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| US10127042B2 |
Method and apparatus to process SHA-2 secure hashing algorithm
A processor includes an instruction decoder to receive a first instruction to process a secure hash algorithm 2 (SHA-2) hash algorithm, the first instruction having a first operand associated with a first storage location to store a SHA-2 state and a second operand associated with a second storage location to store a plurality of messages and round constants. The processor further includes an execution unit coupled to the instruction decoder to perform one or more iterations of the SHA-2 hash algorithm on the SHA-2 state specified by the first operand and the plurality of messages and round constants specified by the second operand, in response to the first instruction. |
| US10127037B2 |
Method for recognizing application type
A method for recognizing an application type, includes, but is not limited to, judging whether an application in a system has an application type mark. If so, acquiring a value of the application type mark of the application, and comparing the value of the application type mark with a preset value of each application type to recognize a type of the application. The application type mark refers to metadata that can indicate the type of the application that was added into a list configuration file of the application when the application was being developed. If not, acquiring an application package name of the application, and recognizing the type of the application according to the application package name. By applying the mark, the system can automatically judge whether the current application is a Virtual Reality (VR) application or an ordinary 2D application, thereby performing appropriate output processing, and brining better user experience. |
| US10127034B1 |
System, method, and computer program for delayed evaluation of condition based trees
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for delayed evaluation of condition based trees. In use, an update to perform on a software product is identified. Additionally, update material is generated to utilize for updating the software product. Further, first information associated with the update material that is able to be evaluated is evaluated in a first evaluation phase. In addition, second information associated with the update material that requires delayed evaluation is identified. The second information that requires delayed evaluation is preserved in a human readable format. Furthermore, parameters required for evaluating the second information that requires delayed evaluation are received. Still yet, the second information that requires delayed evaluation utilizing the received parameters is evaluated in a second evaluation phase. Moreover, a final evaluation result is generated utilizing a result of the first evaluation phase and the second evaluation phase for updating the software product. |
| US10127031B2 |
Method for updating a program on a communication apparatus
A communication apparatus includes a receiver configured to receive metadata, the metadata including information associated with update data capable of being executed after the receiver has received the metadata, and a determination part configured to determine whether an update of the update data is executable in accordance with the metadata. When the determination part has determined that the update is executable, the update is executed. |
| US10127030B1 |
Systems and methods for controlled container execution
In one embodiment, a method is performed by a computer system. The method includes receiving a request to execute a particular container. The method further includes retrieving a manifest of the particular container from a data store, the manifest indicating a plurality of items included in the particular container. In addition, the method includes validating one or more signatures of the container that are associated with the items indicated in the manifest. Also, the method includes determining an execution context of the request. Further, the method includes accessing an applicable execution policy for the determined execution context. Additionally, the method includes, responsive to a determination that the applicable execution policy is satisfied, causing the particular container to be installed on a target resource. |
| US10127029B1 |
Operating system installation using logical volumes
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and processes to support hard drive installation of an operating system from a logical volume partition. An initial volatile memory disk is extracted from an operating system (OS) installation image. A logical volume binary and shared libraries are added to the extracted initial volatile memory disk and then executed. Executing the logical volume binary and the shared libraries modifies a process performed by an OS installation application. The extracted initial volatile memory disk is then repackaged into a modified initial volatile memory disk. |
| US10127027B2 |
Scalable and secure analytic model integration and deployment platform
According to some embodiments, system, apparatus and methods are provided comprising an analytic model for an installed product; an execution platform configured to execute the analytic model; an application programming interface (API) wrapper associated with each of the analytic model and the execution platform, the API wrapper including input information, output information and a technique; and a storage in communication with the analytic model and the execution platform and storing program instructions to perform the functions as follows: transmitting information between the analytic API wrapper and the execution platform API wrapper; and deploying the analytic model to the execution platform based on the transmitted information. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US10127020B2 |
Paradigm in multimedia services creation methodology, and new service creation and service execution environments
The present invention discloses a new paradigm in Multimedia Services Creation Methodology, and new Service Creation and Service Execution Environments, based on this methodology. A service designer can access the Service Creation Environment via a Web based Graphical User Interface (GUI), to design new service in an automated way. The design process includes creation of the Service Logic Script (SLS), and associated databases that are used for storage of service and subscriber related data. The service developer (user) assembles Language Graphical Objects (LGO) into Service Logic Script. LGOs are part of a new graphical language that has been developed to meet multimedia service creation needs. They represent service control and call control primitive functions that have to be performed, in order to provide a multimedia service to service subscribers. |
| US10127019B2 |
System to coordinate source code module changes
A source code repository data store may contain source code module components, and a communication interface may support user displays at remote developer devices. A module coordination system computer server may access an electronic work request record, associated with a work request identifier, a release date, and at least a first source code module component in the source code repository data store. A first remote developer device may establish a first user display including individual lines of code (where each line that has been changed since a previous release of the first source code module component is tagged with an associated work request identifier and is shown in association with a developer identifier). According to some embodiments, a first user display reflects all changes dynamically that have been made since the previous release of the first source code module component, including those with other developer identifiers and multiple release dates. |
| US10127018B2 |
Dynamic addition of code in shared libraries
Various embodiments include methods for dynamically modifying shared libraries on a client computing device. Various embodiment methods may include receiving a first set of code segments and a first set of code sites associated with a first application. Each code in the first set of code sites may include an address within a compiled shared library stored on the client computing device. The compiled shared library may include one or more dummy instructions inserted at each code site in the first set of code sites, and each code segment in the first set of code segments may be associated with a code site in the first set of code sites. The client computing device may insert each code segment in the first set of code segments at its associated code site in the compiled shared library. |
| US10127011B2 |
Device and method for performing functions
Provided is a device including a display, an audio inputter, and a controller. The display displays at least one screen page of an application that is being executed. The audio inputter receives a voice command of a user. The controller performs an operation corresponding to the voice command by using screen page transition information for transition between application screen pages corresponding to the voice command, which is obtained from information about user interface (UI) elements included in the application screen pages of the application. Each of the UI elements performs a predetermined function when selected by the user. |
| US10127008B2 |
Audio processing algorithm database
Examples described herein involve maintaining a database of audio processing algorithms. Maintaining the database may involve generating or updating audio processing algorithm entries. In one example, generating an audio processing algorithm may involve a computing device causing a playback device to play a first audio signal in a playback zone, receiving (i) data indicating one or more characteristics of a playback zone, and (ii) data indicating a second audio signal detected by a microphone of the playback device in the playback zone. Based on the second audio signal and a characteristic of the playback device, an audio processing algorithm may be determined. The an association between the determined audio processing algorithm at least one of the one or more characteristics of the playback zone may be stored in the database. |
| US10127006B2 |
Facilitating calibration of an audio playback device
An example method, and example devices and computer-readable media related to the example method, are disclosed herein. The method includes, as a computing device is moving within an environment of a playback device, capturing, via a microphone of the computing device, one or more calibration sounds played by the playback device. The method further includes identifying one or more sections of data such that each of the one or more sections of the data correspond to a respective calibration sound of the one or more calibration sounds and using the one or more sections of the data to determine a frequency response of the playback device. The method further includes determining one or more parameters of an audio processing algorithm based on the frequency response of the playback device and a target frequency response, and sending, to the playback device, the one or more parameters. |
| US10127005B2 |
Mobile cluster-based audio adjusting method and apparatus
The mobile cluster-based audio adjusting method and apparatus provides for a highly configurable sound management apparatus and process that combines standard computing devices such as laptops, tablets, and mobile phones to measure various aspects of sound waves across multiple points, allowing a single user to visualize and adjust sound output accordingly. |
| US10127004B2 |
Display device and display signal input system and display signal input method thereof
A display device and a display signal input system and a display signal input method thereof are provided. The display signal input method includes: receiving sub-images; grouping the sub-images into a plurality of sub-image groups of a base level; judging information of edge matching between sub-image units in each sub-image group of a current level; if edge matching between the sub-image units in each sub-image group of the current level is correct, grouping respective sub-image groups of the current level as sub-image units to form sub-image groups of a new level, and performing judgment again till edge matching between any two adjacent sub-images in an image formed by splicing the sub-images is correct; and outputting information of the respective sub-images arranged in sequence to the display device. |
| US10126999B1 |
Display scaling
Display control of a sink device is provided. The sink device has tiles forming a display and is connected to a source device via interfaces. Each interface provides a video stream to a respective tile. The source device includes a policy engine, and a GPU (graphics processing unit). The policy engine obtains link training data provided by the driver of the GPU, including information regarding a negotiated link configuration for the interfaces. The policy engine generates configuration data based on the synchronous link training data, the configuration data including a set of configurations each of which associated with a resolution of the display. The policy engine provides driving data to the GPU derived by mapping a resolution to a configuration implementation on the interfaces based on the synchronous link training data and the configuration data. |
| US10126991B2 |
Output systems, information apparatus, or internet appliances supporting voice commands for receiving and for playing selected digital content from a service over a network
Output systems (e.g., information apparatus, Internet appliances, information pads, smart phones, audio output devices) supporting voice commands for playing digital content received from a service provided over a network (e.g., Internet) are herein disclosed and enabled. The output system may include an interface (e.g., touch sensitive screen interface, wireless interface) for receiving authentication information to access the service over the network. The service may be a subscribed service. While connected to the service, the output system receives voice commands from a user for outputting or playing digital content, and, in response to the voice commands, the output system receives, from the service, output data related to the digital content for outputting or playing at the output system. The output system may include a digital camera for image acquisition and may further be Bluetooth enabled for wirelessly receiving audio data (e.g., music) from a mobile device. |
| US10126980B2 |
Managing data operations in a quorum-based data replication system
When a request is received to perform a data operation requiring an interaction with any one of multiple data replicas stored on one or more data storage devices and managed by a quorum-based data management protocol in which completion of a data update is reported to an initiator of the data update when acceptance of the data update is reported by a majority of the data replicas, the data operation is routed to be performed using one of a predefined minority of the data replicas if the data operation requires less than strong consistency, is a read-only data operation, and meets a predefined criterion of being computationally time-intensive or computationally resource-intensive, or routed to be performed using a predefined majority of the data replicas if the data operation requires strong consistency or requires a data write operation or does not meet the predefined criterion. |
| US10126979B2 |
Bus encoding using metadata
Various additional and alternative aspects are described herein. In some aspects, the present disclosure provides a method of communicating data between an electronic unit (EU) of a system-on-chip (SoC) and a dynamic random access memory (DRAM). The method includes compressing data at the EU. The method further includes encoding the compressed data at the EU. The method further includes generating control data for decoding the encoded data at the EU. The method further includes generating metadata corresponding to the compressed data at the EU. The metadata further includes the control data. The method further includes directing storage of the encoded data and the metadata in the DRAM. |
| US10126978B2 |
Memory device detecting last erased page, memory system having the same, and operating method thereof
A memory system includes a memory controller transferring a search command, and a memory device searching a plurality of pages a memory device operatively coupled to a memory controller, the memory device being suitable for detecting a last erased page among a plurality of pages included in a memory block of the memory device, and for providing an address of the last erased page to the memory controller, and the memory controller is configured to control the memory device according to the address of the last erased page. |
| US10126977B2 |
Synchronizing selected portions of data in a storage management system
Disclosed methods and systems leverage resources in a storage management system to partially synchronize primary data files based on synchronizing selected portions thereof without regard to changes that may be occurring in other non-synchronized portions. Accordingly, a number of primary data files may be partially synchronized by synchronizing designated portions thereof via auto-restore operations from backup data. This approach relies on storage management resources to designate portions of source data that is to be kept synchronized across any number of targets; detect changes to the designated portions; back up changes to secondary storage; and distribute the changes from secondary storage to the associated targets, with minimal impact to the primary data environment. The approach may be mutually applied, so that changes in any one of an associated group of source data files may be likewise detected, backed up, and distributed to the other members of the group. |
| US10126976B2 |
Integrating sign extensions for loads
An address and a data size are provided to a rotator. The rotator stores, based on the address and the data size, a data element in a location having a defined number of positions. The data element includes one or more data units and the one or more data units are aligned correctly in one or more positions of the location based on a predefined position in the location to receive a selected data unit of the one or more data units. The rotator replicates a value of a chosen data unit of the one or more data units to one or more other positions of the location. |
| US10126972B1 |
Method and apparatus for block level data de-duplication
Techniques for performing de-duplication for data blocks in a computer storage environment. At least one chunking/hashing unit receives input data from a source and processes it to output data blocks and content addresses for them. In one aspect, the chunking/hashing unit outputs all blocks without checking to see whether any is a duplicate of a block previously stored on the storage environment. In another aspect, each data block is processed by one of a plurality of distributed object addressable storage (OAS) devices that each is selected to process data blocks having content addresses with a particular range. The OAS devices determine whether each received data block is a duplicate of another previously stored on the computer storage environment, and when it is not, stores the data block. |
| US10126968B2 |
Efficient configuration of memory components
In an example, a system includes a memory controller that includes a plurality of memory components. The system also includes a memory controller configured to receive a plurality of memory settings to be applied to the plurality of memory components. The memory controller is configured to, based on the received memory settings, transmit a first command to the plurality of memory components, the first command causing each memory component of the plurality of memory components to be configured to a first memory setting. The memory controller is configured to, based on the received memory settings, transmit a second command to a subset of the plurality of memory components after transmitting the first command, the second command causing each memory component of the subset to be configured to a second memory setting. |
| US10126964B2 |
Hardware based map acceleration using forward and reverse cache tables
Apparatus and method for managing map data in a data storage device. A programmable processor issues a find command to locate and place a requested map page of a map structure into a first cache to service a received host command. A non-programmable hardware circuit searches a forward table to determine whether the requested map page is in a second cache, and if so, loads the map page to the first cache. If not, the hardware circuit requests the requested map page from a back end processor which retrieves the requested map page from a non-volatile memory (NVM), such as a flash memory array. The hardware circuit searches a reverse table and the first cache to select a candidate location in the second cache for the retrieved requested map page from the NVM, and directs the storage of a copy of the requested map page at the candidate location. |
| US10126962B2 |
Adapted block translation table (BTT)
Techniques are described for performing a memory operation where direct memory access and logical address translation are implemented. A request for an I/O operation received that includes information indicative of whether a physical memory address may be changed and whether sector atomicity is desired. Based on the information, the requested I/O operation is performed using unmodified Block Translation Table (BTT) where the physical location associated with the requested I/O operation is changed and sector atomicity is provided, or modified BTT where a physical location associated with the requested I/O operation is not changed, or modified BTT where a physical location associated with the requested I/O operation is not changed and atomicity is provided. |
| US10126956B2 |
Information processing device and information processing method
In the present invention, an information amount of information to be collected is reduced gradually based on a collection speed, a transmission speed, and information amount reduction levels each being gradual setting of processing details of reducing an information amount for each piece of the information to be collected. Hence, when collecting energy information and working information from apparatuses installed in, for example, factories, houses, buildings, and so on, if the apparatuses switch between working and stopping frequently and a situation where the information cannot be collected duly occurs, missing of information to be collected, particularly high-priority information, can be minimized in comparison with cases where the amount of information to be collected is adjusted in accordance with the priority or by a thinning-out process. |
| US10126951B2 |
Apparatus and method for processing data samples with different bit widths
A data processing apparatus includes a storage element and a clock controller. The storage element has storage partitions, including a first storage partition and a second storage partition. The clock controller controls clock driving of the first storage partition and the second storage partition. When a processing circuit is configured to operate in a first condition to process a first data sample with a first bit width, the clock controller enables clock driving of both of the first storage partition and the second storage partition. When the processing circuit is configured to operate in a second condition to process a second data sample with a second bit width, the clock controller enables clock driving of the first storage partition and disables clock driving of the second storage partition. |
| US10126950B2 |
Allocating and configuring persistent memory
Methods and apparatus to allocating and/or configuring persistent memory are described. In an embodiment, memory controller logic configures non-volatile memory into a plurality of partitions at least in part based on one or more attributes. One or more volumes (visible to an application or operating system) are formed from one or more of the plurality of partitions. Each of the one or more volumes includes one or more of the plurality of partitions having at least one similar attribute from the one or more attributes. In another embodiment, memory controller logic configures a Non-Volatile Memory (NVM) Dual Inline Memory Module (DIMM) into a persistent region and a volatile region. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. |
| US10126947B2 |
Interconnect systems and methods using hybrid memory cube links to send packetized data over different endpoints of a data handling device
System on a Chip (SoC) devices include two packetized memory buses for conveying local memory packets and system interconnect packets. In an in-situ configuration of a data processing system two or more SoCs are coupled with one or more hybrid memory cubes (HMCs). The memory packets enable communication with local HMCs in a given SoC's memory domain. The system interconnect packets enable communication between SoCs and communication between memory domains. In a dedicated routing configuration each SoC in a system has its own memory domain to address local HMCs and a separate system interconnect domain to address HMC hubs, HMC memory devices, or other SoC devices connected in the system interconnect domain. |
| US10126944B2 |
Triggering display of application
A method and system are provided for triggering display of an application. The method includes: in response to receiving a gesture denoting an approximate closed region or a closed region on a display screen, determining a non-full-screen display region corresponding to the gesture on the display screen; displaying shortcuts of at least one application in the non-full-screen display region; and in response to a user selecting one of the shortcuts, launching an application corresponding to the selected shortcut, and displaying an interface of the application in the non-full-screen display region. |
| US10126926B2 |
Systems and methods for rendering user interface elements in accordance with a device type
This application is directed to a method implemented by a computer system for rendering one or more user interface elements on a display device. The computer system receives a request for rendering a first user interface element without an orientation preference, and identifies a type of the display device. In accordance with a determination that the type of the display device is a first device type corresponding to television devices, the first user interface element is rendered as a vertical user interface element for display in a first display region of the display device. In accordance with a determination that the type of the display device is a second device type corresponding to one or more device other than the television devices, the first user interface element is rendered as a horizontal user interface element for display in a second display region of the display device. |
| US10126919B2 |
Systems, apparatus, methods and computer-readable storage media for facilitating management of social media information for communication devices
Management of social media information is facilitated. A method can include: executing a batch linking application; and batch linking social network (SN) contacts to contacts stored on or accessible by the communication device, wherein the batch linking comprises obtaining the SN contacts at the communication device, wherein the SN contacts are selected for the batch linking based, at least, on a correspondence to the contacts, and wherein the batch linking is performed by the communication device. |
| US10126918B2 |
Customized guided workflow element arrangement
Customized guided workflow element arrangement techniques are described in which user interface elements configured to provide entry points for guided workflows are dynamically arranged based upon usage frequency of application features. In one or more implementations, personalized views of a workflow selection screen are generated and provided to users by arranging UI elements on an individual basis. Workflows related to features of an application that are used are identified based on per-user tracking. Ranks are set for the workflows based at least upon relative usage of corresponding features as determined through the tracking, which establishes an order for different workflows one to another. A user interface that implements the workflow selection screen may then be exposed having UI elements that are configured as entry points to different guided workflows and arranged in a customized arrangement in accordance with the rankings. |
| US10126917B2 |
Information processing device, information processing system, and recording medium
An example system includes: a display processing unit performing processing of displaying on a display unit a home screen containing a selection image and a background image, the selection image being constructed from one or a plurality of images used for receiving selection operation, the background image serving as a background of the selection image; and a scroll operation reception unit receiving operation of scrolling the selection image displayed on the display unit. In accordance with the operation of scrolling received by the scroll operation reception unit, the display processing unit scrolls the selection image while animating the background image of the home screen. |
| US10126915B2 |
Concentrated control system for vehicle
A concentrated control system for a vehicle includes: a menu portion that, when rotated, provides menu modes associated with devices in the vehicle; and a first menu providing portion that scrolls menu buttons, included in an enabled menu and used to control functions of an in-vehicle device, in a first direction so that the scrolled menu buttons are displayed within the menu portion. |
| US10126909B2 |
Enhanced electronic health record graphical user interface system
An enhanced electronic health record system. A user device having a display accesses electronic health records and clinic note templates stored on digital storage segments. A template selection screen is presented on the display of the user device. The template selection screen has at least two view modes. One view mode is a grid view, in which icon representations of various clinic note templates are displayed, each icon representation having a number of secondary icons providing additional functionality and information to the user. Also available is a list view, which also contains a vertical listing of available clinic note templates, each list element also having secondary icons. Upon selection of a template, the user is presented with a formatted clinic note. Additional functionality is available to the user to aid in the efficient capture of information. |
| US10126906B2 |
Optimizing a user interface for a computing device
In general, embodiments of the invention provide an approach to organize a user interface, such as a computer desktop, based on the role or activity of the current user. Specifically, a display area configuration of a user device is defined by selecting resources from a plurality of available resources to include in a display area configuration, building a profile from the selected resources to preserve the display area configuration, and saving the profile. The display area is then built on a user device when the profile is selected from the user device. |
| US10126902B2 |
Contextual help system
Embodiments described herein generally relate to a dynamic contextual help application. The help application adapts to content displayed within a graphical user interface (GUI) to provide content specific help objects. The help objects may be selected by a user and an indication object may simultaneously appear apart from the contextual help application to guide the user in performing various functions related to the selected help object. |
| US10126897B2 |
Touch input device, vehicle including the same, and method of manufacturing the vehicle
A touch input device includes: a main body including a touch input unit disposed on a surface of the main body and a base including a metal composite disposed on another surface of the main body; a first pattern groove engraved in a surface of the base; a second pattern groove engraved in the surface of the base and disposed adjacent to the first pattern groove; a first sensing pattern disposed in the first pattern groove and including a conductive material; and a second sensing pattern disposed in the second pattern groove and including a conductive material; and a wire connecting the first sensing pattern and the second sensing pattern to an integrated circuit. |
| US10126894B2 |
Position detection device
The present invention discloses a position detection device including a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a processor. The first electrode layer includes a plurality of first electrodes, and the second electrode layer includes a plurality of second electrodes. A gap is formed between the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The processor detects a plurality of capacitive values between the plurality of first electrodes and the plurality of second electrodes so as to measure the movement track of a conductive object passing through the gap. |
| US10126893B2 |
Method and apparatus for capacitive sensing
Embodiments of the present invention provide a capacitive sensing apparatus, a manufacturing and operation method thereof and an electronic device including the capacitive sensing apparatus. An apparatus includes first capacitive sensing unit(s) and second capacitive sensing unit, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to control periodic charging of the capacitive sensing units, determine first voltage change(s) for the first capacitive sensing unit(s) and second voltage change(s) for the second capacitive sensing unit(s), and calculate, for the first capacitive sensing unit(s), a signal-to-noise ratio value based on the first voltage change(s) and the second voltage change(s). Sensing results of first capacitive sensing unit(s) may be calibrated based on the sensing results of second capacitive sensing unit(s), thereby reducing influence of environmental changes on stability and sensitivity of a capacitive sensing apparatus. |
| US10126891B2 |
In-cell type display device
A display device includes: a first substrate including a touch region for sensing a touch and a peripheral area surrounding the touch region; a second substrate facing the first substrate; thin film transistors positioned on the first substrate; pixel electrodes connected to the thin film transistors; common electrodes arranged to transmit a common voltage; sensing wires connected to the common electrodes and arranged to transmit a detection signal for sensing a touch; and a transparent electrode layer positioned on a first surface of the second substrate, the transparent electrode layer having a portion overlapping the peripheral area, and having at least one opening positioned over the touch region. |
| US10126886B2 |
Electrode pattern, manufacturing method thereof, and touch sensor including the same
A transparent electrode pattern includes a first electrode including a first lower conductive layer and a first upper conductive layer located on the first lower conductive layer and a second electrode spaced apart from the first electrode and including a second lower conductive layer and a second upper conductive layer positioned on the second lower conductive layer. The first and second lower conductive layers may include a metal nanowire. The first and second upper conductive layers may include a transparent conductive material that is dry-etchable. |
| US10126877B1 |
Update of reference data for touch input detection
At a receiver associated with a transmitter-receiver pair, a propagating signal transmitted by a transmitter associated with the pair is received. A detected disturbance to a signal property of the propagating signal is analyzed with respect to reference data associated with the pair to detect whether a touch input has been provided. If the detected disturbance meets a criteria then the reference data associated with the pair is updated using the received propagating signal. |
| US10126873B2 |
Stroke continuation for dropped touches on electronic handwriting devices
An electronic handwriting device (e.g., a tablet device or smart phone) detects a first touch and a second touch (e.g., from a pen device) on or near a writing surface of the electronic handwriting device. The electronic handwriting device determines whether the first touch is a dropped touch. Upon determining that the first touch is a dropped touch, the electronic handwriting device applies data filtering to data that is potentially associated with the second touch. After the data filtering step, the electronic handwriting device determines whether to generate a stitching segment between a first line segment associated with the dropped touch and a second line segment associated with the second touch. The determination of whether to generate the stitching segment also may be based on other factors, such as the proximity of the second touch to the dropped touch. |
| US10126870B2 |
Techniques for mitigating noise in capacitive sensing devices
Disclosed herein are techniques for reducing certain types of noise in capacitive sensing devices. The techniques generally comprise utilizing a low-pass filter in conjunction with a comb filter to “zero out” frequency components associated with certain types of noise. More specifically, the comb filter is configured to zero out noise associated with the fundamental frequency and harmonics of noise that approximates a square wave or an impulse train. The frequency of the sensing signal for capacitive sensing is chosen such that the comb filter does not zero out such frequency. |
| US10126865B2 |
Touch control display panel and display device
A touch control display panel and a display device are provided. The touch control display panel may comprise a first touch control electrode array including a plurality of first sub-electrodes arranged in an M1×N1 array and a plurality of first connectors, and a second touch control electrode array including a plurality of second sub-electrodes arranged in an M2×N2 array and a plurality of second connectors, where M1, M2, N1, and N2 is a positive integer, respectively. The first control electrode array and the second control electrode array are configured to satisfy at least one of: in the first direction, a width of the first sub-electrode being larger than a width of the first connector, and in the second direction, a width of the second sub-electrode being larger than a width of the second connector. |
| US10126864B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device having a touch screen or display to reduce or eliminate visibility of structures in the device due to reflected light includes a base member and a touch member disposed on one surface of the base member and including first and second sensor parts spaced apart from each other with a boundary interposed therebetween. Each of the first and second sensor parts includes first and second areas disposed adjacent to each, a plurality of first patterns in the first area spaced apart from each other and a plurality of second patterns in the second area spaced apart from the first patterns. Each of the first patterns has a first shape, and each of the second patterns has a second shape different than the first shape. Various embodiments of patterns having shapes selected to reduce or eliminate visibility are disclosed. |
| US10126857B2 |
Dual diagonal thermopile control of an apparatus
A user device can include a first thermopile, a second thermopile, a housing, and a controller. The first thermopile can be configured to sense a change in thermal energy from a user of the apparatus. The second thermopile can be configured to sense the change in the thermal energy from the user of the user device. The housing can include a thermal path for the thermal energy from the user to reach the first and second thermopiles. The first and second thermopiles can be diagonally positioned from each other relative to the housing. The controller can be coupled to the first and second thermopiles. The controller can be configured to change a configuration of at least one of a hardware element of the apparatus and a software application executing on the user device in response to coordinated sensing by the first and second thermopiles of the change in the thermal energy. |
| US10126855B2 |
Sensor device and information processing device
A sensor device is provided which includes a pressure-sensitive sensor which changes shape in response to pressing of an operation tool and which detects change in capacitance due to the change in shape, and a barrier which covers at least a part of the pressure-sensitive sensor and which prevents change in capacitance of the pressure-sensitive sensor due to capacitive coupling that occurs with approach between the pressure-sensitive sensor and the operation tool. |
| US10126854B2 |
Providing touch position information
A device may determine touch position information representing a position where a touch surface is touched by an object, and may determine force information representing a force being applied by the object to the touch surface. Based on the force information, the device may determine that the force applied to the touch surface does not satisfy a force threshold. Afterwards, the device may determine that a particular duration has not elapsed. Finally, after determining that the particular duration has not elapsed, the device may provide the touch position information for further processing. |
| US10126853B2 |
Touch lead arrangement for an array substrate and display apparatus
An array substrate and a display apparatus are provided. The array substrate includes a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area, wherein the non-display area includes a frame sealing adhesive area, a plurality of touch leads and a plurality of touch signal output terminals. The plurality of touch signal output terminals are electrically connected with the plurality of touch leads, respectively, and the plurality of touch signal output terminals input a touch signal to the display area via the touch lead. A minimum distance between two adjacent touch leads in the frame sealing adhesive area is greater than a minimum distance between two adjacent touch signal output terminals correspondingly connected to said two adjacent touch leads. |
| US10126852B2 |
Display module having double-sided illumination design
A display device of the present invention includes a light source layer and a sensing unit layer. The light source layer has a display side and a sensing side at the backside of the display side. The light source layer includes a plurality of first light sources generating a first light, and a plurality of second light sources generating a second light. The first light at least partially emits toward the sensing side; the second light at least partially emits toward the display side. A second wavelength of the second light is different from a first wavelength of the first light. The sensing unit layer is disposed at the sensing side of the light source layer. In a sensing mode, the plurality of the first light sources is activated to generate and provide the first light for the sensing unit layer. In a displaying mode, the plurality of the second light sources is activated to generate the second light for displaying an image at the display side. |
| US10126846B2 |
Portable electronic device including touch-sensitive display and method of controlling selection of information
A method of controlling selection of information on a display is provided. The method includes displaying the information on the display and displaying a selection indicator associated with a selection including a part of the information, and detecting an input to adjust an amount of the information included in the selection. In response to detecting the input, he selection indicator is adjusted based on the input. A determination is made whether the amount of the information included in the selection exceeds a threshold limit. In response to determining that the amount of the information included in the selection exceeds the threshold limit, the selection is displayed as a split selection by displaying a beginning part of the selection and an end part of the selection without displaying a middle part of the selection between the beginning part and the end part, and displaying a split indicator. In response to determining that the amount of the information included in the selection is within the threshold limit, display of the information included in the selection is continued. |
| US10126845B2 |
Wireless input device, charging pad and charging method thereof
A wireless input device is provided. The wireless input device includes a rechargeable wireless mouse, a wireless receiver and a charging pad. The charging pad includes a wireless power transmitting module and a charging control circuit. The charging control circuit is electrically connected to the wireless power transmitting module. The charging control circuit correspondingly activates the wireless power transmitting module to wirelessly output the electromagnetic power according to an activation signal provided by the wireless receiver. The charging pad receives the activation signal when the wireless receiver is connected to the charging pad. When the charging pad is not connected to the wireless receiver, the charging control circuit stops the wireless power transmitting module from wirelessly outputting the electromagnetic power. Accordingly, the charging pad of the present invention can avoid damage resulting from the abnormal charging so as to save power. |
| US10126839B2 |
Motion-based view scrolling with augmented tilt control
Systems and methods for motion-based scrolling of contents view on a display with a screen view that is smaller than the contents view are described. During an augmented tilt control mode, scrolling follows changes in a primary tilt direction aligned with the scrolling direction, while a secondary tilt along a direction perpendicular to the scrolling direction is used to modify at least one scrolling control parameter. The scrolling control may follow a Proportional Scroll mode, where the primary tilt directly controls the screen view position over the contents view, or follow a Dynamic Scroll mode, where the primary tilt controls the scrolling speed. In some implementations, the scroll mode is determined automatically based on the magnification of the contents view. A predefined gestured in the secondary tilt may temporarily override the scroll mode selection. In some implementations with multi-directional scrolling, the current scrolling direction may be temporarily captured during the augmented tilt control mode so that tilt gestures along the direction perpendicular to the captured scrolling direction may be used to modify at least one scrolling control parameters. |
| US10126837B1 |
Wearable device that is automatically configurable between wearer facing and redemption interfaces
Provided herein are method, apparatus, and computer program products for automatically outputting a wearer interface or a redemption interface. The wearer interface and the redemption interface may contain information related to a wearer of a wearable device and a provider respectively. The wearable device may reference a merchant redemption parameters database to facilitate the output of the redemption interface, and the wearable device my reference a wearer parameters database to facilitate the output of the wearer interface. Both the wearer interface and the redemption interface may be displayed on the wearable device by an interactive display. |
| US10126836B2 |
Software cursor positioning system
A method of positioning a cursor has the steps of registering the session on database tables, the user making a choice with an input device regarding cursor positioning, registering the choice within the tables, and repositioning the cursor to the most frequent cursor position in the tables. The choice of cursor position may be determined by a GetCursorPos function in a Windows-based computer, and the cursor may be repositioned by a SetCursorPos function. |
| US10126835B2 |
Contact interface input device
The present invention relates to a pointer device for operation of interactive screen surfaces, comprising: a closed ring (10) or a ring shaped segment for placement on a finger, where the ring or ring-shaped segment comprises a extractable pointer device (11, 21, 68), where the pointer device is adapted for interaction with a touch-sensitive screen in that the extractable pointer device has an end face functioning as an interface with interactive screens where the end face is less than 25 mm2. |
| US10126834B2 |
Electronic device and a method for controlling the functions of the electronic device as well as program product for implementing the method
The invention relates to an electronic device, which includes a display component, in which at least one controllable element is arranged to be visualized in its entirety, the control of which element is arranged to be based on determining a change (M) relating to the attitude or position of the device and camera means arranged to form image frames (IMAGE1, IMAGE2), and in which, in order to control the functions of the device, such as, for example, to control the element, the change is arranged to be determined, using optical data-flow algorithms, from the image frames formed by the camera means, which image frames are arranged to be compared to each other in a set manner, and on the basis of which comparison the said change is arranged to be determined. The image frames are arranged to be segmented in a selected manner, from which at least one movement vector (SR, SL, SUp, SDown) determining the said change is arranged to be determined from at least some of the segments (SEGMENT1, SEGMENT2). |
| US10126821B2 |
Information processing method and information processing device
Provided in an embodiment of the present invention are an information processing method and information processing device applied to a server. The information processing method comprises acquiring, in the communication process between a first electronic apparatus and a second electronic apparatus, the generated communication information from the first electronic apparatus and/or the second electronic apparatus; determining a processed object based on the communication information; analyzing the processed object to acquire correlation information associated with the processed object; and executing an operation based on the correlation information. |
| US10126820B1 |
Open and closed hand detection
Detection of human hands within an environment is used for gesture recognition for input to a computing system. Detecting a hand is non-trivial, however, because the appearances of a hand vary widely with many independent digits and moving parts. A feature-based similarity measurement is used to detect two specific hand positions—an open hand and a closed hand. |
| US10126816B2 |
Systems and methods for using imagined directions to define an action, function or execution for non-tactile devices
A system and method for controlling a non-tactile device including a receiving device configured to receive signals corresponding to a user's brain waves or movements, the brain waves or movements corresponding to a series of directional intentions, the intentions defining at least one line pattern, a processor configured to process the at least one line pattern, each of said at least one line patterns associated with an action of the device, and output a control signal to the non-tactile device related to the action. |
| US10126815B2 |
Systems, devices, and methods for proximity-based eye tracking
Systems, devices, and methods for proximity-based eye tracking are described. A proximity sensor positioned near the eye monitors the distance to the eye, which varies depending on the position of the corneal bulge. The corneal bulge protrudes outward from the surface of the eye and so, all other things being equal, a static proximity sensor detects a shorter distance to the eye when the cornea is directed towards the proximity sensor and a longer distance to the eye when the cornea is directed away from the proximity sensor. Optical proximity sensors that operate with infrared light are used as a non-limiting example of proximity sensors. Multiple proximity sensors may be used and processed simultaneously in order to provide a more accurate/precise determination of the gaze direction of the user. Implementations in which proximity-based eye trackers are incorporated into wearable heads-up displays are described. |
| US10126814B2 |
Apparatus and method for providing advertisement using pupil tracking
An apparatus and a method for providing an advertisement using pupil tracking are disclosed. The apparatus for providing an advertisement using pupil tracking is capable of designating a selection position within a display screen using a pupil tracking point generated by tracking a user's pupil and a direction point corresponding to the user's direction, determining a target object corresponding to the selection position from among the objects within the display screen, and providing a promotion content corresponding to the target object according to the user's response. By providing only a promotion content for a user's desired object within the display screen, it is possible to prevent expose of unnecessary information resulting from indiscriminate pupil tracking. |
| US10126813B2 |
Omni-directional camera
A 360-degree camera captures images from every direction. The user specifies the region of interest for the camera with a gesture, for example by pointing with one end of the device to a specific direction. The region of interest is saved as metadata with the image or video recording. The device may assign the user among multiple persons near the device by detecting from the omnidirectional view who has been the last person in physical contact with the device. The region of interest may be assigned with voice commands. |
| US10126812B2 |
Interacting with a network to transmit virtual image data in augmented or virtual reality systems
One embodiment is directed to a system for enabling two or more users to interact within a virtual world comprising virtual world data, comprising a computer network comprising one or more computing devices, the one or more computing devices comprising memory, processing circuitry, and software stored at least in part in the memory and executable by the processing circuitry to process at least a portion of the virtual world data; wherein at least a first portion of the virtual world data originates from a first user virtual world local to a first user, and wherein the computer network is operable to transmit the first portion to a user device for presentation to a second user, such that the second user may experience the first portion from the location of the second user, such that aspects of the first user virtual world are effectively passed to the second user. |
| US10126803B1 |
Conditional power management activities
Methods and apparatus for scheduling and controlling power management activities are disclosed. An example method includes detecting, by a computing device, playback of video content at a frame rate that is greater than a predetermined threshold frame rate. The example method further includes, in response to the detection of the playback of video content at the frame rate greater than the threshold frame rate, overriding a screen dimming operation of the computing device. |
| US10126801B2 |
Computer power conditioning system
A computer power conditioning system for includes an electronic device that has a power supply and a motherboard. The power supply is electrically coupled to the motherboard. The power supply may be electrically coupled to a power source. A power conditioner is selectively electrically coupled between the power supply and the motherboard. The power conditioner conditions an electrical current passing from the power supply to the motherboard. Thus, the motherboard is protected from being damaged by improper voltage and current from the power supply. |
| US10126800B2 |
Electronic architecture for controlling a DC/AC voltage converter
Electronic architecture (3) for controlling a DC/AC voltage converter (2), said converter (2) comprising a plurality of arms mounted in parallel, each arm comprising two controllable switching cells (21), in series and separated by a mid-point, the arms being paired in H-bridges (20), the architecture (3) comprising: —a main control unit (36), configured to communicate through a potential barrier (61) with a remote control unit (35), and —a plurality of secondary control units (37), each secondary control unit (37) being dedicated to controlling a respective H-bridge (20), and comprising: —a processing unit (40) for processing the information received from the main control unit (36), and —a monitoring unit (41) for monitoring the controllable switching cells (21) of said H-bridge (20), said monitoring unit (41) being configured to modify the state of all or some of said switching cells (21) of said H-bridge (20) at least on the basis of information received from the corresponding processing unit (40). |
| US10126787B1 |
Computing device mounting enclosures
An example mounting enclosure comprises a frame to be arranged between a display device and a support structure, a slidable access cover to slidably engage the frame of the mounting enclosure, a mounting interface to connect the frame to the support structure, a computing device reception bracket to receive a computing device, and a power supply storage portion. |
| US10126786B2 |
Ejection mechanism assembly for storage drive and storage drive having the ejection mechanism assembly
A drive ejection mechanism, a storage drive enclosure and a server device having the drive ejection mechanism assembly are provided. The ejection mechanism assembly includes a lower guide member, an ejection member, a drive retaining member, and a biasing member. The lower guide member have a first end and a second end and may include a floor and at least one sidewall defining a lower drive insertion path. The ejection member may be slidingly coupled to the lower guide member. The drive retaining member may be hingedly connected to the first end of the lower guide member. The biasing member may be configured to bias the ejection member toward the first end of the lower guide member. |
| US10126781B2 |
Electronic device
Provided is an electronic device including a display module including at least one first inserting portion; a printed circuit board electrically connected to the display module and including a second inserting portion that overlaps with at least some parts of the first inserting portion; and at least one function module, wherein at least some parts of the at least one function module are inserted into the first inserting portion and the second inserting portion. |
| US10126779B2 |
Wearable computing device
The present disclosure describes a wearable computing device (WCD) in the form of a ring that can be worn on the finger of a human user. |
| US10126778B2 |
Flexible display device
A flexible display device includes a casing, a circuit board, a first reel, a flexible display, and a connecting line. The circuit board is received in the casing. The first reel is rotatably arranged in the casing. The flexible display is at least partially received in the casing, and the flexible display can be wound around the first reel. The circuit board and the flexible display are connected via the connecting line. The connecting line can be wound around the first reel. A junction is formed in a position where the connecting line and the flexible display are connected. When the flexible display is fully unfolded outside the casing, the connecting line is at least partially wound around the first reel from the junction. When the flexible display is folded in the casing, both the flexible display and the connecting line are wound around the first reel. |
| US10126777B2 |
Portable display device
According to one aspect of the present invention, a portable display device comprises: a front case having a display unit located on the front surface thereof; a rear case coupled to the rear side of the front case so as to form an electric field part; a middle frame arranged in the electric field art, and including a metal material; a stand having one end, which is hinge-coupled to the lower end of the middle frame, and rotatably moving around the hinge so as to come into contact with the rear side of the middle frame or to be spaced apart from the rear side of the middle frame; and an opening formed on the rear case at a location corresponding to the stand. Therefore, the portable display device can be easily held and used at any place without additionally carrying a separate holding device. |
| US10126776B1 |
Anti-accommodation paresis apparatus
An anti-accommodation paresis apparatus for a computer screen may include a controller configured to emit a control signal to drive a motor operably coupled to the controller and responsive thereto, and a computer screen support configured to couple to a computer screen, the computer screen support mechanically coupled to the motor. The motor may be configured to receive the control signal and operate to move the computer screen support closer to and farther away from a viewer of the computer screen according to an automated, predetermined pattern at a predetermined speed of movement selected to reduce accommodation paresis of the viewer. |
| US10126773B2 |
Circuit and method for providing a secondary reference voltage from an initial reference voltage
According one embodiment, a circuit is described comprising a first reference voltage generating circuit comprising an output to provide a first reference voltage and a second reference voltage generating circuit comprising an input receiving a value representative of the first reference voltage, the second reference voltage generating circuit being configured to generate a second reference voltage based on the received value. |
| US10126772B2 |
Apparatus and method for prediction of a demand response dispatch
A method for dispatching buildings participating in a demand response program including retrieving a plurality of baseline energy use data sets for the buildings from a baseline data stores; generating data sets for each of the buildings, each having energy consumption values along with corresponding time and outside temperature values, where the energy consumption values within each set are shifted by one of a plurality of lag values relative to the corresponding time and outside temperature values, and where each lag value; performing a regression analysis on each set to yield corresponding regression model parameters and a corresponding residual; determining a least valued indicating a corresponding energy lag for each of the buildings; and using outside temperatures, regression model parameters, and energy lags for all of the buildings to estimate a cumulative energy consumption for the buildings, and to predict a dispatch order reception time for a demand response program event. |
| US10126765B2 |
Semiconductor device having internal voltage generating circuit
A semiconductor device including a first internal voltage generating circuit that includes a capacitor including a first electrode and a second electrode, and the first internal voltage generating circuit to generate an internal voltage by charging the capacitor to a first voltage and applying a second voltage to the first electrode of the capacitor to generate a third voltage that is greater than the first and the second voltages on the second electrode in absolute value, and a control circuit to perform a control by applying a fourth voltage that is less than the first voltage to the capacitor when the first internal voltage generating circuit is in a standby state. |
| US10126761B2 |
Gas insensitive mass flow control systems and methods
Gas insensitive systems and methods for controlling the mass flow rate of a gas through a primary conduit are disclosed. The method includes producing, in a secondary conduit, an assessment flow that has a changing pressure; calculating a first measure of a flow rate of the assessment flow based upon a rate-of-change of the pressure of the assessment flow; and measuring the assessment flow with a mass flow meter that is affected by the composition of the gas to produce a second measure of the assessment flow. An adjustment signal is generated based upon a difference between the first measure and the second measure, and a gas-corrected flow signal is generated by adjusting a measured-flow signal of a mass flow controller with the adjustment signal. The gas-corrected flow signal is used by the mass flow controller to control a flow rate of the gas through the primary conduit. |
| US10126757B2 |
Single track legged vehicle
A vehicle comprises a body, a first leg, and a second leg. The first leg has a proximal end jointed to the body, a distal end, and a first foot located on the distal end. A first maximum working envelope is associated with the first foot, where the first working range is inscribed within a first maximum working envelope. Likewise, the second leg has a proximal end jointed to the body in-line with the first leg, a distal end, and a second foot located on the distal end. A second maximum working envelope is associated with the second foot, where the second working range is inscribed within a second maximum working envelope. The vehicle thus defines a single-track multi-legged vehicle where the first leg and the second leg are attached to the body one behind the other, substantially parallel to a major axis of motion of the vehicle. |
| US10126747B1 |
Coordination of mobile drive units
In one example, an intersection of a first path and a second path may be determined. The first path may be associated with a first mobile drive unit and the second path may be associated with a second mobile drive unit. A plurality of velocity sets may be determined based on the intersection. A velocity set may be selected from the plurality of velocity sets. The velocity set may include velocity values that correspond to the first mobile drive unit and the second mobile drive unit. The selected velocity set may be provided to at least one of the first mobile drive unit or the second mobile drive unit. |
| US10126743B2 |
Vehicle navigation route search system, method, and program
A vehicle navigation route search system, method, and program search for a recommended route in the case where a vehicle travels by autonomous driving control in an autonomous driving section where autonomous driving control of the vehicle is permitted. The system, method, and program calculate a cost value by using a cost table for autonomous driving control which is set such that a route that is more suitable for traveling by autonomous driving control has a lower cost value, and search for the recommended route based on the calculated cost value. |
| US10126742B2 |
Autonomous vehicle operated with guide assistance of human driven vehicles
Sensor information is collected from human driven vehicles which are driven in a given region. From the sensor information, a road condition is detected on a road segment, where the road condition has a sufficiently high likelihood of impairing autonomous vehicles in safely navigating through the one or more road segments. Information about the one or more road segments is communicated to the one or more autonomous vehicles. |
| US10126741B2 |
Remotely controlled power equipment system
A remotely controlled power equipment system which allows various types of power equipment to be remotely controlled by a transmitter. The remotely controlled power equipment system generally includes a base which is adapted to removably connect to one of a plurality of attachments. The base includes a pair of wheels which are each individually powered by one of a pair of drive motors. A battery, which is charged by the primary motor via an alternator, is adapted to power the drive motors. The base includes a control unit which has a receiver adapted to receive commands from a transmitter and a controller adapted to individually control each of the drive motors in response to a signal received from the transmitter. In this manner, power equipment may be remotely controlled via a transmitter without the operator needing to manually operate the power equipment. |
| US10126740B2 |
System and method for violation enforcement utilizing vehicle immobilization
A system for violation enforcement utilizing vehicle immobilization is provided. The system includes a database configured to store identifying information for a plurality of target vehicles subject to immobilization. The system includes a license plate recognition device configured identify a plurality of vehicles and a geographic locations associated with each vehicle. A data server receives the data identifying the plurality of vehicles and the plurality of geographic locations associated with each vehicle. An output processor is in operative communication with the data server and the database and is configured to process the received data and to compare the received data to the stored identifying information for the plurality of target vehicles. The output processor is further configured to generate and transmit a notification to a recovery vehicle when identifying information for one or more target vehicles matches the identifying information for one or more vehicles in the received data. |
| US10126736B2 |
Industrial process historian time synchronization of source based timestamp event data
Provided herein are systems, methods, and software for preserving timestamp data in an industrial automation environment. In one implementation, one or more computer-readable storage media having program instructions stored thereon to preserve timestamp data in an industrial automation environment, wherein the program instructions, when executed by a computing system, direct the computing system to at least receive, at a controller, event data of an event from an electronic device, wherein the event data comprises a status of the event and the timestamp of the event. The program instructions also direct the computing system to determine an identification value based on the event data and load the status of the event, the timestamp of the event, and the identification value to a queue within the controller. The timestamp of the event includes the timestamp transmitted from the electronic device. |
| US10126731B2 |
Height-adjustable table using eye detection
The present invention relates to a height-adjustable table (1) height-adjusting arrangement (100) for adjusting the height of the table (1), wherein the height-adjusting arrangement (100) comprises at least one leg, each leg having an inner tubular member (112) and an outer tubular member (113) arranged for telescopic movement relative to each other, and a linear actuator (114) coupled to said tubular members (112, 113) and which is configured to provide the telescopic movement between the tubular members (112, 113), and an electric motor connected to the linear actuator (114) and configured to operate the linear actuator for providing telescopic movement between the tubular members. The height-adjusting arrangement (100) further comprises an eye detection unit arranged to detect the position of a user's eyes. The height-adjusting arrangement (100) is configured for control of the height of the height-adjustable table (1) based on the detected position of a user's eyes. |
| US10126728B2 |
Method and system for collecting via a MES system time-stamps of working-statuses
A method and a system collect via a MES, time-stamps of working-statuses of machines and operators, called also actors, for a calculation of a time-dependant component of OLE and OEE indicators in a manufacturing task. The method includes providing a token for assigning to an actor the responsibility of data provision, and defining two meta-statuses for a machine in a task, called operating and booked meta-status respectively. Each meta-status groups a set of machine statuses. A machine is defined to be in an operating meta-status when the machine is in a status engaged in the task and it is able to know and notify its own status. A machine is defined to be in a booked meta-status when the machine is in a status engaged in the task and it is unable to notify its own status. |
| US10126725B2 |
Elastic rule engine for a smart home
An embodiment of this disclosure provides an apparatus including a communications unit and at least one processor. The communications unit is configured to communicate with a client device in the system. The at least one processor is coupled to the communications unit. The at least one processor configured to monitor a rule in the system. The rule controls the client device. The at least one processor is also configured to, responsive to the rule for the client device being triggered, determine whether an anomaly exists in the system. The at least one processor is also configured to, response to the anomaly existing, determine whether an override action is available for the anomaly. The at least one processor is also configured to, responsive to the override action being available, override the rule. |
| US10126723B2 |
Performing passive maintenance on an energy storage farm
In one aspect, a method of performing a passive maintenance operation on an energy storage farm may generally include receiving data associated with a maintenance schedule for each energy storage system in the plurality of energy storage systems, identifying at least one energy storage system as a charge contributor based at least in part on the data associated with the maintenance schedule, identifying at least one energy storage system as a discharge contributor based at least in part on the data associated with the maintenance schedule, and controlling the operation of the energy storage farm such that power distribution in the energy storage farm is biased so as to increase the state of charge of the charge contributor(s) prior to increasing the state of charge of the discharge contributor(s). |
| US10126720B2 |
Intelligence computer desk and chair system
An intelligence computer desk and chair system includes a platform, a carriage, and a control unit. The carriage is located on the platform. The control unit is electrically connected to the carriage. The control unit controls the carriage to move relative to the platform according to a built-in program. |
| US10126713B2 |
Timepiece component with a part with a decoupled welding surface
The invention relates to a timepiece component with a part comprising elastic attachment means and securing means arranged to be welded enabling the attachment of the elastic means to be decoupled from the securing means to ensure the welding of the timepiece component. |
| US10126711B2 |
Mechanical watch with isochronic position insensitive rotary resonator
A timepiece resonator mechanism having a central wheel train fixed in rotation around an axis of an input wheel train subjected to a driving torque, arranged to turn continuously, and having a plurality of N inertial elements, each movable in relation to the central wheel train, and restored to the axis by elastic restoring device. The mechanism having device between all the inertial elements that are arranged to maintain all centers of mass of these inertial elements at the same distance from the axis at any time, and the elastic restoring device cause an elastic potential such as: Vtot=(dα0/dt)2·Σj (Mj·Rj2), where: Vtot is the elastic potential, Σj is the sum over the js of the quantity between parentheses, (dα0/dt) is the speed of rotation to be imposed, Rj is the position of the center of mass G of the inertial element j of mass Mj. |
| US10126709B2 |
Apparatus and method for performing in-line lens-free digital holography of an object
Embodiments described herein relate to lens-free imaging. One example embodiment may include a lens-free imaging device for imaging a moving sample. The lens-free imaging device may include a radiation source configured to emit a set of at least two different wavelengths towards the moving sample. The lens-free imaging device is configured to image samples for which a spectral response does not substantially vary for a set of at least two different wavelengths. The lens-free imaging device may also include a line scanner configured to obtain a line scan per wavelength emitted by the radiation source and reflected by, scattered by, or transmitted through the moving sample. The line scanner is configured to regularly obtain a line scan per wavelength. Either the radiation source or the line scanner is configured to isolate data of the at least two different wavelengths. |
| US10126704B2 |
Drum cartridge and developing cartridge capable of suppressing variation in position of electrical contact surface
A drum cartridge includes: a drum frame to which a developing cartridge including a storage medium having an electrical contact surface is detachably attachable; a photosensitive drum; a transfer roller; and a conveying roller. The drum is rotatable about a first axis extending in a first direction and positioned at one end portion of the frame in a second direction. The transfer roller is rotatable about a second axis extending in the first direction and in contact with the drum. The conveying roller is rotatable about a third axis extending in the first direction and separated from the transfer roller in the second direction. A first opening of the frame is positioned between the transfer roller and the conveying roller in the second direction. The electrical contact surface is exposed to an outside through the first opening in a case where the developing cartridge is attached to the frame. |
| US10126702B1 |
Drive coupler actuation via replaceable unit insertion in an image forming device
A system for an electrophotographic image forming device includes a first replaceable unit and a second replaceable unit. A drive coupler in the image forming device is movable between a retracted position and an operative position. In the retracted position, the drive coupler is disengaged from a drive interface of the first replaceable unit when the first replaceable unit is installed in the image forming device. In the operative position, the drive coupler is engaged with the drive interface when the first replaceable unit is installed in the image forming device for providing rotational force to the drive interface. A movable drive linkage in the image forming device is operatively connected to the drive coupler to move the drive coupler from the retracted position to the operative position upon the movable drive linkage receiving an actuation force from the insertion of the second replaceable unit into the image forming device. |
| US10126699B2 |
Photosensitive drum unit and image forming apparatus
A photosensitive drum unit includes a photosensitive drum, a drum shaft, a resin frame, and a conducting member. The drum shaft is inserted through the photosensitive drum. The resin frame supports opposite ends of the drum shaft. The conducting member is a substantially coil-shaped spring member having a first end adjacent to the resin frame and a second end opposite to the first end. The conducting member is tapered from the first end toward the second end. The first end forms a first opening and the second end forms a second opening. A circle inscribed in the second opening has a diameter larger than an outer diameter of the drum shaft. |
| US10126698B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a photosensitive drum, a light exposure device, a developing device, a fixing unit disposed opposite to the light exposure device relative to the developing device, a sheet supply tray disposed below the developing device, an ejection tray disposed above the developing device and having a sheet receiving surface inclined downward, relative to a horizontal direction, toward the charger, and a sheet conveying path through which a sheet is conveyed from the sheet supply tray to the ejection tray. A lowest end portion of the sheet receiving surface is disposed below an upper end of the charger in the vertical direction. The charger is disposed opposite to the developing device relative to the lowest end portion of the sheet receiving surface. |
| US10126696B1 |
Adaptive printhead calibration process
A method is described for calibrating a linear printhead including an array of light sources. A test target is printed by activating the light sources in the printhead in accordance with digital image data for the test target, wherein a current value for each light source is controlled responsive to an initial set of current control parameters. A digital image capture system is used to capture an image of the printed test target, and the captured digital image is analyzed to determine an estimated exposure gain error for each light source. An updated set of current control parameters is then determined which is adapted to compensate for the estimated exposure gain errors. |
| US10126692B2 |
Power supply control device and image forming apparatus
A power supply control device including a chopper circuit generating a heater current for a halogen heater, a current feedback circuit generating a current feedback signal indicating a current amount based on an amount of the heater current, and a constant current circuit performing pulse-width modulation of the heater current amount according to a difference between a target heater current amount and the current amount indicated by the current feedback signal. The current feedback circuit switches between methods at least including a first method and a second method for generating the current feedback signal. The current feedback signal indicates a greater current amount with the first method than with the second method, and the current feedback circuit uses the first method during a period with a predetermined time length starting from when the halogen heater is turned on, and uses the second method after elapse of the period. |
| US10126686B2 |
Image forming apparatus including cleaning unit with brush roller, rotatable member, and blade member
An image forming apparatus includes a cleaning unit for a transfer roller. A cleaning unit includes a brush roller, a rotatable member, a first blade and a second blade. The brush roller is electroconductive and contactable with the transfer roller while rotating to electrostatically attract the toner from the transfer roller. The rotatable member is supplied with a voltage of the regular charge polarity of the toner and is contacted with the brush roller in a contact position to electrostatically attract the toner from the brush roller. The first blade contacts the rotatable member in a cleaning portion to scrape a deposited matter from the rotatable member. The second blade is disposed downstream of the cleaning portion and upstream of the contact portion and scrape the deposited matter from the rotatable member with the rotation of the rotatable member. |
| US10126685B2 |
Image forming apparatus with removable waste toner container and exposable feeding path
An image forming apparatus is provided. The image forming apparatus includes a chassis having an opening, a cover, photosensitive members, an intermediate transfer belt, a primary-transfer member, a secondary-transfer roller, a cleaner device, an external-sheet inlet, a waste toner container, a connector, and a conveying roller, which is arranged within the feeding path to feed the recording sheet inserted through the external-sheet inlet in the feeding path. The conveying roller is mounted on the waste toner container and removable from the chassis along with the waste toner container. |
| US10126682B2 |
Developing device, and image forming apparatus and process cartridge incorporating same
A developing device includes a casing to contain developer, a developer bearer disposed in the casing and opposite a latent image bearer in a developing range, at least one developer contact face to which the developer adheres in image formation, and a vibrator to give vibration to the developer contact face in a non-image formation period. The developer bearer is to rotate to supply the developer to the latent image bearer in the developing range. |
| US10126680B1 |
Colorant saver feature in a printer
A Toner Saver Feature (TSF) that enables adjustments in toner throughputs thus enhancing a user's control on toner consumption and thereby increasing life of cartridges in printing devices is disclosed. The disclosed TSF is configured to change throughput for each of the plurality of colorants based on at least one Preset Colorant Saver Configuration (Preset) that contains a set of Throughput Rate Reduction (TRR) values for each colorant, and wherein the at least one preset colorant saver configuration is user configurable. TSF enables a user to change the set of TRR values for each of the plurality of colorants individually through a user interface, and save the changed values as one of the Presets. The reduction values get implemented in all modes of printing wherein factory set throughput rates for the current mode get further reduced based on the selected Preset. |
| US10126675B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes switches configured to switch a state of an operation performed by an assist circuit for a current supplied to a light-emitting element, in such a manner that the assist circuit corrects a value of a current supplied from a constant current source to the light-emitting element when a switching current is supplied in at least a period during which laser light scans a photoconductive drum and the assist circuit does not correct a value of a current supplied from the constant current source to the light-emitting element to make laser light incident on a photodiode to control a value of a bias current. |
| US10126674B2 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus provided with optical scanning device
A laser holder includes a bridge portion connected to a holding portion via two projecting portions so as to bridge the two projecting portions, and the bridge portion includes a contacting portion configured to come into contact with the optical box by being pressed against an optical box by a screw head of a second fixing screw. |
| US10126672B2 |
Charge control agent-silicone oils and uses thereof
A charge control agent-silicone oil composition includes a silicone oil and a charge control agent, the charge control agent being covalently linked to the silicone oil or is homogenously dispersed in the silicone oil as a dispersion. A method includes reacting an electrophilically-activated silicone oil with a charge control agent, thereby covalently linking the charge control agent to the silicone oil to provide a charge control agent-functionalized silicone oil. A bio-based toner includes a resin blend that includes a petroleum based resin and a bio-based resin, a charge control agent-silicone oil, a colorant, and a silica and/or titania additive, the toner having a bio-content of greater than about 25% by weight and does not exhibit moisture sensitivity. |
| US10126671B2 |
Imaging processes
The present disclosure provides processes for producing images with toner particles. In embodiments, toner particles of a certain diameter in size are applied to a substrate as an incomplete monolayer, and then fused to form an image that is a complete monolayer and possesses a thickness less than the diameter of the particles utilized to form the image. |
| US10126666B2 |
Apparatus and a method of forming a particle shield
An apparatus for generating at least one particle shield in photolithography includes a first component and a second component. The first component and the second component are operable to form a first particle shield of the at least one particle shield for blocking particles from contacting a proximate surface of an object. The first component includes a first gas injector, and the second component includes a first gas extractor corresponding to the first gas injector. The first gas injector is configured to blow out a gas, thereby forming the first particle shield. The first gas extractor is configured to work with the first gas injector for providing gas pressure gradient for the first particle shield. |
| US10126665B2 |
Peripheral exposure method and apparatus therefor
A peripheral exposure method for performing an exposure treatment by illuminating light to a periphery of a resist film formed on a substrate to be processed is discussed. The method includes rotating the substrate to be processed on a horizontal plane, bringing a coolant gas into contact with the periphery of the resist film of the substrate to be processed which is being rotated, and cooling the substrate to be processed. Further, the method also includes measuring a temperature of the substrate to be processed, wherein when the temperature of the substrate to be processed is equal to or less than a predetermined temperature, the exposure treatment is performed. |
| US10126662B2 |
Metrology method and apparatus, lithographic system and device manufacturing method
Disclosed is a method of measuring a parameter of a lithographic process, and associated inspection apparatus. The method comprises measuring at least two target structures on a substrate using a plurality of different illumination conditions, the target structures having deliberate overlay biases; to obtain for each target structure an asymmetry measurement representing an overall asymmetry that includes contributions due to (i) the deliberate overlay biases, (ii) an overlay error during forming of the target structure and (iii) any feature asymmetry. A regression analysis is performed on the asymmetry measurement data by fitting a linear regression model to a planar representation of asymmetry measurements for one target structure against asymmetry measurements for another target structure, the linear regression model not necessarily being fitted through an origin of the planar representation. The overlay error can then be determined from a gradient described by the linear regression model. |
| US10126661B2 |
Exposure apparatus and device fabrication method
An exposure apparatus includes a projection system having an optical element via which an exposure beam is projected; an immersion area forming member having an opening through which the exposure beam is projected, the immersion area forming member having a liquid supply inlet facing downward, a liquid recovery outlet facing downward, and a liquid supply port disposed between the liquid supply inlet and the liquid recovery outlet; a frame by which the projection system and the immersion area forming member are supported; a first vibration isolator by which transmission of vibration from the frame to the projection system is limited; and a second vibration isolator by which transmission of vibration from the immersion area forming member to the frame is limited. A liquid immersion area is formed, using the immersion area forming member, on a portion of an upper surface of a substrate, which is exposed to the exposure beam. |
| US10126660B2 |
Multilayer film reflector, method of manufacturing multilayer film reflector, projection optical system, exposure apparatus, and method of manufacturing device
A multilayer film reflector is a multilayer film reflector that includes a first uniform period multilayer film, an adjustment layer, and a second uniform period multilayer film in this order from a substrate side. A combination of the following (a) to (c) is set to each region or each position within a reflection surface. (a) Reflection characteristics of the single first uniform period multilayer film, (b) reflection characteristics of the single second uniform period multilayer film, and (c) a film thickness of the adjustment layer. |
| US10126659B2 |
Method and apparatus for inspection and metrology
A method including obtaining a plurality of radiation distributions of measurement radiation redirected by the target, each of the plurality of radiation distributions obtained at a different gap distance between the target and an optical element of a measurement apparatus, the optical element being the nearest optical element to the target used to provide the measurement radiation to the target, and determining a parameter related to the target using data of the plurality of radiation distributions in conjunction with a mathematical model describing the measurement target. |
| US10126658B2 |
Illumination optical unit for EUV projection lithography
Illumination optical unit for EUV projection lithography guides illumination light to an object field. The illumination optical unit has a first facet mirror, which comprises a multiplicity of individual mirrors which can be switched between at least two tilt positions. A second facet mirror of the illumination optical unit is arranged downstream of the first facet mirror in the beam path of the illumination light. The second facet mirror has a plurality of facets, which respectively contribute to imaging a group of the individual mirrors of the first facet mirror into the object field via a group mirror illumination channel. The images of the groups are superposed on one another in the object field. At least some of the individual mirrors belong to at least two different groups of the individual mirror groups, which are respectively associated with a dedicated second facet via a dedicated group mirror illumination channel. |
| US10126655B2 |
Method for producing a planographic printing plate
Provided is a method of producing a planographic printing plate, including: subjecting a planographic printing plate precursor, which has a support and a positive-working image recording layer, to image-wise exposure; and developing it using an alkaline aqueous solution which contains a specific compound and has a pH of from 8.5 to 10.8, in this order. The recording layer has: a lower layer containing a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble resin and an infrared ray absorbing agent; and an upper layer containing a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble polyurethane resin and a polyorganosiloxane. The specific compound is a nonionic or anionic surfactant, or at least one compound represented by Formula (1) or (2), wherein R11, R12, and R13 each represent an alkyl group; R14 represents an alkylene group; and R15 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group containing a hetero atom; and R21, R22, and R23 each represent an alkyl group. |
| US10126654B2 |
Method for producing a planographic printing plate
Provided is a method of producing a planographic printing plate, including: subjecting a planographic printing plate precursor, which has a support and a positive-working image recording layer, to image-wise exposure; and developing it using an alkaline aqueous solution which contains a specific compound and has a pH of from 8.5 to 10.8, in this order. The recording layer has: a lower layer containing a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble resin and an infrared ray absorbing agent; and an upper layer containing a water-insoluble and alkali-soluble polyurethane resin and a polyorganosiloxane. The specific compound is a nonionic or anionic surfactant, or at least one compound represented by Formula (1) or (2), wherein R11, R12, and R13 each represent an alkyl group; R14 represents an alkylene group; and R15 represents a single bond or a divalent linking group containing a hetero atom; and R21, R22, and R23 each represent an alkyl group. |
| US10126653B2 |
Pattern forming method and resist composition
Provided is a method of forming a pattern, ensuring excellent sensitivity, limiting resolving power, roughness characteristic, exposure latitude (EL), dependence on post-exposure bake (PEB) temperature and focus latitude (depth of focus DOF), and a resist composition for use in the method. The method comprises (A) forming a film from a resist composition comprising a resin containing a repeating unit containing a group that is decomposed when acted on by an acid to thereby produce an alcoholic hydroxyl group, which resin thus when acted on by an acid decreases its solubility in a developer containing an organic solvent, (B) exposing the film to light, and (C) developing the exposed film using a developer containing an organic solvent. |
| US10126650B2 |
Resist composition
A resist composition which contains a resin (A1) which has a structural unit having a cyclic carbonate, a structural unit represented by formula (II) and a structural unit having an acid-labile group, and an acid generator: wherein R1 represents a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom or a C1 to C6 alkyl group that may have a halogen atom, L1 represents a single bond or *-L2-CO—O-(L3-CO—O)g— where * represents a binding position to an oxygen atom, L2 and L3 independently represent a C1 to C12 divalent hydrocarbon group, g represents 0 or 1, and R3 represents a C1 to C12 liner or branched alkyl group except for a tertiary alkyl group. |
| US10126644B2 |
Pellicle for advanced lithography
The present disclosure provides an apparatus for a semiconductor lithography process in accordance with some embodiments. The apparatus includes a pellicle membrane, a pellicle frame attached to the pellicle membrane. The pellicle frame has a surface that defines at least one groove. The apparatus further includes a substrate that is in contact with the surface of the pellicle frame such that the grove is positioned between the pellicle frame and the substrate. |
| US10126643B2 |
Anti-ESD photomask and method of forming the same
The present disclosure provides an anti-ESD photomask and method of the same. In the method, a substrate is provided first. Then, a light-shielding layer is formed on a portion of the substrate, in which the light-shielding layer includes a Mo-containing layer. Next, a surface treatment operation is performed to convert a surface of the portion of the substrate and a surface of the light-shielding layer into a non-conductive layer. |
| US10126641B2 |
Multilayer reflective film formed substrate, reflective mask blank, mask blank, methods of manufacturing the same, reflective mask, and mask
Provided is a multilayer reflective film formed substrate formed with a fiducial mark for accurately managing coordinates of defects. A multilayer reflective film formed substrate is formed with a multilayer reflective film, which is adapted to reflect EUV light, on a substrate and a fiducial mark which serves as a reference for a defect position in defect information is formed on the multilayer reflective film. The fiducial mark includes a main mark for determining a reference point for the defect position and auxiliary marks arranged around the main mark. The main mark has a point-symmetrical shape and has a portion with a width of 200 nm or more and 10 μm or less with respect to a scanning direction of an electron beam writing apparatus or defect inspection light. |
| US10126639B2 |
Image display method using light-splitting device to split light beam and image display system including light-splitting device
The present disclosure provides an image display method and an image display system. The image display system includes a light source, a light-splitting device and n display devices, where n is greater than or equal to 2. The light source is configured to generate an initial light beam and project the initial light beam to the light-splitting device. The light-splitting device is configured to split the initial light beam into n light beams with an identical light intensity and project each light beam to a respective one of the display devices. Each display device is configured to modulate the light beam projected from the light-splitting device, so as to display a predetermined region of a target image. The predetermined regions displayed by the n display devices are combined into the target image. |
| US10126636B1 |
Image projection system for a drum
An image projection system for a drum, including a batter drum head and a resonant drum head. The image projection system includes a projector support configured to support an image projector providing an image, a mirror; and a mirror support. The mirror support is configured to support the mirror, wherein the projector support and the mirror support are adjustably coupled to each other. An image is projected toward the mirror and reflected toward an interior surface of the resonant drum. The projected image is configured to provide an image viewable on an exterior surface of the resonant drumhead. |
| US10126633B2 |
Low profile tri-axis actuator for folded lens camera
Folded camera modules in which the camera module height is determined by a folded lens module diameter and by the lens module movement in a direction perpendicular to the lens optical axis, and dual-aperture cameras including such folded camera modules. A folded camera module includes OIS and AF actuators having dimensions smaller than the camera module height and therefore not adding to the camera module height. |
| US10126632B2 |
Imaging apparatus, flicker detection method, and flicker detection program
Provided are an imaging apparatus, a flicker detection method, and a flicker detection program that can accurately detect a flicker even in a case in which an image of a bright object is captured. A digital camera directs a MOS imaging element 5 to perform a plurality of imaging operations at an arbitrary frame rate and compares captured image signals which are read from the imaging element 5 for frame periods F1 and F2 based on the frame rate to detect whether a flicker has occurred. The end time of a signal reading period in the frame period F1 is before the end time of the frame period F1 and the end time of a signal reading period in the frame period F2 coincides with the end time of the frame period F2. |
| US10126630B2 |
Compact infrared broadband source
A device for the generation of supercontinuum in infrared fiber with a light source comprising a pulsed microchip laser operating at a wavelength greater than one micrometer, a nonlinear optical parametric element operated without a cavity, and an infrared fiber. Light from the laser is pumped into the nonlinear optical parametric element to generate two new wavelengths, and the output from the nonlinear optical parametric element is launched into the infrared fiber. Output from the infrared fiber has a bandwidth greater than the input laser bandwidth by at least 100% and an emission wavelength range from 2 to 14 micrometers. |
| US10126626B1 |
Reusable electrically printable medium
Described herein are electrically printable media. The electrically printable medium includes a first flexible structural layer, a second flexible structural layer, and an electronic ink layer comprising a plurality of cells that include charged particles in a fluid. The electronic ink layer is disposed above the first flexible structural layer. The second flexible structural layer is disposed over the electronic ink layer. The electrically printable medium is adapted to have content rendered visible thereon based on electrical signals supplied by a printer. |
| US10126625B2 |
Particles for electrophoretic displays comprising a core and a random-copolymer coating
This invention relates to particles comprising a core particle and a polymeric shell, electrophoretic fluids comprising such particles, and electrophoretic display devices comprising such fluids. |
| US10126624B2 |
Printed appliqué and method thereof
An electro-optic assembly is disclosed. The assembly comprises a front substrate having a first surface and a second surface substantially parallel to the first surface; a rear substrate spaced from and substantially parallel to the front substrate. The rear substrate comprises a third surface and a fourth surface substantially parallel to the third surface. The assembly further comprises an electrical contact for providing an electrical connection to an electrode in proximity to an electro-optic material and an appliqué layer. The appliqué layer is on at least a portion of the fourth surface and forms a contact-obscuring. |
| US10126619B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a first data line extending in a first direction, a first pixel electrode disposed at one side of the first data line and a second pixel electrode disposed at the other side of the first data line, where the first data line includes first and second branch lines branched from a first node and connected to a second node, the first pixel electrode is connected with the first branch line, and the second pixel electrode is connected with the second branch line. |
| US10126615B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including an insulating substrate with a through hole, a first pad electrode disposed above the insulating substrate, and a signal line electrically connected to the first pad electrode, a second substrate disposed to be opposed to the first substrate, a first layer disposed between the first pad electrode and the second substrate, a wiring substrate including a connection line and disposed below the insulating substrate, and a conductive material disposed within the through hole to electrically connect the first pad electrode and the connection line, wherein the through hole is formed in a position overlapping the first layer. |
| US10126610B2 |
Array substrate, manufacturing method thereof and display device
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, manufacturing method thereof and a display device. A method of manufacturing an array substrate includes: sequentially forming a common electrode line, a first insulating layer, a pixel electrode, and a second insulating layer, and forming a via that is in communication with the common electrode line. The method further comprises, after forming the via, forming a common electrode that covers the via through a patterning process, wherein the patterning process includes etching a portion of the via covered with the common electrode to form an isolated region. The isolated region includes a region at an inner side of a first edge of the via. The first edge is an edge of the via adjacent to or stacked with the pixel electrode. The via further includes a second edge that is neither adjacent to nor stacked with the pixel electrode. |
| US10126609B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display device according to FFS technology is provided, which sufficiently provides a common electrode with common electric potential and improves an aperture ratio of pixels. A pixel electrode is formed of a first layer transparent electrode. A common electrode made of a second layer transparent electrode is formed above the pixel electrode interposing an insulation film between them. The common electrode in an upper layer is provided with a plurality of slits. The common electrode extends over all the pixels in a display region. An end of the common electrode is disposed on a periphery of the display region and connected with a peripheral common electric potential line that provides a common electric potential Vcom. There is provided neither an auxiliary common electrode line nor a pad electrode, both of which are provided in a liquid crystal display device according to a conventional art. |
| US10126608B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display device according to FFS technology is provided, which sufficiently provides a common electrode with common electric potential and improves an aperture ratio of pixels. A pixel electrode is formed of a first layer transparent electrode. A common electrode made of a second layer transparent electrode is formed above the pixel electrode interposing an insulation film between them. The common electrode in an upper layer is provided with a plurality of slits. The common electrode extends over all the pixels in a display region. An end of the common electrode is disposed on a periphery of the display region and connected with a peripheral common electric potential line that provides a common electric potential Vcom. There is provided neither an auxiliary common electrode line nor a pad electrode, both of which are provided in a liquid crystal display device according to a conventional art. |
| US10126595B2 |
Transflective liquid crystal display device and manufacturing method thereof
A transflective liquid crystal display device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The transflective liquid crystal display device comprises: a transflective liquid crystal display module (10) comprising a plurality of pixel units, and each pixel unit comprising a transmissive area and a reflective area; a backlight source (20) provided below the transflective liquid crystal display module (10); a condensing layer (30) provided at a face of the backlight source (20) facing the transflective liquid crystal display module (10) and comprising a plurality of condensing lenses (31) which correspond to the plurality of pixel units one by one so as to converge the internal light emitted from the backlight source (20) at the transmissive areas of corresponding pixel units; and a reflective layer (40) provided between the condensing layer (30) and the liquid crystal display module (10) and comprising meshes (41) passing the internal light converged by each said condensing lens (31). |
| US10126593B2 |
Display module and installation method of the same
A display module has therein a light board, an installation frame and multiple function plate securely received inside the installation frame. The installation frame is composed of multiple installation strips interconnected together and each one of the installation strips is provided with an installation device through which the function plate is secured inside the installation frame. The light board is detachably mounted on an installation face of the installation frame. |
| US10126591B2 |
Display apparatus
Provided is a display apparatus without a front chassis or a bezel. A front frame is provided on at least one side of a display panel to hide a chip-on-film and a printed circuit board coupled to the display panel that would be otherwise exposed to the outside. A front surface of the front frame may have a color and light reflectivity corresponding to those of a non-display area of the display panel. Thus, the display panel and the front frame may appear to be integrally formed. Accordingly, a bezel-less display apparatus, in which no bezel is formed around the display panel, may be achieved. |
| US10126590B2 |
Display device and display system
A display device being switchable between a normal display mode and an anti-peeping display mode and a display system comprising the display device are disclosed. The display device comprises: a housing; a display panel mounted within the housing and provided with a polarizer only on a light incidence side thereof, the polarizer being configured to polarize light to be incident into the display panel; and a polarization analyzing structure fitted onto the housing, and configured to selectively analyze light emitted out from an active display area of the display panel so as to achieve a normal display mode, in which a user is able to directly view an image displayed in the display device, and anti-peeping display mode, in which the user is able to view the image displayed in the display device only by means of an additional polarization analyzer, of the display device. |
| US10126587B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a light source which provide a first light, a color filter including a plurality of quantum dots which absorbs the first light and emits at least one of second light and third light that are different from the first light, a first optical filter layer disposed on the color filter, and a second optical filter layer disposed between the light source and the color filter. The first optical filter blocks at least a part of the first light, and the second optical filter transmits at least a part of the first light and reflects at least a part of the second light and the third light. |
| US10126584B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes a metal layer formed on an interlayer insulating film, arranged in contact with at least one of common electrodes adjacent to each other via a slit, and covering at least a part of the slit. The metal layer is at least partly opposed to a signal line located in correspondence with the slit and is arranged closer than the signal line to a liquid crystal layer. |
| US10126583B2 |
Light controlling device, transparent display device including the same, and method for fabricating the same
Embodiments relate to transparent display apparatus including a transparent display panel. The transparent display panel includes a plurality of transmissive areas transmitting incident light and a plurality of emissive areas emitting light and a light control device disposed on one surface of the transparent display panel to execute a transmissive mode, where incident light is transmitted, and a light shield mode where incident light is blocked. The light control device includes a first substrate and a second substrate facing each other, a liquid crystal cell provided between the first substrate and the second substrate, and a partition wall maintaining a cell gap of the liquid crystal cell. The partition wall has a honeycomb structure, and a plurality of column spacers are disposed between partition walls. |
| US10126577B2 |
Display substrate, display panel and display device
The present disclosure provides a display substrate, a display panel and a display device. The display substrate includes a base substrate and at least one layer formed on the base substrate, and the layer is formed with an alignment mark, which includes a dot array composed of a plurality of dots. With such dot array composed of the plurality of dots, a step or height difference between the alignment mark and portions of the layer around the alignment mark can be reduced, and adverse influence on the rubbing alignment caused by alignment mark can be reduced or eliminated, thereby reducing or eliminating rubbing Mura in the region where the alignment mark is located. |
| US10126571B2 |
Multi-functional glasses
A multipurpose eyewear system and apparatus is provided. An embodiment provides a film, vinyl, or other substance that may be removably applied to the lenses to provide the lenses with additional functionality. An embodiment provides a contoured and flexible frame and lens system that fits to a users face. Additional functionality may be included by removable/replaceable lenses and/or removable/replaceable films. An embodiment provides a replaceable lens system that is either contoured or flat to provide compact and easy manufacturing, shipping, cleaning, and storing. |
| US10126569B2 |
Flexible electro-active lens
A lens including a flexible refractive optic having a fixed refractive index, an electro-active element embedded within the flexible refractive optic, wherein the electro-active element has an alterable refractive index, and a controller electrically connected to the electro-active element wherein when power is applied thereto the refractive index of the electro-active element is altered. |
| US10126563B2 |
Thin-plate-typed rotating module
A thin-plate-typed rotating module includes a rotating element, a driving unit and a base board. The rotating element is rotatable about a first axial direction and a second axial direction in a limited degree. The driving unit connects the rotating element for driving the rotating element to rotate about the first and second axial directions. The base board is furnished with a control module which is connected with the driving unit for controlling the driving unit to operate. |
| US10126562B2 |
Apparatus and methods for reducing moire fringe
A method for reducing a moire fringe includes calculating a moire fringe width for each of different angles between a microlens array and pixels of a display screen. The method includes determining, to be a final inclination angle between the microlens array and the pixels of the display screen, one of the different inclination angles that corresponds to a minimum width among the calculated moire fringe widths. |
| US10126559B2 |
System for spatial recombination of ultrashort laser pulses by means of a diffractive element
A system based on recombination by superposition using a diffractive optical element DOE to combine the beams is provided. An optical diffractive assembly is placed upstream of a diffractive optical element to make it possible, via an appropriate imaging system, to optimize the combining efficiency in the ultra-short pulse regime. |
| US10126557B2 |
Projection system for generating spatially modulated laser radiation and optical arrangement for transforming laser radiation
Described is an arrangement for the transformation of laser radiation. A projection system for generating spatially modulated laser radiation includes an optical arrangement for transforming laser radiation, a field lens, a spatial light modulator and a projection arrangement. By means of the optical arrangement, incidental laser radiation in a first direction (E) is reflected on an aspherically curved, reflective surface in a second direction (R), where in a plane perpendicular to the first direction (E) the laser radiation has an inhomogeneous beam profile (GB1, G2) with a first beam axis (A) and a second beams axis (B) perpendicular to the latter, and the aspherical curvature is designed, during the reflection on the reflective surface, to transform the inhomogeneous beam profile of the laser radiation for the first beam axis (A) and/or the second beam axis (B) respectively into a homogenous top-hat beam profile (H). |
| US10126555B2 |
Eyepiece optical member and head-mounted display device
An eyepiece optical member has an easy-to-clean interior, and a head-mounted display device is provided with the eyepiece optical member. The eyepiece optical member includes a housing with a built-in display element, a light guide prism in which image light from the display element enters through an entrance surface and is guided to exit from an exit surface towards an eyeball of an observer so as to be observed as a magnified virtual image, and a protective member formed separately from the housing and covering a portion of the light guide prism. The housing includes two opposing plate-like portions, the light guide prism is fixed to the protective member as an assembled member, and the assembled member is sandwiched between the two opposing plate-like portions. The head-mounted display device includes a support member for fixation to a wearer's head and includes the eyepiece optical member attached to the support member. |
| US10126553B2 |
Control device with holographic element
A head-mounted display device may display a holographic element with a portable control device. Image data of a physical environment including the control device may be received and used to generate a three dimensional model of at least a portion of the environment. Using position information of the control device, a holographic element is displayed with the control device. Using the position information, it is determined that the control device is within a predetermined proximity of either a holographic object or a physical object. Based on determining that the control device is within the predetermined proximity, the displayed holographic element is modified. |
| US10126552B2 |
Micro collimator system and method for a head up display (HUD)
A head up display can use a catadioptric collimating system. The head up display includes an image source. The head up display also includes a collimating mirror, and a polarizing beam splitter. The light from the image source enters the beam splitter and is reflected toward the collimating mirror. The light striking the collimating mirror is reflected through the beam splitter toward a combiner. A field lens can include a diffractive surface. A corrector lens can be disposed after the beam splitter. |
| US10126545B2 |
Color wheel assembly and related light source system thereof
A color wheel assembly includes a color wheel fixed in a housing and a detecting apparatus for generating a synchronization signal. The color wheel is driven to rotate and has a marking object rotating with it. The housing has a first surface parallel to and adjacent a surface of the color wheel where the marking object is located. The first surface of the housing has a first through hole at a location within an annular region corresponding to the marking object when the color wheel rotates by one revolution. The detecting apparatus is disposed on the back side of the first through hole and a probe head of the detecting apparatus is disposed in the first through hole for detecting the marking object on the color wheel. The structure insulates the probe head from heat emitted from the color wheel. A related light source system is also disclosed. |
| US10126544B2 |
Display panel
A display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are arranged opposed to each other. The space between the first substrate and the second substrate is separated into a plurality of sub-pixel regions. Within each sub pixel region, a first electrode, a first fluid layer, a second fluid layer, a hydrophobic dielectric layer and a second electrode are arranged in this order. The first fluid layer is made of hydrophilic liquid. The second fluid layer is made of ink. When no electric field is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, the ink spreads over the surface of the hydrophobic dielectric layer. When an electric field is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, the ink aggregates to expose the hydrophobic dielectric layer. |
| US10126539B2 |
High numerical aperture telemicroscopy apparatus
An imaging system consisting of a cell-phone with camera as the detection part of an optical train which includes other components. Optionally, an illumination system to create controlled contrast in the sample. Uses include but are not limited to disease diagnosis, symptom analysis, and post-procedure monitoring, and other applications to humans, animals, and plants. |
| US10126537B2 |
Marker
A marker includes a plurality of convex lenses each including a plurality of convex lenses each including a convex surface part on a front side; and a plurality of patterns formed on a rear surface of the plurality of convex lenses, each pattern corresponding to the convex surface part. Each of the plurality of patterns is composed of optically distinguishable first and second parts formed by a surface shape of the rear surface. The second part is disposed on each corresponding convex surface part. A distance between optical axes of the convex lenses which are adjacent is constant. A distance between centers of the second parts which are adjacent is different from the distance between the optical axes. |
| US10126535B2 |
Variable magnification optical system, optical device, and production method for variable magnification optical system
Comprising, in order from an object side: a first lens group G1 having positive refractive power; a second lens group G2 having negative refractive power; a third lens group G3 having positive refractive power; a fourth lens group G4 having positive refractive power; and a fifth lens group; upon zooming from a wide-angle end state to a telephoto end state, the distance between the first lens group G1 and the second lens group G2, the distance between the second lens group G2 and the third lens group G3, and the distance between the third lens group G3 and the fourth lens group G4, and the distance between the fourth lens group G4 and the fifth lens group G5 being varied, and the fifth lens group G5 being fixed in a position; and a predetermined conditional expression being satisfied, thereby providing a variable magnification optical system that has a high variable magnification ratio, is compact in size and has high optical performance, an optical apparatus, and a method for manufacturing the variable magnification optical system. |
| US10126534B2 |
Imaging lens and imaging apparatus
An imaging lens is constituted by, in order from the object side to the image side: a first lens group; a stop; and a second lens group having a positive refractive power. The first lens group is constituted by, in order from the object side to the image side: a 1-1 negative meniscus lens having a concave surface toward the image side; a 1-2 negative meniscus lens having a concave surface toward the image side; a 1-3 biconcave lens; and a 1-4 positive lens. The second lens group is constituted by, in order from the object side to the image side: a 2A lens group having a positive refractive power; and a 2B lens group having a positive refractive power as a whole, constituted by a 2B-1 positive lens, a 2B-2 negative lens, and a 2B-3 positive lens. Predetermined conditional formulae are satisfied. |
| US10126533B1 |
Anamorphic optical system wity relative small squeeze ratio but with relatively pronounced residual anamorphic characteristics
An anamorphic objective having a relatively small anamorphic factor but with relatively pronounced residual anamorphic artifacts is formed by reducing the anamorphic factor with anamorphic lens elements located on the image side of the aperture stop. The lens section on the object side of the aperture stop must therefore have a relatively large anamorphic factor, and this creates the desired residual anamorphic artifacts. The disclosed anamorphic objective is suited either to an integrated optical design or to a modular approach in which the anamorphic factor reduction optics are connected as a removable attachment to an independently well-corrected anamorphic optical system. The anamorphic objective has a relatively small anamorphic squeeze ratio while simultaneously producing relatively large residual anamorphic characteristics. |
| US10126529B2 |
Optical lens assembly with dual molded lens element and electronic device including same assembly
An optical lens assembly includes at least one lens element, which is a dual molded lens element. The dual molded lens element includes a light transmitting portion and a light absorbing portion. The light absorbing portion is annular and surrounds a central axis, wherein a plastic material and a color of the light absorbing portion are different from a plastic material and a color of the light transmitting portion, the dual molded lens element is made by an injection molding method and formed integrally, the light absorbing portion includes a plurality of second inner strip-shaped structures, the second inner strip-shaped structures are regularly arranged along a circumferential direction of the central axis, and the second inner strip-shaped structures are disposed correspondingly to and connected to a plurality of first inner strip-shaped structures. |
| US10126525B2 |
Optical image capturing system
A six-piece optical lens for capturing image and a six-piece optical module for capturing image are provided. In the order from an object side to an image side, the optical lens along the optical axis includes a first lens element with refractive power, a second lens element with refractive power, a third lens element with refractive power, a fourth lens element with refractive power, a fifth lens element with refractive power and a sixth element lens with refractive power. At least one of the image-side surface and object-side surface of each of the six lens elements is aspheric. The optical lens can increase aperture value and improve the imagining quality for use in compact cameras. |
| US10126522B2 |
Lens drive device, camera module, and mobile terminal with camera
A lens drive device is provided with: an AF drive unit that has an AF coil unit disposed around a lens unit and an AF magnet unit disposed separately in the radial direction with respect to the AF coil unit and automatically carries out focusing; and an OIS drive unit that has an OIS magnet unit disposed in an AF unit that includes a movable AF unit and a fixed AF unit and an OIS coil unit disposed separately in the direction of the optical axis with respect to the OIS magnet unit and carries out shake correction. The AF drive unit has an elastic support unit that connects the movable AF unit with the fixed AF unit. The movable AF unit is supported movably both ways in the direction of the optical axis by an elastic member. |
| US10126520B2 |
Rotation regulating device and lens barrel
A rotation regulating device and a lens barrel includes a rotating ring, a holder that rotatably holds the rotating ring, a rotation regulator that regulates the rotation of the rotating ring by contacting and stopping the rotating ring, and a receiver that receives a part of the rotation regulator. The rotation regulator is held on the holder and formed of an elastic body. The holder includes a holding shaft that holds the rotation regulator and a rotation stopper that stops the rotation regulator to prevent the rotation regulator from rotating about the holding shaft. |
| US10126519B2 |
Array imaging module and molded photosensitive assembly and manufacturing method thereof for electronic device
An array imaging module includes a molded photosensitive assembly which includes a supporting member, at least a circuit board, at least two photosensitive units, at least two lead wires, and a mold sealer. The photosensitive units are coupled at the chip coupling area of the circuit board. The lead wires are electrically connected the photosensitive units at the chip coupling area of the circuit board. The mold sealer includes a main mold body and has two optical windows. When the main mold body is formed, the lead wires, the circuit board and the photosensitive units are sealed and molded by the main mold body of the mold sealer, such that after the main mold body is formed, the main mold body and at least a portion of the circuit board are integrally formed together at a position that the photosensitive units are aligned with the optical windows respectively. |
| US10126518B2 |
Lens barrel, image-capturing device, and method for controlling lens barrel
A lens barrel in which tilt adjustment can be made depending on the position of a lens unit in the optical axis direction. This lens barrel includes: at least three guide bars provided so as to extend along the optical axis direction; a driving unit that respectively drives the at least three guide bars in the optical axis direction; a lens frame holding unit that holds an image-capturing lens, the lens frame holding unit being attached to at least three guide bars and being driven in the optical axis direction by the at least three guide bars; and a control unit that controls said at least three linear actuators so as to adjust the respective drive amounts in the optical axis direction of the at least three guide bars and to tilt the lens frame holding unit from a direction orthogonal to the optical axis. |
| US10126515B2 |
Optical fiber distribution system
An optical fiber distribution system including a rack and elements which populate the rack including fiber terminations. Each element includes a chassis and a movable tray. The movable tray includes a synchronized movement device for moving a cable radius limiter. The tray includes cable terminations which extend in a line generally parallel to a direction of movement of the movable tray. Each of the cable terminations are mounted on hinged frame members positioned on each tray. The cables entering and exiting the movable tray follow a generally S-shaped pathway. |
| US10126509B2 |
Telecommunications cabinet with connector storage
A housing including a plurality of openings for receiving fiber optic connectors and protecting the polished end face of the connectors from damage while the connectors are stored within a telecommunications connection cabinet. A module with a plurality of optical fiber cables connected to a first optical fiber cable and terminated by a fiber optic connector. Each of the connectors are inserted within openings in a connector holder for storage and protection until the cables need to be connected to a customer equipment cable. |
| US10126507B1 |
Silicon-based multiplexer/demultiplexer
A multiplexer/demultiplexer for at least two wavelengths in O-band. The multiplexer/demultiplexer includes a silicon waveguide block having a first port, a second/third port respectively in bar/cross position at an opposing end plane relative to the first port. The silicon waveguide block is configured to provide a general interference excitation of a light wave of a first wavelength and a second wavelength respectively selected from two windows in O-band. The light wave is either inputted via the first port and split into a first output light of the first wavelength out of the second port and a second output light of the second wavelength out of the third port, or is combined of a first input light of the first wavelength from the second port and a second input light of the second wavelength from the third port and outputted via the first port with both wavelengths. |
| US10126506B2 |
Apparatus and methods for locked quantum communication using photonic integrated circuits
A large-scale tunable-coupling ring array includes an input waveguide coupled to multiple ring resonators, each of which has a distinct resonant wavelength. The collective effect of these multiple ring resonators is to impart a distinct time delay to a distinct wavelength component (or frequency component) in an input signal, thereby carrying out quantum scrambling of the input signal. The scrambled signal is received by a receiver also using a large-scale tunable-coupling ring array. This receiver-end ring resonator array recovers the input signal by imparting a compensatory time delay to each wavelength component. Each ring resonator can be coupled to the input waveguide via a corresponding Mach Zehnder interferometer (MZI). The MZI includes a phase shifter on at least one of its arms to increase the tunability of the ring array. |
| US10126505B2 |
Optical element module
An optical element module includes an optical modulation element having first and second optical modulator units, a polarization combining means for combining two modulated lights which are emitted from the first and second optical modulator units, by making planes of polarization orthogonally cross each other; a housing which houses the optical modulation element and the polarization combining means; and a lens holder which holds a collimating lens which is disposed between the polarization combining means and an optical fiber, with the lens holder further holding the optical fiber. The optical element module is configured by joining the housing and the lens holder together by welding. In the lens holder, an outer diameter of a welding place is smaller than an outer diameter of a part which holds the collimating lens. |
| US10126501B2 |
Tunable reflectors based on multi-cavity interference
A reflective structure includes an input/output port and an optical splitter coupled to the input/output port. The optical splitter has a first branch and a second branch. The reflective structure also includes a first resonant cavity optically coupled to the first branch of the optical splitter. The first resonant cavity comprises a first set of reflectors and a first waveguide region disposed between the first set of reflectors. The reflective structures further includes a second resonant cavity optically coupled to the second branch of the optical splitter. The second resonant cavity comprises a second set of reflectors and a second waveguide region disposed between the second set of reflectors. |
| US10126494B2 |
Configurable polarization mode coupler
The inventive configurable optical fiber polarization mode coupler is capable of providing a low-loss, high-coupling coefficient interface with high accuracy and easy alignment between a plurality of optical fibers (or other optical devices) with a first channel-to-channel spacing, and an optical device having a plurality of closely-spaced waveguide interfaces with a second channel-to-channel spacing, where each end of the optical fiber coupler array is configurable to have different channel-to-channel spacing, each matched to a corresponding one of the first and second channel-to-channel spacing, and that are preferably optimized for use with photonic integrated circuits, such as coupling to dense optical input/output interfaces, wafer-level testing, etc. The novel optical coupler array includes a plurality of waveguides (at least one of which may optionally be polarization maintaining), that comprises at least one gradually reduced vanishing core fiber, at least in part embedded within a common housing structure. Advantageously, in at least one embodiment of the present invention, the configurable optical fiber polarization mode coupler addresses various polarization-related applications. |
| US10126493B2 |
Method and apparatus for fabrication of metal-coated optical fiber, and the resulting optical fiber
Method and apparatus for producing metal-coated optical fiber involves feeding a length of glass fiber through a first solution bath so as to plate a first predetermined metal on the glass fiber via electroless deposition. The length of glass fiber is passed continuously from the first solution bath to a second solution bath adapted to plate thereon a second predetermined metal via electrolytic plating such that the optical fiber contacts an electrode only after at least some of the second predetermined metal has been applied. The length of glass fiber may be passed continuously from the second solution bath to a third solution bath adapted to plate thereon a third predetermined metal via electrolytic plating. |
| US10126487B2 |
Display device
A display device having an exterior surface and including a back cover, a frame, a display panel and a backlight module is provided. The frame is assembled to the back cover and has a first supporting portion and a second supporting portion. The display panel is disposed in the frame, wherein the first supporting portion supports the display panel. The backlight module is disposed in the frame and located between the back cover and the display panel, wherein the second supporting portion supports the backlight module. The frame has a side surface, and the side surface is a portion of the exterior surface. |
| US10126486B2 |
Lamp
A lamp is provided. The lamp includes a frame body, a light guide plate and plural light sources. The frame body has an accommodating space. The frame body includes at least one integrating member and plural side covers, and the integrating member includes a conductive assembly. The light guide plate is disposed in the accommodating space. The light sources are respectively disposed in the side covers and disposed adjacent to side edges of the light guide plate. The conductive assembly is disposed on one side of the integrating member near the light guide plate, and the conductive assembly is connected to the light sources to form an electrical loop. |
| US10126483B2 |
Light guide plate assembly and display apparatus
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a light guide plate assembly. The light guide plate assembly includes a light guide plate and an optical coupling member attached to the light guide plate. The optical coupling member includes a plate-like part and a plurality of prism parts formed on the plate-like part. Each of the plurality of prism parts has a planar top surface, the top surface engaging with a light exiting surface of the light guide plate, and each of the plurality of prism parts has a reflective side surface which is configured to reflect incident light towards a light exiting surface of the optical coupling member through total reflection. The present disclosure further discloses a display apparatus including the said light guide plate assembly. |
| US10126482B2 |
Lightguide device with outcoupling structures
A lightguide assembly including structures to provide for outcoupling of light from an internal reflection structure. In an embodiment, a lightguide assembly includes light transmissive bodies forming respective corrugations which are coupled to one another. Optical coatings are variously disposed between the respective corrugations, wherein the optical coatings provide for redirection of light from the lightguide assembly. In another embodiment, optical coatings are each applied to a respective one of alternate facets of a corrugation. Polymer film portions provide mechanical support for the optical coatings during application to the corrugation. |
| US10126480B2 |
Display backlight with light mixing structures
A display may have a backlight unit with a row of light-emitting diodes that emit light into the edge of a light guide plate. The light guide plate may have opposing upper and lower surfaces. The upper surface of the light guide plate may have ridges and the lower surface of the light guide plate may have bumps. The edge of the light guide plate may have light mixing structures. The light mixing structures may include edge surfaces that refract light at a high angle. The high angle light may then be reflected by a reflective surface so that the light propagates down the light guide plate. Some light may pass through the light mixing structures and propagate down the light guide plate without being reflected by the reflective surface. This arrangement may reduce the mixing distance of the backlight unit. |
| US10126472B2 |
Multi-band spectrum division device
A multi-band spectrum division device is provided, comprising: a first parabolic reflection mirror, planar multi-mirrors, an optical grating and a second parabolic mirror. The first parabolic mirror is configured to reduce the divergent angle of incident optical beam, and to generate a collimated optical beam. The planar multi-mirrors are configured to adjust the incident angles of collimated beam on the grating surface. The grating is configured to disperse the incident signals with multi-wavelengths. The second parabolic mirror is configured to focus the multi-wavelength signals on its focal plane. Besides, each of the planar multi-mirrors has different location and angle in this device. |
| US10126471B2 |
Protective material and method for reflecting and dispersing incident energy
A protective material that includes a dielectric mirror having at least one layer, each layer of the dielectric mirror being configured to reflect at least a portion of incident energy of a predetermined wavelength; and a photonic, crystal array of periodic structures disposed within the dielectric mirror, the photonic crystal array of periodic structures being configured to disperse non-reflected incident energy of the predetermined wavelength transmitted through the dielectric mirror across the photonic crystal array of periodic structures in a direction parallel to a plane of the dielectric mirror. |
| US10126470B2 |
Optical absorber which absorbs light beam
An optical absorber includes a first light-absorbing body which receives light incident from an entrance aperture and partially absorbs and reflects the incident light, and a second light-absorbing body which partially absorbs the incident light reflected by the first light-absorbing body and partially reflects the incident light toward the first light-absorbing body. The reflectance and light resistance of the first light-absorbing body are set higher than the reflectance and light resistance, respectively, of the second light-absorbing body. |
| US10126467B2 |
Signal enhancement by silk photonic crystals
The present invention provides silk photonic crystals that can be used to enhance light-induced effects. Also disclosed are biocompatible, functionalized, all-protein inverse opals and related methods. |
| US10126459B2 |
System and method for depth profiling by temporal and spatial range gating based on penetrating electromagnetic radiation
A method, apparatus and system for profiling a material composition of a volume is disclosed. A beam source directs a pulsed beam of electromagnetic energy from into the volume. A plurality of backscattered beams is received at a detector. The plurality of backscattered beams is generated from a plurality of depths within the volume in response to interactions of the directed pulsed beam at the plurality of depths. A processor performs range gating of the plurality of backscattered beams to obtain a depth profile of backscattered intensity within the volume and estimates a material composition at different depths of the volume from the generated depth profile. |
| US10126455B2 |
Device for the contactless actuation of an adjustable vehicle part
A device for contactless actuation of an adjustable vehicle part. The device has a capacitive proximity sensor having a first elongated sensor electrode and a second elongated sensor electrode, as well as a carrier component for fastening the proximity sensor. The carrier component has a curved mounting surface on which the sensor electrodes are placed in such a way that the horizontal distance between the two sensor electrodes over the length of the sensor electrodes is exactly or at least approximately constant, the vertical distance between the sensor electrodes varying over the length of the sensor electrodes. |
| US10126454B2 |
Method and system for fracture detection using acoustic waves
Methods and systems for identifying and locating fractures within a wellbore are described herein. One such method includes generating an acoustic wave. At least a first portion of the acoustic wave travels along a wall of the wellbore. The first portion of the acoustic wave interacts with a feature on the wall of the wellbore, such as a fracture, and generates a second acoustic wave. The second acoustic wave is detected to obtain acoustic data. A chevron pattern is identified within the acoustic data and a location for the feature is determined using the identified chevron pattern. |
| US10126453B2 |
Processing seismic data to remote noise
An embodiment of a method includes receiving seismic data from an array of seismic receivers, selecting a time window, and dividing the time window into a plurality of consecutive time segments, each corresponding to a subset of the seismic data. The method also includes performing a transformation of each subset into a frequency domain subset having a total frequency band, and selecting a narrow frequency band bounded by the lowest frequency of the total band and a threshold frequency. The method further includes, for each of the plurality of frequencies in the narrow frequency band, determining a cross-spectral density matrix (CSDM) of data values in each frequency domain subset, decomposing the CSDM to generate a plurality of eigenvalues, and removing at least the most significant eigenvalue from each frequency domain subset. The method still further includes transforming each frequency domain subset into a time domain to generate de-noised seismic data. |
| US10126452B2 |
Wavefield generation using a seismic vibrator array
Marine seismic vibrators in a marine seismic vibrator array for use in a seismic survey are activated to produce a source gradient wavefield to survey a target structure. The seismic survey may comprise a marine seismic survey conducted in a body of water. |
| US10126449B2 |
Presenting data in a scalable format
Presenting data in a scalable format includes obtaining input from multiple sensors, grouping a subset of the multiple sensors based on similar parameter values, and allocating a section of a display screen to the subset based on a number of the multiple sensors in the subset. |
| US10126448B2 |
Formation measurements using downhole noise sources
A method of performing measurements of an earth formation includes disposing at least a first receiver and a second receiver in one or more monitoring boreholes in a formation, and injecting fluid into the formation from an injection borehole, wherein injecting includes operating a fluid control device to generate seismic and/or acoustic noise having an identifiable characteristic. The method also includes detecting seismic and/or acoustic signals at the first receiver and detecting seismic and/or acoustic signals at a second receiver, the seismic and/or acoustic signals corresponding to the seismic and/or acoustic noise, calculating an estimate of a Green's function between the first receiver and the second receiver by processing seismic and/or acoustic waves detected by the first receiver and the second receiver to at least partially reconstruct the Green's function, and estimating variations in a velocity of a region of the formation by determining variations in the reconstructed Green's function. |
| US10126446B2 |
Seismic acquisition method and apparatus
The presently disclosed seismic acquisition technique employs a receiver array and a processing methodology that are designed to attenuate the naturally occurring seismic background noise recorded along with the seismic data during the acquisition. The approach leverages the knowledge that naturally occurring seismic background noise moves with a slower phase velocity than the seismic signals used for imaging and inversion and, in some embodiments, may arrive from particular preferred directions. The disclosed technique comprises two steps: 1) determining from the naturally occurring seismic background noise in the preliminary seismic data a range of phase velocities and amplitudes that contain primarily noise and the degree to which that noise needs to be attenuated, and 2) designing an acquisition and processing method to attenuate that noise relative to the desired signal. |
| US10126445B2 |
Radiation detecting element sensitivity correction method and radiation tomography device
Sensitivity correction for multiple γ radiation detectors is performed by use of sensitivity coefficients obtained through a first sensitivity coefficient calculation step for obtaining sensitivity coefficients, classified according to sensitivity factors, on the basis of coincidence counting data collected as a result of detection of γ radiation emitted from a rotated rod-shaped calibration radiation source, and through a third sensitivity coefficient calculation step for obtaining sensitivity coefficients derived from a geometrical arrangement on the basis of coincidence counting data collected in a state where arrangement of the γ radiation detectors is changed. A re-constructed image is obtained on the basis of data acquired after the sensitivity correction is finished. |
| US10126438B2 |
Systems and methods for polarized nuclear imaging and spectroscopy
Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to systems and methods for examining a subject. In one embodiment, a method includes polarizing nuclei of a radioactive substance such that the spins of the nuclei are oriented in a specific direction, to generate a polarized radioactive tracer with anisotropic gamma ray emission probability. The method also includes introducing the tracer into a subject. The method further includes applying radio frequency oscillating (RF) magnetic fields and/or spatially varying magnetic fields to the tracer that are configured to manipulate the orientation of the spins such as to manipulate the directional dependence of gamma ray emission from the tracer. The method further includes detecting gamma rays from the gamma ray emission, and obtaining, based on the detected gamma rays and properties associated with the anisotropic gamma ray emission, imaging data and/or spectroscopic data associated with the tracer in the subject. |
| US10126435B2 |
Radiological image conversion panel, method of manufacturing the same, and radiological image detection apparatus
A radiological image conversion panel 2 is provided with a phosphor 18 containing a fluorescent material that emits fluorescence by radiation exposure, in which the phosphor includes, a columnar section 34 formed by a group of columnar crystals which are obtained through columnar growth of crystals of the fluorescent material, and a non-columnar section 36, the columnar section and the non-columnar section are integrally formed to overlap in a crystal growth direction of the columnar crystals, and a thickness of the non-columnar section along the crystal growth direction is non-uniform in a region of at least a part of the non-columnar section. |
| US10126430B2 |
Automated driving control apparatus and automated driving control method
In an automated driving control apparatus, an information acquirer is configured to acquire driving control information needed to control automated driving of a vehicle. A degradation information storage is configured to store information about accuracy degraded roads that are roads on which the accuracy of the driving control information is degraded to below a predetermined required level. An information updater is configured to acquire observed information concerning the information acquirer, and using the observed information, update stored contents of the degradation information storage. A route generator is configured to generate a route excluding the accuracy degraded roads stored in the degradation information storage. A driving controller is configured to conduct automated driving control of the vehicle according to the route generated by the route generator and the driving control information acquired by the information acquirer. |
| US10126419B2 |
Method for the network initialization of a network for the radio location of objects within a limited space
In a method for initializing at least one network segment of a network for the wireless location of movable locating objects arranged in a limited space using pulsed radio signals, wherein the at least one network segment in the limited space has at least two spaced apart reference nodes which form a chain-shaped communication network and which are autarkic in terms of communication, wherein a locating object arranged in the limited space is able to be located using one of the distance-based trilateration carried out by at least three reference nodes, and wherein general information is communicated by broadcast channels, the reference nodes listen to the broadcast channels in a standby position until initial information about their active participation in the communication network is received. |
| US10126417B2 |
Radar apparatus and object detecting method
A radar transmitter (Tx) transmits a radio-frequency radar transmission signal from a transmission antenna (Tx_ant1). An antenna branch processor (D1) receives a reflection signal produced by reflection, by an object, of the radar transmission signal by a reception antenna (Rx-ant1) and calculates correlation between the reflection signal and the radar transmission signal. An object detection processor (10) detects presence or absence of an object by using, based on (Tp+1) outputs of the antenna branch processor (D1), where Tp is an integer, amplitude differences between an amplitude of a (Tp+1)-th output of the antenna branch processor (D1) and amplitudes of first to Tp-th outputs of the antenna branch processor (D1). |
| US10126415B2 |
Probe that cooperates with a laser tracker to measure six degrees of freedom
A system includes a measurement device configured to measure a distance, a first angle, and a second angle to a retroreflector target. The system further includes a probe having the retroreflector target, an inclinometer sensor, a camera, and a processor, the inclinometer sensor configured to determine a two-dimensional inclination of the probe relative to a gravity vector, the camera configured to capture an image of a light emitted from or reflected by the measurement device, the processor configured to determine six degrees of freedom of the probe based at least in part on the distance, the first angle, the second angle, the two-dimensional inclination, and the captured image of the camera. |
| US10126414B2 |
Proximity sensor
A proximity sensor for detecting proximity of an object, by sensing reflected light coming from an object on which a light emission pulse is reflected, the proximity sensor includes: a converter circuit configured to convert a current output from a photodetector sensing the reflected light into a voltage, and to output the voltage, magnitude of the current depending on a degree of the proximity of the object; a differential converter circuit configured to convert the voltage output by the converter circuit into a differential voltage, and to output the differential voltage; and a correlated double sampling circuit having a differential configuration, and configured to subtract a value of the differential voltage output by the differential converter circuit, sampled at falling of the light emission pulse, from a value of the differential voltage sampled at rising of the light emission pulse. |
| US10126413B2 |
Method for operating an optoelectronic proximity sensor
A method can be used for operating an optoelectronic proximity sensor. The proximity sensor includes a radiation-emitting component, a radiation-detecting component and a control unit. The radiation-emitting component is operated by means of a pulsed current. During each measurement period, the pulsed current of the radiation-emitting component has an on-time and an off-time. The pulsed current has a pulse current intensity during the on-time, and the control unit evaluates a detector signal of the radiation-detecting component and lowers the pulse current intensity for a subsequent measurement period, when the detector signal exceeds a threshold value during at least one measurement period. |
| US10126412B2 |
Optical phased array lidar system and method of using same
A lidar-based system and method are used for the solid state beamforming and steering of laser beams using optical phased array (OPA) photonic integrated circuits (PICs) and the detection of laser beams using photodetectors. Transmitter and receiver electronics, power management electronics, control electronics, data conversion electronics and processing electronics are also included in the system and used in the method.Laser pulses beamformed by the OPA PIC reflect from objects in the field of view (FOV) of said OPA, and are detected by a detector or a set of detectors.A lidar system includes at least one lidar, and any subset and any number of complementary sensors, data processing/communication/storage modules, and a balance of system for supplying power, protecting, connecting, and mounting the components of said system.Direct correlation between the 3D point cloud generated by the lidar and the color images captured by an RGB (Red, Green, Blue) video camera can be achieved by using an optical beam splitter that sends optical signals simultaneously to both sensors.A lidar system may contain a plurality of lidar sensors, a lidar sensor may contain a plurality of optical transmitters, and an optical transmitter may contain a plurality of OPA PICs. |
| US10126410B2 |
Determination of an elevation misalignment angle of a radar sensor of a motor vehicle
A method for identifying an elevation misalignment angle of a radar sensor of a vehicle, including: identifying elevation angles of radar object localizations with reference to a coordinate system of the radar sensor, an elevation angle of a radar object localization being respectively identified based on radar echoes that are obtained with at least two antenna directional characteristics that differ in an elevation direction; and identifying an elevation misalignment angle based on an occurrence frequency distribution of the elevation angles of at least some of the radar object localizations; and a radar sensor for vehicles having an evaluation device embodied to carry out the method. |
| US10126409B2 |
Method and MIMO radar device for determining a position angle of an object
A method and a MIMO radar device are provided for determining a position angle of an object. The method includes the following steps: emitting a first radar signal with the aid of a first transmitting antenna having a first radiation pattern; emitting a second radar signal with the aid of a second transmitting antenna having a second radiation pattern; emitting a third radar signal with the aid of a third transmitting antenna having a third radiation pattern; the first, second, and third radar signal being emitted in various directions; receiving radar signals which are reflected on the object; and determining the position angle of the object based on phase differences and based on amplitude differences, which originate from the emission of the radar signals in the first through third directions, between the received reflected radar signals. |
| US10126407B1 |
Methods and systems for synchronized ultrasonic real time location
Methods and systems for determining a location and an identity of a portable device are provided. The system includes apparatus for transmitting timing synchronization information, a plurality of stationary ultrasonic base stations and a plurality of portable devices. Each ultrasonic base station is configured to receive the timing synchronization information and to transmit a corresponding ultrasonic location code in a time period based on the received timing synchronization information. Each portable device is configured to: 1) receive the timing synchronization information, 2) detect the ultrasonic location codes from the ultrasonic base stations and 3) transmit an output signal including a portable device ID representative of the portable device and the detected ultrasonic location code. Each portable device is synchronized to detect the ultrasonic location code in the time period based on the received timing synchronization information. |
| US10126405B2 |
Radiofrequency method and system for determining, by pairs of spacecraft, the relative angular position between a plurality of remote spacecraft
A system comprises: onboard a first craft, called host craft, a triplet of antennas comprising a transmitting and receiving antenna and two transmitting antennas, a transmission chain that can be successively coupled to each antenna of the triplet of antennas by a radiofrequency switch, a reception chain that can be coupled to the transmitting and receiving antenna, and a processing device intended to determine a relative angular position between, on the one hand, the host craft and, on the other hand, a plurality of spacecraft, called companion craft, from measurements of path differences performed and transmitted by the companion craft; onboard the companion craft, a transmitting and receiving antenna, a transmission chain and a reception chain coupled to the transmitting and receiving antenna and a measurement device intended to measure path differences between three signals originating from the three antennas of the triplet of antennas of the host craft. |
| US10126402B2 |
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with artifact-free T2 mapping
Example apparatus and methods provide improved quantitative T2 mapping for magnetic resonance imaging (MRI). Conventional T2 (spin-spin) mapping in MRI may employ a spin echo with multiple echoes (SEMC) approach like the Carr-Purcell-Meiboom-Gill (CPMG) spin echo sequence. These conventional approaches may be negatively impacted by a slice profile effect that incorrectly and undesirably lowers the signal of a first echo and by a stimulated echo effect that incorrectly and undesirably raises the signal for even echoes. Example apparatus mitigate these issues by using a T2 preparation phase that uses three dimensional (3D) non-slice selective block RF pulses followed by a multi-echo data acquisition that uses an in-out k-space trajectory. The multi-echo acquisition may employ k-space segmentation to acquire one line of partition encodings per T2 preparation phase. While conventional systems mix T2 preparation and multi-echo acquisition, example apparatus and methods separate T2 preparation and multi-echo acquisition. |
| US10126398B2 |
Modeling and validation for compressed sensing and MRI
A method judiciously applies or manages randomness, incoherence, nonlinearity and structures for improving signal encoding or decoding. The method in a compressed sensing-based imaging example comprises acquiring a set of base data samples, obtaining a base result, perturbing the base set, obtaining perturbed result(s), and deriving an outcome facilitating assessment and improvement of image quality. The method in a magnetic resonance imaging example comprises acquiring data samples in parallel and in accordance with a k-space sampling pattern, identifying a signal structure in an assembly of the acquired data samples, and finding a result consistent with both the acquired data samples and the identified signal structure. |
| US10126397B2 |
Systems and methods for fast magnetic resonance image reconstruction using a heirarchically semiseparable solver
Systems and methods for reconstructing images using a hierarchically semiseparable (“HSS”) solver to compactly represent the inverse encoding matrix used in the reconstruction are provided. The reconstruction method includes solving for the actual inverse of the encoding matrix using a direct (i.e., non-iterative) HSS solver. This approach is contrary to conventional reconstruction methods that repetitively evaluate forward models (e.g., compressed sensing or parallel imaging forward models). |
| US10126395B2 |
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and magnetic resonance imaging method
An MRI apparatus includes a reception gain storage part, a reception gain acquisition part, and a generation part. The reception gain storage part is configured to store reception gains of MR signals. The reception gains are related to at least one of pieces of patient information and imaging conditions. The reception gain acquisition part is configured to obtain a corresponding reception gain from the reception gain storage part, based on at least one of a piece of patient information and an imaging condition of an object. The piece of the patient information and the imaging condition have been specified for an imaging of the object. The generation part is configured to receive MR signals of the object with an amplification with the reception gain obtained by the reception gain acquisition part, and generate image data based on the received MR signals. |
| US10126393B2 |
Method for magnetic resonance fingerprinting
A method for magnetic resonance fingerprinting and to a magnetic resonance device is provided. The method for magnetic resonance fingerprinting includes the following method steps—detecting a magnetic resonance signal waveform of an examination area of an examination object by means of a magnetic resonance fingerprinting method, comparing the detected magnetic resonance signal waveform with a number of signal waveforms stored in a database, wherein a database value of at least one tissue parameter is assigned to each of the database signal waveforms, and determining a value of the at least one tissue parameter on the basis of the signal comparison, wherein an influence of a temperature of the examination object on the magnetic resonance signal waveform is taken into consideration in the further processing of the magnetic resonance signal waveform. |
| US10126390B2 |
Magnetic resonance spectroscopy with phase rotation
In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) apparatus for acquiring an MR signal from an examination subject according to a pulse sequence, a first radio-frequency pulse is applied with a first phase and a gradient field is simultaneously applied in a first direction. Second and third radio-frequency pulses, with second and third phases, respectively, are applied simultaneously with a gradient field in a second direction. A fourth and a fifth radio-frequency pulse, with a fourth and a fifth phase, respectively, are applied and simultaneously with a gradient field in a third direction. A signal with a receiver phase is acquired =. The pulse sequence is repeated a number of times under phase rotation, wherein the third and fourth radio-frequency pulses in each repetition have the same phase, and the signals acquired in the repetition are added. |
| US10126389B2 |
Gradient coil assembly with outer coils comprising aluminum
The present invention provides a gradient coil assembly (122) for use in a magnetic resonance imaging system (110) comprising a set of inner coils (142) and a set of outer coils (144), which are concentrically arranged in respect to a common rotational axis of the set of inner and outer coils (142, 144), wherein the set of inner coils (142) and a set of outer coils (144) can be controlled to generate gradient magnetic fields within an inner space of the gradient coil assembly (122), and at least one coil (152, 154, 156) of the set of outer coils (144) is at least partially made of aluminum. The present invention further provides a magnetic resonance (MR) imaging system (110) comprising the above magnetic gradient coil assembly (122). By replacing at least a part of one coil of the outer coils by aluminum, the gradient coil assembly (122) can be significantly improved in respect to cost and weight without reducing the accuracy in respect to the generation of diagnostic images based on magnetic resonance information. Accordingly, the outcome of an MR scan is not reduced. The outer coils usually contain about half the weight of the copper used for state of the art gradient coil assemblies. |
| US10126387B2 |
Magnetic resonance apparatus
A magnetic resonance apparatus has a computer designed to emit, on each of at least one control channel, a control signal generated from a sequence of values to control, via each channel, at least one component of the magnetic resonance apparatus. A buffer device is provided for each channel, which includes at least one read control device and a control buffer memory for that control channel. A software tool running on the computer is designed to determine the values as a function of predefined parameters and write them to the control buffer memory. The read control device is designed to read values from the control buffer memory and to supply them, with a read clock derived from a clock that was set independently of the computer, to the respective component. For each of the control buffer memories, the order in which the values are read corresponds to the order in which they are written. |
| US10126385B2 |
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus
A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) apparatus includes a coil assembly including a superconductive magnet; and a helium container configured to accommodate a helium in a liquid state and the coil assembly. The helium container includes a partition wall configured to surround a portion of an outer circumference of the coil assembly, and the helium in the liquid state is accommodated in a first space formed between the partition wall and the coil assembly. |
| US10126380B2 |
Closure and system for NMR sample containers with a secondary locking seal
A selectively removable closure for closing the open end of an NMR sample tube having an open end and a closed end of the invention includes a cylindrical proximal first and a distal second portion, both portions substantially congruent to a central axis, the second portion has a hollow bore extending therethrough, the hollow bore has: a first and a second distal section, a central section and a proximal section. The first distal section has an inside diameter sized to accept the outside diameter of a preselected size NMR sample tube substantially without an interference, the second distal section has an interference that ends into the central section with a ramp with an angle to the central axis greater than 70 degrees, the central section corresponds in a locked position on the NMR sample tube with a locking ring at least partially surrounding the NMR locking tube to form a secondary locking seal. |
| US10126379B2 |
Magnetometer without slaving and with compensation for fluctuations in the resonance gradient in weak field, magnetometers network and measurement method
A magnetometer including a detector configured to measure the amplitude of an output signal at an oscillation frequency to deduce a component of a magnetic field to be measured starting from the value of a resonance gradient, including a main excitation source outputting a measurement signal oscillating at a main oscillation frequency and a secondary excitation source outputting a reference signal with known amplitude oscillating at a secondary oscillation frequency, the detector being configured to measure the output signal amplitude at a harmonic of the secondary oscillation frequency and to deduce said resonance gradient. The invention also applies to a network of magnetometers and a method of measuring a magnetic field without slaving and compensation of fluctuations of the resonance gradient. |
| US10126376B1 |
Quartz magnetometer having a quartz resonant plate with a broaden distal end for enhanced magnetic sensitivity
A resonator and/or a magnetometer has a resonating structure which is naturally resonant in at least one resonant mode, the resonating structure being significantly wider at a free end thereof than it is at a fixed end thereof, the resonating structure having at least one pair of sense electrodes disposed on opposing major surfaces of the resonating structure and having a conductive path formed as a loop, the loop being disposed near or at edges of the resonating structure so that the loop follows a path which is significantly wider at the free end of the resonating structure than it is at the fixed end of the resonating structure and wherein the at least one pair of sense electrodes are formed inwardly of the edges of the resonating structure and also inwardly of the path of the loop. |
| US10126372B2 |
Methods for monitoring the state of a battery in a motor vehicle
An internal temperature of a battery is determined at defined intervals at different moments in time and is transmitted to an evaluation unit, which continuously determines a temperature gradient at least from the temperature values by dividing the temperature change in an interval by the time change in this interval. At least one limit value for the temperature gradient is stored in the evaluation unit, and the evaluation unit generates an alarm signal when the temperature gradient determined by the evaluation unit reaches this limit value. |
| US10126366B2 |
Apparatus for in-situ NMR spectroscopy of metal-air and metal-free air batteries
An apparatus for the in situ NMR monitoring of a battery including an anode, a separator and an air cathode is provided. The apparatus includes a non-metallic anode container portion, a non-metallic cathode container portion, and non-metallic connecting structure and sealing structure for connecting and sealing the anode container portion and the cathode container portion to define a hermetically sealed interior space for containing the battery with an anode of the battery adjacent the anode container portion and an air cathode of the battery adjacent the cathode container portion. The cathode container portion includes an air chamber portion with an air inlet and an air outlet. The air chamber portion can be adjacent to the air cathode such that air flowing from the air inlet to the air outlet will contact the air cathode. A method of evaluating an air cathode battery and a battery assembly for the NMR spectroscopy of an air cathode battery are also disclosed. |
| US10126365B2 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring at least one electronic switching contact for a vehicle
The present invention relates to a method for monitoring at least one electronic switching contact for a door system for a vehicle, wherein the switching contact has a first connection for a first electrical line and a second connection for a second electrical line. The method comprises a step of reading a first signal from a first monitoring point connected to the first connection in order to obtain a first monitoring signal, a step of reading a second signal from a second monitoring point connected to the second connection in order to obtain a second monitoring signal, and a step of combining the first monitoring signal and the second monitoring signal in order to determine at least one state of the at least one switching contact. |
| US10126363B2 |
Flip-flop circuit and scan chain using the same
A flip-flop circuit is provided. The flip-flop circuit receives a test signal at a test-in terminal and a data signal at a data-in terminal and generates a scan-out signal. The flip-flop circuit includes a buffer and a scan flip-flop. The buffer has an input terminal coupled to the test-in terminal and an output terminal and further has a first power terminal and a second power terminal. The buffer operates to generate a buffering signal. The scan flip-flop receives the buffering signal and the data signal. The scan flip-flop is controlled by a test-enable signal to generate the scan-out signal according to the buffering signal or the data signal. The scan flip-flop further generates a test-enable reverse signal which is the reverse of the test-enable signal. The first power terminal of the buffer receives the test-enable signal or the test-enable reverse signal. |
| US10126356B2 |
Systems and methods for conforming test tooling to integrated circuit device with whirlwind cold plate
A thermal control unit used to maintain a set point temperature on an integrated circuit device under test, has at least one cooling plate configured to facilitate the testing of integrated circuits where the device under test requires efficient cooling. |
| US10126353B2 |
Verification of gate driver protection logic
A gate driver is described that includes a gate signal module configured to output a gate signal of the gate driver for driving a gate terminal of a semiconductor device. The gate driver further includes a test module configured to generate a simulated failure condition at a semiconductor device during a test of a monitoring and protection feature of the gate driver. The gate drier further includes a monitor module configured to output an indication of the simulated failure condition in response to detecting the simulated failure condition at the semiconductor device. |
| US10126352B1 |
Method for enhancing stability, robustness and throughput of semiconductor device test machines in low temperature conditions
An apparatus includes a platform, a test board mounted on the platform, and a test socket attached to the test board. The test socket may be configured to apply test signals to and receive test responses from a semiconductor device under test. The platform may be configured to utilize ultrasonic vibrations to inhibit frost formation between the semiconductor device under test and a test header providing a low temperature test condition. |
| US10126348B2 |
Combined on-line bushing monitoring and geo-magnetic induced current monitoring system
A system for on-line bushing monitoring and geo-magnetically induced current monitoring utilizes a Hall Effect current transducer and obtains the harmonic component of the signals through the measurement of bushing test tap current which provides a more reliable measurement method since the bushings provide a capacitive voltage divider that is not subject to saturation which is a drawback of using current transformers to obtain the signals. The system combines the existing harmonic analysis functions of the bushing monitor measurement system with the measured neutral direct current to provide an economical and efficient system that monitors both bushing condition and GIC conditions with one common monitoring module. |
| US10126339B2 |
Methods and devices for switching filters and medical apparatuses using the same
Methods and devices for switching filters and medical apparatuses using the same are described. The method includes: detecting whether or not a frequency range of an input signal is changed from a first frequency range into a second frequency range; if changed, switching from a first filter to a second filter, and taking a sample value of the input signal at a current moment as an input value of the second filter at the current moment and sample values of the input signal at n moments before the current moment as input values of the second filter at the n moments, respectively, and taking output values of the first filter at m moments before the current moment as output values of the second filter at the m moments, to obtain an output value of the second filter at the current moment. |
| US10126338B2 |
System and methods for adaptive power consumption based on source impedance
A method for determining power consumption levels of an appliance includes reducing a power consumption of the appliance to a minimum value; measuring a first voltage value at an internal terminal of the appliance; increasing the power consumption of the appliance to a factory default value; measuring a second voltage value at the internal terminal of the appliance; computing a supply wire resistance based on the measured first and second voltage values; and determining a maximum allowable power consumption value of the appliance based on the computed supply wire resistance. |
| US10126336B2 |
Energy usage device and energy information collecting device
The present invention relates to a configuration of a device using energy, and an energy usage device according to the present invention includes: an energy information generating unit configured to generate energy information containing energy use information measured for an energy usage device or generated in consideration of operations of particular configurations of the device; a communication unit configured to transmit the generated energy information or an identification code for identifying the device to an energy information collecting device; and a control unit configured to control an operation of the energy information generating unit, the communication unit, or the device. According to the present invention, it is possible to expand an active energy saving solution infrastructure due to ease in extracting and controlling energy use information. |
| US10126331B2 |
Digital multi-meter
A multi-meter including a current input, a common input, a display, a first current measurement circuit, a second current measurement circuit, and a controller. The controller includes a first input and a second input. The controller operable to receive a first voltage from the first current measurement circuit at the first input, receive a second voltage from the second current measurement circuit at the second input, determine a value for a current being measured based on the first voltage if the first voltage is below a predetermined threshold, determine a value for a current being measured based on the second voltage if the first voltage is above the predetermined threshold, generate an output signal related to the determined value for the current, and provide the output signal to the display. |
| US10126330B2 |
Clamp-type ammeter
This clamp-type ammeter has a flexible substrate of which an inner wall is configured to be able to deform into a substantially cylindrical shape. The clamp-type ammeter has a plurality of magnetic sensor elements disposed at the inner wall of the flexible substrate. The clamp-type ammeter has a tube of which one end is connected to the flexible substrate. The clamp-type ammeter has an operation unit that is connected to the other end of the tube and that can operate the deformation of the flexible substrate. |
| US10126329B2 |
Force biased spring probe pin assembly
A force biased spring probe pin assembly includes a barrel member having a barrel wall defining an elongate internal cavity with a lower end and an upper end. The assembly also includes a split plunger member comprised of an upper split plunger part separated from a lower split plunger part separated by a diagonal cut reciprocally mounted in the internal cavity proximate the lower end of the internal cavity. A spring member is positioned in the internal cavity between the upper split plunger part and the second end of the internal cavity. A force biased spring probe pin assembly includes a barrel member having a barrel wall defining an elongate internal cavity with a lower end and an upper end. The assembly also includes a first split plunger member reciprocally mounted in the internal cavity proximate the lower end of the internal cavity and a second split plunger member reciprocally mounted in the internal cavity proximate the upper end of the internal cavity. The first and second split plunger members are each comprised of two parts: a first upper plunger part separated from a first lower plunger part by a diagonal cut. A spring member is positioned in the internal cavity between the first and second upper split plunger parts. In each split plunger the diagonal surface of the upper split plunger part exerts a transverse force to the diagonal surface of the lower split plunger part ensuring good electrical contact between the lower split plunger member part and the barrel wall. |
| US10126328B1 |
Electrical measurement test fixture
An electrical test fixture includes a printed wiring board (PWB) and a pair of cable connectors for connecting to a device to be tested. The test fixture includes jacks for a digital multi meter and a multi meter bus on the PWB. On/off switches on the PWB correspond to circuit elements in the device to be tested. The cable connecters are connected to the PWB using contact pins and flexible stranded wires crimped to the contact pins. |
| US10126326B2 |
Atomic force microscopy of scanning and image processing
Apparatus and associated method that contemplates performing a first atomic force microscope (AFM) scan of a first region of a sample centered at a first position at a first angle to produce a first scan image, the first AFM scan including a first component scan at a first speed and a second component scan at a second speed; performing a second AFM scan of the first region of the sample at a second angle to produce a second scan image, the second AFM scan including performing a third component scan at the first speed and a fourth component scan at the second speed; and correcting a first error in the first scan image based on the second scan image to produce a corrected image output. |
| US10126323B2 |
Capacitive physical quantity sensor
A capacitive physical quantity sensor includes a first substrate, a movable electrode, a fixed electrode, a second substrate, a signal applying unit, a C-V conversion circuit, and an auxiliary electrode. The auxiliary electrode is disposed from a portion of the second substrate which faces the movable electrode to a portion of the second substrate which faces a displaceable region of the movable electrode. The signal applying unit applies a predetermined potential to the auxiliary electrode at the time of self-diagnosis, to thereby increase a density of electric force lines generated between the fixed electrode located in a direction of displacing the movable electrode and the movable electrode. |
| US10126320B2 |
Arrangement of dams in air data probe
An air data probe is provided. The air data probe includes a pitot probe having a mounting base or flange, support strut, and tube with a forward facing inlet that is configured to capture a total pressure of the surrounding air, at least three dams placed within the tube of the pitot probe for blocking the ballistic trajectory of water droplets or ice crystals from passing directly through the tube to a downstream pressure sensing element, and a heater element integrated into the tube of the pitot probe on the outside of the dams. The at least three dams are oriented within the tube of the pitot probe in such a way that the dam locations are configured for two or more installations of the air data probe. |
| US10126316B2 |
Systems and methods for the measurement of tacrolimus in oral fluids by liquid chromatography tandem mass spectrometry
Disclosed is a method of measuring tacrolimus levels in a subject. In exemplary embodiments, the method comprises the steps of: collecting oral fluid from the subject; homogenizing the oral fluid; combining the homogenized oral fluid with a precipitating solvent; separating oral fluid components on a liquid chromatography column by gradient elution with a mixture of a solvent A and a solvent B, wherein the solvent A is about 2 mM ammonium acetate/0.1% (v/v) formic acid in water and solvent B is about 2 mM ammonium acetate/0.1% (v/v) formic acid in MeOH and wherein the amount of solvent B is increased from about 50% (v/v) to about 98% (v/v); and quantifying the amount of tacrolimus in the oral fluid by mass spectrometry. |
| US10126312B2 |
Diagnostic method for urinary tract infection
It has been demonstrated that the urinary level of HBP increases in individuals that have a urinary tract infection. Accordingly, the urinary level of HBP in an individual can be used to determine whether or not an individual has a urinary tract infection. |
| US10126311B2 |
Methods and compositions for detecting endometrial or ovarian cancer
Some embodiments of the present invention relate to methods and compositions for assessing the absence, presence, progression, or stage of cancer. In particular, methods and compositions for detecting endometrial cancer or ovarian cancer are provided. |
| US10126307B2 |
SRM/MRM assay for the androgen receptor (AR) protein
Methods are provided for quantifying the Androgen receptor protein (AR) protein directly in biological samples that have been fixed in formalin, using Selected Reaction Monitoring (SRM)/Multiple Reaction Monitoring (MRM) mass spectrometry. The biological samples are chemically preserved and fixed and can be, for example, tissues treated with formaldehyde containing agents/fixatives including formalin-fixed tissue/cells, formalin-fixed/paraffin embedded (FFPE) tissue/cells, FFPE tissue blocks and cells from those blocks. A protein sample is prepared from said biological sample using, for example, the Liquid Tissue protocol and the AR protein is quantitated in the Liquid Tissue sample by the method of SRM/MRM mass spectrometry by quantitating in the protein sample at least one or more of the peptides described. |
| US10126304B2 |
Binding domain mapping
The present disclosure relates to compositions and methodology for revealing binding sites between proteins, proteins and nucleic acids, or proteins and small molecules. The disclosure provides rapid and direct positive identification and sequencing of the contact region between such molecules, and can be applied to individual interacting pairs, as well as large-scale or global interactions. |
| US10126302B2 |
Fluorescent methods and materials for directed biomarker signal amplification
Methods and compositions are provided that include a multichromophore and/or multichromophore complex for identifying a target biomolecule. A sensor biomolecule, for example, an antibody can be covalently linked to the multichromophore. Additionally, a signaling chromophore can be covalently linked to the multichromophore. The arrangement is such that the signaling chromophore is capable of receiving energy from the multichromophore upon excitation of the multichromophore. Since the sensor biomolecule is capable of interacting with the target biomolecule, the multichromophore and/or multichromophore complex can provide enhanced detection signals for a target biomolecule. |
| US10126299B2 |
Amplification of biological targets via on-chip culture for biosensing
The present invention, in part, relates to methods and apparatuses for on-chip amplification and/or detection of various targets, including biological targets and any amplifiable targets. In some examples, the microculture apparatus includes a single-use, normally-closed fluidic valve that is initially maintained in the closed position by a valve element bonded to an adhesive coating. The valve is opened using a magnetic force. The valve element includes a magnetic material or metal. Such apparatuses and methods are useful for in-field or real-time detection of targets, especially in limited resource settings. |
| US10126296B2 |
Immunoassay method and device with magnetically susceptible bead capture
The present invention provides apparatus and methods for the rapid determination of analytes in liquid samples by immunoassays incorporating magnetic capture of beads on a sensor capable of being used in the point-of-care diagnostic field. |
| US10126294B2 |
Sample metering device and assay device with integrated sample dilution
In one embodiment, the invention is to a sample metering device, comprising a sample holding chamber oriented between a sample entry port and a sample isolation unit and having a diluent introduction port disposed therebetween for introduction of a diluent into the sample holding chamber. The volume within the sample holding chamber between the diluent introduction port and the sample isolation unit defines a metered volume of a sample for analysis. In another embodiment, the invention is to an apparatus and method for rapid determination of analytes in liquid samples by various assays including immunoassays incorporating a sample dilution feature, preferably suitable for low range sample dilution, and preferably capable of being used in the point-of-care diagnostic field. |
| US10126293B2 |
Reagents and methods for detecting PNH type II white blood cells and their identification as risk factors for thrombotic disorders
The disclosure relates to methods for detecting PNH Type II cell populations in biological samples as well as methods for determining whether a patient is at an increased risk for developing thrombocytopenia or thrombosis based on the percentage of PNH Type II cells in the patient's blood. The disclosure also features reagents and conjugates for use in the methods. |
| US10126291B2 |
Apparatus for disease detection
The present invention provides, among others, apparatus for detecting a disease, comprising a system delivery biological subject and a probing and detecting device, wherein the probing and detecting device includes a first micro-device and a first substrate supporting the first micro-device, the first micro-device contacts a biologic material to be detected and is capable of measuring at the microscopic level an electric, magnetic, electromagnetic, thermal, optical, acoustical, biological, chemical, physical, or mechanical property of the biologic material. |
| US10126290B2 |
Test tape device and operating method
Disclosed is a test tape device comprising a housing having a cassette compartment for a replaceable tape cassette, a cassette door which can be retained in a closed position and which allows access to the cassette compartment through a housing opening in an open position, a tip cover which can be positioned in a first position covering a housing aperture and a second position allowing access to a tip of the tape cassette, wherein the tip cover is moveable to a third position in which the cassette tip is at least partially uncovered and the housing opening is extended into the area of the cassette tip, and wherein the cassette door is self-opening when moving the tip cover to the third position. |
| US10126281B2 |
Probe device for analyzing physical properties of food, having teeth form
The present invention relates to a probe device for analyzing physical properties of food, having a teeth form, and more specifically, to a probe device for analyzing physical properties of food, having a teeth form, capable of objectively analyzing various physical properties felt by a person when chewing food, selecting and using a probe corresponding to a molar, a front tooth or a canine tooth, allowing a vertical motion of a press to be interlocked with a motion of the jaw joint, and allowing chewing experiments similar to real chewing of the human body to be carried out by enabling smooth occlusion of the upper jaw and the lower jaw. |
| US10126278B2 |
Thermal stress resistant micro-plasma emission detector unit
The micro-plasma emission detector unit is for use with a gas chromatograph. It includes an airtight housing having an internal ionization chamber, a pair of spaced-apart ionization electrodes positioned on opposite sides of the housing, and a set of opposite first and second holding members between which the housing is maintained inside the detector unit. Each electrode is maintained against an outer surface of the housing using a corresponding force-generating mechanism. With the proposed design, the risks of damaging the housing due to the thermal stresses are mitigated and the operating temperature of the detector unit can be increased. |
| US10126277B2 |
Method and thermal conductivity detector
A thermal conductivity detector includes a heatable resistive detector configured to be physically arranged in an analytes flow eluting from a chromatography column and electrically arranged with resistors in separate arms of a measuring bridge, an amplifier which detects differential voltage between two opposite nodes of the bridge and applies an output voltage to other opposite nodes of the measuring bridge to maintain the detector at a constant operating temperature, and an additional resistor with a controllable switch in parallel connected in series with the detector or resistor arranged in one arm of the bridge, where the switch is periodically turned on and off at a predetermined duty cycle and/or controlled by information on characteristic times-of-arrival of analytes at the detector to compensate for operating temperature uncertainties due to manufacturing variations of the resistors and/or to allow for processing small and large peaks of a chromatogram with highest available resolution. |
| US10126259B2 |
Radio frequency identification (RFID) devices for detecting volatile substances
A radio frequency identification device, for detecting at least one volatile substance, comprising an integrated circuit, an antenna electrically connected to said integrated circuit, and at least one conductor, between said integrated circuit and said antenna, preferably said at least one conductor comprises a conducting composite, preferably said conducting composite comprises a polymer matrix and a conductor. |
| US10126254B2 |
Non-uniform photon-counting detector array on a fourth-generation ring to achieve uniform noise and spectral performance in Z-direction
A computed tomography (CT) detector apparatus includes a plurality of detector arrays arranged in a ring, wherein for at least one array that includes a plurality of elements, an anode pixel pattern is non-uniform in a z-axis direction and a thickness of each element in the array is correspondingly non-uniform along the z-axis direction. A size of the anode pixels increases proportionally away from a center of the array, and a thickness of the elements increases away from the center of the array. The ratio of the thickness of the element to the size of the anode pixels is substantially the same over the array. |
| US10126249B2 |
Waste detection
One or more techniques and/or systems are provided for waste object detection. For example, a waste alert component is configured to emit ultraviolet light towards a waste detection zone, such as a bathroom floor or countertop. If a waste object, such as a paper towel or other object with a fluoresce property, exists within the waste detection zone, then the waste alert component may detect an increase in light due to the waste object fluorescing visible light in response to the ultraviolet light. If the increase in light intensity exceeds a detection threshold, then the waste alert component may provide a waste detection alert that the waste object exists within the waste detection zone (e.g., a message may be sent to a housekeeper that paper towel waste in on the bathroom countertop). |
| US10126247B2 |
Rubber crumb inspection system
An inspection system for inspecting rubber crumb includes a conveyor, lighting, a camera, and a controller. The conveyor is used to carry the rubber crumb. The lighting is positioned above the conveyor to illuminate the rubber crumb with at least 3,500 lumens. The camera is positioned adjacent to the lighting to take images of the illuminated rubber crumb in the lighted area. The controller receives the images from the camera and detects a contamination in the rubber crumb by determining whether there is a dark particle within the crumb. If a contamination is detected, it may be removed from the remaining rubber crumb. |
| US10126245B1 |
Method for representing quality change process of beef fat during repeated freezing and thawing through Raman spectrum
A method for representing the quality change process of beef fat during repeated freezing and thawing through a Raman spectrum. The method comprises the steps of (1) setting operating parameters of a laser Raman spectrometer, wherein the operating parameters include the wavelength of exciting light, the laser power and the scanning time; (2) repeatedly freezing and thawing beef, extracting fat in the thawed beef, and then conducting Raman spectrum scanning on the extracted fat; (3) analyzing and processing an obtained original Raman spectrum, so that the quality change process of beef fat during repeated freezing and thawing is represented. The Raman spectrum is used for monitoring the quality change process of beef fat during repeated freezing and thawing, the method is flexible and simple, the analysis speed is high, and the fat quality of beef which is repeatedly frozen and thawed can be represented efficiently and accurately; in addition, analysis solvent consumption is low, and the detection cost is low. |
| US10126244B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for performing spectroscopic analysis of a subject
This invention relates to a light delivery and collection device for performing spectroscopic analysis of a subject. The light delivery and collection device comprises a reflective cavity with two apertures. The first aperture is configured to receive excitation light which then diverges and projects onto the second aperture. The second aperture is configured to be applied close to the subject such that the reflective cavity substantially forms an enclosure covering a large area of the subject. The excitation light enters and interacts with the covered area of the subject to produce inelastic scattering and/or fluorescence emission from the subject. The reflective cavity has a specular reflective surface with high reflectivity to the excitation light as well as to the inelastic scattering and/or fluorescence emission from the subject. The reflective cavity reflects the excitation light that is reflected and/or back-scattered from the subject and redirects it towards the subject. This causes more excitation light to penetrate into a diffusely scattering subject to produce inelastic scattering and/or fluorescence emission from inside of the subject hence enabling sub-surface measurement. In addition, the reflective cavity reflects the inelastic scattering and/or fluorescence emission from the subject unless the inelastic scattering and/or fluorescence emission either emits from the first aperture of the reflective cavity to be measured with a spectrometer device, or re-enters the subject at the second aperture. This multi-reflection process improves the collection efficiency of the inelastic scattering or fluorescence emission from the subject. |
| US10126239B2 |
Optical waveguide, and SPR sensor cell and colorimetric sensor cell each using same
The present invention provides a sensor cell that has excellent measurement accuracy in repetitive measurement. An optical waveguide of the present invention includes a cladding layer and a core layer buried in the cladding layer so that at least one surface of the core layer is exposed. A water contact angle of a surface of the cladding layer on which the core layer is exposed is 80° or more. An SPR sensor cell and a colorimetric sensor cell of the present invention each include the optical waveguide of the present invention. |
| US10126238B2 |
Scanning in angle-resolved reflectometry and algorithmically eliminating diffraction from optical metrology
Angle-resolved reflectometers and reflectometry methods are provided, which comprise a coherent light source, an optical system arranged to scan a test pattern using a spot of coherent light from the light source to yield realizations of the light distribution in the collected pupil, wherein the spot covers a part of the test pattern and the scanning is carried out optically or mechanically according to a scanning pattern, and a processing unit arranged to generate a composite image of the collected pupil distribution by combining the pupil images. Metrology systems and methods are provided, which reduce diffraction errors by estimating, quantitatively, a functional dependency of measurement parameters on aperture sizes and deriving, from identified diffraction components of the functional dependency which relate to the aperture sizes, correction terms for the measurement parameters with respect to the measurement conditions. |
| US10126234B2 |
Water content of a part of plant evaluation method and water content of a part of plant evaluation apparatus
In a water content evaluation method, when water content of a part of a plant is evaluated, a white reference substrate (background material) is disposed so as to cover a back surface of a leaf of plant. A first beam source radiates a near infrared beam (reference beam) with a wavelength of 905 nm that has a characteristic of tending not to be absorbed in water toward leaf. A second beam source radiates a near infrared beam (measuring beam) with a wavelength of 1550 nm that has a characteristic of tending to be absorbed in water toward the leaf. Threshold level setter/water content index detector calculates a water content index of one leaf that is total sum Σ Ln (I905/I1550) of the reflection intensity rate at all irradiation positions of the leaf based on a reflection light of a reference beam and a reflection light of a measuring beam that are reflected on all irradiation positions of the leaf. |
| US10126232B2 |
Sample test method, microfluidic device, and test device
A sample test method, microfluidic device, and test device efficiently and accurately compensates for interference of an interfering substance present in a sample using optical measurement without addition of a separate reagent for detecting the interfering substance. The sample test method includes: measuring an optical characteristic value of a target substance present in a sample; measuring an optical characteristic value of an interfering substance present in the sample; and determining a concentration of the target substance for which interference of the interfering substance is compensated for based on the optical characteristic value of the interfering substance. |
| US10126227B2 |
Flow cytometer
The disclosed flow cytometer includes a wavelength division multiplexer (WDM). The WDM includes an extended light source providing light that forms an object, a collimating optical element that captures light from the extended light source and projects a magnified image of the object as a first light beam, and a first focusing optical element configured to focus the first light beam to a size smaller than the object of the extended light source to a first semiconductor detector. The disclosed flow cytometer further includes a composite microscope objective to direct light emitted by a particle in a flow channel in a viewing zone of the composite microscope to the extended light source, a fluidic system and a peristaltic pump configured to supply liquid sheath and liquid sample to the flow channel, and a laser diode system to illuminate the particle in the flow channel. |
| US10126219B2 |
Method and system for real time characterization of soft materials and biological tissues based on nonlinear properties
Method and system for real time characterization of soft materials and biological tissues based on nonlinear properties with application in biological tissues diagnostics, robotic assisted surgery, tele-surgery, robotics and minimally invasive surgery is provided. |
| US10126217B2 |
On-demand vapour generator
An on-demand vapor generator includes a vapor chamber configured to produce a vapor and a vapor absorption assembly configured to receive flows of vapor from the vapor chamber. The vapor absorption assembly includes a first vapor-permeable passage having a passage outlet and at least one second vapor-permeable passage that is closed. When vapor absorption assembly receives a flow of vapor from the vapor chamber, the flow of vapor passes through the first vapor-permeable passage to the passage outlet at least substantially without absorption of vapor from the flow of vapor. However, when a flow of vapor is not received from the vapor chamber, vapor entering the vapor absorption assembly from the vapor chamber passes into the first vapor-permeable passage and the at least one second vapor-permeable passage and is at least substantially absorbed. |
| US10126213B2 |
Cartridge with embossed collection substrate
A device (201) is provided for collecting a substance from an ambient fluid. The device includes a housing (205) equipped with an (207) inlet and an outlet (209) which are in fluidic communication with each other, and a collector (203) which has a plurality of spaced-apart layers (213). The collector is disposed in a fluidic flow path between the inlet and the outlet such that a flow of fluid passes through adjacent layers of the collector. Each of the layers includes a substrate (217) having a sorbent or adherent (219) disposed thereon, and a plurality of embossments (215) which maintains the layers in the spaced-apart configuration. |
| US10126212B2 |
Hose or tube for transporting a gas specimen
A hose or tube for transporting a gas specimen has an inner envelope, forming a diffusion barrier and containing a plurality of perforation holes, and an outer envelope, forming a diffusion layer and resting on the inner envelope. The object is to develop a hose or tube so as to ensure transport of a gas specimen over as great a distance as possible without substantial weakening of the concentration, and at the same time without impairing the ability of the gas to be detected to diffuse into the hose or tube. For this purpose, the outer envelope contains diffusion-inhibiting sealing zones on its inner surface, which zones overlap the perforation holes in the inner envelope. |
| US10126211B2 |
Bodily fluid sampler
A bodily fluid sampler includes a suction part that sucks the bodily fluid, a main body part that includes a ventilation channel which allows gas for discharging the bodily fluid sucked by the suction part to pass therethrough, and a blocking part that is provided between the main body part and the suction part, and the blocking part preventing the bodily fluid sucked by the suction part from flowing into the main body part. An inner diameter of the opening part formed in the blocking part is smaller than an inner diameter of the suction part at a surface where the suction part and the blocking part make contact with each other, and thus, the bodily fluid is prevented from being sucked by the suction part more than a predetermined amount. |
| US10126204B2 |
Nitrogen oxide sensor
A nitrogen oxide sensor includes a measured gas chamber, a sensor cell, a pump cell, a voltage application circuit, a sensor output detector, a voltage control part, a concentration calculation part, a temperature estimation part, an air-fuel ratio estimation part, and a time calculation part calculating a cumulative value of time periods when the temperature of the pump cell is within a predetermined temperature region and the air-fuel ratio of the measured gas is leaner than the stoichiometric air-fuel ratio as a first cumulative time period. The concentration calculation part calculates the NOx concentration in the measured gas higher with respect to the output of the sensor cell when the first cumulative time period is relatively long compared with when the first cumulative time period is relatively short. |
| US10126201B2 |
Fatigue testing of a test specimen
The invention pertains to a combination of a test rig and test specimen for performing a fatigue test, wherein the test specimen is non-axisymmetric and comprises:—a central element,—a first branch element, which has a longitudinal axis that extends at an angle to the longitudinal axis of the central element,—a joint connecting the first branch element to the central element, which has an in plane bending resonance frequency with an associated in plane bending mode shape, and an out of plane bending resonance frequency with an associated out of plane bending mode shape, wherein the in plane bending resonance frequency and the out of plane bending frequency are substantially the same, wherein the first node of the in plane bending mode shape and the first node of the out of plane bending mode shape are substantially at the same position at the first branch element and wherein the test rig comprises:—a support for supporting the test specimen,—an excitator for subjecting the test specimen to forced vibration at an excitation frequency. |
| US10126197B2 |
Pressure indicator
A pressure indicator: a body having a pressure chamber which has an inlet for communication with a fluid; a resilient diaphragm having a periphery sealed against the body and having one side thereof exposed to the fluid within the chamber; an indicating arm having an inner end which is integrally formed with the other side of the diaphragm and an outer end arm which is adjacent to a scale, the arrangement being such that pressure of the fluid within the chamber causes resilient deformation of the diaphragm which in turn causes the outer end of the arm to move relative to the scale thereby indicating the pressure of the fluid in the chamber. |
| US10126194B2 |
Subscriber identity module recognition method utilizing air pressure and electronic device performing thereof
A method for determining whether a module is mounted and an electronic device performing the same are provided. The electronic device includes a pressure sensor configured to detect barometric pressure inside the electronic device, a module mounting structure configured to mount a module, and a processor configured to determine whether or not the module is mounted in the module mounting structure, based on the variation in the detected pressure. In an embodiment, the pressure sensor is a barometric pressure sensor that detects variations in barometric pressure. |
| US10126192B2 |
Sensor for detecting pressure waves in a fluid, provided with static pressure compensation
A pressure sensor device having a chamber filled with a pressure transfer medium, the chamber having at least one window that at least partly transfers pressure waves in a fluid; an optical fiber extending longitudinally through the chamber, the optical fiber including a Fiber Bragg Grating and two mounting spots at opposite sides of the Fiber Bragg Grating; a frame having a first frame end and a longitudinally opposite second frame end; a pressure response assembly connected in parallel to a fiber portion between the two mounting spots, the pressure response assembly including a series arrangement of a pressure response element and a movement damper; and a resilient member connected in series to the frame and to a parallel arrangement of the fiber portion and the pressure response assembly. |
| US10126190B2 |
Capacitive force sensor and grasping device
A capacitive force sensor 101 of the present invention includes a plurality of cells each including a lower electrode 104, a movable member that includes an upper electrode 107 and has flexibility, and a support 105b arranged to movably support the movable member and to form a gap 106 between the upper and the lower electrodes. The plural cells are grouped into elements each including one or more of the cells, and the one or more cells in a same element are electrically connected to each other. |
| US10126188B2 |
System for recording information associated with hail storm event and determining structure damage based on same
A hail strike recording device is operable to provide quantifiable information about a hail storm event experienced by a roof. The recording device is operable to be installed on a roof and includes a panel component and a mounting assembly. The panel component presents a hail impact zone to sense one or more hail strikes, with the recording device operable to provide recorded data associated with the sensed one or more hail strikes. |
| US10126182B2 |
Light emitting thermometer system
A light emitting thermometer system includes a digital thermometer that has a rear end, a probe end and a display. The probe end may be placed into contact with an animal. A lighting unit is provided and the lighting unit is coupled to the digital thermometer. Thus, the lighting unit may selectively illuminate the animal when the probe end is placed into contact with the animal. The lighting unit includes a light emitter that is removably coupled to the lighting unit. |
| US10126179B2 |
Temperature sensor and manufacturing method therefor
A temperature sensor includes a detector and a first mold-resin body. The detector includes: a temperature sensing element which is disposed at a first end part of the detector, a terminal which is disposed at a second end part of the detector, and a lead wire for coupling the temperature sensing element to the terminal. The first mold-resin body covers the temperature sensing element, a portion the terminal, and the lead wire. The temperature sensor further includes a second mold-resin body which covers an another portion of the terminal and the first mold-resin body; the another portion of the terminal is exposed from the first mold-resin body. Then, a gate mark is formed on a surface of the second mold-resin body; the surface faces a side of the first end part. |
| US10126176B2 |
Sensor container for mounting a temperature sensor, and associated refrigerator
A refrigerator for storing products includes a sensor container configured to position at least one temperature sensor within a refrigerated interior in a cabinet of the refrigerator. The sensor container includes a main body portion enclosing a hollow interior space configured to receive a ballast liquid, and a plurality of dry wells which each extend generally horizontally between a closed end within the hollow interior space and an open end. The temperature sensors positioned in the dry wells are surrounded by ballast liquid but are not in direct contact with refrigerated air within the cabinet or the ballast liquid. The temperature measurements therefore approximate the thermal response of products (such as blood) stored in the cabinet without necessitating submersible sensors or a risk of liquid leaks. The temperature measurements may be sent to elements such as a chart recorder, and a display and alarm device associated with the refrigerator. |
| US10126174B2 |
Optical pyrometer
A device for measuring the temperature of a bath of metal contains a sleeve and an optical head. The sleeve and optical head may be joined together or taken apart by rotation with respect to each other. The sleeve is made at least partially of a refractory material. A method for measuring the temperature of a bath of molten metal makes use of the inventive device. By virtue of this device, mounting and removal is rendered easier while keeping the measuring zone centered and decreasing measurement disturbances caused by the emission of gas from the sleeve. |
| US10126172B1 |
Faraday rotator device
A Faraday rotation device includes a light source configured to transmit a light beam; a first rotation stage polarizer configured to forward the light beam from the light source at a predetermined reference polarization angle; a quartz cell configured to receive the light beam from the first rotation stage polarizer at the predetermined reference polarization angle; one or more stacked ring permanent magnets coaxially fitted around the quartz cell; a stepper motor configured to adjust a rotational motion of a second rotation stage polarizer connected to the stepper motor, wherein the second rotation stage polarizer is configured to change a polarization angle of the light beam received from the quartz cell; a light detector; and an electronic circuit board configured to record a change in angle between the predetermined reference polarization angle and the changed polarization angle. |
| US10126170B2 |
Computationally-assisted multi-heterodyne spectroscopy
According to one aspect, a multi-heterodyne system is disclosed, which comprises a first laser source for generating multi-mode radiation having a frequency spectrum characterized by a first plurality of phase coherent frequencies, and a second laser source for generating multi-mode radiation having a frequency spectrum characterized by a second plurality of phase coherent frequencies. The system further comprises at least one detector for detecting a combination of the multi-mode radiation generated by the first and second laser sources so as to provide a multi-heterodyne signal having a frequency spectrum characterized by a plurality of beat frequencies, each beat frequency corresponding to a pairwise difference in the first and second plurality of phase coherent frequencies. The system further comprises an analyzer for receiving said multi-heterodyne signal and configured to employ a predictive model of the multi-heterodyne signal to provide estimates of any of phase error and timing error associated with the beat frequencies. |
| US10126168B1 |
Optical sensor
According to one embodiment, an optical sensor includes a first substrate, a first insulating film and a light-shielding film. The first substrate has a light detecting region detecting fluorescence generated from a fluorescent material by light with which irradiation is performed from a lateral side. The first insulating film is provided on the first substrate. The light-shielding film is provided, at least, on a side surface of the first substrate to which the light enters, on a side surface of the first insulating film and above a region excluding a region corresponding to the light detecting region of the first insulating film. |
| US10126166B2 |
Solid light-receiving device for UV light
Provided is a solid-state light-receiving device for ultraviolet light, which is capable of measuring an irradiation amount of UV-rays, which are harmful to a human body, accurately and appropriately with a simple structure, and of being formed easily and integrally with sensors of peripheral circuits, and which is small, lightweight, low cost, and suitable for mobile or wearable applications. The solid-state light-receiving device for ultraviolet light includes a first photodiode, a second photodiode, and a differential circuit to which signals based on outputs of those photodiodes are input. The solid-state light-receiving device for ultraviolet light also includes semiconductor layer regions, which are formed in and on the above-mentioned photodiodes, and each of which includes a highest concentration position of semiconductor impurities. |
| US10126164B2 |
Flame sensing
A flame sensor detects the presence of a flame in a combustion system in which the flame emits light. The flame sensor includes a body connectable with the combustion system. A photodetector is supported in the body. The photodetector responds to light emitted by the flame and generates an electrical signal proportional to an intensity of the light. A window is supported in the body and located between the combustion system and photodetector. The window is susceptible to contamination from the combustion system and the contamination may decrease sensitivity of the photodetector. A light source is supported in the body. The light source emits light so that a predetermined amount of the light emitted by the light source reflects into the photodetector when contamination is present on the window and the photodetector generates a signal indicative of contamination on the window. |
| US10126160B2 |
Method and vehicle with arrangement for estimating mass of the vehicle
A method and vehicle arrangement are provided for estimating a mass of a vehicle. The method and arrangement obtain a plurality of mass estimates under different operating conditions using law of motion equations, then supplies those mass estimates to a Kalman filter to improve reliability of a final mass estimate. The mass estimate can be refined by inputting subsequent mass estimates to the Kalman filter. |
| US10126159B2 |
Vehicle seat including upper rails, load sensor, and frame
A passenger's weight measurement device for a vehicle seat includes an upper rail provided on a lower rail that is fixable to a vehicle floor, the upper rail being movable in at least one of rear and front directions; a load sensor fixed onto the upper rail; and a frame provided on the load sensor and below the vehicle seat. In plan view, the load sensor protrudes from the frame in at least one of left and right directions. |
| US10126158B2 |
Systems and methods for determining a fuel level measurement of a fuel tank using optical sensor
An example fuel quantity indicating system includes a fuel tank, optical sensors mounted inside the fuel tank that each include a sensor chip and a diaphragm that deflects when ambient pressure differs from a reference pressure of the sensor chip, an optical fiber bundle that has an optical fiber connected to each of the optical sensors for guiding light to each of the optical sensors, and a processor connected to the optical fiber bundle for receiving outputs of the optical sensors indicative of respective pressures, and for determining a fuel level measurement of the fuel tank based on the outputs of the optical sensors. |
| US10126157B2 |
Volumetric measurement device, system and method
An acoustic volume sensing device is disclosed. The device includes a housing comprising a reference volume chamber and a variable volume chamber, the reference volume chamber and the variable volume chamber connected by a resonant port, a first MEMS microphone located in acoustic relation to the variable volume chamber, a second MEMS microphone located in acoustic relation to the reference volume chamber, a MEMS speaker located in acoustic relation to the reference volume chamber, and a circuit board in electric connection with the first and second MEMS microphones and the MEMS speaker. |
| US10126153B2 |
Particulate matter impact sensor
A particulate matter impact sensor (301) for sensing impacts of particles (106) comprises a support layer (302); and a sensing media layer (300) disposed in front of the support layer (302). |
| US10126151B2 |
Wafer-level chip package structure and packaging method
A chip package structure and packaging method are provided. The chip package structure includes a sensing chip, a covering layer located on the first surface of the sensing chip, and a plug structure located in the sensing chip. The sensing chip includes a first surface, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a sensing area located on the first surface. The second surface of the sensing chip faces to a base plate. One end of the plug structure is electrically connected to the sensing area, and the other end of the plug structure is exposed by the second surface of the sensing chip. |
| US10126150B2 |
Method and apparatus for estimating an angle offset of an angle sensor
The present disclosure describes a two-stage method for estimating an angle offset of an angle sensor in a system comprising a permanent-magnet synchronous motor. An initial value for the estimated angle offset is first determined with a short circuit test. Next, a torque of the motor may be controlled so that the motor is maintained at a zero speed. Minor adjustments are made to the value of the angle offset to find a minimum magnitude of stator current. A value at which the stator current is at its minimum is used as a final angle offset. |
| US10126149B2 |
Capacitive occupancy or proximity detector
A capacitive occupancy or proximity detector includes a heating circuit, an impedance measurement circuit connected to the heating element, and a diagnostic circuit configured for determining integrity of the heater element. The heating circuit includes a heating element, a heating current source and a common mode choke having a first and a second winding, the heating element being connectable to the heating current source via the first and second windings. The diagnostic circuit includes at least one controllable switching element coupled across the second winding, circuitry for injecting a DC current into a series connection formed by the first winding the heating element and a parallel connection of the second winding and the at least one controllable switching element, and at least one detection circuit for detecting a voltage variation across the second winding. |
| US10126148B2 |
Non-contact transformer detection method, device and computer storage medium
Disclosed is a detection method, a detection device and a computer storage medium for a non-contact transformer. The method includes that: a circuit parameter is acquired; the acquired circuit parameter is compared with a pre-stored circuit parameter corresponding to known air gap and dislocation distance information; and air gap and dislocation distance information of the non-contact transformer in a wireless energy transmission system are determined according to a comparison result. |
| US10126143B2 |
Navigation system with communication mechanism and method of operation thereof
A method of operation of a navigation system includes: determining a POI (point-of-interest) based on comparing a destination description and a POI information for a match; determining a privacy preference for communicating with a device; generating a temporary contact based on the POI and the privacy preference representing an anonymous mode; and establishing a communication session between a contact address and the temporary contact with a control unit based on the privacy preference for communicating with the POI. |
| US10126142B2 |
Methods and systems for obtaining navigation instructions
A user records a navigation instruction for a maneuver at a junction via their navigation device. The user indicates a distance before the junction at which the maneuver should be provided. The user does this by providing an input to the navigation device when a current position is at the relevant distance while driving around. The device then determines the maneuver in a digital map to be associated with the instruction by determining the next maneuver in a calculated route the user is following. The navigation device uploads the navigation instruction and the associated maneuver and distance to a central navigation instruction database. Other users may then download and use the navigation instruction. |
| US10126131B2 |
Automated photovoltaic geospatial location
Location functionality to determine the geospatial location of a PV module is described. This functionality may be performed at the PV module site itself as well as remote from the PV module site. The location functionality may involve the analysis of data collected from the location of the PV module or modules being analyzed as well as data from locations of other PV modules, which are not being analyzed. This data, from other PV modules may be gathered, recorded, and used as a benchmark, or for some other purpose in embodiments. |
| US10126129B2 |
Vibration and shock robust gyroscope
A MEMS device includes a movable mass having a central region overlying a sense electrode and an opening in which a suspension structure and spring system are located. The suspension structure includes an anchor coupled to a substrate and rigid links extending from opposing sides of the anchor. The spring system includes a first and second spring heads coupled to each of the rigid links. A first drive spring is coupled to the first spring head and to the movable mass, and a second drive spring is coupled to the second spring head and to the movable mass. The movable mass is resiliently suspended above the surface of the substrate via the suspension structure and the spring system. The spring system enables drive motion of the movable mass in the drive direction and sense motion of the movable mass in a sense direction perpendicular to the surface of the substrate. |
| US10126128B2 |
Angular rate sensor
A MEMS sensor for measuring rotational motion about a first axis includes a frame, a base structure under the frame, a drive mass mounted in the frame for rotational movement about a second axis perpendicular to the first axis, and a first drive paddle in the drive mass. A first link includes a first end coupled to a first spring that movably couples the first drive paddle to the drive mass and a second end coupled to a second spring that movably couples the first link to the frame. A drive system includes an electrode aligned to exert electromotive force to pivot the first drive paddle and move the drive mass about the second axis. Deflection of the drive mass is greater than deflection of the first drive paddle when the drive system is operating. |
| US10126127B2 |
Athermalized mounting of inertial measurement unit
Printed circuit boards (PCBs) are configured with an athermalized mounting suitable for securing and positioning and the PCBs within an inertial measurement unit (IMU). The PCBs include integrated circuit (IC) components, such as accelerometers and/or gyroscopes, which require relative positional stability within the IMU environment in order to provide accurate results. The athermalized mounting configuration of the PCB enables the PCBs to experience thermal expansion within the IMU without causing significant displacement of the IC relative to the IMU environment. |
| US10126121B2 |
Method of measuring scanning characteristics of optical scanning apparatus and chart for measuring scanning characteristics used in same
A method of measuring scanning characteristics of an optical scanning apparatus allows measurement of scanning characteristics of an actuator. The method includes bringing a tip of the optical scanning apparatus and a chart for measuring scanning characteristics closer together and irradiating illumination light with the actuator in a non-driven state, separating the tip and the chart for measuring scanning characteristics by a predetermined distance while maintaining the relative orientations thereof, and adjusting a drive signal of the actuator so that a scanning area of the illumination light on the chart for measuring scanning characteristics can form a desired shape. At least one of an angle of deviation and a viewing angle is measured using an irradiation position of the illumination light on the chart for measuring scanning characteristics. |
| US10126120B2 |
Determining angular position from index of refraction offset
An apparatus for measuring the angular position of a rotatable body comprises: refractive elements extending radially outward from a peripheral surface of the rotatable body at respective angular locations; first and second emitters that respectively emit first and second light beams along first and second path extending through respectively first and second regions within an annual vicinity around the rotatable body, wherein the refractive elements are arranged to pass through and laterally shift the light beams upon rotation of the rotatable body; first and second detectors arranged to respectively receive the first and second light beams and to determine respective first and second lateral offsets of the light beams caused by the time-varying angular orientation of refractive elements within the light beams; and a processor that determines an angular position of the rotatable body based on the first and second lateral offsets. |
| US10126116B2 |
Registration of three-dimensional coordinates measured on interior and exterior portions of an object
A dimensional measuring device includes an overview camera and a triangulation scanner. A six-DOF tracking device tracks the dimensional measuring device as the triangulation scanner measures three-dimensional (3D) coordinates on an exterior of the object. Cardinal points identified by the overview camera are used to register in a common frame of reference 3D coordinates measured by the triangulation scanner on the interior and exterior of the object. |
| US10126115B2 |
Triangulation device, triangulation method, and recording medium recording program therefor
A triangulation device for computing a three-dimensional position of a measurement target point using a stereo method, the triangulation device includes: optimum image coordinate estimation unit configured to, based on coordinates of corresponding points corresponding to the measurement target point in two images each of which including an image of the measurement target point, and intrinsic parameters and extrinsic parameters of optical instruments generating the two images, calculate correction vectors by which coordinates of the corrected corresponding points satisfy an epipolar equation composed of the intrinsic parameters and the extrinsic parameters, using a characteristic polynomial including a correction amount of coordinates of the corresponding points or a reciprocal of the correction amount as a variable, and compute coordinates of the corrected corresponding points based on calculated correction vectors; and three-dimensional coordinate calculation unit configured to calculate three-dimensional coordinates of the measurement target point based on coordinates of the corrected corresponding points, the intrinsic parameters and the extrinsic parameters. |
| US10126107B2 |
Tape measure with reinforced tape blade and/or tear reducing hook configuration
A tape measure including a reinforced or coated tape measure blade is provided. The coating is thicker than the metal inner layer of the tape blade. The coating provides a reinforced tape blade such that elongate tape blade may have a pinch load threshold of greater than 50 lbs. and/or a pinch height at break of less than 1.5 mm. A hook assembly may also provide for reduced stress at the end of the tape blade. |
| US10126106B1 |
Methods and apparatus for releasably coupling shock tube to a disrupter
A coupler for coupling shock tube to a disrupter cannon so that the shock tube automatically decouples from the coupler and thereby from the disrupter cannon after the disrupter cannon has been fired to launch a projectile. The coupler retains the shock tube with a force that is greater than the force provided by the shock tube when it is ignited, but is less than the force of a reflected wave of pressure out of the disrupter cannon after the disrupter cannon has been fired. |
| US10126104B2 |
Cartridge ammunition
Cartridge ammunition (10) including a projectile (12) and a cartridge case (14). The cartridge includes a primer chamber (26) located adjacent a base wall (24) for holding a primer (28), a high pressure chamber (30) for holding a propellant charge (32), an intermediate pressure chamber (34) which surrounds the high pressure chamber, for receiving expanding propellant gases from the high pressure chamber and a low pressure chamber (36) at a rear end of the projectile for receiving expanding propellant gases from the intermediate pressure chamber. The pressure chambers are delimited by walls defining venting hole through which expanding gases can flow. The three pressure chambers provide for controlled release of gas pressure resulting in attenuation of peak gas pressures within the cartridge. |
| US10126103B2 |
Perforating systems with insensitive high explosive
The disclosure relates to perforating systems for perforating the casing of a wellbore. The perforating systems contain insensitive high explosives. The disclosure also relates to shaped charges containing insensitive high explosives for use in such perforating systems. The disclosure further relates to methods of using such perforating systems to perforate the casing of a wellbore. |
| US10126102B2 |
Automatic scoring dart target device and method for automatically obtaining dart scores of the same
An automatic scoring dart target device and a method of using the same are provided. The device includes a dart target, a plurality of image capturing units, a background-shield and a processor. The dart target is made of solid material on which darts are shot. The image capturing units and the dart target are disposed on the same surface. The image capturing units respectively capture a plurality of images at intersecting directions. The background shield is disposed relative to the image capturing units so that the image capturing units can generate the background information. The processor calculates the scores based on the background information and locations of the dart in a selection of two images among the plurality of images individually captured by the corresponding plurality of image capturing units. Thus, the scores of landed darts can be automatically calculated when using the conventional dart target. |
| US10126096B2 |
Purse mount device
Purse carry is an option for carrying a handgun and providing effective concealment. A caveat to purse carry is that placement of a holstered handgun in a purse makes it less accessible and can cost precious seconds to draw in a self-defense situation. Disclosed is a purse mount device that addresses and minimizes this problem and is capable of being used in various purses is capable of being used with various handgun/holster combinations. |
| US10126090B1 |
Multi-path archery string
An archery string having a length, a first load-bearing path, a second load-bearing path, and at least one binding. The first and second load-bearing paths are laterally spaced apart relative to each other along the length, and the binding holds the first and second load-bearing paths substantially parallel to each other along at least a portion of the length of the string. Portions of the string are not bound to each other but remain parallel and positioned side-by-side. When the length of the string changes due to elongation, stretching, or contraction, the load-bearing paths do not helically twist relative to each other and remain parallel and side-by-side. |
| US10126086B2 |
Ambidextrous safety for a firearm
An ambidextrous safety for a firearm is provided. The ambidextrous safety includes separate first and second opposed and spaced-apart thumb safeties that are interconnected by a shaft extending therebetween. The shaft is formed by a first shaft portion extending from the first thumb safety and a second shaft portion extending from the second thumb safety. The first and second shaft portions are interlocked, for instance, via a tongue-and-groove connection. The shaft extends through a separate sleeve which surrounds and reinforces the tongue-and-groove connection and prevents loosening and disconnection thereof. |
| US10126085B2 |
Muzzle device
A muzzle device for simultaneously reducing recoil, muzzle rise and muzzle flash is disclosed. The muzzle device generally comprises a body including a cylindrical wall, wherein the body has a proximal end configured for attachment to a firearm muzzle and a distal end. The muzzle device further includes a projectile opening extending from the proximal end to the distal end. A plurality of uniquely designed radial baffles and vent openings are arranged through the body of the disclosed muzzle device. |
| US10126082B2 |
Sear mechanism for firearms
A rotational sear block isolates the rotational movement of the sear to the sear mechanism without using a rotational trigger. The isolation of the sear rotation to the sear mechanism allows for a single axis translational trigger to be used which gives the shooter the advantages of a short, crisp trigger pull without any off-axis movement. Additionally, the positive sear engagement and inherent safety of the design are achieved due to the sear being engaged and biased onto the sear block surface, disallowing unintended or accidental release. |
| US10126080B2 |
Biometric firearms safety system
A biometric firearms safety system includes a firearm that has a grip and an action. A fingerprint unit is coupled to the firearm. The fingerprint unit is positioned on the grip to read fingerprints from a user. The fingerprint unit stores fingerprints from an authorized user. A locking unit is coupled to the firearm. The locking unit engages the action such that the locking unit inhibits the action from is manipulated. Thus, the locking unit inhibits the firearm from is loaded and fired. The locking unit is electrically coupled to the fingerprint unit. The locking unit disengages from the action when the user's fingerprints match the authorized user's fingerprints. Thus, the locking unit facilitates the user to load and fire the firearm. |
| US10126079B2 |
Folding pocket pistol
A folding pocket pistol has a frame, a barrel connected to the frame and defining a bore and a chamber and movable between an operating position and a loading position, a bolt connected to the frame and operable to reciprocate between a rearward cocked position and a forward battery position, a trigger connected to the frame and having a lever movable between a forward position and a rearward position, a grip connected to the frame and movable between a closed position abutting the frame, and an open position away from the frame, the grip defining a pocket adapted to receive the trigger lever when the trigger lever is in the forward position, and the grip having a pocket block surface adapted to contact a portion of the trigger lever when the trigger lever is in the rearward position, which prevents the grip moving to the closed position. |
| US10126077B1 |
Cartridge magazine loader
A loading device to allow for a quick charging of a magazine with cartridges adapted to be attached to the top of a magazine for a certain caliber of firearm with base member defining an insert portion receiving a stack of cartridges and a push member engaging the base member to force the stack of cartridges into the magazine in a singular downward movement, the loading device also receiving and storing a stack of cartridges within additional base members for quick loading of the firearm subsequent to emptying a magazine. |
| US10126072B2 |
Heat storage unit and heat storage system
A heat storage unit or a heat storage system is a heat storage unit including: a heat storage portion having a first material with a strongly correlated electron system material; and a heat conduction portion having a second material higher in a thermal conductivity than the first material and being in contact with the heat storage portion. The heat storage unit may have a laminated structure in which the heat storage portion and the heat conduction portion are alternately laminated on each other. For example, a metal-insulator phase transition material or a transition metal oxide may be used as the strongly correlated electron system material. The second material may be metal or ceramics. |
| US10126069B2 |
Three-dimensional heat transfer device
A three-dimensional heat transfer device includes a vapor chamber and at least one heat pipe. The vapor chamber has a first plate and a second plate opposite to each other, and a first capillary structure is disposed on an inner surface of the first plate. A second capillary structure is disposed in the heat pipe, the second capillary structure has a contact portion extending out of the heat pipe and exposed therefrom. The heat pipe is vertically inserted through the second plate. The contact portion extends into the vapor chamber and is connected to the first capillary structure, so that the first and second capillary structures communicate with each other. Therefore, an overall three-dimensional heat transfer effect can be achieved, and a desired optimized heat dissipation effect is obtained when the vapor chamber collaborates with the heat pipe. |
| US10126068B2 |
Fluid flow heat transfer box for multiple fluids with fluid flow control device
A heat exchanger apparatus includes a housing that defines a flow passage for a first fluid. The housing has a housing fluid inlet and a housing fluid outlet communicating with the flow passage. A first heat exchanger is located within the flow passage of the housing between the housing fluid inlet and the housing fluid outlet. The first heat exchanger has a plurality of channels for transmitting a second fluid through the first heat exchanger. The heat exchanger apparatus also includes a flow diverter in the flow passage, between the housing fluid inlet and the first heat exchanger, for diverting some of the first fluid to a by-pass region of the flow passage that by-passes the first heat exchanger. As well, a flow control device is in communication with the housing fluid inlet and controls a volume and location of the first fluid entering the flow passage. |
| US10126062B2 |
Heat exchanger for embedded engine applications
An annular heat exchanger for a gas turbine engine is provided. The annular heat exchanger can include a first annular ring comprising a first main tube defined by a plurality of transduct segments; a second annular ring comprising a second main tube defined by a plurality of transduct segments and a curvilinear plate defining at least one channel therein that is in fluid communication with a transduct segment of the first main tube and a transduct segment of the second main tube. |
| US10126061B1 |
Localized strengthening of features for a sapphire component
Methods and systems for localized strengthening of features of a component formed from a sapphire material include a combination of holistic heating and localized surface heating. In one example, the localized heating may occur via laser thermal, flame polishing, hot wire heating, plasma etching, or chemical treatment. By combining the localized surface heating with holistic heating, near-melt or melt processing in a localized area can be achieved while avoiding overheating of well-polished areas, and therefore minimizing defects that would otherwise be caused by excessive heating. This may be used for strengthening features of components formed from sapphire material that are difficult to polish, such as non-planar features. |
| US10126059B2 |
Controlled molten metal flow from transfer vessel
A method for transporting molten metal from one location to another. A transportable vessel that is not part of a reverbatory furnace, and that can be moved to different locations, has molten metal placed therein. The transportable vessel is then moved to a different location. A pump inside of the transportable vessel is then operated to move molten metal out of the transportable vessel. |
| US10126058B2 |
Molten metal transferring vessel
A transportable vessel that is not connected to a reverbatory furnace and can be moved to different locations. The vessel includes a transfer conduit. A molten metal pump can be positioned in the transfer conduit to move molten metal out of an outlet in communication with the transfer conduit. The molten metal can be transferred out of the transportable vessel and into another structure without the need to tip or tilt the transportable vessel. |
| US10126056B2 |
Thermoplastic melting kettle material circulation system
A molten thermoplastic circulation system that is used in conjunction with thermoplastic melter kettles. The molten circulation system includes a vertical material transfer tube that is coupled to a melter kettle and includes an auger. The vertical material transfer tube is coupled to the top and bottom of a melter kettle so as to transfer molten thermoplastic between the bottom and top of the melter kettle. The vertical material transfer tube is at least partially surrounded by a heat chamber through which a heated fluid such as hot combustion gases or heated oil can flow. In use molten thermoplastic material that is heated at a higher temperature at the bottom of a melter kettle near the combustion chamber is transferred through the vertical material transfer tube to the top of the melter kettle to improve melting efficiency. |
| US10126055B2 |
Supply chute for sinter material
A supply chute, and a system and a method for supplying sinter material from a sinter belt to a sinter cooler (26). A flow of the sinter material (16) is input into the supply chute (1). The flow of sinter material (16) after being input is concentrated by a device in the chute. This means that the flow is remixed for more uniform grain size distribution. The flow is thereafter widened by a widening device in the chute. Then the widened flow of sinter material (16), optionally after making the movement direction of the flow of sinter material (16) uniform, the flow is passed through a segregation device (8,25) and is there segregated, which means that a grain size distribution across the thickness and across the width of the flow is made more uniform. This occurs after the widened flow of sinter material moves in the direction of the output region (5). After passing through the output region (5), the flow of sinter material (16) is supplied to the sinter cooler (26), wherein the horizontal main component B of the movement direction of the flow of sinter material is largely perpendicular to the horizontal main component A of the movement of sinter material by the sinter belt. |
| US10126054B1 |
Thermoplastic kettle auxiliary single-pass oil bath heat exchanger system
An auxiliary single-pass tube bundle heat exchanger for improving the melting efficiency of melter kettles used to melt thermoplastic pavement marking materials. The auxiliary single-pass tube bundle heat exchanger includes a heat transfer tube bundle having a plurality of heat transfer tubes in which the flow of molten thermoplastic material reverses directions at least once. Hot heat transfer oils flows around the plurality of heat transfer tubes. Vertical material transfer tubes connect between the bottom of the melter kettle and the top of the auxiliary single-pass tube bundle heat exchanger and between the bottom of the auxiliary single-pass tube bundle heat exchanger and the top of the melter kettle. Augers within the vertical material transfer tubes driven by reversible drive motors cause molten thermoplastic material to flow from the bottom of the melter kettle, through the auxiliary single-pass tube bundle heat exchanger, and into the top of the melter kettle. |
| US10126052B2 |
Bi-directional pick-up shoe
An apparatus for removing fluid, such as condensate, from the inside of a rotating cylinder 10. The apparatus comprises a syphon shoe 50 proximate to an inside surface 35 of the rotating cylinder 10. The syphon shoe 50 is connected to a syphon pipe 28. The syphon shoe 50 further comprises two opposing circumferential openings 51, 52 and a divider 60. The two opposing circumferential openings 51, 52 are disposed substantially parallel to the direction of rotation of the rotating cylinder 10. The divider separates the opposing circumferential openings 51, 52 and extends radially from the end of the syphon shoe 50. |
| US10126050B2 |
Method and system for drying particulate material
A system for drying moist, particulate material includes a steam dryer having a container containing superheated steam. Upper and lower heat exchangers, with a channel extending through them, are located in the container. An impeller generates a flow of steam upward in the container outside the heat exchangers and downward through the channel. Guide plates around the heat exchangers guide the moist, particulate material from an inlet in the lower part of the container around the heat exchangers, subjecting the material to the flow of the steam, thereby drying the material. A steam conduit supplies a primary steam flow to the lower heat exchanger, which condenses the primary steam flow into a flow of hot water that is directed to a flow generator that generates a fluid flow from the hot water flow. A fluid conduit leads the fluid flow to the upper heat exchanger. |
| US10126049B2 |
Method and apparatus for removing benzene contaminants from natural gas
A method and apparatus for removing benzene from a lean natural gas feed is provided. The method and apparatus are capable of removing benzene from lean natural gas that is predominantly composed of methane and contains very little heavier hydrocarbon components. |
| US10126048B2 |
Floating liquefied-gas production facility
This floating liquefied-gas production facility (1) is equipped with: a gas turbine unit (20); a liquefaction facility (90) that has a primary refrigeration compressor (40) driven by the gas turbine unit (20), and cools natural gas; a drum-circulation-type exhaust heat recovery boiler (30) that recovers the energy of exhaust heat from the gas turbine unit (20) as steam; a component separation system (85) that uses the steam generated by the drum-circulation-type exhaust heat recovery boiler (30) as a heat source to separate components in natural gas obtained from the ocean floor, and sends said components to the liquefaction facility (90); and a fuel gas supply device (100) that compresses end-flash gas and/or boil-off gas, and supplies said compressed gas to the gas turbine unit (20) as fuel. |
| US10126045B2 |
Interactive lighting in a refrigerator
A refrigerator includes a refrigerator cabinet, a light system associated within an interior of the refrigerator cabinet, the light system including a light source, a reflector having a first position wherein light from the light source is directed in a first direction and a second position wherein the light from the light source is directed in a second direction, and wherein the refrigerator is configured to move the reflector between the first position and the second position based on interactions between a user of the refrigerator and the refrigerator. |
| US10126040B1 |
Adjustable refrigerator compartment and door assembly
A refrigerator includes an interior compartment having an adjustable interior volume operable between first and second volumetric settings and a number of intermediate settings provided therebetween. A door is pivotally coupled to the interior compartment and operable between open and closed positions relative to the interior compartment. The door includes a moving member that is slideably coupled to a fixed member. The moving member is operable between extended and retracted positions with respect to the fixed member, such that the door is an expandable door configured to cover an open front portion of the interior compartment as the interior compartment moves between various volumetric settings. |
| US10126037B2 |
Ice-maker motor with integrated encoder and header
An ice maker mechanism provides a position sensor sensing the position of the ice tray to allow control of absolute position of the ice tray without the need for motor stalling such as generates heat and wastes energy. An ice maker mechanism provides two motors for rotating the ice tray adapted for high torques low-speed rotation and low torque high-speed rotation the latter used for agitation of the water during freezing. |
| US10126031B2 |
Detecting refrigerant leak in a refrigeration system
Devices, methods, and systems for detecting refrigerant leak in a refrigeration system are described herein. One device includes a memory and a processor configured to execute executable instructions stored in the memory to detect fluctuations in a refrigerant level in a refrigerant tank of a refrigeration system, determine whether the detected fluctuations in the refrigerant level are abnormal, and determine whether a refrigerant leak is occurring in the refrigeration system based, at least in part, on whether the detected fluctuations in the refrigerant level are abnormal. |
| US10126030B2 |
Heat exchanger and heat pump having the same
A heat exchanger having a plurality of first tubes and second tubes through which a refrigerant passes and which are lengthily formed up and down, each of the first and second tubes being spaced from each other and air flowing between the tubes; and a fin in contact with the first and second tubes, wherein the second tubes are spaced from each other and located at a slipstream of the first tubes in an air-flow direction, a first louver group having a plurality of louvers located between the first tubes and spaced from each other in the air-flow direction and a second louver group having a plurality of louvers located between the second tubes and spaced from each other in the air-flow direction are formed in the fin, wherein some of the louvers of the second louver group are longer toward the slipstream of the air-flow direction. |
| US10126029B2 |
Variable refrigerant flow air conditioning system and method for controlling electronic expansion valve thereof
A method for controlling an electronic expansion valve of a variable refrigerant flow air conditioning system includes steps as follows: when operating in a primary heating mode, obtaining a degree of superheat of return air of a compressor, and performing a control on an opening degree of the first electronic expansion valve according to the degree of superheat; judging the degree of superheat and the opening degree of each refrigerating indoor machine in the plurality of indoor machines; and if the degree of superheat is greater than a first preset degree of superheat and an opening degree in any refrigerating indoor machine reaches a maximum opening degree, obtaining a target medium pressure value by calculating a refrigerant volume of the refrigerating indoor machine reaching the maximum opening degree, and performing a medium pressure control on the first electronic expansion valve according to the target medium pressure value. |
| US10126023B2 |
Multistage pulse tube coolers
Various embodiments are directed to a pulse tube cooler. The pulse tube cooler may comprise a fluid compressor, a first regenerator, a first pulse tube, a first reservoir, a second regenerator, a second pulse tube, and a second reservoir. The first end of the first regenerator may be in fluid communication with the fluid compressor. The cold end of the first pulse tube may be in fluid communication with the second end of the first regenerator. The first reservoir may be in fluid communication with the hot end of the first pulse tube. The first end of the second regenerator may be in fluid communication with the cold end of the first regenerator. The cold end of the second pulse tube may be in fluid communication with the second end of the second regenerator. The cold end of the first pulse tube and the hot end of the second pulse tube may be in fluid communication with one another through the second reservoir. |
| US10126012B2 |
Air conditioner
An air conditioner which is able to prevent leaked refrigerant gas from disadvantageously stagnating at a part of a room space when leakage of refrigerant gas occurs in an indoor unit is provided.An air conditioner of the present invention includes an indoor unit having an upper outlet port and a lower outlet port and uses flammable refrigerant, the air conditioner including: a shutter provided at the lower outlet port and is configured to switch between a blowout capable state in which wind is blown out and a blowout incapable state in which no wind is blown out; a refrigerant gas sensor provided in the indoor unit, and a controlling unit configured to control the shutter. In a driving state in which the lower outlet port is in the blowout incapable state, when the refrigerant gas sensor detects the refrigerant gas, the controlling unit switches the lower outlet port from the blowout incapable state to the blowout capable state. |
| US10126011B2 |
Multiple environmental zone control with integrated battery status communications
Various arrangements for controlling multiple environmental zones are presented. A first zone specific device may be configured to alter an environmental condition of a first environmental zone of the multiple environmental zones. The first zone specific device may include a rechargeable power source for at least partially powering the operation of the first zone specific device. The first zone specific device may include a communication interface for communicating with other devices of the system. Also, a central controller may be present that is configured to communicate with the first zone specific device to determine a power status of the rechargeable power source of the first zone specific device. |
| US10126008B2 |
Air conditioner and control program
A storage unit stores threshold data indicating first and second thresholds. A heater control determination unit reads the threshold data from the storage unit, enables a heater control when an outdoor air temperature is equal to or lower than the first threshold, and disables the heater control when the outdoor air temperature is equal to or higher than the second threshold. A heater operation control unit sets a heater operation to be always-off when the heater control is disabled, and ON/OFF controls the heater operation based on a relation between an indoor temperature and a set temperature when the heater control is enabled. A reception unit receives a threshold designation signal input by a user and designating at least one of the first and second thresholds. A threshold setting unit sets, based on designation by the received threshold designation signal, the threshold data stored in the storage unit. |
| US10126005B1 |
Air conditioning system
The present invention relates to controlling the treatment of air for the inside of a building and especially to controlling a hybrid air conditioning system for the regulation of the air temperature and humidity which utilizes outside air to enhance the efficiency of the system and which has a smoke evacuation system to enhance the safety of firemen and occupants when there is a fire or smoke hazard in the building. |
| US10126004B2 |
Method of recycling waste heat from heat generating facility
The present disclosure provides: a method for recycling waste-heat from a heat-dissipation facility, the method comprising: (a) collecting hot waste air generated in the heat-dissipation facility; (b) changing the hot air to cool air to change cool water to hot water; (c) feeding the cool air to the heat-dissipation facility to cool air in the heat-dissipation facility; and (d) increasing a humidity in the heat-dissipation facility using the hot water. |
| US10126000B2 |
Downdraft ventilation systems and methods
A downdraft ventilation system includes a vertically movable chimney with two ventilation inlets and a baffle arranged within the chimney between the inlets. The combination of upper and lower ventilation inlets and internal baffle can function to increase the amount of cooking emission captured and exhausted by the downdraft system. |
| US10125995B2 |
Firebox basket system for a grill
A firebox basket system for use in a firebox of a grill, including a bowl-shaped basket formed of annular rings of metal, the bowl-shaped basket including a pair of opposed divider supports secured to an inner surface of the basket, a flat bottom plate disposed in a bottom portion of the basket, and a divider plate having a pair of side edges that extend between a top and a bottom edge of the divider plate, wherein the side edges of the divider plate are slidably received in the divider supports, thereby dividing an interior volume of the basket into equal halves. |
| US10125993B2 |
Burner, gas turbine having such a burner, and fuel nozzle
A burner having a plurality of pre-mixing chambers each having a fuel nozzle for two fuels, the fuel nozzle has a fuel lance extending in a flow direction, in which fuel lance first outlet openings for a first fuel are introduced. The fuel lance is surrounded by an outer pipe having at least one second outlet opening for a second fuel, the first outlet openings oriented radially and the second outlet opening oriented axially, a flow cross-section is formed between the fuel lance and the inside of the pre-mixing chamber and vortex generators are arranged on the fuel lance. At least one vortex generator is arranged upstream of the first outlet openings and downstream of the second outlet opening. The distance of the first outlet openings from an end of the pre-mixing chamber is at least three times as large as a cross-section of the pre-mixing chamber. |
| US10125992B2 |
Gas turbine combustor with annular flow sleeves for dividing airflow upstream of premixing passages
A gas turbine combustor includes a plurality of fuel nozzles, a premixing plate, and a plurality of annular flow sleeves. The plurality of annular flow sleeves includes an inner annular flow sleeve and an outer annular flow sleeve. The plurality of annular flow sleeves is formed to divide an airflow passage into a plurality of flow passages including an inner and an outer circumferential flow passages. The airflow passage is formed around the plurality of fuel nozzles. The airflow passage extends from an upstream side of the plurality of fuel nozzles to fuel injecting ports of the fuel nozzles. The plurality of annular flow sleeves rectifies a flow of air in each of the flow passages and guiding the flow of air to the fuel injecting ports of the fuel nozzles. |
| US10125990B2 |
Filtered air candle extinguishing device
A filtered air candle extinguishing device for sanitary candle extinguishing with filtered air includes a shell that is elongated. The shell has a first open end and a second open end. A mouthpiece is coupled to the first open end. The mouthpiece is configured to engage the lips of a user to form a seal. A filter is coupled to an interior face of the shell, defining a front chamber of the shell. The mouthpiece is positioned on the shell such that a user's lips can sealably couple to the mouthpiece. Air expelled by the user will create positive pressure in the front chamber, such that the air will pass through the filter. The filter retains spittle and the air exits the shell through the second open end to extinguish lighted candles on a cake. |
| US10125988B2 |
Two-stage fluid control valve having a first stage mechanical valve and a second stage microvalve
A two-stage fluid control valve includes a first stage mechanical control valve movable between an open position and a leak-free closed position, and a second stage microvalve configured to control the flow of fluid through a fluid outlet of the two-stage fluid control valve when the first stage mechanical control valve is in the open position. |
| US10125986B2 |
Flare pilot with water accumulation evacuation
A flare pilot assembly has inner and outer tubes, defining inner and outer passages. A manifold delivers air and fuel to the outer passage. A bleed off passage directs a portion of the fuel and air entering the manifold to the exterior of the manifold. A diversion port in the inner tube diverts into the inner passage a portion of the air and fuel flowing through the outer passage. An electrical sparking device ignites air and fuel flowing through the inner passage. An evacuating tube extends from the manifold through the inner passage to the distal portion of the inner tube. The evacuating tube conveys moisture that may accumulate at the distal portion of the inner passage through the bleed off passage to the exterior. |
| US10125978B2 |
Steam generator
A steam generator includes: a water storage chamber which stores water therein, a first heating portion which heats water stored in the water storage chamber to generate steam, a water supply device which supplies the water storage chamber with water, a controller, a steam spout port which ejects steam generated in the water storage chamber therethrough, and a temperature detector which detects a temperature in the water storage chamber, wherein a water level in the water storage chamber is calculated depending on the temperature detected by the temperature detector, and wherein at the time of steam generation, the controller is configured to perform a water supply control of the water supply device based on the calculated water level such that a water volume from the first heating portion to a water surface is smaller than a water volume from the first heating portion to the bottom surface of the water storage chamber. |
| US10125975B2 |
Method of predicting wear on tubes of steam generator
A method predicts an amount of wear that is expected to occur on the tubes of a steam generator as a result of vibration against another structure within the steam generator. The method includes determining a volumetric amount of material that has been worn from a location on a tube over a duration of time and employing that volume as a function of time to determine the volume of material of the tube wall that is predicted to be worn from the tube or another tube at a future time. The volumetric-based analysis enables more accurately prediction of the wear depth at a future time. This enables the plugging of only those tubes that are determined from a volumetric analysis to be in risk of breach at the future time, thus slowing the rate at which tubes of a steam generator will be plugged. |
| US10125969B2 |
Holiday window light
The invention relates to a light for attaching to the inside of a surface of the glass in a window. The device is adopted with a seal against the window to prevent light leaks or reflected light into the room. |
| US10125968B2 |
Method of producing lighting devices and corresponding lighting device
A lighting device may be produced by providing a protected elongate light emitting module, including a substrate with at least one electrically-powered light radiation source, and at least one sealing mass protecting light radiation source(s), and by coupling to said light emitting module a channel-shaped cover member with a body portion including light permeable material and side portions, with the side portions of the cover member embracing and locking therebetween the light emitting module and with light radiation source(s) facing towards body portion of cover member, whereby the light permeable material provides a propagation path for the light radiation from light radiation source(s). |
| US10125965B2 |
Recessed light apparatus
A recessed light apparatus for being installed at a ceiling includes a light source unit, a heat sink for dissipating heat generated from the light source unit, and a thermal insulating member coupled between the heat sink and the light source unit to define an upper space above the heat insulating member and a bottom space below the thermal insulating member. In case of fire, the heat insulating member prevents flame or fire spreading from the bottom space to the upper space. |
| US10125962B2 |
Security light assembly
A security light assembly that is mountable to a junction box and connectable to a power source via electrical cable comprises a housing comprising a base and a cover having a lens and a window portion. A sub-assembly comprises a first bracket attached to the base, a second bracket attached to the first bracket at a first location and selectively moveable about the first location between at least a first position and at least a second position that is different from the first position. When in the first position, the second bracket at least partially obstructs access to an access port, and when in the second position the second bracket does not at least partially obstruct access to the access port to enable connection of the electrical cable to the connection in the housing. |
| US10125959B2 |
Ceiling triggered spring clip for lighting module install
A preloadable trigger-release-clip that may be ceiling triggered for lighting module installation is described, including systems and methods of use. The trigger-release-clip may include a base-plate, a trigger, a clip, and a stop. The base-plate may be a structural member that attaches to a lighting module. The trigger may be in communication with the base-plate. The clip, with a torsion-spring, may be in communication with the base-plate. The stop may be in communication with the trigger. In a pre-loaded configuration, the stop may be in an up position that prevents the clip from actuating. In a final configuration, the stop has been retracted into a down position by the trigger being depressed by a bottom of a ceiling that may allow the clip to actuate, such that a terminal end of the clip pivots to grab a top of the ceiling securing the lighting module to the ceiling. |
| US10125949B2 |
Lighting device
Provided is a lighting device, including: a printed circuit board; one or more light emitting units formed on the printed circuit board; a resin layer which is formed on the printed circuit board, in which the light emitting units are embedded; a diffusion plate formed on an upper side of the resin layer, whereby an entire thickness of the lighting device can be reduced, and when the product is designed, a degree of freedom in design can be improved because flexibility is secured. |
| US10125948B2 |
Optical member and lighting device using the same
Provided are an optical member capable of implementing optical images having desired shapes through a pattern design, and a lighting device using the optical member, the optical member including: a base substrate; multiple patterns sequentially arranged on a first surface of the base substrate and having inclined surfaces with an inclination angle with respect to the first surfaces; and a reflective portion on the base substrate or the multiple patterns, wherein the multiple patterns implement a line shaped beam of a first path crossing at right angles to respective pattern extension directions of the multiple patterns by guiding a first incident beam into a first surface direction toward which the first surface looks or a second surface direction toward which a second surface of the base substrate opposite to the first surface looks, through refraction or reflection from the inclined surfaces. |
| US10125945B2 |
Lamp apparatus for vehicle
A vehicle lamp apparatus may include a reflector arranged on one curve of a hyperbola having two focal points, a light source, located at a focal point of the curve of the hyperbola on which the reflector is arranged, for irradiating the reflector with light corresponding to an image, and a condensing lens part on which light, emitted from the light source and reflected by the reflector, is incident, the condensing lens part including at least two lenses for condensing the light reflected by the reflector. |
| US10125942B2 |
Lamp apparatus for automobile
A lamp apparatus for an automobile, including: a light source generating light; and a first lens distributing the light to the outside and including a first cavity therein, and the first lens includes a light spreading unit of which one side is convex toward the light source and the other side opposite the one side is flat, and a side portion connected with the one side of the light spreading unit and having a diameter which increases in a first direction away from the light source. |
| US10125940B2 |
Illumination device
Various embodiments may relate to an illumination device for vehicles, including multiple semiconductor light sources, and at least one light wavelength conversion element for the wavelength conversion of the light emitted by the semiconductor sources. At least one light-refracting optical unit is associated with each semiconductor source, which is designed to direct light emitted by the respective semiconductor source onto the at least one light wavelength conversion element. The at least one light-refracting optical unit is movably arranged with respect to the semiconductor source with which it is associated. |
| US10125930B2 |
Electrical cover with concentric removable annular fittings
The electrical cover comprises a friction-held electrical cover for a recessed light fixture. Embodiments of the electrical cover described herein provide flexible finish material covers that guard recessed “can” light fixtures from paint, spackling, and other foreign materials. The frictionally-held finish material covers utilize specifically shaped features on the surfaces, such as negative draft, that contact the electrical components to increase the hold on the electrical device. Some of the shaped features of the frictionally-held covers also help minimize stress in the cover. Features are also molded into the parts to assist and strengthen the cover once installed, and thus protect against the intrusion of finish material behind the cover. |
| US10125927B2 |
Light-emitting device and stage lamp system
A light emitting device includes first, second and third LED arrays and a wavelength-based light combination device. The first LED array includes blue LEDs; the second LED array includes yellow fluorescent LEDs or green fluorescent LEDs and green LEDs; the third LED array includes red LEDs and amber LEDs. The light combination device includes first and second filters. The first filter reflects wavelengths below or equal to λ1 and transmits other wavelengths; the second filter transmits wavelengths below or equal to λ2 and reflects other wavelengths, where 470 nm≤λ1≤500 nm, 560 nm≤λ2≤590 nm. The first and second filters combine the lights from the first, second and third LED arrays into one beam. The light emitting device can emit a white light with high color rendering index. Also disclosed is a stage lighting system employing the light emitting device. |
| US10125926B2 |
LED light
An LED light including: a light-emitting bulb including a shell; a lamp holder connected to the light-emitting bulb and including external thread; a power driver disposed in the lamp holder; a stem including a wire; and a light-emitting component. The stem and the light-emitting component are disposed in the shell. One end of the stem is connected to the power driver, and the other end of the stem is connected to the light-emitting component. The light-emitting component includes at least two bar-type LED filaments. The at least two bar-type LED filaments are connected in series or in a combination of series and parallel connections. The at least two bar-type LED filaments are connected to the power driver through the wire of the stem. |
| US10125924B2 |
Container for pressurized gas
Disclosed are articles useful as the body of a container for containing gas under pressure, and containers which comprise the articles to which are affixed valves to control the flow of gas out of the container, wherein the articles comprise a hollow container body, having an external surface and having an opening through which gas can enter or leave the interior of the hollow container body; optionally but preferably a layer of fiber-reinforced polymer around the exterior of the container body, and an external layer of elastomer around and sealed to the external surface of the layer of fiber-reinforced polymer if present or else to the cylinder body. |
| US10125918B2 |
Mounting system for a camera
There is disclosed an apparatus comprising: at least one mount; at least one electronic device configured to be coupled to the mount; at least one camera coupled to the electronic device and to the mount; wherein said at least one mount comprises at least one coupling element for coupling said at least one electronic device to the at least one mount and wherein the mount is configured to allow the electronic device to be mounted on a surface. The electronic device can comprise a screen. The mount can comprise a body to receive the electronic device. In one embodiment the mount comprises at least one adjustable arm. In one embodiment the adjustable arm comprises a ball and socket joint. In one embodiment the camera further comprises at least one lens assembly. In one embodiment the lens assembly and the mount further comprise a screw connection. In addition, in at least one embodiment there can be a projector which can be used to project an image of a person being viewed by the camera. |
| US10125914B2 |
Pan tilt drive device and camera device
A pan tilt drive device includes a board, a drive worm that is rotatably supported by the board, a terminal worm wheel that is rotatably disposed relative to the board, a holder plate that is parallel to the board, a shaft that is rotatably supported while being parallel to the holder plate, an intermediate worm wheel that is fixed to one end of the shaft, and that meshes with the drive worm, an intermediate worm that is fixed to the other end of the shaft, and that meshes with the terminal worm wheel, a pivot mechanism, and a biasing member that biases the holder plate toward the drive worm and the terminal worm wheel. |
| US10125911B2 |
Compressor gasket and method of preventing corrosion
A gasket in a transport refrigeration system (TRS) and method of preventing corrosion in a compressor using a gasket. The gasket includes a body, where the body includes a fluid pass portion, and a flange that extends from the body. The body and the flange include a second layer between an outside first layer and a third layer. The second layer is a metal and the metal is a non-uniform thickness that extends across the flange and the body to deflect compression load distribution. |
| US10125909B2 |
Liner discharge structure for I-line fittings
A liner discharge structure, and associated liner and container system are disclosed. A liner discharge structure according to the present disclosure can include: a neck fabricated from a liner material and shaped to extend between a container body and a pipe-fitting region; a gasket brim fabricated from the liner material and axially proximal to a circumference of the neck at the pipe-fitting region; a first disc fabricated from the liner material and axially coupled to a first surface of the gasket brim and circumferentially displaced from the neck; a second disc fabricated from the liner material and axially coupled to a second surface of the gasket brim and circumferentially displaced from the neck; and a pipe-fitting liner fabricated from the liner material circumferentially coupled to the neck, and axially proximal to the second disc on an opposing surface thereof relative to the gasket brim, wherein the pipe-fitting liner extends outwardly from a circumference of the gasket brim and the first and second discs. |
| US10125905B2 |
Screw element for the connection of tubes and tube connection device having this screw element
The invention relates to a screw element for the connection of tubes, preferably motor vehicle lines. A threading and at least one contact surface without threading are provided on the screw element. The screw element has an outer coating and an inner coating. The outer coating comprises a first polymer and nanoparticles of a first solid material. The inner coating may also comprise nonoparticles or a polymer. |
| US10125903B1 |
Enhanced seal
An enhanced seal may comprise an annular portion having an annular portion peripheral wall and a cylindrical portion having a cylindrical portion peripheral wall. A passageway may extend through each of the annular portion and cylindrical portion. One or more annular protrusions may extend away from the cylindrical portion. |
| US10125902B2 |
Compressive heat-resistant tube structure for RV
A compressive heat-resistant tube structure for RV includes a compressive heat-resistant multi-layer tube. The compressive heat-resistant multi-layer tube includes a compressive heat-resistant PVC soft inner tube, a polyester dense crocheted covering layer, and a compressive PVC soft outer tube. An outer surface of the compressive PVC soft outer tube is provided with an identification surface layer portion. The identification surface layer portion enables the user to easily and quickly identify each tube for connection of tubes. The soft compressive heat-resistant multi-layer tube can be bent according to the demand of use, not limited to the arrangement of the edge wiring. The soft compressive heat-resistant multi-layer tube is convenient for use and can be installed conveniently. |
| US10125900B2 |
Device to prevent entry by rodents and other such pests into a recreational vehicle's service compartment
A pest seal for a recreational vehicle (RV) to seal the gap that exists between a hose and/or cable passing through an access port located within the service compartment of a RV. The pest seal is comprised of two halves that are joined together along a single edge with mirrored cutouts that are lined with a compressible foam formed along the joining edge so that when the two halves are brought together the cutouts allow for the passage of a hose or cable through the pest seal. Embodiments further comprise a semicircular flange formed on the underside of each halve of a radius slightly smaller than the radius of the access port or a hinge attaching the two halves at one end of the edge where the halves are joined. The halves may be joined together by any number of means such as but not limited to magnets, hook and loop fabric, and mechanical latches. |
| US10125894B2 |
System for preventing reverse flow
A backflow prevention device including a tank having a holding chamber and first and second inlets connected with the holding chamber; a control valve having an intake chamber and first and second discharge chambers connected with the first and second inlets, respectively, the intake chamber connected with the first discharge chamber through a valve inlet; a valve sealing element for opening and closing the valve inlet, the second discharge chamber connected with the intake chamber through a hole of the valve sealing element; a float in the holding chamber; a slide bar in the holding chamber, contacting the float, and moveable toward the second inlet under the action of the float; and a slide bar sealing element for controlling opening and closing of the second inlet. When the second inlet is closed, the valve inlet is closed; and when the second inlet is open, the valve inlet is opened. |
| US10125891B2 |
Valve
A valve includes a housing, a solenoid, a pin movable by the solenoid, and a piston connected to the pin. The piston includes an annular base body having a sealing edge. The annular base body has a base embodied as a membrane. The membrane has a bushing in the center thereof and the bushing is connected to the pin. |
| US10125890B2 |
Pole tube for electromagnets and magnetic valves, and method as well as apparatus for its manufacture
The invention relates to a method for manufacturing a pole tube, with two magnetic pole tube parts, for an electromagnet, in particular for a magnetic valve of an automatic transmission in an automobile, including the following steps: (a) arranging the pole tube parts on a centering arbor; and (b), connecting, in particular insert molding and/or casting an outer lateral surface of the pole tube parts; wherein the centering arbor has a radially expandable cylinder surface also closed even in the expanded state. Further, the invention relates to, in particular with the method obtainable, a pole tube, an electromagnet for a magnetic valve, in particular for an automatic transmission in an automobile, having a pole tube according to the invention, and an apparatus for the manufacture of the pole tube. |
| US10125889B2 |
Solenoid valve diverter sleeve
A solenoid valve includes a support bushing and an armature pin axially movable within the support bushing. The solenoid shield further includes a valve rigidly secured to the armature pin. The valve includes a diverter sleeve having an overlap portion that is radially spaced from at least a portion of the support bushing and extends along a length of at least a portion of the support bushing. The diverter sleeve further includes a deflector surface disposed at an angle relative to a longitudinal axis of the armature pin. |
| US10125888B2 |
Pilot type solenoid valve
A pilot type solenoid valve includes a pilot valve unit and a passage block unit. The passage block unit has a rectangular parallelepiped shape including a pair of wide opposite surfaces, and four side surfaces surrounding the wide opposite surfaces. The four side surfaces include a first surface on which the pilot valve unit is attached, and a second surface formed with at least either an input port or an output port. A valve element is a diaphragm valve and arranged in parallel to the pair of wide opposite surfaces. The passage block unit includes a block body forming a valve chamber around a valve seat, and a flat cover. The flat cover includes a recess forming the back chamber of the diaphragm valve, and the flat cover has a flat cover communication path formed to provide communication between the recess and a common path of the pilot valve unit. |
| US10125887B2 |
Solenoid valve
A solenoid valve (10) comprises a coil core (15), a yoke (16), a valve chamber (13), an inlet armature (11) upstream of an inlet (17) of the valve chamber (13), an outlet armature (12) upstream of a first outlet (18) of the valve chamber (13), and a second outlet (19) at the valve chamber (13), wherein the inlet armature (11) and outlet armature (12) can move and the inlet (17) and first outlet (18) lie opposite one another. In the solenoid valve (10), the inlet (17) and the second outlet (19) are connected to one another by way of an equalizing system having a non-return valve (25), wherein the non-return valve (25) is open towards the inlet (17). |
| US10125885B2 |
Check valve mounting structure
A check valve mounting structure includes a seat plate including a mounting hole and linked notches, a tubular bottom fitting with the top end thereof aimed at the mounting hole and having lugs extended from the periphery, and a holder block including a top receptacle, a shoulder and a bottom receptacle, which includes protruding portions outwardly extended from the periphery, first channels upwardly extended from the bottom side to a predetermined distance and second channels respectively and horizontally extended from the top ends of the first channels toward the periphery thereof. The bottom receptacle is attached onto the tubular bottom fitting, allowing the protruding portions to pass through the notches. The lugs are respectively inserted into the first channels and the second channels. |
| US10125884B2 |
Attachment structure for solenoid valve
A simple attachment structure with a minimized piece-part count, allowing easy grounding connection of the solenoid valve. The solenoid valve includes a body section with a built-in electromagnetic coil and a shaft-shaped valve section continued coaxially to the body section. An insertion hole for inserting the valve section in the control body is formed to the control body. The control body includes a locking mechanism composed of a locking piece with elasticity connected to a ground terminal of the electromagnetic coil and projecting out from an outer periphery of the body section and a concave portion provided on an upper surface of the control body. By inserting the valve section into the insertion hole, the locking piece elastically engages with the engaged part to lock the solenoid valve, and the solenoid valve is grounded through a contact between the locking piece and the engaged portion. |
| US10125881B2 |
Safety valve
An adjustable blowdown safety valve is provided for use on a pressure vessel or a flow line with a pressurized fluid therein. In the preferred embodiment, the adjustable blowdown safety valve comprises a body with a closed bonnet and a chamber therein and an inlet and an outlet; the inlet including a valve seat; a disk member with an attached stem member closable on the valve seat; a mechanism in the body biasing the disk member to rest on the valve seat; a guide member supported in the bonnet to guide and limit disk member movement; and a skirt member affixed to the body, which surrounds the disk member and defines a uniform flow area in combination with a blowdown ring. The presented adjustable blowdown safety valve has improvements, which remove detriments to disk member movement, resulting in an adjustable blowdown safety valve with predictable performance and improved reliability. |
| US10125880B2 |
Air pressure regulator
An air pressure regulator includes a regulator body defining a hollow interior, an air inlet in communication with the hollow interior and configured to connect with a source of pressurized air, an air outlet fluidly coupled with the air inlet, and a valve stem positioned at the air inlet and configured to regulate the pressure of the pressurized air for the air outlet by way of movement of the valve stem relative to the air inlet. |
| US10125874B2 |
Valves including multiple seats and related assemblies and methods
Valve assemblies include a valve body having a fluid passage through the valve body and a valve member disposed in a chamber of the valve body. The valve assembly further includes a first seat and a second seat, where both seats are configured to contact and provide a seal between the valve body and the valve member to at least partially inhibit fluid flow through the fluid passage. Methods of providing a seal in a valve include forcing a primary seat into a seat portion of a valve body to provide a seal between a valve member and the valve body with the primary seat and deflecting at least one arm of a secondary seat to provide another seal between the valve member and the valve body with the secondary seat. |
| US10125863B2 |
Hydraulic system for a torque converter
A hydraulic circuit supplies pressurized hydraulic fluid to and from a torque converter that is operatively associated with a lockup clutch. The torque converter is disposed upstream of an outlet regulator that maintains a predetermined pressure in the torque converter. Power transmission in a powertrain can be directed through the torque converter during a hydrodynamic mode and can be directed through the lockup clutch during lockup mode. To switch between the hydrodynamic mode and the lockup mode, the hydraulic circuit includes a diverter valve to selectively direct pressurized hydraulic fluid between the torque converter and the lockup clutch. When operating in the lockup mode, the diverter valve further diverts hydraulic fluid discharged for the torque converter to bypass the outlet regulator disposed downstream of the torque converter. |
| US10125858B2 |
Ring gear mounting arrangement with oil scavenge scheme
An epicyclic gear train for a turbine engine includes a gutter with an annular channel. A rotating structure includes a ring gear. The rotating structure has an aperture that is axially aligned with the annular channel. Axially spaced apart walls extend radially outward relative to the rotating structure to define a passageway. The passageway is arranged radially between the aperture and the annular channel. The walls are configured to inhibit an axial flow of an oil passing from the aperture toward the annular channel. |
| US10125857B2 |
Transmission mount for vehicle having distributed stoppers
A transmission mount for a vehicle may include a bracket which accommodates an insulator having an external core coupled with an internal core, and includes an upper housing that covers an upper portion of the insulator, and a plate that supports a lower portion of the insulator; and the external core which includes, based on the inserted internal core, a lower portion, an upper portion, both lateral portions, both bridge portions that support a body of the external core, and a lower main stopper formed on an upper surface of the plate, in which a space portion is formed in a body of the external core wherein a strut, which protrudes from a rear surface of an upper housing of the bracket, is inserted into the space portion, and internal wall surfaces of the space portion come into contact with an upper portion, a lower portion, and a front portion of the strut, respectively. |
| US10125854B2 |
Torque limiting system
The present invention relates to torque transfer and torque limiting system technology and applications. This invention relates to providing improved torque limiting systems that employ tolerance rings for controlling transmitting power between a single power-input shaft and one or more power-output shafts, which can protect mechanical equipment and drivetrains from damage by mechanical overload. Relating to motor vehicle differentials, the present invention can control differentiation between two power-output shafts, or drive shafts by providing friction internal to said differential and limit “undesirable” slip or differentiation between wheels, as might occur when one wheel encounters a low-traction condition, providing a limited-slip differential. |
| US10125853B2 |
Torque converter lockup clutch structure
A torque converter assembly includes a pump assembly coupled to a nose hub, a turbine assembly coupled to a turbine hub, a damper assembly coupled to the turbine hub, a backing plate assembly coupled to the nose hub, and a clutch assembly capable of transmitting torsional loads between the backing plate assembly and the damper assembly. The clutch assembly has an engaged position and a disengaged position. When the clutch assembly is engaged, the pump assembly is mechanically coupled to the turbine assembly and when the clutch assembly is disengaged, the pump assembly is not mechanically coupled to the turbine assembly. |
| US10125848B2 |
Variator for work vehicle drivetrain
High efficiency work vehicle drivetrains containing variator assemblies are provided. In one embodiment, the work vehicle drivetrain includes an engine, a variator assembly, and an auxiliary power takeoff (PTO) shaft, which is coupled to the engine and rotatable about a primary power path axis when driven by the engine. The variator assembly includes, in turn, a variator motor and a variator gearbox. The variator gearbox contains a planetary gear system, which is coupled to the variator motor and to the auxiliary PTO shaft. The planetary gear system is rotatable about a planetary axis substantially parallel and offset from the primary power path axis. |
| US10125833B2 |
Highly heat-resistant brake disc for railcar
Provided is a high heat resistant brake disk for a railroad vehicle, which is manufactured using a nano material having high heat conductivity, such as a carbon nanotube (CNT) or graphene, to improve heat resistance of an overheated portion of the brake disk, and which can extend a life of the brake disk by suppressing performance deterioration due to a thermal shock. The high heat resistant brake disk includes a hub inserted into an axle of the railroad vehicle and an outer circumference coupled to a vehicle wheel to coaxially rotate with the vehicle wheel, wherein at least one pattern unit made from a high heat resistant nano material is formed on one surface of the brake disk. |
| US10125829B2 |
Fuel reducing clutch control apparatus and method for fuel reduction using the same
The present disclosure relates to a clutch control apparatus, and more particularly, to a clutch control apparatus that achieves miniaturization of machinery and reduces an operational error by using a non-contact type displacement detection system using a position detecting sensor for a clutch clearance, and regulates the operation of an actuator using a plurality of solenoid valves, as a result, allowing accurate position control of a pneumatic cylinder which operates the clutch, thereby improving fuel efficiency and achieving fuel reduction as well as reducing emissions of carbon dioxide. |
| US10125826B2 |
Creep control method for vehicle
A creep control method for a vehicle is disclosed. The creep control method includes a limit-setting step and a limit release step. In the limit-setting step, a controller compares a speed of an input shaft of a transmission with a predetermined creep reference speed, and, if it is determined that the speed of the input shaft is lower than the creep reference speed, a creep minimum torque of a clutch for controlling creep driving of the vehicle is set to be a predetermined lower limit torque, which is larger than 0. In the limit release step, if the controller determines that the speed of the input shaft is increased above the creep reference speed while the creep minimum torque is limited to the lower limit torque, the creep minimum torque is set to 0. |
| US10125813B2 |
Motion guide apparatus
A motion guide apparatus ensures that a retaining portion retains a rolling element. A rolling element retainer having retaining portions that prevent a rolling element from falling out of a movable body, the retaining portions extending along a loaded rolling element rolling portion, is incorporated in the movable body of the motion guide apparatus. End plates are formed integrally with the retaining portions. Fall prevention portions to reduce the widths of openings between the retaining portions are provided to center parts of the retaining portions in a length direction thereof. The fall prevention portions are padding portions integrated with the retaining portions, the padding portions rising in such a manner as to reduce the widths of the openings, and/or projections integrated with the retaining portions, the projections touching the movable body in such a manner that the center parts of the retaining portions bend toward a track member. |
| US10125811B2 |
Elastomeric teetering hinge
The invention generally relates to two-bladed turbine nacelles and associated teetering hinges. In certain embodiments, the invention provides a hinge assembly encompassing a hub and two double elastomeric teeter bearings. In some aspects, the bearings are self-contained elements that can be preloaded in a controlled manner prior to their incorporation into the larger assembly. |
| US10125809B2 |
Crankshaft assemblies and methods of manufacturing the same
Crankshaft assemblies for vehicle assemblies, such as engine assemblies, and methods of manufacturing crankshaft assemblies are provided. The crankshaft assembly includes a first crankpin disposed between a first pair of webs and at least a first main bearing journal connected to the first pair of webs, wherein at least one of the first crankpin, the first pair of webs or the first main bearing journal is a polymeric composite including a polymer and a plurality of reinforcing fibers. |
| US10125803B2 |
Fixing device for lower level member and fluid control apparatus provided with the same
A fluid control apparatus having a fixing device is provided. A through hole of a lower level member includes a large diameter portion opening to an upper surface and a small diameter portion continuing from a lower side of the large diameter portion and opening to a lower surface. A fixing member includes a head portion that is to be inserted into the large diameter portion of the through hole of the lower level member, an upper shaft portion to be inserted into the small diameter portion of the through hole of the lower level member, and a lower shaft portion inserted at an upper end portion into a through hole of a supporting member. The lower shaft portion is provided with an engaging projection that engages a lower opening edge of the through hole of the supporting member and prevents the fixing member from dropping off the supporting member. |
| US10125799B2 |
Systems and methods for mounting objects to a structure
A mounting system including a compressible structure having a first surface, a second surface, and at least one boss hole extending through the compressible structure from the first surface to the second surface. The system further including an interior plate mounted on the first surface of the compressible structure, wherein the interior plate includes a boss protruding from the interior plate and into the boss hole of the compressible structure, and an exterior plate mounted on the second surface of the compressible structure and secured to the interior plate against the boss of the interior plate, wherein the compressible structure is compressed a predetermined amount as a function of a length of the boss. |
| US10125796B2 |
Rotor positioning system in a pressure exchange vessel
A rotor positioning system for rotary pressure exchangers with a rotor with a central bore accommodating an axle affixed to end covers in each end having at least one pair of high and low pressure ports in communication with opposing end cover ports through coaxial rotor ducts. |
| US10125795B2 |
Adjustable fan damping apparatus for exerciser
An adjustable fan damping apparatus for exerciser includes a casing having an annular chamber defined therein and an annular intake structure is disposed to an inner side of the annular chamber. A centrifugal impeller is rotatably received in the annular chamber. Multiple adjust blades is pivotally mounted onto the annular intake structure and surrounds the annular intake structure, wherein each adjust blade has two pivots longitudinally extending from two opposite ends of the adjust blade and a driven element extending from one side of then adjust blade where the two pivots extends. A drive device is connected to the driven element of each of the multiple adjust blades. The drive device includes a driving element is rotatably coupled with the driven element of each of the multiple adjust blades for simultaneously driving the multiple adjust blades in a same angle relative to the annular intake structure. |
| US10125792B2 |
Centrifugal pump
A centrifugal pump includes a main body casing. The main body casing includes an upper main body casing, a lower main body casing fixed to the upper main body casing, and a blade casing. In the blade casing, an interior space S1 formed by the upper main body casing and the lower main body casing is partitioned, and a fluid introducing passage is formed on the upper portion and a rotating accommodating space S2 to accommodate the rotating blade member is formed on lower portion. A joint portion of the upper main body casing, the lower main body casing, and the blade casing is fixed on the state of sealing. A joint portion of the suction side coupling member and the main body casing and a joint portion of the discharge side coupling member and the main body casing 34 are fixed on the state of sealing. |
| US10125791B2 |
Blower
A centrifugal blower includes a stator housing. The stator housing includes a radial contact surface which makes contact with a casing in a radial direction, a circumferential contact surface which makes contact with the casing in a circumferential direction, and an axial contact surface which makes contact with the casing in an axial direction. With such configuration, it is possible to reduce the vibration of the blower by increasing a contact area between the casing and the stator housing. Further, the stator housing includes a heat dissipating surface. As a result, it is possible to efficiently dissipate the heat, which is generated from the stator, from the heat dissipating surface of the stator housing to the gas existing within the wind tunnel. |
| US10125788B2 |
Ceramic tile fan blade containment
Fan blade containment system includes circular tile layer of annular ceramic tiles attached to and extending radially inwardly from a shell, radially inner and outer annular surfaces of ceramic tiles bonded to a radially inner composite layer and the shell respectively with elastomeric inner and outer adhesive layers respectively. Elastomeric adhesive layers between circumferentially adjacent overlapped or scarfed edges along circumferential edges of the ceramic tiles overlap and mate along oppositely facing surfaces of adjacent ones of the ceramic tiles. Inner and outer adhesive layers and elastomeric adhesive layer may be a double-sided adhesive foam tape. Scarfed edges may be bevels or rabbets. Shell may be made of a metal or composite material. Fan blade containment system may be bonded to and extend inwardly from fan case circumscribing fan blades of a fan. Inner composite layer and composite outer shell may be co-cured with ceramic tiles therebetween. |
| US10125785B2 |
Reduced stress rotor interface
A bladed rotor and a hub rotor for a gas turbine are provided. A bladed rotor may comprise a rotor interface comprising a radially inward surface, wherein the rotor interface comprises a constant diameter zone; and a reduced stress zone located adjacent to and aft of the constant diameter zone. A hub rotor may comprise a hub interface comprising a radially outward surface, wherein the hub interface comprises, a constant diameter zone, and a reduced stress zone located adjacent to and aft of the constant diameter zone. |
| US10125783B2 |
Fan assembly and fan wheel assemblies
Fan assemblies, and in particular fan wheels and stator assemblies for fan assemblies, are disclosed. In one embodiment, the fan wheel includes a wheel back having an outer surface forming one of a curved dome-shape and a truncated cone-shape. The fan wheel may also include a plurality of fan blades radially spaced about and mounted to the outer surface of the wheel back. In one embodiment, each of the fan blades is formed from a segment of an airfoil-shaped aluminum extrusion defining at least one internal cavity. The fan blade first ends can be provided with a compound cut profile with at least one curved cut such that the first end of the blade is mounted flush to the wheel back outer surface. The stator assembly can also be provided with a plurality of stator blades formed from airfoil-shaped aluminum extrusion segments and provided with compound cut profiles. |
| US10125778B1 |
Smoke deflector having a fan for purging a smoke detector
A smoke deflector includes a pole, a handle on a first end of the pole, and a fan assembly mounted on a second end of the pole opposite the handle. A method for using a smoke deflector to blow smoke away from a smoke detector includes the steps of holding the smoke deflector by the handle, adjusting the pole of the smoke deflector to set a desired length, adjusting the fan assembly of the smoke deflector to a desired angle, positioning the fan assembly adjacent to the smoke detector, and turning on the smoke deflector. |
| US10125777B2 |
Drive system for an agricultural product distribution system
An agricultural product distribution system includes a fan configured to provide an air flow that fluidizes and transports particulate material throughout the agricultural product distribution system. The fan includes an impeller, an inlet position on a first axial side of the fan, and an outlet position on a peripheral side of the fan. The agricultural product distribution system includes a power transfer shaft having a first end non-rotatably coupled to the impeller, wherein the power transfer shaft extends through the inlet of the fan. |
| US10125774B2 |
Centrifugal fan
A centrifugal fan includes: a casing; and an impeller that is attached to a rotation shaft of a motor, wherein the casing has an upper suction port and a lower suction port, wherein the impeller has a rotor hub, a plurality of blades arranged around the rotor hub in a circumferential direction, and a main plate coupled to the rotor hub and connects the blades in the circumferential direction, and wherein an inclination of an outer edge of the blades at an upper blade portion that is located above the main plate with respect to a plane parallel to the rotation shaft and an inclination of the outer edge of the blades at a lower blade portion that is located below the main plate with respect to the plane parallel to the rotation shaft are set to be in the same direction. |
| US10125772B2 |
Method of monitoring an impeller pump used in a medical application
The invention relates to a method of monitoring an impeller pump used in a medical application, wherein the structure-borne noise arising in the impeller pump is measured and this measured structure-borne noise is compared with a reference curve and/or with a limit value, wherein a signal is output as a sign for a disturbance of the operation of the impeller pump. The invention further relates to a blood treatment apparatus in which the aforesaid method is carried out. |
| US10125771B2 |
Compact liquid nitrogen pump
The invention provides a cryogenic liquid pump system, having a first end with at least an insulating lid and motor; a second end, wherein the second end is a pump, said pump comprising an impeller; and a gas release plate upstream of the impeller; and a shaft disposed between the first end and the second end, wherein the motor imparts mechanical energy to the pump through the shaft. Also provided is a method for preventing cavitation of a cryogenic liquid in a cryogenic pump, the method having the steps of constantly maintaining pressure on the liquid in the pump and evacuating gas bubbles that form within the pump. |
| US10125769B2 |
Scroll compressor
A scroll compressor is provided that can cool a fixed scroll and an orbiting scroll effectively via cooling fins. A scroll compressor includes: a fixed scroll, an orbiting scroll that performs orbiting motion with respect to the fixed scroll and is combined with the fixed scroll so as to form, with the fixed scroll, a compression space to compress fluid; cooling fins that are provided on the back of the fixed scroll; and cooling fins that are provided on the back of the orbiting scroll. The cooling fins and the cooling fins are taller in a central portion than in the circumference of the central portion. |
| US10125767B2 |
Scroll compressor with bypass portions
There is disclosed a scroll compressor according to the present disclosure in which a discharge port is formed at a central portion thereof, and a pair of two compression chambers continuously moving toward the discharge port are formed, and a plurality of bypass portions are formed at each interval along a movement path of each compression chamber in the both compression chambers, and compression gradients of the both compression chambers are formed to be different from each other, wherein when an interval between a bypass portion closest to the discharge port and another bypass portion adjacent to the bypass portion among the bypass portions of each compression chamber is defined as a first interval, respectively, a first interval of a second bypass portion belonging to a compression chamber having a relatively larger compression gradient is formed to be smaller than that of a first bypass portion belonging to the other compression chamber between the both compressor chambers. |
| US10125756B2 |
System and method for reducing at least one of airflow turbulence and pressure fluctuation proximate a valve
A baffle, for directing air within a compressor head, includes a first leg extending along a first direction, positioned proximate to a first valve of the compressor head, and a second leg extending along the first direction and substantially parallel to the first leg, positioned proximate to a second valve of the compressor head. A first portion of air from a first side of the first leg is communicated to a second side of the first leg beyond an end of the first leg. An aperture in the first leg communicates a second portion of the air from the first side of the first leg to the second side of the first leg. A turbulence and/or pressure fluctuation proximate the first valve is reduced by communicating the second portion of the air from the first side to the second side of the first leg. |
| US10125752B1 |
Hydraulic motor
A hydraulic motor apparatus includes a motor housing engaged to an end cap having a first porting system and an adapter connected to an external surface of the end cap and having a second porting system. A filter may be attached to the adapter and connected to the second porting system and a pressure reducing valve in the adapter is connected to the second porting system. The assembly may also include a controller operatively connected to the pressure reducing valve and system sensors measuring parameters affected by the output of the hydraulic motor apparatus, whereby the pressure reducing valve is operatively controlled by the controller in response to input from the system sensors. |
| US10125750B2 |
Radial piston pump assemblies and use thereof in hydraulic circuits
A system and method for machinery performing work with hydraulic actuators. Radial hydraulic pumps are aligned end-to-end along a common driveshaft axis to form a multi-pump assembly having a plurality of piston/cylinder units extending in a radial direction. Two or more piston/cylinder units are associated with one another to form multiple piston/cylinder groups. A plurality of control valves combines individual output flows from the two or more associated piston/cylinder units into respective common output flows for each respective piston/cylinder group. A plurality of flow control devices varies the common output flow from each respective piston/cylinder group by throttling inlet flow to the two or more associated piston/cylinder units in each respective piston/cylinder group. Each respective common output flow is directed from each respective piston/cylinder group to a hydraulic actuator on the heavy machinery to control its direction of movement. |
| US10125746B2 |
Motion conversion device
A motion conversion device is provided with a chain mechanism (10), a steel ball holding tube (5) having a holding space (5a) capable of holding a plurality of steel balls (1) in a vertical row, a steel ball insertion and holding mechanism (6) provided on a lower end of the steel ball holding tube (5), a balancer mechanism (30) capable of raising the steel ball holding tube (5) using air pressure, and a device for controlling the supply of air pressure to the balancer mechanism (30) according to the movement of the chain mechanism (10). A plurality of baskets (15) is attached to the chain (13) of the chain mechanism (10) at fixed intervals, the baskets (15) being capable of receiving and holding steel balls (1) spilling out of the upper end of the steel ball holding tube (5). The baskets (15) containing steel balls (1) move downward in response to the movement of the chain mechanism (10), and the steel balls (1) spill out at the lower end and roll to a position directly beneath the steel ball holding tube (5). |
| US10125741B2 |
Wind turbine rotor
A wind turbine rotor comprising a hub (1) from which a plurality of blades (2) project to a radius of at least 50 meters. Each blade comprising a hollow fairing supported by a central spar. Each blade has a thickness t at a radius r; characterized in that when r=0.5 R, t>0.3 T, where R is the radius of the blade and T is the thickness of the blade at the root end. By being thicker for a greater proportion of the blade, the aerodynamic performance of this part of the blade is worse, but this is more than compensated for as it allows better aerodynamic performance where it matters more, namely at the outer part of the blade. It also allows larger blades to be provided. |
| US10125738B2 |
Method for electrical power generation utilizing a turbine secured to a subsea pipe, the turbine having turbine blades encircling an outer periphery of the subsea pipe
A method and apparatus for generating electrical power are disclosed. The method includes the steps of turning turbine blades of at least one turbine provided at a region of a subsea pipe or umbilical via a respective motion of seawater through a swept area associated with the turbine blades and generating electrical power responsive to turning of the turbine blades. |
| US10125735B2 |
Valve for controlling a fluid with increased sealing action
A valve for controlling a fluid, e.g., fuel, has a closing element and a valve seat. The valve seat has a sealing region and a valve seat region adjoining the sealing region. The closing element seals on the sealing region, the sealing region and the valve seat region merging with one another directly and without a step. A hardness of the sealing region is less than a hardness of the closing element. |
| US10125730B2 |
Fuel injection control device for internal combustion engine
An ECU as a fuel injection control device includes: an injector control part that energizes a magnetic circuit of a fuel injector by a specified injection pulse to thereby open the fuel injector and that energizes the magnetic circuit by a specified energization pulse within a range in which a needle valve of the fuel injector is not driven; and a storage part that stores information relating to a behavior of a drive voltage (minus terminal voltage) of the fuel injector when the magnetic circuit is energized by the injector control part by the specified energization pulse. |
| US10125729B1 |
Throttle body adapter for marine engine air intake
A throttle body adapter connects a throttle body and an air intake manifold spaced from the throttle body in a marine engine. The throttle body adapter has an air passage having an inlet and an outlet of different shapes. The throttle body adapter has threaded openings which allow a fuse box, an electronic control module, a hose fitting and a mounting bracket for a beauty cover to be mounted to the throttle body adapter with threaded fasteners. The throttle body adapter further comprises a threaded opening adapted to receive an air inlet temperature sensor. |
| US10125728B2 |
Passively managed hood and plenum fed air induction system with parallel contaminant management features
An air induction system includes a hood inlet duct having a first induction inlet and an air induction plenum assembly having a second induction inlet. The air induction system also includes an air box in fluid communication with the air induction plenum and the hood inlet duct. The air box defines an inner box cavity. The air induction system also includes a panel filter disposed inside the air box, wherein the panel filter divides the inner box cavity so that the first induction inlet and the second induction inlet are upstream of the panel filter. |
| US10125726B2 |
Apparatus and methods for exhaust gas recirculation for an internal combustion engine utilizing at least two hydrocarbon fuels
A method of operating an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders, the method comprising: operating the engine with at least one of the cylinders of the engine as a dedicated exhaust gas recirculation (EGR) cylinder; mixing exhaust gas expelled from the dedicate EGR cylinder with air in an intake system to provide a mixture of exhaust gas and air; providing a first hydrocarbon fuel and a second hydrocarbon fuel; introducing a charge comprising the first hydrocarbon fuel, the second hydrocarbon fuel and the mixture of exhaust gas and air to the dedicated EGR cylinder; igniting the charge in the dedicated EGR cylinder; expelling exhaust gas from the dedicated EGR cylinder; and recirculating the exhaust gas to the intake system of the engine. |
| US10125723B1 |
Coil spring hanger for exhaust duct liner
A method includes providing an exhaust liner as a first duct, providing a second duct having an opening therein, and spacing the first duct radially inward of the second duct. A spring connects the first and second ducts together and has first and second ends. A first mount comprises a first bracket portion associated with the spring and a second bracket portion directly fixed to the first duct. The first bracket portion is directly fixed to the first end of the spring and the second end of the spring is fixed to a second mount that comprises a casing plate having an area greater than the opening. The first end of the spring and the first bracket portion are inserted through the opening and the first bracket portion is attached to the second bracket portion. The casing plate is directly fixed to a radially outward facing surface of the second duct. |
| US10125718B1 |
Engine block including an integrated flow channel
A cast-aluminum engine block for a compression-ignition internal combustion engine includes a plurality of cylinders that are disposed in an in-line arrangement. The engine block includes a top portion including a top deck and a bottom portion including a plurality of main bearings that are disposed to support journals of a crankshaft. An integrated flow channel is formed between the second end and the last cylinder and proximal to the top deck, and is a continuous channel that passes from the first side to the second side through the portion of the engine block between the second end and the last cylinder and proximal to the top deck. A coolant passageway is disposed in the engine block between the integrated flow channel and the last cylinder, and is oriented parallel to the elevation axis. |
| US10125716B2 |
Control apparatus for diesel engine and control method for diesel engine
A control apparatus (100) controls a diesel engine (10). A glow plug (32) which can detect cylinder pressure is provided on the engine (10). An ECU (70) computes a parameter related to a change in cylinder pressure obtained from the glow plug (32). The ECU (70) controls fuel injection timing such that the parameter falls within a target range when combustion in the engine (10) is switched from premixed combustion to diffusion combustion. |
| US10125715B2 |
Methods and systems for high pressure fuel pump cooling
Methods and systems are provided for temperature control of a high pressure pump (HPP) of a direct injection system. When direct injection is disabled, the HPP and the associated direct injectors are intermittently operated when the HPP temperature rises above a modeled threshold temperature. The HPP and injectors are operated until the HPP temperature falls below the modeled threshold temperature. |
| US10125713B2 |
Method of detecting a clogging of a fuel injector in an internal combustion engine
A method and apparatus are disclosed for detecting a clogging of a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine. Each fuel injector of the plurality of fuel injectors may be tested for a clogging. A test injector is switch off. A requested value of a fuel quantity to be injected by the other fuel injectors of the plurality of fuel injectors is adjusted to operate the internal combustion engine in an idle mode. A difference is calculated between the requested value of the fuel quantity and a reference value of the fuel quantity to be injected by all the fuel injectors of the plurality of fuel injectors to operate the internal combustion engine in idle mode. The calculated difference for each test injector is used to identify if the test injector is clogged. |
| US10125712B2 |
Torque security of MPC-based powertrain control
A propulsion system, control system, and method are provided that use model predictive control to generate an initial selected engine output torque value. A minimum torque limit is determined by selecting a minimum acceptable engine output torque. A maximum torque limit is determined by selecting a maximum acceptable engine output torque. A desired engine output torque value is set as: a) the minimum torque limit, if the initial selected engine output torque value is less than the minimum torque limit; b) the maximum torque limit, if the initial selected engine output torque value is greater than the maximum torque limit; or c) the initial selected engine output torque value, if the initial selected engine output torque value is neither greater than the maximum torque limit nor less than the minimum torque limit. |
| US10125711B2 |
Systems for fuel delivery
Various systems are provided for delivering fuel to an engine. In one example, a system includes a controller and a fluid system configured to maintain a fluid at a pressure downstream of a check valve. The controller may be configured to determine if a leak is present in the fluid system based on a first pressure decay rate of the fluid system, and responsive to identifying that a leak is present in the fluid system, differentiate between an internal leak and an external leak based on a leak flow rate as fluid system pressure decreases. |
| US10125705B2 |
Cylinder deactivation entrance and exit control
Systems, apparatus, and methods are disclosed that include an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders operable by a valve actuation mechanism. Staging of engine operating conditions is disclosed to facilitate exit from and/or entrance into a cylinder deactivation event. |
| US10125704B2 |
Engine system having EGR apparatus
An engine system having an ERG apparatus may include an engine including a plurality of combustion chambers generating a driving torque by combustion of a fuel; an intake line inflowing an intake gas supplied to the combustion chamber; an exhaust line flowing an exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion chamber; a turbocharger including a turbine provided at the exhaust line and rotated by the exhaust gas exhausted from the combustion chamber and a compressor provided at the intake line, rotated in connection with the turbine, and compressing external air; and an EGR apparatus including a recirculation line branched from the exhaust line and joined to the intake line, a flow rate controller mounted at the recirculation line and measuring and controlling an amount of recirculation gas, and a pressure sensor mounted at the recirculation line to measure a pressure of the recirculation gas. |
| US10125703B2 |
Internal combustion engine EGR flow rate estimation apparatus and internal combustion engine control apparatus
Based on an internal EGR ratio and desired external and internal EGR ratios, an EGR valve opening degree is feedback-controlled based on a desired EGR ratio, calculated in such a way as to perform correction so that a total EGR ratio becomes constant, and an EGR effective opening area obtained through learning of the relationship between an EGR valve opening degree and an effective opening area; thus, a correct characteristic of EGR valve opening degree vs. effective opening area can be maintained and hence it is made possible to absorb variations, changes with time, and even environmental conditions, while making an EGR valve and an intake/exhaust VVT collaborate with each other; therefore, an EGR flow rate can accurately be estimated. |
| US10125701B2 |
Method for operating an internal combustion engine, in particular a diesel engine
A method for operating an internal combustion engine using an external exhaust-gas recirculation device with a recirculation setting device to set the flow rate of the recirculated exhaust gas and using a closing time setting device to adjust the closing time of the at least one inlet valve of the internal combustion engine. For the reduction of nitrogen oxides emitted by the internal combustion engine, it is possible, by way of the closing time setting device, for a nitrogen oxide reduction cycle to be set in which the at least one inlet valve of the internal combustion engine closes earlier or later than in the basic cycle. If the torque of the internal combustion engine falls below at least a defined torque threshold value, the internal combustion engine is operated in the basic cycle and the recirculation of the exhaust gas is enabled by way of the recirculation setting device, and wherein, if the torque of the internal combustion engine exceeds the defined torque threshold value, the internal combustion engine is operated in the nitrogen oxide reduction cycle and the recirculation of the exhaust gas is blocked by way of the recirculation setting device. |
| US10125699B2 |
Method and actuator for use on an engine having a monitoring arrangement for determining a characteristic of [(and)] the actuator and system
A method, using multiple position sensors, for determining a characteristic of the actuator or a system, wherein the characteristic is causing or is indicative of the cause of the change in position of the actuator. One characteristic may be the lost motion of the actuator or system. Lost motion is the lag between the motion of a controlled device and that of an electrical drive device due to yielding or looseness. The lost motion of an actuator may increase as components wear and may eventually degrade the function or cause failure of the actuator and/or system. |
| US10125698B2 |
Adaptive state of charge regulation and control of variable speed hybrid electric supercharger assembly for efficient vehicle operation
A variable speed hybrid electric supercharger assembly is controlled to regulate an adaptive state of charge of an energy storage device and/or to boost an engine based on a performance mode selected by a driver. In one example, a reference state of charge is determined based upon driving characteristics of a vehicle and compared to an actual state of charge of the energy storage device. If the difference indicates a deficit, an operation mode is selected to regenerate the energy storage device. In another example, a planetary gearing arrangement between an engine and an electric motor is configured to increase or decrease power transferred to the supercharger by the engine based upon the performance mode selected by the driver. |
| US10125697B2 |
Control system for internal combustion engine
A control system for an internal combustion engine is provided with a crankshaft, an intake camshaft with an intake cam, a timing chain, an intake variable valve timing mechanism configured to be able to change at least one of an opening timing and closing timing of an intake valve by controlling a phase of the intake cam, and an electronic control unit configured to set in advance a periodic correction coefficient to vibrate by a period identical to a rotational period of the timing chain and to control the intake variable valve timing mechanism by the periodic correction coefficient to make the phase of the intake cam a target phase. |
| US10125696B2 |
Charge forming device with throttle valve adjuster
In at least some implementations, a charge forming device includes a main body, a throttle valve and an adjuster. The main body includes a main bore through which fluid flows for delivery to an engine. The throttle valve is carried by the main body and moveable relative to the main bore to control fluid flow through the main bore. And the adjuster is moveable relative to the throttle valve and engageable with the throttle valve to adjust the range of motion of the throttle valve. In at least some implementations, the adjuster limits the range of motion of the throttle valve when the adjuster is engaged with the throttle valve. |
| US10125695B2 |
Automatic control of turbine blade temperature during gas turbine engine operation
A method of controlling an airfoil component temperature distribution includes the steps of detecting an airfoil component temperature, comparing the detected airfoil component temperature to a desired airfoil component temperature profile, and controlling a fuel flow in response to the comparing step to maintain the airfoil component temperature within the desired airfoil component temperature profile. |
| US10125693B2 |
Geared turbofan engine with power density range
A gas turbine engine turbine has a high pressure turbine configured to rotate with a high pressure compressor as a high pressure spool in a first direction about a central axis and a low pressure turbine configured to rotate with a low pressure compressor as a low pressure spool in the first direction about the central axis. A power density is greater than or equal to about 1.5 and less than or equal to about 5.5 lbf/cubic inches. A fan is connected to the low pressure spool via a speed changing mechanism and rotates in a second direction opposed to the first direction. |
| US10125691B2 |
Bowed rotor start using a variable position starter valve
A bowed rotor start mitigation system for a gas turbine engine is provided. The bowed rotor start mitigation system includes a variable position starter valve and a controller. The controller is operable to dynamically adjust the variable position starter valve to deliver a starter air supply to a starter to drive rotation of a starting spool of the gas turbine engine according to a dry motoring profile that continuously varies a rotor speed of the starting spool up to a point below a critical rotor speed. |
| US10125690B2 |
Method and system for starting up an aircraft turbomachine
A start-up system including a control system controlling a partial opening of an air intake valve of a start-up turbine during a first phase of the start-up. The start-up turbine is capable of turning a rotor of the turbomachine for the purpose of the start-up, so as to prevent the rotor from encountering critical frequencies of the turbomachine. |
| US10125689B2 |
Diffuser removal tool
A diffuser removal tool for displacing an exhaust diffuser from a gas turbine engine is provided, which includes a pair of support arms, a clamp and wedge assembly coupled to an exhaust diffuser, and a lead screw assembly coupled between the support arms and to the clamp and wedge assembly via a wedge of the clamp and wedge assembly. The tool also includes a pair of linear bearing assemblies coupled to the support arms and to the clamp and wedge assembly via wedges of the clamp and wedge assembly. The lead screw assembly is configured to displace the diffuser in an axial direction relative to a longitudinal axis of the gas turbine engine while the linear bearing assemblies are configured to both enable the displacement of the diffuser in the axial direction while vertically supporting the diffuser to maintain alignment between the diffuser and the gas turbine engine. |
| US10125681B2 |
Torque ripple compensating device
A torque ripple compensating device for an internal combustion engine is provided. The torque ripple compensating device comprises a first member, a second member, and a third member. The first member is in driving engagement with an output of the internal combustion engine. The second member is in driving engagement with the first member. The third member is in driving engagement with the second member. An angular deviation between the first member and the third member causes a cyclical acceleration of the third member. The cyclical acceleration of the third member applies a torque to the output of the internal combustion engine through the first member. The torque ripple compensating device is able to be passively or dynamically adapted for both an amplitude and a phase of a torque ripple while minimizing an interference with an operation of the internal combustion engine. |
| US10125674B2 |
Engine
An engine without a compressor or a turbine comprises a combustion chamber for burning a fuel-air mixture formed by mixing a fuel with outside air; and an outside air introduction part for introducing outside air into the combustion chamber. The outside air introduction part comprises an intake main port for introducing outside air into the combustion chamber from the direction along the central axis of the combustion chamber and a plurality of intake sub-ports for introducing outside air into the combustion chamber from the direction toward the central axis. The intake sub-ports comprise ejection openings capable of ejecting outside air toward a collision point inside the combustion chamber. Streams of outside air ejected from the ejection openings of the intake sub-ports mutually collide at the collision point and are thereby compressed. |
| US10125672B2 |
Valve device
A valve device for controlling a bypass of an exhaust-gas turbocharger may include a valve disc for opening and closing a bypass opening of a turbine, and the bypass opening may be surrounded by a valve seat. A mandrel may protrude on a rear side of the valve disc. An adjusting lever for pivoting the valve disc may be connected with the mandrel. The adjusting lever may have a through opening that may be pierced by the mandrel. The through opening may be radially limited by an interior surface of the adjusting lever. At least one spring element may be arranged in the through opening, and the at least one spring element may subject the mandrel to a radial force. |
| US10125669B2 |
Branch communication valve for a twin scroll turbocharger
Methods and systems are provided for a branch communication valve in a twin turbocharger system. A branch communication valve may be positioned adjacent to a dividing wall separating a first scroll and a second scroll of the twin turbocharger. In an open position, the branch communication valve increases fluid communication between the first scroll and the second scroll and in a closed position, the branch communication valve decreases fluid communication between the first scroll and the second scroll. |
| US10125666B2 |
Systems and methods of compression ignition engines
Apparatuses, systems and method for utilizing multi-zoned combustion chambers (and/or multiple combustion chambers) for achieving compression ignition (and/or spark-assisted or fuel-assisted compression ignition) in an internal combustion engine are provided. In addition, improved apparatuses, systems and methods for achieving and/or controlling compression ignition (and/or spark-assisted or fuel-assisted compression ignition) in a “Siamese cylinder” internal combustion engine are provided. |
| US10125662B2 |
Engine cooling device for vehicle
An engine cooling device for a vehicle of the present invention includes: an engine cooling circuit that circulates a cooling liquid to an engine and a heat exchanger; a reservoir tank that is connected to the engine cooling circuit, and that stores the cooling liquid to absorb pressure changes within the engine cooling circuit; at least one or more cooling liquid circulating circuits that circulates the cooling liquid to devices installed in the vehicle; a switching section that selectively switches between either of a communicating state of communicating the engine cooling circuit and the cooling liquid circulating circuit, and a cut-off state of cutting-off the engine cooling circuit and the cooling liquid circulating circuit; and a control section that, in a case in which an ignition switch is turned off, controls the switching section such that the communicating state is set. |
| US10125661B2 |
Device for controlling the supply of a fluid to a system allowing fluid consumption to be optimised
Cooling spray jet comprising a supply inlet, a discharge outlet, a reaming connecting the inlet and the outlet, the outlet having a given cross-sectional area, a valve comprising a plug free to slide in the reaming and bearing in contact with a valve seat in a closed state. The valve has two open states after a first phase in which the plug separates from the valve seat, with different ranges of fluid pressures, the cross-sectional area between the plug and the reaming of each opening state being different from the cross-sectional area of the other state, one of these opening states having a cross-sectional area that regulates the fluid flow at the discharge outlet and the other opening state having a cross-sectional area such that the flow is regulated by the cross-sectional area of the outlet. |
| US10125650B1 |
Exhaust gas purification apparatus
An engine exhaust gas purification apparatus includes a three way catalyst disposed on an exhaust line, and which transforms harmful materials in exhaust gas to harmless materials by an oxidation-reduction reaction. The three way catalyst includes a first catalyst layer, a second catalyst layer, and a third catalyst layer laminated from an upper portion on a cordierite carrier, and the first catalyst layer comprises at least one platinum group metal and an oxygen non-storage material. |
| US10125645B2 |
Oil separator
An oil separator includes a case, electrode plates, filters, and a power supply unit. The electrode plates are arranged in the case with a space in between such that any two adjacent electrode plates face each other. The filters are made of an electrically insulating material and each arranged between any two adjacent electrode plates. The power supply unit is connected to the electrode plates and applies voltage between any two adjacent electrode plates, thereby creating a potential difference between the adjacent electrode plates. The filling factor of each filter is in a range from 0.005 to 0.03. The voltage applied between any two adjacent electrode plates by the power supply unit is in a range from 0.5 to 5 kV. The distance between any two adjacent electrode plates is in a range from 3 to 20 mm. |
| US10125644B2 |
Heat exchanger and system for warming and cooling a fluid circulating in a housing
A system for warming/cooling oil circulating within a power and torque transfer system of an automotive vehicle is disclosed. The system incorporates at least a first heat exchanger positioned between the inner wall of the outer housing and the outer surface of a gear forming part of the gear system enclosed within the housing, for instance a ring gear and/or pinion gear. The heat exchanger is generally formed as a single tubular member for conducting a first heat exchange fluid therethrough, the tubular member being curved to generally follow the curvature of the geometry of the inner wall of the housing and to fit within corresponding annular gaps. A second fluid channel is formed between the outer surface of the gear and the inner surface of the heat exchanger for bringing the oil into heat transfer relationship with the first heat exchanger fluid through rotation of the gear(s). |
| US10125643B2 |
Valve operating device for internal combustion engine
In an engine valve, a first sliding area formed at a valve head side in an outer face of a valve stem, and sliding along a stem guide, a second sliding area formed at an opposite side from the valve head side, and sliding along the stem guide, and a first small diameter area formed between the first sliding area and the second sliding area are formed. Further, in the engine valve, a length, in an axial direction of the valve stem, of the first sliding area abutting on the stem guide at a position where the engine valve is fully opened is longer as compared with a length, in the axial direction of the valve stem, of the second sliding area abutting on the stem guide at a position where the engine valve is fully closed. |
| US10125633B2 |
Part of a casing, especially of a turbo machine
A part of a casing of a turbomachine is provided. The part is of one piece of material. The part includes a cavity extending along a circumference of a rotational axis of the turbomachine, the cavity having a radially outer wall and a radially inner wall. The part also includes an inlet opening for supplying a cooling medium into the cavity and an outlet opening for discharging the cooling medium from the cavity. The radially inner wall is configured to support at least vanes or rotor seals facing rotor blades of the turbomachine, or a carrier for these vanes or seals. The proposed design provides enhanced efficiency without increasing production costs. The turbomachine may include, for example, a gas turbine, a steam turbine or a compressor. |
| US10125630B2 |
Fan disk for a jet engine and jet engine
A fan disk is for a jet engine in which there flows a gas stream in a flow direction. A pin-shaped radial section of the fan disk includes a first branch, designed to be fixed to a drive shaft of the jet engine, a second branch, extending opposite the first branch and designed to support a plurality of fan blades, and a curved junction wall that extends between the first branch and the second branch. |
| US10125629B2 |
Systems and methods for assessing the health of a first apparatus by monitoring a dependent second apparatus
Systems and methods for assessing the health of a first apparatus by monitoring a second apparatus are described herein. A method for monitoring a health of a first apparatus may comprise receiving a performance parameter from a second apparatus, wherein performance of the second apparatus is dependent upon the health of the first apparatus, assessing the performance parameter, and determining the health of the first apparatus. In various embodiments, the performance parameter may comprise at least one of a speed value of the second apparatus, a position value of the second apparatus, a temperature value of the second apparatus, or a time value of the second apparatus. |
| US10125627B2 |
Method for disassembly and assembly of a rotor of a gas turbine
A method for disassembly of a rotor, in particular the front rotor of a gas turbine with a housing and a channel which diverges in a direction of flow and in which the rotor is arranged, is disclosed. An embodiment of the method includes axially displacing an outer sealing ring that is radially opposite the rotor, and whose minimum inside diameter is smaller than the maximum outside diameter of the rotor, against the direction of flow. Then, the rotor is axially displaced against the direction of flow, in particular out of the housing. A method for assembly of such a rotor, as well as a tool for the same, is also disclosed. |
| US10125626B2 |
Seal arrangement
A seal arrangement (15; 26; 43; 50) for sealing an annular gap (14) between a high-pressure steam space (12) and an adjacent low-pressure steam space (13). The gap is defined between two turbine casings (10, 11) each split into two casing halves, the seal arrangement (15; 26; 43; 50) has a seal element (24; 47; 58) which is formed in a segmented and annular manner and extends between the two turbine casings (10, 11) and engages in an annular receiving groove (9, 23; 30, 34; 49; 54) by means of at least one of its radial end regions. The seal arrangement (15; 26; 43; 50) has at least one segmented ring (16, 20; 27, 31; 44; 51; 55) with a first circumferential surface (17, 21; 28, 32; 45; 52, 56) releasably attached to one of the turbine casings (10, 11) in the region of the annular gap (14), and has an opposite second circumferential surface (18, 22; 29, 33; 46; 53, 57) with the annular receiving groove (9, 23; 30, 34; 54) or, in a one-piece form, with the radially projecting annular seal element (47; 58). |
| US10125619B2 |
Rotor assembly for use in a turbofan engine and method of assembling
A rotor assembly for use in a turbofan engine is provided. The rotor assembly includes an annular spool including a blade opening defined therein, and a rotor blade radially insertable through the blade opening. The rotor blade includes a rotor blade radially insertable through the blade opening. The rotor blade includes a root portion having a dovetail shape, and the root portion is undersized relative to the blade opening. At least one secondary dovetail member is positioned within the blade opening and configured to couple the root portion within the blade opening with an interference fit. |
| US10125618B2 |
Vapor deposition of rare earth silicate environmental barrier coatings
A vapor deposition method may include applying a first electron beam to vaporize a portion of a first target material comprising a rare earth oxide, where the first electron beam delivers a first amount of energy. The method also may include applying a second electron beam to vaporize a portion of a second target material comprising silica, where the second electron beam delivers a second amount of energy different from the first amount of energy. In some examples, the second target material is separate from the first target material. Additionally, the portion of the first target material and the portion of the second target material may be deposited substantially simultaneously over a substrate to form a layer over the substrate. A system for practicing vapor deposition methods and articles formed using vapor deposition methods are also described. |
| US10125615B2 |
Turbine wheel for a turbine engine
A turbine wheel for a turbine engine comprising a disc carrying blades. Each blade comprises an upstream radial wall and a downstream radial wall which extend inwards from the platform of the blade. Inter-blade cavities each accommodate one inter-blade sealing and vibration damping member. According to the invention, each inter-blade sealing and vibration damping member comprises at least a first transverse partition wall axially arranged at a distance from a downstream (or upstream, respectively) portion of the member and axially opposite two upstream (or downstream, respectively) so as to obstruct a flow of incoming air into the cavity between two adjacent upstream radial walls or two adjacent downstream radial walls. |
| US10125614B2 |
Cooling hole arrangement for engine component
A component for a gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of this disclosure includes a surface having a plurality of cooling holes. The surface includes a first region and a second region each having a plurality of cooling holes. The cooling holes within the first region are arranged differently than the cooling holes in the second region. |
| US10125613B2 |
Shrouded turbine blade with cut corner
A method includes determining a vibration characteristic of a shrouded turbine blade, which includes an airfoil attached to a shroud. A corner of the shrouded turbine blade can be removed after determining the vibration characteristic. |
| US10125611B2 |
System and method for in situ repair of turbine blades of gas turbine engines
The present disclosure is directed to an improved system and method for repairing a bend in a turbine blade of a turbine of a gas turbine engine. The system includes an articulating guide configured to fit into an access port of the turbine. The articulating guide includes a proximal end and a distal end. The system also includes a repair tool configured at the distal end of the articulating guide. Further, the repair tool is configured to fit over the turbine blade. Thus, the repair tool is configured to bend the turbine blade to an unbent position while the turbine blade is secured within the turbine. |
| US10125610B2 |
Air turbine engine for moving vehicle
The invention discloses a non-fuel combusting air turbine assembly suitable as an auxiliary or primary power propulsion system for a vehicle. The systems include an air turbine engine powered by a compressor mechanism to increase the potential energy that is harnessed by the turbines, having a noise reducing air intake section for delivering air to the compressor. Additionally, the systems include a turbine mechanism composed of plural sets of stationary vanes and rotating vanes, preferably arranged alternatively, and a battery rechargeable by a generator operable by the rotating turbine vanes. |
| US10125609B2 |
Device for obtaining mechanical work from a non-thermal energy source (variants)
The invention relates to mechanical engineering. The present device for obtaining mechanical work from a non-thermal energy source comprises a cylindrical housing, a rotor, a vacuum chamber, movable elements, and systems for removal and supply of a working fluid. The rotor is provided with blades and is fastened to the power shaft, disposed inside the housing. The chamber is formed by the outside surface of the bladed rotor and the inside surface of the housing. The movable elements are mounted in diametric opposition inside the housing of the device and divide the chamber into equal parts. The shaft and blades of the rotor are hollow. The inlet ports and outlet ports are provided in surfaces of the rotor blades. Or outlet ports are provided in the housing. The technical result is an increase in the output, efficiency and environmental friendliness of the device, together with a simplified design. |
| US10125602B2 |
Method for downhole leak detection
An integrated and rigless method of determining the location and the type of damage in casing or tubing of a wellbore that involves recording a thickness profile of the casing or tubing, a temperature log, and a noise log along the depth of the wellbore, followed by locating the damage from the thickness profile, and determining the type of damage from the temperature log and the noise log. |
| US10125601B2 |
Colloidal-crystal quantum dots as tracers in underground formations
Colloidal-crystal quantum dots as tracers are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method comprises injecting a solution of quantum dots into a subterranean formation, and monitoring a flow of the quantum dots from the subterranean formation to determine a property of the subterranean formation. |
| US10125598B2 |
Optimized rotation of a drill string during sliding mode of directional drilling
An example method for optimized rotation of a drill string coupled to a drill bit and disposed within a borehole may comprise determining an angular velocity of at least part of the drill string. An angular velocity threshold to avoid static friction may also be determined. Additionally, a minimum input torque to apply to the drill string to maintain the angular velocity at or above the angular velocity threshold may be determined. The method may further include generating a control signal to a top drive motor based, at least in part, on the minimum input torque. |
| US10125597B2 |
Method of, and a system for, controlling a drilling operation
A system (10) for controlling a drilling operation by a drill rig (12) includes a receiver (16) for receiving sensed data related to the drilling operation. A processor (18) is in communication with the receiver (16), the processor (18) processing the sensed data to estimate at least one geological property of interest of a zone (20) in which the drill rig (12) is active. The processor (18) is configured to operate as a decision engine (22) to optimize the drilling operation automatically by changing at least one drilling related parameter during the drilling operation based on the at least one geological property of interest. |
| US10125596B2 |
Methods, apparatus and products for production of fluids from subterranean formations
Methods, apparatus and products for separating oil and mud filtrate down hole and production of each to the surface via separate tubing, that includes custom engineered drill pipe for which two types of openings called ports have been cut or drilled: production ports and isolation ports. The production port produces formation fluid (normally hydrocarbons) from a perforation. In one non-limiting embodiment, a tube is welded to the inside of the casing at each production port to transmit the formation fluid to the top of the drill pipe section where it is attached to a custom engineered casing collar (described below) designed to allow flow to the next drill pipe section of the device. The isolation port produces mud filtrate from the adjacent borehole wall exterior to the casing, and these isolation ports are arranged in a pattern around each production port to keep mud filtrate in the invaded zone from reaching the production port. The number and placement of the production ports as well as the number, placement and shape of the isolation ports are determined using the information regarding the perforating design and other information such as the filtrate type and estimates of invasion depth as determined by well logs. Packers are set above and below the apparatus to provide an “isolation” chamber to contain the produced filtrate. Tubing through the upper packer will produce the filtrate to the surface via differential pressure or pumping. After the casing has been cemented, the perforating guns in the production ports are fired to begin production of formation fluid. |
| US10125583B2 |
Borehole reciprocating pump assembly with an air chamber acting as a hydraulic shock absorber for the pumped fluid
A borehole pump assembly operable in association with for a borehole with a well casing therein, the borehole pump assembly including an elongate pump rod operably connected to a reciprocating drive and mounting a reciprocating pump at the lower end within the well casing and an air chamber provided immediately above the reciprocating pump and concentrically about the pump rod to provide hydraulic shock absorption between the reciprocating pump and a delivery pipeline. |
| US10125582B1 |
Rotator arm stop and roller assembly
A petroleum extraction pump deploying a sucker rod has an actuator for rotating the portion of the rod in the stuffing box on every stroke to minimize local wear. The rotor handle or arm of the actuator is triggered by an upright roller supported by a an upright rigid linear member, such as a post or tube, that is spaced apart from the well bore by a clamp attached to the main well pipe or stuffing box. The roller rotates with each stroke as it engages the rotator handle. The roller is supported by a Y-shaped saddle to avoid catching on the upstroke of the pumping unit should these member become laterally separated. The device is capable of retrofitting to an existing sucker rod actuator by eliminating a cable to the arm of the actuator and deploying an arm stop member to support the handle in a horizontal orientation until it contacts the roller. |
| US10125580B2 |
Sand screen for sand control in lateral holes in wells
A sand screen for installation in a well includes a flow-through element having a center line running in the longitudinal direction of the flow-through element; and a filtration device. The flow-through element has an internal cavity extending over at least parts of a length of the flow-through element. There are a plurality of openings over the length of the flow-through element. The openings, via the filtration device, provide communication between an outer surface of the flow-through element and the internal cavity. The sand screen is flexible in a radial direction and in an axial direction. |
| US10125579B2 |
Centrifugal particle accumulator
An apparatus can include a first curved blade for use in a centrifuge. The centrifuge can be for collecting debris particles in a fluid flowing through the centrifuge. The first curved blade can include a plurality of eccentric slots. The first curved blade can include a groove positioned at an outer edge of the curved blade. The first curved blade can also include a first mating element and a second mating element. The first and second mating elements can be for coupling the first curved blade to a second curved blade about a central axis. |
| US10125577B1 |
Method and apparatus for cleaning and inspecting oil well drilling mud flow lines
The present invention is directed to a method of cleaning and inspection of drilling mud carrying flow lines, each flow line having an inner surface. The method includes affixing a fitting to the flow line, the fitting having a main flow channel and a branch flow channel extending at an angle from said main flow channel. A first end portion of the fitting can have an attachment that enables connection of the fitting to the flow line at one flow line end portion. A second end portion of the fitting can have one or more doors that can be moved between opened and closed positions, the door or doors providing an opening that is not closed when the doors are in the closed position. A suction line can be connected to the branch flow channel. A cleaning tool can be guided first into the fitting and then into the flow line using a fluid carrying cable. The cleaning tool and jetting fluid can be used to clean drilling mud and debris from the inner surface of the flow line. The jetting fluid can be removed via the branch flow channel using the suction line. The cable can extend through the door opening or openings when the door or doors are in the closed position. A camera can be guided into the flow line using a camera cable wherein the camera cable extends through the door opening or openings. The cleaning tool is preferably too small to fit through the door opening. |
| US10125575B2 |
Alignment apparatus for a sliding sleeve subterranean tool
An alignment device for a sliding sleeve in a housing in a tubular string features a patterned alignment ring that remains stationary. The sliding sleeve in one of its end positions has a mating profile such that profile misalignment results in profile alignment as the sliding sleeve is axially advanced toward the alignment ring. In a choke application the fully closed position of the choke brings the profiles together to induce relative rotation into an aligned configuration of the ports on the sliding sleeve with the ports on the surrounding housing. Misalignment can occur when tools are run through the sliding sleeve for other downhole operations and the design parameters for the choke prevent the use of alignment lugs in axial slots. The mating profiles do not reduce the drift dimension through the sliding sleeve and allow higher housing pressure ratings for deep set applications with large operating differential pressures. |
| US10125573B2 |
Zone selection with smart object selectively operating predetermined fracturing access valves
An intelligent dart or ball or other shape is dropped or pumped into a borehole that has multiple valves for access to the formation through which fractures are initiated. The intelligent object engages with the valves as it passes with retractable engagement dogs that are outwardly biased but not to the degree needed to find support unless the valve in question is the one that needs to be operated. In that event the dogs become supported and pressure is applied to the object to shift the valve to the open position. The object can be released at a later time remotely or can be milled out. Subsequent objects can be landed in the same sleeve after the initial object is released to close it or to close the open port by moving a second sleeve against a first sleeve. Fracturing in any order is envisioned. |
| US10125572B2 |
Casing or liner barrier with remote interventionless actuation feature
A tubular string is run into a wellbore with a remotely actuated valve near a lower end adjacent a cementing shoe. The valve is triggered to operate without intervention such as by mud pulses generated at the surface and recognized by a sensor linked to a processor adjacent the valve to trigger the valve to close. Alternative actuation systems are envisioned for the valve that is located near the cementing shoe. |
| US10125570B2 |
Valve assembly
A gate valve assembly, the assembly includes a gate valve having a gate assembly moveable between a closed position and an open position. The gate assembly includes a pressure equalizing assembly coupled to the gate valve that equalizes the fluid pressure across the gate valve. |
| US10125567B2 |
Packer
A morphable packer and method of setting the packer in a wellbore. The packer is a tubular member having a throughbore with a central portion having a greater diameter than each end portion with tapered portions there between. Gripping elements are arranged on the tapered portions. Morphing of the tubular member creates a seal between the central portion and an outer cylindrical structure, such as a wellbore or casing, and the gripping elements are moved radially outwards to engage with the cylindrical structure. The gripping elements act as slips which are activated by morphing the tubular member. Embodiments are described with the tubular member being a sleeve on a base pipe and, additionally, sealing and securing features in the form of elastomeric bands, lugs and wedges. |
| US10125565B2 |
Dissolvable isolation devices with an altered surface that delays dissolution of the devices
A wellbore isolation device comprising: a material that dissolves via corrosion when in contact with a wellbore fluid, a surface of the material, wherein the surface of the material is altered via a surface treatment, and wherein the altered surface delays corrosion of the material for a desired amount of time. A method of removing the wellbore isolation device comprising: contacting or allowing the wellbore isolation device to come in contact with a wellbore fluid; and causing or allowing at least the portion of the material to dissolve. |
| US10125563B2 |
Subsea completion apparatus and method including engageable and disengageable connectors
A communication link between a first subsea device and a second subsea device includes a first component positioned upon a distal end of the first subsea device and a second component positioned upon a proximal end of the second subsea device, wherein one of the first and second components comprises an engaged position and a disengaged position, and wherein the one of the first and second components is configured to be displaced from the disengaged position to the engaged position after the first and second subsea devices are engaged. |
| US10125562B2 |
Early production system for deep water application
An early production system includes an Emergency Disconnect Package (“EDP”), a production riser coupled between the EDP and a sea surface processing facility, a gas export tubing coupled between the EDP and the sea surface processing facility, and a flow base. The flow base is detachably connectable to the EDP. The flow base also includes an Independent Production Control System (“IPCS”) for controlling at least one production valve. |
| US10125559B2 |
Core jam indicator for coring tools and coring tools including such core jam indicators
Core jam indicators for use with coring tools include a plug coupled with an inner barrel and configured to selectively close the entrance of the inner barrel. The plug has at least one fluid port extending through a wall of the plug between an interior and an exterior of the plug. The mandrel at least partially covers the at least one fluid port of the plug in an activated position and the at least one fluid port is at least partially uncovered by the mandrel in a deactivated position. The mandrel is coupled to the inner barrel. A piston force acting on the mandrel resulting from a pressure difference above and below the mandrel acts over an area smaller than a maximum transverse cross-sectional area of the inner barrel. Coring tools include such core jam indicators. Components are provided and assembled to form such core jam indicators. |
| US10125558B2 |
Pumps-off annular pressure while drilling system
Aspects of the disclosure can relate to a method for transmitting a pump-off pressure profile within a limited bandwidth. For example, a method may include selecting a compression protocol based upon at least one of a time length associated with the pump-off pressure data, a relative mean-squared error associated with the pump-off pressure data, or a maximum error associated with the pump-off pressure data. The method also includes compressing pump-off pressure data with the compression protocol to produce compression bits. The compression bits represent the pump-off pressure profile. The method also includes transmitting, via a communication module, the compression bits to a computing device. |
| US10125550B2 |
Orientation of cutting element at first radial position to cut core
A fixed cutter drill bit may include a bit body having a bit centerline a plurality of blades extending radially from the bit body, and a plurality of flow courses between the plurality of blades. Each of the plurality of blades is spaced a radial distance from the bit centerline to define a core-forming region. A plurality of cutting elements is disposed on the plurality of blades, and the plurality of cutting elements include at least one coring cutting element disposed on at least one of the plurality of blades. The at least one coring cutting element is the radially innermost cutting element on the plurality of blades, and a coring angle of the at least one coring cutting element is less than an inner cone angle thereof. |
| US10125546B2 |
Apparatus and methods for geosteering
Various embodiments include apparatus and methods to generate geosignal responses. Geosignal responses may be generated that include a representation of a determination of variation between a XX coupling component and a YY coupling component from acquired signals. Such geosignals may be used to 5 address a blindspot problem suffered in conventional geosteering in a drilling condition where the logging tool is located at layered formations with symmetric resistivity profiles. Additional apparatus, systems, and methods are disclosed. |
| US10125540B2 |
Sectional door with lifting mechanism
A sectional door comprising a plurality of panels which can be stacked on top of each other in a stacked state, and next to each other in a stored state; a drive system with a cable or chain for moving the bottom panel in the height direction; upright rails for guiding the panels in the stacked state; guides (or guide assembly) for guiding the panels in the stored state comprising a worm wheel with helical groove for guiding the panels in the storage room; wherein the drive system further comprises a lifting mechanism for removing the upper panel from the stack, and for transferring it to the storage zone. |
| US10125538B2 |
Static plasma grid evacuation techniques for vacuum insulating glass (VIG) units
A thermally insulating panel (e.g., vacuum IG window unit) includes first and second opposing substrates spaced apart from one another by a plurality of spacers. A low pressure space is defined between the substrates, and is hermetically sealed off by at least one edge seal. During evacuation of the space, a plasma is ignited within the space via a static grid assembly in order to reduce the time needed to evacuate the space down and/or to help remove debris from within the space to the desired low pressure. |
| US10125534B2 |
Method for producing blocks of windows
A method for producing blocks of windows (1). The method comprises the following steps: i) providing a frame consisting of frame profiled elements (2) having one or more panes (3) arranged therein, wherein a gap (4) can be formed between at least one frame profiled element (2) and the one or more panes (3), ii) inserting adaptable, particularly temporary, boundaries (7) for bounding the application region into the gap (4), wherein the application region is bounded by the boundaries (7) in the peripheral direction, the frame profiled element (2), and the one or more panes (3), and iii) introducing the curable plastic (6) into the application region. |
| US10125533B1 |
Small frangible shim
Taught here is a small frangible shim with handle for fine tune leveling which is wedge shaped, and pre-scored to enable an unneeded portion to be easily removed during use. Such shims are used in the construction industry utilized for adjusting the spacing of various construction members. The shim may be fashioned from any suitable material to provide stability, ease of use, and ease of manufacture. Further, the shim contains surfaces with properties of both friction to retain the shim in place once deployed and smoothness to allow the shim to slide easily into position. The shim taught here is small compared with existing shims for use in situations where delicate, fine-tune adjustments of leveling is desired. |
| US10125525B2 |
Door barricade
Barricade devices and methods of barricading a door are disclosed. Such devices and methods may be used to barricade a door, and thereby prevent an intruder from entering a sheltering space, such as a classroom, storeroom, or hallway. The barricade-device may have a pivotable stop-device that is pivotable from a location adjacent to a door. The pivot-location may be at an elevation that is lower than a door handle on the door. The stop-device may be pivotable from a reserve-position to a stop-position. In the reserve-position, the stop-device does not barricade the door. In the barricade-position, the stop-device barricades the door. Operation of the barricade-device may require the use of one or more major muscle groups of the body, but need not require precise dexterity of the fingers or hands (e.g. such as that required to manipulate small keys, latches, and/or the grasping and turning of assemblies). As such, the barricade-device may be used properly and quickly by a wide range of people having differing physical and mental capabilities. |
| US10125523B2 |
Locking assembly for electronic tablet and devices
A method for securing a portable electronic device having a housing to a substantially immovable object utilizing a locking assembly having a security rod or spike formed with an anchoring end separated axially by a protruding end, a locking device with an internal locking mechanism and a cable permanently attached to the locking device at one end, includes several steps. The steps include securedly fixing the anchoring end of the security rod or spike to the portable electronic device upon or through the housing, attaching an other end of the cable to the substantially immovable object and inserting the protruding end of the security rod into an opening in the locking device to actuate the internal locking mechanism and lock the locking device to the captive security rod. Locking the security rod to the locking device concurrently locks the portable electronic device to which it is anchored to the substantially immovable object. |
| US10125520B2 |
Key and rotary cylinder lock with key
A key (1) for a rotary cylinder lock (2) comprises a key grip (3) and a key shank (4), which adjoins the key grip (3) and extends along a longitudinal axis (L), wherein the key shank (4) has, on its outside (5), control recesses (10), in particular control bores, for properly positioning tumblers on the rotary cylinder lock (2) and also has at least one control element (6) arranged in a movable manner in the key shank (4), which control element (6) has a control surface (8), which interacts with a tumbler (7) of the rotary cylinder lock (2). Furthermore, the key is characterized in that the key shank (4), in the region of the control element (6), has a tapered cross section (9), which is tapered in relation to the cross section (11) with the control recesses (10). |
| US10125518B2 |
Handle mechanism
A handle mechanism used for driving a lock module in operation includes a handle, a linking member and a transmission rod, wherein the linking member is selectively engaged with the handle and the transmission rod. The handle is unable to drive the lock module in operation by the transmission rod driving and prevents the lock module from damage once an excessive force is applied to the handle when the linking member is not engaged with the handle and the transmission rod. Oppositely, the handle is able to drive the lock module in operation by the transmission rod driving when the linking member is engaged with the handle and the transmission rod. |
| US10125515B2 |
System and method for primarily erecting curvilinear buildings using a plurality of interconnected structural tubes/sandwich panels
A system and method for primarily erecting curvilinear buildings using a plurality of interconnected structural tubes/sandwich panels is provided. Fabricating structural tubing comprises: connecting a fibrous and flexible lining to an inner surface of a flexible outer membrane, wherein the lining is saturated in a curable material that forms into a solid foam material when cured; and curing the curable material. Fabricating a sandwich panel comprises: connecting a first fibrous and flexible lining to an inner surface of a first flexible outer membrane, wherein the first lining is saturated in a curable material that forms into a solid foam when cured; connecting a second fibrous and flexible lining to an inner surface of a second flexible outer membrane, wherein the second lining is saturated in a curable material that forms into a solid foam when cured; and curing the curable material of the first lining and second linings. |
| US10125512B2 |
Guyless rig with outriggers
The present disclosure, in one or more embodiments, relates to a well servicing rig having a mast having a racking board, a base supporting the mast, and a stabilization system configured to secure the rig against wind loading. The stabilization system may include a pair of front outriggers, a pair of rear outriggers, a pair of racking board supports coupled to the rear outriggers, and a pair of internal guylines extending between the racking board and the racking board supports. |
| US10125511B2 |
Anti-seismic support for warehouses and load-bearing structure with such support
An anti-seismic device (1) for load-bearing structures or machines for example automated warehouses, comprises at least one supporting foot (3) suitable for being fixed to a load-bearing structure of the automated warehouse. The supporting foot (3) is configured for resting and sliding on a support and sliding surface (5), so as to allow relative movement of the automated warehouse with respect to the support and sliding surface (5). At least one abutment element (10) is suitable for being solidly constrained with the support and sliding surface (5). At least a spring device (12) is suitable for being interposed between the abutment element (10) and the automated warehouse. The spring device (12) is configured to generate a return action (force and/or torque) of the automated warehouse as a result of the relative movement of the automated warehouse with respect to the support and sliding surface (5). The spring device (12) has a non-linear, preferably progressive elastic characteristic. |