stopped, and a controller which determines an engine negative pressure of an intake manifold, and when the cooling water temperature is lower than the predetermined temperature and the intake manifold pressure is lower than the first threshold value, a cold-start intake manifold negative pressure insufficient event is generated to reduce the A/C duty in accordance with the entry into a negative pressure recovery mode.
US10894461B2
A control unit for an air conditioning system of a vehicle is provided, wherein the air conditioning system has automatic climate control. The control unit is configured to calculate a fan strength limitation specified by a user. The control unit is further configured to activate the fan of the air conditioning system for automatic climate control depending on a fan characteristic curve and depending on the fan strength limitation, wherein the fan characteristic curve displays a fan strength for a fan of the air conditioning system as a function of a control deviation of the automatic climate control.
US10894459B2
An air-conditioning register includes a retainer having an airflow passage, and a shut-off damper, which is pivoted about a damper shaft between opening and closing positions for the airflow passage. The shut-off damper has opposed side sections, which are opposed to each other with the damper shaft located therebetween, and a distal sealing portion. The distal sealing portion includes a curved surface and a planar surface. The curved surface is arranged on the trailing side in a pivoting direction of the shut-off damper towards the closing position. The planar surface is arranged on the leading side in the pivoting direction in a manner defining an acute angle with respect to an opposing direction of the opposed side sections. At least the planar surface is a textured surface having raised features each having a height of 110 μm±50 μm.
US10894451B2
An assembly for mounting an electronics package to a tire includes an electronics package, a mount with a peripheral flange, and an attachment patch. The electronics package is connected to the mount, which is in contact with the tire. The attachment patch is connected to the mount and includes a central opening that is smaller than the peripheral flange. The attachment patch is further affixed to the tire.
US10894449B2
A tire includes a body ply sheet having a rubber core defined by a top surface having a length and a width, a bottom surface having substantially the same length and width, and side surfaces having a common height. The rubber core is further defined by a top rubber layer and a bottom rubber layer. The body ply sheet includes reinforcement cords disposed between the top rubber layer and the bottom rubber layer. The reinforcement cords are spaced 0.1-4.0 mm apart from each other and span the width of the body ply sheet. Bleeder cords are disposed on the body ply sheet and spaced 8-12 cm apart from each other. Conductive cords are also disposed on the body ply and spaced 20-80 cm apart from each other.
US10894448B2
A run-flat tire having a tread, an inner liner disposed beneath the tread, a body ply, and a pair of sidewalls axially spaced apart from one another is disclosed. The run-flat tire further includes a pair of sidewall-reinforcing portions each disposed in respective sidewall regions and each having a fabric barrier; a first sidewall-reinforcing insert between the fabric barrier and the inner liner; and a second sidewall-reinforcing insert disposed between the fabric barrier and the body ply. The fabric barrier extends not more than an entire length of the sidewall-reinforcing portion.
US10894447B2
In a tire 2 of the present invention, sidewalls 6 each include an outer layer 6a, and an inner layer 6b disposed inward of the outer layer 6a in the axial direction. The inner side end, in the radial direction, of the inner layer 6a extends to a region between a bead 10 and a chafer 8. When Po represents a contact point, on an outer surface of the tire 2, at which the outer layer 6a and the chafer 8 contact with each other, an inner side end, in the radial direction, of the outer layer 6a is equal to the contact point Po. In the radial direction, an outer side end 44 of the chafer 8 is disposed outward of the contact point Po. In the radial direction, an inner side end 46 of the inner layer 6b is disposed inward of the contact point Po.
US10894445B2
A pneumatic tire includes a tread portion including an inboard tread region between a tire equator and an inboard tread edge, and an outboard tread region between the tire equator and an outboard tread edge. The inboard tread region is provided with a first main groove extending and a second main groove each extending continuously in the tire circumferential direction. The outboard tread region is provided with a plurality of recesses that are not in communication with other grooves. The recesses include a plurality of deep bottom recesses having depths equal to or more than 5 mm. A total of opening areas of the deep bottom recesses on a ground contact surface of the tread portion is equal to or less than 5% of a surface area of the outboard tread region that is obtained by filling up all grooves and recesses provided thereon.
US10894439B2
A device provides a way to organize papers, folders, and bills or invoices. It also provides a way to set a status for such documents, such as pending or paid, and other status notations. And, it provides a way to provide a reminder that is inexpensive and easy to use. The device includes a manually rotatable wheel disposed inside a holder, the holder having first and second windows for viewing indicia. The rotatable wheel has indicia disposed on an outer ring for display through the first window, and has indicia disposed on an inner ring for display through the second window. The first window is a top window, and indicates status of the bill. The second window provides indicia which is explanatory of the indicia appearing in the first window.
US10894436B2
A thermal transfer apparatus includes a fixture, a foil securing film, a film retainer, a foil transfer tool, and a carriage conveyor. The fixture retains a transfer object. The foil securing film is disposed above the fixture. The foil securing film allows light to pass therethrough. The foil securing film presses, from above, a thermal transfer foil on the transfer object so as to secure the thermal transfer foil onto the transfer object. The film retainer retains the foil securing film. The film retainer moves the foil securing film in an up-down direction relative to the fixture. The foil transfer tool presses the foil securing film and the thermal transfer foil on the transfer object. The foil transfer tool emits light to the foil securing film. The carriage conveyor moves the foil transfer tool relative to the fixture.
US10894434B2
When a replaceable unit is mounted to a main body, if a main body identifier reference value stored in a local memory of the replaceable unit is different from the main body identifier, the main body rewrites the main body identifier reference value, writes a life counter value stored in the main body memory into the local memory as a master counter reference value, and writes a life counter value stored in the local memory separately into the local memory as a life counter reference value. The main body increments the life counter values due to an action, and determines a life count value of the replaceable unit on the basis of a difference between the life counter value in the main body memory and the master counter reference value and a difference between the life counter value in the local memory and the life counter reference value.
US10894423B2
A logic circuit for a replaceable print component is configured to, in response to a plurality of commands including a first command specifying the new I2C communications address and a first calibration parameter, a second command specifying the new I2C communications address and a second calibration parameter, a third command specifying the new I2C communications address and a class parameter, and/or fourth commands specifying the new I2C communications address and sub-class parameters, and at least one read request, generate count values in a count value range defined by a highest and lowest count value.
US10894422B2
A consumables consumption apparatus includes a cartridge determination section that determines one of a specified cartridge and an unspecified cartridge which is attached to the consumables consumption apparatus in accordance with maintenance subject information indicating a subject of a maintenance contract and a notification section that requests a selection of one of use agreement of the unspecified cartridge and replacement of the unspecified cartridge by the specified cartridge when the cartridge determination section determines that the unspecified cartridge is attached and that makes a notification indicating at least one of information on cancellation of the maintenance contract and information on replacement by the specified cartridge when the use agreement is selected.
US10894420B2
An ejection material is injected into a container through a pipe. Thereafter, the pipe is blocked at a blocked part and then the pipe is cut off. The pipe is cut off such that the blocked part is included in a portion of the pipe connected to the container.
US10894415B2
A liquid discharge head includes: a first channel member including a liquid channel. The liquid channel includes: pressure chambers connected respectively to nozzles and arranged in a first direction; throttle channels connected to the pressure chambers and extending from connection portions with the pressure chambers toward a first side in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction; and coupling channels arranged in the first direction, each of the coupling channels being connected to two or more of the throttle channels that are adjacent to each other in the first direction, extending in a third direction orthogonal to the first direction and the second direction, having openings in a surface in the third direction of the first channel member.
US10894414B2
In an example, a service station may comprise a conveyor movable along or about a conveyor path. Example service station may further comprise a first service module removably installed on the conveyor, and a second service module removably installed on the conveyor. The conveyor may move the first service module and the second service module along the conveyor path. The example service station may further comprise a lifter disposed in a lifting zone along the conveyor path to lift one of the first service module and the second service module from a stowed position to an operating position if the first service module or the second service module is disposed in the lifting zone along the conveyor path.
US10894409B2
Provided is a method of manufacturing a liquid ejection head, which is capable of patterning a dry film while suppressing deformation of the dry film caused by a pressure. The method of manufacturing a liquid ejection head includes: preparing a substrate including an ejection orifice member on a first surface; forming, on an ejection orifice surface of the ejection orifice member, a protection film having communicating holes for allowing ejection orifices to communicate to outside; closing an opening of a supply port on a second surface on a side opposite to the first surface of the substrate with a dry film; and patterning the dry film by irradiating the dry film with light under a state in which the protection film is formed on the ejection orifice surface.
US10894406B2
A thin film stack can include a metal substrate having a thickness of from 200 angstroms to 5000 angstroms and a passivation barrier disposed on the metal substrate at a thickness of from 600 angstroms to 1650 angstroms. The passivation barrier can include a dielectric layer and an atomic layer deposition (ALD) layer disposed on the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer can have a thickness of from 550 to 950 angstroms. The ALD layer can have a thickness from 50 to 700 angstroms.
US10894401B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus includes a drive signal generation circuit generating a drive waveform signal, a liquid ejecting head including a vibration plate, a drive element displacing the vibration plate by being supplied with the drive waveform signal, a cavity that is filled with a liquid and of which an internal pressure changes by the displacement of the vibration plate, and a nozzle that communicates with the cavity and that ejects the liquid by the change in internal pressure of the cavity, and an ejecting malfunction detection circuit that detects, specifies a cause of the ejecting malfunction based on the residual vibration signal. The ejecting malfunction detection circuit includes a detection unit detecting the residual vibration signal, an obtaining unit obtaining information indicating an ejecting state of the liquid ejected from the nozzle, and a learning unit machine learning a relationship between the residual vibration signal and the ejecting state.
US10894400B2
A liquid ejecting apparatus is provided with pressure generating units for pressure chambers one of which is provided for each of a plurality of nozzles and drives the pressure generating units corresponding to liquid ejection requests which request liquid ejection from the nozzles while achieving supplying of a liquid to the pressure chambers and collection of the liquid which has passed through the pressure chambers. Accordingly, the liquid is ejected from the nozzles. Meanwhile, an occurrence of a fault in the liquid ejection is determined using a vibration transition of a residual vibration which occurs in the liquid of the pressure chambers according to a pressure change accompanying driving of the pressure generating units, and driving of the pressure generating unit of an ejection fault pressure chamber in which it is determined that a fault occurs in the liquid ejection is stopped spanning at least a fixed stopping period.
US10894397B2
Provided is a process for producing a graphene foam laminate for use as a sealing material, the process comprising (a) providing a layer of graphene foam; and (b) laminating the layer of graphene foam with one layer of permeation-resistant polymer to form a two-layer laminate or with two layers of permeation-resistant polymer to form a three-layer laminate wherein the graphene foam layer is sandwiched between the two permeation-resistant polymer layers. The two permeation-resistant polymer layers can be the same or different in composition. The product is a new, novel, unexpected, and patently distinct class of highly conducting, elastic, thermally stable, and strong sealing materials.
US10894391B2
A laminated glazing comprising, a first ply of a glazing material, a second ply of a glazing material, a film having an electrically conductive coating, the film being located between the first ply and the second ply, and a first busbar in electrical contact with the electrically conductive coating, the first busbar comprising an expansion portion, the expansion portion comprising a bridging busbar portion or a gap in the first busbar. Methods for producing the laminated glazing are also described.
US10894387B2
A sliding part with a wear resistant coating includes a sliding part, and a wear resistant coating provided on a sliding surface of the sliding part, and made of a cobalt alloy containing chromium and silicon. In the wear resistant coating, oxide particles are dispersed which include an oxide containing chromium and silicon, and have a particle size of 100 μm or less when a cross section of the wear resistant coating is observed using an optical microscope with a magnification of 100 times.
US10894384B2
A laminate is made by first non-crimping or low-crimping continuous filaments to form a first spunbond layer and preconsolidating the first spunbond layer with a heated or calendering roller. Then continuous filaments with a greater crimp than the continuous filaments of the first spunbond layer are deposited as a second spunbond layer over the first spunbond layer to create a two-layer structure. Finally, the two-layer structure of the first and second spunbond layers is consolidated such that a total thickness of the laminate is 0.15 to 3 mm, preferably 0.2 mm to 2.5 mm and especially 0.2 mm to 2 mm.
US10894371B2
A vibration heat-pressing device includes a positioning member, a support body, a pressing mechanism, a vibration generator, and a heating rod. The positioning member supports and positions the workpiece. The pressing mechanism, the vibration generator, and the heating rod are located on the support body. The support body defines a first mounting hole. The heating rod is engaged in the first mounting hole. One end of the heating rod extends out from the support body and is connected to a heating device. The heating rod heats the heating rod of the pressing mechanism. A heat-conducting medium is filled in a gap between the heating rod and an inner wall of the first mounting hole. While the heating rod of the pressing mechanism are heated, the vibration generator vibrates the pressing mechanism.
US10894362B2
A method for specifying and fabricating non-homogeneous, anisotropic, truly functionally graded objects. The objects may have defined spatial heterogeneity (e.g., a gradient in material concentration) with local randomized distributions. This local randomness is designed in such a way that global averaging results in the specified spatial heterogeneity. The fabrication of structures is an additive process in which a material is deposited in defined patterns.
US10894357B2
Disclosed are a three-dimensional printer of a fused deposition modeling and software setting values thereof, which blocks transmitting calories of a nozzle upwards and simultaneously heats a lower aluminum output plate at a high temperature to locally transfer heat in a sandwich form to where an output proceeds, such that it is possible to realize miniaturization of engineering plastic printing at low energy, prevent the shrinkage of a printed object, and maximize adhesive strength between layers, wherein the three-dimensional printer is further provided with a nozzle made of SUS having excellent heat resistance to use an engineering plastic filament having a high melting temperature and obtain optimal quality within a numerical range of predefined software setting values, wherein the output plate is provided with a hard anodized aluminum plate so that both commodity plastic and engineering plastic material can be used without a need to attach an additional special sheet.
US10894356B2
In a coating method example, a coating is formed on a part precursor by blasting the part precursor with a blast medium. The blast medium includes blasting beads and a coating agent. The part precursor is formed from a polymeric build material, and a hardness of the blasting beads is greater than a hardness of the polymeric build material.
US10894355B2
A solidification substrate assembly for making a three-dimensional object from a solidifiable material includes a solidification substrate assembly. In certain examples, the solidifiable material solidifies in contact with the solidification substrate, and the tilting of the substrate and/or or the use of a peeling member facilitates separation of the substrate from the solidified material. In other examples, the solidification substrate assembly includes a film that is adjacent to a rigid or semi-rigid layer. The solidifiable material solidifies in contact with the film, and a peeling member peels the film away from the solidified material. Intelligent solidification substrate assemblies are also described in which a force sensor determines when to expose the solidifiable material to solidification energy and/or whether to use a peeling member to separate the solidification substrate from a solidified objection section.
US10894343B2
A rigid nylon porous material sheet is produced by the adhesive bonding of kinked nylon fibers having lengths of 1 to 5 inches. These fibers are cut from melt spun nylon or harvested from clean carpet fibers by shearing. The adhesive used is glycol, which attacks nylon at 180° C. forming a gel on the surface of the kinked fibers, but does not attack the nylon fibers when the kinked fiber assembly is cooled to 150° C. to precipitate ultrafine nylon within the gel. The fiber assembly is heated to 160° C. to bond the nylon fibers. It is then washed in hot water to remove unused glycol. The other adhesive is polyurethane, which is applied to the kinked fibers using coupling agents of aqueous resorcinol and vinyl pyrrolidone.
US10894341B2
A method for producing preforms, by layup of fibers on a layup surface, comprising the application of a binder on at least one continuous flat dry fiber, comprising two opposite main faces, and the layup of the fiber provided with binder by means of a layup head in order to form a preform. The application of binder on a fiber is carried out by means of at least one fiberizing nozzle comprising a discharge orifice supplied with liquid or pasty binder, and one or several injection orifices supplied with pressurized gas, in such a way that said nozzle is able to deliver the binder in the form of a spiral filament, the spirals of filament being deposited on a first main face of the fiber running underneath the nozzle in order to obtain a fiber provided with filaments of binder.
US10894336B2
A substrate cutting device includes: a base portion; a stage on the base portion; a partition member spaced from the stage; and an exhausting structure below the cell substrate and configured to exhaust a gaseous substance. The stage has a top surface configured to support a cell substrate and a connection surface perpendicular to the top surface, and the partition member faces the connection surface and is configured to support the cell substrate.
US10894334B2
An electrically-operated slice-cutting machine for cutting slices off—in particular, strand-shaped—material to be cut—preferably, food—includes: a machine housing which holds a drive motor and a rotating and/or circumferentially-movable cutting blade driven by the drive motor; a product feed for feeding the material to be cut to the cutting blade; a carrier plate; and a cutting frame arranged on the carrier plate and via which the material to be cut is fed to the cutting blade. The cutting frame is geometrically arranged such that the material to be cut is feedable by the product feed through the cutting frame to the cutting blade in an operating state of the slice-cutting machine. The slice-cutting machine has at least a first and a second lever element for releasably fixing the cutting frame, each of the two lever elements being transferrable from a holding position into a release position.
US10894331B2
Shaving systems are disclosed that include a replaceable shaving assembly and a cartridge connecting structure for connecting the shaving assembly to a handle. In preferred implementations, the cartridge connecting structure has a magnetic portion configured to help draw the cartridge onto the handle and retain the cartridge in place when the razor is not in contact with the skin, and a mechanical engagement that provides the necessary retention forces required to keep the system intact during shaving.
US10894327B2
A robot includes an arm, a plurality of motors provided in the arm, and a pipe connected to the arm. Wires passing through the inside of the pipe include a first power line, which is one power line for supplying electric power to a pair or more of the motors among the plurality of motors.
US10894324B2
Accuracy in interference determination between a hand gripping a workpiece and nearby objects is increased. An information processing apparatus includes a measuring unit configured to decide an object to be gripped among a plurality of objects on the basis of a first image of the imaged objects, a specifying unit configured to specify an attention area for determining, when a gripping device grips the object to be gripped, whether the gripping device interferes with objects near the object to be gripped, a controller configured to change an imaging range of an imaging device on the basis of the attention area, and a determination unit configured to determine, when the gripping device grips the object to be gripped, whether the gripping device interferes with the objects near the object to be gripped on the basis of a second image of an object imaged in a changed imaging range.
US10894323B2
A pipeline robot, a pipeline video signal acquisition and transmission device, and a pipeline detection system and method. The pipeline robot comprises a camera module and a crawler, wherein the camera module comprises a front-view digital camera, a first microprocessor and a rotation motor; the crawler comprises a frame body, wheels on the both sides of the frame body, a driving motor, a sensor group, a second microprocessor, a network transmission module and a first power carrier module; a cable reel comprises a power line, a second power carrier module, a fourth microprocessor and a network communication module; and an acquisition control terminal is a mobile terminal provided with a detection module.
US10894321B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including an apparatus that includes a motorized base configured to move the apparatus; an upper portion coupled to the motorized base; one or more load-sensing devices located between the motorized base and the upper portion, the one or more load-sensing devices being configured to (i) detect forces between the upper portion and the motorized base, and (ii) provide force information based on the detected forces between different portions of the upper portion and the motorized base; and one or more processors performs operations of: obtaining the force information provided by the one or more load-sensing devices; determining a difference between the forces indicated by the force information from the one or more load-sensing devices; determining, based the difference in the forces, a movement to be performed by the apparatus; and providing control information to cause the motorized base to perform the determined movement.
US10894318B2
A method for controlling an industrial robot are disclosed, wherein the method is performed by a robot controller system, the robot controller system includes a local part connected to an industrial robot and a remote cloud part connectable to the local part. The local part includes a first real-time partition and a second non-real-time partition, and the method includes the steps of: storing a local cache of a complete file system of the robot controller system in the second non-real-time partition; storing the complete file system in the remote cloud part; and controlling the industrial robot in real time from the first real-time partition.
US10894315B2
A robot controller comprising a processor that is configured to execute computer-executable instructions so as to controls a robot including an arm capable of moving at least one of a target object and a discharger capable of discharging a discharge object to the target object, wherein the processor is configured to use a first position based on a jig removably attached to the discharger to generate teaching information on a position of the arm.
US10894313B2
A syncing apparatus for synchronizing a process dolly to a conveyor includes a mounting frame and a sync arm. The mounting frame is configured to be mounted to a frame of the process dolly. The sync arm is coupled to the mounting frame and includes a wheel and a biasing member coupled to the wheel and configured to bias the wheel to an extended position. The wheel is configured to contact a contact feature of the conveyor to synchronize the process dolly to a movement of the conveyor when biased to the extended position. Compression of the biasing member moves the wheel to a retracted position wherein the wheel is configured to traverse the contact feature of the conveyor and the process dolly is unsynchronized from the movement of the conveyor.
US10894301B2
A method of removing a coating made of an organic material, in particular an organic lacquer or a polymer coating, which adheres to the surface of tin-plated sheet steel. In a first step, the tin layer of the tin-plated sheet steel is completely or incipiently melted by exposure to electromagnetic radiation with a predefined wavelength, to which the organic coating is at least primarily transparent, with the organic coating becoming detached from tin layer, and in a second step, the organic material of the coating which detached from the tin layer is removed.
US10894295B2
A welding power supply having an adjustable cover is disclosed. The welding power supply includes an enclosure housing an engine, a porous radiator thermally coupled to the engine, and a fan configured to propel air through the radiator. A ventilation opening is in fluid communication with the fan and radiator. The fan is configured to move heated air along an air path and out of the ventilation opening. The air may be heated by the welding power supply components (e.g. engine, radiator, charge air cooler, oil cooler, compressor, generator, weld circuitry, and/or other components), for example. The adjustable cover is positioned over the ventilation when in a fully closed and/or partially open/closed position. The adjustable cover may be moved between fully closed, partially open/closed, and fully open positions. The amount of air that is allowed to exit the enclosure, and the amount of air that is recirculated within the enclosure, may be altered by adjusting the position of the adjustable cover.
US10894292B2
A machine tool includes a main spindle movably supported in an axial direction, and two gang tool posts disposed opposed to each other with an axis of the main spindle located therebetween. Each of the two gang tool posts is supported movably in X and Y directions that are perpendicular to the axial direction of the main spindle. Each of the two gang tool posts is provided with tools arranged parallel to each other in the Y direction. One of the two gang tool posts is movably disposed in a Z direction that is a same direction as the axial direction of the main spindle. Any one of the two gang tool posts is integrally provided with a turning tool base that turnably supports tools about a Y-axis along the Y direction.
US10894289B2
A manufacturing method for three-dimensional structure has a layer forming step of supplying a flowable composition containing a powder and an organic material to form a unit layer, an organic material removing step of performing a treatment of removing the organic material on the unit layer, and an energy applying step of applying energy to the unit layer after the organic material removing step to form a molten layer or sintered layer, wherein the layer forming step, the organic material removing step, and the energy applying step are repeated with respect to the molten layer or sintered layer in a stacking direction as appropriate.
US10894283B2
Provided are: a method for producing a molded material comprising tubular body and a flange formed at an end portion of the body; and a molded material produced thereby, which can prevent the flange of the molded material becoming unnecessarily thick, avoid the generation of wrinkles and buckling, and allow weight reduction of the molded material and size reduction of a base metal sheet. When producing the molded material by molding processes including at least one drawing-out process and at least one drawing process performed after the drawing-out process, a first drawing process is carried out on a region corresponding to the body while opening a die and a drawing sleeve, and an ironing process is carried out on a region corresponding to the flange while keeping a constant interval of a mold gap between the die and the drawing sleeve.
US10894282B2
A tool for manufacturing blanks and a process for stacking and destacking the blanks in a production line are provided. The tool is incorporated into a blanking die used to trim a metal sheet and form the blanks. When the blanks are stacked, the destacking formations provide gaps between the adjacent blanks. The gaps provide an entry to blast air and thus reliably separate the blanks for pick up, so that only one blank is picked up at a time. The tool includes a deforming unit that has an engagement element for pressing deformations into the metal sheet. The deformations are pressed adjacent to at least one edge of the metal sheet so that when the metal sheet is trimmed, and the blanks are stacked, they are spaced by the deformations by adjacently stacked blanks.
US10894278B2
Provided is a round billet capable of reducing damage on a piercing plug in a method of producing a seamless metal tube with a Mannesmann process. The round billet (5), for use in a seamless metal tube, to be produced into a seamless metal tube with a Mannesmann process includes a body having a hole (6) formed in an axial direction of the body. The hole (6) includes an aperture (6a) opening at least at one end face of the round billet (5), and a tapered portion (61) continued to the aperture (6a) and having a diameter gradually increasing toward the aperture (6a).
US10894276B2
In chemical processes for cracking hydrocarbons, reactors are subject to coking. This results in carburization of the metal substrate for the reactor leading to a reduced reactor life. If the reactor is subject to a decoke process, followed by a steam scour and nitriding there is a reduced tendency to carburization of the metal substrate improving the reactor life.
US10894272B2
A dispensing control system includes a dispensing device and a remote device. The dispensing device includes a dispenser configured to dispense material from a cartridge disposed in the dispensing device, a first receiver configured to receive information related to the cartridge, a transmitter configured to transmit the information related to the cartridge, and an electronic controller configured to cause the transmitter of the dispensing device to transmit the information related to the cartridge. The remote device includes an electronic controller, a receiver and a transmitter, the receiver of the remote device is configured to receive the information related to the cartridge, the controller of the remote device is configured to monitor the information related to the cartridge and to cause the transmitter of the remote device to transmit the information related to the cartridge to a remote server.
US10894270B2
A liquid jet discharge device includes: a narrow tube having a tube shaped body that is open at both ends, and in which a discharge liquid being disposed therein, the discharge liquid contacting at least at an inner face of the narrow tube at a contact angle of less than 90 degrees; a container in which a transmission medium being disposed at a base side thereof where one end of the narrow tube is disposed, so as to enable pressure to be transmitted to the discharge liquid; an adjustment mechanism that causes a liquid surface of the discharge liquid inside the narrow tube and an interface of the transmission medium outside the narrow tube and inside the container to be staggered in position along an axial direction of the narrow tube; and a generation mechanism that generates a pressure wave in the transmission medium such that a liquid jet is discharged from the discharge liquid inside the narrow tube.
US10894267B2
A method for producing a vapor deposition mask capable of satisfying both enhancement in definition and reduction in weight even when a size increased, a method for producing a vapor deposition mask device capable of aligning the vapor deposition mask to a frame with high precision, and a method for producing an organic semiconductor element capable of producing an organic semiconductor element with high definition are provided. A metal mask provided with a slit, and a resin mask that is positioned on a front surface of the metal mask and has openings corresponding to a pattern to be produced by vapor deposition arranged by lengthwise and crosswise in a plurality of rows, are stacked.
US10894264B2
A filling system including: a bottle having a hollow enclosure with a base; a filling module that includes a reservoir; a plate able to move between a high position and a low position; a pump; a compression system configured so as to compress the pump when the plate descends; a pipe assembly between the reservoir and the plate and the pump; and a connection assembly for fluid between the plate and the base.
US10894261B2
The washing nozzle for washing an inside of the machine tool with fluid includes a base portion having a tubular passage inside thereof, a supply port through the tubular passage, and a rotary member rotatable about an axis parallel to a surface on which the base portion is mounted, the rotary member having inside thereof a nozzle jet port and a nozzle flow passage allowing communication between the tubular passage and the nozzle jet port, wherein the jet port is formed so that fluid jetted from the jet port of the rotary member hits the surface on which the base portion is mounted and the jet of the fluid causes the rotary member to rotate about the parallel axis.
US10894260B2
A centrifuge (10) having a safety vessel (30) with a vessel wall (32), a rotor (17), which is arranged in the safety vessel (30) and is connected via a drive shaft (20) to a drive device (22), wherein at least the drive shaft (20) extends through the safety vessel (30), a cooling system for cooling an interior space (31) of the safety vessel (30), which comprises a heat transfer medium (19) for taking up heat from the safety vessel (30), a refrigerating unit (12) and conducting pipelines (18) for the heat transfer medium (19). The invention is distinguished by the fact that the refrigerating unit (12) is based on the magnetocaloric effect, and the interior space (31) of the safety vessel (30) is cooled by a first cooling circuit (111), the magnetocaloric effect of the refrigerating unit (12) extracts heat from the heat transfer medium (19) of the first cooling circuit (111) and feeds the heat to a second cooling circuit (113).
US10894251B2
Described herein are coatings. The coatings can, for example, catalyze carbon gasification. In some examples, the coatings comprise: a first region having a first thickness, the first region comprising manganese oxide, a chromium-manganese oxide, or a combination thereof, and CaWO4, Ba3Y2WO9, or a combination thereof; a second region having a second thickness, the second region comprising X6W6Z, XWZ, or a combination thereof, wherein X is independently Ni or a mixture of Ni and one or more transition metals and Z is independently Si, C, or a combination thereof. In some examples, the coatings further comprise a rare earth element, a rare earth oxide, or a combination thereof.
US10894246B2
Catalyst compositions comprising small size molecular sieves crystals deposited on a porous material
Catalyst compositions comprising an inorganic porous material with pore diameters of at least 2 nm and of crystals of molecular sieve, characterized in that the crystals of molecular sieve have an average diameter, measured by scanning electron microscopy, not bigger than 50 nm, and in that the catalyst composition presents a concentration of acid sites ranges from 50 to 1200 μmol/g measured by TPD NH3 adsorption; and the XRD pattern of said catalyst composition is the same as the X ray diffraction pattern of said inorganic porous material.
US10894239B2
The present invention aims to provide a dispersant and a dispersion composition that exhibit high dispersing ability for nano-carbons such as, in particular, CNTs. The dispersant according to the present invention includes a polyalkylene oxide having a structural unit of the following chemical formula (1). In the chemical formula (1), L1 and L2 are each a straight-chain alkylene group that may have a substituent, Z is a linking group that links L1 and Ar, or alternatively, Z may not be present and L1 and Ar may be linked directly to each other, and Ar is represented by the following chemical formula (1a), (1b), or (1c).
US10894237B2
A nozzle including an interior cavity, a structure disposed within the interior cavity, a first channel fluidly connected to the interior cavity, one or more second channels fluidly connected to the interior cavity, and one or more outlets coupled to the interior cavity. The structure includes a bottom impinging surface that is at least partially concave, one or more legs that support the bottom impinging surface, and a top surface located opposite the bottom impinging surface.
US10894234B2
A peak intensity of a (004) plane is greater than or equal to 3 times a peak intensity of a (110) plane in an X-ray diffraction pattern obtained by irradiation of X-rays to a membrane surface of an AFX membrane.
US10894229B2
An apparatus and method for abating ozone and reducing sulfuric acid from an exhaust stream. In a semiconductor manufacturing plant the processing of wafers involves the cleaning and etching of wafers, the resultant processing may produce gasses which must be abated. The apparatus and method utilizes UV light in high doses to convert ozone (O3) to oxygen (O2). By ensuring laminar flow through the UV light chambers, the efficiency of the system is sufficient to allow for the remaining impurities in the exhaust air to be removed through the use of an RTO.
US10894222B2
The present invention relates to a distributor device (10000) for the even distribution of a fluid (10) into 2 or more fluid streams each containing gas (11) and liquid (12), with a falling film evaporator (100000), in which the distributor device according to the invention serves to distribute the 2 or more fluid streams onto the heating pipes of the evaporator, and to the use of the distributor device (10000) according to the invention and in particular the falling film evaporator (100000) according to the invention in the production and/or preparation of chemical products. The distributor device according to the invention is characterized, in particular, by a swirl breaker (600) for the gas phase (11) which arises from separating the fluid (10) into a gas phase (11) and a liquid phase (12) within the distributor device.
US10894211B2
Information processing method, apparatus, and system for executing the information processing method
A method including defining a virtual space. The virtual space contains a first player character associated with a first user, a second player character associated with a second user, and virtual points of view for defining field-of-view images to be provided to a first HMD associated with the first user and to a second HMD associated with the second user. The method includes identifying first and second parts of the second player character. The method includes moving the first part in synchronization with a detected movement of the second user. The method includes displaying the second part in connection with a detected movement of the first part. The method includes setting a first transparency rate of the first part and a second transparency rate of the second part. A transparency rate of at least a portion of the second part is greater than the transparency rate of the first part.
US10894210B2
The disclosure relates to a system for automated generation and/or execution of an interactive content object having content related to a video game application. In some implementations, the interactive content object may comprise interactive digital content that may be distributed to and/or executed on one or more computer system gaming platforms and/or other interactive media devices. Interactive content objects may be configured such that they may be included in the video game application and/or executed by the video game application. Interactive content objects may also be configured as standalone products. Interactive content objects may be configured such that they may be remotely patched and/or updated without updating the video game application. In some implementations, the interactive content object may comprise one or more of an instruction manual, a strategy guidebook, a cheat book, a mini-game, episodic content, and/or other applications.
US10894205B2
Disclosed are puzzle devices for production of one or more puzzles. The puzzle devices can include a body and at least one input device. The body can include a plurality of panels, each panel configured to display one or more visual indicators. The at least one input device can include a plurality of panels, each panel configured to display a visual indicator. The at least one input device can move relative to the body to align one or more panels of the input device with one or more panels of the body. The body can further include a plurality of visual output devices configured to generate visual indicators on the plurality of panels of the body.
US10894200B2
An ice skate blade assembly for a skate, includes a blade holder that releasably receives an ice skate blade therein. The blade has first and second hooks projecting upwardly from respective first and second ends of the blade. The holder has a bridge portion with a groove to receive the main portion of the blade therein and first and second pedestals at either end of the bridge portion with cavities to receive the first and second hooks therein. An actuator mounted within the second pedestal includes a hook-receiving portion slidably movable along a curved sliding path between one end portion parallel to the longitudinal axis of the assembly in a locked position retaining the second hook thereon and an opposing released position. The actuator is recessed into the pedestal and includes a tool receiving aperture so that a tool is used to displace the actuator.
US10894199B2
Embodiments for providing recreational assistance are described. A system for providing recreational assistance includes a frame and a microphone, a speaker, and at least one processor connected to the frame. The at least one processor is in operable communication with the microphone and the speaker and configured to, in response to the detection of an aural command by the microphone, generate a signal representative of a distance between the frame and a landmark and cause the speaker to generate an aural indication representative of the distance.
US10894198B1
Provided is a device for pitch detection within user-defined zones. The device detects a first gesture at a first height based on first output from all or some sensors, and detects a second gesture at a second height based on second output from all or some sensors. The device sets a top and bottom of the user-defined zone based on the first height and the second height, and tracks a location of an object relative to the user-defined zone based on third output, from a subset of sensors, that is generated in response to the object moving over or under the subset of sensors. The device discards output generated from two or more sensors that are not adjacent, measurements from adjacent sensors that differ by more than a distance threshold, and/or output from adjacent sensors with timestamps that differ by more than a time threshold.
US10894196B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments of an exercise apparatus. In certain embodiments, an exercise apparatus comprises a frame and a seat assembly, the seat assembly comprising a seat, the seat configured to move between a first position and a second position, wherein the first position accommodates use of the exercise apparatus by a user sitting on the seat and wherein the second position accommodates use of the exercise apparatus by a user sitting in a wheelchair. The seat assembly may be pivotably coupled to the frame. The seat assembly may comprise a stop configured to inhibit movement of the seat, and may further comprise a biasing element that is biased to disengage the stop.
US10894193B2
Embodiments of golf club heads with cavities and methods to manufacture golf club heads with cavities are generally described herein. In some embodiments, a golf club head comprises a body. The body comprises a strikeface, a backside of the strikeface, a heel region, a toe region opposite the heel region, a sole, a first cavity at the backside of the strikeface, a rear portion opposite the strikeface, and a second cavity at the rear portion. In many embodiments, the golf club head further comprises a cap closing off the second cavity. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US10894192B2
A golf club head includes a face portion, a plurality of score lines formed in the face portion and extending in a toe-heel direction, a plurality of convex portions formed in the face portion and extending in the toe-heel direction between the score lines adjacent to each other in a vertical direction of the face portion, and at least one concave portion formed in the face portion and extending in the toe-heel direction between the convex portions adjacent to each other in the vertical direction. A flat surface is formed between the concave portion and the convex portion adjacent to the concave portion.
US10894191B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a golf ball traveling a great flight distance. The present invention provides a golf ball comprising a spherical core and a cover covering the spherical core, wherein the golf ball has a ratio (t2/t1) of a time (t2) to a time (t1) of 1.05 or more in a hitting test using a driver (at a head speed of 40 m/sec), wherein the time (t1) is a time taken from a moment that the driver begins to contact with the golf ball to a moment that the golf ball reaches a maximum deformation amount, and the time (t2) is a time taken from the moment that the golf ball reaches the maximum deformation amount to a moment that the golf ball leaves the driver.
US10894187B2
A swim training apparatus for use on a hand of a swimmer in water during a swimming motion, said training aid apparatus comprising: a plate member having a first surface and an opposed second surface and a leading edge and a trailing edge. The first surface has four straight grooves having a bottom and elevated sides along passing from a base of the first surface adjacent the wrist towards a top of the first surface where fingertips extend, wherein height of the elevated sides is at least 1 mm higher than a lowest point of the bottom of the groove.
US10894186B2
A sports training aid comprising a body unit, attachable to a person's body or the person's sports implement, is provided with a positioning sensor module; a feedback stimulator; and a processor. The sports training aid is configured to provide instantaneous feedback on motion faults of a studied sports motion, and the body unit is intended to be attached to a person's body (or a person's sports implement) at a representative location, the location being bound to travel a path representative of the studied sports motion, and the positioning sensor module comprises acceleration sensors and gyro sensors, and the processor is configured to determine a still position corresponding to an event wherein the body unit is determined to be still, to keep track of the sensor module's movements relative to the still position, and to activate the feedback stimulator in real time, upon detection of a sports motion fault.
US10894174B2
The following relates generally to use of magnetic resonance (MR) imaging as guidance in radiation therapy, and more specifically to use of MR imaging as guidance in proton therapy. In some embodiments, a cryogenic dewar is provided with multiple channels allowing a proton beam from a proton beam source to pass through. The proton beam may first be aligned with a first channel, and the dewar may then be rotated along with the proton source. The dewar may then be rotated to align a second channel with the proton beam.
US10894171B2
The present invention relates to a treatment device using high frequency and provides a treatment device using high frequency comprising: a main body comprising a high frequency generation portion inside; a contact type handpiece comprising a first electrode portion for providing high frequency energy generated in the high frequency generation portion to the surface of the skin, and is detachably formed at an fastening portion of the main body; an invasive handpiece comprising a second electrode portion for providing high frequency energy generated in the high frequency generation portion to the inside of the skin, and is detachably formed at an fastening portion of the main body; and a control portion for controlling the high frequency energy provided from the high frequency generation portion to the first electrode portion or the second electrode portion.
US10894169B2
A process that provides protective therapy for biological tissues or fluids includes applying a pulsed energy source to a target tissue or a target fluid having a chronic progressive disease or a risk of having a chronic progressive disease to therapeutically or prophylactically treat the target tissue or target fluid. A pulsed energy source having selected energy parameters may be applied to a brain of an individual who has Alzheimer's or other neurodegenerative disease or is at risk of developing such a neurodegenerative disease so as to prevent or treat the neurodegenerative disease.
US10894167B2
A leadless pacing device may include a housing having a proximal end and a distal end, and a set of one or more electrodes supported by the housing. The housing may include a first a distal extension extending distally from the distal end thereof. One or more electrodes may be supported by the distal extension. The leadless pacing device may be releasably coupled to an expandable anchor mechanism.
US10894166B2
A multi-lead stimulation lead connector for facilitating electrical and mechanical connectivity between one or more stimulation leads and a pulse generator, e.g., an EPG used in a test stimulation system. One or more cam lock assemblies are disposed in a housing, each cam lock assembly comprising a cam knob and a cam shaft and having a longitudinal channel defined therein for accepting a proximal end of a respective stimulation lead, the proximal end having a plurality of terminal contact electrodes. By actuating a rotational movement of the cam knob, the cam lock assembly is unlocked in a first direction for guiding the proximal end and locked in a second direction for securely holding the proximal end and effectuating electrical connectivity with a plurality of conductors encapsulated in a cable for interfacing with the EPG.
US10894161B2
A method is provided to deliver C tactile fiber stimulation to nervous tissue of a patient. The method comprises delivering a first tactile stimulation waveform to a first electrode combination within an array of electrodes located proximate to nervous tissue of interest. The method further provides sequentially delivering successive tactile stimulation waveforms to successive electrode combinations within the array of electrodes. The first and successive tactile stimulation waveforms include at least one series of pulses having a pulse amplitude and pulse frequency. Delaying delivery of the successive tactile stimulation waveforms by a firing delay, the pulse amplitude, pulse frequency and firing delay represent therapy parameters. The method manages at least one of the therapy parameters of the first and successive tactile stimulation waveforms to excite C tactile fibers of the nervous tissue of interest.
US10894155B2
A subcutaneously implantable device includes a housing, a clip attached to a top side of the housing, a first prong with a proximal end attached to the housing and a distal end extending away from the housing, and a first electrode on the first prong. The clip is configured to anchor the device to a muscle, a bone, and/or a tissue. The first prong is configured to contact a heart. The first electrode is configured to contact the heart. Sensing circuitry in the housing that is configured to sense an electrical signal from the heart, and therapeutic circuitry in the housing is in electrical communication with the first electrode and is configured to deliver electrical stimulation to the heart through the first electrode.
US10894150B2
Drug delivery devices having a drug-permeable component and methods of making and using the same are provided. Drug delivery devices include a housing having a first and second wall structures that are adjacent one another and together form a tube defining a drug reservoir lumen. The second wall structure, or both the first wall structure and the second wall structure, are permeable to water, and the first wall structure is impermeable to the drug while the second wall structure is permeable to the drug, such that the drug is releasable in vivo by diffusion through the second wall structure.
US10894145B2
A steerable catheter having a hub with a control feature includes a semi-rigid catheter with the hub attached at the proximal end. The distal end of the catheter includes a distal tip and a flexible portion adjacent the distal tip. The catheter includes a working channel, and further includes a channel through which a tension member or wire extends to the distal tip. Tension in the wire causes the distal tip to deflect and be steered. The hub includes a fixed member attached to the catheter, an inner member that moves axially relative to the fixed member, and an outer member that rotates relative to the inner member and the fixed member. Rotation of the outer member results in translation of the inner member, which is attached to the tension member and provides for controlled steering of the distal tip.
US10894141B2
Apparatus and methods for delivering humidified breathing gas to a patient are provided. The apparatus includes a humidification system configured to deliver humidified breathing gas to a patient. The humidification system includes a vapor transfer unit and a base unit. The vapor transfer unit includes a liquid passage, a breathing gas passage, and a vapor transfer device positioned to transfer vapor to the breathing gas passage from the liquid passage. The base unit includes a base unit that releasably engages the vapor transfer unit to enable reuse of the base unit and selective disposal of the vapor transfer unit. The liquid passage is not coupled to the base unit for liquid flow therebetween when the vapor transfer unit is received by the base unit.
US10894139B2
Method and apparatus varies the oxygen concentration level of air delivered to a person for treatment on training purposes. The apparatus includes a display device for displaying current physiological data as well as data from previous sessions for comparison purpose. The oxygen level is precisely controlled by a central processing unit in response to input data from the person.
US10894131B2
The present invention includes methods, circuits, devices, assemblies, systems and associated computer executable code for monitoring medical conduits, sensing and measuring parameters of fluids (liquid and/or gas) within medical conduits and/or processing sensed/measured parameters of fluids within medical conduits. The present invention further includes medical infusion devices and/or systems including the monitoring, sensing, measuring and analyzing devices and methods described herein.
US10894127B2
An autoinjector for dispensing a fluid product, in particular a medicament, comprises: a) a housing (2) and a product container (13), in particular a syringe, arranged in the housing and has a piston displaceable in a distal direction, by means of an advancement member, in order to dispense the product contained in the product container, b) a removable covering cap (4) arranged at the distal end of the housing, c) a triggering member (3), which, in the starting position, projects beyond the distal end of the housing, d) where the triggering member, in order to trigger the dispensing operation, can move in a proximal direction relative to the housing from the starting position into a triggering position when the covering cap has been removed from the housing, and e) where the triggering member is blocked against movement into the triggering position when the covering cap is arranged on the housing.
US10894122B2
A sheet-shaped application member includes: a first region, and a second region extending around the first region, wherein: the first region comprises a first region attachment surface to which a medical device is attachable, and a first region application surface opposite the first region attachment surface and adapted to be applied to a subject, the second region comprises a second region application surface adapted to be applied to the subject, and the first and second application regions are adapted such that, when the application member is applied to the subject, adhesion at the second region application surface is stronger than adhesion at the first region application surface; and an application member tear portion adapted to allow for tearing of a portion within the first region or for tearing the first region from the second region.
US10894119B2
The present invention concerns a system for preparing a ready-to-use peritoneal dialysis fluid. The system comprises a) a proportioning device; b) at least one source of water; c) at least one source of first concentrate adapted for connection with a) and b), d) at least one source of second concentrate adapted for connection with a) and b), and optionally, e) at least one source of further concentrate adapted for connection with a) and b), wherein the first concentrate comprises glucose and has a pH of between 1.5 and 4, and wherein the second concentrate comprises a physiologically acceptable buffer and has a pH of between 5.5 and 9.0.
US10894105B2
A system and method of abating air pollution and stimulating crop growth. A reagent is introduced to a crop canopy to neutralize air pollutants within said canopy, wherein the reagent induces an oxidation-reduction chemical reaction with the air pollution present throughout the acreage of crops, and by means of the reaction effectually neutralizes the harmful effects of the air pollutants on the crops. The reagent is diluted using a venturi valve or other means. The flow rate of said reagent is regulated using an electronic control unit, based on data collected from at least one type of sensor in the canopy that is in communication with the control unit.
US10894104B1
Disclosed herein is a light emitting diode (LED) lighting device for sterilizing a surface or a space capable of effectively performing short-distance sterilization or long-distance sterilization. The device includes: a body including an inner transparent tube and an outer transparent tube in a double-tube type, the inner transparent tube forming a vertical ventilation hole and the outer transparent tube being spaced apart from the inner transparent tube at a predetermined distance; a substrate provided in a space formed by the inner transparent tube and the outer transparent tube; and a first light emitting element and a second light emitting element provided on an outer surface of the substrate. The first light emitting element emits visible light having a first wavelength of 405 nm, and the second light emitting element emits short-wavelength visible light having a second wavelength in the range of 400 to 450 nm.
US10894099B2
Portable multifunctional device designed for sanitizing of inner and outer surfaces of shoes, sanitizing of air, water, household items and surfaces, treatment of skin and wound infection, nails fungus, cosmetic use, and detection of counterfeit currency. The device is able to perform all the above sanitizing, therapeutic and cosmetic functions that would otherwise be carried out by various different devices. The enhance functionality has been accomplished without alteration of any parts of the device. Apparatus utilizes light radiation in three diapasons: 100-280, 405-495, and 700-1064 nm and provides distant sanitizing. Apparatus comprises at least one module with a dual DC-AC power supply. Each module has a germicidal unit, retractable flexible shaft, shade, and housing. The flexible shaft allows positioning the germicidal units under different angle for uniform distant illumination. The device is suitable for household, traveling, and military use.
US10894095B2
The present disclosure concerns a medical image indicator. More particularly, it concerns the multipurpose medical image indicator including more than one of fluorophores and MRI contrast agent/CT contrast agent and method for manufacturing same. Responding to a demand for non-invasive and effective way of marking lesions, the present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing the multipurpose medical image indicator including a provision of rubber material fluid composition; a mixing of the rubber material fluid composition and fluorophores; and a transfiguring and drying of the mixture and the multipurpose medical image indicator manufactured according to the method. Further, the present disclosure provides a ligation device for endoscope including the multipurpose medical image indicator.
US10894092B2
The present invention relates in part to nucleic acids, including nucleic acids encoding proteins, therapeutics and cosmetics comprising nucleic acids, methods for delivering nucleic acids to cells, tissues, organs, and patients, methods for inducing cells to express proteins using nucleic acids, methods, kits and devices for transfecting, gene editing, and reprogramming cells, and cells, organisms, therapeutics, and cosmetics produced using these methods, kits, and devices.
US10894088B2
The present invention provides: a complex of a mercaptoundecahydrodecaborate (BSH) and a peptide, the complex for boron neutron capture therapy (BNCT); a method for producing the complex; and a cancer therapy using the complex.
US10894085B2
The system comprises a support to receive a nanoparticle assembly (NPA) and to be conveyed towards a localized area of an organism infected or at risk to be infected by microorganisms; said nanoparticle assembly (NPA) comprising a plurality of nanoparticles (NPs) each one (NP) having a metal core and a surface surrounding said metal core, the metal core being reactable to thermal energy; and an energy unit (15) configured to apply at least one thermal shot on said localized area exposed to the nano-particle assembly, increasing the temperature of said localized area via the. nanoparticle assembly (NPA), so enabling a nanotheranostic multimodal antimicrobial therapy, wherein the metal core being made of silver, gold, iron or a mixture of silver and gold.
US10894076B2
The present invention provides a composition comprising a GLP-1 receptor agonist and a glucagon receptor agonist and an application of the composition. More specifically, the present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition comprising a pharmaceutically effective amount of the GLP-1 receptor agonist and the glucagon receptor agonist, wherein the GLP-1 receptor agonist and the glucagon receptor agonist independently form a conjugate with a hydrophilic polymer, or the GLP-1 receptor agonist and the glucagon receptor agonist jointly form a conjugate with the hydrophilic polymer.
US10894064B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US10894057B2
Preparations of glycan therapeutics, pharmaceutical compositions, dietary supplements and medical foods thereof are provided, and methods of using said gycan therapeutics, e.g. in cancer therapy.
US10894055B2
Provided are novel formulations of 2-{[3,5-bis(trifluoromethyl)phenyl]carbamoyl}-4-chlorophenyl dihydrogen phosphate as described below and uses thereof.
US10894053B2
Disclosed herein are compositions comprising an NSAID such as meloxicam and/or rizatriptan in combination with a cyclodextrin and/or a carbonate or a bicarbonate. These compositions may be orally administered, for example, to improve the bioavailability or pharmacokinetics of the NSAID for the treatment of pain such as migraine, arthritis, and other conditions. Also disclosed herein are methods of treating pain, such as migraine, comprising administering meloxicam and rizatriptan to a human being suffering from pain, such as migraine. For migraine, these methods may be particularly useful when the meloxicam and rizatriptan are administered while the human being is suffering from an acute attack of migraine pain or migraine aura. In some embodiments, the combination of meloxicam and rizatriptan may be administered in a manner that results in a Tmax of meloxicam of 3 hours or less.
US10894050B2
The disclosure describes methods of synthesis of pyridazinone compounds as thyroid hormone analogs and their prodrugs. Preferred methods according to the disclosure allow for large-scale preparation of pyridazinone compounds having high purity. In some embodiments, preferred methods according to the disclosure also allow for the preparation of pyridazinone compounds in better yield than previously used methods for preparing such compounds. Also disclosed are morphic forms of a pyridazinone compound. Further disclosed is a method for treating resistance to thyroid hormone in a subject having at least one TRβ mutation.
US10894049B2
The present invention belongs to the pharmaceutical field, and in particular, it relates to a pharmaceutical formulation of palbociclib and a preparation method thereof. The pharmaceutical formulation comprises palbociclib, an acidic auxiliary material, and optionally a hydrophilic high-molecular material, which has better solubility and in vitro dissolution property as compared with the conventional formulation and can be used for enhancing in vivo absorption and bioavailability of palbociclib.
US10894048B2
The problems to be solved by the present invention are to provide a novel FGFR inhibitor that is potent and highly selective, and to provide an antitumor agent with which side effects such as an elevated blood phosphorus concentration are alleviated while maintaining the antitumor effect of the FGFR inhibitor. The present invention provides an antitumor agent comprising a 3,5-di-substituted benzene alkynyl compound represented by general formula (I) or salt thereof, which is used by administering the 3,5-di-substituted benzene alkynyl compound or salt thereof according to an administration schedule of two or more times/week at an administration interval of at least one day between doses.
US10894039B2
Provided herein are stable amlodipine oral liquid formulations. Also provided herein are methods of using amlodipine oral liquid formulations for the treatment of certain diseases including hypertension and Coronary Artery Disease (CAD).
US10894028B2
In various embodiments, the present invention provides methods of reducing the risk of a cardiovascular event in a subject on statin therapy and, in particular, a method of reducing the risk of a cardiovascular event in a subject on statin therapy having a fasting baseline triglyceride level of about 135 mg/dL to about 500 mg/dL, and administering to the subject a pharmaceutical composition comprising about 1 g to about 4 g of eicosapentaenoic acid ethyl ester or a derivative thereof.
US10894022B2
A method for increasing bacteria belonging to the genus Akkermansia in an intestinal bacterial flora, comprising the step of ingesting a composition containing astaxanthin.
US10894017B1
The instant application relates to the field of pharmaceutical compositions comprising dasatinb. Furthermore, the instant application relates to a method of treating proliferative disorders in a patient in need thereof, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of said compositions.
US10894014B2
The invention provides an orodispersible solid pharmaceutical dosage unit having a weight between 30 and 1,000 mg, said dosage unit containing at least 100 μg of an estetrol component selected from estetrol, estetrol esters and combinations thereof; wherein the solid dosage unit can be obtained by a process that comprises: providing a loading liquid comprising organic solvent; estetrol component and optionally one or more other pharmaceutically acceptable ingredients; mixing 1 part by weight of the loading liquid with 0.5-20 parts by weight of carrier particles to produce wet particles; removing organic solvent from the wet particles to produce loaded particles; optionally mixing the loaded particles with one or more tabletting excipients; and forming the loaded particles or the mixture of the loaded particles and the one or more tabletting excipients into a solid dosage unit. The solid dosage unit is easy to manufacture and perfectly suited for sublingual, buccal or sublabial administration.
US10894012B1
Novel pharmaceutical compositions including cocaine hydrochloride and methods of treating patients using those pharmaceutical compositions are described.
US10894011B2
Methods and apparatus are provided for applying an fragment of a neurotoxin such as the active light chain (LC) of the botulinum toxin (BoNT), such as one of the serotype A, B, C, D, E, F or G botulinum toxins, via permeabilization of targeted cell membranes to enable translocation of the botulinum neurotoxin light chain (BoNT-LC) molecule across the targeted cell membrane to the cell cytosol where a therapeutic response is produced in a mammalian system. The methods and apparatus include use of catheter based delivery systems, non-invasive delivery systems, and transdermal delivery systems.
US10894007B2
Methods and composition are provided for a hair care composition that comprises at least one encapsulated moisturizing ingredient. The composition comprises at least one surfactant, at least one capsule that encapsulates a benefit agent, and a carrier. The composition may further comprise additional components, which may be a function of the type of hair care composition. A method of using a hair care composition that comprises at least one encapsulated moisturizing ingredient is also provided.
US10894003B2
A medicine cassette 100 includes a side-wall constituent body 110, a first rotating body 120, a second rotating body 130 and a medicine discharging part 144c. The medicine cassette 100 can scrape up medicines prepared in a medicine containing part 182 along with a rotation of the first rotating body 120 to transfer and place the medicines onto the second rotating body 130 and transfer the medicines toward a downstream side of a rotational direction of the second rotating body 130 to discharge the medicines from the medicine discharging part 144c. An expanding portion 110a expanding toward an outer side of a radial direction of the second rotating body 130 is provided in the side-wall constituent body 110 on a lower side of the second rotating body 130.
US10893999B2
The invention relates to a device for controlled cardiopulmonary resuscitation, which allows the user to reanimate a human body quickly and simply during a cardiac arrest. The geometric dimensions of the claimed device are comparatively small and lie between approximately 10 and 25 cm in diameter and approximately 6 and 12 cm in height. During use, a force K is exerted onto a first force transmission means, a clearly audible signal being generated when a maximum adjustable force exertion Kmax is reached. Said clearly audible signal is primarily generated by the interaction of oscillatory elements of said device.
US10893994B2
An apparatus for aiding a user of a toilet in standing up includes a structure where the user can sit, and includes a movable seat movably mounted to the toilet; and a seat actuator arranged adjacent to the toilet and actuating the movable seat to move having at least one of lifting movement and pivoting movement.
US10893992B2
A bed device includes: an operation section that receives an operation input; a controller that controls a movement of the bed in accordance with the operation input; a detector that detects a position of a patient on the bed; and, a limitation table that stores a limitation area set on the bed in association with a limitation content, wherein when the position of the patient detected by the detector is included in the limitation area, the limitation content is read out from the limitation table so as to control the controller in accordance with the limitation content. With this configuration, it is possible to provide a higher safety bed device which can not only notify the danger based on the bed movement but also limit the movement of the bed in accordance with the status of the patient or the bed device.
US10893981B2
The invention herein relates to a wound dressing product, combining a hydrophobic fabric, which is to be placed towards the wound, and is capable of binding unwanted microorganisms, and a moisture carrying matrix such as a gel or a foam. The product of the invention is ideal for treatment of drier wounds. It protects the wound and reduces the number of pathogenic microorganisms, without using antimicrobial substances and at the same time adds or traps moisture to the wound both supporting the hydrophobic functioning of the pad and healing in general by keeping the wound moist.
US10893978B2
Systems and methods for driving the cutter of a vitrectomy handpiece using a substantially hermetically sealed system having a pneumatic pump for alternatively creating both positive pressure for pushing a first side of a diaphragm in the vitreous cutter and pulling negative pressure to pull the other side of the diagram, and vice versa.
US10893972B2
A fastening device of a penis extension device includes a coupling element for exerting a tensile force on a penis and a tensile force meter, a first electronics component and a first current source. The tensile force meter electrically or electronically determines the measurement value for the exerted tension together with the first electronics component, and the first electronics component has a first radio device for transmitting the determined measurement value to an external receiver. With this device it is possible for a relevant measurement value, in particular the measurement value for the exerted tensile force, to be transmitted from the sensitive area in which the fastening device is used to an external device, for example to an app of a cell phone.
US10893960B2
Tubular casting processes, such as dip-coating, may be used to form substrates from polymeric solutions which may be used to fabricate implantable devices such as stents. The polymeric substrates may have multiple layers which retain the inherent properties of their starting materials and which are sufficiently ductile to prevent brittle fracture. Parameters such as the number of times the mandrel is immersed, the duration of time of each immersion within the solution, as well as the delay time between each immersion or the drying or curing time between dips and withdrawal rates of the mandrel from the solution may each be controlled to result in the desired mechanical characteristics. Additional post-processing may also be utilized to further increase strength of the substrate or to alter its shape.
US10893958B2
A multi-articulated link knee joint includes: a knee unit in which an upper link member is structured to rotate relative to a lower link member by a multi-articulated link mechanism including a plurality of link members including the upper link member and the lower link member; a driven member to move in accordance with the rotation of the upper link member; a position detector for detecting the position of the driven member, the position detector provided at the lower link member; and an angle detector for obtaining the bending angle of the knee unit from the position of the driven member.
US10893945B2
A bone cage may include first and second spaced apart frames defining a bone ingrowth cavity therebetween, a plurality of first protrusions each having a proximal end coupled to the first frame and a distal end extending into the cavity toward the second frame but not contacting the second frame, and a plurality of second protrusions each having a proximal end coupled to the second frame and a distal end extending into the cavity toward the first frame but not contacting the first frame. Furthermore, the distal ends of the first protrusions may be laterally offset from the distal ends of the second protrusions.
US10893927B2
An inferior vena cava (IVC) implant is provided that includes a tubular implant body, which is configured to assume a compressed delivery configuration and an expanded deployment configuration, and configured such that when implanted in the expanded deployment configuration in the IVC in the vicinity of the renal junctions, (a) has a generally tubular shape, (b) has upstream and downstream ends, and (c) is shaped so as to define: (i) two indentations on opposite sides of the tubular implant body, which are shaped so as to allow blood flow in the two indentations from upstream of the tubular implant body to downstream of the tubular implant body, and (ii) one or more surfaces that at least partially block blood flow through an interior of the tubular implant body from upstream of the tubular implant body to downstream of the tubular implant body. Other embodiments are also described.
US10893926B2
Apparatus for permanent placement across an ostium of a left atrial appendage in a patient, which includes a filtering membrane configured to extend across the ostium of the left atrial appendage. The filtering membrane has a permeable structure which allows blood to flow through but substantially inhibits thrombus from passing therethrough. The apparatus also includes a support structure attached to the filtering membrane which retains the filtering membrane in position across the ostium of the left atrial appendage by permanently engaging a portion of the interior wall of the left atrial appendage. The support structure may be radially expandable from a first configuration to a second configuration which engages the ostium or the interior wall of the left atrial appendage. The filtering membrane may define an opening therethrough that is configured to expand from a first size which inhibits the passage of thrombus therethrough to a second size which allows an interventional device, e.g., an expansion balloon, to pass therethrough, and wherein the opening is resiliently biased towards the first size.
US10893923B2
Devices and methods for treating respiratory problems of a subject, such as those related to sleep apnea, are presented herein. An implementation of a device may be configured to provide a measured vertical dimension of occlusion (VDO) and/or mandibular advancement in a subject. Methods for treating a subject through the use of the device may include systematically increasing and/or decreasing the measured VDO provided by the device.
US10893916B2
The present invention relates to an end effector having a line laser mounted therein, comprising: a main body forming the body of an end effector; a support part installed in the main body and supporting needle guide apparatuses for guiding a needle; a line laser part installed on one side and the other side of the support part, and emitting line laser beams so as to mark a needle insertion point for inserting the needle into a lesion of a patient; and a guide part for guiding the line laser beams emitted from the line laser part so as to cross the line laser beams, wherein the line laser part emits the line laser beams via the guide part such that the needle insertion point is marked at a predetermined distance away from the needle guide apparatus.
US10893908B2
A medical instrument includes two jaw members, at least one of which creates conditions of frustrated total internal reflection at a tissue-contacting surface when tissue is grasped between the two jaw members. The first jaw member may include an optical element having a tissue-contacting surface. The medical instrument also includes a light source that provides a light beam for sealing tissue. The light source is positioned so that the light beam is totally internally reflected from an interface between the tissue-contacting surface and air when tissue is not grasped by the jaw members. When tissue is grasped by the jaw members, at least a portion of the light beam is transmitted through that portion of the tissue-contacting surface that is in contact with the tissue. The light source may be movably coupled to a jaw member to scan the light beam and/or to change the incident angle based on optical properties of the tissue.
US10893898B2
The cryoapplicator for minimally invasive surgical cardiac ablation includes a fastening part, an insulation part and an effector tip. A pin is connected with the fastening part on one end, and with the effector tip on the second end. The effector tip is bent by 60° to 90° angle in the side view in relation to pin longitudinal axis, and by 5° to 60° angle in the top view. A thermal insulation cover is located on the pin with the possibility to slide along the longitudinal axis.
US10893897B2
An orthopedic fastener has a head and a shank. The shank has a leading end portion adjacent a distal tip and a trailing end portion adjacent a head. An intermediate portion is positioned between the leading and trailing end portions. At the intermediate portion, the shank increases in diameter. The leading end portion has a first thread which includes one or more self-tapping cutting grooves extending adjacent the distal tip and through a plurality of the first threads. The intermediate portion has second threads extending toward the head from the leading end portion. The second threads of the intermediate portion are larger in outer diameter than the first threads in the leading end portion. The intermediate portion has one or more cutting grooves traversing at each of a leading transition at the leading end portion and at a trailing transition.
US10893891B2
A bone hook apparatus is provided that includes a base, a rod receptacle disposed on a proximal side of the base, a first hook distally extending from the base and oriented in a first direction, and a second hook distally extending from the base and oriented in a second direction opposing the first direction, the first hook and second hook together configured to receive the bone. Kits and spinal constructs employing the bone hook apparatus are also described.
US10893889B2
A bone screw system includes a bone screw having a tulip that forms a seat for a longitudinal support for surgical connection of adjacent bone screws. The tulip has a tulip thread into which a clamping screw is screwed. The clamping screw has a clamping screw thread for locking the longitudinal support by clamping within the seat. The clamping screw thread is provided on the run-in side with a thread chamfer. The thread chamfer is introduced to the clamping screw thread while chamfering a thread elevation in the radial direction.
US10893882B2
An atherectomy system includes a handle and a drive motor that is adapted to rotate a drive cable extending through the handle and operably coupled to an atherectomy burr. A control system is adapted to regulate operation of the drive motor, including providing the drive motor with a high frequency pulse width modulation (PWM) drive signal in order to operate the drive motor. The control system monitors a motor performance parameter such as motor speed or motor torque, and when the motor performance parameter approaches a limit of a performance range, the control system adds a low frequency PWM signal to the high frequency PWM drive signal, thereby causing the drive motor to produce a tactile signal that signals to the user that the motor performance parameter is approaching the limit of the performance range.
US10893881B2
Systems and methods for treating a blood clot include a catheter to be inserted into a patient. The catheter is used to deliver low stability microbubbles toward the blood clot in the patient. A thrombolytic agent is delivered toward the blood clot, and ultrasonic energy is applied to the microbubbles to vibrate the microbubbles.
US10893879B2
A method of preparing a knee joint for a prosthesis in a patient includes mating a patient-specific three-dimensional curved inner surface of a femoral alignment guide onto a corresponding three-dimensional femoral joint surface of the patient. The patient-specific three-dimensional curved inner surface is preoperatively configured from medical scans of the knee joint of the patient. First and second holes are drilled into an anterior portion of the femoral joint surface through corresponding first and second guiding apertures of the femoral alignment guide.
US10893875B2
A penetrator assembly operable to provide access to a bone marrow is provided. The penetrator assembly may include an outer penetrator and a removable inner trocar operable to penetrate bone and bone marrow. The removable inner trocar may include a groove operable to receive a portion of the bone and bone marrow when the outer penetrator and the removable inner trocar penetrate the bone and bone marrow. The removable inner trocar may include a receptacle operable to receive a portion of a connector operable to releasably attach the penetrator assembly to a powered apparatus, and a release mechanism disposed within the receptacle and operable to engage the portion of the connector.
US10893874B2
A method of resecting an end of bone comprising inserting a cutting guide having a guide surface into a void in an end of bone such that the guide surface is beneath an end surface of the bone, and resecting the bone along the guide surface while the cutting guide remains disposed within the void in the end of the bone.
US10893873B2
Unicortical path detection for a measurement system for monitoring a depth of penetration of a working portion of an instrument in a bone of a patient. The unicortical detection may compare an average cortex thickness in a bicortical path to an actual measured depth of penetration. If the actual depth of penetration exceeds the average thickness, a unicortical path may be detected. Upon detection of a unicortical path, an alert may be provided and/or the instrument may be arrested upon subsequent breaching of the cortex.
US10893871B2
A sleeve for use with a tourniquet cuff to protect a patient's limb from tourniquet-related injury includes a stretchable body extending longitudinally over a sleeve length between a proximal end and a distal end. The body has a tubular shape, and the sleeve length is greater than a width of the tourniquet cuff. The body tapers from the proximal end to the distal end such that a proximal end circumference is greater than a distal end circumference. The body is formed to apply substantially uniform pressure to the patient's limb from the proximal end of the sleeve to the distal end of the sleeve varying only within a predetermined pressure range.
US10893868B2
Systems and devices for endovascular treatment of intracranial aneurysms are described. Various configurations of coiled implants may be used as stenting devices or aneurysm coils. The implants include one or more filaments wound about a longitudinal axis to form a generally tubular shape. Lateral flexibility of the implants may be manipulated by, for example, adjusting a pitch between adjacent filaments, using different materials for the filaments, employing different filament cross-sectional shapes, grouping filaments into pluralities of varying flexibilities, and nesting inner coils within outer coils.
US10893860B2
A method of performing a tendon replacement, of a tendon connecting a first bone and a second bone, in an animal body utilizing a suture assembly that includes the following construction. A button has two apertures and a suture, engaged to the button, defines a lumen and forms a double loop, formed by a double trap that is opposed to the button. The suture assembly further defines a first single trap, and a third trap. In the method, a drill hole is drilled sequentially through the two bones. Also, a length of tendon tissue is draped over the loop and the button is passed through the drill hole through the first bone and the second bone and the button is oriented to sit on a surface of the second bone and the suture ends extend outwardly through the drill hole.
US10893858B2
An anchoring device for holding suture in bone includes an implant body with a proximal end and a distal end. A distal opening of the implant body is configured to receive a first proximal portion of an anchor. An expandable ring is initially press-fit about the first proximal portion of the anchor. The anchoring device is then located in a pre-drilled bore in a bone portion and the anchor portion is drawn proximally into the implant body, causing the ring to expand and contact the inner walls of the bone bore thus providing additional locking force of the anchoring device in the bone.
US10893857B2
A method and apparatus for securing a suture to bone can include grasping a first suture portion with a grasping member on a positioning tool. The first suture portion can be located into a first cannulation defined in the positioning tool. A cutting member can be advanced through a second cannulation defined on the positioning tool and out through a distal opening defined on the positioning tool. A first bone hole can be cut into the bone with the cutting member. A flexible member advancing tool can be advanced through the first cannulation. The first suture portion can be urged out of the distal opening and into the first bone hole.
US10893851B2
A system for fusing images to account for motion compensation includes an imaging modality configured to obtain a baseline image and current images. A live tracking system is configured to track an imaging instrument for capturing the baseline image and the current images, the live tracking system having a coordinate system registered with the baseline image and the current images. A pose analyzer unit is configured to employ field of view differences between a pose for the baseline image and a pose for a current view image using the live tracking system to generate success parameters. The success parameters are conveyed to the user to provide feedback on image acquisition for motion compensation between the baseline image and the current view image.
US10893843B2
A method and system for facilitating identification and marking of a target in a displayed Fluoroscopic Three-Dimensional Reconstruction (F3DR) of a body region of a patient. The system includes a display and a storage device storing instructions for receiving an initial selection of the target in the F3DR, fining the F3DR based on the initial selection of the target, displaying the fined F3DR on the display, and receiving a final selection of the target in the fined F3DR via a user selection. The system further includes at least one hardware processor configured to execute said instructions. The method and instructions may also include receiving a selection of a medical device in two two-dimensional fluoroscopic images, where the medical device is located in an area of the target, and initially fining the F3DR based on the selection of the medical device.
US10893842B2
A system and method for estimating a pose of an imaging device for one or more images is provided.
US10893839B2
A computed tomography (CT) imaging system and method, wherein the system includes an x-ray source that is operable to emit a beam of x-rays from a focal spot and move a spot position of the focal spot. The system also includes a detector assembly that is configured to detect the x-rays attenuated by the object. At least one processing unit is configured to execute programmed instructions stored in memory. The at least one processing unit is configured to direct the x-ray source to emit different beams of the x-rays at different energy levels and to receive data from the detector assembly that are representative of detection of the x-rays emitted at the different energy levels. The at least one processing unit is also configured to direct the x-ray source to move the focal spot such that the focal spot is at different spot positions while the different beams are emitted.
US10893831B2
A system and method electronically manages sleep related data obtained by a diagnostic device. The system and method may include collecting sleep data from a patient using a diagnostic device. The sleep data may be stored in a sleep data file and delineated as multiple sleep sessions. A user may access the stored sleep data by selecting a particular sleep session. The sleep data for the selected sleep session may then be extracted from the sleep data file and presented to the user as a combination of image tiles, JavaScript elements, and an event indicator.
US10893829B2
A colorimetric optical sensor device includes a broadband light source configured to emit a light that is exposed to a fluid in a vessel. At least a portion of the light is reflected off of the fluid and received by an optical spectrometer. The optical spectrometer analyzes at least a portion of the received light to determine a main wavelength of the light. A controller correlates the main wavelength to a corresponding hematocrit or free hemoglobin concentration and generates an output indicative of the hematocrit or the free hemoglobin concentration of the fluid. The hematocrit or free hemoglobin concentration information may be used by a separation assembly in which the colorimetric optical sensor device may be incorporated to modify a separation procedure in which the monitored fluid is to be separated or is a component or constituent of a previously separated biological fluid.
US10893826B2
A system for displaying and collecting biomechanical measurements is provided. The system comprises: an electronic caliper including a bar, two arms slidably mounted on the bar and extending normal therefrom, a display module, and an electronic system housed in the display module and comprising a light emitting diode string of lights, a nine-axis sensor, firmware, a wireless radio, and a power source connector for electronic communication with a power source; and a remote computing device, the wireless radio in communication with the remote computing device. The electronic caliper and method of use thereof is also provided.
US10893819B2
A system and method for Brugada syndrome epicardial ablation comprising preparing an endocardial duration map; preparing a baseline epicardial duration map comprising at least one or more areas of delimination; and when some of the areas of delimination are greater than 200 ms, performing epicardial ablation of the areas of delimination greater than 200 ms. The method may further comprise preparing an updated epicardial duration map after performing epicardial ablation, and determining whether or not a BrS pattern appears in the updated epicardial duration map; and when the BrS pattern appears, performing epicardial ablation. The method may further comprise preparing an updated epicardial duration map after performing epicardial ablation, and determining whether or not an abnormal EGM exists in the updated epicardial duration map; and when the abnormal EGM exists, performing epicardial ablation. The method may further comprise preparing an updated epicardial map comprising maintaining anatomical volume data and adding electroanatomical data.
US10893816B2
A method for predictively controlling an operational state of a wearable device, according to one embodiment, includes collecting historical sensor data acquired by one or more sensors of a wearable device. The historical sensor data is analyzed for detecting a pattern therein. A time to change an operational state of the wearable device is predicted based on the analysis. The change of the operational state is instructed at the predicted time.
US10893813B2
Various system embodiments comprise a stimulator adapted to deliver a stimulation signal for a heart failure therapy, a number of sensors adapted to provide at least a first measurement of a heart failure status and a second measurement of the heart failure status, and a controller. The controller is connected to the stimulator and to the number of sensors. The controller is adapted to use the first and second measurements to create a heart failure status index, and control the stimulator to modulate the signal using the index. Other aspects and embodiments are provided herein.
US10893806B2
An apparatus according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure can include a first section(s) and a second section(s) which can have a cross-section that can be smaller than that of the first section. The first and second sections can be a particular section and can include memory-forming characteristics. An imaging arrangement can be in communication with the first section or the second section. The particular section can have a first shape when the particular section can be constrained, and the particular section can have a second shape when the particular section can be unconstrained. The second shape can be more curved than the first shape.
US10893804B2
A system for measuring intraocular pressure in an eye of a patient includes a sensor configured to be positioned in the eye of the patient. The sensor includes a sealed cavity, and a flexible membrane sealing a distal end of the sealed cavity, the flexible membrane configured to deflect responsive to the intraocular pressure in the eye of the patient. The system includes a detection device configured to be positioned external to the eye of the patient and optically coupled to the sensor, the detection device configured to detect an indication of change in length of the sealed cavity resulting from deflection of the flexible membrane.
US10893801B2
The invention relates to an eye tracking system (10) and a method for operating an eye tracking system (10) for determining if one of a left and a right eye of a user is dominant, wherein at least one image of the left and the right eye of the user is captured (S30), based on the at least one image and according to a predefined accuracy function a left accuracy score for the left eye (S34a) and a right accuracy score for the right eye (S34c) is determined and it is determined if one of the left and the right eye of the user is dominant in dependency of at least the left and the right accuracy score (S36). Thereby user-specific properties relating to his eyes can be provided and considered when performing eye tracking so that the robustness and accuracy of eye tracking can be enhanced.
US10893800B2
An object is to simply and easily evaluate differences in behavior of the eyes of subjects. A binocular measurement system 1 includes a photodetector 7 that detects reflected light from the right eye ER and the left eye EL of a subject, and outputs image signal of the reflected light, a feature amount calculating unit 11 that calculates a feature amount corresponding to the right eye ER and a feature amount corresponding to the left eye EL based on the image signal, and a comparison value calculating unit 13 that calculates, based on the two feature amounts, a comparison value obtained by comparing the two feature amounts.
US10893797B2
The present invention is an OCT imaging system user interface for efficiently providing relevant image displays to the user. These displays are used during image acquisition to align patients and verify acquisition image quality. During image analysis, these displays indicate positional relationships between displayed data images, automatically display suspicious analysis, automatically display diagnostic data, simultaneously display similar data from multiple visits, improve access to archived data, and provide other improvements for efficient data presentation of relevant information.
US10893794B2
A system for advancing an instrument along an arbitrary path includes a flexible and steerable instrument and an electronic memory configured to store a three-dimensional model of the path, the three-dimension model being generated based on signals from the instrument as it traverses along the path. The system further includes an electronic motion controller logically coupled to the electronic memory, wherein the electronic motion controller is configured to automatically control the instrument to traverse the path based on the three dimensional model.
US10893792B2
An endoscope image processing apparatus includes a region-of-interest detection apparatus configured to sequentially receive observation images obtained by performing image pickup of an object and perform processing for detecting a region of interest for each of the observation images, and a processor. The processor calculates an appearance time period as an elapsed time period from a time when the region of interest appears within the observation image when the region-of-interest detection apparatus detects the region of interest, and starts emphasis processing for emphasizing a position of the region of interest existing within the observation image at a timing at which the appearance time period reaches a predetermined time period.
US10893790B2
A warewash machine for washing wares includes a chamber for receiving wares, the chamber having an inlet side, an outlet side, multiple spray zones between the inlet side and the outlet side, and a conveyor arrangement for moving wares along a conveyance path through the multiple spray zones in a ware travel direction. A prescrapping zone is located toward the inlet side of the chamber, the prescrapping zone having a blow-off system comprising a plurality of prescrapping nozzles and a compressed air feed line for delivering compressed air to the prescrapping nozzles.
US10893788B1
Cleaning robots may use floor-type-detection techniques as a trigger for autonomously altering various floor-cleaning characteristics. In some examples, a controller circuit of the robot is configured to determine a flooring type as a function of a signal from a motion sensor indicative of a change in pitch caused by the robot crossing a flooring discontinuity. In some examples, the controller circuit is configured to determine a flooring type based on a power draw signal corresponding to the cleaning head assembly of the robot.
US10893786B2
A portable extractor includes a supply tank, a recovery tank, a pump in fluid communication with the supply tank, a suction source in fluid communication with the recovery tank, a base configured to support the suction source and the pump, and a main housing mounted on the base and housing the suction source and the pump. The main housing is configured to removably support the recovery tank and the supply tank. The recovery tank is arranged at a front side of the portable extractor and the supply tank is arranged at a lateral side of the portable extractor between the front side and the rear side.
US10893782B2
Hand dryer having volume for receiving the hands delimited by two facing walls and provided with blow holes, an opening delimiting the volume by its sides superior and lateral, the walls being provided in their part opposed to the volume for receiving the hands with a fence delimiting a volume wherein air is injected blown before its ejection by the holes, each one of the fences including an upper wall, two lateral walls and a lower wall, the hand dryer being provided with means for detecting the introduction of hands in the volume, wherein the detecting means include a capacitive detector made of at least a continuous conductive element which runs in the vicinity of the upper and lateral walls of one of the fences.
US10893780B2
A fluid dispenser having a pump mechanism that dispenses a dose of fluid when a movable pump member of the pump mechanism is moved between a selected extended position and a retracted position. The fluid dispenser includes a dose adjustment mechanism for selecting the selected extended position from at least a high dose extended position and a low dose extended position. An actuator of the fluid dispenser, when activated, effects movement of the movable pump member between the selected extended position and the retracted position to dispense the dose of fluid. A volume of the dose of fluid that is dispensed upon activation of the actuator is higher when the high dose extended position is the selected extended position than when the low dose extended position is the selected extended position.
US10893773B2
The beverage preparation unit comprises a mixing chamber having a beverage outlet, a liquid flow path for supplying a liquid to the mixing chamber, and an air flow path for supplying air to the liquid flow path. The mixing chamber is arranged for receiving a beverage related ingredient, such as concentrate, preferably from an exchangeable supply pack. The liquid flow path is arranged for generating a hollow jet of liquid having an outer liquid portion extending in a flow direction of the jet and an inner air portion extending in a flow direction of the jet wherein the outer liquid portion surrounds the inner air portion.
US10893770B2
The present invention presents a pumping system (1) with a preheated reservoir (2), a main pump (4) for pumping a preheated liquid (3) from the reservoir (2), and pressurizing means (5) for pressurizing the reservoir (2). Preferably, the pressurizing means set an absolute pressure of 0.5 to 1 bar in the reservoir (2). The liquid (3) in the reservoir (2) can be heated up to 90° C. or more. The present invention achieves a nearly complete suppression of the phenomenon of cavitation at the main pump entrance, and thus achieves an increased pumping performance at elevated liquid temperatures.
US10893765B2
A spice dispensing device is provided for an automatic meal preparation apparatus. The device uses a replaceable cartridge containing a volume of spice for dispensing in predetermined volumetric doses. A dispensing mechanism is built in to the cartridge for isolating the predetermined volumetric dose and moving it toward an opening in the bottom of the cartridge. The cartridge is sized and shaped to be placed into the automatic meal preparation apparatus in a rack for containing a plurality of such cartridges. The cartridge is alignable with a position in the rack in which the spice dose can be dispensed directly into a cooking vessel of the apparatus.
US10893759B2
A locker assembly having a backlit indicia includes a pair of sidewalls and a horizontal top defining a locker enclosure. At least one shelf extends at least partially between the sidewalls and defines a storage space in the locker enclosure. An illuminated panel extending at least partially between the sidewalls includes: an at least partially translucent sheet, a plurality of powered lighting elements disposed under the sheet, and a lighting enclosure cooperating with the panel to enclose the lighting elements.
US10893752B2
A chair back that includes a back support, an upright frame, and at least one flex wing. The back support is substantially flexible and has a first side portion and a second side portion. The upright frame is substantially rigid and has a first frame side and a second frame side. The flex wing is located between the first frame side and the first side portion, where the flex wing includes a front portion coupled to the first side portion, a back portion coupled to the first frame side, and a web portion interconnecting the front portion and the back portion. The flex wing flexes during engagement by a user.
US10893745B2
An improved system and method for loading paint continuously to a paintbrush. A substantially cylindrical container can comprise a first orifice, a second orifice, a void, a plunger, a rod, a biasing device, and a paint-dispenser. The first orifice at a front end of the container. The second orifice at a back end of the container. The void that can be within the container can be fillable with the paint. The rod can be slidably mounted within the second orifice and the ring. The biasing device can be positionable into expanded state, and extracted state. Further, wherein the biasing device can move relatively to the amount of paint that can placed within the void. The paint-dispenser can be connectable with the container through a hose, the paint dispenser can comprise a button. The button once actuated can be capable of releasing the paint to a paintbrush bristles.
US10893739B2
A face mask for beauty treatment with a cosmetic composition in the user's face which has a convex and concave shape. The nose portion of the mask comes into contact with the user's nose, a plurality of adjustment structures formed independently of each other arranged in a portion on the left side of a center line and a portion on the right side thereof, respectively. Each adjustment structure is formed independently of a cut defining the external shape of the nose portion, and has a space boundary portion with two points separated in a direction different from a center line and forming a space through a cut connecting below or above the two points. A non-moving portion arranged in the space with the same shape as the space and at the location connecting the two points is connected to the main body of the face mask.
US10893736B2
A drawing apparatus includes a drawing head and a control device. If a drawing target surface has a first region acclivitous and declivitous respectively in first and second directions different from one another, the drawing head draws first pixels to be drawn on the first region while performing first and second scans in which the drawing head moves respectively in the first and second directions. The control device controls a ratio of a drawing amount of a first scan drawing pixel to be drawn in a line of the first region during the first scan to a drawing amount required for pixels in the line among the first pixels to be higher than a ratio of a drawing amount of a second scan drawing pixel to be drawn in the line during the second scan to the drawing amount required for the pixels in the line.
US10893730B2
Healthcare kits and care packs are provided. A pack (4000) can include a container (4001) and a branding sleeve (4002). The pack can include a pair of flaps (4200, 4800) to close each end. The flaps can be prolate spheroid to define a concave end profile when closed and a convex profile when open. Alternatively, a pack (700) can include a base layer (100) and selectively detachable pouches (701, 702). The base layer can selectively fold about the pouches to form a briefcase or suitcase appearance. A fastening extension (116) can selectively hold the base layer in the closed configuration, or can be used as a hanging loop to hang the pack in an open configuration.
US10893728B2
A method of manufacturing an article of jewelry with a druzy or geode effect, the method including: forming an adhesion mixture by mixing metal particles with a silica, shell, and/or clay with polymer, optionally in a liquid to form an adhesion paste; applying the adhesion mixture to an article of jewelry; applying a plurality of gemstones to the applied adhesion mixture to form a gemstone layer; melting the adhesion mixture without significantly melting the article of jewelry; and cooling the adhesion mixture to bond the gemstone layer to the article of jewelry.
US10893725B1
Rubber silicone bracelets are a popular type of wristband worn today; however, they lack in both customization of content as well as size. The biggest problem with current wristbands is that they are designed for a single cause and are manufactured to represent one specific purpose. The new customizable wristband has a unique design of linking together elastic panels and rigid connectors. It's design allows users to combine links containing different images, words or phrases and connecting those links to form a band. This gives an individual the ability to not only change the look and size of the band but to display the things they are passionate about into a single wristband.
US10893723B2
A side release buckle device with a male and female member. The female member has a housing, a catch assembly, and at least one contact point. The male member can interlock with the female member and has an arm assembly, a catch assembly, and at least one contact point. At least one switch is formed by contact between contact point of the male member and contact point of the female member. An electrical circuit traverses the female and male member, so when the members are “locked” together, the switch is closed. The electrical circuit has a series of wires, a source of electrical energy, a currently limiting resistor, at least one switch, and an electrical element (at least one microcontroller or integrated circuit, a Bluetooth® RF transceiver, Wi-Fi® enablement). The device may have a computer chip activated upon closure of the switch, triggering activation of an external camera, or a GPS-tracking system. The device pairs with other communication devices.
US10893720B2
An article of footwear may include a sole structure fixedly attached to an upper defining an internal cavity configured to receive a foot of a wearer. The sole structure may include an exposed outer member configured to contact the ground, the exposed outer member including a first aperture, and a sensory feedback member disposed at least partially within the first aperture in the outer member, the sensory feedback member including a first end and a second end. The first end of the sensory feedback member may include a projection extending through the first aperture and configured to contact the ground. In addition, the second end of the sensory feedback member may include a plurality of flexible bristles extending through a portion of the sole structure and exposed to the internal cavity.
US10893708B1
A utility garment has a front garment portion adapted for positioning at a wearer's chest, a rear garment portion adapted for positioning at a wearer's back, the front portion and rear portion being removably detachable at a plurality of attachment facilities, each attachment facility including a front facility portion connected to the front garment portion and a rear facility portion connected to the rear garment portion, at least a first one of the front facility portion and the rear facility portion comprising first and second bodies, the first body defining a first cable passage and the second body defining a second cable passage, the first cable passage and the second cable passage being registered with each other and adapted to receive a single cable, and the first body and second body being spaced apart from each other to define a latch receptacle space.
US10893706B2
The present disclosure provides an atomization device including a liquid storage cavity, a liquid injection opening, and an injection structure; the injection structure includes an injection tube and a sealing member; the injection tube runs through the liquid injection opening and extends into the liquid storage cavity, and a liquid inlet is formed in a side wall of the injection tube; the sealing member is arranged on one end of the injection tube in the liquid storage cavity; the sealing member is sealed from an inner wall of the liquid storage cavity, and separates the liquid inlet from the liquid storage cavity. When the injection tube is pushed into the liquid storage cavity, the liquid inlet moves into the liquid injection opening to communicate with the liquid storage cavity. When the injection tube is not pushed, the injection tube separates the liquid inlet from the liquid storage cavity.
US10893704B2
A vaporizer is disclosed. The vaporizer includes a body, an air pump, a heating block, a filling chamber, an air channel, and a control panel. The control panel is in electrical communication with the battery, the air pump, and the heating block and is configured to control a speed of the air pump and a temperature of the heating block.
US10893697B2
A manual cigarette making machine including a casing with top and side walls, a compacting chamber access opening in the top wall located above a compacting chamber for receiving loose tobacco, a handle mounted for rotation generally perpendicular to the top wall attached to a driveshaft extending through the sidewall into the machine casing, a cam-driven tamper mechanism operated by the driveshaft for compressing loose tobacco in the compacting chamber, a cam-driven tobacco injection assembly operated by the drive shaft with an injection drive plate mounted for rotation generally parallel to the top wall, and a tobacco spoon associated with the tobacco injection assembly for transporting compressed tobacco from the compacting chamber to a hollow cigarette tube.
US10893694B2
An edible composition to increase the metabolism of alcohol thus prevent or lessen the symptoms caused by ingesting excessive amounts of alcohol is disclosed.
US10893679B2
A production system for moisture and texture detection and control in tortilla and tortilla chip production includes a production line, including a cooker/grinder, a sheeter/cutter, an oven, an equalizer, a fryer, and a cooler/packaging machine; and a production control unit, including a processor, non-transitory memory, an input/output component, a moisture controller, a temperature controller, a belt speed controller, a masa moisture sensor, a chip moisture sensor, laser sensors for measuring surface texture of baked and fried chips, a laser controller, a texture classifier, a feedback controller. Also disclosed is a method for production control, including controlling moisture content, measuring masa moisture, controlling oven, measuring baked surfaces, measuring fried surfaces, classifying baked surfaces, classifying fried surfaces, optimizing oven temperature, optimizing oven belt speed, storing and characterizing historical records.
US10893677B2
An insect control composition and related methods of preparation and use are disclosed. The composition includes a mixture of non-cannabis flour and an amount of cannabis seed flour effective to mitigate a population of insecta treated with the mixture.
US10893671B1
Systems, devices, and associated methods of manufacturing are described that provide a rodent extermination system for efficient rodent population control. An example rodent extermination system includes a vacuum unit configured to generate suction and an extermination chamber. The extermination chamber defines a first end attached to and in fluid communication with the vacuum unit and a second end in fluid communication with an external environment. The system also includes at least one presence sensor and at least two electrocution plates. The at least two electrocution plates are electrified such that the rodent is electrocuted via contact with the electrocution plates, and the vacuum unit generates suction such that the rodent is moved through the extermination chamber. The vacuum unit may comprise a kill plate into which the rodent is ejected at high velocity in order to induce cervical dislocation or blunt force trauma to the rodent.
US10893669B2
The present invention relates to the cultivation of crop plants using plant protection agents. Objects of the present invention are methods, a system and a computer program product for determining the partial-area-specific requirement of a crop plant for plant protection agents.
US10893666B2
Methods and compositions are provided for generating F0 fertile XY female animals. The methods and compositions involve making XY pluripotent or totipotent animal cells, in vitro cell cultures, or embryos that are capable of producing a fertile female XY animal in an F0 generation. Such cells, embryos, and animals can be made by silencing a region of the Y chromosome. Optionally, the cells can also be cultured in feminizing medium such as a low-osmolality medium and/or can be modified to decrease the level and/or activity of an Sry protein. Methods and compositions are also provided for silencing a region of the Y chromosome in an XY pluripotent or totipotent animal cell, or in vitro cell cultures, embryos, or animals derived therefrom, by maintaining an XY pluripotent or totipotent animal cell in a feminizing medium. Methods and compositions are also provided for maintaining a population of XY pluripotent or totipotent animal cells in a feminizing medium and selecting cells or clones having increased capabilities for producing a fertile female XY animal in an F0 generation. Methods and compositions are also provided for screening for compounds with feminizing activity or for optimizing concentrations of components in feminizing media.
US10893664B2
An animal drinker includes a base tray that is defined by an exterior drinking trough connected to an interior fluid reservoir by a passageway. The trough and the interior fluid reservoir are maintained at a consistent fluid level. An upper reservoir stores fluid above the interior reservoir and is in fluid communication therewith by an outlet positioned at the bottom. A buoyant float pan is positioned in the interior fluid reservoir of the base tray. A float stop is positioned between the float pan and the outlet of the upper reservoir to stop the flow of fluid from the upper reservoir to the interior fluid reservoir at a predetermined level.
US10893659B2
A mobile telephone adapts to use as a gundog training tool by interfacing with a dog collar using a wireless communication device, such as a WWAN text or IP interface, a WLAN interface or a radio transceiver that couples to the mobile telephone and is accessible to a training application running on the mobile telephone. The dog collar includes a GPS receiver to provide position information to the mobile telephone and a shock device to provide training stimulus to the dog. A wireless headset interfaces with the mobile telephone to provide audible indications of position to an end user, such as a dog point and tone indicators of directions to the dog. A wireless handset interfaces with the mobile telephone to accept inputs for application to the collar, such as training stimulus.
US10893656B2
A pet furniture including a box and a plurality of sheets is provided. The box includes an accommodating recess concavely formed on a side thereof, and the plurality of sheets are detachably and erectly disposed in the accommodating recess. When the plurality of sheets are disposed in the accommodating recess, the narrow side of each of the plurality of sheets is exposed at the opening of the accommodating recess.
US10893653B1
A novel maize variety designated X08N791 and seed, plants and plant parts thereof are produced by crossing inbred maize varieties. Methods for producing a maize plant by crossing hybrid maize variety X08N791 with another maize plant are disclosed. Methods for producing a maize plant containing in its genetic material one or more traits introgressed into X08N791 through backcrossing or genetic transformation, and to the maize seed, plant and plant part produced thereby are described. Maize variety X08N791, the seed, the plant produced from the seed, and variants, mutants, and minor modifications of maize variety X08N791 are provided. Methods for producing maize varieties derived from maize variety X08N791 and methods of using maize variety X08N791 are disclosed.
US10893652B2
The invention is in the field of Brassica carinata breeding (i.e. Ethiopian mustard breeding), specifically relating to Brassica carinata variety DH-040.008. The present invention relates to seeds, plants or parts thereof, cells, methods of making, and uses of this variety and its progeny.
US10893646B2
A plant framing apparatus that provides aesthetic appearance and overcome water evaporation issues includes a first frame section, a second frame section, a plurality of locking mechanisms, and a plant opening. The first frame section and the second frame section are attached to each other by the plurality of locking mechanisms so that the first frame section and the second frame section can surround a plant base. The overall profile of the plant opening is formed by an inner lateral wall of the first frame section and the second frame section so that the plant base can project through the plant framing apparatus. Furthermore, the plant framing apparatus can include an interchangeable watering system to overcome drought conditions of the plant and/or an interchangeable lighting system to improve the aesthetic appearance of the plant.
US10897841B2
A rotary head of a surface mounter includes a rotating body, an N-shaft servo motor configured to rotate and drive the rotating body and a plurality of suction nozzles attached to the rotating body in such a manner as to be movable in a direction of a rotation axis. The plurality of suction nozzles are arranged on a virtual circle with the rotation axis as the center, and the plurality of suction nozzles are configured to hold and release a component. The rotary head of a surface mounter further includes a Z-axis drive device including a Z-axis linear motor. The Z-axis drive device is configured to use the Z-axis linear motor to move, in the direction of the rotation axis, the suction nozzle that has moved to a predetermined drive position on the virtual circle.
