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| US10372574B1 |
Skew detector for data storage system
A computing resource service provider may store user data in a distributed data storage system. The distributed data storage system may contain one or more storage partitions configured to store based at least in part on prefixes of keys contained in a key-value store, where the size of the keys may vary. The one or more storage partitions may track requests to access data where the requests include a key such that the data may be located by the service provider based at least in part on the key. When a request is received a skew value associated with the key included in the request may be determined. The skew value may be determined based at least in part on the ratio of rate estimators, where the rate estimators represent a weighted average of the movement of the keys in a key space. If the skew value exceeds a threshold the service provider may take mitigating action. |
| US10372568B2 |
Electronic device being connectable to external device, and method of controlling electronic device being connectable to extenal device
An electronic device has a first terminal for receiving power from a connected external device, a second terminal for obtaining information of the external device, and a GND terminal connected to the second terminal. The electronic device causes a resistance between the second terminal and the GND terminal to change, and determines a type of the external device based on a voltage of the first terminal after the resistance is caused to change. |
| US10372566B2 |
Storing memory array operational information in nonvolatile subarrays
Methods, systems, and apparatuses for storing operational information related to operation of a non-volatile array are described. For example, the operational information may be stored in a in a subarray of a memory array for use in analyzing errors in the operation of memory array. In some examples, an array driver may be located between a command decoder and a memory array. The array driver may receive a signal pattern used to execute an access instruction for accessing non-volatile memory cells of a memory array and may access the first set of non-volatile memory cells according to the signal pattern. The array driver may also store the access instruction (e.g., the binary representation of the access instruction) at a non-volatile subarray of the memory array. |
| US10372565B2 |
Method and apparatus for failover processing
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for failover. In an embodiment is provided a method implemented at a first node in a cluster comprising a plurality of heterogeneous nodes. The method comprises: determining whether an application at a second node in the cluster is failed; and in response to determining that the application is failed, causing migration of data and services associated with the application from the second node to a third node in the cluster, the migration involving at least one node heterogeneous to the second node in the cluster. The present disclosure further provides a method implemented at the third node in the cluster and corresponding devices and computer program products. |
| US10372564B2 |
Failover handling in a content node of a content delivery network
Described herein are methods, systems, and software for accommodating failover of a content node in a content delivery network. In one example, a method of operating a content node includes receiving a communication for an end user device from a control node, wherein an interrupted content node previously handled the communication. The method further includes determining if the communication includes a synchronization packet and identifying connection information for the communication. The method also provides, if the communication includes a synchronization packet, accepting the communication and handling delivery for the end user device. The method also includes, if the communication does not include the synchronization packet, determining if a match exists between the connection information for the communication and connection information stored in a flow table, and handling the communication based on the match. |
| US10372561B1 |
Block storage relocation on failure
A failure of a storage device used to provide a mirrored storage volume can be managed without a full re-mirroring of the volume. The volume can be provided using a set of similar storage devices on each of a master server and a slave server, and a technique such as data striping can be used to store the data for the volume across the various devices. When a storage device becomes unavailable, the data from the corresponding storage device on the other mirrored server can be written to the remaining storage devices on the server experiencing the device failure. The data interface can be virtualized such that the user can continue to send input and output (I/O) requests using the same address information. A translation layer can map the virtualized addresses to the physical addresses where the data is stored. |
| US10372559B2 |
Managing a redundant computerized database using a replicated database cache
Data in a database cache in memory of an operating database server is copied to memory of a standby database server, without requiring synchronization between the operating server and the standby server. If the operating server fails, the database is recovered to a consistent state in the standby server using a sequential database log and the copied data in the cache of the standby server. Preferably, recovery is performed by reading the log to determine a set of database actions to recover, verifying blocks of data in the standby server's cache, using verified blocks to recover at least some actions, and reading blocks from storage only when a corresponding verified block is not available in the cache. |
| US10372558B2 |
Storage device, an operating method of the storage device and an operating method of a computing system including the storage device and a host device
An operating method of a storage device that includes a nonvolatile memory device and a controller configured to control the nonvolatile memory device, the method including: detecting, by the controller, a fault of the nonvolatile memory device or the controller, notifying, by the controller, a host device of the fault, notifying, by the controller, the host device of one or more recovery schemes for recovering the fault, and recovering, by the controller, the fault in response to a recovery scheme selected by the host device. |
| US10372550B1 |
Method and system for providing checkpointing to windows application groups
A method and system of checkpointing multi-threaded applications, and multi-process application groups on WINDOWS® operating systems. In an exemplary embodiment, the method may include creating at least one full checkpoint for each application in an application group, and creating at least one incremental application checkpoint for each application in the application group. Further, each of the at least one incremental application checkpoint may be automatically merged against a corresponding full application checkpoint. Further, checkpointing may be synchronized across all applications in the application group. Further, checkpointing may be configured to perform live migration. In the exemplary embodiment, checkpoints are triggered asynchronously using Asynchronous Procedure Calls (APC). |
| US10372548B2 |
Copying data from multiple point-in-time copies to a log storage to use to roll-back a source storage
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for copying data from multiple point-in-time copies to a log storage to use to roll-back a source storage managing point-in-time copies of a source storage. A plurality of point-in-time copies of a source storage at different point-in-times are established. In response to receiving writes to the source storage after establishing each of the point-in-time copies, point-in-time data in the source storage is copied, before being updated by the received writes, to a log storage, wherein the log storage stores point-in-time data for multiple of the point-in-time copies. The log storage is used to roll-back the source storage to a selected point-in-time of one of the point-in-time copies. |
| US10372547B1 |
Recovery-chain based retention for multi-tier data storage auto migration system
A system and method for defining retention and lifecycle policies for data backups. A media server supports a recovery-chain-based retention policy for data lifecycle management (DLM) on a first tier of a multi-tier storage system. A recovery chain includes full backup data and at least one partial backup data. The recovery chain is maintained on the first tier until it is expired due to a new full backup operation being performed and corresponding full backup data being stored on the first tier. Based on another retention policy, the media server identifies given backup data corresponding to a recovery chain that qualifies for migration from the first tier. However, the media server determines the recovery chain includes the given backup data and other backup data that does not yet qualify for migration. In response, the media server maintains a copy of the given backup data on the first tier. |
| US10372544B2 |
Apparatus including refresh controller controlling refresh operation responsive to data error
A device includes a plurality of memory cells, an error detection circuit configured to detect at least one memory cell storing error data and a refresh control circuit including a register configured to store an error address corresponding to the at least one memory cell storing error data. The refresh control circuit is configured to control a refresh cycle of the error address. |
| US10372543B2 |
Memory system
According to one embodiment, a memory system is connectable to a host. The memory system includes a nonvolatile first memory, a volatile second memory and a controller. The nonvolatile first memory stores translation information. The translation information associates a logical address and a physical address. The volatile second memory stores location information. The location information associates a logical address and a location where the translation information is stored in the first memory. The controller saves a first memory image in the first memory at a first timing, and saves a second memory image in the first memory at a second timing different from the first timing. The first memory image is a part of a memory image of the location information. The second memory image is another part, different form the first memory image, of the memory image of the location information. |
| US10372542B2 |
Fault tolerant event management system
If an event management system or component within an event management system fails, events generated by systems and applications monitored by the event management system may not be processed or analyzed. As a result, the performance and health of the systems and applications may be unknown. To reduce the impact of a failure, an event management system can include at least two event managers: a primary event manager and one or more standby event managers. The standby event managers are configured to handle event processing tasks upon a failure of the primary event manager. To be prepared for a failure of the primary event manager, the standby event manager receives state data and copies of events. After determining that the primary event manager has failed, the standby event manager can begin processing events. |
| US10372539B2 |
Variable length CLDPC encoder and method of operation in an autonomous vehicle
A black box recorder for an autonomous vehicle includes an interface configured to receive data from an engine control unit (ECU) device. The data includes first data and second data. The black box recorder further includes an error correction code (ECC) engine configured to determine a first parity size associated with the first data based on a characteristic of the first data and a second parity size associated with the second data based on a characteristic of the second data. The first parity size is different than the second parity size. The ECC engine is further configured to generate a convolutional low-density parity-check (CLDPC) codeword that includes the first data, the second data, first redundancy data associated with the first data, and second redundancy data associated with the second data. The first redundancy data has the first parity size, and the second redundancy data has the second parity size. |
| US10372537B2 |
Elastic metadata and multiple tray allocation
In some examples, both object data and corresponding metadata are stored on thin provisioned block storage in which blocks for the storage of the object data and the metadata are dynamically provisioned from a shared pool. For instance, the metadata may be stored on the block storage using a tree data structure that may grow proportionally with the corresponding stored object data. The object storage may automatically adapt to the size and number of objects being stored, and storage space for metadata may be allocated dynamically on demand. Additionally, some implementations include storing data across multiple trays. For instance, a plurality of storage extents of an extent group may be allocated across a plurality of storage devices on multiple trays. The extent allocation may be tray-aware by allocating extents to maximize the probability that data remains available/recoverable in the presence of a failure in one or more trays. |
| US10372536B2 |
First read solution for memory
Techniques are provided for improving the accuracy of read operations of memory cells, where the threshold voltage of a memory cell can shift depending on when the read operation occurs. A memory cell is sensed by discharging a sense node into a bit line and detecting an amount of discharge at two sense times relative to a trip voltage. A bit of data is stored in first and second latches based on the two sense times, to provide first and second pages of data. The pages are evaluated using parity check equations and one of the pages which satisfies the most equations is selected. In another option, word line voltages are grounded and then floated to prevent coupling up of the word line. A weak pulldown to ground can gradually discharge a coupled up voltage of the word lines. |
| US10372534B2 |
Method of operating memory device using a compressed party difference, memory device using the same and memory system including the device
A memory system includes a data channel, a controller configured to output a request across the data channel, and a memory device configured to store data and corresponding first parity, perform a decoding operation on the data to generate second parity in response to receipt of the request across the data channel, generate a difference from the first parity and the second parity, compress the difference, and enable the controller to access the data and the compressed difference to satisfy the request. |
| US10372523B2 |
Analysis system and method for intelligent customer service based on common sequence pattern
The present invention provides a method and system for information analysis. The method extracts a plurality of metadata from a source information set so as to generate a metadata set, the metadata comprising error log information that forms an error sequence in the metadata set; and generates a common error sequence set for a plurality of the metadata sets. By means of the method, it is possible to easily obtain a global error sequence pattern, and easily compare a new error with a previous error sequence pattern so as to prevent, diagnose and recover the new error. |
| US10372521B2 |
Transceiver parameter solution space visualization to reduce bit error rate
Techniques and mechanisms provide a solution space visualization of bit error rates (BER) for combinations of parameter settings of transceivers. Different types of visualizations may be generated. |
| US10372520B2 |
Graphical user interface for visualizing a plurality of issues with an infrastructure
Disclosed are systems, methods and non-transitory computer-readable mediums for dynamically presenting and updating a directed time graph displayed in a graphical user interface. In some examples, the method can include displaying a suggested path within a graphical user interface on a computer screen, the suggested path can include outstanding issues of elements of a network. The displaying the suggested path can include determining based on one or more factors an efficient ordering of the outstanding issues and ordering the outstanding issues based on the one or more factors. The method can also include monitoring, at regular intervals, updates to the one or more outstanding issues and automatically updating the suggested path, by a processor, based on the updates to the one or more outstanding issues. |
| US10372519B2 |
Detecting error count deviations for non-volatile memory blocks for advanced non-volatile memory block management
Non-volatile memory block management. A method according to one embodiment includes calculating an error count margin threshold for each of the at least some non-volatile memory blocks of a plurality of non-volatile memory blocks. A determination is made as to whether the error count margin threshold of any of the at least some of the non-volatile memory blocks has been exceeded. A memory block management function is triggered upon determining that the error count margin threshold of any of the at least some of the non-volatile memory blocks has been exceeded. |
| US10372518B2 |
Extensible single point orchestration system for application program interfaces
An extensible single point orchestration system receives service requests from applications. In dependence upon the service request a single third party provider service or multiple third party provider services is identified. When the single third party provider service is identified, the system dynamically adapts a core capability service, using a stored configuration entity, so as to set an appropriate message format and transmit a service call message to an external API of the identified single third party provider service. When multiple third party provider services are identified, the system dynamically adapts the core capability service, using another stored configuration entity, so as to set a respective appropriate message format for parallel data transmission of service call messages to each of the respective identified third party provider services and transmits the service call messages to respective external APIs of each of the third party provider services. |
| US10372517B2 |
Message scheduling method
Disclosed are a message scheduling method performed by one or more processors of a computing device and a device thereof. The message scheduling method performed by one or more processors of the computing device may include: receiving, by a control thread, a message from a client; adding, by the control thread, a flag to the received message based on contents of the message; storing, by the control thread, the message with the flag added in a queue; and allocating, by the control thread, the message stored in the queue to each worker thread based on the flag. |
| US10372515B1 |
System agnostic front end application for legacy systems
A system and method for accessing data in one of a first legacy computer system that has a first operating system and a second legacy computer system that has a second operating system that is different from the first operating system. The method includes providing a front end application that is in communication with the first and second legacy computer systems, with the application being displayed on a user interface of a computer. Aircraft and maintenance data of a first legacy airline is associated with the first legacy computer system and aircraft and maintenance data of a second legacy airline is associated with the second legacy computer system. |
| US10372512B2 |
Method and apparatus for automatic processing of service requests on an electronic device
Embodiments of the present application provides methods and apparatus capable of recording operation/display events on a mobile device used to fulfill a service request. A recorded sequence operation/display events is used to build a script file, which is associated with the service request. When the same or similar service request is received again, the script file associated with the service request is retrieved and the mobile device automatically brings up a series of operation/display events according to the script file so that a user of the mobile device does not need to manually navigate through the sequence of operation/display events again in order to fulfill the service request. |
| US10372508B2 |
Method and system for dynamically integrating bots
Disclosed herein is a method and system for dynamically integrating a plurality of BOTs. The method comprises creating the plurality of BOTs offering one or more automated services, wherein each of the plurality of BOTs has a common BOT structure comprising one or more field parameters. One or more predefined functions are assigned to each of the plurality of BOTs, wherein at least one of the one or more predefined functions comprises a function value. A maturity score for each of the plurality of BOTs is determined based on the one or more field parameters and the function value upon assigning the one or more predefined functions to each of the plurality of BOTs. Finally, the plurality of BOTs are integrated by synchronizing data amongst the plurality of BOTs based on the maturity score. |
| US10372505B2 |
Execution of an instruction for performing a configuration virtual topology change
In a logically partitioned host computer system comprising host processors (host CPUs) partitioned into a plurality of guest processors (guest CPUs) of a guest configuration, a perform topology function instruction is executed by a guest processor specifying a topology change of the guest configuration. The topology change preferably changes the polarization of guest CPUs, the polarization being related to the amount of a host CPU resource provided to a guest CPU. |
| US10372503B2 |
Bidirectional feedback with an enhanced transmission selection enabled switch
A network switch manager apparatus includes a bandwidth module, a resource module, a variance module, and an adjustment module. The bandwidth module determines a percentage of bandwidth allocated to one of a plurality of protocols at an enhanced transmission selection (ETS) enabled network switch. The resource module determines a number of resources allocated for a plurality of virtual machines, the number of resources classified between the plurality of protocols. The variance module compares the percentage of bandwidth and the number of resources to determine a variance. The adjustment module adjusts the percentage of bandwidth allocated to the one of the plurality of protocols based on the variance. |
| US10372501B2 |
Provisioning of computing resources for a workload
Provisioning of computing resources for a workload in a networked computing environment. A method receives a set of provisioning requests in a computer data structure of a networked computing environment, wherein the provisioning requests relate to a workload request. The method further identifies a set of provisioning operations for computing resources in the networked computing environment to perform the provisioning requests. The method determines, for each provisioning operation of the provisioning operations, a respective provisioning time, the respective provisioning time being an amount of time for a particular computing resource to become prepared and equipped to perform a job. The determining the respective provisioning time for each provisioning operation provides a plurality of determined provisioning times. The method also determines an order for the provisioning requests based on the plurality of determined provisioning times, such that the provisioning operations complete at substantially a same time. |
| US10372499B1 |
Efficient region selection system for executing request-driven code
An on-demand code execution environment present in points of presence (POPs) and in regions serviced by the POPs is provided herein. For example, a POP may receive a request to execute a task associated with user-defined code. If the POP determines that the computing resources necessary to execute a received task are not available or that the POP should not execute the received task for another reason (e.g., the task is not commonly received and the computing resources needed to execute the task are therefore best allocated for other requests), the POP can identify a region suitable for executing the task and forward the task to the identified region. An on-demand code execution environment present in the identified region can execute the task and forward the results of the execution to the POP for distribution back to a user device that requested the task execution. |
| US10372495B2 |
Circuits and methods providing thread assignment for a multi-core processor
A system includes: a system on chip (SOC) having a plurality of cores; a first memory storing operating parameters for each of the cores; and a second memory storing historical use data for an application, wherein processing threads of the application are assigned to one or more of the plurality of cores based, at least in part, on the operating parameters for each of the cores and the historical use data. |
| US10372489B2 |
System and method for providing task-based configuration for users of a media application
Embodiments of the invention are generally related to configuring a system for use with a media application, including providing task-based configuration for users of the media application. In accordance with an embodiment, the system enables a user to interact with a configuration component of a media application accessible at a media device. The system displays a plurality of tasks and an indication of a media application functionality, such as, for example, access to a personalized playlist or set of media content, offered as an incentive or reward for completion of the tasks, at a user interface of the media device. The tasks relate to one or more features of the media application, and can be used to improve the configuration of the media application for a particular user. |
| US10372488B2 |
Parallel processing using memory mapping
Techniques are disclosed for processing records using virtual memory mapping. An input file is virtually divided into a fragments based on memory mapping. Execution threads are started and assigned to each of the fragments. The execution threads process the fragments in parallel and each of the execution threads generates an output file. The output files generated by each of the execution threads are merged to create a final output file. |
| US10372484B2 |
Secured computing system
Examples related to secure computing systems are disclosed. In one example, a method includes, at a local agent computing device, sending to a remote work scheduling computing device a work context of the local agent computing device, the work context describing a set of work that the local agent is configured to execute, and polling a remote work depository for work compatible with the work context. The method further includes receiving a response from the remote work depository identifying a job within the work context, the job being requested by a computing device other than the remote work scheduling computing device, and executing the job. |
| US10372482B2 |
Domain transversal based transaction contextualization of event information
A topology-based transversal analysis service has been created that correlates topologies of different domains of a distributed application and creates cross-domain “stories” for the different types of transactions provided by the distributed application. A “story” for a transaction type associates an event(s) with a node in an execution path of the transaction type. This provides context to the event(s) with respect to the transaction type (“transaction contextualization”) and their potential business impact. The story is a journal of previously detected events and/or information based on previously detected events. The events have been detected over multiple instances of a transaction type and the journal is contextualized within an aggregate of execution paths of the multiple instances of the transaction type. The story can be considered a computed, ongoing narrative around application and infrastructure performance events, and the narrative grows as more performance-related events are detected. |
| US10372478B2 |
Using diversity to provide redundancy of virtual machines
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for using diversity to provide redundancy of virtual machines. A server computer that executes an orchestrator application can receive a virtual machine instantiation request. The server computer can analyze the request to determine needs associated with a virtual machine (including a redundancy requirement). The server computer can obtain resource availability data that indicates availability of resources and includes diversity data used to provide diversity-based redundancy of the virtual machine. The server computer can identify a pool of resources and identify, among the pool, two or more resources. The two or more resources can include a most diverse group of resources of the pool of resources and can be identified based upon the diversity data. The server computer can trigger instantiation of the virtual machine and a copy of the virtual machine on the resources. |
| US10372477B2 |
Method and apparatus for a virtual machine
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for a virtual machine. The method implemented in a virtual machine comprises: receiving I/O requests for I/O operations on virtual disks of the virtual machine; detecting associations between the virtual disks and virtual storage devices of a virtual machine hypervisor for the virtual machine; and scheduling the I/O requests based on the associations. Embodiments of the present disclosure enable an application-aware I/O QoS in a virtual environment in an efficiently way and moving IT solutions of virtual version to different virtual platforms. The method and apparatus according to the embodiments of the present disclosure offer good flexibility and compatibility. |
| US10372472B2 |
System, method, and computer program product for conditionally preventing use of hardware virtualization
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for conditionally preventing use of hardware virtualization. In use, an attempt to use hardware virtualization is identified. Further, the use of the hardware virtualization is conditionally prevented. |
| US10372467B2 |
Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer-readable medium having program installable on the same
An information processing apparatus that performs a program installation includes a determiner and a display controller. The determiner determines whether or not a manner of installation in which the installation is performed corresponds to an update installation that updates a first program previously installed with a second program to be installed at this time. When the manner of installation corresponds to the update installation, the display controller selects a first display setting for causing a predetermined display unit to display a first user interface screen corresponding to the first program. When the manner of installation does not correspond to the update installation, the display controller selects a second display setting for causing the display unit to display a second user interface screen corresponding to the second program. |
| US10372463B1 |
Provisioning a computerized device with an operating system
A technique provisions a computerized device with a main operating system. The technique involves loading, while the computerized device operates as a preboot execution environment (PXE) protocol client, a limited boot image from a PXE server over a network (e.g., booting the limited boot image using the trivial file transfer protocol or TFTP). The technique further involves executing the limited boot image loaded from the PXE server to operate the computerized device as an advanced protocol provisioned client. The technique further involves downloading, while the computerized device executes the limited boot image to operate as the advanced protocol provisioned client, the main operating system into local memory from an operating system server over the network (e.g., booting the main operating system using the file transfer protocol or FTP). The computerized device may store a copy of the main operating system in a local non-volatile cache if available. |
| US10372456B2 |
Tensor processor instruction set architecture
A hardware accelerator having an efficient instruction set is disclosed. An apparatus may comprise logic configured to access a first and a second machine instruction. The second machine instruction may be missing a tensor operand needed to execute the second machine instruction. The logic may be further configured to execute the first machine instruction, resulting in a tensor. The logic may be further configured to execute the second machine instruction using the resultant tensor as the missing tensor operand. |
| US10372454B2 |
Allocation of a segmented interconnect to support the execution of instruction sequences by a plurality of engines
A method for allocation of a segmented interconnect in an integrate circuit is disclosed. The method comprises receiving a plurality of requests from a plurality of resource consumers of a plurality of engines to access a plurality of resources, wherein the resources are spread across the plurality of engines and contain data for supporting execution of multiple code sequences. The method also comprises contending for the plurality of resources in accordance with requests from the plurality of resource consumers. Finally, the method comprises accessing the plurality of resources via a global interconnect structure, wherein the global interconnect structure has a finite number of buses accessible each clock cycle, and wherein the global interconnect structure comprises a plurality of global segment buses. |
| US10372451B2 |
Sequence alignment method of vector processor
A sequence alignment method that may be performed by a vector processor is may include loading a sequence that is an instance of vector data including a plurality of elements, dividing the sequence into two groups, aligning respective elements of the groups to generate a sequence of sorted elements according to a single instruction multiple data mode, and iteratively performing an alignment operation based on a determination that each group in the sequence of sorted elements includes more than one element of the plurality of elements. Each iteration may include dividing each group to form new groups and aligning respective elements of each pair of adjacent new groups to generate a new sequence of sorted elements. The new sequence of a current iteration of the alignment operation may be transmitted as a data output, based on a determination that each new group does not include more than one element. |
| US10372449B2 |
Packed data operation mask concatenation processors, methods, systems, and instructions
A method of an aspect includes receiving a packed data operation mask concatenation instruction. The packed data operation mask concatenation instruction indicates a first source having a first packed data operation mask, indicates a second source having a second packed data operation mask, and indicates a destination. A result is stored in the destination in response to the packed data operation mask concatenation instruction. The result includes the first packed data operation mask concatenated with the second packed data operation mask. Other methods, apparatus, systems, and instructions are disclosed. |
| US10372446B2 |
Technology to dynamically modulate memory device read granularity
Technology to dynamically modulate read granularity of a memory device. A computing system may include a controller and one or more memory devices coupled to the controller, the one or more memory devices including instructions, which when executed by the controller, may cause the computing system to determine whether a read to a memory device satisfies a sub-page read policy. In addition, the instructions, when executed, may cause the computing system to issue a sub-page read command to retrieve data from the memory device at sub-page granularity when the read satisfies the sub-page read policy. Moreover, the instructions, when executed, may cause the computing system to issue a full-page read command to retrieve the data at full-page granularity when the read does not satisfy the sub-page read policy or when a read for a segment of sequentially stored data does not satisfy the sub-page read policy. |
| US10372443B2 |
Multi-platform pattern-based user interfaces
Techniques are provided for encapsulating a user experience design for user interfaces of an application, where the user experience design comprises a look and feel of the application and a plurality of functional elements of the application. A plurality of rules for implementing the one or more user interfaces may be defined, and the rules may be based at least in part on the user experience design. Additionally, a pattern may be generated based at least in part on the plurality of rules. The pattern may be deployed to a distributed network of computing devices, and reused in the design of multiple other applications. The new user interfaces for those applications may be generated based at least in part on the pattern, where the additional applications comply with the look and feel and the plurality of functional elements of the other applications that share the pattern. |
| US10372438B2 |
Cognitive installation of software updates based on user context
A system receives one or more messages including information related to one or more issues associated with a software application installed on a user device. In response to receiving the message, a processor in the system identifies a user context associated with the user device, wherein the user context comprises usage information related to the software application. The processor further analyzes the received information and the user context associated with the user device to determine one or more errors associated with the software application. One or more software updates that are available and associated with the one or more errors are determined. The system automatically installs one or more of the determined software updates on the user device. Embodiments of the present invention further include a method and computer program product for managing and installing one or more software updates in substantially the same manner as is described above. |
| US10372433B2 |
Caching and analyzing images for faster and simpler cloud application deployment
Techniques provide include analyzing a first node, associated with a first version of an service, to extract first configuration metadata; analyzing the first node, associated with a second version, subsequent to the first version, of the aservice, to extract second configuration metadata; determining, based upon a comparison of the first configuration metadata and the second configuration metadata, that the first node has not been modified between the first version and the second version; generating a first image of the node for distribution in conjunction with the service in response to the determining that the particular node has not been modified; and caching the first image for use in conjunction with the service. |
| US10372432B2 |
Application installation package obtaining method, information broadcast method, mobile device, and base station
An application installation package obtaining method includes receiving, by a mobile device, a broadcast frame sent by a base station, where the broadcast frame includes application identification information and network access information. The application installation package obtaining method includes accessing, by the mobile device, a network according to the network access information included in the broadcast frame. The application installation package obtaining method includes obtaining, by the mobile device from the base station by using the network, an installation package of an application identified by the application identification information. |
| US10372431B2 |
Unified intermediate representation
A system decouples the source code language from the eventual execution environment by compiling the source code language into a unified intermediate representation that conforms to a language model allowing both parallel graphical operations and parallel general-purpose computational operations. The intermediate representation may then be distributed to end-user computers, where an embedded compiler can compile the intermediate representation into an executable binary targeted for the CPUs and GPUs available in that end-user device. The intermediate representation is sufficient to define both graphics and non-graphics compute kernels and shaders. At install-time or later, the intermediate representation file may be compiled for the specific target hardware of the given end-user computing system. The CPU or other host device in the given computing system may compile the intermediate representation file to generate an instruction set architecture binary for the hardware target, such as a GPU, within the system. |
| US10372424B2 |
Lossless bi-directional formatting of program source code
A method, computer program product, and system includes a processor(s) of a host obtaining, from a client, via a communication connection over a network, a request to commit a modified version of program source code to a repository administered by the host. The processor(s) identify formatting in the modified version implemented by an editor executing on the client and remove the formatting. The processor(s) transform the modified version into a first storage structure that includes content of the modified version without the identified formatting. The processor(s) identify one or more differences between the first storage structure representing the modified version and a second storage structure (an unmodified version of the program source code stored in the repository). The processor(s) store the one or more differences in the repository. |
| US10372422B2 |
Performance verification device for verifying performance of program, method, and recording medium having program recorded thereon for causing computer to perform the method
When generating a source code executed by a multi-core processor in order to verify performance of a control system, a device generates the source code as an object of execution by the multi-core processor from a control model, performs cooperative simulation, and measures an execution time of a program in the multi-core processor in the cooperative simulation. |
| US10372417B2 |
Multiply-add operations of binary numbers in an arithmetic unit
Disclosed herein is a computer implemented method for performing multiply-add operations of binary numbers P, Q, R, S, B in an arithmetic unit of a processor, the operation calculating a result as an accumulated sum, which equals to B+n×P×Q+m×R×S, where n and m are natural numbers. Further disclosed herein is an arithmetic unit configured to implement multiply-add operations of binary numbers P, Q, R, S, B comprising at least a first binary arithmetic unit for calculating an aligned high part result and a second binary arithmetic unit for calculating an aligned low part result of the multiply-add operations. |
| US10372412B2 |
Force-based interactions with digital agents
Embodiments relate to enabling force-based interactions with an intelligent personal assistant (IPA). A computing device capable of sensing the force exerted to input touch inputs is configured with a pressure-based filter that checks pressures of touch inputs to determine which touch inputs are to be diverted to the IPA or which are to be passed on to underlying user interface that is not related to the IPA. Touch inputs designated for the IPA based on their pressure characteristics can become part of the context of the IPA. Some IPA uses of the touch inputs include selecting graphic objects on the display, resolving exophoric phrases (e.g., “that”, “those”) as referring to such selected graphic objects, displaying transient user interface to provide information about (or actions for) the selected object, incorporating a selected object into the current context of the IPA, etc. |
| US10372404B2 |
Data processing apparatus, data processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium
A first apparatus sets a first parameter and a second parameter. A result of processing using a first parameter to first data is the same as a result of processing using the first parameter to second data. A result of processing using a second parameter to the first data is different from a result of processing using the second parameter to the second data. At the first apparatus, predetermined information is displayed. The set parameter is transmitted from the first apparatus to a second apparatus. The second apparatus executes processing using the received parameter to the second data and transmits determination information. At the first apparatus, the predetermined information is stopped displaying when the determination information is received. |
| US10372402B1 |
Multi-panel, multi-communication video wall and system and method for seamlessly isolating one of more panels for individual user interaction
A multi-panel video wall and system is disclosed having a computer with a memory or access to a public or private cloud containing a video file and a processor for executing the video file and a plurality of video display screens interconnected to one another and to the computer via wired or wireless transmission, each of the plurality of video display screens configured to work together to display a video content generated from the video file that extends across all of the plurality of video display screens. Upon user interaction or detection of a user, one or more of the plurality of video display screens seamlessly transitions away from the video content to display a separate video content for interaction with the user. |
| US10372401B2 |
Display module and display device having the same
Provided is a display module including: a cabinet; and a plurality of Light Emitting Diode (LED) panels arranged on the cabinet in an array, each LED panel of the plurality of LED panels having a plurality of LEDs, wherein the cabinet includes a plurality of level regulators configured to regulate level differences amongst the plurality of LED panels, and wherein the plurality of level regulators include first level regulators provided at respective corners of the plurality of LED panels. |
| US10372400B2 |
Video management for compute nodes
An apparatus includes a plurality of compute nodes and a baseboard management controller that is shared by the plurality of compute nodes to manage video for the compute nodes. The baseboard management controller includes video controllers that are associated with the plurality of compute nodes and at least one resource that is shared by the video controllers. |
| US10372394B2 |
Information processing apparatus and non-transitory recording medium
An information processing apparatus comprises a storage. The information processing apparatus starts an installer to install a printer driver on the storage. The installer comprises: a registration screen controller that displays a print setting registration screen about a print setting settable at the printer driver; an installation default generating part that generates an installation default print setting about at least one print setting item based on operation for print setting registration on the print setting registration screen by a user; and an output part that outputs the installation default print setting to the printer driver at the time of installation of the printer driver. The printer driver comprises a print setting managing part that stores the installation default print setting output from the installer into a first storage region in the storage, and manages the stored installation default print setting, the first storage region being a region not rewritable. |
| US10372393B2 |
Printing information management device and printing system including the same
A printing information management device includes a model storage that stores a plurality of product models each included in one file linked with information on a printing target and printing setting information used to control a recording device, a model selector that selects one product model from the plurality of product models, and an output that provides the printing setting information included in the selected product model to the recording device. |
| US10372392B2 |
Communication apparatus, control method, and storage medium for canceling a communication setting
A problem is solved by providing a communication apparatus including a displaying unit that displays, on a display unit, a predetermined screen for executing a second communication setting that allows the communication apparatus to communicate with a terminal apparatus by using a second communication method, which is different from a first communication method, in a case where a cancel instruction is received while the communication apparatus is operating in a predetermined condition. |
| US10372391B2 |
Communication apparatus, terminal apparatus, control methods thereof, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
According to the present invention, when a terminal apparatus is brought close to a printing apparatus serving as a processing apparatus, the terminal apparatus uses its own NFC unit to acquire, from the printing apparatus, information for communicating with each of one or more network connection units provided in the printing apparatus. Then, using a communication unit, the terminal apparatus then searches for the printing apparatus on a network in accordance with the acquired information. In the case where the terminal apparatus has successfully identified the printing apparatus as being present on the network, the terminal apparatus transmits a processing request to the printing apparatus successfully identified on the network via the communication unit. |
| US10372388B2 |
Communication system, communication device, and control method
A communication system includes a communication device that communicates with an information processing device. The communication device wirelessly communicates via a first communication format and a second communication format, which is faster than the first communication format. The communication device includes a broadcasting unit that broadcasts advertising information via the first communication format, and a transmission unit that transmits status information relating to a state of the communication device to a certain information processing device via communication established based on a connection request from the certain information processing device, based on the advertising information. The certain information processing device performs notification of information indicating the state of the communication device based on the transmitted status information. |
| US10372386B2 |
Communication apparatus, method of controlling the same, and storage medium
A communication apparatus and a method for controlling same, where a wireless communication unit that can operate in a direct wireless communication mode that executes direct wireless communication between an external apparatus and the communication apparatus is comprised, and when a user of the communication apparatus is specified, at least user information of the user is used to generate an SSID that is used in the direct wireless communication mode. |
| US10372384B2 |
Method and system for managing storage system using first and second communication areas
Embodiments of the present invention provide a method and a system for managing a storage system. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a method for managing a storage system, where the storage system comprises a first controller, a second controller, a first communication area as well as a second communication area. The method comprising: with respect to a storage device in the storage system, in response to the first controller successfully accessing the storage device, writing to the first communication area a first state that indicates a state relationship between the first controller and the storage device, where the first communication area is readable and writable to the first controller and readable to the second controller, reading from the second communication area a second state that indicates a state relationship between the second controller and the storage device, where the second communication area is readable to the first controller and readable and writable to the second controller; and in response to the second state indicating that the second controller successfully accesses the storage device, initializing the storage system. In one embodiment of the present invention, there is further provided a corresponding system and apparatus. |
| US10372381B2 |
Implicit leader election in a distributed storage network
A method begins by a processing module receiving a request to store a data object in distributed storage (DS) units. The processing module generates and transmits a proposal message that includes a source name, a value for the source name, and a proposal attempt identifier. The processing module then receives a threshold number of proposal message responses from the plurality of DS units, and when the proposal message responses indicate that no other proposal messages have been received by the DS units, uses the value for the source name included within the proposal message as a persistent value for the source name, and the method continues with the processing module notifying the requesting computing device. When the proposal message responses indicate that at least one other proposal message has been received by the DS unit of the plurality of DS units, the method continues with the processing module employing a third value for the source name as the persistent value for the source name. |
| US10372380B2 |
Asserting integrity with a verifiable codec
A method includes retrieving a decode threshold number of encoded data slices, wherein codecs process, in an order, a data segment and the processed data segment is encoded into a set of encoded data slices. The method further includes decoding the decode threshold number of encoded data slices to recover the processed data segment. In a reversed order to the order, applying a first codec on the processed data segment to produce a first partially processed recovered data segment. When the first codec is a verifiable codec, the method further includes separating the first partially processed recovered data segment into an initial integrity value and a processed data segment. The method further includes calculating a new integrity value from the processed data segment. When the new integrity value substantially matches the initial integrity value, the method further includes indicating that the set of encoded data slices is authentic. |
| US10372376B2 |
System and method of orchestrating execution of commands in a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) device
A method of orchestrating the execution of commands in a non-volatile memory express (NVMe) device includes receiving one or more commands, to be executed, from one or more host devices in one or more submission queues. One or more configuration commands are identified, from the one or more received commands, that will alter the attributes/characteristics of the NVMe device. One or more commands operating with the same attributes as the identified one or more configuration commands are also identified. And selective fencing of the identified one or more commands is initiated to orchestrate execution of commands in the NVMe device. |
| US10372375B2 |
Magnetic disk device and command reordering method thereof
A magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head, a voice coil motor which drives movement of the magnetic head relative to the magnetic disk, a drive circuit which drives the voice coil motor, a memory in which a seek time for a seek operation is stored in association with a seek distance of the magnetic head, and a controller. The controller changes the seek time stored in the memory in association with the seek distance based on a temperature and a power supply voltage of the drive circuit. |
| US10372372B2 |
Storage system
A storage system includes first storage devices to provide storage areas of a first tier and for which a life usage rate is determined based on an erase count and a guaranteed maximum erase count, second storage devices to provide storage areas of a second tier and for which a guaranteed maximum erase count is not specified, and a controller to perform data reallocation between the first tier and the second tier. The controller determines a weight for a read access and a weight for a write access from a host based on life usage rates of the first storage devices, and determines whether to relocate data stored in the second tier to the first tier based on the weight for a read access, the weight for a write access, a read count for the data in a period, and a write count for the data in the period. |
| US10372370B2 |
Metadata load distribution management
A computer-implemented method for redistributing data between memory clusters in a key value store. The data is redistributed according to a load balancing algorithm. Memory clusters are sorted into lists according to the number of intervals each cluster contains. Migration jobs are created by the load balancing algorithm to push data fragments from a larger cluster to a smaller cluster. Data fragments, or intervals, are selected for migration according to corresponding data fragments on a target cluster or the number of occupying data fragments on a target cluster. The redistribution of data helps avoid fragmentation of key ranges of intervals, decrease the overall number of non-adjacent key ranges, and to conform to the routing table requirements. |
| US10372364B2 |
Storage enclosure with daisy-chained sideband signal routing and distributed logic devices
A storage enclosure includes a plurality of hard drive sub-boards, each configured to include a plurality of hard drives. A local logic device manages each hard drive sub-board. A master logic device manages the local logic devices. The master logic device receives management commands from a host computer system coupled to the storage enclosure, and routes those commands to specific local logic devices. The local logic devices then relay the commands to specifically targeted hard drives. Thus, each hard drive within the storage enclosure can be independently controlled, allowing a single hard drive to be powered down without powering down other hard drives in the enclosure. |
| US10372362B2 |
Dynamically composable computing system, a data center, and method for dynamically composing a computing system
The present disclosure relates to a dynamically composable computing system comprising a computing fabric with a plurality of different disaggregated computing hardware resources having respective hardware characteristics. A resource manager has access to the respective hardware characteristics of the different disaggregated computing hardware resources and is configured to assemble a composite computing node by selecting one or more disaggregated computing hardware resources with respective hardware characteristics meeting requirements of an application to be executed on the composite computing node. An orchestrator is configured to schedule the application using the assembled composite computing node. |
| US10372361B2 |
Data storage device including multiple memory modules and circuitry to manage communication among the multiple memory modules
A memory system includes a plurality of volatile memory modules to temporarily store data in a distributed manner, a V storing place management unit included in each of the volatile memory modules, a plurality of nonvolatile memory modules to store the data stored in each of the volatile memory modules in a distributed manner, and a NV storing place management unit included in each of the nonvolatile memory modules. Each V storing place management unit and each NV storing place management unit communicate and determine the destination nonvolatile memory module for each volatile memory module. The data is transmitted to the determined destination nonvolatile memory module and stored in the destination nonvolatile memory module. |
| US10372358B2 |
Access processor
A reconfigurable computing device having a plurality of reconfigurable partitions and that is adapted to perform parallel processing of operand data by the partitions is provided. The computing system includes a memory device that is adapted to store configuration data to configure the partitions of the computing device, to store operand data to be processed by the configured partitions and to store processing results of the operand data. A programmable memory access processor having a predefined program is provided. The access processor performs address generation, address mapping and access scheduling for retrieving the configuration data from the memory unit, for retrieving the operand data from the memory unit and for storing the processing results in the memory unit. The access processor also transfers the configuration data from the memory unit to the computing device and transfers the operand data from the memory unit to the computing device. |
| US10372348B2 |
Generating node access information for a transaction accessing nodes of a data set index
Provided are a computer program product, system, and method for generating node access information for a transaction accessing nodes of a data set index. Pages in the memory are allocated to internal nodes and leaf nodes of a tree data structure representing all or a portion of a data set index for the data set. A transaction is processed with respect to the data set that involves accessing the internal and leaf nodes in the tree data structure, wherein the transaction comprises a read or write operation. Node access information is generated in transaction information, for accessed nodes comprising nodes in the tree data structure accessed as part of processing the transaction. The node access information includes a pointer to the page allocated to the accessed node prior to the transaction in response to the node being modified during the transaction. |
| US10372343B2 |
Storage system, method, and apparatus for processing operation request
According to a storage system, method, and apparatus for processing an operation request provided by embodiments of the present invention, a controller directly encapsulates a SCSI protocol operation request into an Ethernet operation request packet at the MAC layer instead of using the TCP/IP protocol layer and a disk enclosure decapsulates the Ethernet operation request to obtain the SCSI protocol operation request and sends the SCSI protocol operation request to a target disk, thereby reducing layers of encapsulation, reducing a processing delay of the storage system, and improving performance of the storage system. |
| US10372340B2 |
Data distribution method in storage system, distribution apparatus, and storage system
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a storage system, including a distribution apparatus and a storage device; the storage device includes at least two storage controllers and multiple storage units, where each storage unit is configured with any one of the at least two storage controllers as a home storage controller; and the distribution apparatus includes a front-end interface and at least two back-end interfaces, where the front-end interface is configured to connect to a host device, and each back-end interface is connected to each storage controller in a one-to-one correspondence manner. According to the technical solutions provided in the present disclosure, the distribution apparatus parses an IO read/write instruction, so that the IO read/write instruction can be accurately sent to the home storage controller, which avoids forwarding the IO read/write instruction between the storage controllers, thereby improving IO processing efficiency of the storage system. |
| US10372335B2 |
External memory for virtualization
Methods and systems for providing a virtualization instance on an apparatus access to external primary memory, where the external primary memory is memory that is external to the apparatus but primary memory to the apparatus. Methods and systems to migrate a virtualization instance from a first client to a second client are provided in which memory of the virtualization instance is copied to from a first region to a second region without being copied to or from the first client or the second client. Methods and systems are provided for limiting local primary memory usage by a virtualization instance. After the flushing or the shooting down a translation lookaside buffer, a selected memory portion corresponding to a page table entry is marked dirty based on a portion-tracking data structure indicating that the page table entry for the selected memory portion was dirty when the selected memory portion was unmapped. |
| US10372334B2 |
Reclaiming free space in a storage system
One embodiment provides a method for reclaiming free space. The method comprises selecting a first blob for reclamation from a first data center; sending a first message to a second data center indicating the first blob is to be reclaimed; sending a second message to the second data center after reclaiming the first blob; receiving a global reclamation complete message from the second data center; reading at least one data set from the first blob; and storing in a write buffer the at least one data set for encoding into a erasure code group in an alternative blob in the first data center. Further, upon receipt of the global reclamation message from the second data center, indicating the first blob is free in the map in the first data center. In one embodiment, selecting the first blob is based on the map indicating free space in the first data center. |
| US10372333B2 |
Electronic device and method for storing a file in a plurality of memories
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first memory, a second memory, and a control module configured, when a file storing event occurs, to divide a file inputted from outside of the electronic device into a plurality of files, to store a portion of the divided files in the first memory, and to store another portion of the divided files in the second memory, wherein one of the first memory and the second memory includes a header notifying a storage location of the divided files. |
| US10372332B1 |
Interconnection of peripheral devices on different electronic devices
A method and apparatus of performing a data transmission from an electronic device or a peripheral device of an electronic device to a peripheral device of a remote electronic device is disclosed. One example method of performing the data transmission may include transmitting data designated for the remote peripheral device to a local virtual device object. The data that is received by the local virtual device object is transmitted via at least one communication interface or peripheral device of the electronic device to at least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device. The data arriving at the least one remote communication interface or peripheral device of the remote electronic device is received by a remote virtual device object and transmitted to the designated remote peripheral device. |
| US10372329B1 |
Managing storage devices in a distributed storage system
Storage systems store data in a storage pool comprising storage devices or virtual devices. The storage pool may be allocated for a particular purpose. If a virtual device within the storage pool needs to be repurposed, the virtual device is removed from the storage pool. Data is moved from the removed virtual device to one or more target virtual devices. Segments of the source virtual device being removed are copied to target virtual devices. Mapping tables associating source segments with target segments are stored. If the storage system receives a request to access data stored on a virtual device that is removed, the storage system processes the mapping tables to determine where the data is stored. |
| US10372326B2 |
Mobile terminal device, operation method, program, and storage medium
A mobile terminal device includes a touch panel where a specified input operation is performed with an indicator, an input detection unit, and an operation determination unit. The input detection unit detects the pattern of the input operation based on the position of the indicator on the touch panel, and decreases the frequency of execution of processing arranged to detect the input operation performed on the touch panel when an input operation performed on the touch panel is not detected over a specified time period. When the pattern of the input operation is detected in the case where the execution frequency of the processing arranged to detect the input operation is low, the operation determination unit causes a controlled unit determined to be an operation target in relation to the pattern of the input operation to execute a specified operation. |
| US10372325B2 |
Electromyographic based touch interaction processing method, device, and system
A touch interaction processing method, device, and system. The touch interaction processing method includes: receiving first information sent by an electromyographic signal collection device and second information sent by a location capturing device (101); if it is determined that a time gap between a first touch start time and a second touch start time is less than a preset threshold, and a quantity of touch points that is corresponding to a hand gesture is the same as a quantity of touch points that is included in the second information, generating a touch instruction, where the touch instruction includes a device identifier of the electromyographic signal collection device, the hand gesture, and coordinate information of each touch point (103); and performing an interaction operation corresponding to the touch instruction (105). |
| US10372324B2 |
Synchronous communication system and method
A method and computing system for providing, using one or more computing devices, a synchronous communication session for a plurality of users of a social network. A first video stream of a first user of the plurality of users is rendered within a primary viewing field associated with the synchronous communication session. At least a second video stream of at least a second user of the plurality of users is rendered within the primary viewing field associated with the synchronous communication session. |
| US10372321B2 |
Recognition of user drawn graphical objects based on detected regions within a coordinate-plane
A system, method, and apparatus for managing the drawing of graphical objects are disclosed. An example apparatus includes an interface configured to receive at least one gesture from a user in relation to a client device. The apparatus also includes a coordinate detector configured to determine a coordinate-plane for the at least one gesture and determine coordinates of points along the at least one gesture. The apparatus further includes an object detector configured to determine a graphical object based on the coordinates of points corresponding to the at least one gesture and an object manager configured to cause the graphical object to be displayed by the client device. The graphical object includes a formalized editable version of the at least one gesture in a format native to an application selected to receive the graphical object. |
| US10372317B1 |
Method for highly accurate selection of items on an axis with a quadrilateral control surface
A method for presenting a media item of a set of media items in a user interface (UI) of a client device is disclosed. The UI includes a first scrub area associated with a first scrub rate and a second scrub area associated with a second scrub rate. The client device receives a first user input via the first scrub area of the UI to navigate through the set of media items at the first scrub rate. The client device receives a second user input that is separate from the first user input via the second scrub area of the UI to navigate through the set of media items at a second scrub rate. |
| US10372310B2 |
Suppression of input images
A computing device is described which has a memory storing at least one indicator of image use; a user interface which receives user input; and a processor configured to trigger prediction, from the user input, of a plurality of candidate images for input to the computing device. The processor is configured to at least partially suppress the prediction of the plurality of images using the indicator of image use. |
| US10372309B2 |
Method and system for controlling a scheduling order of multimedia content for a broadcast
A scheduling order can be designated for the broadcast and playback of multimedia content (e.g., music, news, other audio, advertising, etc) with respect to slots within the scheduling order. The broadcast day is divided into dayparts having blocks of time and including multiple time slots. One of those time slots, a transition period, is adjacent to another daypart. The transition period may be scheduled using a different algorithm for adjacency scheduling to satisfy both horizontal and vertical adjacency requirements. The remaining slots for the schedule can be scheduled from one or more categories of media items associated with the block being scheduled. |
| US10372305B2 |
Free-form entries during payment processes
Methods, systems, and computer program products for allowing a user to perform a free-form action to initiate an activity associated with a user interface element are provided. For example, a computer-implemented method may include providing a user interface comprising a user interface element for display, detecting a free-form action performed by a user, determining a free-form definition corresponding to the detected free-form action where the determined free-form definition is one of a plurality of stored definitions, and performing an activity associated with the user interface element where the activity corresponds to the determined free-form definition. |
| US10372302B2 |
Dimension based dynamic determination of visual analytics
Alternative visual analytics for a particular business object are determined in response to user requests to change the dimensions of a previously generated visual analytic. By analyzing the request to change the dimensions, an alternative visual analytic pattern that includes suitably dimensioned visualizations is determined. The alternative visual analytic pattern includes a description of a particular visualization and defines how to generate a corresponding visual analytic. Based on the alternative visual analytic pattern, a modified report definition can be generated. The modified report definition, that includes analytical operations with dimensions corresponding to the request, can be executed on the business object to generate modified analytic data. A new modified visual analytic that comprises a visual representation of the modified analytic data is then generated based on the alternative visual analytic pattern. |
| US10372299B2 |
Preserve input focus in virtualized dataset
Variety of approaches to preserve an input focus in a virtualized dataset is described. An application initiates operations to preserve an input focus in a virtualized dataset by presenting an initial page of items from a large dataset in a visible area. A spacer associated with a non-rendered page of items from the large dataset is rendered in a virtual area of the application. Next, an initial focus position is assigned to the initial page of items. Furthermore, the initial page of items is stored in a focus page index in an association with the initial focus position. |
| US10372293B2 |
Contextual determination of emotion icons
A method, computer program product, and system for contextual determination of emotion icons. The method includes, for a particular user, determining an emotion icon to automatically input into a message, based on a class of the user, a current mood of the user, and the recipient of the message. The determined emotion icon is then inserted into the message. |
| US10372291B1 |
Systems and methods for click-to-callback
Click-to-callback provides an icon or link on a webpage that a user can select or click on. When the icon or link is clicked or otherwise selected, the user is provided with a list of his phone numbers to choose from, or a blank field to enter an alternate number, for an immediate return call from a representative of the entity (e.g., the company) associated with the webpage. When this request is submitted, the representative desirably calls the user back immediately (e.g., within about 10 seconds) to provide assistance. Thus, the user remains on the website, and gets the help he desires to continue on the website, which may, for example, lead to the user making an online purchase. |
| US10372290B2 |
Comparing 3D modeled objects
The disclosure notably relates to a computer-implemented method for comparing a first 3D modeled object and a second 3D modeled object. The method comprises upon manipulation of a user-interaction tool that controls at least one non-uniform variation of the rendering of both the first 3D modeled object and the second 3D modeled object, updating the displaying of the first 3D object and the second 3D object. The user-interaction tool is configured to be manipulated via a predetermined set of at least one action, a repetition of each respective action of the set controlling a respective non-uniform variation of the rendering of both the first 3D modeled object and the second 3D modeled object. Such a method improves the comparison of a first 3D modeled object and a second 3D modeled object that each represent a part or an assembly of parts. |
| US10372289B2 |
Wraparound interface layout method, content switching method under three-dimensional immersive environment, and list switching method
The present disclosure discloses a wraparound interface layout method, which adopts a user-centered wraparound layout in a stereo space, thus more display objects are available for the layout, and the expansibility is better; by clearly presenting the display objects located in a user's sight line to the user, main content in the interface is effectively highlighted, so that the user finds the sense of presence, and a better user experience is achieved; in addition, the distances from the display objects to the human eyes are corrected, which avoids the undesirable display effect that the objects close to the user are visually larger and the objects far away from the user are visually smaller, and provides a more comfortable viewing experience. The present disclosure discloses a content switching method and a list switching method under a three-dimensional immersive environment, which sufficiently utilizes spatial characteristics under the three-dimensional immersive environment, a content to be presented is divided into a plurality of content units, and only display the current content unit or the current list within the scope of the user's sight line, thereby effectively highlighting the content to be displayed, visually improving the sense of space, and enhancing the user's three-dimensional immersive experience. Moreover, the user's switching operation is simplified, thus through a very simple action within a narrow range, the user can complete the content switching or the list switching, and enjoy a smooth and accurate switching experience. |
| US10372286B2 |
Method for controlling notification and electronic device thereof
An electronic device and operation method of the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a display unit configured to display a notification, and a processing unit configured to sense a set input and store the displayed notification corresponding to the sensed set input. The storing of the notification is displayed in the display unit. |
| US10372285B2 |
Standardizing user interface elements
In various example embodiments, a system and method for standardizing user interface elements are presented. A method includes determining parameters of one or more user interface elements as part of a first application, the first application selected based on an increased usage by a user compared with other applications, generating a profile for the user, the profile indicating the respective parameters of the one or more user interface elements, and modifying locations of user interface elements with matching predetermined identifiers as part of a second application based on the respective parameters indicated in the profile. |
| US10372282B2 |
Capacitive coupling reduction in touch sensor panels
Touch sensor panel configurations and methods for improving touch sensitivity of some or all of the electrodes or portions of the touch sensor panel are disclosed. The touch sensor panel configurations can allow increased speed at which the panel can operate. In some examples, the performance of a given touch electrode can differ from the performance of another touch electrode due to differences in capacitance and/or resistance. The performance of the touch sensor panel can be limited by the touch electrode with the lowest performance relative to the other touch electrodes. The configurations and methods can increase the performance of the touch sensor panel by minimizing the capacitive coupling and/or resistance of touch electrodes. Examples of the disclosure can provide configurations of touch sensor panels and methods for improving optical uniformity of the panel. |
| US10372277B2 |
Triboelectric device
Example embodiments relate to a triboelectric device including first and second electrodes that are spaced apart from each other, a charging layer provided on the first electrode, a display layer, which is provided between the first and second electrodes, configured to implement an image according to a change in an electric field between the first and second electrodes, and a charging member charged with an opposite polarity to the polarity of the charging layer by contacting the charging layer, wherein the triboelectric device is configured to implement the image according to the change in the electric field between the first and second electrodes in a contact area of the charging member and the charging layer. |
| US10372275B2 |
Interactive high-clarity glass electronic whiteboard
An interactive high-clarity glass electronic whiteboard having a writing board body; the writing board body includes a base board and an ultra-thin tempered glass. The front of the base board attaches with the ultra-thin tempered glass. The attaching surface of the ultra-thin tempered glass attaching the base board is adhered with a non-transparent interlayer. A non-transparent coating is adhered to an attaching surface of the ultra-thin tempered glass attaching the base board A writing surface of the ultra-thin tempered glass is a matte surface with anti-glare treatment. |
| US10372268B2 |
Spatial image display apparatus and spatial image display method
An spatial image display apparatus and method for displaying a spatial image in an aerial space, sensing an object traversing the spatial image, calculating the position of the object's effective centroid, and performing an input operation is disclosed. The spatial image display apparatus detects distances from the object's surface thrust into the aerial display to more precisely determine the position on the spatial image at which the user intends to indicate. |
| US10372266B2 |
Systems and methods of improved water detection on a touch-sensitive display using directional scanning techniques
An exemplary method used to improve water detection on a touch-sensitive display includes performing a plurality of scans of a touch-sensitive array using at least two different scan patterns to capture response data for at least a subset of the plurality of sensor electrodes. The method further includes determining a signal direction for each sensor electrode in the subset using the response data. The method further includes identifying touch zone(s), each comprising a group of sensor electrodes with signal directions that point towards a peak electrode response included in the group. The peak electrode response indicates a location of a candidate touch object on the touch-sensitive array. For each identified touch zone, reporting a touch object at the location of the peak electrode response upon determination that the peak electrode response for the touch zone satisfies a predefined response threshold. |
| US10372264B2 |
Touch panel including touch sensor and driving method thereof
A touch panel including: a first electrode pattern arranged in a first direction, including a plurality of first electrode cells that are physically separated from each other; a second electrode pattern arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, including a plurality of second electrode cells that are physically separated from each other; first touch signal lines connected to the first electrode cells; and second touch signal lines connected to the second electrode cells. The electrode patterns and the touch signal lines are arranged on the same layer on a substrate such that a first virtual connection line for connecting centers of second electrode cells of a first group corresponding to an n-th first electrode cell crosses a second virtual connection line for connecting centers of second electrode cells of a second group corresponding to an (n+1)-th first electrode cell. |
| US10372261B2 |
Display device
A touch panel of capacitance type includes plural X-electrodes, plural Y-electrodes, and a Z-electrode. Each of the X-electrode and the Y-electrode is formed to have pad portions and thin line portions alternately arranged in an extending direction. The pad portion of the X-electrode and the pad portion of the Y-electrode are arranged without being overlapped in a planar view. The Z-electrode is electrically in a floating state, and formed to be overlapped with both the adjacent X-electrode and the Y-electrode in a planar view. The touched position is calculated based on a local minimal point as an intersection with the interelectrode capacitance value that is equal to or smaller than each of the interelectrode capacitance values of four peripheral intersections among those at the intersections between the plural X-electrodes and the plural Y-electrodes. |
| US10372256B2 |
Touch panels and the driving methods and touch displays thereof
A driving method of touch panels is disclosed. The touch panel includes gate lines and data lines intersecting with each other, and at least one switch component arranged at intersections of the gate lines and the data lines, and the switch component connects to the gate line and the data line. During a touch scanning phase, when a touch scanning voltage is applied to a gate line, a gate turn-off voltage of the gate line oscillates together with the touch scanning voltage at the same amplitude and frequency to prevent the switch component from being turned on during the touch scanning phase. In addition, the touch panel and the touch display driven by the driving method are disclosed. |
| US10372254B2 |
Force touch assemblies, force detection methods, driving methods and display devices
The embodiments provide a force touch assembly, a force detection method, a driving detection method and a display apparatus. The force touch assembly may comprise a substrate, a touch sensor and a force sensor provided on the substrate, and a back plate, wherein: the touch sensor is disposed on a first side of the substrate; the force sensor is disposed on a second side of the substrate opposite to the touch sensor, and configured to contact with the substrate; and the back plate is disposed on a side of the force sensor opposite to the substrate, with a gap from the force sensor. The disclosure enables functional layers such as touch sensor and force sensor to be integrated on the same substrate, saving the carrier required for manufacturing the force sensor, reducing the thickness of the force touch assembly, enabling the integration of the assembly into a product having a higher physical strength, and further simplifying the process. The magnitude of the force can be detected based on a capacitor formed by the force sensor and the back plate. |
| US10372253B2 |
Touch display device and backlight unit thereof
Discussed is a touch display device able to sense a touch position of a user touch and an amount of user touching force. A case disposed below the backlight unit is used as a touching force sensing electrode, enabling a touch display device to sense touch force using the case. A gap is formed by an open area in the bottom cover of the backlight unit, enabling the user touching force to be sensed without an increase in the thickness of the touch display device. |
| US10372251B2 |
Display device
To enable size reduction of a display device having a touch sensor function in which a display area has a non-rectangular shape. In a display area, video lines and common electrodes extend in the first direction, and scan lines extend in the second direction. A video signal transmission circuit and a common driver are arranged along a first edge of the display area, with which the one ends of the video lines are aligned. A scan line driver is arranged along a second edge of the display area, with which the ends of the scan lines and the common electrodes are aligned. The display area has a shape including an overlapping part between the first edge and the second edge. In a frame area adjacent to the overlapping part, the scan line driver is arranged more outward than the video signal transmission circuit and switch circuits. |
| US10372247B2 |
Touch display panel and manufacture method thereof, display device
Embodiments of the invention relate to the technical field of displaying technology, and provide a touch display panel and manufacture method thereof, as well as a display device, which may mitigate or avoid the problem of uniformity of displayed image caused by the difference of the transmittances between the region of the touch electrode and the region of the lead. The manufacture method for a touch display panel comprises: forming a touch electrode in an electrode region; forming a lead connected with the touch electrode in a lead region; collecting a first transmittance of the electrode region and a second transmittance of the lead region respectively; determining difference values between a preset reference value and the first transmittance as well as the preset reference value and the second transmittance respectively; setting a light shading area of the electrode region and/or the lead region based on the difference values to compensate for the first transmittance and/or the second transmittance. |
| US10372246B2 |
Transferable nanocomposites for touch sensors
This disclosure generally relates to a transferable electrically conductive nanocomposite and a method for manufacturing it. This disclosure also relates to a high throughput process suitable for manufacturing of transparent electrically conductive nanocomposite layers formed on both flexible and rigid substrates. This disclosure also generally relates to an electronic system comprising a transparent conductive electrode. This disclosure also generally relates to an electronic system comprising a touch sensor and a method for manufacturing such system. This disclosure also generally relates to an optoelectronic system including a touch screen. |
| US10372240B2 |
Manual device comprising a reversible tip for a capacitive screen
A manual device comprising a body, and at least one reversible tip mounted on the body, the reversible tip comprising a first head, a second head opposite to the first head, a conductive outer casing, an internal part arranged inside the casing, the first head comprising a first pad for a capacitive screen, the first head and the second head being blocked between the internal part and the casing while the internal part is assembled by snap-fitting to the casing, the first head and the second head projecting from the casing. |
| US10372239B2 |
Input device, electronic device for receiving signal from input device, and control method thereof
An input device and method for control based on input device tilt is provided. The input device includes a conductive tip formed at one end of the input device, a resonant circuit unit configured to generate a response signal corresponding to a signal entering through the conductive tip and output the response signal through the conductive tip, and a connection part formed between the conductive tip and a body of the input device to enclose a periphery of the conductive tip so as to have a part of the conductive tip exposed from one end of the input device. The connection part includes a metal member having a larger cross-section area than a cross-section area of the conductive tip and which affects signal intensity in response to input device tilt as detected by a touch screen of an electronic device. |
| US10372238B2 |
User terminal device and method for controlling the user terminal device thereof
A user terminal device and a control method are provided. The user terminal device includes a display, a sensor configured to sense a user interaction on the display, and a controller configured to, in response to a user interaction being sensed by the sensor of a touch being made by an input device of a polyhedral shape that includes different touch patterns on each of a plurality of surfaces, control a function of the user terminal device according to a touch pattern on a touched surface among the plurality of surfaces. |
| US10372233B1 |
Method of generating symbols from a chording keyboard
A method of generating symbols from a chording keyboard is described. A unique feature of this method is accepting a sequence of chords from the keyboard without either an intervening chord or a requirement that all keys be released between chords. Another unique feature is that that the chord map is independent of chords before or after a particular chord, for a particular symbol. That is, a user need only memorize one chord for each symbol, and then may transition directly from exactly that chord to any other chord. There are no special transition requirements. The number of keys on a keyboard for this method may be 4 to 10, inclusive. Such a keyboard may be operated with one hand. Specific attributes of embodiments or chord tables are described. |
| US10372225B2 |
Video display device recognizing a gesture of a user to perform a control operation and operating method thereof
An operating method of a video display device, and which includes obtaining an image of a user of the video display device; generating a plurality of gesture areas for the user from the obtained image; recognizing a position of a gesture object of the user from the plurality of generated gesture areas; recognizing a gesture of the user from the obtained image; and performing a control operation corresponding to the position of the recognized gesture object and the recognized gesture. |
| US10372224B2 |
Input system
An input system includes a first gesture detection unit and a second gesture detection unit. The first gesture detection unit includes a first light emitting device for emitting a first light beam, a first light sensing device for receiving the first light beam reflected by a first motion trajectory generated by a user and outputting a first image signal, and a first processing unit for processing the first image signal and outputting a first command signal. The second gesture detection unit includes a second light emitting device for emitting a second light beam, a second light sensing device for receiving the second light beam reflected by a second motion trajectory generated by the user and outputting a second image signal, and a second processing unit for processing the second image signal and outputting a second command signal. |
| US10372223B2 |
Method for providing user commands to an electronic processor and related processor program and electronic circuit
It is disclosed a method for providing user commands to an electronic processor, wherein a first command corresponds to the pressure of a first predetermined button of a mouse and a second command corresponds to the release of the button. An image detection device in communication with the electronic processor is able to detect a sequence of images of a person using the electronic processor. The method comprises the following steps: A) identifying a hand of the person; B) detecting movement of the hand corresponding to pinching of the pad of the thumb and of the pad of another finger; C) generating the first user command and sending it to the electronic processor; D) detecting movement of the hand corresponding to spreading of the pad of the thumb and of the pad of the other finger; E) generating the second user command and sending it to the electronic processor. |
| US10372221B2 |
Devices, methods, and graphical user interfaces for generating tactile outputs
An application-independent module associates a first type of event with a first tactile output and a distinct second type of event with a different second tactile output. An electronic device receives and generates a response to first information from a first application by generating the first tactile output using one or more tactile output generators if the first information corresponds to an application event of the first type; and generating the second tactile output using the one or more tactile output generators if the first information corresponds to an application event of the second type. The electronic device receives and generates a response to second information from a distinct second application by generating the first tactile output if the second information corresponds to an application event of the first type; and generating the second tactile output if the second information corresponds to an application event of the second type. |
| US10372218B2 |
Touch sensitive element and display device including the same
There is provided a touch sensitive element including an electroactive layer, and an electrode disposed on at least one surface of the electroactive layer. The electroactive layer has a first portion having a first thickness and a second portion which has a second thickness different from the first thickness and is in contact with the first portion at an outside of the first portion. |
| US10372217B2 |
Systems and methods for providing haptic effects
Systems and methods for providing haptic effects are disclosed. For example, one disclosed system includes a computer-readable medium having program code, the program code including program code defining a haptic widget. The haptic widget includes program code defining a haptic effect; program code defining an interface for the haptic widget; program code for receiving, via the interface, a configuration of at least one parameter of the haptic widget; program code for receiving, via the interface, a play command for the haptic effect; and program code for outputting, via the interface, a signal configured to cause the haptic effect, the signal based on the at least one parameter and in response to the play command. |
| US10372216B2 |
Gesture feedback
A gesture recognition device (100) for recognising gestures made by a user is disclosed. The device comprises a gesture detector for detecting a gesture made be a user and a gesture analysis block, the gesture analysis block comprising a memory configured to store known gestures, and a pattern recognition block configured to associate a gesture detected by the gesture detector with a known gesture stored in the memory. The device (100) further comprises a magnetic field generator for interacting with a wearable tag (200), the magnetic field generator configured to provide a magnetic force (202) on the wearable tag (200) when a particular gesture is recognised by the gesture analysis block. |
| US10372215B2 |
Input apparatus and control method of input apparatus
An input apparatus according to the present embodiment includes a detector, a vibration element, and an element controller. The detector detects a touch on an operation surface. The vibration element vibrates the operation surface. The element controller reduces or stops a vibration of the vibration element based on a continuation time of the touch that is detected by the detector in a state where the operation surface is being vibrated. |
| US10372210B2 |
Device and method for transmitting and receiving information by Braille
The present disclosure relates to a device in the form of a glove for receiving and transmitting information using Braille comprising contact groups, and to a method for receiving and transmitting information using said device by visually, hearing and voice-impaired people. The device is made of, for example, textile material and comprises contact groups which, when put in contact with each other, generate and transmit signals defined as raised dots in Braille, and vibration signal devices used for receiving signals defined as raised dots in Braille. The device may comprise a control unit for analysis and conversion of data as well as transmitting and receiving signals connected by wires to the contact groups and vibration signal devices. The method for receiving and transmitting information is performed using the device connected to a computer or smartphone having software installed for converting Braille characters into the alphabet or voice and backwards. |
| US10372209B2 |
Eye tracking enabling 3D viewing
The exemplary illustrative non-limiting technology herein enables 3D viewing on conventional 2D displays such as home television sets by tracking a person's viewpoint. Detecting a player's viewpoint movement to change the viewing of the displayed object gives the illusion that the object is physically present in three-dimensional space. Viewpoint movement detection can provide collision-related game logic benefits such as allowing a player to dodge projectiles, giving a game character an ability to “see” the player when not behind line-of-sight obstacles, and other advantages. |
| US10372207B2 |
Adaptive VR/AR viewing based on a users eye condition profile
Techniques described herein are directed to adaptive virtual reality and augmented reality viewing based on a user's eye condition data. In a first implementation, a software application renders video content based on the user's eye condition data by mapping the user's eye condition data to video rendering parameters. The video content rendered based on the user's eye condition data may be made available to a virtual reality/augmented reality player and played using a head mounted display. The video content rendered based on the user's eye condition data may be pre-rendered before video content playback or rendered in real time during video content playback. In an additional implementation, the head mounted display may be calibrated and adjusted based on the eye condition data prior to video playback. |
| US10372206B2 |
Eye-controlled apparatus, eye-controlled method and eye-controlled system
The present disclosure discloses an eye-controlled apparatus, an eye-controlled method and an eye-controlled system. The eye-controlled apparatus includes a fixation point acquisition unit, a human eye action detection unit and a control signal generation unit. The fixation point acquisition unit is configured to acquire position information about the fixation point of human eyes on a device to be operated. The human eye action detection unit is configured to detect whether the human eyes take a pre-set action, and control the fixation point acquisition unit to transmit current position information about the fixation point of the human eyes on the device to be operated to the control signal generation unit when detecting the preset action taken by the human eyes. The control signal generation unit is configured to generate, based on a pre-stored position control correspondence table corresponding to the device to be operated, a control signal corresponding to the current position information about the fixation point of the human eyes on the device to be operated, and transmit the control signal to the device to be operated so as to control the device to be operated to execute a corresponding operation. The eye-controlled apparatus, the eye-controlled method and the eye-controlled system may effectively control the device to be operated using human eyes. |
| US10372204B2 |
Communication and control system and method
An input system includes at least one sensor and a controller communicatively coupled to the at least one sensor. The at least one sensor is configured to identify a position of an eye. The controller is configured to receive a first signal indicative of a first position of an eye from the at least one sensor and map the eye position to a user's selection. |
| US10372201B2 |
Method and system for dynamic selection of application dialog layout design
A system and method for selecting an application dialog layout design based on a response pattern for a task-based application is described. A plurality of user interface layouts may be generated based on a first user interface layout, where the first user interface layout is associated with a task included in a process of a computer-implemented software application. One or more performance metrics associated with each user interface layout of the plurality of user interface layouts may be monitored, where the one or more performance metrics characterize a performance of the task by one or more task users. A second user interface layout may be selected based on an analysis of the one or more performance metrics. The second user interface layout may be provided to a plurality of users of a computer-implemented software application. |
| US10372197B2 |
User level control of power management policies
In one embodiment, the present invention includes a processor having a core and a power controller to control power management features of the processor. The power controller can receive an energy performance bias (EPB) value from the core and access a power-performance tuning table based on the value. Using information from the table, at least one setting of a power management feature can be updated. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10372196B2 |
Dynamic pixel density adjustment
Methods and apparatus relating to techniques to provide dynamic pixel density adjustment for display panels not driven by backlight are described. In an embodiment, logic causes a first plurality of pixels of a display panel to be turned off in response to an indication that a charge level of a power supply, coupled to supply electrical power to the display panel, has dropped below a threshold level. The display panel is not backlight drive (such as an OLED or QDOT display panels. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed. |
| US10372195B2 |
Data processing
A data processing apparatus comprises processing circuitry configured to predict whether a region of output data to be generated by the apparatus for a current set of output data will be similar to a region of output data generated and stored in memory for a previous set of output data. When it is predicted that the new region of output data will be similar to the previous region of output data, the new region of output data is prevented from being generated and the previous region of output data is used for the current set of output data instead. The data processing apparatus can provide a way to avoid generating areas of sets of output data that are static from one set of output data to the next. |
| US10372194B2 |
Optimizing use of location services in mobile applications to improve battery consumption
A method for optimizing use of location services in mobile applications, comprising: analyzing a computer code executable on a processor of a mobile device; identifying in the computer code program instructions for receiving location data from at least one location service device of the mobile device; analyzing the program instructions according to a set of location request rules to identify program instructions violating at least one of the location request rules; and providing at least one suggested change to the program instructions according to the at least one of the location request rules. |
| US10372191B2 |
Presence sensing
One embodiment may take the form of a method of operating a computing device in a reduced power state and collecting a first set of data from at least one sensor. Based on the first set of data, the computing device determines a probability that an object is within a threshold distance of the computing device and, if so, the device activates at least one secondary sensor to collect a second set of data. Based on the second set of data, the device determines if the object is a person. If it is a person, a position of the person relative to the computing device is determined and the computing device changes its state based on the position of the person. If the object is not a person, the computing device remains in a reduced power state. |
| US10372186B2 |
Control device and computer-readable recording medium having stored therein control program
A control device includes a controller that controls a target device, and the controller includes a power supply controller, a detector, an obtainer, and a setting changer. The power supply controller shifts, when a port connected to another device via a cable comes into an unused state, a power supply mode to the target device and to the control device from a normal power supply mode into a power saving mode capable of receiving activation interruption. The obtainer obtains, when the detector detects the change in the mounting state of the cable, type information representing a type of the cable. The setting changer that changes setting of the cable in accordance with the type information obtained by the obtainer. This makes it possible to be surely restored to the normal power supply mode even when a cable is replaced with another type of cable in a power saving mode. |
| US10372177B2 |
Information processing apparatus
An information processing apparatus includes a housing that a slot where an electronic assembly is inserted and extracted and a power supply unit. A first air inlet is present in a corner in a front portion of the electronic assembly and includes a space to store an engaging mechanism that engages with the slot. A duct is arranged between the slot and the housing and includes a second air inlet in a front portion of the housing. A fan is arranged between the slot and the power supply unit. The first inlet communicates with the duct and, by the fan, air from the first air inlet and the second air inlet is sent to the power supply unit through the duct. |
| US10372173B2 |
Mounting enclosures
An example enclosure for a computing device includes a frame having an opening to receive a computing device, a plurality of panels and a retaining mechanism to retain the computing device within the frame. One of the plurality of panels comprises a port access opening. The enclosure also includes a security insert to be secured to the frame to restrict access to a port of the computing device through the port access opening. |
| US10372168B1 |
Cooling system for removable non-volatile memory drive
An information handling system may include a removable non-volatile memory module, including a non-volatile memory drive and a guide rail, and a module cage configured to receive the removable module. The module cage may include a thermal pad and a guide rail mating feature into which the guide rail of the removable module is inserted during installation to maneuver the removable module into an operating position. The guide rail mating feature may prevent the removable module from contacting the thermal pad until the removable module reaches, or nears, its operating position, at which point a wedge feature of the guide rail mating feature may press the removable module downward to contact the thermal pad. The thermal pad may include an abrasion resistance overlay. The module cage may include a metal plate below the thermal pad coupled to a heat pipe that directs heat toward a fan housing. |
| US10372165B2 |
Display device and control method
A display device and a control method are disclosed. The display device comprises: a flexible display unit capable of displaying an image in two directions; a camera unit, which is disposed in a first direction and receives as an input the image in the first direction; and a control unit, wherein the control unit can temporarily capture the image input in the first direction and display the temporarily captured image in the first direction on the flexible display unit in a second direction or a bent region of the flexible display unit when the region of the flexible display unit, which includes the camera unit, is bent in the second direction at an angle equal to or greater than a preset angle, so that the camera unit can receive as an input the image in the second direction, which is opposite the first direction. |
| US10372164B2 |
Flexible electronic display with user interface based on sensed movements
An attachable article, e.g., a wristband or armband, includes a dynamically flexible electronic display disposed on a flexible substrate that is bendable or conformable to a user's wrist or other curved surface, and that enables images to be displayed in a manner that makes these images easily viewable to the user. The flexible substrate is supported to limit the bending motion of the flexible electronic display within the display's tolerance limits. Additionally, the flexible substrate may be incorporated into a flexible support having any of various clasping mechanisms and sensors capable of detecting movement, orientation, forces, acceleration, and other user movements so that user manipulation of the article causes a change in the presentation of content on the flexible display and/or may serve as a user input to cause the attachable article to perform one or more actions. |
| US10372163B2 |
Input device comprising sensor panel, information processing device comprising input device
A novel input device that is highly convenient or reliable is provided. Alternatively, a novel input device is provided. The input device includes a sensor panel that can be folded, a housing that enables the sensor panel to be folded, and a sensing portion that senses the folded state of the sensor panel and supplies folding information. Furthermore, the sensor panel includes a signal line extending in the column direction, and a part of one signal line is placed to face another part of the signal line in the folded state. |
| US10372159B2 |
Attachable/detachable electronic device
An electronic device is provided, which uses magnetic force to couple to an external device. The electronic device includes a housing, a magnet positioned within the housing, and an elastic body connected to the magnet. At least a portion of the elastic body changes a shape or a position thereof, in response to a change of a magnetic force of the magnet. |
| US10372157B2 |
Semiconductor devices
A semiconductor device includes a phase comparison circuit, an output enablement signal generation circuit, and a data input/output (I/O) circuit. The phase comparison circuit compares a phase of a clock signal with a phase of a delay locked loop (DLL) clock signal to generate a phase information signal. The output enablement signal generation circuit latches an internal command in response to a first pre-control signal and outputs the latched internal command as an output enablement signal in response to an operation clock signal and a second pre-control signal. The output enablement signal generation circuit generates the first pre-control signal according to an internal clock signal and an input clock signal. The data I/O circuit receives input data and output the received input data as output data synchronized with a strobe signal in response to the output enablement signal. |
| US10372156B2 |
System-on-chip to support full handshake and mobile device having the same
A system-on-chip (SoC) comprises a clock management unit (CMU) including a first clock generator and a second clock generator, the first and second clock generators being configured to generate clock signals. The SoC comprises at least one logic block configured to request the clock signals from the CMU according to a full handshake method and receive the clock signals from the CMU in response to the request. The first clock generator and the second clock generator are configured to communicate according to the full handshake method. |
| US10372146B2 |
Systems and methods for creating and using combined predictive models to control HVAC equipment
A heating, ventilation, or air conditioning (HVAC) system for a building includes HVAC equipment, a controller, and a predictive modeling system. The HVAC equipment are operable to affect an environmental condition in the building. The controller is configured to determine an operating point for the HVAC equipment and to operate the HVAC equipment at the operating point. The predictive modeling system includes a plurality of HVAC component models and one or more prediction combiners. The HVAC component models are configured to generate a plurality of component model predictions based on the operating point. The prediction combiners are configured to combine the plurality of component model predictions to form a combined model prediction. The controller is configured to use the combined model prediction to optimize the operating point and to operate the HVAC equipment at the optimized operating point. |
| US10372137B2 |
Control system for construction machine
The invention provides a control system for a construction machine comprising: a laser surveying instrument, a construction machine and a direction detecting unit, wherein the construction machine has a working mechanical unit, a machine control device, a machine communication unit, two beam detectors and at least one target and a tilt sensor, wherein the laser surveying instrument has a laser rotary projecting device for projecting a laser beam in rotary irradiation, an electronic distance measuring instrument and a surveying communication unit, wherein each of the beam detectors transmits a photodetection result to the laser surveying instrument or the machine control device, wherein the laser surveying instrument or the machine control device calculates a left-right tilting of the construction machine based on the photodetection result and a distance measurement result of the target, and the machine control device controls an operation of the construction machine based on a detection result of the direction detecting unit, a front-rear tilting by the tilt sensor, a distance measurement result of the target and the left-right tilting. |
| US10372136B2 |
Local trajectory planning method and apparatus for smart vehicles
The present invention provides a local trajectory planning method and apparatus for a smart vehicle, pre-acquiring path planning information from a starting location to a destination; the method comprising: determining a target lane; sampling alternative curves from a current location of the smart vehicle to a target lane according to the path planning information; performing speed planning for the sampled alternative curves according to a current travel environment; selecting one of the alternative curves after the speed planning is performed as a target trajectory. Local trajectory planning of the smart vehicle is achieved through the present invention. |
| US10372135B2 |
Control system and control method for determining a lane
Control system, which is adapted and determined for use in a motor vehicle to identify road boundaries and/or road markings based on environmental data obtained by at least one environmental sensor associated with the motor vehicle. The at least one environmental sensor is adapted to provide the environmental data, which reproduces the area in front of the motor vehicle, to an electronic control of the control system. The control system is at least adapted and determined to capture road boundaries and/or road markings with the at least one environmental sensor. A respective trajectory is determined from the captured road boundaries and/or road markings. Pairs are formed from the determined trajectories, wherein a pair comprises two trajectories respectively. Sampling points are determined at predetermined distances for each pair of first and second trajectories. Distances perpendicular to a course of the first trajectory are determined from the determined sampling points to the second trajectory and a length of a section is calculated along the course of the first trajectory, for which length the determined distances are within a predetermined value range, and/or distances perpendicular to a course of the second trajectory are determined from the determined sampling points to the first trajectory, and a length of a section is calculated along the course of the second trajectory, for which length the determined distances are within the predetermined value range. A set of pairs of trajectories is selected based on a criterion for pairing to determine at least one lane and/or at least one trajectory for the motor vehicle based on this set. |
| US10372134B2 |
Methods and apparatus to implement nonlinear control of vehicles moved using multiple motors
Methods and apparatus to implement nonlinear control of vehicles moved using multiple motors, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a logic circuit configured to calculate virtual position control variables for a vehicle moved using multiple motors. The virtual position control variables calculated based on an application of a control law to position information of the vehicle. The control law is derived from a nonlinear model of movement of the vehicle. The logic circuit is configured further to calculate control inputs based on the virtual position control variables. The control inputs are to control the motors to navigate the vehicle along a designated path of movement. |
| US10372131B2 |
Vehicles changing lanes based on trailing vehicles
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for vehicles changing lanes based on trailing vehicles. An example vehicle includes a vehicle speed sensor to measure a vehicle speed, a rearview camera to capture images when the vehicle speed is greater than a threshold, and a lane controller. The lane controller is to detect whether there is a trailing vehicle based on the images and determine, responsive to detecting the trailing vehicle, whether the trailing vehicle is providing a message to change lanes. The lane controller also is to send a lane-changing signal responsive to identifying the message. |
| US10372126B2 |
Dynamic in-cabin autonomous vehicle control systems
One embodiment describes a control system in an automation system including a first portion located at a first vehicle, which includes a first autonomous module that autonomously controls operation of the first vehicle to perform operations in a first area based at least in part on a first target operation result while the first portion is in an autonomous mode; and a second portion located at a second vehicle, in which the second portion includes a second autonomous module that autonomously controls operation of the second vehicle to perform operations in a second area based at least in part on a second target operation result while the second portion is in the autonomous mode and a first command module that determines the first target operation result and the second target operation result based at least in part on a global plan that indicates a total target operation result. |
| US10372125B2 |
Vehicular awakening system
A vehicular awakening system having a drive control section capable of switching a drive state of a vehicle between automatic drive and manual drive; a pressing section capable of pressing a standard position between shoulder blades of a driver; and a pressing control section that activates the pressing section when the drive state of the vehicle is automatic drive or when said drive state of the vehicle is switched from automatic drive to manual drive by the drive control section. |
| US10372124B2 |
Electric unmanned aerial vehicle and an intelligent method of protecting electricity thereof
An electric unmanned aerial vehicle includes a position sensor configured to obtain coordinate information of a present position of the electric unmanned aerial vehicle in real-time, a memory storing coordinate information of a preset position of the electric unmanned aerial vehicle, and a controller in communication with the position sensor and the memory and being configured to calculate a safety electricity amount needed by the electric unmanned aerial vehicle to perform a safety protection command based on the coordinate information of the present position and the coordinate information of the preset position, compare the safety electricity amount with a present remaining electricity amount of a battery of the electric unmanned aerial vehicle, and perform a safety protection command if the present remaining electricity amount is not greater than the safety electricity amount. |
| US10372121B2 |
Determination of continuous user interaction and intent through measurement of force variability
A system for controlling a vehicle from a remote device, such as a mobile device, is disclosed. In one embodiment, the mobile device includes a mobile phone. In other embodiments, any device capable of receiving user input to control the movement may be used. In one embodiment, the system includes a user input receiving module coupled to a processor and configured to receive variations in user input forces applied to a touch-sensitive user interface over a period of time, wherein the intentional or unintentional variations in user input forces over the period of time are indicative of user intent to control the vehicle. |
| US10372116B2 |
Device for monitoring and controlling industrial equipment
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium for communicating between an operational asset and a backend network that include the actions of receiving first data from an operational asset through a first communication interface that is configured to communicate with an operational asset, and where the first data is formatted according to a first data format that is specific to the operational asset. Processing the first data according to an asset template to generate second data, where the second data includes the first data and being formatted according to a second data format that is specific to the backend network. Causing the second data to be transmitted to the backend network by a second communication interface that is configured to communicate with a backend network. |
| US10372113B2 |
Method for defocus detection
Two or more color data can be combined to form a new data source to enhance sensitivity to defocus signal. Defocus detection can be performed on the newly formed data source. In a setup step, a training wafer can be used to select the best color combination, and obtain defocus detection threshold. This can include applying a segment mask, calculating mean intensities of the segment, determining a color combination that optimizes defocus sensitivity, and generating a second segment mask based on pixels that are above a threshold to sensitivity. In a detection step, the selected color combination is calculated, and the threshold is applied to obtain defocus detection result. |
| US10372112B2 |
System and method for legacy level 1 controller virtualization
A method includes translating at least one application source code file associated with a legacy controller in a distributed control system to instructions executable by a controller simulation computing device, wherein the legacy controller is associated with a legacy operating system and the controller simulation computing device is associated with a second operating system different from the legacy operating system. The method also includes simulating operation of the legacy controller using the instructions and an emulation of the legacy operating system in the controller simulation computing device. The method further includes determining configuration data for the legacy controller during the simulated operation of the legacy controller. In addition, the method includes saving the configuration data to a configuration data file. |
| US10372109B2 |
Beam tool pathing for 3D compound contours using machining path surfaces to maintain a single solid representation of objects
Computer based methods, systems, and techniques for planning and generating machining paths for a tool that manufactures a three dimensional object having beveled or “compound” contours from a workpiece. A computer aided design (CAD)/computer aided manufacturing (CAM) system creates intermediate machining path surfaces that extend based on a CAD solid model representing the geometry of the object to be manufactured. The intermediate machining path surfaces extend to a shape that simulates a cutting beam (e.g., a waterjet, a laser beam, etc.) of the tool. For a flat workpiece, the machining path surfaces may extend from a top surface of the workpiece, which is a tool beam entrance surface, to a bottom surface of the workpiece, which is a tool beam exit surface. An operator is able to visualize the cuts to be made and the actual finished object geometry, without requiring the creation of multiple CAD solid models. |
| US10372104B2 |
Industrial automation control system content protection
Techniques to facilitate protection of control system content used in an industrial automation environment are disclosed herein. In at least one implementation, the control system content for use in the industrial automation environment is received, wherein the control system content comprises controller program code that directs an industrial controller to drive a machine system. Content protection instructions for the control system content are also received, wherein the content protection instructions comprise restrictions on execution of the control system content. An execution license that includes process-related constraints for the control system content is generated based on the content protection instructions. The execution license is applied to the control system content to generate protected content, wherein use of the control system content is granted subject to the process-related constraints of the execution license. |
| US10372100B2 |
Manufacturing system for biopharmaceutical products
The present disclosure relates to a manufacturing system, method and control circuitry for quality assured manufacturing of at least two biopharmaceutical products. The manufacturing system comprises a warehouse facility, a hydration facility, and at least two biopharmaceutical manufacturing facilities, wherein the warehouse facility and hydration facility are comprised in the macro structure. Each biopharmaceutical manufacturing facility is comprised in a respective micro node, and a control facility in the macro structure is configured to control interoperability of the macro structure and the micro nodes by means of a network spine interconnecting the macro structure with each micro node. |
| US10372099B2 |
Method for configuring an actuator for the operation of a moving element in a home-automation device, and actuator operating by this method
Method for configuring an actuator (2) for the operation of a moving element (3) for closure, solar protection, privacy or screening, said actuator comprising a gear motor (4) and a gear motor electronic control unit (5), said electronic control unit incorporating a memory (51) in which at least one range of travel of the element has been pre-recorded, and said method comprising a step for the relative modification of the magnitude of at least one range. |
| US10372096B2 |
Use of a live video stream in a process control system
A method, user interface control arrangement, and a computer program product for controlling a stationary user interface in an industrial process control system as well as to such a process control system. The user interface control arrangement obtains a first live video stream from a video camera monitoring an industrial process at a first location, obtains a process control view for the first location, overlays the process control view on the first live video stream and displays the first live video stream with the overlaid process control view on a display of the user interface. |
| US10372094B2 |
Motor control device and game machine
A motor control device configured to control a motor, includes a first memory; a second memory different from the first memory; a communication interface circuit configured to receive a control command from an external device; a command parser configured to store control information in the first memory and in the second memory when the control command includes control information defining an operation of the motor, and to generate a response signal including the control information stored in the first memory when the control command includes a command for verifying a communication state and transmit the response signal to the external device via the communication interface circuit; a control unit configured to read the control information from the second memory; and a drive signal generator. |
| US10372093B2 |
Comfort mapping using wearables
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for mapping a building space using wearable devices in order to better control the comfort level in the building. In some instances, a system compiles information such as temperature information that is provided by an individual's wearable device as the individual moves about the building over time. Using this data, the system may create and/or update a comfort map of the building, which can be used to determine how various rooms of the building heat and cool over time, as well as usage pattern of the various rooms of the building. The system can then use the comfort map of the building to better control one or more comfort sources of the building. |
| US10372091B2 |
High pressure enhanced structure technology
An energy dissipating article of manufacture is disclosed that is a high pressure enhanced structure technology comprising a structure having at least one wall forming a sealed inner chamber, and either (i) the sealed inner chamber is filled with a gas under pressure, or (ii) an inflated bladder filled with gas is located within the sealed inner chamber, or (iii) a deflated bladder that is located within the sealed inner chamber, and an inflation system that produces a gas to inflate the deflated bladder, or (iv) the sealed inner chamber at one atmosphere standard normal pressure, and an inflation system that produces a gas, to pressurize the inner chamber. A method of making the articles of manufacture and uses thereof are disclosed. |
| US10372079B2 |
Photosensitive member unit and development unit
A photosensitive member unit includes a photosensitive member, a transfer roller, a mounting portion capable of mounting a development unit including a development roller, a first gear and a second gear each provided at one end of the photosensitive member in an axial direction of the photosensitive member, and a third gear provided at one end of the transfer roller in an axial direction of the photosensitive member and configured to engage with the second gear. The first gear, the second gear, and the third gear are helical gears. A direction in which helical teeth of the first gear are inclined is opposite to a direction in which helical teeth of the second gear are inclined, and the direction in which the helical teeth of the first gear are inclined matches a direction in which helical teeth of the third gear are inclined. |
| US10372078B2 |
Bearing with projections projected in radial direction from outer surface and from an inner surface thereof and image forming apparatus
A bearing, for supporting a rotation shaft of a rotatable member, capable of being supported by a supporting portion provided with an engaging hole engageable with the bearing includes positioning projections having contact surfaces and bearing projections having sliding surfaces on which an outer peripheral surface of the rotation shaft slides. The positioning projections project from different positions so that between adjacent positioning projections, an outer peripheral surface of the bearing and the inner wall surface of the engaging hole form a gap therebetween. The bearing projections project from different positions so that between adjacent bearing projections, an inner peripheral surface of the bearing and an outer peripheral surface of the rotation shaft form a gap therebetween. With respect to a circumferential direction of the rotation shaft, the positioning projections and the bearing projections are provided at positions different from each other. |
| US10372076B2 |
Sheet processing apparatus
There is provided a sheet post-processing apparatus capable of performing eco-stapling processing to prevent a decrease in binding force by the thickness of a sheet with a simple arrangement by changing a stapling count depending on the grammage and size of a sheet and the number of sheets in consideration of the change in binding force caused by the sheet size. |
| US10372074B2 |
Sheet conveyor and image forming apparatus
A sheet conveyer, comprising: a 1st conveying roller; a 1st support part to support the 1st conveying roller; a 1st helical gear to rotate together with the 1st conveying roller and to generate thrust in a particular direction; a 2nd conveying roller; a 2nd support part to support the 2nd conveying roller; a 2nd helical gear to generate thrust in the particular direction; a 3rd helical gear to engage with the 1st helical gear; a 4th helical gear to engage with the 2nd helical gear; and a clutch to connect or disconnect transmission of a driving force between the 3rd helical gear and the 4th helical gear, wherein: when the clutch is disconnected, the 1st and 2nd conveying rollers are disposed at an initial position, and when the clutch is connected, the 1st and 2nd conveying rollers move from the initial position in the particular direction. |
| US10372069B2 |
Image forming apparatus having a control portion capable of controlling a rotation speed of a pair of conveyance members
An image forming apparatus includes a control portion that controls a drive speed of a first drive source, so that a speed of a sheet conveyed in a conveyance nip portion is greater than a speed of the sheet conveyed in a transfer nip portion, and a drive speed of a second drive source, so that the speed of the sheet conveyed in the transfer nip portion is greater than a speed of the sheet conveyed in a fixing nip portion. The control portion changes a rotation speed of a pair of conveyance members from a first speed to a second speed greater than the first speed after a first loop amount of the sheet formed between the transfer nip portion and the fixing nip portion becomes greater than a second loop amount of the sheet formed between the transfer nip portion and the conveyance nip portion. |
| US10372061B1 |
Image forming system, image forming method, and determination apparatus
An image forming system includes an image forming unit, an acquisition unit, first and second determination units, and a controller. The image forming unit forms an image using toner from a toner cartridge. The acquisition unit acquires identification information from the toner cartridge. The first determination unit determines whether the toner cartridge satisfies a first condition, based on the identification information. The second determination unit determines whether a second condition is satisfied if a determination result of the first determination unit indicates that the toner cartridge does not satisfy the first condition. The controller enables the image forming unit to form an image, if the determination result of the first determination unit indicates that the toner cartridge satisfies a predetermined condition or that the toner cartridge does not satisfy the predetermined condition and if a determination result of the second determination unit indicates that the second condition is satisfied. |
| US10372057B2 |
Image forming apparatus, drum unit, and manufacturing method for the image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus, having a photosensitive drum assembly, an exposure head, and a bearing, is provided. The photosensitive drum assembly includes a photosensitive drum and a flange disposed at an end of the photosensitive drum in an axial direction of an axis of the photosensitive drum. The flange contacts an inner surface of the photosensitive drum. The exposure head includes a plurality of light emitters aligned along the axial direction of the photosensitive drum, a lens array focusing light from the light emitters on the photosensitive drum, and a head frame to support the light emitters and the lens array. The bearing has a first contact face to contact the exposure head to define a distance between the lens array and the photosensitive drum along a direction of an optical axis of the light. |
| US10372054B2 |
Toner
Provided is a toner that is excellent in heat-resistant shelf stability and low-temperature fixability, has durability, and causes less occurrence of fogging in high temperature and high humidity environments.The toner comprising at least a binder resin, a colorant, a release agent, a retention aid and a charge control resin. The binder resin is a copolymer containing a styrene-based monomer unit 67 to 78% by mass and a (meth)acrylic acid alkyl monomer unit 22 to 33% by mass. The content of the retention aid is 1 to 4 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the binder resin, and the content of the charge control resin is 0.1 to 20 parts by mass with respect to 100 parts by mass of the binder resin. |
| US10372053B2 |
Recorded material and image forming method
Provided is a recorded material in which a recording liquid is satisfactorily fixed to a recording medium and which has a sufficient chroma and a sufficient lightness, in high-speed printing. The recorded material comprises a recording medium, a toner particle including colorant particles, and a cured resin including the toner particle and fixing a toner image formed of the toner particle onto the recording medium, wherein an average circularity of the toner particle is not less than 0.70 and not more than 0.99, the toner particle is not exposed from a surface of the cured resin, and an average distance between wall surfaces of the adjacent toner particles is not less than 10 nm and less than 125 nm. |
| US10372052B2 |
Curable toner compositions and processes
An emulsion aggregation toner composition includes toner particles including: an unsaturated polymeric resin, such as amorphous resins, crystalline resins, and combinations thereof; an optional colorant; an optional wax; an optional coagulant; and a photoinitiator. By optimizing the particle size of the emulsion, the aggregant concentration utilized in the emulsion aggregation process, and the solids content of the emulsion, toners may be produced capable of generating images with non-contact fusing that have high gloss. |
| US10372051B2 |
Method of enhancing adhesion of liquid toner printed on a substrate, and products therefrom
A method of improving the adhesion of a liquid ink to a substrate where the ink is applied to the substrate using an LEP printing process, and products therefrom. |
| US10372049B2 |
Electrophotographic photoreceptor, process cartridge, and image-forming apparatus
An electrophotographic photoreceptor includes a conductive support and a single-layer photosensitive layer. The conductive support has an outer peripheral surface with a maximum surface roughness height (Rmax) of about 4.0 μm or less, and the outer peripheral surface has a recess with a depth-to-aperture size ratio (depth/aperture size) of about 0.03 or more and about 0.12 or less. The single-layer photosensitive layer is disposed on the conductive support and has a thickness of about 20 μm or more and a modulus of elasticity of about 4.5 GPa or more. |
| US10372048B2 |
Electrophotographic photosensitive member
An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a conductive substrate and a photosensitive layer. The photosensitive layer includes a charge generating layer and a charge transport layer. The charge generating layer contains a charge generating material. The charge transport layer contains a hole transport material and a binder resin. The charge transport layer further contains an electron acceptor compound. The hole transport material includes a compound represented by general formula (1). In general formula (1), R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, R8, R9, and R10 each represent, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom or a methyl group. |
| US10372045B2 |
Method of calibrating a reluctance actuator assembly, reluctance actuator and lithographic apparatus comprising such reluctance actuator
A reluctance actuator assembly comprising a reluctance actuator, a flux sensor to measure a magnetic flux in a gap of the reluctance actuator, and a flux amplifier to drive an actuator coil of the reluctance actuator based on a flux set point and the flux measured by the flux sensor. A method comprising providing to the flux amplifier a flux setpoint, the flux setpoint comprising a time constant component and a sinusoidally varying component at an excitation frequency, measuring a force generated by the reluctance actuator in response to the flux setpoint, and calibrating the reluctance actuator assembly from the measured force. |
| US10372042B2 |
Resolution enhanced digital lithography with anti-blazed DMD
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for processing one or more substrates, and more specifically to improved spatial light modulators for digital lithography systems and digital lithography methods using improved spatial light modulators. The spatial light modulator is configured such that there is a 180-degree phase shift between adjacent spatial light modulator pixels. The spatial light modulator is useful for pixel blending by forming a plurality of partially overlapping images, at least one of the plurality of partially overlapping images having at least two pixels formed by a first pair of adjacent spatial light modulator pixels having a 180-degree phase shift therebetween. The spatial light modulator results in improved resolution, depth of focus, and pixel blending. |
| US10372041B2 |
Target generation device and extreme ultraviolet light generation device
A target generation device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a tank for containing a target substance, a heater provided at the tank, a nozzle communicating with the inside of the tank, a lid having a gas inlet port communicating with the inside of the tank, and a plurality of shielding plates that are disposed inside the tank and suppress entry of the target substance to the gas inlet port. Each of the shielding plates includes at least one non-shielding region for allowing the gas to pass through. The non-shielding regions of at least two of the shielding plates are arranged at positions in which one of the non-shielding regions of the at least two of the shielding plates is not seen into the other of the non-shielding regions of the at least two of the shielding plates. |
| US10372039B2 |
Resist underlayer film forming composition containing silicon having ester group
A resist underlayer film forming composition for lithography for a resist underlayer film usable as a hardmask. A resist underlayer film forming composition for lithography, including: as a silane, a hydrolyzable silane, a hydrolysis product thereof, or a hydrolysis-condensation product thereof, wherein the hydrolyzable silane includes a hydrolyzable silane of Formula (1) or a hydrolyzable silane containing a combination of a hydrolyzable silane of Formula (1) with a hydrolyzable silane of Formula (2), and a content of the hydrolyzable silane of Formula (1) or the hydrolyzable silane containing a combination of a hydrolyzable silane of Formula (1) with a hydrolyzable silane of Formula (2) in all silanes is less than 50% by mole, R1aR2bSi(R3)4−(a+b) Formula (1) R4a1R5b1Si(R6)4−(a1+b1) Formula (2). |
| US10372038B2 |
Chemically amplified resist composition and patterning process
A chemically amplified resist composition comprising a quencher containing an iodonium iodide and an acid generator exhibits a sensitizing effect and an acid diffusion suppressing effect and forms a pattern having improved resolution, LWR and CDU. |
| US10372036B2 |
Mold, method of producing mold, production apparratus, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device
A edge electrode mold according to an embodiment includes a base having a first main surface and one or more protruding structures disposed on the first main surface. The protruding structures include a protrusion projecting from the first main surface of the base, an edge electrode disposed at the protrusion, and an electrolytic hydrophobic film having electrolytic property and hydrophobicity disposed on the upper end surface of a protruding shape including the protrusion and the edge electrode. |
| US10372033B2 |
Imprint apparatus, and method of manufacturing article
The present invention provides an imprint apparatus comprising a plurality of processing devices configured to perform imprint processes for a plurality of substrates in parallel, and a controller configured to control the plurality of processing devices, wherein the controller is configured to control the plurality of processing devices so that each of the plurality of processing devices performs imprint processes for a plurality of regions whose positions correspond to each other over the plurality of substrates, and so that the plurality of processing devices respectively perform imprint processes for a plurality of regions whose positions are different from each other and which have shapes corresponding to each other in a single substrate. |
| US10372032B2 |
Method and device for permanently repairing defects of absent material of a photolithographic mask
The present application relates to a method for permanently repairing defects of absent material of a photolithographic mask, comprising the following steps: (a) providing at least one carbon-containing precursor gas and at least one oxidizing agent at a location to be repaired of the photolithographic mask; (b) initiating a reaction of the at least one carbon-containing precursor gas with the aid of at least one energy source at the location of absent material in order to deposit material at the location of absent material, wherein the deposited material comprises at least one reaction product of the reacted at least one carbon-containing precursor gas; and (c) controlling a gas volumetric flow rate of the at least one oxidizing agent in order to minimize a carbon proportion of the deposited material. |
| US10372027B2 |
Illuminator and projector
An illuminator includes first and second light emitting devices that emit first and second light beams, respectively, first and second lens arrays, a light ray combining element that combines at least parts of the first and second light beams having passed through the first and second lens arrays with each other to produce a combined light ray flux, a light collection lens, and a diffused light producing element on which the combined light ray flux having passed through the light collection lens is incident. |
| US10372026B2 |
Optical fixing device, light source device, and projection equipment
An optical fixing device includes light source fixing parts for fixing a plurality of solid state light sources, a second light combination element fixing part for fixing at least one second light combination element, a condenser lens fixing part for fixing a condenser lens, and second reflecting mirror fixing parts arranged in accordance with at least part of the plurality of solid state light sources for fixing second reflecting mirrors. The second light combination elements are used for transmitting some light emitted from the solid state light sources and is not reflected and/or are used for reflecting light reflected by the second reflecting mirrors. The condenser lens is used for converging the light passing through the second light combination elements. The optical fixing device is compact in size and shape with low production cost, providing high accuracy for the relative positioning of the optical elements. |
| US10372019B2 |
Lens driving adapter, lens apparatus and image capturing apparatus
The lens driving adapter is detachably attachable to a lens barrel on which an operation member is provided. The adapter includes a driver configured to drive the operation member, and an adapter body holding the driver. The adapter body includes a first contact portion and a second contact portion that are protrusions contactable with two circumferential portions in an outer circumferential surface of the lens barrel. The first and the second contact portions are contactable with outer circumferential surfaces of lens barrels whose outer diameters are mutually different. The adapter body includes a fixing member configured to fix the adapter body to any of the lens barrels. |
| US10372018B2 |
Imager with lens focusing unit
Systems and methods for adjusting one or more settings, such as the focus and/or aperture settings, for the lenses enclosed within the imager. The imager may include a base, one or more arms, a lens assembly, and a light source assembly. The lens assembly may be clamped between the base and the light source assembly such that the components within the lens assembly are hermetically sealed and thus protected against intrusion from water and/or air borne particles. The imager may include one or more components to change the settings for the enclosed lenses. The components may include an internal ring that may be used to manipulate the lens, where the internal ring is coupled to an external ring that is accessible to a user. The components may include a motor that controls one or more gears that are coupled to the internal ring that is used to manipulate the lens. |
| US10372012B2 |
Mechanical chameleon through dynamic real-time plasmonic tuning
A mechanical chameleon through dynamic real-time plasmonic tuning, the external surface of which is covered by plasmonic cells is provided. Plasmonic cells, based on the combination of bimetallic nanodot arrays and electrochemical bias, use the electrochemical method elctrodepositing and stripping Ag shells on plasmonic Au nanodomes and then we achieve the reversible full color plasmonic cells/display. Plasmonic cells, under the control of circuits and sensors, make mechanical chameleon automatically change the color of its own when it's walking to the corresponding background color and always keeping the same color with the color background. This mechanical chameleon through dynamic real-time plasmonic tuning can capture and simulate the entire color-patterns of the environment and then drive the color-changing process in individual cells, fully merging the mechanical chameleon into the surroundings, which makes this technology is readily approachable. |
| US10372009B2 |
Optical device
The optical device (100) includes a first substrate (10), a second substrate (20), and an optical layer (30). The first substrate includes a first electrode (11) and a second electrode (12) configured to be provided with mutually different electrical potentials within a pixel. The optical layer may include a medium (31) and a plurality of shape-anisotropic particles (32) dispersed in the medium. At least one of the first electrode and the second electrode may include a plurality of comb teeth portions (11a, 12a) arranged at predetermined intervals along the first direction (D1). When an electric potential difference is applied between the first electrode and the second electrode, the pixel may be configured to have an electrical field distribution in which a strong electric field region having a stronger field intensity than another region is periodically formed parallel to the surface of the optical layer along a second direction (D2) orthogonal to the first direction. |
| US10372008B2 |
Electro-optic displays
A wavelength selective reflection display (10) comprises a wavelength selective reflection medium (20) and a backing member (30) having a first, non-reflective optical state, and a second, reflective optical state. Both the wavelength selective reflection medium (20) and the backing member (30) are divided into pixels (40, 50, 60), and the backing member (30) is switchable between its first and second optical states on a pixel-by-pixel basis. The pixels of the backing member (30) are substantially aligned with those of the wavelength selective reflection medium (20). |
| US10372007B1 |
Electrochromic device driver with a failsafe module and method of use
A dual rail driver for an electrochromic device is provided. The dual rail driver includes a power supply having a first power supply rail and a second power supply rail and an H bridge connected to the first power supply rail and the second power supply rail and configurable to couple to an electrochromic device. The dual rail driver includes a controller coupled to the H bridge through a failsafe module and configurable to control switches of the H bridge to charge and discharge the electrochromic device from the first power supply rail and the second power supply rail. The failsafe module is configurable to override one or more signals from the controller that controls the switches of the H bridge through the failsafe module, responsive to detecting anomaly of the electrochromic device. |
| US10372006B2 |
Electrochromic multi-layer devices with current modulating structure
A multi-layer device comprising a first substrate, a first electrically conductive layer on a surface thereof, and a first current modulating layer, the first electrically conductive layer having a sheet resistance to the flow of electrical current through the first electrically conductive layer that varies as a function of position. |
| US10372004B2 |
Display device
To achieve a display device that is suitable for increasing in size and to provide a high-resolution display device. In the display device, three or more adjacent gate lines are supplied with the same selection signal. Three or more pixels that adjoin in the column direction are connected to different source lines. In each of the pixels, a transistor including a semiconductor layer is disposed. An inner source line among three or more source lines is disposed to overlap with a conductive layer that functions as a pixel electrode. Part of the semiconductor layer of the transistor is provided between the outer source line and a source line adjacent to the outer source line. |
| US10372003B2 |
Display device and wiring structure
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a semiconductor layer, a first inorganic insulating film provided above the semiconductor layer and including a first opening, an organic insulating film provided above the semiconductor layer and including a second opening in a region which overlaps the first opening, a metal film stacked on the semiconductor layer and a pixel electrode provided in the first opening and the second opening to be in contact with the metal film and the semiconductor layer, and the metal film is spaced from a first side surface of the first opening and a second side surface of the second opening. |
| US10372000B2 |
Array substrate and method of manufacturing the same, and display device
There is disclosed a method of manufacturing an array substrate, the method including a step of forming thin film transistors on a substrate; wherein the step of forming the thin film transistors on the substrate includes: forming a first electrically conductive layer on the substrate; forming an insulating layer on the first electrically conductive layer; forming at least one common holes in the insulating layer to communicate with the first electrically conductive layer; forming a first connection portion, which is made of the same material as a second electrically conductive layer, in the at least one of the at least one common holes while forming the second electrically conductive layer on the insulating layer by using a single process, the first connection portion being in electrical contact with the first electrically conductive layer. In addition, there is disclosed an array substrate manufactured by the above method and a display device including the array substrate. |
| US10371999B2 |
Array substrate and manufacturing method thereof
A manufacturing method of an array substrate includes the steps of providing a base plate and forming a thin-film transistor (TFT) layer on the base plate; forming a quantum dot layer on the TFT layer; and forming a protective filter layer on the quantum dot layer to provide protection to the quantum dot layer. The protective filter layer also provides an effect of light filtering in order to prevent ultraviolet light or blue light from transmitting therethrough. |
| US10371997B2 |
Array substrate, method of manufacturing the same, and display device
The present disclosure relates to an array substrate, a method of manufacturing the same and a display device. The array substrate comprises a gate line PAD region and a data line PAD region. In the gate line PAD region of the array substrate, gate-line wirings, which are parallel to the gate lines and are electrically insulated from the gate lines, are provided between adjacent gate lines. In the data line PAD region of the array substrate, data-line wirings, which are parallel to the data lines and are electrically insulated from the data lines, are provided between adjacent data lines. Both of the gate-line wirings and the data-line wirings are conductive wiring segments. By forming the gate-line wirings and the data-line wirings in the PAD region, the ability of resisting scratch of the product can be improved while not deteriorating performance of display of the product. |
| US10371995B2 |
Coupling conductive terminal structure and display device
A coupling conductive terminal structure is provided. The coupling conductive terminal structure is disposed between a display device and an IC or an FPC, and includes a first linking part and a second linking part matched with the first linking part. The first linking part is disposed on the display device, the second linking part is disposed on the IC or the FPC, the first linking part and the second linking part are locked with each other, and the display device electrically connects to the IC or the FPC. The disclosure further provides a display device. By practice of the disclosure, the bonding shift could be overcome to solve the problem of short circuit or poor contact, so the product yield could be improved. |
| US10371994B2 |
Display device including cover with aperture in side wall thereof
A display device is provided. The display device includes a display panel and an upper container in which the display panel is disposed. The upper container includes a cover portion which covers top edges of the display panel, a side wall which extends from the cover portion to cover a side of the display panel, and apertures defined in the side wall of the upper container, the apertures exposing the display panel to outside the display device at the side wall. |
| US10371990B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate having a display region where pixels each having a TFT and a pixel electrode are formed in a matrix, a counter substrate having a display region where color filters of three colors are formed in a matrix, the TFT substrate and the counter substrate being bonded together with a sealing material in a seal portion at a periphery, and liquid crystal sealed between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate by the seal material. In the display region, a first insulation film, a first alignment film, a first columnar spacer, an overcoat film, a first color filter among the color filters of three colors are stacked in this order between the TFT substrate and the counter substrate. |
| US10371986B2 |
Display devices including mirror substrates and methods of manufacturing mirror substrates
A display device may include a display unit disposed on a substrate and a mirror substrate facing the substrate with respect to the display unit. The mirror substrate may include a first mirror layer extending continuously on a surface of a transparent substrate and a plurality of mirror patterns on the first mirror layer. The first mirror layer is formed on both a region in which the plurality of mirror patterns are formed and a region in which the plurality of mirror patterns are not formed. External light is incident to and reflected by the first mirror layer, thus reducing an image haze and enhancing a display quality of the display device. In addition, the first mirror layer and the plurality of mirror patterns may be formed by using a single halftone mask to simplify the manufacturing process and increase a productivity of the mirror substrate. |
| US10371983B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels each having a plurality of sub-pixels; and a light path adjustment film on the display panel, wherein the light path adjustment film includes a first base film, and a pattern layer on a surface of the first base film, wherein the pattern layer includes a plurality of first patterns having a first refractive index, and a plurality of second patterns between the first patterns and having a second refractive index less than the first refractive index, and wherein the first pattern includes a top surface spaced apart from the display panel and parallel with the display panel, a bottom surface between the top surface and the display panel, and a slanted surface connecting the top surface and the bottom surface. |
| US10371976B2 |
Display device for recognizing uniform intensity of touch
A display deice capable of recognizing a uniform intensity of a touch regardless of a position of a touch input. The display device includes a display panel including a first area and a second area surrounding the first area, a plurality of pressure sensors disposed on the display panel, a dielectric layer disposed on the plurality of pressure sensors, and a bracket accommodating the display panel, the plurality of pressure sensors, and the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer forms a capacitance between the plurality of pressure sensors and the bracket. A first capacitance corresponding to the first area is smaller than a second capacitance corresponding to the second area. |
| US10371967B2 |
Predefined reflective appearance eyewear lens with balance chroma enhancement visual perception
Provided is an eyewear lens, including a lens substrate and an optical interference coating; the lens substrate is comprised of an optical material, and the optical interference coating is bonded to the lens substrate and is stacked by the composition of high and low reflectivity materials. A predefined reflective appearance color will be formed by light getting through the optical interference coating. The lens substrate contains another filter on one side surface or both side surfaces or inside the lens substrate which is complementary to the light after penetrating the optical interference coating such that the overall transmittance light tone remain neutral balance. The overall transmittance light spectrum has three pass-bands corresponding to the maximum response of the human eye cone cells, and the relatively high transmittance values of each pass-band center are approximately at 450 nm, 530 nm and 610 nm. The FWHM of each pass-band is between 3 nm and 50 nm. |
| US10371966B2 |
Contact lens product
A contact lens product includes a contact lens and a buffer solution. The contact lens is immersed in the buffer solution, and the buffer solution includes a cycloplegic agent. |
| US10371961B2 |
Systems and methods for retention of lenses in eyeglass frames using elastic cushion connectors
User configurable eyeglasses employing retention of lenses in eyeglass frames using elastic cushion connectors may include a pair of lenses, each lens comprising at least one tab extending from the lens. An eyeglasses frame may define at least two fittings, each fitting positioned to receive one tab extending from a lens and each fitting sized larger than the tab to be received. A plurality of eyeglass lens retention cushions are each adapted to be disposed in one of the fittings and to receive one of the tabs. Each eyeglass lens retention cushion might have an elastic cushion body having a relaxed, or in situ, exterior size larger than an interior socket of the fittings and may have an interior opening with a relaxed, or in situ, size smaller than a tab extending from an eyeglasses lens. |
| US10371959B2 |
Lens driving apparatus
A lens driving apparatus with a lens portion having at least one lens, a base portion on which an image sensor detecting light coming through said lens portion can be fixed, a driving portion capable of relatively moving said lens portion in a vertical direction to a light axis of said lens portion and in a parallel direction to the light axis of said lens portion with respect to said base portion, and at least three suspension wires connecting a focus portion including said lens portion and said base portion so as to allow a relative movement. The suspension wires are arranged outside a magnet of said driving portion along the vertical direction to the light axis. |
| US10371957B2 |
Display device including a lens panel having a plurality of openings respectively overlapping a plurality of concave portions of an electrode
A display device according to an exemplary embodiment includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, and a lens panel positioned at a side of the display panel in a direction in which the display panel is configured to display an image. The lens panel includes a first electrode having a plurality of recess portions, a second electrode having a plurality of openings respectively overlapping the plurality of recess portions one by one, and a lens formation layer positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode. A recess portion among the plurality of recess portions overlaps two or more pixels among the plurality of pixels, and an opening among the openings overlaps the two or more pixels among the plurality of pixels. A circumference of the opening is positioned inside a circumference of the recess portion. |
| US10371954B2 |
Optoelectronic modules including hybrid arrangements of beam shaping elements, and imaging devices incorporating the same
The present disclosure describes optoelectronic modules (e.g., hybrid lens array packages) that have multiple optical channels, each of which includes at least one beam shaping element (e.g., a lens) that is part of a laterally contiguous array. Each optical channel is associated with a respective light sensitive region of an image sensor. Some or all of the channels also can include at least one beam shaping element (e.g., a lens) that is not part of a laterally contiguous array. In some cases, the arrays can include alignment features to facilitate alignment of the arrays with one another. |
| US10371953B2 |
Image display system and information processing apparatus and control methods thereof
This invention suppresses the narrowing of the communication band between a device and an information processing apparatus that form an image display system. Hence, an HMD of a user includes a sensor that detects a position and orientation, a communication interface that transmits, to the information processing apparatus, position and orientation information representing the detected position and orientation and receives a CG command from the information processing apparatus, a rendering unit that renders a CG based on the received CG command, and a display control unit that displays the rendered CG on a display unit. |
| US10371950B2 |
Imaging optical unit for generating a virtual image and smartglasses
An imaging optical unit for generating a virtual image of an initial image represented on an image generator includes at least one spectacle lens, an input coupling device for coupling an imaging beam path emanating from the initial image in between the inner surface and the outer surface of the spectacle lens, and a Fresnel structure present in the spectacle lens for coupling the imaging beam path out from the spectacle lens in the direction of the eye. The input coupling device couples the imaging beam path in between the inner surface and the outer surface of the spectacle lens in such a way that it is guided by reflections between the inner surface and the outer surface to the Fresnel structure. The Fresnel structure has Fresnel surfaces, which bring about a base deflection of the rays of the imaging beam path by 45 to 55 degrees. |
| US10371949B2 |
Methods and systems for performing confocal microscopy
Configurations are disclosed for a health system to be used in various healthcare applications, e.g., for patient diagnostics, monitoring, and/or therapy. The health system may comprise a light generation module to transmit light or an image to a user, one or more sensors to detect a physiological parameter of the user's body, including their eyes, and processing circuitry to analyze an input received in response to the presented images to determine one or more health conditions or defects. |
| US10371948B2 |
Methods and systems for diagnosing color blindness
Configurations are disclosed for a health system to be used in various healthcare applications, e.g., for patient diagnostics, monitoring, and/or therapy. The health system may comprise a light generation module to transmit light or an image to a user, one or more sensors to detect a physiological parameter of the user's body, including their eyes, and processing circuitry to analyze an input received in response to the presented images to determine one or more health conditions or defects. |
| US10371946B2 |
Methods and systems for diagnosing binocular vision conditions
Configurations are disclosed for a health system to be used in various healthcare applications, e.g., for patient diagnostics, monitoring, and/or therapy. The health system may comprise a light generation module to transmit light or an image to a user, one or more sensors to detect a physiological parameter of the user's body, including their eyes, and processing circuitry to analyze an input received in response to the presented images to determine one or more health conditions or defects. |
| US10371944B2 |
Virtual reality headset with see-through mode
Systems and method for providing a see-through screen in a head-mounted display (HMD) includes a display screen having a front side and a back side. The display screen is configured for rendering media content. First optics is provided adjacent to the front side of the display screen and configured to provide a focus for viewing the media content. A shutter screen is provided adjacent to the backside of the display screen and is switchable between an opaque mode and a transparent mode. Second optics is provided behind the shutter screen such that the shutter screen is between the display screen and the second optics. The second optics provides an adjustment to the focus to allow clear view through the first optics, the display screen, the shutter screen and the second optics, when the transparent mode is activated on the shutter screen. |
| US10371941B2 |
Light beam scanning device suppressing thermal deformation of a scanning lens and image forming device
A light beam scanning device deflecting, by using a rotating polygon mirror, a light beam emitted from a light source and condensing, by using a scanning lens, the deflected light beam onto a scanned surface. The light beam scanning device includes: a base made of a metal or a resin; a motor unit attached to the base and rotating the polygon mirror; a holding member holding the scanning lens; and one or more fixing members disposed between the base and the holding member, fixing the holding member to the base with the scanning lens spaced away from the base. In the light beam scanning device, the base has, between at least one of the fixing members and the motor unit, a penetrating hole or groove around which heat transmitted from the motor unit through the base to the fixing member passes. |
| US10371939B2 |
Apparatus providing over-travel protection for actuators
One or more apparatus providing over-travel protection for actuators are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a mirror; a first plate coupled to the mirror; and a support post coupled the first plate, the support post structured to prevent the mirror from moving within a threshold distance to a second plate. |
| US10371936B2 |
Wide angle, broad-band, polarization independent beam steering and concentration of wave energy utilizing electronically controlled soft matter
A general method is provided for electronically reconfiguring the internal structure of a solid to allow precision control of the propagation of wave energy. The method allows digital or analog control of wave energy, such as but not limited to visible light, while maintaining low losses, a multi-octave bandwidth, polarization independence, large area and a large dynamic range in power handling. Embodiments of the technique are provided for large-angle beam steering, lenses and other devices to control wave energy. |
| US10371931B2 |
Digital microscope apparatus, method of searching for in-focus position thereof, and program
A digital microscope apparatus includes a first imaging unit including a first imaging device and a first optical system including an objective lens configured to enlarge first and second images of a preparation that holds a sample, the first image being formed on the first device through the first system, a second imaging unit including a second optical system that is branched from the first system and has a depth of field larger than the first system and a second imaging device on which the second image is formed through the second system, and a controller configured to calculate a provisional in-focus position of the lens based on the second image, determine an area of the first device, from which the first image is read, and search for, based on the read image, an in-focus position of the lens in a predetermined range based on the provisional in-focus position. |
| US10371929B2 |
Autofocus imaging
The present invention relates to the field of digital pathology and in particular to whole slide scanners. Autofocus imaging can be performed by sampling a first number of pixels of a primary image sensor which is a time delay integration (TDI) sensor, and sampling a second number of pixels of an autofocus image sensor, wherein the second number is between one quarter and three quarters of the first number. Thus, continuous autofocus for rapid light scanning may be provided based on an additional image sensor that is tilted with respect to the optical axis. |
| US10371924B2 |
Image device comprising fill-light projector, and autofocus method using imaging device
Provided is a photographing apparatus having both a phase difference auto-focusing function and a contrast auto-focusing function. Provided is an auxiliary light projector capable of projecting auxiliary light of a pattern suitable for the photographing apparatus. An auxiliary light projector and a photographing apparatus including the auxiliary light projector according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may reduce an auto-focusing time with respect to an object and improve reliability of an auto-focusing function. |
| US10371919B2 |
Lens module
The present disclosure provides a lens module. The lens module includes a lens barrel; a lens group accommodated in the lens barrel, the lens group including at least a first lens; and a retaining member located an image side of the lens group. The retaining member is a hollow ring which includes an object side leaning and connecting to the first lens, an image side opposite to the object side, an outer side and an inner side connecting to the object side and the image side, and the inner side is a Lambertian surface through Lambertian treatment. |
| US10371918B2 |
Imaging device, optical device, electronic device, vehicle, and production method for imaging device
An imaging device has a lens group; a lens barrel for holding the lens group; a base member for holding the lens barrel; an imaging element; a securing plate that faces at least a portion of the base member in a state wherein the imaging element is secured; and a coil spring for pressing the lens barrel to produce a state wherein a male threaded portion of the lens barrel is pressed against a female threaded portion of the base member. |
| US10371916B2 |
Optical fiber pathway duct
An optical fiber pathway duct comprises a first channel configured to receive a pulling mechanism, and a second channel configured to allow one of a pullable connector and a stub end coupled to an optical fiber cable to pass through the optical pathway duct. The optical fiber pathway duct further comprises a slot disposed between the first channel and the second channel and configured to allow a pulling eye of one of the pullable connector and the stub end coupled to the pulling mechanism to pass through the optical pathway duct. |
| US10371914B2 |
Fiber termination enclosure with modular plate assemblies
Certain types of fiber termination enclosures include an enclosure and at least one of a plurality of plate module mounting assemblies. Example plate module mounting assemblies include a termination panel plate assembly; a splice tray plate assembly; a cable spool plate assembly; and a drop-in plate assembly. Example cable spool plate assemblies include a cable spool arrangement rotationally coupled to a mounting plate, which fixedly mounts within the enclosure housing. A stand-off mount element may be disposed on the front of the cable spool arrangement to rotate in unison with the cable spool arrangement. The stand-off mount element may include one or more termination adapters. |
| US10371912B2 |
Re-enterable sealed enclosure
The present disclosure relates to an enclosure for housing telecommunications equipment. The enclosure can receive a pass-through cable a sealed locations. The enclosure includes structure that allows re-entry of the enclosure while reducing for reducing or preventing disturbance of the sealed locations. |
| US10371907B2 |
Fluid control structure
An optical structure includes a substrate including a cavity on a first surface of the substrate, an optical component on the substrate and an adhesive applied to a side of the optical component to fix the optical component to the substrate. The optical component includes a recess on a second surface of the optical component, the second surface is opposed to the first surface of the substrate, and the recess is provided along an edge of the second surface. |
| US10371903B1 |
Spacers for use in a fiber optic connector
A spacer to be used with a fiber optic connector includes a two portions with spring retaining members and a cross member extending between the first and second portions. The cross member has an extension extending from the cross member between the first portion and the second portion and away from a front face thereof. The spacer may also have retention pins to engage a fiber optic ferrule. |
| US10371901B2 |
Field installable connector system for drop cables and the like
A field installable connector system for an optical cable includes a clamp, including a plurality of clamp members, cable guiding space in at least one of the clamp members, the cable guiding space configured to guide an optical cable in position in the clamp, connector receiving space in the clamp configured to receive at least part of a connector connected to the optical cable, a stop configured to block withdrawal of the connector from the clamp, and a housing having a clamp receiving space configured to receive at least part of the clamp and to urge clamp parts together to retain in the clamp at least part of the connector. A strain relief also may be provided. A method of assembling a field installable connector system for an optical cable includes placing an optical connector, optical cable and clamp in a hollow housing that holds the clamp relative to the optical connector and optical cable; and applying a strain relief. |
| US10371899B2 |
Fiber optic connector
The present disclosure relates to a fiber optic connector and cable assembly. The fiber optic connector includes a connector body and ferrule assembly mounted in the connector body. A spring is positioned within the connector body for biasing the ferrule assembly in a forward direction. The spring has a first spring length when the ferrule assembly is in a forwardmost position. A rear housing of the connector body includes a front extension that fits inside a rear end of the spring, the front extension having a front extension length. The fiber optic connector defines a gap between the front extension and a ferrule hub of the ferrule assembly, the gap having a first dimension measured between the front extension and the ferrule hub when the ferrule assembly is in the forwardmost position, the front extension length being longer than the first dimension. |
| US10371895B2 |
Spot-size converter for optical mode conversion and coupling between two waveguides
A spot-size converter having a waveguiding structure. The first part of the waveguiding structure receives light from or transmits light to a first waveguide in a first propagation mode. The first part of the waveguiding structure has a longitudinally varying effective refractive index that decreases away from the first waveguide. The second part of the waveguiding structure transmits light to or receives light from a second waveguide in a second propagation mode. The second part of the waveguiding structure has a number of high-index elements arranged in a single plane, extending along a longitudinal waveguiding axis and at least partially overlapping the first part of the waveguiding structure. The first propagation mode of the first waveguide progressively transforms into the second propagation mode of the second waveguide along the longitudinal waveguiding axis through an overlap region between the first part and the second part of the waveguiding structure. |
| US10371890B2 |
Optical waveguide element
An optical waveguide element includes: a cladding portion made of silica-based glass; and a plurality of optical waveguides positioned in the cladding portion and made of silica-based glass in which ZrO2 crystal particles are dispersed. The optical waveguide element is a planar lightwave circuit. The plurality of optical waveguides configure an arrayed waveguide grating element. |
| US10371886B2 |
Spacer A for display apparatus
Provided is a display apparatus capable of preventing the warp and the optical leak of an optical sheet. The display apparatus includes: a display panel which displays an image; a light guide plate which faces the display panel and emits light towards the display panel; a spacer which forms a gap between the light guide plate and the display panel; and an optical sheet arranged at the gap. A peripheral portion of the light guide plate is located outside with respect to the display panel, and the spacer includes a panel attaching part which is attached at an edge portion of one surface of the display panel and with a light-guide-plate attaching part which continues to the panel attaching part and is attached at an edge portion in one surface of the light guide plate. |
| US10371879B2 |
Light unit with an extended light emission surface
A light unit with an extended light emission surface includes a light source, and a flat light distribution body having a first principal surface and a second principal surface disposed on opposite sides of the flat light distribution body, wherein the light source is positioned outside of the flat light distribution body, with light emitted by the light source being coupled into the flat light distribution body and being propagated within the flat light distribution body via total internal reflection at the first and second principal surfaces. |
| US10371876B2 |
Reflective diffractive gratings with variable reflectivity and display systems having the same
In some embodiments, compositions and methods comprising reflective flowable materials, e.g., reflective liquids including reflective inks and/or liquid metals, are described. In some embodiments, a surface is contacted with a reflective flowable material, thereby forming a reflective layer on the surface. In some embodiments, the surface is a surface of a waveguide, for example a waveguide for a display device, and the flowable material coats surfaces of protrusions on the surface to form reflective diffractive optical elements. Some embodiments include a display device comprising a reflective layer of reflective flowable material. |
| US10371875B2 |
Display device having a color conversion layer
A display device may include a substrate and a plurality of color conversion units on the substrate. Each of the plurality of color conversion units may include a photonic crystal layer having at least two layers having different refractive indices alternately stacked, and a wavelength shifter dispersed in at least one of the at least two layers. |
| US10371873B2 |
High fidelity optical beam dump
A high efficiency optical beam dump having at least two glass plates configured to define an optical path configured to reflect a beam incident the optical path from plate to plate, wherein the plates include anti-reflective coatings and high reflective coatings and wherein the high-efficiency optical beam dump is capable of very high levels of attenuation through repetitive absorption and reflection of an optical beam. |
| US10371869B2 |
Anti-scratch film for flexible display
An anti-scratch film, including a film base and an anti-scratch layer on one side of the film base. The anti-scratch layer includes a plurality of protrusions. |
| US10371868B2 |
Process for the manufacturing of an optical article and optical article
The invention relates to a process for the manufacturing of an optical article comprising forming a multilayered coating on at least one face of an uncoated or coated substrate,and forming on the outermost layer of said multilayered coating, a layer-by-layer (LbL) coating exposed to environment, said LbL coating comprising at least two bilayers, each bilayer being formed successively by: i) applying a first layer composition comprising at least one compound A having a first electrical charge; ii) applying, directly onto the first layer resulting from i), a second layer composition comprising at least one compound B having a second electrical charge, said second electrical charge being opposite to said first electrical charge; iii) repeating at least once steps i) and ii), with the provisos that: -each of compounds A and B is independently chosen from polysaccharide polymers and colloids of metal oxide such as TiO2 and ZrO2 or silicon oxide, with the proviso that at least one of the compounds A and B is a polysaccharide polymer, -each of said compounds A and B is positively or negatively charged respectively, and d) crosslinking the first and second layers of said bilayers of the LbL coating by treatment with an aqueous composition comprising at least tetrakis(2-hydroxyethyl) orthosilicate (THEOS) as crosslinking agent to induce chemical linkages between compounds A and B. The invention also relates to the optical substrate obtained according to this process. |
| US10371866B2 |
Optical element having a coating for enhanced visibility of a mark and method for making the optical element
The present invention relates to an optical element that includes a mark (18). The optical element has a first coating layer (22) over at least a portion of a surface of an optical substrate (20) having the mark (18) on the surface of the optical substrate, and one or more additional coating layers (24) over at least a portion of the first coating layer (22). The first coating layer has a first refractive index, and the optical substrate and the mark may have a second refractive index. A difference between the first refractive index and the second refractive index has an absolute value of 0.02 to 0.24. At least one of the first coating layer (22) and the one or more additional coating layers (24) may be applied by a controlled deposition of a coating material in droplet form. |
| US10371862B2 |
Geomagnetic storm warning
A method of receiving a substorm activity data log from one or more remote sensors, where substorm activity is due to solar activity. The method also includes receiving a harmonic distortion data stream from one or more remote observatories monitoring disturbances on a power grid, where the distortion is due to geomagnetically induced currents. The method also includes applying a mathematical model to the harmonic distortion data stream to create a derived harmonic distortion data log, and comparing phase-to-phase similarity of the three phases from the derived harmonic distortion data log. The method also includes predicting future adverse events due to geomagnetically-induced currents on the power grid based at least in part on the comparison and the substorm activity data log, and creating a warning based on the prediction. |
| US10371861B2 |
Notification techniques for reducing energy usage
Notification techniques for reducing energy usage include detecting a weather event for a location of at least one consumer, determining, based on the weather event, at least one modified behavior to reduce energy usage for the at least one consumer, and providing a notification to the at least one consumer regarding the at least one modified behavior for the weather event. |
| US10371858B2 |
Method of subsurface modelling
Disclosed is a method of modelling a subsurface volume. History data for one or more parameters over a first period of time is obtained. The first period of time comprises a plurality of schedule periods, each schedule period having associated with it a sampled value of the considered parameter at the corresponding time. A merge error value is attributed to plural pairs of consecutive schedule periods, the merge error value representing a magnitude of the error in a merged value of each parameter over the duration corresponding to a pair of schedule periods being considered, relative to the sampled values for said pair of schedule periods being considered. The pair of schedule periods which have the smallest error value attributed thereto is merged, and the merged schedule period has attributed to it, the corresponding merged value of the corresponding parameter. The error value calculation and merger steps are repeated so as to reduce the total number of schedule periods. |
| US10371855B2 |
Apparatus and method for non-invasive inspection of solid bodies by muon imaging
An apparatus for non-invasive inspection of solid bodies by muon imaging, comprising a receiver (3) adapted to intercept a muon flux associated with cosmic rays passing through a portion of a body to be inspected, sensor means (4) adapted to detect the amount of photons or Cherenkov radiation associated with the intercepted muon flux, electronic processing means adapted to reconstruct energy and direction of the muon flux incident the portion of the body to be inspected to calculate the local density thereof. The receiver (3) comprises an optical device (5) provided with at least one receiving surface (6) having reflecting and/or diffractive properties adapted to convey the Cherenkov radiation associated with muons toward the sensor means (4), these latter comprising a multipixel detection chamber (8) adapted to provide an annular image of the muon having radius and position variable as a function of the energy and direction of muon flux. |
| US10371853B2 |
Nuclear magnetic resonance system with feedback induction coils
A nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) system that uses a feedback induction coil to detect NMR signals generated within a substance is described herein. In one embodiment, the NMR system uses the Earth's magnetic field in conjunction with a transmitter coil that applies NMR sequences to a formation. The NMR sequences generate a weak NMR signal within the formation due to the weakness of the Earth's magnetic field. This weak NMR signal is detected using the feedback induction coil. |
| US10371851B2 |
Method for formation fracture characterization in highly inclined wells using multiaxial induction well logging instruments
A method for characterizing fractures traversing a wellbore includes input to a computer multiaxial electromagnetic induction measurements corresponding to measurements made along two mutually orthogonal magnetic dipole moment axes perpendicular to an axis of the wellbore. The measurements correspond to at least one receiver spacing from a transmitter. The measurements represent induced voltage in a receiver having a same dipole moment direction as a dipole moment direction of a transmitter. A first derivative with respect to wellbore depth of the multiaxial electromagnetic induction measurements is calculated. At least one peak and an amplitude thereof of the first derivatives is calculated. The peak and the amplitude are used to determine a location and an aperture of at least one fracture traversing the wellbore. |
| US10371850B2 |
Neutrally buoyant magnetic sensor for borehole magnetometer
A magnetic sensor for borehole magnetometer includes an upper-opened pipe-shaped housing; a frame installed at an inside of the housing; an upper-opened magnetic sensor part installed at a bottom side of the frame; a lid covering the opened upper side of the magnetic sensor part; and a magnetic sensor disposed at an inside of the magnetic sensor part to measure a magnetic force, wherein an upper side and a bottom side of the magnetic sensor is respectively installed with a spring, a bottom side of the lid and the magnetic sensor part are formed with a fixing groove for fixing an upper spring and a bottom spring each installed at an upper side and a bottom side of the magnetic sensor. |
| US10371848B2 |
Foreign object detection in wireless energy transfer systems
Systems and methods for detecting foreign object debris around a wireless power transfer system include a plurality of detectors, each detector featuring one or more loops of conducting material, and a controller configured to measure at least one of a voltage and a current in each detector and to determine, based on the measurements, whether foreign object debris is present around the wireless power transfer system, where at least some of the plurality of detectors include a first number of loops of the conducting material, and at least some of the plurality of detectors include a second number of loops of the conducting material larger than the first number. |
| US10371845B2 |
Acoustic ranging apparatus and methods
A ranging system comprises a plurality of streamers, each with a plurality of receivers. A plurality of transmitters is also disposed along one or more of the streamers, each configured to generate acoustic or ranging signals over one or more channels. A processor is configured to define a subset of the transmitters within a predefined limited range or listening distance of each receiver. In the subset, the transmitters are configured to generate the acoustic signals over different channels. |
| US10371840B2 |
Tension monitoring method and system for towed antenna
A method for calculating a tension (T) in a towed antenna. The method includes towing the antenna in water, wherein the antenna includes plural particle motion sensors distributed along the antenna; measuring with the plural particle motion sensors vibrations that propagate along the antenna; calculating a value of a phase velocity (vp) of the vibrations that propagate along the antenna based on (1) an offset between two particle motion sensors and (2) a time delay of the vibrations that propagate from one of the two particle motion sensors to another one of the two particle motion sensors; selecting a relation that links the phase velocity (vp) to the tension (T); and using the value of the phase velocity and the relation to determine the tension (T) at various locations of the plural particle motion sensors along the antenna. |
| US10371839B2 |
Blended land seismic data acquisition employing dispersed source arrays with variable sweep length
An array of seismic energy receivers is deployed at fixed locations across the length and width of a land surface area of interest. A land fleet composed of a number of vibratory swept frequency or vibroseis seismic energy sources is deployed at predetermined initial locations within the receiver array. The sources are arranged in groups which at their initial locations are spaced from other groups of the source fleet by an intergroup spacing distance representing a segment of the receiver array. Each of the vibratory sources in a source group is assigned within that group a designated specific length for its energy emissions and a frequency sweep band different from the other sources in the group. The sources in all groups concurrently emit energy at a succession of spaced, assigned locations as they are moved incrementally over their respective intergroup spacings. The responses of subsurface formations to the emissions from the sources are recorded as a blended seismic record by the fixed array of processors and made available for processing. |
| US10371837B2 |
Directional neutron detector
A neutron detector that indicates the direction toward a neutron source. The detector is a proton-recoil type of detector, in which two different scintillators are positioned on both sides of a hydrogenous target. Proton recoil signals from the two scintillators indicate whether neutrons arrive from the left, right, or center relative to the detector alignment. Surprisingly high precision can be obtained by orienting the detector so that the counting rates in the two scintillators are equal, at which point the target layer is directly aligned with the source. Disclosed are thick and thin target configurations, versions for discriminating pulses from the two scintillators, options for assembling a multi-detector stack and array, and multiple analysis procedures for optimally locating the neutron source. |
| US10371835B2 |
Microcell interconnection in silicon photomultipliers
A silicon photomultiplier array including a plurality of microcells arranged in rows and columns. A plurality of circuit traces connecting microcell output ports to the array pixel output port, with one or more impedance matching networks connected to at least one of the circuit traces. The impedance matching networks can be connected between each row circuit trace and the pixel output port. Impedance matching networks can be located between junctions of adjacent microcell output ports and row circuit traces. |
| US10371832B1 |
Theranostic imaging with CZT gamma cameras
One embodiment provides a method for imaging photons, including: receiving a dataset associated with a plurality of photon events, the photon events corresponding to photons interacting with a photon imaging device, wherein the photon imaging device comprises a photon guide assembly and a detector array; the photon guide assembly comprising a plurality of photon guides positioned at an oblique angle with respect to the detector array; and producing an oblique planar projection image of the plurality of photon events by processing the dataset. Other aspects are described and claimed. |
| US10371827B2 |
Method and system for recovering scintillation pulse information
A method for recovering scintillation pulse information. The method comprises the steps: obtaining a scintillation pulse database of unstacked compliance single-events in a low count, and establishing a noise model of a scintillation pulse for the scintillation pulse database of the single-events; calculating a posterior probability logarithm value of a specific energy value according to the noise model of the scintillation pulse; and repeatedly calling the second step by means of calculations, and obtaining an energy value meeting a maximum posterior probability condition. A system for recovering scintillation pulse information. The system comprises a fluctuation model module, a posterior probability module, and an energy value search module. The method and system for recovering scintillation pulse information in the present invention effectively improve the precision of a system energy calculation, and is specifically suitable for an energy calculation of a sparse quantization level ADC digital nuclear instrument. |
| US10371826B2 |
Water-based radiation detector
A radiation detector includes a housing configured to contain a volume of water, the housing including an interior surface adjacent a first portion of the water having a first net charge. The radiation detector also includes a first electrode coupled to the housing within the first portion of the water, and a second electrode coupled to the housing within a second portion of the water adjacent the first portion of the water. The radiation detector further includes a current detector connected in series between the first electrode and the second electrode, the current detector configured to detect a current associated with an ionized radiation product that enters the housing. |
| US10371825B2 |
Radiation detector and computer tomography apparatus including the same
Provided is a radiation detector which includes a plurality of pixels for detecting radiation, each of the plurality of pixels including a radiation absorbing layer configured to convert incident radiation photons to electric signals; a plurality of comparators configured to compare each of the electric signals with a respective plurality of reference values, in order to classify the photons in a plurality of energy bands; and a plurality of counters configured to count and store the number of photons that are classified in each of the plurality of energy bands, and which have sizes which correspond to the plurality of reference values. Accordingly, the radiation detector may increase a measurable radiation amount without a requirement that sizes of the pixels or the sub-pixels are increased. |
| US10371817B2 |
Object detecting apparatus
An object detecting apparatus includes: a light projection unit that is an array light source in which each of a plurality of light emission areas emits light, an optical scanning unit that performs scanning with the light, which is emitted from the light projection unit, in a first direction, and a light receiving unit that receives reflected light which is the light, with which the scanning is performed, being reflected by an object, and an object information acquiring unit that detects presence/absence of the object based on emission timing at which the light is emitted from the light projection unit and light receiving timing at which the light receiving unit receives the reflected light. |
| US10371814B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting soil characteristics
A soil detection and planting apparatus. The apparatus includes a vehicle and a controller coupled to the vehicle. The apparatus further includes a planting device coupled to the vehicle, the planting device configured to plant seeds or plants into a soil material. The apparatus includes a ground penetrating radar sensor coupled to the vehicle. The ground penetrating radar soil sensor is configured to scan the soil material up to a designated depth beneath a surface of the soil material, wherein the ground penetrating radar soil sensor is further configured to provide a sensor feedback signal to the controller with respect to an intrinsic characteristic of the soil material. The controller is configured to instruct placement of a seed or a plant into the soil material based on the feedback signal. |
| US10371813B2 |
Systems and methods for using time of flight measurements for imaging target objects
An imaging system as disclosed can include multiple bistatic radar sensors configured to transmit electromagnetic waves towards a surface of a target object and configured to measure the electromagnetic waves reflected from the surface of the target object. The imaging system includes a computing device that determines time of flight estimates based on the measured waves. The computing device can draw, within an image model for the target object, multiple candidate surface portions of the surface of the target object based on the TOF estimates and predetermined positions of the bistatic radar sensors. Further, the computing device can assign weights to the candidate surface portions. The computing device can determine points where the candidate surface portions meet with a predetermined probability based on the weights. The computing device is configured to define an estimated surface of the target object in the image model based on the determined points. |
| US10371812B2 |
Ultra-wideband radar altimeter
A system can include an unmanned aerial vehicle and an altimeter disposed on the unmanned aerial vehicle. The altimeter can include an ultra-wideband radar antenna disposed orthogonally to a plane of straight and level flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle and having an omnidirectional azimuthal beam pattern orthogonal to the plane of straight and level flight of the unmanned aerial vehicle. The altimeter can be configured to determine an altitude of the unmanned aerial vehicle above a target surface based on time of flight of radar pulses between the ultra-wideband radar antenna and the target surface. |
| US10371807B2 |
Radar apparatus and target object detection method
Frequency analysis of each of a plurality of reception antennas and each of reception signals received by the plurality of reception antennas is performed, a power spectrum is calculated for each of the reception antennas, a standard deviation indicating a degree of conformity in a peak of the power spectrum among the plurality of reception antennas is calculated, the power spectra are corrected with use of the standard deviation, a peak is detected based on the corrected power spectra, and a target object is detected based on the detected peak. |
| US10371804B2 |
Ultrasound signal processing circuitry and related apparatus and methods
Ultrasound signal processing circuitry and related apparatus and methods are described. Signal samples received from an ultrasound transducer array in an ultrasound transducer based imaging system may be processed, or conditioned, by application of one or more weighting functions. In some embodiments, one or more weighting functions may be applied to the signal samples in the time domain. In other embodiments, the signal samples may be converted to the frequency domain and one or more weighting functions may be applied in the frequency domain. In further embodiments, one or more weighting functions may be applied in the time domain and one or more weighting functions may be applied in the frequency domain. The weighting functions may be channel dependent and/or channel independent. The processed data can be provided to an image formation processor. |
| US10371801B2 |
Measuring instrument
The invention provides a measuring instrument, which comprises a measuring unit for projecting a distance measuring light toward an object to be measured and for performing a distance measurement by receiving a reflected light from the object to be measured, and an attitude detecting device integrally provided with the measuring unit, wherein the attitude detecting device has tilt sensors for detecting a horizontality and relative tilt angle detectors for tilting the tilt sensors and for detecting a tilt angle of the measuring unit with respect to the horizontality under such condition that the tilt sensors detects the horizontality so that the horizontality is detected by the tilt sensor, and wherein the distance measurement of the object to be measured is performed by the measuring unit, and a vertical angle of a measuring point is determined based on the result of the tilt detection by the attitude detecting device. |
| US10371800B2 |
Radar device with noise cancellation
Exemplary embodiments disclosed herein relate to a radar device. The radar device may transmit an RF oscillator signal to a radar channel and receive a respective first RF radar signal from the radar channel. The radar device may further generate a second RF radar signal. Frequency conversion circuits are also disclosed to down-convert the first RF radar signal and the second RF radar signal. An analog-to digital conversion unit may digitize the down-converted first RF radar signal and the down-converted second RF radar signal to generate a first digital signal and a second digital signal, respectively. A digital signal processing unit is disclosed to estimate a phase noise signal included in the second digital signal and to generate a cancellation signal based on the estimated phase noise signal. The cancellation signal is subtracted from the first digital radar signal to obtain a noise compensated digital radar signal. |
| US10371797B1 |
Systems and methods for enhancing target detection
A system for determining a spatial disposition or a characteristic of a target external to a terrestrial vehicle is provided. The system may comprise a radar antenna array configured to transmit and receive radar signals, and a controller operatively coupled to the radar antenna array. The controller can be configured to use spatial information of the terrestrial vehicle and a spatial configuration of the radar antenna array to generate an enhanced main lobe by attenuating one or more side lobes in an effective sensitivity pattern associated with the radar antenna array or enhancing a main lobe in the effective sensitivity pattern associated with the radar antenna array. The controller can be configured to use the enhanced main lobe to determine (i) the spatial disposition of the target relative to the terrestrial vehicle or (ii) the characteristic of the target. |
| US10371796B2 |
Radar device
A plurality of transmission antennas include Nt1 transmission antennas arranged in a first direction and Nt2 transmission antennas arranged in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, a plurality of reception antennas include Na1 reception antennas arranged in the first direction and Na2 reception antennas arranged in the second direction. In the first direction, an inter-element space between any two of the Nt1 transmission antennas and an inter-element space between any two of the Na1 reception antennas are each a value which is a product of a first space and an integer and are all values different from each other, and in the second direction, an inter-element space between any two of the Nt2 transmission antennas and an inter-element space between any two of the Na2 reception antennas are each a value which is a product of a second space and an integer and are all values different from each other. |
| US10371790B2 |
Calibration-free location determination using wireless communication
In order to accurately determine the location of an electronic device in an environment, a computer selects a set of received-signal-strength (RSS) values based on wireless communication between the electronic device and access points in sub-regions of the environment. This set includes a largest RSS value associated with a sub-region and at least two RSS values associated with neighboring sub-regions. Then, the computer calculates pairwise distance estimates of the location of the electronic device in the environment based on predefined locations of the access points associated with the set, one or more differences of pairs of RSS values in the set and a predetermined path-loss factor in the environment, where a given pair of RSS values includes the largest RSS value and one of the at least two RSS values. Furthermore, the computer determines the location of the electronic device in the environment based on the pairwise distance estimates. |
| US10371788B2 |
Device positioning
Described are, among other things, a method, a device and a computer program wherein a large search area for a device that is to be located is successively narrowed by moving and/or rotating a locator device. |
| US10371786B1 |
Electromagnetic object tracking system
One or more surfaces within a facility are equipped with devices having several segments, each segment with an antenna. Segments may be grouped together into a cluster. Each segment within a cluster is associated with a particular timeslot. A transmitter at the device transmits on a specific frequency. During the particular timeslot for that segment, a signal at the specific frequency is transmitted and radiated from the antenna for that segment. An object electromagnetically couples to one or more antennas of the device, acting as a signal path for the signal. A receiver in a second segment detects the signal, and information about the timeslot for the signal and relative signal strength is generated. By using this information, a location and path of the object may be determined. Receivers in shelves may also be used to facilitate disambiguation of one user from another when interacting with items on those shelves. |
| US10371784B2 |
System and method for multi-sensor multi-target 3D fusion using an unbiased measurement space
System and method for determining a position of a target in an unbiased 3D measurement space: generating 2D measurement data in focal planes of each sensor; calculating a line of sight (LOS) from the target for each sensor; intersecting the LOSs and finding the closest intersection point in a 3D space; calculating a boresight LOS in 3D for each sensor; intersecting the boresight lines of sights for each sensor, and finding the closest intersection point in the 3D space to define an origin for forming the unbiased 3D measurement space; and forming local unbiased 3D estimates of the position of the target in the unbiased 3D measurement space as a difference between a closest point of the target LOS and a closest point of the boresight LOS. |
| US10371782B1 |
Methods and systems for performing physical measurements using radio frequency (RF) signals
The subject matter described herein includes methods and systems for performing physical measurements using radio frequency (RF) signals. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a method is disclosed for determining the distance between a first radio device and a second radio device. The method includes transmitting a radio frequency (RF) signal from the first radio device and receiving the RF signal by the second radio device. The method further includes a determining a carrier frequency of the RF signal and determining a slope of a carrier phase versus the carrier frequency corresponding to a rate of change of the carrier phase with the carrier frequency. The method also includes determining a physical distance between the first radio device and the second radio device based on the slope; wherein the physical distance is proportional to the slope plus an integer ambiguity term and a bias term. |
| US10371777B2 |
MRI propeller with motion correction, water-fat separation and estimation of magnetic field inhomogeneity information
A magnetic resonance (MR) imaging (MRI) system, the MRI system may include at least one controller which may be configured to: acquire MR information for at least first and second blades of a periodically rotated overlapping parallel lines with enhanced reconstruction (PROPELLER) imaging method; generate, for at least the first and second blades, main field inhomogeneity information based upon the acquired MR information, the main field inhomogeneity information indicating main field inhomogeneity; generate water and fat information individually for at least the first and second blades based upon the acquired MR information and the generated main field inhomogeneity information for the corresponding blade of the first and second blades; and correct at least one of the water and fat information for spatial distortions caused by the main field inhomogeneity or a predetermined chemical shift difference between water and fat. |
| US10371776B2 |
Optogenetic magnetic resonance imaging
Disclosed herein are systems and methods involving the use of magnetic resonance imaging and optogenetic neural stimulation. Aspects of the disclosure include modifying a target neural cell population in a first region of a brain to express light-responsive molecules. Using a light pulse, the light-responsive molecules in the target neural cell population are stimulated. Multiple regions of the brain are scanned via magnetic resonance imaging. The scans allow for observation of a neural reaction in response to the stimulation in at least one of the multiple regions of the brain. |
| US10371775B2 |
Dialysis system with radio frequency device within a magnet assembly for medical fluid sensing and concentration determination
This disclosure relates to medical fluid sensors and related systems and methods. In certain aspects, a method includes using a medical fluid pump of a medical fluid pumping machine, such as a hemodialysis machine, to deliver medical fluid to a first portion of a cartridge that is positioned within a magnetic field, exciting atoms in the medical fluid in the first portion of the cartridge by applying radio frequency energy to the medical fluid in the first portion of the cartridge, receiving radio frequency energy generated by the excited atoms in the medical fluid in the first portion of the cartridge, and determining a concentration of a substance in the medical fluid based on the received radio frequency energy generated by the excited atoms in the medical fluid in the first portion of the cartridge. |
| US10371773B2 |
Low-field magnetic resonance imaging methods and apparatus
According to some aspects, a low-field magnetic resonance imaging system is provided. The low-field magnetic resonance imaging system comprises a magnetics system having a plurality of magnetics components configured to produce magnetic fields for performing magnetic resonance imaging, the magnetics system comprising, a B0 magnet configured to produce a B0 field for the magnetic resonance imaging system at a low-field strength of less than 0.2 Tesla (T), a plurality of gradient coils configured to, when operated, generate magnetic fields to provide spatial encoding of magnetic resonance signals, and at least one radio frequency coil configured to, when operated, transmit radio frequency signals to a field of view of the magnetic resonance imaging system and to respond to magnetic resonance signals emitted from the field of view, a power system comprising one or more power components configured to provide power to the magnetics system to operate the magnetic resonance imaging system to perform image acquisition, and a power connection configured to connect to a single-phase outlet to receive mains electricity and deliver the mains electricity to the power system to provide power needed to operate the magnetic resonance imaging system. According to some aspects, the power system operates the low-field magnetic resonance imaging system using an average of less than 1.6 kilowatts during image acquisition. |
| US10371772B2 |
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus
According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a gradient magnetic field power supply, a voltmeter, and processing circuitry. The gradient magnetic field power supply includes an amplifier amplifying an input signal based on information of a gradient magnetic field waveform and outputting the amplified input signal to a gradient coil, a power supply device supplying power to the amplifier, and a capacitor bank supplying power, together with the power supply device, to the amplifier. The voltmeter measures a voltage of the capacitor bank. The processing circuitry calculates frequency characteristics of an impedance of the gradient coil, based on a voltage variation of the capacitor bank which was measured by the voltmeter, and controls imaging in accordance with the calculated frequency characteristics. |
| US10371769B2 |
MRI apparatus and method using direct A/D of MR signals without frequency down conversion
According to one embodiment, a magnetic resonance imaging apparatus includes a static field magnet, a gradient coil, at least one radio frequency coil, a receiver and processing circuitry. The static field magnet, the gradient coil, the at least one radio frequency coil and the receiver are configured to acquire magnetic resonance signals from an object. The processing circuitry is configured to generate magnetic resonance image data based on the magnetic resonance signals. The receiver is configured to convert analog magnetic resonance signals received by the at least one radio frequency coil into digital magnetic resonance signals without a downconversion; separate the digital magnetic resonance signals into in-phase signals and quadrature-phase signals; and perform filter processing for removing noises of the in-phase signals and the quadrature-phase signals. |
| US10371767B2 |
Efficient spin polarization
In some aspects, polarization of a spin ensemble can be increased using cavity-based techniques. A cavity is coupled with a spin ensemble, and a drive field generates an interaction between the cavity and the spin ensemble. In some cases, the interaction increases the polarization of the spin ensemble faster than the thermal (T1) relaxation process or any other thermal polarizing process affecting the spin ensemble. In some cases, polarization is increased by iteratively acting on angular momentum subspaces of the spin ensemble, and mixing the angular momentum subspaces, for example, by a dipolar interaction, a transverse (T2) relaxation process, application of a gradient field, or a combination of these and other processes. |
| US10371763B2 |
Systems and methods for low power magnetic field generation for atomic sensors using electro-permanent magnets
Systems and methods for low power magnetic field generation for atomic sensors using electro-permanent magnets are provided. In one embodiment, a method for magnetic field generation for an atomic sensor comprises: laser cooling a sample of atoms in a chamber; and trapping the sample of atoms in a magneto-optical trap within the chamber by applying an atom trapping field across the sample of atoms using at least one pair of electro-permanent magnet units. |
| US10371758B2 |
Test system and method for testing a battery pack
A test system for testing a battery pack having a high voltage terminal, a low voltage terminal, first and second battery modules, and a master microprocessor is provided. The test system includes an inverter unit and a test computer. The inverter unit iteratively grounds the high voltage terminal and the low voltage terminal. The test computer sends a first message to the master microprocessor that requests first and second voltage values of the first and second battery modules. The master microprocessor sends a second message having the first and second voltage values to the test computer which determines a first voltage deviation value. The test computer sets a test flag to a predetermined pass value if the test computer received the second message and the first voltage deviation value is less than a first threshold voltage deviation value. |
| US10371757B2 |
Post-deterioration performance estimating apparatus and post-deterioration performance estimating method for energy storage device, and energy storage system
A post-deterioration performance estimating apparatus wherein a post-deterioration performance value indicates performance of an energy storage device. The apparatus includes a post-deterioration performance estimator is configured to electronically estimate the post-deterioration performance value at a deterioration point using (1) a relation between a cumulative operating period and a resistance value, (2) a relation between the resistance value and energy storage capacity, and (3) the cumulative operating period at the deterioration point. Alternatively, the post-deterioration performance estimator is configured to electronically estimate the post-deterioration performance value at a deterioration point using (1) a relation between an equilibrial capacity decreased amount, (2) a kinetic capacity decreased amount, and (3) a cumulative operating period at the deterioration point. |
| US10371756B2 |
Detection circuit and management device
An abnormality notification switch is switched on when a power storage module is abnormal but is switched off when the power storage module is normal. A first detection element outputs a signal indicating an abnormality of the power storage module when detecting that an electric current flows along an electric current line. A second detection element is inserted into an electric current line between a node and a second high-side reference potential that has a higher potential than a potential of a first high-side reference potential. The second detection element outputs a signal indicating an occurrence of a disconnection when detecting that no electric current flows along this electric current line. A retaining circuit retains a potential at the node higher than the first high-side reference potential and lower than the second high-side reference potential. |
| US10371755B2 |
Reported state-of-charge scaling
In a general aspect, a method can include providing an indication that the electronic device has changed from a battery charging state to a battery discharging state and measuring an initial measured state-of-charge (MSOC) value of a battery of the electronic device. In the event the initial MSOC value is above a threshold value, the method can further include determining a compensation value based on the initial MSOC value and the threshold value, determining an initial reported state of charge (RSOC) value by scaling the initial MSOC value using the compensation value and reporting the initial RSOC value using the electronic device. |
| US10371754B2 |
Systems and methods for real-time estimation of capacity of a rechargeable battery
A battery system includes a battery that couples to an electrical system. The battery system also includes a battery control module that electrically couples to the battery. The battery control module monitors at least one monitored parameter of the battery, and the battery control module recursively calculates a first capacity estimation of the battery using two linear regression models based on at least an equivalent circuit model, the at least one monitored parameter, and a Kalman filter. |
| US10371753B1 |
Methods for online estimation of battery capacity and state of health
In some variations, a method of real-time monitoring of battery capacity comprises correlating electrode open-circuit voltage with electrode state of charge for a selected electrode; compiling a look-up table to correlate the electrode open-circuit voltage with the electrode capacity at different values of the active-material capacity; during real-time operation, identifying first and second times at which battery terminal voltages are approximated as battery open-circuit voltages; and calculating battery capacity based on the difference in battery open-circuit voltages at the first and second times, current integration, and the look-up table. No reference electrode is needed, and a complete battery charge/discharge is not necessary to determine the capacity. This technique can therefore be implemented on-board and in real time to provide reliable capacity estimation even as the battery ages. The methods are applicable to various metal-ion secondary battery systems, including lithium-ion batteries, with different material chemistries. |
| US10371751B2 |
Circuit and method for diagnosing scan chain failures
A circuit includes a plurality of scan chains arranged in a ring network topology. Each scan chain includes a plurality of scan blocks, each of the plurality of scan blocks including a storage element and a switching device. Each switching device includes a first input configured to receive an output of a storage element in a different scan chain from the scan chain in which the switching device is disposed, and a second input configured to receive one of a function logic signal or a test scan signal. The switching device configured to selectively couple the first input or the second input to an input of the storage element. |
| US10371740B2 |
Power system disturbance localization using recurrence quantification analysis and minimum-volume-enclosing ellipsoid
A method for determining a location of a disturbance in a power system is provided. The method includes receiving data from a plurality of sensors distributed across the power system; performing a recurrence quantification analysis on the received data to identify a predetermined number of sensors, from the plurality of sensors, that are closest to the disturbance; constructing a plurality of minimum-volume-enclosing ellipsoids based on and enclosing the data received from the identified sensors; extracting one or more parameters from the plurality of minimum-volume-enclosing ellipsoids; inputting the one or more parameters into a multivariate-random-forest regression algorithm to determine the location of the disturbance and a power mismatch corresponding to the disturbance; and presenting, on one or more display units, the determined location of the disturbance and the determined power mismatch. |
| US10371738B2 |
Apparatus for determining abnormal status of wireless power transmission coil
Provided is an apparatus for determining an abnormal status of a wireless power transmission coil, the apparatus including an input-current sensor configured to detect an input current and provided at an input side of a power transmission coil, an output-current sensor configured to detect an output current and provided at an output side of the transmission coil, and a controller configured to compare each of the input current and the output current with a predetermined threshold value corresponding thereto to determine whether a disconnection or a short circuit occurs in the transmission coil. |
| US10371737B2 |
Wireless mechanism for detecting an open or closed container, and methods of making and using the same
An electronic device including a continuity sensor and electrical circuitry configured to detect and report the continuity state of an article, container or product packaging is disclosed. The continuity sensor includes a first substrate with first and second coils thereon, and a second substrate with a third coil thereon. The first coil has an integrated circuit electrically connected thereto. The first substrate is part of, or is attached or secured to a part of the article, container or packaging. The second substrate is another part of, or is attached or secured to another part of the article, container or packaging. One of the article, container or packaging parts is (re)movable with respect to the other part. The first and second coils have one coupling when the article, container or packaging is closed or sealed, and a different coupling when the article, container or packaging is open or unsealed. |
| US10371733B2 |
Cold source based noise figure measurement using S-parameters and a vector signal transceiver/vector signal analyzer/spectrum analyzer
The noise figure for a radio frequency device may be obtained through power measurements. A signal flow graph based upon the S-parameter information of the entire RF system may be constructed. The S-parameter information may be representative of the microwave termination, the device, the measurement instrument and any losses due to additional components such as connecting cables/attenuators/switches, etc. The signal flow graph includes proper placement and values of the source nodes corresponding to each RF sub-system enumerated above. Noise figure measurements may include a calibration step and a measurement step. During the calibration step the noise figure and the noise temperature of the measurement instrument used for the measurement may be obtained. During the measurement step, the noise figure and the noise temperature of the device may be obtained based at least on the noise figure and noise temperature of the measurement instrument obtained during the calibration step. |
| US10371732B2 |
Method and system for performing real-time spectral analysis of non-stationary signal
A method is provided for performing real-time spectral analysis of a non-stationary signal. The method includes sampling the non-stationary signal, using an observation window having a length short enough to approximate a stationary signal, to provide an initial set of sampled data, buffering the initial set of sampled data to obtain multiple buffered sets of sampled data, filtering the initial set of sampled data and the buffered sets of sampled data, using corresponding filter responses, to obtain multiple filtered sets of sampled data, and performing a chirp-z-transform (CZT) of the filtered sets of sampled data to provide a set of discrete Fourier transforms (DFT) coefficients. A total signal spectrum of the non-stationary signal is reconstructed using the set of DFT coefficients. |
| US10371731B2 |
Method and apparatus for a superspeed USB bus powered real-time spectrum analyzer
An RF processing module that when coupled to a computer having appropriate signal processing software will function as a spectrum analyzer. The RF processing module has a first stage mixer and a switch that allows either port of the first stage mixer to be selected as the input and receive the RF signal. The RF processing module has a sample packing buffer that packs digitized signal samples into a fewer number of longer words and loads the words into a circular buffer and from then to one of two DMA channels on a USB link. The circular buffer can be emptied faster than it can be filled, allowing the sample packing buffer to create time intervals for a USB controller to switch DMA channels. LO leakage through the mixer-to-IF path is used to self-calibrate the filter's frequency response as temperature and other environmental factors change. |
| US10371728B2 |
Self-calibrating contactless power consumption sensing
A method of sensing electrical power being provided to a structure using a sensing device, a calibration device, and one or more processing modules. The sensing device can include one or more magnetic field sensors. The sensing device can be attached to a panel of a circuit breaker box. The panel of the circuit breaker box can overlie at least a part of one or more main electrical power supply lines for an electrical power infrastructure of a structure. The calibration device can include a load unit. The calibration device can be electrically coupled to the electrical power infrastructure of the structure. The method can include automatically calibrating the sensing device by determining a first transfer function in a piecewise manner based on a plurality of ordinary power consumption changes in the structure. The method also can include determining a power consumption measurement using the one or more processing modules based on one or more output signals of the sensing device and the first transfer function. Other embodiments are provided. |
| US10371727B2 |
Dynamic sensitivity adjustment for ADC measurements
Systems and methods of measuring dynamic signals for power distribution units. In one embodiment, a power distribution unit (PDU) includes an analog to digital converter (ADC) including a plurality of channels, each channel corresponding to a respective outlet of a plurality of outlets of the PDU. The PDU further includes a microprocessor coupled to the ADC and configured to measure a scale of a signal output from a first channel of the ADC, compare the scale of the signal to a sensitivity threshold, and select, for a first outlet corresponding to the first channel, a reference voltage of a plurality of reference voltages for input to the ADC based on a result of comparing. Various embodiments allow using an ADC to measure low level outlet currents of less than around 300 mA in addition to high level currents such as around 20 A. |
| US10371724B2 |
Rectifier package module for vehicle and connection status detection method for temperature sensor thereof
A rectifier package module for a vehicle and a connection status detection method for a temperature sensor thereof are provided. The rectifier package module includes at least one temperature sensor and a control chip. The control chip has an end coupled to the temperature sensor through a bonding wire. The control chip generates a current and provides a reference voltage according to a mode selection signal. The current is provided to the temperature sensor through the bonding wire. The control chip compares a voltage on the end with the reference voltage to generate a comparison result. In a test mode, a comparison circuit generates the comparison result to indicate a connection status between the end and the temperature sensor. |
| US10371723B2 |
Current sensor for biomedical measurements
A current sensor for biomedical measurements includes: a first amplifier; a first capacitor; a second capacitor; a first switch connected in parallel with the first capacitor; a second switch connected in parallel with the second capacitor; a second amplifier; a third capacitor; a resistor; and a switched capacitor network. The first capacitor and the second capacitor are connected in series and across a first input and output of the first amplifier. The third capacitor and the resistor are respectively connected across a first input and output of the second amplifier. The switched capacitor network is connected between the output of the first amplifier and the first input of the second amplifier. |
| US10371719B2 |
Printed circuit board circuit test fixture with adjustable density of test probes mounted thereon
A printed circuit board (PCB) test fixture includes a substrate, a first insulation layer formed on the substrate, a conductor layer formed on the first insulation layer and electrically connected to the upper electrodes through at least one first connection member, a second insulation layer formed on the first insulation layer, and multiple conductive cones arranged on the second insulation layer in a matrix form. A part of the conductive cones is electrically connected to the conductor layer through at least one second connection member. The circuit layout of the conductor layer, the at least one first connection member and the at least one second connection member is employed to supply testing power to a part of the conductive cones and an adjustable arrangement of the conductive cones to enhance density of test probes upon electrical testing. |
| US10371717B2 |
3D chip testing through micro-C4 interface
Structures and methods for directly testing a semiconductor wafer having micro-solder connections. According to one embodiment, a method forms a pattern of micro-solder connections coupled with a through substrate via (TSV) that can be directly tested by electrical probing, without the use of a testing interposer. According to another embodiment, a method tests the pattern of micro-solder connections. According to another embodiment, a novel electrical probe tip structure has contacts on the same pitch as the pattern of micro-solder connections. |
| US10371712B2 |
Speed sensor assembly
A robust and compact speed sensor assembly that includes a Hall effect sensor with protective circuitry in a compact housing that can be attached to the wheel of a motorcycle in the vicinity of the brake rotor to present the sensor Hall plate in a proper transverse-to-target orientation to detect passing targets, such as the brake rotor mounting bolts or magnets. |
| US10371705B2 |
Atomic description of immune complex that causes heparin-induced thrombocytopenia
The present invention provides a humanized antibody or antibody fragment comprising (a) a humanized light chain comprising 1) Complementarity Determining Region (CDR)-L1, the sequence of which is identical to the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 3; 2) CDR-L2, the sequence of which is identical to the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 4; and 3) CDR-L3, the sequence of which is identical to the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 5, and (b) a humanized heavy chain comprising 1) CDR-H1, the sequence of which is identical to the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 6; 2) CDR-H2, the sequence of which is identical to the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 7; and 3) CDR-H3, the sequence of which is identical to the sequence of SEQ ID NO: 8, as well as methods for treating, diagnosing, and monitoring the progression of HIT. The present invention also provides methods for assessing the antigenicity and ability to cause HIT of anionic anticoagulants. The present invention also provides a mutant protein which has the same amino acid sequence of a wild type PF4 monomer except that (i) at least one amino acid of the wild type PF4 monomer has been deleted, (ii) at least one amino acid of the wild type PF4 monomer has been replaced by another amino acid, or (iii) a combination of such changes has been made. The present invention also provides methods of treating or reducing the likelihood of HIT, treating angiogenesis, treating abnormal cell growth, or affecting coagulation pathologies that lead to thrombus formation, by administering such mutant proteins to a patient. |
| US10371701B2 |
Rotors for immunoassays
The present invention provides an analyte detection system for detecting target analytes in a sample. In particular, the invention provides a detection system in a rotor or disc format that utilizes a centrifugal force to move the sample through the detection system. Methods of using the rotor detection system to detect analytes in samples, particularly biological samples, and kits comprising the rotor detection system are also disclosed. |
| US10371699B2 |
Compartmentalised screening by microfluidic control
The invention describes a method for the identification of compounds which bind to a target component of a biochemical system or modulate the activity of the target, comprising the steps of: a) compartmentalizing the compounds into microcapsules together with the target, such that only a subset of the repertoire is represented in multiple copies in any one microcapsule; and b) identifying the compound which binds to or modulates the activity of the target; wherein at least one step is performed under microfluidic control. The invention enables the screening of large repertoires of molecules which can serve as leads for drug development. |
| US10371698B2 |
Sample testing apparatus and method
Apparatus for performing an assay to detect the presence of an analyte in a test sample. A housing defines a slot for receiving a sample collector, and a capsule contains a buffer liquid, the capsule being sealed by an openable lid, and being connected to the housing such that insertion of a sample collector into the slot causes the lid to open releasing the buffer liquid into the slot. The housing further defines an incubation chamber containing or configured to receive a reagent, and an aperture permitting liquid communication between the slot and the incubation chamber. The apparatus comprises one or more test elements, a substantially liquid tight sealing member separating the incubation chamber and the test element(s), and an activation mechanism operable to open the liquid tight sealing member thereby bringing at least a portion of the or each test element into liquid communication with the incubation chamber. |
| US10371697B2 |
Method of manufacturing Uni- and No-code test stripes
The present invention pertains to the field of manufacture of diagnostic test elements. Specifically, the invention relates to a diagnostic test element for determining an analyte comprised in a body fluid sample, said test element comprising at least one test field with at least one detection layer and at least one separation layer, wherein said at least one separation layer comprises dispersed SiO2 in an amount of about 1.0 to 1.6 g/m2. The invention also relates to a coating composition being capable of forming a separation layer on a diagnostic test element of the present invention described above. Moreover, provided is a method for the manufacture of the diagnostic test element as well as the use of the diagnostic test element for determining the amount of an analyte, preferably, glucose, in a sample of a subject. |
| US10371695B2 |
Identifying compounds modifying a cellular phenotype
The present invention relates to a method and tools for extracting information on a compounds influence on a cellular phenotype. The method of the invention may be used as a very efficient procedure for testing the efficacy or resistance of single drugs or combinations of drugs on cells from individual patients. Thus, the methods may be useful for predicting efficacy of a drug on a given patient. The methods are also useful for testing of compounds for toxicity, identifying drug targets for known or novel compounds. |
| US10371693B2 |
Portable blood glucose measurement device
A portable blood glucose measurement device is provided. The device includes, in an externally exposed way, a temperature measurement medium of which the temperature quickly changes according to outside temperature changes provided on one side surface of a case. The device further includes an infrared temperature sensor. The device measures the temperature of the temperature measurement medium with the infrared temperature sensor in a noncontact manner, and calculates a blood glucose measurement result by considering the measured temperature so as to accurately reflect the outside temperature of an actual blood glucose measuring environment. The temperature measurement medium can be configured to sensitively respond to the outside temperature independently from the case such that the temperature of the temperature measurement medium, in accordance with the change in outside temperature, quickly and accurately changes so as to measure the temperature in a more accurate manner. |
| US10371692B2 |
Systems for forming a nanopore in a lipid bilayer
A method of forming a nanopore in a lipid bilayer is disclosed. A nanopore forming solution is deposited over a lipid bilayer. The nanopore forming solution has a concentration level and a corresponding activity level of pore molecules such that nanopores are substantially not formed un-stimulated in the lipid bilayer. Formation of a nanopore in the lipid bilayer is initiated by applying an agitation stimulus level to the lipid bilayer. In some embodiments, the concentration level and the corresponding activity level of pore molecules are at levels such that less than 30 percent of a plurality of available lipid bilayers have nanopores formed un-stimulated therein. |
| US10371690B2 |
Methods and systems for correction of oil-based mud filtrate contamination on saturation pressure
Embodiments of the disclosure can include systems, methods, and devices for determining saturation pressure of an uncontaminated fluid. Downhole saturation pressure measurements and downhole OBM filtrate contamination of a contaminated fluid may be obtained and a relationship may be determined between the saturation pressure measurements and OBM filtrate contamination. The relationship may be extrapolated to zero OBM filtrate contamination to determine the saturation pressure of the uncontaminated fluid. In some embodiments, OBM filtrate contamination may be determined from downhole saturation pressure measurements during pumpout of a fluid. |
| US10371684B1 |
Sealed container sensor device
A system for managing and monitoring a small or large collection of sealed containers, such as wine bottles, barrels, medicine containers, or bags, as well as individual grapes, batches of must, and other liquids, whose contents may be volatile and difficult to access without destroying the seal and the contents or risking contamination of the liquid. The system performs automated monitoring tasks by communicating with specially manufactured bottles or traditional bottles that have had a sensor installed. Sensor installation can be accomplished with unmodified commercialy available equipment. |
| US10371681B2 |
Systems and methods for generation of hydrogen peroxide vapor
A method according one embodiment includes at least one of bubbling dried air through a hydrogen peroxide solution in a container for producing a first hydrogen peroxide vapor, and passing dried air from the moisture trap into a headspace above the hydrogen peroxide solution in a container for producing a second hydrogen peroxide vapor. Additional systems and methods are also presented. |
| US10371680B2 |
Sensor
A gas sensor is provided with a metal shell protecting member formed of a material superior in heat resistance to a metal shell, whereby a high-temperature measurement target (exhaust gas) is prevented from being in direct contact with a region, of a protector internal region of the metal shell, on the front side relative to a protector opposing surface. That is, in the gas sensor, it is possible to suppress corrosion, due to high temperature, of a region, of the protector internal region of the metal shell, on the front side relative to the protector opposing surface (an inner surface and a front end surface of a protector fixing portion), while the metal shell is formed of a material (SUS430) that can be subjected to working (crimping or the like) accompanied with deformation. Therefore, heat resistance of the entire sensor can be improved. |
| US10371677B2 |
Odor adsorbent material, odor detection kit, and method for using same
An odor adsorbent material, an odor detection kit, and a method for using the same for rapidly identifying a facility where binding of an odor component had occurred among facilities used in a distribution route of a commodity. The odor detection kit includes at least two pieces of an odor adsorbent material, a package section that includes at least two storage sections and is configured to store the odor adsorbent material, and a sheet section. The odor detection kit is installed in a facility. At least one of the pieces of the odor adsorbent material is exposed to open space in the facility, recovered therefrom, and sealed and stored. At the time of testing, occurrence of odor emission in the facility is determined by comparing odor components adsorbed by each of the pieces of the odor adsorbent material. |
| US10371675B2 |
Data processing device for comprehensive two-dimensional chromatograph
A two-dimensional chromatogram creator creates a two-dimensional chromatogram based on data obtained for each of two samples. A chromatogram difference calculator creates a two-dimensional differential chromatogram showing the intensity difference between the two two-dimensional chromatograms. A blob detector detects blobs on each chromatogram. A matching-blob extractor compares the blobs located on the differential chromatogram with those located on each of the two other chromatograms, to extract blobs which can be considered to be located at the same temporal position. If there are two blobs extracted at the same temporal position on the two chromatograms, a normalized value of the intensity difference between the two blobs is calculated, and the line type of the boundary line for indicating the extracted blob on the display is chosen according to that value. Important blobs having significant intensity differences on the two chromatograms being compared can be automatically selected and presented to analysis operators. |
| US10371673B2 |
Carbon dioxide based chromatography systems including multiple carbon dioxide pumps
The present disclosure relates to methodologies, systems and apparatus for controlling pressure in a CO2-based chromatography system. A first CO2 pump operates in constant flow mode and delivers CO2 to a chromatography column, and liquid modifier is introduced to the chromatography column according to a gradient. A second CO2 pump is disposed downstream of the column and operates in constant pressure mode to introduce CO2 into a flow stream at an output of the column. Liquid modifier is also introduced into the flow stream at the output of the column according to a reverse gradient compared to the gradient entering the chromatography column. |
| US10371672B1 |
Integrated chromatography column injector detector device
A chromatography device includes a unitary body that mounts and connects together as an integrated unit a chromatography column, an sample injector and a detector cell. The device components are arranged generally along X-Y-Z space axes. This arrangement allows hydraulic connection of all the components without additional tubing, fittings, or threaded ports. It also allows an integrated chromatography device to be produced inexpensively by machining or injection molding. The disclosed arrangement allows a user to have convenient access to the components for replacement or service. In addition, the disclosed construction enhances chromatography efficiency, reduces pressure, improves temperature control, and eliminates cross-contamination. |
| US10371671B2 |
Branching off fluidic sample with low influence on source flow path
A sample management device which comprises a source flow path in which a fluidic sample can flow, a volume flow adjustment unit configured to adjust a volume flow of the fluidic sample to be branched off from the source flow path at a fluidic coupling point, and a fluidic valve fluidically coupled with the source flow path and with the volume flow adjustment unit, wherein the fluidic valve is switchable into a branch off state in which the fluidic coupling point is established within the source flow path to branch off an adjustable volume of the fluidic sample from the source flow path via the fluidic coupling point while a flow of the fluidic sample in the source flow path continues. |
| US10371668B2 |
Apparatus and methods for probing a material as a function of depth using depth-dependent second harmonic generation
A method for non-invasively probing at least one physics property of a solid material. In one embodiment, the method has the steps of splitting a photon beam into a first photon beam and a second photon beam, exposing the solid material to the first photon beam to generate a coherent acoustic phonon wave in the solid material at time t, and exposing the solid material to the second photon beam at a time t+Δt, where t+Δt≥t, to generate corresponding second harmonic generation signals, where from the corresponding second harmonic generation signals, the at least one physics property of the solid material is determinable. |
| US10371666B2 |
Structure evaluation system, structure evaluation apparatus, and structure evaluation method
According to an embodiment, a structure evaluation system includes a plurality of sensors, a position locator, a velocity calculator, and an evaluator. The sensors detect an elastic wave generated from a structure. The position locator derives a wave source distribution of the elastic waves generated from the structure, on the basis of the elastic waves. The velocity calculator derives a propagation velocity of the elastic wave generated from the structure, on the basis of the elastic waves. The evaluator evaluates the soundness of the structure on the basis of the wave source distribution and the propagation velocity of the elastic waves. |
| US10371661B2 |
Luminescent oxygen channeling immunoassays utilizing electrochemical discharge of singlet oxygen and methods of production and use thereof
Chemiluminescent detection systems, kits, and microfluidics devices containing same, as well as methods of production and use thereof, are disclosed. |
| US10371657B2 |
Method for locating a wafer in the ingot of same
A method for determining the original position of a wafer in an ingot made from semiconductor material comprises the following steps: measuring the interstitial oxygen concentration in an area of the wafer; measuring the concentration of thermal donors formed in said area of the wafer during a previous solidification of the ingot; determining the effective time of a thermal donor formation anneal undergone by the wafer when solidification of the ingot took place, from the thermal donor concentration and the interstitial oxygen concentration; and determining the original position of the wafer in the ingot from the effective time. |
| US10371656B2 |
Tomography apparatus and method
Tomography apparatus comprises: a plurality of electrodes arranged around a perimeter of a cross section of a sample volume for containing a liquid or mixed-phase sample, each electrode being arranged to be in electrical contact with a sample contained in the sample volume; measurement means adapted to perform a set of measurements, each measurement comprising driving a current between a first respective adjacent pair of said electrodes and measuring a voltage developed across a second respective adjacent pair of said electrodes; and processing means adapted to generate a tomogram indicative of sample conductivity over said cross section from said set of measurements. The processing means is arranged to calculate sample conductivity values of a portion of said cross section from said set of measurements and generate said tomogram from said calculated sample conductivity values of said portion using an assumption of symmetry. |
| US10371654B2 |
System and method for a nondestructive on-line testing of samples
An MRI-free non-destructive on-line system for detecting a presence of a material in a sample. The system includes a flow conduit encompassed by a tunable RF coil and having an input duct and an output duct; a flow of the sample through the flow conduit; a signal detector that detects frequency-dependent output signals as a function of a frequency variation of the RF tunable coil within a frequency range of an RF resonant frequency of a standard sample of the substance; and a processing unit. |
| US10371653B2 |
Multi-phase metering device for oilfield applications
This application is related to a system and methods for sampling fluids and gases using nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) technology. Specifically the system is related to an improved metallic pipe design for use at oil and gas well heads that includes integral coils for transmitting an NMR pulse sequence and detecting NMR signals and can be used as a component of an NMR instrument. The methods are related to obtaining and analyzing NMR spectra in stationary and flowing states. |
| US10371652B2 |
Process for accurately profiling fluid distribution in multi-layer absorbent articles in two and three dimensions
A process for profiling fluid distribution and analyzing fluid redistribution kinetics in multi-layer absorbent articles is disclosed. |
| US10371648B2 |
Radiography systems based on distributed ray source
The present disclosure discloses a radiography system including: a ray source, comprising a plurality of X-ray generators which are distributed on one or more planes intersected with a moving direction of an object being inspected; a detector module comprising a plurality of detection units; a data collection circuit; a controller, configured to control at least two X-ray generators of the plurality of X-ray generators in the ray source to generate X-rays alternately such that the object is scanned by the generated X-rays; and control the detector module and the data collection circuit to respectively obtain detection data corresponding to the at least two X-ray generators; and a data processing computer, configured to create images of the object being inspected in view angles of the at least two X-ray generators based on the detection data. The above embodiments may implement a multi-view-angle perspective imaging system within a single scan plane by utilizing a distributed X-ray source and reuse of the detectors. |
| US10371642B2 |
Raman topography system and methods of imaging
The present disclosure describes a Raman topography system, which includes a container with at least one Raman probe positioned within. Also described are methods of imaging which include the Raman topography system. |
| US10371628B2 |
Apparatus for measuring spectral hemispherical reflectance of samples at grazing angles
Systems and methods are provided for measuring spectral hemispherical reflectance. One embodiment is a system that includes a laser that emits a beam of light, and an optical chopper disposed between the laser and a sample. The chopper blocks the beam while the chopper is at a first angle of rotation, redirects the beam along a reference path while the chopper is at a second angle of rotation, and permits the beam to follow a sample path through the chopper and strike the sample while the chopper is at a third angle of rotation. The system also includes a hollow sphere that defines a slot through which the sample path and reference path enter the sphere. The hollow sphere includes a spectral hemispherical reflectance detector, a mount that receives the sample at the sphere, and an actuator that rotates the sphere about an axis that intersects the sample. |
| US10371627B2 |
Systems and methods for multispectral imaging and gas detection using a scanning illuminator and optical sensor
Presented herein are systems and methods directed to a multispectral absorption-based imaging approach that provides for rapid and accurate detection, localization, and quantification of gas leaks. The imaging technology described herein utilizes a scanning optical sensor in combination with structured and scannable illumination to detect and image spectral signatures produced by absorption of light by leaking gas in a quantitative manner over wide areas, at distance, and in the presence of background such as ambient gas and vapor. Moreover, the specifically structured and scannable illumination source of the systems and methods described herein provides a consistent source of illumination for the scanning optical sensor, allowing imaging to be performed even in the absence of sufficient natural light, such as sunlight. The imaging approaches described herein can, accordingly, be used for a variety of gas leak detection, emissions monitoring, and safety applications. |
| US10371626B2 |
System and method for generating multi-channel tunable illumination from a broadband source
A metrology system includes an illumination source to generate an illumination beam, a multi-channel spectral filter, a focusing element to direct illumination from the single optical column to a sample, and at least one detector to capture the illumination collected from the sample. The multi-channel spectral filter includes two or more filtering channels having two or more channel beam paths. The two or more filtering channels filter illumination propagating along the two or more channel beam paths based on two or more spectral transmissivity distributions. The multi-channel spectral filter further includes a channel selector to direct at least a portion of the illumination beam into at least one selected filtering channel to filter the illumination beam. The multi-channel spectral filter further includes at least one beam combiner to combine illumination from the two or more filtering channels to a single optical column. |
| US10371618B2 |
Maximum filter flow predictor
In one example embodiment, a filter condition measurement device features an engine data repository, one or more sensor units, and a measurement unit. The measurement system is configured to identify a first flow value corresponding to a sensed engine power value from the engine data repository, determine a filter coefficient for the filter as a function of the first flow value and the sensed delta-pressure value; identify a second engine power value from the plurality of stored engine power values and a second flow value corresponding to the second engine power value; and determine a second delta-pressure value for the air filter as a function of the filter coefficient and the second flow value. |
| US10371617B2 |
Electrochemical test device
An electrochemical test device for determining a concentration of one or more analytes in a fluid sample is provided. The electrochemical test device comprises a set of electrodes including two or more working electrodes, each working electrode for determining the concentration of a corresponding analyte, and sensing chemistry for each working electrode, wherein the sensing chemistry for a first of the two or more working electrodes comprises a diaphorase, an electron transfer agent, an NAD(P)+-dependent dehydrogenase and a cofactor for the NAD(P)+-dependent dehydrogenase, wherein at least some of the diaphorase for the first working electrode is disposed in a diaphorase-containing layer which extends over the first working electrode and at least a second of the two or more working electrodes. |
| US10371613B2 |
Apparatus and method for loading and wear testing a rubber sample
A wear testing method includes setting a rotational speed of a rotary drum with a rubber sample attached to an outer surface thereof to a desired speed; setting a pressing load imparted by a contact member to a desired pressing load via a weight member; selecting as the contact member a desired contact member from a plurality of contact members with varying specifications for a contact surface that comes into contact with the surface of the rubber sample; attaching an arm portion that composes a pressing mechanism; rotating the rotary drum; and pressing the contact member against the surface of the rubber sample with the contact member being moveable in a tangent line direction of a rotation direction of the rotary drum, and detecting an amount of displacement in a pressing direction of the contact member pressing against the surface of the rubber sample via a displacement sensor. |
| US10371612B2 |
Prepreg, metal-clad laminated plate, wiring board, and method for measuring thermal stress of wiring board material
A prepreg includes a resin layer constituted by a half-cured product of a thermosetting resin composition, and a fibrous substrate provided in the resin layer. A prepreg test piece that is a cured product obtained by heat curing the thermosetting resin composition has a maximum value of 400 kPa or less for thermal shrinkage stress measured by a predetermined thermal stress test. |
| US10371607B2 |
Tamper-resistant chemical sampling
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are disclosed for a tamper-resistant collection and retention a chemical sample. In one embodiment, the tamper-resistant system comprises a container operable to collect and retain a chemical sample, a tamper-resistant mechanism operable to disengage at a first chemical sample to allow for a collection of a chemical sample, wherein the tamper-resistant mechanism is operable to record one or more of: a date, a time, and a location, of the chemical sample during the collection of the chemical sample, and wherein the tamper-resistant mechanism is further operable to re-engage and lock after the collection of the chemical sample to resist subsequent chemical samples after the first chemical sampling. |
| US10371606B2 |
Bodily fluid sample collection and transport
Bodily fluid sample collection systems, devices, and method are provided. The sample is collected at a first location and subjected to a first sample processing step. The sample may be shipped to a second location and subjected to a second sample processing step that does not introduce contaminants into a plasma portion of the sample formed from the first processing step. The sample may also be mixed with other material(s) in the collection device. |
| US10371605B2 |
Pneumatic mine dust sampling instrument
Mine dust in underground coal mines is potentially explosive and must be sampled and tested for sufficient inert content regularly. The present invention comprises a pneumatic mine dust sampling instrument equipped with a specially designed nozzle arrangement that delivers a controlled pulse of air which entrains the mine dust, similar to the entrainment process that happens during a mine explosion. The entrained mine dust can then be collected and tested for compliance with applicable federal standards. |
| US10371604B2 |
Biological sample preparation for testing
In one embodiment, a method for processing a sample includes selecting a selected sample from a biological specimen, the selected sample being in contact with a first surface of a first substrate. The method also includes transferring the selected sample directly from the first surface to a container comprising an internal volume. The method also includes forming or providing a sample solution within the internal volume of the container by contacting the selected sample with a lysis mixture using a protocol. The method further includes performing an assay, experiment, or test on the sample solution while the sample solution disposed is within the internal volume of the container.In another embodiment, a method for processing a sample includes providing a selected sample comprising one or more cells. The method also includes transferring the selected sample into an internal volume of a container. The method also includes contacting the selected sample with a lysis mixture using a protocol to provide a sample solution, wherein the protocol comprises heating the sample solution to a first temperature that is greater than 37 degrees Celsius and less than or equal to 75 degrees Celsius. |
| US10371600B2 |
Diagnosis of the condition of a particle filter
An on-board diagnostic for a particle filter of a vehicle exhaust system records repeating data about flow and pressure around the particle filter. Data is recorded in virtual data bins having successive thresholds or filters within a numerical scale. Each data point is typically recorded in several bins to permit a rapid calculation of averaged data for use in the diagnostic. Sensitivity of less frequently recorded data is preserved, while giving quickly delivery of a result from the diagnostic. |
| US10371599B2 |
Electrical testing system and method
A method and system for measuring, determining and/or analyzing the cranking RPM of a vehicle is provided. The system measures the voltage of at least a portion of a vehicle's electrical system to determine high and/or low voltage time periods during at least a portion of a starting or cranking cycle. The time between high and/or low voltage points can then be used, along with the number of cylinders in the vehicle, to determine the cranking RPM of the vehicle. The system may include a load module and a control module that are removably coupled to one another in first and second configurations. |
| US10371596B2 |
Testing fiber arrangement in multi-fiber cables
There is provided a method and a system for identifying or verifying the fiber arrangement and/or the cable type of multi-fiber array cables (such as MPO cables) which employs an OTDR acquisition device at the near end of the MPO cable, a loopback device at the far end and an array of signatures detectable by the OTDR, either at the far or the near end. The loopback device allows performing bidirectional OTDR measurements with a single OTDR acquisition device (without moving it from one end to the other) and the signature array provides fiber arrangement/cable type identification or verification. |
| US10371590B2 |
Sensor having thermal gradients
This disclosure provides example methods, devices, and systems for a sensor having thermal gradients. In one embodiment, a system may comprise a sensor assembly including a housing; a first header and a second header coupled to the housing; a first transducer coupled to the first header, wherein the first transducer is configured to measure a first pressure to generate a first pressure signal; a second transducer coupled to the second header, wherein the second transducer is configured to measure a second pressure to generate a second pressure signal; and wherein the first transducer and the second transducer are positioned in the housing such that a first temperature of the first transducer is about equivalent to a second temperature of the second transducer during operation of the sensor assembly. |
| US10371588B2 |
High resolution strain gages for ceramic matrix composites and methods of manufacture thereof
Strain gages for use with ceramic matrix composites (CMCs), and methods of manufacture therefore. The strain gages use the CMC as a strain element. For semiconductor CMCs, for example SiC fiber-reinforced SiC CMC, their large gage factor enables high sensitivity, high accuracy strain measurements at high temperatures. By using a single elemental metal such as platinum, or another high temperature conductive material, the strain gages can operate at temperatures over 1600° C. The conductive material is preferably deposited on a dielectric or insulating layer, and contacts the CMC substrate through openings in that layer. The materials can be deposited using thin film vacuum techniques or thick film techniques such as pastes or inks. The strain gages can be configured to measure only the mechanical strain independent of the apparent or thermal strain. The strain gages can be incorporated into a bulk CMC structure during layup, and can optionally measure the strain of only desired fiber weave orientations. |
| US10371583B1 |
Systems and methods for estimating temperatures of wires in an integrated circuit chip
Systems and methods are provided for estimating a temperature of a wire of an integrated circuit (IC) chip having a plurality of heat-generating components. For each of the heat-generating components, a temperature of the heat-generating component is computed. For each of the heat-generating components, a decay profile defining a thermal coupling from the heat-generating component to wires of the IC chip is computed. For each of the heat-generating components, a temperature elevation on the wire caused by the heat-generating component is computed. The temperature elevation is computed based on the temperature and decay profile of the heat-generating component and a spatial relationship between the wire and the heat-generating component. A total temperature elevation on the wire is computed by summing the temperature elevation of each of the heat-generating components. The heat-generating components include a plurality of wires of the IC chip and at least one device of the IC chip. |
| US10371581B2 |
Alumina diffusion barrier for sensing elements
A sensing element for a temperature sensor including a base with a platinum meander applied thereto. An alumina diffusion barrier (ADB) covers the meander to provide protection against contamination and structural stabilization, wherein the alumina diffusion barrier is a contiguous polycrystalline layer fabricated from alumina and approximately 1% by weight of a rutile additive to be substantially devoid of network porosity. The contiguous polycrystalline layer includes grains with a typical grain size being in a range of 0.5-3 μm. A method for fabricating an alumina diffusion barrier includes the steps of: combining a nano-alumina and nano-rutile powder to create a formulation; applying the formulation to the platinum meander to form a layer; and sintering the layer to create a contiguous polycrystalline layer covering the platinum meander. |
| US10371580B2 |
Method and apparatus for wavefront sensing
A method for performing optical wavefront sensing includes providing an amplitude transmission mask having a light input side, a light output side, and an optical transmission axis passing from the light input side to the light output side. The amplitude transmission mask is characterized by a checkerboard pattern having a square unit cell of size Λ. The method also includes directing an incident light field having a wavelength λ to be incident on the light input side and propagating the incident light field through the amplitude transmission mask. The method further includes producing a plurality of diffracted light fields on the light output side and detecting, at a detector disposed a distance L from the amplitude transmission mask, an interferogram associated with the plurality of diffracted light fields. The relation 0 < L < 1 8 Λ 2 λ or 1 4 Λ 2 λ ( 2 n - 1 ) < L < 1 4 Λ 2 λ ( 2 n + 1 ) is satisfied, where n is an integer greater than zero. |
| US10371578B2 |
Thermal management of thermal sensor in a mobile device
A mobile thermal sensor system, a mobile device case, and a process for fabricating a mobile thermal sensor system are described that include using a heat spreader (e.g., a heat sink). In an implementation, the mobile thermal sensor system includes a substrate configured to support an electrical component; a thermal detector package coupled to the substrate, the thermal detector package including a first thermopile, a second thermopile, and a reference temperature detector; and a heat spreader coupled to the substrate. In another implementation, a mobile device case can include a case configured to house a mobile device, where the mobile device includes a mobile thermal sensor system. |
| US10371573B2 |
Electromagnetic power measurement and reporting
A method to measure and report electromagnetic radiation power includes receiving electromagnetic radiation and generating an electrical signal having a magnitude based on the power of the electromagnetic radiation. An adjustable gain may be applied to the electrical signal to generate an amplified electrical signal that may be sampled to generate a digital sample. The adjustable gain may be controlled based on the value of the digital sample and the digital sample may be associated with a gain value. One or more calibration factors may be selected based on the gain value associated with the digital sample and the selected calibration factor(s) may be used to calculate the power of the electromagnetic radiation. |
| US10371563B2 |
Package intake device system and method for using same
A UID is utilized as a scale and determine basic intake information for shipping a package in order for an individual to use their UID as a intake information determining device in sending packages. Such a device is intended to be used with unmanned kiosks where the intake information would be transmitted to the shipper and the package deposited for pickup and shipping. Unmanned kiosks of this nature would provide for reduced cost and ease of drop off of packages. |
| US10371560B2 |
Liquid surface sensing device
A liquid surface sensing device is installed in a fuel tank having an opening in a ceiling part. The opening is closed by a flange with a gasket constituted by an elastomer providing a seal between the flange and a peripheral edge of the opening. The liquid surface sensing device being assembled to the flange includes a sensing unit disposed vertically below the flange and sensing a liquid surface of a liquid, a lead wire connecting the sensing unit to an external device via the flange, and a guide bending the lead wire extending diagonally downward from the flange to form a valley portion to direct the lead wire diagonally upward. |
| US10371559B2 |
Differential spectral liquid level sensor
Systems and methods that use a differential spectral liquid level sensor to measure the level of liquid in a reservoir (e.g., a fuel tank or other storage container). The use of a differential spectral liquid level sensor solves the problem of common-mode intensity variations (i.e., intensity variations not due to the level of the liquid) by having two different wavelengths propagate through the same optical path but have different spectral attenuations in the liquid. By determining the ratio of the received optical powers, common-mode intensity variations can be neutralized, thereby enhancing the accuracy of the received power reading and the resulting liquid level indication. |
| US10371556B2 |
Device for determining or monitoring the filling level of a filling material stored in a container
A device for determining or monitoring the filling level of a filling material stored in a container in a process, comprising a signal generating unit, a coupling/decoupling unit which couples the high-frequency measurement signals to an antenna unit or decouples said high-frequency measurement signals from the antenna unit. The antenna unit has a wave guide and an antenna element which widens in the direction of the filling material. The antenna unit emits high-frequency measurement signals in the direction of the surface and receives the echo signals reflected by the surface of the filling material. A control/evaluation unit determines the filling level of the filling material in the container from the transit time of the measurement signals. At least one process separation device is thereby provided in or on the antenna unit, which process separation device protects the coupling/decoupling unit from influences of the process, wherein a first process separation device is produced at least partially from a dielectric material with a specified porosity, and wherein the first process separation device is configured to be at least approximately transparent to the high-frequency measurement signals. |
| US10371549B2 |
Magnetic sensor system
Provided herein are improved magnetic sensor systems for use in linear measurement systems. A magnetic sensor can be positioned offset from a center line positioned between two magnets. The two magnets can be oriented so as to provide opposite polarities. As the magnetic sensor traverses a path parallel to the magnets and parallel to the center line, the sensor can detect a magnetic flux density provided by the two magnets. Offsetting the magnetic sensor from the center line can improve the linear range of the magnetic sensor, thereby improving the reliability and accuracy of an output signal generated by the magnetic sensor based on the detected magnetic flux density. |
| US10371548B2 |
Absolute angle determination
A device for measuring an absolute angle includes first and second rotatable members having first and second radii and capable of rotating over first and second angles respectively, a first number of detectable elements mounted on the first rotatable member, a second number of detectable elements mounted on the second rotatable member, and at least one sensor for detecting rotation of the detectable elements. The second rotatable member is coupled with the first rotatable member such that the second angle is equal to the first angle times the ratio of the first radius and the second radius. The first radius is equal to a first integer times a factor, while the second radius is equal to a second integer times the factor. The product of the first number and the second integer, and the product of the second number and the first integer, are co-prime. |
| US10371537B1 |
Systems and methods for flexible route planning
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media are provided for flexible route planning. Locations for a planned movement may be obtained. The locations may include at least a starting location and an ending location. A route for the planned movement may be determined. The route may include at least the starting location and the ending location. A composite cost of using the route may be determined. The composite cost may include at least a temporal cost component and a non-temporal cost component. An interface through which the composite cost is accessible may be provided. |
| US10371536B2 |
Alternative routes
A method is disclosed for generating routes in an area covered by an electronic map. The map comprises a plurality of segments representing navigable segments of a navigable network in the area covered by the electronic map. A main route from an origin to a destination is generated through the network in a manner which favors segments which are segments of a predefined sub-network. When the user commences travel, the method involves identifying a first decision point along the main route being travelled that is a decision point of the sub-network. An alternative route is generated between the decision point and the destination, in a method involving favoring segments of the sub-network, and in which the outgoing segment of the main route being travelled to the first decision point is blocked. |
| US10371533B2 |
Navigation device and method
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method of determining speed information, comprising receiving traffic monitoring information navigation devices (610), wherein the traffic monitoring information includes identification information identifying a mobile device (630), location information indicating a geographic locations (910, 920) at which the identification information was received from the mobile device (630), and temporal information indicating times at which the identification information was received, and determining speed information associated with the mobile device from the traffic monitoring information. |
| US10371528B2 |
Pedestrian navigation devices and methods
Devices and methods for pedestrian navigation are disclosed. In an embodiment, a device includes an accelerometer sensor configured to sense acceleration components associated with a device motion in a plurality of axes of the accelerometer sensor. The acceleration components include stride frequency components and step frequency components. The device includes a processing module communicably associated with the accelerometer sensor. The processing module is configured to process at least a portion of the acceleration components to determine an estimated attitude associated with the device motion with respect to the accelerometer sensor. The processing module is configured to filter out the step frequency components by blocking the stride frequency components. The processing module is further configured to determine the estimated attitude based on the step frequency components to thereby mitigate a bias in the estimated attitude associated with a lateral sway of the device motion. |
| US10371527B2 |
Module fiducial markers for robot navigation, address markers and the associated robots
The present invention discloses a module for robot navigation, an address marker and an associated robot. The module divides a whole workspace area for robot traveling into a plurality of module areas, and each module area is internally provided with a first magnetic piece having a polarity of an N pole or an S pole and a second magnetic piece having a polarity different from the polarity of the first magnetic piece. The first magnetic piece is a first magnetic strip, and the second magnetic piece is a second magnetic strip. The first magnetic strip is arranged in the Y-axis direction, and the second magnetic strip is arranged in the X-axis direction. A third magnetic strip and a fourth magnetic strip are further included. |
| US10371523B1 |
Rotation and acceleration sensor based on superluminal ring lasers
Ring laser gyroscopes, in which rotation is detected by the Sagnac effect between counterpropagating lasers, are in common use in navigation applications. The invention disclosed here uses an induced strong anomalous dispersion inside the ring laser cavities to create a group velocity of as much as 106 times greater than the vacuum speed of light, with a corresponding increase in gyroscope sensitivity; the resulting device is referred to as a Superluminal Ring Laser Gyroscope (SRLG). The invention disclosed here also incorporates an acceleration-sensing element that modifies the path length of the ring lasers in the gyroscope, the effects of which on the output of the gyroscope can be separated from those of rotation. The resulting composite device is a Superluminal Ring Laser Gyroscope/Accelerometer (SRLGA). |
| US10371520B2 |
Quadrature compensation method for MEMS gyroscopes and a gyroscope sensor
The present invention relates to a gyroscope sensor for detecting a rotational motion about a sensitivity axis and comprising means for quadrature compensation. The gyroscope sensor comprises a total inertial mass comprising a first inertial mass and a second inertial mass physically attached to each other and arranged such that a rotation of the first inertial mass about a detection axis caused by the coriolis force when the gyroscope sensor is subjected to a rotation about a sensitivity axis. The gyroscope further comprises a first drive structure having a displaceable drive frame which may cause a respective of the first or second inertial mass to rotate about the detection axis in order to compensate for quadrature errors originating from faulty coupling between a drive mode and a sense mode of the gyroscope sensor. |
| US10371516B2 |
Method and apparatus for determination of misalignment between device and pedestrian
The present disclosure relates to a method and apparatus for determining the misalignment between a device and a pedestrian, wherein the pedestrian can carry, hold, or use the device in different orientations in a constrained or unconstrained manner, and wherein the device comprises a sensor assembly. The sensors in the device may be for example, accelerometers, gyroscopes, magnetometers, barometer among others. The sensors have a corresponding frame for the sensors' axes. The misalignment between the device and the pedestrian means the misalignment between the frame of the sensor assembly in the device and the frame of the pedestrian. The present method and apparatus can work whether in the presence or in the absence of absolute navigational information updates (such as, for example, Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) or WiFi positioning). |
| US10371515B2 |
System and method for demodulating position sense signals output from position sensor
A system for detecting a position of an object includes a position sensor and a demodulator. The position sensor receives a first excitation signal, senses a displacement of the object with respect to a reference point based on the first excitation signal, and generates first and second sense signals based on the first excitation signal. The demodulator receives the first sense signal and the second sense signal from the position sensor, performs a first cross-correlation calculation between the first sense signal and a second excitation signal and a second cross-correlation calculation between the second sense signal and the second excitation signal, determines displacement of the object with respect to the reference point based on results of the first and second cross-correlation calculations, and determine a position of the object based on the displacement. |
| US10371513B2 |
Calculation method, storage medium, information processing apparatus, and measurement apparatus
The present invention provides a calculation method of calculating a shape of a measurement target surface, including a step of obtaining first corrected shape data by correcting first shape measurement data by using a first correction parameter for correcting a measurement error caused by scanning a probe in a first direction, obtaining second corrected shape data by correcting second shape measurement data by using a second correction parameter for correcting a measurement error caused by scanning the probe in a second direction, and generating first whole shape data representing a shape of the whole measurement target surface by synthesizing the first corrected shape data and the second corrected shape data. |
| US10371512B2 |
Method and system for multiple 3D sensor calibration
A method for multiple 3D sensor calibration for a passenger conveyance system, the process including a computing a centroid location from spatial measurements for each of a pair of 3D sensors that form a common field of view via a moving object mathematical model; computing translation parameters from the locations of each centroid location; and correcting one of the pair of 3D sensors to a common world coordinate system from the translation parameters. |
| US10371510B2 |
Structure status determination device, status determination system, and status determination method
The purpose of the present invention is to accurately detect, from a remote location without contact, a structure's defects such as cracking, separation, and internal cavities by distinguishing therebetween. The status determination device includes: a displacement calculation unit that, from time-series images of a structure surface before and after loading application, calculates a two-dimensional spatial distribution of a displacement of the time-series images; a depth moving amount calculation unit that calculates a moving amount of the structure surface in a normal direction due to the loading application, from the two-dimensional spatial distribution of the displacement of the time-series images; a displacement separation unit that calculates a correction amount based on the moving amount, and separates a two-dimensional spatial distribution of a displacement of the structure surface, by subtracting the correction amount from the two-dimensional spatial distribution of the displacement of the time-series images; and an abnormality determination unit that identifies a defect of the structure, based on comparison of the two-dimensional spatial distribution of the displacement of the structure surface and the moving amount, with a spatial distribution of a displacement having been prepared in advance and a threshold value for the moving amount. |
| US10371503B2 |
Shape measurement method and shape measurement device
A measurement unit measures a cross-sectional shape of an edge part of a semiconductor wafer. The measurement unit measures a cross-sectional shape of an edge part of a support member. The measurement unit measures a cross-sectional shape of an edge part of a laminated wafer. An analysis unit calculates a thickness of an adhesive agent by subtracting a thickness of the semiconductor wafer and a thickness of the support member from a thickness of the laminated wafer. |
| US10371500B2 |
Incident-light illumination for a variable working distance
A lens device for an illumination assembly. The lens device has light-entry and light-exit surfaces and comprises at least one ring region. Each ring region extends along a circumferential direction about a central axis of the lens device, and comprises a plurality of area segments. Each area segment forms a circular arc portion of a respective ring region and comprises a first end in the circumferential direction and a second end opposite to the first end in the circumferential direction. At the first end, the light-exit surface is inclined in the direction of the central axis by an arbitrary first angle in relation to the light-entry surface, and at the second end, the light-exit surface is inclined in the direction of the central axis by an arbitrary second angle in relation to the light-entry surface differing from the first angle. |
| US10371496B2 |
Tape measure
According to an embodiment, a tape measure comprises an accessory removably coupleable to either side of the housing. According to another embodiment, a tape measure comprises an accessory removably coupleable to the housing via a locking mechanism that holds the accessory at a plurality of desired orientations. According to another embodiment, a tape measure comprises a slide lock, where movement of the slide lock from a locked position into an unlocked position requires depression of the actuator towards the interior of the housing. According to another embodiment, a motor assembly for a tape measure comprises a backer plate, a motor body, and a spring, where a bond is applied therebetween. According to another embodiment, a motor assembly for a tape measure comprises a motor body and a spring, where one of a metallurgical bond or an adhesive is applied between the motor body and the spring. |
| US10371493B2 |
Target assignment projectile
A system for communicating with a projectile in flight toward an intended target includes a barrel-launched projectile and a remote receiver. The barrel-launched projectile includes an ordnance portion, an active communications apparatus and an onboard speed control. The active communications apparatus includes an onboard receiver, an electromagnetic wave reception device, and an active transmitter. The electromagnetic wave reception device includes at least one from the group consisting of an antenna and a photo receptor and is configured to receive an electromagnetic signal. The electromagnetic wave reception device is connected to provide a signal derived from the electromagnetic signal to the onboard receiver to deploy the onboard speed control. The active transmitter is connected and configured for transmitting a signal to the remote receiver during flight and before activation of the speed control. The transmitted signal is directed within a cone angle extending in a direction opposite of the barrel-launched projectile's flight direction. The onboard speed control includes a shaped explosive charge. Deploying the onboard speed control initiates explosion of the shaped explosive charge. The explosion of the shaped explosive charge adjusts velocity of the barrel-launched projectile. |
| US10371492B2 |
Foam dart having a safety cap
A toy dart includes a deformable cap that safely impacts a target. The cap includes two layers of substantially parallel hollow passages that provide spaces that allow the cap to deform. The lower layer, having two hollow passages, is supported by exterior posts and an interior wall between the two hollow passages. The upper layer, having three hollow passages, is supported by exterior posts and interior walls that are laterally offset from the interior wall of the lower layer. The upper and lower layers are separated vertically by a substantially flat divider. Due to the difference in the number of hollow passages and interior walls in each layer, the upper layer is more rigid than the lower layer such that the lower layer of the cap deforms more than the upper layer of the cap upon initial impact with the target. |
| US10371491B2 |
Gaming system using projectile and target
A gaming system comprised of an elongated projectile and a target for said projectile to be projected into. The system includes a projectile and a target. The projectile has a head, an elongated shaft coupled to the head, and a tail coupled to a rear end of the shaft. The tail has a mechanical adapter for coupling the projectile to a projecting device. The head has a shock absorber coupled to a penetration prevention device. The head prevents the projectile from penetrating into a target. The target has at least one aperture located on the external surface of the target and an immobilizer for immobilizing a projectile which has entered the aperture. |
| US10371485B2 |
Reticle and ballistic effect compensation method having gyroscopic precession compensated wind dots
An improved aim compensation method using ballistic effect compensating reticle 300 includes choosing, for a user-selected target, corresponding spin-drift compensated Point of Aim (POA) within a multiple point elevation and windage aim point field (e.g., 350) including a primary aiming mark (e.g., 358) aligned horizontally with left and right leveling reference lines (e.g., 370L, 370R) which point inwardly to the primary aiming point to be sighted-in at a first selected range. The aim point field also includes a plurality of secondary downrange aiming points arrayed beneath the primary aiming mark, and the downrange aiming points are arrayed in lines of dots or downrange windage hold points positioned to compensate for ballistic effects such as spin drift. |
| US10371482B2 |
Connector
An accessory mounting interface and method are disclosed. The interface has an upper portion having a firearm accessory and at least one through hole extending from a first surface to a second surface of the upper portion, the upper portion having a first post portion with a first side surface and a first flange. A first elongated fastener is arranged through the through hole and has a first end extending below the second surface of the upper portion. The interface also has a second post portion that is movable between a first configuration defining a first transverse distance between the first and second side surfaces and a second configuration defining a second transverse distance between the first and second side surfaces, the first transverse distance greater than the second transverse distance. The first flange substantially opposes the second flange when the second post portion is in the first configuration. |
| US10371477B1 |
Choke assembly for shotgun
A choke assembly for use with a shotgun, the choke assembly having a collar attachable to the muzzle of the shotgun. There is a sleeve attached to the collar, the sleeve having at least one tapered bore or aperture, a ball being received in the aperture. There is a tubular slide in surrounding relationship to the sleeve and the collar, there being annular radially outwardly and radially inwardly facing recesses on the slide and collar, respectively, which cooperate to form an annular spring pocket. There is a compression spring received in the pocket, the ball having a portion extending through the tapered bore and a threadless choke received in the sleeve, the choke having an indentation in which at least a portion of the ball is received when the choke is inserted into the sleeve. |
| US10371475B2 |
Firearm magazine
A number of embodiments of a firearm are disclosed where the firearm includes a magazine configured to hold the bolt in an open position when the magazine is empty. In one embodiment, the firearm includes a bolt stop mechanism that moves between a first position where it allows the bolt to cycle between an open position and a closed position and a second position where it holds the bolt in the open position. The magazine is configured to actuate the bolt stop mechanism to the first position when the magazine is empty. |
| US10371469B2 |
Device for controlling temperature of cooling water
A device for controlling the temperature of cooling water includes a three-way valve having a first inlet, a second inlet, and an outlet; a first feed pipe; a second feed pipe; and a return pipe for connecting between an outlet of the temperature-control target and an inlet of the cooling water supply unit. The device also includes a return-side bypass pipe for connecting between the return pipe and the second inlet of the three-way valve; a pump provided on the second feed pipe for circulating the cooling water between the three-way valve and the temperature-control target; and a temperature measuring unit for measuring a temperature of the cooling water flowing in the second feed pipe. In addition, the device includes a controller for controlling the three-way valve and the pump in accordance with a detection result of the temperature measuring unit. |
| US10371468B2 |
Co-extruded microchannel heat pipes
A microchannel heat pipe formed on a substrate surface using co-extruding a primary material and a secondary material such that the primary material forms side wall portions that are spaced apart by the secondary material, and an upper wall portion is formed across the upper ends of the side walls to form a composite structure. After the primary material hardens, the secondary material is removed, whereby the hardened primary material forms a pipe body having an elongated central channel defined between opposing end openings. A working fluid is then inserted into the elongated central channel, and sealing structures are then formed over both end openings to encapsulate the working fluid. |
| US10371465B2 |
Heat exchanger
A heat exchanger may include input-side and output-side tube plates and tubes supported therein, forming a first flow duct for a first medium. A housing may surround the tube plates and the tubes, forming a second flow duct for a second medium running between the tubes in the housing. The heat exchanger may further include at least one turbulence-generating insert arranged in the second flow duct between the tubes, the insert having ducts with permeable side walls for the second medium, and at least one dividing wall duct having closed side walls and being spaced apart at least at one longitudinal end from the housing. The at least one dividing wall duct may be designed to be open at both longitudinal ends, may be produced by a compression process, and may have a rising first flank and a second flank engaging below the second flank. |
| US10371464B2 |
Tube header for heat exchanger
A tube header for a heat exchanger includes a header plate having two major dimensions defining a header plane. The header plate has a row of oblong passages extending through the header plate. Each passage is bordered by a ferrule monolithically formed with the header plate. The ferrule has a surrounding wall extending perpendicular to the header plane. A transitional area between the ferrule and the header plate has a reduced thickness that is smaller than the wall thickness of the ferrule. This transitional area provides a flexible hinge-like function for compensating dimensional changes during thermal cycles of a heat exchanger. |
| US10371458B2 |
Thermal conducting structure
A thermal conducting structure includes a vapor chamber and at least one heat pipe. The vapor chamber has a casing with a through hole formed on a side of the casing, and a chamber defined inside the casing and communicated with the through hole and having a metal mesh covered on an inner wall of the chamber. The heat pipe has a tubular body and an opening formed at an end of the tubular body, and the tubular body is connected to the through hole, and a cavity is defined inside the tubular body. A capillary member is covered onto an inner wall of the cavity. The metal mesh is passed out from the opening to connect the capillary member. The metal mesh is used as a capillary structure, and the vapor chamber and heat pipe are used together to provide a better cooling efficiency. |
| US10371454B2 |
Plate for heat exchanger and heat exchanger
A plate (1) for a heat exchanger for heat exchange between a first and a second medium is configured with inlet and outlet portholes (2a and 2b) for the first medium and inlet and outlet portholes (3a and 3b) for the second medium and with a first heat transferring surface (A) for the first medium and a second heat transferring surface (B) for the second medium. The first heat transferring surface (A) is configured with at least one barrier (5) which forms part of a guide for the flow of the first medium when said first medium passes between the portholes (2a, 2b) therefor, and the plate (1) is configured with the portholes (2a, 2b and 3a, 3b) for the first and second medium respectively, and with the barrier located so relative to each other on the first heat transferring surface that they permit formation of a U-shaped or sinusoidal through-flow duct for the first medium which will permit passage of the flow thereof around the inlet porthole (3a) or both portholes (3a, 3b) for the second medium during passage of said first medium between the portholes therefor. A heat exchanger comprises a stack of the above-mentioned plates. An air cooler comprises the above-mentioned heat exchanger. |
| US10371453B2 |
Double pipe heat exchanger and method of manufacturing the same
A double pipe heat exchanger and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The double pipe heat exchanger including an outer pipe and an inner pipe having a first flow channel therein and having an outer diameter smaller than an inner diameter of the outer pipe and inserted into the outer pipe to form a second flow channel between the inner pipe and the outer pipe includes a plurality of first grooves formed in a spiral shape in a lengthwise direction at an outer circumferential surface of the inner pipe to enable the second flow channel to have at least partially a spiral shape and at least one second groove each formed in a portion between two first grooves adjacent to an outer circumferential surface of the inner pipe and formed along the first groove. |
| US10371449B2 |
Magnetic pump installation
A magnetic pump in a pump well in a molten metal furnace with a long, relatively thin side wall that wraps around a significant fraction of the circumference of the pump, which facilitates creation of an eddy current based flow field in the molten material with better magnetic coupling, thereby enhancing the effectiveness of the pump. Breach of the well wall will not result in spillage of metal outside the furnace, and the well can be monitored for any such breach or other change so that the pump can be lifted out of the well to protect it from contact with the molten metal in the event of such a breach, or other appropriate action can be taken. |
| US10371445B1 |
Passive thermal control of microwave furnace components
A microwave furnace includes a microwave casket having an inner surface forming an internal cavity. A heatable body, formed at least in part of a microwave susceptor material, is located in the internal cavity of the casket and heats in response to a microwave field. A thermal control system is provided, which includes a fluid flow path extending through the casket and has an inlet and an outlet formed in the microwave casket. A portion of the fluid flow path is adjacent the heatable body. The thermal control system flows a thermal transfer fluid through the fluid flow path via the inlet to absorb heat from the heatable body and to transfer the absorbed heat along the fluid flow path until the thermal transfer fluid exits the fluid flow path via the outlet. |
| US10371444B2 |
Drying method for terephthalic acid and horizontal rotary dryer
To provide a drying method for terephthalic acid and a horizontal rotary dryer allowing easy performance of mass processing of the terephthalic acid and enabling size reduction by improving drying performance of the dryer. In a method of drying terephthalic acid by using a horizontal rotary dryer, a rotating shell is rotated to make a critical speed ratio α defined by expression 1 and expression 2 become 17 to less than 80% to dry the processing material, Vc=2.21D½ Expression 1 α=V/Vc·100 Expression 2 wherein Vc indicates a critical speed (m/s) of the rotating shell, D indicates an inside diameter (m) of the rotating shell, α indicates the critical speed ratio (%) of the rotating shell, and V indicates a rotation speed (m/s) of the rotating shell. |
| US10371442B2 |
Separation method and separation process system for recovering ethylene
The present invention relates to a separation method and a separation process system for easily recovering ethanol from an ethanol oligomerization reactant containing unreacted ethanol. A separation method according to the present invention may improve the economics and increase separation efficiency by easily refluxing ethylene while reducing or excluding the use of a reflux system which uses an expensive cooling medium, and the like, and may also improve process efficiency by reducing the amount of heat used by a reboiler. |
| US10371439B2 |
Refrigerator and refrigerator watching system
A refrigerator includes an outside environment information obtaining unit including at least one of a sound obtaining unit configured to obtain outside environment information and an imaging unit configured to image an outside environment, the outside environment information obtaining unit being configured to obtain outside environment information which is capable of grasping an outside situation and a communication unit configured to communicate with an external device connected thereto via a network, thereby rendering the outside environment information obtained by the outside environment information obtaining unit referable at the external device side. |
| US10371438B2 |
Refrigerator having interior lighting used for synchronized user feedback of zone selection
A refrigerator is provided having at least one internal refrigerated compartment in which a plurality of refrigeration zones are provided, wherein an environment in each refrigeration zone may be independently controlled using a user interface configured to receive a zone selection input from a user indicating one of the plurality of refrigeration zones in which the user desires to adjust the environment; a plurality of lights provided in the internal refrigerated compartment and disposed proximate to each of the plurality of refrigeration zones, wherein groups of the plurality of lights may be separately controlled for visually identifying each of the refrigeration zones; and a controller configured to receive a zone selection input from the user interface, identify a group of the plurality of lights that are disposed proximate the selected refrigeration zone, and control the identified group of the plurality of lights to visually confirm the selected refrigeration zone. |
| US10371437B2 |
Household refrigeration device having an interior lighting system and method for producing a household refrigeration device
A household refrigeration device includes a heat-insulated body with an inner container which delimits a coolable interior space for storing foodstuffs and has a pocket-shaped recess with a bottom. A refrigeration device cools the coolable interior space. A door panel closes the coolable interior space in a closed state and makes the coolable interior space accessible in an open state. An interior lighting system, which is fastened in the pocket-shaped recess, illuminates the coolable interior space when the door panel is open. The bottom of the pocket-shaped recess includes at least one fastening device, and the interior lighting system has at least one mating fastening device which is fastened on the at least one fastening device. A method for producing a household refrigeration device is also provided. |
| US10371436B2 |
Bin assembly
A bin assembly for use within a refrigeration appliance includes a substrate defining a compartment including a central portion, a first lateral portion, and a second lateral portion. A cavity is formed within each lateral portion. A locking member is configured to extend through an opening defined in an exterior wall of each lateral portion. The locking member includes a flange protruding perpendicularly from the locking member. A cover is secured to the locking member and the substrate, and inhibits rotation of the locking member. A rotatable member is coupled to the locking member and configured to move the bin between a stowed position and a deployed position. |
| US10371434B2 |
No-frost refrigeration device
A no-frost refrigeration device includes a forced-air evaporator in an evaporator compartment. At least a first component of the evaporator separates an upstream sector and a downstream sector of the evaporator compartment from one another. One of the two sectors of the evaporator compartment contains an accumulation zone that is fluidically parallel and adjacent to a second component of the evaporator and is cooled by the second component of the evaporator. |
| US10371429B1 |
Cooler with hinging lid
A cooler with a hinging lid is comprised of a top deck having an opening and a unitary hinging lid to cover the opening; insulated sidewalls; and a bottom that together define an enclosed insulated inner volume for storage of objects. The inner volume can be accessed by opening the hinging lid. The hinging lid can be selectively opened, segment by segment, to access the inner volume while minimizing the exchange of air between the inner volume and the air surrounding the cooler. The hinging lid is comprised of a pull flap tab, an interior layer of reflective insulating material, at least one layer of support insulation material and a waterproof outer surface layer. The support insulation material of the hinging lid is divided into at least two discrete segments comprising a first segment and a second segment and can be articulated as a hinge between the segments. |
| US10371423B2 |
Refrigerant balancing in a microchannel coil
A refrigeration unit and methods of operating a refrigeration unit for an HVACR system are disclosed. The refrigeration unit includes a refrigerant circuit, including a compressor, a condenser, an expansion device, and an evaporator fluidly connected. The condenser includes a condenser portion and a subcooler portion. A single receiver tank is fluidly connected to an output of the condenser portion and an input of the subcooler portion. A restrictor is fluidly connected to the receiver tank. The restrictor can induce a pressure drop in a working fluid flowing from the subcooler portion. |
| US10371419B2 |
Vehicle air conditioner with programmed flow controller
A vehicle air conditioning apparatus includes: at least one processor programmed to control a flow rate of at least one of a heat medium and outside air flowing through a heat medium-to-outside air heat exchanger such that a temperature of blast air cooled in an air-cooling heat exchanger is adjusted toward a first target temperature, and to control a flow rate of a refrigerant discharged from a compressor such that a temperature of blast air, which has been adjusted in at least one of the air-cooling heat exchanger and an air-heating heat exchanger and which is blown out into a vehicle interior, is adjusted toward a second target temperature. Accordingly, a surface temperature of the air-cooling heat exchanger and the temperature of the blast air into the vehicle interior can be properly controlled. |
| US10371418B2 |
Thermo-acoustic heat pump
A thermo-acoustic device for transferring energy by an acoustic wave, includes a resonator; a source for generating the acoustic wave; a thermodynamic section that forms an acoustic network and includes a compliance volume, a thermo-acoustic core and a fluidic inertia. The thermodynamic section is situated between the resonator and the source. The thermo-acoustic core is within the thermodynamic section and includes a cold terminal, a hot terminal and a regenerator. The regenerator is positioned between the hot and cold terminals. The source includes a piston compressor. The compressor is arranged as a mechanical double acting reciprocating piston compressor with a first outlet for a pressure wave generated on one side of the piston and a second outlet for a pressure wave generated on the other side of the piston. The first outlet is coupled with a first thermodynamic section, and the second outlet coupled with a second thermodynamic section. |
| US10371417B2 |
Cryocooler and rotary valve mechanism
A rotary valve mechanism includes a valve stator having a stator recessed portion and a valve rotor having a rotor recessed portion. The rotor recessed portion is formed in the valve rotor such that a rotor-recessed-portion front edge line passes through a stator-recessed-portion front edge line and the rotor recessed portion fluidally communicates with the stator recessed portion at a first phase of rotary-valve-mechanism rotation, and a rotor-recessed-portion rear edge line passes through a stator-recessed-portion rear edge line and the rotor recessed portion is fluidally separated from the stator recessed portion at a second phase thereof, and a shape of the rotor-recessed-portion front edge line coincides with a shape of the stator-recessed-portion front edge line such that the rotor-recessed-portion front edge line overlaps the stator-recessed-portion front edge line at the first phase. |
| US10371414B2 |
Furnace burner holders, cartridges, assemblies and methods for their installation
Burner holders and cartridges of a furnace are described herein, which include a support assembly and a manifold. The support assembly is configured to support one or more burners. For example, the support assembly may include a burner holder with a cutout region, which may allow a burner to be moved between an operational position and a disengaging position by twisting the burner. The cutout region can allow the one or more burners to be removed or installed relatively easily, without the need of removing the manifold from the support assembly. The manifold can be attached to the support assembly by, for example, using one or more orifices as fasteners. |
| US10371401B2 |
Creating domain visualizations
Methods, devices, and systems for creating a domain visualization are described herein. One method includes receiving a selection of a particular visualization template from a plurality of visualization templates, receiving instance information associated with a domain specified by the template from an instance source, receiving operating information from at least one instance of the domain, and displaying a visualization of the domain using the template, the instance information, and the operating information. |
| US10371400B2 |
Remote contractor system with site specific energy audit capability
A system that allows a contractor to remotely monitor and/or interact with its customers' building control systems, such as heating, ventilating and air conditioning (HVAC) systems, and analyze information obtained from the building control systems over time. Such a system may help the contractor monitor and diagnosis customer building control systems, setup service calls, achieve better customer relations, create more effective marketing opportunities, as well as other functions. In some cases, the disclosed system may include a controller that analyzes data from HVAC systems, determines a thermal model of a space environmentally controlled by an HVAC system, and provides an energy audit of the space that is environmentally controlled by the HVAC system. The controller may output a result of the energy audit to a user. |
| US10371398B2 |
Method and device for air-conditioning a room
A device for air-conditioning a room may be provided comprising at least one heat sink having at least one boundary surface facing the room, which can be brought to a temperature that is reduced in relation to the heat load, wherein at least one surface element is arranged between the boundary surface and the room, said surface element being at least partially permeable to heat radiation. A method may be provided for air-conditioning a room comprising at least one heat sink having at least one boundary surface facing the room, which is brought to a temperature that is reduced in relation to the heat load, wherein at least one surface element is arranged between the boundary surface and the room, said surface element being at least partially permeable to heat radiation. |
| US10371392B2 |
Cooking appliance
A cooking appliance is provided that may include a cabinet that defines an external appearance of the cooking appliance, a top plate provided at a top of the cabinet, the top plate being provided with a first cooking device that performs cooking using a heat source, and a second cooking device provided in the cabinet that performs cooking using a heat source. The cooking appliance may further include a control panel provided at a front of the cabinet, the control panel being provided therein with at least one air introduction hole, a controller provided at a rear of the control panel that controls the first cooking device and the second cooking device, and a heat dissipation fan provided between the control panel and a rear wall of the cabinet. A direction in which external air is introduced into the cooking appliance through the at least one air introduction hole and a direction in which the external air is discharged from the cooking appliance may be different from each other. |
| US10371390B2 |
Cooking appliance
A cooking appliance may include a case that defines a cavity for cooking, a top plate that is disposed above the cavity and that is configured to define an external appearance of a top side of the cooking appliance, a control panel that is disposed at a front upper position of the cavity and that is configured to define an external appearance of a front side of the cooking appliance, the control panel having a knob for user operation, and a door that is disposed below the control panel and that is configured to define, along with the control panel, the external appearance of the front side of the cooking appliance, the door being configured to open or close the cavity. |
| US10371389B2 |
Cooking device
A cooking device is provided, which includes a cooking portion, a hood portion arranged on the cooking portion and provided with a suction port formed on one side thereof, and a driving portion configured to move the hood portion, wherein the hood portion is movable to any one of a first position in which the hood portion is accommodated in the cooking portion and a second position in which the hood portion projects from the cooking portion, and an angle of the hood portion is varied so as to change a direction in which the suction port is directed in the second position. |
| US10371388B2 |
Oven cavity and oven
The invention in particular is directed to an oven cavity (3) adapted to be used with a baking and/or steaming oven (1). The cavity (3) comprises several cavity walls (5, 6), wherein at least one load bearing wall section of at least one of the cavity walls (5, 6) is made in self-supporting configuration from at least one of a high temperature resistant polymer material and technical textile material. |
| US10371383B2 |
Unitary flow path structure
Flow path assemblies and gas turbine engines are provided. A flow path assembly may comprise a combustor dome positioned at a forward end of a combustor of a combustion section of a gas turbine engine, and a unitary outer wall including a combustor portion extending through the combustion section and a turbine portion extending through at least a first turbine stage of a turbine section of the gas turbine engine. The combustor portion and the turbine portion are integrally formed as a single unitary structure. The flow path assembly also comprises an inner wall extending from the forward end of the combustor through at least the combustion section. The combustor dome extends radially from the unitary outer wall to the inner wall and is configured to move axially with respect to the inner wall and the unitary outer wall. Other flow path assemblies and gas turbine engine configurations are provided. |
| US10371382B2 |
Combustor heat shield and attachment features
Combustor assemblies having heat shields and features for attaching the heat shields are provided. For example, a combustor assembly includes a combustor dome defining an aperture, and a heat shield defining an opening and including a cup extending about the opening that extends toward the aperture of the combustor dome. The combustor assembly also includes a collar comprising a first piece and a second piece that each surround a portion of the heat shield cup. The collar may include a first arm, a second arm, and a body connecting the first and second arms such that the collar defines a recess between the first and second arms. The combustor assembly also may include an attachment piece with a flange that is positioned in the recess with a heat shield flange; the attachment piece attaches to the combustor dome to couple the heat shield and the combustor dome. |
| US10371379B2 |
Self-extinguishing torch
A self-extinguishing torch top has a wick holder with an upper end and a lower end, affixed to a fuel canister top. An extinguisher surrounds the wick holder and has at least a retracted position wherein a wick protruding from the wick holder is sufficiently exposed to be allowed to burn, and at least an extended position wherein the extinguisher extends beyond the wick so far as to extinguish any flame on the wick. A biasing member urges the sliding tube toward the extended position, and an arrest mechanism retains the sliding tube in the retracted position until an impact occurs, upon which the arrest mechanism releases the sliding tube to allow its extension to the extended position. |
| US10371378B2 |
Method and apparatus for monitoring port blockage for TDLAS measurements in harsh environments
A method of monitoring blockage of a sight tube attached to a wall of a process chamber, the sight tube being operatively associated with a TDLAS optical head with a window between the sight tube and the TDLAS optical head. The method includes the steps of providing a photo sensor in the TDLAS optical head, the photo sensor being positioned to receive light emitted by a light emitting process within the process chamber. An emission signal produced by light emitted by the light emitting process within the process chamber being received by the photo sensor is monitored. A determination is made if the emission signal is degrading. |
| US10371376B2 |
Industrial furnace and process for controlling the combustion inside
Industrial furnace (1) which can be used for example for treating semi-finished and siderurgical products, metal and inorganic materials, comprising a) a hot chamber (3) in which a combustion takes place and the hot gases generated by the combustion come in direct contact with the materials to be treated (p) in the furnace itself; B) a combustion stabilizing system in turn comprising b1) an injection system in turn comprising at least a mixer (11) arranged to mix a fuel and a diluent before injecting them into the hot chamber (3). The diluent has the effect of reducing the amount of nitrogen oxides in the combustion products. It considerably reduces the consumption of required diluent and the Nox emissions in the fumes. |
| US10371375B2 |
Exhaust structure for combustion apparatus
An exhaust structure for combustion apparatus includes a combustion apparatus having a combustor unit, a blower unit and a housing, an exhaust tube connected to the combustion apparatus at one end, an exhaust pipe configured to allow a part of the exhaust pipe to be introduced therein from the other end, an exhaust adapter disposed between an inner circumferential surface of the exhaust pipe and an outer circumferential surface of the exhaust tube, a connection pipe configured to communicate a region between the inner circumferential surface of the exhaust pipe and the outer circumferential surface of the exhaust tube to an inner space of the combustion apparatus, and an exhaust member connected between the combustion apparatus and the one end of the exhaust tube. The housing of the combustion apparatus is provided with a connection member for connecting the connection pipe. |
| US10371368B2 |
Canopy light system
A retrofit lighting system is provided comprising a power supply assembly configured to convert an AC input voltage into a DC output voltage and to adapt the DC output voltage to a substantially constant current level to be defined as a regulated current, at least one distribution wire in electrical communication with the power supply assembly and configured to conduct the regulated current, and at least one respective luminaire assembly spaced apart from and in electrical communication with the power supply assembly, and configured to receive the regulated current from the at least one distribution wire. The DC output voltage may be about 12 volts or less. |
| US10371365B2 |
Redirected light beam for weapons
A lighting device for a gun includes a mirror to redirect a light beam emanating from the lighting device. The light beam can be redirected along the side or top of the gun and preferably parallel to the axis of the gun barrel. The lighting device preferably is or includes a laser module. |
| US10371363B2 |
Lighting system and method of use
The present invention provides a lighting system. The lighting system may be mounted to the eaves of a building structure, such as a residential home. An additional aspect of the present invention is to provide a modular, adaptable and programmable lighting system and method for building a lighting system. Further, the lighting system may be provided in a waterproof or water-resistant enclosure. |
| US10371361B2 |
Device has LED track means with removable LED-units which clip-on anywhere along the length or add-on from ends
The LED light has Track to install LED-units anywhere along the length. The LED-unit has pair of resilient or pop-out & fall-down movable contactor so can fit-within or add-on LED-units to track and connect with metal bus-strip(s) which has electric current or-and magnetic force to adhesive the pop-out & fall-down contactor on back of the LED-unit. LED light device including LED light source, or mini size LED fluorescent tube, or mini LED light bar, or mini LED Bulb, or mini LED lamp, mini LED Lamp as light source has housing to fit-in or add-on or magnetic adhesive on track to form a finish light device and get power from built-in or outside AC-to-DC transformer, circuit, power source and can control by switch, remote controller, motion/moving detector(s) sensor, all kind of sensor, APP software while incorporate with Wifi or wireless network to make the on-off, color changing, color mix, dimmer adjustment, moving light, all other light show for LED track light has fit-in LED-units by resilient contractors or LED track light has add-on LED-units by pop-out & fall-down movable contactor built on back of LED-unit and adhesive by magnetic force bus-strips. |
| US10371359B2 |
Retaining structure for a light engine
Various embodiments may relate to an LED retrofit lamp, including a lamp tube, an LED light engine disposed in the lamp tube, and end caps arranged at two open ends of the lamp tube, the LED light engine including a circuit board and at least one light source disposed on the circuit board. The LED retrofit lamp further includes one pair of retaining structures fixed at two opposite ends of the circuit board, respectively, and at least one pair of elastic tension structures connected to the retaining structures. The elastic tension structure goes through the end cap from one side of the end cap and is locked at the other side of the end cap. In addition, various embodiments may also relate to a process for manufacturing the LED retrofit lamp. |
| US10371352B2 |
Lighting device and corresponding method
A lighting device, such as a LED module, comprising an elongated support structure having a longitudinal direction and electrically-powered light radiation sources distributed along the support structure, the support structure including at least one light-permeable layer, one or more optical signal sources coupled with the light-permeable layer, for injecting therein an optical signal propagating in the longitudinal direction, and one or more optical signal detectors coupled with the light-permeable layer, for detecting the optical signal injected by the optical signal source(s). |
| US10371351B2 |
Illumination device
An illumination device including an upper casing, a transparent bottom casing, a light source module and a reflection layer is provided. The upper casing has a lower surface. The transparent bottom casing has an upper surface. The light source module is disposed on the lower surface of the upper casing. The reflection layer is extended between the upper surface of the transparent bottom casing and the lower surface of the upper casing for reflecting the light emitted by the light source module. |
| US10371350B2 |
Asymmetric turning film with multiple light sources
Optical systems are disclosed. More particularly, optical systems including an asymmetric turning film (110) with at least a first (120) and second light source (130) are disclosed. Selection of geometries for the asymmetric turning film can enable different output viewing angles depending on the selective illumination of the first light source, the second light source, or both. The optical systems disclosed may be suitable in both luminaires and displays. |
| US10371349B2 |
Optical device, optical system, and ticket gate
An optical device includes one or more light sources and a light-guiding plate that guides light emitted from the light sources in a plane parallel to an emission surface that emits light. The light-guiding plate has light convergence portions that receive guided light and each have optical surfaces that cause light to be emitted from the emission surface in directions in which the light substantially converges at or scatters from one convergence point. The convergence points for the light convergence portions are different from each other. An image is formed on an emission surface side by a collection of the convergence points. First light convergence portions positioned differently from each other along a light-guiding direction of the light-guiding plate cause light to be emitted from the emission surface in different directions in which the light substantially converges at or scatters from the same first convergence point among the convergence points. |
| US10371348B2 |
Pipe-mounted cable termination assembly providing illumination visible from underside of pipe
A lighted cable termination assembly for use with one or more pipes is provided. The lighted cable termination assembly includes a stand, a lens, and a plurality of light emitting components. The stand is configured to be supported, with the stand extending upwardly, by the one or more pipes. The lens is positioned over an upper opening of the stand and includes a proud surface extending radially outside of a perimeter of the stand. The plurality of light emitting components are disposed under the lens, and the proud surface of the lens providing illumination from a plurality of viewing angles as viewed from the underside of the any of the one or more pipes on which the stand is supported. |
| US10371347B2 |
Vehicle light comprising a portion of light emission with opalescent effect
A vehicle light comprising a container body that houses at least one light source that emits a plurality of light rays (Ri). A lenticular body is at least partially crossed by the light beam produced by the light source. A diffuser body faces at least one light source, so as to receive the light beam from the diffuser body and extends along a main transverse extension (T-T) perpendicular to a main direction of propagation (L-L) of the light beam. The diffuser body comprises a first group of first optical elements defining cylindrical or spherical optics which scatter the light rays (Ri) towards the light output wall and emit an opalescent light beam. The first optical elements of the first group form a single body, and the first optical elements are separated from the light source and the lenticular body by air gaps. |
| US10371336B2 |
Headlamp apparatus
A headlamp apparatus may include: a light source configured to emit light; a reflector having a reflecting surface with different curvatures in first and second directions crossing each other, and configured to reflect the light emitted from the light source; and a lens configured to receive the light through the reflector, and change the magnification of the light so as to guide the light to the front. |
| US10371334B2 |
Vehicle lamp
A vehicle lamp is provided with: a semi-conductor-type light source; a second lens having an incident surface in which two convex sections protruding toward the light source side on the outer side in the horizontal direction from the center are connected at the center side to form a portion on the center side which is recessed on the inner side; and a first lens that is disposed between the light source and the second lens and irradiates the second lens with the light from the light source such that a spread of light from the light source is converted to a spread entering the incident surface of the second lens and a diffused light distribution pattern irradiated on the vehicle front side spreads outward in the vehicle horizontal direction. |
| US10371330B2 |
LED projection night light
An LED projection night light for night time or dark area use includes a plug-in wall outlet night light or direct current operated night light with projection features to project an image, message, data, logo, or time on a ceiling, walls, floor, or other desired surface. The LED night light incorporates optics means such as an optics-lens, slides, openings, or cut-outs, and/or a transparent material piece, translucent material piece, telescope assembly, housing-member, slide-film, slide-disc, elastic-member, tilt-means, rotating-means, adjust-means, roller-means, mechanical-means, extend-means, convex lens, and/or concave lens designed to make the desired image, message, data, logo, or time project to the ceiling, walls, floor, or other desired surface to be seen by a viewer. The LED light has an interchangeable power source arrangement, permitting the night light to be selectively powered by either an AC powered sealed-unit or a DC powered battery-pack. |
| US10371329B2 |
Recessed downlight fixture and method for installing the fixture and adjusting the fixture collar opening
A recessed downlight fixture and method for installation is provided. The recessed downlight fixture can be installed in a retrofit application, after a ceiling is installed, through a pre-existing opening in that ceiling. Alternatively, a recessed downlight fixture according to a second embodiment can be installed before a ceiling is present. In either embodiment, the light source coupled to, for example, a heat sink, can be universally moved in three degrees of movement, rotationally, along a tilt axis, or further within the ceiling to increase or decrease the recess. All such universal adjustments can take place through and below the ceiling opening during or after installation. |
| US10371327B2 |
Rechargeable lighting devices
A portable rechargeable lighting device uses software in a microcontroller to turn on a charger protection circuit when a charging circuit is activated, to monitor at least one electrical characteristic relative to a rechargeable battery, to control at least one charging parameter of the charging circuit, and to alert a user of a low battery condition before light emitted from the device terminates. |
| US10371326B2 |
Portable lantern light with multiple operating modes
A portable lantern light is configured to be operated in a range of selectable operational modes to provide flexible illumination solutions in both stationary and portable situations. The lantern light includes an elongated central body with a plurality of external longitudinal ribs, longitudinal channels positioned between a pair of external ribs, a lighting element residing within the channel, and a lens overlying the lighting element that acts as a primary optic. A power source that includes a battery cartridge is removably inserted within a receiver of the central body. The lantern light includes an operating mode selector assembly to control which lighting elements are illuminated during operation of the portable lantern light, and a luminosity selector assembly to selectively control the lumen output (brightness) of the lighting elements. The lantern light also includes a retractable stabilization assembly that can be deployed to stabilize the light on a support surface. |
| US10371322B2 |
Pressurized gas vessel port assembly
A pressurized gas vessel port assembly incorporating a wall; a port extending through the wall; a nipple extending inwardly from the wall and having a hollow bore communicating with the port; a plug received within the hollow bore for movement between first and second positions, the plug residing at an inner end of the nipple at the first position and being displaced outwardly from the first position upon movement toward the second position; a venturi port opening the first nipple's hollow bore, the venturi being positioned outwardly from the first position for inducing an outward flow of the gas within the hollow bore; and incorporating a seat which outwardly overlies the venturi port, the seat being fitted for, upon a completion of the outward movement of the plug toward the second position, annularly contacting the plug and staunching the outward gas flow. |
| US10371321B2 |
Anchor structure and LNG storage tank including the same
The present invention relates to an anchor structure able to actively cope with hull deformation, and to a liquid natural gas storage tank and a production method for a liquid natural gas storage tank comprising the anchor structure. According to one embodiment of the present invention, an anchor structure is provided wherein an anchor structure, for linking a sealing wall and an inner wall of a liquid natural gas storage tank, comprises: an anchor member adapted such that a joining part, which is joined to the sealing wall, can slide horizontally; and a thermally insulating material formed around the anchor member. |
| US10371320B2 |
Covalent organic framework nanoporous materials for high pressure gas storage
A method of storing gas comprises providing a recipient for receiving the gas and providing a porous gas storage material. The gas storage material comprises a cross-linked polymeric framework and a plurality of pores for gas sorption. The cross-linked polymeric framework comprises aromatic ring-containing monomeric units comprising at least two aromatic rings. The aromatic ring-containing monomeric units are linked by covalent cross-linking between aromatic rings to form a stable, rigid nanoporous material for storing the gas at pressures significantly greater than the atmospheric pressure, for example in excess of 100 bar. A possible application is the storage and transportation of compressed natural gas. |
| US10371319B2 |
Liquid dispenser
Embodiments of the disclosure may include a dispenser for dispensing a liquid. The dispenser may include a measurement chamber configured to receive the liquid, a temperature probe positioned within the measurement chamber, and a capacitance probe positioned within the measurement chamber. The capacitance probe may house the temperature probe. The dispenser may also include a first conduit fluidly coupled to the measurement chamber and configured to deliver the liquid out of the dispenser. |
| US10371318B2 |
Mobile CO2 filling system for filling onsite CO2 storage and dispensing systems with CO2
A mobile CO2 filling system selectively fills onsite CO2 storage and dispensing systems with CO2. The system includes a mobile platform; a tank holding liquid CO2 mounted on the mobile platform; a flexible dispensing hose coupled to the tank and configured to be selectively coupled to the filling inlet of an onsite CO2 storage and dispensing system; A pump selectively coupled to the tank; and a controller for controlling the filling of an onsite CO2 storage and dispensing systems with CO2 from the tank, wherein the controller is selectively designated by the user to operate in at least one pump assisted filling state and at least one gravity feed filling state. |
| US10371315B1 |
Mounting bracket for use on boat docks
A mounting bracket (10) for mounting items (I) on a metal post (P) located on a boat dock (D). A support member (12) allows a user to position the bracket where an item is to be mounted on a post with a pair of clamps (14a, 14b) then being used to affix the item to the bracket. The support member has a set (13) of teeth (T) formed at each end (12e) which bite into, but do penetrate through, the post. When the clamps are attached to the support member, tightening down of the clamps causes the teeth to bite into the post to hold the mounting bracket securely in place, but this does not result in holes being made in the side of the post which might later result in corrosion. |
| US10371314B2 |
Cable tray bracket
A bracket for supporting an electrical device on a cable tray. A receiving area includes an aperture for fastening the electrical device. A plurality of retainers flanks the receiving area. The retainers are planar-formed of an integral, uniform-thickness sheet with the receiving area. The retainers extend away from each other on opposite sides of the receiving area, each formed with a relief of locally thickness-reduced sheet material along a line to define at least one fold axis for conforming the retainer to a portion of the cable tray to retain the bracket with respect to the cable tray, with the plurality of retainers extending directly over top outer edges of the cable tray. One or more of the retainers are provided along a first edge of the bracket for engaging a first edge of the cable tray, the first edge devoid of any fasteners and devoid of any fastener apertures. |
| US10371313B2 |
Load relief tie rod
A method and apparatus are provided. A load relief tie rod comprises a body, a rod, and at least one pin extending from and perpendicular to the rod. The body has a cavity extending longitudinally through a cylindrical section of the body and two obround slots in the cylindrical section. The rod is configured to extend longitudinally within the cavity. The at least one pin extends through the two obround slots. |
| US10371312B2 |
Selectively rotatable feet for an apparatus
Techniques for selectively rotatable feet for an apparatus are described. According to various implementations, an apparatus includes feet on its base that cushion the apparatus on an adjacent surface, such as a desk, a table, and a floor. The feet are rounded (e.g., spherical) and can rotate relative to the base to enable the apparatus to be moved on an adjacent surface. To prevent unwanted movement during a typical usage, the apparatus includes brakes that engage with the feet to prevent rotation. The brakes, however, can be selectively disengaged from different feet to enable different types of movement of the apparatus, such as rotational and translational movement. |
| US10371311B2 |
Stand for mobile electronic device
A stand to support mobile devices has a base to which panels are attached. The panels are angularly oriented with respect to the base and each has a slot adapted to receive the mobile device. The panels may be integrally formed with the base or may be attached by hinges having detents or springs to support the panels in a desired orientation. |
| US10371308B2 |
Threaded tubular element provided with a metallic anti-galling coating and a lubricant layer
The invention concerns a threaded portion of a tubular element for a threaded tubular connection having an axis of revolution, the portion comprising a threading extending over its outer or inner peripheral surface, and a first sealing surface on the peripheral surface, the first sealing surface being capable of producing metal-metal interference with a corresponding second sealing surface belonging to a complementary threaded portion. The threading and the first sealing surface are coated with a metallic anti-galling layer wherein zinc (Zn) is the major element by weight, the metallic anti-galling layer being at least partially coated with a lubricant layer comprising a resin and a dry solid lubricant powder dispersed in the resin. |
| US10371306B2 |
Pipe-inspection device propelled by an Archimedes screw
A robotic device for inspecting a pipe includes at least one pair of propulsion elements each including a rotary drum, an outer surface of which has a screw thread. The device also includes a body associated with at least one pair of propulsion elements and in which are inserted sensor, at least one pair of electric motors each capable of rotating a rotary drum, and at least one pair of electric power sources each capable of powering an electric motor. The body is shaped such that a ventral portion and a dorsal portion of the device are symmetrical with one another relative to a median frontal plane of the device, thus allowing the device to move indistinctly on the belly or on the back. |
| US10371305B1 |
Dockable tripodal camera control unit
Pipe inspection systems including cameras and camera control units (CCU) are disclosed. A CCU may include a switching circuit for automatically controlling power to elements of the CCU in response to movement of a display cover. A display of the CCU may display captured images and/or video, which may be integrated with data provided by a buried object locator or other device. The CCU may include a retractable kickstand assembly and a stowable handle, which may be removably attached to a cable storage reel. |
| US10371304B2 |
Valve insert
An insert is provided for insertion through an opening in the surface of a conduit, the insert comprising an insert body having first and second open ends defining an axis of flow therebetween. The insert further comprises a valve flap connected to the insert body. The valve flap is moveable between a closed position in which it creates a closure, thereby preventing flow along said axis, and an open position in which the valve flap allows flow along the axis. The valve flap is arranged so that, when in the open position, it is substantially U-shaped in side cross-section and is oriented with respect to the insert body so that said U-shape arches over the axis of flow. |
| US10371303B2 |
Retention and safety devices for hoses
Provided is a retention and safety device for hoses including a connection end engageable to a fixed point of a system. The device may include: (1) a rope defining a main extension trajectory and including an engagement portion; (2) a coupling end secured to the rope and connectable to the fixed point; and (3) an engagement end connectable to the hose and including the engagement portion of the rope and a rope guide bushing slidingly constrained to the rope and enclosing at least two portions distant along the main extension trajectory and mutually juxtaposed to the rope. The engagement portion may be substantially continuous and define a complete turn making, by means of a fast knot, an engagement loop in use around the hose, so that the engagement portion can wind around the hose irreversibly clenching along the same if the device is placed in traction. |
| US10371300B2 |
Rotary joint
A mechanical seal which defines an annular space formed between a case body and a shaft body is included. The mechanical seal includes: a first sealing ring having a first seal surface; a second sealing ring having a second seal surface which slidably contacts with the first seal surface; and a plurality of coil springs provided along the first sealing ring in a circumferential direction and configured to apply axial forces to the first sealing ring to press the first seal surface against the second seal surface. The plurality of coil springs are divided into a plurality of groups, and first regions in each of which occurring distortion is increased by the axial forces of the coil springs that belong to the group and second regions in each of which distortion is smaller than that in each first region are present alternately along the circumferential direction in the first sealing ring. |
| US10371296B2 |
No contact connectors
The present disclosure provides a pipe coupling that includes a coupling body, a first pack joint nut, and first and second sleeves. The coupling body is made of a first metal material and the first pack joint nut is made of a second metal material. The first pack joint nut is configured to receive a portion of a first pipe. The pipe is made of a dissimilar metal material to the first and second metal materials of the coupling body and the first pack joint nut, respectively. The first sleeve is configured to line at least a portion of an inner periphery of the coupling body. The second sleeve is configured to line at least a portion of an inner periphery of the first pack joint nut. The first and second sleeves are made of non-metallic materials, and serve as physical non-metallic barriers between the first/second metal materials of the coupling/first pack joint nut, and the dissimilar metal material of the first pipe. |
| US10371293B2 |
Movement-constraining assembly for fluid-conveying system
A movement-constraining assembly for a fluid-conveying system comprises a tubular body adapted to be secured to a component coupling end of a component of the fluid-conveying system. A fluid-conveying tube has a tube coupling end adapted to be connected to the component of the fluid-conveying system and defining an inner passage for fluid to pass therethrough to or from the component, the tube having an interface at the tube coupling end. A blocking nut has an inner surface complementary to at least a surface of the interface of the tube to block rotation between the tube and the blocking nut, the blocking nut further comprising an outer surface complementary to a surface of the tubular body to block rotation between the blocking nut and the component, whereby the blocking nut blocks a rotation between the fluid-conveying tube and the component coupling end. |
| US10371283B2 |
Overfill prevention valve with remote testing
An overfill-prevention valve system includes a testing mechanism, operable by a user from the inlet end of the drop tube, which can be used to verify proper valve function without actually filling the storage tank. The testing mechanism allows the user to actuate the valve manually using a test probe, such as by elevating a float to simulate a full storage tank. The testing mechanism may be located upstream of the valve to facilitate the testing operation without interfering with the valve body. The mechanism may further provide non-contact functionality, such as with magnetic actuators on either side of the drop tube wall, to eliminate a potential test mechanism leak points. The test probe used to actuate the test mechanism may be shaped to define a desired rotational position at the test location within the drop tube, ensuring proper rotational alignment of the magnetic actuators. |
| US10371281B2 |
Hybrid manual and hydraulic override
An apparatus for overriding a valve actuator to move a valve stem to a second position includes an override body with a central axis. A piston is located within the override body. A bushing is non-rotatably carried within the override body. An override shaft is in threaded engagement with the bushing and extends through a sealed orifice in the override body. Fluid pressure applied to the piston causes the bushing to engage the valve actuator and push the valve stem, and alternatively, rotation applied to the override shaft causes the bushing to move linearly to engage the valve actuator and push the valve stem. |
| US10371272B2 |
Shuttle valve
A shuttle valve has a housing with a plurality of inlet ports, an outlet port for fluid flow, and a passageway for fluid to flow from any one of the inlet ports to the outlet port. Each Inlet port has an associated plunger configured one to the other such that when sufficient pressurized fluid is flowing into any one of the inlet ports, fluid is prevented from flowing into any other inlet port. The plungers include male and female mating portions with a radial seal between them. A biasing spring allows one of the plungers to allow backward fluid flow through the associated inlet port when not under pressure. |
| US10371271B2 |
Fluid controller with diaphragm
A fluid controller that reduces an increase in cost by additional components or additional processes for setting means, and solves the problem that a set value of an upward movable amount of a stem changes is provided. An upper surface of an outer peripheral edge portion of a diaphragm holder 7 and a lower surface of an inner peripheral edge portion of a holder adapter 15 are formed so as to oppose to each other with a first gap A interposed therebetween. By setting the first gap A to a predetermined value, an upward movable amount of the diaphragm holder 7 is set. |
| US10371270B2 |
Diaphragm valve
Provided is a diaphragm valve that improves the durability of a diaphragm by focusing on the ratio of the radius of curvature of a pressing surface of a diaphragm presser to the radius of curvature of the diaphragm. SRb/SRa=0.4 to 0.6 is satisfied, wherein SRa represents the radius of curvature of a diaphragm 5 and SRb represents the radius of curvature of a pressing surface of a diaphragm presser 6. |
| US10371269B2 |
Sleeve for use in a pinch valve
A sleeve for use in a pinch valve, the sleeve comprising a resilient and at least substantially tubular element having opposite ends and capable of being compressed for reducing or restricting a flow therethrough; a pair of annular end flanges, each annular end flange being mounted on each of the opposite ends and extending radially outwardly from the tubular element for sealingly engaging a valve rim; a pair of annular grooves, each of the annular grooves being defined between the annular end flange and an annular projection, the annular projection extending radially outwardly from the tubular element, and a pair of annular railings inserted within the annular grooves, the annular railings being dimensioned for receiving a valve flange for retaining engagement therewith and comprising a railing base having an innermost diameter and an outermost diameter, the outermost diameter being greater than an outermost diameter of a section of the tubular element adjacent to the annular projection. |
| US10371267B2 |
Rotary adjustable orifice plate valve
A valve with a rotationally adjustable flow area can include a first member defining a first wall having a first opening therein, and a second member defining a second wall having a second opening therein, the first member being rotatable relative to the second member, and flow area through the valve being defined by fluidic communication between the first opening and the second opening that varies with relative rotational position between the first member and the second member. |
| US10371261B2 |
Martensitic stainless-steel sheet and metal gasket
Provided is a martensitic stainless-steel sheet having a reduced anisotropy in workability and fatigue resistance which are attributable to oxide based inclusions. A martensitic stainless-steel sheet which has a steel composition that contains, in terms of mass %, 0.030 to 0.300% C, 0.20 to 2.50% Si, 0.15 to 4.00% Mn, 0.01 to 1.00% Ni, 11.00 to 15.00% Cr, 0.001 to 0.100% N, 0.0001 to 0.0350% Al, 0 to 0.50% V, 0 to 0.50% Nb, 0 to 0.50% Ti, 0 to 0.020% B, and a balance of Fe and unavoidable impurities, and that has a value of γmax, determined by the following equation (1), of 80.0 or greater, and in which oxide based inclusions are observed in the metallographic structure, the oxide based inclusions having a converted composition comprising up to 30 mass % or less Al2O3, 20 to 60 mass % SiO2, and 15 to 70 mass % MnO. |
| US10371258B2 |
Control device for actuator, actuator, valve driving device and control method for actuator
A position sensor mounted in an actuator includes a magnetic detecting element for detecting the position of a shaft, and a temperature detecting element for detecting intra-sensor temperature which is used for correction of the temperature characteristics of the magnetic detecting element, the magnetic detecting element and the temperature detecting element being built therein. A control device for the actuator acquires both the temperature-corrected position of the shaft and the intra-sensor temperature from the position sensor, and uses them for control of the actuator. |
| US10371255B2 |
Transmission control device and transmission control method
In a transmission control device, a controller determines failure of a rotation sensor. A hydraulic control circuit and the controller variably control a speed ratio of a variator, and in a case where the failure is determined, execute first control of restricting a shift range of the variator. The hydraulic control circuit and the controller variably control a gear position of a sub-transmission mechanism, and in a case where the failure is determined, execute second control of fixing the gear position of the sub-transmission mechanism to first speed. The hydraulic control circuit and the controller execute the second control at a different timing from the first control in a case where the gear position of the sub-transmission mechanism upon a determination of the failure is second speed. |
| US10371250B2 |
Planetary axle
A planetary axle for a planetary gearbox can be constructed analogously to a transverse link axle and/or a thrust/flexural link axle and/or a longitudinal link axle for use in the automotive industry. The planetary axle includes a clamping area for clamping of the planetary axle in a side of a planetary carrier, a bearing seat area for receiving a planetary bearing, and a link area disposed between the clamping area and the bearing seat area. |
| US10371248B2 |
Oil passage structure for power transmission device
In an oil passage structure for a power transmission device including a case provided to accommodate a power transmission device, a baffle plate attached to an inner wall of the case, and an oil pump, the oil passage structure includes a supply oil passage through which oil is pumped from the oil pump to an oil supply destination via the baffle plate. A plate oil passage, which constitutes a portion of the supply oil passage, a supply port, which allows the oil discharged from the oil pump to flow into the plate oil passage through the supply port, and a first discharge port, which allows the oil supplied to the oil supply destination to be discharged through the first discharge port, are formed in the baffle plate. |
| US10371246B2 |
Breather vent assembly for a vehicle transmission
A breather vent assembly includes a vent main body defining an internal vent passage and including a proximal end, a distal end, and an upwardly extending retainer portion disposed outward of the distal end. A cap is coupled to the vent main body and disposed at the distal end. A tortuous path is defined between the vent main body and the cap and a fluid vapor flows through the internal vent passage and the tortuous path to thereby vent the fluid vapor from a transmission. A reservoir is defined between the distal end and the upwardly extending retainer portion and configured to receive a condensate when a portion of the fluid vapor condenses in the tortuous path. A drain passage extends through the vent main body and fluidly couples the reservoir and the internal vent passage such that the condensate in the reservoir is drained back to the vehicle transmission. |
| US10371244B2 |
Additive manufactured gear for a geared architecture gas turbine engine
A gear includes a multiple of gear teeth that extend from an outer portion of a rim about an axis and an inner portion of the rim about the axis, the inner portion of the rim additive manufactured. |
| US10371241B1 |
Stress-wave actuator and reducer
A stress-wave actuator is disclosed in which a stressed, elastic member is in frictional contact with a rigid element. A stress altering actuation travels along the elastic element, temporarily and sequentially altering the stress in a portion of it, thereby moving the stressed element relative to the rigid element. When the rigid element is an enclosure, and the elastic member is shaped and sized to be slightly larger in circumference than the enclosure, the elastic member is compressed and stressed. Altering the stress temporally and sequentially in portions of the elastic member causes it to be displaced relative to the rigid member. Stress alteration may be effected by magnetic, electric or physical means depending of the physical nature of the elastic element. The stress wave actuator may be configured to act as a high torque motor, a high gear ratio motion transfer device, and as a clutch. |
| US10371238B2 |
Adapter assembly for surgical device
An adapter assembly for connecting an end effector to a surgical instrument includes first, second, and third drive assemblies configured for converting rotational motion into linear motion. Each of the second and third drive assemblies includes a pair of rotatable drive shafts for longitudinally advancing and retracting respective second and third drive members. |
| US10371237B2 |
Belt wave drives
A belt wave drive transmission system and method are shown involving a first rotor (10) having a first drum configured to rotate about its axis of rotation and a second rotor (20) having a second drum configured to rotate about its axis of rotation, where the first rotor (10) is constrained to orbit concentrically about the axis of rotation of the second drum. A belt (30) encircles the first and second drums to couple the first (10) and second (20) rotors such that the first rotor (10) moves concentrically around the second rotor (20) as the belt (30) advances about a circumference of the second drum. In further refinements, the system and method involve electrically controllably coupling at least one of the first and second rotors to the belt. |
| US10371234B2 |
Bicycle chain and motion transmission system comprising such a chain
A bicycle chain having an alternate succession of outer links and inner links connected to each other at respective end portions thereof. Each outer link and inner link comprises two respective plates arranged parallel to and spaced apart from one another to define a housing space for a tooth of a sprocket or toothed wheel. Each plate of each outer link has, at a central portion thereof, a first thickness. Each plate of each inner link has, at a central portion thereof, a second thickness. Each plate of each outer link and inner link has, at said respective end portions, a third thickness that is less than the sum of said first thickness and second thickness. |
| US10371231B2 |
Damper device
A damper device that includes an input element to which torque from an engine is transferred; an output element; a first intermediate element; a second intermediate element; a first elastic body that transfers torque between the input element and the first intermediate element; a second elastic body that transfers torque between the first intermediate element and the output element; a third elastic body that transfers torque between the input element and the second intermediate element; a fourth elastic body that transfers torque between the second intermediate element and the output element; and a fifth elastic body that transfers torque between the first intermediate element and the second intermediate element. |
| US10371229B2 |
Vibration isolator mechanism with adjustable force-deflection characteristics
An adjustable vibration isolator for limiting transfer of vibrations from a first element to a second element coupled to the first element. The isolator includes conical disc spring members, each having a first end including a central opening, a central axis, and a second end opposite the first end. The second end includes an outer edge of the spring member. A spacer is coupled to each spring member so as to enable a transfer of forces between the spring member and the spacer. Spring member deflection resistance mechanisms are operable to adjustably resist movement of the outer edges of the spring members in directions radially outwardly during loading of the spring members. Resistance of movement of the outer edges of the spring members enables control of a force required to deflect the spring members, and control of the force-deflection curve of the vibration isolator. |
| US10371228B2 |
Control strategy for a variable spring rate absorber
A variable spring rate absorber is adjusted to provide the vibration attenuation characteristics needed to match current operating conditions. Control of a variable spring rate absorber determines the desired absorber spring rate for existing conditions based on a number of inputs and predetermined characterization tables. Once the spring rate is calculated, a predetermined map may be used to determine the absorber setting needed to achieve the desired spring rate. A sensor may be used to measure the actual state of the absorber to determine the extent to which the setting must be adjusted to achieve the desired spring rate. |
| US10371220B2 |
Apparatus for returning pistons of a disc brake
A piston-returning apparatus for a disc brake includes two pushing plates, a collar, a rotating unit and a handle. Each of the pushing plates includes a threaded element. The collar includes two screw holes for receiving the threaded elements of the pushing plates respectively so that the pushing plates are synchronously moved toward or away from the collar when the collar is rotated. The handle is connected to the collar via the rotating unit. The rotating unit is switchable between two modes. In the first mode, the rotating unit rotates the collar clockwise when the handle is pivoted clockwise but the rotating unit does not rotate the collar counterclockwise when the handle is pivoted counterclockwise. In the second mode, the rotating unit rotates the collar counterclockwise when the handle is pivoted counterclockwise but the rotating unit does not rotate the collar clockwise when the handle is pivoted clockwise. |
| US10371219B2 |
Method for mounting a hydraulic braking apparatus on a bicycle, hydraulic braking apparatus and mounting tool
A method for mounting a flexible tube associated with braking hydraulics on a bicycle between a braking control member and a braking member. The method provides a mounting cable for use in locating the flexible tube within a bicycle frame element while the ends of the flexible tube are exposed so a respective end can be connected to the control member and the braking member. The method simplifies the insertion process and reduces damage to the flexible tube. A tool for inserting the flexible tube is also provided. |
| US10371215B2 |
Transmission and transmission clutch system
A vehicle transmission includes a first rotating element, second rotating element, first retainer ring, and second retainer ring. The first rotating element has an exterior surface that defines a first ring groove. The second rotating element is configured to limit movement of friction plates during clutch engagement. The second rotating element is disposed about the exterior surface and has an interior surface that defines a second ring groove. The first retainer ring is disposed in the first ring groove. The second retainer ring is disposed in the second ring groove and thereby restricts movement of the first retainer ring in a radially outward direction. |
| US10371212B2 |
Bearing liner for accommodating thermal expansion and transmission system incorporating the same
A bearing liner allows a bearing to be mounted to a bearing housing even where the coefficients of thermal expansion of the bearing and the housing are different. The bearing liner includes a body portion and a mounting portion. The body portion has a cylindrical substrate that extends about a longitudinal axis of the bearing. The mounting portion includes mounting tabs that extend from the body portion of the liner. The mounting tabs allow the liner to be fixed to the housing and to the bearing. The mounting tabs are configured to flex relative to the body portion of the liner so as to allow for thermal expansion and contraction of the housing relative to the bearing while still securing the bearing to the housing. |
| US10371209B2 |
Reshaped ring for rolling bearing
Rings for a rolling bearing are disclosed, wherein the rings define a primary axis (A). The ring may include a ring formed as a hollow ring having a hollow chamber encircling the primary axis (A). A wall of the hollow ring may be of one-piece and/or seamless design in an axial section along the primary axis (A). The ring may be a bearing ring configured for rolling contact with rolling elements. In one example, the wall includes a raceway section in the wall for rolling contact with the rolling elements, a bearing bottom section for supporting the ring, two lateral supporting wall sections, and two connecting sections for connecting the two lateral supporting wall sections to the raceway section. |
| US10371208B2 |
Bearing assemblies with electrodynamically matched races
A method of electro-dynamically matching a bearing assembly includes electrically separating inner and outer races from rolling elements of the bearing assembly with lubricant and rotating the inner race relative to the outer race. A voltage differential is applied across the inner and the outer races and via isolated rolling elements and the race eroded an electrical discharge event across a gap defined between the one or more of the races and rolling elements. Electro-dynamically matched bearing assemblies and reaction/momentum flywheel arrangements for artificial satellites are also described. |
| US10371203B2 |
Cap for motion guide apparatus
A cap for a motion guide apparatus which can reduce generation of a burr and can also increase the fixing force. The cap of the present invention is for blocking a fastening member insertion hole of a guide rail of a motion guide apparatus. The cap includes a disc-shaped top surface portion, a cylindrical side surface portion hanging down from the top surface portion, and a plurality of protrusions provided on an outer peripheral surface of the side surface portion. The plurality of protrusions is apart from each other in a circumferential direction on the outer peripheral surface of the side surface portion, and is present at an upper end portion, or from the upper end portion to an axially middle portion, of the outer peripheral surface. A thickness of the side surface portion between the protrusions is less than a thickness of the top surface portion. |
| US10371199B2 |
Engine crankshaft torque sensor cartridge
In various aspects, an engine crankshaft is disclosed. The engine crankshaft comprises a rear bearing journal having an output end. The rear bearing journal defines a cylindrical cavity extending from the output end into the bearing journal. The cavity may intersect oil channels disposed within the crankshaft. A sensor capsule may be disposed within the cavity. The engine crankshaft may comprise at least one torque sensor operatively coupled to the rear bearing journal. The at least one torque sensor may be coated with a sealant to prevent contact with pressurized engine oil. The at least one torque sensor may generate a torque signal corresponding to a torque exerted on the rear bearing journal. The torque exerted on the rear bearing journal is indicative of a torque output of an engine. The at least one torque sensor may be electrically coupled to electrical elements within the sensor capsule. |
| US10371198B2 |
Quad foil journal air bearing
A quad foil journal air bearing includes a journal sleeve having an inner circumference that defines an inner surface. A first foil assembly includes a first key coupled to the inner surface of the journal sleeve. The quad foil journal air bearing further includes a second foil assembly having a second key coupled to the inner surface of the journal sleeve. |
| US10371196B1 |
Compact rotation locking mechanisms for detachable load bearing pivoting support elements
Compact rotation locking mechanisms for detachable load bearing pivoting support elements which may also be used for converting the batteries of personal information and input devices into removable and interchangeable pivoting support elements for these devices. |
| US10371195B2 |
Socket assembly and method of making a socket assembly
The socket assembly has a housing with an inner bore which extends from a first end to a second end. A ball portion of a ball stud is received in the inner bore. A backing bearing is disposed in the inner bore and presents a curved bearing surface in surface-to-surface contact with the ball portion. A first spring biases the backing bearing against the ball portion. The socket assembly also includes an exit bearing with a cylindrical portion that is in contact with an equator of the ball portion and a semi-spherical portion that is in surface-to-surface contact with an opposite hemisphere from the first bearing surface. A second spring biases the exit bearing into a predetermined location established by the housing. The exit bearing is movable from the predetermined location in a direction towards the second end of the housing against a biasing force of the second spring. |
| US10371192B2 |
Weldless building structures
A building structure including a first building member and a second building member may be connected by a plurality of fasteners, each fastener having a head, a threaded portion having a through hardness of between HRB 70 and HRC 40, a thread-forming portion of at least HRC 50 hardness enabling the fastener to form threads in at least the second steel building member, and a fluted lead portion of at least HRC 50 hardness with a nominal diameter between 70 and 95% of major diameter, such that the fastener is capable of providing a ratio of strip torque to thread-forming torque of at least 3.0 and a ratio of strip torque to drive torque greater than 6.0 when the second steel building member having a thickness of 0.25 inch and the fluted lead portion having at least one diameter within nominal diameter between 80 and 98% of major diameter. |
| US10371191B2 |
Connecting means
In order to provide a connecting means for connecting a first component and a second component, in particular for connecting furniture parts or machine parts, by means of which the components may be connected to one another simply and reliably, it is proposed that the connecting means includes a first connecting element which in the connected condition of the components is arranged on the first component, and a second connecting element which in the connected condition of the components is arranged on the second component, wherein, for connecting the first component and the second component, a spring element of the first connecting element is configured to come into engagement with a receiving element of the second connecting element, wherein the connecting means, in particular the first connecting element and/or the second connecting element, includes a reinforcing element for reinforcing a spring force of the spring element. |
| US10371189B2 |
Nail with a head having an inwardly curved top surface
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a nail with a head having an inwardly curved top surface. In one embodiment, the nail has a longitudinal axis and comprises a head, a shank, and a tip. The head includes a top portion and a bottom portion. The top portion includes an inwardly curved top surface forming a partially spherical cavity, while the bottom portion includes a radially inwardly tapered annular bottom surface. The shank is integrally connected to and extends from the bottom portion of the head. The tip is integrally connected to and extends from the shank and terminates in a free end. |
| US10371183B2 |
Locking badge clamp
A clamp assembly includes a clamp having a lever attached to a clamp body and operable between an open position and a closed position, where the clamp body defines an elongated opening with a narrowed waist portion between a first opening portion and a second opening portion. A fastener has a base, a cap, and a stem extending between and connecting the base and the cap. The base and the cap extend radially outward from the stem. The stem is sized to fit through the narrowed waist portion and the cap is sized to fit through the first opening portion of the through opening. When the lever is in the closed position, a blocking member on the lever occupies the first opening portion of the through opening. When the lever is in the open position, the blocking member is withdrawn from the first opening portion of the through opening. |
| US10371176B2 |
Selectable flow divider drive system
A selectable flow divider drive system includes a hydraulic fluid reservoir and a plurality of drive motors in fluid communication with the hydraulic fluid reservoir. A hydraulic pump is connected between the hydraulic fluid reservoir and the plurality of drive motors and directs hydraulic fluid from the hydraulic fluid reservoir to the plurality of motors. The hydraulic pump is operable in a high flow condition and a low flow condition. A flow divider component is interposed between the hydraulic pump and the plurality of motors. The flow divider component selectively divides hydraulic fluid flow to each of the plurality of drive motors, where a flow divider of the flow divider component is sized for the low flow condition of the hydraulic pump. A bypass valve is disposed upstream of the flow divider that selectively bypasses the flow divider when the hydraulic pump is operated in the high flow condition. |
| US10371175B2 |
Hydropneumatic pressure accumulator
A hydropneumatic pressure accumulator, in particular a pulsation damper, includes an accumulator housing (2) and a movable separating element (20), which separates a pressurized working gas-containing gas working space (24) from a fluid chamber (22) in the accumulator housing (2). A gas storage chamber (12) is provided, which contains an additional volume of the pressurized working gas, and is connected via a connecting path (30) having a throttle point to the gas working space. |
| US10371173B2 |
Liner for a gas turbine engine
A gas turbine engine is provided having a fan case and a translating sleeve positioned downstream from the fan case. A flow channel extends between the fan case and the translating sleeve. The flow channel includes an inner diameter and an outer diameter. A structural guide vane is positioned within the flow channel and extends from the inner diameter to the outer diameter. A liner is positioned between an aft end of the fan case and an aft end of the translating sleeve to reduce vibratory stress on the structural guide vane. |
| US10371163B2 |
Load absorption systems and methods
A load absorbing system that may include a rotor blade retention system is provided. The load absorbing system may include a block, a first retainer plate, and a deformable core. The block may be selectively positioned alongside a dovetail groove. The block may have a first face directed away from the blade root and an axially-spaced second face directed toward the blade root. The first retainer plate may be attached to the second face of the block and axially positioned between the block and the axially-directed surface of the blade root. The deformable core may be positioned between the block and the first retainer plate. |
| US10371157B2 |
Smart fan and method for controlling the same
A method for controlling rotational speed applied to a smart fan includes acquiring environmental temperature from a temperature sensor and radiation intensity of human body from an infrared sensor. A result of analysis is generated by determining whether the acquired environmental temperature is within a predetermined temperature range and the acquired radiation intensity is greater than a predetermined value. A working status of the smart fan can be changed according to the result when the smart fan is in automatic mode. |
| US10371155B2 |
Fan assembly having a rotatingly drive hub
The invention relates to a fan assembly having a rotatingly driven hub (7) and fan blades (10) which can be pivoted relative to the hub body (29). The fan blades (10) are adjusted by means of a linear drive in the form of a spindle drive (13) or a piston drive (52). |
| US10371152B2 |
Alternating pump gaps
A blood pump system includes a pump housing and an impeller for rotating in a pump chamber within the housing. The impeller has a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The system includes a stator having drive coils for applying a torque to the impeller and at least one bearing mechanism for suspending the impeller within the pump chamber. The system includes a position control mechanism for moving the impeller in an axial direction within the pump chamber to adjust a size of a first gap and a size of a second gap, thereby controlling a washout rate at each of the first gap and the second gap. The first gap is defined by a distance between the first side and the housing and the second gap is defined by a distance between the second side and the pump housing. |
| US10371149B2 |
Screw compressor element
A screw compressor element with a housing and two screw rotors that are affixed in the housing in a double cylindrical chamber provided to this end, whereby the housing is provided with an inlet opening on the inlet side of the screw compressor element, whereby the inlet opening extends in the cylindrical walls of the double cylindrical chamber with at least a section that extends in an axial direction, and a transverse section connecting thereto in the form of a strip that extends from the axial section on the inlet side to a side of the section in a direction transverse to the axial direction. |
| US10371148B2 |
Vacuum pump
An automotive vacuum pump includes a casing defining a cavity, the casing having an inlet and an outlet, wherein the cavity contains a rotor extending through a side of the casing to the exterior thereof and being provided with a coupling arrangement to couple the rotor to a drive member. The vacuum pump is provided with a lubrication conduit for the supply of lubricating fluid to the coupling arrangement from within the vacuum pump. |
| US10371143B2 |
System and method for health determination of a machine component
A system for determining health of a component is provided. The system includes an operational parameter module associated with the component and in communication with a controller. The controller is configured to receive an operating parameter signal from the operational parameter module. The controller is configured to monitor a change of the operating parameter over a predetermined time period. The controller is configured to compare the monitored operating parameter with a first predetermined threshold. The controller is configured to determine a rate of change of the monitored operating parameter over the predetermined time period. The controller is also configured to compare the determined rate of change with a second predetermined threshold. The controller is further configured to determine the health of the component based, at least in part, on the comparisons with the first and second predetermined thresholds respectively and one or more additional parameters associated with the component. |
| US10371132B2 |
Reciprocating pump and transmission assembly having a one-way clutch
A reciprocating pump and transmission assembly having a one-way clutch is disclosed. The transmission includes an input shaft with an eccentric element, a drive link rotatably connected at one end to the eccentric element and at the other to a driven arm. The driven arm is connected to a driven shaft via a one-way clutch. The oscillating motion of the eccentric drives the drive link and driven arm and the one-way clutch translates that motion into incremental motion of the driven shaft. By changing the stroke length of the drive link various gear ratios between the drive shaft and driven shaft are achieved. The driven shaft then uses a mechanism such as a Scotch Yoke to create reciprocating motion to drive one or more pumping elements. |
| US10371129B2 |
Semiconductor device and sensor system
A sensor system that does not require wiring connection is provided. The sensor system includes a power generator, a power storage device, a wireless device, a sensing device, and a power switch (PSW). Data is transmitted and received wirelessly. Energy harvesting with vibration or the like is used as a power source, and supply of power to an unused portion of the PSW is stopped. |
| US10371127B1 |
System and methods for using two refrigerants in a mechanical advantage system and recycling heat
Heat is collected by tributary canals formed by the space bounded by the rafters of the roof and by a thermally insulated panel at the bottom and by the roof at the top. The tributary cannels collect and concentrate solar energy that has penetrated the roof. The heat is collected by a plurality of tributary canals, in which solar heat is absorbed. The tributary canals are positioned substantially parallel with a building roofs slope such that the higher ends of the tributary canals are in the proximity of the ridge board of the roof at which a mainstream duct collects hot air arriving through the higher ends of the tributary canals. At the end of the mainstream duct an evaporator box for housing an evaporator is placed with a fan that pulls the hot air from the tributary canals and into the mainstream duct and pushes it onto an evaporator. |