US10997148B2
The subject technology receives one or more requests to execute one or more requested transactions on a journal table of a database, the journal table comprising a snapshot and a log table. The subject technology, based on the one or more requests, inserts a new row into the log table for each requested transaction, each new row reflecting a corresponding requested transaction. The subject technology receives, after the one or more requested transactions have been executed, a second request to execute a second requested transaction on the journal table. The subject technology generates, prior to executing the second requested transaction, a second snapshot, the second snapshot comprising a second representation of data in the journal table after the one or more requested transactions have been executed, the second snapshot stored in a third micro-partition different than the first micro-partition and the second micro-partition.
US10997146B2
An in-memory database server hosting a tenant of a multi-tenant software architecture can receive a definition of a custom data field that is unique to an organization having isolated access to the tenant. The custom data field can extend a standard table defined by central metadata stored at a system tenant of the multi-tenant software architecture. Tenant private metadata that includes the definition can be stored in memory accessible only to the tenant. A tenant-dependent table that includes the custom data field can be formed, for example by retrieving central metadata defining the standard table from the system tenant and adding the custom data field using the definition. The tenant-dependent table can be presented for access via a database client at the organization. Related systems, articles of manufacture, and computer-implemented methods are disclosed.
US10997143B2
A correlithm object processing system includes a memory that stores a first string correlithm object comprising a first plurality of sub-string correlithm objects, and a second string correlithm object comprising a second plurality of sub-string correlithm objects. A string correlithm object engine communicatively coupled to the memory determines the anti-Hamming distances between each of the sub-string correlithm objects of the first string correlithm object pairwise with each corresponding sub-string correlithm object of the second string correlithm object, and stores the determined anti-Hamming distances in a distance table. The engine identifies a group of neighboring anti-Hamming distances stored in the distance table that are greater than a predetermined number of standard deviations beyond a standard distance and, in response, determines the corresponding sub-string correlithm objects of the first and second string correlithm objects to be a match.
US10997135B2
Described is an approach for performing context-aware prognoses in machine learning systems. The approach harnesses streams of detailed data collected from a monitored target to create a context, in parallel to ongoing model operations, for the model outcomes. The context is then probed to identify the particular elements associated with the model findings.
US10997115B2
Systems and methods of propagating data within an integrated circuit includes: identifying a coarse data propagation path for distinct subsets of data of an input dataset that includes: setting inter-core data movements for the distinct subsets of data, the inter-core data movements defining a predetermined propagation of a given subset of data between two or more of a plurality of cores of an integrated circuit array of the integrated circuit; identifying a granular data propagation path for each distinct subset of data that includes: setting intra-core data movements for each distinct subset of data, the intra-core data movements defining a predetermined propagation of the given subset of data within one or more of the plurality of cores of the integrated circuit array of the integrated circuit; enabling a flow of the input dataset within the integrated circuit based on the coarse data propagation path and the granular propagation path.
US10997114B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus for improving throughput of a serial bus are described. A method performed at a device coupled to a serial bus includes detecting a transition in signaling state of a first wire of the serial bus while a first pair of consecutive bits is being received from the first wire of the serial bus, determining that no transition in signaling state of the first wire occurred while a second pair of consecutive bits is being received from the first wire, defining bit values for the first pair of consecutive bits based on direction of the transition in signaling state detected while the first pair of consecutive bits is being received, and sampling the signaling state of the first wire while the second pair of consecutive bits is being received to obtain a bit value used to represent both bits in the second pair of consecutive bits.
US10997110B2
Networking device and method using a neural network for applying delays based on port positions. The networking device comprises a plurality of ports and applies a delay to IP packets received via a given port among the plurality of ports. The delay is based on a position of the given port among the plurality of ports. The neural network has been trained to infer the delay to be applied to the IP packet received via the given port. In one implementation, the position of the given port is one of the inputs of the neural network.
US10997108B2
Provided are a memory package, an expansion memory module, and a multi-module memory system. A base memory module, to/from which an expansion memory module is capable of being attached/detached, includes a module board, a plurality of module terminals arranged on the module board to be connected to a slot, and a plurality of memory packages, each of which including a first surface to be attached to the module board and a second surface opposite to the first surface facing away from the module board, wherein each of the plurality of memory packages includes a plurality of package terminals exposed on the second surface of the memory package to be connected to the expansion memory module.
US10997106B1
Described are programmable IO devices installed on a host device and configured to execute instructions that cause the programmable IO device to perform operations to establish a virtual link between another programmable IO device installed on the host device and provide a data plane using the virtual link. These operations comprise: establishing the virtual link with the other programmable IO device installed on the host device, wherein the virtual link provides a communication channel between the programmable IO devices; providing the data plane by establishing, with the other programmable IO device via the virtual link, a data path associated with the data plane; receiving a packet in the data plane destined for the other programmable IO device; and forwarding the packet to the other programmable IO device via the virtual link.
US10997105B2
In a semiconductor device including a lockstep function, conflicts of bus accesses by a plurality of processors are suppressed. The semiconductor device includes a first processor, a second processor for monitoring operation of the first processor in a first mode, first and second buses, first and second non-shared resources dedicated to either the first or second processor in a second mode, and a first selector for selecting a bus for transferring interface signals between the second processor and the selected bus. In a second mode in which the first and second processors execute different instructions, the first selector selects the second bus. In the second mode, the first non-shared resource is accessed by the first processor via the first bus and the second non-shared resource is accessed by the second processor via the second bus.
US10997099B2
An I/O request processing method in a virtual machine, a device and a computer readable medium are provided. When a backend device of a Guest kernel begins to process an I/O request chain submitted by a frontend device of the Guest kernel into a shared I/O processing memory, the method obtains a starting position of the I/O request chain in the I/O processing memory; according to the starting position of the I/O request chain, sets an element corresponding to the starting position of the I/O request chain in an I/O state array as a value different from initial values of all positions; and upon finishing processing the I/O request chain, sets an element corresponding to the starting position of the I/O request chain in an I/O request state array as a value identical with initial values.
US10997097B2
A memory device includes a memory controller to transmit or receive input/output (“I/O”) data via an I/O signal, as well as transmit command data, address data, or parameter data via another signal in parallel with transmitting or receiving the I/O data. The memory device also includes a memory module communicably coupled to the memory controller. The memory module receives the command data, address data, or parameter data from the memory controller to perform an operation.
US10997087B2
A system includes a direct memory access controller and a memory coupled to the direct memory access controller. The memory stores a linked list of records. Each record contains a first field determining the number of fields of a next record. For example, each record can be representative of parameters of execution of a data transfer by the direct memory access controller.
US10997081B2
A storage system, host, and method for storage system calibration are provided. In one embodiment, a storage system is provided comprising a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to: determine a pattern of host writes to the memory; determine whether the pattern of host writes matches a granularity of a logical-to-physical address map used by the storage system; and in response to determining that the pattern of host writes does not match the granularity of the logical-to-physical address map used by the storage system, change the granularity of the logical-to-physical address map used by the storage system. In another embodiment, the storage system calibration is done by host directive. Other embodiments are provided.
US10997079B2
A computer implemented method for saving cache access power is suggested. The cache is provided with a set predictor logic for providing a generated set selection for selecting a set in the cache, and with a set predictor cache for pre-caching generated set indices of the cache. The method comprises further: receiving a part of a requested memory address; checking, in the set predictor cache, whether the requested memory address is already generated; in the case, that the requested memory address has already been generated: securing that the set predictor cache is switched off; issuing the pre-cached generated set index towards the cache; and securing that only that part of the cache is switched on that is associated with the pre-cached generated set index.
US10997074B2
In exemplary aspects of managing the ejection of entries of a coherence directory cache, the directory cache includes directory cache entries that can store copies of respective directory entries from a coherency directory. Each of the directory cache entries is configured to include state and ownership information of respective memory blocks. Information is stored, which indicates if memory blocks are in an active state within a memory region of a memory. A request is received and includes a memory address of a first memory block. Based on the memory address in the request, a cache hit in the directory cache is detected. The request is determined to be a request to change the state of the first memory block to an invalid state. The ejection of a directory cache entry corresponding to the first memory block is managed based on ejection policy rules.
US10997073B2
A memory system capable of efficiently managing meta data is provided. The memory system includes a non-volatile memory device for storing a plurality of map segment groups each including map segments including mapping information between at least one physical addresses and at least one logical address of a host; and a controller for loading one map segment from each of selected map segment groups among the plurality of map segment groups, and differently configuring flush data to be flushed to the non-volatile memory device in response to a program request that includes a first target logical address received from the host according to whether a target map segment corresponding to the first target logical address is in the loaded one map segment.
US10997071B2
Devices and techniques for enhanced flush transfer efficiency in a storage device are described herein. A flush trigger for a user data write can be identified. Here, user data corresponds to the user data write and was stored in a buffer. The size of the user data stored in the buffer is smaller than a write width for a storage device subject to the write. The difference ins the user data size in the buffer and the write width is buffer free space. Additional data can be marshalled in response to the identification of the flush trigger. Here, the additional data size is less than or equal to the buffer free space. The user data and the additional data can then be written to the storage device.
US10997069B2
A memory system includes: a memory device including map memory blocks and data memory blocks; and a controller suitable to: detect, as victim memory blocks, map memory blocks each having an erase count less than or equal to an average erase count of the data memory blocks when an average erase count of the map memory blocks is less than the average erase count of the data memory blocks and a difference between the average erase count of the map memory blocks and the average erase count of the data memory blocks is greater than a first threshold; and perform a garbage collection operation on the detected first victim memory blocks, map data stored in hot data memory blocks to the first victim memory blocks, and map data stored in cold map memory blocks to the hot data memory blocks.
US10997063B1
Generating, from transactions performed at a production computing system, information that can be used to effectively test new, updated, and/or modified source code to be deployed within the production computing system. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes communicating with a production processing system to determine an initial state of the production processing system; capturing information about a plurality of transactions executing across a plurality of application servers included within the production processing system; communicating with a test processing system to deploy source code within the test processing system that is not included in the production processing system; generating a replay test script; and communicating with the test processing system to enable the test processing system to execute the replay test script.
US10997047B2
Presented is a method and system for automatically selecting agent-based or agentless monitoring using a configuration management database (CMDB). The method includes determining whether a system is business critical or business non-critical, selecting agent-based monitoring if the system is business critical and selecting agentless monitoring if the system is business non-critical.
US10997041B2
A method and system are disclosed to enable an FLM designated as an owner, in a group of frames having redundant FLMs per frame, to ensure that an unresponsive “active” uplink is disabled, prior to allowing another uplink in the frame to become the active uplink. A group of frames, configured in a ring network topology, may only have a single uplink at a time. Otherwise, two or more concurrent active uplinks may cause a network loop that may result in total network failure (e.g., network crash). The disclosed method utilizes a coordination between an FLM owner on the ring and the neighbor FLM, in the same frame as the non-responsive FLM, to disable the active uplink, prior to transitioning to a new active uplink for the group of frames.
US10997035B2
A system and method for using a snapshot as a data source is described. In some cases, the system stores a snapshot and an associated data structure or index to storage media to create a secondary copy of a volume of data. In some cases, the associated index includes application specific data about a file system or other application that created the data to identify the location of the data. The associated index may include three entries, and may be used to facilitate the recovery of data via the snapshot.
US10997034B1
A system, method, and computer readable medium for consistent and transparent replication of multi process multi threaded applications. The computer readable medium includes computer-executable instructions for execution by a processing system. Primary applications runs on primary hosts and one or more replicated instances of each primary application run on one or more backup hosts. Replica consistency between primary application and its replicas is provided by imposing the execution ordering of the primary on all its replicas. The execution ordering on a primary is captured by intercepting calls to the operating system and libraries, sending replication messages to its replicas, and using interception on the replicas to enforce said captured primary execution order. Replication consistency is provided without requiring modifications to the application, operating system or libraries.
US10997031B2
A method, computer program product, and computer system for executing an automatic recovery of log metadata. A secondary storage processor may request one or more log metadata buffer values from a first buffer used by a primary storage processor. The secondary storage processor may update one or more log metadata buffer values from a second buffer used by the secondary storage processor.
US10997026B1
A method is disclosed for destaging data to a storage device set that is arranged to maintain M replicas of the data, the storage device set having M primary storage devices and N secondary storage devices, the method comprising: detecting a destage event; and in response to the destage event, destaging the data item that is stored in a journal, the destaging including: issuing M primary write requests for storing the data item, each of the M primary write requests being directed to a different one of the M primary storage devices; in response to detecting that L of the primary write requests have failed, issuing L secondary write requests for storing the data item, each of the L secondary write requests being directed to a different secondary storage device; updating a bitmap to identify all primary and secondary storage devices where the data item has been stored.
US10997015B2
A machine-learning mechanism of a disaster-avoidance system trains a knowledgebase to associate characteristics of a data-center component with corresponding degrees of vulnerability to failure and with remedial steps that may be undertaken to avoid failure or to reduce adverse effects of a failure. This training is performed as a function of inferences derived from historical records and from extrinsic information sources. The historical records identify past failures of similar components, component characteristics associated with past failures, and results of remedial procedures undertaken in response to past failures or to previous occurrences of the characteristics. The extrinsic sources identify the current existence of external conditions known to be associated with past failures. When a component's total degree of vulnerability exceeds a predefined threshold value, the system assembles a subset of that component's remedial steps into a remedial procedure and directs downstream modules or administrators to implement the procedure.
US10997012B2
A method for managing hardware within a computing system. The method includes at least one computer processors identifying a plurality of field-replaceable units (FRUs) within a computing system that respectively include a non-volatile memory device. The method further includes determining a status corresponding to a FRU of the identified plurality of FRUs. The method further includes responding to determining a non-functional status of the FRU of the identified plurality of FRUs, by determining a response related to the non-functional FRU. The method further includes initiating an action on the computing system based on the determined response related to the non-functional FRU.
US10997011B2
Methods and systems for handling a single event upset. The methods include, and/or the systems include functionality for, receiving, from a monitored device, data at a first input of an initial state change device; detecting, based on receiving the data, a state change; asserting, based on detecting the state change, an initial state change device enable signal; transferring the first data from the first input to a first output of the initial state change device (which may be operatively connected to a second input of a state hold device); triggering, based on detecting the state change, a delay counter; making a determination that the delay period counted by the delay counter expired without receipt of an error detection signal; and based on the determination, asserting a state hold device enable signal to allow the data to pass from the second input to a second output of the state hold device.
US10997010B2
Technologies are generally described to provide a passive monitoring system employing a logging schema to track usage data in order to analyze performance and reliability of a service. The logging schema may be configured to track user requests as each request is received and processed at individual subsystems of the collaborative service. A logging entry may be created at a data store of the service, where the logging entry includes a subsystem name, an operation performed by the subsystem to fulfill the request and start and end times of the operation. The logging schema may also detect errors fulfilling the requests, and may classify detected errors into a bucket, where each bucket denotes a failure scenario. Reliability of the service may be calculated based on analysis of the buckets to compute error rates. Reports may be generated to enable continuous monitoring of a performance and reliability of the system.
US10997007B2
A method including determining, for a given hardware link, whether a signal error rate for signals sent over the given hardware link is beyond a given threshold, when the signal error rate is beyond the given threshold, generating an error indication for the given hardware link, the error indication including a prediction that a hardware component associated with the given hardware link is likely to fail. Related apparatus and methods are also provided.
US10997006B2
A transfer apparatus for performing transmission and reception of data using a plurality of lanes includes: a transmission control unit configured to, upon receiving a transmission instruction for performing a data transfer in a redundant mode in which the same data is transferred using a plurality of lanes, output transmission data as first data and second data without renegotiation with another transfer apparatus; a first transmission unit configured to transmit the first data output by the transmission control unit via a first lane; and a second transmission unit configured to transmit the second data output by the transmission control unit via a second lane.
US10997004B2
In an approach to detection of co-location of container services, a method may include monitoring a load on one or more resources accessible by cloud containers located on a first host. The method may further include identifying a bit string from the monitored load of the one or more resources. A high load on the one or more resources for a time period indicates a first bit value, and a low load on the one or more resources for the time period indicates a second alternate bit value. The method may further include receiving a shared key corresponding to a second program in a second cloud container. The method may further include determining the second cloud container is located on the first host based on the shared key matching a key corresponding to the identified bit string.
US10997001B2
The method includes receiving event information for a plurality of events from a plurality of data sources; normalizing the event information for each event of the plurality of events into a desired format by at least one of changing a field name of the event information or transforming at least one value in the event information into a recognized value; enriching the event information for each event of the plurality of events by adding additional data points associated with the event information to the event information; and/or transmitting the event information to a data recipient.
US10996999B2
A personal online recording management system using network includes: user terminal registering ID of user of the personal on-line recording management system in management server, registering iris information in the management server, accessing the network on user terminal, recording voice, converting the voice into text, storing the text, voice, and video information recording daily life to the user terminal and executing an editing process on display unit of the user terminal, transmitting the information to the management server, and displaying the voice, text and video information; a predesignated designator terminal stored beforehand in the management server, displaying the voice, text and video information; a management server storing ID and iris password, managing the voice, text, and video information, and transmitting the voice, text and video information to a predesignated designator terminal; and an internet network or wireless communications network connecting user terminals, designator terminals, and the management server through network.
US10996995B2
A processor configured to manage a transaction memory (TM) state. The processor is configured to receive a first instruction indicating a start of a speculative transaction and update a register file with a speculative transaction memory (TM) state corresponding to the speculative transaction. The processor is further configured to determine whether or not the register file is able to store the entirety of speculative TM state. If the register file is unable to store the entirety of the speculative TM state, the processor is configured to copy a previous TM (pre-TM) state from the register file to a memory which is external to the processor. Further, the processor may be configured to complete updating the register file with the speculative TM state after the pre-TM state has been copied from the register file to the memory.
US10996985B2
A system including a memory configured to store instructions, a host processor, an interface coupling the non-volatile memory and the host processor, and a device driver is provided. The device driver is configured to execute commands stored in the memory to retrieve a maximum queue size value from a hardware queue, wherein the hardware queue is associated with an interface between the host processor and a non-volatile memory, to determine multiple software queues associated with the hardware queue, to read an input/output count for a software queue selected from the software queues, to decrease the assigned queue depth, when the input/output count for the software queue is lower than an assigned queue depth, and to increase the assigned queue depth when the input/output count for the software queue is greater than the assigned queue depth.
US10996978B1
To enable continuous execution of an application, a system and method for transferring an application state is provided. A gesture corresponding to a transfer act is detected by a gesture detection module in a first device executing the application. The first device communicates with a registration and relay server to determine eligible transfer recipients based on criteria such as location and/or devices that are currently executing the application. A transfer recipient is selected and platform independent application state Data Transfer Objects are generated that describe the state of execution on the first device. The application state DTOs are transferred via the server to the recipient device which enacts the application state DTOs to continue the execution of the application on the recipient device. Because the application state DTOs are platform independent, the application state can be transferred to almost any device that is able to execute the application.
US10996977B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor, a memory, and a storage device. The processor includes a plurality of sub-processors. The memory stores data of part of pages included in an address space allocated to processes executable in parallel using the plurality of sub-processors. The storage device retreats data of pages that are not stored in the memory. The processor acquires a working set size for each of the processes. The working set size indicates an amount of pages used for a unit time. The processor selects part of the processes when a sum of working set sizes of the processes exceeds a predetermined threshold value. The processor stops the selected processes for a predetermined time. The processor controls data of pages corresponding to the processes being stopped to be retreated from the memory to the storage device.
US10996975B2
Apparatuses, systems, and methods for hierarchical memory systems are described. A hierarchical memory system can leverage persistent memory to store data that is generally stored in a non-persistent memory, thereby increasing an amount of storage space allocated to a computing system at a lower cost than approaches that rely solely on non-persistent memory. An example method includes receiving an interrupt message by a hypervisor, the interrupt message generated by a hierarchical memory component responsive to receiving a read request initiated by an input/output (I/O) device, gathering, by the hypervisor, address register access information from the hierarchical memory component, and determining, by the hypervisor, a physical location of data associated with the read request.
US10996969B1
A server computer toggles between a protected mode and an unprotected mode. In the protected mode, users are unable to access configuration information due to a Base Address Register (BAR) being cleared. However, a service provider can access a Trusted Platform Module (TPM) through an Application Program Interface (API) request. In an unprotected mode, the BAR is programmed so that users can access the configuration information, but the TPM is blocked. Blocking of the TPM is achieved by changing a configuration file, which changes an overall image of the card. With the modified image not matching an original image, the TPM blocks access to data, such as encryption keys. Separate interfaces can be used for user access (PCIe) and service provider access (Ethernet) to the server computer. The server computer can then be toggled back to the protected mode by switching the configuration file to the original configuration file.
US10996964B2
The present disclosure provides a virtual endpoint software system. The virtual endpoint software system may be implemented by a computing system comprising a workstation, processors, and memory. The computing system being configured to instantiate a virtual endpoint software system. The virtual endpoint software system comprises a virtual endpoint tool. The virtual endpoint tool comprises a plurality of virtual endpoint devices wherein each virtual endpoint device is a digital representation of a hardware endpoint device. Each of the plurality of virtual endpoint device is associated with at least one of a plurality of configuration files. In some implementations, each configuration file when executed virtually represents the device functionality and operating conditions of the hardware endpoint device. In addition, the virtual endpoint tool comprises a central engine wherein the central engine comprises at least one processor to process instructions stored in the plurality of configuration files.
US10996960B1
Methods, systems and apparatuses for performing walk operations of single instruction, multiple data (SIMD) instructions are disclosed. One method includes initiating, by a scheduler, a SIMD thread, where the scheduler is operative to schedule the SIMD thread. The method further includes fetching, a plurality of instructions for the SIMD thread. The method further includes determining, by a thread arbiter, at least one instruction that is a walk instruction, where the walk instruction iterates a block of instructions for a subset of channels of the SIMD thread, where the walk instruction includes a walk size, and where the walk size is a number of channels in the subset of channels of the SIMD thread that are processed in a walk iteration in association with the walk instruction. The method further includes executing the walk instruction based on the walk size.
US10996952B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for macro-op fusion. Sequences of macro-ops that include a control-flow instruction are fused into single micro-ops for execution. The fused micro-ops may avoid the use of control-flow instructions, which may improve performance. A fusion predictor may be used to facilitate macro-op fusion.
US10996948B2
A system, computer program product, and computer-implemented method for mining software code and assimilating legacy system functionalities are provided. Embodiments comprise a system configured for installing a mining tool on a first system having a first format, the mining tool being configured to continually capture code stored on the first system; identifying a function on the first system, wherein the function is configurable to be independently executable; pulling the function from the first system; converting the function from the first format to a second format; and deploying the function in the second format onto a second system, wherein the function is stored on the second system in the second format and configured to be called by a program.
US10996935B2
A method and system are provided for transforming legacy application(s) into target (modern) application source(s) to execute on modern technology and hardware. In one implementation, such a system identifies elements of legacy applications, generates an element tree to generate a source code functionally equivalent to that of the legacy application, but superior and modern in technology, deployable onto a distributed architecture on a hardware server cluster. The generated source code is assessed to detect and correct code defects, and test cases are generated for identifying the potential errors of the target application under development.
US10996908B2
A printing apparatus receives a print job including print data held in a storage, performs processing of rendering of the print data, and generates, after a print instruction for the print job is input, print data to be printed based on the rendered print data. In a case in which print settings for the print job change from first print settings to second print settings, while the print job is held, first rendered print data and second rendered print data are generated based on the print data. The first rendered print data is not used for generating the print data to be printed, and the second rendered print data is used for generating the print data to be printed. In addition, the first rendered print data is generated in accordance with the first print settings, and the second rendered print data is generated in accordance with the second print settings.
US10996902B2
A color printing device can include a print engine, a circuit, and a processor. The print engine prints onto physical media using different color colorants. The circuit has data-processing color channels corresponding to the different color colorants. The processor receives monochromatic print jobs and transmits the received monochromatic print jobs to unused color channels of the color channels for processing in parallel. The processor can transmit the processed monochromatic print jobs to the print engine for printing.
US10996897B2
Storage virtualization techniques allow directories to be stored remotely, for example, by a cloud storage provider, but in a manner that appears to a user or application running on a local computing device as if the directories are stored locally—even though the data of those directories may not be resident on the local computing device. That is, the contents of directories that may exist in the cloud look and behave as if they were stored locally on a computing device.
US10996894B2
A method begins or continues by a computing device of a dispersed storage network (DSN) determining an error with a first write request in a first zone of a plurality of zones of a memory device of a storage unit of DSN, where the first zone includes a first set of sequential blocks that are in a first logical and physical location of the memory device. The method continues with the computing device abandoning pending write requests to the first zone. The method continues with reassigning the first write request to a second zone of the memory device, where the second zone includes a second set of sequential blocks that are in a second logical and physical location of the memory device.
US10996892B2
Systems and methods are provided that facilitate performing hardware acceleration processes without utilizing specialized drivers that are software and hardware specific by controlling the hardware accelerator with NVMe commands. The NVMe commands may be based on standardized NVMe commands provided in the NVMe specification, or may be vendor-specific commands that are supported by the NVMe specification. The commands are sent to the NVMe accelerator by a host CPU which, in some embodiments, may be located remotely to the NVMe accelerator. The NVMe accelerator may include a CMB on which a host CPU may set up an NVMe queue in order to reduce PCIe traffic on a PCIe bus connecting the CPU and the NVMe accelerator. The CMB may also be used by a host CPU to transfer data for acceleration to reduce bandwidth in the DMA controller or to remove host staging buffers and memory copies.
US10996878B2
Scalable architectures provide resiliency and redundancy and are suitable for cloud deployment. The architectures support extreme data throughput requirements. In one implementation, the architectures provide a serving layer and an extremely high speed processing lane. With these and other features, the architectures support complex analytics, visualization, rule engines, and centralized pipeline configuration.
US10996876B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, an information handling system may include a processor, a memory communicatively coupled to the processor, and an allocation agent embodied in a program of executable instructions and configured to, when executed by the processor, maintain an attribute index setting forth one or more attributes for each of one or more memory modules of the memory, and based on the one or more attributes and one or more memory requirements of an application executing on the information handling system, dynamically allocate the one or more memory modules to a namespace associated with the application.
US10996860B2
An apparatus for controlling a solid state drive (SSD) includes an host interface, to receive a set of memory access commands from a host computer, and processing circuitry coupled to the host interface and to memory cells of the SSD, to distinguish the write commands from the read commands in the set, and execute up to a threshold number of the write commands prior to executing any of the read commands.
US10996858B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method and device for migrating data. The method comprises identifying cold data in a primary storage system. The method further comprises, in response to determining that the cold data is in a non-compression state, obtaining the cold data from the primary storage system via a first interface, the first interface being configured for a user to access the primary storage system. The method further comprises obtaining, in response to determining the cold data is in a compression state, the cold data in the compression state from the primary storage system via a second interface that is different from the first interface. The method further comprises migrating the obtained cold data from the primary storage system to a secondary storage system.
US10996854B2
In a mechanism for deleting blocks from a blockchain, a retention period (T), a minimum number of blocks (L), and a hash of the oldest block are defined. A participant node creates the new block including a block header. The participant node determines whether a timestamp in an oldest block in the blockchain is older than a current time plus T, and whether a current number of blocks in the blockchain is greater than or equal to L. When both are true, the participant node deletes an oldest block in the blockchain. The participant node adds a hash of an oldest remaining block and an original number of blocks of the blockchain to the block header of the new block. The participant node broadcasts a message announcing the new block to remaining participant nodes of the plurality of participant nodes.
US10996853B2
Techniques for determining unique ownership of data blocks includes selecting a first data block referenced by a first logical address of a first logical device, wherein first metadata for the first data block includes a reference count and a result used in determining sole unique ownership of the first data block; determining C1, an expected value of the result of the first metadata when the first logical device is a sole unique owner of the first data block; and performing first processing that determines whether the first logical device is the sole unique owner of the first data block. The first processing includes: determining whether C1 equals a current value of the result of the first metadata; and determining that the first logical device is the sole unique owner of the first data block if C1 equals the current value of the result of the first metadata.
US10996842B2
An example computing device includes a touch screen display; wireless communication circuitry; one or more processors; and memory for storing a browser program for displaying web pages on the touch screen display. The one or more processors are configured to execute the browser program to control the computing device to at least: display, on the touch screen display, web pages accessed via the wireless communication circuitry; receive either a first input or a second input to the touch screen, wherein the second input is different from the first input and an initial touch on the touch screen for the first input and for the second input is a link on the displayed web page; in response to the first input, perform a first operation; and in response to the second input, perform a second operation, different from the first operation.
US10996839B2
The techniques disclosed herein improve existing computing systems by providing consistent interaction models during communication sessions. A system configured according to the disclosure presented herein can improve user engagement during communication sessions and conserve computing resources by enabling users to define arrangements of display areas in a user interface (UI) for presenting content during a communication session and to utilize the same pre-defined arrangement during multiple communication sessions. The arrangement can be presented to all or some of the participants in a communication session. By providing a consistent arrangement of display areas that render content to participants in communication sessions, the participants can be more engaged and productive, thereby improving human-computer interaction and conserving computing resources.
US10996834B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a displaying method. The method includes steps of: displaying an element at a first position on touchscreen, obtaining touch information, determining an arrangement instruction which is obtained for the greatest number of times within predetermined time according to the touch information, and displaying the element at a second position on the touchscreen according to the arrangement instruction.
US10996833B2
Techniques are described to implement a user interface for a display of a mobile device. In an implementation, the user interface may include a chromeless menu configured to be displayed when menu-based user input to the mobile device is available; a system tray configured to be displayed on the display when a notice containing status information affecting operability of the mobile device is available; and a task switcher module operable to cause a chromeless overlay be displayed over an active application being executed by the mobile device to allow selection of one or more applications of the mobile device.
US10996831B2
An augmented reality device enables selection and interaction with multiple objects viewed in an augmented reality scene. A cursor is positioned proximate to a first object in response to a first gesture. A selected state of the first object is determined in response to a second gesture. A visual indication of the selected state of the first object is displayed by the augmented reality device. A second position for the cursor, proximate to a second object, is determined. A visual indication of the first object's selected state remains displayed after the cursor is moved to be proximate to the second object.
US10996829B2
A data processing apparatus is provided, which includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a data set from target detected by a detection apparatus, perform rendering of the data set, and generate a plurality of views arranged on a screen. Each view of the plurality of views includes a plurality of pixels. Each pixel included in the plurality of views is associated with a plurality of pieces of information including a first information displayed on the screen and a second information that indicates a view among the plurality of views to which the pixel belongs.
US10996824B2
The disclosure relates to a display apparatus including a display, a user input unit, a communicator, and a processor. The processor may display a plurality of first items representing content in a first area on the screen, list and display a plurality of second items selected based on a first user input among the plurality of displayed first items in a second area on the screen different from the first area, change and display a list order of two or more second items selected based on a second user input among the plurality of second items displayed in the second area, and transmit a request to an external apparatus to perform predetermined functions in the list order of content corresponding to the plurality of second items changed in order in the second area.
US10996822B2
Techniques to control arrangement of items in a user interface is described. In one or more implementations, intuitive rearrangement of items in a user interface is caused by a computing device. A priority ordering of items, one to another, is determined that is specified for display of the items in a first layout in a user interface of the computing device. The items are assigned into respective ones of a plurality of groups that together compose one or more linear arrangements of the groups. Arrangement of the items is controlled by the computing device for display in a second layout in the user interface that is different from the first layout by an amount of display area available in the user interface along one or more dimensions. The control includes following the priority ordering of the items to select positions of the items within respective groups based on availability of an open area that is available to fit a display of a respective item within the group and that minimizes a display area consumed by the group in the user interface.
US10996821B2
An image processing apparatus that, in a case where processing corresponding to a user operation is determined to be cancelled before cancellation of the processing corresponding to the user operation, the user operation is determined to correspond to a hold-down operation, and a context menu is displayed in a case where the user operation corresponds to the hold-down operation.
US10996814B2
A method for providing tactile feedback in a display system including using a display to show an image of a virtual object in a viewing space, using a touch detector to detect a user touching a real object within the viewing space, and providing a location of the touching to the display. Related apparatus and methods are also described.
US10996813B2
Orthodontic devices such as aligners, palatal expanders, retainers, and dental implants can be used to adjust the position of teeth and to treat various dental irregularities. To help the clinician or doctor (i.e., orthodontist) design and plan the subject's treatment plan, a 3D digital model of the subject's teeth, dentition, and gingiva can be constructed from a 3D scan of the subject's mouth, teeth, dentition, and gingiva. The 3D model of the subject's teeth and dentition can be displayed graphically to the doctor on a display using a computing system with memory and software.
US10996812B2
Optimizations are provided for positioning a popup interface within a display frame in relation to a corresponding target element. In particular, the relative positioning of the popup interface to the associated target element is dynamically selected and selectively determined based on a location of the corresponding target element within one or more quadrants and associated subquadrants of the display frame. As a result, the location of the popup interface is dynamically adjustable as opposed to being positioned based on a predetermined location.
US10996806B2
A touch display device includes: a display panel comprising: a plurality of subpixels; and a plurality of touch electrodes; and a touch sensing circuit configured to: supply a touch driving signal to the display panel; and detect a touch sensing signal to sense a touch, wherein the plurality of touch electrodes comprises: a plurality of X-touch electrode (XTE) lines, each comprising a plurality of XTEs, the plurality of XTE connecting lines being configured to connect adjacent XTEs to each other, among the plurality of XTEs, and a plurality of Y-touch electrode (YTE) lines intersecting the plurality of XTE lines, each YTE line comprising a plurality of YTEs, the plurality of YTE connecting lines being configured to connect adjacent YTEs to each other, and wherein at least two YTE connecting lines, among the plurality of YTE connecting lines, are between two neighboring subpixels of the plurality of subpixels.
US10996805B2
A display device comprising: a display region including a first pixel and a second pixel arranged apart from each other, and a third pixel, and a touch sensor includes a first sensor electrode and a second sensor electrode, wherein the touch sensor overlaps the display region, the first sensor electrode has an opening part in a region overlapping the first pixel and the second pixel, and surrounding the first pixel and the second pixel, and the second sensor electrode overlapping the third pixel.
US10996804B2
An electronic device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a third electrode. The first electrode includes a first boundary side extending in a direction. The second electrode includes a second boundary side extending in the direction. The third electrode is disposed between and spaced apart from the first electrode and the second electrode. The third electrode includes a first side facing the first boundary side and a second side facing the second boundary. The first side and the second side have shapes that are asymmetric to each other with respect to a center axis extending in the direction.
US10996795B2
An optical touch-sensitive device includes a touch-sensitive surface over which touch events are detectable. The device also includes surface features on the surface that reduce touch object friction relative to an absence of surface features. Emitter and detectors are arranged along a periphery of the touch-sensitive surface. The emitters can produce optical beams that travel across the touch-sensitive surface to the detectors. Touches on the touch-sensitive surface disturb the optical beams and the touch-sensitive device determines touch events based on the disturbed optical beams. The surface features may also be arranged to reduce glare by diffusing light. In some embodiments, an anti-reflective layer is on top of the touch-sensitive surface and the surface features.
US10996794B2
A method includes: detecting a current portrait or landscape state of a touch screen of a mobile terminal; determining that edge suppression is performed or no edge suppression is performed on an edge of the touch screen according to the portrait or landscape state of the mobile terminal; setting an edge suppression function of the touch screen according to a determination result, thereby solving the problem in the related art that that screen edge suppression of a touch screen of a mobile terminal is not flexible enough, flexibly setting a screen edge suppression function of the touch screen of the mobile terminal, and improving use convenience and user experience.
US10996786B2
The present invention, which provides a method and apparatus for controlling a multi-window display in an interface, can display a plurality of application windows simultaneously and completely on the same interface, can control changes in size of the launched application windows by finger pressing, can display the application windows of corresponding sizes at different levels, and can also realize changes in size by squeezing between the plurality of application windows. The method for controlling a multi-window display in an interface according to the present invention comprises: defining a correspondence relationship between display levels of windows of a plurality of applications and pressure values applied on icons of the plurality of applications, determining the display levels of the windows according to the pressure values applied on the icons, displaying the windows in the interface according to the display levels, wherein the window having the highest priority is the window of a currently operated application, and, if the window having the highest priority intersects other windows, compressing the other windows according to a display size of the window having the highest priority, such that the plurality of windows are displayed in the interface without overlapping one another.
US10996785B2
A touch display device and a touch display panel are provided. The touch display panel includes a bend area adjacent to the periphery of the touch display panel, and touch lines disposed in the bend area have zigzag shapes that extend at angles with respect to a bend axis about which the bend area is bent. A first dielectric layer includes a compensation pattern that is located in the bend area and includes an opening that extends in a direction parallel to the bend axis. A second dielectric layer protrudes into the opening of the compensation pattern in a depth direction. During bending of the bend area, this configuration disperses force applied to portions of the touch lines and the dielectric layers in the bend area. This can consequently prevent both cracking due to bending and moisture permeation due to cracks.
US10996777B2
An electronic device including an input sensing unit configured to sense an external input. The input sensing unit includes first electrodes including first patterns including normal patterns and notch patterns and first connection patterns connecting the first patterns, a second electrode, a first trace line connected to one of the normal patterns, and a connection trace line connected to at least two of the notch patterns.
US10996772B2
An electronic device includes a housing that includes a first end portion and a second end portion, a pen tip that is disposed at the first end portion, a first coil that is disposed in the housing adjacent to the first end portion, is wound around an axis of the housing, and includes a first conductive line of a first length, and a second coil that surrounds the first coil, is wound around the axis of the housing, and includes a second conductive line of a second length shorter than the first length.
US10996771B2
An electronic apparatus for controlling a touch screen is provided. The electronic apparatus includes a touch screen for sensing a signal generated by an electronic pen and displaying an image, and at least one processor configured to, in response to an object displayed on the touch screen being selected based on a first signal generated by the electronic pen, control the touch screen to obtain a search result for the selected object and provide the search result, and in response to the object displayed on the touch screen being selected based on a second signal generated by the electronic pen, control the touch screen to display a user interface (UI) for preforming a function related to the selected object.
US10996770B2
Disclosed are computer peripheral interface devices (such as computer mice) that include a wheel member configured to rotate around an axis in a plurality of modes, where each of the plurality of modes corresponds to a respective unique friction profile. The plurality of operation modes includes a freewheel mode and at least two additional modes. The at least two additional modes includes two or more different ratchet modes, two or more different constant friction modes, or at least one constant friction mode and at least one ratchet mode. The interface device also includes an actuator assembly configured to set the wheel member to each of the plurality of operation modes.
US10996768B2
Methods and devices for, among other applications, locating an emitter, comprises an array of receivers configured in different angular positions about the array relative to a corresponding array location axis, to receive a signal from the emitter having at least one burst containing a train of pulses, and at least one processor configured to profile pulse count values at each receiver, from one receiver to another in the array in relation to their respective angular positions, to designate a maximum peak angular position associated with a maximum pulse count value, and to attribute the peak angular position to an angular emitter location.
US10996762B2
An electronic device including a housing having a first surface and a second surface, and an interactive display having a keyboard-enabled mode and a keyboard-disabled mode. The interactive display includes a first image display device disposed at the first surface that displays image data, and a physical keypad disposed at the second surface that provides tactile feedback to a user only when the interactive display is in the keyboard-enabled mode, the physical keypad being substantially smooth when the interactive display is in the keyboard-disabled mode.
US10996757B2
Virtual reality apparatus includes a display generator to generate images of a virtual environment, including a virtual representation of a display object and at least part of an avatar, for display to a user; a haptic interface including one or more actuators to provide a physical interaction with the user in response to a haptic interaction signal; a detector arrangement configured to detect two or more haptic detections applicable to a current configuration of the avatar relative to the object in the virtual environment; and a haptic generator to generate the haptic interaction signal in dependence upon the two or more haptic detections.
US10996742B2
An AR/VR input device include a processor(s), an internal measurement unit (IMU), and a plurality of sensors configured to detect emissions received from a plurality of remote emitters. The processor(s) can be configured to: determine a time-of-flight (TOF) of the detected emissions, determine a first estimate of a position and orientation of the input device based on the TOF of a subset of the detected emissions and the particular locations of each of the plurality of sensors on the input device that are detecting the detected emissions, determine a second estimate of the position and orientation of the input device based on the measured acceleration and velocity from the IMU, and continuously update a calculated position and orientation of the input device within the AR/VR environment in real-time based on a Beyesian estimation (e.g., Extended Kalman filter) that utilizes the first estimate and second estimate.
US10996740B2
The present disclosure generally relates to an electronic circuit and method of operating thereof to back up write cache data on DDR memory in data storage devices during an emergency power off (EPO). The method involves using a power management integrated circuit (PMIC), a combo driver and one MOSFET for regulator output. The method involves detecting a voltage value that is below a predetermined threshold value, retracting a write head away from a hard disk drive (HDD), backing up data, and then resetting the HDD after the backup is complete. The backing up and retraction may occur in parallel or in sequence. The method utilizes the spindle back-electromotive force (BEMF) power to have sufficient power to make the backup. If the power from the spindle BEMF is too low, then the retraction is suspended and a high impedance is present to lighten the load until the BEMF recovers before the power on reset. As such, the back-up data is not reset and volatized by a lack of power.
US10996731B2
Systems and methods for buck-boost conversion in an information handling system (IHS) are described. In some embodiments, an IHS may include a processor, an embedded controller (EC) coupled to the processor; and a memory coupled to the EC, the memory having program instructions stored thereon that, upon execution, cause the EC to: determine a characteristic of an IHS subsystem; and control a buck-boost converter to modify a voltage provided by a power source based, at least in part, upon the characteristic of the IHS subsystem.
US10996729B2
Example implementations relate to balancing a power load among USB ports. For example, an apparatus according to the present disclosure, may include a plurality of USB ports, and an embedded controller coupled to the plurality of USB ports. The embedded controller may determine that a first device is coupled to a USB port of the plurality of USB ports, and determine a power draw of the first device relative to a type of the USB port. The embedded controller may balance a power load among a remainder of the plurality of USB ports based on the power draw of the first device relative to the type of the USB port.
US10996723B1
A method for providing, based on an emulation schedule, a reset message to multiple circuits is provided. The reset message associates a reset signal with a selected clock cycle for each circuit, in the emulation schedule. The method includes determining a mask for each of the circuits based on the emulation schedule, providing a clock signal to the circuits, the clock signal comprising the selected clock cycle for each circuit, and tuning the reset signal relative to the clock signal based on a center of the selected clock cycle for each circuit. The method also includes providing the reset signal to the circuits and asserting the reset signal in the circuits based on the mask. A system and a non-transitory, machine-readable medium storing instructions to perform the above method are also provided.
US10996722B2
This document relates to providing a thermal management system for a device. One example determines temperature readings associated with one or more components of the device, and comparing the temperature readings to optimal operating temperatures. This example can selectively couple or decouple heat-dissipating elements based at least on the temperature readings associated with the one or more components of the device in order to reach the optimal operating temperatures.
US10996716B2
A display device includes first and second set frames disposed adjacent to each other, a panel disposed above the first and second set frames, a folding hinge configured to connect the first set frame with the second set frame, a first sliding plate disposed between the first set frame and the panel, a stationary plate disposed between the second set frame and the panel, a second sliding plate disposed between the stationary plate and the second set frame, and a shock absorber having one end coupled to the first sliding plate and the panel and the other end coupled to the second sliding plate and movably disposed on the folding hinge.
US10996715B2
The present disclosure discloses a display device and a manufacturing method thereof. The display device includes a middle frame and an indiscrete flexible display panel bending around the middle frame. The flexible display panel includes a main display panel region on one side of the middle frame, an auxiliary display panel region on another side of the middle frame, and a bending region bending around the middle frame to connect the main display panel region with the auxiliary display panel region.
US10996696B2
A power supply circuit that outputs via an output terminal an output voltage based on an input voltage applied to an input terminal includes: an inserted transistor of an N-channel depletion type inserted between the input terminal and an internal supply power terminal; and a regulator configured to generate the output voltage by using as a supply voltage a voltage applied to the internal supply power terminal. The gate of the inserted transistor is connected to the output terminal.
US10996689B2
A flow rate ratio control device is provided with a main flow path, a plurality of branch flow paths that branch off from a terminus of the main flow path, a plurality of fluid control devices that are provided respectively on each branch flow path, and that are each equipped with a valve and a pressure-based flow rate sensor that is disposed downstream of the valve, and an operation setting unit that establishes settings such that, based on the target flow rate ratio, any one fluid control device from among the plurality of fluid control devices is made to operate in a flow velocity control mode in which the flow velocity of a fluid is controlled upstream of each valve, and the remaining fluid control devices are made to operate in a flow rate control mode in which the flow rate is controlled based on the target flow rates.
US10996687B1
A flood control system for remotely and automatically controlling flooding and water storage on reservoirs. The flood control system generally includes a central computer that controls the water level by controlling or communicating with flow control gates positioned near a number of culverts, wherein each flow control gate typically includes: (a) a control unit communicatively coupled to the central computer, the control unit capable of sending local condition data to the central computer via a wireless connection and further capable of receiving control commands from the central computer; (b) an input/output interface capable of receiving signals or data regarding physical conditions proximate the flow control gate, the input/output interface coupled to the control unit; and (c) a water shutoff valve controllable by the control unit and positioned to selectively allow or block the flow of water through each culvert, wherein each control unit controls each water shutoff valve.
US10996679B2
In one embodiment, a system generates a plurality of trajectory candidates for an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV) from a starting point to an end point of a particular driving scenario. The system generates a reference trajectory corresponding to the driving scenario based on a current state of the ADV associated with the starting point and an end state of the ADV associated with the end point, where the reference trajectory is associated with an objective. For each of the trajectory candidates, the system compares the trajectory candidate with the reference trajectory to generate an objective cost representing a similarity between the trajectory candidate and the reference trajectory. The system selects one of the trajectory candidates as a target trajectory for driving the ADV based on objective costs of the trajectory candidates.
US10996678B2
The present disclosure provides an obstacle avoidance method and system for a robot having ranging sensors as well as a robot using the same. The method includes: obtaining detection data collected by the plurality of ranging sensors; obtaining a current position of the robot based on the collected detection data; determining whether historical detection data corresponding to the current position has been stored; planning a movement path of the robot based on the collected detection data and the historical detection data and generating movement path information of the movement path, if the historical detection data corresponding to the current position has been stored; and controlling the robot to move along an obstacle-free path based on the movement path information. The present disclosure can effectively break through the limitation of the sensor technology, reduce the detection blind zone, and effectively improve the obstacle avoidance efficiency of a robot.
US10996675B1
This disclosure describes techniques for identifying and reconnecting systems, including financial service systems, to a network during or after an outage in which systems have been disconnected from one or more networks. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes navigating a vehicle, by a computing system of the vehicle, to a location near an area in which one or more financial service systems have been disconnected from a network; identifying, by the computing system of the vehicle and based on a wireless signal detected by the vehicle, a financial service system that is within the area and that has been disconnected from the network, wherein the financial service system is one of the one or more financial service systems; and transferring, by the computing system of the vehicle, information between the financial service system and a banking computing system to thereby enable performance of a financial transaction.
US10996668B2
Systems and methods for recovering an autonomous vehicle in a fleet of vehicles are provided. In one example embodiment, a computer-implemented method includes detecting an existence of an adverse condition associated with an autonomous vehicle in the fleet. The method includes determining in response to detecting the adverse condition, a recovery plan for the first autonomous vehicle based at least in part on one or more attributes associated with the adverse condition, the recovery plan including one or more actions to recover the first autonomous vehicle at a remote location. The method includes initiating the recovery plan to recover the first autonomous vehicle at the remote location.
US10996667B2
The present invention relates to a construction machine, in particular an earth-moving machine, having at least one control panel for inputting operator commands for the control of the construction machine, wherein the control panel has at least one display means for representing an operating interface that can be dynamically generated for the machine control; and in that a control unit is provided that recognizes a change of the mode of operation of the construction machine and adapts the operating interface in dependence on the change of the mode of operation.
US10996657B2
Multiple component mounters connected via a network are able to have multiple units attached. A control device of each component mounter requests other component mounters to send the specific information and the update date and time of a unit corresponding to the unit ID read by an ID reading section from an ID recording section of the unit set on the component mounter, and in certain cases a request is sent to the other component mounters to send the specific information of the unit, and the specific information of the unit and the update date and time of the specific information sent from the other component mounter in accordance with the request are stored in the storing section of the component mounter that issued the request.
US10996654B2
A servo controller includes: a servo control unit that controls a motor in a machine based on a position command; a position detection unit that detects the position of the motor; a positional error calculation unit that calculates a positional error between the position command and the position of the motor; a position abnormality detection unit that detects a position abnormality in the motor when the positional error is a first threshold or more; a load detection unit that detects a load torque on the motor; a load abnormality detection unit that detects a load abnormality in the motor when the load torque is a second threshold or more; an abnormality detection unit that detects an abnormality in the machine when the position abnormality or the load abnormality is detected; and a threshold change unit that changes the first or second threshold in response to the load state of the motor.
US10996639B2
A controller for controlling a system with continuous and discrete elements of operation accepts measurements of a current state of the system, solves a mixed-integer model predictive control (MI-MPC) problem subject to state constraints on the state of the system to produce control inputs to the system, and submits the control inputs to the system thereby changing the state of the system. To solve the MI-MPC, the controller transforms the state constraints into state-invariant control constraints on the control inputs to the system, such that any combination of values for the control inputs, resulting in a sequence of values for the state variables that satisfy the state constraints, also satisfy the state-invariant control constraints, and solve the MI-MPC problem subject to the state constraints and the state-invariant control constraints.
US10996632B2
An exterior element for portable objects including a support, on which is arranged a first material, the first material being chosen to be capable of reflecting different visible wavelengths as a function of applied stress.
US10996623B2
A cartridge detachably mountable to a main assembly of an electrophotographic image forming apparatus, the cartridge includes (i) a rotatable developing roller for developing a latent image formed on a photosensitive member; (ii) a first drive transmission member capable of receiving a rotational force originated by the main assembly; (iii) a second drive transmission member capable of coupling with the first drive transmission member and capable of transmitting the rotational force received by the first drive transmission member to the developing roller; and (iv) a coupling disconnection member including a force receiving portion capable of receiving the force originated by the main assembly, and an urging portion capable of urging at least one of the first drive transmission member and the second drive transmission member by the force received by the force receiving portion to separate one of the first drive transmission member and the second drive transmission member from the other, thereby disconnecting the coupling.
US10996621B2
An image forming apparatus includes a movement mechanism. The movement mechanism moves a pressing mechanism from a first position to a second position along with a start of an image forming operation and moves the pressing mechanism from the second position to the first position along with an end of the image forming operation, when image formation is carried out. The movement mechanism moves the pressing mechanism from the first position to the second position along with detection by a detection unit that a main body cover is opened, when the image formation is not carried out.
US10996614B2
The present invention is a part positioning mechanism configured to insert a protruding portion constituting a part of a second sheet metal part into an opening formed in a first sheet metal part. The first contact portion which contacts the first convex portion of the first sheet metal and the second contact portion which contacts the second convex portion of the first sheet metal are disposed to be shifted in an orthogonal direction which intersects orthogonally with the plate thickness direction and an insertion direction for the protruding portion. The edge of the opening of the first sheet metal part has a first edge which is distant from the protruding portion increases from the first convex portion to the second convex portion, and a second edge which is distant from the protruding portion increases from the second convex portion to the first convex portion.
US10996611B2
A chip used for a replaceable unit of an image forming apparatus includes a storage unit configured to store related parameters of the replaceable unit, a plurality of electrical contacts, and an impedance branch. The image forming apparatus is provided with an electrical contact terminal. An electrical contact is capable of electrically connecting to the electrical contact terminal. One end of the impedance branch is connected to at least one of the plurality of electrical contacts for achieving a detection of contact reliability between the at least one of the plurality of electrical contacts connected to the impedance branch and the electrical contact terminal of the image forming apparatus.
US10996605B2
Example implementations relate to print zone coordination. For example, a system for print zone coordination may include a plurality of printing zones, and a plurality of fibers, each fiber among the plurality of fibers assigned to a different printing zone among the plurality of printing zones. The system may further include a threading coordination system to coordinate a print job through the plurality of printing zones using the plurality of fibers.
US10996600B2
A device includes a rotator having a rotation axis, a belt, a nip forming member surrounded by the belt, a first stay surrounded by the belt and extending in a width direction parallel to the rotation axis, a holder holding the nip forming member, and an urging member urging the first stay toward the rotator. The nip forming member is configured to, with the rotator, pinch the belt to form a nip. The first stay includes a first end and a second end. The holder includes a first engaging portion positioned at a first end of the holder, and a second engaging portion positioned at a second end of the holder. The first engaging portion engages the first end of the first stay. The second engaging portion engages the second end of the first stay.
US10996595B2
A heater wherein an elongated substrate, a first electroconductive member, a second electroconductive member, a plurality of heat generating resistors, and a temperature detecting element. The following relationships are satisfied: W≥L and W≥S, where W represents a dimension of the temperature detecting element measured in a longitudinal direction of the substrate, L represents a dimension, measured in the longitudinal direction, of one of the heat generating resistors at least partially overlapping with the temperature detecting element with respect to the longitudinal direction, and S represents a dimension between adjacent heat generating elements of the heat generating elements.
US10996593B2
A printing apparatus and method are disclosed for printing on conical objects. An ink image is deposited onto the outer release surface of an intermediate transfer member (ITM) having the form of a flexible endless belt. After drying of the ink image on the ITM, the ITM transports the dried ink image to an impression station having a nip at which the ink image is transferred onto the objects. In order to permit printing on conical objects, the ITM is elastically deformable at least in the direction of movement of the ITM, and is guided in such a manner as to be elongated during passage through the impression station, the extent of elongation varying across the width of the ITM so as to match the surface velocity of the ITM to that of the object over the entire line of contact between the ITM and the object at the nip.
US10996591B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image bearing member, a transfer member forming a transfer portion, a transfer voltage applying device, a sensor, and a controller. The controller is capable of executing an operation in a first setting mode before a preparatory operation, and executes, in the preparatory operation, an operation in a second setting mode in which test voltages or test currents fewer in number of levels than those in the first setting mode are supplied to the transfer portion and in which a second voltage-current characteristic is acquired on the basis of a first voltage-current characteristic in the operation in the first setting mode and a detection result of the sensor detected during supply of the test voltages or the test currents, and then sets the transfer voltage on the basis of the second voltage-current characteristic.
US10996576B2
Provided are a magnetic core material for electrophotographic developer and a carrier for electrophotographic developer, which are excellent in charge characteristics and strength and with which a satisfactory image free from defects can be obtained, and a developer containing the carrier. A magnetic core material for electrophotographic developer, having a sulfur component content of from 50 to 700 ppm in terms of a sulfate ion and a BET specific surface area of from 0.06 to 0.25 m2/g.
US10996571B2
A method of adjusting a metrology apparatus, the method including: spatially dividing an intensity distribution of a pupil plane of the metrology apparatus into a plurality of pixels; and reducing an effect of a structural asymmetry in a target on a measurement by the metrology apparatus on the target, by adjusting intensities of the plurality of pixels.
US10996569B2
An overlay measurement method using a reference image is an effective method for an overlay measurement in a product circuit. However, there is a problem that it is not possible to obtain an ideal reference image in a process of prototyping. A measurement device described in a specific embodiment of the present invention includes an imaging unit that captures an image of a circuit pattern of a semiconductor wafer surface by an optical microscope or an electronic microscope, a pattern recognition unit that extracts a first pattern and a second pattern from the image captured by the imaging unit, a reference image generation unit that synthesizes a first reference image using the first pattern extracted from a plurality of the images and synthesizes a second reference image using the second pattern extracted from the plurality of images, a quantification unit that quantifies a first difference that is a difference between the first reference image and the first pattern and a second difference that is a difference between the second reference image and the second pattern, and a calculation unit that calculates an overlay amount included in the circuit pattern using the first difference and the second difference.
US10996568B2
Methods and apparatus for directing onto a substrate a radiation beam emitted as a result of high harmonic generation (HHG). Exemplary apparatus comprising: a drive radiation source; an interaction region configured to receive a medium and positioned such that a drive radiation beam from the drive radiation source interacts with the medium during use to generate the emitted radiation beam by HHG, wherein the emitted radiation beam comprises a plurality of wavelengths and wherein an emission divergence angle of the emitted radiation is wavelength dependent; an optical system downstream of the interaction region and configured to focus the emitted radiation beam, wherein the plurality of wavelengths of the emitted radiation beam are focused at a plurality of focal planes in dependence on the associated emission divergence angle; and a substrate support for holding the substrate at one of a plurality of axial positions relative to the plurality of focal planes, wherein one or more of the drive radiation source, the interaction region, the optical system and the substrate support is configurable to control a relative position of at least one of the focal planes with respect to the substrate.
US10996561B2
A head module of an imprint lithography system includes a base, a control body coupled to the base, a first set of actuators configured to generate a first force to translate the control body relative to the base along a first axis and to rotate the control body relative to the base about a second axis perpendicular to the first axis and about a third axis perpendicular to the first axis and to the second axis, a second set of actuators configured to generate a second force to translate the control body relative to the base in a plane defined by the second axis and the third axis and to rotate the control body relative to the base about the first axis, and a flexure coupling the base and the control body and restricting translation and rotation of the control body with respect to the base.
US10996553B2
A reticle and a method for manufacturing the same are provided. The reticle includes a mask substrate, a reflective multilayer (ML), a capping layer and an absorption composite structure. The reflective ML is positioned over a front-side surface of the mask substrate. The capping layer is positioned over the reflective ML. The absorption composite structure is positioned over the capping layer. The absorption composite structure includes a first absorption layer, a second absorption layer, a third absorption layer and an etch stop layer. The first absorption layer is positioned over the capping layer. The second absorption layer is positioned over the first absorption layer. The third absorption layer is positioned over the second absorption layer. The etch stop layer is positioned between the first absorption layer and the second absorption layer. The first absorption layer and the second absorption layer are made of the same material.
US10996551B2
A light source device configured to emit a light beam in a first direction emits a first colored light beam from a first exit position, a second colored light beam longer in wavelength than the first colored light beam, a third colored light beam shorter in wavelength than the first colored light beam, and a fourth colored light beam, a mixed light beam including the first colored light beam and the second colored light beam enters an outgoing light switching device disposed in a light path of the fourth colored light beam.
US10996545B2
An aperture switching device is described that includes a base, a casing fitted to cover the base, and clamping parts fixed to the base. The clamping parts are driving power source input terminals and a shape memory alloy wire with two ends electrically connects the clamping parts. The base has a first light transmission hole, a rotary connecting part, a sliding groove, and a position regulating part. The casing has a second light transmission hole that corresponds to the first light transmission hole. A movable bump is connected to the shape memory alloy wire and slidably disposed within the sliding groove. An elastic member is disposed between the position regulating part and the movable bump. An optical aperture switching unit is positioned with one end portion mounted on the rotary connecting part and the end portion includes a switching slot mounted on the movable bump.
US10996543B2
An LED light is operated in both continuous steady output and, as desired, a periodic high power burst of light that drives the LED beyond its rated output for short periods. A single cost effective circuit to perform both types of control delivers highly regulated output under both high power burst mode and continuous mode while maintaining maximum feedback resolution in the primary (continuous) output mode. Active elements are used to switch the signals from conventional current sensing elements through a controlled scaling network before joining the rest of the regulating circuit. This results in ability to produce a high efficiency, well-regulated, fast rise and fall, rectangular average peak value waveform, electric current pulse to power a single or combination of LEDs to a high output level, effecting a transition between a constant lighting level and a higher output, pulsed duration lighting level for photographic and motion image capture.
US10996541B1
A display includes a plurality of elongated waveguides positioned adjacent to each other and extending along a first direction, a plurality of elongated upper electrodes positioned adjacent to each other on a first side of the waveguides and extending along the first direction, and a plurality of elongated lower electrodes positioned adjacent to each other on a second side of the waveguides opposite the first side and extending along a second direction transverse to the first direction. At least one of the waveguides comprises nonlinear materials having a third order susceptibility.
US10996532B2
The liquid crystal diffraction grating includes: paired substrates each including an electrode; a liquid crystal layer being held between the substrates; a sealant; and an alignment-controlling layer being disposed in a region surrounded by the sealant in a plan view and being in contact with the liquid crystal layer between the liquid crystal layer and each of the substrates, the alignment-controlling layer being configured to align liquid crystal molecules in a direction parallel to the substrates and containing a polymer of at least one monomer, the orientation of the liquid crystal molecules periodically rotating in at least one direction in a plan view of the liquid crystal layer in a state where the liquid crystal molecules are aligned in the direction parallel to the substrates.
US10996531B1
A display device includes a display area, a source driver, a gate driver, a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The liquid crystal layer is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The second substrate includes source lines, gate lines, gate lead-out lines, and bridge lines. The source lines are electrically connected to the source driver. The gate lead-out lines electrically connect the gate driver to the gate lines. The bridge lines connect pairs of the gate lead-out lines that are adjacent in the second direction. At least one of the gate lines is electrically connected to the gate driver via at least two of the gate lead-out lines and one of the bridge lines.
US10996514B1
A headset includes a backlight assembly, a display panel, and an optics block. The backlight assembly includes an array of light emitting diodes (LEDs), a diffusing element, and a brightness enhancement film. The array of LEDs and the brightness enhancement film are configured in a way such that the light generated by the backlight assembly has a non-uniform brightness distribution. The display panel receives the light and convert the light to image light. The image light has at least the non-uniform brightness distribution. The optics block includes one or more optical elements that direct the image light to an eyebox of the headset. The optics block adds another non-uniform brightness distribution to the image light to offset the non-uniform brightness distribution from the backlight assembly, such that the image light directed to the eyebox has a target brightness distribution.
US10996513B2
A lighting device includes a light source, a light diffusion plate, and a sheet-like optical member. The light diffusion plate is arranged opposite the light source. The light diffusion plate diffuses light from the light source. The optical member is disposed between the light diffusion plate and the light source. The optical member includes a transmitting part that transmits the light emitted from the light source and a reflecting part that reflects the light emitted from the light source. The optical member is supported by a support portion that is integrally provided to the light diffusion plate.
US10996506B2
A polyhedron type display device includes: a plurality of liquid crystal panels connected to each other to constitute a polyhedral shape; a light source housing at a center of mass of the polyhedral shape; a light source unit accommodated in the light source housing, the light source unit emitting a light to supply the light to the plurality of liquid crystal panels; a light source supporting pillar connecting and supporting the light source housing and the plurality of liquid crystal panels; a structure supporting pedestal supporting the light source supporting pillar; a supporting panel supporting the plurality of liquid crystal panels; a radiating pillar connected to the light source unit and emitting a heat of the light source unit; and a protecting cover covering and protecting the radiating pillar.
US10996490B2
Disclosed is a method for testing the feasibility of a pair of spectacles, the pair of spectacles comprising an identified spectacle frame. The method includes steps of: a) acquiring a range of values of at least one first parameter relating to a spectacle wearer, in all of which range it is desired to ensure the feasibility of the pair of spectacles, b) acquiring a range of values of at least one second parameter that relates to a spectacle wearer and that is different from each first parameter, in all of which range it is desired to ensure the feasibility of the pair of spectacles, c) confirming, for a characteristic number of values of each second parameter, that the pair of spectacles is feasible whatever the value of each first parameter comprised in its range.
US10996485B2
A laser pointer may include a laser light emitter that emits a laser beam, a housing accommodating the laser light emitter; a vibration detection sensor that detects a vibration produced in the housing, a shake correction mechanism that changes a direction of the laser beam emitted by the laser light emitter, and a controller that controls the direction of the laser beam, which is changed by the shake correction mechanism, into a direction so as to offset the vibration detected by the vibration detection sensor. The controller may be configured to calculate a frequency of the vibration; calculate a movement amount of the vibration; determine whether a vibration applied to the housing is caused by a hand-shake based on the frequency of the vibration and the movement amount of the vibration; and activate the shake correction mechanism in response to a determination that the vibration is caused by a hand-shake.
US10996479B2
A display device includes: a light projection device configured to project light; an optical mechanism configured to be able to adjust an optical distance to a virtual image; a concave mirror configured to reflect light toward a reflector; a first actuator configured to adjust the optical distance; a second actuator configured to adjust a reflection angle of the concave mirror; and a control device configured to determine a target optical distance and a target reflection angle based on a vehicle state or a situation around a vehicle, control the first actuator such that the optical distance approaches the target optical distance, and control the second actuator such that the reflection angle approaches the target reflection angle. The control device performs predetermined control such that the virtual image becoming a double image when the target optical distance is equal to or less than a predetermined distance is curbed.
US10996475B2
An arrayed waveguide, a display device, and a spectacles device are disclosed. The arrayed waveguide includes a first waveguide layer and a second waveguide layer stacked. The first waveguide layer includes a first main expanding portion having a plurality of first optical medium layers configured to expand, in the first direction, the first light beam incident into the first main expanding portion and reflect it towards the second waveguide layer. The second waveguide layer includes a second main expanding portion having a plurality of second optical medium layers configured to expand, in the second direction, the second light beam incident into the second main expanding portion and reflect it to exit from a side of the second waveguide layer away from the first waveguide layer. The second main expanding portion is further configured to transmit the expanded first light beam therethrough.
US10996470B2
A head-up display (HUD) system for a vehicle comprises a windshield, a projector adapted to project an image onto an inner surface of the windshield, a HUD glare trap lens positioned between the projector and the windshield, the HUD glare trap lens adapted to allow the projected image to pass through the HUD glare trap lens to the inner surface of the windshield, and to reflect sunlight that passes through the windshield to the HUD glare trap lens, and a light trap adapted to deflect sunlight that passes through the windshield and is reflected by the HUD glare trap lens, to prevent the reflected sunlight from interfering with the HUD image projected onto the windshield.
US10996466B2
An optical film fabrication method, an optical film and a head-mounted display are provided. The optical film fabrication method comprises: providing a substrate having a curved surface; dispensing a photo-alignment (PAM) layer on the curved surface of the substrate and exposing the PAM layer to spatially-uniformly polarized light; dispensing a birefringent material layer on the PAM layer; and curing the birefringent material layer to form a birefringent film on the curved surface. An optic axis orientation of birefringent material molecules in the birefringent film are spatially uniform across the birefringent film.
US10996451B2
A system, method and device for collimating the output of a light emitting diode (LED) are disclosed. The system, method and device include an LED substrate including a top surface from which the light is emitted, and an array of subwavelength scattering antennas positioned within the emitted light path, the array of subwavelength scattering antennas configured to select directions of scatter of the LED emitted light to provide collimated light output from the device. The array may be aligned perpendicular to the plane of propagation of the light emitted from the LED and may be positioned adjacent to the top surface. The array may be at least partially, or completely, positioned within the LED substrate. The array may be spaced a distance from the top surface and the spacing may be achieved using a dielectric spacer adjacent to the top surface. The array may be positioned within the dielectric spacer.
US10996447B2
A projection lens is disclosed. The projection lens includes, in sequence from an object side to an image side: an object surface, a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having negative refractive power, and a third lens having positive refractive power, where a focal length of the entire projection lens is f, a total optical length of the projection lens is TTL, a refractive index of the second lens is n2, a refractive index of the third lens is n3, and the following conditions are satisfied: 1.7≤n2≤2.2; 1.7≤n3≤2.2; and 1.25≤f/TTL≤2.20. The projection lens can effectively reduce the system length, and has good performance stability at different temperatures.
US10996445B2
The imaging lens consists of, in order from the object side, a positive first lens group, a stop, a positive second lens group, and a negative third lens group. Lenses arranged first and second from the object side are both negative single lenses having convex surfaces toward the object side. The second lens group includes a cemented lens in which a negative lens and a positive lens are cemented. During focusing, only the second lens group moves. Assuming that focal lengths of the first lens group and the second lens group are f1 and f2, respectively, the imaging lens satisfies 0.7
US10996436B2
An imaging lens which uses a larger number of constituent lenses for higher performance and features compactness and a wide field of view. The imaging lens is composed of seven lenses to form an image of an object on a solid-state image sensor. The constituent lenses are arranged in the following order from an object side to an image side: a first lens with positive refractive power; a second lens with positive or negative refractive power; a third lens with negative refractive power; a fourth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; a meniscus fifth lens having a convex surface on the image side; a sixth lens with positive or negative refractive power as a double-sided aspheric lens; and a seventh lens with negative refractive power, in which an air gap is provided between lenses.
US10996435B2
The present disclosure discloses an optical imaging system, the optical imaging system having an effective focal length f and an entrance pupil diameter EPD, and comprising sequentially, along an optical axis from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The third lens has a negative refractive power; the fifth lens has a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power, and an image side surface of the fifth lens is a convex surface; the seventh lens has a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power, and an object side surface of the seventh lens is a concave surface; the first lens, the second lens, the fourth lens, and the sixth lens respectively have a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power.
US10996434B2
The present disclosure discloses an iris lens assembly. The iris lens assembly comprises sequentially a first lens, a second lens, a third lens and a filter from an object side to an image plane along an optical axis. An aperture diaphragm is arranged between the first lens and the second lens. The first lens has a positive refractive power, an object side surface of the first lens is a convex surface and an image side surface of the first lens is a concave surface. The second lens has a negative refractive power. The third lens has a positive refractive power or a negative refractive power. The filter is an infrared (IR) filter, and a bandpass wave band of the filter ranges from 750 nm to 900 nm.
US10996425B2
A lens actuating unit is provided. The lens actuating unit includes: a bobbin configured to accommodate a lens module at an inner side of the bobbin; a first coil unit disposed at the bobbin; a housing disposed at an outer side of the bobbin; and a magnet unit configured to move the first coil unit through electromagnetic interaction with the first coil unit, wherein the housing includes a hole formed by being recessed from an inner side to an outer side to accommodate the magnet unit.
US10996418B2
An enclosure for connecting a subscriber to a fiber optic network includes a rotatable cable spool disposed within a main housing. A connectorized end of a subscriber cable is routed into the main housing and plugged into an adapter disposed within the enclosure. A cover of the enclosure is closed after the subscriber cable is plugged into the adapter. Prior to connecting the subscriber cable to the adapter, an optical cable can be paid out from the cable spool. One end of the optical cable rotates in unison with the cable spool while the other end is pulled from the enclosure.
US10996416B2
Hardened fiber optic connectors having a splice connector assembly are disclosed. The splice connector assembly is attached to an optical fiber of a fiber optic cable by way of a stub optical fiber, thereby connectorizing the hardened connector. In one embodiment, the hardened connector includes an inner housing having a first shell and a second shell for securing a tensile element of the cable and securing the splice connector assembly. Further assembly of the hardened connector has a portion of the inner housing fitting into a shroud of the hardened connector. The first shell comprises first and second alignment fingers that allow the mating the hardened connector with a complimentary device. The first shell can have any suitable alignment portion for mating with a complementary device. The hardened connector may also include features for fiber buckling, sealing, cable strain relief or a pre-assembly of components for ease of installation.
US10996413B2
A fire-resistant optical fibre cable includes a core having a central strength member and buffer tubes arranged around the central strength member. Each buffer tube contains optical fibres. A mica layer is arranged around the core. A glass yarn layer surrounds and is in direct contact with the mica layer. Metal armour surrounds the glass yarn layer. A multi-layered sheath surrounds and is in direct contact with the armour. The sheath includes a first layer, a second layer surrounding and in contact with the first layer, and a third layer in a radial inner position with respect to the first layer and in direct contact thereto. The first, second and third layers are made of LS0H flame-retardant material. The LS0H material of the first layer has an LOI higher than the LOI of the LS0H material of the second and third layers. The second layer is the cable outermost layer.
US10996407B2
An excitation light irradiation device includes a substrate having a color center. The color center is excited by an excitation light incident to the substrate. The substrate includes first and second reflection surfaces facing each other, and first and second end surfaces facing each other. When the excitation light enters into the substrate, the incident excitation light travels from the first end surface to the second end surfaces while repeatedly reflecting between the first and second reflection surfaces. The second end surface is inclined. The second end surface reflects the incident excitation light so as to cause the incident excitation light to be emitted from one of the first and second reflection surfaces.
US10996405B2
Embodiments herein describe a fiber array unit (FAU) configured to optically couple a photonic chip with a plurality of optical fibers. Epoxy can be used to bond the FAU to the photonic chip. However, curing the epoxy between the FAU and the photonic chip is difficult. As such, the FAU can include one or more optical windows etched into or completely through a non-transparent layer that overlap the epoxy disposed on the photonic chip. UV radiation can be emitted through the optical windows to cure the underlying epoxy. In one example, the windows can also be used for dispensing epoxy. In addition to the optical windows, the FAU can include alignment protrusions (e.g., frustums) which mate or interlock with respective alignment receivers in the photonic chip. Doing so may facilitate passive alignment of the optical fibers in the FAU to an optical interface in the photonic chip.
US10996403B2
An optical fiber mounting method that mounts a plurality of optical fibers on a substrate includes: bundling the optical fibers together with a bundling member; adjusting a height of the bundling member from a surface of the substrate or an angle of inclination of the bundling member relative to the surface of the substrate; bringing end faces of the optical fibers bundled with the bundling member into contact with end faces of optical waveguides on the substrate, the optical waveguides respectively corresponding to the optical fibers; and bonding the optical fibers to the substrate, in a state where the end faces of the optical fibers are in contact with the end faces of the optical waveguides.
US10996400B2
An optical waveguide interferometer that includes a first optical section, a second optical section, and a set of optical waveguides configured to connect the first and second optical sections, such that light propagating between the first optical section and the second optical section passes through each optical waveguide in the set, wherein the set of optical waveguides includes a first optical waveguide having a first length and a first width and a second optical waveguide having a second length and a second width, wherein the second length is greater than the first length, and the second width is greater than the first width.
US10996399B2
We describe a space-division multiplexed (SDM) fibre, reconfigurable, wavelength-selective switch (WSS). The switch comprises a space-division multiplexed (SDM) optical input port to receive a space-division multiplexed (SDM) optical input signal comprising a plurality of space division modes each of said space division modes carrying a respective data signal, wherein each of said space division modes is also wavelength division multiplexed (WDM); an optical space division demultiplexer, coupled to said input port, to split said space-division multiplexed (SDM) optical input signal into a plurality of space division demultiplexed optical signals on separate demultiplexer outputs of said demultiplexer, each said demultiplexer output of said demultiplexer comprising a wavelength division multiplexed one of said plurality of space division modes; a set of reconfigurable wavelength-selective optical switches, each reconfigurable wavelength-selective optical switch having a switch input and a set of N switch outputs, and each including a dispersive element and a controllable beam steering element such that each said reconfigurable wavelength-selective optical switch is reconfigurable to selectively direct different respective wavelengths of a WDM optical signal at said switch input to different selected outputs of said set of N switch outputs, and wherein each said demultiplexer output is coupled to said switch input of a respective one of said set of reconfigurable wavelength-selective optical switches; and a set of optical space division multiplexers, one for each of said N switch outputs, each said optical space division multiplexer having a set of multiplexer inputs and a multiplexer output, to re-multiplex optical signals at said multiplexer inputs into a space-division multiplexed optical output signal at said multiplexer output, and wherein, for each of said set of optical space division multiplexers, each multiplexer input of said set of multiplexer inputs is coupled to said switch output of a different respective one of said set of reconfigurable wavelength-selective optical switches.
US10996396B2
The present invention, disclose an endcap comprising: a. a first part being at least partially symmetrical about a main axis, said first part being fused to an optical fiber at a proximal end thereof such that said main axis is alignable with an optical axis of the optical fiber beam; and, b. a second part connecting to said first part at a distal end of said first part, wherein said second part protrudes from said first part, such that said second part forms a protruding bonding area, which is perpendicular to said main axis, for attaching said endcap to a fixture attachment area of a fixture apparatus, said fixture attachment area is perpendicular to said main axis, wherein said endcap is inserted at least partially inside said fixture apparatus, whereby, said endcap keeps said optical fiber beam aligned and minimizes angular diversion from an original alignment.
US10996393B2
Disclosed embodiments include an energy directing device having one or more energy relay elements configured to direct energy from one or more energy locations through the device. In an embodiment, surfaces of the one or more energy relay elements may form a singular seamless energy surface where a separation between adjacent energy relay element surfaces is less than a minimum perceptible contour. In disclosed embodiments, energy is produced at energy locations having an active energy surface and a mechanical envelope. In an embodiment, the energy directing device is configured to relay energy from the energy locations through the singular seamless energy surface while minimizing separation between energy locations due to their mechanical envelope. In embodiments, the energy relay elements may comprise energy relays utilizing transverse Anderson localization phenomena.
US10996391B2
A display device is disclosed. The display device comprises: a display panel; a light guide plate arranged behind the display panel so as to guide light to the display panel, and having at least one end curved away from the display panel; at least one light source for emitting light toward a surface, on which light is incident, of at least one end of the light guide plate; and at least one reflection part arranged adjacently to at least one light source so as to reflect the light toward the display panel.
US10996384B2
The present application relates to an optical isolation element comprising a first optical path changing element, a second optical path changing element and a third optical path changing element, each of those comprises a light entrance surface and a light exit surface. The optical isolation element has an excellent optical isolation ratio, may not require separate external force when driven, and can be applied to various applications such as the field of optical communication or laser optics, the field of security or privacy protection, brightness enhancement of displays, or a use for hiding and covering.
US10996372B2
A method including: storing, in a computer memory, geophysical data obtained from a survey of a subsurface region; and extracting, with a computer, a subsurface physical property model by processing the geophysical data with one or more convolutional neural networks, which are trained to relate the geophysical data to at least one subsurface physical property consistent with geological prior information.
US10996371B2
A computer executable algorithm adapted to propagate a boundary surface of a seed that is placed within a region of interest of a visual representation of a 3D seismic data so as to follow a natural contour of said region of interest, wherein said algorithm is executable to: (i) generate at least one attribute volume comprising at least on attribute derivable from said 3D seismic data set; (ii) generate at least one characteristic parameter for a plurality of candidate events of said 3D seismic data within a predefined gate region located forward of said propagating boundary surface; (iii) generate and assign a probability characteristic for said plurality of candidate events based on said at least one attribute volume and said at least one characteristic parameter; and propagate said boundary surface towards and incorporating any one of said plurality of candidate events that fulfils an acceptance criteria of said probability characteristic so as to generate a surface along the natural contour of said region of interest.
US10996368B2
A system and method for electromagnetic measurements. The system may comprise an electromagnetic transmitter, wherein the electromagnetic transmitter is an antenna and is operable to transmit a low frequency electromagnetic field into a formation or a high frequency electromagnetic field into the formation. The system may further comprise an electromagnetic receiver, wherein the electromagnetic receiver is an antenna and is operable to record the high frequency electromagnetic field or the low frequency electromagnetic field. The method may comprise transmitting a high frequency electromagnetic field, recording a high frequency electromagnetic field, transmitting a low frequency electromagnetic field, recording a low frequency electromagnetic field, performing a shallow inversion on the low frequency electromagnetic field and the high frequency electromagnetic field to form a formation resistivity model, and running the deep inversion with the random initial guesses that have the misfit.
US10996361B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating receiver deghosted output according to a receiver deghosting model. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an offshore seismic dataset of a surveyed subsurface that includes a seismic wavefield and is collected by receivers that comprise a streamer that is deployed relative to a water surface; determining an initial plane value for the water surface reflectivity and an initial location value for a position of the streamer; generating a receiver deghosting model by backward and forward propagating the seismic wavefield at the water surface to streamer locations, the receiver deghosting model including tuning parameters; adjusting the tuning parameters according to an adaptive target residue and an inversion target residue; generating receiver deghosted output according to the tuned receiver deghosting model; and determining a productivity of the surveyed subsurface based on the receiver deghosted output.
US10996353B1
An inventive neutron detector includes an n-type GaN wafer and a photomultiplier, which are optically coupled with each other. The n-type GaN wafer is irradiated with neutrons from a neutron source, such as including a particle accelerator and a beryllium target. Scintillation of the n-type GaN resulting from the neutron irradiation is amplified by the photomultiplier and is analyzed using a data acquisition system.
US10996349B2
Provided is an X-ray signal processor and an X-ray spectrometer that are configured to measure X-rays and, at the same time, accurately detect, with a simple method, the degree of performance degradation of a semiconductor detector. The X-ray signal processor includes: a semiconductor detector configured to generate a charge corresponding to energy of detected X-rays; a preamplifier configured to output a ramp voltage signal corresponding to the generated charge; a counter configured to count the X-rays for each voltage change amount due to the charge based on the ramp voltage signal; and a judgment part configured to determine whether the semiconductor detector has been degraded based on a first voltage change evaluation value corresponding to a total sum of products of the voltage change amount and an occurrence frequency thereof, and a second voltage change evaluation value corresponding to an increase amount of the ramp voltage signal.
US10996340B1
A tracking system includes one or more modulated projectors configured to broadcast a plurality of signals to a plurality of tracking receivers. Each of the plurality of signals is modulated with a message. The message includes positioning information for any of the plurality of tracking receivers receiving the message. The positioning information identifies a location of one or more the tracking receivers able to receive that message.
US10996337B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide systems and methods for updating an HD map. The system may include a communication interface configured to receive sensor data acquired of a target region by at least one sensor equipped on a vehicle as the vehicle travels along a trajectory via a network. The system may further include a storage configured to store the HD map. The system may also include at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to identify a plurality of data frames associated with a landmark, each data frame corresponding to one of a plurality of local HD map on the trajectory. The at least one processor may be further configured to jointly optimize pose information of the plurality of local HD maps and pose information of the landmark. The at least one processor may be further configured to construct the HD map based on the based on the pose information of the plurality of local HD maps.
US10996334B2
A lidar system where a laser creates a laser output and the sequence generator creates a pseudorandom noise sequence. The laser output is directed into two paths. On the first path, the laser output is directed to a first modulator. The first modulator encodes the laser output with the pseudorandom noise sequence to produce an encoded output signal. The encoded output signal is amplified and directed toward a target, wherein a back-scattered signal is reflected back from the target. On the second path, the laser output is directed to a second modulator. The second modulator modulates the laser output to produce an oscillator signal. The back-scattered signal is aligned and is mixed with the oscillator signal from the second modulator. The resulting mixed signal is converted into a corresponding RF output signal. The RF output signal is cross-correlated with the pseudorandom noise sequence to acquire target data.
US10996327B2
A system and method for detecting multi-tone sirens despite environmental noises that may be present obtains a microphone input signal, applies, in real time, a time-frequency analysis to the microphone input signal to determine a time-frequency representation, provides at least one multi-tone model that has a plurality of tone duration patterns, performs multi-tone siren detection on the time-frequency representation, the detection based on the at least one multi-tone model and factoring of doppler shifts, and generates a detection result that can be used in systems for automated vehicles.
US10996317B2
An object detection apparatus includes an object detecting unit, a temporary determination unit a speed acquiring unit, and a final determination unit. The object detecting unit detects a pedestrian or a two-wheeled vehicle as an object that is present in a periphery of an own vehicle by performing image processing on a captured image capturing an advancing direction of the own vehicle. The temporary determination unit temporarily determinates a type of the object detected by the object detecting unit by analyzing the captured image. The speed acquiring unit acquires a movement speed of the object using reflected waves of a carrier wave. The final determination unit finally determines the type of the object temporarily determined by the temporary determination unit using the movement speed acquired by the speed acquiring unit.
US10996315B2
The present disclosure relates to a method in which a radar apparatus for a vehicle detects a mounting angle and the radar apparatus for a vehicle, and more particularly, to a method for detecting a mounting angle of a radar apparatus for a vehicle using a power ratio of signals acquired by transmitting signals having different directivity angles and the radar apparatus for a vehicle.
US10996310B2
A user's location may be estimated by applying a probability function to raw user location data taken from various telephony or wireless systems. The probability function may estimate a user's location based on a training dataset that may be generated a priori to the analysis. A training dataset may be generated or updated by analyzing queries made with global positioning system (GPS) data to extract a device's GPS location. The probability function may be generated in part from physical maps. The estimated location may improve location accuracy, especially when attempting to map a user's location with accuracies that may be much smaller than a cell of a cellular telephony system.
US10996306B2
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes control and analysis circuitry having programming to acquire magnetic resonance (MR) data using coil elements of the MRI system, analyze the MR data, and reconstruct the MR data into MR sub-images. The system also includes a trained neural network associated with the control and analysis circuitry to transform the MR sub-images into a prediction relating to a presence and extent of motion corruption in the MR sub-images. The programming of the control and analysis circuitry includes instructions to control operations of the MRI system based at least in part on the prediction of the trained neural network.
US10996298B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a displacer for reducing the consumption of a cryogen used in a superconductive magnet device. The displacer may occupy some space within the cryogen storage cavity or limit the cryogen into a relatively small space surrounding a superconductive coil in the cryogen storage cavity. The displacer may also include a displacer cavity that may be vacuum or contain a cryogen or another substance.
US10996296B2
Some aspects comprise a tuning system configured to tune a radio frequency coil for use with a magnetic resonance imaging system comprising a tuning circuit including at least one tuning element configured to affect a frequency at which the radio frequency coil resonates, and a controller configured to set at least one value for the tuning element to cause the radio frequency coil to resonate at approximately a Larmor frequency of the magnetic resonance imaging system determined by the tuning system. Some aspects include a method of automatically tuning a radio frequency coil comprising determining information indicative of a Larmor frequency of the magnetic resonance imaging system, using a controller to automatically set at least one value of a tuning circuit to cause the radio frequency coil to resonate at approximately the Larmor frequency based on the determined information.
US10996287B2
A method for operating a Hall sensor device that includes a Hall effect region and a plurality of electrical contact regions configured to provide electrical signals to and from the Hall effect region using a plurality of control terminals is provided. Each electrical contact region is formed in a respective well that adjoins the Hall effect region, and each control terminal is configured to control a conductance in an associated well. The method includes selectively applying control signals to a first subset of the plurality of control terminals to form channels conducting majority carriers of a first conductivity type in the associated wells during a first operating phase; and selectively applying control signals to a different second subset of the plurality of control terminals to form channels conducting majority carriers of the first conductivity type in the associated wells during a second operating phase.
US10996282B2
This abnormal factor determination device is provided with a measured value acquisition unit which acquires measured values including electric values and temperature values of multiple power storage elements, a predicted value acquisition unit which acquires predicted values including electric values and temperature values of multiple power storage elements, and a determination unit which, on the basis of the acquired measured values and predicted values, determines whether or not there are abnormal factors in the power storage system.
US10996276B2
An AC adapter charges an Information Handling System (IHS) and includes a first DC plug including a DC connector that is compatible with an IHS power port. The first DC plug includes a first light guide for receiving light transmitted from the IHS and for illuminating an indicator of the first DC plug. The first DC plug comprises a fiber optic wire that receives the light received by the first light guide and illuminates the indicator. The fiber optic wire may extend within the DC cord and may illuminate an indicator of a second DC plug on the opposite end of the cord. The DC cord may include indicators illuminated by the fiber optic wire extending within the cord. The fiber optic wire terminates at a light guide of the second DC plug and exits the light guide of the second DC plug when the second DC plug is uncoupled.
US10996265B2
A crack detection system and an apparatus equipped with a crack detection circuit, including a main body, and a detection control circuit and a detection coil disposed on the main body. The main body includes a top surface, a bottom surface, and a side surface coupled between the top surface and the bottom surface. The detection coil is distributed on an edge of the main body and disposed surrounding the side surface. Two ends of the detection coil are electrically coupled to the detection control circuit to form a closed-loop detection circuit. The detection circuit is configured to detect a crack in an edge region of the main body. The detection coil includes a plurality of detection sections sequentially coupled from head-to-tail, and adjacent detection sections are not collinear.
US10996260B2
A semiconductor test circuit, apparatus, and method having a first relay disposed between a power supply and a switching element, a second relay disposed between a connection point of the switching element and a reverse conducting-insulated gate bipolar transistor (RC-IGBT) chip and a snubber circuit, a third relay disposed between the switching element and the RC-IGBT chip and a coil, and a fourth relay disposed between a diode and the switching element. A turn on/off test of an IGBT portion is performed by turning on the second and fourth relays. An avalanche test of the IGBT portion is performed by turning on the second relay. A short-circuit test of the IGBT portion is performed by turning on the first relay. A recovery test of an FWD portion is performed by turning on the first and third relays. At this time probes are brought into contact with electrodes once.
US10996252B2
The present invention relates to a measurement of radio-frequency signals by a measurement arrangement comprising a radio-frequency lens for mapping a vertex of a reflector to a virtual vertex. Accordingly, measurement of radio-frequency signals may be performed either at the vertex of the reflector or the virtual vertex generated by means of the radio-frequency lens.
US10996247B2
Certain aspects and features include a system and method for monitoring the operational status of assets in an electric power distribution system. For example, an asset monitoring system identifies a zone of operation for an asset under evaluation. The asset monitoring application identifies meters connected to transformers in the zone of operation and obtains meter voltages for the meters over multiple intervals. The asset monitoring application determines a primary voltage for at least one transformer based on at least one meter voltage. The asset monitoring application uses the primary voltage in a power flow calculation to estimate an operational setting for the asset. The asset monitoring application compares the voltages from the power flow analysis using the estimated operational setting and the voltages from the meter voltages across multiple time intervals. Based on the comparison, the asset monitoring application determines an operational status of the asset.
US10996245B2
Fluxgate based current transducer for measuring a primary current flowing in a primary conductor, comprising a fluxgate magnetic field detector and a measuring circuit. The fluxgate magnetic field detector includes an excitation coil driven by an oscillating excitation current (Ifluxgate) supplied by the measuring circuit. The measuring circuit is configured to provide a first and a second measurement output of the oscillating excitation current. The transducer further comprises a signal output processing unit for comparing in real-time the first and second measurements outputs, wherein the signal output processing unit is configured to send an error signal output if the difference between said first and second measurements outputs exceeds a tolerance value.
US10996242B2
A probe card, for testing an electrical characteristic of a device under test (DUT) including a plurality of semiconductor devices, includes a substrate, a first probe pin disposed on a surface of the substrate and including a tip portion capable of contacting a pad of the DUT, and a second probe pin disposed on the surface of the substrate and including a tip portion capable of contacting the pad of the DUT. The first probe pin protrudes further than the second probe pin protrudes from the surface of the substrate in a first direction that is substantially perpendicular to the surface of the substrate.
US10996239B1
A method of positioning probe tips relative to pads includes: focusing on each of the probe tips in a first image as viewed by a microscope and collecting the coordinates of the corresponding probe tip relative to a first reference point in the first image; focusing on each of the pads in a second image as viewed by the microscope and collecting the coordinates of the corresponding pad relative to a second reference point in the second image, a relative position of the second reference point to the first reference point being predetermined; matching the pads with the probe tips when the quantity of the probe tips and the pads are equal while minimizing a maximum value of the distances calculated between each of the probe tips and the corresponding pad; and moving the probe tips to touch the pads with the maximum value minimized.
US10996238B2
A driving mechanism relatively displaces a measuring unit and a sample table such that a relative positional relationship between the measuring unit and the sample table is switched between a first positional relationship and a second positional relationship. In the second positional relationship, the sample table is exposed to the outside from within a lower housing. A controller includes a high voltage generation circuit that generates a high voltage to be supplied to a scanner. A first mechanical switch causes a power supply not to supply a voltage to the high voltage generation circuit in the second positional relationship.
US10996237B2
A physical quantity sensor includes a movable flat plate having a plurality of openings passing therethrough that is swingable around an axis of rotation, a support substrate linked to the flat plate via a column to suspend the movable flat plate over the support substrate via a gap, and a protrusion protruding toward the movable element. In a plan view, the openings are excluded from a D/2-width annular range surrounding the outer circumference of the protrusion, where D is the maximum outer diametrical dimension of the protrusion.
US10996236B2
An accelerometer wireless position transducer or sensor is physically coupled to a control device in a process control system and includes an accelerometer that generates a signal based on a position of the control device or its actuator. The transducer converts the accelerometer signal into a wireless signal that includes a value indicative of the actuator position, and causes the wireless position feedback signal to be transmitted over a wireless channel to a valve controller, e.g., by using a short-range wireless protocol. The controller controls the valve based on the value included in the wireless signal. In some configurations, the feedback signal is received at a device paired with the transducer, and the paired device transmits the feedback signal to the controller. The paired device may be paired with multiple transducers and/or sensors, and may transmit various feedback signals to multiple recipient controllers and other devices.
US10996234B1
Implementations of airflow capture hoods may include a central support coupled with a plurality of ribs configured to support a bottom end of a capture hood in an open position. The central support may be coupled with a plurality of poles configured to support an upper end of a capture hood in an open position.
US10996227B2
Pre-coated analysis substrates, and methods of making the substrates and using them to analyze animal tissue, are described. The pre-coated analysis substrates can be made by forming a matrix surface on an analysis substrate; adding a protease to the matrix surface to form a pre-coated analysis substrate; and placing an animal tissue specimen on the matrix surface. The animal tissue can then be analyzed by allowing the protease to partially digest the animal tissue specimen; and analyzing the partially digested animal tissue specimen by mass spectrometry.
US10996220B2
Methods for preparing a dilution series for use in forming calibration curves, preferably in the field of surface plasmon resonance, are provided. In one example, a dilution series is prepared by using receptacles such as tubes of a micro well plate in which samples of the dilution series are mixed. In another example, a dilution series is prepared by using a convection mix in a receptacle for achieving a concentration gradient in the sample. A biosensor system arranged to perform steps of methods disclosed are provided. A data processing apparatus and a software for performing steps of methods disclosed, and a computer readable medium for storing the software are also provided.
US10996214B2
Methods and systems for use in sperm analysis are described. A method for processing measured data comprising at least interferometric phase data of label-free sperm cell(s), the processing comprising determining topographic optical phase delay map of the label-free sperm, determining at least one physical parameter of the label-free sperm, and generating data indicative of sperm quality for the label-free sperm. A device comprising a flow channel comprising an inlet for receiving fluid containing cells, a selection zone and at least two outlets at said selection zone; and a flow-driving mechanism comprising a flow-driving unit configured and operable to generate flow of said fluid from said inlet towards at least first of said at least two outlets, and a collecting driving unit selectively operating along the direction of a second outlet of said at least two outlets to direct a portion of interest of said fluid towards said second outlet.
US10996208B2
Provided herein are newly discovered methods of analyzing abaloparatide samples for abaloparatide isomers. Additionally, methods of storing and treating with abaloparatide in view of the newly discovered abaloparatide isomers are described.
US10996205B2
Provided herein are kits, compositions and methods for biomarker detection, and the use of relative or absolute levels of these markers for non-invasive detection of stress and/or relaxation levels in human subjects. In particular, the present invention relates to cortisol, isomer and metabolite markers for stress and/or relaxation levels.
US10996202B2
To acquire information relating to degradation of a pipe on the basis of information that can be acquired using a simple method. The analysis device according to one embodiment is provided with: a determining unit for determining whether or not the accuracy of a pipe network model based on information that includes a parameter that changes in value in accordance with degradation of a pipe satisfies a predetermined criterion; and a derivation unit for deriving information relating to degradation of the pipe, based on the parameter, if the accuracy satisfies the predetermined criterion.
US10996201B2
An apparatus containing an optical emitter configured to emit optical radiation is provided. Further, the apparatus includes a first hermetically sealed measurement cell filled with a first gas. The first gas is configured to absorb the optical radiation at least partially at one or more predetermined wavelengths. Additionally, the apparatus includes a first microphone arranged in the measurement cell and configured to generate a first microphone signal on a basis of a photoacoustic excitation of the first gas by the optical radiation. The apparatus moreover includes an evaluation circuit configured to take the first microphone signal as a basis for generating a first measurement signal indicating an emission intensity of the optical emitter at the one or more predetermined wavelengths.
US10996199B2
A method for detecting corrosion may comprise placing an electromagnetic logging tool into a wellbore, emitting an electromagnetic field from a transmitter, energizing a casing with the electromagnetic field to produce an eddy current, recording the eddy current from the casing with a receiver, creating a well log from the recorded eddy current, removing a collar signal from the well log to obtain a collar-removed signal, calculating a baseline signal from the collar-removed signal, subtracting the baseline signal from the collar-removed signal to obtain a baseline-subtracted signal, calculating an artifact-removed signal with the baseline-subtracted signal, and displaying the artifact-removed signal. A system for detecting corrosion may comprise an electromagnetic logging tool, wherein the electromagnetic logging tool comprises a transmitter and a receiver. The system may further comprise an information handling system.
US10996189B2
A gas detector comprising a sensor (100) configured to detect the oxygen content in the ambient air around the gas detector; a housing configured to seal around a portion of the sensor, creating a hermetically sealed interior of the housing while exposing at least a portion of the sensor on the exterior of the housing; and a pressure equalizing element (112, 114) located between the exposed portion of the sensor and the hermetically sealed interior of the housing, configured to allow pressure equalization of the sealed interior of the housing.
US10996186B2
Provided is a method for measuring a component of a biological sample with a biosensor provided with: a capillary for introducing the biological sample; an electrode part including a first electrode system that includes a first working electrode and a first counter electrode in the capillary; and a reagent part disposed so as to be in contact with the electrode part, the reagent part containing an enzyme and a mediator, and the method including a step of starting voltage application for a duration longer than 0 second and up to 0.7 second to the first electrode system within 0 second to 0.5 second after detection of the introduction of the biological sample to obtain a hematocrit value based on a current value obtained thereby.
US10996171B2
A method for developing and extracting biological trace evidence comprises the following steps: (1) using a biological fluorescent development reagent to process a porous carrier so as to develop biological trace evidence on the porous carrier, wherein a raw material formulation of the biological fluorescent development reagent is, in percent by weight: 0.01%-0.5% of indanedione, 4%-10% of ethyl acetate, 0.5%-1.5% of glycerol, 5%-15.5% of pure alcohol, and 73.5%-90% of petroleum ether; and (2) extracting the biological trace evidence to obtain DNA information of the biological trace evidence. For crime investigators who need to extract DNA evidence, the method enables targeted extraction of physical evidence, thereby greatly reducing workload, and furthermore, the method can also be used to develop and extract obscure or trace evidence, such as a fingerprint on a garment, thereby greatly improving investigation efficiency.
US10996168B2
A computer-implemented method includes controlling an instrument to measure a fluorescence emission spectrum of a sample including a first peak emission wavelength and at least a second peak emission wavelength, emitted in response to an excitation wavelength and controlling the instrument to measure an absorbance obtained at the excitation wavelength of the sample. The method may include determining, using the computer, a ratio of the measurements at either the second peak emission wavelength, or a sum of measurements at a plurality of peak emission wavelengths including at least the first peak emission wavelength and the second peak emission wavelength, to the first peak emission wavelength, and calculating, using the computer, a value for a quality parameter based on a combination of at least the ratio and the absorbance measurement. The method may include controlling an associated process based on the quality parameter.
US10996165B1
Disclosed herein is a method of measuring an effectiveness of an ultraviolet coating. The method comprises irradiating the UV coating with UV energy comprising a predetermined spectrum of wavelengths. The method also comprises measuring an intensity of the UV energy reflected from the UV coating. The method further comprises comparing a measured intensity of the UV energy reflected from the UV coating with a previously measured intensity of the UV energy reflected from the UV coating to obtain comparison data. The method additionally comprises determining, in response to the comparison data, the effectiveness of the UV coating.
US10996163B1
A thermoacoustic probe with an electromagnetic (EM) energy applicator, a thermoacoustic transducer, and a housing containing the applicator and thermoacoustic transducer and enabling an EM exit window and a transducer front face to be held flush with respect to each other. A first acoustic absorbing material is placed between the EM applicator and the transducer, between the EM applicator and the housing, and between the transducer and the housing as spacers; and a second acoustic absorbing material is injected between the EM applicator and the transducer, between the EM applicator and the housing, and between the transducer and the housing in the spaced gaps, wherein the first acoustic absorbing material and the second acoustic absorbing material are combined to form a sleeve covering the applicator sides and the transducer sides. The acoustic absorbing materials mitigate sound artifacts and noise resulting in cleaner signal data. In a preferred embodiment the applicator is a radio-frequency applicator, the transducer is a piezoelectric transducer, and the probe is utilizable for tissue imaging.
US10996162B2
Described herein is an apparatus, for shielding light generated by a laser during non-destructive inspection of an object. The apparatus includes a light shield at least partially enveloping the laser and defining a first opening through which light generated by the laser passes from the laser to the object. The light shield is opaque and includes at least one first biasing mechanism. The apparatus also includes at least one first light seal coupled to the light shield about the first opening of the light shield. The at least one first biasing mechanism is configured to urge resilient deformation of the at least one first light seal against the object. When the at least one first light seal is resiliently deformed against the object, light generated by the laser is constrained within a light containment space defined between the light shield, the at least one first light seal, and the object.
US10996156B2
A high throughput rheology machine measures transient response to a material subject to the decaying oscillation to determine nonlinear characteristics of the material with a single test cycle.
US10996154B2
Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) gas isotherm techniques to evaluate wettability of porous media, such as hydrocarbon reservoir rock, can include constructing a NMR gas isotherm curve for a porous media sample gas adsorption under various pressures. A hydrophobic or hydrophilic nature of the porous media sample can be determined using the NMR gas isotherm curves. A wettability of the porous media sample can be determined based on the NMR gas isotherm curve. The wettability can be determined for porous media samples with different pore sizes. In the case of reservoir rock samples, the determined wettability can be used, among other things, to model the hydrocarbon reservoir that includes such rock samples, to simulate fluid flow through such reservoirs, or to model enhanced hydrocarbon recovery from such reservoirs.
US10996150B2
A jig assembly for measuring the tensile strength of an electrode at a bend having a similar radius to a core, an apparatus for measuring bending tensile strength including the jig assembly, and a method for measuring bending tensile strength that measures the tensile strength of an electrode at a bend having a similar radius to a core using the apparatus for measuring bending tensile strength are provided. The jig assembly of the present disclosure includes a fixing unit configured to fix a first end part of a sample, and a plate shaped bending jig configured to provide a one point bend to a lengthwise direction cross section of the sample and to guide a second end part of the sample toward a tensile testing load unit. According to the present disclosure, it is possible to measure the tensile strength of the electrode under a similar condition to a winding process before the electrode is used in real winding applications.
US10996143B2
Device (1) for surface sampling, comprising: a material layer (2) comprising a surface portion (2c) and a circumferential edge portion (2d) defining the boundary of the surface portion (2c), further comprising a sampling volume (2a), wherein the sampling volume (2a) is adapted to comprise a filler device (2b) for filling out the sampling volume (2a), a protective layer (3) arranged on the surface portion (2c) of the material layer (2) by an adhesive (4) arranged on the surface portion (2c) of the material layer (2), wherein the device (1) further comprises a removal device (12), wherein the removal device (12) is fixedly arranged to the material layer (2), wherein the removal device (12) further comprising a removal surface portion (12a), wherein the removal surface portion (12a) is adapted to provide a lower adhesion against a surface compared to the adhesive (4), wherein the removal surface portion (12a) is facing essentially the same direction as the surface portion (2c).
US10996137B2
Examples disclosed herein illustrate systems and methods to determine and evaluate the quality of mechanical splices of optical fibers using insertion loss estimation. In at least some of the disclosed systems and methods, an optical fiber termination system may include a reference fiber coupling a light source and a stub fiber of a fiber optic connector, a digital camera sensor and lens to capture images of scattered light emanating from a portion of the fiber optic connector and a portion of the reference fiber both in a field of view (FOV) of the digital camera sensor, and a processor. The processor may analyze digital images of scatter light emitted from at least a portion of the fiber optic connector and the reference fiber to estimate insertion loss at the fiber optic connector.
US10996131B2
A refrigerant gas sensing system of a heating, ventilating, and air conditioning (HVAC) system, wherein the refrigerant gas sensing system is configured to collect a sample from a monitored gas volume, to introduce an ignition source to the sample, to detect an amount of combustion product in the sample after ignition, to determine an amount of leaked refrigerant in the monitored gas volume based on the measured amount of combustion product, and to indicate the amount of leaked refrigerant in the monitored gas volume.
US10996128B2
A balancing device for installing a counterweight in a specified shaft balancing region paired with a balancing plane includes a securing device which can be controlled via a control unit. The securing device has a first and a second receiving area for a counterweight or the shaft at a free end. A slot is arranged on the balancing device such that the balancing device can be moved along the shaft in the axial direction. The balancing device has a sensor for ascertaining the position of the balancing device relative to the shaft. The balancing device further includes a display unit which is connected to the control unit so as to exchange data and which is designed such that the position of the balancing device relative to the balancing region can be displayed.
US10996127B2
A pressure detection device includes: a piezoelectric element that detects a pressure change via a diaphragm head or the like; a circuit board that is provided with a processing circuit that performs electrical processing with respect to a charge signal outputted from the piezoelectric element; a conductive housing member, which has conductivity and is disposed to cover (house) the circuit board, and which is connected to the ground of the circuit board; and a housing (a leading end side housing, the diaphragm head and a rear end side housing), which houses the piezoelectric element, the circuit board and the housing member, and which is electrically insulated from the piezoelectric element, the circuit board and the housing member.
US10996112B2
Various embodiments of the invention provide systems and methods for accurately determining temperatures in harsh environments such as, for example, in a steam autoclave chamber during a sterilization cycle. In certain embodiments, temperature data accuracy is increased by utilizing an IC-based temperature logging device that monitors and compensates for inherent thermal delays that would otherwise cause a discrepancy between temperature as measured by a temperature sensor and the actual ambient gas temperature. By properly correcting for the thermal delay, the data accuracy of the measured gas temperature is thus greatly enhanced.
US10996108B2
A system and method include a wavelength shift correction light source emitting wavelength shift correction emission-line light and a spectrometer including: a spectroscopic unit receiving with photoelectric conversion elements rays of dispersed spectral light obtained by dispersing incident light based on wavelength, and outputs electrical signals corresponding to light intensities of the rays of dispersed spectral light; and a unit that measures temperature of the spectroscopic unit. When the wavelength shift correction emission-line light is measured as the incident light with the spectrometer, this system and method determine wavelength shift correction time emission-line wavelength corresponding to wavelength shift correction emission-line light, based on electrical signals from photoelectric conversion elements receiving wavelength shift correction emission-line light, and the measured temperature. The system and method determine wavelength variation from the difference between determined wavelength shift correction time emission-line wavelength and known emission-line wavelength of the wavelength shift correction emission-line light.
US10996106B2
To provide a luminous body measurement apparatus capable of being easily downsized, with which luminance of a luminous body can be measured in a wide range on a measurement sphere. The luminous body measurement apparatus is configured to pivot a first arm and a second arm in a non-inverted posture to obtain luminance data of a sample at a plurality of image pickup positions in a first region of the measurement sphere, and is configured to pivot the first arm and the second arm in an inverted posture to obtain luminance data of the sample at a plurality of image pickup positions in a second region adjacent to the first region, the non-inverted posture being a posture under which a supporting portion is located on one side of an axis as viewed from a holding portion, the inverted posture being a posture under which the supporting portion is located on another side of the axis as viewed from the holding portion.
US10996104B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to creating corrected images of a scene for a terminal-imaging seeker using an electrically-controllable coded-aperture mask pattern embodied in a programmable spatial light modulator. The coded-aperture mask pattern includes a plurality of pinhole-like apertures, each of which is configured to perform pinhole-like lensing of the scene. The plurality of pinhole-like apertures form a multiplex of overlapping images on a focal plane array aligned with the optical axis. An image processor reconstructs, based on a configuration of the plurality of pinhole-like apertures and the multiplex of overlapping images, a single image of the scene.
US10996103B2
According to one implementation, an optical observation system includes an optical fiber and at least one detection system. The optical fiber has at least one curved portion as a sensor for inputting light which has occurred in a test region. The optical fiber inputs the light from the at least one curved portion and transmits the light. The at least one detection system detects the light transmitted by the optical fiber. Further, according to one implementation, an optical observation method includes: inputting light, which has occurred in a test region, from at least one curved portion of an optical fiber and transmitting the light; and detecting the light transmitted by the optical fiber.
US10996090B2
A measuring device has a flowmeter, an inlet tube and an outlet tube. The flowmeter has a measuring tube that is connected to the inlet tube and to the outlet tube. To provide a measuring device that allows for measurements using a flowmeter, in particular of the liquid components of medium in the measuring tube, independent of whether the medium is made to flow or is stagnant, wherein the measuring tube is completely filled at least with the liquid components of the medium when the medium is stagnant the inlet tube, the measuring tube and the outlet tube form a siphon, wherein the siphon is designed and aligned in respect to the vector of the gravitational field of the earth so that, when a medium initially flows through the siphon and then the flowing of the medium stops, the measuring tube is completely filled with the stagnant medium.
US10996089B2
Systems and methods for determining a weight of a quantity of fluid, or a flow rate of the fluid by weight. An acoustic sensor positioned on an exterior wall of a vessel containing the fluid determines a fill level of the fluid. A computerized device calculates a weight of the quantity of fluid using a size of the vessel, the determined fill level, a temperature of the fluid, and the fluid identity and/or a fluid density. Flow rate of the fluid through a pipe is determined using two or more acoustic sensors positioned at different locations on a pipe, and a temperature sensor. A computer calculates a differential time of flight of the fluid based on readings of the acoustic sensor, a distance therebetween, the temperature sensor, the pipe volume, and the fluid identity and/or a fluid density. A flow by weight of the quantity of fluid is determined.
US10996083B2
A sensor system for attaching a sensor set-up to a vehicle, including the sensor set-up having a housing and a sensor; a connecting assembly mountable to the vehicle, the sensor set-up being fastened to the connecting assembly, the sensor set-up being adjustable by at least one degree of freedom with respect to the connecting assembly; and at least one heat pipe, which connects the sensor set-up and the connecting assembly in a thermally conductive manner.
US10996078B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a linear variable differential transformer (LVDT) probe. The LVDT probe includes a plunger rod and a metal sheet formed into a cylinder with a C-shaped cross-section, the metal sheet configured to couple to the plunger rod. In an illustrative example, the coupling may be an interference fit aided by spring retention forces of the metal sheet. The metal sheet may be stamped, formed and applied to the plunger rod without annealing. In another example, the C-shaped metal sheet may be welded to the plunger rod at a distal and/or proximal end. The ratio of relative electromagnetic permeability of the metal sheet to the plunger rod may be greater than 10.
US10996076B2
A management server 103 holds a parameter of a sensor device 101 and change management information related to a change in the parameter, and transmits the changed parameter and the change management information to the sensor device. The sensor device 101 holds the parameter and the change management information transmitted from the management server, and transmits the change management information to the management server together with measurement data. The management server collates the received change management information and preliminarily-held change management information to determine the change in the parameter on the basis of a result of the collation.
US10996062B2
A data management system includes an information processing device and a data management device. The information processing device acquires an overall map from a storage in the data management device, estimates a location of the moving object at the time of capturing each of peripheral images that are determined to correspond to any of the key frame images which are stored in the storage among the peripheral images, and generate a local map representing each of the peripheral images which are determined as the key frame image. The management device updates a portion, corresponding to the local map, of the overall map stored in the storage based on the local map.
US10996053B2
A support structure having a vertical element supporting a set of cameras associated with a vehicle measurement or inspection system together with at least one target structure required for realignment or recalibration of onboard vehicle safety system sensors. A camera crossbeam carried by the support structure locates the set of cameras as required to view a vehicle undergoing measurement or inspection. The target structure is affixed to the vertical element of the support structure, at an elevation suitable for observation by at least one vehicle onboard sensors during a realignment or recalibration procedure. A set of rollers facilitates positioning of the target structure on a supporting floor surface during a realignment or recalibration procedure.
US10996050B2
Provided are an apparatus and a method for measuring a three dimensional shape with improved accuracy. The apparatus includes a stage, at least one lighting unit, a plurality of image pickup units and a control unit. The stage supports an object to be measured. The lighting unit includes a light source and a grid, and radiates grid-patterned light to the object to be measured. The image pickup units capture, in different directions, grid images reflected from the object to be measured. The control unit calculates a three dimensional shape of the object from the grid images captured by the image pickup units. The present invention has advantages in capturing grid images through a main image pickup portion and sub-image pickup portions, enabling the measurement of the three dimensional shape of the object in a rapid and accurate manner.
US10996044B2
A measurement method for an aviation-specific inductive proximity sensor (IPS for short) includes steps of: 1) building a measurement circuit, wherein an IPS comprises an internal resistance r and an inductance L; 2) building a look-up table, wherein the step 2) specifically comprises steps of: sampling a first voltage measured value U1 corresponding to a first constant delay time T1 with the ADC; sampling a second voltage measured value U2 corresponding to a second constant delay time T2 with the ADC; then obtaining voltage discharge formulas U1(T1, R, r, L) and U2(T2, R, r, L) of an r-L circuit; and 3) compressing the look-up table, utilizing the compressed look-up table for calculation during measurement. The present invention ensures that the system works within a standard temperature range, and improves measurement stability, reliability, and real-time performance. Furthermore, there is no floating point calculation, which saves CPU or MCU hardware resources.
US10996040B2
A system for rendering safe unexploded military ordnance items found underwater by use of immersible portable apparatus employing entrainment waterjet technology. The interior of the military ordnance item is accessed, and its internal contents are washed out and recovered. All services required to run the underwater apparatus are located above water.
US10996029B2
The present invention provides a polymer ammunition cartridge having a primer insert having: a top surface; a bottom surface opposite the top surface; a coupling element that extends from the bottom surface, wherein the coupling element comprises an interior surface and an exterior surface, wherein the interior surface comprises: a transition region that transitions from the bottom surface to a second segment wherein the transition region has a radius of from 0.1 to 0.2; a first segment extending from the second segment and terminates at a tip, wherein the first segment has a first segment distance from 0.06 to 0.14 inches and the second segment has a second segment distance from 0.05 to 0.15 inches, wherein the second segment has a second segment angle from +3 to −3 degrees relative to the first segment angle and the first segment has a first segment angle from +6 to −6 degrees from perpendicular to the top surface; a primer recess in the top surface that extends toward the bottom surface; a primer flash aperture positioned in the primer recess through the bottom surface; and a flash aperture groove in the primer recess and positioned around the primer flash aperture and adapted to receive a polymer overmolding through the primer flash aperture.
US10996001B2
The present disclosure provides a heatsink that can increase a fin area of a heat radiating fin while securing sufficient volumes of a heat receiving portion, heat insulating portion, and heat radiating portion even in an environment in which an installation space for the heatsink, more specifically, an installation space in a height direction of the heatsink is limited. A heatsink including: a heat transport member having a heat receiving portion thermally connected to a heating element; a pipe body connected to a heat radiating portion of the heat transport member; and a heat radiating fin group which is thermally connected to the pipe body and in which a plurality of heat radiating fins is arranged, wherein the heat transport member has an integral internal space that communicates from the heat receiving portion to a connection portion with the pipe body and that is filled with a working fluid, the internal space of the heat transport member communicating with an internal space of the pipe body, and a cross-sectional area of an internal space in a direction orthogonal to a heat transport direction of the heat transport member in the heat radiating portion is smaller than the cross-sectional area in a heat insulating portion between the heat receiving portion and the heat radiating portion.
US10995999B2
Cooling unit in which the first and second heat exchangers [13], [16] are suspended along one of their longitudinal edges respectively to one of the suspension pipes selected from first, second and third pipes, [10], [11], [12], and are capable of undergoing a substantially free elongation and/or expansion curvature below the level of the pipe suspension.
US10995992B2
Disclosed is a sintering furnace comprising a furnace body and a lifting device, wherein the furnace body comprises a furnace chamber (10) and a furnace mouth (20), the furnace chamber (10) is connected with the furnace mouth (20), wherein the sintering furnace further comprises a sealing member (30) provided at the lifting device; when the sintering furnace is in a loading or unloading condition, the sealing member (30) blocks the furnace mouth (20). When the sintering furnace is in an unloading condition, the sealing member (30) can block the furnace mouth (20), the furnace chamber (10) does not contact with the outside directly, thus the temperature in the furnace chamber (10) will not drop sharply, and the service life of the sintering furnace will be increased.
US10995990B2
This invention relates to a rotary dryer with multi-drying chambers which is developed and improved for drying materials such as cassava chip, paddy, corn, various crops, longan, fertilizer, biomass and mining industry with better drying efficiency.
US10995987B2
A system, method, and apparatus for drying a hydration system comprises an airflow apparatus comprising a case, a heating element, a fan, a cap for a hydration bladder cap comprising a fluidic connection to bladder and air flow apparatus, a conduit connected to cap and airflow apparatus, conduit further comprising an exhaust vent, a clip connected to a mouthpiece associated with bladder wherein airflow apparatus produces airflow through bladder and mouthpiece, and a rack configured to hold hydration bladder while airflow flow through bladder and mouthpiece.
US10995984B2
A method is disclosed for separating components of a gas. A feed gas stream is cooled in the first vessel. The feed gas stream comprises methane, carbon dioxide, and a secondary component. A first portion of the secondary component condenses, desublimates, or a combination thereof to form a primary stream, resulting in a first depleted gas stream. The first depleted gas stream is cooled in a condensing exchanger such that a first portion of the methane condenses as a first liquid methane stream, resulting in a second depleted gas stream. The second depleted gas stream is cooled in the second vessel such that a first portion of the carbon dioxide desublimates to form a solid product stream, resulting in a third depleted gas stream.
US10995970B2
A kit for assembling a heating system and a heating system, which when assembled, comprises at least two heating devices, a partition constituting at least a part of one wall of each of the devices, which separates between interiors thereof, and a sealing arrangement mounted at least along upper, lower and rear edges of the partition to at least reduce a heat transfer between the interiors of the two devices at said edges so as to allow individual heating operation of each of the heating devices; the heating devices having a common front wall at least seen from an exterior of the system as a single front face of the system.
US10995969B2
A register box for HVAC installations has a body with a plurality of side panels arranged in a generally rectangular or square configuration and a wall extending across the rectangular configuration, a duct opening through the wall so as to communicate with an interior of the body, and an expandable foam polymeric material affixed to an inner side of the side panels. The wall has a surface extending from the opening of the duct to the side panels. The expandable foam polymeric material is affixed to the surface of the wall. The expandable polymeric material is polyurethane.
US10995961B2
A fitout article or article of equipment for a kitchen or laboratory is provided. The article has a lighting and separating element. The separating element in a region of the lighting element has light transmittance of at least 0.1% and less than 12%. The lighting element in the interior emits light that passes through the separating element and to the exterior. The separating element has a glass or glass-ceramic substrate having a CTE of 0 to 6 ppm/K and has a colour locus in the CIELAB colour space with the coordinates L* of 20 to 40, a* of −6 to 6 and b* of −6 to 6. D65 standard illuminant light, after passing through the separating element, is within a white region W1 determined in the chromaticity diagram CIExyY−2° by the following coordinates: White region W1 x y 0.27 0.21 0.22 0.25 0.32 0.37 0.45 0.45 0.47 0.34 0.36 0.29.
US10995951B2
A system and method for controlling a porous medium burner of medium-high temperature heating field, the control system includes a local control system and a remote control system; the local control system is configured for acquisition and feedback of data, and execution of an action; and the remote control system communicates with the local control system in real time and is configured for storage and analysis of data and transmission of an instruction. A system and method for controlling a porous medium burner of medium-high temperature heating field, which can effectively perform prediction and prevention of flashback, be adapted to combustion of gases with different calorific values, monitor and diagnose, in real time, a usage status of a porous medium material, and be suitable for the functions such as real-time monitoring of preheating of air and a fuel gas.
US10995950B2
A burner including a burner tube including a side wall, a first longitudinal end configured for receiving a fuel mixture flow, a closed second longitudinal end, a chamber defined by the interior flow space of the burner tube, the cross-sectional area of the burner tube is larger at the first longitudinal end than the cross-sectional area of the burner tube at the second longitudinal end; and a plate disposed on the first longitudinal end, isolating the chamber from a space upstream of the chamber, the plate further includes a plurality of openings disposed in a spiral format on the plate and a plurality of baffles, each baffle coupled to one of the plurality of openings of the plate, each of the plurality of baffles is configured to direct a portion of the fuel mixture flow through one of the openings from the space upstream of the chamber into the chamber.
US10995949B2
In order to overcome the limitations and problems that earlier methods have experienced, a method for operating a burner used in the thermal step of a Claus process is disclosed. The burner has at least one combustion air port, at least one oxygen port, and at least one fuel port. The oxidant flow is made up of an oxygen flow of technical pure oxygen with an oxygen concentration of at least 90 vol. %, preferably at least 99 vol. %, and if necessary of a second gas flow, and it is determined whether the oxygen flow is below a pre-set minimum flow and if the oxygen flow is below a pre-set minimum flow the air flow is split into a main air flow and a side air flow and the oxygen flow is combined with the side air flow creating an oxygen-enriched side air flow which is fed to the oxygen port. A corresponding burner is also disclosed.
US10995942B2
An installation bottom base is provided. The installation bottom base includes: a main body, a fixed installation structure connected with the main body, a light source installation structure and a bottom base terminal assembly, and the bottom base terminal assembly includes at least two bottom base terminals exposed to the light source installation structure. When the light source module is installed to the bottom base, the at least two base terminals are electrically connected with the plurality of light emitting units in the light source module, so that at least two of the light emitting units in the light source module are in different power supply circuits. In summary, current supplied to the light emitting units by a power module is transmitted by the at least two terminals, so that the at least two light emitting units are in different power supply circuits.
US10995930B2
A rear light is a light disposed in a rear portion of a vehicle, and includes: a light source; a light-transmitting plate that guides incident light from the light source; and a dot portion that is disposed on the light-transmitting plate and reflects incident light to the outside of the vehicle with different reflection intensities depending on positions on the light-transmitting plate.
US10995923B1
A vehicle lamp capsule 32 having a base 34 having a spring 5 which, when lamp capsule 32 is installed, biases an inner surface of a vehicle lamp reflector 12. Spring 5 is monolithically formed with base 34 along with at least one reflector-locating structure on the base such as circumferentially extending exterior locating surface 44 and/or retaining keys 42. Base 34 and spring 5 may be molded of a plastics material. In other embodiments base 34 and spring 5 are made in one piece of sheet metal. The spring 5 formed unitary with the lamp base 34 meets regulatory requirements and avoids a risk of dislodgement of a conventional separate piece-part metal spring which could cause an electrical short when the lamp is installed in the field. The lamp capsule 32 is suitably an H13-style lamp.
US10995915B2
A LED module is disclosed comprising a LED chip including at least one LED arranged to direct a luminous output centered about an optical axis towards a light exit surface; an optical layer separated from the light exit surface by a spacing region having a lower refractive index than the optical layer and a material comprising the light exit surface, the optical layer being arranged to redirect the luminous output in a direction under a non-zero angle with the optical axis; and a collimating element over the optical layer, the collimating element being arranged to collimate the redirected luminous output in said direction. A lighting module including one or more of such LED modules is also disclosed.
US10995910B2
The process comprises the following steps: mixing a gaseous stream of flash gas and a gaseous stream of boil-off gas to form a mixed gaseous flow; compressing the mixed gaseous flow in at least one compression apparatus to form a flow of compressed combustible gas; withdrawing a bypass flow in the flow of compressed combustible gas; compressing the bypass flow in at least one downstream compressor; cooling and expanding the compressed bypass flow; reheating at least a first stream derived from the expanded bypass flow in at least one downstream heat exchanger, reintroducing the first reheated stream in the mixed gaseous flow upstream from the compression apparatus.
US10995905B1
A pressurized gaseous and liquified hydrocarbon feedstock storage system method. The system includes a plurality of underground circuits or sections having parallel pipes joined together by radial ends arranged in various configurations to minimize plot space and maximize the amount of pressurized gaseous fuel stored.
US10995899B1
A bucket caddy stably holds a bucket or container above a horizontal support surface or ground for easier access to the contents of the bucket or container. The bucket caddy has a retainer with slots into which at least three legs are movably joined. The legs each have a shelf surface and a hook (U-shaped or crimped) or upstanding wall disposed at their proximal ends. When splayed apart, the shelf surfaces point radially inwardly toward the retainer with their top surfaces in a common plane onto which the bottom of the bucket may be positioned. The hooks receive straps or elastic bands, each of which has a fastener at its opposite end adapted to join a portion of a rim of the bucket. Length-adjustable means are associated with straps that are not elastic. Alternatively, belts or screws provide three point connection between the legs and the sidewall of the bucket. After the bucket or container is separated from the caddy, the legs rotate so that their central axes are parallel or substantially parallel to one another in a storage configuration. A hook and loop fastener tape wraps around the legs in the storage configuration.
US10995895B2
A masking plug and method are provided for masking a hole in a part during a finishing operation. The masking plug includes an elongated shaft having a first end terminating at a terminal surface and a second end. An outer surface of the shaft has external threads adjacent the first end thereof adapted for receipt in the hole. An enlarged body has a first end operatively connected to the shaft and a second operatively connected to a head. The diameter of the body is greater than the diameter of the shaft. The head has a polygonal configuration and is adapted for forming a mating relationship with a tool. The terminal surface of the shaft includes a hollow cavity formed therein which is configured to urge the outer surface of shaft radially outward in response to a pressure buildup in the cavity during the finishing operation so as to maintain the shaft in hole.
US10995893B1
A compressed-air distribution system contains a manifold containing a primary hose communicating with a secondary hose, and a plurality of tertiary hoses that fluidly communicate with and are connected to the secondary hose, each one of said plurality of tertiary hoses spaced apart along the length of the secondary hose, wherein each one of the tertiary hoses are independently connected to the secondary hose and in fluid communication therewith.
US10995889B2
A flexible pipe joint has a body and an annular elastomeric flexible element flexibly coupling an extension pipe to the body and operable to pivot the extension pipe with respect to the body. The flexible pipe joint also has an annular flexible boot operable to thermally or chemically insulating the annular elastomeric flexible element from the fluid flowing through a lumen of the flexible pipe joint. The annular flexible boot encircles the lumen, and the annular flexible boot has a first annular end attached to the extension pipe and a second annular end mounted so that pivoting of the extension pipe with respect to the body causes a flexing of the annular flexible boot, and a majority of the annular flexible boot has a shape conforming to shape of neighboring components of the flexible pipe joint.
US10995886B2
A metal-shelled hose assembly includes a metal outer shell lined with a flexible, water-tight inner tubing integrated with a bendable strain-relief section that is configured to allow the metal-shelled hose to be pulled from a straight angle regardless of where it is attached. The bendable strain-relief section is provided at least at the faucet end of the hose, where it effectively changes the angle of the length of the metal hose relative to the faucet when the hose is pulled at an angle to the faucet.
US10995880B2
A tower for a pipe laying system comprises a frame with a leg to support the frame, and a winch support integrally formed with the leg. The winch support is able to receive and support a winch and/or winch components. The winch support can be formed in a lower portion of the tower leg.
US10995879B2
A microfabricated valve with no moving parts. In one embodiment, the valve includes a reservoir of a liquid that is in fluid communication with an outlet channel having a throat that is less than 100 microns wide. Preferably, the channel is an elongated slit. The configuration of channel is adapted and configured such that surface tension of the liquid prevents flow out of the channel. A heater increases the temperature of the meniscus of the fluid, until a portion of the fluid is ejected from the channel. The ejection of the fluid creates both a thrusting effect and a cooling effect.
US10995874B2
The application relates to a valve device, in particular for a cooling water system of a motor vehicle, comprising a housing, which has an inflow connection and a first outflow connection and a second outflow connection, and comprising a valve, which is mounted in the housing so as to shift in the axial direction, said valve having a cylindrical main part, at each end of which a valve element is arranged in order to close one of the connections in a first sliding end position of the valve and another one of the connections in a second sliding end position of the valve, and having a first spring element, which biases the valve in the direction of the first sliding end position, and having a thermally activatable actuator element, which is designed to push the valve against the force of the spring element, in the direction of the second sliding end position, upon being activated. A provision is that the first spring element and the actuator element, which is designed as a second spring element, are each axially tensioned between one of the valve elements and a bearing web protruding radially inwards from the housing.
US10995873B2
A valve has a valve housing with a lid, bottom, and an intermediate housing portion between the lid and bottom. The valve housing encloses a valve chamber with at least one valve opening and at least one axially movable actuator movable between a closing position to close the valve opening and an opening position to release the valve opening, one wire- or band-shaped SMA element made of a shape memory alloy to activate the actuator in the opening direction, one return element to move the actuator in the closing direction, and one printed circuit board. The SMA element is attached to the actuator at a middle section and is electrically connected at its ends to the printed circuit board to be supplied with an electrical current. A valve arrangement includes several of such valves.
US10995871B2
A valve including a surface movably engaged with another surface. A coating is on the surface. The surface can have a CoF of less than 0.1; a hardness in excess of 1,200 HVN; impermeability to liquids at pressures ranging from 15 and 20,000 psi; a surface finish of 63 or less; and a thickness ranging from 0.5 to 20 mils.
US10995862B2
The valve series includes a plurality of valve types (A, B, C) with valves of different size and type, wherein a plurality of valve types, preferably all valves types (A, B, C) of the valve series (11) have uniform valve actuators (21), wherein the valve closure members (19) of the valves (10, 12, 13) perform the same opening stroke, wherein they can be formed differently, however, and in particular can have different diameters. The closing springs (20) of the different valve types (A, B, C) can also have different characteristic curves and can be of different thicknesses.
US10995846B2
The present invention includes a system, method and kit for preventing or reducing water penetration of a gearbox, the system including: a fan or impeller coupled to the gearbox; and a hub coupled to the fan and shaped to provide a labyrinth seal that prevents or reduces water penetration into the gearbox.
US10995845B2
A rotary actuator is used in a shift-by-wire system for a vehicle. The rotary actuator includes a motor, a controller, a housing, and a biasing member. The controller controls the motor. The housing supports a rotor assembly of the motor and holds the controller. The biasing member biases the rotor assembly in an axial direction to eliminate a thrust movement gap between the rotor assembly and the housing.
US10995833B2
A mechanism (100) for storing and releasing mechanical energy, which stores a low-power energy continuously inputted by a power transmission mechanism into an energy storage mechanism, and then controllably drives output in a high-power manner. The mechanism comprises a bracket (10), a supporting main shaft (11) arranged on the bracket (10), a driving gear (101) which sleeves over and rotates about the supporting main shaft (11), wherein arranged on one side of the driving gear (101) is at least one set of energy storage and release device (102). The mechanism (100) for storing and releasing mechanical energy is structurally simple and reliable. A light-weight high-efficiency drive mechanism may be fabricated by using a light-weight structural material or a composite material, which may store a large amount of low-power energy which is inputted continuously. The stored energy may then be released in a high-power manner by means of manual operations or smart electronic control, in order to drive equipment which require higher power to drive, or to be fed back to an original driving device by means of a designated transmission mechanism to be used as auxiliary kinetic energy. The mechanism features high operation efficiency and low energy consumption, and is thus high efficient in storing and releasing energy.
US10995832B2
Provided is an electric actuator, comprising: a driving motor (2); a motion conversion mechanism (6) configured to convert a rotary motion of the driving motor (2) to a linear motion in an axial direction parallel with an output shaft (2a) of the driving motor (2); and a transmission gear mechanism (5) configured to transmit a driving force from the driving motor (2) to the motion conversion mechanism (6), wherein a double-row bearing (24) configured to support the motion conversion mechanism (6) is arranged on an opposite side of the driving motor (2) with respect to the transmission gear mechanism (5), and wherein a relationship of L
US10995830B2
A furniture drive for a furniture part movably-supported relative to a furniture carcass, includes at least one pivotally mounted actuating arm for moving the movable furniture part, a spring device for applying a force to the actuating arm, and a transmission mechanism for transmitting a force from the spring device to the actuating arm. The transmission mechanism includes a first setting contour having a first torque progression and a pressure portion pressurized by the spring device. The pressure portion is configured to run along the first setting contour upon a movement of the actuating arm, and a second setting contour having a second torque progression deviating from the first torque progression and a switching device are provided. The second setting contour can be engaged with the pressure portion so that the pressure portion is configured to run along the second setting contour upon a movement of the actuating arm.
US10995828B2
The invention relates to a transmission (100) for a hybrid drive arrangement which can be coupled to two drive assemblies (7, 8), comprising an input shaft (10) and an output shaft (11), at least one first and one second shifting element (SE1, SE2) and at least one double planetary gear (5). The input shaft (10) is connected to the planetary carrier of the double planetary gear (5) and the output shaft (11) can be coupled to the first ring gear of the double planetary gear (5) by means of the first shifting element (SE1) and can be coupled to the second ring gear of the double planetary gear (5) and by means of the second shifting element (SE2).
US10995826B2
A transmission (G) for a motor vehicle which has a transmission input (GW1-A), a transmission output (GW2-A), five planetary gear sets (P1, P2, P3, P4, P5) and six shifting elements (B1, B2, K1, K2, K3, B3). By selectively actuating the six shifting elements (B1, B2, K1, K2, K3, B3), ten forward gears and one reverse gear can be selected between the transmission input (GW1-A) and the transmission output (GW2-A). Further, the drive train is typically incorporated into a motor vehicle.
US10995810B2
A friction material has a first outermost surface and a second outermost surface spaced apart from the first outermost surface. The friction material includes a base which forms at least a portion of the first outermost surface. The base includes fibers present in an amount of from 20 to 80 weight percent, a filler present in an amount of from 20 to 80 weight percent, and a deposit which forms at least a portion of the second outermost surface and includes a friction adjusting agent. The friction material further includes a resin disposed throughout the friction material. The deposit is disposed in the friction material in a gradated pattern. At least a portion of the deposit is exposed to the environment and the second outermost surface has a surface roughness of from 2 to 11 micrometers as determined by non-contact laser measurement according to ISO 25178.
US10995804B2
An example electromagnetic actuator includes a drive shaft, a motor operable to rotate the drive shaft, and a load shaft coupled to an armature body. A clutch is operable to control whether the drive shaft engages the load shaft. A rotatable portion of the clutch corotates with the drive shaft and includes a field winding and a clutch body. A stationary portion of the clutch includes an exciter winding that is inductively coupled to the rotatable portion and is operable to energize the field winding. The field winding is operable, when energized, to provide a magnetic field that causes engagement or disengagement between the clutch body and an armature body. A method of operating an electromagnetic actuator is also disclosed.
US10995797B2
A bearing component of a rolling element bearing, such as a rolling element, a bearing ring, and/or a cage for retaining rolling elements of a rolling element bearing, has an outer surface with a plating layer providing at least 97 wt. % tin. The tin of the plating layer provides alpha and beta phases of tin in an alpha/beta phase ratio of less than 10%.
US10995789B2
A panel fastener is provided that has a head having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; an engagement feature on the first surface of the head, the engagement feature being configured to be engaged by a driving tool; a shank extending from the second surface of the head; a threaded portion extending from the shank, the threaded portion having first and second helical threads arranged in an intertwined manner; the first thread extending farther radially from the central axis than does the second thread; and the shank being located between the head and the threaded portion.
US10995783B2
A system and method including a fastener clip assembly including a cap configured to be secured to a chassis through a chassis slot and a pin configured to be secured to a body panel, wherein the pin is configured to be secured to the cap. The pin includes a pin head having a bottom surface and the cap includes one or more fingers. The fingers are configured to bend outward from an original position based at least in part on the pin being inserted into the cap and are configured to bend back to the original position based at least in part on the pin head moving past the fingers. The fingers are configured to secure the pin to cap based at least in part on the fingers engaging a bottom surface of the pin head. The cap includes one or more limiters corresponding to the one or more fingers. The limiters are located to the outside of the fingers, and the limiters are configured to prevent breaking of the fingers based at least in part on the limiters limiting an outward bending of the fingers.
US10995781B2
Embodiments of the invention include a band clamp assembly. The band clamp assembly includes a drive rack and a housing including a receiving hole, a rotatable drive gear, and a locking pawl. The rotatable drive gear is designed to engage the first side of the drive rack and the locking pawl is designed to engage a second side of the drive rack.
US10995779B2
Hydraulically-amplified, self-healing, electrostatic actuators that harness electrostatic and hydraulic forces to achieve various actuation modes. Electrostatic forces between electrode pairs of the actuators generated upon application of a voltage to the electrode pairs draws the electrodes in each pair towards each other to displace a liquid dielectric contained within an enclosed internal cavity of the actuators to drive actuation in various manners. The electrodes and the liquid dielectric form a self-healing capacitor whereby the liquid dielectric automatically fills breaches in the liquid dielectric resulting from dielectric breakdown.
US10995775B2
A hydraulic boost valve includes a housing, a valve seat, and a piston. The housing defines an axially extending internal cavity, a slot that extends radially outward from the internal cavity within the housing, and an outlet port that establishes fluid communication between the slot and a fluid output circuit. The valve seat is secured to an end of the housing. The valve seat defines first and second orifices. The first orifice establishes fluid communication between a fluid input circuit and the outlet port via the slot. The second orifice establishes fluid communication between the fluid input circuit and the fluid output circuit. The piston is disposed within the internal cavity such that the slot is positioned between the piston and an external wall of the housing.
US10995774B2
Apparatus and methods for pressurizing well operations fluids via a pressure exchanger having a housing with a bore extending between first and second ends of the housing and a rotor rotatably disposed within the bore of the housing. A chamber extends through the rotor between first and second ends of the rotor. The chamber has a larger chamber diameter section and a smaller chamber diameter section. A piston assembly is slidably disposed within the chamber. The piston assembly has a larger piston diameter section slidably disposed within the larger chamber diameter section and a smaller piston diameter section slidably disposed within the smaller chamber diameter section.
US10995761B2
A recirculation stage of a radial turbomachine, the recirculation stage has an inner delimiting contour and an outer delimiting contour. The stator vane stage has stator vanes, wherein a difference between a vane construction angle at the leading edge and a vane construction angle at a downstream position defines a redirection angle for each point on the camber line of a respective profile cross section, wherein the stator vanes extend at least along part of the third section, wherein the trailing edges are arranged in the third section, wherein at the trailing edges in the center of the span width the redirection angle is in each case greater than the average overall redirection angle, wherein at both ends of the span width at in each case at least 10% of the span width in each case the redirection angle is smaller than the average overall redirection angle.
US10995759B2
Provided is a water pump including a lower casing, an upper casing coupled to an upper side of the lower casing to form an impeller accommodating space therein by the coupling with the lower casing and having an inlet communicating with the impeller accommodating space and allowing a fluid to be introduced therethrough and an outlet allowing the fluid to be discharged therethrough, an impeller provided in the impeller accommodating space and including an upper plate and a lower plate arranged to be spaced apart from each other vertically and a plurality of blades arranged and coupled between the upper plate and the lower plate, and a rotor coupled to the impeller and rotated together with the impeller, wherein the upper casing has a spacing recess provided on an inner surface corresponding to an outer circumference of the upper plate of the impeller.
US10995757B2
A dry-running vane gas pump includes a pump housing which forms a pump chamber, a pump rotor with at least one displaceable slide element which pump rotor is rotatably supported in the pump chamber, at least one fluid inlet opening associated with the pump chamber, a first fluid outlet opening associated with the pump chamber, a second fluid outlet opening associated with the pump chamber, and a non-return valve which closes the first fluid outlet opening. The second fluid outlet opening is permanently open. The first fluid outlet opening is arranged before the second fluid outlet opening in a direction of rotation of the pump rotor.
US10995756B2
Provided is an air compressor which helps to attain a proper discharge air temperature and which is superior in energy saving property. There are provided an air line connecting an air compressor, an oil separator, and an after cooler; an oil circulation line connecting the air compressor, the oil separator, and an oil cooler; a bearing oil supply line connecting one end of an intermediate branching portion disposed at an intermediate point of the oil circulation line between the oil cooler and the air compressor to a bearing oil supply portion of the air compressor; an intermediate portion oil supply line connecting the other end of the intermediate branching portion to an intermediate oil supply portion of the air compressor; a branching line supplying oil to the bearing oil supply portion and the intermediate oil supply portion; a blower sending air to the oil cooler and the after cooler; a bypass line connecting one end of a bypass branching portion disposed at an intermediate point of the oil circulation line between the oil separator and the oil cooler to the downstream side of the oil cooler of the bearing oil supply line; and a control valve controlling the inflow amount of the lubricating oil to the bypass line.
US10995751B2
A high speed, rotary lobe gear pump assembly is provided which combines a positive displacement lobe gear pump having wipers with a centrifugal pump utilizing an impeller. The centrifugal pump feeds high pressure fluid flow directly into the lobe gear pump allowing the gear pump to rotate at high speeds without cavitation. The high speed capability of the pump assembly allows the lobe gear pump to operate without speed reduction gearing for the motor shaft.
US10995750B2
A pump includes a casing defining an interior volume. The pump casing includes at least one balancing plate that can be part of a wall of the pump casing with each balancing plate including a protruding portion having two recesses. Each recess is configured to accept one end of a fluid driver. The balancing plate aligns the fluid displacement members with respect to each other such that the fluid displacement members can pump the fluid when rotated. The balancing plates can include cooling grooves connecting the respective recesses. The cooling grooves ensure that some of the liquid being transferred in the internal volume is directed to bearings disposed in the recesses as the fluid drivers rotate.
US10995748B2
A system for pumping fluid is provided, having two or more submersible pumps, each submersible pump having an inlet, an outlet, a pumping mechanism that pumps fluid from the inlet to the outlet, a fluid level sensor for measuring a fluid level above the inlet, and a controller. The controller is programmed to activate the pumping mechanism when the fluid level sensor senses a minimum fluid level above the inlet and control the speed of the pumping mechanism based on the fluid level sensed by the fluid level sensor above the minimum fluid level between a minimum operating pump speed and a maximum operating pump speed. The submersible pumps are arranged in a vertical stack with the inlets of the submersible pumps spaced vertically. Each controller of each submersible pump operates autonomously relative to controllers of other submersible pumps in the vertical stack.
US10995733B2
The disclosed invention relates to a wind power generation device for a window trim frame, the wind power generation device: enabling alignment and provision in a prefabricated manner so as to fit the size of a window trim frame or the window frame of a general house or a building such that the installation thereof is simplified; manufactured in a small size such that purchase and production costs are relatively lower than those of other power generation facilities and the like; and charging, with produced electric energy, a storage battery provided at the end thereof and, simultaneously, enabling a charging completion to be immediately checked, thereby easily being used.
US10995731B2
A method for controlling a wind turbine with rotor blades with an adjustable blade angle, comprising: operating the wind turbine in a part-load operation for wind speeds up to a rated wind speed, operating the wind turbine in a full-load operation for wind speeds above the rated wind speed, with the blade angle being increased in full-load operation with increasing wind speed, setting a limit angle as a minimum value of the blade angle, and controlling the wind turbine in such a way that the limit angle is undershot by at most a predetermined difference angle.
US10995713B2
Systems and methods for priming a fuel filtration housing are provided. In some embodiments, a system for filling a fuel filtration housing may include a cover sized and shaped to releasably engage an opening to a first chamber of a first fuel filtration housing, a first seal coupled to the cover, and a pump. In some embodiments, the cover, the first seal, and the pump may be arranged such that when the cover is pressed against the opening of the first fuel filtration housing and the pump is operated, the first seal engages one or more surfaces of the first fuel filtration housing and a first low pressure zone is formed within the chamber of the first filtration housing. The first low pressure zone may have a pressure that is lower than a pressure within a first fuel supply tank coupled to the first chamber such that a first liquid within the first supply tank flows into the first chamber.
US10995708B2
Internal combustion engine comprising—a first pair of cylinders which accommodate, according to a rectilinear reciprocating motion, relative first pistons operatively associated to a motor shaft rotating around a motor axis disposed in a transverse direction, perpendicular to a longitudinal running direction of an associable vehicle, —a suction system comprising a filter box which delimits a suction volume which houses at least a first front suction duct and at least a first rear suction duct, respectively disposed in an advanced and retracted position in relation to an air/suction mixture inlet direction, each suction duct channelling the air/suction mixture before entering in the respective cylinders, —wherein said first front and rear suction ducts are fixed and have respective mutually different lengths.
US10995703B2
A pulse combustor system for reducing noise and/or vibration levels. The system includes a pulse combustor including a combustion chamber, an inlet pipe, an exhaust pipe, and a first fuel injector for injecting fuel into the combustion chamber. The pulse combustor has a fundamental oscillation mode and one or more additional oscillation modes. The system includes at least one pressure sensor for measuring a pressure inside the fuel combustor and/or a at least one fluid velocity sensor for measuring fluid velocity at the inlet pipe or at the exhaust pipe. A controller adjusts a rate of fuel supply to the pulse combustor if the measured pressure and/or the measured velocity is above a predetermined threshold value to reduce excitation of the one or more additional oscillation modes.
US10995701B2
A thrust reverser assembly may comprise a sleeve including an inner sleeve portion and an outer sleeve portion. A plurality of guide rails may be coupled to a radially outward surface of the inner sleeve portion. A plurality of blocker doors may be slidably coupled to the plurality of guide rails. The plurality of blocker doors may be located between the inner sleeve portion and the outer sleeve portion.
US10995698B2
A mixer assembly group for a turbofan engine, having a primary flow channel extending along a central axis of the turbofan engine and a secondary flow channel. The mixer assembly group includes a mixer for guiding a first fluid flow from the primary flow channel and a second fluid flow from the secondary flow channel in the direction of an exhaust of the turbofan engine, as well as for intermixing the first and second fluid flows, and a connection appliance, which has at least one connection component that is fixated at the mixer and by means of which the mixer assembly group is to be fixated at two different first and second engine components of the turbofan engine, with are subject to operating temperatures of different heights during operation of the turbofan engine.
US10995690B2
In an internal combustion engine, fluctuations in combustion torque are suppressed to reduce vibration and prevent deterioration of ride comfort of a driver. Therefore, a control device of an internal combustion engine 100 having a plurality of cylinders 150 (a first cylinder 151, a second cylinder 152, a third cylinder 153, and a fourth cylinder 154) includes a combustion state detection unit for detecting whether the plurality of cylinders 150 are in a normal combustion state or a flame-out state, and a control device 1 which controls driving of a fuel pump 131 that is a load of a combustion torque generated by the cylinder 150. The control device 1 suppresses the driving of the fuel pump 131 at a predetermined combustion timing of the cylinders 151 to 154 of the flame-out state in a case where it is determined that any one of the cylinders 151 to 154 among the plurality of cylinders 150 is in the flame-out state.
US10995687B2
An exhaust gas control apparatus includes: a fuel injection valve configured to inject fuel into an internal combustion engine; a catalyst provided in an exhaust passage and configured to clean exhaust gas; a filter provided on a downstream side of the catalyst; a fuel introducing unit configured to introduce the fuel, which is injected from the fuel injection valve, into the exhaust passage from the internal combustion engine in an unburnt state; and a load control unit configured to control an upper limit of a load on the internal combustion engine. In the exhaust gas control apparatus, the load control unit is configured to set, when the fuel is supplied to the exhaust passage in the unburnt state, the upper limit of the load to a second limit value lower than a first limit value, which is an upper limit of the load before the injection.
US10995679B2
A flame produced within a premixer is promptly extinguished and a reduction in output power of a gas turbine associated with extinguishment is suppressed. In a gas turbine combustor including a diffusion burner and a premixed burner, the premixed burner is configured with a burner liner that surrounds the diffusion burner; a burner casing that surrounds the burner liner; a plurality of vanes that separate a cylindrical space between the burner liner and the burner casing into a plurality of premixers arranged side by side in a circumferential direction; a plurality of premixed fuel nozzles that inject a premixed fuel to the premixers; at least one thermometer installed to be buried in one of the vanes, and the like, and in a case in which a detection value of the thermometer exceeds a corresponding set value, an opening of each of premixed gas control valves is reduced and an opening of a diffusion gas control valve is increased in such a manner that a sum of flow rates of fuels supplied to the diffusion burner and the premixed burner remains unchanged.
US10995678B2
A gas turbine engine has a core engine including: a compressor, combustion equipment which receives compressed air from the compressor, a circumferential row of nozzle guide vanes, and a turbine. The nozzle guide vanes defines a throat receiving hot working gases from the combustion equipment into the turbine. The gas turbine engine further has an air system which is switchably operable between an on-position which opens a diversion pathway along which a portion of the compressed air exiting the compressor bypasses the combustion equipment to join the hot working gases at re-entry holes located between the nozzle guide vanes and a rotor at the front of the turbine, thereby increasing the semi-dimensional mass flow ω(T30)0.5/(P30) of the core engine at the exit of the compressor, and an off-position which closes the diversion pathway, thereby decreasing the semi-dimensional mass flow of the core engine at the exit of the compressor.
US10995675B2
A gas turbine engine with an accessory gearbox. The accessory gearbox is rotatably coupled to the engine drive shaft. The gearbox has a gear shaft rotatable about a gear shaft axis. The gear shaft has a first end drivingly engaged to a first accessory and a second end drivingly engaged to a second accessory.
US10995662B2
The combustion device includes: a combustion chamber in which fuel is combusted using combustion air; and a reducing agent injector that injects a reducing agent toward flames in the combustion chamber.
US10995657B2
Described herein is a turbocharging system comprising a compressor having an air inlet and a compressed air outlet, the compressed air outlet to couple with the intake manifold of the internal combustion engine, a first turbine coupled to the compressor, the compressor driven without using power from the internal combustion engine; and a vacuum compressor coupled directly or indirectly to the first turbine. The first turbine can drive a common drive shaft that includes the compressor and the vacuum compressor or output of the first compressor can drive a second compressor that is coupled with the vacuum compressor. The vacuum compressor can be used to scavenge exhaust from the internal combustion engine.
US10995653B2
A generator set is disclosed. The generator set may include a liquid-cooled engine and an alternating current (AC) generator coupled to the liquid-cooled engine. The generator set may include an AC fan associated with the liquid-cooled engine and connected to the AC generator via a relay and an engine control module (ECM) associated with the liquid-cooled engine and connected to the AC fan via the relay. The generator set may include an engine temperature sensor associated with the liquid-cooled engine and connected to the ECM via a first circuit and an engine air temperature sensor associated with the liquid-cooled engine and connected to the ECM via a second circuit.
US10995650B2
A heat shield for a bellows includes a central section, a first outer section, a first annular insert, a first annular flexion member, a first pipe, and a first rod. The first outer section includes a first outer section first end and a first outer section second end opposite the first outer section end. The first annular insert includes a first slot and is positioned within the first outer section second end. The first annular flexion member is coupled to the first outer section first end of the first outer section and coupled to the central section. The first annular flexion member facilitates movement between the first outer section and the central section. The first pipe is partially received within the first slot in the first annular insert. Movement between the first outer section and the central section causes movement between the first pipe and the first rod.
US10995649B2
A vehicle engine 2 comprises an exhaust system having an exhaust manifold 12 and an exhaust purification device 18. The exhaust manifold 12 is disposed at a predetermined distance from a dash panel 106 constituting a body of the vehicle 100, the exhaust purification device 18 is disposed in a position overlapping a floor tunnel region 114, formed by a floor tunnel of the body, and is disposed below the exhaust manifold 12 and to one side of the center of the engine 2 in the cylinder-array direction, as viewed from the longitudinal direction of the vehicle 100. An exhaust purification device introduction passage 17 connecting the exhaust manifold 12 and the exhaust purification device 18 is disposed on the other side of the center of the exhaust manifold 12 in the cylinder-array direction, and extends below the exhaust manifold 12 to be connected to the exhaust purification device 18.
US10995645B2
An exhaust aftertreatment system for an internal combustion engine has an exhaust system having at least one three-way catalyst near the engine, wherein a particulate filter is arranged downstream from the three-way catalyst, preferably in an underbody installation in a motor vehicle. A heated catalyst, which has at least one heating stage that can be heated by means of an electric heating element, is provided upstream from the at least one three-way catalyst and downstream from the particulate filter. The at least one electrically heatable heating stage is supplied with electric power directly from a generator that is operatively connected to the internal combustion engine, so that heating of the heated catalyst takes place essentially independently of the charge status of the vehicle battery.
US10995644B2
A method for controlling a fill level of an exhaust gas component store of a catalytic converter of an internal combustion engine, in which the fill level is controlled by using a system model, which includes a catalytic converter model, and uncertainties of measurement or model variables, which influence the control of the fill level, being corrected by an adaptation that is based on signals of an exhaust-gas probe situated on the output side of the catalytic converter. The method provides that an adaptation requirement is learned as a function of the operating point, the learned adaptation requirement is stored as a function of the operating point, and a distinction is made based on the operating point dependency between different causes of the uncertainties. Also described is a control unit to carry out the method.
US10995642B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses are provided for increasing exhaust gas temperature. A system includes a valve and a controller coupled to the valve. The controller is structured to determine that an exhaust manifold pressure does not meet an exhaust manifold pressure setpoint and in response, cause an adjustment of an effective flow area of exhaust gas from an engine. The adjustment of the effective flow area is structured to increase an exhaust gas temperature.
US10995641B2
The separation efficiency of carbon dioxide is improved by making the temperature of exhaust gas further low. An exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine includes a first heat exchanger arranged in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine and configured to carry out heat exchange between outside air and exhaust gas of the internal combustion engine, a second heat exchanger arranged in the exhaust passage and configured to carry out heat exchange between a circulating heating medium and the exhaust gas, and a carbon dioxide separator arranged in the exhaust passage at the downstream side of the first heat exchanger and the second heat exchanger and configured to separate carbon dioxide from the exhaust gas.
US10995636B2
A system includes a waste heat recovery heat exchanger configured to heat a heating fluid stream by exchange with a heat source in a crude oil associated gas processing plant. The system includes an Organic Rankine cycle energy conversion system including a pump, an energy conversion heat exchanger configured to heat the working fluid by exchange with the heated heating fluid stream, a turbine and a generator configured to generate power by expansion of the heated working fluid, a cooling element configured to cool the expanded working fluid after power generation, and an accumulation tank. The heating fluid flows from the accumulation tank, through the waste heat recovery heat exchanger, through the Organic Rankine cycle energy conversion system, and back to the accumulation tank.
US10995633B2
A turbofan engine includes: a cylindrical fan case; a fan rotatably disposed in the fan case and including a central member and multiple fan blades arranged on an outer circumference of the central member such that the fan blades are spaced apart from one another in a circumferential direction; an annular member disposed to surround the fan; and an elastic support device that supports the annular member to the fan case radially elastically such that a predetermined clearance is radially defined between the annular member and tips of the fan blades.
US10995629B2
A variable nozzle mechanism in which a nozzle mount has a first surface which has a minimum clearance in a direction of an axis with respect to a lever side facing surface in an opposing region facing the lever side facing surface in the direction of the axis, and a second surface which is disposed adjacent to the first surface in a circumferential direction of the nozzle mount and has a clearance in the direction of the axis with respect to the lever side facing surface larger than the clearance in the direction of the axis between the first surface and the lever side facing surface.
US10995624B2
An article includes a substrate that is substantially opaque to visible light and a coating disposed on the substrate. The coating includes a coating material having an inherent index of refraction, wherein the coating has an effective index of refraction that is less than the inherent index of refraction, and wherein the effective index of refraction is less than 1.8.
US10995620B2
The disclosure relates to turbomachine components which include one or more coating-capturing features for thermal insulation. A turbomachine component may include: a body having an exterior surface positioned within a hot gas path (HGP) section of a turbomachine; and a coating-capturing feature mounted on the exterior surface of the body and in thermal communication with the HGP section of the turbomachine, wherein the coating-capturing feature comprises: a first member positioned on the exterior surface of the body, the first member having at least one outer sidewall defining a first perimeter of the coating-capturing feature, a second member positioned on the first member and having at least one outer sidewall defining a second perimeter of the coating-capturing feature, wherein the first member separates the second member from the exterior surface of the body, and an indentation positioned between the first and second members.
US10995602B2
A system and apparatus for displaying toolface orientation data including a surface steerable system for controlling drilling direction of a bottom hole assembly (BHA). The surface steerable system configured to receive toolface orientation data from the BHA and generate display data responsive thereto. A circular chart display is generated responsive to the display data responsive to the display data from the surface steerable system, the circular chart display representing current and historical toolface orientation data. The current and historical toolface orientation data is represented as an arc indicator defined on the circular chart illustrating a range in degrees of the current and historical toolface orientations.
US10995596B2
The present disclosure relates to a particularly effective well configuration that can be used for single well cross steam assisted gravity drainage (SW-XSAGD) wherein a single well has multiple injection sections each separated by a production segment that is completed with passive FCDs to control steam flashing.
US10995569B2
A method of connecting or disconnecting a first tubular to a second tubular includes engaging the first tubular with a power tong; engaging the second tubular with a backup tong; and rotating the first tubular relative to the second tubular. The method also includes, while rotating, monitoring a distance between the backup tong and the power tong and comparing the distance to a first threshold value; and stopping rotation of the first tubular when the distance equals to the first threshold value. According to one embodiment, a tong assembly includes a power tong, a backup tong, a sensor configured to measure a distance between the power tong and the backup tong, and a controller configured to compare the distance to a threshold value.
US10995568B2
Sucker rods include end fittings having an outer wedge portion proximate to an open end, an inner wedge portion proximate to a closed end, and an intermediate wedge portion between the outer and inner wedges. Each wedge includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, and an angle between the leading and trailing edges. The triangular configuration, length of the leading edge, the length of the trailing edge, and size of the angle in each wedge portion cause distribution of force, such that compressive forces distributed to the rod proximate the closed end exceed compressive forces distributed to the rod proximate the open end. An automated installation procedure installs the end fitting through the use of multiple chucks, positioned by servo motors along a fitting table.
US10995563B2
A mobile, coiled tubing drilling apparatus with a rotary drill head, includes a non-rotating mast on a mobile platform. The mast has mounted thereon an injector below a coiled tubing reel. The injector defines an operational axis for the coiled tubing. The rotary drill head is pivotally mounted on the injector so as to be movable between a retracted position away from the operational axis and an operating position in line with the operational axis. The rotary drill head includes a top swivel for non-rotating connection to the coiled tubing and a bottom spindle for rotating connection to a pipe section. The top swivel and the bottom spindle provide fluid communication between connected coiled tubing and connected pipe section during operation.
US10995557B2
A method of manufacturing, assembling, configuring, and/or using a hybrid drill bit is disclosed. An illustrative example includes inserting a rolling cutting structure into a central bore of a bit body through an upper connector section of the bit body toward a lower end portion of the bit body. The bit body has a rotational axis and a plurality of blades at the lower end portion. The upper connector section is configured to be coupled to a lower end of a drill string. Each of the plurality of blades extends radially from the bit body about the rotational axis at the lower end portion and includes a plurality of cutters embedded therein.
US10995553B2
An apparatus including a housing defining a housing bore and a shaft extending within the housing bore. The shaft is deflectable and tillable within the housing bore. The apparatus further includes a fulcrum for tiltably supporting the shaft within the housing bore, a shaft deflector contained within the housing for providing a deflection of the shaft within the housing bore so that the shaft tilts about the fulcrum, and a deflection adjusting mechanism. The deflection adjusting mechanism includes a biasing device which responds to an external force exerted on the shaft in order to adjust the deflection of the shaft provided by the shaft deflector and thereby provide an adjusted deflection of the shaft.
US10995552B2
A downhole closed loop method for controlling a drilling toolface includes measuring first and second attitudes of the subterranean borehole at corresponding first and second upper and lower survey stations. The first and second attitudes are processed downhole while drilling to compute an angle change of the subterranean borehole between the upper and lower survey stations. The computed angle change is compared with a predetermined threshold. This process may be continuously repeated while the angle change is less than the threshold. The first and second attitudes are further processed downhole to compute a toolface angle when the angle change of the subterranean borehole is greater than or equal to the threshold. The toolface angle may then be further processed to control a direction of drilling of the subterranean borehole.
US10995550B2
A wellbore rig top drive is disclosed. The wellbore rig top drive can include a main bearing housing. The wellbore rig top drive can also include a main bearing supported by the main bearing housing. The main bearing can be configured to support a weight of a wellbore string and facilitate rotation of the wellbore string about an axis. The wellbore rig top drive can further include a quill supported by the main bearing and configured to rotate about the axis. The quill can be coupleable to the wellbore string. In addition, the wellbore rig top drive can include a drive motor disposed below the main bearing and supported by the main bearing housing. The drive motor can be coupled to the quill to provide torque to rotate the quill about the axis.
US10995546B2
A hidden fastener screen installation system includes a plurality of screen frame extrusions cooperating to form an opening across which a screen is positioned. Each screen frame extrusion includes a mounting surface and a singular mounting rib extending outwardly from the mounting surface. The mounting surface is configured to receive a plurality of mechanical fasteners to retain the screen frame extrusion to a portion of a building structure. A trim mold includes a channel configured to closely receive and retain the mounting rib. The screen is received in the channel and is retained by cooperation between the trim mold and the mounting rib. A portion of the trim mold extends over the fasteners and fully covers the fasteners such that the fasteners are completely hidden upon installation of the trim mold on the screen frame.
US10995530B2
A hold open rod includes an inner member, an outer member configured to have the inner member slide in and out of the outer member, and a locking mechanism configured to selectively lock the inner member and the outer member with respect to each other. The locking mechanism includes a locking plug configured to move axially along an axis of the inner member and the outer member to a locking position and an unlocking position, a locking dog configured to move radially between a locking position and an unlocking position as a result of a camming action with the locking plug as the locking plug moves axially, and a lock transfer bar operatively connected to the locking plug and configured to move the locking plug to the locking position and the unlocking position when the lock transfer bar is moved.
US10995529B2
A safeguarding arrangement for restricting the movability of at least one transport container storable or stored in a support structure receptacle. The transport container may be used for transporting goods, for example, in an aircraft, and may be stowed in the aircraft's galley area as a trolley. The safeguarding arrangement has a first safeguarding installation with at least one first safeguarding arrangement. The at least one first safeguarding arrangement allows the insertion or removal of the at least one transport container into the receptacle or from the receptacle, respectively, in its open position via an opening. The safeguarding arrangement overlaps a clean measure of the opening of the receptacle, at least zonally, in a hold position, in which the at least one transport container is held against removal from the receptacle. Further, the first safeguarding arrangement is formed variably with regard to its engagement depth into the receptacle.
US10995524B2
A motor vehicle latching system with a locking mechanism 9, which comprises at least a catch and at least a pawl for ratcheting of the catch, with an operating lever 1 which can be rotated to open a motor vehicle door and with a transmission element 2 by means of which rotation of the operating lever 1 can be transmitted into pivoting of a triggering lever 3 to disengage the locking mechanism 9. For the coupling of the transmission element 2 with the operating lever 1, the transmission element 2 shiftably reaches through a coupling opening 5 of the operating lever 1. A coupling section 4 of the transmission element 2 which is located in the coupling opening 5 is arch-shaped. Especially reliable operation of the motor vehicle latching system can thus be enabled.
US10995508B2
A pool cleaning tool have a pole partitioned into a first section and a second section. The first section is positioned at a proximal end of the pole and is configured to be a coupling site for a cleaning attachment. A visual indicium is disposed on the pole delineating a boundary separating the first and the second sections. Each section having a pair of apertures configured to align with complementary apertures disposed on the cleaning attachment. Responsive to one of the apertures in the first section becoming deformed, the cleaning tool can be repaired by severing the first section from the pole along the visual indicium and using the second section as a new coupling site for the cleaning attachment.
US10995502B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a corner guard and a wall guard, and a method of installing the corner guard and a wall guard that reduces the installation time and provides an improved aesthetic appearance. A corner guard and a wall guard each includes an elongated cover member that is terminated at one end, or both ends, by an end cap. The end cap is sonically welded or otherwise adhered directly to the cover member rather than being attached separately to an underlying base member. The cover member with end cap can then be slid on or snapped onto the underlying base member together.
US10995501B2
Floor panels are shown, which are provided with a vertical folding locking system on short edges that only locks vertically and a mechanical locking system on long edges that prevents displacement along the long edges. A locking system for primarily rectangular floor panels with long and short edges installed in parallel rows, which allows that the short edges may be locked to each other with a vertical movement without a horizontal connection and that such horizontal connection is accomplished by the locking system on the long edges including a first and second horizontal locking perpendicular to the edges and along the edges.
US10995493B2
The profiled metal fibre with a substantially rectangular cross-section, also with bent fibre ends in the form of a clip, is used to stabilise, bond, attach or join materials and construction materials such as concrete, wood, paper and the like. The fibre edges of the fibre outer surfaces extending in the longitudinal direction of the fibre are designed as edge surfaces (2) oriented at an angle to the fibre outer surfaces in the manner of a bevel. The two wider fibre outer surfaces (3.1, 3.2) of the rectangular fibre are provided with V-shaped channels (4) extending in the longitudinal direction, wherein the edge surfaces (2) are provided with projections (6) and the V-shaped channels (4) are provided with end zones (5) that bound their longitudinal extent. The projections form anchoring heads and the end zones form anchor surfaces with respect to the material to be stabilised, bonded or attached.
US10995492B2
Disclosed herein are plaster boards that include first and second layers of hardened plaster material, a liner attached to the first layer of hardened plaster material, and a first material (e.g., a polymer material such as a viscoelastic polymer) adhered between the liner and the second layer of hardened plaster material. The liner includes one or more structurally weakened regions each extending substantially from a first edge to a second opposing edge of the plaster board. The structurally weakened regions of the liner may facilitate creation of a fissure that propagates substantially within a plane within the plaster board. Methods for making the plaster boards may involve drying wet plaster material while it is in contact with a liner having structurally weakened regions, processing a liner to form its structurally weakened regions while in contact with wet plaster material, or processing a liner to form its structurally weakened regions while in contact with hardened plaster material.
US10995491B2
A block used for constructing a wall, where the block is configured with a front wall angled inward and downward, forming a triangular interior space into which soil can be placed, such that plants placed in the soil will have access to the sun and rain due to the angled front wall of the block placed above it, thereby providing an integrated vegetated wall.
US10995488B1
An insulated structure comprises a first panel and a second panel coupled to the first panel. The first and second panels define an insulating cavity therebetween. A port is defined by the second panel. The port is an opening into the insulating cavity. A connector is coupled to the second panel. A tube is coupled to the connector and extends parallel along the second panel.
US10995485B1
An improved anchor apparatus and method consisting of a hanger configured for connection with a surface where the hanger has a length with a first end and a second end and an anchor in the hanger where the anchor is connected with the hanger along a first part of the anchor and where the anchor is releasably connected with the hanger along a second part of the anchor such that when the second part is disconnected from the hanger the second part of the anchor extends away from the surface of the hanger.
US10995472B2
An earthmoving system includes a blade, a controller, and a blade control system configured to control the positioning of the blade. While grading, the earthmoving system is configured to simultaneously position the blade according to each of a fixed slope grading mode, a design driven control grading mode, and an fixed load grading mode.
US10995460B1
The present disclosure is a dust mitigation system for a cold planer. The dust mitigation system may include the following components: a cutting drum; a conveyor system proximate to the cutting drum and adapted to collect cut paving material from the cutting drum and convey the cut paving material to a conveyor system exit; a fan proximate the conveyor system and directing dust from the cutting drum to the conveyor system; a conduit having a first end positioned in the cutting chamber and a second end proximate the fan; a water source; and a conveyor spray nozzle located between the fan and the conveyor system exit and adapted to communicate water from the water source on to the conveyor system such that the dust directed from the fan to the conveyor system is blown through the water.
US10995451B2
The present invention relates to the field of denim fabric processing, specifically to an environmentally-friendly processing method for dyeing denim fabric with zero discharge. The method includes: step 1, a treatment of white warp yarns; step 2, a primary drying operation; step 3, a coating spray-dyeing operation; step 4, a secondary drying operation; step 5, a sizing operation; step 6, a ternary drying operation; and step 7, a doffing operation. In the present application, as warp yarns are dyed using the coating spray-dyeing technology, highly corrosive auxiliaries such as sodium hydrosulfite and sodium sulfide are not needed in the dyeing process, and the dyed warp yarns are not required to be treated in a washing tank, so that zero effluent discharge is achieved.
US10995449B2
A method for controlling a laundry drying machine having a laundry treating chamber and a control unit which receives a signal indicative of laundry moisture from a moisture sensor. The method includes receiving a user input of a laundry treating program, and, in the machine initialization phase, comparing the laundry moisture indicated by the signal to a first threshold, which is stored in the control unit and is indicative of dried laundry or empty threating chamber. If the signal is determined to be equal or less than the first threshold, one or more of the following actions is performed: carrying out only a portion of the selected laundry treating program; skipping the program main phase; starting the program final phase; stopping the laundry treating program; providing a notification of dried laundry and/or empty treating chamber.
US10995447B2
A laundry treating appliance includes a cabinet defining an interior and having an access opening to the interior, a treating chamber located within the interior and accessible through the access opening, a dispenser having a drawer with at least one chemistry container and a faucet, and a water supply fluidly coupled to the faucet.
US10995446B2
The present invention relates to steam generator and a washing machine having the same which can minimize remained water in the steam generator, and can prevent the water stored in the steam generator from leaking and the water in the steam generator from being supplied to the clothes together with the steam due to a spray pressure of the steam.
US10995432B2
Provided among other things is a safety glove for use on a hand with fingers with tear zones comprising: a seamless knitted liner (which can in embodiments substantially forms the glove) knitted throughout a safety zone with same yarn or mix of yarn, wherein one or more orthogonally knitted zones are knitted at a relatively low fabric density, wherein one or more orthogonally knitted zones are knitted at a relatively high fabric density, wherein the high and low density zones are configured to provide a four finger tear susceptibility of about 200 Newtons or less, wherein the safety zone includes the fingers.
US10995429B2
The invention relates to a process for producing carbon fibers from cellulosic fibers, characterized in that cellulosic fibers, which contain a sulfonic acid salt of formula (I), wherein R1 represents a hydrocarbon group and K+ represents a cation, are converted into carbon fibers.
US10995425B2
A method and apparatus for fabricating multifunction membranes comprising cross-aligned nanofiber in an electrospinning device, the method comprising providing a multiple segment collector including at least a first segment, a second segment, and an intermediate segment to collectively present an elongated cylindrical structure; electrically charging an edge conductor circumferentially resident on the first segment and on the second segment; rotating the elongated cylindrical structure on a drive unit around a longitudinal axis; the elongated cylindrical structure holding electrospun fiber substantially aligned with the longitudinal axis when the edge conductors are excited with a charge of opposite polarity relative to charged fiber, and attracting electrospun fiber on to its surface around the longitudinal axis at least when the edge conductors are absent a charge or grounded and a charged electrode is positioned opposite a fiber emitter; and repeating the process multiple times to form layers of nanofibers encapsulating agents of interest.
US10995419B2
Embodiment disclosed herein include a liner assembly, comprising an injector plate liner, a gas injector liner coupled to the injector plate liner, an upper process gas liner coupled to the gas injector liner, a lower process gas liner coupled to the upper process gas liner, and an injector plate positioned between the injector plate liner and the upper process gas liner, wherein a cooling fluid channel is formed in the injector plate adjacent to the gas injector liner.
US10995417B2
Processes and compositions for electroplating a cobalt deposit onto a semiconductor base structure comprising submicron-sized electrical interconnect features. In the process, a metalizing substrate within the interconnect features is contacted with an electrodeposition composition comprising a source of cobalt ions, an accelerator comprising an organic sulfur compound, an acetylenic suppressor, a buffering agent and water. Electrical current is supplied to the electrolytic composition to deposit cobalt onto the base structure and fill the submicron-sized features with cobalt. The process is effective for superfilling the interconnect features.
US10995414B2
The present invention relates to processes including the step of electrochemically treating an iron mineral. The processes are for improving the grade of iron, producing a magnetic iron mineral, or producing an iron oxide. In one aspect, the process for improving the grade of iron includes electrochemically treating a slurry including at least one iron mineral to thereby improve the grade of the iron in the slurry.
US10995401B2
A sputtering target includes: a base configured to transfer heat in a basal plane direction; and a first heat sink disposed on a sidewall of the base, the first heat sink configured to transfer heat along a direction that is different from the basal plane direction.
US10995398B2
A preferred embodiment is an uncoated, biodegradable stent. The stent has a filigree structure of magnesium alloy struts. The struts of the supporting structure are arranged to permit a compressed form for introduction into the body and to permit an expanded form at the site of the application within a vessel. The magnesium alloy struts are formed of a corrodible magnesium alloy. The magnesium alloy is formed from high-purity vacuum distilled magnesium containing impurities, which promote electrochemical potential differences and/or the formation of precipitations and/or intermetallic phases. The impurities are such that the struts of the stent have a tensile strength of >275 MPa a yield point of >200 MPa, a yield ratio of <0.8, a difference between tensile strength and yield point of >50 MPa.
US10995397B2
Disclosed are high-strength aluminum alloys and methods of making and processing such alloys. More particularly, disclosed are aluminum alloys exhibiting improved mechanical strength. The processing method includes homogenizing, hot rolling, solutionizing, and multiple-step quenching. In some cases, the processing steps can further include annealing and/or cold rolling.
US10995389B2
A composition for sintering to fabricate a part comprising an alloy based on titanium aluminide, the composition including a powder of an alloy based on titanium aluminide, and an addition powder including a mixture of a metallic aluminum powder and of a metallic titanium powder. The composition includes 0.5% to 5% by weight of addition powder.
US10995388B2
Uneven sintering is prevented in a sintering machine, and thus sintered ore having high strength and a high lump yield rate is manufactured. A method for manufacturing sintered ore comprising: charging sintering raw material comprising fine ore and carbon material on a circulatively moving pallet to form a raw material layer; igniting the carbon material on a surface of the raw material layer and sucking air from above the raw material layer down to below the palette so that the air is introduced into the raw material layer; and combusting the carbon material in the raw material layer to thereby manufacture sintered ore, wherein fuel gas is discharged from a nozzle at a flow speed of 40 m/s or more, the discharged fuel gas is combusted to generate combustion gas, and the combustion gas is used for igniting the carbon material.
US10995381B2
A method for the manufacture of a cold rolled, recovered TWIP steel sheet coated with a metallic coating is provided including the following steps: (A) the feeding of a slab having the following composition: 0.1
US10995370B2
Provided herein are novel methods, systems and processes for generating and analyzing sequence data for the determination of the presence or absence of one or more genetic variations within a genome of a subject.
US10995363B2
Provided herein is technology relating to the manipulation and detection of nucleic acids, including but not limited to compositions, methods, and kits related to nucleotides comprising a chemically reactive linking moiety.
US10995359B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing a novel method for classifying cancer cells by an analysis method in which measurement of the activity of two types of protein kinase is used. Cancer cells are newly classified and drug sensitivity is predicted on the basis of the ratio of the activity of two types of protein kinase derived from the same sample.
US10995351B1
Systems and methods for producing carbohydrate (e.g., sugar) streams (and recycling enzymes) from a pretreated or untreated biomass such as cellulosic feedstock, including, for example, “brown stock” feedstock, or waste or recycled fiber sludge produced in the pulp and paper industry, such as for biochemical (e.g., biofuel) production, are provided. In one example, the system and method can produce high purity C6 (glucose and/or fructose) and/or C5 (xylose) sugar streams, and other carbohydrates and/or fibrous materials, from cellulosic feedstocks, such as brown stock or waste fiber sludge, that can be effectively converted into various biochemical products, such as ethanol.
US10995347B2
The invention provides methods for improving efficiency of fermentation by arginine supplementation, and genetically modified bacterium for use therefor. More particularly the invention provides methods for (i) increasing the production ATP intensive products with arginine supplementation, (ii) increasing utilization of arginine by a C1-fixing bacterium; and (iii) providing C1-fixing bacterium with optimized arginine de-aminase pathways.
US10995341B2
Provided are methods of increasing tolerance of a plant to abiotic stress, and/or increasing biomass, growth rate, vigor and/or yield of a plant. The methods are effected by expressing within the plant an exogenous polynucleotide encoding a polypeptide comprising an amino acid sequence at least 90% homologous to the amino acid sequence selected from the group consisting of SEQ ID NOs:201, 207, 212, 202-206, 208-211, 213-391, 1655, 961-1529, and 1660-1663. Also provided are polynucleotides, nucleic acid constructs, polypeptides and transgenic plants expressing same which can be used to increase tolerance of a plant to abiotic stress, and/or increase biomass, growth rate, vigor and/or yield of a plant.
US10995331B2
A method of preparing a nucleic acid sample with target enrichment uses a reaction vessel, within which is added a chelating agent to a sample with heating to about 99° C. to provide a crude lysate. A PNA probe is provided at a concentration sufficient for binding and capture of discernible levels of target nucleic acid. The PNA probe may be attached to beads which are initially embedded in a wax body and are released during the heating so that the y are free to move and come into contact with the PNA probe and target DNA. After binding has occurred, the beads are magnetically attracted back into a pocket along with the wax, which is allowed to solidify before they are removed from the reaction vessel.
US10995326B2
Provided is a method for safely and selectively producing a substrate culture product including a large amount of a desired degrading enzyme. A method for producing a substrate culture product used for feedstuff includes inoculating filamentous fungi bred so that a target degrading enzyme is produced by self-cloning in high productivity on a substrate, and producing the substrate culture product having functionality by ventilating the substrate to carry out solid culture.
US10995325B2
The present invention relates to variant phytase enzymes and their use thereof.
US10995322B2
Genetically modified isopropylmalate synthases, processes for preparing a C7-C11 2-ketoacids utilizing genetically modified isopropylmalate synthases, and microbial organisms including genetically modified isopropylmalate synthases are described. The genetically modified isopropylmalate synthases, processes for preparing a C7-C11 2-ketoacids, and microbial organisms including genetically modified isopropylmalate synthases can be particularly useful for producing corresponding Cn_1 aldehydes, alcohols, carboxylic acids, and Cn_2 alkanes both in vivo and in vitro.
US10995305B2
The present invention relates to a method of washing textile articles that can be carried out, for example, in a continuous batch tunnel washer. Embodiments of the present method can include treating the textile with an aqueous composition including cleaning agent and halogen-containing bleaching agent for a time sufficient to remove soil from the textile and contacting the halogen-treated textile with an aqueous composition including a peroxycarboxylic acid. The concentration of halogen after the sufficient time can be at a level that does not result in adverse interaction between the halogen-containing bleaching agent and the peroxycarboxylic acid. Embodiments of the present method can clean textiles with the results of more effective stain removal and less waste through destruction of the textile article. Further, the present invention can clean a textile contacted soiled by a composition including chlorhexidine gluconate without resulting staining of the textile, which staining could have been permanent.
US10995293B2
The present disclosure provides a system and method for odorizing natural gas flowing through a distribution pipeline. The system includes a bypass line adjacent to a distribution pipeline, wherein bypass gas flows through the bypass line and an odorant tank connected to the bypass line, and into the distribution pipeline; a high-flow control valve and a low-flow control valve in the bypass line, wherein bypass gas flows through the odorant tank into the distribution pipeline when the high-flow control valve or the low-flow control valve is open; and a programmable logic controller connected to the high-flow and low flow control valve; wherein the programmable logic controller opens the high-flow or low-flow control valve for a predetermined dwell time proportional to an amount of bypass gas needed to odorize gas in the distribution pipeline each time that a preselected quantity of gas flows through the distribution pipeline.
US10995289B2
Provided is a gasoline product containing a combustion improver, and a method for preparing the gasoline product. The combustion improver is added to gasoline to reduce an octane number and thus an ignition point of the gasoline, so that the gasoline product can be used in a compression ignition internal combustion engine. The combustion improver-containing gasoline product is a low-octane number gasoline, and is capable of being ignited through compression by an internal combustion engine having a compression ratio in the range from 12 to 22.
US10995271B1
The bioorganic soil conditioner includes biochar derived from plant waste and a mix of chemicals including sulfonated naphthalene formaldehyde, urea-formaldehyde and polyvinyl alcohol. The bioorganic soil conditioner is made by infusing biochar from lignin-rich plant waste with the mix of chemicals. The bioorganic soil conditioner improves soil aggregation and moisture and nutrient retention capacity. Thus, the bioorganic soil conditioner may be added to soil to improve crop production and stabilize soil, for example, in conditions of high wind or desertification.
US10995270B2
The present invention relates to stabilizers for thiol-ene compositions and to radiation curable thiol-ene compositions based thereon. Such radiation curable compositions can advantageously be used in inks, overprint varnishes, coatings, adhesives, for the making of 3D objects and for the making of solder resist and gel nails. Provided in particular is an inhibitor system (I) for thiol-ene compositions based on —at least one inhibitor compound (i) having a % DPPH radical scavenging activity of at least 90%, the inhibitor compound (i) being selected from substituted benzene compounds or substituted naphthalene compounds containing at least two substituents selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl groups and C1-C3 alkoxy groups bonded directly to the benzene or the naphthalene ring, —at least one acidic compound (ii) having a pKa between 1 and 3, and —at least one compound (iii) selected from the group consisting of phosphites and phosphonites, with the proviso that if the inhibitor compound (i) is a substituted benzene that it contains at least two hydroxyl groups bonded directly to the benzene ring. Also provided is an inhibitor system (II) for thiol-ene compositions based on that is based on —at least one inhibitor compound (i) having a % DPPH radical scavenging activity of at least 90%, the inhibitor compound (i) being selected from substituted benzene compounds or substituted naphthalene compounds containing at least two substituents selected from the group consisting of hydroxyl groups and C1-C3 alkoxy groups bonded directly to the benzene or the naphthalene ring, —at least one compound (iv) selected from the group consisting of spirophosphites, and —optionally, at least one acidic compound (ii) having a pKa between 1 and 3, and with the proviso that if the inhibitor compound (i) is a substituted benzene that it contains at least two hydroxyl groups bonded directly to the benzene ring.
US10995262B2
Methods for treating subterranean formations are provided. In one embodiment, the methods comprise providing a treatment fluid comprising an aqueous base fluid and a surfactant comprising an ethoxylated amine or derivative thereof; introducing the treatment fluid into a wellbore penetrating at least a portion of a subterranean formation; and producing fluids from the wellbore during or subsequent to introducing the treatment fluid into the wellbore.
US10995260B2
Methods for evaluating an optimal surfactant structure for oil recovery by systematically evaluating surfactants' phase behavior, cloud point, dynamic interfacial tension, dynamic contact angle, and spontaneous and forced imbibition. In one embodiment, a method for determining an optimal surfactant structure for oil recovery includes the steps of evaluating a surfactant's phase behavior, evaluating the surfactant's solubility, evaluating the surfactant's dynamic interfacial tension in a porous rock sample, evaluating the surfactant's static and dynamic contact angles in the porous rock sample, evaluating the surfactant's spontaneous imbibition in the porous rock sample, and evaluating the surfactant's forced imbibition in the porous rock sample. In one example, the surfactant comprises a polyoxyethylenated (POE) straight-chain alcohol.
US10995258B1
A composition for servicing a borehole in a subterranean formation by removing a filter cake along a wall of the borehole includes a biopolymer, the composition including a carrier fluid effective to act as a transport medium; an enzymatic breaker having activity to degrade the biopolymer in the filter cake upon contact with the filter cake so as to break up the biopolymer for removal; and an enzyme inhibitor effective to slow down the activity of the enzymatic breaker; where the composition may exclude the biopolymer. A method of servicing a borehole includes contacting the filter cake with the composition; degrading the biopolymer with the enzymatic breaker to produce degraded biopolymer; slowing down the degrading activity of the breaker with the enzyme inhibitor sufficiently that the degrading comprises degrading biopolymer along a length of the wall of the borehole; and removing the filter cake from the wall of the borehole.
US10995254B2
A method of using a gas control additive to provide gas migration control in a wellbore includes the steps of mixing the gas control additive with a cement to form a cement slurry, where the gas control additive includes a semi-permeable membrane and a scrubbing agent, such that the semi-permeable membrane forms a shell around a core such that the scrubbing agent is in the core, introducing the cement slurry to the wellbore, and reacting the scrubbing agent with an antagonistic gas to produce a helper byproduct, where the antagonistic gas migrates from a hydrocarbon-bearing formation into the wellbore and permeates through the semi-permeable membrane to the core of the gas control additive.
US10995250B2
A thermal storage composition is defined by a polymer having thermally responsive absorption or passage capabilities based on an Upper Critical Solution Temperature (UCST) or Lower Critical Solution Temperature (LCST), and a sorbent in fluidic communication with the polymer. A fluid such as water conveys thermal energy between the polymer and the sorbent based on an identified target temperature that acts as a thermostat for synergistic fluid release and transfer between the polymer and sorbent that stores and releases heat energy in a cyclic manner. The composition includes a synergistic integration of a sorbent and selectively hydrophilic polymer to alternately hydrate according to a target temperature based on the UCST of the water/sorbent combination.
US10995239B2
Disclosed is a polishing fluid for improving surfaces formed by fused deposition molding with ABS, consisting of 30%-40% by weight of polymethyl methacrylate and 60%-70% by weight of a mixture. This application further discloses a method of preparing the polishing fluid by mixing under heating. The polishing fluid provided herein can quickly form a film on surfaces of the workpiece to be processed and fill depressions of the surfaces of the workpiece while dissolving the protrusions on the surfaces to render the surfaces smooth and even.
US10995237B2
A polyimide precursor solution is provided. The polyimide precursor solution includes 100 parts by weight of a fully aromatic polyamic acid, from 5 to 20 parts by weight of silica particles, from 5 to 80 parts by weight of an alkoxysilane, and from 40 to 80 parts by weight of a solvent.
US10995233B2
Water-resistant waterborne acrylic coating materials, systems and methods providing enhanced water resistance and durability are provided. Such coatings extend the service life of roofing systems that are exposed to ponding water and other extreme weather conditions. Coatings described herein exhibit superior water resistance attributes including one or more of water infiltration resistance, wet tensile strength and wet adhesion.
US10995228B2
Hollow structure particles which contain titanium oxide and silica, in which the crystal type of the titanium oxide is rutile type; a method for producing the hollow structure particles; a white ink which contains these hollow structure particles as a coloring agent; use of the white ink in inkjet recording; and an inkjet recording method which uses the white ink.
US10995223B2
A fibrous carbon nanostructure dispersion liquid having excellent dispersibility of fibrous carbon nanostructures is provided. A fibrous carbon nanostructure dispersion liquid comprises: fibrous carbon nanostructures with a tap density of 0.024 g/cm3 or less; and a solvent.
US10995215B2
The present disclosure relates to novel fluoromonomer and fluorooligomer compounds, a photopolymerizable composition including these compounds, methods for producing these compounds, and a hydrophobic film using the photopolymerizable composition.
US10995214B2
The present invention relates to a polycarbonate resin composition and an optical molded article comprising the same. The polycarbonate resin composition according to the present invention is excellent in transmittance and color stability and thus can ensure high transparency, and further can enhance the stability of a polycarbonate resin.
US10995211B2
An oxygen-absorbing resin composition containing an ethylene terephthalate type polyester resin and an organic oxygen absorber and, further, containing cobalt in an amount of 5 to 50 ppm and titanium in an amount of 1 to 15 ppm calculated as elements.
US10995200B2
Provided are a kaolin clay for a thermoplastic resin composition that can provide high impact strength and glossiness and a thermoplastic resin composition containing the same. A kaolin clay for a thermoplastic resin composition is subjected to a surface treatment with 0.2 to 10 parts by mass of at least one selected from the group consisting of methyl silicate, ethyl silicate, propyl silicate, and butyl silicate relative to 100 parts by mass of the kaolin clay.
US10995198B2
Unique 3-PPB monobenzoate analogs useful as plasticizers in polymeric dispersions, such as plastisols, melt compounds, and adhesives among other applications. The analogs are structurally similar to and/or derived from 3-phenylpropyl benzoate and heretofore were not known for use in industrial applications, particularly not as a plasticizer in polymeric applications including without limitation plastisols and adhesives. Depending on the application, the advantages rendered by the use of the inventive monobenzoate analogs include, among other things, excellent solvating properties and rheology, low viscosity and significantly improved viscosity over time, comparable or improved Tg suppression, set and open times, as well as health, safety and environmental advantages, over traditional plasticizers.
US10995191B2
A polymer aerogel has polymerizable monomers and crosslinkers, wherein at least one of the monomers or at least one of the crosslinkers has a refractive index of less than 1.5, and the polymer aerogel has a visible transmittance of at least 20%/3 mm, a haze of 50%/3 mm or lower, and a porosity of at least 10%. A method of producing an aerogel includes dissolving precursors into a solvent, wherein the precursors include monomers, crosslinkers, a controlling agent and an initiator to form a precursor solution, wherein at least one of the monomers or at least one of the crosslinkers has a refractive index of 1.5 or lower, polymerizing the precursor solution to form a gel polymer, and removing the solvent from the gel polymer to produce an aerogel polymer.
US10995187B2
A composite structure includes a resin, a plurality of polymer nanoparticles in the resin to form a resin mixture, and a plurality of reinforcing fibers embedded within the resin mixture. At least some of the polymer nanoparticles are either fully soluble in the resin during curing or solidifying of the resin mixture to form a cured composite structure, or semi-soluble in the resin during curing or solidifying of the resin mixture to form the cured composite structure.
US10995185B2
Wax-free masterbatch compositions and methods of formulation thereof for use in the production of various end-use plastic products. The wax-free masterbatch compositions may comprise at least titanium dioxide and propylene-ethylene copolymer, and optionally, a carrier resin. The propylene-ethylene copolymer may have about 6% to about 20% by weight ethylene content.
US10995179B2
The present disclosure provides a polyimide resin having at least two glass transition temperatures measured by dynamic mechanical analysis (DMA). Also, a metal-clad laminate including the polyimide resin.
US10995174B2
The invention provides a process for production of polyurethane systems by reacting at least one polyol component with at least one isocyanate component in the presence of one or more catalysts for the isocyanate-polyol and/or isocyanate-water reactions and/or the trimerization of isocyanate, wherein said reacting is carried out in the presence of carrier material and polyamine P.
US10995170B2
This invention relates to the use of pyridyldiamido and/or quinolinyldiamido transition metal complexes and catalyst systems with an activator and a metal hydrocarbenyl chain transfer agent, such as an aluminum vinyl-transfer agent (AVTA), to produce branched ethylene copolymers, preferably ethylene-butene, ethylene-hexene and ethylene-octene copolymers.
US10995169B2
The present invention provides a process for the preparation of a multimodal polyethylene comprising: (i) polymerising ethylene and optionally an α-olefin comonomer in a first polymerisation stage to produce a first ethylene polymer; and (ii) polymerising ethylene and optionally an α-olefin comonomer, in the presence of said first ethylene polymer, in a second polymerisation stage, wherein the first and second polymerisation stages are carried out in the presence of an unsupported metallocene catalyst and each polymerisation stage produces at least 5% wt of the multimodal polyethylene, and the multimodal polyethylene has a multimodal molecular weight distribution, a molecular weight of at least 50,000 g/mol and a bulk density of at least 250 g/dm3, and wherein a solution of the unsupported metallocene catalyst in a solvent is employed. The present invention also provides a multimodal polyethylene, a process for preparing a pipe comprising preparing a multimodal polyethylene and extruding the multimodal polyethylene to produce a pipe, and a pipe obtained by such a process.
US10995168B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of ethylene polymers using a number of reactors arranged in series comprising the steps in which a) ethylene, a diluent, a catalyst, a co-catalyst and optionally comonomers and hydrogen are introduced into a first reactor, b) polymerization of ethylene and optionally comonomers is carried out in the reaction mixture of said first reactor to make ethylene polymers, c) reaction mixture is discharged from said first reactor, d) said reaction mixture and fresh ethylene and optionally comonomers and hydrogen are introduced into the consecutive reactor to make additional ethylene polymers, e) said reaction mixture is discharged from said consecutive reactor and introduced into the further consecutive reactor, if any, with fresh ethylene and optionally comonomers and hydrogen to make additional ethylene polymers, steps c) and d) are repeated until the last reactor of the series, f) reaction mixture is discharged from last reactor of the series and ethylene polymers are recovered, wherein, additional co-catalyst is injected in at least a subsequent reactor of the series. Advantage of the process of the present invention is mainly to decrease catalyst consumption for the same polyethylene production, in other words to increase the productivity. In a most preferred embodiment the process of the present invention is carried out in two loop reactors under slurry conditions.
US10995165B2
The present invention provides a catalyst composition including a functionalizing agent of the following Formula 1 together with a rare earth metal compound, an alkylating agent, and a halogen compound, having good catalytic activity and polymerization reactivity and useful for the preparation of a conjugated diene-based polymer having high linearity and excellent processability, and a conjugated diene-based polymer prepared using the catalyst composition (X1)a—Sn—(X2)4-a [Formula 1] wherein, a, X1, and X2 are the same as defined in the disclosure.
US10995164B2
A method of forming a thermoresponsive polymer. The method proceeds by mixing 2-(3-(4-methyl-6-oxo-1,6-dihydropyrimidin-2-yl)ureido)ethyl methacrylate and methacrylamide in the presence of a solvent form a monomer solution. An initiator is then added to the monomer solution to form a thermoresponsive polymer.
US10995161B2
The present disclosure provides a method of maintaining a target value of a melt flow index of a polyethylene polymer product being synthesized with a metallocene catalyst in a fluidized bed gas phase reactor. The method includes producing the polyethylene polymer product at the target value of the melt flow index with a metallocene catalyst in a fluidized bed gas phase reactor at a steady state in which the fluidized bed gas phase reactor is at a first reactor temperature and receives feeds of hydrogen and ethylene at a hydrogen to ethylene feed ratio at a first ratio value. When a change in reactor temperature is detected, the hydrogen to ethylene feed ratio is changed from the first ratio value to a second ratio value so as to maintain the melt flow index value of the polyethylene polymer product at the target value.
US10995149B2
Antibodies that specifically bind PD-1 or antigen binding fragments thereof, polynucleotides encoding the antibodies or fragments, and methods of making and using the foregoing are useful in the treatment of an inflammatory or immune disorder.
US10995122B2
Variant factor H binding proteins that can elicit antibodies that are bactericidal for at least one strain of Neisseria meningitidis, compositions comprising such proteins, and methods of use of such proteins, are provided.
US10995121B2
Human cytomegalovirus vectors comprising heterologous antigens are disclosed. The vectors derived from the TR strain, are ganciclovir-sensitive, include active US2, US3, US6, US7 and UL131A genes, and have a deleterious or inactivating mutation in the UL82 gene preventing the expression of pp71.
US10995119B2
The present invention provides a novel molecule that catalyzes a hydrolysis reaction and is different from enzyme proteins. The catalytic peptide according to the present invention is a catalytic peptide that catalyzes a hydrolysis reaction, including at least one peptide selected from the group consisting of the following peptides (A1) to (A4): (A1) a peptide consisting of Box A and at least one of an upstream region and a downstream region therefrom in a Tob/BTG protein; (A2) a peptide consisting of a partial region of the peptide (A1); (A3) a peptide that consists of an amino acid sequence obtained by deletion, substitution, addition, and/or insertion of one or more amino acids in an amino acid sequence of the peptide (A1) or (A2) and has hydrolysis activity; and (A4) a peptide consisting of an amino acid sequence with a sequence identity of at least 85% to the amino acid sequence of the peptide (A1) or (A2) and having hydrolysis activity.
US10995115B2
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of certain 1,5-benzothiazepine compounds, and in particular to a process for the preparation of elobixibat. The process can be carried out under mild and safe conditions and may be used to prepare elobixibat on an industrial scale. The invention also relates to a process for the preparation of a crystalline monohydrate of elobixibat.
US10995111B2
The invention provides a nucleotide or nucleoside having a base attached to a detectable label via a cleavable linker, characterised in that the cleavable linker contains a moiety selected from the group comprising: Formula (I) (wherein X is selected from the group comprising O, S, NH and NQ wherein Q is a C1-10 substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, Y is selected from the group comprising O, S, NH and N(allyl), T is hydrogen or a C1-10 substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group and * indicates where the moiety is connected to the remainder of the nucleotide or nucleoside).
US10995103B2
Substituted boric acid compound, pharmaceutical composition comprising same, and application thereof
A substituted boric acid compound, a pharmaceutical composition including the same, and an application thereof. The substituted boric acid compound is a compound represented by formula (I), or a crystal form, a pharmaceutically acceptable salt, a prodrug, a stereoisomer, a hydrate, or a solvent compound thereof. The boric acid compound has proteasome inhibitory activity, good pharmacodynamic/pharmacokinetic performance, good applicability, and high safety, and can be used for preparing drugs for treating diseases related to proteasomes.
US10995099B2
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I) which can be used as ACC inhibitors and potently as therapeutic agents against diseases mediated by ACC.
US10995084B2
The present invention aims to provide a novel compound which has CGRP receptor antagonist activity and which is useful for the treatment of various diseases mediated by CGRP receptors. That is, the present invention relates to the pyrrolidine derivatives represented by the following formula (I) or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. In the formulae, W is ring, X is a carbon atom or the like, Y1 to Y4 are carbon atoms or the like, and R1 to R7 is alkyl or the like. The compounds of the present invention or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof have an excellent CGRP receptor antagonist activity, and thus are useful as agents for the treatment of various diseases mediated by CGRP receptors.
US10995083B2
The present invention relates to a cocrystal of 2-(6-methyl-pyridine-2-yl)-3-yl-[6-amide-quinoline-4-yl]-5,6-dihydro-4H-pyrrole[1,2-b]pyrazole (Galunisertib or LY2157299) represented by formula (I) and a cocrystal former. Compared with the known solid form of Galunisertib, the cocrystal of the present invention has advantages in terms of stability, solubility, etc. The present invention also relates to a crystal form of the cocrystal, a preparation method therefor, a pharmaceutical composition thereof, and an application thereof in preparation of drugs for preventing and/or treating diseases relevant to TGF-β.
US10995073B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula I that function as inhibitors of PARG (Poly ADP-ribose glycohydrolase) enzyme activity: wherein R1a, R1b, R1c, R1d, R1e, W, X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X6, X7, c are each as defined herein. The present invention also relates to processes for the preparation of these compounds, to pharmaceutical compositions comprising them, and to their use in the treatment of proliferative disorders, such as cancer, as well as other diseases or conditions in which PARG activity is implicated.
US10995072B2
The present application relates to certain substituted imidazole compounds, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods of using them, including methods for treating pain, musculoskeletal inflammation, neuroinflammatory disorders, airway inflammation, itch, dermatitis, colitis and related conditions.
US10995061B2
The present disclosure is concerned with N-(5-chloro-4-((4-chlorophenyl)(cyano)methyl)-2-methylphenyl)benzamide compounds that are capable of inhibiting SPAK kinase function, methods of treating hypoxic brain injuries due to, for example, ischemic stroke. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention.
US10995051B2
The present invention relates to compounds of formula (I): in which R1 is a hydrogen atom, a phenyl radical, or a straight or branched, saturated or unsaturated hydrocarbon radical having 1 to 8 carbon atoms.
US10995049B2
The present disclosure is directed to methods of preparing prostaglandin J natural products by stereoretentive metatheses reactions and intermediates used in the synthesis of these natural products, including the use of intermediates of Formula (I-A), where R1 is defined in the specification
US10995048B2
A process is incorporated herein for the synthesis of bio-1,2-alkanediols, comprising: providing a bio-alkene having a carbon chain of about 5 to about 20 carbon atoms and a bio-1-alkene regioselectivity of at least about 80%, at least about 92% and/or at least about 95%; and converting the bio-alkene to a bio-1,2-alkanediol having a carbon chain length of about 5 to about 20 carbon atoms. Methods for treating catalysts which may be incorporated in the process for the synthesis of bio-1,2-alkanediols are also included herein. Such bio-1,2-alkanediols are used in compositions and products alone as antimicrobial materials, or with existing bio-compounds and/or antimicrobials, preservatives, alternative preservation systems and/or hurdle technology components. The bio-1,2-alkanediols incorporate a natural and bio-based pathway for antimicrobial effects in various compositions such as cosmetic, pharmaceutical, industrial and household products.
US10995045B2
An alkylation process including an upfront isomerization zone is described. 100% n-butane or field butanes can be converted into a blend of approximately 60 wt % isobutane and 40 wt % n-butane in the isomerization zone. This blend can be used as the feed to all types of alkylation zones. It stabilizes the feed composition so that the dehydrogenation zone and alkylation zone always operate with the same feed.
US10995041B2
A method and system reprocess soiled animal bedding material commingled with animal manure. In one aspect the soiled animal bedding material is separated in a shaker to send at least a preponderance of the manure to a holding tank. In another aspect the bedding is cleaned, rinsed and color is restored. The bedding material is subsequently dried and a bedding product, fertilizer product, and/or compacted product is formed. Alternatively, the bedding material is dried (without a compacting step) to form a product. In yet another aspect, the steps of separation, cleaning, rinsing and/or color restoration may be omitted.
US10995040B2
A method for fabricating a ceramic matrix composite component having a deltoid region is provided. The method includes providing a porous ceramic preform. The porous ceramic preform includes a layer-to-layer weave of ceramic fibers that forms a modified layer-to-layer woven core and at least one 2-dimensional layer of ceramic fibers that is disposed adjacent to the modified layer-to-layer woven core. The porous ceramic preform is formed into a ceramic matrix composite body having the deltoid region such that the modified layer-to-layer woven core extends through the deltoid region.
US10995037B1
The present disclosure includes a system and method for monitoring degradation of a high temperature composite component (HTC). The HTC is defined by a volume that includes a matrix material and a fiber formed from at least one of ceramic and carbon material. One or more electrical conductors are disposed within the volume and connected directly or indirectly to a monitoring system.
US10995034B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments of composite hexagonal ferrite materials formed from a combination of Y phase and Z phase hexagonal ferrite materials. Advantageously, embodiments of the material can have a high resonant frequency as well as a high permeability. In some embodiments, the materials can be useful for magnetodielectric antennas.
US10995026B2
A wastewater treatment apparatus for remediation of a wastewater treatment system has a septic tank with a lower sludge layer and an upper liquid effluent layer. The apparatus is comprised of a brush that includes a brush arm having a first end, a second end, and bristles disposed on the brush arm between the first end and the second end. The brush is configured to be positioned within the liquid effluent layer in the septic tank in a vertical orientation such that the second end is disposed below the first end.
US10995024B2
The present invention relates to apparatus, methods, and applications for treating wastewater, and more particularly to biological processes for removing pollutants from wastewater. This invention further relates to apparatus and methods for growing microbes on-site at a wastewater treatment facility, and for economically inoculating sufficient microbes to solve various treatment problems rapidly.
US10995014B1
A process for generating a metal sulfate that involves crystallizing a metal sulfate from an aqueous solution to form a crystallized metal sulfate in a mother liquor with uncrystallized metal sulfate remaining in the mother liquor; separating the crystallized metal sulfate from the mother liquor; basifying a portion of the mother liquor to convert the uncrystallized metal sulfate to a basic metal salt; and using the basic metal salt upstream of crystallizing the metal sulfate. So crystallized, the generated metal sulfate may be battery-grade or electroplating-grade.
US10995008B2
A process for the calcination of a zeolitic material, wherein the process contains the steps of (i) providing a zeolitic material containing YO2 and optionally further containing X2O3 in its framework structure in the form of a powder and/or of a suspension of the zeolitic material in a liquid, wherein Y stands for a tetravalent element and X stands for a trivalent element; (ii) atomization of the powder and/or of the suspension of the zeolitic material provided in (i) in a gas stream for obtaining an aerosol; and (iii) calcination of the aerosol obtained in (ii) for obtaining a calcined powder, a zeolitic material obtained by the above process, and its use as a molecular sieve, as an adsorbent, for ion-exchange, as a catalyst, and/or as a catalyst support.
US10995000B2
Disclosed herein are methods of making a plurality of carbon nanotubes, the methods comprising applying a current across a catalytically passive anode and a catalytic cathode; wherein the catalytic cathode comprises a catalyst and the catalyst comprises Fe, Co, Mo, Cr, Cu, or a combination thereof; wherein the catalytically passive anode and the catalytic cathode are in electrochemical contact with a molten carbonate electrolyte and a source of CO2; thereby forming a plurality of carbon nanotubes on the catalytic cathode.
US10994998B2
The invention relates to hardenable ceramic bone substitute compositions having improved setting, powders for such compositions and methods for their manufacture and use in medical treatment. More specifically the invention relates to hardenable bone substitute powder and hardenable bone substitute paste with improved setting properties, comprising calcium sulfate and heat-treated hydroxyapatite (passivated HA), which bone substitute is suitable for treatment of disorders of supportive tissue such as bone loss, bone fracture, bone trauma and osteomyelitis.
US10994996B2
A nitric oxide generator generates nitric oxide from a mixture of nitrogen and oxygen such as air treated by a pulsating electrical discharge. The desired concentration of nitric oxide is obtained by controlling at least one of a frequency of the pulsating electrical discharge and duration of each electrical discharge pulse.
US10994989B2
A method for producing a microelectromechanical component as well as a wafer system includes steps of: providing a first wafer having a plurality of microelectromechanical base elements; forming a respective container structure on the microelectromechanical base elements at the wafer level; and disposing an oil or a gel within the container structures.
US10994988B2
The present invention relates to an electronic system comprising an electronic system comprising an electromechanical microsystem and a hermetic box encapsulating said microsystem. The box includes a fastening plane. The electromechanical microsystem includes a sensitive part and at least two beams connecting the sensitive part to the fastening plane. The beams are thermally coupled to the sensitive part and are electrically coupled to one another. The system further includes a thermal regulator of the electromechanical microsystem including an electrical circuit including at least two ends connected to the beams, and a circuit controller able to generate an electrical current in the electrical circuit to modify the temperature of the sensitive part.
US10994984B2
An apparatus for dispensing liquid from a container, and for monitoring the level of liquid within said container, comprises a container for storing liquid to be dispensed; and a conduit, the conduit comprising: a feed tube extending from the container to an appliance; a dip tube extending in the container to the bottom of the container; a liquid supply channel extending through the feed tube and dip tube and having an open first end defined by a lower end of the dip tube, which, in use, is arranged to be immersed in said liquid in said container, and a second end arranged, in use, to extend outside of said container; and a pressure measurement channel branching from the feed tube at a point located between said first and second ends of the liquid supply channel. The apparatus further comprises a pressure transducer in fluid communication with said pressure measurement channel, and a means to draw liquid from the first end of the liquid supply channel to dispense liquid from the second end of the liquid supply channel. The pressure measurement channel branches from the feed tube at a fixed height relative to the bottom of the dip tube.
US10994979B1
A beverage apparatus, the beverage apparatus being hand-holdable by a user of the beverage apparatus to be portable, can include a beverage chamber housing that includes a chamber for storing a consumable liquid. The beverage apparatus can include a dispensing assembly that includes a receptacle. The receptacle can retain a vessel. The vessel can include an electronic tag and can contain an additive. The dispensing assembly can be operatively controllable by a controller to output the additive from the vessel into the consumable liquid. The beverage apparatus can include one or more sensors, devices, or assemblies that can be used to detect a volume of liquid in the chamber or a liquid level in the chamber. The beverage apparatus can include an apparatus processing portion (ACP) and an apparatus database portion.
US10994975B2
A lever device for lifting an object off the ground includes a lever member having a distal end that is positionable immediately adjacent a bottom end of the object. The lever device also includes a grip member that is operable with the lever member to lift the object off the ground. The grip member is adjustable relative to the lever member to accommodate a size of the object being lifted off the ground. The grip member includes a toothed or hooked end that grips an upper surface of the object to be lifted off the ground. The lever device further includes a handle that is graspable by a user to impart a lever force to the grip member and the lever member and thereby lift the object off the ground.
US10994963B2
A sheet post-processing device includes: an alignment member which aligns a sheet bundle on a stacking tray; and a stapler which performs binding processing on a rear end of the sheet bundle. The stapler includes: a first stapler which moves along the rear end of a first sheet bundle and performs the binding processing on a plurality of positions at the rear end of the first sheet bundle; and a second stapler which performs, at one part of an end portion of the rear end on one side, binding processing different from the first stapler. The alignment member includes: a first alignment member and a second alignment member which align the sheet bundle in a first stacking position; and a third alignment member which is fixed to a position corresponding to the second stapler and which aligns the sheet bundle in a second stacking position with the first alignment member.
US10994954B2
A bulk material shipping container unloader having an expandable supporter, a pallet receiver supported by the extendable supporter, a material director supported by the pallet receiver, and a bulk material container gate mover supported by the pallet receiver.
US10994949B2
Techniques are disclosed to use a robotic arm to palletize or depalletize diverse items. In various embodiments, data associated with a plurality of items to be stacked on or in a destination location is received. A plan to stack the items on or in the destination location is generated based at least in part on the received data. The plan is implemented at least in part by controlling a robotic arm of the robot to pick up the items and stack them on or in the receptacle according to the plan, including by for each item: using one or more first order sensors to move the item to a first approximation of a destination position for that item at the destination location; and using one or more second order sensors to snug the item into a final position.
US10994943B2
In order to easily prevent a collision of transport units, which are moved along a conveyor line of a long stator linear motor, it is provided that a minimum distance to be maintained between the two transport units is changed as a function of the position of the two transport units along the conveyor line.
US10994941B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for removable conveyor cartridge assemblies for mobile carrier units. In one embodiment, an example removable assembly for a mobile carrier unit of a sortation system may include a frame, a conveyor belt disposed about the frame, a first sheet metal component coupled to a first side of the frame, the first sheet metal component including a first set of tabs extending from the first sheet metal component, and a tensioning device configured to tension the conveyor belt, the tensioning device having a first screw that engages a first tab of the first set of tabs.
US10994939B2
A rubberized pad with high flexibility, in particular for chains for handling/lifting product line products, has a vertical symmetry axis with a full base for coupling with the chain and a hollow upper part, including a wall opposed with respect to said base and suitable for engaging with a conveyed product. The pad has a total height and the upper part includes lateral walls having two semi-walls, with a thickness and connected with the wall, and two semi-walls having a thickness connected with the base. The pairs of semi-walls making between each other an angle (a1) directed toward the hollow part of the upper part, the semi-walls realizing an angle (a2) with respect to the vertical symmetry axis of the pad. The pad has a ratio between the height and thickness of ≥10, in that the angle (a1) is ≤90°, and in that the angle (a2) is ≥40°.
US10994931B2
A shelf management method and device are provided. The method comprises: controlling a conveying means to convey a first shelf to a workbench in a warehouse, the first shelf being a shelf in the warehouse; controlling, if the first shelf is one of high-frequency shelves, the conveying means to convey the first shelf to a first storage position in the warehouse, wherein the high-frequency shelves comprise a preset number of shelves subject to the highest numbers of deliveries in the warehouse; and controlling, if the first shelf is one of low-frequency shelves, the conveying means to convey the first shelf to a second storage position in the warehouse, wherein the low-frequency shelves comprise shelves other than the high-frequency shelves, and a distance between the first storage position and the workbench is less than a distance between the second storage position and the workbench. Efficiency of delivery can be improved.
US10994924B2
A hopper bottom a grain bin above a foundation includes a conical wall tapering inwardly to a bottom discharge opening. An outer cylindrical wall is joined to the top peripheral edge of the conical wall. Upright support legs are connected to the outer wall for supporting the cylindrical grain bin walls thereabove. A bottom wall is connected radially between the outer wall and the conical wall so as to define a manifold passage bounded by the conical wall, the outer wall and the bottom wall which is generally annular in shape and which is located externally of the conical wall. Vent openings are formed in the conical wall to receive aeration air from a blower connected to the manifold passage. A cover member is supported above the vent openings in the conical wall in connection with the outer wall above the conical wall to prevent material entering the vent openings.
US10994914B2
A device and method for the provision of antimicrobial activity and/or moisture protection for goods and other items prone to damage caused by microbes and/or water, such as, for example, foodstuffs and other putrescible items, pharmaceuticals and other medical/veterinary products, paper and paper/fibre-board products, timber and wood products, electrical/electronic devices, clothes and fabrics, is disclosed. The device and method is particularly suitable for use with such goods and other items when contained within storage spaces (eg a package, refrigerator, wardrobe or shipping container). The device comprises a vapour-permeable container housing a moisture-removing material and an antimicrobial vapour-generating material in an arrangement such that water added to the device or absorption and/or adsorption of water vapour by the moisture-removing material causes the antimicrobial vapour-generating material to generate an antimicrobial vapour. A device and method for disinfecting items such as food containers and food preparation implements, is also disclosed.
US10994913B2
A support assembly for supporting a biological product (e.g., membrane) in an operative position. The support assembly has a base and a cover. A membrane receiving portion of the base defines a plurality of perforations that extend between top and bottom surfaces of the product receiving portion. The cover is releasably coupled to the base in a product-covering position in which the cover overlies the product receiving portion of the base. In the operative position, the biological product engages the top surface of the product receiving portion and the bottom surface of the cover.
US10994910B2
A pack includes compressible insulation products that each have a longitudinal axis, a peripheral surface, and first and second ends. The pack includes a stack of at least two modules, where each module includes a row of insulation products positioned next to one another along a first direction. The modules of the stack are superimposed along a second direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axes of the insulation products and to the first direction. The pack also includes a cover that wraps the stack by covering five faces of the stack including the two end faces of the stack formed by the ends of the insulation products and at least the periphery of the sixth face of the stack.
US10994907B2
A cable tie is provided with a wedge disposed within a passage extending through a head. The wedge is compressed within the passage when tension is applied to the strap. As a result, the wedge compresses the strap against an inner surface of the passage to restrain the strap.
US10994902B2
The present disclosure discloses a container including a lid further including a lid body and a container body connected to the lid. The lid body is provided an elastic spout attached to the lid body and a limiting seat mounted at the top surface of the lid body; a linking part is mounted on the elastic spout, and a locking part cooperating with the linking part is disposed on the limiting seat; a lock release drive mechanism that drives the linking part and the locking part to be unlocked is slidably mounted on the lid body; the elastic spout has a folded storage state where the linking part and the locking part are interlocked and has a full release state in which the linking part is disengaged from the locking part to enable the elastic spout to be unfolded. The container is easy to assemble, easy to use, safe and hygienic.
US10994900B2
A novelty vessel accessory may include an external surface having an upper external portion and a lower external portion, a lower opening situated at the bottom of the external surface, and an engaging internal surface substantially concentric to the lower external portion and defining an annulus between the lower external portion and the engaging internal surface. The novelty vessel accessory may include an upper opening situated at the top of the external surface and a conduit internal surface substantially concentric to the upper external portion and defining an annulus between the upper external portion and the conduit internal surface. The novelty vessel accessory may have its external surface formed into an advantageous shape or have an advantageous color. The novelty vessel accessory may include a vessel insertion lip connected to the top of its engaging internal surface and extending down substantially concentric to the engaging internal surface such that the vessel insertion lip and engaging internal surface sandwich the upper portion of the open mouth of the inserted cylindrical vessel. The novelty vessel accessory may also include a flow-control member connected to the top of its engaging internal surface such that fluid exiting the mouth an inserted cylindrical vessel pass through the flow-control member and the top opening. The novelty vessel accessory may also include a removable stopper member engaged with its upper opening, wherein fluids are prevented from exiting the upper opening until the removable stopper member is removed.
US10994889B1
The disclosed systems and methods relate to improved tamper-proof cases for securely storing and shipping products. A case can include a back panel, two sidewalls, an upper foldable section, and a lower foldable section. Each of the features of the case can be manufactured on a single sheet of material. The upper and lower foldable sections include panels having apertures for holding the top and bottom of a product, respectively. The upper foldable section includes one or more fasteners that secures the upper foldable section to the sidewalls. Once secured, the products cannot be removed from the case without showing evidence of the removal. The disclosed systems also provide a tear strip and/or a tear corner that can be used to release the products from the sealed case.
US10994888B2
A container includes a metal end applied and sealed to an all-thermoplastic container body by a crimp-seaming or double-seaming operation. The metal end has an outer curl joined to a chuck wall that extends down from the curl. One or both of the inner surface of the container side wall and the outer surface of the chuck wall has/have a heat-sealable material thereon. The metal end is crimp-seamed or double-seamed to the container body and the heat-sealable material(s) are heated to soften or melt such that the interface between the chuck wall and the side wall is fused. The interface is oriented along a direction relative to internal pressure exerted on the metal end such that stress on the interface caused by the internal pressure is predominantly shear stress.
US10994885B2
The invention relates to a labeling apparatus having a conveyor belt for transporting packages, having a labeler to apply labels to the packages from below, and having a pullout apparatus that comprises a pullout that is supported via a pullout guide at a stationary pullout carrier and that is linearly travelable relative thereto between a retracted end position and an extended end position, wherein the labeler is positioned on the pullout, and wherein the pullout apparatus is configured such that the location of the retracted end position of the pullout is adjustable. The pullout apparatus comprises a motor-driven adjustment unit to set the location of the retracted end position of the pullout.
US10994883B2
An end plug to be inserted axially into the centre of an end of a roll of paper, includes a holding element adapted to hold and/or guide the end of the roll of paper in correct position in a dispenser. The end plug includes an outer sleeve having an outer end and an inner end and the holding element is connected to the sleeve by elements allowing the holding element to be axially moved from a first position to a second position, in which the holding element protrude outwardly from the outer end of the sleeve, the holding element being releasably held in the first position when moved thereto. A roll of tissue paper including such an end plug and a dispenser provided with such a roll are also disclosed.
US10994879B2
A rotary filling machine for filling containers with bridgeable dry materials includes a turret supporting a plurality of circumferentially spaced drop buckets and a plurality of funnel assemblies located under the drop buckets. A stationary slide plate is located vertically between the funnel assemblies and the drop buckets. When viewed in a direction of turret rotation, the slide plate has an upstream end, a downstream end, and inner and outer edges. A portion of the slide plate is tapered progressively in diameter toward its downstream end such that flow paths from the bottoms of the drop buckets to the inlet openings of the funnel assemblies increase progressively in diameter with the taper of the slide plate. Also provided is a funnel assembly that dilates bridgeable materials before dispensing those materials into a container.
US10994877B2
Various apparatus embodiments include first, second, third and fourth shafts, and further include a first movable shaft having a first movable axis that is movable between a first axis position and a second axis position, and a second movable shaft having a second movable axis that is movable between a third axis position and fourth axis position. At least one linkage connects the first movable shaft to the second movable shaft. A motor linkage connects the at least one linkage to at least one motor for providing simultaneous movement of the first and second movable shafts.
US10994869B2
A waste handling system includes a urinal having a urinal outlet and first and second urine storage containers. Each of the first and second urine storage containers includes a cavity having a bag. A distribution system fluidly interconnects the urinal to the first and second urine storage containers. The distribution system includes a switching system selectively fluidly connecting the urinal outlet to at least one of the first and second urinal storage containers in response to an input. The switching system includes a flow diverter valve. The input corresponds to a command signal to the flow diverter valve. The command signal commands the flow diverter valve between first and second positions. The first position corresponds to a fluid connection between the first urine storage container and the urinal while blocking a fluid connection between the second urine storage container and the urinal. The second position corresponds to a fluid connection between the second urine storage container and the urinal while blocking a fluid connection between the first urine storage container and the urinal. The switching system includes a plurality of switches configured to provide the command signal. A switch is arranged in each of the first and second urine storage containers. Each switch includes first and second contact elements biased apart from one another in a first condition corresponding to a first volume and electrically engages one another in a second condition corresponding to the second volume. A water processing unit is configured to produce potable water. The bag is configured to be coupled to the water processing unit by the quick disconnect to generate potable water from the urine.
US10994863B2
A method of predictive determination of a power needed by a rotary-wing aircraft to perform hovering flight in order to land. After measuring the current atmospheric pressure and the current temperature outside the aircraft, the method serves to estimate a predicted atmospheric pressure and a predicted temperature at the altitude where the hovering flight is to be performed. Thereafter, both a maximum power available from a power plant of the aircraft once the aircraft has reached the point where the hovering flight is to be performed, and also a power needed from the power plant in order to perform the hovering flight are calculated. Finally, the present invention serves to display the available maximum power and the power needed on an instrument of the aircraft and thereby warn the pilot of the aircraft when the power needed is close to or even greater than the maximum power available.
US10994861B2
A refueling system, comprising a drum rotatable to wind and unwind a hose, a carriage guiding the hose and lineally displaceable along a shaft parallel to the longitudinal direction of the drum so as to follow the movement of the hose along the drum. The shaft allows the displacement of the carriage along its length. A motor is coupled to the carriage and displaces the carriage along the shaft. A first position sensor communicates with the carriage to obtain its position. A second position sensor communicates with the drum to obtain the position of the hose. A control system is coupled to the first and the second sensor, to compare their obtained positions and to operate the motor.
US10994855B2
In some examples, an aircraft comprises a motorized module. The motorized module comprises a motor and a first coil. The motor is to operate equipment onboard the aircraft and generates vibrations during operation. The first coil is operable to wirelessly transmit power to a separate module onboard the aircraft based on electromagnetic induction between the first coil and a second coil in a separate module, and wirelessly transfer data with the separate module via the second coil based on the electromagnetic induction, the data being associated with the motor. A gap separates the motorized module and the separate module. The gap isolates the separate module from the vibrations.
US10994854B2
An aerodynamic aircraft wall has external and internal surfaces and is equipped with at least one vortex generator. The vortex generator has at least one active wall projecting with respect to the external surface of the aerodynamic wall. A connecting system connects the vortex generator to the aerodynamic wall. The connecting system includes at least one support having a base pressed firmly against the internal surface of the aerodynamic wall and a head which passes through the aerodynamic wall and collaborates with the active wall, at least one first fastener connecting the base of the support and the aerodynamic wall, at least one second fastener connecting the head of the support and the active wall.
US10994852B2
An embodiment of the present invention provides a blocking door that is pivotally disposed on a fixed nacelle of a tiltrotor aircraft for pivoting between a stowed position when a proprotor pylon is in the substantially horizontal position and a protective blocking position in front of the proprotor pylon when the proprotor pylon is positioned in the non-horizontal position. In other aspects, there is provided a blocking door and a method of reducing infrared and/or radar signatures of rotorcraft with a rotatable proprotor.
US10994850B2
An aspirator includes a duct having a wall with a surface bounding a converging portion and a diverging portion of the duct. The converging portion of the duct has an inlet and the diverging portion of the duct has an outlet, the inlet being in fluid communication with the outlet through the converging portion and the diverging portion of the duct. The surface of the duct wall includes a conformal surface portion extending between the inlet of the duct and the outlet of the duct that is conformal with an aspirator seat surface portion of a support structure to conform the duct to the support structure. Evacuation assemblies are also described.
US10994847B2
Provided are seat tracks comprising composite frames and methods of fabricating such seat tracks. A composite frame comprises two sets of fibers having different orientations. The first fibers may extend parallel to the principal axis of the track, while the second fibers may extend within planes perpendicular to that axis. Various characteristics of these fibers may be specifically selected such that the mechanical strength of the frame in the principal axis direction is greater than other directions. In other words, the composite frame may have anisotropic properties. This difference ensures that adequate support is provided during both normal conditions and extreme conditions. Specifically, during the normal operating conditions, most loads may be directed vertically, while at the extreme conditions most loads may be directed horizontally. Aligning the fiber orientation of the composite frame with various directions of expected load allows forming a very light yet sufficiently supportive seat track.
US10994846B2
A functional unit in a passenger cabin includes a support unit and a passenger seat system. The passenger seat system is formed in two parts and has an upper constructional unit and a lower constructional unit that are each separate components, the upper constructional unit arranged on the support unit and containing at least one backrest, and the lower constructional unit containing a seat frame, at least one seat element and restraint for the passenger on the seat. The seat frame is fastenable to seat rails on the floor of a passenger cabin. For the use position, the upper and lower constructional units are positioned such that a passenger seat is formed. In the use position, personal comfort for the individuals on the seats is not impaired as far as possible, and the division of the seat system into two parts cannot be seen by the user.
US10994842B1
An autonomous aircraft system an airframe configured with a ventrally located payload bay open to the empennage of said airframe and payload bay terminating with a forward bulkhead which is configured to receive a payload module. The payload bay and the payload module are configured with corresponding fittings for connecting the payload module to the aircraft control systems and for securing the payload module within the payload bay.
US10994838B2
The disclosure generally pertains to a vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) aircraft comprising a fuselage and at least one fixed wing. The aircraft may include at least two powered rotors located generally along a longitudinal axis of the fuselage. The rotor units may be coupled to the fuselage via a rotating chassis, which allows the rotors to provide directed thrust by movement of the rotor units about at least one axis. The VTOL aircraft may include instructions to perform a degraded rotor landing protocol. The degraded rotor landing protocol may include adjusting a power to an operable rotor unit to control a rate of descent and/or slow a rate of acceleration toward a landing surface. The VTOL aircraft may be configured to impact the landing surface from a substantially vertical configuration, and adjust a thrust vector to cause the aircraft to come to rest in a generally upright configuration.
US10994836B2
Aerial vehicles are equipped with propellers having clutch mechanisms that contract around a shaft when the propellers are not rotating, or are rotating at low angular velocities, and expand around the shaft when the propellers are rotating at sufficiently high angular velocities. The clutch mechanisms surround one or more fixed posts within an opening or window defined therein. When the clutch mechanisms contract into a closed position, components of the clutch mechanisms come into contact with the posts, and the propellers are forced to remain in an alignment defined by the posts. When the clutch mechanisms expand into an open position, such components may rotate freely without contacting the posts. The clutch mechanisms cause propellers to remain aligned in desired orientations when the propellers are not required for operation, thereby reducing drag or adverse acoustic effects.
US10994827B2
A wing arrangement for an aircraft, comprising a wing having a base section and a tip section pivotably connected to base section such that the tip section is pivotable about a pivot axis between a deployed position and a stowed position. The wing arrangement also comprises a latching arrangement which includes an engagement portion, a latching actuator selectively movable between a first actuator position and a second actuator position, an elastically deformable structure, and a latching element. When the tip section is pivoted from the stowed or deployed position into an engagement position, the elastically deformable structure is initially deformed, and as the tip section pivots further into the deployed or stowed position, the elastic deformation of the elastically deformable structure decreases.
US10994825B2
A panel assembly with a panel and a stringer is disclosed. The stringer has a stringer foot and an upstanding stringer web. The stringer foot has a flange which extends in a widthwise direction between the stringer web and a lateral edge and in a lengthwise direction alongside the stringer web, and a foot run-out which extends between the flange and a tip of the stringer foot. The foot run-out is bonded to the panel at a foot run-out interface. Reinforcement elements, such as tufts, pass through the foot run-out interface. At least some of the reinforcement elements are inclined relative to the foot run-out interface.
US10994819B2
The present invention provides a snorkel having smaller respiratory dead space or volume. The snorkel includes a mouthpiece and a tube with an inhalation lumen and an exhalation lumen. A distal one-way inhalation valve is placed inside the inhalation lumen; and a distal one-way exhalation valve is placed inside the exhalation lumen. The invention also provides a method for reducing the volume of a respiratory dead space in a snorkel.
US10994812B2
A device for rapidly remotely coupling together two vessels, in particular a first ship or floating support and a second ship, comprises: at least one floating and docking structure fastened to or suitable for being releasably fastened to the side and/or the keel of the hull of a second vessel; and at least two actuators spaced in succession from one another in the longitudinal direction of the first vessel. The actuator cylinder of each the actuator is arranged to be fastened to the side of the hull of the first vessel, using a first fastener and pivot hinge device. The end of the rod of each actuator is arranged to be fastened to or suitable for being fastened to the floating and docking structure via a second fastener and pivot hinge device.
US10994809B2
An apparatus includes a bendable elongated assembly extendable over a watercraft. A coupler assembly is configured to couple the bendable elongated assembly to the watercraft. An engagement assembly configured to engage the bendable elongated assembly. This is done in such a way that the engagement assembly, in use, urges the bendable elongated assembly to bend and form an arched structure positioned over the watercraft once the bendable elongated assembly is extended over the watercraft and is coupled to the watercraft.
US10994788B2
A vehicle bottom structure includes: side members; a plurality of cross members that extend in the width direction of the vehicle, are joined to the side members at both end parts, and support the bottom of a battery pack disposed under a floor panel between the side members, from below; and front-rear direction reinforcing members that extend in the front-rear direction of the vehicle and are joined on the cross members so as to cross the cross members.
US10994785B2
The present invention relates to all terrain vehicles having at least a pair of laterally spaced apart seating surfaces. More particularly, the present invention relates to side-by-side all terrain vehicles having plural rows of seats.
US10994781B2
Disclosed is an automatic adjustment system for a steering wheel provided in a process line to support wheel alignment operation of a vehicle mounted with an OBD, includes a scanner for recognizing a vehicle identification number entered into the process line; an antenna that connects the OBD of the vehicle with the wireless diagnosis communication to transmit and receive data; a robot moves a vision sensor mounted on the front end portion thereof to the shooting position of the steering wheel in the vehicle through the attitude control, when the vehicle is seated in a centering position; and a control apparatus that analyzes the shooting image of the vision sensor to calculate the current distorted angle of the steering wheel and initialize by inputting the current distorted angle of the steering wheel to the steering angle sensor via the diagnosis communication connected with the OBD of the vehicle.
US10994773B2
A steering system steers wheels of a vehicle through a shift of a steering shaft. The steering system includes: an electric motor; transmission device that transmits an output of the electric motor to the steering shaft; and a malfunction detector that detects a malfunction of the transmission device based on a rotational angle of the electric motor and a shift distance of the steering shaft.
US10994769B2
The electronic control unit includes first and second power connectors, first and second ground connectors, first and second inverters, first and second control circuits, and first and second current-voltage conversion elements. Each current-voltage conversion element is provided between a ground of the corresponding first or second inverter and a common ground of the first and second control circuits, and measures a ground current of the corresponding first or second control circuit. Then, each control circuit determines that the corresponding first or second ground connector is in an abnormal state based on a current flowing through the corresponding first or second current-voltage conversion element.
US10994768B2
A control device for a vehicle capable of operating in an automated driving mode for automatically controlling at least the accelerating/decelerating control of the steering control and the accelerating/decelerating control of a vehicle includes: a route information acquisition unit; and an automated driving control unit that decides an action plan on a basis of map information, the action plan includes a target vehicle speed sequence that defines a target vehicle speed at the respective predetermined points at least on a road along which the vehicle will travel next, and the automated driving control unit calculates requested braking force that is braking force for decelerating the vehicle to target vehicle speed when the target vehicle speed is achieved by deceleration, calculates a predicted temperature of a brake device when the requested braking force is achieved, and decides a utilization proportion of the brake device for the requested braking force.
US10994767B2
A steering column assembly having a vehicle-fixed mounting element and a sleeve element received in the mounting element, which is mounted displaceably in the axial direction in the mounting element for adjusting the steering column assembly. The steering column assembly further comprises an energy absorption device which can be firmly coupled to the mounting element and is firmly connected to the sleeve element, the energy absorption device being deformed in the event of a vehicle crash in consequence of a longitudinal displacement of the sleeve element, and at the same time absorbing part of the kinetic energy of the sleeve element during the event.
US10994765B2
It is herein presented a novel transfer apparatus for a snowmobile, the transfer apparatus comprising a joint part and a support for a wheel. The joint part comprises an attachment hole for a ski bolt between a ski and a ski suspension of the snowmobile and a first coupling member for the detachable attachment of the support for the wheel and the support for the wheel comprises a second coupling member which is configured to connect to the first coupling member such that a detachable coupling is formed for the wheel.
US10994751B2
A railway traction vehicle, in particular a locomotive, is provided for pulling at least one coupleable railway car, which may be a two-level car, having a car body with a car roof which defines a car height. The locomotive includes a vehicle body with a vehicle roof which defines a vehicle height. If the vehicle height is lower than the car height, a roof transition element is disposed on a rear-side end region of the vehicle body. Since the cross-sectional profile of the roof transition element expands from the front edge, which follows a contour line of the vehicle roof, to the rear edge, which follows a contour line of the car roof, the flow resistance in the transition region from the locomotive to the subsequent two-level car is reduced in a simple way, so that traction energy losses and vehicle noise can be reduced.
US10994747B2
A method converts an at least partially automated driving maneuver in a vehicle. The method consists of determining, on the basis of surrounding data relating to a surroundings of the vehicle, a planned at least partially automated driving maneuver. The method also consists of generating a kinesthetically and/or haptic signal in relation to the planned driving maneuver for a driver of the vehicle. The method further consists of converting the planned driving maneuver if a predetermined affirmative control action is carried out and/or when a predetermined rejected control action is lacking.
US10994743B2
A control method for a vehicle is disclosed. The vehicle includes an in-vehicle controller, the in-vehicle controller pre-stores an instruction relationship, and the instruction relationship is used to represent an execution selection that is made by the in-vehicle controller from contrary instructions of at least two controllers. The method includes: receiving, by the in-vehicle controller, a first instruction and a second instruction (S410); and determining, by the in-vehicle controller, a vehicle control instruction according to the instruction relationship, the first instruction, and the second instruction (S420).
US10994736B2
The present specification relates to a system and a method for preventing overheating of an axle in a construction equipment. A system for preventing overheating of an axle in a construction equipment is mounted in the construction equipment and transmits driving power of an engine to a wheel, and the system includes: a brake pedal; a brake sensor which detects displacement of the brake pedal when the brake pedal is manipulated by an operator; an exhaust brake which is mounted in the engine and operates and controls an opening degree of an exhaust gas discharge passageway of the engine; and a control unit which adjusts the opening degree of the exhaust gas discharge passageway by controlling the exhaust brake corresponding to the displacement of the brake pedal when manipulation of the brake pedal is detected by the brake sensor.
US10994731B2
Provided is a steering assistance device, and a demarcation line detection unit 100 detects left and right lane demarcation lines for a lane in which a vehicle is travels. A horizontal velocity measurement unit 101 calculates the horizontal velocity, which is a velocity component of the vehicle in a direction perpendicular to the lane. An assistance unit 11 performs steering assistance for the vehicle so that the vehicle travels parallel to the left and right lane demarcation lines. In a case where the horizontal velocity equal to or greater than a prescribed velocity and the center of the vehicle is separated from the center between the left and right lane demarcation lines by equal to or greater than a prescribed distance, a steering control unit 102 starts the steering assistance of the vehicle by the assistance unit 11.
US10994728B2
Described herein are examples of a system that processes information describing movement of a vehicle at a time related to a potential collision to reliably determine whether a collision occurred and/or one or more characteristics of the collision. In response to obtaining information regarding a potential collision, data describing movement of the vehicle before and/or after a time associated with the potential collision is analyzed to determine whether the collision occurred and/or to determine one or more collision characteristic(s). The analysis may be carried out at least in part using a trained classifier that classifies the vehicle movement data into one or more classes, where at least some the classes are associated with whether a collision occurred and/or one or more characteristics of a collision. If a collision is determined to be likely, one or more actions may be triggered based on the characteristic(s) of the collision.
US10994727B1
Event-based and subscription-based connected vehicle control and response systems, methods, and apparatus are disclosed. An example method comprises receiving first data acquired by a first plurality of vehicle operation sensors of a first vehicle from a first computing device associated with a first subscriber, identifying an occurrence of an event involving a second vehicle and a third vehicle based on the first data, receiving second data acquired by a second plurality of vehicle operation sensors of the second vehicle, identifying which vehicle of the second vehicle or the third vehicle is at-fault based on the first data and the second data, determining, for the first subscriber and responsive to determining that the first data was used in determining which of the first vehicle or the second vehicle is at-fault, one or more objects, and transmitting the one or more objects to the first computing device.
US10994725B2
A four-wheel-drive vehicle including a powertrain operable to adjust a front- and rear-wheel driving force ratio that is a ratio between a driving force of front wheels and a driving force of rear wheels includes a control device that controls the powertrain and adjusts the front- and rear-wheel driving force ratio so as to reduce the driving force of the front wheels that are steered wheels, when it is detected that emergency avoidance to avoid collision with an avoidance target ahead in a traveling direction is necessary.
US10994722B2
Systems and methods for monitoring electrified vehicle powertrain propulsive torque and taking remedial action when needed involve continuously monitoring an error between the actual and requested propulsive torques and comparing the error to various threshold values. Error exceeding a particular threshold could be indicative of a malfunction, and the vehicle could be afforded an opportunity to regain equilibrium by temporarily decreasing torque output. When the error continues to exceed the threshold or another threshold, however, further remedial action could be required, such as shutting down the vehicle.
US10994714B2
A brake fluid pressure control device for a vehicle that includes a wheel speed obtaining device to obtain wheel speed, and a vehicle body deceleration calculating means to calculate a vehicle body deceleration on the basis of the wheel speed. If a condition is satisfied in which the vehicle body deceleration continues to stay at a low rate of less than or equal to a predetermined threshold value for a predetermined period of time, the pressure increasing rate in pressure increasing control is altered to a higher value than before the condition is satisfied. The brake fluid pressure of a brake caliper can quickly be brought close to the fluid pressure of a master cylinder. Therefore, it is possible to improve the brake responsiveness when the brake is re-operated by the driver during the ABS control, thereby reducing the driver's feeling of wrongness and strangeness.
US10994712B2
An environment information acquisition unit acquires an image in which environment around a vehicle has been imaged, information indicating a contact with the vehicle or an impact on the vehicle, surround sounds, approach identification information for enabling an approach of an emergency vehicle to be identified, and the like as surrounding environment information of the vehicle. A vehicle control processing unit recognizes predetermined external stimulation information included in the surrounding environment information, for example, a specific signal or a movement with a specific pattern, a contact to a specific part, and a specific sound. The vehicle control processing unit uses the recognized predetermined external stimulation information as a vehicle brake instruction from outside and starts a vehicle braking sequence to stop the vehicle. Even if an abnormality occurs in an automatically driven vehicle and the like, vehicle brake control is easily applied to a traveling vehicle from outside.
US10994700B2
A processing device that processes detection strengths detected at a first detection position and a second detection position by a detector for detecting detection targets generated from a plurality of sources, includes a two-dimensionalization unit converting detection strengths a pair of sources into a two-dimensional distribution of coordinate points in which the detection strength for one source is represented by an X-axis value, and the detection strength for the other source is represented by a Y-axis value; a demarcation unit demarcating in the two-dimensional distribution of coordinate points, a predetermined region including a mixed region in which coordinate points relating to the first detection position and coordinate points relating to the second detection position are mixed; and a replacement unit replacing the two-dimensional distribution of coordinate points in a demarcated region that has been demarcated, with a two-dimensional distribution of coordinate points relating to another pair of sources.
US10994695B2
A seat belt retractor comprises (a) a rotatable spool on which seat belt webbing is wound and (b) a load-limiting system to limit a load applied to a vehicle occupant by the webbing. The load-limiting system includes a flow control orifice through which fluid is forced when a load in excess of a predetermined load is applied to the rotatable spool by the webbing. The cross-sectional flow area of the flow control orifice is adjustable in response to unwinding of webbing from the rotatable spool prior to a vehicle crash event and ceases to be adjustable after the crash event is in progress. The load-limiting system also includes a piston in a cylinder. The piston and cylinder are operatively coupled to the spool such that rotation of the spool causes the piston to move relative to the cylinder, which movement causes fluid to be forced through the flow control orifice.
US10994693B2
An airbag and an airbag assembly including a gas generator and an airbag. The airbag (10) forms a first end (11) and a second end (12), the first end (11) being a free end of the airbag, and the second end (12) being used for fixing the airbag to a mounting position. The airbag (10) forms a folding portion (13) and a rolling portion (14) in the collapsed stat. The folding portion (13) is formed by folding one part of the airbag in an “N” shape; the rolling portion (14) surrounds a periphery of the folding portion (13), so that the folding portion (13) is surrounded by an inner side of the rolling portion (14).
US10994688B2
An airbag covering for use in a motor vehicle has a support (2) with an airbag deployment opening (4) that is closed by an airbag cover. A decorative material (6) is connected to the support (2) by an adhesive layer (9) in at least one region (10) adjacent to the airbag deployment opening (4). To simplify the production of the airbag covering, the support (2) has, in the region (10) adjacent to the airbag deployment opening (4), at least one depression (51-55) that reduces an adhesive force between the support (2) and the decorative material (6) in a targeted manner.
US10994684B2
An airbag device for a vehicle may include: a mounting housing having an airbag module mounted therein; one or more holders formed on the mounting housing; a steering wheel engaged to the holders; one or more mounting members slidably inserted into the engagement portion between the mounting housing and the steering wheel; and one or more hook members installed at positions spaced a predetermined distance apart from the center of the steering wheel, in order to fix the mounting member at a plurality of points.
US10994682B2
A vehicle body structure includes a pair of side members (4) extending in a fore and aft direction on either side of a vehicle body, each side member having a hollow structure defining a hollow interior (28), and provided with a vertical outboard wall (27), a bumper beam (3) extending laterally along fore and aft ends of the side members, and curved so as to be convex on a side thereof facing away from the vehicle body, and a pair of extension members (5) each connected to a corresponding end part of the bumper beam and partly received in the hollow interior of the corresponding side member, a pair of cushioning members (72, 91, 101, 111, 123, 131) are each interposed between the corresponding extension member and the vertical outboard wall of the corresponding side member, each cushioning member being deformable in a lateral direction of the vehicle body.
US10994679B2
An onboard electrical system for a motor vehicle is provided having a primary power supply network and a secondary power supply network electrically connected to the primary power supply network via a DC-DC converter, wherein the primary power supply network and the secondary power supply network are connected to one another via a blocking diode of the DC-DC converter and the blocking diode has a forward direction thereof oriented from the primary power supply network toward the secondary power supply network, and wherein an insulation monitoring device having a measuring resistor is associated with the secondary power supply network for determining an insulation fault. It is provided that an additional resistor is connected in parallel with the blocking diode for bridging thereof, such that an insulation fault common to the primary power supply network and the secondary power supply network can be determined by the insulation monitoring device. A related method for operating an onboard electrical system for a motor vehicle is also provided.
US10994678B2
A method for the automated testing of electrical cabin loads in a cabin of an aircraft comprises activating at least one electrical cabin load in a predetermined operating mode via a test controller; recording an electric power consumption profile of the at least one electrical cabin load in the activated operating mode via a power controller of an electric power distribution system of the cabin of the aircraft, wherein the power controller regulates electric power consumption of the at least one electrical cabin load within the power distribution system; transmitting the recorded power consumption profile to the test controller; and comparing the recorded power consumption profile with a reference profile for the activated operating mode of the at least one cabin load via the test controller, in order to test the at least one electrical cabin load for operability.
US10994676B2
An electric connection box includes: the housing, or a plurality of communication connectors provided therein; a communication switch circuit, which is provided inside the housing, has a communication relay function and controls a communication path between the plurality of communication connectors; and a common power supply circuit, which is provided inside the housing and capable of supplying common power generated based on the power from the input side power supply line to a plurality of electric circuits including the communication switch circuit.
US10994675B2
The present invention provides technology for achieving both high responsiveness to an interrupt process and non-interference between control software. This vehicle control device comprises a storage device that stores various programs for controlling a vehicle, and a plurality of computation devices that include a first computation device and a second computation device, and that read a program from the storage device and execute the same. In addition, the storage device includes a first type of computation processing program executed not by time division and a second type of computation processing program executed by time division. The first computation device is configured to execute the first type of computation processing program, and the second computation device is configured to execute the second type of computation processing program.
US10994672B2
A tether fastening device for an automobile body structure includes a fastener clip, at least one tether strap, a tether clip bracket, a clip strap coupler, and a bracket strap coupler. The clip strap coupler operably couples to a slot in the automobile chassis. The tether clip bracket attaches to the fastener clip when in an attached position. The bracket strap coupler is attached to the body panel. The tether strap allows for controlled detachment between the clip strap coupler and the bracket strap coupler. The strap may include a mesh to absorb the deployment energy and decelerate the body panel in a controlled manner. In the event of an airbag activation, the tether clip bracket and the fastener clip initially accelerate and then decelerate from each other. The pair of tether straps control the deceleration and separation distance of the clip strap coupler and bracket strap coupler.
US10994669B2
A roof mounted vehicle topper includes an electronic display, a housing for said electronic display, and a cross bar. The housing is mounted to the cross bar which is configured for mounting to the roof of a vehicle. At least a portion of the cross bar is hollow. A power source for said electronic display is located outside of said housing. Electrical wiring extends from said power source, through the hollow portion of said cross bar, to the electronic display.
US10994668B2
The invention relates to a camera arrangement for a vehicle having a camera unit and a pivot mechanism for the pivoting of the camera unit into an active position and into a position of rest. The camera unit is accommodated in a chamber in an inaccessible manner from the outside in the position of rest and is pivoted out of the chamber in the active position for the optical detection of a surrounding zone. The pivot mechanism comprises two pivot arms which are rotatably coupled to the camera unit at oppositely disposed sides thereof and which pivot in opposite directions during the pivoting of the camera unit.
US10994663B2
A jaw member for a support assembly for securing a bicycle to a load carrier for a vehicle. The jaw member includes a frame work structure formed by at least one support element and at least one rib. The frame work structure is adapted to enable the jaw member to withstand a relative high amount of tensile stress while still being relatively light weight.
US10994658B2
There is provided a vehicle display system to be used with a vehicle control unit which is configured to control a vehicle in an automated driving mode. The vehicle display system includes a display unit which is provided around or inside a license plate of the vehicle, and a display control unit which is configured to turn on the display unit while the vehicle control unit executes the automated driving mode.
US10994657B2
A camera system is installed on the front end of a vehicle, either on the left front, the right front, or both sides. The camera is linked via wired or wireless connection to an onboard computer and a navigation display that is located within the passenger compartment of the vehicle. The driver reviews a visual description on the display of any oncoming traffic in the form of motor vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, animals and the like on the navigation display via a single screen, split screen or alternating screens. The camera system can include a speed sensor that detects when the vehicle reaches a threshold speed to activate or de-activate the camera. Alternatively, the computer can activate the system when a tum signal is activated, and de-activate the system when the tum signal is no longer activated. This camera system can be retrofitted into older vehicles.
US10994656B2
The invention relates to a rear-view device (1) for a vehicle able to be driven by a driver, characterized in that the device (1) comprises electronic means (40, 50, 70, 75, 80, 85) configured to receive at least one rear-view image and to allow the display of a part of said image, the part of the image displayed being selected as a function of the position of the driver.
US10994650B2
A procedure is provided for actuating at least one light module of a light unit of a vehicle, with at least one status recognition device for identifying a vehicle status and/or at least one surroundings recognition device for identifying a vehicle's surroundings, and with a light control system. The light module is automatically actuated by the status recognition device and/or the surroundings recognition device by means of the light control system depending on at least one input signal of the light control system. In order to improve a light distribution adapted to the respective driving situation, the light unit features a light distribution recognition device for identifying a light distribution of a light beam emitted by the light module into the surroundings of the vehicle and that the light module be automatically actuated by means of the light control system depending on at least one input signal of the light control system from the light distribution recognition device. Furthermore, the invention relates to a light unit for a vehicle, a computer program product and a machine-readable medium.
US10994640B2
Arm support (12) for an armrest (10), comprising a frame (19) that comprises connectors for the fixed or moveable attachment to a structure, in particular to a structure of a vehicle, wherein the frame comprises longitudinal bars (23, 24) and cross bars (21, 22) that are connected to one another with connectors (25, 26, 27, 28). The particularity is that at least a first type of connector is provided that is connectable with at least one longitudinal bar (23, 24) selected from a set of longitudinal bars of different length, and/or with at least one cross bar (21, 22) selected from a set of cross bars of different length.
US10994635B2
A vehicle seat longitudinal adjuster (2) includes two guide rail pairs (P1, P2) with a first guide rail (3) and a second guide rail (4) movable with respect to the first guide rail, a motor unit (12), a gear unit (G) with a gear rotary shaft (6) connected to the first guide rail and a rotatable gear element (7). A transmission unit (11) is coupled with the gear unit and the motor unit to transmit torque to the gear rotary shaft. A gearbox (9) receives the gear unit. A support (5) receives the gearbox inside a gap (BR) formed between the guide rails and passes through a second rail opening (13) and extends out of the guide rail opening and closes the second rail opening. A vehicle seat (1), has the longitudinal adjuster for mechanically and longitudinally adjusting the vehicle seat.
US10994627B2
A charge management system includes a vehicle and an external charging facility including a connector. The vehicle includes a second resistor, a voltage regulating circuit, and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to control the voltage regulating circuit. The electronic control unit is configured to, in any one of a first state and a second state, determine that there is a failure in a grounding terminal and the grounding
US10994624B2
A power conversion system includes a power conversion device that controls charging or discharging of an electric-powered vehicle including a storage battery, and a cable relay connected to the power conversion device via a first cable, and connected to a connector connectable to the electric-powered vehicle, via a second cable; and the cable relay includes a power supply that provides a drive voltage to a solenoid included in the connector.
US10994620B2
An electric bicycle and a battery lift mechanism and a battery carrying device thereof are disclosed. The battery lift mechanism includes a bracket, a carrier for carrying a battery, an upward-force device coupling with the carrier, and a locking device selectively in an unlocked state or a locked state. The carrier is movable relative to the bracket along an up-down path; the upward-force device is capable of applying an upward force to the carrier. When the locking device is in the locked state, the locking device interferes with the battery to limit the relative movement between the battery and the bracket. When the locking device is in the unlocked state, the interference between the locking device and the battery is removed, so that the upward-force device drives the carrier carrying the battery to move upward relative to the bracket.
US10994618B2
A vehicle electrical system is equipped with an inverter, an electrical energy store, an electrical machine and an AC transmission terminal. The inverter has a first and a second side and is configured to transmit power between these sides. The first side of the inverter is connected to the energy store via input current terminals of the inverter. The second side of the inverter is connected to the electrical machine via phase current terminals of the inverter. The inverter has at least two H-bridges. Each of the H-bridges bypasses the two sides of the inverter. The AC transmission terminal is connected to the second side of the inverter.
US10994616B2
Each vehicle includes a detection device configured to detect a situation outside the vehicle. When a server receives from a depleted EV a help signal requesting power supply from another vehicle to the depleted EV, the server selects, from among the other vehicles, a rescue EV to supply electric power to the depleted EV. The rescue EV moves to the depleted EV, determines a stopping position of the rescue EV from a situation around the depleted EV detected by the detection device, and performs power supply to the depleted EV at the stopping position.
US10994614B2
A vehicle-mounted pump system is disclosed for use with a service vehicle. A chassis can be configured to be secured to the service vehicle, and a frame can be supported by the chassis. A plurality of pumps can be supported by the frame, with each of the pumps being configured to pump liquid for dispersal external to the service vehicle. A power source can be supported by at least one of the chassis and the frame. A power transmission system can be configured to transfer power from the power source to the plurality of pumps.
US10994610B2
Systems and methods for operating a vehicle that includes an engine that may be automatically stopped and started are described. In one example, an engine may be automatically stopped in response to an electric assisted braking threshold level that is adjusted responsive to vehicle speed so that opportunities to automatically stop an engine may be increased, thereby conserving fuel.
US10994604B2
The present invention discloses an operating fluid container for a motor vehicle, wherein the operating fluid container comprises a fill level sensor, a tank control device and an electrically and/or electromagnetically actuable actuator; the tank control device is connected to the actuator by means of a first data exchange connection and to the fill level sensor by means of a second data exchange connection; the fill level sensor is designed to transmit data representing a fill level of the operating fluid container to the tank control device via the second data exchange connection; the tank control device is designed to transmit a filling stop signal to the actuator via the first data exchange connection upon receiving data which represent a predetermined fill level of the operating fluid container; and the actuator initiates the termination of a filling procedure of the operating fluid container upon receiving the filling stop signal.
US10994595B2
The invention relates to an engine mount pendulum support device for supporting an engine relative to the body of a motor vehicle. The engine mount pendulum support device comprises a first attachment region for attaching the engine mount pendulum support device to the body, which attachment region comprises a first attachment surface for contact with the body, a second attachment region for attaching the engine mount pendulum support device to the body, which attachment region comprises a second attachment surface for contact with the body, a third attachment region for attaching the engine to the engine mount pendulum support device, wherein the first attachment region and the second attachment region are elastically connected to the third attachment region via a first elastic mount and via a second elastic mount, wherein the first attachment region and the second attachment region are firmly connected to each other by a connection member.
US10994587B2
A vehicle includes a passenger cabin, an inverter, and a coolant system having conduit arranged to circulate coolant through the inverter and an evaporator. A refrigerant system includes a condenser and conduit arranged to circulate refrigerant through the condenser and through the evaporator to absorb heat generated by the inverter. A climate control system is arranged to circulate an airstream through the condenser and into the cabin to heat the cabin.
US10994583B2
A stabilizer bushing for adhesive use including: a tubular rubber elastic body whose inner circumferential surface being configured to be adhered to a stabilizer bar; a bracket mounted onto an outer circumferential surface of the rubber elastic body and configured to be attached to a vehicle body; and concave/convex mated parts provided on axially opposite portions between the rubber elastic body and the bracket, the concave/convex mated parts protruding radially outward, wherein a mated height dimension of the concave/convex mated part is varied in a circumferential direction, and is made small at a position of input of a main radial load in the rubber elastic body.
