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| US10324387B2 |
Electrophotographic photoreceptor and electrophotographic image forming device
Provided is an electrophotographic photoreceptor obtained by laminating a photosensitive layer and a surface protective layer in this order on a conductive support, wherein the surface protective layer contains conductive fine particles and crosslinkable organic fine particles, and either the conductive fine particles or the crosslinkable organic fine particles have been subjected to surface modification with a fluoroalkyl (meth)acrylate/(meth)acrylic acid copolymer. |
| US10324384B2 |
Lithographic apparatus and a method of manufacturing a lithographic apparatus
An immersion lithographic apparatus including: a liquid confinement structure configured to supply and confine immersion liquid to an immersion space between a final lens element of a projection system and a surface of the substrate and/or of a substrate table; and a passageway-former between the projection system and the liquid confinement structure, and a passageway between the passageway-former and an optically active part of the final lens element, the passageway being in liquid communication via an opening with the immersion space and extending radially outwardly, with respect to an optical axis of the projection system, at least to an edge of an exposed bottom surface of the final lens element and being constructed and configured such that in use it is filled with liquid from the immersion space by capillary action. |
| US10324381B1 |
FinFET cut isolation opening revision to compensate for overlay inaccuracy
A method to address overlay accuracy compensation using finFET cut isolation revisions is disclosed. For an integrated circuit (IC) layout including at least a portion of an active region including a plurality of gates extending over a plurality of fins, prior to optical proximity correction of the IC layout: the method determines a number of fins to be cut with same source/drain connection by a fin cut isolation opening, and determines a fin cut isolation pitch in the gate length direction of the plurality of gates. The method revises a size of a fin cut isolation opening in the IC layout based on a number of fins to be cut with same source/drain connection by the fin cut isolation opening and the fin cut isolation pitch in the gate length direction. The revision in size of the fin cut isolation compensates for overlay inaccuracy. |
| US10324380B2 |
Projection exposure apparatus and method for measuring an imaging aberration
A microlithographic projection exposure apparatus (10) includes a projection lens (26) that images an object field (22) arranged in a mask plane (24) onto a substrate (28) during exposure operation of the projection exposure apparatus, and an illumination system (16) that has: an exposure illumination beam path (44) for radiating illumination radiation (14) onto the object field on the illumination side with respect to the mask plane, a measurement illumination beam path (48) for irradiating a measurement structure (54) arranged in the mask plane with the illumination radiation, and a scattering structure (50) arranged on the illumination side with respect to the mask plane and outside the exposure illumination beam path. The measurement illumination beam path extends via the scattering structure and runs rectilinearly between the scattering structure and the mask plane. |
| US10324379B2 |
Lithographic apparatus and method
A method to form on a substrate a first target comprising a first feature and a second target comprising a second feature, wherein the forming of the targets comprises applying the first feature and the second feature to the substrate by projection of a radiation beam through a production patterning device installed in a lithographic apparatus, the features corresponding to one or more features of the patterning device, and controlling a configuration of the lithographic apparatus to induce an aberration component, such that the first feature is applied to the substrate using a first value of an induced aberration component and the second feature is applied to the substrate using a second, different value of the induced aberration component; measuring a property of the targets; and using the measurements to determine a sensitivity of the property of the targets to changes in value of the induced aberration component. |
| US10324378B2 |
Aqueous processing method for flexographic printing plates
A method for processing a photosensitive flexographic printing plate having an aqueous-processable photopolymer. A main processing unit is used to develop a relief image by removing unexposed photopolymer using an aqueous processing solution including a first dispersing agent while the photosensitive flexographic printing plate is being subjected to mechanical cleaning. Used aqueous processing solution containing the removed photopolymer is returned back into a processing solution tank. A secondary processing unit is used to wash the developed relief image with secondary aqueous processing solution including a second dispersing agent to remove debris from the developed relief image. Used secondary aqueous processing solution containing the removed photopolymer is directed into the processing solution tank. A portion of the aqueous processing solution from the processing solution tank is removed to keep a volume of aqueous processing solution in the processing solution tank below a predefined maximum volume. |
| US10324377B2 |
Resist composition and method of forming resist pattern
A resist composition which generates acid upon exposure and exhibits changed solubility in a developing solution under action of acid, including a base component which exhibits changed solubility in a developing solution under action of acid and an acid diffusion control agent, the base component including a structural unit represented by general formula (a0-1) shown below in which R represents H, C1-C5 alkyl group or C1-C5 halogenated alkyl group; Ya represents C; Xa represents a group which forms a divalent cyclic hydrocarbon group with Ya; Ra01 to Ra03 represents H, C1-C10 monovalent saturated chain hydrocarbon group or C3-C20 monovalent saturated cyclic hydrocarbon group; the acid diffusion control agent containing an acid which exhibits an acid dissociation constant of 1.5 or more. |
| US10324374B2 |
Active light sensitive or radiation sensitive resin composition, active light sensitive or radiation sensitive film, mask blank provided with active light sensitive or radiation sensitive film, pattern forming method, method for manufacturing electronic device, electronic device and novel compound
There is provided an active light sensitive or radiation sensitive resin composition which contains (A) an alkali soluble resin and (C) a cross-linking agent represented by the following General Formula (1-0). |
| US10324371B2 |
System and method for generating mask pattern and exposure system
The present disclosure provides a system for generating a mask pattern, a method for generating a mask pattern, and an exposure system. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the system for generating a mask pattern comprises: a mask pattern provision device configured to provide a mask pattern signal via a wired or wireless network; a mask pattern transmission device configured to process the mask pattern signal provided by the mask pattern provision device to generate mask pattern information, and to transmit the generated mask pattern information over a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) signal; and a mask pattern generation device configured to generate a mask pattern corresponding to the mask pattern information based on the mask pattern information and display the generated mask pattern. The embodiments of the present disclosure allow interaction between the mask pattern provision device and the mask pattern generation device by utilizing IoT technique, such that the mask pattern generation device can display various different mask patterns on an e-ink screen, thereby providing a fast, convenient and low cost exposure scheme. |
| US10324370B2 |
Manufacturing method of circuit substrate and mask structure and manufacturing method thereof
A manufacturing method of a circuit substrate is provided. A substrate is provided. A positive photoresist layer is coated on the substrate. Once exposure process is performed on the positive photoresist layer disposed on the substrate so as to simultaneously form concaves with at least two different depths. |
| US10324369B2 |
Methods for generating a mandrel mask
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method of generating mandrel patterns. A mandrel pattern is generated by constructing a boundary box, initiating a plurality of lead mandrels, and extending the lead mandrels across the boundary box. When a pattern region includes holes, portions of mandrels are removed from the holes after extension of the leading mandrels. |
| US10324366B2 |
Modular vehicle license plate camera
A motor vehicle license plate mount having a modular license plate frame including a base section and two side mounts for securing license plates of varying widths and heights to the vehicle and a camera housing including a lens and with the base section forming a slot for receiving an exterior edge of the license plate. Electrical cables connect at least one side mount to the base section providing power to the camera unit via a local solar cell disposed on at least one side mount. |
| US10324359B2 |
Thin LED flash for camera
A thin flash module for a camera uses a flexible circuit as a support surface. A blue GaN-based flip chip LED die is mounted on the flex circuit. The LED die has a thick transparent substrate forming a “top” exit window so at least 40% of the light emitted from the die is side light. A phosphor layer conformally coats the die and a top surface of the flex circuit. A stamped reflector having a knife edge rectangular opening surrounds the die. Curved surfaces extending from the opening reflect the light from the side surfaces to form a generally rectangular beam. A generally rectangular lens is affixed to the top of the reflector. The lens has a generally rectangular convex surface extending toward the die, wherein a beam of light emitted from the lens has a generally rectangular shape corresponding to an aspect ratio of the camera's field of view. |
| US10324351B2 |
Electrochemical mirror
An electrochemical mirror is provided. The electrochemical mirror includes a first transparent electrode; a second transparent electrode spaced apart from the first transparent electrode; and an electrolyte layer formed of an electrolyte, and disposed between the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode, wherein the electrolyte includes an electro-depositable metal ion; a halogenated ionic liquid; and at least one additive selected from the group consisting of a compound having a sulfonate functional group and derivatives thereof. |
| US10324350B2 |
Color excursion mitigation in electrochromic devices
An electrochromic device includes a chamber defined by a first conductive surface of a first substrate, a second conductive surface of a second substrate, and a sealing member joining the first substrate to the second substrate; an electrochromic medium containing a blue cathodic electroactive compound and up to three anodic electroactive compounds; wherein the electrochromic medium is disposed within the chamber; the anodic electroactive compounds include a green anodic electroactive compound and one or two gray anodic electroactive compounds; and the anodic electroactive compounds include from about 8 mol % to about 15 mol % gray anodic electroactive compounds. |
| US10324347B1 |
Liquid crystal display device
It is an object of the present invention to apply a sufficient electrical field to a liquid crystal material in a horizontal electrical field liquid crystal display device typified by an FFS type. In a horizontal electrical field liquid crystal display, an electrical field is applied to a liquid crystal material right above a common electrode and a pixel electrode using plural pairs of electrodes rather than one pair of electrodes. One pair of electrodes includes a comb-shaped common electrode and a comb-shaped pixel electrode. Another pair of electrodes includes a common electrode provided in a pixel portion and the comb-shaped pixel electrode. |
| US10324342B2 |
Driver of display device and manufacturing method of the same
A display device includes: a display substrate including a display area and a non-display area adjacent to each other; and an opposing substrate opposing the display substrate. The display substrate includes: a pixel in the display area; a gate driver at the non-display area and including a gate and data wiring; an organic layer on the gate and data wiring; a column spacer on the organic layer; a connection portion connected to the gate and data wiring at contact holes respectively exposing the gate and data wiring; and a protective layer on the connection portion. In a top plan view, the protective layer has a same shape as a shape of the connection portion. The opposing substrate includes a black matrix at the display area to define a pixel area of the pixel and at the non-display area to define the display area and the non-display area. |
| US10324340B2 |
Pixel electrode
The present invention provides a pixel electrode. The pixel electrode comprises a peripheral frame electrode that is in an enclosed form and at least one pair of peripheral edges of the peripheral frame electrode are provided, on outer sides thereof, with a sawtooth-like configuration. The sawtooth-like configuration comprises tooth troughs having an extension direction that is substantially parallel to and consistent with an extension direction of branch electrodes of the pixel electrode corresponding thereto so that liquid crystal in an area corresponding to the peripheral frame electrode may incline in the direction of the branch electrodes in the same way as liquid crystal in an inside area of the peripheral frame electrode inclines in such a direction to prevent the occurrence of dark patterns in the area corresponding to the peripheral frame electrode. Application of the pixel electrode to an HVA liquid crystal display panel would effectively improve transmission rate and brightness of the liquid crystal display panel so as to improve the display performance. |
| US10324338B2 |
Liquid crystal grating and fabrication method thereof, and naked eye 3D display device
A liquid crystal grating and a fabrication method thereof, and a display device are provided. The liquid crystal grating comprises a first substrate (1) and a second substrate (2) provided opposite to each other, and a liquid crystal layer (7); a plate-shaped transparent substrate (3) is provided on the first substrate (1), and a second transparent conductive layer (4), a transparent insulating layer (5) and a first transparent conductive layer (6) are sequentially provided on the second substrate (2); the first transparent conductive layer (6) includes first strip-shaped transparent electrodes (61) and second strip-shaped transparent electrodes (62) which are alternately provided, and there is a gap between the first strip-shaped transparent electrode (61) and the second strip-shaped transparent electrode (62) adjacent to each other; and the second transparent conductive layer (4) includes third strip-shaped transparent electrodes (41) provided at intervals. |
| US10324337B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display device according to the present invention has a display area that includes a plurality of pixels (Px). The display area is made up of n kinds of domains (where n is an integer that is equal to or greater than two and equal to or smaller than four). The directors of the n kinds of domains define mutually different alignment directions. If the domain structure of each pixel (Px) is defined by the kinds of the domains that form the pixel (Px), the number k of the kinds of the domains that form the pixel (Px), and the arrangement of the domains in the pixel (Px), the display area includes a pixel, of which k is less than n and of which the domain structure is different from the domain structures of adjacent pixels. |
| US10324335B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a display panel including a first substrate, a second substrate, and an optical element layer provided between the substrates, a light directing unit facing the first substrate of the display panel, and including a first main surface disposed on a side facing the first substrate, and a second main surface disposed on a side reverse to the first main surface, and a light source unit disposed on the first substrate side with respect to the display panel, and emitting polarized light toward the first or second main surface. The polarized light is made incident on the first or second main surface, and directed perpendicularly to the optical element layer. |
| US10324334B2 |
Display device
A backlight unit including a frame having a bottom area and a sidewall area extended from the bottom area; a single substrate located in on the bottom area of the frame, a plurality of optical assemblies being mounted on the single substrate; a reflection sheet located the frame and configured to reflect light emitted by the optical assemblies; and an optical sheet located over the reflection sheet. Further, the reflection sheet a first sheet area corresponding to the bottom area of the frame; a second sheet area corresponding to the sidewall area of the frame; and a cut portion cut from the first sheet at one portion abutting on one side of the single substrate. |
| US10324333B2 |
Color polarizing film, antireflective film and display device
A color polarizing film including a first layer including a first polymer and a first dichroic dye having an absorption wavelength region of about 380 nm to about 780 nm and a second layer including a second polymer and a second dichroic dye having an absorption wavelength region of about 380 nm to about 780 nm, wherein the second layer is disposed on the first layer, wherein a polarization axis of the first layer and a polarization axis of a second layer cross each other, and wherein the color polarizing film exhibits a maximum absorption wavelength (λmax) in a wavelength range of about 380 nm to about 780 nm. |
| US10324328B2 |
COA liquid crystal panel and method for manufacturing the same
A COA liquid crystal display panel includes an upper substrate, a lower substrate facing the upper substrate, and a liquid crystal layer disposed between the upper substrate and the lower substrate. The upper substrate is obtained by forming: a black matrix layer on a first base plate, a common electrode layer on the black matrix layer and exposed first base plate, and spacers on the common electrode on regions corresponding to the black matrix layer. The lower substrate is obtained by forming: a gate electrode insulation layer on a second base plate, a color barrier layer on the gate electrode insulation layer, a protective layer on the color barrier layer, a pixel electrode layer on the protective layer at a position corresponding to a projection of the color barrier layer, and a flat layer on the protective layer on a position corresponding to a recess of the color barrier layer. |
| US10324327B2 |
Display device
Display devices are provided. The first display device includes a plurality of pixels arranged with an interval therebetween; and an antenna radiator configured with one or more conductors that are arranged between the plurality of pixels. The second display device includes a substrate; a plurality of light emitting parts arranged on the substrate with an interval therebetween; and an antenna radiator configured with one or more conductors that are arranged between the substrate and the light emitting parts. |
| US10324324B2 |
Signal control circuit, power control circuit, drive circuit, timing controller, touch system, and touch display device and driving method thereof
Exemplary embodiments of the present invention relate to a touch technology, and more specifically, to a signal control circuit, a power control circuit, a drive circuit, a timing controller, a touch system, and a touch sensitive display device and a driving method thereof that can simply swing various voltages in a display device for a touch mode period by using a modulated ground voltage obtained by swinging a ground voltage, thereby effectively providing touch driving and preventing unnecessary parasitic capacitance from being generated not only in an active area but also in all other areas. |
| US10324323B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus according to the present invention includes a first polarizing film, a first insulating substrate, a second insulating substrate, and a second polarizing film that are located in the stated order in a light path from a light source toward a display surface. The second polarizing film has a polarization axis parallel or perpendicular to a polarization axis of the first polarizing film. The first insulating substrate and the second insulating substrate each include a transparent substrate having insulating properties. At least the first insulating substrate or the second insulating substrate includes lower wiring that is located on the transparent substrate and is opaque and a fine pattern that is located in a preceding stage or a subsequent stage of the lower wiring in the light path and is opposed to the lower wiring with a transparent insulating film therebetween. |
| US10324320B2 |
Display apparatus and tiled display device including the same
A display apparatus includes a display unit including a non-display region and a display region which extends from the non-display region in a direction defining an extension direction of the display region, and a supporting member on which the display unit is supported. The supporting member includes an intermediate mold including a first intermediate support disposed in the non-display region and an intermediate seat portion extending in the extension direction of the display region from the first intermediate support and disposed in the display region, and a transparent mold adjacent in the extension direction of the display region to the intermediate mold, between the intermediate seat portion and the display unit, and including a transparent support in an edge display region of the display region which is adjacent to the non-display region. |
| US10324317B2 |
Light control device, imaging element, and imaging device, and light transmittance control method for light control device
A light control device 10 includes a pair of electrodes 611 and 612 and a stacked structure body 613′ of a plurality of light control layers 613 sandwiched by the pair of electrodes 611 and 612; and each light control layer 613 has a stacked structure of a first insulating layer 614, a first nanocarbon film 615 doped with an n-type impurity or not doped with an impurity, a second insulating layer 617, and a second nanocarbon film 616 doped with a p-type impurity or not doped with an impurity. |
| US10324315B2 |
Electronic device
The present disclosure discloses an electronic device, to solve the technical problem that it is relatively complex to implement a change in color of an appearance of the electronic device in the related art. The electronic device comprises a main body having a basic form and a deformed form; and a color changing film attached to the main body to form a part of a surface of an appearance of the main body, the color changing film being deformed as the main body is changed from the basic form to the deformed form, wherein if the main body is in the basic form, the color changing film as the part of the appearance of the main body presents a first visual effect, and if the main body is in the deformed form, the color changing film as the part of the appearance of the main body presents a second visual effect different from the first visual effect. Based on the same concept, the present disclosure further discloses another electronic device. |
| US10324314B2 |
Ultra-flat optical device with high transmission efficiency
An optical device includes a nanostructured transparent dielectric film, which is a Huygens metasurface. The Huygens metasurface imparts a phase change to light propagating through or reflecting from the surface. The phase change can be achieved by means of a resonant interaction between light and the Huygens resonators, resulting in a controllable phase change of 0 to 2π with approximately 100% light transmission characterized by a below 0.1 dielectric loss tangent of delta and with the height of the resonators less than the wavelength of light. In one embodiment, the metasurface includes titanium dioxide, but many materials or stacks of different materials may be used. The optical device is functional throughout the visible spectrum between 380 and 700 nm. The nanostructured transparent dielectric film includes a plurality of Huygens resonators. The phase and the amplitude of the nanostructured transparent dielectric film are modulated by arranging the plurality of Huygens resonators such that certain properties, including the radius and height of each Huygens resonator, as well as the gap between two adjacent Huygens resonators, are controlled to optimize the performance of the optical device within the visible spectrum. |
| US10324312B2 |
Temple cover for eye glasses
A temple cover for eye glasses. The removable front cover has a first end component and a second end component. Each of the end components are an integral part of the removable front cover. Together with each temple cover they form an eye glass cover. |
| US10324309B2 |
Modifiable-focus lens devices, systems, and related methods
Embodiments disclosed herein are directed to intraocular lens devices, systems, and methods that include determining relative tilt and/or vergence rotation of a subject's eyes and focusing one or more intraocular lenses based on the determined vergence rotation. |
| US10324306B2 |
Device for measuring an aberration, imaging systems and methods for measuring an aberration
A device for measuring an aberration has an image sensor, projection optics for optically projecting onto the image sensor, an optical unit for influencing the optical projection onto the image sensor so that the result on the image sensor is a multiple image of a plurality of sub-images, wherein the optical unit has at least one region per sub-image, wherein the regions influence different lateral portions of a wavefront incident on the projection optics in different ways, and an evaluator configured to determine information relating to the aberration based on the multiple image. |
| US10324305B2 |
Display device and vehicle having the same
A display device for installation in a vehicle can include a first display configured to output first light forming first visual information; and a light synthesizing unit configured to pass the first light through the light synthesizing unit, and reflect second light and third light generated by different light sources, in which the light synthesizing unit includes a first light synthesizing portion disposed with a first surface of the first light synthesizing portion facing a first direction, and the first light synthesizing portion is configured to pass the first light through the first light synthesizing portion and reflect the second light; and a second light synthesizing portion disposed with a second surface of the second light synthesizing portion facing a second direction different from the first direction, and the second light synthesizing portion is configured to pass the first light through the second light synthesizing portion and reflect the third light. |
| US10324303B2 |
Stereoscopic display device
A stereoscopic display device is provided. The stereoscopic display device includes: a display panel, including a plurality of first display units and a plurality of second display units arranged alternately; a grating, disposed on a light exiting side of the display panel and including a plurality of light-transmitting regions and a plurality of light-shielding regions, wherein the display device includes a lens with a light convergence action at a position corresponding to each of the light-transmitting regions of the grating. In this way, while reducing a distance from the grating to the display panel, it is possible to ensure a 3D displaying effect be obtained at a longer distance. |
| US10324297B2 |
Heads up display system for vehicle
A display system of a vehicle includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and having a field of view interior of the vehicle that encompasses a head region of a driver of the vehicle. An image processor is operable to process image data captured by the camera to determine a location of both eyes of the driver of the vehicle. A display device is operable to display or project a first image and a second image for viewing by the driver of the vehicle. A first reflector element that is adjusted, responsive to image processing by the image processor of image data captured by the camera, to reflect the first and second images so that a left eye of the driver views the reflected first image and a right eye of the driver views the reflected second image. |
| US10324294B2 |
Display control device, display control method, and computer program
There is provided a display control device capable of ensuring the user's field of vision while keeping the user safe when the user is using a see-through head-mounted display, the display control device including: a situation acquisition unit configured to acquire information about a situation where a see-through display is being used, and a display control unit configured to perform display control on the see-through display using the information acquired by the situation acquisition unit so that a display of the information on the see-through display gradually becomes clearly visible. |
| US10324291B2 |
Display active alignment system for waveguide displays
A display system includes a display alignment tracker configured track the position of a first signal and the position of a second signal. The display alignment tracker optically multiplexes a portion of a first signal and a portion of the second signal into a combined optical signal and measures a differential between the first signal and the second signal. |
| US10324290B2 |
Situational awareness systems and methods
Example systems and methods are described that help increase the situational awareness of a user of a helmet, such as a motorcycle helmet. One or more cameras are physically coupled to the helmet, where each camera includes a lens and an associated image sensor. Each camera is configured to generate a video feed, which is presented to a user on a display. The video feed represents a field-of-view around the helmet, and may be projected onto a surface, such as the visor of the helmet, thereby enabling enhanced situational awareness for the user of the helmet. |
| US10324288B2 |
Vehicle display system absorbing ambient light
An anti-glare head-up display system for vehicles includes a projection imaging unit and a curved mirror. The projection imaging unit is in an upper region of a cabin of the vehicle. The curved mirror is on a top surface of an instrument panel of the vehicle. The curved mirror includes a doped glass, a high-reflection coating and a dark coating. The doped glass and the dark coating absorb visible light. The high-reflection coating is on a surface of the doped glass facing the projection imaging unit and has a high-reflection effect at wavelengths corresponding to light sources used by the projection imaging unit. The dark coating is on another surface of the doped glass opposite with the projection imaging unit. Light rays emitted by the projection imaging unit are projected onto the curved mirror, and light rays reflected from the curved mirror are projected onto the windshield to form a virtual image in front of the windshield. Light rays of ambient light projected onto the curved mirror which do not belong to the wavelengths corresponding to the light sources pass through the high-reflection coating and are absorbed by the doped glass and the dark coating. |
| US10324283B2 |
Opening angle measurement of an oscillating MEMS mirror
A device disclosed herein includes a feedback measuring circuit to measure a signal flowing through a movable MEMS mirror. Processing circuitry determines a time at which the signal indicates that a capacitance of the movable MEMS mirror is substantially at a maximum capacitance. The processing circuitry also determines, over a window of time extending from the time at which the signal indicates that the capacitance of the movable MEMS mirror is substantially at the maximum to a given time, a total change in capacitance of the movable MEMS mirror compared to the maximum capacitance. The processor further determines the capacitance at the given time as a function of the total change in capacitance, and determines an opening angle of the movable MEMS mirror as a function of the capacitance at the given time. |
| US10324281B2 |
Surgical microscope having a data unit and method for overlaying images
A surgical system has a surgical microscope with an imaging optical unit and a control unit for setting imaging parameters of the microscope. The system further has an image processing device for overlaying an overlay image stored in the image processing device with an image generated by the microscope. A data processing unit is connected to the control unit of the microscope and to the image processing device. The control unit is configured such that, before a change of at least one imaging parameter of the microscope from a first value to a second value, it stores both the first value and the second value and makes them available to the data processing unit. The image processing device is configured in such a manner that it modifies the overlay image in a manner corresponding to the stored first and second values of the at least one imaging parameter. |
| US10324279B2 |
Optical lens
On embodiment of the invention discloses an optical lens including five lens group and an aperture stop. Each lens group includes at least one lens with refractive power, and the aperture stop is fixed in a position between a second lens group and a third lens group. Further, a distance between a first lens group and a fifth lens group remains fixed during zooming or focusing, and respective distances of the second lens group and a fourth lens group relative to the fifth lens group vary during zooming or focusing. |
| US10324276B2 |
Imaging lens system
An imaging lens system comprises, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens element with positive refractive power having a convex object-side surface; a second lens element with refractive power; a third lens element with refractive power having object-side and image-side surfaces being aspheric, at least one surface thereof having at least one inflection point; a fourth lens element with refractive power having a concave object-side surface and a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens element with refractive power having an aspheric object-side surface and an aspheric concave image-side surface, the image-side surface thereof having at least one inflection point. |
| US10324275B2 |
Optical imaging lens
An imaging lens includes first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh lens elements arranged in a sequence from an object side to an image side along an optical axis. Each lens element has an object-side surface and an image-side surface. The object-side of the third lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of a periphery. The object-side of the fifth lens element has a convex portion in a vicinity of the optical axis and a concave portion in a vicinity of a periphery. The object-side of the sixth lens element has a concave portion in a vicinity of a periphery. All of lens elements having refracting power of the imaging lens are the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh lens elements.’ |
| US10324269B2 |
Immersion objective
An immersion objective has a numerical aperture of 1.42 or higher, and includes in order from the object side a positive first lens group, a positive second lens group, and a negative third lens group. The first lens group includes a first cemented lens that includes a plano-convex lens and a first meniscus lens, and a positive lens. The second lens group includes a plurality of cemented lenses. The third lens group includes in order from the object side a second cemented lens that includes a positive lens and a negative lens, a negative lens that has a concave surface facing the object side, and a positive lens. When H is a maximum height of an axial marginal ray, f is a focal length of the objective, and NAob is the numerical aperture, the objective satisfies a conditional expression below 3.5≤(H/f)×NAob≤5.2 (1). |
| US10324267B2 |
Focus adjustment apparatus, control method for focus adjustment apparatus, and storage medium
A focus adjustment apparatus includes an imaging unit, a focus detection unit configured to detect a focusing state based on a signal output from the imaging unit, a determination unit configured to determine whether an in-focus position is present within a predetermined range from a current position of a focus lens based on the detected focusing state, a control unit configured to perform control to correct the position of the focus lens moved by a manual operation according to a result of the determination made by the determination unit, and an acquisition unit configured to acquire from a storage unit a movement speed of the focus lens corresponding to the manual operation, wherein the control unit performs control to move the focus lens at a speed determined based on the movement speed acquired from the storage unit. |
| US10324266B1 |
LED light projection with multiple lenses
An LED light projector comprising a housing, a motor seated in the housing, and a projection carousel mounted distally on the motor and configured to rotate therewith in the housing. The projection carousel comprises a disk with a plurality of windows each having a plano-convex lens mounted therein. In addition, an LED circuit board is mounted on the motor, the LED circuit board including a number of LEDs for emitting a plurality of light beams. A focal assembly is mounted on the motor overtop the LED circuit board and it too includes windows each having a plano-concave lens for collimating the light beams. A partition is mounted in the housing adjacent (outside) the focal assembly and projection carousel, and it includes windows each having a removable image slide for passing the light beams and projecting an image thereon. The projected images result in a unique kaleidoscopic pattern. |
| US10324265B2 |
Optical connector
An optical connector according to the present disclosure includes: optical transmission paths that have end faces aligned in a predetermined region, and transmit optical signals. The optical transmission paths correspond to transmission channels or reception channels. The optical transmission paths of the transmission channels are distributed and arranged on a periphery of the predetermined region as compared with a case where the optical transmission paths of the transmission channels are concentrated and arranged at a center of the predetermined region. This configuration can increase an output of an optical signal, and make it possible to improve transmission quality at a low cost while improving a safety standard. |
| US10324259B2 |
Method of splicing optical fibers and apparatus thereof
Embodiments of present invention provide a method of splicing optical fibers. The method includes holding a first and a second fiber respectively by a first and a second rotary clamp; aligning axes of the first and second fibers to a common reference; moving the first and second fibers that are being held by the first and second rotary clamps onto a splicing machine; and causing the first and second fibers being spliced together by the splicing machine. A fiber splicing apparatus or system is also provided for performing the method thereof. |
| US10324257B2 |
Semiconductor optical waveguide, method for manufacturing the same, and optical communication device using the same
It is difficult to actualize a semiconductor optical waveguide having desired properties that reflect design even when process technology for a semiconductor electronic circuit is applied as is to the production of a semiconductor optical waveguide.The present invention includes: a substrate; a semiconductor optical waveguide structure arranged on the substrate; a planar region formed around the semiconductor optical waveguide structure on the substrate; and a semiconductor dummy structure that is arranged around the planar region on the substrate and is formed of a plurality of dummy patterns, wherein the semiconductor optical waveguide structure includes a line-symmetric pattern on a plane that is parallel to the substrate; and the plurality of dummy patterns are arranged symmetrically with respect to the symmetry axis of the line-symmetric pattern. |
| US10324256B2 |
Method of forming an integrated circuit and related integrated circuit
A method of forming an integrated circuit is disclosed. The method includes: (i) forming at least a pair of optoelectronic devices from at least a first wafer material arranged on a semiconductor substrate, the first wafer material different to silicon; (ii) etching the first wafer material to form a first recess to be filled with a second material; (iii) processing the second material to form a waveguide for coupling the pair of optoelectronic devices to define an optical interconnect; and (iv) bonding at least one partially processed CMOS device layer having at least one transistor to the second semiconductor substrate to form the integrated circuit, the partially processed CMOS device layer arranged adjacent to the optical interconnect. An integrated circuit is also disclosed. |
| US10324255B2 |
Photosensitive epoxy resin composition for formation of optical waveguide
The present disclosure provides an optical waveguide formation photosensitive epoxy resin composition which contains an epoxy resin and a photo-cationic polymerization initiator, wherein the epoxy resin includes a solid epoxy resin component alone. Thus, a core layer forming material can be provided, which has higher R-to-R (roll-to-roll) adaptability and higher transparency at a wavelength of 850 nm. Therefore, a core layer for an optical waveguide can be formed as having excellent R-to-R adaptability, higher transparency and a lower loss by using the optical waveguide formation photosensitive epoxy resin composition without changing the conventional production process. |
| US10324251B2 |
Display modules and method for fabricating the same
A display module is provided. The display module includes a backlight module with an upper surface, a display panel opposite to the backlight module, and a glue having a first contact surface and a second contact surface located between the display panel and the backlight module, wherein the first contact surface is in contact with the display panel, the second contact surface is in contact with the upper surface of the backlight module, and there is a gap between the display panel and the backlight module. A method for fabricating a display module is also provided. |
| US10324249B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a prism sheet between a display cell and a light guiding plate. The prism sheet includes a plurality of prisms having a constant apex angle continuously arranged in a second direction on a surface thereof opposed to a light-exiting surface of the light guiding plate. Each of ridge lines of the prisms extends in a first direction. Each prism has a first inclined face on a side on which light from the light guiding plate is incident and a second inclined face on a side reflecting the incident light. An area of the first inclined face is made smaller than an area of the second inclined face, and an area of a light-emitting region in the prism sheet is made larger than an area of a non-light-emitting region. |
| US10324240B2 |
Optical filter
To provide an optical filter having shielding effects against near ultraviolet rays and near infrared rays. An optical filter comprising a transparent resin body having a single layer or multilayer structure, and containing a near ultraviolet absorbing dye (U) which is a compound represented by the following formula (U) and which has an absorption maximum at a wavelength of from 370 to 425 nm and has a molar absorptivity at the maximum absorption wavelength of at least 50,000 [L/(mol·cm)], and a near infrared absorbing dye (A) which has an absorption maximum at a wavelength of from 600 to 800 nm: In the formula (U), Y is an oxygen atom, a methylene group or a dimethylene group, R1 is a monovalent hydrocarbon group which may have a substituent, or the like, R2 to R5 are a hydrogen atom, an alkyl group, an alkoxy group or the like, and X is a bivalent group represented by any one of the formulae (X1) to (X5) or the like. |
| US10324239B2 |
Display device and color filter substrate
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are opposed to each other, wherein the second substrate includes, in a display area where an image is displayed, first light shields extending in a first direction and arranged apart from each other in a second direction which crosses the first direction, second light shields extending in the second direction and arranged apart from each other in the first direction, and an intermediate layer disposed between the first light shields and the second light shields, and the first light shields cross the second light shields via the intermediate layer. |
| US10324238B2 |
Anti-peep film, method for manufacturing the same and display device
The present invention discloses an anti-peep film, a method for manufacturing the same and a display device. The anti-peep film includes a main body and at least one light converging structure provided inside the main body; a refractive index of the main body is different from a refractive index of the light converging structure, to cause incident light to be outputted after being converged by the light converging structure. In the anti-peep film, the method for manufacturing the same and the display device provided by the present invention, a light converging structure is located inside a main body, and a refractive index of the main body is different from a refractive index of the light converging structure, to cause incident light to be outputted after being converged by the light converging structure, such that the display device has good anti-peep properties in all the different viewing directions. |
| US10324232B2 |
Method for producing an optical module having a polymer optical system
A method is provided for production of a module, including the steps of: providing a substrate (1) having a first surface (5) in the form of a translucent carrier; providing an open casting mold (6), wherein the formation of at least one optical element (4, 4′) is provided in the casting mold (6); covering the surface (5) with a polymeric casting compound (3) in the open casting mold, while forming the optical element from the casting compound (3); and curing the casting compound in the casting mold, wherein the translucent carrier and the casting compound (3) together form an optical system (10). |
| US10324231B2 |
Method and system for combining localized weather forecasting and itinerary planning
Provided are methods, devices, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums to generate an itinerary with a weather forecast. The itinerary may comprise a departure location, a destination location and a first time. Based on the itinerary, an intermediary location and an intermediary time associated with the intermediary location may be identified. A weather forecast associated with the identified intermediary location and the intermediary time may be predicted. A weather risk associated with the identified route may be assessed and. based on the assessed risk, an alternative route may be additionally identified. |
| US10324226B2 |
Foreign object detection using infared sensing
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for detecting foreign objects via infrared sensing. One example apparatus generally includes at least one infrared (IR) sensor configured to output a thermal signal indicative of a temperature of an area. The apparatus further includes at least one time differentiator coupled to the at least one IR sensor, the at least one time-differentiator being configured to generate a time-differentiated thermal signal based on the thermal signal. The apparatus further includes at least one correlation unit configured to correlate the time-differentiated thermal signal to a varying exposure level magnetic field. The apparatus further includes a determining unit configured to determine whether an object is present in the area based on the correlation of the time-differentiated thermal signal to the varying exposure level magnetic field. |
| US10324218B2 |
Electromagnetic assessment of multiple conductive tubulars
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for measuring material thickness of multiple tubulars by placing a logging tool in a well with multiple conductive tubulars and generating an electromagnetic field that interacts with the tubulars. A logging tool obtains the measurements using one or more receivers. A monitoring system or the logging tool applies the measurements to a mathematical model that considers at least a transition zone and one or both of a near field zone and a remote field zone of the electromagnetic field that interacts with the multiple conductive tubulars. Furthermore, the monitoring system or the logging tool may ascertain a thickness of the one or more conductive tubulars using the mathematical model. |
| US10324214B2 |
Electrostatic field sensor and security system in interior and exterior spaces
Electrostatic field sensor and security system in interior spaces and exterior spaces which can measure electrostatic fields and the variations thereof along a metal conductor that acts as a detection probe or antenna (1). The antenna (1) is connected to an electronic circuit (2, 3, 4, 31, 32) which is able to decode the changes in the electrostatic field around the conductor and to detect minuscule variations in the electrostatic field by means of a processor (7) enabling the clear detection of a human presence in an area surrounding the antenna (1) and the ability to differentiate between a human presence and any other type of animal or object. |
| US10324213B2 |
Capacitive proximity sensing
A capacitive proximity sensor may include a proximity sensing capacitor to provide a voltage output based on a voltage input, the capacitor including a ground plane and an electrode loop capacitively coupled to the ground plane. The proximity sensor may include a processor to detect an object proximity based on a change in the voltage output. This proximity sensor provides automated detection of a person, and thereby reduces the need for a vehicle occupant or child caregiver to activate a sensor by pressing a button. The use of a capacitance-based proximity sensor reduces issues associated with fabric, clothing, or other materials separating the proximity sensor from a person. |
| US10324212B2 |
Prediction ahead of bit using vertical seismic profile data and global inversion
Embodiments of the subject technology provide for predicting seismic impedance. The subject technology generates a corridor stack based on vertical seismic profile (VSP) data of a wellbore in a subterranean formation. The subject technology generates an initial estimate of a velocity model for the subterranean formation below the wellbore. The subject technology generating a density model for the subterranean formation below the wellbore based on information from nearby wells. The subject technology inverts, based on a global inversion algorithm and the initial estimate of the velocity model, the generated corridor stack to determine a set of velocity models. The subject technology generates impedance models in a depth domain based on the generated density model and the set of velocity models. Further, the subject technology stores the generated impedance models. |
| US10324209B2 |
Processing hexagonally sampled seismic data
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method for processing three-dimensional (3D) hexagonally sampled seismic data. The method can include receiving 3D hexagonally sampled seismic data represented using 3D spiral architecture (SA), the 3D hexagonally sampled seismic data including a plurality of data traces each corresponding to center of a hexagon in the 3D SA, representing the 3D hexagonally sampled seismic data as two-dimensional (2D) seismic data using spiral architecture (SA) addressing scheme, and processing the 2D seismic data with an SA based signal processing process. |
| US10324208B2 |
Premigration deghosting for marine streamer data using a bootstrap approach in Tau-P domain
Methods and systems for optimized receiver-based ghost filter generation are described. The optimized ghost filter self-determines its parameters based on an iterative calculation of recorded data transformed from a time-space domain to a Tau-P domain. An initial ghost filter prediction is made based on generating mirror data from the recorded data and using a least squares technique during a premigration stage. |
| US10324207B2 |
Seismic data least-square migration method and device
Computing device, computer instructions and method for calculating an image of a subsurface based on least square migration and image de-convolution using a matching operator F. The method includes receiving seismic data d; computing a first image m of the subsurface based on the seismic data d; computing a second image h of the subsurface based on the first image m; applying a transform operation to the first and second images m and h to obtain a first transform of the first image and a second transform of the second image; calculating the matching operator F by matching the first transform of the first image to the second transform of the second image; and generating an updated image mupdated of the subsurface based on the matching operator F and the first transform of the first image. |
| US10324203B2 |
Cross-line source separation based on cross-line streamer separation
A method for a marine seismic survey can include towing streamers that are spaced apart in a cross-line direction by a streamer separation (L) and towing seismic source elements that are spaced apart in the cross-line direction by a source separation based on an integer (k), an inverse of a quantity of the seismic source elements (1/S), and the streamer separation as represented by (k+1/S)L. The seismic source elements can be actuated and seismic signals can be detected at each of a plurality of receivers on the streamers. |
| US10324194B2 |
Method for operating a GNSS receiver, with GNSS signal deselection
A Global Navigation Satellite System receiver for position determination receives from a multitude of satellites a respective GNSS code signal, which are correlated with a reference code signal to obtain an autocorrelation function. A multitude of function values of the autocorrelation function at different discrete chip spacings (chosen asymmetrically with respect to a prompt chip spacing) are analyzed and used in obtaining a test metric. Using the test metric, a decision is made whether the received GNSS code signal is suitable or unsuitable (thereafter excluded) for a position determination due to multipath signal components. A bias removal is performed taking into account corresponding function values of an autocorrelation function that would result from a received GNSS code signal of the satellite unaffected by multipath signal components. This provides a simple method for operating a GNSS receiver minimizing errors in position determination caused by multipath signal components. |
| US10324192B2 |
Switching method and switching apparatus
Embodiments of the present application disclose a switching method and a switching apparatus. The method comprises: determining voice service quality of at least one position in a movement path of at least one UE; determining a position of the at least one UE; and triggering, in response to that the voice service quality of the at least one position meets a preset condition, and the at least one UE fails to arrive at the at least one position corresponding to the voice service quality that meets the preset condition, the at least one UE to switch from a first voice communication mode to a second voice communication mode. In the method and apparatus of the embodiments of the present application, switching is triggered, by determining a movement path and a position of a UE, in advance before the UE arrives at a position/position range at which the switching of a voice communication mode should be performed, so as to avoid relatively poor communication quality or even an interrupted communication service caused by a state that a normal switching process cannot be completed in a short time, thereby improving user experiences. |
| US10324191B2 |
Method and device for chronologically synchronizing a kinematic location network
Methods and devices are presented for synchronizing positioning signals in a kinematic location network. In particular, methods and devices are presented for synchronizing a unique positioning signal generated by a positioning-unit device to a reference positioning signal generated by a reference transmitter, where the positioning-unit device and the reference transmitter are moving relative to each other. In certain embodiments the reference transmitter or the positioning-unit device, or both, self-monitor trajectory data comprising one or more of location, velocity or acceleration, e.g. using inertial navigation systems, and broadcast that data in their positioning signals. The trajectory data enables estimation of Doppler shifts and propagation delays associated with the positioning signals, allowing measurement and correction of clock drift for synchronization of the positioning signals. |
| US10324189B2 |
Collaborative data processing
Embodiments are disclosed for collaboratively scanning and processing sensor data for building a map of an environment around a group of vehicles. An example an in-vehicle computing system of a vehicle includes a sensor subsystem in communication with an optical sensor, a processor, and memory storing instructions executable by the processor to instruct the optical sensor to scan an assigned region around the vehicle, receive locally scanned data corresponding to the assigned region, process the scanned data to build a first portion of a three-dimensional map, transmit the processed scanned data to at least one other vehicle, receive additional map data from the at least one other vehicle, and build a second, different portion of the three-dimensional map using the received additional map data. In a first example of the in-vehicle computing system, the optical sensor may additionally or alternatively include a Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) sensor system. |
| US10324188B1 |
Optical ground tracking apparatus, systems, and methods for use with buried utility locators
Methods and apparatus for tracking movement over the ground or other surfaces of a buried utility locator during a utility locate operation are disclosed. |
| US10324183B2 |
UAV measuring apparatus and UAV measuring system
The invention provides a UAV measuring apparatus, which comprises a flying vehicle, a laser scanner mounted on the flying vehicle and for performing two-dimensional scanning with a reference optical axis extending in an approximately vertically downward direction as the center, an image pickup unit having an image pickup optical axis parallel to the reference optical axis and a control arithmetic component, wherein the control arithmetic component is configured to synchronize the two-dimensional scanning performed by the laser scanner with an image pickup performed by the image pickup unit, and to correspond a scanning locus obtained by the two-dimensional scanning with an acquired image. |
| US10324182B2 |
Method for identifying at least one object in a surrounding area of a motor vehicle by means of an ultrasonic sensor, driver assistance system and motor vehicle
The invention relates to a method for identifying at least one object (9, 10) in a surrounding area (7) of a motor vehicle (1), in which the motor vehicle (1) is moved relative to at least one object (9, 10) and, while the motor vehicle (1) is moved relative to the at least one object (9, 10), a measurement cycle is performed at each of a plurality of successive times, wherein each measurement cycle involves an ultrasonic sensor (4) of the motor vehicle (1) being used to transmit an ultrasonic signal, and a feature (14) being determined that describes a position value, which describes a position of the at least one object (9, 10) and which is ascertained on the basis of a first received echo of the ultrasonic signal, and a presence of a second echo of the ultrasonic signal that is received within a predetermined period of time after the first echo, wherein the respective features (14) are associated with a cluster (13) on the basis of their position value, and the features (14) of the cluster (13) are signalled as belonging to the at least one object (9, 10) on the basis of the presence of the second echo. |
| US10324173B2 |
Acoustic transducer element
In an embodiment, an acoustic transducer includes an element with an acoustic radiative surface having two warped edges at opposing sides. In another embodiment, an acoustic transducer includes first and second elements, each divided into at least two spatially separated portions electrically coupled to each other, the portions configured to interleave. In a further embodiment, an acoustic transducer includes first and second transducer elements. The second element is situated adjacent to the first element and includes a radiative surface with an edge having periodic elongations. In yet another embodiment, an acoustic transducer includes a transducer element with an acoustic radiative surface that has a skewed diamond shape. |
| US10324169B2 |
Digital compensation for amplifier-induced instability
A method is provided for correcting radar signal transient variation induced by power amplification in a pulse radar transmitter. The method includes establishing a first plurality of characteristics of a first pulse sequence having a digital pulse; establishing a second plurality of characteristics of a second pulse sequence having a plurality of digital pulses; comparing the first and second pluralities of characteristics to determine a sequence difference; providing pre-distortion coefficients for the plurality of digital pulses corresponding to the signal transient variation in response to the sequence difference; and applying the coefficients to the plurality of digital pulses prior to the power amplification. |
| US10324167B2 |
Systems and methods for adding functional grid elements to stochastic sparse tree grids for spatial filtering
A method of spatially filtering signal parameter vector data includes receiving, at a computing device, a first signal parameter vector at a first time and a second signal parameter vector at a second time occurring after the first time. The first and second signal parameter vectors are derived from a plurality of signals received at a sensor, and include first and second signal data blocks, respectively. The method also includes transmitting, to at least a first and second element of an array data structure representative of a physical spatial domain, the first and second signal data blocks, respectively, and determining an elliptical error region probability object having a center and a pair of axes containing the first and second signal data blocks. The center represents a highest probability location of a signal emitter at the second time and the pair of axes represents the spatial error of the center. |
| US10324166B2 |
Affordable combined pulsed/FMCW radar AESA
A combined pulsed and FMCW AESA radar system is described. The radar system includes an AESA array of radiating elements, an array of TR modules, an RF combiner/splitter, a transmitter, a pulsed radar receiver and an FMCW radar receiver. Each TR module corresponds to a respective radiating element of the array of radiating elements. The transmitter is configured to transmit an excitation signal to excite selected or all radiating elements of the array of radiating elements via the TR modules. When the transmitter is in a pulsed radar mode, the pulsed radar receiver is configured to receive radar return signals via the RF combiner/splitter from radiating elements of the array of radiating elements via the TR modules. When the transmitter is in an FMCW radar mode, the FMCW radar receiver is configured to receive radar return signals from selected radiating elements of the array of radiating elements via the TR modules. |
| US10324163B2 |
Geolocation using guided surface waves
Disclosed are various approaches for determining a location using guided surface waves. A wavelength and a phase of a base guided surface wave launched from a ground station and received by the guided surface wave receive structure are identified. A range of an overlaid guided surface wave launched from the ground station and received by the guided surface wave receive structure are identified., wherein the range of the overlaid guided surface wave is measured as a number of wavelengths of the base guided surface wave. A distance of the guided surface wave receive structure from the ground station based at least in part on the phase of the base guided surface wave and the range of the overlaid guided surface wave is calculated. Finally, a location of the guided surface wave receive structure based at least in part on the distance of the guided surface wave receive structure from the ground station is determined. |
| US10324161B2 |
Balloon-based positioning system and method
Disclosed herein are embodiments of a balloon-based positioning system and method. In one example embodiment, a system includes a group of at least three balloons deployed in the stratosphere and a control system configured for: determining a first set of spatial relationships relating to the group; determining a second set of spatial relationships relating to at least a portion of the group and to a reference point; determining a position of the reference point relative to the earth; using the determined first set, the determined second set, and the determined position of the reference point relative to the earth as a basis for determining a position of a target balloon in the group relative to the earth; and transmitting the determined position of the target balloon relative to the earth. |
| US10324160B2 |
Geolocation of beyond LOS HF emitters
An apparatus having processing circuitry configured to estimate beyond line-of-sight emitter location may be configured to receive signal information indicative of TDOA and FDOA measurements at a first receiver and a second receiver. The signal information may be generated based on indirect wave signals received from the emitter at each of the first and second receivers. The processing circuitry may be further configured to employ a first analytical model of the ionosphere to generate coarse TDOA and FDOA contour maps, and generate a first geolocation estimate based on the coarse TDOA and FDOA contour maps. |
| US10324155B2 |
Sparse recovery of fiber orientations using multidimensional Prony method
A computer-implemented method for sparse recovery of fiber orientations using a multidimensional Prony method for use in tractography applications includes performing magnetic resonance imaging to acquire a plurality of sparse signal measurements using a q-space sampling scheme which enforces a lattice structure with a predetermined number of collinear samples. Next, for each voxel included in the plurality of sparse signal measurements, a computer system is used to perform a parameter estimation process. This process includes translating a portion of the sparse signal measurements corresponding to the voxel into a plurality of Sparse Approximate Prony Method (SAPM) input parameters, and applying a SAPM process to the SAPM input parameters to recover a number of fiber populations, a plurality of orientation vectors, and a plurality of amplitude scalars. Then, one or more tractograms are generated using the number of fiber populations, the orientation vectors, and the amplitude scalars recovered for each voxel. |
| US10324154B2 |
Generalized spherical deconvolution in diffusion magnetic resonance imaging
A magnetic resonance imaging method includes generating spatially resolved fiber orientation distributions (FODs) from magnetic resonance signals acquired from a patient tissue using a plurality of diffusion encodings, each acquired magnetic resonance signal corresponding to one of the diffusion encodings and being representative of a three-dimensional distribution of displacement of magnetic spins of gyromagnetic nuclei present in each imaging voxel. Generating the spatially resolved FODs includes performing generalized spherical deconvolution using the acquired magnetic resonance signals and a modeled tissue response matrix (TRM) to reconstruct the spatially resolved FODs. The method also includes using the spatially resolved FODs to generate a representation of fibrous tissue within the patient tissue. |
| US10324148B2 |
Active compensation for field distorting components in a magnetic resonance imaging system with a gantry
A medical apparatus (300, 400, 500) includes a magnetic resonance imaging system (306); magnetic compensation coils (334, 335) for compensating for magnetic inhomogeneities within the imaging zone; a gantry (308) operable for rotating about the imaging zone; a position sensor (312) for measuring the angular position and the angular velocity of the gantry; at least one magnetic field distorting component (310, 510, 512) in the gantry; and a memory (362) storing machine executable instructions (380, 382, 410, 530, 532) and field correction data (372). The instructions cause a processor to: receive (100, 200) the position and angular velocity data from the position sensor; determine (102, 202) coil control commands (374) for controlling the magnetic compensation coils using the field correction data, the position data and the angular velocity data; control (104, 204) the magnetic compensation coils to compensate for magnetic inhomogeneities within the imaging zone using the coil control commands; and acquire (106, 212) the magnetic resonance data. |
| US10324146B2 |
Method and apparatus for multi-part body coil
A method and apparatus for receiving (RX) radio-frequency (RF) signals suitable for MRI and/or MRS from a plurality of MRI “coil elements” (antennae), each contained in one or a plurality of body-coil parts, wherein the body-coil parts are easily assemble-able into a body-coil assembly (e.g., in some embodiments, a cylindrical body-coil assembly) with shield elements that are overlapped and/or concentric, and wherein the body-coil assembly is readily disassemble-able for easier shipping, and wherein the body-coil parts are optionally usable individually as transmit (TX) and/or receive (RX) coil elements for MRI. In some embodiments, the system provides for repeatable assembly and disassembly for ease of maintenance (such as frequency tuning and impedance matching) such that the body-coil assembly can be fully assembled and tested, then taken apart for less costly and easier shipping (with reduced risk of damage) and then reassembled at the destination for operation in an MRI system. |
| US10324144B2 |
Lateral transmission of signals across a galvanic isolation barrier
In some examples, a device includes a first conductive region and a second conductive region that is galvanically isolated from the first conductive region. The device further includes one or more conductors, wherein each conductor of the one or more conductors is electrically connected to circuitry in the first conductive region. The device also includes a giant magnetoresistive (GMR) sensor electrically connected to circuitry in the second conductive region and magnetically coupled to the one or more conductors, wherein the GMR sensor is positioned at least partially lateral relative to the one or more conductors. |
| US10324141B2 |
Packages for coil actuated position sensors
An apparatus comprises one or more substrates and one or more coils. At least one of the coils is configured to produce a first magnetic field that induces eddy currents in a conductive target, which generates a reflected magnetic field. One or more magnetic field sensing elements supported by the one or more substrates detect the reflected magnetic field. A conductive support structure supports the one or more substrates. The support structure includes a gap in an area adjacent to the one or more coils so that the support structure does not generate a reflected magnetic field in response to the first magnetic field. |
| US10324138B2 |
Computing system for identification of solid-solid interphase products
Embodiments of a method, a system, and non-transitory computer readable storage media evaluating electrochemical qualities for interphase products. The disclosed embodiments perform a selection of a plurality of chemical phases for a solid electrolyte and at least one of the anode and cathode to be received. Thermodynamic data is received for the plurality of chemical phases. The retrieved thermodynamic data is received to evaluate a respective electrochemical quality for at least one of an interface between the solid electrolyte and the anode, and an interface between the solid electrolyte and the cathode. |
| US10324130B2 |
Test decompressor and test method thereof
A test decompressor and a test method thereof for converting original input data of one single test input into test vectors for testing a circuit under test (CUT) containing scan chains are revealed. The test decompressor includes a test data spreader, a test configuration switch, and a test controller. The test data spreader converts the original input data into a plurality of test data. The test configuration switch receives the original input data and the plurality of test data and transfers these data to scan chains of the CUT. The test controller receives the original input data and outputs a select signal to the test configuration switch for switching current test configuration to another test configuration. The scan chains in the CUT are divided into several scan groups and the scan chains in each scan group share the same test data. Thus the test data volume can be significantly reduced. |
| US10324129B2 |
Integrated circuit automatic test system and integrated circuit automatic test method storing test data in scan chains
An integrated circuit (IC) automatic test system and an IC automatic test method storing test data in scan chains are revealed. The automatic test system includes at least one scan chain, a test controller and a test decompressor connected. Each scan chain consists of a storage portion with a plurality of scan units and a scan input corrector. The storage portion is for storing test data and the scan input corrector is used to adjust test patterns to be shifted into the scan chains. The test controller is for control of test flow while the test decompressor reconstructs and decompresses the test data stored in the storage portions of the scan chains to generate test patterns for the circuit under test. Thereby the IC electrical test is performed automatically and the test cost and the test cost is reduced. |
| US10324127B2 |
Electronic component handling apparatus, electronic component testing apparatus, and electronic component testing method
An electronic component handling apparatus (10) is provided which can improve the operation rate. The electronic component handling apparatus (10) includes: a contact arm (300) having a holding part (380) configured to hold a DUT (10A), the contact arm (300) being configured to press the DUT (10A) against a socket (410); an alignment device (200) including a camera (221) and a operation unit (230), the camera (221) being configured to image the DUT (10A) to acquire image information, the operation unit (230) being configured to adjust a position of the holding part (380) within a range of a maximum alignment amount (ALmax); and a control device (105) configured to control the contact arm (300) and the alignment device (200). When a predetermined condition is not satisfied, the control device (105) controls the contact arm (300) and the alignment device (200) so as to perform preliminary alignment work at least once. When the predetermined condition is satisfied, the control device (105) controls the contact arm (300) and the alignment device (200) so as to perform main alignment work. |
| US10324126B2 |
Method and apparatus for aligning probe pins with respect to positions of electronic devices
A method for aligning probe pins with respect to positions of electronic devices comprises conducting contact stamping on a first electronic device with the probe pins to form first probe marks on lead pads of the first electronic device, capturing an image of the first electronic device, determining positions of the first probe marks on the first electronic device using the captured image, calculating an offset using the positions of the first probe marks, adjusting relative positions between a subsequent plurality of electronic devices and the probe pins using the offset, and contacting lead pads of the subsequent plurality of electronic devices with the probe pins for testing said electronic devices. The first probe marks are configured to have greater visibility as compared with second probe marks formed when contacting the lead pads of the subsequent plurality of electronic devices with the probe pins, so as to improve the accuracy of the offset calculated. |
| US10324120B2 |
Arrangement with a plurality of peripheral units and a sensor
An arrangement includes a plurality of peripheral units and with a sensor, each of the plurality of peripheral units being provided with a connection for connecting the sensor to a supply voltage, includes a sensor input for connecting the sensor, and also includes a measuring resistor for acquiring a sensor current that represents a signal state, where a redundant acquisition and evaluation of the sensor current or a redundant operation of the sensor is permitted on the plurality of peripheral units via suitable measures. |
| US10324116B2 |
Electronic device and method for tracking energy consumption
The invention relates to an apparatus and method for tracking energy consumption. An energy tracking system comprises at least one switching element, at least one inductor and a control block to keep the output voltage at a pre-selected level. The switching elements are configured to apply the source of energy to the inductors. The control block compares the output voltage of the energy tracking system to a reference value and controls the switching of the switched elements in order to transfer energy for the primary voltage into a secondary voltage at the output of the energy tracking system. The electronic device further comprises an ON-time and OFF-time generator and an accumulator wherein the control block is coupled to receive a signal from the ON-time and OFF-time generator and generates switching signals for the at least one switching element in the form of ON-time pulses with a constant ON-time. |
| US10324112B2 |
Package testing system and method with contact alignment
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques and configurations for a package testing system. In some embodiments, the system may comprise a printed circuit board (PCB), including one or more sensors disposed adjacent to a corner of the PCB to face a package to be tested, to detect an electrical edge of the package. The PCB may include a contactor array disposed to face respective interconnects of the package. The system may further include a controller coupled with the one or more sensors, to process an input from the one or more sensors, to identify the electrical edge of the package, and initiate an adjustment of a position of the PCB relative to the package, based at least in part on the electrical edge of the package, to substantially align contacts of the contactor array with the respective interconnects of the package. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US10324110B2 |
Probe cover
A probe cover which is to be attached to a socket that is configured to support a plurality of contact probes, includes: a base; two positioning pins which are disposed on the base; and at least one supporting member which is disposed on the base. The two positioning pins and the supporting member are capable of positioning the base in a state where the base is separated from the socket by a predetermined distance, and a mutual separation distance between the two positioning pins is changeable. |
| US10324104B2 |
Device for measuring the speed and direction of a gas flow
A monitoring device includes a cavity assembly with a plurality of cavities. Openings of the plurality of cavities are distributed about a flow-facing surface of the cavity assembly. A gas pressure sensor is disposed within each of the cavities, and is configured to measure an absolute pressure of a gas flow which flows past the monitoring device. Gas pressure measurements from the pressure sensors may be used to determine a flow speed and a flow direction of the gas flow. More specifically, a mapping may be used to map the logarithm of the difference between the maximum and minimum pressures to a flow speed. Further, a lookup table may be used to map a pattern of pressure measurements to a flow direction. |
| US10324103B2 |
Impulse ring and a sensor-bearing unit comprising such impulse ring
An impulse ring centered on a central axis, for a sensor-bearing unit including a bearing is provided. The impulse ring includes a magnetized target that generates a magnetic fields adapted to be sensed by a sensor, and an annular target holder. The target holder provides an inner axial tubular portion adapted to be fixed to a rotatable inner ring of the bearing, an outer axial tubular portion holding the magnetized target that is positioned radially beyond an outer ring of bearing, and an intermediate portion that radially extends between the inner axial tubular portion and outer axial tubular portion. The intermediate portion provides a radial part, an inclined part and a plurality of stiffening ribs. |
| US10324100B2 |
Method for quantifying plasmalogens using PLA1 processing
The present invention provides methods for quantifying an amount of plasmalogens in samples with high accuracy in an easy, convenient and inexpensive manner by using a hydrolysis processing to samples and a lipid extraction followed by the measurement using High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) with Evaporative Light Scattering Detector (ELSD) or Mass Spectrometer (MS), a fluorescence plate reader or a plate reader. The present invention also relates to a method for examining a subject by using the above method, a biomarker for disease detection, a method for using the biomarker for the disease detection, as well as a kit for the disease detection. |
| US10324098B2 |
T2R taste receptors and genes encoding same
Newly identified mammalian taste-cell-specific G Protein-Coupled Receptors and the genes encoding said receptors are described. Specifically, T2R taste G Protein-Coupled Receptors that are believed to be involved in bitter taste sensation, and the genes encoding the same, are described, along with methods for isolating such genes and for isolating and expressing such receptors. Methods for representing taste perception of a particular tastant in a mammal are also described, as are methods for generating a novel molecules or combinations of molecules that elicit a predetermined taste perception in a mammal, and methods for simulating one or more tastes. |
| US10324097B2 |
System and methods for bilirubin analysis
A method for measuring bilirubin levels in a subject. The method can include the steps of providing a sample to be measured from the subject, wherein the sample comprises bilirubin bound to albumin; adding a release agent to the sample, the release agent configured to release the bound bilirubin from the albumin; measuring electrochemical data of the sample using an electrochemical cell; and determining a total serum bilirubin concentration of the sample using the electrochemical data. This method is capable of providing a simpler, faster, and more robust measurement when compared to traditional bilirubin assay methods. |
| US10324096B2 |
Method of diagnosis, prognostic or treatment of neurodegenerative disease
Methods for the diagnosis and prognosis of neurodegenerative diseases, such as Alzheimer's disease, are described. Compositions and method for the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases are also described. |
| US10324095B2 |
Methods for diagnosing osteoarthritis
A method of predicting the risk of developing osteoarthritis (OA) comprising: (a) measuring the nuclear cellular level of prohibitin (PHB-1) in nucleated cells present in a blood sample from a subject having or suspected of having OA; and (b) comparing said nuclear cellular level to that corresponding to a control sample; and (c) identifying the subject as being at risk of developing OA when the nuclear cellular level of said PHB-1 in said blood sample is higher than in the control sample; and a composition for determining the risk of developing osteoarthritis (OA), said composition comprising: a cell sample from a subject; and a non-naturally occurring molecule for detecting nuclear accumulation of PHB1. |
| US10324091B2 |
Combination treponemal and non-treponemal syphilis test
Provided herein are multiplex assays for detecting antibodies indicative of presence and stage of syphilis infection in an individual. Individuals infected with syphilis produce antibodies directed to syphilis components and the lipid cellular debris associated with the infection. The present disclosure represents the first combination of these diverse antibody targets in a single assay. |
| US10324089B2 |
Test apparatus and methods for ST2 cardiac biomarker
The technology described in this document can be embodied in a test strip for use in measuring a level of an ST2 cardiac biomarker in a whole blood sample. The test strip includes a base, and a plurality of conjugates, wherein each conjugate includes a reporter group bound to a first antibody that binds to ST2. A conjugate pad holds the plurality of conjugates that bind with ST2 to produce conjugate-ST2 complexes. The test strip also includes a plurality of second antibodies that bind to ST2, and a plurality of third antibodies that bind to the conjugate-ST2 complexes. The plurality of second antibodies are bound to a membrane in a test location, and the plurality of third antibodies are bound to the membrane in a control location. A plasma separation pad passes blood plasma from a whole blood sample to the conjugate pad while inhibiting other components. |
| US10324085B2 |
Systems and methods for the monitoring of protein complex formation in cells
Described herein is a bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET) based system and method to monitor ternary complex formation in real-time in live cells with high sensitivity and accuracy. This system transfers energy simultaneously between a luciferase donor and intermediate and terminal acceptors, appropriately chosen to also enable transfer from the intermediate to terminal acceptor while minimizing contaminating signals. The system may also be adapted for quaternary complex detection by including a protein complementation assay (PCA) component. The system is broadly applicable to the detection of any protein ternary/quaternary complex such as those involving nuclear receptors, GPCRs, Receptor Tyrosine Kinase (RTKs), multimeric enzymes or structural proteins. |
| US10324081B2 |
Multistrip cartridge
A test meter for analyzing a body fluid sample applied to a test strip includes an outer housing having an opening, an actuator, and a cartridge positioned adjacent the outer housing. The cartridge further includes a dispensing member connected to the actuator, a plurality of stacked test strips biased toward the dispensing member, and a cartridge outer housing that is adjacent at least a portion of the dispensing member. Each time the actuator is actuated, the dispensing member is rotated to cause movement of one test strip from the plurality of stacked test strips through the opening, and another test strip is biased toward the dispensing member. |
| US10324078B2 |
Embedded wireless monitoring sensors
Concrete can be one of the most durable building materials where consumption is projected to reach approximately 40 billion tons in 2017 alone. Despite this the testing of concrete at all stages of its life cycle is still in its infancy although testing for corrosion is well established. Further many of the tests today are time consuming, expensive, and provide results only after it has been poured and set. Accordingly, by exploiting self-contained wireless sensor devices, which are deployed with the wet concrete, the in-situ curing and maturity measurement data can be established and employed together with batch specific concrete data to provide rapid initial tests and evolving performance data regarding the concrete cure, performance, corrosion of concrete at different points in its life cycle. Such sensors remove subjectivity, allow for rapid assessment, are integrable to the construction process, and provided full life cycle assessment. |
| US10324077B2 |
Systems and methods for real-time spectrophotometric quantification of crude oil
Systems, apparatuses, and computer-implemented methods are provided for the real-time quantification of crude oil in an effluent from coreflooding apparatus. Disclosed here is a method of determining the amount of crude oil in an effluent from a coreflooding apparatus by blending the effluent stream with a solvent stream in a mixing device to produce a mixed stream, supplying the mixed stream to an in-line phase separator to produce a first stream containing the solvent and the crude oil from the effluent stream and a second stream containing water and water-miscible components from the effluent stream; and passing the first stream to a continuous flow analyzer to determine the amount of crude oil in the effluent stream. |
| US10324076B1 |
Water quality analysis instrument
A water quality analysis instrument for performing a blowback operation and a non-volatile total organic carbon analysis operation in sequence. When the blowback operation is performed, a previous residual gas within a water sample analyzer is discharged. When the non-volatile total organic carbon analysis operation is performed, the water sample flows between an accommodating space and an UV light providing module in a circulating manner, so that the non-volatile total organic carbon in the water sample is nearly completely oxidized, so that the water sample analyzer can analyze a content of non-volatile total organic carbon in the water sample accurately. |
| US10324074B2 |
Identification apparatus and identification system
This identification apparatus is for identifying the degree of degradation of oil and includes a sensor that detects a substance arising from oil contained in an oil tank and a controller that determines the degree of degradation of the oil based on information related to a substance detected initially by the sensor when the oil is contained in the oil tank in an initial state and on information related to the substance detected subsequently. |
| US10324073B2 |
Modular gas monitoring system
Monitoring systems and apparatuses and methods for using same are generally described. A gas monitoring system may include a base component and a module component. The module may be configured to be operably coupled to the base component through corresponding interface connectors. The system may be monitor for gases and generate alarms relating thereto, when the module is connected to the base. The base and/or module may have limited or no functionality when disconnected from the module and/or base. The module may include components that typically have an increased potential for upgrades, replacement, maintenance, or other modifications. The base may include components that typically have a lower rate of being upgraded, replaced, or requiring maintenance. In this manner, high maintenance components may be arranged in a module that has a smaller and more portable form factor as compared to the base and the system overall. |
| US10324070B2 |
High efficiency continuous countercurrent tangential chromatography
A system, module and method for continuous or batch single-pass countercurrent tangential chromatography are disclosed for bind/elute and negative chromatography applications. The system includes binding, washing, elution (for bind/elute), regeneration, and equilibration single-pass modules. The resin slurry flows in a continuous single pass at steady-state through each module, while corresponding buffers flow countercurrent to the slurry facilitating efficient product and impurity extraction. The module and system include retentate pumps for better process robustness and control. A resin tank configured to be reversibly isolated from the single-pass modules facilitates a closed and disposable system. The method includes receiving unpurified product solution and resin slurry, isolating the resin tank, binding product (bind/elute) or impurities (negative) to the resin slurry, washing impurities from the resin slurry, eluting and capturing pure product from the resin slurry (bind/elute), regenerating the resin slurry following elution, and providing buffer solutions to all of the single-pass steps. |
| US10324067B2 |
Vibration monitoring system and method
A method detects the presence of a vehicle on a railway track using a sensing processor monitoring a sensing system for detecting vibration into ground installed along the railway track. The sensing system includes a detection module for detecting a vehicle on the railway track. The method includes an initialization step which includes the sub-steps of emitting a first signal to be received by the sensing processor through the sensing system, sending a first message to the sensing processor, monitoring the sensing system, and configuring the detection module in function of the received first signal and configuration data received in the first message. The configuration data can include location of the initialization device, intensity/magnitude of the first signal, emission time of the first signal, and/or type of object corresponding to the first signal. |
| US10324065B2 |
Ultrasound diagnostic apparatus, ultrasound image capturing method, and computer-readable recording medium
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus includes: a probe that includes a transducer array including transducers, which are activated as a first transducer group and a second transducer group, is configured to transmit ultrasound waves by at least one transducer included in the first transducer group and at least one transducer included in the second transducer group, and to detect echo signals from an object; and a controller configured to select a number of transducers to be activated in the first transducer group and in the second transducer group based on the object or a measurement result, generate echo images from the echo signals, and measure an object change movement speed, which is a speed at which a change in the object moves, from the echo images. |
| US10324063B2 |
Methods and systems for measuring properties with ultrasound
A method of measuring a property of a medium using ultrasound, comprising: transmitting one or more ultrasound pulses into the medium from one or more transmitters and receiving at least a first echo signal and a second echo signal from within the medium at one or more receivers, wherein the first and second echo signals correspond to first and second pulse transmission paths within the medium from the one or more sources to the one or more receivers, the second path being different from the first path; and using the characteristics of the first and second echo signals together with an estimate of the property of the medium and a geometrical relationship between the first and second transmission paths to calculate a revised estimate of said property of the medium. By using two different beam paths within the medium, the first and second echoes will have had slightly different interactions with the medium. For example the different paths may well have different lengths thus giving different amounts of interaction such as different amplitude or phase effects on the different pulses. By comparing the similarities and differences between the pulses, certain properties of the medium can be discerned. Many different properties can be investigated using these principles. In particular, the speed of sound in a medium can be measured and the direction and magnitude of a flow or particle movement within the medium can be measured. An iterative process may be used. |
| US10324062B2 |
Method and apparatus for measurement of material condition
System and method for characterizing material condition. The system includes a sensor, impedance instrument and processing unit to collect measurements and assess material properties. A model of the system may be used to enable accurate measurements of multiple material properties. A cylindrical model for an electromagnetic field sensor is disclosed for modeling substantially cylindrically symmetric material systems. Sensor designs and data processing approaches are provided to focus the sensitivity of the sensor to localize material conditions. Improved calibration methods are shown. Sizing algorithms are provided to estimate the size of defects such as cracks and corrosion. Corrective measures are provided where the actual material configuration differs from the data processing assumptions. Methods are provided for use of the system to characterize material condition, and detailed illustration is given for corrosion, stress, weld, heat treat, and mechanical damage assessment. |
| US10324060B2 |
Analyte sensor
Matrix materials such polymers derivatives to contain a redox active material can be used to form electrodes and probes suitable for use in pH meters and other analyte sensing devices. |
| US10324058B2 |
In-situ chemistry stack for continuous glucose sensors
Embodiments of the invention provide an in-situ polymerization technique for creating a glucose sensor chemistry stack. An analyte sensor comprises a crosslinked polymer matrix in contact with an electrode. The crosslinked polymer matrix is formed by exposing ultraviolet (UV) light to a polymer matrix mixture comprising a plurality of hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) monomers, one or more di-acrylate crosslinkers, one or more UV photoinitiators, and an oxidoreductase. The oxidoreductase is covalently linked to the crosslinked polymer matrix. In typical embodiments, the oxidoreductase is a glucose oxidase-acrylate bioconjugate. In one or more embodiments, the analyte sensor apparatus further comprises a glucose limiting membrane positioned over the crosslinked polymer matrix. The glucose limiting membrane is formed by exposing ultraviolet (UV) light to a glucose limiting membrane mixture comprising a plurality of hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) monomers, one or more di-acrylate crosslinkers, one or more UV photoinitiators, ethylene glycol, and water. |
| US10324056B2 |
Moisture detection and ingression monitoring systems and methods of manufacture
Moisture detection and ingression monitoring systems and methods of manufacture are provided. The moisture detection structure includes chip edge sealing structures including at least one electrode forming a capacitor structured to detect moisture ingress within an integrated circuit. The at least one electrode and a second electrode of the capacitor is biased to ground and to a moisture detection circuit or vice versa, respectively. |
| US10324055B2 |
Process variable transmitter with terminal block moisture sensor
A process variable transmitter for use in an industrial process includes a housing having a cavity formed therein. The housing has a barrier which divides the cavity into first and second cavities. Measurement circuitry in the first cavity is configured to measure a process variable of the industrial process. A terminal block assembly is located in the second cavity. A moisture sensor has an electrical characteristic which changes based upon the presence of moisture in the second cavity. |
| US10324054B2 |
Method of manufacturing sensor device
A method of manufacturing a sensor device is provided. In the method, sensing electrodes are formed on a substrate, a sensing material layer is formed on the sensing electrodes. The sensing material layer is etched to form a first nanowire sensing region, a second nanowire sensing region and a third nanowire sensing region respectively between every two sensing electrodes of the sensing electrodes. A dielectric layer is formed to cover the first nanowire sensing region, the second nanowire sensing region and the third nanowire sensing region, and the first nanowire sensing region and the third nanowire sensing region are exposed. |
| US10324052B2 |
Selective characterization of material under test (MUT) with electromagnetic impedance tomography and spectroscopy
A method of extracting complex impedance from selected volumes of the material under test (MUT) combined with various embodiments of electrode sensor arrays. Configurations of linear and planar electrode arrays provide measured data of complex impedance of selected volumes, or voxels, of the MUT, which then can be used to extract the impedance of selected sub-volumes or sub-voxels of the MUT through application of circuit theory. The complex impedance characteristics of the sub-voxels may be used to identify variations in the properties of the various sub-voxels of the MUT, or be correlated to physical properties of the MUT using electromagnetic impedance tomography and/or spectroscopy. |
| US10324048B2 |
Electromagnetic surface resistivity determination
An apparatus is provided for determining an electromagnetic (EM) characteristic of a material, including a chamber, an antenna, a transmitter, a receiver and a processor. The chamber includes a permanent boundary that encloses a volume; a removable panel along the boundary. The panel includes the material. The antenna is disposed in the chamber for transmitting source EM radiation and receiving reflected EM radiation. The transmitter injects the source EM radiation via the antenna into the chamber. The source EM radiation includes continuous wave (CW) and pulse signals. The receiver obtains reverberated EM radiation from the chamber via the antenna and produces an intermediate frequency signal. The processor controls the transmitter and the receiver. The processor determines a decay time of the EM radiation from the intermediate frequency signal. The material is a test substance for comparison with a calibration reference substance on the removable panel having an established EM characteristic in the chamber, based on the decay time for the reference substance. The processor determines the EM characteristic from a decay time of the test substance and a reference decay time of the reference substance. |
| US10324046B1 |
Methods and systems for monitoring a non-defect related characteristic of a patterned wafer
Methods and systems for monitoring a non-defect related characteristic of a patterned wafer are provided. One computer-implemented method includes generating output responsive to light from a patterned wafer using an inspection system. The method also includes determining differences between a value of a non-defect related characteristic of the patterned wafer and a known value of the non-defect related characteristic based on differences between one or more attributes of the output and one or more attributes of other output of the inspection system for a different patterned wafer having the known value of the non-defect related characteristic. |
| US10324045B2 |
Surface defect inspection with large particle monitoring and laser power control
Methods and systems for reducing illumination intensity while scanning over large particles are presented herein. A surface inspection system determines the presence of a large particle in the inspection path of a primary measurement spot using a separate leading measurement spot. The inspection system reduces the incident illumination power while the large particle is within the primary measurement spot. The primary measurement spot and the leading measurement spot are separately imaged by a common imaging collection objective onto one or more detectors. The imaging based collection design spatially separates the image of the leading measurement spot from the image of the primary measurement spot at one or more wafer image planes. Light detected from the leading measurement spot is analyzed to determine a reduced power time interval when the optical power of the primary illumination beam and the leading illumination beam are reduced. |
| US10324044B2 |
Apparatus, method and computer program product for defect detection in work pieces
An apparatus, a method and a computer program product for defect detection in work pieces is disclosed. At least one light source is provided and the light source generates an illumination light of a wavelength range at which the work piece is transparent. A camera images the light from at least one face of the work piece on a detector of the camera by means of a lens. A stage is used for moving the work piece and for imaging the at least one face of the semiconductor device completely with the camera. The computer program product is disposed on a non-transitory, computer readable medium for defect detection in work pieces. A computer is used to execute the various process steps and to control the various means of the apparatus. |
| US10324043B2 |
Method for pre and post image association in fiber optic inspection
A fiber optic connector inspection display system including: a input unit which receives fiber end-face images; a display mode election unit which allows a user to select at least one of an image capture mode or an image review mode; a capturing unit which captures the fiber end-face images; a storing unit which stores the captured images as a first still image and a second still image; a display unit which displays the received fiber end-face images from the input unit or the stored first and second still images, and a control unit which stores each of the first and second still images with a user defined identification label, and the control unit may further label the each of the first and second still images with a preset image pair mode label if the user selects a preset image pair mode. |
| US10324038B2 |
Method for detection of presence or absence of analytes in fluids and an optical detection system for carrying out the method
A method and a system for detection of presence or absence of analytes in fluids, the method comprising the steps of: a) contacting a fluid sample and a plurality of nanoparticles, the nanoparticles being functionalized with a selective ligand, the contact of the fluid sample with the nanoparticles being under conditions such that, the nanoparticles aggregate selectively on surface of their target analyte, forming a nanoparticle-analyte complex, the aggregation promoting the concentration of the nanoparticles on the surface of the target analyte; b) subjecting a fluid mixture of the fluid sample and the plurality of nanoparticles to SERS; c) measuring at least a SERS signal associated with the fluid mixture; d) spectrally analyzing the at least one SERS signal of step c); e) recognizing at least one defined SERS spectrum of the nanoparticle-analyte complex, through a SERS signal enhanced by the at least one narrow inter-nanoparticle gap. |
| US10324037B2 |
Low energy laser spectroscopy LELS
An extremely sensitive spectroscopy method utilizes a laser modified to an extremely low emission with an integrated control system, interfaced within a typical Raman platform to comprise low energy laser spectroscopy (LELS). LELS acquires and utilizes a quantum entangled state of photons and particles, including omnipresent cosmological dark matter particles (OCDM) and omnipresent cosmological dark energy (OCDE). The OCDM and OCDE matter has an affinity to particles of same OCDM and OCDE matter in target specimens, with same-time data results of high sensitivity. In a semiconductor light emitter, electron flow at a low energy level is provided to a quantum well to produce a quantum tunneling of electrons into an active region of the laser quantum well and creating sublasering. Sublasering allows OCDM and OCDE to become entangled with other particles and energies in the laser's quantum well and create a transmission package comprising quantum entangled fields, waves, wave packages, states and energies. Providing a triggering pulse causes a second tunneling, carrying the transmission package for emission. |
| US10324036B2 |
Porous planar cell capture system
The invention relates to a porous planar cell capture system for use in determining the presence and/or amount of cells, for example, viable cells, in a liquid sample, and to methods of using such a cell capture system. The cell capture system contains a fluid permeable, planar membrane adopted to retain cells thereon, a fluid permeable support member that supports the membrane, and an optional register associated with the membrane. |
| US10324035B2 |
Nondestructive optical testing systems and related methods for predicting material failure
Embodiments disclosed herein relate to systems and methods for nondestructive testing of material to predict oncoming failure thereof. For example, components and/or elements of various devices may be nondestructively tested to predict and/or prevent failure of such components and elements during operation. In some embodiments, the components and/or elements may be tested without removal thereof from systems or devices (e.g., a wing of an airplane may be tested for oncoming failure without removing the wing from the airplane). |
| US10324034B2 |
Self-referencing localized plasmon resonance sensing device and system thereof
A self-referencing localized plasmon resonance sensing device and a system thereof are disclosed. The reference optical waveguide element is modified with a noble metal nanoparticle layer. The sensing optical waveguide element is modified with a noble metal nanoparticle layer, which is further modified with a recognition unit. The incident light is guided into the reference and the sensing optical waveguide elements to respectively generate localized plasmon resonance sensor signals. The reference and the sensing optical waveguide elements respectively have a calibration slope. The processor utilizes the calibration slopes to regulate the second difference generated by detecting with the sensing optical waveguide element. The processor utilizes a difference between the first difference, which is generated by detecting with the reference optical waveguide element, and the regulated second difference to obtain a sensor response. |
| US10324032B2 |
Light-based shielding detection
Disclosed herein is a sunscreen detector for use with portable device, such as a mobile and/or wearable device. One variation of a sunscreen detector comprises an illumination system that is configured to illuminate a target skin area with ultraviolet and/or infrared spectrum light and a sensor system that is configured to detect the amount of ultraviolet and/or infrared spectrum light that is reflected from the target skin area. The sunscreen detector is configured to analyze the data collected by the sensor system to generate a notification to the user as to whether they should apply sunscreen. |
| US10324031B2 |
High index-contrast photonic devices and applications thereof
A photonic processing module (100) comprises a high index-contrast waveguide device comprising a substrate (102), a first layer (104) disposed on the substrate having a first refractive index, and a relatively thin second layer (106) disposed on the first layer. The second layer has a second refractive index providing a high index-contrast with the first layer, and the device includes at least one thin-ridge waveguide element (108) formed in the second layer which supports a guided mode in a longitudinal direction. An optical input port (110) is configured to direct an input beam into a slab mode of the second layer, the beam being directed to propagate at a predetermined angle θ to the longitudinal direction of the thin-ridge waveguide element. The angle θ is associated with a resonant coupling between the slab mode of the second layer and the guided mode of the thin-ridge waveguide element. An output beam is thus generated when the input beam includes one or more optical components corresponding with the resonant coupling. An optical output port (112) is configured to receive the output beam. |
| US10324026B2 |
Testing of an industrial structure
A method and a device for analyzing a structure by tomography and diffuse acousto-elastic field correlation are provided. An optical fiber comprising a plurality of measurement points of FBG (Fiber Bragg Grating) type, comprising sensors of Bragg grating type, is deployed in or on the structure to be analyzed. The method comprises the emission of light, into the optical fiber, and the measurement by correlation for each pair of FBG sensors. In a development, a prior imaging of the structure is performed by reconstruction of the velocities of propagation. Other developments comprise: the determination of the positions of the FBG sensors, the calibration of the tomography, the rosette configuration of the sensors forming the measurement points, the use of a plurality of optical fibers, of multiplexers, of lasers, of optical circulators, of omnidirectional optical sensors, of active noise sources, such as piezoelectric transducers, incorporated or not in the structure. |
| US10324024B2 |
Methods and systems for chemical vapour sensing
Embodiments relate generally to methods, systems, devices and applications for use in relation to the detection of chemical vapours. A particular embodiment relates to a device for chemical vapour sensing. The device comprises a housing of a size to be manually portable, the housing defining a plurality of receptors adapted to receive a respective plurality of manually replaceable chemical vapour sensing components. The device further comprises at least one signal receiver to receive data signals from each chemical vapour sensing component when the chemical vapour sensing component is positioned in one of the receptors. |
| US10324023B1 |
Energy dispersion cuvette
The invention provides a combination of a sample container and energy dispersion device. Among possible applications is construction of compact spectrometers optimized for single use. The sample container includes diffraction gratings such that, when the container is illuminated with collimated light and observed with optics focused at infinity, one obtains an optical spectrum useful for identifying and measuring the concentration of specimens placed in the container, applicable for chemical analysis and for screening fluids for chemical or biological analysis. The invention further provides methods to fabricate a combination of a sample container and energy dispersion device, wherein one such method utilizes temperature controlled templates to emboss gratings on outside and inside faces of a cuvette. |
| US10324021B2 |
Magnetophorisis measuring system for determining motion status of object and quantifying amount of magnetic particles contained therein
The present invention provides a magnetophorisis measuring system, comprising a microscope device, a magnetic field generator, an image capturing unit, and a processing unit. The microscope device is utilized to magnify a sample liquid having a plurality of objects respectively having a plurality of magnetic particles. The magnetic field generator is utilized to provide an external magnetic field on the sample liquid such that the objects are moved by the external magnetic field. The image capturing unit is utilized to capture a dynamic image with respect to the fluid sample in a view field of the microscope device. The processing unit receives the dynamic image, automatically detects and locks moving objects, determines a motion status corresponding to each object, and quantifies the magnetic particles according to motion status of each object. |
| US10324015B2 |
Viscosity sensor
A fluid is received into a sample tube. A processor causes an energy to be applied to the sample tube to induce vibration in the sample tube at a resonant frequency of the sample tube containing the fluid. The processor stops the supply of energy to the sample tube. The processor monitors an amplitude of the vibration of the sample tube as the amplitude of the vibrations diminish over a period of time. The processor uses the monitored amplitude to calculate an RF of the sample tube containing the fluid. The processor uses the calculated RF to calculate the viscosity of the fluid. |
| US10324013B2 |
Methods for selecting film structures for packages
Methods are provided that facilitate the selection of a film structure for use in a package. In one aspect, a method of selecting a film structure for use in a package comprises determining a critical impact direction of a package by finite elemental method (FEM) analysis, wherein the package has a predetermined volume, a predetermined shape, and a predetermined fill material; determining one or more desired tensile properties of a film structure to use in the package based on the critical impact direction, wherein the one or more desired tensile properties comprise at least one of toughness in the machine direction, toughness in the cross direction, elongation at break in the machine direction, elongation at break in the cross direction, stress at break in the machine direction, and stress at break in the cross direction; and selecting a film structure based on the one or more desired tensile properties. |
| US10324012B2 |
Method for detecting and quantifying haloether contamination in aqueous samples by flow assisted electro-enhanced solid-phase microextraction
A method for detecting and quantifying haloether contamination in aqueous samples. A flow state is artificially induced upon an aqueous sample and a solid phase microextraction (SPME) fiber, upon which an electric potential is applied, is exposed to the flowing aqueous sample in direct immersion mode. Halide ions liberated from electrophoretically dehalogenated haloether compounds contained in the aqueous sample are absorbed upon the SPME fiber, then later desorbed at a gas chromatograph, separated into individual halide ions and analyzed by mass spectrometry. Effects of various parameters such as absorption time, sample pH, salt content, applied voltage, SPME fiber type, flow rate and background matrix are also described. |
| US10324010B2 |
Powder or granulated material test apparatus
A test apparatus is described comprising a test chamber (12), a powder manipulation device such as a compaction device (20), and a drive arrangement (22) selectively operable to drive the compaction device (20) for axial movement and for rotary movement within or relative to the test chamber (12), the compaction device (20) preferably comprising at least one complete turn of a generally helical screw flight (26). Methods of use of the test apparatus are also described. |
| US10324003B2 |
Detection of fretting and/or smearing with false-brinelling potential
A process for monitoring for the presence of fretting and/or smearing with false brinelling potential in a non-rotating bearing provides the steps of: acquiring acoustic emission data emanating from the non-rotating bearing under an alternating load; and comparing the acoustic emission data with a threshold indicative of fretting and/or smearing. |
| US10324002B2 |
Devices and methods for characterization of distributed fiber bend and stress
The disclosed technology includes, among others, methods and devices for measuring distributed fiber bend or stress related characteristics along an optical path of fiber under test (FUT) uses both a light input unit and a light output unit connected to the FUT at one single end. |
| US10324000B2 |
Test fixture for tensioning and cooling an article
A test fixture for securing a test article is disclosed. The test fixture comprises a frame, an upper grip, a lower grip, a tensioner assembly, and a cooling assembly. The frame defines an upper portion and a lower portion, where the lower portion of the frame is configured to be releasably mounted to a vibration device. The upper grip is connected to the upper portion of the frame and the lower grip is connected to the lower portion of the frame. The upper grip is configured to secure an upper portion of the test article along an upper interface, and the lower grip is configured to secure a lower portion of the test article along a lower interface. The tensioner assembly is located at the upper portion of the test fixture. The cooling assembly transports a cooling medium across at least one of the upper interface and the lower interface. |
| US10323999B2 |
Variable load and load vector application system
A load is provided to an article under test, the article under test having a surface movable about an axis of rotation. The article under test, such as a wing or other aerodynamic component of an aircraft, is load tested by determining a change in attitude of the article under test about the axis of rotation. Responsive to the change in the attitude, adjusting in real time a position of a load mechanism that provides the load to the surface of the article under test. |
| US10323997B2 |
Systems and methods for correcting acoustic error in pressure sensors
Various techniques are provided for correcting error in static pressure data. In one example, a system includes an aircraft component. The aircraft component can include a port disposed within the aircraft component. A static pressure sensor is disposed within the port. The static pressure sensor is configured to provide primary pressure data in response to environmental air pressure. The data provided can include error due to acoustic disturbance. The system can also include an acoustic sensor configured to provide acoustic data in response to the acoustic disturbance. Data from the static pressure sensor and the acoustic sensor can be provided to a processor communicatively coupled to the static pressure sensor and the acoustic sensor. The processor can be configured to determine corrected static pressure data using the provided primary pressure data and the provided acoustic data. Additional systems and similar methods are also provided. |
| US10323995B2 |
Rotation-shaft joint structure
A force acting on a link is detected at low cost. Provided is a rotation-shaft joint structure including: a driving-force generating part including a fixed member that is fixed to a base member, and a movable member that is rotationally driven about a predetermined axis relative to the fixed member; a link member that is fixed to the movable member of the driving-force generating part; and a uniaxial strain sensor that is attached to the link member or the movable member, at a surface located in a space between a fixed area over which the link member is fixed to the movable member and the outer circumferential surface of the driving-force generating part about the axis, to detect the strain of the surface. |
| US10323994B2 |
Torque Sensors
A torque sensor for use in an electric power assisted steering system comprises a first shaft, a second shaft, and a torsion bar, a hollow sleeve that is secured to the first shaft and extends along the torsion bar to at least partially axially overlap the second shaft, angular deflection indicating means that produce a signal that is dependent on the angular deflection of the first shaft relative to the second shaft as a torque is applied across the torque sensor that causes the torsion bar to twist, at least one drive dog fixed to the sleeve and at least one corresponding drive dog fixed to the second shaft, in normal operation the two dogs being offset so that they permit a defined range of angular deflection of the torsion bar but will engage each other to provide a path for torque to be transferred from the first shaft to the second shaft in the event of a failure of the torsion bar, and a connecting element which has a first part that is secured within a bore in one of the second shaft and the sleeve, the connecting element having a second part that extends into a feature of the other of the second shaft and the sleeve, at zero torque across the torque sensor the connecting element being spaced circumferentially from the feature by an angular distance greater than the spacing between the drive dogs and spaced from the feature in a direction along the axis of the shafts that is less than the overlap of the drive dogs in that direction to prevent the shafts moving apart in the event of failure of the torsion bar by an amount that would otherwise prevent the drive dogs engaging. |
| US10323992B2 |
Force measuring load pin having at least one sensor and a slot that divides the load pin into upper and lower portions
A load pin configured for measuring a force, the load pin including two sensors spaced apart from each other for measuring stress or tension. An axis includes a lateral surface configured to be subjected to a load from an upside in an area of the axis between the two sensors. A slot divides the axis into a lower portion and an upper portion, the slot extending essentially in an axial direction of the axis. |
| US10323989B2 |
Advanced multi-element consumable-disposable products
The invention involves the incorporation and enablement of multiple interactive elements into high-volume consumables products to increase utility, function and features of the consumable product at minimal incremental cost and adjustment to production and manufacturing processes. The invention further reports processes and compositions that enable consumable products with differentiating features which product would otherwise be deficient for their intended use and application. |
| US10323988B2 |
Infrared temperature measurement method and device
An infrared temperature measurement method and device, first magnifying an acquired original infrared image according to a predefined magnification factor to obtain a second original infrared image, dividing each original pixel in the second original infrared image to obtain pixel groups comprising multiple pixels; then setting a pixel at a predefined location in each pixel group as a reference pixel; setting the temperatures of the reference pixels as the temperatures of the original pixels corresponding to the reference pixels; next acquiring temperatures of a plurality of target pixels based on the temperatures of the reference pixels; the target pixel is one pixel in the pixel groups; finally acquiring the temperature of the predefined temperature detection point according to the temperatures of the multiple target pixels; the temperature detection point corresponds to the multiple target pixels. |
| US10323985B2 |
Signal processing for tunable Fabry-Perot interferometer based hyperspectral imaging
A system for determining a calibrated spectral measurement includes a tunable Fabry-Perot etalon, a detector, and a processor. The tunable Fabry-Perot etalon has a settable gap. The detector measures light intensity. The processor is configured to determine the calibrated spectral measurement. The calibrated spectral measurement is based at least in part on a measurement set of detected light intensities for a plurality of settable gaps and a reconstruction matrix. The reconstruction matrix is based at least in part on calibration measurements. For a calibration measurement, a settable gap is selected and a set of input monochromatic source wavelengths is used to measure responses at a detector after transmission through the Fabry-Perot etalon. Each input monochromatic source wavelength is also measured using a radiometer to scale detector measurements. |
| US10323984B2 |
Method and system for estimating an input spectrum from sensor data
A method for estimating an input spectrum from sensor data acquired by an optical sensor assembly, having an aperture, a Fabry-Perot interferometer, and an optical sensor element, the method including: obtaining first calibration data representative of a spectral response function of the optical sensor assembly for a first setting of the aperture; computing second calibration data from the first calibration data, the second calibration data being representative of a spectral response function of the optical sensor assembly for a second setting of the aperture, where the second setting corresponds to a setting applied during the acquiring of the sensor data; and estimating the input spectrum as a function of the second calibration data and the sensor data. Additionally, a corresponding system for estimating an input spectrum. |
| US10323983B1 |
Lamp for illumination food products along a line
A lamp for illuminating food products along a line is provided. The lamp comprises: a housing having a longitudinal axis and an opening along the longitudinal axis; a light source located in the housing along the longitudinal axis; a reflector positioned in the housing along the longitudinal axis, the reflector to reflect light from the light source through the opening and focus the light along the line; a removeable frame attached to the housing around the opening, the removeable frame having an aperture aligned with the opening along the longitudinal axis; a glass window in the aperture; a transparent polymer film in the aperture at an outward facing side of the glass window, each of the glass window and the transparent polymer film extending into the removeable frame past a perimeter of the aperture; and a seal between the transparent polymer film and the perimeter of the aperture. |
| US10323982B2 |
Low-cost spectrometry system for end-user food analysis
A compact spectrometer is disclosed that is suitable for use in mobile devices such as cellular telephones. In preferred embodiments, the spectrometer comprises a filter, at least one Fourier transform focusing element, a micro-lens array, and a detector, but does not use any dispersive elements. Methods for using the spectrometer as an end-user device for performing on-site determinations of food quality, in particular, by comparison with an updatable database accessible by all users of the device, are also disclosed. |
| US10323975B2 |
Non-intrusive ultrasonic measuring of fluids in a beverage keg
A transducer positioning device and a system for employing a transducer positioning device are used to determine and monitor fluid levels in a pressurized beverage keg that has a dip tube. One fluid is a liquid beverage. The other fluid is a compressed gas injected to push the beverage up through the dip tube. Each embodiment of the positioning device generally includes an acoustic transducer and a transducer support, and often includes a base. Other embodiments may include an angled adapter for the transducer and a prop and/or wheels for the base. Each embodiment of the system generally includes the transducer positioning device, a transceiver, software, and a graphic user interface, as well as wiring and a medium for data transmission. Other embodiments include at least one other electronic controller. The above may also be embodied as kits and methods. |
| US10323974B2 |
Optical sensor for a conventional tank gauge
An optical sensor for a conventional tank gauge designed to allow a user to remotely check the liquid level of a tank without the need for a visual inspection. Using an emitter circuit board with a plurality of photoemitters and a detector circuit board with a plurality of photodetectors, the optical sensor can fit over a conventional tank gauge without disturbing the gauge. The circuit boards can be attached to an optical sensor frame, which can be adjusted on the conventional tank gauge by a height adjustment screw and a series of set screws. Alternatively, one or more sliders can be used to maintain proper alignment. Analog data generated from the photodetectors can be digitized using a microcontroller and can be made available for viewing on a stationary or mobile device via an integrated network connection. |
| US10323973B2 |
Capacitive sensor for liquid sensing
In accordance with at least one embodiment, a system for detecting a level is disclosed. The system includes a substrate having an input electrode and a drive electrode. The system further includes a container having an electrode. At least a portion of the electrode extends along a height dimension of the container. The container is arranged adjacent the substrate, such that the electrode is capacitively coupled to the input electrode or the drive electrode. The system further includes a circuit that, while the electrode is capacitively coupled to the input electrode or the drive electrode, determines a level of a substance inside the container, based on an effective capacitance between the input electrode and the drive electrode. |
| US10323972B1 |
Combination temperature and low water sensor
A combination temperature and low water sensor includes a body configured to penetrate the wall of a hydronic furnace. A detection tip is attached to the body and extends into the furnace when the temperature sensor penetrates the wall. The detection tip is electrically conductive and defines a tip interior volume. A temperature sensor is disposed within the interior volume of the detection tip. Both the detection tip and the temperature sensor are configured for electrical connection to a furnace control system. |
| US10323966B2 |
Flow rate measurement device
A gas meter that is a flow rate measurement device includes a flow rate measurement unit for measuring, at a constant time interval, a flow rate of gas flowing in a passage, a pressure measurement unit for measuring pressure of the gas in the passage, a power supply unit for supplying power to a pressure measurement unit, and an appliance determination unit for determining an appliance being used based on a gas flow rate value. The gas meter further includes a measurement interval controller for determining a gas non-use state, an appliance determination performing state, or an appliance determination non-performing state based on the gas flow rate value and operation information of the appliance determination unit, for controlling the power supply unit in accordance with the determined state, and for changing an interval for turning on/off power supplied to the pressure measurement unit. |
| US10323965B2 |
Estimating system parameters from sensor measurements
There are described herein methods and systems for estimating a system parameter in a closed loop scheme using a sensor model associated with a sensor performing a measurement of the system parameter. Past and current measurements of the parameter are used to provide an initial estimate of the system parameter and sensor dynamics are used to refine the estimated parameter. |
| US10323953B2 |
Input of navigational target data into a navigation system
For the input of navigational target data into a navigation system by way of a facility for a mobile radio voice link, voice signals or signals derived therefrom, transmitted via the mobile radio voice link, are processed by a voice recognition device for recognizing spoken words. By way of at least one word recognized during this process, a comparison of targets with navigational target entries in a navigation database takes place. In the case of a positive result of the comparison, the corresponding navigational target entry is provided for input as navigation target in the navigation system. |
| US10323952B2 |
System and method for presenting media contents in autonomous vehicles
In one embodiment, a first image of a physical object external to an autonomous vehicle is received, where the first image is captured by an image sensor attached to the autonomous vehicle. An image recognition is performed on the first image to derive one or more keywords related to the physical object. A list of one or more content items are identified based on the one or more keywords. A first content item selected from the list of content items is augmented onto the first image to generate a second image. The second image is displayed on a display device within the autonomous vehicle. |
| US10323951B2 |
Method of generating a navigation-based route for a vehicle
A method of generating a navigation-based route for a vehicle. The method includes: determining route information from a starting point to a destination using a navigation unit associated with the vehicle, wherein the route information includes one or more route segments; determining that one or more of the route segments wholly or partially overlap a toll zone; obtaining traffic information for at least some of the route segments ahead of the vehicle; and when the traffic information indicates that there is a route that avoids the toll zone without a traffic delay, then generating the route to avoid the toll zone. |
| US10323950B1 |
Utilizing a geo-locator service and zone servers to reduce computer resource requirements for determining high quality solutions to routing problems
A method involves utilizing a geo-locator service and zone servers to reduce server resource requirements for determining high quality solutions to routing problems. The use of a geo-locator service and zone servers enables the use of servers having less memory which can handle determination of high quality solutions to routing problems involving locations spanning a smaller geographic area even if they are incapable of handling determination of high quality solutions to routing problems involving locations spanning a larger geographic area, and enables efficient assignment of requests to an appropriate server without unduly burdening high value servers having sufficient memory to handle determination of high quality solutions to routing problems involving locations spanning a very large geographic area with determination of high quality solutions to routing problems involving locations spanning a smaller geographic area. |
| US10323946B2 |
Automatic modification of monitoring of vehicle data
A device can receive an indication to cause a vehicle to provide data at a updated rate. The device can determine the updated rate at which the vehicle is to provide the data. The updated rate can include at least one of a frequency at which the data is to be provided, or an amount of time for which the data is to be provided. The device can determine a set of instructions to be provided to the vehicle based on the indication. The device can provide the set of instructions to the vehicle to cause the vehicle to provide the data at the updated rate. The device can receive the data from the vehicle to permit or cause an action to be performed with respect to the data or the vehicle. The device can cause the action to be performed with respect to the data or the vehicle. |
| US10323943B2 |
Wireless receiver with tracking using location, heading, and motion sensors and adaptive power detection
A wireless receiver includes an antenna panel providing input to an H-combined/V-combined generation block, a hybrid tracking system receiving input from the H-combined/V-combined generation block, the hybrid tracking system comprising location, heading and motion (LOHMO) sensors for providing a general position input to a digital core, the hybrid tracking system further comprising first and second power detectors for measuring power received from the antenna panel and for providing a precise position input to the digital core, the hybrid tracking system providing phase feedback signals to the H-combined/V-combined generation block. At least one of the phase feedback signals is provided to at least one phase shifter in the H-combined/V-combined generation block to cause a phase shift in at least one linearly polarized signal received from at least one antenna in the antenna panel. |
| US10323942B2 |
User-specific learning for improved pedestrian motion modeling in a mobile device
Techniques provided herein are directed toward enabling on-device learning to create user-specific movement models that can be used for dead reckoning. Because these moving models are user-specific, they can be later used to identify user-specific motions in a manner that provides for a dead reckoning location estimation. In some embodiments, these models can be focused on pedestrian movement, based on the repetitive motion that occurs when a user takes a stride (walking, jogging, running, etc.) or other repetitive motion (swimming, riding a horse, etc.). |
| US10323934B1 |
Optical protractor to measure roll angle on a static surface and rotating surface
An optical protractor that employs a spiral phase plate resonator (SPPR) device for measuring a roll angle between two points on a static surface or a rotating surface. The protractor includes a tunable laser source that generates a laser beam. The SPPR device is responsive to the laser beam, and includes opposing reflective surfaces that reflect the beam back and forth in the device, where one of the reflective surfaces includes a spiral step index that causes multiple reflected beams having different phases to be combined as an output beam from the device having an optical vortex intensity pattern defined by the phases of the multiple beams, and where the intensity pattern includes radial light intensity lines. The protractor includes a lens that projects the output beam onto the element and the intensity pattern is detected to measure the roll angle. |
| US10323932B1 |
System for inspecting vehicle bodies
An inspection station includes a conveyor, a first scanner, a second scanner, a controller, and an interface. The conveyor is configured to continuously transport a vehicle body through the station. The first scanner is configured to detect features of the vehicle body and associated feature coordinates relative to a global coordinate system. The second scanner is configured to detect paint thicknesses on surfaces of the vehicle body and associated paint thickness coordinates relative to the global coordinate system. The controller is programmed to map corresponding pairs of the feature coordinates and paint thickness coordinates into a single set of local coordinates having a datum defined by the vehicle body such that each of the local coordinates defines a location of one of the features relative to the datum and one of the paint thicknesses at the location. The interface is configured to display the features and corresponding paint thicknesses. |
| US10323931B2 |
Method and system for aligning a terahertz sensor system
The present disclosure is directed toward a method for aligning a radiation head of a terahertz sensor system with a target surface. The method includes: scanning a selected area of the target surface with a terahertz radiation beam emitted by the radiation head; sensing a peak amplitude for each reflected radiation signal from a plurality of reflected radiation signals received by the radiation head during the scanning of the selected area; and identifying a normal position of the radiation head with respect to the target surface based on a maximum peak amplitude from among the peak amplitudes of the reflected radiation signals. |
| US10323928B2 |
Optical configuration for measurement device using emitter material configuration
A scanning probe responsive in three axes is provided for use in a coordinate measuring machine. The scanning probe includes a frame, a stylus suspension portion and a stylus position detection portion. The stylus position detection portion includes a light source that is operated to radiate source light toward a position indicating element that is fixed relative to the stylus coupling portion. The position indicating element includes a position indicating emitter having an emitter material (e.g., phosphor) that inputs and absorbs the light from the light source and responds by outputting excitation light. In various implementations, the excitation light is directed as at least one of axial measurement light along an axial measurement spot path to form an axial measurement spot on an axial position sensitive detector and/or rotary measurement light along a rotary measurement spot path to form a rotary measurement spot on a rotary position sensitive detector. |
| US10323921B2 |
Roundness measuring apparatus
A roundness measuring device including: an angle detector detecting a current rotation angle of a table relative to an X axis direction; a joystick (external operator) issuing an instruction for an operation amount of a rotation axis line of the table; a centering controller calculating a CX axis displacement amount and a CY axis displacement amount from the operation amount and the rotation angle, and displacing a CX axis displacement mechanism and CY axis displacement mechanism based on the calculated CX axis displacement amount and CY axis displacement amount; and a centering controller calculating an LX axis tilt amount and an LY axis tilt amount from the operation amount and the rotation angle, and displacing an LX axis tilt mechanism and LY axis tilt mechanism based on the calculated LX axis tilt amount and LY axis tilt amount. |
| US10323917B2 |
Fin deployment mechanism for projectile and method for fin deployment
A fin deployment mechanism for a projectile. The mechanism includes at least one fin and at least one actuator. The fin is arranged in a deployable and retractable manner on the projectile. The fin and at least one balance weight are arranged so that, when the fin is deployed, the weight is displaced towards a center of the projectile and, when the fin is retracted, the weight is displaced from the center of the projectile. A method for deploying and retracting fins on a projectile. At least one fin is arranged in a deployable and retractable manner on the projectile. The fin is fitted to at least one balance weight such that when the fin is displaced from the center of the projectile the weight is displaced towards the center, and when the fin is displaced towards the center of the projectile the weight is displaced from the center. |
| US10323916B2 |
Mechanical Broadhead
A mechanical broadhead, which has blades movable from a retracted mode to a deployed mode, is provided with ball and socket members that hold the blades in the retracted mode, and selectively release the blades to the deployed mode. The ball and socket members, which can be on the blades and/or on a retainer element, can be snapped together to provide an audible snap confirming locking of the blades in the retracted mode. The mechanical broadhead can include first and second ferrule portions removably joined with one another. The second ferrule portion can acquire a blocking mode to block a removal opening of a ferrule slot defined in the first ferrule portion so that blade cannot be removed from respective ferrule slots. The second ferrule portion can achieve a removal mode so that the blades can be removed from the slots. |
| US10323915B2 |
Variable firework battery
The invention relates to a firework battery (10), comprising at least one receiving part (11) for at least one pyrotechnic charge (20) and a border (13), which is connected via at least one hinge part (14) to a further receiving part (11) and/or an extension element (15) that continues the border and that is arranged on a receiving part (11), the axis of rotation of the hinge part being arranged vertically in relation to a ground. According to the invention, it is provided that the geometric arrangements of the receiving part (11) and/or of the extension element (15) are movable relative to one another, whereby a bordered support base (30) of the firework battery (10) is enlarged. |
| US10323911B1 |
Device for non-lethal stoppage of water jet propelled craft
The disclosed invention is a device for non-lethally stopping or slowing any water jet propelled craft, such as a common personal watercraft (PWC), by disrupting the water suction and thereby reducing the generated thrust. Most PWCs have an inboard engine that is coupled to a water jet pump which uses an impeller to generate thrust. This invention is ingested by the PWC intake to either clog the intake gate (or screen) or fill critical volume in any portion of the jet pump (such as the intake, impeller, stator, or pressure nozzle). In any case, water flow through the jet drive is significantly reduced which reduces the vessel's thrust. PWCs depend on adequate water flow through the jet pump to generate the thrust required for propulsion and steerage, and to provide engine cooling. Since this invention is designed to interrupt water flow, the result is reduced speed, steerage, and/or engine overheating. |
| US10323910B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for eliminating a missile threat
Embodiments of a method and apparatus for eliminating a missile threat are generally described herein. In some embodiments, the method includes identifying a vulnerability associated with the missile threat. The method can further include identifying a technique for exploiting the vulnerability to generate a vulnerability-technique (VT) pair. The method can further include applying a stochastic mathematical model (SMM) to generate a negation value, the negation value being representative of a probability that the technique of the respective VT pair will eliminate the threat by exploiting the vulnerability. The method can further include providing a recommendation for implementation the technique to eliminate the missile threat responsive to receiving a user selection of the technique, the user selection being selected based on the generated negation value. Other example methods, systems, and apparatuses are described. |
| US10323908B2 |
Ballistic and stab resistant composite
A flexible composite suitable for use in a knife, pick, bullet and fragment-resistant article comprising (i) a first zone comprising fabric but no resin, the first first zone comprising from 10 to 90 percent of the total thickness of the composite, (ii) a third zone comprising an elastomeric or thermoplastic resin but no fabric, the third zone comprising from 0 to 50 percent of the total thickness of the composite and (iii) a second zone, located between the first and third zones, comprising fabric and an elastomeric or thermoplastic resin, the second zone comprising from 10 to 90 percent of the total thickness of the composite. |
| US10323907B1 |
Proportional velocity-deficit guidance for ballistic targeting accuracy
A method for guiding a ballistic missile to a target has a first mode guidance process that drives a magnitude of a velocity-to-go (Vgo) vector toward zero. On regular intervals, a proportional velocity deficit value is calculated as equal to a time constant (Tau) multiplied by a specific force magnitude (sf). When the magnitude of the Vgo vector has been driven to less than or equal to the proportional velocity deficit value by way of the first mode guidance process, a second mode guidance process is initiated. The second mode guidance process constrains the magnitude of the Vgo vector to be equal to the proportional velocity deficit value throughout the remaining portion of powered flight. |
| US10323905B2 |
Laser shooting training system and method
A laser shooting training system includes a target device including a target area and a camera for photographing the target area, and an analysis device for calculating a coordinate of a laser discharged to the target area based on an image photographed by the camera, and displaying a spotted position corresponding to the laser coordinate to a user display screen. The analysis device calculates a center coordinate of a laser area included in the image, corrects the center coordinate based on a correction value relating to a size of the laser area, and calculates the laser coordinate. |
| US10323903B2 |
Auto on gun accessory
An electronic accessory for a firearm includes a housing including a right side, a left side, and an attachment mechanism for securing the electronic accessory to the firearm. The housing contains components of the electronic accessory. The components of the electronic accessory include an electronic component, a sensor sensing a magnetic field, and a circuit board coupled to the electronic component and the sensor. The circuit board controls the electronic component and suspends power to the electronic component when the sensor senses a magnetic field above a threshold strength. A first switch is disposed on the right side of the housing and a second switch is disposed on the left side of the housing. The switches are operable to control the electronic component via the circuit board. A power source provides power to at least one of the electronic component, the sensor, and the circuit board. |
| US10323899B2 |
Tensioning device for a crossbow, and crossbow comprising such a tensioning device
A tensioning device for a crossbow or the like, such as a harpoon, a line throwing device, a toy crossbow, a pistol crossbow, a spear thrower, or a ballista, includes a shaft and limbs connected thereto. A connection element designed to connect to the shaft of the crossbow has securing devices for rotatably or pivotally securing the limbs. The connection element is connected to at least one drive device which can be connected to the limbs and by which the limbs can be converted rotatably or pivotally from a first position, in which the limbs form a first angle together with the shaft, into a second position, in which the limbs form a second angle together with the shaft, wherein the second angle is larger than the first angle, in order to convert the limbs and a bowstring connected thereto from a non-tensioned position into a tensioned shoot-ready position. |
| US10323895B2 |
Universal adapter end cap for a firearm
A device enabling a shotgun operator to carry an additional choke tube on the body of a shotgun is disclosed. Embodiments include a universal adapter end cap configured to be threaded onto the end of a shotgun magazine, the universal adapter end cap including an opposite end adapted to secure an accessory (e.g., shotgun choke tube). Accordingly, embodiments enables an operator to stow and carry a second unused choke tube at the end of the shotgun magazine. Some embodiments of the universal adapter end cap include a threaded opening that enables the choke tube to be threaded into the threaded opening. Some embodiments provide threads constructed from flexible material to enable both threading and push insertion of an accessory into the universal adapter end cap. |
| US10323892B2 |
Pellet loading system
A break barrel rifle comprises a butt, on which the cylinder (2) is attached, a barrel (3) where the pellet chamber (5) is located, a magazine (12) for pellets (13), together with articulation means (4) and characterised in that it comprises: an elastic rod (6), with a central section (9) and two ends that are coupled to the cylinder (2), a body (10) where the central section (9) of elastic rod (6) is positioned, with forward and backward movement inside said body (10) and that is coupled to the barrel (3) and pushing means (11) linked to the elastic rod (6) and positioned between the pellet (13) to be loaded and the elastic rod (6). |
| US10323891B1 |
Extremely short buffer system and bolt carrier design for firearms
A device implementable in an AR-15 styled firearm includes a buffer tube and spring system and a bolt carrier assembly. The buffer tube and spring system is mounted on a lower receiver of the firearm and includes a pusher and a buffer tube which has a cavity that receives the pusher and the bolt carrier tail therein. The bolt carrier assembly includes a bolt carrier head and a bolt carrier tail connected to the pusher. The bolt carrier head includes a cavity that houses a bolt assembly of the firearm therein. The bolt carrier tail is elastically coupled to the bolt carrier head such that the bolt carrier head travels linearly at most by a first dimension, the bolt carrier tail travels linearly at most by a second dimension smaller than the first dimension, and the buffer travels linearly at most by a third dimension smaller than the second dimension. |
| US10323890B2 |
Method for joining metal parts
A method for joining a first metal part with a second metal part, the metal parts having a solidus temperature above 1000° C. The method includes applying a melting depressant composition on a surface of the first metal part, the melting depressant composition including a melting depressant component that includes phosphorus and silicon for decreasing a melting temperature of the first metal part; bringing the second metal part into contact with the melting depressant composition at a contact point on said surface; heating the first and second metal parts to a temperature above 1000° C.; and allowing a melted metal layer of the first metal component to solidify, such that a joint is obtained at the contact point. The melting depressant composition and related products are also described. |
| US10323889B2 |
Container for a waste heat utilization circuit
A container for a waste heat utilization circuit may include a housing that defines a housing interior such that the housing interior can be flowed through by a working medium. A sheath may be arranged in the housing interior for accommodating an auxiliary medium. The sheath may be fluid-tight and heat-conductive at least in certain areas. The sheath may define a sheath interior of variable volume. |
| US10323886B2 |
Heat exchanger
The invention relates to a heat exchanger, in particular for a motor vehicle, including a bundle (3) for a heat exchange between a first and second fluid A, L and a housing (5) inside of which said bundle (3) is housed, said exchanger further including at least one collector (7) attached to said housing (5), said collector (7) being configured to guide said first fluid A between said bundle (3) and an inlet or outlet of said exchanger. According to the invention, said collector (7) is configured to form an abutment (9) for positioning the heat exchanger bundle (3) in the housing (5) for attaching said collector (7) to said housing (5). |
| US10323884B2 |
Heat exchanger and method for manufacturing same
A heat exchanger according to the present invention comprises: a plate-shaped body having an interior space in which a working fluid is vaporized or condensed and flows; and a wick located within the body, the wick comprising a plurality of needle-shaped particles between which the working fluid flows. By forming a wick comprising needle-shaped particles, the heat exchanger according to the embodiments of the present invention can improve the porosity of the wick compared to conventional groove or mesh-shaped or sintered wicks. Accordingly, the working fluid is capable of flowing inside the wick more smoothly than in the conventional wicks, thereby improving a heat exchange rate or heat exchange performance. |
| US10323879B2 |
Separating carbon dioxide and ethane from a mixed stream
Embodiments described herein provide methods and systems for separating a mixed ethane and CO2. A method described includes generating a liquid stream including ethane and CO2. The liquid stream is flashed to form an ethane vapor stream and solid CO2. The solid CO2 is accumulated in an accumulation vessel and the gas is removed from the top of the accumulation vessel. |
| US10323878B1 |
Thermal control system
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a method for time shifting when a cold storage facility is cooled that includes determining a thermal model of a cold storage facility, obtaining an energy cost model that describes a schedule of variable energy costs over a predetermined period of time in the future, determining an operational schedule for at least a portion of a refrigeration system based on the thermal model, the energy cost model, and a maximum allowed temperature, and powering on the portion the refrigeration system based on the operational schedule, cooling, by the powered portion of the refrigeration system to a temperature below the maximum allowed temperature, reducing power usage of the powered portion of the refrigeration system based on the operational schedule, and permitting the facility to be warmed by ambient temperatures toward the maximum allowed temperature. |
| US10323875B2 |
System and method of controlling refrigerator and freezer units to reduce consumed energy
A system and method for controlling a refrigeration system is disclosed. The system includes a cooled compartment, at least one heat source selectively activated to provide heat, at least one sensor, and a controller. The sensor detects a temperature and a relative humidity of ambient air that surrounds the cooled compartment. The controller is in communication with the at least one heat source and the at least one sensor. The controller includes logic for calculating a dew point temperature based on the temperature and the relative humidity. The controller also includes logic for selecting a region of operation based on at least one of the dew point temperature and the relative humidity, where the region of operation is representative of ambient conditions that surround the cooled compartment. The controller further includes logic for determining if the at least one heat source is activated based on the region of operation. |
| US10323873B2 |
Modular island merchandiser
An island merchandiser including a first merchandiser module, a second merchandiser module, and a single, unitary base. The first merchandiser module includes a first case defining a first product display area that is maintained within a predetermined temperature range below approximately 41 degrees Fahrenheit. The second merchandiser module is positioned next to the first merchandiser module, and includes a second case defining a second product display area The second merchandiser module is positioned so that a rear wall of the second case is in communication with a rear wall of the first case so that the first and second merchandiser modules are positioned in a back-to-back relationship. The unitary base is positioned to at least partially support each of the first and second merchandiser modules relative to a support surface. The module defined by the second merchandiser module is different from the module defined by the first merchandiser module. |
| US10323871B2 |
Method for diagnosing ice-making apparatus
There is provided a method for diagnosing an ice-making apparatus, wherein the ice-making apparatus includes a control unit and a display unit, wherein the method comprises: determining, by the control unit, whether a diagnosis-initiation condition for the ice-making apparatus is satisfied or not; upon determination that the diagnosis-initiation condition for the ice-making apparatus is satisfied, counting, by the control unit, an actual number of ice forming and removing cycles performed by the ice-making apparatus; and displaying the counted number on the display unit by the control unit. |
| US10323868B2 |
Multi-coil microchannel evaporator
Apparatuses, systems and methods implementing a multi-coil heat exchanger are directed to providing good heat transfer performance, capacity, and efficiency, and while reducing pressure drop through multi-coil microchannel evaporators. The multi-coil heat exchanger in some examples is a multi-coil microchannel evaporator. The multi-coil microchannel evaporator can be implemented in a refrigerant system that is a single circuit, where the multi-coil microchannel evaporator is an air to refrigerant type heat exchanger. The multi-coil microchannel evaporator includes a distribution to the multiple coils of the multi-coil microchannel evaporator, where the distribution includes one or more separations to transmit refrigerant to each of the coils of the multi-coil microchannel evaporator and one or more junctions to transmit refrigerant from the coils. |
| US10323865B2 |
Compact thermoelastic cooling system
A compact cooling system based on thermoelastic effect is provided. In one embodiment, the system comprises a pair of rollers serving as a heat sink, stress applicator and belt drive, a cold reservoir and a solid refrigerant belt coupled to the cold reservoir and to the heat sinks to pump heat from the cold reservoir to the heat sink. The refrigerant belt comprises solid thermoelastic materials capable of thermoelastic effect. The refrigerant material is mechanically compressed when entering the gap of the roller and subsequently released after passing through. When compressed the refrigerant material transforms to martensite phase and releases heat to the roller and neighboring materials. After released by the rollers, the refrigerant material transforms back to austenite and absorbs heat from the ambient atmosphere. |
| US10323864B2 |
Adsorption heat pump
An adsorption heat pump may include a high temperature circuit for a high temperature heat transfer medium, a medium temperature circuit for a medium temperature heat transfer medium, and at least one sorption module in operative communication with the high temperature circuit and the medium temperature circuit. The at least one sorption module may include a sorption zone, a phase change zone, a working medium, a sorbent which may absorb and desorb the working medium, a first flow channel thermally contacting the sorbent, and a second flow channel thermally contacting the phase change zone. A first valve and a second valve may be in operative communication with the sorption module, the high temperature circuit, and the medium temperature circuit. The first valve and second valve may be configured to move between a closed position, a first open position, a second open position, and at least one intermediate position. |
| US10323862B2 |
Air conditioning unit having dynamic target condensing and evaporating values based on load requirements
A target condensing temperature and a target evaporating temperature are changed in accordance with a load of each load side unit obtained by using load detection means, and an operating frequency of a compressor and a rotation speed of a fan are controlled such that a condensing temperature obtained by using temperature detection means coincides with the target condensing temperature and an evaporating temperature obtained by using the temperature detection means coincides with the target evaporating temperature. |
| US10323860B1 |
Automated water heater flushing and monitoring system
An automatically flushing water heater maintenance system may be provided, the system including a water heater and a water heater controller. The water heater may include an inlet, an outlet, and a flush outlet having a first control valve in flow communication therewith. The first control valve may be configured to control a flow of water and sediment through the flush outlet out of the water heater. The water heater controller may be configured to communicate with the first control valve by transmitting a first control signal to the first control valve, the first control signal configured to cause the first control valve to open or close as part of an automatic flushing process. As a result of the flushing, the useful life of the water heater may be extended, and/or water heater leakage alleviated. Insurance discounts may be provided based upon using the automatic water heater flushing functionality. |
| US10323859B2 |
Water mixing system for thermoregulating water
A water mixing system attached to an existing plumbing system supplying ambient temperature water and providing temperature regulated water to a user. The water mixing system includes an insulated water tank, a heat pump connected to the insulated water tank with a heat rejecting radiator inside the insulated water tank and a heat absorbing radiator outside the insulated water tank, a temperature detector in the insulated water tank, and one outlet of the insulated water tank connected to a first inlet of a first dispensing water tank. Having a second inlet to receive the ambient temperature water from the existing plumbing system and at least one dispensing outlet, the first dispensing water tank provides mixed water of a desirable temperature from heated water from the insulated water tank and the ambient temperature water via control of the valves attached to the first inlet and the second inlet. |
| US10323857B2 |
Coupling harness for HVAC mini-split system
A coupling harness useful with a HVAC mini-split system includes a first interface connected to a thermistor, a second interface connected to a condensate overflow sensor and a control device interface connected to a HVAC electronic control device. The first and second interfaces can notify the control device interface of the existence of an alarm condition of the thermistor and condensate overflow sensor, respectively. The control device interface can actuate the HVAC electronic control device in response to such notifications that an alarm condition exists for the thermistor or condensate overflow sensor. |
| US10323849B2 |
Extensible networked multi-modal environment conditioning system
A distributed, self-organizing environment conditioning system with adaptive and learning behaviors that provide localized and targeted climate conditioning such as, but not limited to, temperature and humidity control in indoor and outdoor settings and more particularly, to extensible networked multi-modal autonomous systems of heating units working together to efficiently target objects for selective environmental control. |
| US10323848B2 |
Moisture detecting air cap indicator for expansion tank failure
Disclosed is an expansion tank having an internal cavity separated by a flexible diaphragm to form an upper pressurized gas portion and a lower pressurized fluid portion, and an indicator positioned at an upper part of the expansion tank in communication with the contents of the upper pressurized gas portion. The indicator is configured so as to display a first color if the operating conditions are normal in the pressurized gas portion, and a second color if the amount of moisture detected in the pressurized gas portion greater than or equal to a predetermined amount. Further disclosed is a method for detecting whether there is an excessive amount of moisture in a pressurized gas portion of an expansion tank by allowing pressurized gas from the pressurized gas portion to come into contact with the indicator, and viewing the color displayed by the indicator. As such, the tank can be simply visually inspected to determine whether there is a potential failure in the tank. |
| US10323845B2 |
Airflow control and heat recovery in a managed kiln
A controlled kiln and manufacturing system for biochar production includes control systems and subsystems. An example biochar kiln exhaust apparatus, includes a chimney configured for heating by pyrolysis and for exhausting smoke from the combustion chamber. The example biochar kiln exhaust apparatus also includes a plurality of exhaust inlet pipes configured to pass smoke from the combustion chamber to the chimney. |
| US10323843B2 |
Burner for vent gases of an oil or gas well
A burner for venting gas of a gas or oil well, the same comprises a venting gas tubing laid from the well up to a burning pit; a tubing for the supply of pilot gas laid parallel to the tubing of venting gas; a tubing of power lines from a control panel up to at least one electrode; a nozzle constituted by a tube that comprises a plurality of perforations that go through the wall of said tube, a plurality of air inlet tubes affixed to the wall of said tube; and a plurality of support spoilers affixed to the wall of said tube; where, the distal ends of the venting gas tubing, the tubing of supply of pilot gas and at the least one electrode, are located inside the nozzle; and where, the nozzle is installed inside the burning pit. |
| US10323841B2 |
Lighting device for indoor parking lot
The present invention relates to an indoor parking lot, comprising: a hollow frame portion, which is installed in the lengthwise direction on the ceiling along a driving path; and a lighting portion, which is fixedly installed on a side surface of the frame portion, for lighting the driving path and parking space around the driving path, wherein the lighting portion provides light distribution which is perpendicular to a driving direction of the driving path. The present invention is installed along the driving path of a vehicle which is between the parking spaces, so as to limit light distribution to directions on both sides of the direction of installation, thereby reducing the number of lighting portions while providing light having ample brightness to the parking spaces and a lighting space and thus effectively minimizing power consumption despite constant lighting. |
| US10323838B2 |
LED tube lamp
A ballast-bypass type LED tube lamp is provided herein, which implements the safety function for protecting the user from electric shock since it conducts only when both ends thereof have been correctly installed into a lamp socket. The ballast-bypass type LED tube lamp includes a lamp tube, two end caps, an LED module and a power supply module. The power supply module includes a detection module for temporarily conducting two detection terminals of the detection module during a detection stage, so that a pulse current is generated when the LED tube lamp is powered on. The detection module performs a detection based on the pulse current, so as to determine whether to conduct or cut off a current path between the first and the second detection terminals after the detection stage. |
| US10323837B2 |
Lighting system
A lighting system has at least one channel for receiving at least one light unit that can be inserted into the channel, and at least one connector that can be inserted into the channel. The channel has, in an inner region thereof, a busbar for supplying the light unit, which can be electrically coupled to the busbar, with power. The connector is designed to electrically couple busbar portions of the busbar to one another. Furthermore, the connector is designed to be mechanically coupled to portions of the channel. The channel and the connector are further designed such that, when inserted in the channel, the light unit can be arranged so as to overlap the connector, inserted into the channel in order to couple the busbar portions, within the channel. |
| US10323834B2 |
Rotable light assembly for an electronics rack
A light assembly with a light fixture and a rotatable mounting assembly. The mounting assembly includes a base that has a mounting flange with a cradle attached thereto that has an inner race with a curved surface and a plurality of teeth projecting radially inward. A stanchion is mounted adjacent to the cradle and has an axle extending laterally outward therefrom over the cradle. The axle has a center axis that is coaxial with a radial axis of the inner race. A light mount rotatably mounted to the base. The light mount includes a fixture bracket that is attached to the light fixture. The light mount includes a mount frame with an outer race that has a curved surface, and a hub mounted to the axle with an axis that is coaxial with a radial axis of the outer race and the axle axis. |
| US10323832B2 |
LED lighting methods and apparatus
LED related lighting methods and apparatus are described. Various features relate to water tight light fixtures. Some of the fixtures are spotlights while other fixture are intended for in ground use. The light fixtures in at least some embodiments include power control features. In spotlight embodiments beam angle and power or light output can be controlled without opening the light assembly or compromising the water tight seals which also protect against dirt. In ground embodiments support tilt angle setting which allow a user to set the light fixture to one or more tilt angles. Beam angle can also be changed in some embodiments as well as power control. Beam angle, power control and tilt angle adjustments are supported in some embodiments but need not be supported in all embodiments with some embodiments using one or more of the described features but not all features. |
| US10323831B2 |
Utility mount light
A utility light includes a main body, a handle movably coupled to the main body, and a pair of light assemblies. The handle is biased toward the main body such that the handle is configured to clamp a workpiece between the main body and the handle. Each of the light assemblies is defined on the main body and includes a light source disposed within a light housing. The light housings are each pivotally supported within a yoke that is rotatable relative to the main body. |
| US10323829B1 |
Multi-beam angle spotlight
Systems, devices, and methods for adjusting and focusing a beam light spread to separate beams spreads of approximately 80 degrees, approximately 60 degrees, approximately 40 degrees and approximately 20 degrees in a spotlight. The spotlight can be used in landscape and pathway spot lights. A disc with three lenses thereon can be positioned in front of an LED (light emitting diode) lights source having a primary lens in front of the light source. The primary lens can adjust the light spread to approximately 80 degrees. Each of the three lenses on the disc can adjust the light spread further to approximately 20 degrees, approximately 40 degrees, and approximately 60 degrees. The spotlight can be mounted on a ground based stake. A mechanically rotatable knob/wheel can be physically rotated by the user to mechanically adjust the single disc to the four different positions in order to change the beam angle to anyone of the four light spread angles. The light can be mounted indoors as well as outdoors. |
| US10323827B2 |
Lighting apparatus
In various embodiments, a lighting apparatus is provided. The lighting apparatus includes a primary light generating device configured to generate a primary light beam, a phosphor body configured to at least partly convert the primary light beam into secondary light, and a shell-shaped reflector situated in a primary light path between the primary light generating device and the phosphor body. The reflector has in at least one part of its reflection surface a plurality of grooves which run openly in their longitudinal extent and which are arranged parallel to one another. |
| US10323824B1 |
LED light fixture with light shaping features
A light fixture has a linear LED array and a lens having a first surface and a second surface that covers the LED array. The light being received at the first surface and emitted from the second surface. The lens includes a plurality of light shaping features on at least one of the first surface and the second surface where the plurality of light shaping features are configured to generate a directional light distribution pattern. The light pattern may be symmetric or asymmetric relative to a longitudinal axis of the light fixture. The lens may comprise a plurality of sections where the plurality of sections made of material having different optical properties. |
| US10323822B2 |
Lighting arrangement, construction kit for a lighting arrangement, and method for constructing a lighting arrangement
A lighting arrangement comprises a channel having an interior and a light exit region, and at least one light providing device. The light providing device is designed for arrangement thereof within the interior for the directional emission of light during operation through the light exit region toward the outside. Furthermore, the lighting arrangement comprises at least one busbar designed for the supply of the light providing device in the interior of the channel, wherein the light providing device is electrically coupleable to the busbar. The light providing device, for the holding thereof, is coupleable to the channel and is freely positionable at least within a region of the interior. A construction kit for such a lighting arrangement and a method for constructing such a lighting arrangement are furthermore disclosed. |
| US10323817B2 |
Light assembly and vehicle design element including such light assembly
A light assembly for a vehicle design element includes a light guide, the light guide including a plurality of light receiving surfaces; and a plurality of light sources, the light sources being arranged adjacent to and directed towards respective light receiving surfaces, where the light guide is shaped to define an annular base lying in a first plane and at least one circumferential flange or cylinder disposed generally orthogonal, or inwardly or outwardly splayed to the first plane, the flange or cylinder extending away from the annular base towards a viewable annular light exit, the base including a plurality of shaped elements extending away from the first plane, each shaped element defining one of the light receiving surfaces for receiving incident light from a respective adjacent light source, where a plurality of the light receiving surfaces are orientated substantially transverse to the base. |
| US10323814B2 |
Vehicular lamp having a two-dimensional image forming device and a dimming part
A vehicular lamp includes a projection lens, a two-dimensional image forming device located on or in the vicinity of a rear focal point of the projection lens, and including a plurality optical elements which are arranged in a matrix shape and individually driven and a projection plane that is formed by the plurality optical elements, a light source configured to irradiate the projection plane of the two-dimensional image forming device with light, and a dimming part provided between the optical elements and the projection lens and configured to reduce light directed to the projection lens from the optical elements arranged on an end portion of the projection plane. |
| US10323808B2 |
LED night light has projection or image feature
An LED night light for night time or dark area use, such as a plug-in wall outlet night light or direct current (DC) operated night light, includes projection or image features to project or present an image, message, data, logo, or time on a ceiling, walls, floor, or other desired surface, or an optics element surface. The optics means may include an magnify optics-lens, Tube or tube assembly, slide, convex lens, concave lens, openings, cut-outs, film, grating, or holographic element to create an image at a desired location. The night light upgrade model has an adjustable angle, adjustable orientation, of said bigger image position and change image by moving the said night. The said up grade model can adjustable Light function(s) or distance between light source and magnetic optics-means and slide, as well as other adjustable position, location, or orientation features. |
| US10323803B2 |
Light emitting device and vehicular lamp comprising same
A light emitting device and a vehicular lamp are provided. The light emitting device comprises: a first light emitting unit; a second light emitting unit separated from the first light emitting unit; and a sidewall surrounding side surfaces of the first and second light emitting units while adjoining the side surfaces of the first and second light emitting units, wherein the first light emitting unit and the second light emitting unit emit light have different peak wavelengths. |
| US10323801B2 |
Semiconductor tubular lamp, tube therefor, and production method
A tube for a semiconductor tubular lamp is disclosed, which tube has at least one holding projection for holding at least one printed circuit board on the inside of the tube, wherein the tube is a glass tube, and the at least one holding projection is an inwardly bulging, reshaped burling region of the tube. A semiconductor tubular lamp has a tube and at least one printed circuit board fitted with a semiconductor light source, which is accommodated in the tube and is held transversely to a longitudinal direction of the tube by means of at least one burling region in a form-fitted manner. The invention is in particular applicable to LED retrofit lamps for fluorescent lamps, in particular for replacing conventional tube lamps or flashlights of type T5 or T8. |
| US10323800B2 |
Retrofit LED lamp fixtures
Various embodiments of a lamp fixture are disclosed. In some embodiments, on such device includes an LED array that includes one or more LEDs; a mounting plate that includes an opening with a predefined shape; a reflector mounted to the mounting plate; a heat sink; an active cooling element that has the predefined shape and is embedded in the opening of the mounting plate; a power supply circuit board assembly for providing power supply to the device; and an interface connector that attaches the heat sink to the mounting plate. |
| US10323799B2 |
Light-emitting diode filament with a heat-dissipating structure and light-emitting diode filament light bulb using the same
A light-emitting diode (LED) filament with a heat-dissipating structure includes multiple LED chips, multiple conductive carriers and a package layer. Each conductive carrier takes the form of a metal sheet and the multiple conductive carriers are spaced apart from each other. Each LED chip is commonly carried by and is electrically connected to two of the multiple conductive carriers adjacent to the LED chip. The package layer covers the multiple LED chips and the multiple conductive carriers with two lateral edge portions of each conductive carrier exposed from the package layer. The LED filament is mounted inside a light bulb. Because the multiple conductive carriers are partially exposed from the package layer, heat generated by the multiple LED chips can be dissipated to an ambient environment without affecting lighting efficiency and light output as a result of accumulated heat. |
| US10323791B1 |
Displacement structure for a support frame
A displacement structure for a support frame includes a fixing member and a slide member. The fixing member includes a first fixing portion, a connecting portion and a second fixing portion which are sequentially connected. The connecting portion has two ends connected to the first and second fixing portions, respectively, the first and second fixing portions are opposite to each other and separated by a clamping space which is provided for clamping a table plate. The slide member includes a first clamping portion fixed to one end of the stationary rod, and two opposite second clamping portions opposite to the first clamping portion. The first clamping portion and the second clamping portions are fixed together by a fixing bolt, there is a slide space between the first clamping portion and the second clamping portions, the first clamping portion and the second clamping portions clamp the first fixing portion. |
| US10323788B2 |
Outdoor platform flooring attachment device
An apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes a blade configured for extending between adjacent floor panels and having a bottom portion thereof that defines a floor member engaging recess for engaging a bottom side of the floor member and a hook on an end thereof for engaging a vertical side of the floor member. A mount to which the blade is translatable about and engaged with a top surface of the adjacent floor panels when installed on a floor surface is provided. A linear translator is selectively directed to translate the blade relative to the mount such that the distance between a bottom surface of the mount and the floor member engaging recess is varied in order to securely receive the floor member therebetween. A related method is also disclosed. |
| US10323786B2 |
Manually adjustable monitor bracket for a flat panel display of a mobile diagnostic device
The present disclosure relates to a manually adjustable monitor bracket for a flat panel display of a mobile diagnostic device that includes at least two joints with mutually parallel pivot axes, the joints being connected to one another by a first arm. In order to prevent a collision of the flat panel screen attached to a hand joint on a second arm and/or of the monitor bracket with an obstacle whose position relative to the coordinate system of the mobile diagnostic device is known, in particular with a part of the diagnostic device, the monitor bracket includes a device for preventing a collision that limits the movement of the monitor bracket in such a manner that movement in a direction about the first horizontal pivot axis or in a direction about the second horizontal pivot axis is blocked if a continuation of the movement about the pivot axes would lead to the value pairs consisting of the pivot angles of the shoulder joint and of the pivot angles of the elbow joint being contained in the number of the value pairs of the pivot angles of the collision-endangered area. |
| US10323785B1 |
Tablet holder
A holder for a tablet, comprising a plate having a flat, planar front side for placing a tablet thereon, and a backside. The plate is generally rectangular in shape and having four corners with rotatable retention members disposed at three of the four corners. Each of the retention members are seated in a notch of the plate and all the retention members are rotatable to a position to form a continuous, flat surface along the plate and are rotatable to positions to retain a tablet on the holder. |
| US10323784B2 |
Insulation sleeve
An insulation sleeve for insulating a component includes an inner layer, an outer layer, an insulating material, and a flap covering a seam passing from an outside surface to an internal surface of the insulation sleeve. The inner layer is a material having low thermal conductivity, resistance to high temperatures, is elastic/semi-rigid, and has an inner surface formed to a shape to fit the component. The outer layer has a material having low thermal conductivity, resistance to high temperatures, and is elastic/semi-rigid. The insulating material is positioned between the inner layer and the outer layer and has low thermal conductivity, low heat storage, and resistance to high temperatures. The flap is a material having low thermal conductivity and resistance to high temperatures, and is secured to the outer layer at a first location and releasably secured outer layer at a second location. |
| US10323779B2 |
Pipe coupling structure
A pipe coupling structure, configured to prevent formation of a gap between the inner peripheral surfaces of pipe elements connected together through which gap a fluid being transported may enter, includes first and second pipe elements to be connected together. The first pipe element has a first sealing portion with an acute angle defined by a first inner peripheral surface defining a hole of the first pipe element and a first annular surface extending radially outward from an end edge of the first inner peripheral surface. The second pipe element has a second sealing portion defined by a second inner peripheral surface defining a hole of the second pipe element and a second annular surface extending radially outward from an end edge of the second inner peripheral surface. The first and second pipe elements are connected together, with the first and second end edges abutted against each other. |
| US10323778B2 |
Full flow pipe connector
A pipe connector for use in conjunction with a catch basin, the pipe connector having an annular flange defining a central bore and a major pipe receptor in the form of a tube having a first diameter and being attached to the flange and a minor pipe receptor in the form of a tube has a second diameter smaller than the first diameter, and is attached to the major pipe receptor by a frangible bridge that is configured to cleanly break upon the application of an impact to the minor pipe receptor, whereby the minor pipe receptor is removable from the major pipe receptor. |
| US10323773B2 |
Electroactive material fluid control apparatus
An electroactive material fluid control apparatus (100) is provided. The electroactive material fluid control apparatus (100) comprises a layered assembly (110) comprised of a dielectric layer (120) disposed between a first plate (130) and a second plate (140). The electroactive material fluid control apparatus (100) also includes a first fluid port (130a, 130b) formed in an outer surface of the layered assembly (110), and at least one fluid control device (200, 300, 400, 500) comprised of an electrode (212-512) disposed between the first plate (130) and a dielectric deformable material (214-514), wherein the electrode (212-512) is attached to the dielectric deformable material (214-514). The at least one fluid control device (200, 300, 400, 500) is fluidly coupled to the first fluid port (130a, 130b) via a fluid path (127, 128) in the dielectric layer (120) and the electrode (212-512) is coupled to a connector (150) that extends away from the layered assembly (110) in a direction parallel to the dielectric layer (120). |
| US10323770B2 |
Control member for a fluid control device
A control member for use in a fluid control device is disclosed. The control member may include a through-bore for receiving a valve stem and one or more counter-bores aligned with the through-bore. One of the counter-bores may receive a connection member, such as a retaining nut, for connecting the control member to the valve stem. Accordingly, the connection member may be concealed within the control member and thus prevented from interfering with the fluid flow around the control member. Also disclosed is a fluid control device incorporating the control member and a method of assembling a fluid control device incorporating the control member. |
| US10323769B2 |
Pressure relief valve
A pressure relief valve (10) is provided for controlling fluid flow between a first fluid path (12a) and a second fluid path (12b). The pressure relief valve includes a housing (14), a diaphragm member (24) movably affixed within the housing and having a fluid port (18), a first biasing member (20) for urging the diaphragm member in a first direction, and a sealing member (26) movably mounted in the housing and configured for reversibly sealing the fluid port (18). When a pressure at the second fluid path (12b) exceeds a first predetermined threshold the diaphragm member (24) is pushed against the first biasing member (20), and the sealing member (26) is initially urged towards the fluid port (18) and subsequently becomes disengaged with the fluid port, allowing fluid communication between the second fluid path (12b) and the first fluid path (12a) via the fluid port. When the pressure at the second fluid path (12b) decreases below a second predetermined threshold, the sealing member (26) becomes disengaged from the diaphragm member (24), allowing fluid communication between the first fluid path and the second fluid path via the fluid port. A valve assembly including the pressure release valve (10) and an externally actuated valve (60) is also provided. |
| US10323768B2 |
Pressure independent control valve with an electronic control system
A flow control valve including a main valve and a pilot valve for controlling a piston of the main valve. The valve maybe controlled through a control system based on measured pressures or temperatures in a system supplied or controlled by the valve. The valve may be operated as a pressure independent control valve, using pressure measurement from a supply line and exit line or return line of a hydronic HVAC system as inputs to the control system, which is operable to maintain a constant pressure drop across the system, or the valve may be operated as a temperature independent control valve, using temperature measurements from a supply line and exit line or return line of a hydronic HVAC system as inputs to the control system which is operable to maintain a constant temperature drop across the system. |
| US10323766B2 |
Compact circular linkage for a pushing actuator
A compact unitized mechanical linkage, which can be handled as a single piece within a valve top works, transmits force and motion of a piezoelectric actuator stack to a moveable element in a control valve. The linkage has few parts and all may be made at low cost. |
| US10323762B2 |
Three-way pressure control and flow regulator valve
A three-way valve assembly, including a valve body having a fluid flow path and a valve member movable in the fluid flow path between a supply port and a work port, and between a load sense passage and a pressure relief port. The valve member may move between a first position and a second position for controlling flow and regulating fluid pressure differences sensed in the flow path; and for limiting fluid pressure in the flow path to a predetermined pressure level set by a pilot-operated pressure limiter valve when the valve member is in the second position. The valve member may move between the second position and a third position to open the flow path from the load sense passage to the pressure relief port for relieving fluid pressure in the flow path when the fluid pressure from an over-loaded actuator exceeds the predetermined pressure level set by the pressure limiter valve. |
| US10323756B2 |
Multi-way valve
A multi-way valve includes an upper valve body, a lower valve body and a rotary valve core. The upper valve body and the lower valve body are provided respectively with an upper mounting hole and a lower mounting hole. The rotary valve core is provided passing through the upper mounting hole and the lower mounting hole, respectively. The rotary valve core is formed with a first stepped surface facing toward the upper valve body, and an adjusting nut, which is located below the rotary valve core, is provided in the lower mounting hole. The rotary valve core is moved up and down axially by adjusting the adjusting nut such that an axial clearance between the first stepped surface and the upper valve body is adjusted, so the rotary valve core may flexibly rotate at different temperatures to prevent the multi-way valve from being stuck. |
| US10323752B2 |
Butterfly valve
A butterfly valve includes a valve element that turns with a shaft to control open/closed states of a passage or adjust an opening degree of the passage. The valve element includes a plate and an elastic member provided along an outer circumference of the plate. The elastic member has seal parts that touch and leave an inner surface of the passage to close and open the passage. The plate has specific shapes on both sides with respect to an axis of the shaft, the specific shapes narrowing gaps between the plate and the inner surface on lower-pressure sides of seal centers of the seal parts in a valve closed state. |
| US10323747B2 |
Piston ring and method for manufacturing a piston ring
A piston ring that is pre-treated by grit blasting to a defined roughness, followed by PVD coating with a metal nitride to a thickness of at least 10 μm, leaving peaks and valleys in the coated piston ring. The coated piston ring is then lapped to remove the peaks without penetrating the coating, so that valleys and plateaus remain in the coated surface. The resulting piston ring exhibits superior coating retention due to the increased surface area created by the grit blasting, and yet also superior performance, as the cavities remaining increase the porosity of the coating and thus enhance the lubrication of the ring. |
| US10323746B2 |
Metal bellows type accumulator
The invention provides a metal bellows type accumulator having an outer shell provided in its one end with a pressure introducing passage in an opening manner, and a metal bellows repeatedly formed peak portions directed to an outer side in a radial direction and trough portions directed to an inner side, capable of expanding and contracting in an axial direction and separating an inner chamber of the outer shell into a pressure introducing chamber communicated with the pressure introducing passage and a gas chamber charged with cushion gas. A tubular portion is provided at a position where an amplitude of vibration in a radial direction becomes maximum in the metal bellows, has a greater diameter than a maximum diameter portion of each of the peak portions and is in contactable with an inner peripheral surface of the outer shell at a predetermined width in the axial direction. |
| US10323743B2 |
Control device of vehicle
A control device of a vehicle including a motor and a multi-speed type automatic transmission including a plurality of engagement devices, the control device engaging the engagement device to be engaged and releasing the engagement device to be released when the shift is determined, and controlling an engagement pressure of an engagement device to be released during an upshift in a driven state and a downshift in a driving state and controlling an engagement pressure of an engagement device to be engaged during an upshift in the driving state and a downshift in the driven state so as to control a rotation speed of a rotating element of the automatic transmission, the control device increasing an instruction pressure of the engagement device to a target surge pressure for a target surge time when switching is performed during the upshift and the downshift in the driven state, to the driving state. |
| US10323741B2 |
Slider for a drive
Provided is a slider having a driving plate and driving plate head cover for connecting a driving unit to a steel pipe. The diving plate and its head cover connect around the circumference of a steel pipe by way of one or more screws passing through one or more threaded pathways in the driving plate, through corresponding threaded pathways in its cover, and through corresponding holes in the steel pipe; a further threaded pathway in the driving plate connects to the driving unit. In embodiments, the driving plate is configured with sliding channels which engage with the protrusions of the driving plate head cover. In certain embodiments, the driving unit may be connected in perpendicular orientation to the one or more screws, and one or more pathways, that connect the driving plate and its cover to the steel pipe. |
| US10323737B1 |
Hydrostatic transaxle
A transaxle for use as a drive apparatus of a vehicle is provided. The transaxle includes a main housing joined to a gear housing to enclose a transmission and a reduction gear set. The transmission includes a pump assembly and a motor assembly arranged in a parallel configuration on one side of a center section. A charge pump is contained within a pocket on an opposing side of the center section. A charge pump cover assembly secures the charge pump in the pocket and has a charge relief assembly that extends into a void volume defined by a ring gear of the gear reduction set. The gear reduction set drives an axle extending from the gear housing. |
| US10323734B2 |
Actuator for rendering at least one optical element movable
This disclosure relates to an electric actuator to render optical elements movable. The electrical actuator generally has a motor, a mechanical transmission assembly having an endless screw, a support element of the endless screw, a drive mechanism, and a return mechanism. The motor is configured to drive the mechanical transmission assembly and the mechanical transmission assembly is configured to drive the drive mechanism, wherein the return mechanism exerts an axial pressure against the endless screw in such a way as to press the endless screw against the support element. The disclosure also relates to an assembly having a movable optical element and an electric actuator of the movable optical element as described above. |
| US10323733B2 |
Vehicle braking system brake bias adjuster having a visible brake bias ratio indicator and method and apparatus for retrofitting a vehicle with a vehicle braking system brake bias adjustment knob assembly having a visible brake bias ratio indicator
A vehicle braking system bias adjuster which includes a brake bias adjustment knob assembly which enables the driver of the vehicle to quickly and easily set, adjust, and visually and quickly determine the relative front to rear (or right front to left front) brake bias or brake bias setting of the vehicle before and while driving the vehicle. The brake bias adjustment knob assembly visually indicates the exact amount of brake bias, or if there is no bias at all. The ratio is expressed in numbers to enable the driver to reset the brake bias to a known value of ratio as needed for track conditions and vehicle weight changes. The value in numbers is reproducible. The present disclosure also provides a method and apparatus for retrofitting an existing vehicle with a brake bias adjustment knob assembly which enables the driver of the vehicle to quickly and easily set, adjust, and visually determine the relative brake bias or brake bias setting (i.e., the ratio of front to rear brake biasing or the ratio of side to side brake biasing) of the vehicle before and while driving the vehicle. |
| US10323730B2 |
Tensioner
Provided is a simple-structured tensioner that can reduce the processing and assembling workload. A tensioner 10 includes a plunger 20, a housing 30, a main spring 60, and a relief valve 40. The relief valve 40 includes a seat member 41, a valve member 42, and a relief spring 43. The plunger 20 includes an outward relief passage 23, and a bottom protrusion 22a protruding rearward integrally with and continuously from a plunger bottom 22. The relief spring 43 is disposed such that one end thereof is in contact with the valve member 42 while the other end is attached to the bottom protrusion 22a. |
| US10323728B2 |
Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicles
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle provides at least eight forward speeds and one reverse speed by combination of: first to fourth planetary gear sets respectively having first to third rotational elements, fourth to sixth rotational elements, seventh to ninth rotational elements, or tenth to twelfth rotational elements; two transfer gears and five control elements selectively connecting one shaft to another shaft selected from first to tenth shafts or to a transmission housing. In particular, the input shaft is mounted with the first, second, and third planetary gear sets at an external circumference of the input shaft; the output shaft is mounted with the fourth planetary gear set on external circumference of the output shaft, and the tenth rotational element is externally gear-meshed with one shaft selectively connected with the second rotational element, the seventh rotational element, and the ninth rotational element respectively. |
| US10323727B2 |
Multi-speed transmission
The present disclosure provides a multiple speed transmission having an input member, an output member, a plurality of planetary gearsets, a plurality of interconnecting members and a plurality of torque-transmitting mechanisms. The plurality of planetary gear sets includes first, second and ring gears. The input member is continuously interconnected with at least one member of one of the plurality of planetary gear sets, and the output member is continuously interconnected with another member of one of the plurality of planetary gear sets. At least eight forward speeds and one reverse speed are achieved by the selective engagement of the five torque-transmitting mechanisms. |
| US10323725B2 |
Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicles
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle is disclosed. A planetary gear train of claim of an automatic transmission for a vehicle, includes an input shaft for receiving an external torque; an output shaft for outputting a shifted torque; a first planetary gear set having first, second, and third rotational elements; a second planetary gear set having fourth, fifth, and sixth rotational elements; a third planetary gear set having seventh, eighth, and ninth rotational elements; a fourth planetary gear set having tenth, eleventh, and twelfth rotational elements; a first shaft fixedly connected with the second rotational element, the sixth rotational element, the seventh rotational element, and the input shaft; a second shaft fixedly connected with the eleventh rotational element, and the output shaft; and a third shaft fixedly connected with the first rotational element and the tenth rotational element. |
| US10323723B2 |
Multi-speed planetary transmission
A multi-speed transmission including a plurality of planetary gearsets and a plurality of selective couplers to achieve at least nine forward speed ratios is disclosed. The plurality of planetary gearsets may include a first planetary gearset, a second planetary gearset, a third planetary gearset, and a fourth planetary gearset. The plurality of selective couplers may include a number of clutches and a number of brakes. The multi-speed transmission may have four planetary gearsets and six selective couplers. The six selective couplers may include three clutches and three brakes. |
| US10323720B2 |
Hydraulic synchronizer
A hydraulic synchronizer selectively couples one or more gears to a drive shaft. The synchronizer has a shaft hub with a splined annulus and a fluid passage. A ring is disposed about the shaft hub and movable along a rotation axis of the shaft hub. A shift collar is fixedly coupled to the ring and has a splined annulus engaged with the splined annulus of the shaft hub. The shift collar is configured to engage splines of a gear when the ring is in an engaged axial position and to disengage the splines of the gear when the ring is in a neutral position. The shift collar transmits rotational input from the shaft hub to the gear when the ring is in the engaged axial position. Hydraulic chambers receive hydraulic fluid from the fluid passage and move the ring to the engaged and neutral positions. |
| US10323719B2 |
Planetary gear assembly, drive unit including the planetary gear assembly, and image forming apparatus including the drive unit, and installation method for planetary gear assembly
A planetary gear mechanism includes a plurality of planetary gears, an outer gear, a sun gear, a carrier, and a stick mount. The outer gear meshes with the plurality of planetary gears. The sun gear is coaxially disposed on the same axis as the outer gear and transmits force to the planetary gears. The carrier rotatably supports the plurality of planetary gears and is rotatably and floatingly supported. The carrier includes a hole through which a stick member penetrates in a direction of axis of rotation of the carrier. The stick member penetrates through the hole and is mounted on the stick mount. The stick mount is disposed opposite the carrier. The outer gear and the sun gear are held such that one of the outer gear and the sun gear does not rotate. |
| US10323717B2 |
Friction transmission belt
In a friction transmission belt including a rubber layer forming a pulley contact surface, the rubber layer includes a rubber composition containing hydrophilic inorganic filler and a sliding-resistant material. The sliding-resistant material protrudes from the pulley contact surface, and is at least one of hydrophobic resin particles and hydrophobic resin fibers having an official regain of 0.4% or below, and in the rubber composition, a content of the hydrophilic inorganic filler with respect to 100 parts by mass of the rubber component is 35 parts by mass or more. |
| US10323716B2 |
Damper device
A damper device includes first inner springs configured to transmit a torque between a drive member and an intermediate member, second inner springs configured to transmit a torque between the intermediate member and a driven member, and a rotary inertia mass damper including a sun gear serving as a mass body rotating with relative rotation of the drive member to the driven member. The rotary inertia mass damper is provided in parallel to a torque transmission path including the intermediate member, the first inner springs and the second inner springs. A damping ratio ζ of the intermediate member determined based on a moment of inertia J2 of the intermediate member and rigidities k1 and k2 of the first and the second inner springs and is less than a value. |
| US10323715B2 |
Torsional vibration damper
A torsional vibration damper in which noise and vibrations in a planetary gear unit are suppressed is provided. In a planetary gear unit, as an inertial element is oscillated to establish an inertial torque by a relative rotation between a sun gear and a ring gear. Pinion gears are interposed between the sun gear and the ring gear at predetermined intervals, and gear dimensions of one of the pinion gears and gear dimensions of another one of the pinion gears are different from each other. |
| US10323711B2 |
Breakable duct for use with a motor vehicle air induction system
The disclosed inventive concept provides a crushable air duct having formed thereon a series of strategically positioned and patterned crack-initiating grooves. The grooves allow the air duct to be crushed in an impact event and a specified impact force, thereby protecting adjacent and higher cost under hood components from damage. In an impact event, the series of grooves allows the cracks in the air duct to readily propagate throughout the pattern in a controlled and predictable manner. The crushable air duct is formed from a rigid polymerized material. The duct includes an inlet and an outlet. The grooves are formed on either or both the exterior surface and the interior surface of the duct. Some of the grooves extend generally between the inlet and the outlet. These grooves are preferably parallel. Other grooves are circumferentially formed around the duct. At least some of the parallel and circumferential grooves intersect. |
| US10323708B2 |
Friction material composition, friction material and production method thereof
A friction material composition containing an alkali metal salt as a friction adjusting material. The alkali metal salt is spherical and porous. The alkali metal salt has an average particle diameter of 20 μm to 240 μm. A friction material is produced by using the friction material composition. |
| US10323707B2 |
Vehicle disk brake
A vehicle disk brake has a brake-application device providing a braking force and has a force element and a pressure-boosting lever arrangement. A readjustment device for compensatory readjustment of the wear-induced air clearance of the brake is provided that has a rotatably arranged drive element to be actuated by the brake-application device, a readjustment element arranged rotatably on the same axis, and a transmission device arranged in the movement path between drive element and readjustment element. To provide a readjustment device of a structurally simple design with a small number of parts, the transmission device is in the form of a helical wrap spring which is radially supported at the inner side along a first helix section relative to the drive element and is radially supported at the outer side along a second helix section relative to the readjustment element. |
| US10323706B2 |
Sliding caliper disk brake including a central return spring of an exterior brake shoe including wear play compensation means, spring and replacement kit
A sliding caliper disk brake (10) that includes an exterior brake shoe (18E) mounted to slide in the fixed support of the brake, wherein the disk brake includes a central exterior spring (48E) for returning the exterior brake shoe (18E) to its inactive position that is fixed to an associated central portion (63) of the exterior brake shoe (18E) and a front portion (50) of which is fixed axially to an associated central portion (58) of the fixed support (14). For returning it to its inactive position, the interior brake shoe is constrained to move axially with the brake piston. |
| US10323705B2 |
Adjuster assembly
An adjuster assembly for manually adjusting the position of a brake pad relative to a brake rotor of a disc brake, the assembly comprising: a continuous wear sensor; and a manual rewind apparatus to manually reset the position of the brake pad when replacement thereof is required; the manual rewind apparatus comprising a shaft arranged to extend into a housing of the disc brake; wherein the continuous wear sensor is arranged to be located within the housing of the disc brake and is located proximate to the shaft. |
| US10323701B2 |
Rendering road signs during navigation
Some embodiments of the invention provide a navigation application that presents road signs during a navigation presentation. In presenting the road signs, the application of some embodiments differentiates the appearance of road signs at junctions that require a change of direction from road signs at junctions that do not require a change of direction. The application may perform processes that ensure that it arranges the road signs on the map in an aesthetically pleasing manner. In addition, the navigation application of some embodiments does not display too many road signs along the navigated route so that the route is not by occluded by too many road signs. |
| US10323695B2 |
Clutch assembly with fluid evacuation
A clutched device has a housing, which defines a clutch sump, a friction clutch that is received in the housing, a first reservoir, an evacuation device and a pump that is configured to transmit fluid between the first reservoir and the friction clutch for operating the friction clutch. The evacuation device is selectively operable for changing the effective volume of the clutch sump so that the level of lubrication in the clutch sump can be lowered to reduce drag forces caused by the presence of lubricant between clutch plates of the friction clutch when the friction clutch is not in use. |
| US10323686B2 |
Radial roller bearing
A radial roller bearing can include an outer race having as a center axis a first axis extending in a first direction and an inner race having as the center axis the first axis. A group of rollers composed of a plurality of rollers arranged at intervals in the circumferential direction can be centered on the first axis between the outer raceway surface of the outer race and the inner raceway surface of the inner race and a cage can be provided for holding the group of rollers. A first regulating part can be provided for regulating the movement of the outer race to one side. A second regulating part can be provided for regulating the movement of the outer race to another side. The first regulating part and the second regulating part can be arranged at positions at which the distance between the first regulating part and the second regulating part is a prescribed distance longer than the outer race. |
| US10323680B2 |
Cable splitter device, assembly, and method of use
Cable splitter devices, assemblies, and methods of use are disclosed. A cable splitter device is disclosed. A cable splitter assembly includes a housing, a slider, first cables, and second cables. The housing defines a first number of first slots and a second number of second slots different from the first number. The slider is slidably coupled to the housing. The slider defines the first number of first channels and the second number of second channels. The first cables extend through the first number of first slots and have an end positioned within a respective first channel of the slider. The second cables extend through the second number of second slots and have an end positioned within a respective second channel of the slider. A clipping element may be configured to fix a longitudinal position of a respective first cable at multiple different locations along the first channel. |
| US10323675B2 |
Device with adjustment bolt
A device with an adjustment bolt includes a bolt attachment wall, an adjustment bolt screwed with an internal thread hole of the bolt attachment wall, a locknut screwed with the adjustment bolt, a cover that surrounds the adjustment bolt and the locknut, and a stopper unit that prevents removal of the cover from the locknut. The stopper unit includes an inner circumference groove of the cover fitted around a C-shaped retaining ring, and an external circumference groove of the locknut fitting within the retaining ring. The external circumference groove includes a first groove portion having a large-diameter groove bottom that restricts contraction and removal of the retaining ring fitted within the inner circumference groove, and a second groove portion provided continuously for the first groove portion and having a small-diameter groove bottom that allows contraction and removal of the retaining ring fitted within the inner circumference groove. |
| US10323674B2 |
Device for fastening a component to a carrier component
The invention relates to a device for fastening a component to a carrier component having a bolt in particular a threaded or grooved bolt or a bolt at least sectionally spherical, comprising an at least sectionally elastic fastening part and a housing part accommodating the fastening part in a mounted state, the housing part and the fastening part having, in the mounted state, an introduction section for introducing the bolt in an introduction direction, at least one latching element for latching on the bolt being provided on an inner wall, bounding the introduction section, of the fastening part, and the fastening part and the housing part each having at least one force transmission surface, the force transmission surfaces facing one another in the mounted state and transmitting at least one tensile force that occurs during operation, the force transmission surfaces each being located in planes which are inclined or curved with respect to the introduction direction of the introduction section such that a tensile force acting on the device generates a force on the fastening part, said force acting radially inwardly with respect to the introduction section. |
| US10323670B2 |
Composed element, multi-layered board and panel-shaped element for forming this composed element
Composed element including at least two panel-shaped elements, which each have an edge zone in which coupling means are present in the form of a profiled part respectively extending in the longitudinal direction of the respective edge zone, as well as each including an end face extending transversely to the respective edge zone, wherein said profiled parts allow coupling the panel-shaped elements together in an interlocking manner, wherein at least one of the panel-shaped elements includes an arrangement which hides from view at least a portion of the profiled part formed at the pertaining edge zone at the location of the end face. |
| US10323666B2 |
Clamping collar having a spacer
The clamping collar has a belt (10) looped back onto itself and having two ends provided with lugs (12, 14) that are upstanding and that are suitable for being brought closer together for tightening the collar. The collar has a spacer (22) having a land (24) extending between the ends (10A, 10B) of the belt (10), and a web (26) having at least a first tab that is upstanding relative to said land, which web extends between the lugs. The spacer is formed by a strip that is folded between a first fold at the junction between the first tab and the land (24) and a second fold situated at a first end of the land, the land having a first double- walled portion between the first and second folds. |
| US10323664B2 |
Orifice module for flow switch system
An orifice module for a flow switch system has a cylindrical body which is symmetric about a central axis which defines a metering orifice. An axial central hub holds the stem. The hub connects to the cylindrical body by at least three support spokes which forms a plurality of flow channels angularly disposed about the central axis. The module interacts with the flow switch to enhance the function of the flow switch and also reduces turbulence in the fluid flow system. |
| US10323663B2 |
Methods and apparatus to enable boom bounce reduction and prevent un-commanded motion in hydraulic systems
A hydraulic system (600) and method for reducing boom dynamics of a boom (30), while providing counter-balance valve protection, includes a hydraulic actuator (110), first and second counter-balance valves (300, 400), first and second independent control valves (700, 800), and first and second blocking valves (350, 450). The actuator includes first and second corresponding chambers. In a first mode, the second counter-balance valve is opened by the first control valve, and the first counter-balance valve is opened by the second control valve. In a second mode, at least one of the counter-balance valves is closed. A meter-out control valve (800, 700) may be operated in a flow control mode, and/or a meter-in control valve (700, 800) may be operated in a pressure control mode. Boom dynamics reduction may occur while the boom is in motion (e.g., about a worksite). By opening the counter-balance valves, sensors at the control valves may be used to characterize external loads. The control valves may respond to the external loads and at least partially cancel unwanted boom dynamics. The system may further detecting faults in actuators with counter-balance valves and prevent any single point fault from causing a boom falling event and/or mitigate such faults. |
| US10323657B2 |
System for improving the energy efficiency in hydraulic systems
A system for hydraulic systems includes a working cylinder (58) which operates as a consumer of hydraulic energy or as a generator of hydraulic energy. A hydraulic accumulator (1) can be charged by the working cylinder for storing energy and can be discharged for delivering energy to the working cylinder (58). One hydraulic accumulator is provided in the form of an adjustable hydropneumatic piston accumulator (1), in which with a plurality of pressure chambers (19, 21, 23, 25) adjoining effective surfaces (11, 13, 15, 17) of different sizes are on the fluid side of the accumulator piston (5). An adjusting arrangement (51) connects a selected pressure chamber (19, 21, 23, 25) or a plurality of selected pressure chambers (19, 21, 23, 25) of the piston accumulator (1) to the working cylinder (58) as a function of the pressure level that prevails respectively on the gas side of the piston accumulator (1) and on the working cylinder (58). |
| US10323655B2 |
Fan motor
A fan motor includes a motor, an impeller and a housing. The housing includes an inner wall portion, a silencer portion, and a communicating opening. The inner wall portion extends along a rotation axis to assume a tubular shape, and houses at least a portion of the impeller therein. The silencer portion includes a portion radially outside of the inner wall portion, and defines a silencing space between the inner wall portion and the silencer portion. The communicating opening brings a space inside of the inner wall portion into communication with the silencing space. A portion of the communicating opening is defined by an end portion of the inner wall portion on an inlet side. The silencing space covers only a portion of the circumferential extent of the inner wall portion. This allows the silencing space to be arranged in a dead space around the inner wall portion. |
| US10323644B1 |
High-speed modular electric submersible pump assemblies
The disclosure herein includes an electric submersible pump assembly for pumping fluids from a wellbore, which electric submersible pump assembly may include: a pump; and a motor assembly coupled to the pump, the motor assembly including: a housing; a stator disposed within the housing, wherein the stator has an inner surface having a diameter; a rotor disposed in the stator, wherein the rotor has an outer surface and a magnet; a first bearing assembly disposed around the rotor; and a second bearing assembly disposed around the rotor; wherein the rotor has a length separating the first bearing assembly from the second bearing assembly; and the length divided by the diameter of the inner surface of the stator yields a ratio from 7.00 to 13.00. |
| US10323642B2 |
Pump motor with a fixed bearing
A pump motor having a permanent magnet rotor, a containment shell, a wound stator, a motor housing, a pump head, a shaft, which is secured in the containment shell on the one hand and in the pump head on the other hand, and a fixed bearing, which is pressed or injected into the permanent magnet rotor and rotatably mounts it on the shaft. The pump motor provides a reliable and economically producible bearing of the permanent magnet rotor on the shaft in a generic pump motor, in which the bearing abutting uniformly against the shaft over the entire bearing length and during a complete rotation can be achieved, small angle errors can be compensated, and noises can be reduced. |
| US10323641B2 |
Below motor equalizer of electrical submersible pump and method for filling
An electrical submersible pump assembly has a pressure equalizer coupled to a lower end of a motor. The equalizer has a motor lubricant passage through which lubricant in the motor communicates with motor lubricant in the equalizing element. A valve element in the motor lubricant passage has a closed upper position and an open lower position. The valve element has a drive member on an upper end that mates with a shaft drive member on a lower end of the motor shaft while the valve element is in the upper position and disengages from the shaft drive member while the valve element is in the lower position. A locking feature between the valve element and the motor lubricant passage retains the valve element in the upper position and is releasable in response to rotation of the motor shaft in a selected direction. |
| US10323638B2 |
Variable volume ratio compressor
A compressor may include a shell, first and second scroll members, a partition plate and a bypass valve member. The shell defines a discharge-pressure region and a suction-pressure region. The first scroll member is disposed within the shell and may include a first end plate having a discharge passage, and first and second bypass passages extending through the first end plate. The partition plate is disposed within the shell and separates the discharge-pressure region from the suction-pressure region and includes an opening in communication with the discharge-pressure region. The bypass valve member is movable between a first position restricting fluid flow through at least one of the first and second bypass passages and the opening and a second position in allowing fluid flow through the at least one of the first and second bypass passages and the opening. |
| US10323637B2 |
Stepping motor drive apparatus, gear pump, and stepping motor-driven gear pump system
A stepping motor-driven system includes a stepping motor, an output device, and a belt and pulley system operably coupling the stepping motor with the output device to impart rotation therebetween. The belt and pulley system includes an input pinion engaged with the stepping motor, an output pinion engaged with the output device, and a timing belt. The timing belt is disposed about the input and output pinions, inhibits elongation, and defines a plurality of spaced-apart grooves on an inwardly-facing surface thereof that are wider than the teeth of the pinions and are configured to receive the teeth of the pinions in meshed engagement therewith. As a result, a gap is defined within each groove. The gaps permit backlash of the timing belt in response to changes in a rotational speed input to the belt and pulley system from the stepping motor, thereby inhibiting loss of control. |
| US10323636B2 |
Gear pump with end plates or bearings having spiral grooves
A gear pump includes a housing, at least one gear set and a plurality of end plates. The gear set may be positioned between the end plates so that side surfaces of the gears face corresponding side surfaces of the end plates. The side surfaces of the end plates may have a plurality of spiral grooves positioned directly adjacent the side surface of the gears. The plurality of spiral grooves may have a logarithmic shape. Thus arranged, when the gears rotate, fluid in the pump is forced along the lengths of the spiral grooves, creating a local high pressure region that forces fluid between the side surfaces of the gears and the end plates, minimizing or eliminating contact therebetween. In some embodiments the plurality of spiral grooves may be positioned on bearing surfaces of the pump instead of end plates. |
| US10323635B2 |
Vane pump device and hydraulic apparatus
Disclosed is a vane pump device including: an even number of vanes; a rotor; a cam ring; an inner plate; and an outer plate. An inner-plate high pressure side through-hole and an inner-plate low pressure side recess portion are formed separately from each other in a rotation direction in cam ring side end surfaces of the inner plate and the outer plate, and communicate with a columnar groove which is a space of a vane groove on a rotation center side. The position of an inner-plate high pressure side through-hole upstream end and the position of an inner-plate low pressure side recess portion upstream end are point-symmetrical with each other with respect to the rotation center. |
| US10323632B2 |
Lubricating oil supply device and lubricating oil supply control method for vehicle
A lubricating oil supply device for a vehicle includes an electric oil pump and an electronic control unit. The electronic control unit is configured to control the electric oil pump, determine whether or not lubricating oil needs to be supplied by the electric oil pump, control a drive duty of the electric oil pump to a first value when the ECU determines that lubricating oil needs to be supplied, and control the drive duty to a second value that is smaller than the first value when the ECU determines that lubricating oil does not need to be supplied. The electronic control unit is configured to perform duty variable control for controlling the drive duty to a third value, which is between the first value and the second value, during a predetermined changeover transition period, in changing over the drive duty from the first value to the second value. |
| US10323631B2 |
Electric pump
An electric pump includes a rotor (6) formed in a cup shape integrally assembled to a rotor shaft (10) extended from a motor (3) side to a crank mechanism side inside a case body (2) in a state where an opening is directed to a shaft end on the motor side and rotatably supported by an intermediate bearing (13) arranged inside the opening, an eccentric cam (6d) integrally provided with a top surface portion of the rotor (6) in the axial direction, which is eccentric to a shaft center of the rotor shaft (10), and a crank shaft (12) one end side of which is assembled to an outer periphery of the eccentric cam (6d) through a cam bearing (11) and the other end side of which is connected to the pump side, in which a distance between the intermediate bearing (13) and the eccentric cam (6d) to which the crank shaft (12) is connected is reduced as short as possible, thereby suppressing occurrence of vibration and noise as well as reducing the device size in the axial direction by shortening a shaft length of the rotor shaft (10). |
| US10323630B2 |
Linear compressor
A linear compressor is provided that may include a shell; a compressor body accommodated in the shell to compress a refrigerant; a discharge cover assembly through which the refrigerant compressed in the compressor body may be discharged; a cover pipe that extends from the discharge cover assembly to discharge the refrigerant discharged into the discharge cover assembly to an outside of the discharge cover assembly; a discharge pipe coupled to the shell to discharge the refrigerant flowing along the cover pipe to an outside of the shell; a loop pipe having a first end connected to the cover pipe and a second end connected to the discharge pipe; and a coupling member that respectively couples both the first and second ends of the loop pipe to the cover pipe and the discharge pipe. The coupling member may include a connection member, a first portion of which is inserted into the loop pipe and a second portion of which is inserted into the discharge pipe or the cover pipe. The connection member may be formed of a steel material. At least one of the discharge pipe or the cover pipe may be formed of a steel material. |
| US10323626B2 |
Display device and electronic device including the same
A display device and/or an electronic device including the same includes a flexible display panel, a driving device having a shape memory alloy member and a temperature control device adapted to control a temperature of the shape memory alloy member, and a link part, one end of which is connected to at least one end portion of the flexible display panel and another end of which is connected to the driving device, in which the driving device changes a curvature of the flexible display panel by controlling the temperature of the shape memory alloy member using the temperature control device, so that a force generated by shape memory alloy member when assuming a predetermined shape drives the link part to move the at least one end portion of the flexible display panel. The display device and/or the electronic device including the same may be implemented variously depending on embodiments. |
| US10323622B2 |
Bi-directional contra-rotating circular rail bearing Y-shaped compound blade fluid energy collection multi-unit power generating windmill
A bi-directional contra-rotating circular rail bearing Y-shaped compound blade fluid energy collection multi-unit power generating windmill, the windmill comprising: a windmill remote automatic control system (1); a Y-shaped compound blade (2) from a combining of single blades; a circular rail windmill body (3) bearing the Y-shaped compound blade (2); a circular windmill rail (4) bearing the circular rail windmill body (3) for operation; a circular rail connection cable pulling vehicle (5) running on the circular cable pulling vehicle rail to pull the circular rail windmill using a stay cable (209); a hydraulic energy collection multi-unit power generating system (6) or pneumatic energy collection multi-unit power generating system (7); the Y-shaped compound blade (2) is born by three circles of the circular rail windmill body (3) arranged equidistant thereon; the circular rail windmill body (3) has six circles. |
| US10323621B2 |
Wind power generation tower provided with gyromill type wind turbine
The present invention discloses a wind power generation tower. The wind power generation tower, according to various embodiments of the present invention, comprises: a wind collection unit and an energy conversion unit, wherein wind power generation can be implemented by accelerating wind speed even for low speed wind and simultaneously increasing the utilization efficiency of the wind which rotates blades, thereby improving overall power generation efficiency. |
| US10323620B2 |
Hydraulic turbine, and power conversion facility including such a turbine
Said hydraulic turbine includes a wheel which is made to rotate about a rotational axis (X2) by a main water stream (F1) going from a penstock to a suction tube along a flow path that passes through the wheel. Said turbine also includes first means that are placed outside the flow path of the main water stream (F1) and enable the mixing of a secondary water stream (F2), taken from the flow path and located upstream from the wheel, and an oxygen-containing gas (A2). Said turbine also includes second means for injection, downstream from the wheel of the turbine, a water/gas mixture (F3) produced in the first means. |
| US10323619B2 |
Water current power generation systems
An underwater structure including a power generation apparatus including a main body; a mounting portion connected to the main body defining a mounting axis; a connection carrier, a connector mounted on the connection carrier; and an actuation mechanism in communication with the connection carrier. The structure further includes a support structure adapted for engagement with a bed of a body of water; a support housing; a support connection carrier attached to the support housing; and a support connector mounted on the support connection carrier. The mounting portion and the support housing are adapted to cooperate with one another for mounting of the power generation apparatus on the support structure. The connection carrier is releasably engageable with the support connection carrier, such that the connection carrier is moveable between an engaged position and a disengaged position. |
| US10323618B1 |
Systems and methods for engine knock sensor rationality check
Methods and systems are provided for rationalizing an engine knock sensor. In one example, a method may include, responsive to an indication of an engine knock event, correlating an output of the engine knock sensor with an output of an on-board microphone to determine degradation of the engine knock sensor. By rationalizing the engine knock sensor against another on-board sensor (e.g., the on-board microphone), diagnostic fidelity may be increased. |
| US10323617B2 |
Apparatus and method for starting engine of mild hybrid electric vehicle
An apparatus for starting an engine of a mild hybrid electric vehicle may include: an ignition switch including a plurality of contact points; an external temperature detector configured for detecting an external temperature of the mild hybrid electric vehicle; an SOC detector configured for detecting a state of charge (SOC) of a battery; a mild starter & generator (MHSG) including a stator and a rotor disposed inside the stator, and starting the engine or generating electricity according to an output of the engine; a starter starting the engine; an MHSG wheel rotating integrally with the rotor, and having at least three teeth on a circumference thereof; an MHSG position detector configured for detecting positions of the teeth; and a controller determining a top dead center (TDC) of a predetermined cylinder based on a signal of the MHSG position sensor. |
| US10323613B2 |
Engine exhaust particulate removal and utilization
A combined fuel for use in an internal combustion engine comprises a combination of partially combusted particles from the engine exhaust, said particles being in suspension in ordinary fuel. A method and apparatus for recycling partially combusted particulate material by collecting those materials. The particulate materials are combined with ordinary fuel in the fuel system to form the combined fuel which is filtered and fed the engine for combustion. |
| US10323611B2 |
Fuel feeding pipe protection structure
A protection member fixed to an engine main body to protect a fuel feeding pipe from coming into contact with an intake part includes a first protrusion protruding in an extending direction of the fuel feeding pipe from the vicinity of a first fastening portion, a second protrusion protruding in the same direction as the protruding direction of the first protrusion from the vicinity of a second fastening portion, and a third protrusion protruding in the longitudinal direction from the second protrusion and brought into contact with the engine main body. Hence, load from the intake part is supported by the first and second protrusions in the vicinity of the high-strength first and second fastening portions, and also the load is surely transmitted not only from the first and second fastening portions, but also from the third protrusion to the engine main body. |
| US10323606B2 |
Cyclonic air-oil separating fuel cooled oil cooler
A vehicle includes an engine, an oil circuit for providing oil to the engine, a fuel supply line, and an air-oil separating unit. The air-oil separating unit is configured to receive aerated oil from the engine via the oil circuit, flow the aerated oil in approximately a helical direction to de-aerate the oil, receive fuel from the fuel supply line, cool the aerated oil with the fuel while the aerated oil flows in the approximately helical direction, causing the fuel to heat, and pass the cooled and de-aerated oil and pass the heated fuel to the engine. |
| US10323605B2 |
Method and system for engine water injection
Methods are provided for reliably self-testing a water injection system that injects water into the engine responsive to engine operating conditions such as knock, the water injection system refilled manually or via the collection of water on-board the vehicle. Responsive to a water injection error, learned based on a change in a defined set of engine parameters while ramping water injection during selected conditions, the presence of clogging in a water line may be determined. Based on a degree of clogging, subsequent water injection may be appropriately adjusted. |
| US10323604B2 |
Free piston stirling engine that remains stable by limiting stroke
A free-piston Stirling engine that limits piston amplitude and reduces engine power as the piston amplitude increases beyond its maximum power. The inward edge of the heat rejecter cylinder port is located outward of the most inward excursion of the inward end of the piston sidewall during a part of the piston's reciprocation cycle so that the heat rejecter cylinder port is entirely covered by the piston sidewall during an inward portion of the piston reciprocation when the engine is operating at the selected maximum engine power. A leaker port extends from a gas bearing cavity through the piston sidewall and is positioned axially outward from the gas bearing pads of the engine's gas bearing system and vents working gas to the engine's back space at a piston amplitude of reciprocation that exceeds the piston's amplitude of reciprocation at maximum engine power. A resilient damping bumper is attached to the outward end of the piston and a displacer gas cushion is disclosed. |
| US10323603B2 |
Free piston stirling engine that limits overstroke
A free-piston Stirling engine that limits piston amplitude and reduces engine power as the piston amplitude increases beyond its maximum power. The inward edge of the heat rejecter cylinder port is located outward of the most inward excursion of the inward end of the piston sidewall during a part of the piston's reciprocation cycle so that the heat rejecter cylinder port is entirely covered by the piston sidewall during an inward portion of the piston reciprocation when the engine is operating at the selected maximum engine power. A leaker port extends from a gas bearing cavity through the piston sidewall and is positioned axially outward from the gas bearing pads of the engine's gas bearing system and vents working gas to the engine's back space at a piston amplitude of reciprocation that exceeds the piston's amplitude of reciprocation at maximum engine power. A resilient damping bumper is attached to the outward end of the piston and a displacer gas cushion is disclosed. |
| US10323598B2 |
Method for operating a spark ignited engine
A method includes forming a combustible mixture by mixing generally homogeneously a first fuel and air and introducing this mixture into a cylinder, compressing the combustible mixture with a piston in a compression stroke, introducing a second fuel into a prechamber at an introduction-time before start of combustion thus creating a prechamber charge, in which the second fuel being of the same or different chemical composition and/or concentration with respect to the first fuel, and spark igniting the prechamber charge. Emission of the cylinder and/or mechanical stress of the cylinder caused by the combustion are monitored. If emissions and/or mechanical stress are above respective predetermined thresholds, individually for the at least one cylinder, the chemical composition and/or the amount of second fuel introduced into the prechamber, and/or temperature of the cylinder charge and/or spark timing, are changed. |
| US10323596B2 |
Oil dilution rate calculation system of internal combustion engine
An oil dilution rate calculation system of an internal combustion engine acquires a blowby gas flow ratio showing the ratio of the flow of blowby gas to the flow of gas to the combustion chamber and an output current of the air-fuel ratio sensor during fuel cut control in which the internal combustion engine stops the feed of fuel to the combustion chamber and at a plurality of points of time of different flows of blowby gas passing through the blowby gas passage and flowing to the downstream side of the throttle valve in the intake passage, and calculate an oil dilution rate based on the acquired blowby gas flow ratio and output current. |
| US10323593B2 |
Exhaust aftertreatment system
The present invention is concerned with an exhaust treatment system and a process for the abatement of noxious pollutants being emitted from a gasoline vehicle. In particular, the present invention is directed to an exhaust system which comprises one or more three-way catalysts (TWC) in a close-coupled (cc) position and an HC-trap/SCR-device in an underfloor (uf) region of the car. |
| US10323587B2 |
Method and system for exhaust gas recirculation and heat recovery
Methods and systems are provided for exhaust heat recovery and EGR cooling via a single heat exchanger. In one example, a method may include selecting a specific mode of operation of an engine exhaust system with the heat exchanger based on engine operating conditions and an estimated fuel efficacy factor. The fuel efficiency factor may take into account fuel efficacy benefits from EGR and exhaust heat recovery. |
| US10323586B1 |
Dual fuel engine control strategy for limiting cylinder over-pressurization
A dual fuel engine control system includes a pressure sensor, and an electronic control unit coupled with the pressure sensor and structured to receive cylinder pressure data indicative of cylinder over-pressurization, and to switch the system to a limited gas-to-liquid substitution mode based on the cylinder pressure data indicative of cylinder over-pressurization. The electronic control unit is further structured to return the system to a normal gas-to-liquid substitution mode, receive cylinder pressure data indicative of cylinder over-pressurization after returning the system to the normal gas-to-liquid substitution mode, and responsively output a gas substitution fault signal. |
| US10323583B2 |
Method for determining the oxygen concentration O2 in a gas flow
Embodiments for determining oxygen concentration using an oxygen sensor are provided. In one example, a method for determining oxygen concentration O2 in a gas flow of an internal combustion engine which is equipped with an engine controller and an oxygen sensor comprises determining the oxygen concentration O2,sens of the gas flow in a ceramic measurement cell of the sensor by current ISens which is detected by measurement and which flows when a constant voltage USens is applied and maintained, and correcting the oxygen concentration based on a pressure pSens at the measurement cell. In this way, the measured oxygen concentration may be corrected based on the pressure of the air at the sensor. |
| US10323579B2 |
Variable valve actuator having low-pressure relief
A valve actuation system is disclosed for an engine. The valve actuation system may have a variable valve actuator that is configured to engage a rocker arm and hold the valve at an open position regardless of motion of a cam lobe. The variable valve actuator may have a housing forming a chamber, a plunger disposed in the chamber, a control valve movable to control a flow of fluid into the chamber, and a relief valve configured to automatically open and release fluid from the housing when a pressure inside the chamber is below a predetermined pressure. The valve actuation system may further have a controller configured to cycle the control valve prior to start-up of the engine and to selectively move the control valve after start-up. |
| US10323566B2 |
Internal combustion engine
An internal combustion engine with a cylinder head and at least one piston-cylinder unit, in which, in a cylinder, a piston can be moved between a bottom and a top dead center position, where, in the cylinder, between the piston and the cylinder head a main combustion chamber is formed, which communicates with a prechamber which has a prechamber gas valve, and where the intake and outlet valves of the main combustion chamber are actuated by an actuator, where the prechamber gas valve is connected to a source for a gas-air mixture and the prechamber charge consists of a gas-air mixture with a lambda higher than 1.2, preferably higher than 1.5 and particularly preferably higher than 1.7, and the actuator is configured such that the intake valve closes before the piston reaches the bottom dead center position, where the piston is designed as a flat piston. |
| US10323565B2 |
Cooling structure for internal combustion engine
In an internal combustion engine, a thermostat valve for changing over between coolant circulation through a radiator-routing passage to coolant circulation through a bypass passage, is provided with a first valve for opening and closing the radiator-routing passage, and a second valve for opening and closing the bypass passage. The first and second valves and are operable concurrently. A cylinder coolant jacket around cylinder bores of a cylinder portion is partitioned into two in a cylinder axis direction to thereby form a main cylinder coolant jacket on a side of a cylinder head portion and a sub-cylinder coolant jacket on a side of a crankcase portion. The bypass passage is formed partly by the sub-cylinder coolant jacket. The above arrangement expedites warming-up during the engine start and achieves favorable appearance by a simplified structure. |
| US10323560B2 |
Exhaust gas mixer
Systems are provided for a mixer. In one example, the mixer may include intersecting tubes with a plurality of inlets and/or outlets located along an exhaust conduit. |
| US10323559B1 |
Methods for controlling selective catalytic reduction systems
A selective catalytic reduction device (SCR) system performs intrusive steady state dosing correction (SSDC) when a NOx error between a predicted and measured downstream NOx value exceeds a threshold. In SSDC, if NOx breakthrough or NH3 slip is detected above a SSDC threshold, a short term reductant dosing adaptation occurs. Optionally long term dosing adaptations occur if the magnitude of previous short term adaptations exceed a short term adaptation threshold. If SSDC is insufficiently improving SCR performance based on the number of intrusive events occurring within a period of time and the change in NOx error during the time period, a method includes modifying the SSDC protocol by one or more of increasing the duration of short term adaptations, decreasing the SSDC threshold, and reducing the short term adaptation threshold. The method further includes subsequently inhibiting intrusive events from occurring. |
| US10323557B2 |
Construction machine
On a revolving frame (5), a counterweight (6), an engine (7), a cooling fan (9), a heat exchanger (10), an exterior cover (14) forming a machine room (15) on the revolving frame (5), an exhaust gas purifying device (16) including a urea selective reduction catalyst (24), a urea water injection valve (26) injecting a urea water which is a reducing agent toward an upstream side of the urea selective reduction catalyst (24), and a urea water supply line (28) through which the urea water to be supplied to the urea water injection valve (26) flows are provided. A horizontal support member (34) supporting the exterior cover (14) is provided on a front side of the counterweight (6), and a heat shield cover (38) is mounted on the horizontal support member (34). A line accommodating space (41) is formed between the horizontal support member (34) and the heat shield cover (38), and a urea water supply line (28) for shielding heat from the engine (7) is accommodated in this line accommodating space (41). |
| US10323555B2 |
Aftertreatment regeneration with variable time and temperature
A system includes an exhaust aftertreatment system operatively coupled to an engine. The exhaust aftertreatment system includes an exhaust aftertreatment component. A flow sensor is structured to provide an exhaust flow rate value of exhaust gas exiting the engine. A temperature sensor is structured to provide an exhaust temperature value of the exhaust gas proximate the exhaust aftertreatment component. A controller includes an exhaust conditions circuit structured to interpret the exhaust flow rate value via operative communication with each of the flow sensor, and to interpret the exhaust temperature value via operative communication with the temperature sensor. A regeneration time circuit is structured to determine a regeneration time value based on each of the exhaust flow rate value and the exhaust temperature value via a regeneration time lookup table. A regeneration control circuit is structured to control regeneration of the exhaust aftertreatment component based on the regeneration time value. |
| US10323554B2 |
Exhaust gas purification catalyst
The present invention is directed to address the following problem: in an exhaust gas purification catalyst comprising a dual catalyst of a combination of a startup catalyst and an underfloor catalyst, reduction in the gas diffusivity of the underfloor catalyst results in reduction in the use efficiency of a catalytic active site, resulting in reduction in purification performance. The present invention relates to an exhaust gas purification catalyst comprising a dual catalyst of a combination of a startup catalyst and an underfloor catalyst having a catalyst coating where a large number of voids are included, wherein high-aspect-ratio pores having an aspect ratio of 5 or more account for a certain rate or more of the whole volume of the voids, to thereby enhance the purification performance of the catalyst. |
| US10323550B1 |
Protection for hydraulic lifters
In variable displacement engines, a portion of the intake valves have deactivatable valve lifters. When the engine conditions are such that some of the cylinders are to be deactivated, the intake and/or exhaust valve lifters in those cylinders are deactivated. Operation of the mechanism inside the lifter that is actuated to deactivate the valves can be harmed when particles in the engine oil get inside. To prevent small particles entering the valve lifter, a small filter is provided just upstream of the orifice into which oil enters the valve lifter. In other embodiments, a wire mesh formed into a coil is inserted into the recess. In some applications, a cage with snap-fitting connectors is installed over the filter to keep the wire mesh in place and properly coiled. The cage also fits into the recess. Such filter may also be applied to a hydraulic lash adjuster feature in a lifter. |
| US10323543B2 |
Conversion of power plants to energy storage resources
A thermal energy storage system includes one or more components from a Rankine Cycle power plant such as steam turbine and other equipment. The system can include a thermal storage material, a heat source that is heated by running electricity through a heating element for heating the thermal storage material, and a heat exchange for generating steam using the thermal energy stored in the thermal storage material. The system can be configured to store energy during periods of low electricity demand or abundant supply. The system can be configured to generate electricity using the stored thermal energy to generate steam and run one or more turbines. |
| US10323541B2 |
Bearing outer race retention during high load events
A housing for retention of the outer race of a bearing of a gas turbine engine includes an arrangement of spring fingers that yields a lightweight housing capable of withstanding very high radial loads combined with very high torsional windup and axial thrust load. Controlled circumferential gaps on both sides of each spring finger limit the deflection and self-arrest the distortion of the housing. The spring fingers define at least one side edge that extends at an angle relative to the axial direction. An axial gap is created on the aft end by a portion of the spring finger beam structure that opposes an axial face of the housing and limits the axial distortion. A radial gap created between interface hardware of the housing and the inner retention housing also acts to retain the spring finger housing under load in a radial direction. |
| US10323540B2 |
Gas turbine engine fluid cooling systems and methods of assembling the same
A fluid cooling system for use in a gas turbine engine including a fan casing circumscribing a core gas turbine engine includes a heat source configured to transfer heat to a heat transfer fluid and a primary heat exchanger coupled in flow communication with the heat source. The primary heat exchanger is configured to channel the heat transfer fluid therethrough and is coupled to the fan casing. The fluid cooling system also includes a secondary heat exchanger coupled in flow communication with the primary heat exchanger. The secondary heat exchanger is configured to channel the heat transfer fluid therethrough and is coupled to the core gas turbine engine. The fluid cooling system also includes a bypass mechanism coupled in flow communication with the secondary heat exchanger. The bypass mechanism is selectively moveable based on a temperature of a fluid medium to control a cooling airflow through the secondary heat exchanger. |
| US10323538B2 |
Method for securing the operation of a turbomachine
A method of making safe operation of a rotary assembly of a turbomachine including a turbine and a rotary machine, the method anticipating an event of exceeding a predetermined threshold speed by repetitively performing a prediction cycle including: measuring magnitudes relating to operation of the turbomachine, including real speed of rotation of its rotary assembly; based on the magnitudes, estimating driving and resisting torques applied to the rotary assembly; preparing a representative value representative of the difference between these two torques; and calculating a predicted speed of rotation for the rotary assembly at a given time horizon based on the representative value and the real speed of rotation. An action is taken on the operation of the turbomachine to limit an extent to which its rotary assembly exceeds the threshold speed in the event of the predicted speed of rotation exceeding the threshold speed. |
| US10323533B2 |
Turbine component thermal barrier coating with depth-varying material properties
A thermal barrier coating (TBC) with depth-varying material properties is formed on a turbine component. Exemplary depth-varying material properties include physical ductility, strength and thermal resistivity that vary from the TBC layer inner to outer surface. Exemplary ways to modify physical properties include application of plural separate overlying layers of different material composition or by varying the applied material composition during the application of the TBC layer. Various embodiment described herein also apply a calcium-magnesium-aluminum-silicon (CMAS)-retardant material over the TBC layer to retard reaction with or adhesion of CMAS containing combustion particulates to the TBC layer. In other embodiments the CMAS retardant material is also applied within engineered groove features (EGFs) that are formed in the TBC surface. |
| US10323531B2 |
Airfoil device for a gas turbine and corresponding arrangement
An airfoil device for a gas turbine has a root section mountable to an airfoil disc and an airfoil element. The root section has a platform at which the airfoil element is arranged. The root section has a cavity surrounded by an inner surface of the platform, a first and a second edge side of the root section. A seal strip is arranged at the inner surface, wherein the first edge side has a recess into which a first end section of the seal strip is arranged. The root section has a supporting lever extending from the second edge side into the cavity. The supporting lever is formed such that a further cavity is formed between the inner surface, the second edge side and the supporting lever, wherein the second end section of the seal strip is arranged inside the further cavity. |
| US10323529B2 |
Turbine including packing device and method of assembling the same, and sealing assembly
A turbine includes a rotor shaft having a plurality of rotating blades mounted on the rotor shaft, a bearing assembly rotatably supporting the rotor shaft, a casing forming a passage of a fluid and to include a space in which the rotating blades are disposed so that thermal energy of the fluid is converted into mechanical energy by rotation, a foundation fixedly supporting the bearing assembly, and a packing device installed in the rotor shaft for sealing between the casing and the rotor shaft and supported by the foundation. The casing comprises a connection unit extended toward the packing device and fixed to the casing so that a location of the connection unit is relatively changed with respect to the packing device. Accordingly, there is an advantage in that the leakage of a fluid is reduced because a clearance between the packing device and the rotor shaft is reduced. |
| US10323526B2 |
Blade with tip shroud
A blade includes a leading edge, a trailing edge, a pressure surface, a suction surface, a root end, a tip end, a tip shroud attached to the tip end, the tip shroud comprising a platform and a fin, wherein the fin having a leading edge side facing towards the leading edge of the blade, a trailing edge side facing towards the trailing edge of the blade, a back end and a front end, the leading edge side and the trailing edge side extending between the back end and the front end, the fin extending across the tip end of the blade at an angle to the chord of the blade at the tip end of the blade. A first platform portion extends from the leading edge side of the fin to the suction surface. A second platform portion extends from the trailing edge side of the fin to the pressure surface at the tip end of the blade. |
| US10323524B2 |
Axial skin core cooling passage for a turbine engine component
A component for use in a turbine engine includes a fore edge connected to an aft edge via a first surface and a second surface. Multiple cooling passages are defined within the turbine engine component. A first skin core passage is defined immediately adjacent one of the first surface and the second surface. At least 80% of coolant entering the first skin core passage is expelled from the turbine engine component at the aft edge. |
| US10323516B2 |
System and method for the tracking of milling material
In a system (3) for the tracking of milling material (26), comprising a milling machine (1) for milling a section (28) of a ground pavement (29) in a milling operation, a truck (14) for loading and transporting away the milling material (26) removed during milling of the section (28) of the ground pavement (29), a deposition site (24) for depositing the milling material (26) transported away by the truck (14), a first detection device (18) for detecting data signals relating to the milling material (26), it is specified for the following features to be achieved: that a second detection device (20) detects position data of the deposition site of the milling material (26), wherein the first and the second detection device (18, 20) transmit the data signals (60) relating to the milling material (26) and the position data of the deposition site (24) to a documentation device (22) which links the position data with the data signals relating to the milling material (26). |
| US10323512B2 |
System and method for downhole inorganic scale monitoring and intervention in a production well
An apparatus for estimating an ambient environment at which inorganic scale will form in a downhole fluid includes a stress chamber disposed in a borehole in a production zone at a location within a specified range of maximum pressure and configured to receive a sample of the fluid from the production zone and to apply an ambient condition to the sample that causes the formation of inorganic scale. An inorganic scale sensor is configured to sense formation of inorganic scale within the chamber and an ambient environment sensor is configured to sense an ambient environment within the chamber at which the formation of inorganic scale occurs. The apparatus further includes a processor configured to receive measurement data from the inorganic scale sensor and the ambient environment sensor and to identify the ambient environment at which the formation of inorganic scale occurs. |
| US10323508B2 |
Apparatus and methods for monitoring the retrieval of a well tool
A system to monitor the retrieval of a well tool from a wellbore comprises a deployment member coupled to the well tool to retrievably insert the well tool in the wellbore. At least one first identification transducer is coupled to a top end of the well tool to transmit an identification signal during retrieval of the well tool. At least one second identification transducer is located at at least one axial location along a surface pressure control assembly to detect the identification signal. A controller is in data communication with the at least one second identification transducer to determine the position of the well tool relative to the pressure control assembly, and to output at least one command related to the position of the well tool relative to the pressure control assembly. |
| US10323507B2 |
Apparatus, system and method for multi zone monitoring in boreholes
A multi-zone monitoring system allowing simultaneous measurement of separate zones of multi-zone wellbore formations comprising a multi-component umbilical containing both electrical lines and a hydraulic fluid lines, an inflatable isolation packer that can traverse through the wellbore and be inflated with hydraulic fluid to seal off a portion of the wellbore wherein the inflatable isolation packer is connected to a hydraulic line of the multi-component umbilical, wherein the inflatable isolation packer further comprises: one or more cable bypass feed throughs for the umbilical's electric and hydraulic fluid lines, wherein the hydraulic line is attached to the inflatable isolation packer with compression fittings. A method of monitoring geologic formations in a wellbore comprising attaching a plurality of inflatable isolation packers at predetermined distance to an umbilical containing a hydraulic line for inflating each packer, monitoring each connection of the hydraulic line to each inflatable isolation packer, attaching monitoring equipment to the umbilical at predetermined distances to the umbilical, lowering the equipment and inflatable isolation packers down a wellbore using the umbilical, and monitoring the equipment and each hydraulic line connection at a surface. |
| US10323505B2 |
Radioactive tag detection for downhole positioning
Disclosed are systems and methods for positioning of downhole tools via radioactive tag detection. The method comprises positioning a radiation detector at a first position within a wellbore, logging radiation data while the radiation detector is moved from the first position to a position adjacent to or past a radioactive marker disposed within the wellbore, determining, based on the radiation data, a time at which the radiation detector is adjacent to the radioactive marker, and calculating, based on the time, a distance between the first position of the radiation detector and the radioactive marker. |
| US10323504B2 |
Techniques for determining an angular offset between two objects
An angular offset apparatus for determining an angular offset, or scribe line offset (SLO), of two objects within a drilling environment. The angular offset apparatus may include a sensing component and a target component located at various locations within the drilling environment. The sensing component may implement one or more sensors configured to collect data associated with the target component and the drilling environment to determine the SLO between the two objects. The angular offset apparatus, along with the calculated SLO, is designed to ensure accuracy and safety during drilling operations. |
| US10323502B2 |
System and console for monitoring and managing tripping operations at a well site
A well advisor system and console for monitoring and managing tubular tripping operations at a well site. The system may be accessed through one or more workstations, or other computing devices, which may be located at a well site or remotely. The system is in communication with and receives input from various sensors. It collects real-time sensor data sampled during operations at the well site. The system processes the data, and provides nearly instantaneous numerical and visual feedback through a variety of graphical user interfaces (“GUIs”), which are presented in the form of an operation-specific console. The input and data provides information related to tubular tripping operations at a well site. |
| US10323499B2 |
Managing wellbore operations using uncertainty calculations
Techniques for controlling a bottom hole assembly (BHA) in a wellbore include determining a model of BHA dynamics; determining a predicted wellbore trajectory, based on the model of BHA dynamics; and determining an uncertainty of the predicted wellbore trajectory. |
| US10323498B2 |
Methods, computer-readable media, and systems for applying 1-dimensional (1D) processing in a non-1D formation
Methods, computer-readable media, and systems are disclosed for applying 1D processing in a non-1D formation. In some embodiments, a 3D model or curtain section of a subsurface earth formation may be obtained. A processing window within the 3D model or curtain that is suitable for 1D inversion processing is determined, and a local 1D model for the processing window is built. A 1D inversion is performed on the local 1D model, and inverted formation parameters are used to update the 3D model or curtain section. |
| US10323494B2 |
Hydrocarbon production system and an associated method thereof
A system includes a casing-liner, a first downhole separator, a production pump, and a second downhole separator disposed within a wellbore casing disposed in a wellbore. An annular disposal zone is defined between the casing-liner and the wellbore casing. First downhole separator is configured to receive a production fluid from a production zone and generate a hydrocarbon rich stream and a water stream including a solid medium. Production pump is configured to pump the hydrocarbon rich stream from the first downhole separator to a surface unit. Second downhole separator is configured to receive the water stream including the solid medium from the first downhole separator, separate the solid medium to generate a separated water stream, and dispose the solid medium to the annular disposal zone. The system further includes a tube configured to dispose the separated water stream from the second downhole separator to a water disposal zone in wellbore. |
| US10323493B2 |
Method of forming lateral boreholes from a parent wellbore
A method of forming a lateral borehole in a pay zone located within an earth subsurface is provided. The method includes determining a depth of a pay zone in the earth subsurface, and then forming a wellbore within the pay zone. The method also includes conveying a hydraulic jetting assembly into the wellbore on a working string. The assembly includes a jetting hose carrier, and a jetting hose within the jetting hose carrier having a nozzle connected at a distal end. The method additionally includes setting a whipstock in the wellbore along the pay zone, and translating the jetting hose out of the jetting hose carrier to advance the nozzle along the face of the whipstock. The method then includes injecting hydraulic jetting fluid through the jetting hose and connected jetting nozzle, thereby excavating a lateral borehole within the rock matrix, and further injecting the fluid while further translating the jetting hose and connected nozzle along the face of the whipstock without coiling or uncoiling the hose, thereby forming a lateral borehole that extends at least 5 feet from the wellbore. |
| US10323489B2 |
Apparatus and methods for treating a wellbore screen
An apparatus and methods for applying an outer coating to a wellbore screen are described. The apparatus comprises a support for the wellbore screen, an injector for injecting coating material on to the outer surface of the wellbore screen, and a mechanism for positioning and moving the screen relative to the injector and/or moving the injector axially relative to the screen to introduce coating material to the outer surface of the screen. The apparatus further comprises rollers for distributing the coating material over the outer surface of the screen. The elongate injector has a coating material delivery line extending through the injector from a coating material supply to an open tip. |
| US10323486B2 |
Downhole energy storage and conversion
Energy may be stored, converted, and generated during a drilling operation. An example method includes receiving fluid energy from a flow of drilling fluid (115) in a borehole (105). The received fluid energy may be stored as mechanical energy in an energy storage device (205) in the borehole (105). Additionally, electrical energy may be generated from the mechanical energy using a generator mechanically or magnetically coupled to the energy storage device. |
| US10323485B2 |
Pressure exchanger system with integral pressure balancing system
A system includes a rotary isobaric pressure exchanger (IPX) configured to exchange pressures between a first fluid and second fluid. The rotary IPX includes a first end cover including a first fluid aperture configured to route the first fluid. The rotary IPX also includes a first piston coupled to the first end cover. The first piston includes a first hydraulic path configured to route the first fluid to or from the first fluid aperture. |
| US10323483B2 |
Mitigation of hydrates, paraffins and waxes in well tools
A method of mitigating formation of an undesired accumulation of a substance in a well tool through which a well fluid flows can include heating a surrounding wall of an interior flow passage through which the well fluid flows. A system for of mitigating formation of an undesired accumulation of a substance in a well tool can include an interior flow passage having a surrounding wall, and a heater which heats the wall of the flow passage. Another method of mitigating formation of an undesired accumulation of a substance in a well tool can include monitoring the accumulation of the substance in the well tool, and heating a surrounding wall of an interior flow passage in response to detecting the accumulation. |
| US10323477B2 |
Seal assembly
A seal assembly for use in a tubular includes a mandrel, a compressible seal member disposed around the mandrel, a first piston assembly in contact with a first end of the seal member, and a second piston assembly in contact with a second end of the seal member. The first piston assembly includes a piston head, and a piston extension sealing member integrally formed with the piston head, and extending at least partially between the mandrel and the compressible seal member. The compressible seal member forms a seal with the tubular when at least one of the piston assemblies is urged toward the compressible seal member. |
| US10323473B2 |
Modular racker system for a drilling rig
The systems, devices, and methods described herein relate to a modular racker system for a drilling rig. The modular racker includes transportable modules including a lower track module comprising a drilling rig floor that includes a lower track arranged and configured to accommodate a lower carriage. The lower track is permanently fixed to the drilling rig floor so as to form a part of the drilling rig floor and is transportable as part of the drilling rig floor. An upper track module comprises a fingerboard and an upper track arranged and configured to accommodate an upper carriage moveable along the upper track. The upper track is permanently fixed to the fingerboard and is transportable in a connected configuration. The lower and upper track modules are attachable to a racker column module. |
| US10323471B2 |
Intelligent injector control system, coiled tubing unit having the same, and method
An injector control system for a coiled tubing unit includes a programmable logic controller arranged to receive a signal related to sensed parameters of a coiled tubing injection operation; a traction pressure control hydraulic circuit operable to adjust hydraulic pressure provided to at least one traction cylinder in a coiled tubing injection head; a motor pressure control hydraulic circuit operable to adjust hydraulic pressure provided to at least one motor of the coiled tubing injection head; and at least one of the traction pressure control hydraulic circuit and the motor pressure control hydraulic circuit including a proportional control valve in receipt of a variable electrical signal from the programmable logic controller. The programmable logic controller adjusts the signal delivered to the proportional control valve throughout the coiled tubing injection operation as dictated by the sensed parameters. |
| US10323467B2 |
Offshore drilling rig and a method of operating the same
An offshore drilling rig comprising a drill deck, at least one primary well center and a diverter system arranged below the primary well center, a drilling support structure extending upwardly from the drill deck and above the primary well center and the other work center and a first and a second hoisting system supported by the drilling support structure and being adapted for raising or lowering a first and a second load carrier, respectively, and where the offshore drilling rig comprises a positioning system adapted for selectively positioning at least the first load carrier in at least a first or a second horizontal position different from the first horizontal position, where the first load carrier in the first horizontal position is positioned above the primary well center, and in the second horizontal position is positioned above the other work center. |
| US10323463B2 |
Methods of making diamond tables, cutting elements, and earth-boring tools
Methods of making cutting elements for earth-boring tools may involve placing a powdered mixture into a mold. The powdered mixture may include a plurality of core particles comprising a diamond material and having an average diameter of between 1 μm and 500 μm, a coating material adhered to and covering at least a portion of an outer surface of each core particle of the plurality of core particles, the coating material comprising an amine terminated group, and a plurality of nanoparticles selected from the group consisting of carbon nanotubes, nanographite, nanographene, non-diamond carbon allotropes, surface modified nanodiamond, nanoscale particles of BeO, and nanoscale particles comprising a Group VIIIA element adhered to the coating material. The powdered mixture may be sintered to form a polycrystalline diamond table. The polycrystalline diamond table may be attached to a substrate. |
| US10323461B2 |
Tri cone drill bit
A drill bit including: a main body portion including three legs extending therefrom, the three legs arranged around a periphery of the main body portion; a conical cutter rotatably mounted on each leg, the conical cutters positioned to allow a clearance between the conical cutter and the main body portion; a protrusion extending from the main body portion into the clearance, wherein the protrusion encourages drill cuttings away from a base region of the main body portion where the legs meet the main body portion. |
| US10323457B2 |
Down the hole hammer and systems and components thereof
A down the hole hammer (10) incorporates: an inner tube assembly (100); a fluid flow control system (200); a bit retaining system (400); a porting sleeve (600); and a piston (700). Each of the: inner tube assembly (100); fluid flow control system (200); bit retaining system (400); porting sleeve (600); and piston (700) in their own right provide benefit to the overall operation and/or reliability of the hammer (10). |
| US10323456B2 |
Awning adjustment device with variable speed and direction control
An awning adjustment device with variable speed and direction control serves to automatically open and close eclectic types of awnings by way of an elongated rod terminating at a hook. The hook detachably couples to an awning handle or crank mechanism. A motor powers the rod, so as to rotate the rod in variable speeds, directions, and durations. The rotational speed of the rod is either controlled by a user, or controlled by a rotation counter to variably increase or decrease the rotation of the rod, so as to prevent damaging the awning by rotating too fast. The control portion comprises a power on switch, a power off switch, a pause switch, a directional switch, and a speed switch. The motor operatively couples to at least one electrical power source through a power cord, or a battery to receive electrical power for operating the device. |
| US10323455B2 |
Window control device
A window control device includes a window regulator and a light control device. The window regulator controls movement of a light control glass that is installed in a vehicle door and a light transmittance of which can be adjusted. The light control device controls the light transmittance of the light control glass. The light control device is attached to one of the components constituting the window regulator. |
| US10323453B2 |
Multiple-glazed glass unit and glass pane for multiple-glazed glass unit
A multiple-glazed glass unit of the present invention is adapted to separate an indoor space and an outdoor space and includes a pair of glass panes opposed across a gap layer to be spaced at a predetermined distance from each other. Low-emissivity (Low-E) films are formed on both principal surfaces of one of the pair of glass panes that is located closer to the indoor space. The low-emissivity film formed on one of the two principal surfaces that faces the indoor space has an arithmetic average surface roughness Ra of 14 nm or less. This multiple-glazed glass unit is configurable to have a higher SHGC value ever than before as well as keeping a low U-value. |
| US10323452B2 |
Actuator activation based on sensed user characteristics
Technologies are generally described for activation of actuators based on sensed user characteristics, such as orientation. In some examples, an access control system may be configured to activate an actuator upon determining that an activation device is both in proximity to and has a similar orientation to the actuator. The access control system may be configured to determine orientation similarity by determining an orientation associated with the activation device, determining an orientation associated with the actuator, and comparing a difference between the two orientations to an activation threshold. The actuator may be associated with an entryway such as a building doorway, a room doorway, or a vehicle door, or may be associated with a container such as a safe or vehicle trunk. |
| US10323448B2 |
Device comprising a pane and at least one lifting rail, method for its production and its use
A device comprising a lifting rail that is firmly adhesively bonded to a pane is presented. The lifting rail has a tuning-fork-shaped vertical section that comprises an enclosing region having two mutually opposite open ends configured to bilaterally enclose an edge of the pane, and therefore fix the plane. The device also includes a stem surface, a region of bifurcation where the stem surface transitions into enclosing region, and an outer edge having a through-hole or a cutout. Also included is an adhesive strip that partially covers the stem surface in a manner that the through-hole or the cutout remain exposed. The adhesive strip also covers the enclosing region and the two mutually opposite open ends. The adhesive strip is deformed by the edge of the pane in two mutually opposite regions of the adhesive strip. |
| US10323446B2 |
Integrated sash lock and tilt latch combination with improved interconnection capability therebetween
A combination sash lock and tilt latch secures a sash window that is slidable and tiltable with respect to a master window frame. The fastener includes a lock assembly and latch assembly. The lock assembly is releasably mounted upon the sash window meeting rail without screws, using legs received within corresponding openings in the rail. The lock assembly is releasably secured thereto by a spring causing engagement between the legs and rail openings. The lock assembly includes a pivotable cam to releasably engage a keeper on the master frame, and a pivotable arm extending into the meeting rail. The latch assembly includes biasing means and a latch member with a plurality of openings, each configured to receive the post of the lock assembly, within the meeting rail, with the lock assembly installed thereon in any one of a plurality of positions corresponding to said openings in said latch member. |
| US10323445B2 |
Vehicle liftgate striker and latch construction
Several vehicle liftgate striker and latch constructions are disclosed. The striker includes a striker base from which at least one striker pin extends. A latch, having a latch cover, is configured to be mounted on a vehicle liftgate, for juxtaposition to the striker base when the liftgate is closed and the latch engages the at least one striker pin. The striker includes a reactor structure for making contact with the latch cover, when the liftgate is closed, for controlling lateral movement of the latch relative to the striker base. The reactor structure preferably includes at least one roller mounted on a roller support, The latch cover has at least one side which Is angled, so as to exert force, having a lateral component, on the reactor structure. The at least one angled side of the latch cover may Include a detent, for providing additional restraining force, when the liftgate is in the closed position. |
| US10323444B2 |
Window short drop for a vehicle with an electronic latch
Method and apparatus are disclosed for window short drop for a vehicle with an electronic latch. An example door of a vehicle includes a door control unit communicatively coupled to an electronic latch. The electronic latch, in response to detecting a user touching an exterior handle, requests authorization from the vehicle. In response to receiving authorization, the electronic latch sends a request to the door control unit to lower a window of the door. Additionally, in response to receiving a confirmation from the door control unit, the electronic latch unlatches the door. |
| US10323443B2 |
Closure system for a vehicle
A vehicle includes a first member and a second member moveable relative to the first member. A compliant member is compressible between the first member and the second member. A compression control device is attached to one of the first member and the second member for engaging another of the first member and the second member, or the compliant member. The compression control device is moveable between a first position and a second position. When disposed in the first position, the compression control device is not engaged with the first member, the second member, or the compliant member, and allows compression of the compliant member into a first compressive state. When disposed in the second position, the compression control device is engaged with one of the first member, the second member, or the compliant member, and is operable to compress the compliant member into a second compressive state. |
| US10323442B2 |
Electronic safe door unlatching operations
A powered latch system for motor vehicles includes at least one powered latch that can be controlled based, at least in part, on vehicle operating conditions. The system may be configured to control unlatching of the vehicle doors utilizing data relating to the vehicle speed and/or the existence of a crash event. The powered latch system can be configured as required for various vehicles, and to accommodate specific operating requirements with respect to child locks in various geographic jurisdictions. |
| US10323437B2 |
Access control device
An access control device 3 comprising: a locking mechanism 1 for a moveable barrier 2; a first locking/user interface component 6 for positioning on a first side of the moveable barrier; and a second locking/user interface component 7 for positioning on a second side of the moveable barrier. The first and second components are arranged to be secured to an intermediary barrier member 4, provided with either a first set of through holes for a first alternative locking member or a second set of through holes for a second alternative locking member, the first set of through holes including a hole having a mutually distinct position from a hole included in the second set of through holes. The first and second components are provided with fixing apertures 19 21 corresponding to the first and second sets of through holes so that the components can be secured via a fixing 17 18 placed in a hole corresponding to either of the alternative locking members, without requiring additional through holes in the moveable barrier. A method of fitting an access control device is also provided. |
| US10323436B2 |
Apparatus, method and system for securing items to a post
An apparatus comprising an elongate element having a retaining portion, and two projecting portions. In one form, hooked ends of each projecting portion are configured to extend through, and interact with, apertures in a flange of the post. In another form, the projecting portions are of different lengths, such that the position of the retaining portion is variable with respect to a given pair of apertures. |
| US10323435B2 |
Portable protective enclosure
A portable protective enclosure and a method of using the enclosure is presented. The enclosure may include a plurality of walls extending around and at least partially defining an interior space for being occupied by a user, and a top panel overlying and at least partially defining the space. The plurality of walls may include an entry wall and side walls. The entry wall may include a door flap moveable between open and closed positions. The side wall may include a window having a see-through material, and a window flap in a facing relationship with the window and moveable between open and closed positions. The enclosure may include a floor panel detachably joined to at least one of the walls by a fastener that is accessible from within the interior space, so that the floor panel is detachable from the walls from within the interior space. |
| US10323434B2 |
Inflatable cab for walk-behind device
A protective enclosure or cab for an operator of a walk-behind or mechanical device, such as a snow blower, engine-driven snow thrower, ride-on tractor, or the like, is provided. The protective enclosure or cab includes an inflatable frame structure which supports a plurality of transparent, flexible windows or a single sheet of transparent material such as a curtain. When inflated, the protective cab is detachably coupled to the walk-behind or mechanical device and surrounds an operator of the walk-behind or mechanical device protecting the operator from the environment such wind, rain, snow or the like, while providing an unobstructed view of the surrounding environment. When deflated, the protective enclosure or cab can be folded into a small volume to be placed in a storage device which can be coupled to the walk-behind or mechanical device. |
| US10323432B2 |
Building system to enable placement and removal of housing units within a support structure
A building system is disclosed as it may enable placement and removal of housing units within a support structure. An example building system includes a support frame, and a plurality of bays within the support frame. The example building system also includes a service core for providing utilities to each of the plurality of bays of the support frame. The example building system also includes an integral hoist on the support frame. The example building system also includes a tray system to support a plurality of housing units in the plurality of bays of the support frame. In an example, the tray system includes a plurality of trays in a stacked arrangement. each tray slides out of a respective bay to provide access for the housing unit by the integral hoist. Each tray slides in to the respective bay to position a respective housing unit within the support frame. |
| US10323431B2 |
Concrete equipment tower with tensioning tendon guide slot
A precast concrete post-tensioned segmented equipment tower including a lower segment of a relatively larger diameter, an upper segment of a relatively smaller diameter, and a transition segment there between, with a post-tensioning tendon spanning these segments and imparting a compressive pre-load between the segments, and a slot formed in an inwardly protruding surface of the transition segment for receiving and laterally retaining the tendon during installation and tensioning. The slot may be defined in a saddle formed of high density polyurethane which is cast into the inwardly protruding surface. An intrados surface of the saddle may be curved to impart a bend in the tendon. |
| US10323429B1 |
Low profile circular drain with water stop for swimming pool
A sump drain includes a chamber having an inner sidewall with a diameter of at least about 18 inches and an outer sidewall, and a circular opening between the sidewalls preferably about an inch wide and optionally having a grid cover. Preferably the inner sidewall has ports extending inwardly to radial conduits to a central hub for tying into a pool or spa filtering system, with the central hub operating as a clean out and having a removable cap. Plaster substantially fills the space between the chamber and the central hub, such that the sump drain attractively blends in with the pool or spa floor. When installed, the top opening is preferably substantially flush with the pool or spa floor while being safely unblockable. And the sump drain preferably further includes channels both outboard and inboard from the chamber top opening and around the central hub. |
| US10323427B2 |
Anchorage device
An anchoring device configured for anchoring tendons for structural reinforcing a structure. The anchoring device includes fastening means configured for fastening the anchoring device to the structure, and a tendon pressure contact surface configured for being pressed against a surface of the tendon to be anchored. The tendon defines a reference plane, and anchoring device defines first and second distal end spaced apart from each other in a longitudinal direction. The anchoring device further includes a proximal portion located between the first and second distal ends. The anchoring device defines a core plane extending parallel to the reference plane. The tendon pressure contact surface extends in the longitudinal direction of the anchoring device from the first distal end to the proximal portion. The tendon pressure contact surface converges in the longitudinal direction of the anchoring device from the proximal portion towards the first distal end in the direction towards the core plane, such that the distance between the tendon pressure contact surface and the core plane varies along the longitudinal direction of the anchoring device. The distance increases from the first distal end towards the proximal portion of the anchoring device. |
| US10323426B1 |
Wall repair plug system
A plug system for repairing a hole in a wall includes a cylindrical plug body that has a grooving implement adapted to cut or abrade the wall at one end and a thread projecting outwardly from the plug body at an opposing end. A plug is adapted for fitting within a rear cavity and has at least one screw aperture. In use, with the plug body fixed with the rotary tool, the rotary tool is activated to rotate the plug body to cut or abrade the wall around the hole. The thread of the plug body engages the wall until the proximal end of the plug body is substantially flush with the wall to repair the wall, and to provide screw apertures at the desired location on the wall to hold an object with screws if needed. |
| US10323421B1 |
Template for a router to notch a door latch slot
The template for a router to notch a door latch slot is a jig that is adapted for use in routing slots in door slab such that the door slab can receive a latch. The template for a router to notch a door latch slot is clamped to the door slab such that an aperture formed in the template for a router to notch a door latch slot is positioned over the lock rail of the door slab. The aperture can then be used as a template for the router to create a door latch slot to receive the latch plate of the door lock. The template for a router to notch a door latch slot comprises a U channel, a pressure plate, and a thumbscrew. |
| US10323418B2 |
Vent cover assembly for use with roof-mounted photovoltaic systems
A vent cap assembly for use with a drain waste vent pipe under roof-mounted photovoltaic (PV) panels is provided. Such vent cap assemblies are adapted to fit over a cut-down roof vent pipe to maintain airflow from the vent pipe and prevent debris from entering the pipe. Vent cap assemblies can include a cap portion and a mounting bracket, the cap portion having an inner cavity accessed through an opening in an underside of the cap and the mounting bracket having one or more inwardly extending elongate members for engaging an outer surface of the vent pipe to secure the cap assembly to the pipe. The mounting bracket can include multiple inwardly extending tabs distributed about the bracket that laterally deflect and securely engage the vent pipe when the cap assembly is pressed onto the pipe. |
| US10323416B2 |
Roofing systems for steep pitch metal roofing
A roofing system having at least one underlayment layer; at least two nail fasteners attached to the at least one underlayment layer and into the roof deck, wherein the head of each of the nail fasteners is above the at underlayment layer and the shaft is driven through the underlayment layer and into the roof deck; at least one bead of adhesive applied above the underlayment layer; and at least one metal roofing panels placed on the at least one bead of adhesive applied above the underlayment layer, wherein the at least one metal roofing panels are above the at least two nail fasteners and the at least two nail fasteners do not penetrate the at least one metal roofing panels. |
| US10323415B2 |
Pregrouted PC steel material and curing method for pregrouted layer therein
A pregrouted PC steel material (10) includes a 19-wire-twisted PC strand (1), a pregrouted layer (2) disposed on an outer periphery of the PC strand (1), and a sheath (3) configured to cover an outer periphery of the pregrouted layer (2). A filling resin (4) is filled between steel wires (side wires) (1b, 1c, 1d). Since the filling resin (4) does not exude to the pregrouted layer (2) before tensioning of the PC strand (10), an operation of tensioning the PC strand (1) is not hindered by curing of the pregrouted layer (2). In contrast, since the gap between the steel wires is reduced when the PC strand (1) is tensioned, the filling resin (4) flows out (exudes) from between the steel wires to the pregrouted layer (2) to cure the pregrouted layer (2) only after the reduction. |
| US10323414B2 |
Adjustable clip
It is described herein an adjustable rigid clip assembly comprising an anchor plate joined with a connector plate and a slide plate. The anchor plate is joined with the connector plate at a juncture having a juncture angle between the anchor plate and the connector plate in a range of between 0° and less than 180°. The connector plate comprises at least one connector plate slot and at least one connector plate lock. The slide plate may comprise at least one slide plate lock. The at least one slide plate lock may be engaged with the at least one connector plate lock. The slide plate may further comprise at least one slide plate tab passing from the slide plate through the at least one connector plate slot. |
| US10323409B1 |
Expansion joint system with flexible sheeting
The present disclosure relates generally to systems for providing a durable water-resistant and fire-resistant foam-based seal in the joint between adjacent panels. An expansion joint seal, which may be fire-resistant and/or water-resistant, is provided which includes one or more body members, a fire retardant member, which may be of an intumescent member, interspersed within the body member or members, a plurality of resilient members to provide a spring recovery force and fire resistance, and a connector of at least two of the resilient members, which connect each of the resilient members to a cover plant or may connect the two resilient members to one another. |
| US10323408B1 |
Durable water and fire-resistant tunnel expansion joint seal
The present disclosure relates generally to systems for providing a durable water-resistant and fire-resistant foam-based seal in the joint between adjacent panels. A fire-resistant and water-resistant expansion joint seal is provided which includes one or more foam members and a plurality of intumescent members interspersed within the foam member or members to provide a spring recovery force and fire resistance. |
| US10323404B2 |
Multi-faceted elongated connector
A connector includes an elongated member. The elongated member includes a longitudinal axis of the elongated member and further includes a top side and a bottom side. The top side includes a first planar surface and a second planar surface joined at 144 degrees from each other, wherein each of the first planar surface and the second planar surfaces are parallel to the longitudinal axis. The bottom side includes a third planar surface parallel to the longitudinal axis and oriented at an angle with the first planar surface, the angle selected from one of 108 degrees and 126 degrees. |
| US10323403B1 |
Acoustic shell for stage performances
An acoustic shell for stage performances has a frame defining a concave volume that is curved in two orthogonal planes and has an inner surface facing forwardly of a stage for a performance. A plurality of polygonal acoustic panels are positioned in the frame and spaced in rows and column along the inner surface, each panel having an outer acoustically active surface. The frame is formed of plural curved trusses each with a base for support on the stage and a peak. An oculus ring is connected to the peak of each arch and the bases of the arches are space along a bottom curve of the concave volume. The panels comprise plural adjacent blocks in rows and columns, each with a base and inner closed end, the length of each block being different for adjacent blocks. |
| US10323402B1 |
Beam-column connection structure
The subject disclosure is related to a beam-column connection structure, comprising a first H-shaped steel beam, a second H-shaped steel beam generally perpendicularly connected to a side of the first H-shaped steel beam, and a third H-shaped steel beam generally perpendicularly connected to another side of the first H-shaped steel beam wherein a main stirrup penetrates these H-shaped steel beams and surrounds the joints thereof. |
| US10323401B2 |
Curb inlet filter
A curb inlet filter adapted to work in conjunction with a curb inlet comprised of permeable filter fabric fashioned generally in a V cross section, comprising an upper and lower fabric layer separated by one or more gussets. A user inserts the curb inlet filter into a curb inlet and may apply pressure to push the filter into the curb inlet causing the gussets to compress as the invention enters the curb inlet and resulting in a press fit between the gussets supporting the upper and lower permeable filter fabric layers. The compression fit retains the inlet filter into place and the curb inlet. Water may pass through the permeable filter fabric, while the permeable filter fabric prevents sediment and other unwanted debris from entering the storm water drainage system. |
| US10323399B2 |
Moving air curtain for toilet bidet dryer
A dryer for use with a bidet is disclosed. In one embodiment, a moveable dryer wand emits an air curtain as the dryer wand moves across the bidet bowl beneath the user after cleansing. We further disclose a dryer which produces a second air current which moves air in a different direction than that emitted by the dryer wand and further controls the movement of excess water remaining on a user after cleansing. A dryer that includes moveable dryer wand used in coordination with a moveable bidet wand are also disclosed and claimed herein. |
| US10323394B2 |
Dual check backflow preventer
A backflow preventer that includes a housing having an inlet and an outlet adapted to be mounted in a liquid flow configuration in a liquid supply circuit. An upstream check disc assembly is positioned in the housing downstream of the inlet, and includes an upstream check plate supporting a downstream diaphragm. An upstream check disc is positioned downstream of the diaphragm and integrally formed with an upstream stem mounted in an aperture in a central hub formed in the check plate for movement between an normally open, flow position and a closed position preventing backflow of liquid through the inlet. A downstream check disc assembly is positioned in the housing downstream from the upstream check disc assembly. A vent discharges liquid to atmosphere upstream of the downstream check disc assembly. |
| US10323392B2 |
Cooled water recovery method and apparatus
A method and apparatus for solving a prevailing problem that occurs when cooled water accumulated in hot water pipelines is wasted down the drain while an individual waits for the discharge of hot water at a point-of-use is described. The described water recovery method and apparatus prevents the waste of usable cooled water accumulated in the hot water pipelines by utilizing a diverter unit with a three-way diverter valve, a solenoid valve, and a thermoswitch to implement a cycle that diverts the accumulated cooled water to a holding container before it can be discharged at the point-of-use and allows only hot water to pass through and reach the point-of-use. As a result, the described water recovery process and apparatus allows valuable fresh water to be stored and conserved for later use. |
| US10323390B2 |
Heavy duty adapter
A tip adapter comprises a side throat surface with a variable blend defining a radius of curvature ranging from 200 mm to 270 mm, or a lower nose surface that includes a first planar portion and a second planar portion defining a lower obtuse angle therebetween, or a top throat surface with a top arcuate portion defining a radius of curvature ranging from 100 mm to 300 mm. |
| US10323389B2 |
Control system and method for a machine
A control system for a work machine having an upper frame rotatably mounted to a lower frame includes a controller configured to limit a maximum speed of the machine when a rotation angle between the upper frame and the lower frame exceeds a first predetermined value. |
| US10323387B2 |
Height compensating loader implement tool level indicator
A bucket level indicator mechanism for use with work machine with a front mounted loader implement includes a carriage assembly having a carriage frame comprising a carriage back and first and second carriage endplates at longitudinal ends of the carriage back, a first end of the carriage assembly being pivotably connected to one of the masts, wherein the carriage back has a slot formed therein along a portion of its longitudinal length. At least one guide rod extends between the carriage endplates. A boom height compensating link is mounted on the upper arm section. The boom height compensating link has at least one fixed traveler configured to be received in the slot in the carriage back, the carriage assembly being mounted so as to slide relative the traveler, wherein as the loader boom is raised and lowered by extension or retraction of the lift actuator, the carriage assembly rotates relative the mast about a pivot as the traveler slides in the slot in the carriage back. A twisted strip extends between the carriage endplates supported by the carriage assembly configured to rotate relative the carriage endplates. A sliding indicator nut rides on the at least one guide rod such that the sliding indicator nut may move along the longitudinal axis of the carriage assembly but is prevented from rotating relative the carriage assembly, wherein the indicator nut has a center aperture that receives the twisted strip and permits longitudinal movement of the nut relative the twisted strip along an axis A of the carriage assembly, but prevents angular movement of the portion of the twisted strip that engages the nut relative to the nut, wherein the nut is driven along the axis A of the carriage assembly by a linkage that is connected relative the bucket such that the nut reflects the level position of the bucket. |
| US10323386B2 |
Surroundings monitoring system for work machine
A surroundings monitoring system for a work machine includes a detecting part to detect a monitoring target around the work machine and a control part to switch the state of the work machine between first and second states based on the detection result. The first state includes a state where a restriction on the operation of the work machine is canceled or a state where an alarm is stopped. The second state includes a state where the operation is restricted or stopped or a state where the alarm is output. The control part returns the state of the work machine to the first state when a predetermined condition is satisfied after switching the state to the second state. The predetermined condition includes that no monitoring target is detected around the work machine and that it is ensured that the work machine is prevented from starting to operate. |
| US10323382B2 |
Blade levelling apparatus and mounting system
A levelling apparatus, typically as used on tractors, excavators and skid-steer vehicles, and references the levelling assembly and mounting options including directly to the existing blade of vehicles as well as other mounting arrangements is provided. Preferred embodiments of a levelling apparatus include a blade body portion and body mounting portion connected by an arrangement of fixed and adjustable linkages, preferably hydraulic, to allow movement of the blade body portion (relative to the body mounting portion) in substantially an up and down direction, as well as rotational movement about an axis perpendicular to the general plane of an attached blade. |
| US10323379B2 |
Quick coupler with independent locking element and securing element
A quick coupler for coupling a tool such as an excavator bucket, a clamshell grapple or demolition shears to a tool operator such as an excavator arm or the like. The quick coupler including a coupling mount for receiving a first locking part and a locking mount for receiving a second locking part, wherein a locking element for locking the second locking part in the locking mount is at least associated with the locking mount, with the locking element being actuable by an adjustment actuator. The quick coupler can be electrically controllable, with the quick coupler having an electric drive for actuating the adjustment actuator for the locking element. |
| US10323371B2 |
Absorption and marking of a potentially dangerous substance
Disclosed is a device for absorbing and marking a potentially dangerous substance on the ground, the device including: an elongate hollow body, the inner walls of which define a storage space in which a powder is stored which is capable of absorbing the substance when the powder comes into contact with the substance, the storage space leading into an opening for pouring the powder onto the substance in order to neutralize the substance, a base on which the lower end of the body is directly or indirectly mounted, the base projecting laterally relative to the body so as to form a marker in order to position the device on the ground in a stable manner and to mark the presence of the absorbed substance on the ground. |
| US10323368B2 |
Module for a structure
A construction module for a structure, comprising: a formwork member that includes a base, a pair of parallel side walls that extend upwardly from the base, and a pair of parallel end walls. The base, the side walls and the end walls define a cavity for reinforcement and concrete. A reinforcement member includes an upper portion and a lower portion. When the reinforcement member is located in the cavity and concrete fills the cavity, the lower portion of the reinforcement member and the concrete define an elongate beam. |
| US10323367B2 |
Paver stone, brick and block extraction tool
An apparatus for extracting a paver stone, and the like from a preset position, including a pair of lifting plates having a body containing one or more lifting aid insertion openings at one end, and at an opposing end, a blade portion having substantially concave tabs with tab edges formed along a pair of slots terminating in one or more of stress relief openings between the body and the blade, wedging a first blade between the paver and a first adjacent paver and wedging a second blade at an opposing end of a paver and a second adjacent paver, substantially compressing the tabs storing spring energy in the blades, pushing the tab edges below the bottom plane of the paver, releasing the stored spring energy thereby substantially decompressing and re-forming the tabs such that the tab edges contact and engage the underside of the paver to be extracted. |
| US10323366B2 |
Sawing tool having a plurality of diamond saw blades for forming a surface structure on a road surface
Sawing tool forms a surface structure on a road surface, has a shaft and number of diamond saw blades, each diamond saw blade has disc-shaped core with hole for placing on shaft. A segment is on outer circumference of core, and saw blades are arranged on shaft by disc-shaped core. Segments of adjacent diamond saw blades are in surface contact on longitudinal side, each segment formed from two layers adjoining one another in axial direction and extending in radial and axial direction. Axially adjoining layers of segment each have different wear resistances and wear resistance of layers in axial direction alternates over axially entire segment, so a furrow is formed by two layers adjoining one another, in order to set a grip and a noise level of the road surface. Axially adjoining layers of adjacent segments have different wear resistances forming an alternating layer structure over entire sawing tool. |
| US10323361B1 |
Synthetic turf system made with antistatic yarns and method of making
A synthetic turf system and method includes turf tufted from monofilament fibers of a thermoplastic polymer where about 1 in about 32 tuft rows comprise at least one antistatic filament per tuft. Each antistatic filament has a first nonconductive polymeric component coextensive with a second non-conductive component. One or more of the antistatic filaments substantially reduces static electrical discharge within the turf. The thermoplastic polymer for each fiber may comprise at least one of nylon, polyethylene, polypropylene, and polyester. Each tuft of the tufted turf may be twisted and each tuft may be slit to form multiple ends. The turf system may comprise stitched turf. Each antistatic filament may comprise a carbon core surrounded by a non-conductive sheath, wherein a ratio of the antistatic filament per number of tuft rows may comprise at least one of 1:2, 1:4, 1:8, and 1:16. |
| US10323359B2 |
Structural joint
The present invention relates to a expansion joint to bridge an expansion gap between two parts of concrete slabs used in floor construction, especially in the manufacture of concrete floors such as for example in industrial floors. Such expansion joints are evidently required to take up the inevitable shrinkage process of the concrete and to assure that the floor elements can expand or contract such as for example occur by temperature fluctuations and resulting in a horizontal displacement of the floor panels vis-à-vis one another. |
| US10323354B2 |
Fine cellulose fiber sheet
The present invention provides a fine cellulose fiber sheet, of which various properties and functions such as paper making ability, solvent resistance, adhesion, functionalization agent immobilization, surface zeta potential, hydrophilicity, hydrophobicity, and air permeation resistance are finely controlled, through a process having low environmental impact. A fine cellulose fiber sheet according to the present invention fulfills all of the following requirements (1) to (3): (1) comprises fine cellulose fibers having an average fiber diameter of 2 nm or greater and 1000 nm or less; (2) the weight ratio of the fine cellulose fibers is 50 wt % or greater and 99 wt % or less; and (3) the block polyisocyanate aggregate content as a weight ratio is 1 to 100 wt % of the weight of the fine cellulose fibers. |
| US10323353B2 |
Faired tether systems with internal support structure in the faired tether
Faired tethers with internal support structures providing support to strength cores, and systems therewith, are described. The faired tethers include one or more electrical conductors and one or more rigid supports that inhibit movement of a strength core within a faired tether. |
| US10323351B2 |
Method for operating a tumble dryer
In a method for operating a tumble dryer for drying damp laundry, the profile of the moisture of the air in the tumble dryer, advantageously the absolute moisture, is measured during an initial phase of the drying process. The profile of the measured moisture is then compared with stored profiles for the moisture or a gradient of the profile of the measured moisture is compared with stored gradient threshold values for gradient values of the moisture. In this case, profiles and/or gradient threshold values for fibers from the following group: cotton, wool and synthetic fibers, and also an upper gradient threshold value and a lower gradient threshold value are stored. A major fabric content including synthetic fibers is identified for the laundry when the upper gradient threshold value is exceeded, a major fabric content including wool is identified when the lower gradient threshold value is undershot, and a major fabric content including cotton is identified between the upper gradient threshold value and the lower gradient threshold value. |
| US10323347B2 |
Pallet drive system for moving a work-piece
A pallet drive system is provided that is operable for use on a sewing system. The pallet drive system has a pallet that is configured to hold a work-piece in position. A pair of alignment posts is coupled to the pallet. In exemplary aspects, each alignment post has a shape with surfaces extending in three dimensions along x, y and z axes. A corresponding pair of gripping fingers is coupled to a sewing machine, corresponding to each alignment post, that are moveable between an open position, allowing the alignment post to be positioned between the gripping fingers, and a closed position where the gripping fingers surround the alignment post. The gripping fingers define a cavity in the closed position to surround the alignment post in the x, y and z axes. |
| US10323344B2 |
Method for manufacturing a knitted fabric comprising a vertical yarn filament
A method for manufacturing a knitted fabric embodying a basic knit, into which at least one functional yarn filament, such as an electrically conductive yarn filament, is incorporated as a vertical yarn filament (F3). The basic knit is formed from a first and a second yarn (F1, F2) using a plaiting technique. The vertical yarn filament (F3) is incorporated by a third yarn carrier (FF3) positioned, on a third yarn carrier rail located between respective yarn carrier rails for the first and the second yarn carriers (FF1, FF2), at a location at which the vertical yarn filament (F3) is to be incorporated. During formation of a sequence of stitch rows (MR1-MR7) using the first and second yarns (F1, F2), the first yarn (F1) is guided over the vertical yarn filament (F3) on a front side of the knitted fabric and the second yarn (F2) is guided over the vertical yarn filament (F3) on a back side of the knitted fabric. |
| US10323343B2 |
Water removal device for water jet loom
A water removal device for a water jet loom includes a suction member. A cloth route is formed between a cloth fell of a cloth and a surface roller of the jet loom. The suction member is arranged at the cloth route and removes water from a lower side of the cloth. Between a location proximate to the cloth fell and the suction member, the cloth route forms an ascending slope from the location proximate to the cloth fell to the suction member. |
| US10323342B1 |
Braided filament having flat morphology and methods of manufacture and use
A braided filamentary device, in one embodiment, includes a substantially flat morphology having a length, a width, and a height, and a pick count of at least about 50 picks per inch. The filamentary device is adapted to maintain its width while under a tension. |
| US10323337B2 |
Polyester fiber for artificial hair, process for producing same, and hair ornament product including same
A polyester-based fiber for artificial hair includes a polyester-based resin composition, wherein the polyester-based resin composition includes: 100 parts by weight of a polyester resin; 5 to 40 parts by weight of a brominated epoxy-based flame retardant; 0.05 to 3 parts by weight of a polyester resin molecular weight modifier; and 0.2 to 3 parts by weight of a phosphite-based compound, and wherein the polyester resin is one or more selected from the group consisting of polyalkylene terephthalate and a copolymerized polyester including polyalkylene terephthalate. A method for producing the polyester-based fiber for artificial hair includes melt kneading the polyester resin composition and melt spinning the polyester resin composition after the melt kneading into yarns. A hair ornament product includes the polyester-based fiber. |
| US10323336B2 |
System, method and device for quenching synthetic multifilament fibers
Described herein is a quenching system comprising a spinneret to spin molten polymer, a quench stack disposed operatively below the spinneret and the flow communication with the spinneret, a first means to provide a first stream of ambient air to provide partially-quenched solidified fibers of the molten polymer spun through the spinneret, at a solidification temperature and a second means to provide a second stream of conditioned air at a below-ambient temperature for further quenching the partially quenched solidified fibers, wherein the second stream of the conditioned air is provided through an adapter placed operatively below a region where the molten polymer solidifies partially. |
| US10323331B2 |
Valuable metal selectively adsorbing electrode and method for selectively recovering valuable metals
The present disclosure provides a valuable metal selectively adsorbing electrode, including: an electrode formed by a carbon-containing material; and a protein of a bacterium of genus Tepidimonas immobilized on the electrode formed by a carbon-containing material to form the valuable metal selectively adsorbing electrode, wherein the valuable metal includes gold, palladium, silver or indium. |
| US10323328B2 |
Method for producing hydrogen gas from aqueous hydrogen sulphide
The present disclosure relates to a method for producing hydrogen by electrolysing an aqueous hydrogen sulphide solution. The products of the electrolysis process are then subjected to a magnetic field to separate them into various product streams. |
| US10323327B2 |
Composition and methods for inhibition of metal corrosion for use in the oil and gas industry
Corrosion inhibiting compositions and methods of inhibiting corrosion on a metal surface commonly used in the petroleum industry is disclosed. The corrosion inhibitor includes at least one azole, at least one polypeptide derived from amino acid, at least one intensifier preferably from metal halides, and at least one surfactant. The methods include combining effective amounts of the corrosion inhibitor composition and contacting a metal surface in aqueous environment commonly found in oil and gas industry. The composition is very effective against corrosion of metals in contact with aqueous media when used in a dosage as low as 50 ppm. |
| US10323326B2 |
Compliant layer for ceramic components and methods of forming the same
An apparatus includes a ceramic matrix composite (CMC) component and an interface coating on the CMC component, wherein the interface coating includes a layer of at least one of the following compositions: 40-50 wt % Nb, 28-42 wt % Al, 4-15 wt % Cr, 1-2 wt % Si; 90-92 wt % Mo, 4-5 wt % Si, 4-5 wt % B; or 60-80 wt % V, 20-30 wt % Cr, 2-15 wt % Ti. |
| US10323324B2 |
Method for producing patterned metallic coatings
A method for producing patterned metallic coatings includes an initiator composition having at least one active substance being added to a substrate. A precursor composition including at least one precursor compound for a metallic layer is applied to the initiator composition coating. A metallic layer is then deposited by the active substance. At least one composition is applied as an emulsion in order to obtain a patterning of the resultant metallic layer. |
| US10323323B2 |
Systems and methods enabling low defect processing via controlled separation and delivery of chemicals during atomic layer deposition
A gas delivery system includes a first valve including an inlet that communicates with a first gas source. A first inlet of a second valve communicates with an outlet of the first valve and a second inlet of the second valve communicates with a second gas source. An inlet of a third valve communicates with a third gas source. A connector includes a first gas channel and a cylinder defining a second gas channel. The cylinder and the first gas channel collectively define a flow channel between an outer surface of the cylinder and an inner surface of the first gas channel. The flow channel communicates with the outlet of the third valve and the first end of the second gas channel. A third gas channel communicates with the second gas channel, with the outlet of the second valve and with a gas distribution device of a processing chamber. |
| US10323322B2 |
Gas inlet element of a CVD reactor with weight-reduced gas outlet plate
A device for carrying out a CVD process comprises a gas inlet element, which is arranged in a reactor housing and has a gas outlet plate, which faces a process chamber, comprises a porous material and has a multiplicity of gas outlet openings, which are fed with process gases from a gas distributing volume arranged in the gas inlet element. In order to improve production aspects of a gas inlet element, in particular for a CVD reactor with a large coating area, it is proposed that the porous material forms the core of the gas outlet plate, the surface segments of which that come into contact with the process gas are sealed. |
| US10323320B2 |
Method for producing metal oxide layers of predetermined structure through arc vaporization
The invention relates to a method for producing layers consisting of ternary and higher oxides of metallic and semi-metallic components, wherein the formation temperature of these oxides can be determined essentially through the composition of the binary (or higher) alloy targets (based on the phase diagram). |
| US10323318B2 |
Method for forming a silver/carbon nanocomposite coating
Ag/C crystalline nanocomposite films and a method of forming the films with controllable Ag/C molar ratios using a concurrent excimer laser-induced ablation of a silver target and a hydrocarbon gas under a vacuum atmosphere. Metal/Carbon nanocomposites prepared by concurrent irradiation of a metal target, in the presence of a hydrocarbon gas, during an excimer laser induced process. |
| US10323315B2 |
Carburizing device
A carburizing device includes a furnace body that performs heat treatment on a treatment object to perform carburization treatment on the treatment object, in which: a heater configured to perform heat treatment on the treatment object is provided upright in a vertical direction within the furnace body; a gas supply section configured to supply a gas for burnout toward the heater is provided at a lower end part of the heater; the heater is inserted through a protective tube provided upright in the vertical direction; and the gas supply section is configured to supply the gas for burnout to between the protective tube and the heater. |
| US10323308B2 |
Corrosion resistant lean austenitic stainless steel
An austenitic stainless steel composition having low nickel and molybdenum and exhibiting high corrosion resistance and good formability. The austenitic stainless steel includes, in weight %, up to 0.20 C, 2.0-6.0 Mn, up to 2.0 Si, 16.0-23.0 Cr, 5.0-7.0 Ni, up to 3.0 Mo, up to 3.0 Cu, 0.1-0.35 N, up to 4.0 W, up to 0.01 B, up to 1.0 Co, iron and impurities. The austenitic stainless steel has a ferrite number less than 11 and an MD30 value less than −10° C. |
| US10323306B2 |
Austenitic steel matrix-nanoparticle composite and producing method thereof
An austenitic steel matrix-nanoparticle composite and a producing method thereof are provided. The composite includes: an austenitic steel matrix that includes an alloying element; and a nanoparticle that grows in situ in the matrix and that is formed in the matrix. The nanoparticle grows from the alloying element included in the austenitic steel matrix. The method includes: preparing an austenitic steel matrix including an alloying element; and heating the austenitic steel matrix. In the method, the nanoparticle grows in situ in the matrix from the alloying element which is solid-dissolved in the austenitic steel matrix by the heating. |
| US10323298B2 |
Method for recovering target materials from source materials
A single-heating stage method for reclaiming or recovering metals like nickel and vanadium from a petroleum waste byproduct has three steps: melting the petroleum waste byproduct in a reducing atmosphere, generating agglomerated metal in the melted byproduct, and lifting the agglomerated metal to an exposed surface of the melted byproduct. The metal precipitates out of the molten byproduct, agglomerates into a separate portion, and rises to an exposed surface of the melted petroleum waste byproduct even though the metal may have greater density than the molten petroleum waste byproduct. The original petroleum waste byproduct stratifies into a byproduct remnant and the agglomerated metal disk. The agglomerated metal disk is separable from the byproduct remnant and may be additionally separated into constituent metals in those embodiments with multiple metals in the disk. |
| US10323292B2 |
Method for producing a steel component which is shaped by hot-forming a steel sheet which has a metal coating, such a steel sheet, and a steel component produced from said steel sheet by means of a hot-forming process
A process for producing a three-dimensionally shaped steel component from a steel sheet with a metallic coating may involve hot forming the steel sheet into the steel component. The metallic coating may involve an Fe—Al-based alloy. To protect the steel sheet or the steel component against scale formation, the Fe—Al-based alloy may be applied directly to the steel sheet by galvanic coating and/or physical vapor deposition. The coating produced in this way may contain 30-60% by weight Fe, a balance of Al, and, in some cases, 0.1-10% by weight Mg, 0.1-5% by weight Ti, 0.1-10% by weight Si, 0.1-10% by weight Li, and/or 0.1-10% by weight Ca. Before heating the coated steel sheet as part of the hot forming process, the coated steel sheet may have an Fe—Al phase is stable to above 900° C. |
| US10323288B2 |
Compositions, methods and kits to detect adenovirus nucleic acids
The disclosed invention is related to methods, compositions, kits and isolated nucleic acid sequences for targeting Adenovirus nucleic acid. Compositions include amplification oligomers and/or detection probe oligomers. Kits and methods comprise at least one of these oligomers. |
| US10323287B2 |
AAD-1 event DAS-40278-9, related transgenic corn lines, and event-specific identification thereof
This invention relates in part to plant breeding and herbicide tolerant plants. This invention includes a novel aad-1 transformation event in corn plants comprising a polynucleotide sequence, as described herein, inserted into a specific site within the genome of a corn cell. In some embodiments, said event/polynucleotide sequence can be “stacked” with other traits, including, for example, other herbicide tolerance gene(s) and/or insect-inhibitory proteins. Additionally, the subject invention provides assays for detecting the presence of the subject event in a sample (of corn grain, for example). The assays can be based on the DNA sequence of the recombinant construct, inserted into the corn genome, and on the genomic sequences flanking the insertion site. Kits and conditions useful in conducting the assays are also provided. |
| US10323285B2 |
Proteomics analysis and discovery through DNA and RNA sequencing, systems and methods
Specific mutations of FGFR3 (S249C) and of TP53 (V272M) are identified as being characteristic of breast cancer, and of having utility in diagnosis and prognosis of an individual with breast cancer. Systems and methods useful for identification of such mutations are also presented. |
| US10323284B2 |
Single nucleotide polymorphisms associated with bull fertility
Single nucleotide polymorphic sites of the bovine MAP1B, PPP1R11, and DDX4 genes are associated with improved bull fertility as measured by e.g. sire conception rates. Nucleic acid molecules, arrays, kits, methods of genotyping and marker-assisted bovine breeding methods based on these SNPs are disclosed. |
| US10323280B2 |
Methods of genomic evaluation in livestock
The invention encompasses methods for increasing genetic progress in livestock, and for genetic dissemination, including the use of amniocentesis to obtain fetal amniocytes for use in genomic evaluation and cloning. |
| US10323276B2 |
Adaptive immunity profiling and methods for generation of monoclonal antibodies
Methods are provided for producing monoclonal antibody candidates using adaptive immunity profiling. In some aspects, the method provides for the use of massively parallel signature sequencing. |
| US10323272B1 |
Nucleic acid probes for in situ hybridization
The invention provides nucleic acid hybridization probes having improved detectability that include a plurality of first segments consecutively complementary to a target nucleic acid sequence and, between neighboring first segments, a nucleic acid spacer segment which is not complementary to the target nucleic acid sequence and which may include labeled nucleic acid residues. Also provided by the invention are methods for making the probes, methods for using the probes, and compositions of matter that include the probes hybridized to target nucleic acid molecules. |
| US10323271B2 |
Probe reagent and fish using probe reagent
Provided are: a probe reagent which is capable of stably yielding a fluorescence signal in FISH while inhibiting non-specific adsorption by the use of a nucleic acid molecule having a smaller number of bases than a BAC probe; and FISH using the probe reagent. The probe reagent is for in situ hybridization and comprises: phosphor-integrated nanoparticles containing phosphors integrated therein; and a nucleic acid molecule having a prescribed nucleic acid sequence, which phosphor-integrated nanoparticles and nucleic acid molecule are bound with each other. |
| US10323270B2 |
Kit for detecting nucleic acid and method for detecting nucleic acid
The present invention relates a kit for detecting a nucleic acid and a method of detecting a nucleic acid for enabling a multiplexed-detection and real-time detection of a target nucleic acid by using properties of a graphene oxide. |
| US10323269B2 |
Selective oxidation of 5-methylcytosine by TET-family proteins
The present invention provides for novel methods for regulating and detecting the cytosine methylation status of DNA. The invention is based upon identification of a novel and surprising catalytic activity for the family of TET proteins, namely TET1, TET2, TET3, and CXXC4. The novel activity is related to the enzymes being capable of converting the cytosine nucleotide 5-methylcytosine into 5-hydroxymethylcytosine by hydroxylation. |
| US10323267B2 |
Methods and compositions for direct chemical lysis
A direct chemical lysis composition includes an assay compatible buffer composition and an assay compatible surfactant. When combined with a specimen storage composition, such compositions prevent undesired modifications to nucleic acid and proteins lysed from cells in the biological sample. Assays of samples from such compositions do not require expensive and time-consuming steps such as centrifugation and prolonged high temperature processing. The direct chemical lysis composition of the present invention permits direct nucleic acid extraction from the cells in the biological sample without the need to decant off the transport media or otherwise exchange the transport media with assay compatible buffers. There is no need to combine the sample with proteinase K or another enzyme to extract nucleic acids from the cells. A method for lysing cells to obtain target nucleic acid for assay and a kit for combining the direct chemical lysis composition with a sample are also contemplated. |
| US10323266B2 |
Antimicrobial susceptibility testing device, antimicrobial susceptibility testing kit, and antimicrobial susceptibility testing method
Provided is a antimicrobial susceptibility testing device, including: an ATP examination culture plate that includes a reaction vessel, a reagent holding parts for holding reagents to be supplied to the reaction vessel, and a culture solution holding part for holding a culture solution to be supplied to the reaction vessel, and has plural layers that can be joined and separated; a gas feeding path for feeding a gas into the ATP examination culture plate; a heater; an optical detection unit; and a determination unit for determining sensitivity of a bacterial strain contained in the culture solution to a drug based on a detection result of the optical detection unit, wherein when the plural layers of the ATP examination culture plate are joined, at least the culture solution holding part and the reaction vessel are in a sealed state while communicating with each other. |
| US10323263B2 |
Methods for producing liquid compositions comprising β-glucan
The present invention relates to methods of processing mixtures comprising β-glucans and polysaccharides. |
| US10323261B2 |
Polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer compositions and methods of making the same
A polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer composition is provided. The composition comprises a plurality of polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer molecules. The polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer molecules (i) comprise 3-hydroxybutyrate monomers and 4-hydroxybutyrate monomers, (ii) have a monomeric molar percentage of 4-hydroxybutyrate monomers of 23.5 to 75%, and (iii) have a biobased content of ≥80%. Also provided is a method of making a polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer composition. The method comprises culturing an organism in the presence of one or more carbon raw materials under conditions under which (a) the one or more carbon raw materials are converted to 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA and 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA and (b) the 3-hydroxybutyryl-CoA and the 4-hydroxybutyryl-CoA are polymerized to form the polyhydroxyalkanoate copolymer molecules, thereby forming the composition. The organism has been genetically engineered to comprise particular enzymatic activities, and to not comprise other particular enzymatic activities. The one or more carbon raw materials, taken together, have a biobased content of ≥80%. |
| US10323259B2 |
Formulation and process for biohydrogen production
The present invention relates to a process for enhancing hydrogen production in an anaerobic fermentative hydrogen production process. The present invention also provides a production media, more specifically, a sugar production media for use in an anaerobic fermentative hydrogen production process to enhance hydrogen production. The present invention also provides a novel strain Clostridium sp., MTCC 25082 for use in an anaerobic fermentative hydrogen production process for enhancing hydrogen production. |
| US10323245B2 |
Delivery of dsRNA to arthropods
The invention is to methods of gene silencing in arthropods using dsRNA. The method is include contacting the arthropod with, and/or directly feeding the arthropod, the dsRNA to the arthropods to deliver the dsRNA to arthropod tissues. It is envisaged that the methods of the invention will have use in determining the biological function of genes in arthropods. Methods of pest control of arthropods, and of protecting arthropods against parasites and predators are provided. Transgenic arthropods expressing dsRNA molecules are also provided by the present invention. |
| US10323244B2 |
LncRNA and oncolytic adenovirus, and application thereof
Provided are an LncRNA and oncolytic adenovirus, and application thereof. The oncolytic adenovirus is used as a carrier to express the LncRNA, so as to express the LncRNA in a cancer cell; competitively binding a target gene of OncomiRs, and consuming the OncomiRs, thus protecting a cancer suppressor gene from interference and suppression of the OncomiRs, and achieving target intervention therapy of the cancer cell. |
| US10323243B2 |
Thermostable reverse transcriptase
Embodiments of the disclosure concern methods and compositions related to generation and/or use of proofreading reverse transcriptases, including those that are thermophilic or hyperthermophilic. The disclosure encompasses specific recombinant polymerases and their use. In some embodiments, the polymerases are utilized for RNA sequencing in the absence of generation of a cDNA intermediate. |
| US10323242B1 |
Automated cell processing methods, modules, instruments, and systems
In an illustrative embodiment, automated multi-module cell editing instruments are provided to automate multiple edits into nucleic acid sequences inside one or more cells. |
| US10323237B2 |
Lysozyme having improved enzymatic activity
A lysozyme having improved enzymatic activity is disclosed. The amino acid sequence of the lysozyme is a modified amino acid sequence of SEQ ID NO: 2 or a modified amino acid sequence with at least 80% sequence identity of SEQ ID NO: 2, wherein the modification is a substitution of histidine at position 166 or a corresponding position with lysine. |
| US10323234B2 |
Transaminase polypeptides
The present disclosure provides engineered transaminase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type transaminase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered transaminase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered transaminase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered transaminase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds. |
| US10323233B2 |
Transaminase polypeptides
The present disclosure provides engineered transaminase enzymes having improved properties as compared to a naturally occurring wild-type transaminase enzyme. Also provided are polynucleotides encoding the engineered transaminase enzymes, host cells capable of expressing the engineered transaminase enzymes, and methods of using the engineered transaminase enzymes to synthesize a variety of chiral compounds. |
| US10323232B2 |
Metabolically engineered methanotrophic, phototrophic microorganisms
This disclosure relates to the engineering of phototrophic microorganisms for conversion of alkanes into higher-value products. Recombinant phototrophic organisms such as cyanobacteria can be engineered, optionally in a modular format, to express enzymes involved in converting methane to methanol, methanol to formaldehyde, formaldehyde to central metabolic pathway intermediates, and such intermediates to n-butanol. |
| US10323230B2 |
Method for preparing a three-dimensionally cultured skin comprising dermis and epidermis, and the cultured skin made therefrom
The present invention includes a method for preparing a three-dimensionally cultured skin model comprising dermis and epidermis, which comprises: a step of preparing the dermis using a composition comprising murine fibroblasts; and a combination of native collagen and atelocollagen; and a step of forming the epidermis using keratinocytes. Also, the present invention relates to a three-dimensionally cultured skin model which comprises: a dermis prepared by a composition comprising murine fibroblasts, native collagen, or a combination of native collagen and atelocollagen; and epidermis formed from keratinocytes. |
| US10323221B2 |
Device for controlled apical flow in cell culture inserts
A device for controlling apical flow to a cell culture includes an apical insert that defines at least one inlet channel extending from an inlet port to an apical feed port and at least one outlet channel extending from an apical effluent port to an outlet port. The apical insert includes a projecting portion configured to extend into a cell culture insert to a depth that is less than a depth of the cell culture insert, and a contact surface configured to maintain a spatial relationship between the projecting portion and the cell culture insert. |
| US10323219B2 |
Process for reblending a first liquid detergent composition into a second liquid detergent composition
A process for reblending a first liquid detergent composition into a second liquid detergent composition. |
| US10323214B2 |
Antimicrobial hard surface cleaning compositions providing improved grease removal
The need for a liquid hard surface cleaning composition which provides antimicrobial efficacy and good cleaning is met by formulating the composition using an antimicrobial active in combination with an amine oxide surfactant and additional non-ionic surfactant at the desired ratio. |
| US10323210B2 |
Biotechnological manufacture of vetiveryl esters
The invention relates to a vetiveryl ester comprising at least 0.5 weight percent of secondary alcohol compounds with respect to the total weight of the vetiveryl ester and to a process for the preparation a vetiveryl ester, the process comprising: providing a vetiver oil, at least one enzyme preparation and at least one acylating compound; and allowing sufficient time for the enzyme preparation to esterify the alcohol compounds of the vetiver oil with the acylating compound. The invention also relates to a vetiveryl ester obtainable by the above process, a fragrance composition comprising an above-mentioned vetiveryl ester and the use of an above-mentioned vetiveryl ester for the preparation of a perfumed product. |
| US10323209B2 |
High oleic acid oils
The present invention relates to extracted lipid with high levels, for example 90% to 95% by weight, oleic acid. The present invention also provides genetically modified plants, particularly oilseeds such as safflower, which can used to produce the lipid. Furthermore, provided are methods for genotyping and selecting plants which can be used to produce the lipid. |
| US10323203B2 |
Low viscosity, low volatility lubricating oil basestocks
This disclosure provides low viscosity, low volatility aryl ether compounds represented by the formula: This disclosure also provides processes for producing the aryl ether compounds, lubricating oil basestocks and lubricating oils containing one or more of the aryl ether compounds, and a method for improving one or more of solubility and dispersancy of polar additives and/or sludge in a lubricating oil by using as the lubricating oil a formulated oil containing one or more of the aryl ether compounds. |
| US10323197B2 |
Process for producing biodiesel and related products
There is described a process for producing biodiesel and related products from mixtures. There is also described a process for producing precursors and feedstock materials for producing biodiesel and related products. The processes use esterification and trans-esterification, separation and purification. Other process steps such as acidification and distillation can also be used. |
| US10323195B2 |
Catalyst preparation unit for use in processing of heavy hydrocarbons
A catalyst preparation unit for producing an activated hydrocarbon-catalyst mixture. The catalyst preparation unit includes one or more catalyst reactant input conduits; a hydrocarbon input conduit; a water input conduit; one or more catalyst reactant mixing and conveyance systems for receiving and mixing catalyst reactants from the catalyst component input conduits and water provided by the water input conduit to provide one or more catalyst reactant solutions; one or more hydrocarbon mixing and conveyance systems for receiving and mixing the catalyst reactant solutions and hydrocarbons provided by the hydrocarbon input conduit to produce a hydrocarbon-catalyst reactant mixture; at least one reactor located downstream of the mixers, for receiving and activating the hydrocarbon-catalyst reactant mixture, thereby producing the activated hydrocarbon catalyst mixture; a gas/liquid separator located downstream of the reactor, for removing vapors and gas from the activated hydrocarbon-catalyst mixture; and an output conduit for transporting the activated hydrocarbon-catalyst mixture away from the catalyst preparation unit. |
| US10323194B2 |
Radial bed reactor allowing the use of a small quantity of catalyst
The present invention describes a type of radial bed reactor which can allow a small quantity of catalyst to be used. Application to a regenerative reforming process reactor. |
| US10323193B2 |
Discriminate mass transfer in a wet oxidation system
A method for treatment of a lignocellulosic biomass using an oxidizing agent selected from an oxygen-containing gas, hydrogen peroxide, ozone and oxidizing acids. The treatment products may be subjected to microbial digestion in order to generate one or more desirable products from the carbonaceous feedstock. The solid portion of the reaction products may be further processed to be used in the paper industry. |
| US10323190B2 |
Insulated coke drum, insulation system therefore, and method of installing same
An insulated pressure vessel, such as a coke drum, having an insulation system installed thereon. The insulation system includes an insulation support system comprising either a floating ring type support system, or a cage type support system including a plurality of vertically spaced insulation support rings each having a diameter greater than the external diameter of the coke drum. A plurality of insulation panels are secured to the support rings, each panel including insulation material and an exterior metal jacket. The panels are secured to horizontally adjacent insulation panels with standing seams. Weather shields may be provided over the top of the seams. Tensioned insulation securing cables, corresponding in number to the insulation support rings, are routed through horizontally aligned eyelets in each standing seam. |
| US10323183B2 |
Homogeneous persistent luminescence nanocrystals and methods of preparation and application thereof
This invention provides a groundbreaking approach to PLNPs and their preparation. In particular, the synthetic methodology disclosed herein fundamentally differs from the traditional solid-state annealing reactions that require extreme and harsh reaction conditions. In one unique aspect of the invention, a simple, one-step mesoporous template method utilizing mesoporous silica nanoparticles (MSNs) is disclosed that affords in vivo rechargeable NIR-emitting mesoporous PLNPs with uniform size and morphology. In another unique aspect of the invention, the novel synthetic approach is based on aqueous-phase chemical reactions conducted in mild conditions, resulting in uniform and homogeneous PLNPs with desired size control (e.g., sub-10 nm). |
| US10323180B2 |
Deuterated organic compound, mixture and composition containing said compound, and organic electronic device
The present disclosure discloses a deuterated organic compound and a formulation and an organic electronic device containing the same, wherein the deuterated organic compound has the following structural formula: wherein Ar is an aromatic or heteroaromatic structural unit, D is an electron donor group, A is an electron acceptor group, n and m are an integer between 1 and 6; and wherein for the organic compound, (S1−T1)≤0.25 eV, and at least one H atom of the organic compound is substituted by deuterium. The present disclosure achieves the improvement of the electroluminescence quantum efficiency and the lifetime of the organic compound by replacing the H atom in the organic compound with deuterium and having (S1−T1)≤0.35 eV, and the material of the present disclosure has a great application potential and application range due to its low cost and relatively simple synthesis process. |
| US10323178B2 |
Color tuning of electrochromic devices using an organic dye
Disclosed is a method to color tune an electrochromic device by the use of a standard dye. By following the “subtractive color mixing” theory and selecting the appropriate standard dye to compliment or accentuate the electrochromic material, tuning of the optical and colorimetric properties of the resulting electrochromic device can be achieved. The method can also be used to prepare electrochromic devices that will switch between two neutral colors. |
| US10323176B2 |
Methods for enhancing suspension and transport of proppant particulates and subterranean formation conductivity
Methods including introducing a first particulate-free treatment fluid (first PFTF) into a subterranean formation above the fracture gradient. Alternatingly introducing a first particulate-laden treatment fluid (first PLTF) and a second particulate-laden treatment fluid (second PLTF) into the subterranean formation, wherein the first PLTF comprises nano-particles and degradable particles and the second PLTF comprises proppant particulates, and wherein the alternating introduction causes the proppant particulates in the second PLTF to agglomerate into proppant aggregates being surrounded by the first PLTF. Placing the proppant aggregates into at least one fracture, removing the hydraulic pressure to close the at least one fracture, and degrading the degradable particulates to form at least one channel between adjacent proppant aggregates. |
| US10323175B2 |
Fracturing fluids based on associative polymers and on labile surfactants
The present invention relates to a fracturing fluid comprising, in an aqueous medium: an associative polymer; and a labile surfactant, in an amount sufficient to reduce or inhibit the effect of increasing the viscosity induced by said associative polymer. |
| US10323174B2 |
Delayed gelling agents
The invention is directed to delayed gelation agents comprising a degradable polymeric cage containing therein one or more gelation agents. The cage degrades in situ, e.g., in an oil reservoir, thus releasing the gelation agent(s), which can then crosslink second polymers in situ to form a gel. |
| US10323172B2 |
Loss circulation compositions (LCM) having Portland cement clinker
Portland cement clinker LCMs that include Portland cement clinker to mitigate or prevent lost circulation in a well are provided. A Portland cement clinker LCM may include Portland cement clinker, Portland cement, a carrier fluid, and an inorganic consolidation activator. Another Portland cement clinker LCM may include Portland cement clinker and a crosslinked fluid, such as a polyuronide crosslinked via calcium ions or a polysaccharide crosslinked via divinyl sulfone. Yet another Portland cement clinker LCM may include Portland cement clinker and polymer fibers or particulate glass. Methods of lost circulation control using a Portland cement clinker LCM are also provided. |
| US10323171B2 |
Loss circulation compositions (LCM) having portland cement clinker
Portland cement clinker LCMs that include Portland cement clinker to mitigate or prevent lost circulation in a well are provided. A Portland cement clinker LCM may include Portland cement clinker, Portland cement, a carrier fluid, and an inorganic consolidation activator. Another Portland cement clinker LCM may include Portland cement clinker and a crosslinked fluid, such as a polyuronide crosslinked via calcium ions or a polysaccharide crosslinked via divinyl sulfone. Yet another Portland cement clinker LCM may include Portland cement clinker and polymer fibers or particulate glass. Methods of lost circulation control using a Portland cement clinker LCM are also provided. |
| US10323167B2 |
Method for fabricating a ceramic material
A method for fabricating a ceramic material includes impregnating a porous structure with a mixture that includes a preceramic polymer and a filler. The filler includes at least one free metal. The preceramic polymer material is then rigidized to form a green body. The green body is then thermally treated to convert the rigidized preceramic polymer material into a ceramic matrix located within pores of the porous structure. The same thermal treatment or a second, further thermal treatment is used to cause the at least one free metal to move to internal porosity defined by the ceramic matrix or pores of the porous structure. |
| US10323162B2 |
Abrasive material
The present invention provides an abrasive material capable of polishing difficult-to-polish silicon carbide at a high degree of surface precision. The present invention relates to an abrasive material including manganese dioxide particles having a non-needle-like shape possessing a ratio of the longitudinal axis to the transverse axis of the particles observed with a scanning electron microscope of 3.0 or less. The abrasive material is preferable if the average particle size DSEM of the longitudinal axis of the observed particles is 1.0 μm or less, and if the particle size D50 of the volume-based cumulative fraction of 50% in laser diffraction/scattering particle size distribution measurement is 2.0 μm or less. |
| US10323146B2 |
Lightweight coated materials and use on engineering structures
The present invention relates to bituminous coated materials including a granular fraction and a binder, characterised in that in the granular fraction all or part of the elements are selected from among lightweight, non-absorbent aggregates with a density of less than 1.6 t/m3 and a water absorption coefficient of less than 15%. The invention also relates to the use of light, non-absorbent aggregates with a density of less than 1.6 t/m3 and a water absorption coefficient of 3% to 15% for the production of light bituminous coated materials. The invention further relates to pavements obtained by applying at least one layer of the coated materials according to the invention and to a method for applying a surface course to a surface raised above the ground which includes a step of applying coated materials according to the invention. |
| US10323145B2 |
Copolycarbonate compositions with cyclic and linear oligomers and improved optical properties
The invention relates to copolycarbonate compositions having cyclic and linear oligomers and improved optical properties, to their use for producing blends and moldings and to moldings obtained therewith. The copolycarbonate compositions comprise (A) 5% to 99% by weight, based on the total weight of the copolycarbonate composition, of a copolycarbonate containing one or more monomer units of the formula (1) wherein R1 is hydrogen or C1-C4-alkyl, R2 is C1-C4-alkyl, and n is 0, 1, 2 or 3 and (B) 95% to 1% by weight, based on the total weight of the copolycarbonate composition, of a (co)polycarbonate containing one or more monomer units of the general formula (2) wherein R3 is H or linear or branched C1-C10 alkyl and R4 is linear or branched C1-C10 alkyl. |
| US10323144B2 |
Biodegrable cardstock composition
L-Polylactic acid and D-Polylactic acid biodegradable biopolymers are combined with torrefied biomass and a plasticizer to create a biodegradable cardstock composition. The biodegradable cardstock composition provides an alternative to conventional plastic cardstocks, which are manufactured using petroleum-based materials such polyvinyl chloride (PVC) or polystyrene (PS). The biodegradable cardstock described herein can be incorporated into a variety of end products such as key cards, driver licenses, security badges, calling cards, and other plastic cards, including those that have a magnetic strip containing stored data such as credit and debit cards. |
| US10323141B2 |
Propylene polymer compositions
Propylene polymer compositions comprising: A) from 70 wt % to 95 wt %, of a random copolymer of propylene with ethylene, containing from 3.5 wt % to 8.5 wt %, of ethylene derived units, having a content of fraction soluble in xylene at 25° C. comprised between 7.1 wt % and 15.2 wt % and having a melting point higher than 142.0° C.; B) from 5 wt % to 35 wt %, of a copolymer of propylene with ethylene, containing from 8.5 wt % to 17.0 wt % of ethylene derived units; the sum A+B being 100; the melt flow rate, MFR (ISO 1133 (230° C., 2.16 kg).) from 0.6 g/10 min to 20.2 g/10 min. |
| US10323140B2 |
Thermoplastic vulcanizates comprising broad molecular weight distribution polypropylene
Provided herein are thermoplastic vulcanizates that comprise rubber, broad molecular weight distribution polypropylene, and oil, where the rubber forms a rubber phase that is dispersed and at least partially cross-linked within a continuous thermoplastic component that comprises the broad molecular weight distribution polypropylene. The broad molecular weight distribution polypropylene preferably has a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of greater than 4; a melt flow rate of greater than 1 g/10 min; and a weight average molecular weight (Mw) of greater than 380,000 daltons. |
| US10323134B2 |
Particulate polyamide, and method for preparing the particulate polyamide
A particulate polyamide is provided. The particulate polyamide is porous and includes at least one of polyamide 4 and polyamide 3. In addition, the particulate polyamide has a particle diameter (d50) of from 10 μm to 1,000 μm and a particle diameter dispersion degree (Dv/Dn) of not greater than 3.0, wherein Dv represents the volume average particle diameter of the particulate polyamide, and Dn represents the number average particle diameter of the particulate polyamide. |
| US10323130B2 |
Water-dispersible polyamide powder
A powder of polyamide particles, in which: said polyamide includes more than 50 mol % of amine ends among the total number of amine and acid ends of the polyamide; said particles include, on the surface thereof, primary amine groups neutralized by a phosphorous Bronsted acid, such as phosphoric acid; and the D50 of the particles falls within the range of 100 nm to 50 μm, preferably 100 nm to 20 μm. A method for producing such a powder and to the production of aqueous dispersions including same. |
| US10323129B2 |
Stimulus-responsive supramolecular glasses
Supramolecular polymers or materials that exhibit high stiffness and can efficiently be healed. The supramolecular materials polymer is based on monomers having three or more same or different binding sites that permit non-covalent, directional interactions between multiple monomer molecules. The properties of the supramolecular networks formed from the monomers are governed by cross-linked architecture and the large weight-fraction of the binding motif. The material in one embodiment forms a disordered glass, which in spite of the low-molecular weight of the building block, displays typical polymeric behavior. The material exhibits high stiffness and offers excellent coating and adhesive properties. On account of reversible dissociation and the formation of a low-viscosity liquid upon application of an optical stimulus or thermal stimulus or both, rapid healing as well as (de)bonding are possible. |
| US10323125B1 |
Polymer for carbon dioxide capture and separation
One or more embodiments relate to providing substrate for separating a first gas component from a gaseous mixture, said substrate comprising a benzimidazole-linked polymer. Also provided is a method for synthesizing a substrate for separating a first gas component from a gaseous mixture, the method comprising performing a free condensation reaction between an aryl-o-diamine and an aryl-aldehyde to yield a benzimidazole-linked polymer. Other embodiments related to providing a CO2 separation membrane comprising benzimidazole-linked polymer residing within a matrix. |
| US10323124B2 |
Polymer, organic layer composition, organic layer, and method of forming patterns
A polymer including a moiety represented by Chemical Formula 1, an organic layer composition including the polymer, an organic layer manufactured from the organic layer composition, and a method of forming patterns using the organic layer composition are provided.The definitions of the Chemical Formula 1 are the same as defined in the detailed description. |
| US10323121B2 |
Poly-β-peptides from functionalized β-lactam monomers and antibacterial compositions containing same
Disclosed is a method of making β-polypeptides. The method includes polymerizing β-lactam-containing monomers in the presence of a base initiator and a co-initiator which is not a metal-containing molecule to yield the product β-polypeptides. Specifically disclosed are methods wherein the base initiator is potassium t-butoxide, lithium bis(trimethylsilyl)amide (LiN(TMS)2), potassium bis(trimethyl-silyl)amide, and sodium ethoxide, and the reaction is carried out in a solvent such as chloroform, dichloromethane, dimethylsulfoxide, or tetrahydrofuran. |
| US10323117B2 |
Polyols derived from farnesene for polyurethanes
A composition is provided for making a polyurethane that may be incorporated in various products, such as a sealant, a coating, a caulk, an electric potting compound, a membrane, a sponge, a foam, an adhesives, and a propellant binder. The composition includes one or more polyols, one or more isocyanate-group containing compounds having an isocyanate group functionality of at least two, and optionally one or more chain extenders. At least one of the polyols is a farnesene-based polyol having a number average molecular weight less than or equal to 100,000 g/mol and a viscosity at 25° C. less than 10,000 cP. The farnesene-based polyol may be a homopolymer or a copolymer of farnesene. The composition may also comprise additional polyols, such as a polyol of a homopolymer or copolymer of a polydiene. Methods of preparing a polyurethane are also provided. |
| US10323116B2 |
Polyurethanes, polyurethane foams and methods for their manufacture
Polyurethane foams are described, as well as the production of such polyurethane foams by the reaction between a natural polyol, such as sucrose or a blend of mono- or disaccharides in place of the standard hydrocarbon-based polyol component, an ionic liquid or a deep eutectic solvent, a polyisocyanate and water in the presence of a suitable polyurethane forming catalyst and optionally a flame retardant, and optionally one or more components such as surfactants and/or emulsifiers. The resultant polyurethane foam can exhibit a bio-based solid content ranging from about 17% to 30%, may be formulated in a variety of foam densities for a variety of applications, and in the instance where a flame retardant has been added in an appropriate amount, exhibits a high degree of fire and burn resistance, as exhibited by the flame spread index and/or the smoke spread values. |
| US10323114B2 |
Mobility control polymers for enhanced oil recovery
Disclosed herein are water-soluble polymers comprising hydrolyzable cross-linked monomer units, and methods for recovering hydrocarbon fluids from a subterranean formation using the water-soluble polymers. |
| US10323113B2 |
Resist composition and patterning process
A resist composition comprising a base polymer and a sulfonium or iodonium salt of iodized benzoyloxy-containing fluorinated sulfonic acid offers a high sensitivity and minimal LWR or improved CDU independent of whether it is of positive or negative tone. |
| US10323110B2 |
Ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer having excellent processability
The present invention relates to an ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer having excellent processability. The ethylene/alpha-olefin copolymer according to the present invention has excellent processability and is therefore suitable for producing products by an injection molding method. |
| US10323109B2 |
Methods of preparing a catalyst utilizing hydrated reagents
A method of preparing a catalyst comprising a) contacting a titanium-containing compound, a solvating agent, and a solvent to form a solution; b) contacting the solution with a chrominated silica-support to form a pre-catalyst; and c) thermally treating the pre-catalyst by heating to a temperature of from about 400° C. to about 1000° C. for a time period of from about 1 minute to about 24 hours to form the catalyst. |
| US10323108B2 |
Long chain branched polymers and methods of making same
A polymer having a long chain branching content peaking at greater than about 20 long chain branches per million carbon atoms, and a polydispersity index of greater than about 10 wherein the long chain branching decreases to approximately zero at the higher molecular weight portion of the molecular weight distribution. A polymer having a long chain branching content peaking at greater than about 8 long chain branches per million carbon atoms, a polydispersity index of greater than about 20 wherein the long chain branching decreases to approximately zero at the higher molecular weight portion of the molecular weight distribution. A polymer having a long chain branching content peaking at greater than about 1 long chain branches per chain, and a polydispersity index of greater than about 10 wherein the long chain branching decreases to approximately zero at the higher molecular weight portion of the molecular weight distribution. |
| US10323107B2 |
Alkoxylates of S-vinylthioalkanols
Unsaturated compounds of formula (I): wherein: R1, R2, and R3 are each independently H or CH3; R4 is a linear or branched C1-C30-alkylene; R5 and R6 are each independently H, C1-C20-alkyl, C3-C15-cycloalkyl, aryl, —CH2—O—C1-C20-alkyl, or —CH2—O—C2-C20-alkenyl, where R5 and R6 may together form a C3-C6-alkylene; R7 is independently H,C1-C4-alkyl, or where R8 is C1-C22-alkyl or C2-C22-alkenyl; and n is an integer from 2 to 200. Mixtures and polymers including the unsaturated compounds of formula (I). A method for preparing polymers by free-radical polymerization of monomers including the unsaturated compounds of formula (I). A process for preparing polymers including polymer-analogous reactions. And polymers including compounds (I) as cement additives, grinding aids, hydraulic binder additives, concrete plasticizers, reactive plasticizers for preparing plastics, rubber, or latex, associative thickeners and antioxidants, or for preparing polyether siloxanes. |
| US10323106B2 |
Long-chain branched polymers and production processes
This invention relates to a process for forming a long-chain branched polymer and a long-chain branched polymer resulting from the process. The process comprises reacting (a) a polyolefin base polymer with (b) a coupling agent comprising a polymeric coupling agent, optionally blended with a molecular coupling agent, the polymeric coupling agent being a modified polyolefin having a reactive coupling group at one or more terminal ends of the modified polyolefin chain, to couple the polyolefin base polymer (a) with the coupling agent (b) to form a long-chain branched polymer having a long-chain branching and/or higher surface energy relative to the polyolefin base polymer. |
| US10323104B2 |
Dye complex, photoconversion film and electronic element including same
The present specification relates to a dye complex, a light conversion film, and an electronic device including the same. |
| US10323102B2 |
Cationic poly alpha-1,3-glucan ethers
Poly alpha-1,3-glucan ether compounds are disclosed herein comprising positively charged organic groups. The degree of substitution of the ether compounds is about 0.05 to about 3.0. Also disclosed are methods of producing poly alpha-1,3-glucan ether compounds having positively charged organic groups, as well as methods of using these ether compounds for increasing the viscosity of a aqueous compositions. Hydrocolloids and aqueous solutions comprising the ether compounds are also disclosed. |
| US10323101B2 |
Method for producing polysaccharide derivative and lignin derivative
An object is to provide a method for producing a polysaccharide derivative without using a catalyst, a cocatalyst, or an active compound by esterification, etherification, or the like, from a polysaccharide such as cellulose as a source material, while maintaining a high molecular weight. Another object is to provide a method for producing a cellulose derivative in a separated condition directly from biomass containing lignocellulose. A method for producing a polysaccharide derivative of the present invention is characterized in that a reaction is carried out in a mixture comprising: a source material comprising a polysaccharide; an ionic liquid for which the pKa of a conjugate acid of an anion in DMSO is 12 to 19 and which is capable of producing a carbene; and a chain or cyclic ester compound or an epoxy compound. Preferably as a source material containing a polysaccharide, a biomass source material containing lignocellulose is used. |
| US10323099B2 |
Multispecific domain exchanged common variable light chain antibodies
Multispecific antibodies based on antibodies that share a common light chain are described herein. The multispecific antibodies include: modified heavy chains having, by domain exchange, a common light chain variable domain VL; and two modified light chains having, by domain exchange, variable heavy chain domains of a first antibody (VH1) and a second antibody (VH2), wherein one light chain is of kappa isotype and one light chain is of lambda isotype. The present invention also relates to methods for the manufacture of such antibodies and their use. |
| US10323089B2 |
Anti-transferrin receptor antibodies with tailored affinity
Herein is reported an anti-transferrin receptor antibody that specifically binds to human transferrin receptor and cynomolgus transferrin receptor, which comprises i) a humanized heavy chain variable domain derived from the heavy chain variable domain of SEQ ID NO: 01, and ii) a humanized light chain variable domain derived from the light chain variable domain of SEQ ID NO: 26, wherein the antibody has an off-rate for the human transferrin receptor that is equal to or less than (i.e. at most) the off-rate of the anti-transferrin receptor antibody 128.1 for the cynomolgus transferrin receptor, whereby the off-rates are determined by surface plasmon resonance, and whereby the anti-transferrin receptor antibody 128.1 has a heavy chain variable domain of SEQ ID NO: 64 and a light chain variable domain of SEQ ID NO: 65. |
| US10323083B2 |
Agents that specifically bind matrilin-3 and their use
Monoclonal antibodies and antibody fragments that specifically bind to matrilin-3, conjugates including these molecules, and nucleic acid molecules encoding the antibodies, antigen binding fragments and conjugates, are disclosed. Also disclosed are compositions including the disclosed antibodies, antigen binding fragments, conjugates, and nucleic acid molecules. Methods of treating or inhibiting a cartilage disorder in a subject, as well as methods of increasing chondrogenesis in cartilage tissue are further provided. The methods can be used, for example, for treating or inhibiting a growth plate disorder in a subject, such as a skeletal dysplasia or short stature. |
| US10323079B2 |
Antibody neutralizing human respiratory syncytial virus
The present invention relates to monoclonal antibodies which have high anti-RSV neutralizing titers. The invention further provides for isolated nucleic acids encoding the antibodies of the invention and host cells transformed therewith. The invention yet further provides for diagnostic, prophylactic and therapeutic methods employing the antibodies and nucleic acids of the invention, particularly as a passive immunotherapy agent in infants and the elderly. |
| US10323078B2 |
Isolated peptides and fragments thereof from fibrinogen for use as drugs, particularly in skin inflammatory diseases
A present invention relates to isolated peptides obtained from human fibrinogen for their use as drug, particularly for the prevention and/or the treatment of inflammatory skin diseases, more particularly acne. The present invention also relates to fragments of these polypeptides, nucleic acid molecules encoding them, expression vectors, host cells, a pharmaceutical composition and a combination product containing them, and their use for treating and/or preventing inflammatory skin diseases, particularly acne. |
| US10323070B2 |
VMP-like sequences of pathogenic Borrelia species and strains
The present invention relates to DNA sequences encoding Vmp-like polypeptides of pathogenic Borrelia, the use of the DNA sequences in recombinant vectors to express polypeptides, the encoded amino acid sequences, application of the DNA and amino acid sequences to the production of polypeptides as antigens for immunoprophylaxis, immunotherapy, and immunodiagnosis. Also disclosed are the use of the nucleic acid sequences as probes or primers for the detection of organisms causing Lyme disease, relapsing fever, or related disorders, and kits designed to facilitate methods of using the described polypeptides, DNA segments and antibodies. |
| US10323069B2 |
Senecavirus A antigens and methods of use
A Senecavirus A polypeptide generally includes at least a portion of 151-434 of SEQ ID NO:1, amino acids 435-673 of SEQ ID NO:1, or amino acids 674-937 of SEQ ID NO:1. The Senecavirus A polypeptide may be used as a capture antigen in a method or device for detecting antibody that specifically binds to the Senecavirus A polypeptide. The Senecavirus A polypeptide may be used as a immunogen to vaccinate a subject having or at risk of having a Senecavirus A infection. |
| US10323068B2 |
Hepatitis B virus pre-S1 derived synthetic polypeptides and uses thereof
The invention relates to a group of synthetic polypeptides, derived from the pre-S1 region of HBV, that efficiently interfere with early steps of an HBV infection. The peptides of the invention can be used in diagnostics for the detection of antigens and/or antibodies. |
| US10323063B2 |
Advanced macromolecule transduction domain (aMTD) sequences for improvement of cell-permeability, polynucleotides encoding the same, method to identify the unique features of aMTDs comprising the same, method to develop the aMTD sequences comprising the same
The present invention is to execute macromolecule intracellular transduction technology (MITT) for delivering biologically active macromolecules into the cells; specifically, by exploiting well-enhanced hydrophobic cell penetrating peptide (CPP)—advanced macromolecule transduction domain (aMTD)—to effectively transduce biologically active molecules into the plasma membrane, polynucleotides encoding the same, methods of identifying the same, systems of genetically engineering a biologically active molecule with much enhanced cell-permeability by using the same, methods of importing a biologically active molecule into a cell by using the same, and uses thereof. |
| US10323058B2 |
Crystalline form of nicotinamide riboside
Provided are crystalline forms of nicotinamide riboside, including a Form I of nicotinamide riboside chloride according to formula (I). Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the crystalline Form I of nicotinamide riboside chloride, and methods of producing such pharmaceutical compositions. In other aspects, the present disclosure pertains to methods comprising administering to a subject the crystalline Form I of nicotinamide riboside chloride. The present disclosure also provides methods of preparing the crystalline Form I of nicotinamide riboside chloride. Also provided are a crystalline Form I of nicotinamide riboside chloride that is prepared according to any of the disclosed methods for preparing the crystalline Form I. |
| US10323050B2 |
Non-aqueous electrolyte solution for battery, novel compound, polyelectrolyte, and lithium secondary battery
A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a battery, including a compound represented by formula (1), wherein each A represents P or P═O; each R represents H, a halogen, an alkyl, an aryl, an alkoxy or an aryloxy; each X represents H, an alkyl, an aryl, an alkali metal or formula (2); each Y represents H, a halogen, an alkyl, an aryl, an alkoxy, an aryloxy or formula (3); each Z represents H, an alkyl, an aryl or OZ1; Z1 represents H, an alkyl, an aryl, an alkali metal, formula (2), or formula (4); each M represents an alkali metal; n is 1 or more; m is 1 or more; l is 1 or more; a sum of n, m and l in one molecule is from 1 to 200; and each * represents a position of bonding: |
| US10323048B2 |
Organosilicon compound and production process therefor
An organosilicon compound represented by formula (1), which has, per alkoxysilyl group, a plurality of epoxy groups each capable of reacting with an organic resin moiety to form a bond and which hence is useful as a primer, a resin modifier, etc. (In the formula, the R1 moieties each independently represent an (un)substituted C1-10 alkyl group, etc.; the R2 moieties each independently represent an (un)substituted C1-10 alkyl group, etc.; the R3 moieties each independently represent a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; A1 represents a single bond, O, S, NH, or a divalent linking group containing a heteroatom; A2 represents a single bond or an (un)substituted C1-20 divalent hydrocarbon group optionally containing a heteroatom; a and c are each independently a number greater than 0; b, d, e, and f are each independently a number of 0 or greater; and m is an integer of 1 to 3. The repeating units may have been linked in any order.) |
| US10323046B2 |
Method for preparing L-BPA
Provided is a method for preparing L-BPA, which includes steps of: reacting N-protected (S)-4-halophenylalanine of Formula I, a boronating agent, Grignard reagent and bis(2-dimethylaminoethyl)ether to obtain a reaction mixture, wherein the reaction mixture comprises N-protected (S)-4-boronophenylalanine of Formula II and the R2 group represents a protecting group; isolating the N-protected (S)-4-boronophenylalanine from the reaction mixture; and deprotecting the R2 group of the N-protected (S)-4-boronophenylalanine to obtain L-BPA, wherein the L-BPA has a structure of Formula III. |
| US10323045B2 |
Thienopyrimidine derivatives as NIK inhibitors
The present invention relates to pharmaceutical agents useful for therapy and/or prophylaxis in a mammal, and in particular to inhibitors of NF-κB-inducing kinase (NIK—also known as MAP3K14) useful for treating diseases such as cancer, inflammatory disorders, metabolic disorders and autoimmune disorders. The invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising such compounds, to processes to prepare such compounds and compositions, and to the use of such compounds or pharmaceutical compositions for the prevention or treatment of diseases such as cancer, inflammatory disorders, metabolic disorders including obesity and diabetes, and autoimmune disorders. |
| US10323044B2 |
Crystal of imidazo-oxazine, pharmaceutical composition containing said crystal, and method for producing said crystal
An object of the present invention is to provide a crystal of trans-3-amino-1-methyl-3-(4-(3-phenyl-5H-imidazo[1,2-c]pyrido[3,4-e][1,3]oxazin-2-yl)phenylcyclobutanol having excellent stability and favorable characteristics in terms of its production and formulation into drugs. The present invention provides a crystal of trans-3-amino-1-methyl-3-(4-(3-phenyl-5H-imidazo[1,2-c]pyrido[3,4-e][1,3]oxazin-2-yl)phenylcyclobutanol having characteristic peaks of diffraction angle (2θ±0.1°) at 7.7°, 9.5°, 10.3°, 12.3°, 14.5°, 15.6°, 16.3°, 17.8°, 18.3°, 19.3°, 20.9°, 22.8°, 24.2°, 25.7°, 26.8°, 27.7°, 29.0° and 30.1° in a powder X-ray diffraction spectrum. |
| US10323040B2 |
Process for the preparation of 5-fluorotryptophol
The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of 5-fluorotryptophol as well as a process for the preparation of (1r,4r)-6′-fluoro-N,N-dimethyl-4-phenyl-4′,9′-dihydro-3′H-spiro[cyclohexane-1,1′-pyrano-[3,4b]-indol]-4-amine using the 5-fluorotryptophol obtained by said first process. The process according to the invention provides 5-fluorotryptophol in improved yield and purity without the need for chromatographic purification of the product. |
| US10323039B2 |
Enantioselective syntheses of heteroyohimbine natural product intermediates
Enantioselective syntheses of cis- and trans-bicyclic dihydropyran compounds, and other intermediates, en route to heteroyohimbine alkaloids. |
| US10323037B2 |
Aminopyridazinone compounds as protein kinase inhibitors
The present disclosure provides a compound of formula (I) and the use thereof for the therapeutic treatment of human cancers including B-cell lymphoma and autoimmune diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, and multiple sclerosis. |