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US10198629B2	System and method for detecting objects in an image A method for cropping photos images captured by a user from an image of a page of a photo album is described. Corners in the page image are detected using corner detection algorithm or by detecting intersections of line-segments (and their extensions) in the image using edge, corner, or line detection techniques. Pairs of the detected corners are used to define all potential quads, which are then are qualified according to various criteria. A correlation matrix is generated for each potential pair of the qualified quads, and candidate quads are selected based on the Eigenvector of the correlation matrix. The content of the selected quads is checked using a salience map that may be based on a trained neuron network, and the resulting photos images are extracted as individual files for further handling or manipulation by the user.
US10198628B2	Method and apparatus for determining a document suitability for server-based optical character recognition (OCR) processing There is disclosed a method of analyzing a digital image of a document (to determine, as example, a document suitability for server-based OCR processing) in a computer system that includes a user electronic device (for acquiring or storing a digital image of a document) connectable to a server (for executing the server-based OCR processing of the digital image to create a recognized-text document). The method is executable by the user electronic device and comprises: acquiring the digital image of the document; analyzing an OCR quality parameter associated with a compressed digital image to be created from the digital image using a compression algorithm and a compression parameter; in response to the OCR quality parameter being above or equal to a pre-determined threshold: transmitting the compressed digital image to the server. Optionally, the method further comprises compressing the digital image using the compression algorithm and the compression parameter to create the compressed digital image before transmission thereof.
US10198623B2	Three-dimensional facial recognition method and system The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional facial recognition method and system. The method includes: performing pose estimation on an input binocular vision image pair by using a three-dimensional facial reference model, to obtain a pose parameter and a virtual image pair of the three-dimensional facial reference model with respect to the binocular vision image pair; reconstructing a facial depth image of the binocular vision image pair by using the virtual image pair as prior information; detecting, according to the pose parameter, a local grid scale-invariant feature descriptor corresponding to an interest point in the facial depth image; and generating a recognition result of the binocular vision image pair according to the detected local grid scale-invariant feature descriptor and training data having attached category annotations. The present disclosure can reduce computational costs and required storage space.
US10198620B2	Augmented reality based component replacement and maintenance Augmented reality (AR) based component replacement and maintenance may include receiving a first wireless signal from a pair of AR glasses worn by a user. An image of a component viewed by the user may be analyzed and compared to a plurality of images of components stored in a database that includes information associated with the plurality of images of the components. Based on a match of the image of the component viewed by the user to one of the plurality of images of the components stored in the database, the component viewed by the user may be identified. An inventory of the identified component may be analyzed to determine whether a supplier includes the identified component in stock, and in response to a determination that the supplier includes the identified component in stock, an estimated time of delivery of the identified component to the user may be determined.
US10198619B1	System and method for evaluating the perception system of an autonomous vehicle A method and apparatus are provided for optimizing one or more object detection parameters used by an autonomous vehicle to detect objects in images. The autonomous vehicle may capture the images using one or more sensors. The autonomous vehicle may then determine object labels and their corresponding object label parameters for the detected objects. The captured images and the object label parameters may be communicated to an object identification server. The object identification server may request that one or more reviewers identify objects in the captured images. The object identification server may then compare the identification of objects by reviewers with the identification of objects by the autonomous vehicle. Depending on the results of the comparison, the object identification server may recommend or perform the optimization of one or more of the object detection parameters.
US10198617B2	Image-acquisition apparatus Provided is an image-acquisition apparatus that includes: a stage on which a specimen is mounted; an objective lens that collects light from the specimen mounted on the stage; a motor that drives the stage in the direction intersecting an optical axis of the objective lens; an imaging device that acquires images by capturing the light collected by the objective lens; and a processor comprising hardware, wherein the processor is configured to implement: a deterioration-level calculation unit configured to calculate deterioration levels contained in the acquired images; and an image generating unit configured to generate a pasted image by pasting the acquired images, wherein the image generating unit is configured to generate the pasted image by combining, for a common region of two images that are mutually pasted, an image with lower deterioration level calculated by the deterioration-level calculation unit at a higher combining ratio.
US10198613B2	Latent fingerprint pattern estimation Systems and methods may be used by an automatic fingerprint identification system to estimate patterns of a latent fingerprint. A latent fingerprint image, and a plurality of reference ridge flow maps may initially be obtained. Each reference ridge flow map may be associated with a particular fingerprint pattern. A latent ridge flow map for the obtained latent fingerprint image may be computed. One or more characteristics associated with the latent ridge flow map may be compared to one or more characteristics associated with each of the plurality of reference ridge flow maps. A similarity score between the latent ridge flow map and a particular reference ridge flow map may be computed for each of the plurality of reference ridge flow maps. One or more fingerprint patterns present within the latent fingerprint may then be determined and provided for output.
US10198611B2	Fingerprint sensors for mobile devices Various embodiments concern fingerprint sensors for mobile devices. By modifying one or more layers of a display assembly, a fingerprint sensor can be positioned directly beneath the display. For example, the air gap within the backlight structure could be replaced by an optically clear adhesive that allows waves emitted by a fingerprint sensor to properly propagate through the display assembly. In some embodiments, a fingerprint sensor is set within a recess in the display assembly. For example, a depression could be created in the protective substrate, and the fingerprint sensor could be set within the depression using an optically clear adhesive. The functionality of a fingerprint sensor could also be replicated by increasing the density of touch-sensing elements in certain areas of a display assembly that utilizes in-cell technology.
US10198603B2	Time slot communication system A system, exhibiting a communication station for communicating with a number of radio tags in a time slot communication process, in which a number of time slots per time slot cycle in a repeating sequence are available for communication, and each time slot is characterized by a distinct time slot symbol, wherein the communication station is designed to send out a synchronization data signal exhibiting the time slot symbol for the currently present time slot, and wherein a radio tag is designed for changing from a sleep state into an active state at a wakeup instant, and for receiving the synchronization data signal in the active state and, if the received time slot symbol indicates a time slot intended for it, for defining a new wakeup instant corresponding to the next appearance of the time slot intended for it in a time slot cycle that follows the currently present time slot cycle.
US10198598B2	Information processing device and method, program, and recording medium To improve the convenience of a user and further provide service comfortable and safe for the user. A PK storing PMD as personal related information of a user communicates with a service system. When first using the service system, the PK stores the service ID of the service system and a spoofing preventing method. When the PK communicates with the service system for a second time and thereafter, a spoofing preventing process is mutually performed, and then the PMD is provided to the service system. The service system reads or changes the PMD on the basis of access permission information set in advance by the user. The present disclosure is applicable to PDAs.
US10198596B2	Method for saving, sending and recollection of confidential user data A system/method for displaying, in a first language, a request for a length of user data to be saved; receiving the length of user data; displaying a number of empty character boxes; receiving/storing text data associated to a first character box or a first cluster of multiple character boxes based on selection responses received; receiving/storing a picture, an image/photograph associated to a second cluster of multiple character boxes based selection responses received; receiving/storing user entered scribble or glyph associated to a third duster a multiple character boxes based selection responses received; receiving and storing characters or symbols of a second. language associated to a fourth character box or a fourth duster of multiple character boxes selection responses received; and receiving/storing audio, sound/voice data associated to a fifth character box or a fifth cluster of multiple character boxes based on selection responses received.
US10198595B2	Data breach detection system The present disclosure deals with a system and a method to determine if an unauthorized user is attempting to access securely stored data. A user enters and stores sensitive data on a user device using a first computing system. The first computing system gathers sensitive data from the user device and stores the data on a second computing system. If the first computing system detects a potential data breach when trying to access the securely stored data, the first computing system may request the user to enter a subset of the securely stored data to confirm that the user has access to the securely stored data. The second computing system verifies the subset against the securely stored data and the securely stored data is made accessible to the user. If the second computing system is unable to verify the subset the second computing system triggers an event.
US10198593B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method and program A medical information server is provided. The medical information server includes a medical information unit configured to determine a diagnose authority to an information terminal thereby allowing a diagnosis by the information terminal to be identified by the diagnose authority. An information terminal and a diagnostic information processing system are also provided.
US10198586B1	Provisioning of digital media files to resident media devices in controlled-environment facilities A controlled-environment facility local or remote content server downloads and caches a digital media file and determines whether a resident of the facility is allowed access to the digital media file. This determination may be made by the content server accessing a controlled-environment facility administration system. In response to a determination that the resident is allowed access, the digital media file is streamed and/or downloaded, from the content server, within a portion of the facility, to a controlled-environment facility resident media device adapted and/or approved for use by residents of the controlled-environment facility and disposed within the aforementioned portion of the facility. The streaming and/or downloading may be carried out, at least in part, via a wireless access point disposed within the portion of the controlled-environment facility to provide access by the resident media device disposed within the portion of the controlled-environment facility.
US10198584B2	Non-malleable obfuscator for sparse functions Described is a system for obfuscating a computer program. Sensitive data of an unprotected computer program is received as input. A random oracle is used to algebraically hide a set of polynomial-size point functions representing the sensitive data. The system outputs a set of obfuscated instructions internally hiding the sensitive data. The set of obfuscated instructions are used to transform the unprotected computer program into a protected, obfuscated computer program that is accepting of the set of polynomial-size point functions. The obfuscated computer program is written to a non-volatile computer-readable medium.
US10198582B2	Method and apparatus for data security analysis of data flows A method and apparatus useful for data risk monitoring and management includes configuration and analysis of data flows to identify and assess risk and compliance to various regulatory standards and business practices. The evaluation of monitored data flows are then further used to identify potential security risks based on deviation from expected flows or compliant handling methods.
US10198575B2	Auto-sandboxing website or parts of website in browser to protect user privacy and security Methods and devices for processing web content are disclosed. The method may include receiving a webpage with a browser and parsing the webpage with the browser to obtain subcomponents from the webpage. The browser identifies whether there is an indication that one or more subcomponents of the webpage are potentially malicious, and when there is an indication that the one or more subcomponents of the webpage are malicious, the browser loads the one or more of the subcomponents of the webpage in an auto-sandbox instance for isolated execution by the browser.
US10198568B2	Terminal and method for releasing locking state of terminal Disclosed embodiments relate to a terminal having improved security and a method of releasing a locked state of a terminal. There is provided a terminal, including an input unit configured to receive dragging; a storage unit configured to store a password pattern; a control unit configured to compare the received dragging with the password pattern and release a locked state of the terminal according to the comparison result; and an output unit configured to display at least a part of a user interface including at least two markers arranged in a grid, wherein the user interface includes a first marker and a second marker, and the password pattern includes movement from the first marker to the second marker and movement from the second marker to the first marker.
US10198565B2	System and method for candidate profile screening This disclosure relates generally to screening candidate profile, and more particularly to system and method for screening candidate profile. In one embodiment, the method includes dividing a candidate profile into a plurality of subset-profiles having subset-profile information of attributes of the candidate profile. The subset-profile information is mapped with target-profile information of a plurality of targets to identify a set of targets capable of screening the subset-profile information. Queries are provisioned to the set of targets for performing screening, and responses to queries are received from therefrom. An aggregated weightage associated with the responses is computed based at least on an extent of matching of the responses and a confidence score associated with each target of the set of targets. The aggregated weightage is compared with a threshold value of weightage to identify the subset-profile information as one of a valid information and an invalid information.
US10198564B2	Image processing apparatus and method, including user authentication, and storage medium An image processing apparatus which is capable of realizing security improvements without degrading the usability. A user is authenticated, and an operation screen accepting an operation input from the user is displayed. A job is executed according to an instruction of the user authenticated by the user authenticating unit. It is determined whether or not the job of which execution is instructed by the user, is being executed when the user authenticating unit authenticates the user. A first operation screen through which the user inputs an instruction for the job in execution is displayed when the job executing unit is executing the job, of which execution is instructed by the user, whereas another operation screen through which another user inputs an instruction for another job is displayed when not.
US10198558B2	Data source security cluster Methods, systems, and computer program for implementing data source security cluster are provided. Security tokens may be generated for a plurality of data sources. Clients may request a security token from each data source. The client may send the security tokens and a data query to a federation engine. The federation engine may generate a plurality of sub-queries from the query. The federation engine may match a sub-query and particular security token to a data source. The federation engine may validate each security token and send, to each data source, the matching sub-query for that data source. Each data source may send a result to a sub-query to the federation engine, which may join all of the results into a virtual view.
US10198556B2	Medicament compilation and dispensation system The invention relates to a medicament dispensing device and system. In particular, the invention relates to a system having multiple containers capable of dispensing multiple medicaments. A center dispensing mechanism then actuates the containers release tray based on prscribed computer controlled settings.
US10198554B2	Automated cloud image processing and routing Example systems, methods and computer program products for cloud-based, anatomy-specific identification, processing and routing of image data in a cloud infrastructure are disclosed. An example method includes evaluating, automatically by a particularly programmed processor in a cloud infrastructure, image data to identify an anatomy in the image data. The example method includes processing, automatically by the processor, the image data based on a processing algorithm determined by the processor based on the anatomy identified in the image data. The example method also includes routing, automatically by the processor, the image data to a data consumer based on a routing strategy determined by the processor based on the anatomy identified in the image data. The example method includes generating, automatically by the processor based on the processing and routing, at least one of a push of the image data and a notification of availability of the image data.
US10198551B1	Clock cell library selection Systems, methods, media, and other such embodiments described herein relate to trimming cell lists prior to generation of a routing tree for a circuit design. One embodiment involves accessing a cell library including cell data and a cell list for a plurality of cells. Specialized delay cells are removed from the cell list, and remaining cells are analyzed to identify a set of cell characteristics. Cells are then trimmed from the cell list based on comparisons between the cell characteristics of the remaining cells. If certain cells are sufficiently similar, secondary characteristics can be used to further trim the cell list. The trimmed cell list can then be used to generate a routing tree for the circuit design according to associated design criteria.
US10198550B2	SRAF insertion with artificial neural network Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method including: identifying a target feature in an integrated circuit (IC) layout not represented in a library, the library including a plurality of sub-resolution assist feature (SRAF) usefulness maps corresponding to a plurality of features and SRAFs in the IC layout; generating a usefulness map for the target feature with an artificial neural network (ANN), the generating being based on the target feature and the plurality of SRAF usefulness maps in the library; adding the target feature and the generated usefulness map to the library; selecting an SRAF insertion site for the target feature based on the generated usefulness map; and inserting an SRAF for the target feature into the IC layout at the selected SRAF insertion site.
US10198547B2	Support apparatus, design support method, program, and memory medium A design support apparatus for designing a circuit board includes an index indicator configured to obtain an index indicating a degree by which a section of a differential signal line pair, which satisfies a design reference, is occupied in an entire part of the differential signal line pair, and display the index on a display.
US10198546B2	Assist pattern arrangement method and recording medium In an assist pattern arrangement method according to an embodiment, a plurality of patterns, in which an assist pattern is to be arranged, are extracted from a design pattern that is prepared in advance. Then, a resolution map of the extracted pattern is calculated. The resolution map includes a first pattern that increases a resolution of the pattern and a second pattern that decreases the resolution of the pattern. After the resolution map is calculated, a plurality of calculated resolution maps are added. Then, the assist pattern is arranged on the design pattern on the basis of the addition result.
US10198544B2	Method for improving OpenCL hardware execution efficiency A method for improving OpenCL hardware execution efficiency described in this invention comprises the following steps: compiling a kernel implemented in OpenCL, generating Verilog code with a high-level synthesis tool; analyzing the interfaces of auto-generated Verilog code, recording signals, timing sequence, and function of the interfaces; manually modifying and optimizing the Verilog code; inserting a file replacement command in the script responsible for flow control, replacing the auto-generated code with the optimized Verilog code; rerunning OpenCL compiler and generating an ultimate FPGA configuration file. The invention makes manual optimization of the auto-generated Verilog code becomes possible, by parsing the compilation flow of OpenCL environment and analyzing the structure and interfaces of the auto-generated Verilog code. It promotes the performance of kernels, by increasing working frequency, achieving more parallelism and taking full advantages of FPGA hardware resources, and improves the execution efficiency of OpenCL on FPGA platform significantly.
US10198541B2	Circuit modeling system and circuit modeling method based on net list simplification technique A circuit modeling system includes a store a first net list. The first net list includes a plurality of semiconductor devices, a first power distribution network (PDN) connected to the plurality of semiconductor devices, and a signal network connected to the plurality of semiconductor devices that transmits signals to the plurality of semiconductor devices. A circuit simulation unit is configured to identify first semiconductor devices and second semiconductor devices from among the plurality of semiconductor devices. The first semiconductor devices are activated by receiving a signal through the signal network, and the second semiconductor devices are inactive. The circuit simulation unit is configured to reduce the first PDN to a second PDN based on the identified first semiconductor devices, and to generate a second net list including the signal network, the second PDN, and the first semiconductor devices.
US10198540B1	System and method for profiling during an electronic design simulation The present disclosure relates to a computer-implemented method for electronic design simulation using a profiler. The method may include simulating, using a computing device, an electronic design associated with a programming language. The method may further include recording a first time corresponding to a first user-defined point in the simulation. The method may also include recording a second time corresponding to a second user-defined point in the simulation. The method may further include determining a difference in time between the first and second times and displaying a visualization including at least one of the first time, the second time, a value of a variable at the first time, a value of the variable at a second time, and the difference in time.
US10198539B1	Systems and methods for dynamic RTL monitors in emulation systems Systems, methods, and products implementing a dynamic register transfer level (DRTL) monitor are disclosed. The DRTL monitor may be rapidly constructed and implemented in one or more emulator devices during the runtime of the emulation of a device under test (DUT). The systems may receive monitor modules and corresponding monitor instances in high level hardware description language and compile the monitor modules and instances to generate a monitor within the one or more emulator devices. The systems may then connect one or more input ports of the monitor to one or more signal sources in the DUT. The systems may further allow removal of the monitor, addition or more monitors, and/or modification of the monitor during the run time of the emulation of the DUT.
US10198536B2	Simulation system, method for carrying out a simulation, control system, and computer program product A simulation system in particular for a control system which controls a process running in a technical system is provided. The control system has at least one first process environment embodied as a container and which is also designed to simulate the automatic process to be run in the system and includes corresponding interfaces to the guidance system. The simulation system includes, in addition to the first process environment, a second process environment embodied as a container for simulating the hardware of the periphery of the guidance system and a third process environment embodied as a container for simulating the process to be run in the technical system. In another embodiment, all process environments can also be combined to form one process environment. In both variations, the interfaces of the first process environment and the interfaces of the second process environment are practically identical to the interfaces of the third process environment. A method for carrying out a simulation, a corresponding control system, and computer program product are also provided.
US10198535B2	Methods and systems for machine-learning based simulation of flow There is provided a method for modeling a hydrocarbon reservoir that includes generating a reservoir model comprising a plurality of sub regions. At least one of the sub regions is simulated using a training simulation to obtain a set of training parameters comprising state variables and boundary conditions of the at least one sub region. A machine learning algorithm is used to approximate, based on the set of training parameters, an inverse operator of a matrix equation that provides a solution to fluid flow through a porous media. The hydrocarbon reservoir can be simulated using the inverse operator approximated for the at least one sub region. The method also includes generating a data representation of a physical hydrocarbon reservoir can be generated in a non-transitory, computer-readable, medium based, at least in part, on the results of the simulation.
US10198529B2	Apparatus and method of processing graphic data using index based triangle listing The present invention is related to an index-based processing apparatus and method for listing triangles in massive graphs. The present invention provides an index join based triangle listing algorithm by presenting the new notions of vertex range index and potential cone vertex index. Also the present invention provides accessing indexed data asynchronously and joining them to list triangles using a multi-threaded parallel processing technique.
US10198527B2	Graphical user interface machine to present a window Within a graphical user interface, a window may be spawned at one point in time and then populated with content at a later point in time. By execution of browser-executable code by a user's device and corresponding server-side code by a machine, a pop-under window may be spawned by the user's device. The spawned pop-under window may be initially hidden by the user's browser window and may be initially loaded with no content or default content. The device may monitor the graphical user interface for search criteria submitted by the user and update the spawned pop-under window based on such search criteria. If the user exits the webpage, and if rules allow presentation of a pop-under window, the pop-under window may be updated by the device for presentation to the user. Based on interest or lack of interest in the updated content, the user may revisit the website.
US10198526B2	Intelligence centers Disclosed herein, among other things, is a system comprising a content repository, a communication portal developer, a content manager, and an analytic engine. The content repository is adapted to store electronic content in a computer-readable storage medium. The communication portal developer includes at least one wizard to create a plurality of customizable portals without coding software. Each customizable portal is accessible to one or more selected visitors through a web browser. The content manager is adapted to publish selectable electronic content to selectable portals. The content manager includes at least one wizard to populate and manage the electronic content within the content repository. The analytic engine analyzes electronic content use and visitor behavior while logged into their customizable portal. In various embodiments, the analytics are provided in real time or near real time. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US10198523B2	Utilizing server pre-processing to deploy renditions of electronic documents in a computer network Embodiments are provided for utilizing server pre-processing to deploy static renditions of electronic documents in a computer network. An electronic document may be published from a client computer to a first server computer in the computer network. During publication, the first server computer may create a static rendition of the electronic document and a viewing application for viewing the static rendition of the electronic document on the client computer. The first server computer may store the static rendition of the electronic document and the viewing application on a second server computer for delivery to the client computer. Other embodiments may also include receiving, at the first server computer, a request to make revisions to the electronic document and sending a dynamic version of the electronic document from the first server computer to the client for making the revisions to the electronic document.
US10198521B2	Processing ambiguous search requests in a geographic information system Interactive geographic information systems (GIS) and techniques are disclosed that provide users with a greater degree of flexibility, utility, and information. A markup language is provided that facilitates communication between servers and clients of the interactive GIS, which enables a number of GIS features, such as network links (time-based and/or view-dependent dynamic data layers), ground overlays, screen overlays, placemarks, 3D models, and stylized GIS elements, such as geometry, icons, description balloons, polygons, and labels in the viewer by which the user sees the target area. Also, “virtual tours” of user-defined paths in the context of distributed geospatial visualization is enabled. Streaming and interactive visualization of filled polygon data are also enabled thereby allowing buildings and other such features to be provided in 3D. Also, techniques for enabling ambiguous search requests in a GIS are provided.
US10198519B2	Method and system for performing bi-directional search When a user enters a primary search query into a primary search query input area to perform a first search of the primary search query, disclosed is a method and system for automatically entering the primary search query into a secondary search query input area to perform a second search of the primary search query. When the user enters a secondary search query into the secondary search query input area to perform a first search of the secondary search query, the method and system automatically enters the secondary search query into the primary search query input area to perform a second search of the secondary search query.
US10198516B2	Real-time and adaptive data mining A method of analyzing data is presented. The method includes generating a query based on a topic of interest, expanding search terms of the query, executing the query on one or more data sources, monitoring a specific data source selected from the one or more data sources. The monitoring is performed to monitor for matches to the query.
US10198512B2	Search relevance using past searchers' reputation Techniques for improving search relevance using past searchers' reputation are described. According to various embodiments, a specification of a search query term corresponding to a skill is received from a searcher, in connection with a search for members of an online social networking service having the skill. Thereafter, a list of search results is generated and displayed based on the search query term, each of the search results corresponding to a member of the online social networking service. A subsequent interaction between the searcher and a specific member corresponding to one of the search results is detected. A skill reputation score associated with the searcher and the skill is then accessed. Thereafter, a search relevance score associated with the specific member and the skill is modified based on the skill reputation score associated with the searcher and the skill.
US10198505B2	Personalized experience scores based on measurements of affective response This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer program products that may be used to provide crowd-based scores for experiences, which are computed based on measurements of affective response of multiple users who had the experiences. The measurements of affective response may be collected using a wide array of sensors that measure physiological signals and/or behavioral cues. Additionally, the scores may be personalized for a certain user based on similarities between a profile of the certain user and profiles of the multiple users.
US10198504B2	Terms for query expansion using unstructured data A processor determines a set of terms frequently occurring within unstructured data associated with criteria of a query. The processor analyzes the unstructured data to match a term of the set of terms, to criteria of the query. Matching terms are retained and unmatched terms are checked for semantic similarity to terms of the criteria to determine an inferred match of the term of the unstructured data to terms of the criteria of the query. In response to determining an inferred match, the inferred match term is added to the second set of terms, and the processor compares the second set of terms to the terms of the criteria of the query, and removes matching terms, resulting in a third set of terms added to the set of criteria terms of the query. The additional query terms will enhance the recall without diluting the precision.
US10198501B2	Optimizing retrieval of data related to temporal based queries A computer-implemented method generates a candidate answer triple for use in retrieving information used to answer a question. One or more processors parse a question to identify a lexical answer type for the question, a question action for the question, and a question timestamp for the question to make up a question triple. One or more processors retrieve multiple candidate passages for answering the question, and parse each of the multiple candidate passages to identify a candidate entity, a candidate action, and a candidate timestamp from each of the multiple candidate passages to generate a candidate answer triple. One or more processors compare the question triple to the candidate answer triple and establish a match score for each candidate answer triple, which is used in retrieving information used to answer the question.
US10198496B2	System, method and computer program product for applying a public tag to information In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for applying a public tag to information. These mechanisms and methods for applying a public tag to information may enable embodiments to allow a user to apply a public tag to the information once. Further, applying a public tag to information may enable users with access to the information an ability to view the public tag applied to the information by the user.
US10198486B2	Recommendation filtering based on common interests A method, system, and article of manufacture comprising tabulating, for a plurality of users making recommendations, information including respective user interests and recommendations, storing the tabulated information in a database, responsive to a query from a client machine, the query seeking a recommendation from a user having a particular user interest, filtering the stored tabulated information to determine recommendations from users having the particular user interest, and presenting the recommendations to the client machine. Also included is a community of parents who are registered on one site to find on other sites products that they are curious about or want to give feedback on, and then collect those items and share insights or request guidance from at least some of the individual parents in the community.
US10198483B2	Classification engine for identifying business hours Aspects of the subject technology relate to methods and systems for classifying businesses according to an open-hours classification category, for example, based on resource consumption data. In some implementations, methods of the subject technology include steps for receiving a plurality of operating hours categories, wherein each of the operating hours categories is associated with at least one usage profile, and receiving business information for an unclassified business, wherein the business information comprises resource consumption data for the unclassified business. In some aspects, methods of the subject technology can further include steps for determining if the unclassified business should be associated with one of the operating hours categories based on the resource consumption data for the unclassified business. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US10198482B2	Ranking of address book contacts based on social proximity In one embodiment, a user of a social networking system requests to look up an address book maintained by the social networking system. The social networking system improves the look up search results by ranking one or more contacts in the address book based on social graph, social relationship and communication history information.
US10198478B2	Methods and systems for technology analysis and mapping Systems and methods for cladistics-based content searching, analysis, and diagrammatic representation of results; the importing of patent claims, parsing of the claims into their elements and sub-elements, semantically analyzing the claims sub-elements to determine the technology; semantically analyzing the database records to find matching technology content, displaying the matching technology content, and visually linking the matching technology content to relevant hierarchically-displayed elements and sub-elements.
US10198474B2	Delaying one or more searches to cause multiple searches to load and evaluate segments together The performance of a server can be improved by causing multiple searches to load segments of an index and search within them together. When multiple search requests are received and executed within a minimal time difference, the first search can be delayed to allow the second search—and possibly additional searches—to catch up so that the searches do not require loading segments multiple times.
US10198469B1	Computer data system data source refreshing using an update propagation graph having a merged join listener Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for data source refreshing using an update propagation graph having a merged join listener.
US10198466B2	Data store access permission system with interleaved application of deferred access control filters Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for a permissions system including relationships of partitioning, grouping, and the application of access control deferred filters.
US10198465B2	Computer data system current row position query language construct and array processing query language constructs Described are methods, systems and computer readable media for providing a current row position query language construct and array processing query language constructs and associated processing.
US10198464B2	Personal information platforms Various systems, mediums, and methods herein describe aspects of personal information platforms accessible with client devices over communication networks in data infrastructures. A system may determine data associated with a user. The system may determine a personal information platform (PIP) based on the data associated with the user, where the PIP is configured to identify a number of data types from the data associated with the user. The system may determine accesses for one or more entities to the number of data types based on one or more services provided by the one or more entities to the user. The system may cause a client device to display an indication of the PIP, where the indication provides the one or more accesses of the one or more entities.
US10198463B2	Methods and systems for appending data to large data volumes in a multi-tenant store In accordance with embodiments, there are provided mechanisms and methods for appending data to large data volumes in a multi-tenant store. These mechanisms and methods for appending data to large data volumes can enable embodiments to provide more reliable and faster maintenance of changing data. In an embodiment and by way of example, a method for appending data to large data volumes is provided. The method embodiment includes receiving new data for a database. The new data is written to a temporary log. The size of the log is compared to a threshold. Then the log is written to a data store, if the size of the log is greater than the threshold.
US10198462B2	Cache management Concepts and technologies are described herein for cache management. In accordance with the concepts and technologies disclosed herein, the server computer can be configured to communicate with a client device configured to execute a cache module to maintain a cache storing data downloaded from and/or uploaded to the server computer by the client device. The server computer can be configured to receive requests for data stored at the server computer. The server computer can be configured to respond to the request with hashes that correspond to the requested data. The client device can search the cache for the hashes, obtain the data from the cache if the hashes are found, and/or download the data from the server computer if the hashes are not found. The client device also can be configured to update the cache upon uploading the data to the server computer.
US10198455B2	Sampling-based deduplication estimation A method, including partitioning a dataset into a first number of data units, and selecting, based on a sampling ratio, a second number of the data units. A hash value is calculated for each of the selected data units, and a first histogram is computed indicating a first duplication count for each of the calculated hash values. Based on respective frequencies of the calculated hash values, a second histogram is computed indicating an observed frequency for each of the first duplication counts in the first histogram, and based on the sampling ratio and the second histogram, a target function is derived. A third histogram that minimizes the target function is derived, the third histogram including, for the first number of the storage units, second duplication counts and a respective predicted frequency for each of the second duplication counts. Finally, a deduplication ratio is determined based on the third histogram.
US10198454B2	Quality score compression for improving downstream genotyping accuracy This disclosure provides for a highly-efficient and scalable compression tool that compresses quality scores, preferably by capitalizing on sequence redundancy. In one embodiment, compression is achieved by smoothing a large fraction of quality score values based on k-mer neighborhood of their corresponding positions in read sequences. The approach exploits the intuition that any divergent base in a k-mer likely corresponds to either a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) or sequencing error; thus, a preferred approach is to only preserve quality scores for probable variant locations and compress quality scores of concordant bases, preferably by resetting them to a default value. By viewing individual read datasets through the lens of k-mer frequencies in a corpus of reads, the approach herein ensures that compression “lossiness” does not affect accuracy in a deleterious way.
US10198452B2	Document tracking for safe save operations Systems and methods are disclosed that track a document within a file system using document identifier (DOCID) that is preserved during safe save operations. The DOCID can be a universally unique identifier (UUID). The DOCID can be generated on a local file system or generated during a synchronization process with a remote synchronization service. Applications can opt in to document tracking. The kernel of the operating system can monitor file system operations on a per-application and per-thread basis and determine when a processing thread is about to perform a safe save. When a sequence of file system operations indicates that a safe save is to be performed, the kernel can generate and store a tombstone record that includes the DOCID and other metadata of the tracked document and pass the DOCID and metadata to the newly saved document.
US10198448B2	System and method for displaying social network analytics A system, device, and method may include a network interface device configured to be communicatively coupled to a user interface. An electronic data storage may be configured to store social network data related to users having accessed a social network content item A processor, coupled to the network interface device and the electronic data storage, may be configured to identify a relationship among at least some of the users, determine a relevance of the relationship to a member of the social network associated with the social network content item based, at least in part, on a social network profile of the member and social network profiles of the users, and cause the network interface device to display, on the user interface, information related to the relationship on the user interface based, at least in part, on the relevance.
US10198441B1	Real-time duplicate detection of videos in a massive video sharing system Systems and methods for identifying duplicate media items in a media system are provided. In particular, media content can be uploaded to a serve. The media content can be fingerprinted. A digest is generated based on the fingerprint. The digest is indexed and potential matching media items are identified. Matches are determined from the potential matching media items.
US10198439B2	Presenting translations of text depicted in images Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for presenting additional information for text depicted by an image. In one aspect, a method includes receiving an image. Text depicted in the image is identified. The identified text can be in one or more text blocks. A prominence presentation context is selected for the image based on the relative prominence of the one or more text blocks. Each prominence presentation context corresponds to a relative prominence of each text block in which text is presented within images. Each prominence presentation context has a corresponding user interface for presenting additional information related to the identified text depicted in the image. A user interface is identified that corresponds to the selected prominence presentation context. Additional information is presented for at least a portion of the text depicted in the image using the identified user interface.
US10198436B1	Highlighting key portions of text within a document Highlighting key portions of text within a document is described. A document having text is obtained, and key portions of the document are determined using summarization techniques. Key portion data indicative of the key portions is generated and maintained for output to generate a highlighted document in which highlight overlays are displayed over or proximate the determined key portions of the text within the document. In one or more implementations, reader interactions with the highlighted document are monitored to generate reader feedback data. The reader feedback data may then be combined with the output of the summarization techniques in order to adjust the determined key portions. In some cases, the reader feedback data may also be used to improve the summarization techniques.
US10198434B2	Detection and labeling of conversational actions Technical solutions are described for generating structured conversational data. An example method includes receiving an utterance that is part of a conversation and identifying the utterance as part of an adjacency pair. The adjacency pair includes two utterances, each produced by different speakers. The method also includes associating the utterance with a label from a predetermined set of labels based on the identifying of the adjacency pair.
US10198432B2	Aspect-based sentiment analysis and report generation using machine learning methods Systems and methods for aspect-based sentiment analysis using machine learning methods. An example method comprises: receiving, by a computer system, a custom dictionary comprising a list of lexemes referencing at least one of: a target entity or an aspect associated with the target entity; performing, using the custom dictionary, a syntactico-semantic analysis of at least part of a natural language text to produce a plurality of syntactico-semantic structures representing the part of the natural language text; evaluating, using one or more text characteristics produced by the syntactico-semantic analysis, a classifier function to determine polarities associated with one or more aspect terms; and generating a report comprising the aspect terms and polarities of aspects referenced by the aspect terms.
US10198430B2	Automated functional diagram generation A device may obtain a test script document. The device may process the test script document to perform term extraction using one or more term extraction techniques to identify a set of terms of the test script document. The one or more term extraction techniques may include a skip n-gram term extraction technique. One or more terms, of the set of terms, may be located within an n-gram of the test script document. The device may process the test script document to perform hierarchy formation for results of performing term extraction. A relationship between a set of terms, of the set of terms, may be identified using hierarchy formation. The device may generate a functional diagram of the test script document based on the results of performing term extraction and results of performing hierarchy formation. The device may provide information identifying the functional diagram.
US10198427B2	System and method for keyword spotting using representative dictionary Methods and systems for keyword spotting, i.e., for identifying textual phrases of interest in input data. In the embodiments described herein, the input data comprises communication packets exchanged in a communication network. The disclosed keyword spotting techniques can be used, for example, in applications such as Data Leakage Prevention (DLP), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) or Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), and spam e-mail detection. A keyword spotting system holds a dictionary of textual phrases for searching input data. In a communication analytics system, for example, the dictionary defines textual phrases to be located in communication packets—such as e-mail addresses or Uniform Resource Locators (URLs).
US10198423B2	Suggesting a set of operations applicable to a selected range of data in a spreadsheet A smart selection engine is provided. The smart selection engine may run in the context of a spreadsheet application on any device, service, or general endpoint capable of running the spreadsheet application. The smart selection engine reduces the cognitive load and complexity for performing spreadsheet operations by clearly presenting the user with easy to use and understand options that are big, simple, and lend themselves nicely to natural user interfaces, touch enabled devices, and devices with small displays as well as with graphical user interfaces, larger displays, and traditional input devices. By making contextually based suggestions, the smart selection engine reduces or eliminates the need for the user to be aware of the available operations or how to perform the operations. Further, the smart selection engine improves the consistency and efficiency of working with a spreadsheet.
US10198421B2	Method for inserting or deleting cells, rows or columns in spreadsheet and a device therefor Disclosed is a method for inserting or deleting cells, rows or columns in a spreadsheet, comprising: obtaining touch and click information on a touch screen; determining target cells or target rows or columns; obtaining moving information about a touch point on the touch screen; according to a preset logic for judging operation type, judging that the operation to be performed is an insertion operation or a deletion operation; and determining locations and number of cells, rows or columns to be inserted or deleted, and performing an insertion or deletion operation. In addition, also disclosed is a device for inserting or deleting cells, rows or columns in a spreadsheet, including: an information acquisition module, a target determination module, an operation type judgment module and an operation execution module. The method and device in the present invention can simplify the operation in a spreadsheet in a gesture identification manner, to quickly and visually insert or delete cells, rows or columns, and increase efficiency.
US10198418B2	Systems and methods for distributed electronic signature documents Systems and methods for distributed electronic signature documents. A method for distributed electronic signature documents includes creating a signing template that contains information about how a signable document is to be signed. A signable document is created to be distributed to a signer for signing. The signable document is electronically transmitted to the signer. A message is sent using an activatable control in the signing document to a web signing server to invoke the signing process. A browser window is opened on a signer's computer in order to execute the signing process.
US10198415B2	Webform monitoring A system for monitoring the performance of the webform comprising: a detection module, an archive module, a database, an analysis module and intervention module, a help module, and a reporting module. The detection module detects user interactions with the webform. The archive module stores details of the detected user interactions in the database. The analysis module compares detected user interactions with templates stored in the database. The analysis module determines a performance indication for the detected interactions. In response to a negative performance indication, the intervention module categorizes the performance indication by identifying a negative ratings value and activates the help module, which can activate additional functionality on the webform and/or provide a connection to additional data or devices. The reporting module generates reports based upon the data stored in the database.
US10198414B2	Methods for optimizing interaction with a form in a website page and systems thereof A method, computer readable medium and system that optimizes interaction with a form of a website page includes retrieving with a web content optimization computing device an original website page with a form in response to a request from a requesting system. The web content optimization computing device stores at least the form of the original website page and adjusts at least one field control of the form to generate a simplified website page. The web content optimization computing device provides the simplified website page to the requesting system.
US10198411B2	Storing additional document information through change tracking Additional document information may be stored through change tracking. In some examples, an application, such as a document processing application, may allow collaborative creation and/or editing of a document. As individual collaborators enter new content or make changes to existing content, the new content and/or changes go through two phases. As an individual collaborator is editing, the change is temporary. The collaborator may decide not to integrate it to the document. The temporary content may become permanent or integrated through a save action (manual or automatic). In some examples, the temporary content may be shared with other collaborators through a scheme to indicate its status as temporary giving the collaborators a true collaboration experience.
US10198407B2	System and method for dynamic linking between graphic documents and comment data bases A method for dynamic linking between graphic documents and comment databases is described and includes entering a base graphic representation of a project in a computer system. The base graphic representation may be the conversion of a user supplied format graphic to a web support format graphic. A coordinate overlay grid of a coordinate overlay program may be linked to the base graphic representation for overlay positioning and display on the base graphic representation. The coordinate overlay program may have a notation subprogram linked to the coordinate overlay grid for a user to designate notation with an identifier relative to a distinct location of the base graphic representation on the coordinate overlay grid. A text or graphic comment data record may be entered in a comment data record referenced to an identifier and displayed using a computer cursor device and display to activate an identifier.
US10198406B2	Modifying native document comments in a preview A document preview system provides previews of a native document to client devices. The previews include comments associated with native objects in the native document. The document preview system identifies bounding areas in the preview associated with the native objects, which may be identified by the rendering markers applied to the native document prior to rendering. Using the bounding areas, the document preview system identifies comments for the native document and determines the location to display the comment using native objects associated with the comment. When a new comment is received from a user for a preview of a native document, the document preview system determines native objects for the new comment that match a user's selection for placing the new comment. The new comment is inserted with the native objects in the native document.
US10198405B2	Rule-based layout of changing information Displaying application output in a manner that is not predetermined by the application, nor by the display. The computing system associated with the display accesses a set of information output by an application and to be displayed on a display. However, rather than explicit instructions on how to display being received from the application itself, the computing system instead accesses a set of one or more display rules that are associated with the set of information. The computing system then uses the set of one or more display rules to determine how to layout the set of information on the display. If the set of information were to change, the rules may be reevaluated to determine how the new information should be laid out. If the associated set of display rules were to also changed, the reevaluation would occur thereby resulting in a potentially different layout on the display.
US10198403B2	Distributing content via content publishing platforms Content provider systems publish content via content publishing platforms. An online system is associated with multiple content publishing platforms. Each content publishing platform is associated with policies that determine whether a content item is acceptable for publishing via the content publishing platform. For example, the policy may specify dimensions of a media object of the content item, keywords that are unacceptable for publishing via the content publishing platform, and so on. The online system receives requests from content provider systems to publish content via a particular content publishing platform. The online system determines whether the content item is suitable for publishing via one or more other content publishing platforms. The online system determines whether the content provider system approves publishing content via any of the identified content publishing platforms. The online system may deliver the content item to all content publishing platforms approved by the content provider system.
US10198401B2	Max pooling in a matrix processing architecture In one embodiment, an apparatus comprises a multi-dimensional memory and a plurality of processing elements to perform a matrix operation, wherein the matrix operation comprises a max pooling operation on one or more matrix operands. The plurality of processing elements comprises one or more matrix processors, and the plurality of processing elements is configured to: receive matrix data from the multi-dimensional memory, wherein the matrix data is associated with the one or more matrix operands; extract the one or more matrix operands from the matrix data; perform the max pooling operation using the one or more matrix operands; and obtain a result of the max pooling operation.
US10198400B1	Data set selection using multi-source constraints A system for selecting an optimal data set from a plurality of candidate data sets based at least in part on a client data packet received through a web interface may include a web server that receives first data packets from a client device, and a cloud computing platform that receives the first data packets from the web server and validates the first data packets using information imported from a third-party computer system. The platform may also receive second data packets from a second third-party computer system, select candidate data sets from a collection of available data sets based on information that is descriptive of the user, and select at least one optimal data set from the candidate data sets based on a user priority. The optimal data set may include adjustable parameters with values that are set through the client device.
US10198399B1	Cryptographically secure machine learning Embodiments are directed towards classifying data. A machine learning (ML) engine may select an ML model that may employ a cryptographic multi-party computation (MPC) protocol based on model preferences, including a parameter model, provided by a client. A randomness engine may be employed to provide random values and other random values based on the MPC protocol such that the random values may be provided to the client and the other random values may be provided to an answer engine. Input values that correspond to fields in the parameter model may be provided by the client such that the input values may be based on the MPC protocol and the random values. The answer engine may be employed to provide partial results to the question based on the ML model, the input values, and the MPC protocol that may be provided to the client.
US10198395B2	Port multiplier system and operation method A port multiplier system is provided. The port multiplier system comprises a first port multiplier and a second port multiplier. The first port multiplier is configured to receive a plurality of first frame information structures from a host. Each of the first frame information structure corresponds to a first port multiplier port number. The first port multiplier sends the first frame information structures that correspond to the first port multiplier port numbers, respectively, to a first downstream port of the first port multiplier according to first port multiplier port number. The second port multiplier is configured to send the first frame information structures that are sent to the first downstream port to a plurality of second downstream ports of the second port multiplier, respectively. An operation method is also provided.
US10198392B2	Peripheral device, host device, and processing method There is provided a peripheral device including a multi-pole plug inserted into a jack of a jack device, the jack device including the jack, a conversion unit that converts a physical amount into an electrical signal or converts an electrical signal into a physical amount, a detection unit that detects whether the jack device is a corresponding device capable of handling multiplexed data obtained by multiplexing the electrical signal input and output to and from the conversion unit, a transmission and reception processing unit that transmits or receives the multiplexed data via a predetermined terminal of the multi-pole plug when the jack device is a corresponding device, and a function switching unit that performs assignment of an electrical function of a terminal other than the predetermined terminal of the multi-pole plug.
US10198386B2	Connectors for audio data transfer This application relates to methods and apparatus for transfer of data between a host device (400) and a peripheral device (300) via a USB Type-C connector (100; 304) of the host device. A data controller is described that has a path controller (309, 310; 706) for establishing signal paths between circuitry of the host device and contacts (101) of said USB Type-C connector. The path controller is operable in at least first and second modes. In the first mode the path controller establishes separate signal paths to each of at least first, second, third and fourth contacts (A6, A7, B6, B7) of the USB Type-C connector and a plurality of the established signal paths are for transfer of analog audio data. In the second mode the path controller establishes a pair of signal paths to only a subset of said first to fourth contacts to provide a differential digital data path.
US10198385B2	System and method for detecting types of storage drives connected to backplane controller or enclosure management controller Systems and methods for detecting types of storage drives connected to a controller, which performs backplane or enclosure management. The controller has multiple pins, which includes N analog pins, such as the PRSNT# pins. Each of the N analog pins is electrically connected to a corresponding detecting circuits. Further, 2N storage drives may be connected to and controlled by the controller in a way such that each analog pin may be connected to two storage drives via a corresponding detecting circuit for detecting a drive type of each storage drive. Each storage drive may be a SATA/SAS storage drive, or a NVMe storage drive. In operation, the controller receives a voltage from each of the N analog pins, and determines the drive type of each of the two of the 2N storage drives based on the voltage received from each of the N analog pins.
US10198380B1	Direct memory access data movement A method of applying a data format in a direct memory access transfer is provided. The method includes distributing user data throughout a plurality of storage nodes through erasure coding, wherein the plurality of storage nodes are housed within a single chassis that couples the storage nodes as a cluster, each of the plurality of storage nodes having nonvolatile solid-state memory for user data storage. The method includes reading a self-describing data portion from a first memory of the nonvolatile solid-state memory and extracting a destination from the self-describing data portion. The method includes writing data, from the self-describing data portion, to a second memory of the nonvolatile solid-state memory according to the destination.
US10198379B2	Early identification in transactional buffered memory A sequence of read returns are to be sent to a host device over a transactional buffered memory interface, where the sequence includes at least a first read return to a first read request and a second read return to a second read request. A tracker identifier of the second read return is encoded in the first read return and the first read return is sent with the tracker identifier of the second read return to the host device. The second read return is sent to the host device after the first read return is sent.
US10198375B2	Synchronization processing unit, device, and system Disclosed are a synchronization processing unit etc. including a command determination unit that determines whether the memory access command is a command for synchronization processing; a completion determination unit that determines whether a memory access command is complete; an issuance unit configured to issue a memory access command determined not to be for the synchronization processing to the memory, and that suspends issuance of a memory access command determined to be for the synchronization processing until completion of a preceding memory access command received before the memory access command for the synchronization processing is determined and then issues the suspended memory access command; and a subsequent control unit that, during a period from the suspension of the memory access command to the issuance and then completion thereof, performs control so that a subsequent memory access command is not received from the external device and the processor in the device.
US10198373B2	Uniform memory access architecture Disclosed aspects relate to a computer system having a plurality of processor chips and a plurality of memory buffer chips and a methodology for operating the computer system. The memory buffer chips may be communicatively coupled to at least one memory module which can be configured for storing memory lines and assigned to the memory buffer chip. The processor chips can include a cache configured for caching memory lines. The processor chips may be communicatively coupled to the memory buffer chips via a memory-buffer-chip-specific bidirectional serial point-to-point communication connection. The processor chips can be configured for transferring memory lines between the cache of the processor chip and the memory modules via the respective memory-buffer-chip-specific bidirectional serial point-to-point communication connection.
US10198365B2	Information processing system, method and medium An information processing system includes: a shared memory including a plurality of regions comprising first region and second region; a memory token storing unit configured to store memory tokens, each of the memory tokens controlling access to a region of the shared memory; an access token storing unit configured to store access tokens for accessing a specific region of the shared memory, the access tokens including first access token to access the first region and second access token to access the second region; a processor configured to add the access tokens to a request for accessing the first region and transmit the request including the added access tokens; and a determination circuit configured to receive the transmitted request including the added access tokens, compare the added access tokens with a memory token corresponding to the first region, and control access to the first region based on the comparison.
US10198362B2	Reducing bandwidth consumption when performing free memory list cache maintenance in compressed memory schemes of processor-based systems Reducing bandwidth consumption when performing free memory list cache maintenance in compressed memory schemes of processor-based systems is disclosed. In this regard, a memory system including a compression circuit is provided. The compression circuit includes a compress circuit that is configured to cache free memory lists using free memory list caches comprising a plurality of buffers. When a number of pointers cached within the free memory list cache falls below a low threshold value, an empty buffer of the plurality of buffers is refilled from a system memory. In some aspects, when a number of pointers of the free memory list cache exceeds a high threshold value, a full buffer of the free memory list cache is emptied to the system memory. In this manner, memory access operations for emptying and refilling the free memory list cache may be minimized.
US10198354B2	Apparatus, system, and method to flush modified data from a volatile memory to a persistent second memory Provided are an apparatus, system, and method to flush modified data from a first memory to a persistent second memory. A first memory controller coupled to the first memory includes at least one RAS controller to read a range of addresses in the first memory. In response to receiving a command from the power control unit, the at least one RAS controller is invoked to read data from at least one range of addresses specified for the RAS controller from the first memory. A second memory controller transfers data read from the first memory determined to be modified to the second memory. The first memory controller sends a signal to the power control unit to indicate that the modified data in the range of addresses specified for the RAS controller was flushed to the second memory in response to the RAS controller completing reading the range of addresses.
US10198353B2	Device and method for implementing save operation of persistent memory An information handling system includes a first memory module having a volatile memory, a non-volatile memory, and a save controller configured to execute a save operation that transfers at least all modified information of the volatile memory to the nonvolatile memory. A power-down controller of the information handling system is connected to the first memory module, and includes a first input to receive a first indicator that indicates the first memory module is to perform the save operation, a second input to receive a second indicator that indicates a thermal characteristic of the system, and control circuitry to provide the save operation indicator to the first memory module to initiate the save operation in response to receiving the first indicator.
US10198349B2	Programming in-memory accelerators to improve the efficiency of datacenter operations Systems, apparatuses, and methods for utilizing in-memory accelerators to perform data conversion operations are disclosed. A system includes one or more main processors coupled to one or more memory modules. Each memory module includes one or more memory devices coupled to a processing in memory (PIM) device. The main processors are configured to generate an executable for a PIM device to accelerate data conversion tasks of data stored in the local memory devices. In one embodiment, the system detects a read request for data stored in a given memory module. In order to process the read request, the system determines that a conversion from a first format to a second format is required. In response to detecting the read request, the given memory module's PIM device performs the conversion of the data from the first format to the second format and then provides the data to a consumer application.
US10198341B2	Parallel replay of executable code Embodiments herein are directed to parallel replay of code execution. An embodiment parses trace data comprising a plurality of trace data streams that each represents execution of a corresponding one of a plurality of executable entities, and identifies a plurality of trace sections that each represents one or more events executed by one of the executable entities over a period of time. The embodiment defines an ordering among the trace sections, identifies a point of interest in at least one of the executable entities, and identifies a subset of the trace sections that, when replayed linearly according to the ordering, would encounter the point of interest. The embodiment queues the subset of trace sections in an execution pool for replay by one or more processors. Then, based on the trace data, the embodiment uses the processor(s) to replay two or more of the subset of trace sections in parallel.
US10198340B2	Application performance monitoring Various techniques associated with application performance monitoring are disclosed. In some embodiments, a subset of application methods is configured to capture response time metrics, and response time metrics for a prescribed application transaction are computed by summing corresponding response time metrics of methods of the subset that are executed during each transaction invocation. Method and transaction response time metrics are collected for each of a plurality of observation intervals, and the collected response time metrics are analyzed to identify anomalous method and transaction states. Co-occurring anomalous transaction and method states are correlated to identify a set of hotspot methods for the transaction, wherein hotspot methods comprise expected root causes for anomalies of the transaction.
US10198335B2	Detecting root causes of use-after-free memory errors Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for detecting the root cause in use-after-free (UAF) memory corruption errors. A method includes an operation for tracking access to memory by a program to detect access to memory not allocated by the program. The method further includes operations for tracking allocations and deallocations of memory by the program, and for storing, in response to detecting a deallocation of memory by the program, at least part of a state of a program stack at a time of the deallocation of memory. Further, the method includes an operation for detecting, after the deallocation, access by the program to the memory associated with the deallocation of memory. In response to the detecting, the state of the program stack is saved in permanent storage at the time of the deallocation.
US10198334B2	Method for monitoring the operation of a component A method for monitoring the operation of a component includes receiving a stream of data samples, wherein each data sample represents a value of a physical parameter of the component, identifying local extrema of the stream of data samples, storing information relating to each local extremum in a respective position of a fixed size buffer, and upon the presence of a cycle formed between two matching endpoints represented by two local maxima or two local minima: i) deleting at least one of the local extrema corresponding to the endpoints of the cycle from the buffer, and ii) storing information related to the cycle in a memory such that the information stored in the memory represents the operation of the component. When the buffer is full such that each position of the buffer contains information relating to a unique local extrema, the method further includes the steps of: i) deleting the information relating to the oldest local extrema from the buffer, ii) calculating a pseudo cycle formed between two endpoints of which one endpoint is represented by the deleted oldest local extrema, and iii) storing information related to the calculated pseudo cycle in the memory.
US10198332B2	System on chip integrity verification method and system Methods and systems for checking the integrity of a system on chip (SOC) are described. The SOC can include a controller and one or more registers. Register value(s) from the register(s) can be obtained at a first time to generate a first set of register values. Process(es) of the SOC are executed at a second time after the first time. Register values can again be obtained from the registers at a third time after the second time to generate a second set of register values. The first set of register values can be compared with the second set of register values. Based on the comparison, an operating mode of the SOC can be adjusted. The SOC integrity verification system and method can be used in safety and/or monitoring application(s), such as ASIL applications. For example, the system and method can be used in partial or fully autonomous (self-driving) automotive systems.
US10198330B2	Configuring disaster recovery for a cloud based application In one respect, there is provided a method. The method can include: determining that a second instance of the cloud-based application is deployed at a second cloud platform landscape; replicating, at a second database at the second cloud platform landscape, at least a portion of data from a first database at the first cloud platform landscape, the data from the first database being associated with the first instance of the cloud-based application; and configuring a domain name system (DNS) service to include a primary universal resource locator (URL) for the first instance of the cloud-based application and a secondary URL for the second instance of the cloud-based application, the primary URL and the secondary URL both being associated with a custom domain of the cloud-based application. Related systems and articles of manufacture are also disclosed.
US10198327B1	Method and system for performing group recovery from a recovery source to multiple recovery targets A method for recovering data from one or more storage systems for a group recovery. In response to receiving a request for the group recovery, the method implemented at a backup server identifies a group recovery resource based on the request, where the group recovery resource includes one or more recovery item lists. The backup server traverses the one or more recovery item lists of the group recovery resource to determine a source recovery storage system, target recovery storage systems, and one or more data items to be recovered to each of the target recovery storage systems. The backup server then initiates one or more recovery sessions to recover the one or more data items from the source recovery storage systems to the recovery target storage systems substantially concurrently.
US10198326B2	Intelligent restoration of a computing device In some implementations, a system can intelligently restore data to a user's computing device. For example, the system can prioritize data to be restored to a user device based on the data that the user is most likely to use. The system can restore high priority data items first while delaying restoration of low priority data items. The system can control when data restoration is performed based on device conditions. For example, the device conditions can include how much of an energy budget and/or data budget remains for downloading data to the user device. The device conditions can include the thermal condition (e.g., how hot) of the user device. If device conditions do not allow for downloading data at a particular time, then the device can delay downloading data until the device conditions allow for downloading and/or restoring the data.
US10198323B2	Method and system for implementing consistency groups with virtual machines Disclosed is an approach for implementing disaster recovery for virtual machines. Consistency groups are implemented for virtual machines, where the consistency group link together two or more VMs. The consistency group includes any set of VMs which need to be managed on a consistent basis in the event of a disaster recovery scenario.
US10198319B1	Computation refinement storage in a data storage system A storage manager may be used to perform a coding operation (e.g., an encoding operation or a decoding operation) on a data object using a refined version of a coding matrix in a storage system, such as an object-redundant storage system. The coding operation may include identifying a coding matrix for the data object and retrieving a refined version of the identified coding matrix from a data store of pre-refined coding matrices. The refined version of the coding matrix may identify two or more computations to be performed as part of the coding operation, where the two or more computations have common terms and operations. The coding operation may include determining one or more precomputed results of the two or more identified computations. The precomputed results may be used instead of performing the computations when performing the coding operation.
US10198317B1	Computation refinement in a data storage system A storage manager may be used to perform a refinement operation on a coding matrix as part of a coding operation (e.g., an encoding operation or a decoding operation) in a storage system, such as an object-redundant storage system. The refinement operation may include identifying a plurality of computations to be performed as part of the coding operation, where the plurality of computations have common terms and operations. The refinement operation may include refining a coding matrix associated with the coding operation based on the identified computations and precomputing the identified computations. The precomputed computations may be used instead of performing the computations when performing the coding operation.
US10198316B2	Systems and methods for efficient flash memory access Embodiments are related to systems and methods for data storage, and more particularly to systems and methods for storing and accessing data from a flash memory.
US10198315B2	Non-volatile memory with corruption recovery A non-volatile storage system is provided that includes a mechanism to restore data that has been corrupted beyond the limits of traditional error correction. The system creates first level parity information for each subset of data to form multiple sets of programmable data, with each set of programmable data including a subset of data and corresponding first level parity. Separate second level parity is created for each set of programmable data. The system creates combined second level parity information based on a function of separate second level parity information for the multiple sets of programmable data. If a set of programmable data is found to be corrupt, the corrupt subset of data is recovered using the corrupt subset of data read from the non-volatile storage system, the corresponding first level parity read from the non-volatile storage system and the combined second level parity information.
US10198312B2	Synchronizing replicas with media errors in distributed storage systems Systems and techniques are described for transferring data. A described technique includes receiving a request to transmit a data block from a first data storage device to a second data storage device. An attempt to read the data block from the first data storage device is made. A media error resulting from the attempt to read the data block from the first data storage device is detected. In response to detecting the media error, a new data block is generated and includes mismatched checksum data that causes a checksum mismatched error when the new data block is accessed. The new data block is transmitted for storage at the second data storage device in place of the data block.
US10198310B1	Providing error correcting code (ECC) capability for memory A method includes, in at least one aspect, designating a first region of a memory device for storing data of a first type and first error correcting code (ECC) data; designating a second region for storing data of a second type and second ECC data; receiving the data of the first type; generating the first ECC data for the data of the first type using a first ECC associated with a first ECC protection level; storing the data of the first type and the first ECC data in adjacent locations of the first region; receiving the data of the second type; generating the second ECC data for the data of the second type using a second ECC associated with a second ECC protection level; and storing the data of the second type and the second ECC data in the second region.
US10198309B2	Unexpected event detection during execution of an application A computer-implemented method is provided. The method may include generating a state model for an application including a plurality of modeled stack traces generated via execution of a plurality of characterization scenarios of the application. The method may also include comparing each static data point in at least one stack trace generated during execution of the application to one or more modeled stack traces of the plurality of modeled stack traces of the state model. In addition, the method may include detecting, based on the comparison, at least one inconsistent event in the at least one stack trace generated during executing of the application. The method may further include performing at least one remedial action in response to detection of the at least one inconsistent event.
US10198305B2	Managing a storage device using a hybrid controller Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products for managing a storage device using a hybrid controller are provided where the storage device comprises an internal peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) interface to control solid state memory within the storage device. In particular embodiments, the storage device includes a first external interface configured to establish an external PCIe link and a second external interface configured to establish at least one of an external serial attached small computer system interface (SAS) link and an external serial advanced technology attachment (SATA) link. Embodiments include receiving from an external source, by the hybrid controller, a first command at the first external interface and a second command at the second external interface; and concurrently implementing, by the hybrid controller, the first command using a PCIe protocol and the second command using one of a SAS protocol and a SATA protocol.
US10198304B2	Targeted crash fixing on a client device Client devices having deployed an application may experience a crash of the application. For example, a first client device may experience a first crash having a first crash signature of the application. After experiencing the first crash, a first device identification of the first client device may be assigned to a first bucket designating one or more device identifications of client devices having experienced the first crash. Client devices having device identifications in the first bucket are provided with a first crash fix for the first crash, while a second client device is not provide with the first crash fix, where the application is deployed on the second client device and the second client device was not assigned to the first bucket.
US10198300B1	Thermal and power memory actions Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to managing volatile and non-volatile memory. A set of volatile memory sensor data may be obtained. A set of non-volatile memory sensor data may be obtained. The set of volatile memory sensor data and the set of non-volatile memory sensor data may be analyzed. A memory condition may be determined to exist based on the analysis. In response to determining that the memory condition exists, one or more memory actions may be issued.
US10198299B1	Enabling live migration of virtual machines with passthrough PCI devices Techniques for enabling live migration of VMs with passthrough PCI devices are provided. In one set of embodiments, a hypervisor of a host system can create a copy of a DMA buffer used by a VM of the host system and a passthrough PCI device of the VM. The hypervisor can further designate one of the DMA buffer or the copy of the DMA buffer as a vCPU buffer that is accessible by the VM, and designate the other of the DMA buffer or the copy of the DMA buffer as a device buffer that is accessible by the passthrough PCI device. The hypervisor can then synchronize the vCPU buffer and the device buffer with each other as the VM and passthrough PCI device interact with their respective buffers, and as part of the synchronization can intercept DMA work requests submitted by the VM/completed by the passthrough PCI device.
US10198294B2	Handling tenant requests in a system that uses hardware acceleration components A service mapping component (SMC) is described herein for processing requests by instances of tenant functionality that execute on software-driven host components (or some other components) in a data processing system. The SMC is configured to apply at least one rule to determine whether a service requested by an instance of tenant functionality is to be satisfied by at least one of: a local host component, a local hardware acceleration component which is locally coupled to the local host component, and/or at least one remote hardware acceleration component that is indirectly accessible to the local host component via the local hardware acceleration component. In performing its analysis, the SMC can take into account various factors, such as whether or not the service corresponds to a line-rate service, latency-related considerations, security-related considerations, and so on.
US10198280B2	Method and apparatus for hypervisor based monitoring of system interactions A security system and method efficiently monitors and secures a computer to defend against malicious intrusions, and includes an in-band software monitor disposed within a kernel in communication with an operating system (OS) of the computer. The monitor intercepts system calls made from an MSR (Model Specific Register), to execute monitoring operations, and subsequently returns execution to the OS. An out-of-band hypervisor communicably coupled to the OS, has read shadow means for trapping read requests to the MSR, and write mask means for trapping write requests to the MSR. The hypervisor includes means for responding to the trapped read and write requests so that presence of the monitor is obscured.
US10198279B2	Thread synchronization for platform neutrality A system performs thread synchronization across layers of code that implement an application, including native code, system code, and code in a virtual machine (“VM”). The system makes a call by the native code to the system code; and sends a message by the system code to the code in the VM. The system then sends a first response by the code in the VM to the system code; and sends a second response by the system code to the native code, where each one of the native code, the system code, and the code in the VM implements wait and notify functionality for communication with other codes that implement the application.
US10198276B2	Configuration of a frequency converter, frequency converter kit and method for configuring a frequency converter A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium has computer-readable data portions stored thereon, the data portions including configuration data items relating to configurable parameters of a frequency converter.
US10198273B2	Docking system A method of determining which of at least two connected mobile devices is to function as a host device, wherein the mobile devices first determine which of them is to act as an initial host device and which is to act as an initial peripheral device. The initial host device then receives instructions from a user as to which of the mobile devices is to be the host device. If the instructions indicate that the initial host device is to be the host device, the initial host device controls, as host device, the initial peripheral device as a peripheral device, and if the instructions indicate that the initial peripheral device is to be the host device, the initial host device passes control to the initial peripheral device to enable the initial peripheral device to control, as host device, the initial host device as a peripheral device.
US10198272B2	Firmware display of paired bluetooth status information during boot A firmware-based technique for retrieving and displaying status information from a paired Bluetooth™ device during a boot sequence for a computing platform is discussed. The retrieved status information for the paired device may be displayed in a text or graphical format.
US10198264B2	Sorting data and merging sorted data in an instruction set architecture A processing device includes a sorting module, which adds to each of a plurality of elements a position value of a corresponding position in a register rest resulting in a plurality of transformed elements in corresponding positions. The plurality of elements include a plurality of bits. The sorting module compares each of the plurality of transformed elements to itself and to one another. The sorting module also assigns one of an enabled or disabled indicator to each of the plurality of the transformed elements based on the comparison. The sorting module further counts a number of the enabled indicators assigned to each of the plurality of the transformed elements to generate a sorted sequence of the plurality of elements.
US10198263B2	Write nullification Apparatus and methods are disclosed for nullifying one or more registers identified in a target field of a nullification instruction. In some examples of the disclosed technology, an apparatus can include memory and one or more block-based processor cores configured to fetch and execute a plurality of instruction blocks. One of the cores can include a control unit configured, based at least in part on receiving a nullification instruction, to obtain a register identification of at least one of a plurality of registers, based on a target field of the nullification instruction. A write to the at least one register associated with the register identification is nullified. The nullification instruction is in a first instruction block of the plurality of instruction blocks. Based on the nullified write to the at least one register, a subsequent instruction is executed from a second, different instruction block.
US10198261B2	Flexible framework to support memory synchronization operations A method of performing memory synchronization operations is provided that includes receiving, at a programmable cache controller in communication with one or more caches, an instruction in a first language to perform a memory synchronization operation of synchronizing a plurality of instruction sequences executing on a processor, mapping the received instruction in the first language to one or more selected cache operations in a second language executable by the cache controller and executing the one or more cache operations to perform the memory synchronization operation. The method further comprises receiving a second mapping that provides mapping instructions to map the received instruction to one or more other cache operations, mapping the received instruction to one or more other cache operations and executing the one or more other cache operations to perform the memory synchronization operation.
US10198259B2	System and method for scheduling instructions in a multithread SIMD architecture with a fixed number of registers A method and apparatus for scheduling instructions of a shader program for a graphics processing unit (GPU) with a fixed number of registers. The method and apparatus include computing, via a processing unit (PU), a liveness-based register usage across all basic blocks in the shader program, computing, via the PU, the range of numbers of waves of a plurality of registers for the shader program, assessing the impact of available post-register allocation optimizations, computing, via the PU, the scoring data based on number of waves of the plurality of registers, and computing, via the PU, the number of waves for execution for the plurality of registers.
US10198254B2	Surfacing cross platform applications A utility application store may be configured to present an interface displaying multiple applications that are available from the utility application store. By accessing the interface of the utility application store, a utility supplier may, with a single request, initiate installation or activation of an application on multiple utility meters or other smart sensors in a utility communication network. The utility application store may be configured to provide notification of the availability of applications for utility meters or other smart sensors, consumer computing devices, and/or utility supplier back office computing devices. The utility application store may include one or more distributed applications that include a first portion configured for execution by a utility meter and one or more other portions configured for execution by another computing device (e.g., a personal computer, mobile device, utility supplier back office server, cloud service, or the like).
US10198252B2	Transformation chain application splitting The splitting of an application in response to detected environmental events (such as user input). Such splitting may be performed for purposes of sharing the application. The application is a transformation chain instance. From the detected environmental event(s), it is determined that a portion transformation chain class is to be created from the larger transformation chain class of the application. In response, the portion transformation chain class is created, instantiated and operated. A sharing mechanism may be used to allow the split portion of the application to be shared with other entities without losing control.
US10198251B2	Processor emulation using multiple translations Examples described herein emulate a processing architecture using multiple translations of the same source binary. A first translation binary includes compiler optimizations not present in a second translation binary. During runtime, a dispatcher directs control flow of a CPU when branch instructions are reached. Specifically, a dispatcher directs a CPU to execute instructions in the first translation binary, and accesses the second translation binary when an instruction is to a target that is not addressable in the first translation binary. The first and second translation binaries enable a target processing architecture to emulate a source processing architecture without just-in-time compilation or other runtime interpretation.
US10198250B1	Partitioning based migration of systems to container and microservice based platforms According to an example, partitioning based migration of systems to container and micro-service based-platforms may include determining, based on an analysis of source code for an application that is to be partitioned, an entity model corresponding to the application, identifying resources associated with the application, and determining a mapping of the identified resources to entities of the entity model. Further, partitioning based migration of systems to container and micro-service based-platforms may include identifying dependencies for each of the mapped resources, generating dependency and control flow metrics for the application, generating affinity values between the mapped resources, generating a resource affinity graph, determining an affinity score between each of the mapped resources, and generating resource clusters that correspond to partitions of the application.
US10198249B1	Accessing schema-free databases Accessing a schema-free database includes constructing a model indicating a structure for the data to be used by applications accessing the data, validating the model based on the structure and on the data stored in the schema-free database, providing an API based on the structure, and accessing the database using the API. The model may be constructed by extracting data structure information from a program. The program may be written in the Ruby programming language or the Python programming language. The API may be a RESTful API.
US10198248B2	Parallel processing of a single data buffer Technologies for executing a serial data processing algorithm on a single variable length data buffer includes streaming segments of the buffer into a data register, executing the algorithm on each of the segments in parallel, and combining the results of executing the algorithm on each of the segments to form the output of the serial data processing algorithm.
US10198247B2	Method, device and system for voice interaction The disclosure discloses a method, device and system for voice interaction, the method including: determining that an external device adopts Universal Serial Bus (USB) 2.0 standard for transmission and the external device supports a voice function; and conducting voice interaction with the external device by adopting customized MIC lines and SPK lines in a micro USB3.0-B female connector interface.
US10198246B2	Methods and apparatus for voice-activated control of an interactive display A method for controlling an interactive display is provided. The method receives a set of voice input data, via a voice input device communicatively coupled to the interactive display; interprets, by at least one processor, the set of voice input data to produce an interpreted result, wherein the at least one processor is communicatively coupled to the voice input device and the interactive display; presents, by the interactive display, a text representation of the interpreted result coupled to a user-controlled cursor; receives, by a user interface, a user input selection of a textual or graphical element presented by the interactive display, wherein the user interface is communicatively coupled to the at least one processor and the interactive display; and performs, by the at least one processor, an operation associated with the interpreted result and the user input selection.
US10198245B1	Determining hierarchical user interface controls during content playback Systems and methods are provided for determining user interface controls associated with hierarchical levels during media content playback. In some embodiments, instructions may be provided to display user interface controls associated with a level of media content, such as a chapter level. A change in the level of media content and/or the user interface controls associated with the level may be a response to a level change request. A level change request may be initiated by user input and/or may automatically be initiated by the current content playback position.
US10198241B2	Accessibility management system for media content items A system operates to manage accessibility of media content items based on a user's performance of a repetitive motion activity. The system can generate rule data based on a rule designed to permit access to certain media content items. The rule data can include information about various conditions to be satisfied to make the media content items accessible for playback. Such conditions can be associated with a user's performance or status of a repetitive motion activity.
US10198237B2	Display device and method of driving the same A display device and a method of driving the same are provided. The display device includes a drive circuit and at least two display units, the drive circuit drives one or at least two display units to display a required image.
US10198232B2	User interface based on system-state information A portable electronic device with a touch-sensitive display (such as a cellular telephone) provides a wireless remote control for an entertainment device (such as a consumer-electronic device). Based on device-state information that specifies a current state of the entertainment device (which is determined by an audio/video (A/V) hub that communicates with the entertainment device) and one or more related states of the entertainment device, the A/V hub may generate user-interface information that specifies a user interface that includes one or more virtual command icons. Note that the one or more related states are related to the current state in a state diagram by corresponding operations that transition the entertainment device from the current state to the one or more related states. Then, the A/V hub provides the user interface to the portable electronic device. In this way, the A/V hub device dynamically adapts the user interface.
US10198225B1	Printing using available account credits An interface device receives, from a client, an instruction to print an original print job, and a processor that is in communication with the interface, calculates an initial cost to print the original print job. A communications device transmits, to an accounting device, a printing account inquiry of the client; and, in response, the communications device receives a printing account balance of the client. The processor determines if the initial cost exceeds the printing account balance; and, if so, the processor calculates modifications to transform the original print job into a modified print job that has a modified cost (that is above zero) that is not greater than the printing account balance. In such a situation, the interface displays a message that the initial cost exceeds the account balance, but that the modified print job does not exceed the account balance, with an option to print the modified print job.
US10198221B2	Methods of operating semiconductor memory devices with selective write-back of data for error scrubbing and related devices A method of scrubbing errors from a semiconductor memory device including a memory cell array and an error correction circuit, can be provided by accessing a page of the memory cell array to provide a data that includes sub units that are separately writable to the page of memory and to provide parity data configured to detect and correct a bit error in the data and selectively enabling write-back of a selected sub unit of the data responsive to determining that the selected sub unit of data includes a correctable error upon access as part of an error scrubbing operation.
US10198213B2	Capturing snapshots of storage volumes A method and apparatus for capturing a snapshot of storage volumes of a data capture group are disclosed. In the method and apparatus, a request to create a data capture group may be received and processed. The data capture group may have one or more storage volumes. Upon defining the data capture group, a snapshot of the storage volumes of the data capture group may be taken.
US10198209B2	Memory storage recycling One embodiment provides a device, including a processor; a plurality of storage units operatively coupled to the processor; and a memory device that stores instructions executable by the processor to: determine a first storage unit from the plurality of storage units; select at least one second storage unit from among the remaining other storage units that comprises a parameter that satisfies a predetermined condition, the predetermined condition being related to the first storage unit; transfer data from at least one of the first and second storage units to at least one the remaining other first and second storage units; and delete data from said at least one of the first and second storage units from which the data was transferred. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US10198207B2	Memory system and method for mapping nonvolatile memories A memory system includes: a memory device including a plurality of pages which include a plurality of memory cells coupled to a plurality of word lines and in which data are stored, and a plurality of memory blocks in which the pages are included; and a controller including a memory, and suitable for storing data segments of user data corresponding to a write command received from a host, in pages included in a first memory block and a second memory block among the memory blocks and generating map data corresponding to storage of the data segments by sorting map segments of the map data according to logical informations of the data segments.
US10198205B1	Dynamically adjusting a number of storage devices utilized to simultaneously service write operations Dynamically adjusting a number of storage devices in a storage system that may be utilized to simultaneously service write operations, includes: limiting a number of storage devices within a failure domain that may be simultaneously servicing write operations to a number less than a number of storage devices that may be lost without resulting in a loss of data; determining that an event has occurred that requires additional write bandwidth; and responsive to determining that an event has occurred that requires additional write bandwidth, increasing the number of storage devices that may be simultaneously servicing write operations.
US10198203B2	Method of operating memory device using pseudo-random functions, memory device using the same and memory system including the device A memory system includes a table storing a plurality of entries, where each entry is associated with a different logical block address (LBA), a plurality of memory devices, channels, and ways, where each memory device is connected to one of the channels ways and to one of the ways, and a memory controller configured to receive an LBA and data from a host, execute a plurality of pseudo-random functions on the received LBA to generate a plurality of slot indexes, select one of the slot indexes, write the data to one of the memory devices identified by the selected one slot index, and update a corresponding one of the entries to include the selected one slot index.
US10198198B2	Storage device that stores setting values for operation thereof A storage device includes a volatile memory, a nonvolatile memory, an auxiliary power source, and a controller configured to start a setting process to store a setting value in the volatile memory in response to a setting command received from a host, and operate in accordance with one or more setting values stored in the volatile memory. When the controller determines that a main power supply will stop, power from the auxiliary power source starts to be primarily used, and the controller saves at least part of said one or more setting values stored in the volatile memory to the nonvolatile memory, before power supply from the auxiliary power source ends.
US10198197B2	Method and apparatus for flexible RAID in SSD A solid state drive (SSD) employing a redundant array of independent disks (RAID) scheme includes a flash memory chip, erasable blocks in the flash memory chip, and a flash controller. The erasable blocks are configured to store flash memory pages. The flash controller is operably coupled to the flash memory chip. The flash controller is also configured to organize certain of the flash memory pages into a RAID line group and to write RAID line group membership information to each of the flash memory pages in the RAID line group.
US10198192B2	Systems and methods for improving quality of service within hybrid storage systems The disclosed computer-implemented method for improving quality of service within hybrid storage systems may include (1) monitoring a performance measurement of a hybrid storage system that includes first and second types of storage devices that handle I/O throughput in connection with an application, (2) determining, based at least in part on the monitored performance measurement, an approximate amount of the I/O throughput handled by the first type of storage device over a period of time, (3) determining, based at least in part on the approximate amount of I/O throughput, a rate at which the application is allowed to deliver subsequent I/O throughput to the hybrid storage system over a subsequent period of time, and then (4) regulating, based at least in part on the rate, the subsequent I/O throughput in connection with the application over the subsequent period of time. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US10198191B2	Memory card and host device thereof A memory card is attached to a host device, and includes a data control circuit which transfers data with respect to the host device in synchronism with a rise edge and a fall edge of a clock signal.
US10198189B2	Data allocation among devices with different data rates An allocation instruction is received that includes a target data operand and a storage medium operand indicating a storage medium for storing the target data. A data dependency is identified that specifies metadata that includes access control information specifying which users have permission to perform a write operation to the file that includes the target data. In response to determining that the allocation instruction allocates the target data from a first storage medium to a second storage medium having a faster data IO rate, the allocation instruction is modified to also allocate the metadata specified in the data dependency to the second storage medium. In another aspect, the allocation instruction is modified to also allocate the metadata identified in the data dependencies to one or more storage mediums with data IO rates that are at least as fast as the second storage medium.
US10198187B1	Buffering device with status communication method for memory controller In an example, the present invention provides a memory interface device. The device has a command interface, address interface, and a control interface device coupled, respectively, to a command address bus, an address bus, and a control interface bus of a host memory controller. The device has a status signal interface configured to output a status signal coupled to the data interface bus of the host memory controller. In an example, the status signal is asserted in an absence of data asserted on the data interface bus.
US10198186B2	Systems, methods and computer program products memory space management for storage class memory Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method and computer program products for memory space management for storage class memory. One embodiment comprises a method for information storage in an information technology environment. The method comprises storing data in a storage class memory (SCM) space, and storing storage management metadata corresponding to said data, in the SCM in a first data structure. The method further includes buffering storage management metadata corresponding to said data, in a main memory in a second data structure.
US10198184B2	Resistance variable memory apparatus, and circuit and method for operating therefor A resistance variable memory apparatus may include a memory circuit configured to include a plurality of blocks, each including a plurality of memory cells. The resistance variable memory apparatus may include a disturbance preventing circuit configured to be driven based on a counting signal corresponding to the number of write access for each of the plurality of blocks, a write command, and an address signal and to allow scrubbing to be performed on a memory cell having a preset scrubbing condition when the counting signal satisfied with the scrubbing condition is output based on the scribing condition according to a physical position of the memory cell in the block.
US10198183B2	Tunneling of storage operations between storage nodes Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for data storage systems are provided herein. In one example, a data storage system is provided that includes at least one storage drive and at least one processing module coupled over a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) fabric. The data storage system includes a first processing module in a first storage assembly configured to receive a storage operation for a storage drive managed by a second processing module in a second storage assembly. The first processing module is configured to identify the second processing module as managing the storage drive associated with the storage operation and responsively transfer the storage operation over a tunneled network connection for handling by the second processing module of the second storage assembly.
US10198180B2	Method and apparatus for managing storage device A storage management method and a storage management apparatus are provided. In some embodiments, the method includes: detecting, during a preset length of time, a writing amount per time unit of service data of a target network service in a target storage; retrieving a correspondence relationship between the writing amount per time unit and an amount of a redundant storage, wherein the relationship indicates the amount of the redundant storage increases with the increasing of the writing amount per time unit; determining a first amount of the redundant storage corresponding to the first writing amount per time unit according to the correspondence relationship; and configuring the redundant storage for the target network service in accordance with the first amount of the redundant storage.
US10198175B2	Information processing apparatus for recognizing an inputted character based on coordinate data series An information processing apparatus comprising a coordinate input unit for inputting coordinate data series, a recognition unit for recognizing a character based on the coordinate data series inputted, and a page/note management unit for managing a data aggregate of the character recognized as a page, receiving a search condition from a user, and managing one or more page aggregates hit by the condition as notes.
US10198173B2	User input An apparatus, method and computer program product are caused at least to perform: controlling a touch sensitive display to display a first graphical item at a first position and a second graphical item at a second position, the second graphical item being separated from the first graphical item by a first distance; detecting a first user digit at the first position and a second user digit at the second position; reducing the first distance by moving at least one of the first and second graphical items across the touch sensitive display, in response to detecting movement, across the touch sensitive display, of at least one of the first and second user digits; and controlling the touch sensitive display to display a third graphical item, after determining the first distance has been reduced such that the first graphical item is proximate the second graphical item.
US10198168B2	Mobile terminal and operation control method thereof A mobile terminal provides a guide and feedback for a lock release operation to implement a gesture for a lock release operation at an arbitrary location and in various directions. A method of releasing a user interface lock state in a mobile terminal having a touch sensing display according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include setting the mobile terminal to a user interface lock state; detecting a contact with the touch sensing display at an arbitrary location on the touch sensing display; displaying a lock release region corresponding to the arbitrary location while maintaining a contact with the touch sensing display; displaying the movement of the contact in the lock release region; and switching the mobile terminal into a user interface lock release state when the movement of the contact in the lock release region satisfies a predetermined condition.
US10198166B2	Slide bar display control device and slide bar display control method The slide bar display control device according to the present invention includes, a display means which indicates a first slide bar including a first slider and a first bar, an input means which can select an arbitrary part of the first slide bar shown on the display means based on touch operation, and a control means which controls the display means and the input means, wherein, when the control means detects that a first operation has been performed in a state that the first slider shown on the display means is being touched in the input means, the display means indicates a second slide bar including a second slider and a second bar, and wherein the second slider is a slider different in a variation amount of a set value per unit moving distance from the first slider.
US10198165B2	System and method of mapping medical image of single heart chamber A system of mapping a cardiac image of single heart chamber and a method thereof are disclosed. In the system and method thereof, one heart chamber (such as a left atrium, a left ventricular, a right atrium, right ventricular or aortic structure) can be selected in a 3D-based cardiac image (such as a CT or MRI image), and slices of the selected heart chamber are reconstructed and unwrapped by a 2D mapping visual display manner. The visual display and required angle alignment planes for subsequent analysis will be adjusted and achieved by operator manually, with specific global and regional architectural analysis performed by automatic algorithm.
US10198164B1	Triggering location selector interface by continuous zooming Systems and methods for displaying imagery of a geographic area are provided. More particularly, a location selector interface element can be displayed in conjunction with the imagery when a continuous zoom event is detected. In response to the continuous zoom event, the location selector interface element can be displayed in conjunction with, for instance, a zoom interface for zooming the imagery. The location selector interface element can include a plurality of geographic labels. Each geographic label can be associated with a different zoom level of the imagery. Each geographic label can provide a description of a geographic area corresponding to the zoom level associated with the geographic label. A user can interact with the location selector interface element to select a desired zoom level for viewing the imagery. In response to the user interaction, the imagery can be zoomed to the zoom level corresponding to the selected geographic label.
US10198163B2	Electronic device and controlling method and program therefor An electronic device includes an input detection unit that detects a contact operation or a proximity operation made by a user; a display unit that includes a first display region displaying a first image showing a position where a first operation is received; and a control unit that changes display mode of the first display region based on a second operation when the input detection unit detects the second operation and that has a second image displayed in a second display region where a third operation is received.
US10198159B2	Multi-context sensor data collection, integration, and presentation A data integration system accesses a time series database and an asset relational database. The asset relational database is comprised of a plurality of asset nodes related in a hierarchical structure. Each asset node may represent a physical asset in an industrial setting. The data integration system displays a graphical representation of the hierarchical structure of the asset relational database, receives user input selecting an asset node from the hierarchical structure, and displays a hierarchical search template based on the selected asset node. The data integration system searches the asset relational database for matching asset nodes and retrieves corresponding time series data from the time series database. The data integration system generates a report from the retrieved data.
US10198157B2	System and method for controlling technical processes In a method and a system for improving a user's experience with a graphical user interface corresponding to a gaming or simulation environment on an electronic device, the interface renders multiple graphical objects and user selectable options corresponding to the graphical object. The user selects one or more selectable option, and performs a touching or a swiping operation through multiple points on the display screen. The touching or swiping operation leads to deploying of multiple resources corresponding to the selected option, at different locations on the interface. For controlling the different deployed resources, the user can swipe through different regions of the display screen. The number of resources deployed at the different locations on the screen depends on certain parameters, including the pressure applied by the user on the screen. Results of the simulation can be employed to control real technical systems, for example for food production.
US10198150B2	Cross database data selection and correlation interface A method of cross database selection and correlation may include receiving an indication that a first graphical object representing a first dataset has been dragged onto a second graphical object representing a second dataset on a dashboard page of a graphical user interface (GUI). The method may further include sending the first and second dataset to a server and receiving a third dataset, based on a combination of the first and second datasets, and one or more options to define the third dataset.The method may include providing, for display on a second page of the GUI, a third graphical object representing the third dataset and one or more graphical objects representing the options associated with the third dataset. The method may further include receiving an indication that the third graphical object should be finalized, and providing the third graphical object for display on the dashboard page of the GUI.
US10198148B2	Radial menu user interface with entry point maintenance Embodiments provide circular or radial menu features that may be used in conjunction with various application and devices/systems. A device of an embodiment includes a radial menu interface configured to display primary menu items in response to a first user interaction and display secondary menu items in response to actuation of an associated primary menu item, wherein the display of secondary menu items includes a simultaneous display of a selected primary menu item. A method of an embodiment operates in part by displaying a plurality of first level menu items in response to a first user interaction and displaying a plurality of second level menu items in response to actuation of a displayed first level menu item, wherein the display of the plurality of second level menu items includes animating the display of the plurality of second level menu items with respect to the displayed first level menu item.
US10198146B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and recording medium There is provided an information processing apparatus including an image acquisition part configured to acquire an image captured by an imaging part, and a display controller configured to cause a virtual object to be displayed in accordance with a recognition result of a real object shown in the image. The display controller controls the virtual object on a basis of a size of the real object in a real space.
US10198145B2	Interchangeable display of information panels on a dashboard Interchangeable display of information panels on a Dashboard screen of a dashboard in a transportation apparatus is disclosed. The information panels may be graphically displayed at respective positions on the Dashboard screen such that they are separate and independent from each other. In some examples, the display position of a given information panel may be swapped with the display position of another given information panel on the Dashboard screen. In some examples, the display the given information panel may be duplicated at another display position on the Dashboard screen. In some examples, the display the given information panel may be moved to a new display position on the Dashboard screen.
US10198142B1	Multi-server control panel Some embodiments of the invention provide a graphical user interface for receiving a server configuration (e.g., receiving a new configuration or a modification to an existing configuration). The graphical user interface (UI) includes several UI control elements for defining components of the server configuration. It also includes a display area for displaying graphical representations of the defined components of the server configuration. Examples of control elements in some embodiments include control elements for adding, deleting, and modifying servers. In some embodiments, at least one control element is displayed when a cursor control operation is performed on the UI. The cursor control operation (e.g., a right hand click operation) in some embodiments opens a display area that shows the control element. In some embodiments, at least two different components in the server configuration correspond to two different layers (e.g., a web server layer and a data storage layer) in the server configuration. The display area of some embodiments includes multiple tiers, where each tier is for displaying graphical representation of components in a particular layer of the server configuration. At least two tiers in some embodiments are displayed simultaneously in the display area.
US10198141B2	Location-based services A system and method for managing location-based information associated with the oil and gas industry. The system, in one embodiment, comprises a computing device connected to a location-based service, wherein the location-based information comprises energy operations data which is associated with a specific geographic location, and wherein the computing device is associated with a graphical map interface. The graphical map interface is configured to display location based information. The graphical map interface can also be configured to display an indication of the frequency of an event. The location based information can be associated with a geofence.
US10198137B2	Touch sensing device and display device including the same A touch sensing device and a display device for improving hovering performance including: a touch sensing display panel including sense electrodes arranged in a matrix; and a sensing signal controller connected to the touch sensing display panel. The sense electrode includes a metal mesh electrode and a conductive layer contacting the metal mesh electrode.
US10198135B2	Touch circuit, touch panel and display apparatus There are provided a touch circuit, a touch panel and a display apparatus. The touch circuit comprises: an input module (1), a reset module (2), a pull-up module (3), a pull-down module (4), a pull-down control module (5) and a touch signal output module (6), wherein the input module is configured to provide a signal of the first reference signal terminal to the first node; the reset module is configured to provide a signal of the second reference signal terminal to the first node; the pull-up module is configured to provide a signal of the first clock signal terminal to the control signal output terminal; the pull-down module is configured to provide a signal of the third reference signal terminal to the control signal output terminal; the pull-down control module is configured to ensure a potential of only one node of the first node and the second node is a first potential at a same moment; the touch signal output module is configured to output a high frequency signal or a common voltage signal to a touch signal output terminal under the control of the control signal output terminal. The touch circuit, the touch panel and the display apparatus have a simple structure, and relatively low power consumption.
US10198129B2	Input device, image forming apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable medium An input device includes multiple operators disposed in a visible state on an operation surface, a protrusion protruding from the operation surface, and a detector that detects an input of an operation performed on each of the operators when a detection position of an input object is included in a detection range set for each operator. The multiple operators include a first operator disposed near the protrusion and a second operator disposed at a position farther away from the protrusion than the first operator. An extension amount by which the detection range for the first operator is extended in a direction away from the protrusion from a visible position of the first operator is set to be larger than an extension amount by which the detection range for the second operator is extended in the direction away from the protrusion.
US10198122B2	System, device, and method of estimating force applied to a touch surface Devices, systems, and methods of determining or estimating a level of force or pressure, that is applied by a user to a touch surface of an electronic device or an electronic system. A touch-screen or touch-pad or other touch-sensitive surface, measures or senses a size of a touch-spot that is engaged by a fingertip of the user; and further tracks and records the changes over time in the size of such touch-spot. Based on analysis of the changes of the size of the touch-spot over time, the touch surface or an associated driver or module determines or estimates the level of force or pressure that was applied by the user, or assigns a touch-force value or class.
US10198120B2	Touch window and display with the same Disclosed is a touch window including a substrate including a first region in which a touch is sensed and a second region provided at an edge of the first region, a sensing electrode to sense a touch position of the first region, and a wire connected with the sensing electrode. The wire includes comprises a first wire part provided in the first region and a second wire part provided in the second region.
US10198117B2	Display device A display device includes a display panel, a touch panel control unit, a plurality of scanning electrodes formed on the display panel, a plurality of detection electrodes formed on the display panel so as to intersect with the plurality of scanning electrodes, a drive signal supply unit for inputting a drive signal to each of the scanning electrodes, and a detection unit for detecting a detection signal from each of the detection electrodes. The touch panel control unit supplies the driving signal to each of the scanning electrodes from the drive signal supply unit to enable detection of a touch position of a detection object based on the detection signal detected, and supplies the driving signal to all of the scanning electrodes collectively from the drive signal supply unit to enable detection of approach of the detection object to the touch panel based on the detection signal detected.
US10198114B2	Touch sensing circuit and control method thereof for high resolution fingerprint recognition A touch sensing circuit and its control method is disclosed herein. The touch sensing circuit includes a plurality of detecting units. The detecting units are arranged in an array, in which each detecting unit includes a sensing pad, a first switch and a second switch. The first switch is configured to selectively conduct the sensing pad and one of a plurality of signal lines. The second switch is configured to selectively conduct two adjacent sensing pads. When the first switches in a first row in the array are on, the sensing pads in the first row are configured to output detecting signals to the signal lines according to a driving signal, and the second switches in a second row adjacent to the first row are on to conduct the sensing pads in the second row to receive and transmit the driving signal together.
US10198111B2	Touch control apparatus having an electronically conductive structure with a peripheral electrically conductive region An electrically conductive structure comprising: a plurality of first electrically conductive lines; a plurality of second electrically conductive lines, crossed with the first electrically conductive lines, wherein at least one of the second electrically conductive line further comprises a second protruding part protruding from the second electrically conductive lines; and a first peripheral electrically conductive region, overlapped with a part of at least one of the first electrically conductive line, and comprises a first containing region configured to contain the second protruding part. A display apparatus and a capacitance touch control apparatus applying the electrically conductive structure are also disclosed.
US10198108B2	Concurrent signal detection for touch and hover sensing Detecting a signal from a touch and hover sensing device, in which the signal can be indicative of concurrent touch events and/or hover events, is disclosed. A touch event can indicate an object touching the device. A hover event can indicate an object hovering over the device. The touch and hover sensing device can ensure that a desired hover event is not masked by an incidental touch event, e.g., a hand holding the device, by compensating for the touch event in the detected signal that represents both events. Conversely, when both a hover event and a touch event are desired, the touch and hover sensing device can ensure that both events are detected by adjusting the device sensors and/or the detected signal. The touch and hover sensing device can also detect concurrent hover events by identifying multiple peaks in the detected signal, each peak corresponding to a position of a hovering object.
US10198107B2	Terminal device and control method therefor Disclosed is a terminal device. The terminal device includes a haptic unit for providing a haptic effect by changing at least one of frequency, strength, wavelength, and rhythm, an input unit for receiving information corresponding to an emotional state, and a controller for controlling the haptic unit so that a haptic effect of the emotional state corresponding to the received information is provided to a user.
US10198099B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method, and computer program An information processing apparatus may include a control unit to control processing on an operation object, where an operation right of the operation object is given to a user, displayed on a display unit based on detection of a user from at least one information signal input to the apparatus from outside of the apparatus.
US10198097B2	Detecting touch input force Detecting a touch input force is disclosed. A signal to be used to propagate a propagating signal through a propagating medium with a surface is sent. The propagating signal that has been disturbed by a touch input with an amount of force on the surface is received. The received signal is processed to determine an identifier associated with the amount of force.
US10198095B2	Laser spot detecting and locating system and method thereof The present invention mainly discloses a laser spot detecting and locating system for use in a computer projection system, mainly comprising: a video recorder and a detecting module. The video recorder is used to capture a projected image provided on a projection screen by a projector and a laser spot provided on the projection screen by a laser pointer. Thus, during commercial presentation or classroom teaching, presentation processes and contents of a presenter and moving traces of the laser spot would be simultaneously recorded by the video recorder. Furthermore, by immediately converting the coordinate of the laser spot to a screen coordinate in a displayed image of a host computer, a mouse cursor can be simultaneously moved to the corresponding screen coordinate with the motion of the laser spot.
US10198094B1	Active stylus Apparatus for determining user operation of an actuator, based on determining a time constant of a state circuit coupled to the actuator.
US10198092B2	Electronic device including electronic pen and method for recognizing insertion of the electronic pen therein According to various exemplary embodiments, there may be provided an electronic device including a housing having a first side and an opposite second side, a display disposed between the first side and the second side, an ElectroMagnetic Resonance (EMR) sensor pad disposed between the display and the second side, a pen placing space disposed between the first side and the second side to accommodate an electronic pen, and a detecting member disposed in vicinity of the electronic pen for detecting the electronic pen when the electronic pen is fully inserted into the pen placing space.
US10198087B2	Mouse with translating module A computer mouse with a translating module is disclosed. According to certain embodiments, the computer mouse is designed to work with different types of translating modules depending on the application that the user wishes to use or the types of tasks that the user would like to perform with the help of the computer mouse. According to certain embodiments, the translating module on the computer mouse can be adjusted based on a given user's hand characteristics and/or based on the ease of use of the computer mouse as determined by a given user.
US10198086B2	Dynamically balanced, multi-degrees-of-freedom hand controller A controller is capable of controlling an asset or target in physical and/or virtual three-dimensional space using a single hand by generating control inputs in four or more degrees of freedom while also limiting cross-coupling (unintended motions). The controller includes a first control member is configured to be gripped in a user's single, second control member is disposed on or near a top end of the first member movable with at least one degree of freedom independently of the movement of the first control member, and a third control member positioned on the first member for displacement by one or more digits of the user's single hand and coupled with the second member to move in opposition to movement of the second control member.
US10198082B2	Position input device and position input method A position input device includes a coordinate system setting unit that uses position and orientation of the head of an operator in a first coordinate system to set a second coordinate system in a space including the operator, where a position on the face of the operator is designated as an origin, a transformation matrix calculation unit that calculates a transformation matrix from the first to the second coordinate system, a transformation matrix update unit that updates the transformation matrix according to a result obtained by transforming a coordinate indicating a position of the fingertip of the operator in the first coordinate system with the transformation matrix, and an indication straight line calculation unit that calculates a straight line passing through the origin of the second coordinate system and the position of the fingertip based on the transformation matrix and the position of the fingertip in the first coordinate system.
US10198080B1	Virtual user interface A virtual user interface is provided which may be used in conjunction with furniture such as shelves, tables, carts, and so forth. The furniture itself may have no active input/output mechanisms such as processors or onboard sensors. Visual output for the user interface may be projected from an overhead projector onto a plurality of projection surfaces on the furniture. Input, such as a user gesturing towards or touching the projected location of a control element, may be detected remotely.
US10198076B2	Method and system for providing adjunct sensory information to a user A method for providing information to a user, the method including: receiving an input signal from a sensing device associated with a sensory modality of the user; generating a preprocessed signal upon preprocessing the input signal with a set of preprocessing operations; extracting a set of features from the preprocessed signal; processing the set of features with a neural network system; mapping outputs of the neural network system to a device domain associated with a device including a distribution of haptic actuators in proximity to the user; and at the distribution of haptic actuators, cooperatively producing a haptic output representative of at least a portion of the input signal, thereby providing information to the user.
US10198075B2	Operation apparatus An imaging apparatus including an imaging unit, an index determining unit, a predetermined image detecting unit, and a notification unit. The imaging unit has a preset imaging range and which images a target within the imaging range. The index determining unit determines whether an image of a particular index image has intruded into the imaging range. The predetermined image detecting unit detects a predetermined image part within the imaging range. The notification unit notifies that the index determining unit determines that the index image overlaps the predetermined image part. The predetermined image detecting unit is configured to determine a change direction of a changed part of image information and a no-change direction, and the notification unit notifies in accordance with the relation between a change direction of the index image and a change direction of image information.
US10198073B2	Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for providing feedback during interaction with an intensity-sensitive button An electronic device: displays a home button configuration user interface with a plurality of different tactile output settings for the home button. While displaying the home button configuration user interface, the device detects selection of a respective tactile output setting. In response to detecting a first input of a first type on the home button (while the respective tactile output setting is selected), the device determines whether the respective tactile output setting is a first or a second tactile output setting for the home button. If the respective tactile output setting is the first tactile output setting, the device provides a first tactile output without dismissing the home button configuration user interface. If the respective tactile output setting is the second tactile output setting, the device provides a second tactile output without dismissing the home button configuration user interface.
US10198069B2	Natural human-computer interaction for virtual personal assistant systems Technologies for natural language interactions with virtual personal assistant systems include a computing device configured to capture audio input, distort the audio input to produce a number of distorted audio variations, and perform speech recognition on the audio input and the distorted audio variants. The computing device selects a result from a large number of potential speech recognition results based on contextual information. The computing device may measure a user's engagement level by using an eye tracking sensor to determine whether the user is visually focused on an avatar rendered by the virtual personal assistant. The avatar may be rendered in a disengaged state, a ready state, or an engaged state based on the user engagement level. The avatar may be rendered as semitransparent in the disengaged state, and the transparency may be reduced in the ready state or the engaged state. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10198068B2	Blink detection, tracking, and stimulation Systems and methods are disclosed for blink detection, tracking, and stimulation. In one implementation, a device can include a sensor configured to receive an input, the input corresponding to perceiving one or more blinks of an eye of a user. The input can be processed to determine a blink rate or an elapsed time interval since a blink of the user. Based on the blink rate or the elapsed time interval, a blink stimulation action directed to the user can be initiated.
US10198065B2	Selecting a low power state based on cache flush latency determination In an embodiment, a processor includes a plurality of cores to independently execute instructions, a shared cache coupled to the cores and including a plurality of lines to store data, and a power controller including a low power control logic to calculate a flush latency to flush the shared cache based on a state of the plurality of lines. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10198063B1	Average power saving modes and power architecture for read channel product A power regulation system for a read channel of a data storage assembly includes a first voltage regulator for supplying power to the front-end decoder and a second voltage regulator for supplying power to the back-end codec. The second voltage regulator may conserve power reduce supply voltage to the back-end codec when the codec operates at a lower sampling frequency. The second voltage regulator may additionally increase supply voltage to the back-end codec in conjunction with an increase in sampling frequency. The system may additionally include a third voltage regulator for supplying a memory structure of the read channel with only the minimum required operating voltage to prevent leakage power.
US10198061B2	Storage and storage system According to one embodiment, a storage includes a nonvolatile memory and a controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory. The storage is supplied with first power from a power supply unit. The controller is configured to change power supplied from the power supply unit from the first power to second power based on a power control command transmitted from a host. The power control command includes a first parameter identifying the storage and a second parameter indicative of the second power.
US10198059B2	Adaptive doze to hibernate Adaptive doze to hibernate scheme techniques are described for power management of a computing device. Rather than relying upon a fixed timer to control device power states, the adaptive doze to hibernate scheme monitors various hibernate parameters and adapts the hibernation experience in dependence upon the parameters. The hibernate parameters may include but are not limited to a standby budget, minimum standby time, reserve screen on time, and indications of user presence. In operation, a power manager monitors battery drain rate and adaptively determines when to change the device power states of the computing device based on the observed drain rate and the hibernate parameters. The power manager may selectively switch between various states (e.g., high performance, active, wake, standby, hibernate, off, etc.) accordingly.
US10198057B2	Electronic device and method for measuring position change An operating method of an electronic device is provided. The method includes determining, by a first processor using at least one sensor, whether a state change occurs, if it is determined that there is the state change, determining, by the first processor, whether to transmit state information to a second processor, and determining, by the second processor, whether to measure a changed position at each of set periods using a position measuring module on the basis of whether the state information is received.
US10198056B2	Flexible power support redundancy busway system A busway system enables multiple interchangeable power support redundancies to be provided to electrical loads. The busway system includes multiple busways extending through an aisle space, where some busways carry power from separate primary power sources, and one or more busways carry power from a secondary power source. Busways are coupled to loads to provide power support directly to the loads, indirectly via devices that distribute power to the loads via branch circuits, etc. The power support redundancy provided to a load is established based at least in part upon which busways are coupled to the load, and power support redundancies can be changed by changing the couplings of particular busways with the loads. The busways can extend through the aisle space in a staggered configuration to enable load balancing between busways by restricting loads in certain regions of the aisle space to coupling with certain busways and not others.
US10198055B2	Method and system for powering multiple computer platforms in symmetric configuration Techniques pertaining to powering multiple platforms with a minimum impact on air passage in a predefined environment are disclosed. Instead of connecting each of the platforms in a chassis to a power supply therein, embodiments of the present invention uses what is referred to as cascading powering to power all platforms within minimum cable delivery. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a motherboard is disposed between two power supply units that are used to power the motherboard. The motherboard has power connectors located towards or near the power supply units so that only short cables are needed to power the platform.
US10198051B2	Programmable logic controller having dual power supply devices and output adjustment circuit To make a replacement time difference between two power supply devices as small as possible when the two power supply devices serving as double power supply devices constitute a PLC, a power supply unit includes a temperature detection unit that detects an internal temperature of the own power supply unit, and an output adjustment circuit that adjusts internal power output from the own power supply unit so as to make smaller a difference between a detected temperature by the temperature detection unit of the own power supply unit and a detected temperature by the temperature detection unit included in the other power supply unit attached to a same PLC as the PLC to which the own power supply unit is attached.
US10198049B2	Surface temperature management method of mobile device and memory thermal management method of multichip package A surface temperature management method of mobile device is provided. The method includes sensing a temperature of an application processor in an operation mode of the mobile device; and controlling the application processor using the sensed temperature and a surface temperature management table to manage a surface temperature of a target part of the mobile device. The surface temperature management table includes information related to the temperature of the application processor corresponding to the surface temperature of the target part in the operation mode.
US10198047B2	Data storage device connector with integrated temperature sensor An information handling system includes an electrical connector to mate with terminals of a data storage device. The system further includes a temperature sensor integrated at the electrical connector. The temperature sensor is arranged to thermally couple to an exterior surface of the data storage device when the data storage device is fully inserted into the electrical connector.
US10198038B2	Foldable display device A foldable display device includes a display panel including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface; and an impact absorption film adjacent to the second surface of the display panel and including first and second impact absorption layers. The second impact absorption layer includes a soft part corresponding to a first region of the second impact absorption layer and a hard part corresponding to a second region of the second impact absorption layer. The first impact absorption layer and the soft part of the second impact absorption layer have an elastic modulus value less than an elastic modulus value of the hard part.
US10198036B2	Docking station for tablet device A docking station for a tablet device includes a security frame that is releasably connected to a pedestal. An upper head portion of the pedestal is rotatable through three degrees of freedom to allow for angular adjustment of the frame as it retains a tablet device. Electrical conductivity is maintained through the rotational connection.
US10198029B2	Wearable computer case and wearable computer An externally rigid to semi-rigid wearable computer case for housing various computer components may include two different types of external sides: ventilated-sides and a non-ventilated side. In some embodiments, the wearable computer case may have four to five ventilated-sides. The ventilated-sides and the non-ventilated side together may form an enclosure for housing the various computer components. The ventilated-sides may include ventilation-holes. The ventilation-holes in a given ventilated-side may provide for a ratio of void space to non-void space (in terms of external surface area) that may be substantially from and including 0.6 to 0.4. Some embodiments may also provide for hot swap battery pack(s) that may be external to the wearable computer case and that may provide at least some electrical power to the various computer components housed within the wearable computer case. The wearable computer case and/or the hot swap battery pack(s) may be for VR/AR/MR use.
US10198027B2	Providing reduced latency credit information in a processor In one embodiment, a processor includes a credit circuit to communicate credit information between a first clock domain of the processor and a second clock domain of the processor. The credit circuit may include: a loopback path to communicate the credit information between the first clock domain and the second clock domain; and a bypass path to cause the credit information to traverse only a portion of the loopback path, based at least in part on a state of the second clock domain. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US10198026B1	Glitch-free clock multiplexer In a system having a first clock domain with a first clock and a second clock domain with a second clock, the first and second clocks are monitored to determine whether one or both clocks are active. The first clock is selected to be an output clock if the first clock is active and the second clock is disabled irrespective of the clock selection signal. The second clock is selected to be the output clock if the second clock is active and the first clock is disabled irrespective of the clock selection signal. If both the first clock and the second clock are active, either the first clock or the second clock is selected according to a received clock selection signal.
US10198025B2	Apparatus and method for detecting a rocking movement of an electronic device and execute a function in response to the detected movement An apparatus, method and computer program wherein the apparatus comprises: a housing comprising a convex portion configured to enable the apparatus to rock in response to an impulse provided by a user; and a processor configured to enable a function of the apparatus to be performed in response to the detection of the rocking of the apparatus.
US10198024B2	Ergonomic gear shift grip adjuster An ergonomic adapter for a transmission tower for a motor vehicle, such as a tractor-trailer is disclosed. The adapter includes a tower mounting bracket that is removably coupled to the tower of the transmission and can be positioned at a selected position along the height of the transmission tower and at a selected angular position about an axis of the tower. The adapter also includes an extension bracket rotatably coupled with the tower mounting bracket about an extension axis. The extension bracket can be fixed to the tower mounting bracket at a selected angular position about the extension axis. The adapter also includes a handle rotatably coupled to the extension bracket about a handle axis. The handle can be fixed to the handle at a selected angular position about the handle axis. The adapter allows a driver to adapt the transmission tower to the driver's body to provide improved operation of the vehicle.
US10198018B2	Systems and methods for convex relaxations and linear approximations for optimal power flow in multiphase radial networks Centralized node controllers in accordance with embodiments of the invention enable linear approximation of optimal power flow. One embodiment includes a centralized node controller including: a network interface, a processor, and a memory containing: a centralized power control application a network topology, where the network is multiphase unbalanced and comprises a plurality of connected nodes; wherein the processor is configured by the centralized controller application to: request node operating parameters from the plurality of connected nodes; calculate network operating parameters using a linear approximation of optimal power flow and the node operating parameters from the plurality of connected nodes; send network operating parameters to the plurality of connected nodes.
US10198015B1	Digital low drop-out regulator and operation method thereof A digital LDO regulator includes: a pulse control circuit for generating a proportional control signal based on an error code, generating an integral control signal that toggles during a first section, which includes an initialization section and an integration section, based on the proportional control signal, and generating a state information signal that defines a steady state section, the initialization section, and the integration section; a proportional control circuit for outputting a first drive signal by multiplying the error code by a proportional gain factor based on the proportional control signal; an integral control circuit for outputting a second drive signal by multiplying the error code by an integral gain factor based on the state information signal and the integral control signal; and a driver for adjusting the output voltage in response to the first drive signal and the second drive signal.
US10198013B2	Voltage regulator system and method of use Embodiments of the disclosure pertain to a voltage regulator system having a voltage regulation controller and a transformer assembly. The transformer assembly includes a coil winding, a multi-contact tap arrangement connected to the coil winding, and a multifurcated tap changer system that includes a first tap changer having a contactor element which makes contact with a first contact of the multi-contact tap arrangement when the controller provides a positioning stimulus based on sensing a voltage deviation from a nominal output voltage of the voltage regulator system. The multifurcated tap changer system further includes a second tap changer that is mechanically ganged to the first tap changer and includes another contactor element arranged to automatically make contact with a second contact of the multi-contact tap arrangement when the contactor element of the first tap changer makes contact with the first contact of the multi-contact tap arrangement.
US10198006B2	Parking management system and its control method A parking management system and its control method for controlling a plurality of vehicles and efficiently managing a large-scale parking place are proposed. A parking management system for managing parking of a vehicle includes: a guiding system for automatically guiding the vehicle from a passenger space to a certain parking space; a control system for controlling the guiding system; and a management system for accepting a parking reservation of the vehicle from a terminal system and conveying reservation information and identification information of the vehicle to the control system, wherein after the vehicle arrives at the passenger space and a passenger gets off the vehicle, the control system causes the guiding system to guide the vehicle to, and park the vehicle at, the certain parking space on the basis of the reservation information and the identification information.
US10198002B2	Systems and methods for unprotected left turns in high traffic situations in autonomous vehicles A method in an autonomous vehicle comprises determining to perform a left turn maneuver when the vehicle is in a stopping zone, the vehicle is clear of approaching vehicles, and a relevant traffic signal displays a go signal. The method further comprises determining to perform the left turn maneuver when the vehicle has entered a dilemma zone, the vehicle is clear of approaching vehicles, and the relevant traffic signal displays a go signal, a caution signal, or has displayed a stop signal for less than a predetermined amount of time. The method further comprises determining to perform the left turn maneuver when the vehicle has entered a cross-traffic zone, the vehicle is clear of approaching vehicles, and the relevant traffic signal displays a go signal, a caution signal, or a stop signal.
US10197998B2	Remotely controlled motile device system A remotely controlled motile device system comprises a remotely controlled motile device, and a mobile smart device that comprises a data processor operatively connected to a display screen, a memory, a user input interface, a camera, and a wireless transceiver. The memory stores computer-readable instructions that, when executed by the data processor, cause the mobile smart device to capture images of an optical reference background and the remotely controlled motile device, present the images on the display screen, register a target position relative to the optical reference background and entered via the user input interface, determine a pose of the remotely controlled motile device relative to the optical reference background, and transmit commands to the remotely controlled motile device to move to the target position.
US10197996B2	Monitoring of field devices via a communication network A system for monitoring field devices operating in process plants includes a remote terminal unit (RTU) coupled to several field devices, each configured to perform a respective function in a process plant, and a host disposed remotely from the RTU and coupled to the RTU via a communication network. The RTU includes (i) a first interface module configured to communicate according to a digital industrial automation protocol, via which the RTU receives data indicative of respective statuses of the field devices, (ii) a memory to store the received data, and (iii) a second interface module configured to communicate with remote hosts via a communication network. The host is configured to (i) request the statutes of the field devices and (ii) receive, from the RTU, indications of the status based on the data stored in the memory of the RTU.
US10197983B2	Fast replacement Z-wave device in home automation An apparatus including a home automation system having a plurality of sensors that detect events within a predetermined geographic area, a first wireless sensor of the plurality of sensors that operates within the home automation system under a Z-wave format wherein the first wireless sensor has a number of predetermined system operating attributes that are not related to a system address of the first sensor, a replacement wireless sensor having a processor that communicates under a Z-wave format and a program executing on a processor of the home automation system that operatively removes the first sensor from the home automation system and automatically enrolls the replacement sensor with the home automation system by assigning the predetermined system operating attributes to the replacement sensor.
US10197982B2	Machine control unit A unit can include a power supply interface; a processor board power interface operatively coupled to the power supply interface where the processor board power interface operatively couples to and supplies power to a processor board; a serial interface that operatively couples to the processor board; a microcontroller operatively coupled to the serial interface; memory operatively coupled to the microcontroller; a motor control interface operatively coupled to the microcontroller; an optically isolated digital input interface operatively coupled to the microcontroller; a digital output interface operatively coupled to the microcontroller; and instructions stored in the memory and executable by the microcontroller to instruct the unit to receive digital input via the optically isolated digital input interface from a machine and to output motor control signals via the motor control interface to at least one motor of the machine.
US10197981B1	Methods and apparatus for controlling movement of receptacles Methods and apparatus for controlling the movement of portable receptacles within a materials handling facility are described. The materials handling facility utilizes at least one linear induction motor (LIM) to move the portable receptacles having conductive elements from a first location to a second location within the facility. The LIMs may be configured such that most, if not all, of the movement of the receptacles is controlled by the application of energy from the LIMs to the conductive elements of the receptacles. This energy may cause the receptacles to move from one LIM to another LIM, where each LIM in sequence can apply force to the receptacle to pass it to the next LIM in the sequence. In some implementations, the portable receptacles are configured such that at least a base portion of the receptacle includes a conductive element to interact with the LIMs, while maintaining an overall light-weight configuration.
US10197980B2	Power window control apparatus and system A vehicle window system may include a switching mechanism having a plurality of window selector buttons each corresponding to one of a plurality of windows, and a single drive button for receiving input to move one or more of the windows according to statuses of the selector buttons. The window system may also include a controller configured to lock one of the windows in response to an indication that the window selector button corresponding to the one of the windows has been depressed for at least a predefined amount of time.
US10197978B2	Adaptive ejector valve array A method for providing adaptive control of the flow of a plurality of ejector valves arranged in close proximity to each other in a sorting machine is described. The method comprises measuring a temporal response curve for each ejector valve, comparing the measured temporal response curve for each ejector valve to a library set of previously stored temporal response curves, determining from the comparison a predicted flow for each ejector valve, and adapting a drive signal for each ejector valve in dependence on the predicted flow. Temporal response curves may be measured and compared in a calibration (non-sorting) mode, and real-time feedback of the measured temporal responses in a sorting mode may be used to indicate health of a valve and to further adapt the drive signal to provide conformal performance. The number of neighboring ejector valves may also be taken into account.
US10197977B2	Feedback control system with normalized performance indices for setpoint alarming A setpoint alarming system includes a feedback controller that monitors a process variable provided as a feedback signal from a plant and uses an error signal representing a difference between the process variable and a setpoint to generate a control signal for the plant. The plant uses the control signal to affect the process variable. The system includes a normalized index generator that uses the error signal to generate a normalized performance index for the plant. The system includes an expected value estimator that estimates a value of the normalized performance index expected to occur when a setpoint error of a predetermined magnitude has persisted for a predetermined duration. The system includes an alarm manager that compares the normalized performance index to the expected value and generates an alarm in response to the normalized performance index dropping below the expected value.
US10197973B2	Silicon-based component with at least one chamfer and its fabrication method The invention relates to a silicon-based component with at least one chamfer formed from a method combining at least one oblique side wall etching step with a “Bosch” etching of vertical side walls, thereby enabling aesthetic improvement and improvement in the mechanical strength of components formed by micromachining a silicon-based wafer.
US10197971B1	Integrated optical circuit for holographic information processing An integrated optical circuit for holographic information processing is disclosed. The optical circuit comprises a photorefractive medium and two transmitter arrays. The transmitter arrays are adapted for locally changing the refractive index of the photorefractive medium for holographic encoding of the information in a working plane of the photorefractive medium by transmitting light via optical paths into the photorefractive medium such that an interference pattern is generated in the working plane. The optical paths and the working plane are arranged in a single optical plane.
US10197960B2	Image forming apparatus including image projector An image forming apparatus includes a main assembly, a first openable portion provided on a first side of the main assembly, a second openable portion provided on a second side of the main assembly, a single projector portion, a first projecting portion configured to project the image from above the first openable portion onto a projection object provided on the first side or onto the first openable portion when the first openable portion is open, and a second projecting portion configured to project the image from above the second openable portion onto a projection object provided on the second side or onto the second openable portion when the second openable portion is open.
US10197952B2	Image forming apparatus, image forming system and image forming condition controlling method An image forming apparatus includes: an image forming unit configured to form an image on a recording medium which is unwound from a state of being wound in a roll shape; and a control unit configured to change an image forming condition of the image forming unit such that image quality becomes uniform before and after an unwinding start position of the recording medium at the time of start of an image forming operation.
US10197949B2	Electrophotographic printing and glossing Herein is disclosed a method of electrostatic printing and glossing comprising: forming a first toner image on a print substrate by electrostatically printing an electrostatic ink comprising a first resin component comprising an ethylene acrylic acid resin, an ethylene methacrylic acid resin or combinations thereof; forming a second toner image disposed on the first toner image on the print substrate by electrostatically printing a liquid electro photographic (LEP) printing composition comprising a first resin component comprising an ethylene acrylic acid resin, an ethylene methacrylic acid resin or combinations thereof, and a second resin component present in an amount of about 20% to about 80% by weight of total solids content of the LEP printing composition, the second resin component having a melting point of from about 50° C. to about 75° C., which is below the melting point of the first resin component, or from about 140° C. to about 180° C., which is above the melting point of the first resin component; heating the print substrate to at least partially melt the first or second toner image.
US10197948B2	Developing device and image forming apparatus A developing device, including: a developer containing toner and carrier; and developer bearer configured to have surface thereof bear the developer and endlessly move, and to develop latent image over surface of latent image bearer by supplying toner in developer to latent image in developing region facing the latent image bearer, wherein carrier contains fine particles, value X in volume resistivity R (=10X) (Ω·cm) of carrier is 11.5-16.0, developer bearer includes: magnetic field generating unit including a plurality of magnetic poles; and developing sleeve having a cylindrical shape enclosing magnetic field generating unit, and configured to bear developer over outer circumferential surface of cylindrical shape by magnetic force of the magnetic field generating unit and perform surface moving by rotating relative to developing device body, and developing device includes developing sleeve voltage applying unit configured to apply AC component-containing voltage to developing sleeve.
US10197944B2	Toner cartridge having a movable projection for providing installation feedback to an image forming device A toner cartridge according to one example embodiment includes a housing having a toner reservoir. An outlet port faces downward on a front of the housing near a first side of the housing. A linkage is positioned on the first side of the housing and has an engagement surface that is accessible at the rear of the housing. A projection is positioned on the first side of the housing and is movable between a first position and a second position. The projection is operatively connected to the linkage such that the projection moves upward from the first position to the second position when the engagement surface receives a forward force that is toward the front of the housing. The projection extends outward sideways from the first side when the projection is in the second position.
US10197943B2	Developer cartridge provided with casing and developer accommodating unit detachably supported thereto A developer cartridge includes a casing; and a sub-unit. The casing has a first opening and a developer chamber. The sub-unit is detachably attached to the developer chamber through the first opening. The sub-unit includes a cap; a developer container; and an agitation member. The cap seals the first opening. The developer container is disposed in the developer chamber and hermetically accommodating developer therein. The agitation member is disposed in the developer chamber. The agitation member has a first end portion and a second end portion. The agitation member is rotatable relative to the casing about an axis. The axis extends between the first end portion and the second end portion in an axial direction.
US10197941B2	Image forming apparatus Provided is an image forming apparatus including: an exposure unit scanning a photosensitive member with a light beam radiated by a light source which is driven by a driving unit; a determination unit determining a number of bit data per pixel for a predetermined pixel of image data; a selection unit having conversion conditions for converting the image data into a bit pattern for the driving, and selecting a predetermined conversion condition depending on the determined number of bit data, the conversion conditions set such that numbers of bit data included in the obtained bit pattern for the radiating are different, and that the numbers of bit data are different depending on the image data; and a generation unit generating, based on the selected predetermined conversion condition and a density value of the predetermined pixel, the bit pattern for generating a PWM signal for the driving for the predetermined pixel.
US10197939B2	Image forming apparatus with a control that compensates for changing humidity An image forming apparatus has a control portion configured to control a charging bias to be applied to a charging member and a first exposure amount with respect to humidity inside an image forming apparatus and a thickness of a photosensitive layer of a photoreceptor, and the control portion controls the charging bias and the first exposure amount so that a potential difference between a non-image forming portion and the charging member increases as the humidity decreases, and decreases as the humidity increases.
US10197938B1	Maintaining consistent darkness levels produced by a photoconductive drum during the life of the photoconductive drum An imaging device has a photoconductive drum with a surface that is charged and selectively discharged to create a latent electrostatic image of an image to-be-printed for attracting toner for transfer to a media. A memory of the imaging device stores energy density values for use by the laser beam that can be accessed by a controller according to a predetermined number of media imaged by the photoconductive drum. During imaging, the controller controls the laser beam based on the stored energy density values. The energy density of the laser beam is increased or decreased when the laser beam is scanned along the photoconductive drum.
US10197937B2	Electrostatic ink compositions Herein is disclosed an electrostatic ink composition. The composition may comprise: pigment particles; a dispersant; a carrier liquid; a charge director comprising lecithin or a sulfate-based lipophilic moiety; and a tackifier which is dissolved in the carrier liquid.
US10197935B2	Liquid electrophotographic composition A liquid electrophotographic composition is described, which comprises a carrier liquid, a polymer resin comprising a copolymer of an alkylene monomer and a monomer selected from acrylic acid and methacrylic acid, and at least 5 wt. % of an optical brightening agent based on the total solids content of the composition.
US10197934B2	Toner, developing apparatus, and image-forming apparatus provided with toner A toner having a toner particle containing a binder resin, an amorphous polyester, and a colorant, wherein a softening point of the toner is at least 110° C. and not more than 140° C.; an integrated value f1 for stress of the toner is not more than 10 g·m/sec, as measured using a tack tester, with a temperature for a probe end being 150° C. and a press holding time being 0.01 seconds; and an integrated value f2 for stress of the toner is at least 30 g·m/sec, as measured using a tack tester, with a temperature for a probe end being 150° C. and a press holding time being 0.1 seconds.
US10197932B2	Toner A toner comprising a coloring agent, an amorphous polyester, a crystalline polyester, ester wax comprising of multiple ester compounds, each having a carbon number selected from 32 to 54 and, hydrophobic silica having an average primary particle diameter of 8 to 35 nm, wherein when the ion intensity ratio of each ester compound having a different carbon number is expressed as percentage, the content (a) of the ester compound having a carbon number of (Cn) showing the maximum intensity ratio is from 20 to 55% by weight of the entire ester wax, and the sum (d) of the content (b) of the ester compound having a carbon number of (Cn−4) and the content (c) of the ester compound having a carbon number of (Cn−2) satisfies the following formula: 0.619≤d/a≤0.783.
US10197931B2	Electrophotographic varnish A transparent electrophotographic varnish composition comprises a charge adjuvant and inorganic filler particles. A method of manufacturing an electrophotographic varnish composition comprises heating a thermoplastic resin mixture until the resin has melted; cooling the resin mixture to form resin particles; contacting the resin particles with a charge adjuvant and inorganic filler particles to form composite particles or a mixture of particles; and combining the composite particles or particulate mixture with a carrier fluid to form the electrophotographic varnish composition. A liquid electrophotographic printing system and a print substrate are also provided.
US10197928B2	Electrophotographic photoreceptor, image forming apparatus, and coating liquid for forming photosensitive layer The present invention relates to an electrophotographic photoreceptor which is a positive charging type electrophotographic photoreceptor comprising a conductive support and a photosensitive layer on the conductive support, wherein the photosensitive layer contains at least a charge generating material, a hole transport material, an electron transport material, and a binder resin in the same layer, and a residual potential VL1 at a point at which an exposure amount for forming a latent image is 0.3 μJ/cm2 is equal to or lower than 130 V when an initial surface potential V0 is set to +700 V, exposure with monochromatic light of 780 nm is performed and measurement is performed by a dynamic method.
US10197918B2	Photoresist topcoat compositions and methods of processing photoresist compositions Photoresist topcoat compositions, comprising: a first polymer comprising a first repeat unit of general formula (I) and a second repeat unit of general formula (II): wherein: R1 independently represents H, F or optionally fluorinated C1 to C4 alkyl; R2 represents optionally fluorinated linear, branched or cyclic C1 to C20 alkyl; L1 represents a single bond or a multivalent linking group; and n is an integer of from 1 to 5; a second polymer comprising a first repeat unit of general formula (III) and a second repeat unit of general formula (IV): wherein: R3 independently represents H, F or optionally fluorinated C1 to C4 alkyl; R4 represents linear, branched or cyclic C1 to C20 alkyl; R5 represents linear, branched or cyclic C1 to C20 fluoroalkyl; L2 represents a single bond or a multivalent linking group; and n is an integer of from 1 to 5; and a solvent. Coated substrates coated with the described topcoat compositions and methods of processing a photoresist composition are also provided. The invention finds particular applicability in the manufacture of semiconductor devices.
US10197917B2	Silicon-containing resists underlayer film-forming composition having phenyl group-containing chromophore The present invention provides a resist underlayer film-forming composition for lithography for forming a resist underlayer film that can be used as a hard mask with use of hydrolysis-condensation product of a hydrolyzable silane which also absorbs KrF laser. A resist underlayer film-forming composition for lithography comprising, as a silane, a hydrolyzable silane, a hydrolysis product thereof, or a hydrolysis-condensation product thereof, wherein the hydrolyzable silane includes a hydrolyzable silane of Formula (1): R1aR2bSi(R3)4−(a+b) Formula (1) [where R1 is an organic group of Formula (2): and is bonded to a silicon atom through a Si−C bond; R3 is an alkoxy group, an acyloxy group, or a halogen group; a is an integer of 1; b is an integer of 0 to 2; and a+b is an integer of 1 to 3], and a ratio of sulfur atoms to silicon atoms is 7% by mole or more in the whole of the silane. A resist underlayer film obtained by applying the resist underlayer film-forming composition onto a semiconductor substrate and baking it.
US10197916B2	Curable composition, resist material and resist film A problem of The present invention is to provide a curable composition capable of forming a resist which can be easily washed after curing and which has high dry etching resistance and excellent precision of fine pattern transfer, also provide a resist film and a laminate each containing the curable composition, and further provide a pattern forming method using the resist film. The problem of the present invention can be solved by providing a curable composition containing a multifunctional polymerizable monomer (A) which has two or more groups having a polymerizable group and has at least one group Q having a polymerizable group represented by formula (1) below, the amount of silicon atoms in an nonvolatile content being 10 wt % or more.
US10197913B2	Photosensitive resin composition and cured product thereof Provided is a photosensitive resin composition that contains (A) a photobase generator and (B) an alkali-soluble epoxy compound, wherein the photobase generator (A) contains a compound represented by formula (2-1): and the alkali-soluble epoxy compound (B) is an epoxy compound obtained by reacting (c) a polybasic acid anhydride with a product of a reaction between (a) an epoxy compound having two or more epoxy groups in the molecule and (b) a compound having one or more hydroxyl groups and one carboxyl group in the molecule.
US10197911B2	Imprint apparatus and method of manufacturing article An imprint apparatus which transfers a pattern of a mold onto a substrate is provided. The imprint apparatus includes a plurality of gas supply units each supplying a gas for substituting for air in the space between an original and the substrate. A control unit of the imprint apparatus controls the gas flow rate from each gas supply unit in accordance with the area of a portion where the original and the substrate overlap in a plan view after relatively moving the original and the substrate such that a target shot region on the substrate is positioned immediately under the pattern surface of the original.
US10197909B2	Method of reducing shot count in direct writing by a particle or photon beam A method for transferring a fractured pattern decomposed into elementary shapes, onto a substrate by direct writing by a particle or photon beam, comprises a step of identifying at least one elementary shape of the fractured pattern, called removable elementary shape, whose removal induces modifications of the transferred pattern within a preset tolerance envelope; a step of removing the removable shape or shapes from the fractured pattern to obtain a modified fractured pattern; and an exposure step, comprising exposing the substrate to a plurality of shots of a shaped particle or photon beam, each shot corresponding to an elementary shape of the modified fractured pattern. A computer program product for carrying out such a method is provided.
US10197901B2	Dual-color laser light source Methods and apparatuses that provide a technical solution for handling a microphone operation request from more than one application is disclosed. The technical solution for processing data obtained by a microphone of a terminal device includes receiving an audio recording start command sent by a second application running on the terminal while the microphone is being used by a first application running on the terminal. The technical solution further includes assigning an unoccupied data receiving port to the second application, acquiring and broadcasting audio recording data collected by the microphone through a data sending port, receiving the audio recording data by the assigned data receiving port, and sending the audio recording data to the second application by the assigned data receiving port.
US10197899B2	Discharge lamp driver, light source, projector, and method of driving discharge lamp A discharge lamp driver includes a discharge lamp drive unit, a control unit, and a voltage detection part. When an inter-electrode voltage is smaller than a first predetermined value, the control unit controls the discharge lamp drive unit to provide a mixed period in which a first period and a second period are alternately repeated and a third period alternately including a first direct-current period and a second direct-current period. A length of the first direct-current period is larger than a length of the second direct-current period. The length of the second direct-current period is smaller than 0.5 ms. A total of the lengths of the first direct-current periods in the third period is larger than a length of the second period. When the inter-electrode voltage is smaller than the first predetermined value, the control unit is configured to increase the length of the third period in a stepwise manner.
US10197893B2	Rear converter lens and imaging apparatus Provided are a rear converter lens and an imaging apparatus capable of achieving favorable optical performance and an appropriate back focal length with high magnification. The rear converter lens RCL consists of, in order from the object side, four lens-groups of positive, negative, negative, and positive lens-groups. In order from the object side, a first lens-group RG1 consists of a negative lens RL11 and a positive lens RL12, a second lens-group RG2 consists of a negative lens RL21 and a positive lens RL22, a third lens-group RG3 consists of a negative lens RL31, a positive lens RL32, and a negative lens RL33, and a fourth lens-group RG4 consists of a biconvex lens RL41 and a negative lens RL42. Here, 0.22
US10197890B2	Array imaging module and molded photosensitive assembly, circuit board assembly and manufacturing methods thereof for electronic device An array imaging module includes at least two optical lenses and a molded photosensitive assembly, wherein the molded photosensitive assembly includes at least two photosensitive units, a circuit board that electrically couples to the photosensitive units, and a molded base having at least two optical windows. The molded base is integrally coupled at the circuit board at a peripheral portion thereof, wherein the photosensitive units are aligned with the optical windows respectively. The optical lenses are located along two photosensitive paths of the photosensitive units respectively, such that each of the optical windows forms a light channel through the corresponding photosensitive unit and the corresponding optical lens.
US10197884B2	Sub-volt drive 100 GHz bandwidth electro-optic modulator Electro-optical modulators and methods of fabrication are disclosed. An electro-optical modulator includes a Mach-Zehnder interferometer containing an intrinsic silicon layer semiconductor layer and a coplanar waveguide. Signals from the coplanar waveguide are capacitively coupled to the Mach-Zehnder interferometer through first and second dielectric layers.
US10197882B2	Switchable window A switchable window, in particular for use in an aircraft, helicopter, or space vehicle, includes an outer pane construction subjected to sunlight, and an inner pane construction having an electrically switchable film for changing a color or transmittance of the switchable window, the outer pane construction covering at least an irradiated part of the inner pane construction. The outer pane construction absorbs IR radiation of the sunlight and it absorbs or reflects UV radiation of the sunlight.
US10197880B2	Liquid crystal lens, display device and driving method thereof A liquid crystal lens, a display device and a driving method of the display device are disclosed. The liquid crystal lens includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a driving electrode layer and blue phase liquid crystals disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; the driving electrode layer includes driving electrodes, each driving electrode includes at least two electrode pairs, the electrode pair includes two sub-electrodes which are disposed opposite to each other and can be applied with a voltage separately, and all the sub-electrodes in the same driving electrode are insulated from each other; the sub-electrodes of different electrode pairs in the same driving electrode are unparallel to each other; and the blue phase liquid crystals at different positions have deformations of different degrees in electrical fields with different intensities generated by the different sub-electrodes.
US10197875B2	Display device According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a first basement, a scanning line and a signal line, arranged in a display area, a first organic insulating layer covering the signal line, a metal layer provided above the first organic insulating layer, and a first conductive layer arranged in a peripheral area surrounding the display area and formed from a same material as that of the metal layer, a second substrate including a second basement opposing the first conductive layer and spaced therefrom, and a second conductive layer, and including a first hole which penetrates the second basement, and a connecting material which electrically connects the first conductive layer and the second conductive layer via the first hole.
US10197873B2	Display device A display device including a first substrate having a display area and a peripheral area surrounding the display area, a second substrate facing the first substrate, a common voltage line disposed on the peripheral area of the first substrate, a color filter disposed on the common voltage line overlapping the common voltage line, a common electrode disposed below the second substrate and having an opening overlapping the common voltage line and the color filter, and a sealant disposed between the color filter and the common electrode overlapping the common voltage line, the color filter, and the opening.
US10197870B2	Array substrate and display device An array substrate and a display device. The array substrate includes an insulating layer, and a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer respectively arranged on two sides of the insulating layer, with a first electrode group being formed by the first electrode layer and the second electrode layer. The first electrode group includes: a first strip pixel electrode and a second strip pixel electrode, where the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode are insulated from each other, disposed in the first electrode layer, and applied with different voltages in an operation process; and a first strip common electrode being disposed in the second electrode layer and including a member disposed between the first pixel electrode and the second pixel electrode in a direction from the first pixel electrode to the second pixel electrode.
US10197867B2	Liquid crystal display device with main columnar spacers and sub columnar spacers having different area densities A liquid crystal display device of the present invention includes a liquid crystal interposed between a CF substrate that is an ultra-thin glass substrate and a TFT substrate, and a seal pattern having an injection port. Spacer structures are arranged such that the area density thereof is higher in a corner portion farther from the injection port than in a corner portion closer to the injection port.
US10197854B2	Liquid crystal display device A liquid crystal display device includes a backlight unit and a liquid crystal display panel disposed on the backlight unit, wherein the backlight unit includes a light source unit and a plurality of optical sheets, wherein an optical sheet closest to the liquid crystal display panel among the plurality of optical sheets is a polarizing optical sheet and includes a base film and an optical pattern disposed on a surface of the base film, wherein at least one of the base film and the optical pattern includes an aligned organic fluorescent material.
US10197852B2	Dual-mode liquid crystal display device, color filter substrate and array substrate A dual-mode liquid crystal display device, a color filter substrate and an array substrate are provided. The display device comprises: a color filter substrate, an array substrate assembled with the color filter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer between the color filter substrate and the array substrate. The pixel area of the array substrate comprises red, green, blue and white sub-pixels; and the color filter substrate or the array substrate is provided with a fluorescent layer at the position corresponding to the white sub-pixels.
US10197851B2	Backlight module and method for assembling the same, and display device The present disclosure discloses a backlight module and a method for assembling the same, and a display device. The backlight module includes a backplate and a light strip, wherein, on the backplate is provided a fixing structure, the fixing structure including a resilient press tab provided with a protrusion thereon projecting toward the surface of the backplate, and on the light strip is provided a hole which can be matched with the protrusion on the resilient press tab.
US10197848B2	Array substrate, manufacturing method thereof, repairing method thereof, display panel and display device The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a manufacturing method thereof, a repairing method thereof, a display panel and a display device. The array substrate includes a base substrate, and a pixel electrode and a common electrode superimposed one on another on the base substrate. An electrically conductive layer is arranged at a region where the pixel electrode and the common electrode overlap each other. The electrically conductive layer is at least insulated from one of the pixel electrode and the common electrode.
US10197846B2	Display device A display device includes a display component (1), which includes a liquid crystal panel and a backlight source (11) with the liquid crystal panel including a liquid crystal cell, a first polarizing sheet (12) located on a side of the liquid crystal cell near the backlight source, and a second polarizing sheet (16) located on a side of the liquid crystal cell away from the backlight source. One of the first polarizing sheet (12) and the second polarizing sheet (16) is movable.
US10197842B2	Liquid crystal display device According to one embodiment, a liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate including a switching element and a pixel electrode, a second substrate including an insulating substrate, an organic layer which covers the insulating substrate in a non-display area in a shape of a frame surrounding a display area and comprises a first recess portion formed therein, and a light-shielding layer which covers the first recess portion, a sealing member which attaches the first substrate and the second substrate in the non-display area and a liquid crystal layer disposed in a space surrounded by the first substrate, the second substrate and the sealing member.
US10197841B2	Liquid crystal display device and method of manufacturing the same A liquid crystal display (LCD) device and a method of manufacturing the same are discussed. The LCD device according to an embodiment includes a first substrate and a second substrate bonded to each other, an inner black matrix and an outer black matrix disposed in the bezel area of the second substrate to be spaced apart from each other, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. A display area and a bezel area surrounding the display area are defined in the first substrate and the second substrate.
US10197826B2	Methods of making and repairing resized flat panel displays Electronic flat panel displays (FPDs) including liquid crystal displays (LCDs) may be resized to meet custom size requirements for applications in aerospace and elsewhere. During the resizing process, pixel line defects may occur in the image due to electrical short circuits at the resized cut edge. Methods for repairing such short circuits are described, including use of mechanical, electrical, chemical, thermal, and/or other methods, and any combination thereof, to open the short circuits. The methods may be applied to the sealed cut edge to ruggedize the seal, even if image defects are not exhibited initially. The repaired short circuits may be stress tested to ensure the defects will not recur during the life of the display, and the repaired areas may be resealed.
US10197823B2	Integrated optical isolator and attenuator The disclosure is directed to an element that is capable of acting as both an optical polarizer and an optical attenuator, thus integrating both functions into a single element. The element comprises a monolithic or one piece glass polarizer (herein also call the “substrate”), a multilayer “light attenuation or light attenuating” (“LA”) coating that has been optimized for use at selected wavelengths and attenuations deposited on at least one polarizer facial surface, and a multilayer anti-reflective (AR) coating on top of the LA coating. The disclosure is further directed to an integrated optical isolator/attenuator comprising a first and a second polarizing elements and a Faraday rotator for rotating light positioned after the first polarizing element and before the second polarizing element, the integrated optical isolator/attenuator both polarizing and attenuation a light beam from a light source.
US10197822B2	Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing same To reduce a production cost of a semiconductor device and provide a semiconductor device having improved characteristics. A grating coupler has a plurality of projections separated from each other in an optical waveguide direction and a slab portion formed between any two of the projections adjacent to each other and formed integrally with them; a MOS optical modulator has a projection extending in the optical waveguide direction and slab portions formed on both sides of the projection, respectively, and formed integrally therewith. The projection of the grating coupler and the MOS optical modulator is formed of a first semiconductor layer, a second insulating layer, and a second semiconductor layer stacked successively on a first insulating layer, while the grating coupler and the MOS optical modulator each have a slab portion formed of the first semiconductor layer.
US10197817B2	Substrate and manufacturing method thereof, and display device A substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device are provided. The substrate comprises a base substrate (101), a metal black matrix (111) and an anti-reflection pattern (112A, 112B) for reducing optical reflectivity of the metal black matrix (111), which are arranged on the base substrate (101), and the anti-reflection pattern (112A, 112B) is arranged on a side of the metal black matrix (111) close to a light emission side of the substrate. The anti-reflection pattern (112A, 112B) reduces reflectivity of the metal black matrix (111) on outside ambient light, increases a display contrast of a display device that includes the substrate, and thus improves display quality of the pictures.
US10197815B2	Multi-ring lens, systems and methods for extended depth of focus Systems and methods for providing enhanced image quality across a wide and extended range of foci encompass vision treatment techniques and ophthalmic lenses such as contact lenses and intraocular lenses (IOLs). Exemplary IOL optics can include an aspheric refractive profile imposed on a first or second lens surface, and a diffractive profile imposed on a first or second lens surface. The aspheric refractive profile can focus light toward a far focus. The diffractive profile can include a central zone that distributes a first percentage of light toward a far focus and a second percentage of light toward an intermediate focus. The diffractive profile can also include a peripheral zone, surrounding the central zone, which distributes a third percentage of light toward the far focus and a fourth percentage of light toward the intermediate focus.
US10197810B2	Image display apparatus Provided are display apparatuses and electronic apparatuses that include the display apparatuses. The display apparatus may include an optical system that transfers a first image and a second image to an ocular organ of a user. The optical system may include at least two polarization-dependent lenses. Each of the two polarization-dependent lenses may have a focal length that varies based on a polarization state of incident light. The two polarization-dependent lenses may have optically different characteristics with respect to the first and second images. The display apparatus may further include at least one wave plate and/or at least one polarizer provided between the two polarization-dependent lenses or outside thereof.
US10197809B2	Display system based on hologram and hologram display method using the same The present disclosure relates to a holographic display system including: a projection object having a three-dimensional shape corresponding to an original item; an image projection unit comprising projectors projecting unit images of parts selected from a three-dimensional image of the original item on the projection object; and a reflector disposed adjacent to the projection object and reflecting images reflected from the projection object to provide an augmented three-dimensional holographic image. In the disclosure, the unit images corresponding to a three-dimensional image of an original item are projected on the projection object having a three-dimensional shape corresponding to the original item using the projectors and reflected by the projection object and augmented by the reflector, thereby providing a virtual image having three dimensional information corresponding to the original item, whereby a proper image is provided to an observer even when the viewpoint of the observer is changed.
US10197808B2	Light field display control method and apparatus, and light field display device Embodiments of the present application disclose a light field display control method and apparatus and a light field display device. The light field display control method comprises: determining a partial depth distribution sub-region of content according to at least depth distribution information of the content; and tilting a first display unit at least with respect to an original plane of a display array of a light field display device according to a display depth of field (DoF) range of the light field display device and the depth distribution sub-region, wherein the first display unit is a display unit that is in the display array and affects display of a first object, and the first object is a part, which is located in the depth distribution sub-region, of the content. The present application can improve display quality of an object, which is located in a partial depth distribution sub-region, of content to be displayed or content being displayed.
US10197803B2	Augmented reality glasses for medical applications and corresponding augmented reality system The invention describes augmented reality glasses (1) for medical applications configured to be worn by a user, comprising a frame (15) that supports a glasses lens (2a, 2b), wherein the frame (15) comprises an RGB lighting system comprising RGB-emitting devices (16a, 16b, 16c) configured to emit light beams (B1, B2, B3); first optical systems (17a, 17b, 17c) configured to collimate at least partially said beams (B1, B2, B3) into collimated beams (B1c; B2c; B3c); wherein the frame (15) further comprises a display (3) configured to be illuminated by the RGB lighting system (16) by means of the collimated beams (B1c; B2c; B3c); to receive first images (I) from a first processing unit (10); to emit the first images (I) as second images (IE1) towards the glasses lens (2a, 2b), wherein the lens (2a, 2b) is configured to reflect the second images (IE1) coming from the display (3) as images projected (IP) towards an internal zone (51) of the glasses corresponding to an eye position zone of the user who is wearing the glasses in a configuration for use of the glasses. The invention moreover describes an augmented reality system for medical applications on a user comprising the augmented reality glasses (1) of the invention, biomedical instrumentation (100) configured to detect biomedical and/or therapeutic and/or diagnostic data of a user and to generate first data (D1) representative of operational parameters (OP_S) associated with the user, transmitting means (101) configured to transmit the first data (D1) to the glasses (1); wherein the glasses (1) comprise a first processing unit (10) equipped with a receiving module (102) configured to receive the first data (D1) comprising the operational parameters (OP_S) associated with the user.
US10197802B2	Biocular compact collimation apparatus A compact, lightweight, multi-wavelength display system which can be used for simultaneous viewing with both eyes is provided. The system utilizes a field flattener lens to remove abrasions introduced by the system's lenses. The system also uses a polarization selective optical element that reflects one linear polarization state while transmitting radiation of the orthogonal linear polarization state. The PS element is used in combination with a quarter wave plate and an optical element, the optical element including a partially reflective surface. The optical element may either be a single element or an optical doublet. In the latter configuration, the partially reflective surface is at the interface between the two singlets that comprise the doublet. The system also includes an image source that either alone, or in combination with other optical elements, produces circularly polarized light of the desired rotary sense.
US10197801B2	Head worn computer display systems Head-worn computers may include a rigid optical chassis mechanically configured to provide a stable optical mounting reference plane with an image source reference plane, a first image source mounted on the image source reference plane and configured to project a first image light from the stable optical mounting reference plane to a combiner positioned in front of a user's eye when the head-worn computer is worn by the user, an outer frame configured to hold the optical chassis such that, when worn by the user, the first image light is aligned with the eye of the user, and an arm rotatably mounted on the outer frame and adapted to be positioned on a user's ear, wherein the arm comprises a battery compartment and a wire connected to at least the first image source.
US10197797B2	Scanner unit, optical fiber scanner, illumination apparatus, and observation apparatus A scanner unit includes: a tubular elastic part provided with marks outside a prescribed bonding region set on an outer surface thereof and; and a piezoelectric element that is bonded to the bonding region. The piezoelectric element includes: a piezoelectric body having two mutually opposing electrode faces; and marks that are different from each other, respectively provided on the two electrode faces. The mark provided on one electrode face has a shape that matches the mark provided outside the bonding region when the piezoelectric body is bonded to the bonding region so that the other electrode face contacts the outer surface.
US10197796B2	Projection apparatus, light source apparatus, and projection method In a projection apparatus, the synchronization signal generation unit is configured to output synchronization signals for controlling timing of switching a color of light output from the light source unit, the synchronization signals including a synchronization signal used for turning off one of the first and second light-emitting elements in synchronization with the detection signal, and a synchronization signal used for turning on the other light-emitting element at a next period. The control unit is configured to set an interval during which power supplied to the first and second light-emitting elements of the light source unit is stopped at all periods, based on the synchronization signals.
US10197792B2	Reaction compensated steerable platform A reaction compensated steerable platform device is disclosed. The reaction compensated steerable platform device can include a base, a steerable platform movably coupled to the base, and a reaction mass movably coupled to the base. The reaction compensated steerable platform device can also include a primary actuator coupled to the steerable platform and the base to cause movement of the steerable platform. The reaction compensated steerable platform device can further include a secondary actuator coupled to the reaction mass and the base to cause movement of the reaction mass. In addition, the reaction compensated steerable platform device can also include a load sensor configured to provide feedback for actuation of the secondary actuator, such that the reaction mass moves to compensate for a load induced on a support structure by the movement of the steerable platform.
US10197789B2	Smart pixel blind Provided is a smart pixel blind having aesthetics that may be felt by a user by including a plurality of pixels disposed in a two-dimensional array. In the smart pixel blind, driving devices are provided in the respective pixels, and when the user inputs a predetermined shape using a portable terminal, or the like, a main controller receives the input shape and controls the driving devices provided in the respective pixels to allow the input shape to be displayed.
US10197786B1	Methods and apparatuses for fabricating electrowetting displays An apparatus for fabricating one or more electrowetting display devices, wherein the apparatus comprises a fluid dispenser to dispense fluids onto a substrate. The fluid dispenser comprises a first nozzle to dispense a first fluid of the fluids onto the substrate. The fluid dispenser further comprises two or more additional nozzles. Each additional nozzle dispenses a fluid in communication with the first fluid. The fluids dispensed by the additional nozzles combine to form a single second fluid that is substantially immiscible with the first fluid.
US10197785B2	Inspection device for image pickup apparatus An inspection device for image pickup apparatus includes: an image pickup apparatus including an image pickup device inside a first lens barrel; an angle-of-view conversion optical member made of a translucent resin member and including a first surface and a second surface that is an opposite surface of the first surface, the first surface being configured to closely contact a surface of a distal end lens, the surface of the distal end lens being exposed outside of the first lens barrel; a test chart including a chart surface provided so as to closely contact the second surface, and an image of the chart surface being picked up by the image pickup apparatus through the angle-of-view conversion optical member, and an illumination instrument that illuminates the chart surface.
US10197784B2	Operation mechanism for insertion device and insertion device An operation mechanism for an insertion device includes a moving section, an operation section configured to operate the moving section, a frame body fixed in the operation section, a long member movable along the frame body according to the operation of the operation section, a first tabular member provided between the frame body and the long member in the operation section, and a plurality of first projecting sections projecting from the first tabular member to the frame body side and disposed in a plurality of holes of the frame body.
US10197783B2	Image-forming device, and dimension measurement device The purpose of the present invention is to provide an image forming device and the like that is capable of forming a proper integrated signal even when an image or a signal waveform is acquired from a pattern having the possibility of preventing proper matching, such as a repetition pattern, a shrinking pattern, and the like. In order to achieve the purpose, there is proposed an image forming device that forms an integrated image by integrating a plurality of image signals and that is provided with: a matching processing section that performs a matching process between the plurality of image signals; an image integration section that integrates the plurality of image signals for which positioning has been performed by the matching processing section; and a periodicity determination section that determines a periodicity of a pattern contained in the image signals. The matching processing section varies a size of an image signal area for the matching in accordance with a determination by the periodicity determination section.
US10197780B2	Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus including the same A zoom lens includes a positive first unit, a negative second unit, and a rear lens system. The rear lens system includes a positive unit A, a negative unit B, and a positive C. The first unit is not moved for zooming, the unit A is moved for zooming, and intervals between adjacent lens units are changed during zooming. The first unit includes positive and negative lenses, the unit C includes positive and negative lenses, the second unit includes negative lenses, and the unit B includes positive lenses. An Abbe number average value of the positive lenses in the first unit, an Abbe number average value of the negative lenses in the second unit, an Abbe number average value of the positive lenses in the unit B, and an Abbe number average value of the positive lenses in the unit C are appropriately set.
US10197779B2	Optical system and image pickup apparatus including the same At least one embodiment of an optical system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a front unit including a plurality of lenses, an aperture stop, and a rear unit having a positive refractive power. In at least one embodiment, four negative lenses are consecutively arranged from a side of the front unit closest to the object side, and a focal length of the front unit and a focal length of the rear unit are appropriately set.
US10197778B2	Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus including the same A zoom lens includes, in order from an object side to an image side: a negative first lens unit; a negative second lens unit; and a positive third lens unit, in which the first lens unit is not moved for zooming, the second lens unit and the third lens unit are moved during zooming, and an interval between each pair of adjacent lens units is changed during zooming, in which the first lens unit includes at least two negative lenses, and a focal length of the first lens unit, a focal length of the zoom lens at a wide angle end, a focal length of the zoom lens at a telephoto end, an interval on an optical axis between the first lens unit and the second lens unit at the wide angle end, and a back focus at the wide angle end are appropriately set.
US10197773B2	Optical image capturing system An optical image capturing system includes, in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens element, a second lens element, a third lens element, a fourth lens element, a fifth lens element, a sixth lens element and a seventh lens element. The first, the second and the third lens elements all have refractive power. The fourth lens element with refractive power has both surfaces being aspheric. The fifth lens element with refractive power has both surfaces being aspheric. The sixth lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface having at least one convex shape at a peripheral region thereof and both surfaces being aspheric. The seventh lens element with refractive power has an image-side surface having at least one convex shape at a peripheral region thereof, wherein both surfaces being aspheric, and at least one surface has at least one inflection point thereon.
US10197770B1	Camera optical lens The present disclosure discloses a camera optical lens. The camera optical lens including, in an order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens and a seventh lens. The first lens is made of glass material, the second lens is made of plastic material, the third lens is made of plastic material, the fourth lens is made of plastic material, the fifth lens is made of glass material, the sixth lens is made of plastic material, and the seventh lens is made of plastic material. The camera optical lens further satisfies specific conditions.
US10197764B2	Lens barrel and optical apparatus having the same Provided is a lens barrel having a movable frame that moves in a direction of an optical axis of an imaging optical system and a cylinder member that is movable in the direction of the optical axis and is rotatable about the optical axis. A hole is provided in any one of the movable frame and the cylinder member and a shaft portion of a fitted member fitted into the hole is fitted into a groove provided in the other, and thereby the movable frame and the cylinder member are engaged.
US10197763B2	Actuator driving apparatus, camera module, and electronic apparatus There are provided an actuator driving apparatus, a camera module, and an electronic apparatus to selectively use a position and current control method and a current control method. The actuator driving apparatus includes a position controller and a current driver. The position controller is configured to receive a control input signal and output the control input signal or a position control signal, which is generated based on the control input signal, according to a mode signal. The current driver is configured to generate a current to drive an actuator according to the control input signal or the position control signal.
US10197760B2	Optical lens, lens unit, imaging module, electronic apparatus, injection molding mold, and injection molding method An optical lens has an optical function portion having an optical function, and a flange portion formed around the optical function portion. The flange portion has a cut section, which is formed by cutting a gate portion, on a side surface thereof. In a case where the following are viewed from a direction of the optical axis of the optical lens, a concave portion is provided in at least a portion of a region in which the flange portion overlaps with a region obtained by straight lines connecting together an optical axis center of the optical lens and both ends of the cut section, and the concave portion is provided on both surfaces of the flange portion.
US10197754B2	Sliding thermal contact for pluggable optic modules Present thermal solutions to conduct heat from pluggable optical modules into heat sinks use a metal heat sink attached with a spring clip. The interface between the pluggable module and the heat sink is simple metal-on-metal contact, which is inherently a poor thermal interface and limits heat dissipation from the optical module. Heat dissipation from pluggable optical modules is enhanced by the application of thermally conductive fibers, such as an advanced carbon nanotube velvet. The solution improves heat dissipation while preserving the removable nature of the optical modules.
US10197752B2	Monolithic multi-optical-waveguide penetrator or connector Methods and apparatus are provided for a monolithic multi-optical-waveguide penetrator or connector. One example apparatus generally includes a plurality of large diameter optical waveguides, each having a core and a cladding, and a body having a plurality of bores with the optical waveguides disposed therein, wherein at least a portion of the cladding of each of the optical waveguides is fused with the body, such that the apparatus is a monolithic structure. Such an apparatus provides for a cost- and space-efficient technique for feedthrough of multiple optical waveguides. Also, the body may have a large outer diameter which can be shaped into features of interest, such as connection alignment or feedthrough sealing features.
US10197749B2	BOSA device having adjustable wavelength in two directions A BOSA device having an adjustable wavelength in two directions comprises a signal transmitter section and a signal receiver section, wherein the signal transmitter section sequentially includes a laser (1-1), a semiconductor optical amplifier (SOA) (3-1), a splitter (4-1), a data upload and download port (5-1), and a first TEC temperature control module (9-1) to control temperature of the laser (1-1) so as to adjust its output wavelength, and the signal receiver section sequentially includes a filter (7-1), a photo detector (8-1), and a receiving end driving device to change an angle of the filter (7-1) with respect to the optical path so as to make a passing wavelength of the filter adjustable. The first TEC temperature control module (9-1) controls temperature of the laser (1-1), and the receiving end driving device drives the filter (7-1) to change an angle of the filter with respect to the optical path.
US10197748B2	Connector device for connecting at least one optical fiber end piece to an electric terminal The application provides a connector device for connecting at least one optical fiber endpiece to an electric terminal. The connector device comprises a printed circuit board and an electric connector plug connectable to an electric terminal. A fiber end piece holder is mounted or mountable in an orientation enabling light propagation parallel to the printed circuit board, whereas an optoelectronic chip comprising optoelectronic active elements enables emission and/or detection of light substantially normal to the printed circuit board. A layered optical stack is provided on the printed circuit board, which layered optical stack comprises a reflection surface for changing the propagation direction between parallel and normal to the printed circuit board.
US10197732B2	Methods for forming ion-exchanged waveguides in glass substrates Methods of forming ion-exchanged waveguides in glass substrates are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of forming a waveguide in an ion-exchanged glass substrate having an ion-exchanged layer extending from a surface to a depth of layer of the ion-exchanged glass substrate includes locally heating at least one band at the surface of the ion-exchanged glass substrate to diffuse ions in the ion-exchanged layer within the at least one band. A concentration of ions within the at least one band is less than a concentration of ions outside of the at least one band, and at least one waveguide is defined within the ion-exchanged layer adjacent the at least one band. In some embodiments, the at least one waveguide is embedded within the ion-exchanged glass substrate such that an upper surface of the at least one waveguide is below the surface of the glass substrate by a depth d.
US10197730B1	Optical through silicon via The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to optical via connections in chip-to-chip transmission in a 3D chip stack structure using an optical via, and methods of manufacture. The structure has a first wafer, including a first waveguide coupled to an optical resonator in the first wafer, and a second wafer, including a second waveguide, located over the first wafer. The structure also includes an optical via extending between the optical resonator of the first wafer and the second waveguide of the second wafer to optically couple the first and second waveguides.
US10197729B2	Optoelectronic detector, in particular for high-resolution light scanning microscopy As a result of the size of the detector elements thereof, optoelectronic detectors such as photoelectron multipliers comprising a light-entry region sealed by a protective disc can only be used with much outlay for recording an image of a diffraction-limited focus volume in a two-dimensional spatially resolved manner, even if the image is significantly magnified in relation to the focus volume. The novel detector is intended to enable the spatially resolved detection of point spread functions with little outlay and high accuracy. 2.2 For this purpose, a body made of glass or glass ceramics comprising an opening, in which one end of an optical fiber is arranged, is cemented to the cover disc in such a way that the end of the optical fiber faces the cover disc and the optical axis thereof intersects the light-entry region. Thus, the relative position of optical fiber and entry region can be provided permanently with high accuracy. Preferably, the detector includes a plurality of detection channels, in particular 32 channels, comprising a respective light-entry region and the body includes a plurality of openings comprising a respective optical fiber. 2.3 Fluorescent microscopy.
US10197727B2	Large core holey fibers Holey fibers provide optical propagation. In various embodiments, a large core holey fiber comprises a cladding region formed by large holes arranged in few layers. The number of layers or rows of holes about the large core can be used to coarse tune the leakage losses of the fundamental and higher modes of a signal, thereby allowing the non-fundamental modes to be substantially eliminated by leakage over a given length of fiber. Fine tuning of leakage losses can be performed by adjusting the hole dimension and/or spacing to yield a desired operation with a desired leakage loss of the fundamental mode. Resulting holey fibers have a large hole dimension and spacing, and thus a large core, when compared to traditional fibers and conventional fibers that propagate a single mode. Other loss mechanisms, such as bend loss and modal spacing can be utilized for selected modes of operation of holey fibers.
US10197723B2	Optical fiber, optical sensor including optical fiber, method of manufacturing optical fiber, and deposition apparatus therefor Disclosed is an optical fiber including a plasmonic optical filter with a closed curved shape provided at, at least portion thereof. A method of manufacturing the plasmonic optical filter includes a step of exposing a core, a step of forming a thin metal film on the core through physical vapor deposition while rotating the core in a circumferential direction after changing a rotation axis of the core, and a step of patterning nanopatterns on the cylinder-shaped thin metal film using focused ion beam technique assisted with endpoint detection method. Due to such constitutions, an active area to generate an optical signal for optical sensor can be increased.
US10197722B2	Flexible linear light emitting element and a method of producing the same A flexible linear light emitting element to be flexibly bent along the shape of an object to be decorated or to be bent in accordance with a linearly represented decorative letter or decorative pattern of any kind and to excel in light emitting performance such as luminance as well as a method of producing the same. The optical fiber type linear light emitting element includes a bar-shaped extrusion-molded article in which a clad layer made from a fluorine resin is integrally formed over the periphery of a cored layer made from an acrylic thermoplastic elastomer; and a block copolymer of methyl methacrylate and butyl acrylate or a block copolymer of methyl acrylate and butyl acrylate, the flexural modulus of elasticity (according to ASTM D790) of the copolymers ranging from 50 to 500 MPa, is adopted for the material of the cored layer.
US10197712B2	Light-diffusing-member manufacturing method and manufacturing device A light-diffusing-member manufacturing method includes a step of forming a light diffusion portion on one surface side of a base, by developing an exposed negative photosensitive resin layer with an alkali developing solution, and a step of performing an acid treatment on the light diffusion portion with an acid solution, after removing the alkali developing solution which is adhered to the light diffusion portion and suspended matter in the alkali developing solution in the negative photosensitive resin layer, so as to lower an ionization degree of the negative photosensitive resin layer which is in an ionized state due to the alkali developing solution.
US10197707B2	Ophthalmic devices comprising photochromic materials with reactive sub substituents Various non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to ophthalmic devices comprising photochromic materials comprising a reactive substituent. For example, the present disclosure contemplates ophthalmic devices comprising photochromic materials, such as photochromic naphthopyrans and indeno-fused naphthopyrans having a reactive substituent comprising a reactive moiety linked to the photochromic naphthopyran by one or more linking groups. In certain non-limiting embodiments, the reactive moiety comprises a polymerizable moiety. In other non-limiting embodiments, the reactive moiety comprises a nucleophilic moiety. Other non-limiting embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods of making the photochromic ophthalmic device, wherein the photochromic ophthalmic devices comprise the photochromic naphthopyrans described herein.
US10197704B2	Corrective scaling of interpreted fractures based on the microseismic detection range bias correction A method for correcting a fracture model of a reservoir includes receiving a seismic signal from seismic events due to a plurality of stimulated reservoir stages to provide detected seismic event information and estimating a number of undetected seismic events and a magnitude for each of the undetected seismic events to provide undetected seismic event information for each stage. The detected seismic event information and the undetected seismic event information provide corrected seismic event information for each stage. The method further includes calculating a scaling factor for each stage using a scalar property of the corresponding stage and a reference stage scalar property, applying the scaling factor for each stage to the corrected seismic event information to provide scaled seismic event information for each stage, and correcting the fracture model with the scaled seismic event information for each stage to provide a corrected fracture model.
US10197702B2	Seismic guided inversion of electromagnetic survey data Methods of forming a geologic map usable for identifying prospective resource accumulations beneath the earth-surface are disclosed herein. The methods include obtaining a seismic stratigraphic structure of a subsurface region of the earth, determining a plurality of potential resistivity boundaries from the seismic stratigraphic structure, obtaining an electromagnetic data set resulting from an electromagnetic data acquisition of the subsurface region, recovering a resistivity map of the subsurface region by performing an inversion process guided by the seismic information, and resolving a geologic map from the resistivity map.
US10197698B2	Downhole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) tool with transversal-dipole antenna configuration In some aspects, a downhole nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) tool includes a magnet assembly and an antenna assembly. The NMR tool can operate in a wellbore in a subterranean region to obtain NMR data from the subterranean region. The magnet assembly produces a magnetic field in a volume about the wellbore. The magnet assembly includes a central magnet, a first end piece magnet spaced apart from a first axial end of the central magnet, and a second end piece magnet spaced apart from a second axial end of the central magnet. The antenna assembly includes a transversal-dipole antenna. In some cases, orthogonal transversal-dipole antennas produce circular-polarized excitation in the volume about the wellbore, and acquire a response from the volume by quadrature coil detection.
US10197697B2	Modeling subterranean formation permeability Systems, methods, and software for modeling subterranean formation permeability are described. In some aspects, a method of training a subterranean formation permeability model based on NMR data includes accessing relaxation-time distributions generated from NMR measurements associated with a subterranean region. Multiple sets of principal components are generated from the relaxation-time distributions. Each set of principal components represents a respective one of the relaxation-time distributions. Parameters for weighted radial basis functions are computed based on the sets of principal components. A subterranean formation permeability model that includes the weighted radial basis functions and the computed parameters is produced.
US10197696B2	NMR logging interpretation of solid invasion A method for estimating an effect on nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) measurements of an invasion of solid particles into pores of an earth formation penetrated by a borehole includes conveying a carrier through the borehole and performing an NMR measurement on a volume of interest in the formation to provide a relaxation time constant using an NMR tool disposed at the carrier. The method further includes receiving information describing the solid particles in the pores and quantifying, using a processor, an effect on the measured relaxation time constant due to the invasion of solid particles using the received information.
US10197695B2	Method and apparatus for estimating formation properties using transient electromagnetic measurements while drilling A method for estimating a property of an earth formation penetrated by a borehole, the method comprising generating a first transient electromagnetic fields with a transmitter on a carrier located outside of the borehole and receiving associated signals, calculating a bucking coefficient using the measured signals, conveying the carrier through a borehole, generating a second transient electromagnetic field and receiving associated signals, calculating, a bucked signal using the bucking coefficient and the downhole signals, calculating synthetic formation signals, calculating synthetic formations signals by applying a Duhamel's integral to the measured signals and the synthetic formation signals, calculating a synthetic bucked signal, and performing an inversion of a formation model to estimate a property of the formation such that an inverted synthetic bucked signal and an inverted bucked signal coincide within a predetermined range.
US10197694B2	Controlled-frequency downhole seismic source Systems and methods for deploying and using a controlled-frequency downhole seismic source are provided. A downhole seismic source may be placed into a borehole in a geological formation and coupled rigidly to the geological formation via an edge of the borehole. A controlled-frequency seismic signal may be generated sufficient to enable a seismic measurement of the geological formation.
US10197693B2	Barrier evaluation system and method Methods and systems of barrier evaluation are disclosed. The method includes obtaining vibration measurement data measured in a wellbore having at least one casing. In addition, the method includes determining a boundary definition of the barrier between the casing and a formation, based on the vibration measurement data. Further, the method includes evaluating the barrier based on the one boundary definition. The system includes a vibration sensor located in the wellbore having at least one casing and a vibration source for generating vibrations. The system may also include a data logging system of producing vibration measurement data received with the vibration sensor and a processor for determining at least one boundary definition of barrier between the casing and a formation, based on the vibration measurement data and evaluating the barrier based on the at least one boundary definition.
US10197691B2	Acoustic anisotropy and imaging by means of high resolution azimuthal sampling In an acoustic logging system utilizing one or more acoustic sources, each with a specified radiation pattern around a source orientation, an acoustic signal is transmitted into a formation with a source oriented in a first source orientation. An acoustic waveform is received in response with a receiver oriented in a first direction. The slowness of the formation in the first direction is calculated using the received acoustic waveform.
US10197682B2	Timing apparatus and method for radiation detection, measurement, identification and imaging system A timing apparatus and method for a radiation detection, measurement, identification, and imaging system are disclosed. The apparatus comprises high-energy photon detectors, a light pulse signal generator and an optical fiber. Each high-energy photon detector comprises a scintillation crystal and an optical-to-electrical conversion multiplying device. The high-energy photon detectors are all provided with light transmission holes. Light pulse signals are propagated to the scintillation crystals through the light transmission holes, then propagated to the surfaces of the optical-to-electrical conversion multiplying devices through the scintillation crystals, converted and multiplied by the optical-to-electrical conversion multiplying devices, and processed and read by an electronic circuit. The high-energy photon detectors independent from each other acquire absolute time from the light pulse signals generated by the light pulse generator and timing and calibration are performed between the independent high-energy photon detectors.
US10197681B2	State calculating device, method of calculating state, and state calculating program A small-sized state calculating device which may acquire a highly-precise state calculation value is provided. The state calculating device may include antennas, receiving parts, a phase difference calculating part and an operation part. The receiving parts may calculate carrier phase measurements PYA, PYB and PYC of GNSS signals received by the antennas, respectively. The phase difference calculating part may set the antennas to be switched between a master antenna and a slave antenna, and calculate the plurality of inter-antenna phase differences ΔζAB, ΔζBC and ΔζCA, for every combination of the master antenna and the slave antenna, using the carrier phase measurements PYA, PYB and PYC. The operation part may calculate an attitude angle AT using the plurality of inter-antenna phase differences ΔζAB, ΔζBC and ΔζCA.
US10197680B2	GNSS receiver A method for use with a Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) receiver is provided. The method includes obtaining a first system time from a satellite of a first satellite navigation system, obtaining a second system time from a satellite of a second satellite navigation system, calculating a difference between the first system time and the second system time to obtain a number of leap seconds between Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) and the second satellite system.
US10197679B2	GNSS base station antenna system with reduced sensitivity to reflections from nearby objects An antenna system includes an electromagnetic radiator assembled on a ground plane. The ground plane containing a nontransparent area in a center of the ground plane and a semitransparent area surrounding the nontransparent area. The nontransparent area is circular in shape. The semitransparent area is generally circular in shape and contains at least one slot. A plurality of vertical conducting elements are in proximity of a boundary between the nontransparent area and the semitransparent area on a bottom side of the ground plane. The vertical conducting elements are arranged in a circle around a center of the electromagnetic radiator.
US10197670B2	Ultrasonic measurement apparatus, ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus, and ultrasonic measurement method An ultrasonic measurement apparatus includes a transmission processing unit that performs processing for transmitting an ultrasonic wave at a given transmission angle, a reception processing unit that performs reception processing of an ultrasonic echo with respect to a transmitted ultrasonic wave, and a processing unit that performs processing with respect to a reception signal from the reception processing unit. The processing unit obtains a plurality of first resolution signals by synthesizing a plurality of the reception signals based on a first beamforming coefficient, and obtains a second beamforming coefficient for synthesizing a second resolution signal from the plurality of first resolution signals based on whether a signal processing target point belongs to a plane wave propagation region or belongs to a spherical wave propagation region.
US10197669B2	LIDAR based 3-D imaging with varying illumination intensity Methods and systems for performing three dimensional LIDAR measurements with different illumination intensity patterns are described herein. Repetitive sequences of measurement pulses each having different illumination intensity patterns are emitted from a LIDAR system. One or more pulses of each repetitive sequence have a different illumination intensity than another pulse within the sequence. The illumination intensity patterns are varied to reduce total energy consumption and heat generated by the LIDAR system. In some examples, the illumination intensity pattern is varied based on the orientation of the LIDAR device. In some examples, the illumination intensity pattern is varied based on the distance between a detected object and the LIDAR device. In some examples, the illumination intensity pattern is varied based on the presence of an object detected by the LIDAR device or another imaging system.
US10197657B2	Methods and systems for generating a conductivity map of an in vivo tissue The present disclosure provides methods of generating a conductivity map of an in vivo tissue. The present disclosure provides systems for generating a conductivity map of an in vivo tissue.
US10197654B2	PET-MRI device A PET-MRI device according to an embodiment includes image generators and a derivation unit. The image generators capture an image of a target placed in an effective visual field of a PET by the PET and an MRI so as to generate a PET image and an MR image. The derivation unit calculates a strain correction factor for correcting strain on the MR image based on a positional relation between a target that is expressed on the PET image and a target that is expressed on the MR image.
US10197652B2	Method and system for applying NMR pulse sequences with interacting shells A method and system for determining a nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) property are described herein. The method includes applying a static magnetic field to a substance and applying an NMR pulse sequence to the substance. The NMR pulse sequence comprises a first pulse sequence segment applied at a first frequency to a shell and a second pulse sequence segment applied at a second frequency. The first pulse sequence segment generates a resonant signal in the shell and the second pulse sequence segment generates a characteristic within the resonant signal. The resonant signal is detected and an NMR property is determined using the characteristic within the detected resonant signal.
US10197646B2	Decoupling of parallel transmission arrays in magnetic resonance imaging A magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system includes a plurality of transmitters to generate a parallel transmission radio frequency (RF) pulse, an array of coils coupled to the plurality of transmitters to apply the parallel transmission RF pulse to a subject, and a decoupling system connected to the plurality of transmitters and the array of coils. The decoupling system includes a plurality of hybrid couplers, each hybrid coupler of the plurality of hybrid couplers being coupled to a respective pair of the plurality of transmitters and to a respective pair of the array of coils. The plurality of hybrid couplers are configured to diagonalize an impedance matrix of the plurality of coils.
US10197645B2	Multi-channel endorectal coils and interface devices therefor An intracavity probe for use with a magnetic resonance system includes: a pair of coil loops arranged in a phased array configuration; a pair of decoupling circuits; a pair of output cables; and a spacer material positioned adjacent to an anterior surface of the coil loops. Each coil loop has a drive capacitor and a tuning capacitor. Each decoupling circuit is connected across the tuning capacitor of one of the coil loops. Each output cable is connected at a first end thereof across the drive capacitor of one of the coil loops such that each of the drive capacitors is provided with a separate ground. The spacer material assures a predetermined distance between the pair of coil loops and the region of interest, which thereby reduces intensity of the magnetic resonance signals in proximity to the coil loops, maintains SNR at depth within the region of interest and reduces artifacts.
US10197644B2	Local transmit coil with integrated safety device A local transmit coil for a magnetic resonance tomograph is provided. The local transmit coil includes a signal transmission device for signal transmission to the magnetic resonance tomograph, and a transmission antenna for generating a magnetic excitation field. The local transmit coil further includes an evaluation device for monitoring a function of the local transmit coil. The evaluation device is configured to transmit a status signal relating to the local transmit coil via the signal transmission device.
US10197637B2	Method and system for performing diagnostics and monitoring a DC subsystem The present application discloses a system and method for monitoring and reporting the status of a direct current (DC) subsystem including a battery bank and battery charger. The system and method are configured to perform tests on distinct modules within the DC subsystem and store test data. The test data are analyzed to determine the status of each module. An aggregator determines the DC subsystem status based on the module statuses and displays an indication of the determined aggregate status.
US10197634B2	Identification code allocating device for battery management categories, sequencing device for battery management categories, and battery management method using same The preset invention relates to an identification code allocating device for battery management categories, a sequencing device for the battery management categories, and a battery management method using the same and the identification code allocating device includes: a unique identification code allocating unit allocating a unique identification code for a plurality of battery management categories each; a cycle identification code allocating unit allocating a cycle identification code for each of the plurality of battery management categories to correspond to a cycle of each of the plurality of battery management categories; and a dependency identification code allocating unit allocating a dependency identification code for each of the plurality of battery management categories to correspond to dependency relationships among the plurality of battery management categories.
US10197632B2	Electrical energy storage system with battery power setpoint optimization using predicted values of a frequency regulation signal A frequency response optimization includes a battery that stores and discharges electric power, a power inverter that uses battery power setpoints to control an amount of the electric power stored or discharged from the battery, and a frequency response controller. The frequency response controller receives a regulation signal from an incentive provider, predicts future values of the regulation signal, and uses the predicted values of the regulation signal to generate the battery power setpoints for the power inverter.
US10197630B2	Wireless smart battery system A wireless system for monitoring rechargeable and single-use batteries. The wireless system is usable with existing batteries that implement a smart battery standard and/or an analog port. The wireless system may be installed in the battery, in a battery-powered device, in a battery mount plate, in an attachment that connects to an analog port and/or in a battery charging station or charging device. The wireless system transmits the battery's status to a remote user device, which may be a tablet, smartphone or other wireless device. The system allows a user to monitor one or more batteries remotely.
US10197629B2	Battery recommended replacement time indicator system A method of generating at least one recommended replacement time signal for a battery is provided. The method includes measuring a plurality of associated unloaded and loaded battery voltages. A delta voltage for each associated unloaded and loaded battery voltage is then determined. A select number of delta voltages are averaged. A minimum delta voltage is determined from a plurality of the averaged delta voltages. At least one recommended replacement time signal for the battery is generated with the use of the minimum delta voltage when at least one averaged delta voltage is detected that has at least reached a replacement threshold.
US10197628B2	TDI, TCK, TMS, TDO, first, second, third, gating routing circuit A falling edge controller includes a controller having an inverted TCK (Test Clock) input, a TMS (Test Mode Select) input, a shift register control output, an update register control output, and a shift output; a shift register having a TDI (Test Data In) input, a shift register control input coupled to the shift register control output, address inputs, a select input, address and select outputs, and a TDO (Test Data Out) output; an update register having address and select inputs coupled to the address and select outputs, an update register control input coupled to the update register control output, address outputs coupled to the address inputs, and a select output coupled to the select input; and address circuitry having address inputs coupled to the address outputs, and having an enable output.
US10197627B2	Semiconductor device Provided is a semiconductor device which can generate a new test pattern even after design and have a reduced footprint of a circuit not used in normal operation. The semiconductor device includes a first integrated circuit and a second integrated circuit. The first integrated circuit includes a memory circuit that stores data and a plurality of circuits that make a signal for an operation test of the second integrated circuit. The signal is made when the continuity between the plurality of circuits is controlled by the memory circuit according to the data. In the second integrated circuit, the memory circuit is used as a buffer memory device after the operation test is conducted according to the signal.
US10197626B2	Tap dual port router with update lead and gated updatedr This disclosure describes a test architecture that supports a common approach to testing individual die and dies in a 3D stack arrangement. The test architecture uses an improved TAP design to facilitate the testing of parallel test circuits within the die.
US10197618B2	Inter-terminal capacitance measurement method for three-terminal device and apparatus for the same Provided are a measurement apparatus and a measurement method capable of measuring inter-terminal capacitances of a three-terminal device while reproducibility is high and influences of residual inductances are cancelled. The measurement apparatus includes: a route selector including a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal, a fourth terminal, a fifth terminal, and a sixth terminal, the fourth to sixth terminals being configured to connect to any of the first to third terminals; an LCR meter; a device under test, which is a three-terminal device; first, second, and third cables for respectively connecting the fourth to sixth terminals of the first route selector and first, second, and third terminals of the device under test to each other; and fourth, fifth, and sixth cables for respectively connecting the first to third terminals of the first route selector and first, second, and third terminals of the LCR meter to each other.
US10197614B2	Fault location during pole-open condition The present disclosure illustrates the errors that are encountered when using both single-ended and double-ended normal-mode fault location calculations when a fault occurs in a pole-open condition. The disclosure provides systems and methods for accurately calculating the location of faults that occur during pole-open conditions, including single-ended approaches and double-ended approaches.
US10197612B2	Continuity test system and method A continuity test system (100), includes a base unit (1) and a mobile unit (9). The base unit (1) is adapted to be connected to a first portion of a test item, and, the mobile unit (9) is both interconnected to said base unit (1), and adapted to be connected to a second portion of said test item. The continuity test system (100) includes a signal generator (2), adapted to generate a dual polarity measurement signal, a measurement unit (14), adapted to measure electrical parameters of said test item (16)as said dual polarity measurement signal is applied thereto, and, a processor (13, 4), to process said measured electrical parameters and provide a resultant continuity test signal output.
US10197609B2	Capacitive sensing for automated furniture A system and method for incorporating occupancy-detecting technology into furniture is provided. More particularly, the invention relates to direct-connect device, system, and method for determining presence with respect to an automated furniture item, such as a recliner mechanism. In some aspects, a sensor is provided based on coupling one or more conductive features to a control component of the capacitance detector control component. A controller may determine the corresponding response based on occupancy detection and/or presence detection. A processor may receive information regarding changes in capacitance and determines when a change in voltage satisfies a threshold. Based on a determination of occupancy and/or presence, a variety of corresponding features of the adjustable recliner may be activated.
US10197606B2	System and method for obtaining the powerflow in DC grids with constant power loads and devices with algebraic nonlinearities A system and method for analyzing steady-state powerflow in DC electrical networks in the presence of constant power loads and other nonlinear devices whose I-V characteristics can be modeled using algebraic functions. The networks include high power utility-size grids and microgrids, as well as vehicular, aircraft, and spacecraft power management and distribution systems. The method draws on the mathematical framework of the Holomorphic Embedded Loadflow Method (HELM), which has previously been applied in utility AC networks. The adaptation to DC systems depends on the choice of a proper embedding and a corresponding reflection condition on the embedded voltages. Additionally, the method is extended to nonlinear devices other than constant-power loads, such as photovoltaic panel sources, which are of interest for the power systems aboard spacecraft and other electric vehicles.
US10197604B2	Current detecting apparatus A current detecting apparatus measures an input current or an output current of an electronic apparatus. The current detecting apparatus includes a current detecting module, a direct-current measurement module and a current detecting module. The current detecting module includes a coil configured to electromagnetically couple to a path of an input or a path of an output of the electronic apparatus to obtain a first voltage signal. The direct-current measurement module measures the path of the input or the path of the output to obtain a second voltage signal. The current detecting module converts the first voltage signal into a first current command, and converts the second voltage signal into a second current command. The first current command is an alternating-current component of the input current or the output current. The second current command is a direct-current component of the input current or the output current.
US10197597B2	Build sequences for mechanosynthesis Methods for creating build sequences which are determined using computational chemistry algorithms to simulate mechanosynthetic reactions, and which may use the mechanosynthesis process conditions or equipment limitations in these simulations, and which facilitate determining a set of mechanosynthetic reactions that will build an atomically-precise workpiece with a desired degree of reliability. Included are methods for error correction of pathological reactions or avoidance of pathological reactions. Libraries of reactions may be used to reduce simulation requirements.
US10197595B2	Dual-probe scanning probe microscope An apparatus and method of positioning a probe of an atomic force microscope (AFM) includes using a dual probe configuration in which two probes are fabricated with a single base, yet operate independently. Feedback control is based on interaction between the reference probe and surface, giving an indication of the location of the surface, with this control being modified based on the difference in tip heights of the two probes to allow the sensing probe to be positioned relative to the sample at a range less than 10 nm.
US10197592B2	Method and system for calibrating a pedometer A method of calibrating a wearable electronic device includes providing an indication of a target speed for an activity to a user wearing the wearable electronic device and receiving location data from a location data unit during the activity. The method also includes receiving, concurrently with the location data, user stride data associated with the user during the activity and computing a speed of the user as a function of the location data as a function of time. The method further includes populating a table of the speed of the user as a function of the user stride data and calibrating the wearable electronic device in accordance with the table.
US10197591B2	Physical quantity sensor, electronic device, and moving object A physical quantity sensor according to the embodiment includes: a substrate; a movable body including a movable electrode portion; and a support which supports the movable body around a first shaft to be displaced, in which, when the movable body is divided into a first portion and a second portion with the first shaft as a boundary, the physical quantity sensor includes a first fixed electrode portion which is disposed on the substrate to oppose the first portion, and a second fixed electrode portion which is disposed on the substrate to oppose the second portion, and a guard portion which suppresses an electrostatic force generated between the movable body and the substrate is provided in an inter-electrode area between the first fixed electrode portion and the second fixed electrode portion, on the substrate.
US10197580B2	Biomarkers associated with schizophrenia The invention relates to biomarkers and methods of diagnosing or monitoring schizophrenia, or a predisposition thereto.
US10197577B2	Serum antibody assay for determining protection from malaria, and pre-erythrocytic subunit vaccines Disclosed herein are diagnostic methods and compositions for identifying individuals that are protected against Plasmodium falciparum caused malaria. Such methods are particularly useful for determining not only the protective efficacy of Pf whole parasite vaccines for individual subjects, but also within populations of vaccinated subjects. Also disclosed herein are subunit vaccines comprising at least one Pf immunologic determinant for protection against Plasmodium-caused malaria.
US10197571B2	Enzyme detection device Described herein is an enzyme detection device for detecting or measuring the presence in a test sample of the activity of an enzyme capable of cleaving a substrate. Also provided are methods for detecting enzyme activity, in particular the presence in a test sample of an enzyme capable of cleaving a substrate, and methods for determining the level or amount of such an enzyme in a test sample.
US10197561B2	Cell detection with conjugates having an enzymatically releasable detection moiety The invention is directed to a method for detecting a target moiety in a sample of biological specimens by: a) providing at least one conjugate with the general formula (I) Xn—P—Ym, with X is an detection moiety, P an enzymatically degradable spacer and Y an antigen recognizing moiety and n, m are integers between 1 and 100 and wherein X and Y are covalently bound to P; b) contacting the sample of biological specimens with at least one conjugate, thereby labeling the target moiety recognized by the antigen recognizing moiety Y; c) detecting the target moiety labeled with the conjugate with the detecting moiety X; and d) enzymatically degrading spacer P, thereby cleaving the detection moiety X from the conjugate. The method is useful to identify target moieties on the biological specimens. The biological specimens detected by the conjugate can be subsequently removed from the sample.
US10197559B2	Chaperone-chaperone fusion polypeptides for reduction of interference and stabilization of immunoassays The invention concerns a fusion polypeptide including several molecules of folding helper polypeptides, including one multimerization domain, in particular Skp, and at least one molecule of SlyD or SlpA, wherein no further target polypeptide sequences are fused to the fusion polypeptide. The invention further concerns an immunoassay and the use of the fusion polypeptide in an immunoassay for reduction of interferences or minimizing false positive results or for stabilizing proteinaceous assay reagents. Further the invention concerns a reagent kit for use in an immunoassay comprising the fusion polypeptide.
US10197555B2	Method of setting a handover position and laboratory automation system A method of setting a handover position of a gripping device at a laboratory automation system is presented. A position of a position determining device held by the gripping device is detected using position sensors in order to determine the handover position. A laboratory automation system configured to perform such a method is also presented.
US10197554B2	System and method for early detection of Alzheimers by detecting amyloid-beta using orbital angular momentum An apparatus for measuring a concentration of amyloid-beta within a chiral solution includes signal generation circuitry for generating a first signal having an applied first orbital angular momentum signature and applying the first signal to the chiral solution. A detector for receiving the first signal after the first signal passes through the chiral solution and determining the concentration of amyloid-beta within the chiral solution based on a detected second orbital angular momentum signature received from the chiral solution that comprises an amplitude measurement and a phase measurement.
US10197553B2	Method for assessing the condition of a tissue sample with polarized electromagnetic radiation A method for assessing the condition of a tissue sample includes the steps of: 1. illuminating the sample with incident electromagnetic radiation exhibiting P polarization types, 2. for each of the P polarization types, inspecting the scattered incident radiation for at least one and possibly all of Q polarization types; 3. establishing a transfer function M relating the intensity of the P polarization types of the incident radiation to the intensity of the polarization types for which the scattered radiation was inspected; 4. comparing the established transfer function to one or more reference transfer functions; and 5. reaching a conclusion about the condition of the tissue sample based on the comparison.
US10197551B2	Integrated disease diagnostic system using matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer A disease diagnostic system where a sample preparation unit and/or a matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometer (MALDI-TOF MS) data generation unit may be integrated in one system or a set of a system to improve the user-friendliness of the system. The system may include a sample preparation unit with processing modules and/or a handler to move samples in an autonomous manner to enhance reproducibility of measurement data and/or user-friendliness. A different set of processing modules may be selected for a particular disease type (e.g. such as cancer) to be diagnosed. The system may be used to identify biomaterials such as bacteria, virus, and fungi from body fluids like blood, urine, and saliva and other cells.
US10197549B2	Wellbore cement simulator Methods and apparatus for analyzing the material properties and behavior of cement as it hydrates under simulated downhole conditions. A wellbore cement simulator includes a temperature and pressure controlled innermost oil-filled container; an annulus in contact with the innermost container configured to hold a cement sample; a mesh sleeve in contact with the annulus wherein the mesh sleeve is water permeable to permit hydration of the cement sample; a steel sleeve in contact with the mesh sleeve; an elastomeric bladder surrounding the steel sleeve; and a temperature and pressure controlled outermost oil-filled container.
US10197548B2	Method of adjustment of a workstation and a yarn clearer (yarn quality sensor) on a yarn manufacturing textile machine A method is provided for adjustment of a textile machine workstation based on yarn parameters measured by an associated yarn quality sensor at the work station. The method generates a first reference value of a selected yarn parameter by measurement of the yarn parameter or by calculation, wherein the first reference value is generated from the yarn parameter for a deliberately defective yarn intentionally produced at the workstation. The method then compares a current value or second reference value of the yarn parameter for yarn produced at the workstation of production quality or higher-than-production quality to the first reference value.
US10197540B2	Device and system for inspection This disclosure describes embodiments of a probe assembly and an inspection system for ultrasonic inspection. Designs for the probe assembly package components to fit into a bore of a hollow target. These designs may incorporate electronics to generate waves and to detect a wide selection of anomalies (e.g., transversal crack, longitudinal crack, and volumetric flaws) that can form in the hollow target. The probe assembly provides support structure to manipulate and operate these electronics in the bore. This support structure facilitates communication of signals, e.g., from transducer elements that operate as a phased array. The probe assembly also includes a fluid circulating system and coupling system that permits the probe device to detach and reattach to match the probe device (and other parts of the probe assembly) to the size of the bore. These systems allow for fluid and electrical signals to circulate through the probe assembly.
US10197535B2	Apparatus and method for full-field pulse-echo laser ultrasonic propagation imaging A system and method for full-field pulse-echo laser ultrasonic propagation imaging is provided. The full-field ultrasonic propagation imaging system generates ultrasounds on a structure by scanning the structure and emitting laser beams, simultaneously senses ultrasounds propagated through thickness of the structure, and generates a through-the-thickness ultrasonic propagation image. Accordingly, the full-field pulse-echo laser ultrasonic propagation imaging can visualize information on through-the-thickness defects in a full field.
US10197534B2	Method and device for testing defect based on ultrasonic lamb wave tomography Disclosed are a method and a device for testing a defect based on an ultrasonic Lamb wave tomography. The method includes: partitioning an imaging area of a material to be tested into grids; exciting electromagnetic acoustic transducers for emitting to emit Lamb waves with a A0 mode in all directions, and electromagnetic acoustic transducers for receiving to receive the Lamb waves; obtaining a time-frequency analysis result and recording time-of-flights of testing waves; determining a first slowness of each grid to obtain a first defect area; establishing an extrapolation formula according to the first defect area, and iterating the extrapolation formula to trace and revise paths of the Lamb waves until a better imaging precision is obtained.
US10197527B2	Sampling unit and biosensor A sampling unit having a first receiving part (16) and a second receiving part (18), which receive a sample solution and are disposed separately from each other, wherein the first receiving part (16) comprises an identification substance (22) that binds to a substance to be detected, and separates the substance to be detected from substances not to be detected in the sample solution, and the second receiving part (18) is connected with a reference electrode (21) via a salt bridge part (25).
US10197526B2	FET and fiber based sensor A gas sensor includes a field effect transistor supported on an oxide layer of a substrate, the field effect transistor having a doped source (p+ doped for T-FET and n+ doped for FET) and an n+ doped drain separated by an channel region (intrinsic for T-FET or slightly p-doped for FET), and a floating gate separated from the channel region by a gate oxide, a passivation layer covering the floating gate, and a sensing layer supported by the passivation layer, the sensing layer comprising nanofibers.
US10197523B2	Method for estimating distribution of sample The present invention relates to a method for estimating a distribution of a sample flowed from a first electrode toward a second electrode of an electrochemical test strip. A working voltage is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode for obtaining a first and a second currents, where a ratio of the first current to the second current is applied to estimate the distribution of the sample on the first and the second electrodes and an effectiveness of a measurement of a target analyte of the sample.
US10197517B2	Probe heater remaining useful life determination A probe system is configured to receive thermal images of the probe system from a thermal imager and includes a heater and a control circuit. The heater includes a resistive heating element routed through the probe. An operational voltage is provided to the resistive heating element to provide heating for the probe. The control circuit is configured to provide the operational voltage and receive the thermal images from the thermal imager. The control circuit is further configured to monitor the thermal images over time and determine a remaining useful life of the probe system based upon the thermal images over time.
US10197516B2	Non-contact quality control of fiber composites Systems and methods for conducting non-destructive testing of fiber composite components are disclosed. The system may include a wire coil proximate the component and a power source connected to the wire coil. A controller may be connected to the power source and configured to continuously vary a current passing through the wire coil to generate a constantly changing magnetic field. A temperature sensor may be configured to detect a temperature of a plurality of regions of the component. The power source may be an AC or DC power source. The method may include generating a constantly changing magnetic field in proximity to a carbon-fiber composite, thereby inducing an electrical current in the carbon-fiber composite, and measuring a temperature of a plurality of different regions of the carbon-fiber composite to determine whether a defect is present. A defect may be identified by a temperature abnormality in a region.
US10197512B2	Dual-energy microfocus radiographic imaging method for meat inspection A system and method for foreign object detection in meat processing is provided. The system and method combine microfocus X-ray sources with dual energy X-rays to detect foreign objects in meat products. A dual energy image processing algorithm analyzes the dual energy X-rays passed through the meat product to identify the foreign object present therein. An alarm or other notification is then generated in response to the detection of a foreign object.
US10197505B2	Method and system for low cost inspection A method for macro inspection, the method includes: (i) concurrently illuminating a current group of spaced apart object sub areas; wherein light reflected in a specular manner from a certain object sub area of the current group of object sub areas is expected to be detected by a certain sensor element of a current group of spaced apart sensor elements that correspond to the current group of spaced apart object sub areas; wherein the object sub areas are spaced apart so as to reduce a probability of a detection of non-specular light from the object; wherein each image sub area comprises multiple pixels; (ii) obtaining image information from the current group of spaced apart sensor elements; and (iii) processing at least a portion of the image information to provide an inspection result.
US10197489B2	Processes and systems for characterizing and optimizing fracturing fluids A workflow to optimize a fracturing fluid for injection into a subterranean formation is provided. The workflow comprises measurement of fundamental properties and characteristics of reservoir rock and fluid, their interaction with fracturing fluid, computer-based models and laboratory performance testing to select preferred fracturing base fluid and additives package for use in fracturing/re-fracturing stimulation of specific shale formations to enhance hydrocarbon recovery.
US10197486B2	Pavement drainage evaluation system A system for evaluating drainage condition of a pavement surface is disclosed. The system may include: a spray assembly configured to spray a liquid over the pavement surface, an image capturing device configured to capture consecutive images of the pavement surface at predetermined intervals, and an image processing unit coupled with the image capturing device. The image processing unit may include: a processor, and a memory that may be configured to store executable instructions to cause the processor to process the captured images to evaluate the drainage condition of the pavement by a number of steps that may include: converting each captured image into a binary image, the binary image including a first plurality of pixels representing pavement aggregates protruding from the sprayed liquid and a second plurality of pixels representing the sprayed liquid; applying optical granulometry to the binary images to obtain a rate of change for protruding pavement aggregates count and a rate of change for area of protruding pavement aggregates across the binary images; and classifying the pavement surface according to a drainage condition type based at least in part on a combination of the rate of change for the protruding pavement aggregates count and the rate of change for the area of protruding pavement aggregates.
US10197485B2	Particle characterisation Disclosed herein is a method of characterizing particles in a sample. The method comprises illuminating the sample in a sample cell with a light beam, so as to produce scattered light by the interaction of the light beam with the sample; obtaining a time series of measurements of the scattered light from a single detector; determining, from the time series of measurements from the single detector, which measurements were taken at times when a large particle was contributing to the scattered light; determining a particle size distribution, including correcting for light scattered by the large particle.
US10197484B2	Device and method to measure the effectiveness of protective sports equipment This patent describes devices and methods to evaluate and compare the effectiveness of protective equipment in providing protection to players of contact sports, and to determine if a given protective product (pad) is compliant with a specified performance standard. To simulate the impacts experienced by these players, a pad-protected specially modified and instrumented manikin is impacted with solid loads of various weights at various speeds. The impacts are designed to model the impact forces and impact times encountered in typical game collisions. For each impact, measurements are made of the force exerted onto the pad, and the parts of this force that are transmitted through the pad onto various locations on the manikin, as a function of time. Five numbers that quantify the ability of each pad to protect the user are extracted from these measured force verses time data: (1) the maximum force applied on the pad, (2) the average applied force, (3) the maximum force measured under the pad, (4) the sum of the maximum forces measured under the pad, and (5) the ratio of the rebound load speed and the incident load speed. For a given impact, the pad that reduces the magnitudes of these quantities the most is the pad that provides the greatest measure of safety for the game players.
US10197474B2	System and methods of inspecting a component A system for use in inspecting a component having flow openings defined therein. The system includes a fluid injector in flow communication with the component, wherein the fluid injector provides fluid to the component such that the fluid is discharged from the flow openings. A sensing sheet is coupled to or positioned proximate to the component such that the fluid discharged from the flow openings is received at the sensing sheet, wherein the sensing sheet is formed from pressure-sensitive material. A light source emits light towards the sensing sheet such that the pressure-sensitive material is excited to an energy level. The system further includes an imaging device that captures images of a change in color of the pressure-sensitive material as a function of a pressure of the fluid received at the sensing sheet, wherein the change in color represents a pressure distribution across the sensing sheet based on a flow profile of the fluid discharged from the flow openings.
US10197468B2	System and method for determining inertia properties of a rigid body System for determining inertia properties of a rigid body, particularly the inertia tensor, the mass and/or the position of the center of mass, comprising: a carrier (10), which is designed for suspending a rigid body (2) from the carrier (10), such that the rigid body (2) is able to perform movements along the six degrees of freedom of the rigid body (B), at least six sensors (100) providing output signals for detecting the movement of the rigid body (2) along the six degrees of freedom of the rigid body (2), a measuring device (110) cooperating with the sensors (100), wherein the measuring device (110) is configured to measure said movement of the rigid body (2) by means of said output signals (š1(tk)), and an analyzing means (20) configured for determining from said output signals (š1(tk)) said inertia properties (rS). Furthermore, the invention relates to a method for determining the inertia properties (rS).
US10197467B2	Modular calibration rotor for a horizontal balancer A calibration rotor for a horizontal balancer, configured to be driven by a driver. The calibration rotor includes a main barrel that has a longitudinal axis and the periphery of which includes points for attaching balance weights that are evenly distributed in an axial and angular manner about the axis. A rotation guide is arranged at each end of the main barrel. The rotor is modular, and the rotation guide includes adapters (40, 42) which are capable of being configured to be attached to the ends of the barrel. The guide is of a first type, suitable for rotatably guiding the barrel on rollers, or of a second type, suitable for rotatably guiding the half-shell barrel. Each type of adapter has the same predetermined moment of inertia and is interchangeable on the barrel.
US10197463B2	Dynamic quantity measuring device and pressure sensor using same Provided are a dynamic quantity measuring device having higher accuracy and longer-term reliability than in the prior art, and a pressure sensor using the same. A dynamic quantity measuring device is provided with a first Wheatstone bridge configured by an impurity diffused resistor on a principal surface of one semiconductor substrate, and detects a difference between strain quantities respectively generated in an x-axis direction and a y-axis direction that are orthogonal to each other on the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate by the first Wheatstone bridge, the dynamic quantity measuring device being provided with, on the principal surface of the semiconductor substrate, a second Wheatstone bridge for detecting the strain quantity in the x-axis direction, and a third Wheatstone bridge for detecting the strain quantity in the y-axis direction.
US10197455B2	Thermal oscillator A temperature dependent oscillator charges a capacitance from a voltage source through a switch. The switch is opened and the capacitance discharges through a transistor having a temperature dependent resistance. The voltage across the capacitance is compared to a predetermined threshold voltage. The comparator asserts a compare signal when the capacitance discharges to a predetermined voltage level. The switch is then closed for a long enough time to recharge the capacitor and then the switch is opened to allow the capacitance to discharge through the transistor. The charging and discharging repeats with a frequency that is exponentially related to temperature. A counter counts the oscillations over a predetermined time period. The count value is processed using a natural log function resulting in a thermal value corresponding to temperature. The thermal value may be corrected for supply voltage errors.
US10197454B2	Exhaust gas temperature sensing probe assembly A temperature sensing assembly includes a temperature sensing probe having a tip and a thermocouple junction located near the tip and a housing positioned around at least a portion of the temperature sensing probe and having an inlet opening between the thermocouple junction and an attachment point, and having a set of exhaust openings.
US10197453B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a first signal generator configured to generate a plurality of first signals and a second signal generator configured to generate a plurality of second signals. One of the plurality of first signals varies in one of a plurality of temperature sections. One of the plurality of second signals is substantially constant in one of the plurality of temperature sections.
US10197448B2	Low cost and high performance bolometer circuitry and methods A bolometer circuit may include an active bolometer configured to receive external infrared (IR) radiation and a resistive load, which are configured to be connected in series in a bolometer conduction path from a supply voltage node to a common voltage node. A node in the bolometer conduction path between the resistive load and the active bolometer is coupled to a first input of an op-amp. A variable voltage source is coupled to a second input of the op-amp to provide a reference voltage level. The op-amp maintains the reference voltage level at the first input to generate a current flow in response to a resistance change of the active bolometer due to the external IR radiation. The amplifier circuit may be configured as a feedback amplifier or an integrating amplifier. The bolometer circuit may be configured to enable a low-power mode of operation.
US10197446B2	System and method of determining if a surface is printed or a device screen A system and method of determining if a surface contains print or is a screen of a device is provided. The method is comprised of the steps of: acquiring a spectral wavelength signature of the surface; comparing the spectral wavelength signature of the surface to RGB triple-peak emission spectra; scanning the surface with an image-based scanner in non-illumination mode based upon the spectral wavelength signature of the surface corresponding to the RGB triple-peak emission spectra, and scanning the surface with an image-based scanner in illumination mode based upon the spectral wavelength signature of the surface not corresponding to the RGB triple-peak emission spectra.
US10197443B2	Spectrum measurement system, spectrum measurement device, optical measurement method and optical calibration method An optical calibration method for a spectrum measurement device including a light-input part includes: measuring a plurality of narrow-band rays by the light-input part to obtain a plurality of narrow-band spectrum impulse responses, respectively; establishing a stray light database according to the narrow-band spectrum impulse responses; generating a correction program according to the stray light database; measuring a spectral radiant standard light by the light-input part to obtain measurement spectrum data; and generating a calibration coefficient program based on the measurement spectrum data and spectral radiant standard spectrum data, wherein the calibration coefficient program matches the measurement spectrum data with the spectral radiant standard spectrum data, and the spectral radiant standard spectrum data is obtained by measuring the spectral radiant standard light by a standard spectrum measurement device. A spectrum measurement device, an optical measurement method and an optical calibration method are also provided.
US10197439B2	Optoelectronic sensor including a light transmitter with multiple wavelength light transmission comprising a monolithic semiconductor component An optoelectronic sensor for recognizing objects or object properties comprises a light transmitter for transmitting transmitted light into a detection zone, a light receiver for receiving received light and an evaluation unit which is configured to detect an object located in or projecting into a detection zone and/or to determine a property of such an object with reference to the received light received by the light receiver. The light transmitter comprises a monolithic semi-conductor component having a first light emitting layer and a second light emitting layer, with the first light emitting layer being configured for emitting red light and the second light emitting layer being configured for emitting infrared light, and with the second light emitting layer defining a central light emitting surface and the first light emitting layer defining an outer light emitting surface surrounding the central light emitting surface.
US10197436B2	Fluid pulse device and method of exciting gas turbine engine turomachinery components A fluid pulse device includes a piezo actuated valve, a piezo injector, a delivery system, and a control system. The piezo actuated valve has a valve body, a tube, and a piston assembly. The valve body defines a first opening, a second opening, and a valve cavity that is disposed between the first opening and the second opening. The tube extends from the valve body. The piston assembly includes a piston head and a stem that is connected to the piston head. The piezo injector has an injector tip that extends through the first opening. The delivery system is fluidly connected to the piezo injector. The control system is operatively connected to the piezo injector and is configured to actuate the piezo injector to provide a fluid pulse.
US10197433B2	Dimensional measuring system A multi-dimensional measuring system is disclosed. The measuring system includes a dimensional measuring device that fits over an exterior portion of an item and provides reference measurements in three orthogonal directions. The measuring system also includes a camera to take an image of the item with the dimensional measuring placed thereon and a hardware processor that receives and processes the image to determine the dimensions of the item based upon the reference measurements of the dimensional measuring device.
US10197432B2	Liquid level sensor that adapts to pressure changes Provided is a liquid level sensor for a fuel tank including: a case having a filled liquid filled therein and closed; a resistor substrate provided in the case and a wiper contacting the resistor substrate; and a damper provided in the case and absorbing a pressure change of an inner portion of the case. The liquid level sensor for a fuel tank is configured to absorb a pressure change of the inner portion of the case, thereby making it possible to prevent leakage of the filled liquid that may occur due to the pressure change of the inner portion of the case.
US10197430B2	Visual indicator A visual indicator for denoting a fluid level in a throat portion of a waterless urinal cartridge is presented. The visual indicator comprises a fluid level indicator disposed in the throat portion of the cartridge. As material buildup occurs inside the cartridge, a corresponding rise in the fluid level in the throat of the cartridge may be seen relative to the indicator, indicating when the cartridge will need replacement. The visual indicator may comprise markings that indicate the level of fluid within the throat portion, reactive materials, or an electronic reader. The fluid level indicator may also be made visible by ultraviolet radiation.
US10197429B2	Nuclear density gauge A nuclear level sensing gauge for a vessel 10 comprises a vertical source well 12 and one more level sensing detectors 22 mounted to vertically spaced nozzles, where the sources 30 in the source well 12 are distributed sources which emit a radiation pattern illuminating a length of greater than one inch of the respective level sensing nozzle, so that thermal expansion or contraction of the vessel 10 does not significantly alter radiation illuminating each detector 22. In a second embodiment, a vessel 10 includes plural level sensing nozzles and plurality of level sensing wells 12′, each nozzle and level sensing well 12′ positioned adjacent to one another such that a source in the well illuminates a detector 22 on the nozzle. Because the respective level sensing wells 12′ and level sensing nozzles are closely adjacent to one another, thermal expansion or contraction of the vessel does not significantly alter the illumination of the detector 22.
US10197426B2	Metering device and metering method for metering carbon dioxide flow A metering device and metering method for metering carbon dioxide flow belong to the technical field of preparation of polyurethane foam materials. The metering device of the present invention has a simple structure and a small size, can accurately control the amount of the delivered liquefied carbon dioxide; meanwhile, one end of the metering pump is connected with the sliding block, and the sliding block can move on the transverse plate, thus changing the vertical movement stroke of the piston rod and changing the flow volume of the carbon dioxide. The cylinder of the metering pump of the present invention is internally provided with the water passages, and a coolant can be filled into the water passages to keep the temperature of the carbon dioxide constant.
US10197425B2	Flowmeter for two-phase fluid with simultaneous or alternating measurement of the gas phase and the liquid phase The invention relates to a flowmeter for liquid/gas two-phase cryogenic fluids, including: a separator of the liquid/gas phases, preferably made up of a vessel, the cryogenic fluid being admitted into the top portion of said vessel; a liquid flow sensor, located on a liquid pipe in fluid communication with the bottom portion of the vessel, the vessel being placed in the top position in the space relative to the liquid flow sensor; a gas pipe, in fluid communication with the upper portion of the vessel, provided with a flow sensor of the gas phase circulating in said gas pipe; a three-way valve capable of recovering, in two of the channels thereof (A/B), the downstream end of said gas pipe and the downstream end of said liquid pipe; and a device for measuring the level of liquid in the vessel, preferably comprising two level sensors: a bottom level sensor and a top level sensor.
US10197419B2	Magnetic absolute rotary encoder Provided is a magnetic absolute rotary encoder, comprising a rotation shaft, multiple rotating wheels that can rotate along the rotation shaft, multiple encoding units that correspond to the multiple rotating wheels one-to-one, and one or more permanent magnet assemblies that provide the magnetic bias to the multiple encoding units. Each encoding unit comprises a magnetically permeable encoder disc, the structure thereof enabling the magnetic permeability thereof to be different according to the different positions of the rotation shaft, and comprises multiple sensor units that comprise multiple magnetic sensors. The sensor units are used to sense the magnetic permeability of the magnetically permeable encoder disc and to output the sensor signals that characterize the relative position of the magnetically permeable encoder disc. According to the sensor signals of the sensor units, each encoding unit outputs the value that characterizes the selected rotation position of the corresponding rotation wheel, thereby enabling an absolute magnetic rotating encoder that is simple and low in cost and has more precise magnetic encoder discs.
US10197417B2	Monitoring activity with intelligent fabrics Textiles coupled with electrical components that are responsive to actions of the wearer and the surrounding environment. The textiles comprise a variety of sensors that interface with the cloud, networks, and devices. The textiles monitor physiological characteristics of the wearer. Objects in the environment may interact with the electrical components of the textiles. Micro-Electro-Mechanical Systems that include electrical components, such as, accelerometers, gyroscopes, Bluetooth chips, NFC chips, and RF tags integrate with the textiles to wirelessly communicate with networks.
US10197415B2	Method of sharing information through map service and electronic device therefor An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a processor configured to receive an input for executing an application that provides a map service, sense a selection input event associated with a creation image item of a map of interest provided in the application, receive an inputting of title information of the map of interest, allowed regional scope information, and access right information that allows access to the map of interest, generate map-of-interest data based on the received input, and control a display module to display a map-of-interest user interface (UI) based on the generated map-of-interest data, and a communication module configured to transmit the generated map-of-interest data to a server.
US10197412B2	Electric vehicle charging A vehicle charge system includes a computer programmed to navigate a vehicle to a charge location based on a determination, upon determining that light received by the vehicle is below a light threshold, that one of a current vehicle charge level and a predicted charge level is below a charge threshold.
US10197411B2	Continuously updatable computer-generated routes with continuously configurable virtual bus stops for passenger ride-sharing of a fleet of ride-sharing vehicles and computer transportation systems and computer-implemented methods for use thereof In some embodiments, the present invention provides a computer-implemented transportation system which can include at least the following components: a specialized computer machine, including: a non-transient memory, electronically storing particular computer executable program code; a specifically programmed computer processor of the specialized computer machine of the computer-implemented transportation system that is configured to perform at least the following operations: electronically receiving, in real-time, via a computer network, a plurality of electronic riding requests from a plurality of electronic computing devices operated by a plurality of ride-sharing requesting passengers; where each electronic riding request from each ride-sharing requesting passenger includes: a passenger-requested origin point, and a passenger-requested destination point; for a particular electronic riding request, dynamically determining, in real-time, from a plurality of candidate vehicles an assigned vehicle for picking up the particular ride-shaming requesting passenger and a pair of assigned virtual pickup and dropoff bus stop tasks.
US10197410B2	Dynamic real-time carpool matching According to one exemplary embodiment, a method for real-time carpool matching is provided. The method may include receiving a plurality of carpool requests having a plurality of carpool route segments. The method may include determining at least one carpool match in real-time based on the plurality of carpool route segments. The method may include assigning each carpool match a viability value. The method may then include assigning a selected carpool match automatically for a user associated with the determined at least one carpool match, based on the assigned viability value associated with each carpool match within the at least one carpool match. The method may further include choosing a driver from a plurality of carpool participants, whereby the plurality of carpool participants is based on the selected carpool match. The method may also include sending the selected carpool match to the plurality of carpool participants.
US10197402B2	Travel direction information output apparatus, map matching apparatus, travel direction information output method, and computer readable medium To estimate an accurate travel direction of a user based on sensor signals from a mobile device being held by the user even if the user moves ahead while moving the mobile device right and left, a travel direction information output apparatus, a travel direction information output method, and a computer readable medium are provided, the travel direction information output apparatus including a travel direction estimation unit that calculates a travel direction of the user, a rotation amount calculation unit that calculates rotation amounts about a gravity axis of the mobile device being held by the user, and a selection unit that selects, based on an integrated value of the rotation amounts, from either to output travel direction information according to the travel direction calculated by the travel direction estimation unit or to output travel direction information that keeps previous travel direction information output.
US10197401B1	Dynamic information display for building occupants A method and system of dynamically displaying information to a user is disclosed. A user's location is sensed. Customized information is displayed to the user at a location that is in proximity to the user. The customized information moves as the as the user changes location.
US10197393B2	Method and system for determining the position of a radiation source The present invention refers to a method for determining a position of a divergent radiation source (1), comprising Irradiating a pixel detector (2) with a predetermined intensity distribution of radiation with wavelength λ originated from the radiation source (1), wherein the pixel detector (2) comprises a plurality of pixels with pixel coordinates (xi, yi, zi); Detecting, for each of the plurality of pixels, an intensity of the incident radiation (10); Determining, for each of the plurality of pixels, an incidence direction of the incident radiation using information on an orientation of an internal periodic structure at the pixel and the predetermined intensity distribution, wavelength λ and the detected intensity; and Determining the position (xp, yp, zp) of the radiation source (1) using the pixel coordinates (xi, yi, zi) and the incidence direction for each of the plurality of pixels. The invention further refers to a system, a computer-related product and a sample (8) for performing such method and to the use of a pixel detector (2) for determining a position of a divergent radiation source (1).
US10197388B2	Position-measuring device able to monitor deviations from a setpoint behavior and method for operating the position-measuring device A position-measuring device includes a measuring standard, a scanning unit, and a rotary bearing by which the measuring standard or the scanning unit is rotationally mounted. The measuring standard and the scanning unit are rotatable in relation to each other. The scanning unit generates output signals, on the basis of which a rotary angle associated with the relative motion of the measuring standard and the scanning unit is able to be determined. A monitoring device monitors the rotary bearing for the occurrence of bearing faults and is adapted to detect and analyze at least one measured variable for a plurality of different relative positions of the measuring standard in relation to the scanning unit, in order to determine deviations from a setpoint behavior of the measured variables on the basis of the measured variable detected for a plurality of relative positions.
US10197383B2	Optical positioning sensor A sensor is disclosed that provides measurements in multiple degrees of freedom without significantly increasing size, complexity, or cost. The sensor can include a light component in support of a first light source operable to direct a first beam of light, and a second light source operable to direct a second beam of light. The sensor can also include an imaging device that can directly receive the first beam of light and the second beam of light and convert these into electric signals. The imaging device and the light component can be movable relative to one another. The sensor can further include a light location module and/or a position module configured to receive the electric signals and determine locations of the first beam of light, the second beam of light on the imaging device and a relative position of the imaging device and the light component.
US10197378B2	Time domain depth sensor Embodiments herein relate to a time domain depth sensor system and method for determining a depth of a ground engaging device in soil. The sensor system may include a signal transmission element arranged on an outer periphery of a ground engaging device that is adapted to penetrate soil. The signal transmission element can be arranged to receive and transmit an electrical signal that is responsive to impedance discontinuities detected by a pulse detector. The pulse detector is configured to detect a first and a second reflected signal corresponding to a sensed impedance discontinuities at a first and a second soil location. An electronic data processor is communicatively coupled the pulse detector and is configured to determine the depth of the ground engaging device in the soil based on a difference between a first time of propagation of the first reflected signal and a second time of propagation of the second reflected signal.
US10197377B2	Method of operating a capacitive proximity sensor and capacitive proximity sensor During operation of a capacitive proximity sensor that is provided with at least two measuring electrodes, a first capacitance measurement variable and a second capacitance measurement variable are detected. The first capacitance measurement variable is correlated with the capacitance of at least one of the measuring electrodes to earth, while the second capacitance measurement variable is correlated with the capacitance between at least one of the measuring electrodes and at least one further measuring electrode. A change in the first capacitance measurement variable is evaluated together with a synchronous signal profile of the second capacitance measurement variable in order to distinguish a proximity of a conductor coupled electrically to earth from the proximity of dielectric matter. In this manner, a body part passing into the detection space of the proximity sensor can be distinguished effectively from other substances and objects, particularly water.
US10197376B2	Runout detection device configured to detect runout of the rotating member based on the heat flux detected by the heat In a runout detection device for detecting runout of a rotating member, a displacement unit abuts on the rotating member, and is displaced in accordance with displacement of the rotating member while the rotor abuts on the displacement unit. An elastic member elastically deforms in accordance with displacement of the displacement unit. A heat flux sensor detects a heat flux generated by elastic deformation of the elastic member. The runout detection device is configured to detect runout of the rotating member based on the heat flux detected by the heat flux sensor.
US10197371B2	Firearm magazine dispenser A firearm magazine case that is sized to hold a stack of firearm magazines, which case includes a spring mechanism at one end such that the magazines are advanced within the case to a ready position as the magazines are extracted from the case and configured to be mounted on a person's front or side so that the magazines are reached with an easy and natural motion, whereby the case is contoured to a person's body and is configured such that magazines are able to be extracted in one step, yet are effectively protected from the environment, the case includes an attachment mechanism that allows the case to be mounted either horizontally or vertically, according to the user's preference, the case's attachment mechanism, which consists of an “x” shaped ridge or lip which coordinates to accept a triangular insert that is attached to a person's clothing, whereby sliding any side of the “x” down over the triangle attaches the case in a secure manner, yet allows the case to be quickly and easily detached and/or replaced with a new magazine dispenser, and the case is stackable (and perhaps joiningly stackable) with other cases.
US10197368B2	Auxiliary cutting implement for arrow An auxiliary cutting implement for attachment between a broadhead and arrow shaft includes preferably two or more coils each having two cutting edges formed along their opposite elongated side edges. As the coils pass through the animal they unroll and slice through animal flesh in all directions. The coils are biased toward their rolled position which increases the multi-directional movement of the coil and cutting edges through the animal resulting in a large cutting area and fast kill as compared to the broadhead alone.
US10197367B1	Method of machining V-notch grooves for controlled fragmentation of warheads An improved method of machines grooves forming Pearson notches in a pattern on hollow shell casings for munitions for at least one of increased functionality and/or performance. Rather than running a broach through a hollow casing, a CNC lathe with a multi-axis tool with cutting implement can precisely locate and form grooves along either an interior or an exterior surface of a hollow shell casing.
US10197366B2	Polymer-based cartridge casing for blank and subsonic ammunition A polymer-based cartridge for subsonic ammunition with a first end having a projectile disposed in a mouth, a shoulder forming a bottleneck cartridge; and at least a polymer wall between the first end and a second end opposite the first. An insert is joined to the second end, having an extraction rim and groove, a primer pocket communicating with a flash hole, and the flash hole communicating with a propellant chamber. A sleeve section has a metal or a metal alloy, extending from the insert toward the first end, and at least partially covered by the wall. The sleeve section and the wall form the propellant chamber having a thickness at least 1.25 times greater than a standard thickness of a wall of a standard cartridge. The propellant chamber between the mouth and the insert is unobstructed, and comprises a powder load having a load density greater than 40%.
US10197364B1	Demining device A demining device has a controlled detonator or hammer assembly mounted on a ram drive; which, when it is used as a demining device, permits efficient elimination of a minefield with minimal danger to the operator of the tractor, and which can be easily assembled from parts on hand or otherwise used with a device for exploding mines in a minefield.
US10197363B1	Porous refractory armor substrate Composite armor and armor systems according to the invention incorporate substrates that delay and reduce compressive waves associated with impacts from reflecting off of the back surface of ceramic front face armor as tensile waves, which may damage or destroy the front face armor material. The composite armor and armor systems incorporating syntactic substrates and backed by a high strength fiber backing exhibit increased mass efficiency and reduced blunt force trauma resulting from ballistic impacts.
US10197361B1	Multi-purpose reticle A multipurpose reticle has a transparent body that the reticle is marked onto; a primary horizontal crosshair; a secondary horizontal crosshair below the primary horizontal crosshair and parallel to the primary horizontal crosshair; a projectile holdover reference grid between the primary horizontal crosshair and the secondary horizontal crosshair; and a vertical crosshair beginning from the primary horizontal crosshair and extending downwardly to the secondary horizontal crosshair. The vertical crosshair is a shared vertical crosshair. The vertical crosshair bisects the projectile holdover reference grid such that the right half of the projectile holdover reference grid is to the right of the vertical crosshair and the left half of the projectile holdover reference grid is to the left of the vertical crosshair.
US10197359B1	Grip-mounted laser sight for a handgun A laser sighting device for a handgun may include a power supply module and a backstrap having a laser emitter, the power supply module and the backstrap each comprising a portion of an electrical conduction path. When the backstrap is mounted to an external portion of a handgrip and the power supply module is inserted into an existing cavity of the handgrip, the electrical conduction path is automatically completed and the laser emitter is powered by the power supply module.
US10197357B2	Tactile biofeedback reference attachment A tactile reference attachment for releasable attachment to a sports equipment handle providing a user with tactile biofeedback. The attachment includes a tactile reference feature that extends longitudinally along an exterior body surface and is formed with dimensions specifically tailored to harness the user's natural attributes of sensibility, proprioception, and neuromuscular memory to improve a user's accuracy. The tactile reference attachment includes a flexible primary substrate having a plurality of attachment perimeter edges, an exterior surface, an interior surface having an adhesive, a thickness, and at least a first tactile reference projection having a plurality of perimeter edges, a projection width of no greater than 5.0 millimeters, a projection height of at least 0.5 millimeters, and an indentation length.
US10197354B2	Crossbow trigger with roller sear In some embodiments, a trigger mechanism comprises a trigger and a latch. The trigger comprises a body, a bearing and a roller. The roller is arranged to rotate with respect to the body. The body supports the bearing and the bearing supports the roller. The roller comprises a trigger sear. The latch comprises a latch sear that is arranged to contact the trigger sear.
US10197353B2	Receiver with an ambidextrous bolt stop Disclosed is a lower receiver that defines an aperture extending between a bolt stop well and an actuator well, the lower receiver including a bolts stop and a first actuator lever on one side of the lower receiver and a bolt stop actuator that includes a tooth that extends through the aperture, a second bolt release lever on the other side of the lower receiver and a rod connecting the tooth and the second bolt release lever, wherein the tooth engages the bolt stop so that actuation of the second bolt release lever moves the bolt stop and where the first and second release levers move in unison.
US10197350B2	Remotely authorizing and disabling weapons A weapon, a method of authorizing the weapon and weapon security system are disclosed. An authorization string is stored at the weapon. An authorization message may be received at the weapon from an authorization center. A processor at the weapon may obtain a first substring from the authorization message, the first substring being obtained from a copy of the authorization string. The processor compares the first substring to a second substring and authorizes the weapon when the first substring matches the second substring.
US10197347B2	Buffer retaining pin In one aspect of the invention a buffer retaining pin is provided that comprises an elongate body. The elongate body comprises a cylindrical body portion. The elongate body has a longitudinal axis, a proximal end, and an opposite open distal end. The cylindrical body has an inner chamber in communication with the open distal end. A tooth is located at the proximal end of the elongate body. The tooth is integral with and extends from the cylindrical body such that the cylindrical body portion extends between the tooth and the open distal end. The tooth defines a top side, a left side, a right side, a front face, and a rear face. The front face of the tooth extends in a plane such that the plane of the front face intersects the longitudinal axis.
US10197336B2	Heat exchanger A first projection plate and a second projection plate of each segment of first plurality of segments cause gas flowing into each segment to flow out from each segment while causing rotation in the gas in different directions with respect to a rotational axis in a gas flow direction and then flow into each of two segments of second plurality of segments adjacent in a perpendicular direction to the gas flow direction.
US10197333B2	Method and apparatus for drying substrate Disclosed is a substrate drying apparatus of substrate processing apparatus including a chamber that provides a space for processing a substrate, and a fluid supply unit that supplies a process fluid to the chamber, wherein the liquid supply unit includes a supply tank in which the fluid is stored, a supply line that connects the supply tank and the chamber, a branch line branched from a first point of the supply line and connected to a second point of the supply line, and a temperature control unit that adjusts the temperature of the fluid such that the temperatures of the fluids flowing through the supply line and the branch line between the first point and the second point are different.
US10197330B2	Textile dryer An apparatus for drying a garment is provided, including a main member, at least one light source, and at least one air source. The main member includes an outer surface configured for receiving the garment, and a plurality of apertures disposed along the outer surface. The light source emits a UV-C light, and the air source blows air. The UV-C light from the light source and air from the air source can at least partially pass through the outer surface. The apertures are in communication with at least the air source.
US10197327B2	Refrigerator and basket assembly thereof A refrigerator and a basket assembly thereof are disclosed. The basket assembly includes a basket, a cover for covering the basket, a knob provided at the basket, and a protruding portion provided at the cover and fastened to the knob. The knob includes a first extension portion extending from the basket in an upwardly inclined direction to a higher position than a distal end of the protruding portion so as to support a rear surface of the protruding portion, a second extension portion extending from the first extension portion in a downwardly inclined direction, and a third extension portion extending downwards from the second extension portion. When force is applied to the third extension portion in a forward direction, the first extension portion is elastically deformed such that the distal end of the first extension portion is moved to a lower position than the distal end of the protruding portion.
US10197326B2	Door opening and closing device for refrigerator and method of controlling the same A door opening and closing device for a refrigerator includes a door coupled to a main body, an opening and closing unit including a drive unit for generating rotational force by means of a motor and a door rotating mechanism for opening or closing the door, a device for measuring a back electromotive force generated from the motor, a power circuit connected for supplying power to the motor, a circuit for transmitting back electromotive force of the motor to the device, a control switch for selectively connecting the motor to the circuit or the power circuit, and a control unit for connecting the control switch to the power circuit when the motor is activated, and connecting the control switch to the circuit and opening or closing the door when the motor is deactivated, wherein the control unit closes the door when a predetermined back electromotive force is input to the device.
US10197323B1	Emissive composite materials and methods for use thereof Electron emission from an emissive substance, such as an emissive composite material, can be employed as a heat dissipation technique and mechanism for a part subject to operational heating. Emissive composite materials containing a refractory metal matrix and a ceramic electride material in the refractory metal matrix can be utilized for this purpose. Emissive composite materials can retain the thermal stability of the base refractory metal and emit electrons upon being heated to a sufficiently high temperature. Cooling systems and associated methods can utilize a collector configured to receive electrons emitted across open space by the ceramic electride material upon heating, and a conductive pathway can allow the electrons to be returned to the emissive composite material. Accordingly, the emissive composite material and the collector define a portion of an electrical circuit.
US10197322B2	Fridgechest—refrigerator-style ice chest/cooler An ice chest/cooler with a hinged wall door that opens to a multi drawer compartment for food and beverage storage. The other compartment of the ice chest-cooler is for ice storage and is accessed through one of two top lids. A mesh divider wall separates the two compartments and allows the ice to chill the drawer compartment. The drawer system provides organization and helps prevent cross contamination between foods and beverages and with the ice. Ice melt should accrue at a slow rate, with the separated compartments reducing open exposure of the ice while using the front wall door for access to food and beverages. And when the ice lid is opened for access to the ice only, the drawer compartment's open exposure is reduced.
US10197318B2	Chilling machine A chilling machine includes a refrigerant circuit; a compressor, a condenser and an evaporator that are provided on the refrigerant circuit; a coolant circuit including first and second supply paths to which coolant is supplied at different temperatures; and a chiller that cools the coolant. The coolant circuit includes a first supply path for supplying low temperature coolant to the first supply destination, and a second supply path for supplying high temperature coolant to the second supply destination. The refrigerant circuit includes a first reheater that increases temperature of the coolant flowing through the second supply path by heats of the refrigerant, a first selective path that supplies the refrigerant to the condenser by bypassing the first reheater, a second selective path that supplies the refrigerant to the condenser through the first reheater, and a controller that adjusts quantity of the refrigerant passing through the first and second selective paths.
US10197315B2	Valve mechanism for an air conditioning system A valve mechanism for an air condition circuit of an air condition system may include a valve housing enclosing a fluid duct for passing a fluid flow, a closure body arranged movably in the fluid duct between at least a closed position and an open position, and adjustment element operably connected to the closure body to move the closure body between the open position and the closed position, and a noise reduction device configured to facilitate a reduction of an operating noise when the fluid flow through the fluid duct. The noise reduction device may be disposed at one or more of the closure body, a valve seat, and the adjustment element.
US10197314B2	Electronic expansion valve and methods for calibrating an electronic expansion valve An electronic expansion valve (1) is provided, comprising an inlet (9), an outlet (8), an armature (2), a stop member (3), a biasing member (4) and a solenoid coil (12). The biasing member (4) provides a biasing force on the armature (2) towards a closing direction while the solenoid coil (12) may be provided with a current to provide a magnetic force on the armature (2) towards an opening direction. It is intended to provide an electronic expansion valve that may be controlled more precisely and has a higher safety. To this end the pressure difference between the inlet pressure and the outlet pressure provides a differential pressure force on the armature (2) towards an opening direction to allow a fluid flow from the inlet (9) to the outlet (8), and furthermore the armature (2) is displaced away from the stop member (3) to allow a fluid flow from the inlet (9) to the outlet (8) if the sum of the magnetic force and the differential pressure force on the armature (2) exceeds the biasing force. The invention furthermore relates to a refrigeration system comprising such an electronic expansion valve as well as a method for calibrating such an electronic expansion valve.
US10197311B2	Reciprocating refrigeration compressor wrist pin retention A compressor (20) has a case (22) and a crankshaft (38). The case has a number of cylinders (30 32). For each of the cylinders, the compressor includes a piston (34) mounted for reciprocal movement at least partially within the cylinder. A connecting rod (36) couples each piston to the crankshaft. A pin (44) couples each connecting rod to the associated piston. Each pin has first (52) and second (53) end portions mounted to first (56) and second (57) receiving portions of the associated piston and a central portion (48) engaging the associated connecting rod. For each of the pistons a pair of first and second at least partially non metallic plugs have respective stems received in the pin first and second end portions and respective heads facing a wall surface of the associated cylinder.
US10197308B2	Portable self-refrigerating autonomous system A portable self-refrigerating autonomous system comprises a leak-tight tank in which a pressurized liquefied gas is stored, at least one evaporation control valve and a filling valve, all the valves being connected to the leak-tight tank. The at least one evaporation control valve also cooperates with a temperature and/or pressure sensor, and an actuator is intended for controlling the opening of the at least one evaporation control valve.
US10197307B2	Air conditioner with oil level control for both gas and electric heat pump cycles Provided is an air conditioner including at least one indoor unit; an EHP outdoor unit connected with the at least one indoor unit, and configured to control an applied current and drive an EHP compressor; a GHP outdoor unit connected with the at least one indoor unit and including a GHP compressor configured to operate using power from an engine driven through a combustion gas and an oil separator provided at an outlet side of the GHP compressor; an oil level sensor provided at the EHP outdoor unit or the GHP outdoor unit and configured to detect an amount of oil; and a control part configured to control an RPM of the EHP compressor or the GHP compressor based on information detected by the oil level sensor.
US10197304B2	Tandem compressor discharge pressure and temperature control logic An HVAC system, comprising a plurality of sensors, a tandem compressor comprising a first compressor and a second compressor, and a controller communicatively coupled to the plurality of sensors and the tandem compressor. The controller may determine a first interruption of power to the tandem compressor and identify a sensor corresponding to the first interruption of power. The controller is further operable to determine that the first interruption of power was caused at least in part by the refrigerant associated with the first compressor exceeding a tolerance condition. The controller may also reconfigure the tandem compressor, wherein on or off settings of the first compressor and the second compressor are determined based on a required load operation of the tandem compressor and the determination that the first interruption of power was caused at least in part by the refrigerant associated with the first compressor exceeding the tolerance condition.
US10197301B2	Heat source system, and control device and control method therefor The purpose of the present invention is to avoid frequent repetition of an increase/decrease stage caused by the inclusion, in a heat source system, of a machine the capacity of which has been degraded. A heat source system of the present invention is provided with a plurality of heat source machines. A higher-level control device (20) controls each of the heat source machines so that a heat medium delivery temperature, which is the temperature of a heat medium being supplied to an external load, will be a set temperature. The higher-level control device (20) is provided with a number-of-machines control unit (22), a degraded machine detection unit (24), and a priority ranking modification unit (25). The number-of-machines control unit (22) controls the number of heat source machines in accordance with operational priority ranking information in which each of the heat source machines and an operational priority ranking are associated together. The degraded machine detection unit (24) detects, as a capacity-degraded machine, a heat source machine that satisfies a predetermined capacity degradation condition, from among operating heat source machines. The priority ranking modification unit (25), if a capacity-degraded machine has been detected, modifies to a lowest position the operational priority ranking of the capacity-degraded machine in the operational priority ranking information.
US10197298B2	Indoor device for cassette type air conditioner An indoor device for a cassette type air conditioner is provided. In the indoor device for the cassette type air conditioner, an outer edge of a suction grill extends to form inner lines of a plurality of discharge holes of a panel, and the suction grill may be opened while slidably moving without interfering with the panel according to a shape thereof.
US10197297B2	Passive ventilation control system A passive ventilation control system and method. The system includes passive vents throughout a building. The vents may be arranged in multiple sets, with each set being substantially vertically aligned through multiple floors or the entire height of the building. Sensors are positioned inside and/or outside the building for sensing different environmental parameters or atmospheric conditions. The sensors send signals to a controller, which automatically adjusts airflow through the vents in response to the signals from the sensors.
US10197286B2	Combustion system This invention relates to a combustion system. The combustion system includes a fireplace which has a fire base, a primary combustion zone for pyrolysising and/or combusting a biomass fuel, and a secondary combustion zone for combusting gases and/or particulate matter produced from the pyrolysis and/or combustion of the biomass fuel. The combustion system also includes an exhaust flue, the exhaust flue extending to a position near to, or adjacent, the secondary combustion zone and/or the fire base. The invention may be particularly suitable for use in relation to wood burners, either by retrofitting to existing wood burners or by incorporating into new wood burners.
US10197285B2	Gas turbine engine wall assembly interface A wall assembly is provided for a gas turbine engine. This wall assembly includes a support shell with a contoured region; and a multiple of liner panels mounted to the support shell. At least one of the multiple of liner panels includes an end rail. The contoured region is deformable to selectively contact at least a portion of the end rail. A method of assembling a wall assembly within a gas turbine engine is also provided. This method includes locating a stud that extends from a cold side of a liner panel through a support shell; and attaching a fastener onto the stud to at least partially close a gap defined between the panel and shell.
US10197280B2	Fuel spray nozzle A fuel spray nozzle provided with: a liquid fuel channel (15), which is a channel for liquid fuel; a liquid fuel injection hole (19), which is a hole for communicating the liquid fuel channel (15) and the inside of a combustion burner, and injecting the liquid fuel into the combustion burner; an additive channel (14), which is a channel for an additive; and an additive injection hole (18a), which is a hole for communicating the additive channel (14) and the inside of the combustion burner, and injecting the additive into the combustion burner at an angle at which the additive collides with the liquid fuel injected from the liquid fuel injection hole (19).
US10197278B2	Combustor assembly for a turbine engine A combustor assembly for a gas turbine engine is provided. The combustor assembly includes a liner at least partially defining a combustion chamber and extending between an aft end a forward end generally along an axial direction. The combustor assembly also includes an annular dome including an enclosed surface defining a slot for receipt of the forward end of the liner. A cap is positioned at the forward end of the liner and at least partially positioned within the slot defined by the enclosed surface of the annular dome. The cap includes a surface configured to contact at least one of the enclosed surface of the annular dome and the forward end of the liner. Such a configuration may form a substantially airtight seal between the forward end of the liner and the annular dome despite a relative thermal expansion between the components.
US10197275B2	High frequency acoustic damper for combustor liners An acoustic damping device is provided that includes a resonating tube defining a resonating cavity with a predetermined characteristic length and a tube end defining a cavity opening, as well as a case configured to reversibly secure the tube end in fluidic communication with a fluid volume enclosed by a liner. The cavity opening is connected with the resonating cavity. The case includes a vented ferrule adpressed over a perforated region of the liner. The vented ferrule defines a ferrule opening that is aligned with the perforated region of the liner and the cavity opening to form the fluidic communication between the fluid volume and the resonating cavity.
US10197274B2	Integrated process for oxy-fuel combustion and production of oxygen Process for heating via oxy-fuel combustion in which a stream of air is heated by means of at least one portion of the residual heat present in the fuel gases discharged from the combustion chamber, at least one portion of said hot air stream is introduced into an oxygen production unit in which a portion of the oxygen present in the hot air stream is extracted by means of one or more ITM, with a first stream of oxygen at high temperature being obtained, said first stream of oxygen is mixed with a second stream of oxygen so as to obtain a total stream of oxygen at a lower temperature than that of the first stream of oxygen, at least one portion of the total stream of oxygen being transported to the combustion chamber and used within as oxygen-rich oxidizer.
US10197270B2	Combustion burner for boiler A combustion burner for a boiler includes: an inner cylinder defining a fuel supply passage for supplying fuel; an outer cylinder surrounding the inner cylinder and defining an air supply passage between the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder; and a swirler in the air supply passage, the swirler being configured to swirl air in the air supply passage. The swirler includes a plurality of blades radially disposed between the inner cylinder and the outer cylinder, the plurality of blades extending from an air-supply side toward a combustion-space side of the air supply passage, and each of the plurality of blades having, at least on an inner cylinder side of the blade, a section with a thickness varied in a burner axial direction, the thickness being smaller at an edge portion on the combustion-space side than at a maximum-thickness section of the blade.
US10197268B2	Self extinguishing torch canister A self extinguishing torch mechanism has a stationary tube with an opening at an upper end thereof, and a wick tube concentrically rigidly affixed inside the stationary tube defining a space therebetween. A sliding tube is situated coaxially around wick tube the within the space defined between the wick tube and stationary tube. A biasing member extends the sliding member through the opening at the upper end of the stationary tube when the stationary tube is overturned.
US10197267B2	Split pass economizer bank with integrated water coil air heating and feedwater biasing An apparatus for using a water coil air heater with a single bank economizer. A boiler economizer arrangement includes an economizer bank which has separate hot pass bank and cold pass bank economizer portions in a parallel arrangement, each facing the same flow of hot flue gas. Feedwater enters the cold pass bank economizer where it is heated by the hot flue gas, and then flows to a water coil air heater away from the hot flue gas. The feedwater dissipates heat energy in the water coil air heater which may be used to heat air bound for combustion. The feedwater continues into the hot pass bank economizer portion of the economizer arrangement where it absorbs additional heat from the flue gas. The heated feedwater flows out of the economizer arrangement and may be subject to additional heating by a boiler or other heat exchanger.
US10197262B2	LED lighting apparatus having natural convection-type heat dissipation structure Disclosed is an LED lighting apparatus having a natural convection-type heat dissipation structure. The LED lighting apparatus includes a heat sink coupled to a back surface of a printed circuit board (PCB) to which a plurality of light emitting diode (LED) devices is mounted and, and functioning to absorb heat generated by the LED devices, in which center portions of the heat sink and the PCB are provided with openings serving as a convection hole that induces natural convection such that hot air under the heat sink rises along with rising hot air attributed to heat radiated from an upper surface of the heat sink and surrounding cooler air is supplied to the upper surface the heat sink and to around the LED devices. Due to the convection hole, the LED lighting apparatus provides a heat dissipation effect as high as that of an active cooling system.
US10197260B2	Integrated electrical connector device structure of LED light An integrated electrical connector device structure of LED light includes a light source board, a supporting board a light head, and at least a conductive connector. The supporting board is set between the light source board and the light head. The conductive includes a conductive pin, a fixed part and a plug. The fixed part is fixed on the supporting board. The conductive pin is connected to the light head electrically. The plug is connected to the light source board electrically to connect the light head and the light source board electrically. The integrated electrical connector device structure of LED light owns the advantages of simple structure and easy to be assembled automatically.
US10197256B2	LED assembly having frame with plurality of traces An LED assembly is provided that includes a plurality of LEDs placed along a frame. The plurality of LEDs can include red LEDs, green LEDs and blue LEDs. In an embodiment, the frame can include a common ground and a separate power trace for each color so that the output of each color can be controlled separately. A connector can be integrated into the frame. Terminals can be molded into the frame. Traces can be connected to the terminals so as to provide a three-dimensional circuit.
US10197254B2	Strut light system with integrated light source A ceiling grid system formed of struts has a plurality of elongate insert light units. The grid system suspended from the ceiling and comprising a multiplicity of steel elongate channels (struts) arranged in the grid. The channels having a downwardly directed U-shape and defining an opening and an open channel interior, the channel having opposing J-shaped wall portions, each wall portion with an inwardly directed curved lip portion defining a gap width therebetween the two wall portions. The elongate insert light units seated within one of the steel elongate channels, each insert light unit having an elongate body with a light emitting side, each insert light unit comprising a housing, and a strip of light emitting diodes, and a transmission portion at the light emitting side, the body retained in the interior of the channel, each light unit removable and replaceable with the respective channel.
US10197251B2	Fastening element for fixating two components at each other A fastening element for fastening a first component, like a circuit board fitted with LEDs, including a pass through opening with a second component, like a lamp element which includes a recess like e.g. a dead hole or a pass through opening, the fastening element including a shaft which includes at least one spring elastic support element which anchors the fastening element at the second component, a shaft head which has a larger diameter than the shaft, wherein the shaft head is arranged at one end of the shaft, a clamping element which clamps the first component against the second component with a defined contact pressure, wherein the clamping element is formed by a spring elastic clamping arm that is displace able in a spring elastic manner and which forms a portion of the shaft head and which contacts the first component.
US10197246B2	Zoom lamp A zoom lamp includes a lamp body, a light emitting component, a movable ring, a lens, and a rotation ring. The lamp body defines a receiving groove. The movable ring includes a plurality of guiding posts protruding from an outer wall thereof and a plurality of resilient members. The lens is fixed to the movable ring. An external wall of the rotation ring is provided with a latching hook, the rotation ring defines a plurality of inclined grooves. When the rotating ring rotates, the guiding post is guided by the inclined groove to slide, thereby driving the lens to move adjacent to or away from the light emitting component.
US10197244B2	Stage light fixture Stage light fixture provided with: a short arc lamp adapted to emit a light beam along an optical axis; a reflector associated to the short arc lampso as to concentrate light beam rays substantially at a work point; an output optical assembly, arranged at the most downstream point along the optical axis, having a focal point arranged between the light source and the output optical assembly and coinciding with the work point; at least one color assembly comprising a plurality of color devices configured to selectively color the light beam; the color assembly being arranged between the short arc lampand the work point (PL).
US10197241B2	Illuminating device and manufacturing method thereof Various embodiments may relate to an illuminating device including a lens unit, a housing part and a lighting assembly. The lighting assembly is arranged in a cavity defined by the lens unit and the housing part. The lens unit includes a plurality of micro lens structures, a plurality of locating structures are arranged between the plurality of micro lens structures on one side of the lens unit facing to the lighting assembly, and the locating structures at least partially pass through the lighting assembly to positionally fixed the lighting assembly in relation to the lens unit. Various embodiments may further relate to a method for manufacturing the illuminating device.
US10197238B2	Lighting apparatus The present invention relates to a lighting apparatus using linear light having a three dimensional effect, the lighting apparatus comprising: a light guide unit which has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side, and has a predetermined thickness between the first side and the second side; a three dimensional effect formation unit which is disposed inside or on the surface of the light guide unit and has a pattern; a first light source, disposed in a first area of the pattern, for irradiating an incident light of a first color to the pattern; and a second light source, disposed in a second area of the pattern, for irradiating, to the pattern, an incident light of a second color different from the first color, wherein the pattern is sequentially arranged on a pattern arrangement surface parallel to the second side, has an inclined surface forming an inclination angle with respect to the pattern arrangement surface, and guides an incident light in a first side direction that the first side faces or in a second side direction that the second side faces by refraction or reflection on the inclined surface, to thereby generate a linear light of a first path.
US10197229B2	Light emitting apparatus A light emitting apparatus is provided. The light emitting apparatus includes a light source which emits laser light. A first light guide, which is flexible, extends from the light source for guiding the laser light emitted by the light source. A second light guide, which has a fixed shape, is connected to the first light guide for guiding the laser light emitted by the light source. A body holds the second light guide and sends out, to an outside of the body, light based on the laser light guided by the first light guide and the second light guide.
US10197227B2	Quantum dot containing optical element An illumination device including a light source positioned at the distal end of a reflecting unit and a heat sink light transmissive substrate including quantum dots positioned at the proximal end of the reflecting unit with the reflecting unit having one or more reflecting side walls and a reflecting bottom wall and with the light source being separated a distance from the light transmissive substrate including quantum dots. In certain embodiments, the light source is an LED.
US10197219B1	Secondary light curtain for detecting crush zone intrusion in a secondary process and associated method for use A secondary light curtain for preventing injury to an operator of a press brake during formation of a second flange on a workpiece and a method for using the same. The secondary light curtain detects intrusion by the operator into a crush zone, i.e. the area, between the ram and the leading edge of a prior formed flange. In order to provide for ready adjustment of the height of the secondary light curtain, a mounting bracket having a longitudinal mounting slot, and a cooperating secondary angle bracket are provided. The mounting bracket of the present invention allows the secondary light curtain light assemblies to be mounted directly on the front or side of the ram.
US10197218B2	Medical apparatus, and display supporting structure and arm structure used in the same A medical apparatus includes an elastic compensation member providing a first link that is rotatable with respect to a first rotational axis so that a display apparatus is movable, with a torque in an opposite direction to a torque acting due to a load of the display apparatus in order to compensate for the torque acting due to the load of the display apparatus, in order to minimize a length variation of the elastic compensation member despite movement of the display apparatus, a first end portion of the elastic compensation member is not fixed to the first link but is supported by an additional rotatable supporting portion so that the first end portion of the elastic compensation member is movable relative the first link while the display apparatus is being moved.
US10197217B2	Wall anchor assemblies An anchor assembly for hanging an object on a wall includes a first anchor component and a second anchor component. The first anchor component includes a base having front, back, top, bottom, left and right sides, and at least one wall penetrating retainer extending from the base and having a wall penetrating extent that protrudes rearwardly of the base and has a downwardly curved configuration. The second anchor component includes a base having front, back, top, bottom, left and right sides, at least one wall penetrating retainer extending from the base of the second anchor component and having a wall penetrating extent that protrudes rearwardly of the base of the second anchor component and has a curved configuration. The second anchor component is pivotably associated with the first anchor component for movement between an anchoring orientation and a non-anchoring orientation.
US10197198B2	Flexible pipe The invention concerns a flexible pipe for offshore applications, such as for use as a riser in oil production. The flexible pipe has a longitudinal axis and contains a pressure resilient core pipe structure with an inner surface defining a bore, and at least a pair of cross wound and non-bonded tensile armor layers surrounding said core pipe structure. The pressure resilient core pipe structure contains an embedded pressure armor structure, wherein the embedded pressure armor structure contains a plurality of layers of helically wound continuous fibers, wound with a winding angle of about 60 degrees or more relative to the longitudinal axis of the pipe and embedded in a cured polymer matrix. The fibers are individually bonded to the cured polymer matrix. Preferably each of said layers of helically wound continuous fibers have a fiber density of at least about 40%.
US10197195B2	Anti-slide device for the self-centering of an inner tube inside an outer tube of an element of unit length of a subsea pipeline for transporting fluids An anti-slip and self-centering device for an inner tube inside an outer tube of a unit length element for an undersea fluid transport pipe, the device having a ring (4) made of elastomer material sandwiched between two annular metal plates (6, 8) having an inside diameter that corresponds substantially to the diameter of the inner tube and an outside diameter that corresponds substantially to the diameter of the outer tube, the device further having a clamp (10, 12) for clamping the plates together to compress the ring.
US10197188B2	Microfluidic valve In an example implementation, a method of controlling a microfluidic valve includes activating a first inertial pump at a first frequency, and a second inertial pump at a second frequency to create a first fluid flow pattern within a microfluidic valve. The method also includes adjusting at least one of the first frequency and the second frequency to change the first fluid flow pattern to a second fluid flow pattern.
US10197186B2	Two-stage solenoid valve A valve for controlling fluids, in particular hydraulic fluid, includes a first connector opening and a second connector opening, a preliminary stage with a first valve seat and a first displaceable closing body, and a main stage with a second valve seat and a second displaceable closing body. The first valve seat is assigned to a through opening of the second closing body. A filtering gap is formed in a flow path from the first connector opening to the preliminary stage by way of a constriction of the flow path.
US10197183B2	Valve stem and plug connections and staking tools Example valve stem and plug connections and example staking tools are described herein. An example apparatus includes a valve plug having a first side, a second side opposite the first side and a bore extending from the first side to the second side. A first portion of the bore is tapered from a first diameter to a second diameter smaller than the first diameter. A valve stem is disposed within the bore of the valve plug. The valve stem includes a first section, a second section and a third section between the first and second sections. The third section is tapered from a third diameter to a fourth diameter smaller than the third diameter. The tapers of the first portion of the valve plug and the third section of the valve stem, when engaged, create a frictional force that resists movement of the valve stem out of the bore.
US10197178B2	Electrohydraulic valve including a vibration-resistant, flexible hermetic seal A vibration-resistant, flexible metallic seal for use in an electrohydraulic servo valve (EHSV), the EHSV comprising an armature, an armature support comprising a base, and a flapper, the seal surrounding a portion of the flapper, the seal having a first end, a second end, a thickness along a length of the seal between the first end and the second end, the thickness being defined between first and second outer surfaces of the seal, and one or a plurality of convolutions between the first end and the second end, the first end disposed between and hermetically connected to the flapper and the armature, the second end disposed within the first opening and hermetically connected to the base, wherein the seal comprises: a non-porous metal that comprises a first fraction of the thickness; a porous metal comprising a plurality of pores that comprises a second fraction of the thickness; and an elastomeric material encompassed by the pores of the second fraction of the thickness, wherein the second fraction comprises one or both of the first and second outer surfaces of the seal.
US10197176B2	Thermally-controlled fluid supply assembly A fluid supply assembly having a conduit through which a fluid may be supplied. A thermal shut-off may be provided to control the supply of fluid through the conduit in response to an environmental temperature condition.
US10197175B2	Hydrostatic tank floor relief valve A hydrostatic tank floor relief valve of a construction described herein provides for equalization of hydrostatic pressure of fluid in a storage tank with hydrostatic pressure of ground water surrounding the storage tank. A high efficiency grate located in a flow channel of the hydrostatic tank floor relief valve blocks debris from entering the storage tank during pressure equalization, yet does not reduce effective flow rates through a flow channel of a given diameter. The hydrostatic tank floor relief valve optionally includes an elastomeric seal surface and a stainless steel seat ring that reduce the likelihood of particulate matter disrupting valve operation, and provide a more reliable seal.
US10197172B2	Clapper valve A valve assembly adapted for use in oil and gas operations. In one aspect, the valve assembly includes a valve body defining an internal region, an inlet passageway, and an outlet passageway, the inlet and outlet passageways extending into the internal region; a valve seat connected to the valve body and defining a fluid passageway; a clapper extending within the internal region and defining an annular groove; and a seal extending within the annular groove of the clapper and adapted to sealingly engage the valve seat. In an example embodiment, the clapper is actuable between an open configuration, in which fluid flow is permitted through the fluid passageway; and a closed configuration, in which the seal sealingly engages the valve seat to at least partially restrict fluid flow through the fluid passageway.
US10197165B1	Cold installation of elastomeric valve seat A method is provided for installing a valve seat in the hole of a valve element. The valve seat is fabricated from a seal material having a freezing temperature. The seal material is stretched such that a portion thereof has a reduced diameter that is less than the diameter of the valve element's hole. The stretched portion of the seal material is immersed in a first environment having a temperature that is less than the freezing temperature of the seal material to thereby freeze the stretched portion and fix its reduced diameter. The stretched and frozen portion is then placed in the valve element's hole with the combination then being placed in a second environment having a temperature that is greater than the freezing temperature of the seal material.
US10197161B2	Machining process for trapezoid rings with small axial dimensions, used in pistons of internal combustion engines A method for producing a piston for internal combustion engines, where the piston includes a circumferential trapezoid annular groove for receiving trapezoid rings with small axial dimensions the groove having a groove base with adjoining surfaces and groove flanks. The groove base with adjoining surfaces is created in a first method step by machining using a cutting steel tool and the groove flanks are created in a further method step. Also disclosed are a piston produced according to the method and a cutting steel tool.
US10197155B2	Controller for vehicle When an engagement-side clutch taking charge of rotation control in an upshift is the same as a rotation control clutch of a previous gear shift, it is determined that there is a likelihood that a thermal load of a clutch friction material will increase, and the thermal load of the clutch friction material is decreased by delaying gear shift start. By setting a delay time by which the gear shift start is delayed when an accelerator depression amount is small to be shorter than when the accelerator depression amount is large depending on the accelerator depression amount, a gear shift which is an upshift can be performed without unnecessary waiting.
US10197153B2	Device for positioning meshing teeth of a gear drive without any play The invention relates to a device (4) for positioning meshing teeth (3, 8, 9) of a gear drive without any play, comprising a gear assembly (5), which gear assembly (5) comprises a main gear (6) having first teeth (8) and a gear (7) that is rotatable relative thereto in the circumferential direction having second teeth (9), and the main gear (6) comprises a hub part (10) on which the rotatable gear (7) is disposed, and a tolerance compensating element (12) comprising a shaft part (13) and a compensating part (14) is disposed radially underneath the main gear (6), and the compensating part (14) is connected to the shaft part (13) and to the hub part (10) of the main gear (6) so that the main gear (6) is connected exclusively via the compensating part (14) to the shaft part (13), and the compensating part (14) is made at least partially from a rubber elastic material.
US10197147B2	Continuously variable transmission Components, subassemblies, systems, and/or methods for continuously variable transmissions (CVT) are provided. In one embodiment, a CVT has a number of spherical planets in contact with an idler assembly. Various idler assemblies can be used to facilitate to improve durability, fatigue life, and efficiency of a CVT. In one embodiment, the idler assembly has two rolling elements having contact surfaces that are angled with respect to a longitudinal axis of the CVT. In some embodiments, a bearing is operably coupled between the first and second rolling elements. The bearing is configured to balance axial force between the first and second rolling elements. In one embodiment, the bearing is a ball bearing. In another embodiment, the bearing is an angular contact bearing. In yet other embodiments, needle roller bearings are employed.
US10197144B2	Drive unit with torque vectoring and an axle disconnect and reconnect mechanism A differential assembly having a torque coupling unit and an axle disconnect. A first end portion of an intermediate portion of a differential case is integrally connected to a ring gear. Integrally connected to an inner surface of the intermediate portion of the case is a first plurality of clutch plates. Disposed within a hollow portion of the intermediate portion is a first and a second differential side gear that are meshing with one or more pinion gears. Drivingly connected to the first side gear is a first output shaft. A clutch can having a second plurality of clutch plates is drivingly connected to the first output shaft. Within the hollow portion of the intermediate portion of the case is a clutching assembly that selectively engages the second side gear. A first clutch actuator selectively engages the plurality of plates and a second clutch actuator selectively engages the clutching assembly.
US10197140B2	Dual clutch transmission for a motor vehicle The invention relates to a dual clutch transmission (10) for a motor vehicle, having an input shaft (11) and a main shaft (13), wherein the input shaft (11) can be connected to a first counter shaft (16) via all engageable first clutch (18) and to a second counter shaft (17) via an engageable second clutch (19), wherein the first counter shaft (16) and the second counter shaft (17) can each be drivingly connected to the main shaft (13) via at least one gear stage (ZA1, ZA2, ZA3, ZA4, ZA5, ZR1) which can be selected via a selector device (20), and wherein a range group transmission (21) is arranged between the main shaft (13) and an output shaft (12) of the dual clutch transmission. High flexibility and variability in the arrangement and design of the permanent brake device and a powershift range group shift is made possible if at least one counter shaft (16) can be drivingly connected directly to the output shaft (12) via at least one gear stage (ZA7) bypassing the range group transmission (21), and if said counter shaft (16) or an intermediate shaft (16a) that can be connected to said counter shaft (16) can be or is drivingly connected directly or via a further gear stage (ZA8) to a permanent brake device (30).
US10197138B2	Drive apparatus A drive apparatus according to an embodiment includes a first rotation unit, a base, a lead screw unit, and a second rotation unit. The first rotation unit includes a gear rotatable in first directions by a drive power source. The base is joined to the gear and is rotatable in the first directions with the gear. The lead screw unit is provided to the base and moves a shaft back and forth in a certain direction. The second rotation unit is pivotally supported by the base, rotates in second directions different from the first directions, and supports a certain supported member rotatably in the second directions.
US10197136B2	Reversal mechanism for a rolling ring drive Reversal mechanism for a rolling ring drive. A reversal mechanism for a rolling ring drive (10) comprising a motor (12) attached to an inner ring housing (16), a controller controlling the angle of the rolling rings via the motor (12) in dependence upon a sensor which detects the position of the rolling ring drive (10) and other desired parameters.
US10197134B2	Hybrid transmission having electro-magnetically actuated pawl clutch An electro-magnetically actuated pawl clutch is adapted to establish a fixed overdrive ratio in a powersplit type hybrid gearing arrangement. The electro-magnetically actuated clutch includes a first race splined to the transmission input shaft and a second race integrally formed into a first gear that is supported for rotation about the input shaft. Electrical current in a non-rotating coil establishes a magnetic field in the first race. The magnetic field causes a set of pawls to pivot with respect to the first race and to engage a cam surface in the second race. The pawls and cams are designed such that, when engaged, the second race can rotate faster than the inner race but cannot rotate slower. The first gear meshes with a second gear fixed to the transmission output shaft.
US10197130B2	Damping device and vehicle-mounted gimbal using the same A damping device includes an upper damping connecting member, a lower damping connecting member opposite to and spaced apart from the upper damping connecting member, a steel wire rope damper disposed between the upper damping connecting member and the lower damping connecting member, and a carrying damper connected with the upper damping connecting member. Two ends of the steel wire rope damper are connected with the upper damping connecting member and the lower damping connecting member, respectively.
US10197119B2	Sliding caliper disc brake having evacuation of air between pins and bores A motor vehicle disc brake including a cover (12) including two bores, a sliding caliper, two pins (16) for guiding the caliper, each whereof includes a guiding section (24) which is slidably mounted in a section (28) of a bore wherein each pin (16), engaging with the wall of the bore (29), defines an axial channel (65), and each pin (16) receives a tubular sealing cap wherein an inner wall includes at least one radial groove or a radial channel communicating with the axial channel (65) defined by the associated pin.
US10197118B2	Brake cylinder A brake cylinder for an air-operated brake, in particular for commercial vehicles, has a housing including a front cover (11), wherein the front cover (11) is provided with a cylindrical lateral surface (16) and with a base wall (18) adjoining the lateral surface (16). The base wall (18) is provided with an elevated portion (19) having a central bore or middle opening (23) for a cylinder plunger. The front cover (11) is provided with a rib (46). The rib (46) extends on the base wall (18) in addition to the elevated portion (19).
US10197116B2	Method for the control of the slip of a clutch device of a gearbox A method for controlling a slip of a clutch device of a gearbox of a vehicle includes measuring at least one rotational speed value on a gearbox shaft of the gearbox; determining an active gearbox shaft; determining the angular acceleration on the active gearbox shaft determined, on the basis of the at least one measured rotational speed value; producing a rattling characteristic value on the basis of the angular acceleration determined over at least one time interval; and controlling the slip of the clutch device on the basis of a comparison of the rattling characteristic value produced with at least one rattling threshold value.
US10197114B2	Determination of a clutch temperature A hybrid drive including a first drive motor coupled by a clutch to a shaft, and a second drive motor coupled rigidly to the shaft. A method for determining the temperature of the clutch in the hybrid drive includes the steps of: determining a temperature of the clutch; determining a temperature of the clutch housing; determining the temperature difference between the clutch and the clutch housing; determining the heat conductivity between the clutch and the clutch housing, wherein the heat conductivity is determined as a function of the rotational speed of the first drive motor and the rotational speed of the second drive motor; determining the heat flow between the clutch and the clutch housing on the basis of the product of the heat conductivity and the temperature difference; and adjusting the ascertained clutch temperature on the basis of the ascertained heat flow.
US10197111B2	Installation structure of one-way clutch An installation structure of a one-way clutch in which torque transmission is limited to one direction includes a flywheel, first and second rotary structures, housing and stopper plates, and a rivet. The first rotary structure is arranged coaxially with the flywheel while connected to an engine block. The second rotary structure is arranged coaxially with the first rotary structure while connected to the flywheel. The housing plate is disposed between the flywheel and the first and second rotary structures and arranged coaxially while connected to the second rotary structure. The stopper plate is attached to the second rotary structure to hold first rotary structure with the housing plate. The rivet fastens the stopper plate, the second rotary structure, and the housing plate. A first clearance between one face of the flywheel and a top face of a head of the rivet is narrower than a thickness of the stopper plate.
US10197107B2	Friction element A friction element includes a friction lining that is connected to a lining carrier, and includes a carrier element, wherein the lining carrier is connected to the carrier element, and a connecting element is also used to connect the lining carrier to the carrier element, the connecting element being guided through a recess in the lining carrier and a recess in the carrier element, and having a connecting element head that is supported on the lining carrier. The lining carrier has a shoulder in the region of the connecting element head, the internal dimension of which shoulder is greater than the external dimension of the connecting element head, such that at least part of the connecting element head is accommodated in the shoulder.
US10197101B2	Deep groove ball bearing with a rotor A deep groove ball bearing with a rotor is disclosed by the present invention. The deep groove ball bearing with a rotor comprises a mandrel, at least one bearing assembly structure mounted on the periphery of the mandrel, and a magnet structure; wherein the bearing assembly structure, along with the mandrel to constitute the deep groove ball bearing structure, includes an outer ring sleeved on the periphery of the mandrel, steel balls, and an inner sealing cover; wherein the periphery of the mandrel is provided with at least one lap of channel that matches with a groove provided on the inner surface of the outer ring, and the steel balls are installed between the channel and the groove; wherein an inner sealing cover is axially embedded in a sealing groove of the out ring for sealing an inner side of the outer ring; wherein the magnet structure includes a permanent magnet glued on the periphery of the mandrel, a reinforcing sleeve sleeved outside the permanent magnet, and a balance ring provided at one end of the permanent magnet.
US10197098B1	Load absorbing direct metal deposition raceway bearing with rolling contact A bearing constructed in accordance to one example of the present disclosure includes at least one inner bearing ring, at least one outer bearing ring, at least one rolling element and a direct metal deposition (DMD) raceway architecture. The DMD raceway architecture is disposed between the at least one inner and outer bearing rings. The DMD raceway architecture includes an inner DMD structure that defines an inner raceway and an outer DMD structure that defines an outer raceway. The inner and outer raceways are configured to support the at least one rolling element.
US10197094B2	Double-row spherical roller bearing A double-row spherical roller bearing, comprising: an outer ring having an radially inner spherical raceway and a radially outer peripheral surface, an inner ring having a radially outer curved-shaped raceway, and roller elements arranged in two axially displaced rows. The outer ring includes an outer peripheral surface first circumferential groove. The first circumferential groove has an axial outer peripheral surface width X fulfilling the following relation: L1≤X≤L2, L2 extends between first end point (intersecting the first normal vector and the outer peripheral surface) and second outer peripheral surface axial end points (intersecting a second normal vector and the outer peripheral surface). The first normal vector is an inverted normal vector of the outer raceway. The second normal vector is an inverted normal vector of the inner raceway. L1 has a length of L2*⅓. End points of L1 are located equidistant to each respective first and second end point of L2.
US10197084B1	Avionics cam retainer assembly A retainer assembly is adapted to secure a removable electronic unit within an avionics equipment mounting tray. The retainer assembly includes a latch having a base portion and a handle portion. The base portion is pivotally coupled to one of the removable electronic unit and the avionics equipment mounting tray. The handle portion projects outward from the base portion. The base portion includes a cam surface adapted to releasably contact the other of the removable electronic unit and the avionics equipment mounting tray.
US10197076B2	Pneumatic volume booster A pneumatic volume booster to amplify a control pressure output signal can include a pneumatic control outlet for attachment to a pneumatic working chamber of the pneumatic actuator; a pneumatic aeration inlet configured to receive the pneumatic control pressure signal from the position controller, a pneumatic amplification inlet configured to receive a constant pneumatic air amplification signal, a pneumatic de-aeration connection from the control outlet to a pressure sink configured to aerate the control actuator, a deaerator seat-valve separating and/or opening the pneumatic de-aeration connection, a pneumatic aeration connection between the first aeration inlet and the control outlet; an aerator seat-valve separating and/or opening the pneumatic aeration connection, a pneumatic amplification connection between the amplification inlet and the control outlet; an amplification seat-valve separating and/or opening the pneumatic amplification connection; and a mechanical seat-valve-operator for commonly operating the de-aeration seat-valve, the first aerator seat-valve and the amplification seat-valve.
US10197073B2	Axial valve for controlling the differential pressure between a delivery branch and a return branch of a hydraulic circuit An axial differential pressure control valve (DPCV) having an annular body, a tubular body, a coaxial closing member for closing an outlet aperture for exit of the fluid from the tubular body, sealing separation means arranged between first and second chambers containing the return fluid and the delivery fluid, respectively, said separation means being movable axially upon activation of a thrust due to a pressure differential ΔP=P1−P2 and to the spring, wherein the closing member is fixed, and further comprising pins axially arranged between the ring nut and the abutment flange of the spring, wherein the pins pass through the pipefitting so as to come into contact with the said abutment flange and are designed to be displaced axially upon operation of the ring nut independently of the fixed closing member, so as to vary the compression of the spring.
US10197070B2	Diffusor, ventilator having such a diffusor, and device having such ventilators The invention relates to a diffusor having a wall (8) that encloses an inlet having a round cross-section that transitions into an angular cross-section on the outlet of the diffusor over the height of the wall (8) of the diffusor. The transitions (15) between the sides (34 to 37) of the wall (8) have a twist in the height direction that follows the twirl of the flow of air through the diffusor. The ventilator has such a diffusor. The device has a housing on which at least two ventilators, each having one diffusor, are arranged.
US10197069B2	Outer airseal for gas turbine engine An airseal for sealing between a rotating component and a stationary component of a turbine engine includes a sealing surface defining a spacing between the airseal and a rotating component of the turbine engine and a mounting flange to secure the airseal to a stationary component of the turbine engine. An airseal body extends between the sealing surface and the mounting flange. The airseal body includes a cavity configured to absorb thermal energy transferred into the airseal from a flowpath of the turbine engine. A gas turbine engine includes a rotating component and a stationary component located radially outboard of the rotating component. An airseal is located therebetween and includes a sealing surface and a mounting flange to secure the airseal to the stationary component. An airseal body extends between the sealing surface and the mounting flange and includes a cavity to absorb thermal energy transferred into the airseal.
US10197067B2	Rotation body of rotary machine and method of manufacturing the rotation body According to an aspect of an exemplary embodiment, there is provided a rotation body of a rotary machine, the rotation body comprising: an impeller comprising a blade; and a shroud that is integrally formed with the impeller and has a cladding stack structure in which a plurality of laser cladding layers are stacked.
US10197065B2	Centrifugal compressor, turbocharger provided with the centrifugal compressor, and method for producing the centrifugal compressor An object is to provide a centrifugal compressor in which an axial force applied from a shrink-fit impeller to a sleeve section is ensured even if the sleeve section is separated from a clamp surface in an axial direction of an attachment hole, as well as a turbocharger provided with the centrifugal compressor and a method of producing the centrifugal compressor. An inner peripheral surface of an attachment hole formed on a hub includes a clamp surface and a diameter-widening surface, and an outer peripheral surface of a sleeve section includes a diameter-reducing surface. The diameter-widening surface and the diameter-reducing surface respectively include an impeller-side contacting portion and a sleeve-side contacting portion which contact each other, and a relationship represented by an expression θs
US10197063B2	Centrifugal fluid machine A centrifugal fluid machine includes a rotor, a low pressure compression unit provided on one side in the axial direction of the rotor, a high pressure compression unit provided on the other side in the axial direction of the rotor, a partition wall 13 that separates the low and high pressure compression units, and a high pressure-side discharge passage 54 formed on the side of the high pressure compression unit of the partition wall 13, extending in the radial direction of the rotor, and provided along the partition wall 13, wherein the partition wall 13 has a wall body 71, a passage deformation suppression member 72 that is provided between the wall body 71 and the high pressure-side discharge passage 54 and can deform the high pressure-side discharge passage 54, and an biasing mechanism 73 that is provided between the wall body 71 and the passage deformation suppression member 72.
US10197062B2	Aero-engine low pressure pump An aero-engine low pressure pump is provided for supplying fuel at a raised pressure to a high pressure pump. The low pressure pump has a pumping mechanism which raises the pressure of fuel flowing though the mechanism. The low pressure pump further has electrical motor which drives the pumping mechanism. The low pressure pump further has a variable frequency motor drive which supplies electrical power to the electrical motor. The variable frequency motor drive measures the electrical power supplied to the electrical motor. The low pressure pump further has a control unit which compares the measured electrical power to a reference power, and, when the measured electrical power is less than the reference power by a predetermined amount, controls the motor drive to increase the power supplied to the electrical motor thereby increasing the pressure rise produced by the pumping mechanism.
US10197060B2	Gas lock resolution during operation of an electric submersible pump Gas lock resolution during operation of an electric submersible pump is provided. An example method, module, or computing hardware with software product, detects a gas lock during current operation of an electric submersible pump (ESP) and intervenes to relieve the gas lock without stopping the ESP. After sensing a gas lock condition, an example module calculates a pump speed for attempting gas lock resolution. The example module may decrease the speed of the ESP to flush the gas lock, and then reaccelerate the ESP to check that the gas lock has been eliminated. The example module may apply one or more stored motor speed patterns that iteratively seek a pump speed that succeeds in clearing the gas lock, without stopping the ESP. The example module has built-in protections to protect the ESP from thermal overload and other damage.
US10197057B2	Gear pump for compressible liquids or fluids Disclosed is a gear pump including a pumping chamber in which a first shaft and a second shaft are rotated about their respective axes, each of the first and second shafts supporting at least one hydraulic-pumping element that hydraulically pumps a fluid in the pumping chamber, the at least one hydraulic-pumping element of each of the first and second shafts being positioned in the pumping chamber and each having at least one first radial projection. In the pumping chamber, each of the first and second shafts further supports at least one mechanical drive pinion that rotates each of the first and second shafts, each mechanical drive pinion having second radial projections. The at least one mechanical drive pinion is separate from the at least one hydraulic-pumping element, and the number of the at least one first radial projection and of the second radial projections is different.
US10197054B2	Positive displacement transfer gear pump for molten metal A self-cleaning transfer gear pump for transferring molten metal includes the following features: a transfer conduit extends upward from an outlet of a base, two rotatable gears are formed of refractory material and disposed in the gear chamber and engage each other during rotation. A boss functioning as a bearing extends from the drive gear and is adapted to be received in an opening in the base. A shaft is fastened at a lower end to the drive gear. A filter is fastened to the base so as to cover the inlet and prevents particles and objects in the molten metal from entering the gear chamber. In operational mode, a motor rotates the shaft and the drive gear whereby the drive gear and the second gear engage each other while being rotated so as to positively displace molten metal from the inlet to the outlet and along the transfer conduit to the remote location. In self-cleaning mode, the motor rotates the shaft and the drive gear effectively to draw molten metal from the transfer conduit by positive displacement, through the outlet, and toward the inlet therefore cleaning the filter by removing the particles adhering to the filter. Also included are a system with optional filter and optional self-cleaning mode but including an inlet portion of a die casting machine, and a method for operating the gear pump. A flow sensor may be used to transmit pulses into and from the transfer conduit so as to enable determination of a volume of molten metal being charged. The control of the molten metal volume being charged is not solely controlled by the flow sensor.
US10197051B2	Pump control switch A pump control switch for controlling the operation of a pump, where the pump switch includes a pressure activated switch and a run capacitor located in a single housing. The pressure switch is attached by a pipe fitting to be in fluid communication with the water line that feeds into a storage tank, to sense the water system pressure. The water system pressure sensed by the switch moves the electrical contacts in the switch between their open and closed positions. The pressure switch is disposed to operably electrically interconnect a power source, the run capacitor, and the pump motor.
US10197050B2	Reciprocating rod pumping unit A reciprocating rod pumping unit includes a tower; a counterweight assembly movable along the tower; and a drum connected to an upper end of the tower and rotatable relative thereto. The unit also includes a belt having a first end connected to the counterweight assembly, extending over the drum, and having a second end connectable to a rod string. The unit further includes a prime mover for reciprocating the counterweight assembly along the tower; a sensor for detecting a condition of the pumping unit; a brake system for halting movement of the counterweight assembly; and a controller in communication with the at least one of the sensors and operable to activate the brake system in response to detection of the faulty condition of the pumping unit.
US10197045B2	Reducing spring load prior to maintenance on an actuator A safety device that is useful to release load on a spring found in an actuator. In one embodiment, the actuator can have a housing comprising a pair of housing members and a fastening device coupling the pair of housing members to one another. The embodiment can also have an output shaft extending longitudinally in the housing, the output shaft having an end configured to couple with a process device. The embodiment may also have a spring coupled with the output shaft. The embodiment can further have a safety device coupled to the spring and configured to operate to reduce loading of the spring from a first load to a second load. In one example, the safety device is in position to prevent access to the fastening device at the first load and to allow access to the fastening device at the second load so that the pair of housing members can separate to allow access to the spring in the housing.
US10197044B2	Automatic lubrication system for a bearing, and method for operating an automatic lubrication system An automatic lubrication system for automatic and demand-driven charging of a bearing with a lubricant includes an automatic lubrication device configured to automatically charge the bearing with the lubricant, a detecting device configured to detect at least one operating parameter of the bearing, and a data-transmission device that is configured to transmit data from the detecting device to the lubrication device. The automatic lubrication device is configured to charge the bearing with the lubricant based on the operating parameters detected by the detecting device.
US10197041B2	Methods for joining surface features to wind turbine rotor blades Methods for joining surface features to wind turbine rotor blades are provided. A method includes providing the surface feature after forming of the rotor blade. The surface feature includes a thermoplastic resin. The formed rotor blade includes a plurality of blade components joined together to form an exterior surface defining a pressure side, a suction side, a leading edge, and a trailing edge each extending between a tip and a root. The formed rotor blade further includes a thermoplastic resin. The method further includes positioning the surface feature adjacent the exterior surface, and welding the thermoplastic resin of the surface feature and the thermoplastic resin of the formed rotor blade together.
US10197038B2	Helical longitudinal blade turbine system including a funnel throat valve comprising a plurality of semi-circular valve plates The invention disclosed herein comprises a system focusing water current into a relatively smaller diameter lumen, imparting vortical movement to the current, and directing the water vortex through an even smaller diameter lumen en route to turbine blades having long curved blades rotatable along an axis parallel with the lumen. Rotation of the turbine blades turns gearing interfacing with the circumference of the turbine assembly, to rotate a drive shaft connected to a generator.
US10197034B2	Nozzle assembly and fuel injection valve for a combustion engine The present disclosure generally relates to nozzles for a valve and, more specifically, to a fuel injection valve for a combustion engine. In some embodiments, a nozzle assembly for a fuel injection valve for a combustion engine may include: a valve body with a central longitudinal axis; a valve cavity within the valve body; a nozzle tip body comprising a protrusion limiting a free volume of the valve cavity; and at least one nozzle aperture out from the valve cavity through the protrusion. The protrusion may extend from an end surface of the nozzle tip body in an extending direction parallel to a longitudinal axis of the nozzle tip body away from the valve cavity and comprise a first section adjacent to the end surface, the first section having a cylindrical outer surface, and a second section adjacent to the first section, the second section having an outer surface of decreasing diameter in the course away from the end surface along the extending direction.
US10197029B2	Fuel injection control apparatus A drive current applied to a coil is reduced from a time at which a first collision signal indicating collision of a movable core with a valve element is input to a time at which a second collision signal indicating collision of the movable core with a stationary core is input.
US10197028B2	Fuel injector A fuel injector is provided. A movable iron core is provided relatively displaceable to a valve body. A fixed iron core is opposed to the movable iron core. A first spring member energizes the valve body in a valve closing direction. A second spring member energizes the movable iron core in a valve closing direction. Contact portions are in contact with each other in a case where the movable iron core displaces in a valve opening direction with respect to the valve body. A gap is formed between the contact portions in a valve closing state. In a state in which the movable iron core and the valve body move in different directions after the movable iron core collides with the fixed iron core while a valve is opened, a spring force is not applied between the movable iron core and the valve body.

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