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| US10626920B1 |
Angular contact and purely axial bearings with anti-friction separators
An anti-friction bearing includes a pair of rotatable tracks, a pair of extension members removably securely mounted to one of the pair of tracks, spaced load-carrying rolling members rotatably engageable between the two tracks, and individual spacers disposed to roll on the surfaces of the pair of extensions members. Each of the individual spacers is engageable with and cooperatively separates an adjacent pair of the rolling elements. All of the components of the bearing are disposed in corresponding pure rolling contact, i.e., without sliding, relative one another. |
| US10626916B2 |
Wing foil bearings and methods of manufacturing same
A wing foil bearing may include one or more wing or tab foil layers. A tab foil layer may comprise a thin material with a two-dimensional array of tab shapes. A tab shape may be defined by a boundary of material separated from the thin material and having an integral edge and a free edge. Tab shapes may include one or more free-state bends relative to the thin material, forming a two-dimensional array of cantilever wings or tabs. Tab arrays may be one or more of various types or two-dimensional arrays, and a tab foil layer may include additional tab arrays and tabs. One or more tab foil layers may be engaged with a mounting surface layer and a counter-surface layer to form a wing foil bearing. Tab foil layers may be stacked and or nested, including partial nesting and complete nesting. |
| US10626913B2 |
Ball joint device for a turbine engine
The ball joint device (10) for suspending a turbine engine from a strut or suspending equipment on the body of a turbine engine. Said device comprises a first member (12), one end of which carries a ball joint (14) and is interposed between the two lugs (16, 17) of a second member (18), the ball joint comprising a bore (28) for the passage of a shaft (30), the ends of which shaft pass through openings (20, 22) in the lugs. A first (16) of the lugs comprises or carries first means for axially holding the shaft on the side opposite the ball joint, which means comprise a cover (52, 52′), and a second (17) of the lugs comprises or carries second means (38) for axially holding the shaft on the side opposite the ball joint. The device further comprises a resilient member (62, 62′) that is deformable under compression and is held by the cover, said resilient member (62, 62′) being designed to bias a support element (40), through which the shaft passes and which is in axial abutment on the ball joint (14), axially in a direction away from the cover. |
| US10626911B1 |
Connecting rod
A connecting rod of an example in the present disclosure is divided into a rod body and a cap at an oblique division at a large end, the rod body and the cap fastened by bolts. The connecting rod includes a joining plane and first and second restricting parts. The joining plane is a flat joining surface parallel to the division surface of the large end and is formed on at least one of two abutting portions on which the rod body and the cap join. The first and second restricting parts restrict lateral deviations of the rod body in first and second directions with respect to the cap, respectively. The first and second directions are opposite directions. Each of the first and second restricting parts restricts the lateral deviations by a single set of first or second opposing surface provided between the rod body and the cap. |
| US10626905B1 |
Shelving assembly
A shelving assembly includes at least one first post having an L-shaped section and including first apertures, two connection members at first ends respectively, and a retainer disposed on an outer surface of each connection member and including a neck and an enlarged head. A second post has an L-shaped section and includes second apertures and two T-shaped aperture members at second ends respectively. A size of the aperture member is greater than a diameter of the head. A length of the aperture member is at least 1.5 times of a diameter of the head. A width of a vertical part of the aperture member is greater than a diameter of the neck and smaller than the diameter of the head. The retainer passes through the aperture member to lock the neck in the vertical part, thereby joining the first and second posts. |
| US10626903B2 |
Steel part
A formed steel part includes a first steel plate having a first base, a first intermetallic alloy layer on the first base and a first metal alloy layer on the first intermetallic alloy layer, the first steel part having a first area without the first metal alloy layer and having at least part of the first intermetallic alloy layer; and a second steel plate having a second base, a second intermetallic alloy layer on the second base and a second metal alloy layer on the second intermetallic alloy layer, the second steel part having a second area without the second metal alloy layer and having at least part of the second intermetallic alloy layer in the second area. The first and second steel plates are joined together. The formed steel part may also include a butt-weld joining the first and second steel plates. |
| US10626901B2 |
Collapsible planar board apparatus
An apparatus to expand and collapse planar board provided. The apparatus includes two planar boards and provides resistance to expansion and collapse. |
| US10626899B2 |
Clamping fixture
A clamping fixture includes a body, a connector, a first clasp, at least one first elastic member and a lock. The connector is movable relative to the body along a first direction. The first clasp includes a first fastener and is disposed at one end of the connector. The at least one first elastic member is configured to apply force to the body and the connector along the first direction. The lock includes a second fastener. The first clasp and the lock are coupled through the first fastener and the second fastener. |
| US10626893B2 |
Hydraulic cylinder
A hydraulic cylinder includes a cylinder tube, a piston, a piston rod, a bearing, and a seal, wherein the seal is configured to allow the flow of the operating liquid from the rod side chamber toward the anti-rode side chamber through the through passage when the pressure in the rod side chamber is higher than the pressure in the anti-rod side chamber. |
| US10626891B2 |
Hydraulic block
A hydraulic block includes multiple pairs of actuator ports connectable to a hydraulic actuator and a discharge oil passage for discharging work oil returned from the hydraulic actuator to the outside. The charge oil passage includes a first oil passage corresponding to a predetermined actuator port of all the actuator ports and a second oil passage corresponding to non-predetermined actuator ports other than the predetermined actuator ports. The first oil passage is disposed in parallel with the second oil passage. |
| US10626885B2 |
Fan and mounting bracket for an air mover
An air mover comprising a housing with a top portion is disclosed. A mounting bracket is recessed into the housing through the top portion of the housing. The mounting bracket comprises a plurality of top chords intersecting at a first portion of an inner web and a plurality of bottom chords intersecting at a second portion of the inner web. The mounting bracket also has a base plate coupled to the plurality of bottom chords. A motor is coupled to the base plate of the mounting bracket. An impeller is coupled to the motor. The air mover further comprises a housing cover that has an inlet ring positioned on the top portion of the housing. The housing cover is coupled to the mounting bracket via the mounting flanges and a portion of the inlet ring protrudes into the impeller inlet inside the housing. |
| US10626884B2 |
Systems and methods for making airfoils
A method of making a fan blade may include the steps of forming a core comprising fibrous material, and placing a first layer of dry fiber tows over the core using a robot. The first layer of dry fiber tows may be substantially un-crimped and may have a thermoplastic coating. A second layer of dry fiber tows may be placed over the first layer of dry fiber tows using the robot. The second layer may be un-crimped and coated similar to the first layer. The core, the first layer, and the second layer may be molded using resin transfer molding. The first layer may be placed over the core in a curved configuration. The core may include a three-dimensionally woven core formed on a loom and/or a plurality of layers of dry fiber tows placed by the robot. |
| US10626883B2 |
Systems and methods for making blade sheaths
A method of making a sheath for an airfoil may include the steps of forming an upper sleeve and a lower sleeve, and forming a central portion bonded to the upper sleeve and the lower sleeve. The central portion may be formed by depositing a material on the upper sleeve and the lower sleeve. A portion of the material may be removed from at least one of the central portion, the upper sleeve, or the lower sleeve. The sheath may include a first flank, a central portion bonded to the first flank, and a second flank bonded to the central portion. The central portion may have a substantially uniform microstructure resulting from additive manufacturing. |
| US10626879B2 |
Gas turbine engine with mid-compressor bleed
A gas turbine engine for an aircraft includes a fan section, a turbine section, a compressor section, and an engine bleed system. The compressor section includes a low compressor stage proximate to the fan section, a high compressor stage axially downstream from the low compressor stage and proximate to the turbine section, and a mid-compressor stage including variable vane assemblies distributed axially between the low and high compressor stage. The engine bleed system includes engine bleed taps with a mid-compressor bleed tap axially between two of the variable vane assemblies, at least one low stage bleed tap axially upstream from the mid-compressor bleed tap, and at least one high stage bleed tap axially downstream from the mid-compressor bleed tap. An external manifold is in pneumatic communication with the mid-compressor bleed tap. A valve system can select one engine bleed tap as a bleed air source for an aircraft use. |
| US10626875B2 |
Portable wrist fan
A wrist fan assembly comprises a band, a bendable telescopic rod and a fan housing. The telescopic rod is attached to the band and the fan housing at each end and provides adjusting means to the fan. The fan housing includes propeller assembly having foam blades and motor connected to the power source. The wrist fan assembly is lightweight and comfortable for daily use. |
| US10626871B2 |
Centrifugal pump with integrated axial flux permanent magnet motor
A pump system comprises a fluid housing, a permanent magnet rotor, and an electric stator. The fluid housing has an axis, an axial inlet, and a radially outer outlet. The permanent magnet rotor is disposed on the axis, within the fluid housing, and has a plurality of perimetrically distributed fins that extend at least partly radially outward. The electric stator is disposed on the axis and within the fluid housing, and is situated adjacent the impeller fins of the permanent magnet rotor, separated from the impeller fins by an axial gap. |
| US10626864B2 |
Pressurised fluid driven diaphragm pump assembly
A pump assembly (10) that is provided with compressed air to drive the pump. The pump assembly (10) includes a pair of chambers (11, 12), with each of the chambers (11, 12) being divided into sub-chambers (13, 14 and 15, 16). A piston assembly (17) divides the chamber (11) into sub-chambers (13 and 14), while a second piston assembly (18) divides the chamber (12) into sub-chambers (15 and 16). |
| US10626861B2 |
Blower
A piezoelectric blower includes a housing, top plate, side plate, vibrating plate, piezoelectric element, and cap. The top plate, side plate, and vibrating plate define a blower chamber. The top plate includes a vent hole. The vibrating plate and piezoelectric element constitutes a piezoelectric actuator. The cap includes a wall portion facing the piezoelectric actuator and has a disc-shaped suction port. Here, a central axis of the suction port extending along a thickness direction of the wall portion and a central axis of the piezoelectric element extending along the thickness direction of the wall portion do not coincide with each other. An air channel is provided among the housing, the cap, and a joined structure of the top plate, side plate, and piezoelectric actuator. |
| US10626859B2 |
Linear compressor and refrigerator including a linear compressor
A linear compressor and a refrigerator including a linear compressor are provided. The linear compressor may include a compressor casing connected to each of a suction inlet, through which a refrigerant may be introduced, and a discharge outlet, through which the refrigerant may be discharged, a compressor body mounted within the compressor casing, within which the refrigerant suctioned in through the suction inlet may be compressed due to a linear reciprocating motion of a piston in an axial direction of the compressor casing and discharged into the discharge outlet, and at least one plate spring disposed on each end of the compressor body in the axial direction. |
| US10626858B2 |
Fluid machinery, heat exchange equipment, and operating method for fluid machinery
A fluid machinery, a heat exchange equipment, and an operating method for the fluid machinery. The fluid machinery includes: an upper flange (50); a lower flange (60); a cylinder (20); a rotating shaft (10), the axis of the rotating shaft (10) being eccentric to the axis of the cylinder (20) and at a fixed eccentric distance; and a piston component (30), the piston component (30) being provided with a variable volume cavity (31). Because the eccentric distance between the rotating shaft (10) and the cylinder (20) is fixed, the rotating shaft (10) and the cylinder (20) rotate around the respective axes thereof during motion, and the position of the center of mass remains unchanged, so that the piston component is allowed to rotate stably and continuously when moving within the cylinder (20); and vibration of the fluid machinery is effectively mitigated. |
| US10626855B2 |
Liquid lifting device
Lifting device (10) for vertically lifting liquids, where the lifting device (10) comprises: a lifting line arrangement (18) for guiding a liquid from an open lower reservoir (16) to an upper reservoir (14); a lowering line arrangement (20) for guiding the liquid from the upper reservoir (14) to the lower reservoir (16); a pressure converter (12) with an actuating member (36), the pressure converter (12) being configured to convert a liquid pressure in the lowering line arrangement (20) into a liquid pressure in the lifting line arrangement (18) by means of a substantially linear movement of the actuating member (36); and a pump member (38) for pumping the liquid in the lifting line arrangement (18) towards the upper reservoir (14) and/or for pumping the liquid in the lowering line arrangement (20) towards the pressure converter (12). |
| US10626847B2 |
Method for manufacturing a wind turbine rotor blade root section with pultruded rods and associated wind turbine blade
A method for manufacturing a root section of a wind turbine blade includes assembling a mold having an inner cylinder segment, an outer cylinder segment, and a bottom flange, wherein a radial space is defined between the inner and outer cylinders. Root hub connectors are attached circumferentially around the bottom flange so that the root hub connectors extend axially into the radial space. A first cartridge of pultruded rods is loaded into the space, wherein the first cartridge includes a plurality of first pultruded rods arranged adjacent to the inner cylinder segment. The space is sealed, for example with a lid or top flange, and the space is evacuated. A resin is infused into the space so that the resin migrates through the radial space between the pultruded rods, and is then cured. The root section is then removed from the mold. A wind turbine blade root section formed by the method is encompassed by the invention. |
| US10626842B2 |
Laser device, ignition device, and internal combustion engine
A laser device includes a light source device including a semiconductor laser; and a laser cavity irradiated with light from the light source device and including a saturable absorber. A beam waist diameter r of the light that irradiates the laser cavity and an initial transmittance T0 of the saturable absorber satisfy a relationship of 7.75×T04−7.77×T03+3.13×T02+0.16×T0+0.74≤r≤2.62×T0+0.675. |
| US10626841B2 |
Winding plan for a transformer of a step-up converter and ignition system for supplying a spark gap of an internal combustion engine with electrical power
A step-up converter and an ignition system including a step-up converter are provided, which enable a better automated manufacture and reduced electrical insulation measures by a step-up converter constructed as follows: a transformer including a primary coil and a secondary coil galvanically isolated from the primary coil, the secondary coil being wound in multiple layers, and the primary coil being wound coaxially to the secondary coil over an outermost layer of the secondary coil, a first electrical terminal of the secondary coil branching off from an innermost layer of the secondary coil. The first electrical terminal of the secondary coil is configured for electrical connection to a high-voltage terminal for the spark gap. |
| US10626837B1 |
System for supplying electrical power to start vehicle engines
A protection circuit for protecting an energy storage device includes a first circuit region between a first terminal of the energy storage device and a first connector node, a second circuit region between a second terminal of the energy storage device and a second connector node, a latching circuit to electrically couple the first connector node to the first terminal of the energy storage device when the latching circuit is in a closed configuration, and a contactor circuit electrically coupled to an operational switch of the latching circuit, the contactor circuit comprising a capacitor to store charge and a microcontroller to monitor an electrical property of the energy storage device to determine if a short circuit occurs and, if a short circuit does occur, cause the capacitor to discharge to the operational switch of the latching circuit to cause the latching circuit to transition to the open configuration. |
| US10626834B2 |
Fuel injector for an internal combustion engine
A vehicle component includes a surface that is configured to contact a fuel containing ethanol and zinc ions. A sacrificial carbon layer is disposed on the surface. The sacrificial carbon layer has a thickness of greater than or equal to about 250 nm to less than or equal to about 5 μm. The sacrificial carbon layer includes carbon that is configured to complex and solubilize ZnO deposited on the surface, wherein the ZnO forms from the zinc ions carried by the fuel. |
| US10626832B2 |
Fluid delivery port of an integral intake manifold
An engine component includes a tubular member, of stratified layers, curved on both ends and comprising outwardly protruded nozzles located on one side. Each of the nozzles comprising an elongated body and a tip defining apertures. The tubular member forms a nitrous oxide delivery apparatus configured to increase an internal combustion engine's power output and is located in a cavity of an intake manifold such that there is no seal between the member and the manifold. |
| US10626828B2 |
Exhaust gas control valve of engine
An exhaust gas control valve of an engine, which includes a plurality of engine exhausts ports, a catalytic converter, a plurality of combustion chambers, and an Exhaust Gas Recirculation (EGR) line, includes: a valve body having an inflow port communicating with only some of the plurality of engine exhaust ports, an exhaust port communicating with the catalytic converter and a recirculation port communicating with the EGR line; and a valve flap assembly rotatably installed at the valve body to block one of the exhaust port and the recirculation port while opening the other of the exhaust port and the recirculation port. |
| US10626827B2 |
Vehicle control device
A vehicle control device controls a vehicle that includes an actuator capable of generating a gas flow at a scavenging target portion of an internal combustion engine during an engine stop. The vehicle control device is configured, when at least one of a specified temperature condition and a specified humidity condition is met after the engine stop, to execute a scavenging control. The specified temperature condition is that, after the engine stop, a temperature correlation value correlated with the temperature of the scavenging target portion is higher than that at the engine stop time point. The specified humidity condition is that, after the engine stop, a humidity correlation value correlated with the absolute humidity of the gas at the scavenging target portion is higher than that at the engine stop time point. The scavenging control operates the actuator to cause the gas flow at the scavenging target portion. |
| US10626818B2 |
Control device for internal combustion engine
A control device for an internal combustion engine includes an electronic control unit configured to perform dither control processing for controlling the fuel injection valve based on a requested injection amount such that a part of cylinders among a plurality of cylinders becomes a lean combustion cylinder and cylinders different from the part of cylinders among the cylinders become a rich combustion cylinder, and restriction processing for, in a case where the requested injection amount is equal to or greater than a first injection amount, making no restriction on the dither control processing, and in a case where the requested injection amount is within a second injection amount range of an injection amount smaller than the first injection amount, restricting the dither control processing to a side where a leaning degree of an air-fuel ratio of a cylinder having a leanest air-fuel ratio among the cylinders decreases. |
| US10626817B1 |
Control and tuning of gas turbine combustion
A system that includes: a gas turbine having a combustion system; a control system operably connected to the gas turbine for controlling an operation thereof; and a combustion auto-tuner, which is communicatively linked to the control system, that includes an optimization system having an empirical model of the combustion system and an optimizer; sensors configured to measure the inputs and outputs of the combustion system; a hardware processor; and machine-readable storage medium on which is stored instructions that cause the hardware processor to execute a tuning process for tuning the operation of the combustion system. The tuning process includes the steps of: receiving current measurements from the sensors for the inputs and outputs; given the current measurements received from the sensors, using the optimization system to calculate an optimized control solution for the combustion system; and communicating the optimized control solution to the control system. |
| US10626813B2 |
System and method for controlling engine knock
Systems and methods for controlling knock in an internal combustion engine are presented. In one example, spark timing is retarded in engine cylinders where engine knock is indicated and spark is subsequently advanced after it has been retarded. The rate spark timing is advanced may be based on a way engine cylinders have been deactivated. |
| US10626809B2 |
Engine device
An engine device includes a main throttle valve disposed at a portion where an outlet of a supercharger and an inlet of an intercooler are coupled to each other, an exhaust bypass flow path configured to couple an outlet of an exhaust manifold to an exhaust outlet of the supercharger, an exhaust bypass valve disposed in the exhaust bypass flow path, an air supply bypass flow path configured to bypass a compressor of the supercharger, and an air supply bypass valve disposed in the air supply bypass flow path. Within a low load range of a load on the engine device, when the load is lower than a predetermined load, feedback control is performed on the main throttle valve, and when the load is higher than the predetermined load, map control based on a data table is performed on the main throttle valve. |
| US10626808B2 |
Controlling fuel injection in an internal combustion engine
Various embodiments include a method for controlling an internal combustion engine comprising: determining a speed of the internal combustion engine; determining a cylinder wall temperature of a combustion cylinder of the internal combustion engine; selecting an injection mode based at least in part on the speed and the cylinder wall temperature; and actuating a fuel injector associated with the combustion cylinder based on the selected injection mode. |
| US10626803B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling and monitoring an electro-hydraulic servovalve
A method for actively calculating a capability of an electronically controlled valve is provided. The method including the steps of: a) operating the electronically controlled valve in accordance with a task; b) testing the electronically controlled valve in order to determine a range of movement of the electronically controlled valve in accordance with an initial gain, wherein the testing of the electronically controlled valve occurs after the valve has been operated in accordance with the task; c) determining a new gain required for providing a predetermined range of movement of the electronically controlled valve; and d) repeating steps a-c at least once, wherein the new gain is used to operate the valve in accordance with the task. |
| US10626801B2 |
Methods and apparatus to adjust bleed ports on an aircraft engine
An example method to extract bleed air from an aircraft engine includes extracting, via a plenum positioned in a compressor of the aircraft engine, bleed air from a first bleed port associated with a first stage of a compressor and a second bleed port associated with a second stage of the compressor. The plenum is configured to combine the extracted bleed air from the first and second bleed ports and fluidly couple the extracted bleed air to one or more systems of an aircraft. The method includes regulating a pressure of the extracted bleed air in the plenum by adjusting a flow of bleed air through the first bleed port via a first valve associated with the first bleed port and adjusting a flow of bleed air through the second port via a second valve associated with the second bleed port. |
| US10626799B2 |
Flexible acoustic honeycomb
Acoustic structures in which acoustic septa are located in the cells of a honeycomb for reducing the noise generated from a source. The honeycomb used to form the acoustic structure has walls that contain convex and concave contours which make the honeycomb flexible. The acoustic septa are formed by inserting planar acoustic inserts into the honeycomb cells to form a septum cap which is friction-locked within the cell and then permanently bonded in place. The planar acoustic septum is configured to match the unique shape of the cell contours to provide desired friction-locking when inserted into the cells and desired acoustic properties after being permanently bonded in place. |
| US10626797B2 |
Turbine engine compressor with a cooling circuit
A compressor for a turbine engine comprises radially spaced inner and outer bands defining a flow path between them, at least one vane extending between the inner and outer bands, a seal adjacent the inner band, and a cooling air circuit through the inner band proximate the seal. |
| US10626793B2 |
Internal pressure driven engine
An internal combustion engine or other internal pressure driven engine of the type capable of converting reciprocal linear powered motion into unidirectional rotary motion, the engine having at least one pair of first and second cylinders with each cylinder having a pair of opposed pistons therein forming a pressure chamber therebetween. Outer ends of each piston carries a piston rod connected to a pivot arm of a respective one way clutch which causes the clutch to oscillate back and forth when the piston moves in and out due to pressure or combustion in the pressure chamber. Alternatively, the piston rods may be configured as gear racks in direct operative engagement with pinion gears of the one way clutches. The clutches are parallel and spaced apart from each other near each end of the cylinders. Each clutch carries a gear on one end which intermeshes with a gear rack assembly having gears and a gear rack which drives a crankshaft and auxiliary flywheel operatively connected to a starter. Once the starter is turned on the kinetic energy of the flywheel and gear rack keeps the on/off clutches in continuous oscillation. The oscillating clutches turn unidirectional drive shafts connected through pinion gears to a main output shaft and main flywheel. |
| US10626792B2 |
High-performance internal combustion engine
A high-performance internal combustion engine includes: a crankshaft chamber; at least two cylinder chambers; a crankshaft linkage mechanism, disposed in the crankshaft chamber; at least two pistons, connected to the crankshaft linkage mechanism and accommodated in the cylinder chambers; an inlet pipe, only communicated with the crankshaft chamber; at least two flow guiding pipes, having one end thereof only communicated with the crankshaft chamber and another end thereof only communicated with the cylinder chamber; and a check valve unit, including a check valve disposed at a connecting location of the inlet pipe and the crankshaft chamber, and two first switch valves disposed at connecting locations of the flow guiding pipes and the cylinder chambers. Accordingly, the working efficiency of the high-performance internal combustion engine can be increased. |
| US10626791B2 |
Variable compression ratio engine
A variable compression ratio engine comprises a stationary engine block in which movable members interact to enable a piston to translate in a combustion cylinder of the engine block, defining a stroke of the combustion piston. The engine further comprises a self-contained device for adjusting a position of a top dead center of the combustion piston, the self-contained device being connected to or built into at least one of the movable members and having a high-pressure hydraulic chamber to counteract the combustion and inertial forces at a bottom dead center, a low-pressure hydraulic chamber to counteract the inertial forces at the top dead center, at least one calibrated conduit to enable hydraulic fluid to flow between the high- and low-pressure hydraulic chambers, and return means to bring the device back to a nominal position. |
| US10626790B2 |
Catalytic biogas combined heat and power generator
A distributed Biogas Combined Heat and Power (CHP) Generator can provide automatically hot water and electricity for local applications. Since biogas is produced by an anaerobic digester from human, animal, kitchen and agriculture's wastes, it is a short term recycled product from the photosynthesis of CO2, and has a net zero carbon emission. The sulfur compounds in the biogas can be removed by the following steps: (1), converting all sulfur compounds into H2S by the hydrogen produced from the biogas over Pt group metal catalysts; (2). adsorbing the H2S at high temperature by the regenerable Pt group metal catalyst and adsorbents. The desulfurized biogas is further converted by an ATR/CPO reformer or a steam generating reformer to produce various reformates, which can be connected to a downstream 1C engine/gas turbine, and/or a steam turbine to drive electric generators for generating electricity. The hot reformate and the exhaust gases can be cooled in heat exchangers to produce hot water/hot air. |
| US10626789B2 |
Two-stage valve assembly for turbocharger
A two-stage valve assembly for a turbocharger includes a movable primary valve adapted to open and close a valve seat of the turbocharger. The primary valve has at least one opening extending axially therethrough. The two-stage valve assembly also includes a movable secondary valve coupled to the primary valve to open and close the at least one opening of the primary valve. The two-stage valve assembly further includes a spring disposed between the primary valve and the secondary valve to seat the secondary valve against the primary valve. The secondary valve is adapted to be coupled to a valve arm of the turbocharger such that relative small movement of the valve arm causes the secondary valve to move and open the opening to allow some exhaust gas of the turbocharger to escape through the at least one opening without moving the primary valve relative to the valve seat. |
| US10626788B2 |
Methods and structure for reducing losses in 90 degree waste gates for turbochargers
A turbocharger (10) has an improved wastegate valve assembly (45) wherein a port-controlling valve body (44) includes flow formations which serve to reduce exhaust gas flow in non-optimal directions transverse to an optimal flow direction in the direction of a wastegate passage (26). These flow formations serve to optimize or maximize the flow of exhaust gas in the optimal or primary flow direction as the exhaust gas flow turns through a turn angle (47) from an inlet direction (29) to the optimal flow direction. |
| US10626784B2 |
Rotary type valve device
A rotary type valve device includes a rotor having an internal passage and an opening portion which opens to an outer contour surface, a housing which supports the rotor to be rotatable and defines an axial passage communicating with the internal passage and a radial passage facing the outer contour surface and capable of communicate with the opening portion, a passage member disposed in the housing to define a part of the radial passage, and an annular seal member which seals a predetermined second clearance defined between the passage member and the housing, wherein the passage member includes an annular contact portion which is pressed so as to be in close contact with the outer contour surface by a pressure of a fluid flowing from the axial passage, and a pressed portion pressed by the pressure of the fluid flowing from the radial passage through the annular seal member. |
| US10626781B2 |
Exhaust device of engine
A downstream-side heat insulating material which is provided at a side face of a GPF which is positioned on a downstream side, in an exhaust-gas flowing direction, of plural in-line arranged catalysts has a first opening portion and a second opening portion which are provided for attaching supporting members. |
| US10626779B2 |
Method and system for improving diagnosis of a catalyst
Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing operation of a catalyst in the presence of oxygen sensor degradation over a vehicle life cycle. The methods and systems described herein filter the output of one oxygen sensor according to a time constant of a different oxygen sensor so that determination of a catalyst index ratio is compensated for oxygen sensor degradation. |
| US10626774B2 |
Exhaust aftertreatment device for a motor vehicle
An exhaust gas aftertreatment device for a motor vehicle has an exhaust pipe and a mixing chamber arranged in the exhaust pipe to mix an exhaust gas stream with a reducing agent which can be introduced into the mixing chamber by a dosing device. The mixing chamber has a wall which is on the input side as viewed in a main flow direction of the exhaust gas stream through the exhaust pipe and in which a first inlet for the exhaust gas is formed. The first inlet extends in some regions in a lateral surface region of the input-side wall such that exhaust gas entering the mixing chamber through the first inlet can be set in a rotating motion inside the mixing chamber. The dosing device has an outlet device where a longitudinal axis of the outlet device is inclined towards the main flow direction of the exhaust gas stream. |
| US10626773B2 |
Mix box
A mix box for an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine, the mix box being used to incorporate additives into an exhaust gas flow and including at least one inlet tube, at least one outlet tube and a housing for accommodating the inlet tube and the outlet tube, wherein: the housing delimits a volume of the mix box in relation to the surroundings; the inlet tube has an inflow section located inside the housing, which inflow section is provided with at least one inflow opening for introducing the exhaust gas into the housing; the outlet tube has a metering device designed as an injection nozzle at the end of the outlet tube and has an outflow section located inside the housing, which outflow section has a length (La) and is provided with at least one outflow opening for discharging the exhaust gas from the housing; a flow zone is provided between the inlet tube and the outlet tube and the flow zone, over at least 30% of its length (La), is free of flow guiding elements which deflect the flow in a circumferential direction and which have an outer face and an inner face inside the volume. |
| US10626770B2 |
Heat cover device of catalytic converter for vehicle
A heat cover device of a catalytic converter for a vehicle may include a shell of the catalytic converter, and a heat cover including a left cover and a right cover that are secured to an external surface of the shell, wherein each of the left cover and the right cover includes a support cover portion which is open outwards and then exert an elastic restoring force inwards after being open outwards, and a close-contact cover portion which is circular-arc shaped to be in contact with the external surface of the shell and integrally extends to both end portions of the support cover portion to be tightly fitted and secured to the external surface of the shell due to the elastic restoring force. |
| US10626769B2 |
Exhaust treatment system and method for treatment of an exhaust stream
An exhaust treatment system comprising: a first dosage device, arranged to supply a first additive into said exhaust stream; a first reduction catalyst device, downstream of said first dosage device arranged for reduction of nitrogen oxides in said exhaust stream through the use of said first additive; a particulate filter, at least partly comprising a catalytically oxidizing coating, which is downstream of said first reduction catalyst device to catch soot particles, and to oxidize one or several of nitrogen oxide and incompletely oxidized carbon compounds in said exhaust stream; a second dosage device, downstream of said particulate filter to supply a second additive into said exhaust stream; and a second reduction catalyst device, downstream of said second dosage device for a reduction of nitrogen oxides in said exhaust stream, with the use of at least one of said first and said second additive. |
| US10626766B2 |
Gaseous emissions treatment system with enhanced induction heating and method of use
A gaseous emissions treatment system includes an emissions control substrate having a plurality of passages to facilitate a catalytic reaction in an exhaust gas from an internal combustion engine. A magnetic field generator responds to a control signal by generating a varying magnetic field to inductively heat the emission control substrate. A magnetic field concentrator is configured and positioned to increase the radiated varying magnetic field in a region on the same side of the magnetic field concentrator as the emissions control substrate. The magnetic field concentrator also acts as a shield to reduce the radiated varying magnetic field in a region on the distal side of the magnetic field concentrator from the emissions control substrate. |
| US10626762B2 |
Valve opening/closing timing control device
A valve opening/closing timing control device that sets a relative rotation phase between a driving-side rotating body and a driven-side rotating body using a driving force of an electric actuator is compactly configured. The device is provided with: a first bearing disposed between an inner periphery of the driven-side rotating body and an eccentric member; a second bearing disposed between the eccentric member and an input gear on a side of the first bearing away from a camshaft in a direction along a rotational axis; and a front plate fixed to the driving-side rotating body on a side of the second bearing away from the camshaft. An Oldham coupling is disposed on the side away from the camshaft of both the first bearing and the second bearing in the direction along the rotational axis. |
| US10626761B1 |
Camshaft phaser
A camshaft phaser includes an input member connectable to the crankshaft of an engine; an output member connectable to a camshaft of the engine and defining an advance chamber and a retard chamber with the input member. A valve spool is moveable between an advance position and a retard position and includes a valve spool bore extending thereinto. An insert within the valve spool bore and carries a check valve. The check valve includes a check valve member which moves between a seated position and an unseated position. The check valve also includes a check valve positioning member which is held in compression against an inner periphery of the valve spool bore such that compression of the check valve positioning member holds the check valve in contact with the insert. |
| US10626755B2 |
Systems and methods for turbine system operation in low ambient temperatures
A system includes a controller communicatively coupled to a compressor. The controller is configured to sense an exhaust temperature of a gas turbine system fluidly coupled to the compressor and derive a setpoint based on the sensed exhaust temperature. The controller is also configured to actuate an inlet bleed heat valve based on the derived setpoint and an ambient temperature. The inlet bleed heat valve directs a compressor fluid from the compressor into a fluid intake system fluidly coupled to the compressor upstream of the compressor and configured to intake a fluid. |
| US10626754B2 |
Compression device
A compression device is equipped with a compressor (102) and a heat energy recovery unit (200) that recovers heat energy from a compressed gas. The heat energy recovery unit (200) is equipped with: a heat exchanger (202) that has an inflow port (202a), and that heats an operating medium by means of the heat from the compressed gas; an expansion device (210); a power recovery unit (212); a condenser (214); and a pump (222). The heat exchanger (202) is arranged closer to the compressor (102) than the expansion device (210), and is oriented such that the inflow port (202a) faces the compressor (102). |
| US10626747B2 |
Variable vane actuation arrangement
There is disclosed a variable vane actuation arrangement 100, 200 comprising a crankshaft 48, 148 comprising a crank web 50,150 and a unison ring assembly 45 comprising a unison ring 34 moveable to vary the pitch of a plurality of variable vanes 26. A connector 42 is fixed with respect to the unison ring 34. The crank web 50, 150 and the connector 42 cooperate by a pin 56—slot 52, 152 mechanism configured so that rotation of the crankshaft 48, 148 causes rotation of the unison ring 34. There is further disclosed a gas turbine engine with a variable vane actuation arrangement. |
| US10626743B2 |
Segmented face seal assembly and an associated method thereof
A turbomachine and a method of operating the turbomachine are disclosed. The turbomachine includes a stator, a rotor including a rotor bearing face, and a face seal assembly including a first segmented seal ring and a second segmented seal ring. The first segmented seal ring includes a plurality of joints and a first flat-contact surface and the second segmented seal ring includes a plurality of segment ends and a second flat-contact surface. One of the first and second segmented seal rings includes a seal bearing face. The second segmented seal ring is coupled to the first segmented seal ring such that the second flat-contact surface is in contact with the first flat-contact surface. The plurality of segment ends is circumferentially offset from the plurality of joints. The first segmented seal ring is slidably coupled to the stator and defines a face seal clearance between the rotor and seal bearing faces. |
| US10626741B2 |
Seal housing pre-taper
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to an apparatus comprising a first section, and a second section coupled to the first section, wherein the second section is configured to substantially coincide with an edge of a seal and includes a pre-tapered edge. |
| US10626730B2 |
Enhanced cooling for blade tip
In a featured embodiment, a gas turbine engine component comprises an airfoil having a leading edge, a trailing edge, and pressure and suction side walls extending from the leading edge to the trailing edge. The airfoil extends from a base to a tip. A shelf is formed in the tip, and extends from the pressure side wall, around the leading edge, to the suction side wall. |
| US10626727B2 |
Turbine bucket for control of wheelspace purge air
Embodiments of the invention relate generally to rotary machines and, more particularly, to the control of wheel space purge air in gas turbines. In one embodiment, the invention provides a turbine bucket comprising: a platform portion; an airfoil extending radially outward from the platform portion; a shank portion extending radially inward from the platform portion; an angel wing extending axially from a face of the shank portion; and a plurality of voids disposed along a length of the angel wing, each of the plurality of voids extending radially through the angel wing. |
| US10626724B1 |
Installation tool for a rock bolt
Disclosed is a rock bolt installation tool for installation of a rock bolt assembly into a predrilled rock hole. The tool includes a drive shaft having a proximal end, which is adapted to engage with a drill rig, and a distal end. A socket in the distal end includes a first containment portion, of a first diameter, which has a base and a second containment portion, of a second diameter, between the first containment portion and the second end. The first containment portion is adapted to receive a nut of the rock bolt assembly. The second containment portion is adapted to receive a load-indicator of the rock bolt assembly. The base and the second end are adapted to provide surfaces against which the nut and a spherical seat of the rock bolt assembly respectively engage to be driven into the rock hole. |
| US10626722B2 |
System and method to increase landfill gas quality for beneficial use
The invention provides a method for efficiently adjusting existing landfill gas well head control devices in a manner which reduces the overall air migration into the landfill's gas collection systems in a short period of time. The method also provides for mapping out hydrogen sulfide concentration areas of landfills; allowing for efficient evaluation and selective reduction of hydrogen sulfide. |
| US10626721B2 |
System and method for controlled pumping in a downhole sampling tool
A downhole tool designed to be disposed in a borehole of a subterranean formation is provided. The downhole tool includes a probe used to interface with the subterranean formation in order to sample fluid from or to inject fluid into the subterranean formation. The downhole tool also includes a sample flowline fluidly coupled to the probe and used to direct fluid through the downhole tool. The downhole tool further includes at least two volume chambers. These volume chambers each include a first side fluidly coupled to the sample flowline, a second side fluidly coupled to the guard flowline, and a piston separating the first side from the second side. The downhole tool is able to control a flow of fluid from a high pressure environment to a low pressure environment via the at least two volume chambers, the sample flowline, and the guard flowline. |
| US10626718B2 |
Modular electro-optic flowmeter system for downhole
A modular sensor system using electro acoustic technology to measure downhole properties, such as flow rate, density and fluid fraction of oil in a production string, is described. Modular sensor assemblies inside a wellbore collect various local fluid parameters at each location. The local fluid parameters are combined to determine the downhole properties. |
| US10626715B2 |
Downhole communication device
A downhole communication tool is provided. The downhole communication tool may include a cylindrical housing, a plurality of ridges, and a plurality of flow control assemblies. The cylindrical housing may have an inner surface, a first end portion, and a second end portion. The inner surface may define a flowbore extending axially between the first and second end portions. The plurality of ridges may extend radially outward from the cylindrical housing between the first and second end portions. Each ridge may have a ridge outer surface and define one or more ports that extend radially between the flowbore and the ridge outer surface. Each flow control assembly may be mounted about a respective port of the one or more ports and include a dissolvable seal member extending across the respective port. Each dissolvable seal member may be configured to prevent fluid communication between the flowbore and a subterranean formation. |
| US10626713B2 |
Rig control system and methods
Apparatus, systems, and methods for controlling activities on a drilling rig are described. The methods include installing a control system operably coupled to the drilling rig and having a user interface, receiving operational guidelines from the user interface that include a plurality of control limits associated with operational parameters of the rig, monitoring current values of the operational parameters, and automatically applying the control limits to the operational parameters during operation of the rig. |
| US10626712B2 |
Systems and methods for positioning horizontal wells within boundaries
Systems and methods for positioning horizontal wells within a limited-pre-defined boundary. The systems and methods include an automated process for creating jointed target pairs or horizontal laterals to be utilized for planning horizontal wells in order to position the horizontal laterals within limited pre-defined boundary(ies). |
| US10626711B1 |
Method of producing hydrocarbon resources using an upper RF heating well and a lower producer/injection well and associated apparatus
A method of producing hydrocarbon resources from a subterranean formation may include heating the subterranean formation with at least one radio frequency (RF) antenna located in an upper well within the subterranean formation. The method may further include producing hydrocarbon resources from a lower well within the heated subterranean formation and vertically beneath the upper well to create a void within the subterranean formation, and injecting a solvent into the void within the heated subterranean formation from the lower well. |
| US10626704B2 |
Intelligent switching valve for reservoir reformation and production monitoring and control and construction method therefor
The present invention relates to an intelligent switching valve for reservoir reformation and production monitoring and control. The intelligent switching valve comprises a connection short section, an electric short section, a fluid storage short section, a hydraulic control short section and a slide sleeve short section. The middle part of the intelligent switching valve is a full bore. In a working process, a casing coupling and a casing are connected and are mounted under the shaft as components of a well cementation casing. Wireless communication with ground equipment is realized through low-frequency electromagnetic waves to finish receiving/transmitting of working instructions and data. The switching valve is opened and closed under electric and hydraulic control and external assisting is not needed in an opening or closing process. The number of times of opening and closing is not limited and the number of stages is not limited. |
| US10626697B2 |
Frac plug with bi-directional gripping elements
A frac plug for use in a wellbore includes an upper mandrel with an axis extending therethrough and a lower mandrel that moves axially along the axis and towards the upper mandrel. The frac plug further includes a sealing element and a grip ring that move radially outward from the axis and into engagement with the wellbore. The grip ring includes a first gripping element positioned at a first rake angle with respect to the axis to prevent upward movement of the grip ring with respect to the wellbore when in gripping engagement with the wellbore, and a second gripping element positioned at a second rake angle with respect to the axis that is different from the first rake angle to prevent downward movement of the grip ring with respect to the wellbore when in gripping engagement with the wellbore. |
| US10626694B2 |
Downhole tool member for hydrocarbon resource recovery
A downhole tool member for hydrocarbon resource recovery, comprising a shaped body of a polyglycolic acid resin having a weight average molecular weight of at least 70,000, having an effective thickness which is ½ or more of a critical thickness of surface decomposition, and exhibiting a thickness reduction rate in water which is constant with respect to time. As a result, it has become possible to more accurately design the strength and time up to the collapse of the downhole tool member which forms the whole or a part of a downhole tool for developing or repairing downholes for recovery of hydrocarbon resources, such as oil and gas. |
| US10626693B2 |
Method for pulling a crown plug
A method for pulling a crown plug that includes the steps of providing a subsea lubricator having a longitudinal through bore; providing a jacking string with a landing sub and a crown plug connector; lowering the subsea lubricator to a christmas tree and lowering the jacking string to the lubricator, and, connecting the plug connector to the crown plug; jacking up the jack such that tensile forces cause the crown plug to be released from the christmas tree; raising the jacking string and crown plug and detaching the crown plug from the crown plug connector. |
| US10626689B2 |
Downhole actuator device, apparatus, setting tool and methods of use
The invention provides an actuator assembly for a downhole tool and a method of use. The actuator assembly comprises an actuator device, which includes a housing and a piston element movable with respect to the housing. First and second fluid paths are configured to couple first and second sides of the piston element to at least one source of fluid pressure in a drive module, and an actuator member is configured to be coupled to a downhole device. The actuator member is movable between a first position and a second position to operate the downhole device in response to a force acting on the piston element. The actuator assembly comprises a pressure release mechanism which is operable to equalise pressure between the first and second fluid paths of the actuator device. The invention may be used in conjunction with a valve module which includes the pressure release mechanism, and the valve member preferably comprises a forward flow position, in which a first side of the piston element is pressurised to urge the piston element in a first direction, and a reverse flow position in which a second side of the piston element is pressurised to urge the piston element in a second direction, opposite the first direction. A preferred embodiment of the invention is setting tool incorporating the actuator assembly. |
| US10626687B1 |
Wedge system to extend and elevate a pipe handler
A pipe handler trailer assists with the handling of very large and heavy pipes that are regularly raised to and lowered from an elevated surfaces. At least one wedge is removably coupled to an intermediate location within the pipe handler boom. The wedge is operative to change a longitudinal direction of the non-linear boom. The wedge has a pipe-receiving trough configured to cooperate with the pipe handler skidway and support pipes through longitudinal movement thereon. Front and rear faces are rigidly affixed to an undersurface of the wedge skidway, and are offset from parallel to each other. A pair of support hooks protrude from the wedge front face, and are designed to drop into and engage with a pair of mating slots. Once the support hooks are engaged with the slots, fasteners such as bolts and nuts are used to secure the wedge to the pipe handler boom. |
| US10626686B2 |
Skate drive system for a catwalk
A skate drive system for a catwalk having a skate and a clamping assembly. The system includes a primary actuator and a secondary actuator. The primary actuator is configured to apply a drive force to first and second cables to move the skate along a trough of the catwalk. The secondary actuator is configured to apply a tension force to at least one of the first and second cables independent of the primary actuator to actuate the clamping assembly from an unclamped position to a clamped position. |
| US10626685B2 |
Rod rotation apparatus
An apparatus for rotating a tube or rod is provided. The tube or rod is supported from a mast of a rig and for insertion into a well. The apparatus includes a rotation member for rotating the tube or rod. The rotation member is mounted on the well such that in use, the tube or rod is fed into the rotation member, from above the rotation member, and into the well. |
| US10626674B2 |
Drilling apparatus with extensible pad
A drilling machine for a wellbore is provided. The drilling machine may include a dynamic lateral pad that is movable between an extended and retracted position. In the extended position, the pad moves the drill bit in a direction for drilling. The drilling machine may include a dynamic lateral cutter that is movable between an extended and retracted position. In at least the extended position, the cutter engages the wellbore and removes formation. The drilling machine may include a monolithic or integral drill bit/drive shaft to reduce the distance between a positive displacement motor and a distal end of the monolithic or integral drill bit/drive shaft. The drilling machine may include separate cutting structures that have different rotational speeds and can further utilize the integral drill bit/drift shaft and/or a bent housing that generates an off-axis rotation which helps optimize the formation removal in the center area of the wellbore. |
| US10626672B2 |
Wind turbine tower attachment
Devices, systems, and methods are directed to mounting an auxiliary component to a tower based at least in part on a force distribution in which a normal force is greater than a shear force exerted by the auxiliary component on a shell of the tower such that the auxiliary component may be held in place relative to the tower without penetrating the shell of the tower. Thus, as compared to mounting techniques requiring penetration of the shell of the tower, this force distribution along the shell of the tower may facilitate mounting the auxiliary component to the tower with little to no impact on cost and/or structural requirements of the tower. Further, or instead, as compared to other mounting techniques, mounting the auxiliary component based at least in part on this force distribution may reduce or eliminate the need for specialized tools, thus facilitating in-field installation of the auxiliary component. |
| US10626666B2 |
Device for regulating the passage of light
The present application relates to a device for regulating the passage of light which is characterised in that it comprises a layer comprising a liquid-crystalline mixture containing a characteristic structural element. |
| US10626662B2 |
Window frame system, thermally insulating element, method, window frame structure, flexible profile, control system and sun protection system
A window frame system for fixing at least a first panel, includes at least a first window frame structure which includes at least a first window frame profile having at least first and second holders, and at least a first thermally insulating element with sixth and seventh holders. The second holder and the sixth and/or the seventh holder of the first thermally insulating element include at least one internal corner with a radius smaller than 0.5 mm. In this way, the dimensions of the window frame profile may be smaller than in the known window frame profiles. This may be advantageous for the total insulation value of the window frame system and the quantity of material required/used for the window frame profiles. Also disclosed is a thermally insulating element, a method, a window frame structure, a flexible profile, a control system and a sun protection system. |
| US10626661B2 |
Large bollard molded post doors
A bollard that supports a door with a top bearing, middle bearing and bottom bearing with the middle and bottom bearing offset from the bollard and a rigid structure molded in the door. |
| US10626658B2 |
Control device for a vehicle having an automatically closing hatch
The control device relates to a vehicle having an automatically closing hatch, including at least one operating switch for outputting a closing command to automatically close the hatch by way of at least one actuator, a monitoring device for recognizing a blocking or jamming event during the closing procedure and a programmable electronic control unit which is connected with both the operating switch and the monitoring device, and which detects the vehicle speed as an input signal. The monitoring device is designed such that a risk of jamming can be recognized by monitoring the current curve and/or the rotational speed curve of the actuator. The control unit is programmed so as to only stop the closing procedure on recognition of a risk of jamming if the vehicle speed is less than a specified threshold value. Additionally or alternatively, the control unit is programmed so as to initially only react to the occurrence of comparatively large speed or current fluctuations by terminating the automatic closing procedure, for a certain time window and/or for a given distance covered by the tailgate, if the vehicle speed is above a specified threshold. |
| US10626657B2 |
Automotive door power assist
An automated door system includes a door pivotally coupled to a vehicle body at a hinge axis defined by at least one hinge assembly. A power assist device is coupled to the hinge assembly and further coupled to the door. The power assist device is configured to slow movement of the door along a door swing path from an initial velocity to a slow close velocity when the initial velocity exceeds a predetermined threshold velocity, thereby providing a slow and controlled close when a user attempts to slam the door. The power assist device is further configured to power opening and closing movement of the door as initiated by a user. |
| US10626655B2 |
Braking mechanism
A braking device for a movable door leaf comprises an electric motor operated as a generator, whose shaft is rotatable through a movement of the door leaf and at whose terminals a movement-dependent motor voltage is created and a brake circuit to which the motor voltage is applied or could be applied and which can be short-circuited via the motor terminals to dampen movement of the door leaf. In addition, the braking device comprises an emergency brake circuit to which the motor voltage is applied or applicable and via which the motor terminals can be short-circuited to dampen a movement of the door leaf. In doing so, means are provided which are designed to detect the presence of a malfunction of the brake circuit and to short-circuit the motor terminals via the emergency brake circuit when the presence of a malfunction of the brake circuit is detected. |
| US10626650B2 |
Gate
A gate comprises a spring-loaded hinge arrangement defining a rotational axis. A gate structure having a first support arm connected to a first end of the hinge arrangement is also provided. The gate structure is rotatable about the rotational axis. A spring-loaded hinge arrangement includes an outer hinge tube fixedly connectable to an adjacent structure and an inner hinge tube received in the outer hinge tube. The inner hinge tube has a first portion and a second portion movable with respect to each other, the second portion of the inner hinge tube being fixed with respect to the outer hinge tube and the first portion of the inner hinge tube being fixed with respect to the support arm. |
| US10626638B2 |
Door latch device
A door latch device having a motor cover for covering a motor and connection parts thereof, wherein the motor cover in a size for covering the motor from a vehicle interior side is formed to a switch member housed in a casing, connection parts of the motor are respectively connected to conductive members of the switch member on a vehicle-exterior-side side face of the motor cover, and the motor 44 and the connection parts thereof are covered with the motor cover. |
| US10626636B2 |
Mechanical closure having a locking device
A lock device includes a first connecting module and a second connecting module. The first connecting module can be arranged in a closing direction on the second connecting module and is mechanically catch-lockingly engaged in a closing position with the second connecting module, and the first connecting module can be detached from the second connecting module by a movement of the first connecting module or of a part of the first connecting module in an opening direction, which differs from the closing direction. A locking device is provided to prevent a movement of the first connecting module or of the part of the first connecting module in the opening direction, when the first connecting module and the second connecting module are positioned in the closing position. |
| US10626625B1 |
Cementitious material surface texturing assembly
A surface texturing assembly includes a cementitious material that can be applied to an exposed surface for enhancing the ornamental appearance of the exposed surface. A swirling tool is provided and the swirling tool is manipulated to engage the cementitious material when the cementitious material is wet. The swirling tool has a pair of spaced members that each sinks into the cementitious material when the swirling tool is manipulated to engage the cementitious material. Moreover, the swirling tool is rotatable such that each of the spaced members travels in an arc to form a respective one of a pair of swirling arcs in the cementitious material. In this way the swirling tool is movable along an entirety of the exposed surface for shaping the cementitious material into a plurality of swirling, intersecting arcs. |
| US10626621B2 |
Method and apparatus for construction mats
This disclosure relates to a modular construction mat system wherein each individual mat is made of two layers to support heavy loads while providing stability and ground protection. In use the finished mats can then be adjoined to adjacent mats to complete a large mat system for roadways, walkways, and other support structures using a unique floating nut system to create a single firmly joined modular mat system. |
| US10626619B2 |
Flooring material
A surface element designed to be assembled together with similar surface elements to form a unit of a plurality of joined surface elements; said surface elements comprising a core, a decorative upper surface and edges for joining, including a first and a second edges allowing joining by rotational movement, and a third and a fourth edge allowing joining by vertical movement, wherein two adjacent edges of the surface element at the same time, and concurrently with said rotational movement, is joined with a surface element adjacent to the first edge and a surface element adjacent to the third or fourth edge. |
| US10626618B2 |
Awning canopy cover and connection system
An awning assembly having an awning connection system for coupling an awning canopy to a support structure and providing a cover to the awning canopy when the awning assembly is in a closed position. The awning connection system comprises a unitary film segment having a distal end connected to the awning canopy and a proximal end for securing to the support structure. The unitary film segment further comprises an attached region for coupling the unitary film segment to the awning canopy. |
| US10626611B2 |
Modular truss joint
A modular truss joint is a web plate with at least three connectors. Each connection includes a web integrally formed as a portion of the web plate of a certain length. Each connection is positioned at a connector angle with respect to the other connectors. The connections have continuous flanges on a periphery of the modular truss joint. Each flange is oriented transversely to the web. The connectors form a modular structure by each connecting to at least one wide flange body to form a moment resisting connection such that the modular truss joint resists flexure of the modular structure. |
| US10626608B2 |
Foam wall structure
A foam wall structure includes a frame, at least one primary support member, a slab of polyiso board and a foam layer. The frame can include: a first member; a second member spaced apart from the first member; and two side members extending between the first and second members. The frame defining a front frame surface and an opposite rear frame surface. The at least one primary support member can be positioned between the two side members and extend between the first and second member. The primary support member defines a front support surface and an opposite rear support surface. The slab of polyiso board may be attached to the front frame surface. The foam layer can be received within at least a portion of the frame and overlies the front surface of the primary support member. A method of making a foam wall structure and a pre-fabricated wall is also disclosed. |
| US10626604B2 |
Roof forming element for a roof of a building, and roof
The invention relates to a roof forming element for a roof, comprising a roof plate, a beam integral with the roof plate, such that the integral combination of the roof plate and the beam has an L-shaped cross-section, a cover, and coupling means for coupling the roof forming element to a further, neighbouring element. The roof forming element, at least in a mounted condition of a plurality of such elements, is configured such that the second longitudinal side of the element is arranged to be supported by the first longitudinal side of a further, neighbouring one of said elements, so that the beam of the further roof forming element also supports the roof plate of the roof forming element, and so that the respective roof plate elements of said roof forming element and further roof forming element are flush with respect to each other. |
| US10626603B2 |
Curtain wall saddle bracket and clip assembly
A bracket for securing insulation and/or a stiffener relative to a mullion or transom having a given width. The bracket includes a pair of legs extending from a bridge to define a receiving channel having a width equal to or smaller than the given width. At least one of the legs defines a first receiving slot configured to receive a clip leg of a respective clip configured to engage the insulation, and an optional second receiving slot configured to receive a face of the stiffener. |
| US10626602B2 |
Workstation
A workstation includes a frame having a lower rail and a plurality of upright posts coupled to and extending upwardly from the lower rail. Each upright post has a track. The workstation also includes a plurality of panels supported by the frame. Each panel has a first side edge received in the track of one of the plurality of upright posts, a second side edge received in the track of another of the plurality of upright posts, and a lower edge adjacent the lower rail. The lower edge has a first length. Each panel also has an upper edge opposite the lower edge. The upper edge has a second length that is longer than the first length. |
| US10626599B2 |
Interlocking masonry brick
The disclosure is directed to thermal and moisture insulated interlocking brick comprising natural, in-situ carved stone façade coupled to a backing layer comprised of a massive and lightweight portions, as well as methods of forming the brick and methods for cladding and using the bricks in load bearing walls and in non-load-bearing walls (light construction). |
| US10626597B2 |
Seal assembly and light weight exterior wall system using same
This disclosure discloses a dry seal system for use with a wall comprised of exterior insulated wall panels wherein the dry seal system is used to seal the joints between the exterior insulated wall panels. The dry seal system generally comprises a seal assembly for sealing a joint between horizontally adjacent exterior insulated wall panels and may further comprise a horizontal seal for sealing vertically adjacent exterior insulated wall panels. The seal assembly generally comprises a first connector, a second connector and a vertical seal, wherein the first connector is attached to one exterior insulated wall panel, the second connector is attached to another exterior insulated wall panel, the vertical seal is positioned between the first connector and the second connector and the first connector engages the second connector to provide a seal. |
| US10626596B2 |
Concrete anchor coupling assembly and anchor rod holder
Concrete coupling assembly comprises a base holder for being attached to a concrete forming surface, the base holder including a central opening; a coupler having one end disposed within the central opening, the coupler having an axis for being positioned substantially transverse to the forming surface, the coupler having first and second threaded bores through the one end for attachment of a threaded rod; and a separate anchor body threadedly attached to another end of the coupler. |
| US10626595B2 |
Moment-resisting frame
Disclosed herein is a moment-resisting frame for connecting beams and columns of a structure. The moment-resisting frame may include a beam comprising a top horizontal flange, a bottom horizontal flange, and a vertical web fitted securely between the top horizontal flange and the bottom horizontal flange. The moment-resisting frame may also include a column comprising a lateral vertical flange. The lateral vertical flange may include a top flange threaded hole, a bottom flange threaded hole, a first lateral flange threaded hole, and a second lateral flange threaded hole. The moment-resisting frame may further include a plurality of rows of coplanar plates that retrofitted around an outermost periphery of the beam. |
| US10626592B2 |
Filter for removing sediment from water
A system for removing sediment from water is disclosed. The exemplary embodiments described herein disclose a system with a chamber having a deck positioned inside to divide it into an upper chamber and a lower chamber. The deck may have a plurality of holes to hold filtration elements and also may have a ridge or a skirt or both. The filtration elements may be filter cartridges with multiple elongated filter elements that extend down into the lower chamber. |
| US10626591B2 |
Adjustable fixture screen system
The disclosure provides a urinal screen comprising a flexible screen in a circular configuration having a center portion and a contiguous outer portion encircling the center portion, the outer portion being separated into one or more elongated strips extending outwardly from the center portion, and the center portion having a center hole extending therethrough. When positioned on a surface of a urinal or other fixture, the screen is substantially conformable to the urinal surface without sacrificing the screen objective to keep debris from entering drain. In embodiments, the center portion of the screen can be adjustable in height such that the screen is in a mound- or dome-like configuration and still preventing any debris from entering the drain. |
| US10626586B2 |
Sink and drain for sink
Sinks and drains for sinks permitting the attachment of the drain to the sink such that the drain is substantially disposed below the top surface of the sink basin, and such that there is no discernable separation between the base of the sink basin and the drain when viewed from above the sink. A method of making a sink such that there is no discernable separation between the base of the sink basin and the drain when viewed from above the sink. |
| US10626584B2 |
Water discharge device
Provided is a water discharge device for spraying water having transparency throughout a long distance. The present invention is a water discharge device (2) that sprays the supplied water, and includes a water discharge device body (6), a rectifying chamber (14a) which is provided in the water discharge device body, a plurality of rectifying members (18) that are disposed at intervals in the rectifying chamber and includes a number of fine holes (18a), so that water sequentially passes through the plurality of rectifying members, a water spray member (20) provided with spray nozzles (22b) for discharging the water passing through these rectifying members, and an air bubble discharge flow path (26) that is formed so that air bubbles present among the rectifying members bypass at least one of the rectifying members to reach the water spray member, and has a larger flow path sectional area than the fine holes. |
| US10626580B2 |
Honeycomb module and underground storage system
Individual honeycomb shaped modules used in an assembly for underground storage of storm water and other fluid storage needs. Modules are assembled into a resultant honeycomb shape for maximized structural strength and material use efficiency. Internal hexagonal or square shaped modules are assembled and encased by external hexagonal or square shaped modules. Internal adjacent modules are in direct fluid communications with one another through a channel-less chamber. Internal hexagonal or square shaped modules drain into external hexagonal or square shaped modules chamber where fluid is either stored or drained. Assemblies include various top and side pieces along with access ports for entry into said assembly. |
| US10626579B1 |
Integrated water recycle system
An integrated system to collect, store, and recycle water from rain runoff, bathing, showering, and/or kitchens for use as a substitute for potable water in landscape irrigation or other applications. In embodiments a tank that includes a jet pump is installed near, at, or below grade in a lawn or planted area near the main water supply to a facility such as, but not limited to, a residential home. The jet pump, which requires no motive force other than a pressurized water flow, accelerates water flow into a funnel type device that draws in the collected water to mix with clean water. |
| US10626577B2 |
Hydraulic equipment for excavators and operating machines in general
Hydraulic equipment of the type that can be fixed to a moving arm of an operating machine. The equipment has a support structure connected or connectable to a moving arm of an operating machine, at least one hydraulic motor for the rotation of a working element, a feed pipe connected or connectable to a hydraulic circuit of the supporting operating machine to supply a flow of working fluid to the hydraulic motor, and a drainage unit for the drainage of working fluid from the hydraulic motor. The equipment may optionally include a pressure detector in the drainage unit and a shut-off valve operationally associated with the pressure detector in such a way as to interrupt the flow of working fluid to the hydraulic motor when predetermined pressure conditions are detected. |
| US10626575B2 |
Control system for construction machine
A control system for a construction machine includes an electric lever operating device that outputs a command to a hydraulic actuator, a travel control lever device that outputs a command to a travel device, and a controller that outputs a drive command to a solenoid proportional valve that decompresses hydraulic fluid supplied from a pilot hydraulic source. The control system includes a machine body state judgment part that judges the state of the machine body based on an electric signal from the electric lever operating device and an operation amount of the travel control lever device and a dead zone calculation part that calculates a dead zone for the electric signal from the electric lever operating device based on the state of the machine body. The dead zone calculation part sets the dead zone for the electric signal at a first predetermined value when the machine body is in the travel-solo state and sets the dead zone for the electric signal at a second predetermined value smaller than the first predetermined value when the machine body is in the traveling work state. |
| US10626566B2 |
Dispenser for binary viscous fluids with aggregate
Apparatus for blending and applying plural substances including aggregate onto an environmental substrate is shown and described. The apparatus includes optionally a single power plant, plural pumps each fed by a respective hopper, and a blender blending pumped materials together. Dispensing ratios of the two pumps are mutually adjustable. An onboard air compressor delivers compressed air for atomizing blended materials as they are dispensed with the aggregate. Because materials may be curable or hardenable, flushing is enabled. The apparatus may be a free standing wheeled device. |
| US10626561B2 |
Permeable joint for paver and structural system therefor
A structural system that includes at least two pavers partially defining a paved surface, the pavers partially defining a void between them. The system also includes a permeable joint located in the void between the pavers, where the permeable joint also partially defines the paved surface. The permeable joint includes a base layer formed of aggregate and bonded together with a non-cement binder, and a membrane layer formed of aggregate that is sized smaller than the aggregate of the base layer, where the aggregate of the membrane is also bonded together with a non-cement binder. The membrane is less permeable than the base layer and is located above the base layer. |
| US10626560B2 |
Magnetic inductive rail heating head
A rail heating head includes a vented enclosure and an induction coil. The induction coil is positioned within the vented enclosure. When in use, the vented enclosure is positioned adjacent a lateral portion of a train track rail. To be positioned adjacent to the head, the web, and the foot of the train track rail, a rail-bracing wall of the vented enclosure has a convex exterior surface and a concave interior surface. The induction coil has an oblong, concave shape and is pressed against the concave interior surface. Thus, the induction coil can induce eddy current magnetic fields in the head, the web, and the foot maximizing surface area. The larger surface area results in molecules in a large area being activated and leads to more heat. An eddy current deflecting magnetic shield further directs magnetic fields towards the train track rail. |
| US10626558B2 |
Method for producing paper
A method of producing paper and board by using at least one water-soluble amphoteric polymer is provided. The water-soluble amphoteric polymer is obtained by copolymerizing a monomer mixture containing a) at least one N-vinylcarboxamide, b) at least one monoethylenically unsaturated monomer having at least one free acid group or at least one acid group in salt form, c) optionally at least one monoethylenically unsaturated monomer other than components (a) and (b), and d) optionally at least one compound having two or more ethylenically unsaturated double bonds, and then partly or wholly hydrolyzing the —CO—R1 groups of the polymer. The cationic monomer units and the anionic monomer units differ in their respective molar fractions, each based on the total number of moles of all monomer units, by not more than 10 mol % in absolute terms. |
| US10626547B2 |
Compositions and methods of biologically cemented structures for marine applications
The invention is directed to kits, compositions, tools and methods for biologically cemented structures. More particularly, the invention is directed to materials and methods for the farming of bivalves, such as oysters and clams, and also other marine and fresh water invertebrates such as sponges, and other commercially worthwhile sessile organisms. The kits, compositions, tools and methods of the invention are also applied to erosion control of beaches and underwater surfaces, for the formation of foundations such as footings for pier supports, marine walls and other desirable structures. |
| US10626545B2 |
Embedding nanoparticles in thermoplastic polymers
The present invention relates to a polymeric material having one or more nanoparticles embedded within the surface layer of a single side of the material. In some embodiments, the nanoparticles are microbiocidal nanoparticles which impart antimicrobial characteristics to the polymeric material within which they sprayed and pushed by are embedded. |
| US10626542B2 |
Laundry treating appliance with a non-encapsulated glass lid
A vertical axis laundry treating appliance having a non-encapsulated lid comprising a single panel of glass that is able to pass the UL 746C ball drop test. Non-encapsulated glass lids according to embodiments of the disclosure simplify part and assembly complexity compared to encapsulated glass lids. |
| US10626541B2 |
Hydraulic leveling device of washing machine and filling method thereof
A washing machine hydraulic leveling device comprises hydraulic feet, wherein each hydraulic foot comprises a fixed part and a movable part, a hollow chamber is formed between the fixed part and the movable part, and the hollow chamber is provided with a hydraulic medium; two said hydraulic feet communicate with each other through high-pressure oil pipes: the hydraulic medium flows under pressure between the hollow chambers of the hydraulic feet to drive the movable parts to extend and retract, thereby implementing automatic leveling; and the fixed parts are provided with oil nipples communicating with the hollow chambers, and the oil nipples of the two hydraulic feet are connected to a same connecting piece through the high-pressure oil pipes, thereby implementing communication between the two hydraulic feet. |
| US10626538B2 |
Washing machine appliance and methods of operation
A washing machine appliance and methods of operation are provided. The washing machine appliance generally includes an apron and a sub-washer unit suspended within the apron by a plurality of dampers. A measurement device is mounted on the sub-washer unit to measure the movement of the sub-washer unit. The movement of each damper is calculated based on the relative position of the damper and the measurement device. By monitoring the movement of each damper, the amount of energy dissipated by each damper during operation may be calculated and the operation of the washing machine appliance may be adjusted when the amount of energy dissipated and/or power level exceeds a predetermined energy threshold. |
| US10626537B2 |
Washing machine
A washing machine is provided. The washing machine may include a circulation hose, a water discharge hose, and a pump configured to selectively supply water to the circulation hose and the water discharge hose. The pump may include a pump motor that is reversible and rotatable in a first direction and second direction, an impeller rotated by the pump motor, and a pump housing to provide a space in which the impeller is accommodated. The pump housing may include a supply port, a circulation water discharge port coupled to a second end of the circulation hose, and a water discharge port coupled to the water discharge hose. The water discharge outlet and the circulation water outlet may be arranged in a circumferential direction and spaced apart from each other on a ring-shaped inner surface of the pump housing. |
| US10626536B2 |
Foot-operated controller of sewing machine
A foot-operated controller of a sewing machine including a first pedal that input a number of revolution of a sewing machine motor by stepping of a user, a second pedal pressed by the user, a main body that supports the first pedal, and a support unit that supports the second pedal, in which the support unit is selectively attachable in disposition where the second pedal is on the left side of the first pedal and disposition where the second pedal is on the right side of the first pedal. In both cases where the second pedal is on the left side of the first pedal and the right side of the first pedal, across an interval between the main body and the support unit, it is possible to detect the pressing to the second pedal with respect to the second element. |
| US10626535B2 |
Sewing machine and sewing system
A sewing machine in which a base configured to support a throat plate, a shuttle or a looper, and an input shaft for a stitching operation to the shuttle or the looper with respect to a bed portion of a frame is supported to be movable along a direction of approaching or separating from a sewing needle is provided. The sewing machine includes a connecting member which changes to any one of a state in which the input shaft and a transmission shaft are aligned in the same straight line to be in a torque transmission state and a state in which the input shaft moves together with the base with respect to the transmission shaft, between the input shaft on the base side and the transmission shaft which transmits power to the input shaft. |
| US10626532B2 |
Non-transitory computer-readable medium storing sewing data generation program, sewing data generation device and sewing method
A non-transitory computer-readable medium stores computer-readable instructions for sewing data generation. The computer-readable instructions are executed by a processor provided in a sewing data generation device. When executed by the processor in the sewing data generation device, the computer-readable instructions instruct the processor to perform following processes. First, the processor acquires a pattern. And, the processor divides the acquired pattern into a first pattern and a second pattern. The second pattern includes an overlapping portion. The overlapping portion in the second pattern partially overlaps with the first pattern. The processor generates sewing data to sew each of the first pattern and the second pattern on a sewing object. And, the processor generates processing data to process, in full size, a processing pattern. The processing pattern is obtained by excluding the overlapping portion from the second pattern, on a sheet-like processing object different from the sewing object. |
| US10626531B2 |
Multifilament and braid using same
It is provided that a multifilament and a braid that are capable of being processed into products in a wide range of temperature and are excellent in dimensional stability and abrasion resistance. A multifilament comprising 5 or more monofilaments and a braid comprising the multifilament, wherein the multifilament contains polyethylene having an intrinsic viscosity [η] of 5.0 dL/g or more and 40.0 dL/g or less and substantially including ethylene as a repeating unit, the monofilament has a titer of 3 dtex or more and 40 dtex or less, the multifilament has a thermal shrinkage of 0.20% or less at 70° C. and a thermal shrinkage of 3.0% or less at 120° C., and a stress Raman shift factor under the condition of applying a load that is 10% of a breaking load to the monofilament is 5.0 cm−1 or less. |
| US10626528B2 |
Double pointed knitting ring
A double pointed knitting ring, including an open ring having first and second ends; a first knitting point attached to the first end; and a second knitting point attached to the second end; wherein the first and second knitting points are separated by a gap. |
| US10626523B2 |
Fiber and a process for the manufacture thereof
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing thermally stabilized, non-sticky and stretchable fibers, which may be further processed into intermediate carbon fibers and finally also carbon fibers. Uses of said fibers are also disclosed. Also a highly oriented intermediate carbon fiber is disclosed together with a highly oriented carbon fiber. |
| US10626515B2 |
Surface electrolytic treatment apparatus for garment accessory part
A method for subjecting garment accessories to a surface electrolytic treatment provides various metallic colors to metallic garment accessories in a cost effective manner. The method can provide a first metallic color on one side of outer surface of the garment accessory and provide a second metallic color on the other side of the outer surface, by placing one or more metallic garment accessories in an electrolytic solution in a non-contact state with an anode and a cathode for passing electric current through the electrolytic solution, passing electric current through the electrolytic solution and generating a bipolar phenomenon on the garment accessory. |
| US10626512B2 |
Cathode for electrolysis and method for producing same, and electrolytic cell for electrolysis
Provided is a cathode for electrolysis comprising a conductive substrate and a Ru element-containing catalyst layer on the conductive substrate, wherein in the catalyst layer, the ratio of the maximum intensity of the Ru 3d 5/2 peak appearing between 281.4 eV and 282.4 eV to the maximum intensity of the Ru 3d 5/2 peak appearing between 280.0 eV and 281.0 eV, in an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopic measurement is 0.45 or more. |
| US10626509B2 |
Electrolysis cell and electrolytic device for carbon dioxide
An electrolysis cell for carbon dioxide of an embodiment includes: an anode part including an anode which oxidizes water or hydroxide ions to produce oxygen and an anode solution flow path which supplies an anode solution to the anode; a cathode part including a cathode which reduces carbon dioxide to produce a carbon compound, a cathode solution flow path which supplies a cathode solution to the cathode, and a gas flow path which supplies carbon dioxide to the cathode; and a separator which separates the anode part and the cathode part. The anode has a first surface in contact with the separator, and a second surface facing the anode solution flow path so that the anode solution is in contact with the anode. |
| US10626508B2 |
Catalytic materials and methods of making and using thereof
Iron-containing mixed-phase metal oxides are described. The mixed-phase metal oxides can exhibit electrocatalytic and/or photo-electrocatalytic activity towards reducing reactions, such as the reduction of carbon dioxide. |
| US10626507B2 |
Method and device for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide
A method and a device for electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide for preparing a high-concentration formate salt. Carbon dioxide is continuously supplied to a cathode unit and is continuously supplied to a metal hydroxide to the anode unit. A voltage or current is applied to the cathode unit and the anode unit for reducing the carbon dioxide to obtain the formate salt. |
| US10626505B2 |
High performance coating for high-strength steel cold metal forming
Coatings for metal forming tools or metal forming members used for cold forming of high-strength steels include a CrN lower layer and a TiCN upper layer. The lower layer is deposited closer to the substrate than the upper layer. The lower layer is made of oxygen-enriched chromium nitride exhibiting a cubic structure with preferred orientation, and the upper layer is made of hydrogen-enriched titanium carbonitride. Methods for depositing the coatings are also described. |
| US10626500B2 |
Showerhead design
Embodiments described herein relate to a showerhead having a reflector plate with a gas injection insert for radially distributing gas. In one embodiment, a showerhead assembly includes a reflector plate and a gas injection insert. The reflector plate includes at least one gas injection port. The gas injection insert is disposed in the reflector plate, and includes a plurality of apertures. The gas injection insert also includes a baffle plate disposed in the gas injection insert, wherein the baffle plate also includes a plurality of apertures. A first plenum is formed between a first portion of the baffle plate and the reflector plate, and a second plenum is formed between a second portion of the baffle plate and the reflector plate. The plurality of apertures of the gas injection insert and the plurality of apertures of the baffle plate are not axially aligned. |
| US10626496B2 |
Film forming apparatus, method of cleaning film forming apparatus, and storage medium
A film forming apparatus is provided for forming a film by revolving a substrate placed on a rotary table in a vacuum container, alternately supplying a precursor gas and a reaction gas that reacts with the precursor gas to generate a reaction product multiple times, and depositing the reaction product on the substrate. The film forming apparatus comprises a precursor gas supply region that supplies the precursor gas onto the substrate, one or more plasma generation regions that generate plasma at a position apart from the precursor gas supply region in a rotational direction of the rotary table, and a cleaning region that cleans the rotary table by supplying a cleaning gas onto the rotary table in a region apart from the plasma generation regions and the precursor gas supply region in the rotational direction when a film forming process is not performed on the substrate. |
| US10626495B2 |
Bottom-up growth of silicon oxide and silicon nitride using sequential deposition-etch-treat processing
Methods for gapfill of high aspect ratio features are described. A first film is deposited on the bottom and upper sidewalls of a feature. The first film is etched from the sidewalls of the feature and the first film in the bottom of the feature is treated to form a second film. The deposition, etch and treat processes are repeated to fill the feature. |
| US10626493B2 |
Method for producing a double-layer coated cutting tool with improved wear resistance
A method for producing a tool coated with a hard coating, the method including the following steps: applying a TiAIN coating layer onto a substrate with a first magnetron sputtering process and applying a TixSi1-xN coating layer onto the TiAIN layer with a second magnetron sputtering process, where x is smaller than or equal to 0.85 and preferably between and including 0.80 and 0.70 whereas the second magnetron sputtering process is performed with power densities greater than 100 W/cm2 and as such is a HIPIMS process. |
| US10626483B2 |
Copper alloy wire rod
A copper alloy wire rod has a chemical composition comprising Ag: 0.1 to 6.0 mass % and P: 0 to 20 mass ppm, the balance being copper with inevitable impurities. In a cross section parallel to a longitudinal direction of the wire rod, a number density of second phase particles each having an aspect ratio of greater than or equal to 1.5 and a size in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the wire rod of less than or equal to 200 nm is greater than or equal to 1.4 particles/μm2. |
| US10626481B2 |
Mineral ore slurry pretreatment method, and method for manufacturing mineral ore slurry
There is provided a method capable of effectively reducing the amount of acid used in a leaching step and the amount of a neutralizer used in a final neutralization step while nickel yield in a hydrometallurgical process for nickel oxide ore is not reduced. A method for pre-treating ore slurry according to the present invention is a method for pre-treating ore slurry to be provided to a leaching treatment in a hydrometallurgical process for nickel oxide ore, the method including: a first separation step for separating ore slurry into a coarse particle fraction and a fine particle fraction; a second separation step for separating the coarse particle fraction separated in the first separation step into a heavy specific gravity fraction and a light specific gravity fraction; and a vibration sieving step for separating, by a vibration sieve, the light specific gravity fraction. |
| US10626476B2 |
High specific strength steel sheet and method for manufacturing same
A high specific strength steel sheet and a method for manufacturing same are disclosed. The high specific strength steel sheet, which is an aspect of the present invention, is characterized in that an Fe—Al-based intermetallic compound having an average particle diameter of 20 μm or less is homogeneously dispersed in an austenite matrix, the volume fraction of the Fe—Al-based intermetallic compound is 1 to 50%, and the volume fraction of κ-carbide ((Fe,Mn)3AlC) which is a perovskite carbide and has an L12 structure is 15% or less. |
| US10626475B2 |
Heat treatment apparatus, heat treatment method for steel workpiece, and hot bending method for steel workpiece
A heat treatment apparatus of one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a feed device that feeds a heat treatment workpiece downstream in a feed direction along a heat treatment workpiece pass-line; a heating device that includes a heating coil disposed downstream of the feed device in the feed direction and encircling the pass-line; a cooling device that is disposed adjacent to the heating coil, downstream of the heating coil in the feed direction, and encircling the pass-line; and a gas supply device that is disposed upstream of the heating coil in the feed direction, directly connected to the heating coil and encircling the pass-line, and that includes a plurality of gas compartments configured by internally partitioning the gas supply device in the feed direction. |
| US10626466B2 |
Compositions, kits and related methods for the detection and/or monitoring of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
The present invention provides compositions, methods and kits for the species-specific detection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. |
| US10626465B2 |
Multiplexed KRAS mutation detection assay
Provided herein is reagent mixture comprising multiplexed amplification reagents and flap assay reagents for detecting, in a single reaction, mutant copies of the KRAS gene that contain any of the 34A, 34C, 34T, 35A, 35C, 35T or 38A point mutations. Methods that employ the reagent mix and kits for performing the same are also provided. |
| US10626464B2 |
Methods of detecting prostate cancer
The invention described herein provides biological markers for the diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of prostate cancer. |
| US10626463B2 |
Biomarker associated with risk of melanoma reoccurrence
The present invention provides a method of predicting the risk of reoccurrence of melanoma in a patient from whom melanoma tissue was previously removed which comprises the following: a. obtaining a RNA-containing sample of the previously removed melanoma tissue containing RNA from the patient; b. treating the sample to determine from the RNA contained in the sample the level of expression of a plurality of preselected genes; and c. comparing the level of expression of each gene of the plurality of pre-selected genes to a predetermined reference level of expression for each such gene; wherein a higher level of expression of the plurality of pre-selected genes in the sample as compared with the predetermined reference level of expression of such genes indicates that the patient has a reduced risk of reoccurrence of melanoma. |
| US10626461B2 |
Sample processing apparatus and method
The invention relates to a sample processing apparatus comprising a holder for a microtiter plate comprising a plurality of microwells, optical measurement unit for measuring optical responses of samples dosed to the microwells, and a computing unit configured to analyze the optical responses in order to detect dosing failures in said plurality of microwells, and if a dosing failure has been detected in one or more of the microwells, to communicate the existence of the dosing failure to a user of the apparatus through signaling means or to store data indicative of the dosing failure to data storage means for further use. In particular, the invention relates to detecting dosing failures in before, during and after a PCR process. |
| US10626459B2 |
Methods and kits for the identification of animals having a greater potential for desirable characteristics, and for the early identification of fat deposits in bovines
The present invention relates to a method and a kit for the identification of animals having greater potential for desirable characteristics of meat quality, rib eye area (REA), weaning weight and 18-month weight by means of the analysis of specific markers.The invention also refers to a method and a kit for the early identification of fat deposition in bovines. |
| US10626457B2 |
Arrays of optical devices comprising integrated bandpass filters and methods of production
Arrays of integrated optical devices and their methods for production are provided. The devices include an integrated bandpass filter layer that comprises at least two multi-cavity filter elements with different central bandpass wavelengths. The device arrays are useful in the analysis of highly multiplexed optical reactions in large numbers at high densities, including biochemical reactions, such as nucleic acid sequencing reactions. The devices provide for the efficient and reliable coupling of optical excitation energy from an optical source to the optical reactions. Optical signals emitted from the reactions can thus be measured with high sensitivity and discrimination. The device arrays are well suited for miniaturization and high throughput. |
| US10626455B2 |
Multi-pass sequencing
Improved single molecule sequencing methods, compositions, and devices, are provided. In a first aspect, the present invention provides a multi-pass method of sequencing a target sequence using nanopore sequencing, the method comprising: i) providing a non-naturally occurring concatemer nucleic acid molecule comprising a plurality of copies of the target sequence; ii) nanopore sequencing at least three copies of the target sequence in the concatemer, thereby obtaining a multi-pass sequence dataset, wherein the multi-pass sequence dataset comprises target sequence datasets for the at least three copies of the target sequence; and iii) using the multi-pass sequence dataset to determine the target sequence. |
| US10626453B2 |
Portable nucleic acid analysis system and high-performance microfluidic electroactive polymer actuators
Devices, systems and methods for the parallel detection of a set of distinct nucleic acid sequences use multiple sequence amplification and simultaneous hybridization readout. An automated nucleic acid analysis system comprises in microfluidic connection sample lysis, purification, PCR and detection modules configured to detect in parallel distinct nucleic acid sequences via multiple sequence amplification and simultaneous microarray hybridization readout. High performance microfluidic electroactive polymer (μEAP) actuators comprising a dead-end fluid chamber in which a surface of the chamber is an electrode covered with an EAP layer of dielectric elastomer are configured for particle sorting. |
| US10626452B2 |
Method for detecting single base substitution using ion-exchange chromatography
An object of the present invention is to provide a method for accurately and quantitatively discriminating and detecting a wide variety of gene mutations, or particularly, single base substitutions or point mutations. In an ASP for analyzing gene mutations, or particularly, single base substitutions or point mutations, when a non-nucleotide component is added to the 5′ end of at least one of the ASP and a primer paired therewith before amplification by PCR and amplification products thereof are separated by ion-exchange chromatography, even the amplification products having the same length can be separated and detected. |
| US10626451B2 |
Methods and devices for digital PCR
Methods of conducting a nucleic acid reaction, including methods for performing digital PCR using a “droplet-in-oil” technology, may include at least partially segmenting a starting sampled into a set of sample droplets each containing on average about one or fewer copies of a target nucleic acid. The droplets are passed in a continuous flow of immiscible carrier fluid through a channel that passes through a thermal cycler, whereby the target is amplified. In one implementation, the droplets are about 350 nl each and the number of positively amplified droplets is counted at the near-saturation point. |
| US10626441B2 |
Method for attaching a counter sequence to a nucleic acid sample
Described herein is a method for adding a counter sequence to the individual polynucleotide molecules of an initial nucleic acid sample. After addition of the counter sequence, the sample may be amplified and the number of initial target molecules in the sample can be estimated by counting the number of counter sequences associated with the amplified target molecules. |
| US10626436B2 |
Method of determining a compositional or functional characteristic of a cell culture media
A method of determining variation between a query cell culture media and a reference cell culture media is provided. The method comprises the steps of incubating a reference cell with an aliquot of the query culture media and at least three chemical cell stressors in wells of a microtitre plate and determining an environmental response of the reference cell in the presence of the query cell culture media and each of the plurality of chemical cell stressors. A query cell culture media specific environmental response fingerprint is generated comprising the plurality of chemical cell stressor specific environmental responses. The query cell culture media-specific environmental response fingerprint is compared with a reference media-specific environmental response fingerprints corresponding to a reference cell culture media and generated using the reference cell. Variation between the query cell culture media and the reference cell culture media is then determined based on the level of correlation between the query cell culture media-specific environmental response fingerprint and the reference media-specific environmental response fingerprints. |
| US10626435B2 |
Nanofluidic device for isolating, growing, and characterizing microbial cells
Nanofluidic devices and methods of the invention are capable of autonomously isolating individual microbial cells using constrictive channels and growing monocultures of the cells for automated characterization of their biochemical properties and interactions with mammalian cells. Single microbial cells, such as bacterial cells, are isolated directly from environmental sources and cultured using chemical factors from their native environment. |
| US10626434B2 |
Coenzyme-linked glucose dehydrogenase and polynucleotide encoding the same
The present invention provides members that produce on a large scale a coenzyme-linked glucose dehydrogenase which has excellent substrate-recognizing ability toward glucose while providing low action on maltose. The present invention relates to a polynucleotide encoding a soluble coenzyme-linked glucose dehydrogenase that catalyzes the oxidation of glucose in the presence of an electron acceptor and has an activity toward maltose of 5% or lower; a polypeptide encoded by the nucleotide sequence of the polynucleotide; a recombinant vector carrying the polynucleotide; a transformed cell produced using the recombinant vector; a method for producing a polypeptide comprising culturing the transformed cell and collecting from the cultivated products a polypeptide that links to FAD to exert the glucose dehydration activity; a method for determination of glucose using the polypeptide; a reagent composition for determination of glucose; and a biosensor. |
| US10626433B2 |
Coenzyme-linked glucose dehydrogenase and polynucleotide encoding the same
The present invention provides members that produce on a large scale a coenzyme-linked glucose dehydrogenase which has excellent substrate-recognizing ability toward glucose while providing low action on maltose. The present invention relates to a polynucleotide encoding a soluble coenzyme-linked glucose dehydrogenase that catalyzes the oxidation of glucose in the presence of an electron acceptor and has an activity toward maltose of 5% or lower; a polypeptide encoded by the nucleotide sequence of the polynucleotide; a recombinant vector carrying the polynucleotide; a transformed cell produced using the recombinant vector; a method for producing a polypeptide comprising culturing the transformed cell and collecting from the cultivated products a polypeptide that links to FAD to exert the glucose dehydration activity; a method for determination of glucose using the polypeptide; a reagent composition for determination of glucose; and a biosensor. |
| US10626431B2 |
Method for improved isolation of recombinantly produced proteins
The present invention provides a method for increasing the yield of a protein produced by cultivating eukaryotic cells and adding an ionic substance to the culture medium prior to harvest of the protein. Suitable ionic substances are the salts of the Hofmeister series, amino acids and peptone. |
| US10626429B2 |
Methods for in vitro joining and combinatorial assembly of nucleic acid molecules
The present invention relates to methods of joining two or more double-stranded (ds) or single-stranded (ss) DNA molecules of interest in vitro, wherein the distal region of the first DNA molecule and the proximal region of the second DNA molecule of each pair share a region of sequence identity. The method allows the joining of a large number of DNA fragments, in a predetermined order and orientation, without the use of restriction enzymes. It can be used, e.g., to join synthetically produced sub-fragments of a gene or genome of interest. Kits for performing the method are also disclosed. The methods of joining DNA molecules may be used to generate combinatorial libraries useful to generate, for example, optimal protein expression through codon optimization, gene optimization, and pathway optimization. |
| US10626426B2 |
Microorganism of genus Corynebacterium having an ability to produce L-arginine and a method for producing L-arginine using the same
The present invention relates to a microorganism of the genus Corynebacterium having an ability to produce L-arginine, and a method of producing L-arginine using the same. |
| US10626421B2 |
Use of uric acid for culturing bacteria sensitive to oxygen tension
The present invention relates to a method for cultivating in vitro in an acellular culture medium, bacteria for which the growth is sensitive to oxygen content, said bacterium being selected from anaerobic bacteria and intracellular micro-aerophilic bacteria, characterized in that uric acid is added into said acellular culture medium, and said bacterium is cultivated in said culture medium in the presence of oxygen. |
| US10626414B2 |
Swine influenza vaccine
The present invention relates to Equine Herpes Virus (EHV) vectors comprising at least one exogenous antigen encoding sequence relating to a pathogen infecting food producing animals, wherein said exogenous antigen encoding sequence is inserted into an insertion site, preferably ORF70, and said exogenous antigen encoding sequence is operably linked to a promoter sequence, preferably the promoter sequence comprising 4pgG600 (SEQ ID NO:1) or 4pMCP600 (SEQ ID NO:2) or the complementary nucleotide sequences thereof or a functional fragment or a functional derivative thereof or the complementary nucleotide sequences thereof. Furthermore, the present invention relates to methods for immunizing a food producing animal comprising administering to such food producing animal an immunogenic composition comprising embodiments of the present invention. Moreover, the present invention relates to methods for the treatment or prophylaxis of clinical signs caused by swine influenza virus in a food producing animal. |
| US10626409B2 |
Genetic locus imparting a low anatabine trait in tobacco and methods of using
Provided herein are genetic markers and a coding sequence associated with a low- or ultra-low anatabine trait in tobacco. |
| US10626406B2 |
Method for plant improvement
The invention relates to the field of plant improvement, in particular of the improvement of yield for plants, by using a transgene containing an root-specific promoter driving expression of a MYB-related protein. |
| US10626401B2 |
Single-stranded oligonucleotides for use in the medical treatment of skin disorders
The invention relates to non-CpG single-stranded oligonucleotides (ssONs) for use in the treatment or prophylaxis of disorders of the skin and/or subcutaneous tissue, including pruritus, in a suitable formulation or in combination with other immunomodulatory treatments. The said ssONs have a length of at least 25 nucleotides and are stabilized by phosphorothioate internucleotide linkages and/or 2′-O-Methyl modifications. |
| US10626398B2 |
Oligonucleotide compositions with enhanced efficiency
The oligonucleotide compositions of the present invention make use of combinations of oligonucleotides. In one aspect, the invention features an oligonucleotide composition including at least 2 different oligonucleotides targeted to a target gene. This invention also provides methods of inhibiting protein synthesis in a cell and methods of identifying oligonucleotide compositions that inhibit synthesis of a protein in a cell. |
| US10626394B2 |
Synthetic bacteriophages and bacteriophage compositions
Disclosed herein are novel synthetic bacteriophages and bacteriophage compositions, methods of production thereof, and therapeutic uses thereof. |
| US10626387B2 |
Staphylococcus lysin and use thereof
The present invention discloses a lysin that is capable of killing Staphylococcus and the use thereof, belonging to the field of biological agents. The present invention discloses the amino acid sequence and the encoding gene sequence of the lysin. This lysin keeps active in a wide range of pH. It has lytic activity against Staphylococcus in pH 4-11. The recombinant protease constructed by the encoding gene can be solubly expressed in E. coli strain BL21 (DE3). The lysin can be used to effectively kill multiple species Staphylococcus in vitro, including methicillin sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) and methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolated in clinics. This lysin can be used as an antibiotic for the treatment of staphylococcal infections in vivo. This lysin is also able to rapidly lyse staphylococcal cell wall; as a result, intracellular substances such as ATP and DNA are released. Those released substances can be used to detect the type of Staphylococcus. |
| US10626384B2 |
Process for producing a fermentation product
The present invention relates to isolated polypeptides having alpha-amylase activity, catalytic domains, carbohydrate binding domains and polynucleotides encoding the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding domains. The invention also relates to nucleic acid constructs, vectors, and host cells comprising the polynucleotides as well as methods of producing and using the polypeptides, catalytic domains or carbohydrate binding domains. |
| US10626383B2 |
Thermophilic DNA polymerase mutants
This disclosure relates to thermophilic family B DNA polymerases comprising a neutral amino acid residue at a certain position near the C-terminus of the catalytic domain, which corresponds to a position occupied by a basic amino acid residue in wild-type Pfu polymerase. Related uses, methods, and compositions are also provided. In some embodiments, the polymerases comprise a 3′-5′ exonuclease domain and/or a sequence non-specific dsDNA binding domain. |
| US10626381B2 |
Cellulolytic compositions comprising monooxygenase polysaccharide enzymes with improved activity
The invention refers to methods and compositions for stabilizing and increasing the activity of enzymatic mixtures comprising GH61 (PMO or polysaccharide monooxigenase) polypeptides used for the degradation of cellulosic material during the saccharification step of biofuel production processes. This improvement is achieved by the addition of a nickel cation to said enzymatic mixtures before and/or during the saccharification step. Thus, the invention provides compositions comprising PMOs, cellulolytic enzymes and a nickel cation, as well as methods for preparing said compositions and methods for producing fermentable sugars and bioproducts, preferably bioethanol, from cellulosic biomass in which said compositions are used. |
| US10626379B2 |
Production of viruses in cell culture
The present invention relates to methods of replicating viruses in vitro. In particular, the invention relates to a genetically modified population of cells, and/or a population of cells treated with an exogenous compound, wherein the cells are capable of producing more virus than cells lacking the genetic modification and/or lacking treatment with the exogenous compound. The invention also relates to methods of producing populations of such cells, as well as the use of the viruses obtained to prepare vaccine compositions. |
| US10626377B2 |
Use of an oncolytic virus for the treatment of cancer
The present invention provides a method of treating cancer, which comprises administering a therapeutically effective amount of an oncolytic virus, an inhibitor of the indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase (IDO) pathway and a further antagonist of an immune co-inhibitory pathway or an agonist of an immune co-stimulatory pathway to a patient in need thereof. |
| US10626375B2 |
Disease control of the plant bacterial pathogens causing citrus canker and rice blight
The present invention describes applications and methods (1) to use bacterophage Cf and its variants to prevent and treat the citrus canker pathogen, Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri; (2) to engineer recombinant Cf phages that the infectivity is controllable without being harmful to the rest of environment; (3) to engineer and produce recombinant Cf phages with longer storage shelf life; (4) to use Cf phage as a vector for the introduction and insertion of foreign genetic material into Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri. genome; (5) to use and engineer Xp12 and Xf bacteriophages to inhibit Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae, the causal agent of the rice blight disease. |
| US10626373B2 |
Culture scaffold for enhancing differentiation of osteoblast using pattern
The present disclosure relates to a culture scaffold for promoting differentiation from stem cells or precursor cells into osteoblasts, in which the culture scaffold includes a structure composed of a ridge and a groove, a kit using the culture scaffold, and a method for differentiating stem cells or precursor cells into osteoblasts. The culture scaffold of the present disclosure has an optimal pattern depending on the type of stem cells or precursor cells, thereby improving the osteoblast differentiation potency. In particular, it has a feature of showing excellent osteoblast differentiation potency even if only a small amount of supplementary factors inducing osteoblast differentiation is added. Furthermore, since the osteoblast differentiation potency is not greatly influenced by the change in cell density, it is possible to induce differentiation into osteoblasts without being influenced by the inflammatory environment formed by the inflammatory factors that increase upon cell differentiation. Thus, there is an advantage in that the differentiation efficiency into osteoblasts is high. Accordingly, the culture scaffold of the present disclosure having excellent bone regeneration ability can be utilized in various biomedical and medical fields such as dental implants, artificial joints and trauma fixation devices. |
| US10626372B1 |
Methods and compositions for inducing hematopoietic cell differentiation
The invention provides culture platforms, cell media, and methods of differentiating pluripotent cells into hematopoietic cells. The invention further provides pluripotent stem cell-derived hematopoietic cells generated using the culture platforms and methods disclosed herein, which enable feed-free, monolayer culturing and in the absence of EB formation. Specifically, pluripotent stem cell-derived hematopoietic cell of this invention include, and not limited to, iHSC, definitive hemogenic endothelium, hematopoietic multipotent progenitors, T cell progenitors, NK cell progenitors, T cells, and NK cells. |
| US10626370B2 |
Process for preparing a cell suspension
Process for carrying out an in vitro biochemical reaction for preparing a cell suspension suitable for application to the skin of a patient. |
| US10626364B2 |
Method for increasing the glutathione level in cells
The present invention relates to the use of sulfocysteine and derivatives thereof to increase the gluthathione pool in cells. |
| US10626363B2 |
Engineered cyanobacteria with enhanced salt tolerance
The present invention relates to a recombinant cyanobacterium with enhanced halotolerance and compositions thereof, methods of producing the recombinant cyanobacterium, and methods of using the same for biofuel production. The invention also relates to transformed F. diplosiphon strains with enhanced salt tolerance. |
| US10626362B2 |
Closure assembly for cell culture apparatus
A closure assembly for a cell culture apparatus includes a port and a snap cap. The port has an annular sidewall defining an opening in communication with a cell culture chamber of a cell culture apparatus. The sidewall has (i) external threads for cooperating with internal threads of a twist cap and (ii) an annularly protruding snap cap engagement feature. The snap cap has a top and an annular sidewall extending from the top. The sidewall of the snap cap has an inwardly annularly projecting element configured to engage with the annularly protruding snap cap engagement feature of the port such that, when fully engaged, the snap cap is not readily removed from the port by unaided human force. |
| US10626358B2 |
Systems and methods for tissue processing and preparation of cell suspension therefrom
The present invention provides for methods and at least partially automated devices suitable for producing a transplantable cellular suspension of living tissue suitable for promoting tissue regeneration in an epithelium-related procedure, as well as compositions produced therefrom. Tissue regeneration in humans is extremely limited and constitutes a major challenge to the repair of damaged organ function. Wound treatment is a typical area where tissue regeneration is required. Wounds (lacerations or openings) in mammalian tissue can result in tissue disruption and coagulation of the microvasculature at the wound face. |
| US10626349B2 |
Cleavable surfactants
The invention provides surfactant compounds of formulas I-IX, which can be used in methods for aiding the solubilization, digestion, preparation, analysis, and/or characterization of biological material, for example, proteins or cell membranes. The compounds can also aid in the recovery of peptides generated during protein digestion, particularly for in-gel digestion protocol. Additionally, the compounds can improve enzymatic protein deglycosylation without interfering with downstream sample preparation steps and mass spectrometric analysis. The compounds can be specifically useful as digestion aids that can be decomposed by an acid, by heat, or a combination thereof. Decomposition of the surfactants allows for facile separation from isolated samples, and/or allows for analysis of the sample without interfering with the sensitivity of various analytical techniques. |
| US10626348B2 |
Wooden wicks including a booster for a candle and method of making
A wooden wick for use in a wax candle comprising a strip of a predetermined wood having each of a first predetermined length, a first predetermined width and a first predetermined thickness. Such wick further includes a wood booster member having each of a second predetermined length, a second predetermined width and a second predetermined thickness adhered to the strip of wood. |
| US10626346B2 |
Organic based extraction system
An organic based extraction system is described. Embodiments of the extraction system include a first vessel, a second vessel, a third vessel, a pump, and a plurality of sight lenses. Generally, each of the vessels and the pump can be set up to form a closed loop system adapted to recover and reuse a solvent. A fluid flow from the first vessel to the second vessel, from the second vessel to the third vessel, from the third vessel to the pump, and from the pump back to the first vessel can be implemented. Typically, an extract from organic matter can be recovered in the third vessel. In one embodiment, the plurality of sight lenses can be implemented to determine if more solvent is needed and to check the extract while an extraction process is running. |
| US10626345B2 |
Threaded joint for pipes
In a threaded joint for pipes constituted by a pin and a box, each having a contact surface comprising a threaded portion and an unthreaded metal contact portion, the contact surface of the pin has a solid corrosion protective, preferably transparent coating based on a UV-curable resin and the contact surface of the box has a solid lubricating coating having plastic or viscoplastic rheological behavior which is preferably formed by the hot melt technique from a composition comprising a thermoplastic polymer, a wax, a metal soap, a corrosion inhibitor, a water-insoluble liquid resin, and a solid lubricant. |
| US10626341B2 |
Quaternary ammonium compounds as fuel or lubricant additives
A quaternary ammonium compound which is the reaction product of: (a) a tertiary amine having a molecular weight of less than 1000; (b) an acid-activated alkylating agent; and (c) a diacid including an optionally substituted hydrocarbyl moiety having at least (5) carbon atoms. |
| US10626340B2 |
Systems and methods for producing engineered fuel feed stocks from waste material
Systems and methods for producing engineered fuels from solid waste material are described herein. In some embodiments, a method includes receiving a waste stream at a multi-material processing platform and separating the waste stream to remove non-processable waste and marketable recyclables. The method further includes conveying processable materials to a material classification system and incorporating additives to produce an engineered fuel from the constituents of the waste stream. |
| US10626334B2 |
Processes and compositions for scavenging hydrogen sulfide
Processes and compositions for scavenging hydrogen sulfide from hydrocarbon streams are disclosed that reduce, if not substantially eliminate, the formation of crystalline or amorphous solids even under cold conditions. The compositions used in the processes comprise a hexahydrotriazine component and an amphiphilic component that form a hydrophobic micelle when the hexahydrotriazine component becomes spent. |
| US10626332B2 |
Laboratory process for deactivation of a porous solid
A process for the laboratory deactivation of a porous solid comprising subjecting the porous solid to a cyclic treatment, the treatment being selected from a hydration/dehydration cyclic treatment, a thermal cyclic treatment, or combinations thereof. |
| US10626328B2 |
Nanocrystal, method of preparing the same, and optoelectronic device including the nanocrystal
A substituted nanocrystal including a nanocrystal represented by Formula 1, wherein a portion of halogen atoms in an outermost region of the nanocrystal is substituted with a chloride anion, a polyatomic anion, or a combination thereof: AMX3 Formula 1 wherein, in Formula 1, A is cesium, rubidium, or an ammonium salt; M is germanium, tin, or lead; and X is iodine or bromine. |
| US10626327B2 |
Light emitting material, manufacturing method thereof and organic light emitting diode using the light emitting material
An organic light emitting diode includes a light emitting layer that includes a light emitting material of the constitutional formula The structure is unitary, and the formula weight is determined, and the better solubility and film formation are provided, and the thin film status is stable; it possesses a very high decomposition temperature and a lower sublimation temperature, and is easy to sublime to be light emitting material of high purity, and can be applied for small molecule organic light emitting diode. In the method for manufacturing the light emitting material, p-bromothiophenol and 4-Bromo-2-fluorobenzonitrile are employed to be starting materials, and an intermediate of the light emitting material is obtained with a series of simple reactions, and finally, the light emitting material is obtained with Ullmann reaction or Suzuki reaction, and these steps are simple and the production is high. |
| US10626324B2 |
Double emulsified acids and methods for producing and using the same
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to double emulsified acids, specifically water in oil in water (W/O/W) double emulsions with an acidic interior water phase. The double emulsified acid may include two or more emulsifying agents. In addition to improving the stability of the emulsions, the emulsifying agents may help slow the acid reaction rate. The first emulsifying agent may have an HLB greater than 7 and the second emulsifying agent may have an HLB less than or equal to 7. Other embodiments are directed to methods for producing a double emulsified acid and methods for acidizing a carbonate formation including a double emulsified acid. |
| US10626315B2 |
Electrically conductive wellbore fluids and methods of use
Electrically conductive oil-based wellbore fluids and methods of using same are provided. Wellbore fluids provided may contain one or more carbon nanotubes, where the one or more carbon nanotubes have a particular d/g ratio as determined by Raman spectroscopy. Also provided are methods for electrical logging of a subterranean well that include emplacing a logging medium into a subterranean well, wherein the logging medium contains a non-aqueous fluid and one or more carbon nanotubes, where the one or more carbon nanotubes are present in a concentration so as to permit the electrical logging of the subterranean well; and acquiring an electrical log the subterranean well. |
| US10626307B2 |
Adhesive film
The present invention relates to an adhesive composition, an adhesive film, a method of manufacturing the adhesive film and an organic electronic device (OED) that are used to encapsulate an organic electronic element. The adhesive composition can form an encapsulant layer having an excellent adhesive property, impact resistance, heat-protecting property and moisture blocking property, so that an OED that includes an element encapsulated with the adhesive composition can exhibit an excellent lifespan property and durability. |
| US10626304B2 |
Polarizing film laminate comprising transparent pressure-sensitive adhesive layer and patterned transparent electroconductive layer, liquid crystal panel and organic EL panel
Provided is a polarizing film laminate comprising: an element substrate; a polarizer; a transparent electroconductive layer patterned so as to function as a touch sensor; and a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer, wherein the adhesive layer comprises: a base adhesive zone made of a transparent base pressure-sensitive adhesive material and formed over a given range from the adhesive layer in a thickness direction of the adhesive layer; and a refractive index adjustment zone formed over a given range from the adhesive layer in the thickness direction and comprising the base adhesive material and material infiltrated into the base adhesive material and different from the base adhesive material, the refractive index adjustment zone having an average refractive index greater than a refractive index of the base adhesive material, and wherein the base adhesive material zone of the adhesive layer is located on the side of the element substrate. |
| US10626298B1 |
Chemical mechanical polishing compositions and methods for suppressing the removal rate of amorphous silicon
Chemical mechanical polishing compositions contain polyethoxylated amines, phosphoric acid or salts thereof, and positively charged nitrogen containing colloidal silica abrasive particles. The chemical mechanical polishing compositions are used in polishing methods for suppressing the removal rate of amorphous silicon while maintaining tunable oxide to silicon nitride removal rate ratios. The chemical mechanical polishing compositions can be used in front-end-of line semiconductor processing. |
| US10626297B2 |
Polishing composition, polishing method, and method for manufacturing ceramic component
Provided is a polishing composition that is produced at low cost and can impart high-grade mirror finishing to ceramic. The polishing composition includes abrasives, has a pH of 6.0 or more to 9.0 or less, and is used for polishing ceramic. |
| US10626295B1 |
Shingle roofing coating method and composition
An asphalt composition suitable for use as a shingle roof coating is described. The asphalt composition comprises an oxidized asphalt feedstock and a first concentrate. The oxidized asphalt feedstock has a softening point greater than 205° F. and a penetration of less than 15 dmm. The first concentrate includes an elastomeric polymer and an asphalt flux. The asphalt composition includes 1.5% to 4.5% by weight of the elastomeric polymer. |
| US10626290B2 |
Method of extending pot life of coating compositions
A liquid coating composition is disclosed that is prepared from a reaction mixture comprising an amine component comprising (a) an amine component comprising a polyamine complexed with CO2 and (b) a crosslinker, wherein the amine component is liquid at ambient conditions. |
| US10626285B2 |
Composition based on electroactive terpolymer
The invention relates to a composition comprising at least one electroactive fluorinated terpolymer, and at least one second polymer compatible with the electroactive fluorinated terpolymer and having a glass transition temperature lower than that of the electroactive fluorinated terpolymer. The invention also relates to a method for producing said composition, and to a device such as an actuator comprising a substrate and a film of the above-mentioned composition. |
| US10626271B2 |
Essentially biobased, thermoformable composition and containers formed thereof
An essentially biobased and optionally biodegradable, thermoformable composition containing a) as thermoformable resin at least one poly-L-lactide with less than 1 mol % of D-lactoyl units (PLLA) or at least one poly-L-lactide with 1-5 mol % of D-lactoyl units (PLA) and b) a nucleating combination of α) 1 to 10% Wt. of at least one poly-D-lactide with less than 1 mol % of L-lactoyl-units (PDLA) or of 0.5 to 5% Wt. of PLLA/PDLA or PLA/PDLA stereocomplex crystallites, β) 0.1 to 25% Wt. of an inorganic nucleating agent, and γ) 0.1 to 30% Wt. of at least an inorganic filler with lamellar structure, and thermoformed, essentially biobased and optionally biodegradable containers formed of the inventive compositions. |
| US10626259B2 |
Polyolefin elastomer composite and foamed elastomer
A polyolefin elastomer composite includes a copolymer, an unsaturated aliphatic polyolefin, an organic peroxide, and an acrylic acid metallic salt mixture. The copolymer is an ethylene copolymer, an olefin block copolymer, or a combination thereof. The ratio of the amount of unsaturated aliphatic polyolefin and the copolymer is 1:3 to 3:1. Based on the total amount of the unsaturated aliphatic polyolefin and the copolymer as 100 parts by weight, the amount of the organic peroxide is 0.1 to 1 part by weight and the amount of the acrylic acid metallic salt mixture is 0.1 to 5 parts by weight. The polyolefin elastomer composite can produce a foamed elastomer having high rebound resilience and low compression set. |
| US10626254B1 |
Pneumatic tire
The invention is directed to a pneumatic tire comprising a vulcanizable rubber composition, the vulcanizable rubber composition comprising: from 75 to 85 phr of a styrene-butadiene rubber having a bound styrene content of from 30 to 50 percent by weight, a vinyl 1,2 content of from 10 to 30 percent by weight based on the rubber weight, and a Tg ranging from −40 C to −20 C; from 0 to 25 phr of natural rubber or synthetic polyisoprene; from 0 to 20 phr of cis-1,4 polybutadiene having a Tg of from −110° C. to −90° C.; from 100 to 150 phr of silica; from 20 to 40 phr of a combination resin comprising a polyterpene resin, an alkylphenol formaldehyde resin, and a rosin acid; from 30 to 60 phr of oil; and from 5 to 25 phr of a sulfur containing organosilicon compound. |
| US10626253B2 |
Tire rubber composition
A tire rubber composition comprises from 30 to 60 parts by weight of a silica, from 20 to 50 parts by weight of a carbon black with a nitrogen adsorption specific surface area of from 120 to 150 m2/g, and from 50 to 80 parts by weight of an inorganic filler, which includes the silica and the carbon black, are blended per 100 parts by weight of a diene rubber that includes from 50 to 80 wt. % of a terminal-modified styrene-butadiene rubber having a vinyl unit content of 40 wt. % or more, and from 20 to 50 wt. % of butadiene rubber; an oil component in the rubber composition being from 10 to 30 parts by weight in total. |
| US10626252B2 |
Composite with improved mechanical properties and molded article including the same
The present invention provides a composite obtained by processing a resin composition including a thermoplastic resin, multi-walled carbon nanotubes. The multi-walled carbon nanotubes have an average diameter of 10 nm-3 nm and an Id/Ig of 0.6 or more. The walls of the multi-walled carbon nanotubes consist of 10 or more layers of graphene. The rate of residual length of the carbon nanotubes present in the composite is 40% or more. The composite has improved mechanical properties without deterioration of conductivity. Due to these advantages, the composite can be used to manufacture various molded articles. |
| US10626249B2 |
Polyolefin compositions
The invention relates to a composition comprising A) polyolefin and B) one or more compounds selected from the group of galactopyranoside derivatives, galactopyranose derivatives, mannopyranoside derivatives, mannopyranose derivatives, mannofuranoside derivatives and mannofuranose derivatives, wherein the amount of component B) is from 0.25 to 5 wt % based on the total composition. The invention relates to use of the composition in injection molding. |
| US10626248B2 |
Flexible tube
A flexible tube includes a polymer composition of a poly vinyl chloride having a molecular weight greater than about 1.0 inherent viscosity (IV) and a bio-based plasticizer. Further, a method of forming a flexible tube is provided. The method includes compounding a poly vinyl chloride having a molecular weight greater than about 1.0 inherent viscosity (IV) with a bio-based plasticizer to form a polymer composition and extruding the polymer composition into the flexible tube. |
| US10626247B2 |
Plasticizer composition, resin composition, and preparation methods therefor
The present invention relates to a plasticizer composition, a resin composition, and preparation methods therefor, and can provide: a plasticizer capable of improving physical properties such as plasticizing efficiency, migration, tensile strength, elongation, stress migration and light resistance, which are required in sheet formulation, when used as a plasticizer of a resin composition by improving inferior physical properties generated because of structural limitations; and a resin composition containing the same. |
| US10626244B2 |
Resin composition and resin molded article
A resin composition includes a thermoplastic resin, a carbon fiber, a polyamide having at least one of a carboxy group and an amino group at a terminal thereof, in which a presence ratio of the amino group present on the terminal (terminal amino group) is higher than a presence ratio of the carboxy group present the terminal (terminal carboxy group), and a compatibilizer. |
| US10626242B2 |
Plastic compound and preparation process
The invention relates to a plastic compound comprising at least one polyolefin and a biological entity that degrades said polyolefin. The invention further relates to a process for preparing a plastic article wherein at least one polyolefin and one biological entity that degrades said polyolefin are mixed at a temperature at which the polyolefin is in a partially or totally molten state. |
| US10626237B2 |
Method of printing a three-dimensional article
A three-dimensionally printed article comprises a build material and a support material, the support material comprising a hydroxypropyl methylcellulose having a DS of at least 1.0 and an MS of at least 0.6, wherein DS is the degree of substitution of methoxyl groups and MS is the molar substitution of hydroxypropoxyl groups. The support material can be removed from the build material by contacting the support material with water. |
| US10626236B2 |
Storage-stable one-component polyurethane prepregs and shaped bodies composed of polyurethane composition that have been produced therefrom
The invention relates to storage-stable one-component (1K) polyurethane prepregs and to shaped bodies produced therefrom. |
| US10626235B2 |
Flexible composite prepreg materials
Disclosed is a flexible composite prepreg material. The prepreg material includes a fiber bundle of fiber tows having a predetermined cross-sectional shape, wherein exterior surface fibers of said fiber bundle have a thin, irregular sheath of matrix resin on and around said exterior surface fibers of said fiber bundle, wherein substantial number interior fibers filaments remain uncoated by the matrix resin, with discreet areas of through the thickness resin bridges made of the matrix resin. |
| US10626233B2 |
Suspension polymerization compositions, methods and uses thereof
The disclosure relates to thermosetting reinforced resin compositions and methods of forming boards, sheets and/or films using of porous particulates impregnated with embedded live monomer and/or oligomer and/or polymer configured to partially leach out a functional terminal end of the live monomer and/or oligomer and/or polymer and react with a cross-linking agent and photoinitiated polymer radicals to form a reinforced board, sheet and/or film of hybrid interpenetrating networks. |
| US10626231B2 |
Microwave irradiated poly(vinyl alcohol) and graphene nanocomposite
A process for making microwave-irradiated nanocomposites comprising graphene nanoplatelets dispersed in a polymer matrix, showing improved structural and electrical properties, is provided. The nanocomposites may be made using a solution casting technique, and may have a bilayer structure comprising a graphene-enriched layer in contact with a polymer-enriched layer. The nanocomposite may be used as a shielding material on electrical devices to decrease electromagnetic interference. |
| US10626214B2 |
Viscoelastic polyurethane foam with aqueous polymer dispersion
A reaction system for forming a viscoelastic polyurethane foam includes an isocyanate component that has at least one isocyanate and an isocyanate-reactive component that is a mixture formed by adding at least a polyol component, an additive component, and a preformed aqueous polymer dispersion. The mixture includes, based on the total weight of the mixture, from 50.0 wt % to 99.8 wt % of a polyol component including at least one polyether polyol, from 0.1 wt % to 50.0 wt % of an additive component including at least one catalyst, and from 0.1 wt % to 6.0 wt % of a preformed aqueous polymer dispersion. The preformed aqueous polymer dispersion has a solids content from 10 wt % to 80 wt %, based on the total weight of the preformed aqueous polymer dispersion, and is one of an aqueous acid polymer dispersion or an aqueous acid modified polyolefin polymer dispersion in which the polyolefin is derived from at least one C2 to C20 alpha-olefin. |
| US10626212B2 |
Polyurethane prepolymers
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to polyurethane prepolymers, more particularly, to polyurethane formulations including a polyurethane prepolymer that can form polyurethanes. As an example, a polyurethane formulation can include a polyurethane prepolymer and a polyol composition including polyols, water, and a catalyst, where the polyurethane prepolymer is a reaction product of a monol and an excess amount of a polyisocyanate. |
| US10626211B2 |
Star isobutylene-based thermoplastic elastomers
A star block copolymer and a thermoplastic elastomer including plurality of the star block copolymers and a method of making both is taught. The star block copolymers of the present invention include a core component having an α-methylstyrene oligomer wherein arms emanate from the core component and the arms are poly(isobutylene-block-styrene) diblock copolymers. |
| US10626210B2 |
Method of producing methacrylate block copolymer
A method of producing a methacrylate block copolymer includes operations of (a) preparing a polymer solution comprising a methacrylate polymer block by polymerizing a methacrylate monomer using a polymerization initiator and a reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) agent in the presence of water or an organic solvent; (b) preparing a polymer solution comprising an acrylate polymer block-containing methacrylate diblock copolymer by adding an acrylate monomer and a styrene monomer to the polymer solution prepared in operation (a); (c) preparing a polymer solution comprising a methacrylate polymer block-containing methacrylate triblock copolymer by adding a methacrylate monomer to the polymer solution prepared in operation (b); and (d) collecting a polymer prepared after operations (b) and (c) and removing the RAFT agent present at a terminal of the polymer by using an amine-based organic material. |
| US10626206B2 |
Acrylic copolymer, which is hydrophobic, cross-linked and based on cinnamic alcohol, for intraocular lenses
The material according to the invention is an acrylic copolymer, which is crosslinked, viscoelastic, flexible and deformable at room temperature and hydrophobic, of at least 50 wt % of acrylic or methacrylic monomers and cinnamic alcohol. The mixture of monomers preferably includes: —at least one arylalkoxy-acrylate or one arylalkoxy-methacrylate; at least one hydroxylated acrylate and one hydroxylated methacrylate; at least one ethoxylated diol diacrylate and one ethoxylated diol dimethacrylate; and cinnamic alcohol. Said material is obtained in a single step of radical polymerization and is presented in the form of a three-dimensional macromolecular network including a cinnamic alcohol unit. Said material is used for manufacturing intraocular lenses (1). |
| US10626202B2 |
Monomodal copolymer of ethylene for injection molding and process for its preparation
Monomodal copolymers of ethylene and molding compositions comprising such copolymers, wherein the copolymers have a density determined according to DIN EN ISO 1183-1, variant A in the range from 0.938 to 0.944 g/cm3, a melt index MFR21 determined according to ISO 1133 at 190° C. under a load of 21.6 kg in the range from 12 to 17 g/10 min, a weight average molar mass Mw in the range from 140 000 g/mol to 330 000 g/mol, a polydispersity Mw/Mn in the range from 9 to 17, and a content of comonomer side chains per 1000 carbon atoms Cx equal to or above a value defined via equation (I) Cx=128.7−134.62×d′, wherein d′ is the numerical value of the density of the copolymer in g/cm3, the use of the copolymers for producing injection-molded articles, as well as injection-molded articles comprising the copolymers, and process for the preparation of such monomodal copolymers. |
| US10626200B2 |
Branched EPDM polymers produced via use of vinyl transfer agents and processes for production thereof
This invention relates to the use of quinolinyldiamido transition metal complexes and catalyst systems with an activator and a metal hydrocarbenyl chain transfer agent, such as an aluminum vinyl-transfer agent (AVTA), to produce branched propylene-ethylene-diene terpolymers. |
| US10626193B2 |
Acylation process
The invention concerns a process for the manufacture of an acylated polymer composition comprising amylose and/or amylopectin, comprising a pre-treatment step in the presence of an acid, and optionally one additive selected from the group of a hydroxycarboxylic acid and a salt in combination with a polycarboxylic acid. After pre-treatment, the polymer is acylated and, preferably, subjected to a post-treatment step with an acid. The products obtained are useful as additives in varnishes, lacquers, coatings, thickeners, adhesives or binders, and preferably inks. |
| US10626186B2 |
Anti-VWF D'D3 single-domain antibodies and methods of use
The invention relates to isolated single-domain antibodies (sdAb) directed against von Willebrand Factor (VWF) D′D3 domain and chimeric polypeptides comprising thereof such as blood clotting factors and their uses in therapy such as in the prevention and treatment of hemostatic disorders. The invention also rotates to a method of extending or increasing half-life of a therapeutic polypeptide comprising a step of adding to the polypeptide sequence of said therapeutic polypeptide at least one sdAb directed against VWF D′D3 domain. |
| US10626184B2 |
Monoclonal antibodies, compositions and methods for detecting mucin-like protein (MLP) as a biomarker for ovarian and pancreatic cancer
In various embodiments the invention provides anti-mucin-like protein (MLP) monoclonal antibodies, compositions and methods for detecting MLP as a biomarker for mucin-secreting type of cancer such as ovarian or pancreatic cancer. |
| US10626182B2 |
Optimized antibodies that target CD19
The present invention describes antibodies that target CD19, wherein the antibodies comprise at least one modification relative to a parent antibody, wherein the modification alters affinity to an FcγR or alters effector function as compared to the parent antibody. Also disclosed are methods of using the antibodies of the invention. |
| US10626180B2 |
Methods of treating and predicting non-response to anti-TNF treatment in subjects with inflammatory bowel disease
The aspects disclosed herein describe methods of identifying a subject that is non-responsive to anti-TNF therapy. The aspects disclosed herein further provide for a method of selecting a therapy for a subject with Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD), and treating the subject with the therapy. |
| US10626179B2 |
Methods for treating type 1 diabetes using glucagon receptor antagonistic antibodies
The present disclosure relates to methods for treating type 1 diabetes (T1D) using a glucagon receptor blocking agent. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to methods for treating T1D using substantially lower doses of insulin supplementation, or even in the absence of insulin supplementation, using antigen binding and antagonizing proteins, e.g., fully human antibodies that specifically bind to and antagonize the function of the human glucagon receptor. |
| US10626176B2 |
Methods of treating conditions with antibodies that bind B7-H4
Provided herein are embodiments relating to therapeutic applications of B7-H4 antibodies. |
| US10626174B2 |
Methods of treating cancer using PD-1 axis binding antagonists and TIGIT inhibitors
The present invention describes combination treatment comprising a PD-1 axis binding antagonist and an agent that decreases or inhibits TIGIT expression and/or activity and methods for use thereof, including methods of treating conditions where enhanced immunogenicity is desired such as increasing tumor immunogenicity for the treatment of cancer or chronic infection. |
| US10626171B2 |
Nucleic acid encoding antibody to human IL-1 beta
The present invention relates to anti-IL-1 beta binding members and in particular to monovalent high potency IL-1 beta-binding antibody fragments being highly stable and soluble. Such binding members may be used in the treatment of inflammatory and other diseases as well as in diagnostics. Also provided are related nucleic acids, vectors, cells, and compositions. |
| US10626170B2 |
Sulfonated sclerostin, antibodies, epitopes and methods for identification and use therefor
Provided are antibodies that bind to: a sulfonated epitope of the protein Sclerostin, to Sclerostin portions comprising a sulfonated amino acid and to dimerized forms of Sclerostin. Further provided are compositions and peptides comprising a sulfonated epitope of sclerostin. Also provided by this invention are methods for production of such antibodies, both active and passive, and methods for identifying antibodies specific for sulfonation sites in Sclerostin and other antibodies which discriminate between sulfonated and unsulfonated forms of sclerostin. Physical and virtual screening processes are provided in this invention for identifying compounds which disrupt or inhibit sulfonation and the interaction between Sclerostin and binding partners. The antibodies and compositions of the present invention are useful in diagnostic and therapeutic applications directed to Sclerostin-related disorders. |
| US10626168B2 |
B cell lineage based immunogen design with humanized animals
Non-human animals with humanized immunoglobulin loci and methods of using them in vaccine design are described, as well as methods for making broadly neutralizing antibodies against infectious agents and pathogens are provided. Non-human animals with humanized immunoglobulin loci used in B-cell-lineage immunogen design in vaccine development are provided, as are methods of carrying out such design. |
| US10626160B2 |
Transfected T-cells and T-cell receptors for use in immunotherapy against cancers
Disclosed are T-cell receptors (TCRs) binding to tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) for targeting cancer cells, T-cells expressing same, methods for producing same, and methods for treating cancers using same. Disclosed are TCRs and their variants that bind to HLA class I or II molecules with a peptide, such as MAG-003 have the amino acid sequence of KVLEHVVRV (SEQ ID NO:1). The description further relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids, cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods, the immunotherapy of cancer, and tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T-cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules. |
| US10626156B2 |
Bioreversable promoieties for nitrogen-containing and hydroxyl-containing drugs
Disclosed are promoieties of the following formula which can be used to form prodrugs of nitrogen-containing or hydroxyl-containing drug or a pharmaceutically active agent: and pharmaceutical compositions comprising the prodrugs. |
| US10626154B2 |
Binding domains directed against GPCR:G protein complexes and uses derived thereof
The present disclosure relates to the field of G protein coupled receptor (GPCR) structural biology and signaling. In particular, the present disclosure relates to binding domains directed against and/or specifically binding to GPCR:G protein complexes. Also provided are nucleic acid sequences encoding such binding domains and cells expressing or capable of expressing such binding domains. The binding domains of the present disclosure can be used as universal tools for the structural and functional characterization of G-protein coupled receptors in complex with downstream heterotrimeric G proteins and bound to various natural or synthetic ligands, for investigating the dynamic features of G protein activation, as well as for screening and drug discovery efforts that make use of GPCR:G protein complexes. |
| US10626150B2 |
Hexon protein hypervariable region gene sequence of adenovirus and its application
The invention provides a Gene sequence which can encode and express adenovirus hexon protein in vitro, and is represented as SEQ ID NO: 3. Also invented a protein which was translated and expressed by the gene sequence according to the invention, and the invention also relates to the use of the protein as an antigen to immunize rabbits to obtain a polyclonal antibody. The antibody mentioned above can detect adenovirus with high sensitivity and specificity. |
| US10626148B2 |
Glycopeptides conjugates and uses thereof
Vancomycin conjugates of Formula I, its stereoisomers, prodrugs, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and metal coordination complexes thereof is described in the present disclosure. Further, the present disclosure relates to pharmaceutical compositions comprising vancomycin conjugates, its stereoisomers, prodrugs, pharmaceutically 10 acceptable salts, metal coordination complex thereof with one or more other pharmaceutical compositions or an antibiotic. The present disclosure also describes a process of preparing said conjugates, its stereoisomers, prodrugs, pharmaceutically acceptable salts, and metal coordination complex thereof, and pharmaceutical compositions as described above. Furthermore, the present disclosure describes 15 compositions and methods of treating conditions and diseases that are mediated by bacteria. |
| US10626147B2 |
Cell penetrating peptides and methods of making and using thereof
Disclosed herein are compounds having activity as cell penetrating peptides. In some examples, the compounds can comprise a cell penetrating peptide moiety and a cargo moiety. The cargo moiety can comprise one or more detectable moieties, one or more therapeutic moieties, one or more targeting moieties, or any combination thereof. In some examples, the cell penetrating peptide moiety is cyclic. In some examples, the cell penetrating peptide moiety and cargo moiety together are cyclic. In some examples, the cell penetrating peptide moiety is cyclic and the cargo moiety is appended to the cyclic cell penetrating peptide moiety structure. In some examples, the cargo moiety is cyclic and the cell penetrating peptide moiety is cyclic, and together they form a fused bicyclic system. |
| US10626146B2 |
α4β7 thioether peptide dimer antagonists
The invention relates to thioether monomer and dimer peptide molecules which inhibit binding of α4β7 to the mucosal addressing cell adhesion molecule (MAdCAM) in vivo. |
| US10626142B2 |
Purification platform for bispecific antibodies
High resolution protein A chromatography employing a chaotropic agent and pH gradient or pH step elution buffer results in improved peak resolution between closely related molecular species. Bispecific antibodies containing a protein A-binding-ablating substitution CH3 domain paired with a protein A-binding CH3 domain are separated with high peak resolution from monospecific antibodies containing a protein A-binding-ablating substituted CH3 domain paired with the protein A-binding-ablating substituted CH3 domain and monospecific antibodies containing a protein A-binding CH3 domain paired with the protein A-binding CH3 domain. Useful chaotropic agents include magnesium chloride and calcium chloride. |
| US10626138B2 |
Method for the site-specific enzymatic labelling of nucleic acids in vitro by incorporation of unnatural nucleotides
Provided herein are analogs of unnatural nucleotides bearing predominantly hydrophobic nucleobase analogs that form unnatural base pairs during DNA polymerase-mediated replication of DNA or RNA polymerase-mediated transcription of RNA. In this manner, the unnatural nucleobases can be introduced in a site-specific way into oligonucleotides (single or double stranded DNA or RNA), where they can provide for site-specific cleavage, or can provide a reactive linker than can undergo functionalization with a cargo-bearing reagent by means of reaction with a primary amino group or by means of click chemistry with an alkyne group of the unnatural nucleobase linker. |
| US10626132B2 |
Moisture and room temperature-curable organopolysiloxane resin composition and method for producing cured product thereof
The present invention provides: a novel organic titanium compound having an effect as an adhesion promoter by itself; a production method of such organic titanium compound; and a room temperature-curable resin composition containing such organic titanium compound both as a curing catalyst and as an adhesion promoter. Provided are an organic titanium compound represented by an average composition formula (I): Ti(OR1)4-a(Y3Si-A-O—CO—CH═C(O)R)a (wherein R1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, R represents a substituted or unsubstituted monovalent hydrocarbon group having 1 to 12 carbon atoms, A represents a divalent hydrocarbon group having 3 to 6 carbon atoms, Y represents a hydrolyzable group, and a represents a number satisfying 0 |
| US10626131B2 |
Process for preparing isocyanates containing alkoxysilane groups
The invention relates to a process for preparing isocyanate containing alkoxysilane groups, in which, in the sequence of steps A) to D), A) alkoxysilano(cyclo)alkylamine is reacted with dialkyl carbonate in the presence of a basic catalyst to give alkoxysilano(cyclo)alkylurethane, B) simultaneously or successively, the catalyst is removed and/or deactivated, and low boilers, solids, salt burdens and/or high boilers are removed, C) alkoxysilano(cyclo)alkylurethane obtained after B) is thermally cleaved to release isocyanate containing alkoxysilane groups and by-product, leaving bottoms material, and D) isocyanate containing alkoxysilane groups and by-product are separated from one another and from bottoms material and collected, wherein the basic catalyst is a guanidine base. |
| US10626130B2 |
Process for preparing a colourless solution of 3-(N-benzyl-2-aminoethyl)aminopropyltrimethoxy-silane hydrochloride in methanol
A process can prepare a colourless, methanolic solution of 3-(N-benzyl-2-aminoethyl)aminopropyltrimethoxysilane hydrochloride. The process includes, in step 1 fractionally distilling the vinylbenzyl chloride reactant component with addition of at least one stabilizer, and in step 2, metering and mixing the distillate (vinylbenzyl chloride) from step 1 into an initial charge of N-(2-aminoethyl)-3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane and methanol in a molar ratio of the N-(2-aminoethyl)-3-aminopropyltrimethoxysilane to vinylbenzyl chloride of 1.0:0.80 to 1.0:1.15 and at a temperature in the range from 40 to 60° C. and leaving them to react further. The colourless, methanolic solution has an APHA colour number of <200 mg Pt—Co/l. |
| US10626129B2 |
Heteroaryl inhibitors of PDE4
The present invention relates to compounds and methods useful as inhibitors of phosphodiesterase 4 (PDE4) for the treatment or prevention of inflammatory diseases and other diseases involving elevated levels of cytokines and proinflammatory mediators. |
| US10626128B2 |
Curcumin-boron complex and pharmaceutical containing same
Provided is a compound which is bioapplicable and amyloid-selective, and is useful as an amyloid oxygenation catalyst applicable not only to Aβ peptides but also to other amyloids, and a preventive/therapeutic drug for an amyloid-related disease using the same. A curcumin-boron complex represented by the following formula (1): wherein X1 and X2 are identical or different, and each represent a halogenoalkyl group or a halogen atom; X3 represents a bromine atom, an iodine atom, or a selenium atom; R1 and R2 are identical or different, and each represent a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group; R3 and R4 are identical or different, and each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, or an optionally substituted alkyl group, or R1 and R3 or R2 and R4 are optionally taken together to form an optionally substituted alkylene group or alkenylene group; R5 and R6 are identical or different, and each represent a hydrogen atom or an optionally substituted alkyl group; R7 and R8 are identical or different, and each represent a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, an alkoxy group, or an optionally substituted alkyl group, or R5 and R7 or R6 and R8 are optionally taken together to form an optionally substituted alkylene group or alkenylene group; and m and n each represent an integer of 1 to 3, or a salt thereof. |
| US10626127B1 |
Thallium salen fluorescent tracers
Thallium salens can be synthesized by reacting thallium alkoxide with a salen ligand. As examples of the invention, the dinuclear complexes Tl2-(salo-But) and Tl2-(saloPh-But) were synthesized by the reaction of thallium ethoxide with (H2-salo-But) or (H2-saloPh-But). These thallium salens may have applications as fluorescent tracers (or taggants) for subterranean fluid flows. |
| US10626124B2 |
Activators of autophagic flux and phospholipase D and clearance of protein aggregates including tau and treatment of proteinopathies
The present application discloses compounds which are activators of autophagic flux and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said activators. It further discloses use of said compounds and pharmaceutical compositions in the treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, particularly proteinopathies and tauopathies such as Alzheimer's disease. It further discloses methods of enhancing autophagic flux. |
| US10626123B2 |
Manufacture of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydroisoxazolo[5,4-c]pyridin-3-ol
The present invention relates to a process for synthesis of 4,5,6,7-tetrahydroisoxazolo[5,4-c]pyridin-3-ol abbreviated THIP, having the INN name gaboxadol, starting from pyrrolidin-2-one. The process comprises a new direct process to obtain the intermediate dimethyl 5-hydroxy-3,6-dihydropyridine-1,4(2H)-5 dicarboxylate or the intermediate diethyl 5-hydroxy-3,6-dihydropyridine-1,4(2H)-dicarboxylate. |
| US10626119B2 |
Process for the preparation of cucurbituril and/or one or more derivatives thereof
This invention relates to a process of manufacturing cucurbituril and/or one or more derivatives thereof with low formaldehyde content and to the use of said cucurbituril and/or one or more derivatives thereof, in particular in consumer and industrial products, and in industrial processes. |
| US10626118B2 |
Pyrrolopyrimidine crystal for preparing JAK inhibitor
The present application relates to the field of pharmaceutical chemistry. The application specifically relates to a crystal form A and crystal form B of a pyrrolopyrimidine (formula I) for preparing a JAK inhibitor. The application further relates to a method for preparing the crystal form A and crystal form B, a crystalline composition comprising the crystal form A or crystal form B, a pharmaceutical composition comprising the crystal form A, crystal form B, or crystalline composition, and a pharmaceutical application of the pharmaceutical composition, the crystal form A, and the crystal form B. The crystal form A and crystal form B of the application has the advantages of high purity, high crystallinity, and good stability. |
| US10626114B2 |
Crystalline solid forms of a BET inhibitor
The present application relates to crystalline solid forms of an inhibitor of BET proteins such as BRD2, BRD3, BRD4, and BRD-t, including methods of preparation thereof, and intermediates in the preparation thereof, where the compound is useful in the treatment of diseases such as cancer. |
| US10626113B2 |
Phosphodiesterase inhibitors and uses thereof
The invention provides for novel benzonaphthyridine derivatives and compositions comprising novel benzonaphthyridine derivatives. In some embodiments, the compounds are phosphodiesterase inhibitors. The invention further provides for methods for inhibition of phosphodiesterase comprising contacting phosphodiesterase with novel benzonaphthyridine derivatives or compositions comprising novel benzonaphthyridine derivatives. The invention further provides for methods for treatment of neurodegenerative diseases, increasing memory or long term potentiation with novel benzonaphthyridine derivatives or compositions comprising novel benzonaphthyridine derivatives. In some embodiments, the phosphodiesterase is PDE5. |
| US10626112B2 |
Heterocyclic sulfonamide derivative and medicine comprising same
The present invention provides a compound represented by the formula (I): wherein each symbol is as defined in the DESCRIPTION, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. The compound has a superior TRPA1 antagonist activity, and can provide a medicament useful for the prophylaxis or treatment of diseases involving TRPA1 antagonist and TRPA1. |
| US10626111B2 |
Modulators of ATP-binding cassette transporters
Compounds of the present invention, and pharmaceutically acceptable compositions thereof, are useful as modulators of ATP-Binding Cassette (“ABC”) transporters or fragments thereof, including Cystic Fibrosis Transmembrane Conductance Regulator (“CFTC”). The present invention also relates to methods of treating ABC transporter mediated diseases using compounds of the present invention. |
| US10626103B2 |
Inhibitor of lysine specific demethylase-1
The present invention relates generally to compositions and methods for treating cancer and neoplastic disease. Provided herein are substituted heterocyclic derivative compounds and pharmaceutical compositions comprising said compounds. The subject compounds and compositions are useful for inhibition of lysine specific demethylase-1. Furthermore, the subject compounds and compositions are useful for the treatment of cancer, such as prostate cancer, breast cancer, bladder cancer, lung cancer and/or melanoma and the like. |
| US10626101B2 |
Solid forms of 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-N-((2-(2,6-dioxopiperidin-3-yl)-1-oxoisoindolin-5-yl)methyl)-2,2-difluoroacetamide, and their pharmaceutical compositions and uses
Solid forms comprising 2-(4-chlorophenyl)-N-((2-(2,6-dioxopiperidin-3-yl)-1-oxoisoindolin-5-yl)methyl)-2,2-difluoroacetamide, compositions comprising the solid forms, methods of making the solid forms and methods of their uses are disclosed. |
| US10626098B2 |
Anisotropic copoly(imide oxetane) coatings and articles of manufacture, copoly (imide oxetane)s containing pendant fluorocarbon moieties, oligomers and processes therefor
Copoly(imide oxetane) materials are disclosed that can exhibit a low surface energy while possessing the mechanical, thermal, chemical and optical properties associated with polyimides. The copoly(imide oxetane)s are prepared using a minor amount of fluorinated oxetane-derived oligomer with sufficient fluorine-containing segments of the copoly(imide oxetane)s migrate to the exterior surface of the polymeric material to yield low surface energies. Thus the coatings and articles of manufacture made with the copoly(imide oxetane)s of this invention are characterized as having an anisotropic fluorine composition. The low surface energies can be achieved with very low content of fluorinated oxetane-derived oligomer. The copolymers of this invention can enhance the viability of polyimides for many applications and may be acceptable where homopolyimide materials have been unacceptable. |
| US10626097B2 |
Process for making hydroxyethyl piperazine compounds
The present invention relates to an improved process for making hydroxyethyl piperazine compounds especially mono-hydroxyethyl piperazine. The improvement comprises reacting piperazine and an alkylene oxide, preferably ethylene oxide in a reactive distillation column. |
| US10626095B2 |
Cyanotriazole compounds
This invention relates to a cyanotriazole compound represented by the formula (1): wherein each symbols are defined in the specification, or a salt thereof. The compound or a salt thereof stimulates the citric acid cycle activity and/or improves hyperglycemia with less side effects, and excellent safety, and therefore, it is useful for treating and/or preventing diseases or disorders on which citric acid cycle activation and/or improvement of hyperglycemia has a prophylactic and/or therapeutic effect, for example, diabetes, impaired glucose tolerance, insulin resistance, diabetic complications, obesity, dyslipidemia, hepatic steatosis, atherosclerosis and/or cardiovascular disease, as well as diseases or disorders that would benefit from stimulating energy expenditure. |
| US10626093B2 |
Polymorphic form of crystalline rosuvastatin calcium and novel processes for crystalline as well as amorphous rosuvastatin calcium
The present invention relates to new polymorphic forms of Crystalline Rosuvastatin calcium along with novel processes for crystalline as well as amorphous Rosuvastatin calcium. |
| US10626088B2 |
Determining degradation of 3,4-diaminopyridine
The present invention relates to methods of determining the purity of a sample of 3,4-diaminopyridine comprising determining the presence, absence, or amount of a dimer of 3,4-diaminopyridine or a dimer of 3,4-diaminopyridine in the form of a salt, solvate or complex or a combination thereof. The invention also relates to methods of detecting and quantitating degradation in a sample of 3,4-diaminopyridine. Dimers of 3,4-diaminopyridine and methods of making and isolating the same are also provided. |
| US10626081B2 |
Farnesoid X receptor agonists and uses thereof
Described herein are compounds that are farnesoid X receptor agonists, methods of making such compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and medicaments comprising such compounds, and methods of using such compounds in the treatment of conditions, diseases, or disorders associated with farnesoid X receptor activity. |
| US10626080B2 |
Process for the preparation of bimatoprost
It is provided a process for the preparation of bimatoprost, which comprises: a) reacting a compound of formula (III) with ethylamine in the presence of a suitable solvent; and b) deprotecting compound obtained in step a) to obtain bimatoprost, wherein R1 is selected from (C1-C16)alkyl, (C1C16)haloalkyl, (C2-C16)alkenyl, (C2-C16)haloalkenyl, (C1-C16)alkoxy(C1-C16)alkyl, aryl, (C1-C16)alkylaryl, allyl, —(CH2—CH2—O)n—CH3 wherein n=1, 2, 3 or 4, and —CH(O—CH2—CH2)2; R2 is selected from H, (C1-C16)alkyl, (C1-C16)haloalkyl, (C2-C16)alkenyl, (C2-C16)haloalkenyl, (C1-C16)alkoxy(CrC16)alkyl, aryl, (C1-C16)alkylaryl, allyl; or, alternatively, R1 and R2 taken together are selected from —CH2—CH2—CH2—, —CH2—CH2—, —O—CH2—CH2—, and —O—CH═CH—. There are also provided intermediates useful in such preparation process. |
| US10626079B2 |
Method for preparing single crystal of anhydrous halogenated choline or derivative thereof
Disclosed is a method for preparing high-quality anhydrous choline halide single crystal and its derivatives. The single crystal product has good stability of light and heat. It also has the advantages of moisture resistant, deliquescent resistance and is not easy to agglomerate. The method is simple in operation. The solvent used in the process is difficult to volatilize and can be recycled. |
| US10626077B2 |
Salvianolic acid compound T, preparation method therefor, and use thereof
The present invention relates to the medical field, specifically a salvianolic acid T as described in structural formula (I), a chiral isomer thereof, a preparation method therefor, pharmaceutical compositions, antioxidants, and free radical scavengers thereof, and a use of the compound. |
| US10626070B2 |
Device for manufacturing organic substance and method for manufacturing organic substance
A device for manufacturing an organic substance, including: a synthesis gas generation unit for generating a synthesis gas; an impurity concentration reducing unit including an adsorbent which is capable of adsorbing impurities contained in the synthesis gas, and produces a purified gas by contact of the adsorbent with the synthesis gas; an organic substance synthesis unit for producing an organic substance-containing solution from the purified gas as a raw material; an extraction unit for extracting the organic substance by heating the organic substance-containing solution; a heating unit for preparing heated gas to be fed to the adsorbent; and a heat supplying unit which supplies the extraction unit with heat of the heated gas fed from the heating unit to the adsorbent. |
| US10626067B1 |
Processes for separating para-xylene from toluene
Processes and apparatuses for para-xylene separation. A stream of para-xylene is separated from a toluene stream in a fractionation column. An overhead stream of the fractionation column is compressed and then passed to a heat recovery zone to transfer heat from the overhead stream to another process stream in, for example, a heat exchanger. The fractionation column may be separating an effluent from a toluene methylation reactor. |
| US10626066B2 |
High conversion and selectivity ODH process
Ethane may be catalytically oxidatively dehydrogenated to ethylene at high conversions and high selectivity in a circulating fluidized bed (CFB) reactor in the presence of oxygen in the feed in an amount above the flammability limit. The reactor has an attached regeneration reactor to regenerate the catalyst and cycle back to the CFB. |
| US10626063B2 |
Catalyst composition and process for preparing linear alph olefins
The present disclosure relates to a catalyst composition for the oligomerization of ethylene comprising a zirconium-containing catalyst and an organoaluminum-containing co-catalyst. The disclosure also relates to a process for oligomerization of ethylene in the presence of the catalyst composition according to the disclosure. The disclosed process results in C4-C2o linear alpha olefins having improved linearity. |
| US10626057B2 |
Set-delayed cement compositions comprising pumice and associated methods
Disclosed is a method of spraying a surface with a set-delayed cement. The method comprises providing a set-delayed cement composition comprising water, pumice, hydrated lime, and a set retarder; spraying a surface with the set-delayed cement composition; and allowing the set-delayed cement composition to set on the surface. |
| US10626051B2 |
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for recycling electronic waste
A method for recycling electronic waste may method comprise receiving electronic waste from an electronic waste-generating entity, separating components of the electronic waste into valuable recyclable material, hazardous material, and disposable non-hazardous material, creating a plurality of building material units comprising the disposable non-hazardous material, and sending at least a portion of the plurality of building material units back to the electronic waste-generating entity. |
| US10626049B1 |
Polycarboxylate-based superplasticizer compositions and methods of use
A dispersant composition for use in gypsum and/or cementitious compositions that includes, in combination, a polycarboxylate-based superplasticizer and a synergistically effective amount of an aluminum salt. The presence of the aluminum salt, such as aluminum chlorohydrate, improves the performance of the polycarboxylate-based superplasticizer. |
| US10626048B2 |
Dissolvable sealant for masking glass in high temperature ion exchange baths
A method of masking glass in an ion exchange bath includes applying a dissolvable sealant to a cover material, adhering the cover material to a glass part to form a mask on the glass part, immersing the glass part into an ion exchange bath. removing the glass part from the ion exchange bath, and using a solvent to dissolve the sealant and the cover material from the glass part. A mask on glass having a piece of glass, and a dissolvable sealant on a cover material, the dissolvable sealant comprising an inorganic material and a silicate, the dissolvable sealant between the cover material and the piece of glass. |
| US10626047B2 |
Glass container coating process
A process for forming coating on an interior surface of a glass container. A glass preform is formed at blank molding station from a gob of molten glass. Thereafter, a glass container is formed at a blow molding station from the glass preform. A coating material comprising a suspension of nanoparticles in a liquid medium is introduced into an interior of the glass preform or the glass container while the glass is still hot from being formed. Heat from the glass is transferred to the liquid medium to vaporize the liquid medium and form a coating on an interior surface of the glass preform or the glass container. Thereafter, the glass container is annealed. |
| US10626046B2 |
Glass ceramics
A group of glass-ceramic compositions nucleated with ZrO2 and P2O5 can develop a microstructure composed of spherulite grains, which produce a high fracture toughness (about 1.5 MPa·m0.5 or higher). Also, the glass-ceramic articles can be cerammed to have a CTE value of 30×10−7/° C. or lower. |
| US10626045B2 |
Lithium silicate glass ceramic with scheelite or powellite crystal phase
The invention relates to a lithium silicate glass ceramic which contains lithium silicate as main crystal phase and scheelite and/or powellite as further crystal phases. The invention also relates to a corresponding starting glass, a starting glass with nuclei, a process for producing the glass ceramic and the starting glasses as well as the use thereof. |
| US10626037B2 |
Concentrating aqueous solutions via hybridizing electrodialysis and other desalination techniques
An aqueous solution flows through a desalination system that separates the aqueous solution into purified water and concentrated brine. The concentrated brine is directed into an electrodialysis system that includes an anode and a cathode and at least two monovalent selective ion exchange membranes between the anode and the cathode. At least one of the monovalent selective ion exchange membranes separates at least one diluate channel from at least one concentrate channel in the electrodialysis system, and this membrane selectively allows at least one monovalent ion to pass through the membrane while blocking or inhibiting the transport therethrough of multi-valent ions. The concentrated brine flows through at least the concentrate channel while a voltage is applied to the anode and cathode; and additional aqueous solution flows through the diluate channel. |
| US10626034B2 |
Free-flowing carrier elements
A carrier element (1; 10; 20) for growth of biofilm thereon is designed for free-flowing in liquid to be purified and has surfaces (3; 13) for biofilm growth which are protected from the abrasion from other carrier elements or surfaces in a container containing the liquid to be purified by ridges (4; 12) having a height corresponding to a desired thickness of a biofilm intended to grow on the protected surfaces (3; 13). The ratio between the surfaces (3; 13) for biofilm growth and the area of the ridges ranges from 1:1 to 1:20. |
| US10626033B2 |
Bioreactor for wastewater treatment
There is described a bioreactor comprising a perforated tube for inputting wastewater therein, a textured wall, such as a geotextile membrane, and an oxygenating unit comprising a pressurized air bubble diffuser. The wall is spirally installed around the perforated tube, defining a passageway fluidly connected to the perforated tube and along which the wastewater inputted in the perforated tube is forced to travel. The membrane is adapted for hosting aerobic bacteria at a surface thereof. The oxygenating unit is provided at a bottom of the passageway for oxygenating the passageway. The bioreactor can be included in a treatment apparatus comprising primary treatment chambers and a decantation chambers, forming a standalone unit which is compact and easy to install. |
| US10626029B2 |
High-performance anion exchange membranes and methods of making same
Anion exchange membranes may include a polymeric microporous substrate and a cross-linked anion exchange polymeric layer on the substrate. Anion exchange membranes may have a resistivity of less than about 1.5 Ohm-cm2 and an apparent permselectivity of at least about 95%. The anion exchange membranes may be produced by a unique, two step process. |
| US10626026B2 |
Multifunctional membraneless boiled water electrolysis machine
A multifunctional membraneless boiled water electrolysis machine comprises a container (21) for containing raw water, and a water electrolysis apparatus. The water electrolysis apparatus is mounted outside the container (21) for containing raw water and comprises an electrolysis power supply (9), an electrolysis water tank (10) and an electrolysis electrode assembly (18) located in the electrolysis water tank. A water outlet at a bottom of the container for containing the raw water is connected with a water pump (24) through a pipeline. The water pump (24) is connected with a water inlet (15) of the electrolysis water tank (10) through the pipeline. The raw water in the container can flow into the electrolysis electrode assembly (18) from the water inlet (15) of the electrolysis water tank (10) after being heated or boiled by a heater (16). The water is electrolyzed through the gaps between the electrodes of different polarities in the electrolysis electrode assembly (18). The electrolyzed water flows from a water outlet (28) of the electrolysis water tank (10) to satisfy needs of people for the electrolyzed water of different water temperatures. |
| US10626024B2 |
Optimized nozzle for injecting pressurized water containing a dissolved gas
The present invention concerns a nozzle for injecting pressurized water containing a dissolved gas, said nozzle comprising: a cylindrical intake chamber (20) for said water; a cylindrical expansion chamber (30) comprising a part (301) communicating with said intake chamber (20) by an orifice (401) and an outlet; a diffusion chamber (60) of truncated conical section communicating with the outlet of said expansion chamber (30) and widening out from said expansion chamber; said nozzle comprising means for putting the stream of water that flows out of said expansion chamber (30) into rotation. |
| US10626022B2 |
Integrated apparatus for chemical precipitation and rapid filtration of water samples
An integrated apparatus for chemical precipitation and rapid filtration of water samples. The invention relates to an apparatus for chemical precipitation and filtration of water samples. The integrated apparatus includes a reaction vessel, a lid of reaction vessel, a opening for reagent addition and gas leakage, an aerating tube, a support, a liquid phase remover, a solid phase collector, a control cover of the liquid phase remover, and a control cover of the solid phase collector. |
| US10626016B2 |
Method and composition of humidity-controlled generation of chlorine dioxide in polymers and superabsorbent hydrogels
A composition and method for chlorine dioxide production through reaction-diffusion chemistry that facilitates the in situ generation of chlorine dioxide, wherein a dry solid composition of hydroxymethanesulfinic acid monosodium salt dihydrate (abbreviated HMS) and a chlorine dioxide precursor are activated via the addition or absorption of water to produce chlorine dioxide. The dry solid chemical composition comprises dry, safe, transportable reagents that integrate with polymeric materials such as packaging and superabsorbent and stimuli-responsive hydrogel polymers to combine with water to produce chlorine dioxide. |
| US10626014B2 |
Reactor packing with preferential flow catalyst
The present invention relates to reactor tubes packed with a catalyst system employed to deliberately bias process gas flow toward the hot tube segment and away from the cold segment in order to reduce the circumferential tube temperature variation. |
| US10626009B2 |
Inferring ambient atmospheric temperature
In a method of inferring ambient atmospheric temperature, an acoustic signal is emitted from a speaker. A first sample of the acoustic signal is captured with a first microphone spaced a first distance from the speaker. A second sample of the acoustic signal is captured with a second microphone spaced a second distance from the speaker. The second distance is greater than the first distance, and a difference between the first distance and the second distance is a known third distance. A time delay in the acoustic signal is determined between the first sample and the second sample. An ambient temperature of the atmosphere through which the acoustic signal traveled is inferred based on a relationship between the time delay and temperature for the acoustic signal over the third distance. |
| US10626008B2 |
Micro-electro-mechanical device and manufacturing process thereof
A micro-electro-mechanical device formed in a monolithic body of semiconductor material accommodating a first buried cavity; a sensitive region above the first buried cavity; and a second buried cavity extending in the sensitive region. A decoupling trench extends from a first face of the monolithic body as far as the first buried cavity and laterally surrounds the second buried cavity. The decoupling trench separates the sensitive region from a peripheral portion of the monolithic body. |
| US10626007B2 |
Microelectromechanical transducer
In accordance with an embodiment, a microelectromechanical transducer includes a displaceable membrane having an undulated section comprising at least one undulation trough and at least one undulation peak and a plurality of piezoelectric unit cells. At least one piezoelectric unit cell is provided in each case in at least one undulation trough and at least one undulation peak, where each piezoelectric unit cell has a piezoelectric layer and at least one electrode in electrical contact with the piezoelectric layer. The membrane may be formed as a planar component having a substantially larger extent in a first and a second spatial direction, which are orthogonal to one another, than in a third spatial direction, which is orthogonal to the first and the second spatial direction and defines an axial direction of the membrane. |
| US10626006B2 |
Fluid fill tool and methods of using the same
A fluid fill tool for filling a reservoir on a vehicle includes a main body defining a cavity therein and a housing coupled to the main body and defining an opening therethrough. The housing is coupled to the main body such that the cavity is in flow communication with the opening. The fluid fill tool further includes a support mechanism coupled to the housing. The support mechanism is selectively moveable between a first position and a second position such that the support mechanism is configured to contact a wall of the vehicle to reduce movement of the reservoir. |
| US10626005B2 |
Fueling device
A channel forming member is attached to a filler neck on a nozzle insertion side where a fueling nozzle is to be inserted. The channel forming member includes a barrier section that forms an insertion flow path section for the fueling nozzle in the fuel flow path on the nozzle insertion side, while forming an annular channel surrounding the insertion flow path section so as to separate the channel from the insertion flow path section. The channel forming member further includes the following provided to the barrier section: an atmosphere communication hole for making the channel communicate with the atmosphere; a flow path communication hole for making the channel communicate with an insertion end flow path section downstream from the insertion flow path section; and a valve mechanism that prevents passage of the atmosphere through the channel in a fueling period. This contributes to reduction in introduction of the atmosphere into the fuel flow path through the channel in a fueling period. |
| US10626003B2 |
Post-mix drink dispensing system with independently controlled syrup pumps
Drinks dispensing system (10) comprising a first syrup pump (20) being controllable to deliver a predetermined dose of syrup from a first syrup container (22) to a dispensing valve assembly (16), a second syrup pump (20) being controllable to deliver a predetermined dose of syrup from a second syrup container (22) to the dispensing valve assembly (16), a control system (200) configured to control the operation of the first and second syrup pumps (20) by setting a first electrical power parameter of electrical power to be supplied to drive the first syrup pump (20) independently of a second electrical power parameter of electrical power to be supplied to drive the second syrup pump (20); and a water delivery system (14) configured to deliver water to the dispensing valve assembly (16), wherein the dispensing valve assembly (16) is operable to mix and dispense syrup and water. |
| US10626001B2 |
Puncture device for an array of beverage containers
Embodiments are directed to a puncture device that is adapted to puncture an array of beverage cans with a single actuation. A pivot arm rotates relative to a base that holds the array of beverage cans. The arm may include teeth that may be advanced or pushed into the array of beverage cans when the arm is rotated, thereby forming auxiliary openings in each of the cans. The punctured cans may be removed from the device and opened by a tab at a top end. This may create a vent that allows fluid to quickly expel from the auxiliary opening. |
| US10625999B2 |
Rise prevention device for vehicle body and vehicle assembly system including the same
A rise prevention device for a vehicle body and a vehicle assembly system including the same are provided. The a rise prevention device for a vehicle body includes an elevation device that is configured to move up and down and a power base that is configured to move up and down on the elevation device. In addition, a pressing device is configured to move up and down, is supported by the power base and is configured to press against the vehicle body to prevent the vehicle body from rising. |
| US10625998B2 |
Remote lift control using independent computing devices
A remote control system for remotely controlling a vehicle lift. The remote control system may comprise a lift control module and a remote computing device. The lift control module may be configured to receive information indicative of an instruction to pair the lift control module with a computing device and to present a validation code. The remote computing device may be configured to receive information indicative of an instruction to pair the remote computing device with the lift control module and to receive the validation code presented by the lift control module. Upon validating the received validation code, the remote computing device may be configured to be paired with the lift control module. |
| US10625997B1 |
Container mobility lift
A lifting device for lifting shipping containers has an end frame configured to engage with a shipping container. An extension member is rotatably connected to the end frame at a rearward upper pivot point. A support frame is rotatably affixed to the end frame at a rearward lower pivot point. The support frame is further rotatably affixed to the extension member at a forward upper pivot point. Extension of the extension member rotates the support frame with respect to the end plate, causing the support frame to move the end plate upwards, the end plate then lifting the shipping container. A roller wheel is affixed to the support frame and allows the shipping container to be rolled on a surface when multiple devices are used to lift the shipping container off of the surface. |
| US10625994B2 |
Fast acting compressible stop
A compressible stop for use in a crane has a housing, a rod slidably mounted within the housing, a floating piston, and a valve assembly. The floating piston divides the housing into a gas portion biasing the floating piston towards an end of the housing and a liquid portion containing a hydraulic fluid. The valve assembly divides the liquid portion into a support portion and a reserve portion. The valve assembly includes a check valve allowing a liquid to flow from the reserve portion into the support portion, a pressure sensitive valve inhibiting the liquid from flowing from the support portion into the reserve portion unless the pressure is above a threshold pressure, and a frangible divider configured to rupture when the liquid pressure exceeds a rupture pressure. |
| US10625992B2 |
Bearing
The invention provides a bearing. In particular, the invention provides a bearing for allowing a column of a davit to be rotatably mounted on a substantially upright shaft. The bearing has a body shaped to correspond to an internal profile of the column. The body has a first bore for receiving a component on which the bearing bears and a first pair of parallel, spaced second bores, narrower than the first bore, which extend across the first bore in a direction perpendicular to an axis of the first bore and are configured to receive retaining pins which engage with a groove in the component received in the first bore. A single bearing can be used to rotatably couple the davit to the shaft, or king post, with a plurality of different-spaced bores to account for different diameters of shaft. This improvement allows the davit to be manufactured easily and erected easily by users. |
| US10625991B2 |
Deck hoist tractor, rescue chute and tote tank
A deck hoist tractor (DHT) for an unmanned platform (1) comprising an elongated base frame structure (12) carrying respective caterpillar drives (18) on each side enabling the tractor (2) to move forward and rearward, characterised in that the tractor (2) further comprising a tower frame structure (10) extending in substantially vertical direction from one end section of the base frame structure (12), which tower frame structure (10) is carrying a cantilevered top frame structure (11) carrying a lifting apparatus (22, 21), said caterpillar drives (18) are located at the same end section as said top frame structure (11), that said base frame structure (12) is extended by respective cantilevered beams (12a) space apart with an opening between them, each cantilevered beam (12) having an adjustable support structure (19) adjacent to their distal end (12b) from the caterpillar drive (18), said cantilevered top frame structure (11) is extended to vertically correspond with said respective cantilevered beams (12a), and said lifting apparatus (20, 21) is arranged to be shifted both forward and rearward, in addition to laterally in said top frame structure in order to position a load supported in the lifting apparatus. The invention also relates to a temporarily installed escape chute (54) and a method for installing and removing a tote tank (70) on the platform (1). |
| US10625984B2 |
Counterweight for elevator system
A counterweight is provided including a counterweight frame including a crosshead. A counterweight hitch is operably coupled to the counterweight frame. The counterweight hitch includes a vertically stacked first sheave channel and a second sheave channel. Each of the first sheave channel and second sheave channel includes an interior cavity within which at least one individual sheave assembly is mounted. The plurality of individual sheave assemblies is substantially identical and arranged at an angle relative to a central plane of the counterweight frame. |
| US10625978B2 |
Cable storage spool with center feed
A telecommunications cable spool for storing, paying-out, and reeling-in a telecommunications cable includes a spool, an axis of rotation, and a rotatable cable guide mounted about the axis. The spool defines a wrapping area that receives a plurality of wraps of the cable and defines a circumference. The axis passes through the spool within the circumference. The guide defines a rotating cable guide path with a first end adjacent the wrapping area and a second end positioned near the axis. The first end of the path is oriented at least partially tangential to the circumference, and the second end of the path is oriented at least partially aligned with the axis. The cable is routed along a cable route that extends between first and second ends with a storage portion between the ends of the route. The route includes a transitional portion along the guide path between the storage portion and the second end of the route. A portion of the transitional portion is routed through a center of the storage portion. A deployed portion of the cable is paid-out from the second end of the cable route. |
| US10625977B2 |
Method and system for detecting faults and abnormal wear conditions in oil and gas wireline logging winch units
Systems and methods are provided for detecting potential failures in logging winch systems to enable efficient maintenance are provided. An example of such a system may include a logging winch system that conveys a downhole tool into a wellbore on a cable and a data processing system. The logging winch system may include sensors that measure observed quantities relating to operation of the logging winch system. The data processing system may determine correlation signatures that relate the observed quantities to the operation of the logging winch system and may identify when one or more of the correlation signatures indicates abnormal operation. |
| US10625975B1 |
Apparatus and method for spooling wire
A reel apparatus and method comprising an inner flange assembly, an outer flange assembly, and a bearing assembly coupled to the inner flange assemblies. The inner flange assembly is capable of freely rotating relative to the outer flange assembly. In another embodiment, wire is spooled from a reel assembly comprising an inner flange assembly and an outer flange assembly. |
| US10625974B1 |
System and apparatus for wire and cable packaging and payoff
An apparatus for the transportation and payoff of coiled wire and cable, the apparatus comprising a clamshell package, an inner void formed by the clamshell package, the inner void comprising a compartment within for containing coiled wire and cable during transportation and payoff of the wire and cable, a payoff port is coupled to the clamshell package, wherein the coiled wire and cable is extracted from the clamshell package through the payoff port on an axis substantially similar to the axis of the extracted wire and cable, and wherein the payoff port extends from the clamshell package through the coiled wire and cable. |
| US10625973B2 |
Filament dispensing system
A filament dispensing system is provided. The filament dispensing system embodies one or more donut shaped filament dispensers interconnectable by a band. Each dispenser is transparent and provides an integrated cutter. The transparency enables visual identification of the color of filament with the transparent dispenser, while the integrated cutter makes scissors unnecessary. The donut-shaped structure of the dispenser enables an operative association with the band that can decoratively hang from a user's neck during use. The filament dispensing system may also include a bobbin rethreader. |
| US10625972B2 |
Thread dispenser
A thread dispenser for use when installing hair extensions comprised of a base supporting a spool on a vertical spindle. The top of the base has a guide with a catch to hold and guide the thread towards a cutter on top of the base. The cutter includes a cartridge with a replaceable blade. The blade is recessed and exposed through a mouth for safety. The base includes a plurality of needle holding apertures. Optionally included is a drawer in the base and a tension nut holding the spool onto the spindle. |
| US10625969B2 |
Conveying-direction switching device and sheet handling device
A conveying-direction switching device includes: a shaft; and a plurality of blades that are pivotally supported by the shaft and that switch a conveying direction of a sheet conveyed through a conveyance path to a predetermined direction toward a delivering/discharging section for the sheet included in a housing unit that houses the sheet by winding the sheet around a drum together with a belt-like member, wherein the plurality of blades include: a first blade group that is pivotally supported in a neighborhood of a center of the shaft and that is opposed to the delivering/discharging section; and a second blade group that is pivotally supported on an outer side of the shaft as compared with the first blade group. |
| US10625968B2 |
Media diversion apparatus
A media diversion apparatus for a printing system is described. In an example implementation, the apparatus comprises a media diverter to route media printed by a print assembly of a printing system. The media diverter, in a first position, is to route cut-sheet media from the print assembly to a first output region. The media diverter, in a second position, is to route roll media from the print assembly to a second output region. |
| US10625967B2 |
Print output auxiliary device and printing apparatus
An auxiliary device and a printing apparatus are provided. The printing apparatus includes a print output device, including a print exit. The printing apparatus also includes an auxiliary device disposed at the print exit of the print output device and having a first position state and a second position state. During a transition of the auxiliary device between the first position state and the second position state, the auxiliary device pushes print outputted from the print exit to move in a direction away from the print exit. |
| US10625966B2 |
Rewinder for the production of paper logs
Rewinder for the production of logs. A feeding element adapted to supply a paper web. A guide element adapted to guide sequentially several cores along a predetermined path between a station for feeding the cores and a winding station in which a predetermined amount of the web is wound on each core. A winding element adapted to wind the paper web on the cores in the winding station. The guide element includes a guide with a curved end section that ends in the winding station and in cooperation with the winding element, delimits a channel crossed by each core before reaching the winding station. |
| US10625962B2 |
Variable separation pads based on lift height, and methods to rotate or curve the pads
Separation strips in a dam aid in the separation of adjacent sheets of media being fed from a stack of sheets so that only one sheet is fed to a process station and, more particularly, to separating the uppermost or top sheet of a stack of sheets from the next adjacent sheet during feeding of the top sheet from the stack of sheets of media. When a lift plate is present that adjusts the height of the media stack, rotation of the separation strips to maintain a constant separation angle improves media feed reliability. Curvature of the separation strips may also maintain the separation angle as the lift plate raises the position of the top media sheet. |
| US10625960B2 |
Cargo scraping apparatus and systems of unloading and loading cargo
The present invention is directed to a cargo scraping apparatus for a cargo carrier having a cargo hold. The cargo scraping apparatus includes a gantry, at least one scraper blade adapted to substantially span a width of the cargo hold, means to connect the at least one scraper blade to the gantry, and means to raise or lower the at least one scraper blade relative to the gantry. Moving the gantry relative to the cargo hold causes the at least one scraper blade to push or sweep cargo towards one or more regions of the cargo hold. The invention is also directed to a system for unloading cargo from a cargo hold, a system for assisting in loading cargo into a cargo hold, and a system for loading and unloading cargo into and from a cargo hold. |
| US10625951B2 |
Conveyance system for operation in radioactive environment
A system for manufacturing radionuclide generators includes an enclosure defining a radioactive environment. The enclosure includes radiation shielding to prevent radiation within the radioactive environment from moving to an exterior of the enclosure. The system also includes a conveyance system having a forward track and first carriages positioned on and movable along the forward track for conveying racks in a first direction. The conveyance system also includes a first walking beam mechanism magnetically coupled to the first carriages to move the first carriages. The conveyance system further includes a return track and second carriages positioned on and movable along the return track for conveying racks in a second direction opposite the first direction. The forward track and the return track form a loop. |
| US10625949B2 |
Transfer apparatus and storage apparatus
A transfer apparatus comprises a rod-shaped member that comprises a magnetic material, a cover, made of a nonmagnetic material, that covers the rod-shaped member, a first terminal member configured to allow insertion of one end portion of the rod-shaped member, a second terminal member configured to allow insertion of the other end portion of the rod-shaped member, and a driving device, connected to the first terminal member, that rotates the rod-shaped member about a central axis of the rod-shaped member, in which the rod-shaped member and the first terminal member are fixed to each other, the cover and the first terminal member are fixed to each other, the rod-shaped member and the second terminal member are not fixed to each other, and the cover and the second terminal member are fixed to each other. |
| US10625947B2 |
Fence-adjusting apparatus
A conveyor includes two fences located on two sides of a platform. A fence-adjusting apparatus includes a primary driving unit, a secondary driving unit and a transmission. The primary driving unit includes two primary movable elements, two primary tracks and a primary driving element. Each primary movable element is connected to a corresponding one of the fences. The primary tracks movably support the primary movable elements. The primary driving element is operable to move the primary movable elements along the primary tracks. The secondary driving unit includes two secondary movable elements, two secondary tracks and a secondary driving element. Each secondary movable element is connected to a corresponding one of the fences. The secondary tracks movably support the secondary movable elements. The secondary driving element is operable to move the secondary movable elements along the secondary tracks. The transmission operatively connects the primary driving unit to the secondary driving unit. |
| US10625941B2 |
Distributed autonomous robot systems and methods
Described in detail herein is an automated fulfillment system including a computing system programmed to receive requests from disparate sources for physical objects disposed at one or more locations in a facility. The computing system can combine the requests, and group the physical objects in the requests based on object types or expected object locations. Autonomous robot devices can receive instructions from the computing system to retrieve a group of the physical objects and deposit the physical objects in storage containers. |
| US10625940B2 |
Construction material management system and construction material management method
A system and a method which allow an easy shipment and receipt of construction materials and an easy retrieval of the same, as well as an easy acquisition of position information of construction materials. The system includes: an identification information holding medium which holds identification information of the construction material; a moving body that acquires first position information which is position information of the moving body and also acquires identification information; material data storage unit for storing the first position information in association with the identification information; and retrieval unit for retrieving the identification information in the material data storage unit. The display unit displays the first position information associated with the identification information retrieved by the retrieval unit. Therefore, it is easy to perform shipment and receipt of construction materials, easily retrieve construction materials, and it is also easy to acquire position information of construction materials. |
| US10625937B2 |
Conveying device
A conveying device according to the present invention includes a first connection mechanism provided on an upper surface, a base member provided on the upper surface, a sliding mechanism that relatively and slidably moves a position of the first connection mechanism on a slide axis relative to the base member, and a traveling mechanism that makes the conveying device travel. The first connection mechanism is connected with a carriage at a predetermined connection position. The sliding mechanism slidably moves the first connection mechanism between the connection position and a predetermined conveyance position spaced away from the connection position on the slide axis in a state in which the first connection mechanism is connected with the carriage. The traveling mechanism makes the conveying device travel in a state in which the first connection mechanism is positioned in the conveyance position. |
| US10625935B2 |
Refuse container
A refuse container has a bin defining a cavity and a lid selectively inhibiting access to the cavity. A pair of opposing brackets is located below the lid. The brackets are in laterally spaced relationship such that a space is located between portions of the brackets. Each bracket has opposing inner and outer face portions with an interior gap formed between therebetween. The interior gap is fluidly isolated from the cavity. A rib is located within the interior gaps such that each rib extends inwardly relative to the space between the brackets. A retention bar is coupled to each bracket and spans the space from one bracket to the other bracket wherein opposing ends of the retention bar extend into the interior gap of each bracket, and an exposed portion of the retention bar spans the space between the brackets. The end portions of the retention bar abut the ribs. |
| US10625934B2 |
Container transporter and methods
A container transporter systems, vehicle, and methods are disclosed. The container transporter can be automatically or manually controlled allowing for ease of use in moving a coupled container. The container transporter can be used with virtually any container, such as a refuse container. The automatic movement of the container transporter can assist users with time constrains or physical constraints in moving their refuse for pickup. |
| US10625930B2 |
Ejection member and aerosol product using same
Provided are an ejection member and an aerosol product using the same capable of obtaining a desired shape of an ejection material by suppressing adhesion of the ejection ejection materials to each other. An ejection member to be connected to an aerosol container filled with a foaming content is provided with an expansion chamber for promoting foaming of the foaming content from the aerosol container and a plurality of nozzles for ejecting the foaming content in the expansion chamber to the outside. The expansion chamber is provided with an introduction port for introducing the foaming content from the aerosol container and a delivery port for delivering the foaming content to the nozzle side. The nozzles each have a slit-shaped ejection port. The communication path that communicates the ejection port and the delivery port has a slit-shaped slit portion. A length of the slit portion in the ejection direction is greater than a slit width of the ejection port. |
| US10625929B2 |
Dispenser with a resilient outlet valve
A dispensing device for dispensing a foamable product. The dispensing device comprises a valve. The valve comprises: a plug; a seat configured to receive the plug; and one or more resilient arms coupled to the plug, configured to bias the plug against the seat. The valve has a closed configuration in which the plug is received by the seat, and an open configuration in which the plug is displaced from the seat. |
| US10625926B2 |
Device and system for insulating items during delivery by a mobile robot
An insulated bag reduces heat exchange between temperature-sensitive items and ambient surroundings. The insulated bag has a bag body which can be covered by a bag lid. The bag lid is provided with a first portion of a securing element. The insulated bag is suitable for insertion into an item space of a mobile delivery robot. The mobile robot has a robot lid provided with a complementary second portion of the securing element. After the insulated bag is inserted into the item space, the two portions of the securing element are connected. Thereafter, when the robot lid is opened, the bag lid is also opened, permitting access to its contents. |
| US10625917B2 |
Vacuum panel for non-round containers
A non-round container including a sidewall with an outer surface. A first vacuum panel is recessed beneath the outer surface and includes at least one first rib. A second vacuum panel is recessed beneath the outer surface and includes at least one second rib. A middle vacuum panel is recessed beneath the outer surface and is positioned between the first and the second vacuum panels. The middle vacuum panel includes at least one middle rib. |
| US10625914B2 |
Bottle closure assembly including a polyethylene composition
The present disclosure describes bottle closure assemblies which are made at least in part with a polyethylene composition having good flow properties and good resistance to environmentally induced stress cracking. The bottle closure assembly includes a cap portion, an elongated tether portion, and a retaining means portion. The retaining means portions engages a bottle neck or an upper portion of a bottle. The elongated tether portion connects at least one point on the cap portion to at least one point on the retaining means portion so as to prevent loss of the cap portion from a bottle. |
| US10625906B1 |
Inside out method of manufacturing a container with a leak resistant seal
Embodiments include a method of manufacturing a container with a leak resistant seal. The method includes forming an elastomer or a plastic or any combination thereof into a container inside out by forming an outside portion of the container on an internal surface of the container before inverting the container and forming an inside portion of the container on an external surface of the container before inverting the container. In embodiments, the method includes forming or coupling a leak resistant seal on the external surface of the container before inverting the container. The leak resistant seal provides access to the inside portion of the container when the leak resistant seal is open after inverting the container and holds at least liquid internal to the container when applying an external force to the container without use of an external structure to keep the leak resistant seal closed after inverting the container. |
| US10625905B2 |
Reusable plastic carrier bag and holding strap for a plastic carrier bag
The present disclosure provides a plastic carrier bag wherein the holding strap joined to the front panel and the holding strap joined to the rear panel comprises a first flexible hose-like hollow body or a single or multi-layered material strip not forming a hollow body, either of which is surrounded by a second flexible hose-like hollow body. Further, the present disclosure includes a holding strap for a plastic carrier bag containing a first flexible hose-like hollow body or a single or multi-layered material strip not forming a hollow body and a second flexible hose-like hollow body which surrounds the first flexible hose-like hollow body or the single or multi-layered material strip not forming a hollow body. |
| US10625903B2 |
Method of filling liquid content and packing container filled with liquid content
A method of filling a container (30) with a liquid content (31), by ejecting a multilayer filler that includes a core layer of the fluid content and an outermost layer of a liquid while forming a film of the liquid between the inner wall of the container and the liquid content. |
| US10625902B2 |
Container assembly
A collapsible support structure can be used with a container assembly. The collapsible support structure includes four corner connectors rotationally connected to one another with connector plates and a locking mechanism. A leg attached to each of the four corner connectors by a vertical tube. All legs are rotationally connected to a central support assembly which can rotate around a vertical axis. |
| US10625901B2 |
Opening device for a container and a method for producing such opening device
An opening device for a container comprises a pouring spout defining a pouring opening to pour in use the content of the container, a closing element closing the pouring opening and connected to the pouring spout by a breakable connection, and a closure fitted to the pouring spout in a removable manner to close the pouring opening at a region thereof different from that closed by the closing element; the closing element is formed in one piece with a protruding portion extending through the pouring opening and welded to the closure far away from the closing element. |
| US10625900B2 |
Foldable packaging system
The present disclosure relates to a storage container and, more particularly, to a foldable packaging system and methods of assembly. The foldable packaging system includes: a main body; a front flap section; and an intermediate body portion connecting to both the main body and the front flap section at a first fold line and a second fold line along upper and lower edges of the intermediate body portion, respectively, wherein the first fold line has a length “x”, the second fold line has a length “x′”, and x>x′. |
| US10625897B2 |
Synthetic resin container and manufacturing method therefor
A synthetic resin container having a bottle shape including a tube-shaped mouth, a tube-shaped trunk having one end closed by a bottom, and a shoulder through which another end of the trunk is connected to the mouth. The shoulder is inclined at an angle greater than 120° with respect to an axis of the mouth, and the shoulder has a crystal orientation in a machine direction of less than 1. |
| US10625894B2 |
Method for the aseptic filling of a bag
Method for the aseptic filling of a bag with a pharmaceutical product or liquid which comprises the following steps: a) a first step in which the cap is inserted in the inlet of the bag; b) a second step in which said cap is raised and the pharmaceutical product or liquid concerned is introduced; c) a third step in which the cap is re-inserted in the inlet of the bag; and d) a fourth step in which the cap and the inlet of the bag are welded. |
| US10625893B2 |
Device for processing, in particular for ultrasound welding, of packaging sleeves
A device for processing, in particular for ultrasound welding, of packaging sleeves and/or packagings includes at least two tools for processing, in particular for ultrasound welding, of packaging sleeves. Each tool has an operating region. The tools are supported in such a manner that there is produced between the operating regions a gap whose longitudinal direction corresponds to the transport direction of the packaging sleeves, and the tools are supported in such a manner that the size of the gap can be changed. In order also to enable continuous welding of the packaging sleeves in a reliable manner with changing material thicknesses, there is provided at least one parallel spring on which at least one of the tools is movably supported transversely relative to the transport direction of the packaging sleeves. |
| US10625892B2 |
Web packaging machines with variable depth forming
A packaging machine is for forming a product cavity in a web including a forming die box defining a recess into which the product cavity is formed. An insert is axially movable in the recess to thereby vary a depth of the recess. A variable depth mechanism selectively moves the insert to vary the depth of the recess. The packaging machine includes a latching mechanism that moves the forming die box into and between a first position in which the forming die box is spaced apart from the die box base and a second position in which the forming die box is supported by the die box base. |
| US10625891B2 |
Bag supply device
A bag supply device used in a rotary bag-filling packaging machine and including: an empty-bag holding member for holding a bag, a reciprocating mechanism for moving the empty-bag holding member back and forth between a bag receiving position and a bag delivery position, a first turning mechanism for turning the empty-bag holding member around a first axis parallel to a bag width direction thereof upon operation of the reciprocating mechanism and orienting the holding face of the empty-bag holding member vertically in the delivery position, and a second turning mechanism for turning the empty-bag holding member around a second axis parallel to a bag length direction thereof and causing the bag held by the empty-bag holding member in the delivery position to be directly across from the pair of grippers stopped in the empty bag supply position. |
| US10625885B2 |
Medicine dispensing apparatus
A medicine packaging apparatus 10 has a medicine preparing and dispensing portion 20, a packaging portion 150, a pre-packaging photographing portion 100 for reading identification information attached to a medicine in a phase before the medicines are packaged by the packaging portion 150, an individually supplying portion 60 which can individually supply the plurality of medicines received from the side of the medicine preparing and dispensing portion 20 to the side of the pre-packaging photographing portion 100 and a control part 200. The individually supplying portion 60 includes a receiving portion 72 for receiving the medicines from the side of the medicine preparing and dispensing portion 20 and a delivering device 64 which can perform a delivery action for delivering the medicines by individually holding the medicines in the receiving portion 72 and releasing the medicines toward the side of the pre-packaging photographing portion 100. The control part 200 perform an inspection process based on the identification information read by the pre-packaging photographing portion 100. |
| US10625884B2 |
Apparatus and method for filling a product into a container
An apparatus for filling a product into a container is provided. The apparatus can include a filling unit that can deliver the product into the container. The filling unit can include a pump and a filling nozzle at its one end. The apparatus can also include a drive unit for moving the container in relation to the filling unit between a first position, in which a bottom end of the container is arranged at a maximum distance from the filling nozzle, and a second position, in which the bottom end of the container is arranged at a minimum distance from the filling nozzle. A controller can control delivery of the product through the filling nozzle, control the drive unit, and calculate a new drive unit motion profile for controlling movement from said second position to said first position. |
| US10625881B2 |
Modified start sequence of a gas turbine engine
A system for controlling a start sequence of a gas turbine engine includes an electronic engine control system, a thermal model, memory, a model for determining a time period (tmotoring), and a controller. The thermal model synthesizes a heat state of the gas turbine engine. The memory records the current heat state at shutdown and a shutdown time of the gas turbine engine. The model for determining the time period is for motoring the gas turbine engine at a predetermined speed Ntarget that is less than a speed to start the gas turbine engine, where tmotoring is a function of the heat state recorded at engine shutdown and an elapsed time of an engine start request relative to a previous shutdown time. The controller modulates a starter valve to maintain the gas turbine engine within a predetermined speed range of NtargetMin to NtargetMax for homogenizing engine temperatures. |
| US10625877B2 |
Gimbal having quick release structure, imaging device, and unmanned aerial vehicle
A gimbal includes a rotatable frame assembly and a quick release structure configured to detachably mount a camera to the frame assembly. The frame assembly includes a connector configured to form an electrical connection between the gimbal and the camera. |
| US10625875B2 |
Apparatus to store a drogue hose on an aircraft
Apparatus to store a drogue hose on an aircraft are disclosed herein. An example apparatus includes a pod to be attached to an aircraft to store a drogue hose, a drum disposed in the pod around which the drogue hose is coiled, where an axis of the drum is aligned with a direction of flight of the aircraft, guides to move along a length of the drum to guide the drogue hose as the drogue hose is coiled around the drum, and exit rollers adjacent to a drogue chute cave of the pod, the exit rollers to guide the drogue hose as the drogue hose moves through the drogue chute cave. |
| US10625872B2 |
Composite fan cowl having core with varying thickness
An engine nacelle comprised of an inlet, an exhaust end, and a composite fan cowl. The composite fan cowl has a core with a thickness varying in a direction moving from the inlet to the exhaust end. |
| US10625870B1 |
Secured lines for ballistic recovery system
A parachute is coupled to a rocket where the parachute is extracted by having the rocket pull on the parachute. A parachute strap couples the parachute to an aircraft where at a first point in time, a first section of the parachute strap and a second section of the parachute strap are both secured independently of each other. At a second point in time, the second section of the parachute strap is still secured while the first section of the parachute strap is released where the released first section of the parachute strap gradually becomes taut as the parachute is extracted. |
| US10625867B2 |
Integrable seat leg
An integrable seat leg for an original equipment manufacturer seat, including a vertical member, including a front end and a rear end, a first side surface and a second side surface, a top surface and a bottom surface, one or more engaging members extending from the bottom surface, and one or more through-bores arranged proximate the top surface to secure the integrable seat leg to the seat, wherein the one or more engaging members are operatively arranged to engage one or more respective apertures in track. |
| US10625866B2 |
Flexible foldover seat configurations for emergency egress of aircraft
In one embodiment, an apparatus may comprise: a floor panel for a rotorcraft; and a plurality of passenger seats coupled to the floor panel, wherein: the plurality of passenger seats is arranged into a plurality of seating rows; and the plurality of passenger seats comprises one or more foldover seats arranged to facilitate access to one or more exits of the rotorcraft. |
| US10625865B2 |
Aircraft seat and method for adjusting an aircraft seat
Aircraft seat having a first seat element and a second seat element, the second seat element being mounted so as to be adjustable relative to the first seat element, a spring element that moves the second seat element relative to the first seat element being provided, it being possible for the force acting on the second seat element by the spring element to be released by an actuating element such that the spring element is deactivated in a first switching position of the actuating element, and the spring element is activated in a second switching position of the actuating element, where a force limitation element is provided, by which the force acting on the second seat element by the spring element can be limited to a predetermined value such that intermediate states between the first and the second switching positions can also be set. |
| US10625863B2 |
Seating device
A seating device comprises a seat bottom unit, in particular an aircraft seat bottom unit, having an accommodating region for receiving a module, in particular a lifejacket module, with at least one upper wall element which forms at least a support surface for a comfort element. |
| US10625862B2 |
Aircraft interior lavatory
A lavatory for an aircraft cabin includes a wall having a forward wall portion disposed immediately aft of and substantially conforming to an exterior aft surface of an aircraft cabin structure, such as a passenger seat, that is substantially not flat in a vertical plane. The forward wall portion includes a forward projection over an aft portion of the adjacent passenger seat. The forward wall portion can define a secondary space in the interior lavatory space, which can provide an amenity stowage space, and can include design elements providing visual space. |
| US10625852B2 |
Aerodynamically efficient lightweight vertical take-off and landing aircraft with pivoting rotors and stowing rotor blades
An aerial vehicle adapted for vertical takeoff and landing using a set of wing mounted thrust producing elements and a set of tail mounted rotors for takeoff and landing. An aerial vehicle which is adapted to vertical takeoff with the rotors in a rotated, take-off attitude then transitions to a horizontal flight path, with the rotors rotated to a typical horizontal configuration. The aerial vehicle uses different configurations of its wing mounted rotors and propellers to reduce drag in all flight modes. |
| US10625850B2 |
Aircraft landing gear shock absorber assembly
An aircraft landing gear shock absorber assembly having an outer casing having a bore which extends through the outer casing. The bore has a first opening and a second opening. A rod is slidably coupled within the bore such that a first end of the rod projects out of the first opening of the bore, the first end of the rod being arranged to be attached to a wheel assembly. A closure is provided for the second opening of the bore. The bore has a reduced width portion relative to the second opening of the bore, and the rod includes a radially enlarged portion that is wider than the reduced width portion of the bore. |
| US10625846B2 |
Adaptable rotor control system for a variable number of blades
In one embodiment, a rotor hub comprises a yoke for attaching a plurality of rotor blades, a constant velocity joint to drive torque from a mast to the yoke and to enable the yoke to pivot, and a rotor control system configured to adjust an orientation of the plurality of rotor blades. Moreover, the rotor control system comprises: a swashplate, a phase adapter fulcrum, a plurality of actuators controlled based on a flight control input, a plurality of lower pitch links configured to transfer motion between the plurality of actuators and the swashplate, a plurality of phase adjustment levers configured to adjust a control phase associated with motion transferred between the plurality of actuators and the plurality of lower pitch links, and a plurality of upper pitch links configured to adjust a pitch of the plurality of rotor blades, wherein there are more upper pitch links than lower pitch links. |
| US10625833B2 |
Gas-containing surface cover, arrangement, and use
The present invention relates to a surface cover for a body which can be brought into contact with a liquid, comprising: a layer which at least partly contains gas and which is designed and arranged such that at least some sections of a layer face facing the liquid contacts the liquid; a gas-permeable layer which is arranged on the gas-containing layer on a face that faces the body and is opposite the face facing the liquid or which is integrally formed with the gas-containing layer; and a gas-supplying device which is connected to the gas-permeable layer such that gas can flow from the gas-supplying device to the gas-containing layer through the gas-permeable layer. The invention also relates to an arrangement and a use. |
| US10625831B2 |
Fin stabilizer
A vessel hull stabilization system includes a housing having a rotatable shaft mounted thereto, the shaft configured to connect to a fin such that the fin is located on an outside of the vessel hull and the housing is located on an inside of the vessel hull. A drive system is mounted to the housing and includes a motor and a drive element. The motor is connected to a central shaft of the drive element and an outer element of the drive element is connected to the fin shaft. The drive element includes a plurality of teeth positioned between the outer element and the central shaft such that when the motor rotates the central shaft, the plurality of teeth oscillate in a direction perpendicular to an axis of the central shaft to interact with and rotate the outer element. A controller receives sensor readings to determine control signals to send to the motor(s) to impart rotation of the fin. |
| US10625829B2 |
Personal watercraft
A personal watercraft comprises a body including a deck; and a seat disposed on the deck at a location that is forward of a rear end of the deck, wherein the deck includes a deck floor extending in a forward and rearward direction and in a rightward and leftward direction, at a location that is lateral of the seat, and wherein when viewed from a side, inclined parts which are inclined in an upward direction from a front to a rear, are provided in regions of the deck floor, the regions vertically overlapping with a portion of the seat, the portion being rearward of a center of the seat in the forward and rearward direction. |
| US10625827B2 |
Ride-height adjustable air shock boat seat pedestal with locking swivel
A ride height adjustable oil damped air shock boat seat pedestal with selectively lockable swivel capability is shown, which includes a locking pin extending below the seat and moving up and down with the seat as permitted and controlled by the air shock. The locking pin being received by a structure, which limits rotation of the seat. |
| US10625825B1 |
Chafe guard assembly for a watercraft mooring line
Apparatus and method for mooring a watercraft to a stationary attachment point such as a dock. A guard assembly reduces chafing between a mooring line and an edge surface of the watercraft using an elongated tube of flexible material through which a medial portion of the mooring line freely passes. A securement strap of the guard assembly extends from a proximal end of the tube and is configured for attachment to an attachment point of the watercraft, such as a cleat. The securement strap has a length sufficient to maintain a medial portion of the tube in interposed relation between the mooring line and the edge surface of the watercraft. The securement strap may be adjustable in length to accommodate different watercraft configurations. |
| US10625821B2 |
Bicycle sprocket and bicycle sprocket assembly
A bicycle sprocket comprises a first sprocket body, first sprocket teeth, a first side surface, a second side surface, at least one shifting facilitation projection, at least one guide portion, and at least one recess. The at least one guide portion is provided on a first side surface to guide a bicycle chain from the bicycle sprocket toward a smaller sprocket in a second shifting operation. The at least one recess is provided on the first side surface so as to be adjacent to the at least one guide portion in a circumferential direction defined about a rotational center axis. At least one of the at least one recess is provided in an upstream angular area defined from the at least one shifting facilitation projection to an upstream side in a driving state and within 90 degrees in the circumferential direction. |
| US10625812B2 |
Swing arm
A swing arm secures rigidity, and is lighter than a conventional swing arm, includes a hollow body with a pivot hole in which a pivot shaft is disposed, a suspension fixing portion in the body connected to one end portion of a suspension unit, and a pair of arms extending from the body and supporting respective ends of a wheel axle. Each of the pair of arms includes an outer member having an open cross-section and an inner member having an open cross-section. The outer member and the inner member of each of the arms are joined at respective open end portions. The body includes first opening portions joined with a corresponding one edge portion of the outer member of the arms, second opening portions joined with a corresponding outer surface of the inner member of the arms, and reinforcing support-struts that partition the first and second opening portions. |
| US10625810B2 |
Motorcycle mounting assembly for radio handset microphones
A mounting assembly for releasably securing a radio handset microphone to a motorcycle handlebar is provided. The mounting assembly includes a bracket element to extend partially around a motorcycle handlebar and a rigid plate extending from the bracket element. The bracket element is adapted to be joined to the motorcycle handlebar such that the bracket element partially surrounds the motorcycle handlebar. The rigid plate includes a mounting surface for mounting a radio handset microphone thereto. The mounting surface generally extends over the handlebar and is easily accessible to the motorcycle occupant. The mounting assembly may be combined with a carrier and a handset adapter to provide a mounting system with a secure landing zone that firmly holds the radio handset microphone in place. |
| US10625808B2 |
Vehicle
A vehicle includes a body frame including a main frame, a link support, and a connecting bracket that connects a front portion of the main frame and the link support. The connecting bracket includes a turning support that supports a lower cross member, a connector that connects a front portion of the main frame and the link support and a right reinforcement wall and a left reinforcement wall that extend in an up-and-down direction to connect the turning support and the connector. The connecting bracket including the turning support, the connector, the right reinforcement wall, and the left reinforcement wall is monolithic and unitary. |
| US10625807B2 |
Vehicle
A vehicle includes a body frame including a connecting bracket including a unitary connector that connects a front end of a right frame and a front end of a left frame, and an extension that extends to the front of the vehicle from the connector to be welded to a link support at a front end thereof. When the vehicle is seen from the front thereof, a weld between the extension and the link support is located on an imaginary central straight line that passes a middle upper axis and a middle lower axis above or below a turning support in an up-and-down direction of the body frame. |
| US10625803B2 |
Front motorcycle mudflap
A front mudflap that is mounted with or without the front fender of a motorcycle to block water, dirt, and debris includes a bracket, an elastic shield, a support plate, and at least one fastener. The elastic shield is positioned and mounted in between a shield attachment leg of the bracket and the support plate by the at least one fastener. A frame attachment leg of the bracket is mounted to a frame of the motorcycle by the fastening mechanism thus securing the front mudflap to the motorcycle in a horizontal manner. Since the front mudflap is not connected to the front fender, the front mudflap can function with or without the front fender by blocking water, dirt, and debris away from the motorcycle and the rider. |
| US10625800B2 |
Adjustable assembly for a bicycle
According to some embodiments, an adjustable assembly for a bicycle includes a lower tubular support configured to be attached to a bicycle frame; an upper tubular support configured to be attached to a bicycle saddle; an expansion portion support member positioned within an interior space of the lower tubular support; an expansion portion disposed at an upper end of the expansion portion support member; and a resilient member configured to provide an upwardly-directed force to the upper tubular support to provide movement of the upper tubular support away from the lower tubular support. |
| US10625799B2 |
Checking fixture
The present invention relates to a checking fixture comprising: a bottom support frame; a metallic support sheet mechanically fixated to the bottom support frame, the metallic support sheet comprising a plurality of through holes arranged in a predetermined layout; a plurality of holder members for holding vehicle component holders or vehicle component measurement devices, the holder members being attached to the metallic support sheet in the through holes and being adapted to extend away from an upper surface of the metallic support sheet; at least one metallic sheet reinforcement structure arranged orthogonally separated from the metallic support sheet, the metallic sheet reinforcement structure being adapted to fixate the relative position of at least two of the holders members. The metallic support sheet and the metallic reinforcement sheet structure are made from laser cut sheet material. |
| US10625798B2 |
Grouser assembly for endless track systems
A grouser assembly is selectively attachable to an endless track having a carcass, side edges and traction lugs. The grouser assembly includes a body having top and bottom faces. The body includes a recess defined in the bottom face that is shaped to receive a traction lug of the endless track. The grouser assembly further includes ground-contacting projections connected to the body and extending away from the top face, and first and second attachment assemblies connected to the body. The second attachment assembly has an attached configuration and a released configuration, and is positioned relative to the first attachment assembly such that when (i) the traction lug is received in the recess, (ii) the first attachment assembly attaches the grouser assembly to the carcass, and (iii) the second attachment assembly is in the attached configuration, the second attachment assembly attaches the grouser assembly to the endless track. |
| US10625796B2 |
Auto-leveling drive axle device for wheeled tractor, and leveling method
An auto-leveling drive axle device for a wheel tractor, and leveling method. The device comprises a transmission device and a leveling device. The device of the present invention changes only a vertical position of a drive axle with respect to a wheel, and a wheel shaft distance and wheel center spacing are not changed, thus improving traveling stability of a vehicle. |
| US10625795B2 |
Riding work vehicle
It is contemplated to arrange a plurality of operational levers without inviting complications of the arrangements or enlargement of the vehicle body, intensively for better operability between the driver's seat and one of the right and left rear fenders. In a riding work vehicle, a plurality of operational levers 25, 26 are disposed adjacent on the right and left sides between a driver's seat and one of right and left rear fenders 7. Of the plurality of operational levers 25, 26, an inner operational lever 25 disposed on the side of the driver's seat is displaceable in a front-rear direction of a vehicle body. Of the plurality of operational levers 25, 26, an outer operational lever 26 disposed on the side of the rear fender has an entire grip portion 26A thereof disposed more upwardly of the vehicle body than a grip portion 25A of the inner operational lever 25, the outer operational lever being displaceable in the front-rear direction of the vehicle body between a first operational position on more vehicle body front side than an operational range of the inner operational lever 25 and a second operational position on more vehicle body rear side than the operational range of the inner operational lever 25, the outer operational lever being position-retainable at the first operational position and the second operational position, respectively. |
| US10625789B2 |
Roof frame structure for bus
A roof frame structure for a bus is provided. The structure includes a plurality of bow members that are spaced apart from each other in a longitudinal direction of the bus and a plurality of support members that are disposed between the plurality of bow members. Each bow member is extended in a lateral direction of the bus and at least some support members among the plurality of support members are inclined at a predetermined angle with respect to a longitudinal axis of the bus. |
| US10625788B2 |
Vehicle side section structure
A vehicle side section structure includes a framework member with a closed cross-section structure that is provided at a vehicle width direction outer end of a vehicle body and that extends along a vehicle front-rear direction so as to configure vehicle framework; and a pillar that extends in a vehicle vertical direction, at least one of an upper end or a lower end of the pillar being joined to the framework member; and a joining structure including a provisional holding member and a fastening member with greater joining strength than the provisional holding member, the joining structure mechanically joining the framework member and the pillar. |
| US10625783B1 |
C-notch systems and methods
C-notch systems and methods for providing additional clearance or travel between the frame rail and the axle of a vehicle. Exemplary C-notch systems include a bottom brace, an outer brace, an inner brace, an outer fastener, an inner fastener, a front bottom fastener, and a rear bottom fastener. The outer brace and the inner brace can each have a notch that receives at least a portion of a vehicle bed rail. |
| US10625779B2 |
Apparatus and method for manipulating in-vehicle devices using steering wheel
An apparatus for manipulating in-vehicle devices using a steering wheel includes a reference signal input unit for inputting a reference signal to a driver through a charged plate, a touch sensor for receiving the reference signal through human body communication and for detecting a touch of the driver, and a controller for generating a control signal on the basis of the results detected by the touch sensor. |
| US10625777B2 |
Attitude control system
An object is to provide an attitude control system that can suppress an understeering characteristic when a vehicle such as an automobile travels in a medium-speed or low-speed range. A vehicle drives front wheels, and controls steering angles of the front wheels and steering angles of rear wheels. In an attitude control system to be mounted on the vehicle, a control amount detecting unit detects an operation amount of an accelerator pedal operated by a driver of the vehicle. A driving force estimating unit estimates a driving force generated on the front wheels based on the operation amount of the accelerator pedal. A rear-wheel steering angle determining unit determines a rear-wheel steering angle instruction value for controlling steering angles of the rear wheels based on an estimated front-wheel driving force that is the driving force estimated by the driving force estimating unit. |
| US10625776B2 |
Driving assistance technique for active vehicle control
The invention relates to a driving assistant adapted for active control of a vehicle based on predictions of a behavior of a detected object. A method aspect of the invention comprises accepting a first prediction of a behavior associated with the detected object from a first prediction subsystem and a second prediction from a second prediction subsystem; determining a control signal based on a combination of the first prediction and the second prediction; and initiating active control of the vehicle based on the control signal. |
| US10625774B2 |
Steering system for a motor vehicle
A steering system for a motor vehicle comprises an electric servomotor, as well as a water ingress detection device, at least one phase line of said servomotor being connected to a detection line for detecting the water level in a water-collecting area. |
| US10625771B2 |
Vehicle with lean control
A vehicle with two front wheels includes an EPS that makes it difficult for a rider to feel a sensation of physical disorder while realizing a vertical angle suppression function. The EPS is configured to apply an assisting force to a steering effort transmission mechanism. The vehicle further includes an EPL configured to apply a turning effort to a cross member of a link mechanism to turn the cross member relative to a vehicle body frame, and a control unit configured to control the EPS and the EPL. The control unit determines an EPS command value that determines a magnitude of output torque of the EPS and an EPL command value that determines a magnitude of output torque of the EPL according to a physical quantity including at least a vehicle speed and a vertical angle, and controls a ratio of the EPL command value to the EPS command value. |
| US10625770B2 |
Automatic steering with selective engagement of four-wheel steering
Automatic steering and four-wheel steering are configured on an agricultural machine so that when automatic steering is enabled, a control system selectively activates and deactivates four-wheel steering depending on sensed turning or non-turning states of the machine. When automatic steering is enabled, the machine can automatically steer, such as according to a prescription map. In straightaway paths, corresponding to non-turning states, the control system can activate two-wheel steering. However, in the headlands of fields, corresponding to turning states, the control system can activate four-wheel steering. Such turning states can be determined based on the machines location on the map. Alternatively, such turning states can be determined based on sensed turning of the wheels. When an operator takes control of steering, such as by turning the steering wheel, automatic steering can disable, and the control system can activate four-wheel steering, to provide an optimum state for turning in the headlands of fields. |
| US10625768B2 |
Crumple element for a safety steering column
The disclosure concerns a crumple element for a steering column. In order to provide a reliable, structurally simple steering column, according to the disclosure, it is provided that the crumple element has first and second connecting portions arranged axially at an end to connect adjacent steering column parts, and an interrupted crumple portion arranged in between the first and second connecting portions, and is able to deform by a threshold force acting axially, while the connecting portions are deformation-resistant to the threshold force. The crumple element is made integrally by additive production from metal. An end region of the first connecting portion facing the crumple portion has a first portion that protrudes axially relative to a second portion lying opposite the first portion transversely to the axial direction. |
| US10625767B2 |
Steering device
A steering device includes: an inner tube; an outer tube that fixes the inner tube by fastening the inner tube from an outer side, and has a first slit extending in an axial direction; a pair of clamp brackets that is disposed so that the clamp brackets face each other with the first slit therebetween; and a reinforcing member that is connected to one of the clamp brackets and also connected to a connection region that is a region of an outer circumferential surface of the outer tube and located farther on one side in the axial direction than an end of the first slit on the one side in the axial direction. |
| US10625763B2 |
Assembled-type traveling carriage
The assembled-type traveling carriage includes: the telescopic cylindrical body being an extendable telescopic cylindrical body rotatably provided with a first screw at each end thereof, and incorporating an actuator configured to extend and withdraw a nest; a joint block provided with a second screw; a traveler rotatably provided with the first screw and attached a driving device thereto; and a coupling rod rotatably provided with the first screw on each end thereof. A first planar frame body is assembled by screwing joint blocks to four of the telescopic cylindrical bodies, screwing the travelers to the joint blocks such that the travelers are positioned on extension lines of the telescopic cylindrical bodies, and coupling one ends of the four telescopic cylindrical bodies to one another by the coupling rods through the joint blocks. |
| US10625760B2 |
Apparatus and method for calculating wooden crosstie plate cut measurements and rail seat abrasion measurements based on rail head height
A system and method for inspecting a railway track. The system preferably includes: a processor; at least one sensor oriented to capture data of the railway track; a data storage device in electronic communication with the processor; and computer executable instructions stored on a computer readable storage medium in communication with the processor operable to: determine an elevation of a surface of a rail head of a rail located on the railway track based on a distance to the rail head from the at least one sensor, determine an elevation of a surface of a crosstie of the railway track based on a distance to a top surface of the crosstie from the at least one sensor, estimate a total rail height and underlying rail support, and calculate a crosstie wear value based on the determined rail head surface elevation, crosstie surface elevation, and estimated total rail height and underlying rail support. |
| US10625757B2 |
Backing ring for railcar axle
A backing ring assembly for a railcar axle is provided. According to various aspects, the backing ring assembly may include a main body and a ring. The main body may include an inner surface configured to abut a fillet of a railcar axle and a receiving element on an inboard radial face of the main body. The ring may be engaged in the receiving element and may be configured to protrude over a cylindrical surface of a shoulder on the railcar axle. The ring may include an inner face having a recess and a generally flat outer face. |
| US10625755B2 |
Cross member for rail vehicles, used for articulating a rail vehicle body to the bogie thereof
The invention relates to a cross member for articulating a body of a rail vehicle to the bogie thereof; the upper face of the cross member is connected to the body, and a bogie pin-supporting plate comprising a bogie pin is secured to the lower face of the cross member with the aid of fastening means, the bogie pin being movably mounted in a bogie pin receptacle on the bogie in order to transmit pulling and braking forces. |
| US10625750B2 |
Methods and apparatus to extricate a vehicle from a stuck condition
Methods and apparatus to extricate a vehicle from a stuck condition, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes: a user interface to receive a command to place a vehicle in an autonomous control mode of the vehicle; and a stuck mode controller to autonomously shift a transmission of the vehicle alternately between a reverse gear and a forward gear of the vehicle when in the autonomous control mode to autonomously rock the vehicle back and forth. A timing of the shifting of the transmission is based on a ratio of a velocity of the vehicle to an acceleration of the vehicle. |
| US10625745B1 |
Automated driver's exam system
Disclosed herein are systems for modifying a standard automobile in order to perform an automated driver's exam on a driver of the modified automobile, which monitor the driver, the automobile, and the surroundings of the automobile during the driver's exam, and compare the monitored data to benchmark data in order to determine whether the driver's exam is passed. The systems may monitor the behavior of the driver, such as eye movement, head position, posture, or the like; the motion of the automobile, such as speed, acceleration, braking, or the like; the configuration of the automobile, such as the wheel position, turn signal switch position, or the like; the surrounding of the automobile, such as road conditions, positions of other vehicles, obstacles, signs, signals, or the like. The systems may also provide feedback during automated driving exams or practice exams by proving a display and speaker. |
| US10625743B2 |
Method for ascertaining data of a traffic situation
A method for ascertaining data of a traffic situation with a first vehicle and at least one second vehicle trailing the first vehicle, the method including a) ascertaining at least one defined parameter of the first vehicle, b) ascertaining a traffic situation in front of the first vehicle by the first vehicle and/or by the second vehicle, c) evaluating the information ascertained in steps a) and b) in a defined manner, and providing the information evaluated in step c) to the second vehicle at least at the start of a passing maneuver of the first vehicle conducted by the second vehicle. |
| US10625737B2 |
Driving assist apparatus and driving assist system
A driving assist apparatus includes at least one electronic control unit. The at least one electronic control unit is configured to: detect a first object and assist a collision avoidance between a vehicle and the first object existing in a traveling direction of the vehicle; determine whether a first condition that a predetermined number or more of physical objects are detected is satisfied; determine whether a second condition that the vehicle travels at a predetermined speed or lower is satisfied; determine whether a third condition that a predetermined number or more of turning operations of a steering wheel of the vehicle are performed in a predetermined time is satisfied; and determine that a road on which the vehicle is traveling is a crowded environment road, based on a determination that all of the first to third conditions are satisfied. |
| US10625736B2 |
Vehicle and method for supporting driving safety of vehicle
An apparatus for controlling driving of a vehicle includes an active safety driving device for changing a driving mode of the vehicle from a normal driving mode to an active safety driving mode, a front detection sensor for recognizing a front vehicle as a control target dangerous vehicle when the front vehicle attempts to change into a lane in which the vehicle travels, and a vehicle control device for determining whether to generate a margin shaping for the control target dangerous vehicle, and for controlling the active safety driving device based on the margin-shaped control target dangerous vehicle when the margin shaping is applied to the control target dangerous vehicle. |
| US10625735B2 |
Vehicle control apparatus and vehicle control method
A driving assistance ECU that serves as a vehicle control apparatus performs traveling control of a vehicle based on a detection result of a radar apparatus that detects a target in the periphery of an own vehicle. An angle calculating unit of the driving assistance ECU calculates an axial misalignment angle that is a misalignment amount of an attachment angle of the radar apparatus by statistically processing angle misalignment information of the radar apparatus acquired at a predetermined cycle. A control processing unit sets the angle misalignment amount of the radar apparatus to a predetermined initial angle until a predetermined initial period elapses after startup, and performs operation restriction on traveling control based on the initial angle. After the initial angle elapses after startup, the operation restriction on traveling control is performed based on a calculation value of the axial misalignment angle. |
| US10625734B2 |
Automatic driving system for automatically driven vehicle
An automatic driving system for an automatically driven vehicle. In the system, a travel direction acquirer is configured to acquire travel direction information that is information indicative of whether or not each of lanes in a parking lot is unidirectional. In addition, in the system, an allowance determination unit is configured to, if determining, based on the travel direction information acquired by the travel direction acquirer, that each of the lanes in the parking lot is unidirectional, allow automatic driving of the automatically driven vehicle. |
| US10625731B2 |
Vehicle behavior control device
There is provided a vehicle behavior control device capable of improving responsivity of a vehicle behavior and a linear feeling with respect to a steering wheel operation without causing a driver to experience a strong feeling of intervention of the control, and capable of controlling behavior in such a manner as to improve stability of the vehicle attitude and riding comfort. The device includes a PCM which acquires a steering speed relating to a jerk in a width direction of the vehicle, sets a torque reduction flag, indicative of whether or not a condition for allowing reduction of an output torque of an engine is satisfied, based on the steering speed, and starts to reduce a torque when the torque reduction flag is set to True indicative of a state in which the condition for allowing reduction of the torque is satisfied. |
| US10625730B2 |
System and method for starting a hybrid powertrain for a vehicle
A vehicle includes a disconnect clutch selectively coupling an engine and an electric machine. The vehicle further includes a mechanical pump driven by the electric machine and operable to pressurize fluid for the clutch. The vehicle includes a controller programmed to, in response to the electric machine being inoperable, activate an auxiliary starter to start the engine, activate an electric pump operable to pressurize fluid to the clutch, and operate the engine to drive the mechanical pump. |
| US10625727B2 |
Combined oil and water separator in an air brake dryer
A filter assembly for separating and removing a liquid from a compressed fluid stream includes a filter element for separating the liquid from the fluid, a purge valve, and an elongated valve operator for actuating the purge valve. The top of the filter element has a shroud that decreases the flow area of the entering fluid stream to induce a vortex of the fluid, allowing the liquid to separate from the fluid. The purge valve is located at the bottom of the filter element for draining the separated liquid. The elongated valve operator axially extends through the filter element and is moveable by an actuating piston located at the top of the filter element, in response to elevated pressure in the filter assembly. The filtered air is dried through a desiccant body and then outputted from the filter assembly to be used in an air brake system. |
| US10625722B2 |
Method for clamping and for machining a hydraulic block of a slip-controlled hydraulic vehicle brake system, and hydraulic block
A method for producing a hydraulic block of a slip-controlled hydraulic non-muscular-energy vehicle brake system. For the milling operation, the hydraulic block is clamped in two setups and a pump bore, into which the hydraulic block is clamped in the second setup, is produced in the hydraulic block in the first setup, thereby making it possible to machine five sides of the hydraulic block in the second setup free of clamping arrangement. Also described is a related hydraulic block. |
| US10625721B2 |
Hydraulic pressure control device
The hydraulic pressure control device has an idle region, and is provided with a control portion, and a correcting portion which, in cases when the reaction time of the actual pressure to pressure increasing control or pressure decreasing control exceeds a predetermined threshold time, corrects a control current towards the side in which the flow-rate is increased. In cases when a judging portion has judged that the pressure increasing control is in the idle area, the correcting portion applies, as the threshold time, an idle threshold time set to a value different from the threshold time that in cases when the judging portion has not judged that the pressure increasing control is in the idle area. Furthermore, in cases when the reaction time of the actual pressure to the pressure increasing control exceeds the idle threshold time, the correcting portion corrects the control current. |
| US10625720B2 |
Vehicle braking device
A vehicle braking device performs a following control which makes an actual value of a physical quantity follow a first target value when the actual value of the physical quantity is a value outside a dead zone and a suppression control which suppresses a change of the actual value when the actual value is a value within the dead zone in order to control the physical quantity associated with the braking force to be the first target value. The vehicle braking device comprises a setting portion which sets a second target value which follows the first target value and which is smaller than the first target value, when the first target value is increasing and a control portion which performs a control to make the actual value approximate the second target value. |
| US10625718B2 |
Brake system and brake control method
A brake system includes a service brake and a parking brake that brake a vehicle including a lift axle capable of ascending and descending. The brake system further includes a brake blocker device and a controller that controls the brake blocker device. The brake blocker device blocks at least one of supply of compressed air to the service brake and supply of compressed air to the parking brake. The service brake and the parking brake act on the lift axle. The controller actuates the brake blocker device when the lift axle is at a lifted position. |
| US10625713B2 |
In-vehicle device, recording medium, and keyless entry system
An in-vehicle device includes transmitting antennas, an in-vehicle device transmitter configured to transmit request signals from the respective transmitting antennas, an in-vehicle device receiver configured to receive, from a portable device, an answer signal that includes received signal strengths of the respective request signals, and an in-vehicle device controller configured to calculate a distance from the portable device to each of a plurality of areas, based on both the received signal strengths of the respective request signals included in the answer signal and reference values for the request signals, and to identify an area to which the portable device belongs based on the distance. In a case where there is a request signal whose received signal strength is not included in the answer signal, the in-vehicle device controller calculates the distance by utilizing a corresponding reference value for the request signal as the received signal strength of the request signal. |
| US10625708B2 |
Energy absorbing restraint web assembly including a visual deployment indicator
An energy-absorbing restraint web assembly may include a motor vehicle seat restraint web and an energy absorption web having a first length, a first end attached to the restraint web at a first location thereof and a second end, opposite the first end of the energy absorption web, attached to the restraint web at a second location thereof, the energy absorption web responsive to a transverse force applied to the restraint web between first and second ends thereof that is greater than a threshold force to elongate and absorb energy while elongating, wherein the restraint web defines a second length between the first and second locations thereof, the second length of the restraint web greater than the first length of the energy absorption web such that the overall length of the restraint web increases as the energy absorption web elongates. |
| US10625704B2 |
Vehicle including inflatable assembly supported by seat
A vehicle seat assembly includes a seatback including a left lateral panel and a right lateral panel opposite the left lateral panel, a left airbag inflatable from the left lateral panel to an inflated position, a right airbag inflatable from the right lateral panel to an inflated position, and a tether extending from the left lateral panel to the right lateral panel. The tether is connected to the airbags. |
| US10625699B2 |
Enhanced occupant seating inputs to occupant protection control system for the future car
An apparatus including a sensor and a control unit. The sensor may be configured to determine seat orientation information. The control unit may comprise an interface configured to receive the seat orientation information. The control unit may be configured to analyze the seat orientation information, determine when to deploy a corrective measure and modify the corrective measure in response to the seat orientation information. The control unit may deploy the corrective measure using a default arrangement in a first mode. The control unit may deploy the modified corrective measure in a second mode. |
| US10625694B2 |
Bus watchman
A cyber security module for providing security to an in-vehicle communication network having a bus, at least one node connected to the bus, and at least one communications device coupled to the in-vehicle communication network configured to interface the in-vehicle network with an external communication network, the cyber security module comprising: a communication port configured to receive a message from the communication device that the communication device generates based on a message that the communication device receives from the external communication network; at least one communication port coupled to the bus; an authentication module configured to authenticate whether or not the message originated from an authorized source; and a processor configured to operate to prevent content of the message from being operated on if the authentication module determines that the source of the message received by the communication device is not from an authorized source. |
| US10625693B2 |
Wire routing member and wire routing structure
A wire routing member includes a cylindrical main body that is arranged at an end of an exterior cladding member collectively covering a plurality of wires. Partitioning walls that partition routing spaces for the respective wires are provided inside the main body, each partitioning wall projecting in a cantilever shape radially inward from an inner circumferential surface of the main body. The routing spaces are continuous with each other via a space at which inner ends of the partitioning walls face each other, such that the wires can pass through the space at which the inner ends of the partitioning walls face each other. The main body includes a split groove through which the wires can be inserted into one of the plurality of routing spaces. |
| US10625689B2 |
Structure for mounting a rear view camera on a vehicle
A mounting structure for mounting a rear view camera on a vehicle includes a mounting bracket for mounting to the vehicle, a camera support structure mounted on a camera mounting plate of the bracket, where the camera support structure has a shaft that extends perpendicularly to the camera mounting plate, with a slanted surface at its distal end where the camera is mounted, and an outer housing that covers the camera mounting plate, the camera support structure, and the camera except for the camera lens. The outer housing has a portion that conforms to the shape of the shaft of the camera support structure, with an opening at its distal end to expose the camera lens. |
| US10625677B2 |
Display device and interior member unit
A display device applied to an instrument panel unit includes: a projection surface provided on a surface on a vehicle interior side of an interior member provided on the vehicle interior side of a vehicle and on a front side in a vehicle front-back direction, the interior member extending along a vehicle width direction; a projector including a projection unit configured to project an image; and a holding unit configured to hold the projector by the interior member in a positional relationship where at least a part of the projection unit is located on the projection surface side of the interior member, and the image from the projection unit is projected onto the projection surface. |
| US10625676B1 |
Interactive driving system and method
An interactive driving system and method that improves a driving experience by allowing a passenger to interactively monitor and evaluate certain driving maneuvers in real-time with an augmented reality interface. The input provided by the passenger via the augmented reality interface is recorded for later processing and analysis. For instance, the passenger input may be used to generate driving reports for later review by the driver and passenger (e.g., when the passenger is teaching a new driver how to drive) or for the manufacturer of autonomous or semi-autonomous vehicles (e.g., when the manufacturer is seeking actionable feedback for improving various self-driving algorithms). In addition, the interactive driving system and method entertain the passenger with the augmented reality interface, which can be delivered in a game-like fashion via a computer program product installed on their own personal electronic device (e.g., a tablet, phone, laptop, etc.). |
| US10625673B2 |
Information processing system, information processing method, and readable medium
An information processing system is provided with a modeling unit. The modeling unit models, based on a degree of similarity among individual travel histories of a plurality of drivers, individual travel histories of at least one or more drivers from among the individual travel histories of the plurality of drivers to construct a driver model indicating a relationship between conditions of the at least one or more drivers and travel environments of at least one or more vehicles. |
| US10625672B2 |
Reflective, self-supporting road signaling device
Reflective, self-supporting road signaling device comprised of a support piece (A) and a signaling plate (B). The support piece (A) is made of a rigid triangular element with a clamp fastening onto the upper part of a vehicle window to support the signaling plate (B). As for the signaling plate (B), it is comprised of a long rectangular piece with a large positioning area for the reflective element (8). To ensure the signposted vehicle is easily seen by traffic on its same side, a reflective arrow changing color between red and white, with the arrow vertex as far as possible from the vehicle that carries it, is used. |
| US10625669B2 |
Vehicle sensor operation
A system includes a computer including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to emit a first sound from a vehicle ultrasonic sensor in an ultrasonic frequency range and actuate a frequency modifier to modify a frequency of the emitted sound to emit a second sound in an audible frequency range. |
| US10625664B2 |
Vehicle lighting device
A vehicle lighting device configured to be mounted on a vehicle. The vehicle lighting device includes a bar-shaped light guide and a light emitter. The light guide includes a first body section and a second body section. The first body section includes a first end, a second end, which is opposite to the first end, a straight section, which extends from the first end, and a curved section, which extends from the straight section to the second end. The second body section branches off from the straight section and extends in a direction different from a direction in which the curved section extends. The light emitter is arranged to emit light toward the first end of the first body section. The curved section and the second body section are configured to emit light in different directions. |
| US10625661B2 |
Method of compensating for level of headlamp by using lane departure warning system (LDWS)
A method of compensating for a level of a headlamp using a lane departure warning system is provided. The method adjusts a level of a headlamp using a camera of a lane departure warning system. In particular, the method includes calculating, by an LDWS camera, a predetermined irradiation angle of a headlamp and calculating, by the LDWS camera, a cut-off inclination of a low beam in a predetermined distance. Additionally, the method includes driving a lamp actuator when the cut-off inclination is less than a predetermined threshold inclination and re-adjusting the cut-off inclination. |
| US10625659B2 |
Vehicle lamp
A vehicle lamp includes a lamp body, a lamp, and a leveling actuator. And an aiming screw for aiming the lamp unit in an upper and lower direction is supported to the lamp body to be rotatable about an axis extending in a front and rear direction of the vehicle lamp. And an aiming nut to be threadably engaged with the aiming screw is mounted to the aiming screw. And the leveling actuator includes an actuator body fixed and supported to the lamp unit and an output shaft member supported to the actuator body to be moveable in the front and rear direction of the vehicle lamp with protruding upward or downward from the actuator body. And a leading end portion of the output shaft member and the aiming nut are coupled at a position distant in a right and left direction from a vertical surface including the axis. |
| US10625658B2 |
Security sensor
A device and method are disclosed for sensing the tension of a securing member and generating a signal indicative of a loose securing member when the tension of the securing member drops below a threshold level. The device can further include features for detection of tampering with either the device itself or the tensioning members. |
| US10625654B2 |
Delivery, storage and blending system for multi-component granular compositions
Embodiments of the present invention include a method and system for blending multi-component granular compositions such as proppant used in hydraulic fracturing in well drilling. The system includes the control and management of an on-site storage system for each of the components, regulating the delivery of specified quantities of each component to a well site, and coordinating the flow of materials into and out of the blender. |
| US10625648B2 |
Vehicle seat
A vehicle seat includes a pair of side frames arranged at a distance from each other in a width direction, and a cushion panel arranged between the pair of side frames, the cushion panel being provided with a reinforcing rib extending in the width direction, the pair of side frames being provided with a fitting portion extending in the width direction and configured to connect the cushion panel and the pair of side frames by being fitted to the reinforcing rib. |
| US10625641B2 |
Gyro seat and vehicle including the same
A gyro seat includes: a seat body comprising a seat cushion and a seat back coupled to the seat cushion; and a seat gyroscope mounted to the seat body, the seat gyroscope compensating a movement of the seat body by control of first, second and third axes, where the first axis corresponds to a yaw of the seat body as a z axis of an xyz coordinate system, the second axis corresponds to a pitch of the seat body as an x axis of the xyz coordinate system, and the third axis corresponds to a roll of the seat body as a y axis of the xyz coordinate system. |
| US10625640B2 |
Locking device for a vehicle seat
A locking device for locking two assemblies of a vehicle seat together comprises a blocking element which has a supporting surface, and a locking element which is movable with respect to the blocking element, said locking element having an end face and facing the supporting surface of the blocking element with the end face in a locked position of the locking device, wherein the locking device is unlockable by moving the locking element. Additionally provided is a surface element which is applied to the blocking element to at least partially cover the supporting surface or to the locking element to at least partially cover the end face. |
| US10625633B2 |
Lifter device
A lifter includes a pinion gear meshed with an input gear of a link mechanism that lifts and lowers a seat. A rotation control device that controls rotation of the pinion gear includes a rotation restriction mechanism. The rotation restriction mechanism includes a sub-meshing member which meshes with a meshed member together with a main meshing member. The sub-meshing member is displaceable to gradually release the meshing of the sub-meshing member with the meshed member when the meshing between the meshed member and the main meshing member is released. |
| US10625628B2 |
Modular vehicle seating insert, modular seating system and modular seating method
A modular vehicle seating system includes a vehicle body (70, 72) with vehicle interior connection features (60, 62, 64) and a modular vehicle seating insert. The seating insert comprises a shell structure (10. 10′, 10″) to be received within the vehicle body. The shell structure has a vehicle body facing surface and a vehicle interior facing surface, wherein the vehicle interior facing surface defines seat module receiving portions (12, 14). Vehicle connection features (80, 82, 84) are operatively provided at a side of the vehicle body facing surface of the shell structure for cooperation with the vehicle interior connection features to fix the shell structure to the vehicle body. Seat module connection features (40) are associated with each of the seat module receiving portions. The system further includes one or more seat module (90), each with a seat base (94) and a seat clamping connector (91, 92, 92). |
| US10625624B2 |
Method and apparatus for transferring wireless power to electric vehicle using controlling turns of coil
A method for wireless power transfer (WPT) to an electric vehicle (EV) performed by a wireless charging apparatus may include detecting, by the wireless charging apparatus, an alignment state between a transmission pad mounted in the wireless charging apparatus and a reception pad mounted in the EV; controlling, by the wireless charging apparatus, a number of turns in a transmission coil included in the transmission pad or a reception coil included in the reception pad according to the detected alignment state; and performing, by the wireless charging apparatus, WPT to the EV after the controlling of the number of turns in the transmission coil or the reception coil is completed. |
| US10625620B1 |
Multi-function damper
A motor-generator system for hybrid electric internal combustion engine applications includes a selectively-engageable motor-generator located co-axially with a front end of the engine crankshaft. The motor-generator system includes at least a first rotor rotationally coupled with the crankshaft and an axially-displaceable stator which is held against rotation relative to the engine. Preferably, a motor-generator controller controls an actuator to axially displace the stator between engaged and disengages states. When in the engaged state, the stator electromagnetically interacts with the rotor to generate electric energy from crankshaft-supplied torque or to produce torque to deliver to the crankshaft and/or an engine accessory drive. The motor-generator system may have multiple axially-displaceable stators and rotors to increase the output of the motor-generator system. |
| US10625619B2 |
Battery module, battery pack comprising battery module, and vehicle comprising battery pack
Disclosed is a battery module, which includes a battery cell assembly having a plurality of battery cells stacked on one another so that a pair of electrode leads protrudes on one side of each battery cell; and an ICB assembly configured to cover one side of the battery cell assembly to electrically connect the pair of electrode leads of the plurality of battery cells, the ICB assembly having a plurality of lead slots through each of which electrode leads of two battery cells facing each other pass in common. |
| US10625617B2 |
Method of estimating battery life, battery life estimation device, electric vehicle, and electric power supply apparatus
A method of estimating a battery life includes: for a secondary battery having a degradation rate R when X days have elapsed after initial charge of the secondary battery, calculating a degradation estimation value (X+Y) days after the initial charge from degradation master data, the degradation master data being identified with use of conditions of temperature T provided for the calculation and a battery state S provided for the calculation; and deriving number of elapsed days Xcorr giving the degradation rate R based on the identified degradation master data, and calculating the degradation estimation value (Xcorr+Y) days after the initial charge from the identified degradation master data. |
| US10625612B2 |
Deployable vehicle inductive charging assembly
A charge plate receiver assembly for an electric vehicle includes an inductive charge plate receiver and a swing arm pivotally secured to a mounting surface. The charge plate receiver is pivotally secured to the swing arm such that the charge plate receiver travels along an arc defined by a length of the swing arm when the assembly moves between a retracted position and a deployed position. When retracted, the charge plate receiver may retract into a cavity, defined by under-body components. The charge plate receiver has a planar surface and the planar surface is generally perpendicular to a horizontal plane of the vehicle in the retracted position and parallel with the horizontal plane of the vehicle in the deployed position. |
| US10625606B2 |
Dual clutch transaxle
A dual clutch transaxle is provided that includes a dual clutch assembly, an input shaft assembly, a counter shaft assembly, a shift assembly and at least one output assembly. The dual clutch assembly has a dual clutch axis and includes a first clutch shaft and a second clutch shaft. The input shaft assembly includes a nested first inner input shaft and a second outer input shaft that are operationally coupled to the first clutch shaft and a second clutch shaft. An input shaft axis is offset from the dual clutch axis of the dual clutch assembly. A plurality of drive gears of the input shaft assembly are operationally coupled to a plurality of driven gears of the counter shaft assembly. The shift assembly is operationally coupled to select. The at least one output assembly is operationally coupled to the counter shaft assembly. |
| US10625602B2 |
Filling device for a fluid tank
A filling device for an operating fluid tank, comprising a tubular outer part and an inner part which is received in the outer part and which is designed to receive an operating fluid nozzle, is characterized in that the inner part comprises a first end wall having an opening and a second end wall having an opening, the end walls being connected to one another via a shell and the shell being provided over the entire length between the end walls with a shell opening whose width corresponds substantially to the corresponding maximum inner width of the shell. |
| US10625601B2 |
Improper fuel nozzle insertion-inhibiting assembly
An improper fuel nozzle insertion-inhibiting assembly is configured to prevent an improper fuel-dispensing device from dispensing fuel into a fuel fill line of a vehicle. The assembly may include a cover including an open cavity defined by a circumferential wall and a front face wall, and a main body defining an internal chamber. At least one barrier door may be pivotally secured to the main body. The barrier door(s) is configured to close a nozzle-receiving channel that extends through the internal chamber. The barrier door(s) may include an integral pivot axle that is pivotally secured to an axle bearing within the main body. The barrier door(s) is configured to be pivoted open by inward urging of a proper or compatible fuel nozzle. |
| US10625600B2 |
Fuel tank vapor suppression devices
A fuel vapor suppression system in a fuel tank in a vehicle comprises a fuel storage compartment, an opening, an inlet check valve in the opening connected to a fuel filler pipe, and a vapor suppression device disposed in the fuel storage compartment and connected with the inlet check valve. The vapor suppression device may include a cylindrical mesh body having a pore size of no less than 1 mm. |
| US10625596B2 |
Front or rear assembly of a motor vehicle having an opening and including a flexible shutter for sealing said opening
This front assembly of a motor vehicle includes a bumper skin defining an outer surface that is visible from the outside and having at least one opening formed in the outer surface. The front assembly also includes a shutter for selectively closing and releasing the opening, at least partially. The shutter includes a flexible flap having a fixed portion relative to the bumper skin and a movable portion relative to the bumper skin, wherein the movable portion is movable between a shuttering position in which the opening is shuttered by the flexible flap and a releasing position in which the opening is released. |
| US10625593B2 |
Self-balancing robot system comprising robotic omniwheel
A self-balancing robot system providing AI humanoid robots or robot vehicles comprising a drive wheel propulsion system configured to achieve mobility and balance by means of sensoring system components, accelerometers, and trajectory algorithms. The self-balancing robot system components include; a computer control system with processors and memory, a motion control system, an autonomous drive system, a wireless communication system comprising I/O system processes including WIFI, Bluetooth, and a smartphone, a network system, and a user interface control. |
| US10625590B1 |
Integrated mounting structure for an engine
A mounting bracket includes a single unitary sheet of material, and a top portion including a first cradle including a first concave surface defining a first radius of curvature and a first longitudinal axis, and a second cradle including a second concave surface defining a second radius of curvature that is different than the first radius of curvature and a second longitudinal axis that is parallel to the first longitudinal axis. A first pair of mounting surfaces may straddle either side of the first cradle, and a second pair of mounting surfaces may straddle either side of the second cradle. |
| US10625588B2 |
Vehicle roof-mounted shading apparatus
A self-contained, self-extending, roof-mounted shading apparatus, capable of both vertical and horizontal movement to provide shade for a vehicle. |
| US10625586B2 |
Lid assembly for a truck bed
A lid assembly for a truck bed with two opposite vertical side walls includes a lid adapted for covering the truck bed, the lid being movable in a first direction between an open and closed position, two scissor hinges adapted for mounting the lid to the truck bed, each of the two scissor hinges having a first hinge member adapted for being slidably and pivotably connected to a respective side wall of the truck bed at a first end and being pivotably connected to the lid at a second end, and a second hinge member which is slidably and pivotably connected to the lid at a first end and adapted for being pivotably connected to the respective side wall at a second end. The assembly further includes an opening element adapted for, upon actuation, applying a force to at least one of the first ends of the hinge members in a second direction, which extends in an angle of between 85 and 90 degrees with respect to the first direction, to move the lid in the first direction. |
| US10625584B2 |
Lower structure of vehicle
A lower structure of a vehicle includes a rear bumper cover, a rear floor cover serving as an under cover that is provided at a lower side, in an up-and-down direction of the vehicle, than a floor panel of the vehicle and at a front side of the vehicle relative to the rear bumper cover, and a kick sensor having a signal line which extends in a width direction of the vehicle and a sensor part placed on the signal line. The kick sensor is placed inside a closed cross-section space surrounded by a connected structure of the rear bumper cover and the under cover and formed on the side of the floor panel, isolated from an outside of the vehicle. |
| US10625583B2 |
Interior trim mounting structure
A mounting structure of interior trim includes a handle-shaped grip arranged on the interior trim and a bracket connecting a vehicle body panel and the grip. The grip has a fixing base. The fixing base includes a base portion, a cylindrical boss portion, and an opening. The bracket includes a grip attachment part arranged on the fixing base, a pair of panel attachment portions arranged at both ends of the bracket, each of the panel attachment portions attached to the vehicle body panel, and a pair of connecting pieces straddling between the pair of the panel attachment portions with the grip attachment portion sandwiched in the center. One of the pair of connecting pieces has a fragile portion that becomes a deformation starting point of the bracket when a load is applied from the fixing base to the grip attachment portion. |
| US10625580B1 |
Systems with adjustable windows
A system such as a vehicle may have adjustable structures such as adjustable windows. Adjustable windows may have adjustable layers such as adjustable tint layers, adjustable reflectivity layers, and adjustable haze layers. Adjustable window layers may be incorporated into a window with one or more transparent structural layers such as a pair of glass window layers. Adjustable components such as adjustable reflectivity layers, adjustable haze layers, and adjustable tint layers may be interposed between the pair of glass window layers. Fixed partially reflective mirrors, fixed tint layers, and/or fixed haze layers may be used in place of adjustable tint, haze, and reflectivity layers and/or may be incorporated into windows in addition to adjustable tint, haze, and reflectivity layers. |
| US10625577B1 |
Silicone coating suited for automotive windshields and process for preparation
A silicone coating is provided for glass and other surfaces with improved glass clarity and maintenance requirements. In addition, a process for preparing a film with improved glass clarity and maintenance requirements. Further a method is provided for adhering an improved coating to a glass (or other) surface. Also a silicone coating is provided for granite, cement, and lexan/plastic. |
| US10625574B2 |
Ventilation apparatus
A ventilation apparatus blows air into a vehicle compartment of a vehicle. The ventilation apparatus has a blower, a duct, a blowing outlet, guide vanes, and a turning mechanism. The blowing outlet is provided with the duct. The blowing outlet guides the air to flow along a lower surface of the duct. The guide vanes change a flow velocity component of the air in a lateral direction of the vehicle by guiding the air to flow along the guide vanes. The guide vanes are arranged in the duct on an upstream side of the blowing outlet and distanced from each other in the lateral direction. According to the above-described configuration, it is possible to provide a ventilation apparatus that can change a flow direction of air in the lateral direction of the vehicle while suppressing a pressure loss of air and a damage of the ventilation apparatus. |
| US10625573B2 |
Thermal management system for vehicle
A thermal management system for a vehicle is provided. The thermal management system f includes a cooling apparatus that circulates a coolant cooled in a radiator through a coolant line to cool a driving device in a vehicle. A main centralized energy (CE) module is connected to the cooling apparatus via the coolant line, selectively heat-exchanges thermal energy generated during a condensation and evaporation of the refrigerant circulating the inside with a coolant, and respectively supplies the coolant of low temperature or high temperature to a cooling heat exchanger or a heating heat exchanger. A sub CE module is connected to the cooling apparatus via the coolant line, selectively heat-exchanges thermal energy generated during a condensation and evaporation of the refrigerant circulating the inside with a coolant, and supplies the coolant of low temperature to a controller provided in the vehicle. |
| US10625567B2 |
System and method for correcting ambient air temperature measurement using a wireless network
Embodiments include a vehicle comprising a mirror assembly attached to a vehicle side and including an air temperature sensor for measuring a first temperature value; a wireless transceiver for receiving a second temperature value from a wireless network; and a processor configured to, upon determining that the first temperature value is greater than the second temperature value, cause the mirror assembly to move to a first position relative to the vehicle side. Another embodiment includes a method of correcting air temperature reading in a vehicle, the method comprising obtaining a first temperature measurement from an air temperature sensor located in a mirror assembly attached to a vehicle side; obtaining a second temperature measurement from a wireless network; and upon determining that the first temperature measurement is greater than the second temperature measurement, causing the mirror assembly to move to a first position relative to the vehicle side. |
| US10625566B2 |
Systems and methods for controlling thermal conditioning of vehicle regions
Systems and methods for controlling a thermal conditioning system of a vehicle are disclosed. The system services multiple components in a vehicle, including at least one passenger component, such as a first seat and/or a second seat, and at least one auxiliary component, such as a storage enclosure, a first cup holder and/or a second cup holder. The system uses a vapor compression system as the thermal energy source. The control methods prioritize thermal conditioning of one or more of the various components based on one or more thermal criterion and apply component-specific control routines to the thermal conditioning based on that prioritization. |
| US10625565B2 |
Vehicle seat
A vehicle seat includes a plate provided on a seatback, an attachment mounted on the plate, two wires extending substantially in an up-down direction to receive a load in a seat front-rear direction applied to the plate, and two locking fixing portions provided above a location of a combined center of gravity of the plate and the attachment to lock and fix the plate with the two wires. Each of the two locking fixing portions includes a first holding portion, a second holding portion, and a wall portion. The first holding portion and the second holding portion hold the corresponding wire in the seat front-rear direction. The wall portion contacts the corresponding wire from a side opposite to the attachment across the wire. The two locking fixing portions are open on the attachment sides. |
| US10625564B2 |
Outdoor heat exchanger
The present invention relates to an outdoor heat exchanger, and more particularly, to a down flow type outdoor heat exchanger having channels of at least three paths in a heat pump system for vehicles, in which a flux distribution means protruded in a height direction is further formed in a lower tank in which the channel is changed from an upward direction to a downward direction or from a downward direction to an upward direction to block some area of a lower portion thereof so as to prevent a refrigerant from being non-uniformly distributed while a flux is concentrated toward a rear side of the channel due to a fluid inertia in an area in which the flow path is changed, thereby delaying frosting upon heating. |
| US10625560B2 |
Vehicle air conditioner
There is disclosed a vehicle air conditioner which is capable of enlarging an effective range of a dehumidifying and heating mode to environmental conditions and smoothly dehumidifying and heating a vehicle interior. A vehicle air conditioner 1 executes a dehumidifying and heating mode in which a controller lets a refrigerant discharged from a compressor 2 radiate heat in a radiator 4, and decompresses the refrigerant by which heat has been radiated and then lets the refrigerant absorb heat in a heat absorber 9 and an outdoor heat exchanger 7, the controller decreases an outdoor blower voltage FANVout of an outdoor blower 15 and decreases an air volume into the outdoor blower 15 in a case where a temperature Te of the heat absorber 9 is high even when the controller adjusts a valve position of an outdoor expansion valve 6 into a lower limit of controlling in a situation in which a temperature TCI of the radiator 4 is satisfactory. |
| US10625556B2 |
Dynamic motion control system using magnetorheological fluid clutch apparatuses
An active suspension system comprises at least one biasing device configured to support a body from a structure, and at least one motor. A magnetorheological (MR) fluid clutch apparatus(es) is coupled to the at least one motor to receive torque from the motor, the MR fluid clutch apparatus controllable to transmit a variable amount of torque. A mechanism is between the at least one MR fluid clutch apparatus and the body to convert the torque received from the at least one MR fluid clutch apparatus into a force on the body. Sensor(s) provide information indicative of a state of the body or structure. A controller receives the information indicative of the state of the body or structure and for outputting a signal to control the at least one MR fluid clutch apparatus in exerting a desired force on the body to control movement of the body according to a desired movement behavior. |
| US10625553B2 |
Suspension system for vehicle including composite leaf spring
A suspension system for a vehicle includes: a composite leaf spring having a protective member which covers an outer surface of the composite leaf spring; and an abrasion-preventing pad coupled to the composite leaf spring and shielding. The protective member and the abrasion-preventing pad are disposed at a portion of the composite leaf spring to which a U-bolt is mounted. |
| US10625552B2 |
Motor vehicle comprising running gear attachment guide means
A motor vehicle includes a bodywork structural element and a running gear, such as a vehicle back end, that includes at least one arm. The at least one arm includes a top attachment end that is received in a sheet metal clevis supported on a bottom surface of a floor of the bodywork structural element. The attachment end includes at least one transverse tubular sleeve that is received with reduced play between two parallel flanks of the clevis, and an attachment screw capable of passing through two coaxial bores of both flanks and the transverse tubular sleeve to enable attachment of the attachment end into the clevis. The clevis guides the attachment end into a position for aligning the bores of the flanks and the sleeve. |
| US10625548B2 |
Hi-rail device
There is described a hi-rail device comprising a cam assembly, an axle assembly and a locking pin. The cam assembly comprises a guiding slot which comprises a plurality of contiguous segments extending as a broken line, e.g., in a flattened M shape, wherein a first one and a last one of the contiguous segments extend in a downward slope with respect to a horizon. The locking pin inserted in the guiding slot and movable in translation within the guiding slot in which it is inserted. The axle assembly, in which the locking pin is inserted, has a weight applied on the locking pin which locks the locking pin in the lower end or the upper end of the guiding slot if the locking pin is in the first one or the last one of the four contiguous segments and no other force is applied thereonto. |
| US10625542B2 |
Tire pressure management system and method of decreasing tire pressure
A tire pressure management system includes a wheel valve. The wheel valve is in fluid communication with a wheel assembly. A supply valve assembly is selectively in fluid communication with the wheel valve through a fluid control circuit. The supply valve assembly permits fluid communication between a source of pressurized air and the fluid control circuit. A control valve assembly is selectively in fluid communication with the wheel valve through the fluid control circuit. The control valve assembly permits fluid communication between the source of pressurized air and the fluid control circuit or between the fluid control circuit and atmosphere. |
| US10625533B2 |
Security element and data carrier provided with same
A semi-transparent security element which upon viewing in incident light and in transmitted light has different colors, comprises either (a) a transparent carrier substrate having a front side and a back side. The front side has a metallic layer “V-a” dyed in a first color, obtainable by printing technology by means of dyed metal pigments. The back side has an ink layer appearing in a second color “R-a” and a metallic layer “R-b” dyed in a first color, obtainable by printing technology by means of dyed metal pigments; or (b) a transparent carrier substrate having a front side and a back side. The front side has a semi-transparent metallic layer “V-A” and an ink layer appearing in a first color “V-B” and the back side has an ink layer “R-A” appearing in a second color, a semi-transparent metallic layer “R-B” and an ink layer “R-C” appearing in a first color. |
| US10625518B2 |
Method of stitching overlapping printhead segments
A method of printing an image using a printing system having first and second overlapping printhead segments. The method includes the steps of: (i) identifying a strip of the image to be printed in an overlap region of the first and second printhead segments; (ii) determining a stitching technique for the first and second printhead segments; and (iii) printing the image using the first and second printhead segments, the printing including stitching the first and second printhead segments in the overlap region using the determined stitching technique. The stitching technique may be a butt stitch or a feathered stitch, dependent on image content in the strip. |
| US10625517B2 |
Hybrid silk screen and direct-to-garment printing machine and process
A hybrid printing machine is described having both silk screening stations and a direct-to-garment digital printing station with a raster image processor to control a portion of a printing process. |
| US10625513B2 |
Liquid discharge device and method of controlling the same
In a method of controlling a liquid discharge device, the liquid discharge device includes a liquid discharge unit and at least one valve body. The liquid discharge unit discharges from a nozzle liquid supplied from at least one supply channel. The at least one valve body opens/closes the at least one supply channel. The method includes first control and second control. The first control causes a pressure to be applied to the liquid so as to supply the liquid to the at least one supply channel. The second control causes an external force to operate the at least one valve body operable in accordance with a pressure on a downstream side of the at least one valve body so as to adjust and hold a degree of opening of the at least one valve body in a range between a closed state and a full-open state. |
| US10625510B2 |
Printing material container, and board mounted on printing material container
A printing material container is detachably attachable to a printing apparatus having a plurality of apparatus-side terminals. The printing material container comprises a first device, a second device, and a terminal group that includes a plurality of first terminals, at least one second terminal and at least one third terminal. The plurality of first terminals are connected to the first device and respectively include a first contact portion for contacting a corresponding terminal among the plurality of apparatus-side terminals. The at least one second terminal is connected to the second device and includes a second contact portion for contacting a corresponding terminal among the plurality of apparatus-side terminals. The at least one third terminal is for the detection of shorting between the at least one second terminal and the at least one third terminal and includes a third contact portion for contacting a corresponding terminal among the plurality of apparatus-side terminals. The at least one second contact portion, the plurality of the first contact portions, and the at least one third contact portion are arranged so as to form one or multiple rows. The at least one second contact portion is arranged at an end of one row among the one or multiple rows. |
| US10625505B2 |
Method and inkjet printer for acquiring gap information
An inkjet printer including an inkjet head, a head scanning unit, a wave shape generating mechanism to deform a recording medium into a predetermined wave shape, an obtaining device to obtain information concerning a type of the recording medium to be used in a printing operation, a gap information storing device to store gap information related to a gap between an ink discharging surface and the recording medium in association with a predetermined type of the recording medium, the gap information being acquired from a predetermined range in the recording medium, and a correcting device to correct the gap information according to the type of the recording medium obtained by the obtaining device when the type of the recording medium obtained by the obtaining device is different from the predetermined type of the recording medium stored in association with the gap information, is provided. |
| US10625504B2 |
Liquid ejection head and liquid ejection apparatus
Provided is a liquid ejection head comprising: an ejection opening row along a first direction; a pressure chamber with print-element; a passage communicating with the pressure chamber; a supply opening row along the first direction with supply openings extending in a second direction to supply liquid to the passage; a collection opening row along the first direction with collection openings extending in the second direction to collect a liquid from the passage; a first common supply passage along the first direction to supply a liquid to the supply opening row; a first common collection passage along the first direction to collect a liquid from the collection opening row; a first supply side communication opening extending in the second direction to supply a liquid to the first common supply passage; and a first collection side communication opening extending in the second direction to collect a liquid from the first common collection passage, wherein at least one of the first supply side communication opening and the first collection side communication opening is provided at a plurality of positions. |
| US10625503B2 |
Liquid ejection head, liquid ejection apparatus, and electronic device
In a plan view from a perpendicular direction to a surface of a wiring substrate on which a wiring is provided, a buried wiring, a connection wiring, and a terminal portion of an external wiring are formed at an overlapping position, in which a recessed portion is provided at a position corresponding to the buried wiring on a surface of the connection wiring on an opposite side to the wiring substrate, and in which, in a direction intersecting an extension direction of the wiring on the surface of the wiring substrate on which the wiring is provided, a width of the connection wiring is larger than a width of the buried wiring, a width of the terminal portion of the external wiring is larger than a width of the recessed portion, and the terminal portion is provided across the recessed portion of the connection wiring. |
| US10625498B2 |
Transportable garment printing platen
A garment printing machine is provided with a transportable platen that can be utilized to significantly decrease the delay in printing expended in loading and unloading a garment for printing in either a digitized garment printing machine or a screen garment printing machine. The platen is provided with structure that holds a print receiving area of a garment firmly in position atop a print panel support plate that forms a part of the platen. Furthermore, the invention includes a platen support structure that cooperates with the conventional couplings' on existing conventional garment printing machines. A plurality of transportable platens constructed according to the invention are utilized interchangeably so that while one garment loaded on one of the platens is being printed upon in the printing machine, the prior garment just printed upon is unloaded and the next garment to be printed is loaded onto another identical platen. This totally avoids any delay in printing due to loading and unloading of garments on the platens. |
| US10625497B2 |
Three-dimensional printing apparatus and three-dimensional printing method
A three-dimensional printing apparatus includes a container and a projecting structure. The container is configured to contain a liquid photosensitive material. The liquid photosensitive material includes a variety of photoinitiators and a monomer. The projecting structure is configured to provide a variety of molding beams to irradiate the liquid photosensitive material. The variety of molding beams have different wavelengths and are used to actuate a polymerization between one of the variety of photoinitiators and the monomer respectively thereby forming a solidified layer. A three-dimensional printing method is also provided. |
| US10625490B2 |
Method of fabricating bubble sheet for vehicles
A method of fabricating a bubble sheet for vehicles includes steps of: preheating a first polymer sheet; providing the first polymer sheet to a partially preheated pattern forming machine to form a pattern polymer sheet including a plurality of patterns having a prominent or depressed shape; and bonding the pattern polymer sheet and a non-woven fabric sheet. |
| US10625489B2 |
Optical member and method for producing optical member
The present invention provides an optical member excellent in antifouling properties, rubbing resistance, and antifog properties. The optical member of the present invention includes, on a surface thereof, an uneven structure provided with multiple projections at a pitch not longer than a wavelength of visible light, the projections each including a hydrophilic portion at its tip. Preferably, each of the projections is formed from a hydrophobic resin and has its tip covered with a hydrophilic material, the hydrophilic material contains silicon dioxide, and the hydrophilic material has a thickness of 30 nm or smaller. |
| US10625474B2 |
Low mass staking module
A low mass staking module includes a punch having a cavity on a first side, a contact surface on the second side opposite the first side, and a circular flange extending about an outer edge thereof, the punch formed of a thermally-conductive material, an annular housing engaged with the punch about the circular flange at a first end, and a heating element located inside the annular housing. The heating element has an output side in contact with the contact surface of the punch, the contact surface having a shape conforming to a shape of the output side of the heating element. The punch is desirably a low thermal mass punch, while the heating element may be a high power (watt) density, solid state, ceramic, resistant heating element (e.g., aluminum nitride or boron nitride heaters). |
| US10625470B2 |
3D printing of composition-controlled copolymers
A computer-controlled method for forming a composition-controlled product using 3D printing includes disposing two or more liquid reactant compositions in respective two or more reservoirs; and mixing the two or more liquid reactant compositions, which in turn includes controlling by the computer a mass ratio of the mixed two or more liquid reactant compositions. The computer-controlled method further includes scanning, under control of the computer, a mixed liquid reactants nozzle over a substrate; depositing the mixed liquid reactant compositions onto the substrate; and operating, under control of the computer, a light source to polymerize the deposited mixed liquid reactant compositions. |
| US10625468B2 |
Generating a three-dimensional object
According to one aspect there is provided apparatus for generating a three-dimensional object. The apparatus comprises a first agent distributor to selectively deliver a coalescing agent onto portions of a layer of build material, a second agent distributor to selectively deliver a coalescence modifier agent onto portions of a layer of build material, and a controller to control the agent distributors to selectively deliver each of the agents onto a layer of build material in respective patterns derived from data representing a slice of a three-dimensional object to be generated, so that when energy is applied to the layer the build material coalesces and solidifies to form a slice of the three-dimensional object in accordance the patterns. |
| US10625466B2 |
Extrusion printheads for three-dimensional object printers
A multi-nozzle extrusion printhead includes a chamber with an inlet to receive an extrusion material and a plurality of outlets fluidly coupled to the chamber. The printhead also includes a plurality of valves that control flow of extrusion material through the fluid outlets to nozzles in the printhead. Each valve includes a member and an electromechanical actuator configured to move the member to a first position to block a flow of the extrusion material through one of the fluid outlets and nozzles and to a second position to enable the flow of the extrusion material through the fluid outlet and nozzles. |
| US10625463B2 |
Method of making structured hybrid adhesive articles including lightning strike protection sheets
A method is provided for making structured hybrid adhesive articles such as lightning strike protection sheets. In the embodiment for making lightning strike protection sheets, the method comprises the steps of: a) providing an adhesive article comprising: i) a base resin comprising an epoxy resin, ii) a first epoxy curative, and iii) a second epoxy curative; b) reacting the base resin with the first epoxy curative such that the first epoxy curative is substantially reacted with epoxy resin in the article and the second epoxy curative is substantially unreacted in the article; c) embossing the adhesive article with a relief pattern; d) depositing an electrically-conductive layer onto at least a portion of the embossed surface; and e) curing the adhesive article such that the second epoxy curative is substantially reacted with epoxy in the article. In some embodiments, the method additionally comprises a step of embedding a scrim in the adhesive. |
| US10625456B2 |
Injection molding flow control apparatus and method
Injection molding apparatuses and methods wherein a valve pin is controllably driven upstream and downstream along an axis between a first closed position where the tip end of the valve pin obstructs the gate to prevent the injection fluid from flowing into the cavity, a full open position and one or more intermediate positions, wherein the valve pin is drivable to be disposed or held in a selected intermediate position for a selected period of time during the course of an injection cycle where the tip end of the valve pin restricts flow of injection fluid through the gate to the mold cavity. |
| US10625454B2 |
Tool with conformal cooling
A method of providing a tool with a conformal cooling passage includes rough machining a cavity generally corresponding to a manufactured part shape using CAD data. Conformal cooling slots are cut in the cavity using the CAD data. The conformal cooling slots are welded shut using the CAD data to provide conformal cooling passages. A class A surface is machined over the conformal cooling passage and corresponds to a finished manufactured part shape using the CAD data. |
| US10625453B1 |
Clamping device of injection molding machine
A clamping device includes: a stationary platen; a rear platen; a tie bar; a moving platen; a toggle mechanism connected to both the rear platen and the moving platen and used for making the moving platen advance and retreat; a guide rod having one end fixed to the rear platen and the other end extending toward the moving platen; a guide rod support supported by the tie bar at a supported part and supporting the guide rod at a supporting part; and a crosshead configured to advance and retreat under guidance by the guide rod. The advance and retreat of the crosshead expands and contracts the toggle mechanism to make the moving platen advance and retreat. The guide rod support is provided in such a manner that the supported part is arranged rearward of the supporting part and closer to the rear platen than the supporting part along a center axis. |
| US10625451B2 |
Actuator cooling apparatus and method
An injection molding apparatus comprising a clamp plate, a heated manifold, an actuator, a mold and a cooling device, wherein the cooling device comprises:a heat transmitter comprising a distal arm or member and a proximal base or member, the distal arm or member being mounted by a spring loadable interconnection or engagement to or with the proximal base or member,the clamp plate, the mold, the manifold, the actuator and the heat transmitter being assemblable together in an arrangement wherein the spring loadable interconnection is loaded urging the distal end surface of the distal arm or member into compressed engagement with the clamp plate. |
| US10625447B2 |
Molding device having heating function
A molding device includes a lower mold seat including a lower mounting portion, a lower die core assembly mounted in the lower mounting portion and including a lower die core unit defining a mold cavity, an upper mold seat including an upper mounting portion, an upper die core assembly mounted in the upper mounting portion and including an upper die core unit covering the mold cavity, and upper and lower heating units respectively including upper and lower high-frequency heating members respectively inducing eddy current in at least one of the lower die core unit and the lower mold seat and at least one of the upper die core unit and the upper mold seat. |
| US10625443B2 |
Method and device for releasing resin film, method for manufacturing electronic device, and method for manufacturing organic EL display device
A method for releasing a resin film from the supporting substrate is provided. The method includes applying and hardening a liquid resin on the supporting substrate to form the resin film; forming an electronic element on the resin film; preparing for separating the supporting substrate into a first part and a second part; generating a partial release between the resin film and the first part, by relatively moving the first part and an end edge of the second part adjacent to the first part; and applying a blowing force with a gas or a liquid in a widthwise direction of the resin film in a parallel direction to the supporting substrate at an end part of an adhered face between the resin film exposed by the partial release and the first part. |
| US10625442B2 |
Apparatus and method for the production of a particle foam part
The present invention relates to an apparatus and a method for the production of a particle foam part. The apparatus has a mold 2 with a mold cavity 3, a steam generator 12 to generate steam for feeding into the mold cavity for the thermoplastic welding into a particle foam part of foam particles present in the mold cavity 3, a feed pipe 10, 11 for the feeding of steam to the mold, wherein a controllable steam valve 13, 14 is provided in the feed pipe, and a pressure sensor 15, 16 is located in the area between the steam valve and the mold, in order to measure the pressure of the supplied steam.A control device 23 controls pressure over time according to to a predetermined profile, wherein the profile has a ramp, in order to increase pressure gradually within a predetermined period of time from an initial value to an end value. |
| US10625439B2 |
System and method for optimizing the manufacture of wooden panels
Embodiments of the invention are directed to systems, methods and computer program products for optimizing wood panel creation. An exemplary apparatus is configured to receive information related to a customer order; assemble, based at least partially on the received information, a plurality of wooden staves; adhere the plurality of wooden staves to one another such that a ribbon of staves is formed; position the ribbon of staves on a first conveyor belt such that it is transferred to a portion of the device for curing; cure the ribbon of staves using the fourth unit of the production device; resize such that a panel is formed, wherein resizing the ribbon of staves comprises removing an excess portion of the ribbon of staves; and return the excess portion of the ribbon of staves on a second conveyor belt to another unit of the production device. |
| US10625436B2 |
High speed slicing machine
A food article slicing machine includes a food article loading apparatus with a lift tray assembly for moving food articles from a staging position to an elevated position at a beginning of a food article feed path, a food article feed apparatus disposed over the food article loading apparatus having an upper conveyor assembly with an independently driven endless conveyor belt used in cooperation with a food article gripper for moving the food articles along the food article feed path, a food article stop gate that forms part of the food article feed path and opens to drop food article end portions, and a slicing station at an end of the food article feed path with a knife for slicing the food articles. |
| US10625434B1 |
Tomato dicing assembly and method of use
A tomato dicing assembly and method for making tomato cubes from a tomato includes a cutting guide member, support member, and spike tube member that each has a tubular shape configuration that fit together concentrically. The cutting guide member includes a tubular wall extending longitudinally between proximal and distal ends, the cutting guide member including a cutting member defining a plurality of first cutting slots and body section defining second cutting slots transverse to the plurality of first cutting slots. The support member includes a continuous side wall defining having a closed upper end defining a plurality of holes spaced apart in a predetermined pattern and an open lower end. The spike tube member has a closed top including a plurality of spikes extending outwardly and are received through the plurality of holes when the spike tube member is received into the support member. |
| US10625432B2 |
Processing systems and methods for providing processing of a variety of objects
A sortation system is disclosed for providing processing of homogenous and non-homogenous objects in both structured and cluttered environments. The sortation system includes a programmable motion device including an end effector, a perception system for recognizing any of the identity, location, and orientation of an object presented in a plurality of objects, a grasp selection system for selecting a grasp location on the object, the grasp location being chosen to provide a secure grasp of the object by the end effector to permit the object to be moved from the plurality of objects to one of a plurality of destination locations, and a motion planning system for providing a motion path for the transport of the object when grasped by the end effector from the plurality of objects to the one of the plurality of destination locations, wherein the motion path is chosen to provide a path from the plurality of objects to the one of the plurality of destination locations. |
| US10625430B2 |
Robot gripper
A robot gripper includes: i) a gripper body mounted at a front end of an arm of a robot, ii) a pair of mounting brackets installed on respective sides of the gripper body and configured to reciprocate in a direction toward each other or in a direction away from each other, and iii) finger members facing each other and fixedly installed on the pair of mounting brackets. In particular, the finger members include gripping recesses to grip portions of the screw part having different sizes and formed on ends of the screw part. |
| US10625429B2 |
Vacuum handling apparatus
A method for operating a vacuum handling apparatus, in particular for a human-machine-collaboration system, a vacuum gripper can be connected to a primary vacuum system to generate a vacuum, the method includes the following steps applying the vacuum gripper to a workpiece and building up a vacuum in the vacuum gripper by means of the primary vacuum system; holding the workpiece during its handling by means of the vacuum prevailing in the vacuum gripper, and monitoring at least one state variable during the handling; and generating an auxiliary vacuum in the vacuum gripper by a self-sufficient, secondary auxiliary vacuum system if the monitored state variable deviates from a target state. |
| US10625422B2 |
Robot and crane cooperative work system
A robot and crane cooperative work system, includes a robot including a hand and an arm which are capable of treating a workpiece or to which a tool is mountable; and a crane which moves the workpiece or the robot, while suspending the workpiece or the robot by the crane, the robot treats the workpiece or the robot in such a manner that the robot operates the hand and the arm to attach the workpiece or the robot to the crane or detach the workpiece or the robot from the crane, the crane moves the workpiece or the robot, and the robot processes the workpiece. |
| US10625419B2 |
Robotic system and method for operating on a workpiece
A robotic system includes a robot and a processor configured to autonomously generate a master plan for movement of an end effector of the robot for operating on an operating surface of a workpiece in a physical environment. The master plan is based on a computer aided design (CAD) model of the workpiece and defines movement paths of the end effector based on a reach distance of a robotic arm of the robot at each of a plurality of working waypoints defined in the master plan and corresponding to fiducial markers on the workpiece. The processor registers the robot to the workpiece, iteratively adjusts an approximate workpiece position in a world map until matching an actual workpiece position in the physical environment, and constructs and executes a robotic arm trajectory causing the end effector to operate on the operating surface along the movement paths defined in the master plan. |
| US10625412B2 |
Wing majors entry and exit aid
An ergonomic aid has a base portion configured to be received on a stringer adjacent an access port in a partition wall within a structural enclosure. A support pad extends from the base portion, the support pad having an upper surface with a contour adapted to match a profile of the access port. The support pad has a predetermined height to extend the upper surface above a rim of the access port opening when the support pad is in a compressed condition. |
| US10625409B2 |
Communication adapter attachment device and working machine
A communication adapter attachment device in one aspect of the present disclosure is provided in a working machine, and includes an adapter housing portion, a cap, and a cap-side interface. The cap-side interface is configured to enable viewing of the adapter-side interface and/or an input operation to the adapter-side interface from outside of the working machine, in a state in which the communication adapter is accommodated in the adapter housing portion and the opening is closed with the cap. |
| US10625406B2 |
Fastener-driving tool including a driving device
A fastener-driving tool including a housing, a driving device associated with the housing and including a driver blade, a biasing member and a coupler attached to the driver blade and the biasing member, and a compound gear rotatably attached to the housing and in engagement with the coupler, where the compound gear is configured to rotate between a first position and a second position. The compound gear is rotated to the first position to move and secure the biasing member in a biased position when the driver blade is in a pre-drive position, and upon actuation, the biasing member is released from the biased position and biases the compound gear to move to the second position thereby causing the driver blade to move to a driven position for driving a fastener. |
| US10625404B2 |
Socket structure
A socket structure contains: a hollow body, a fitting member, an operation bar, a first spring, and a second spring. The hollow body includes a first accommodation groove, a connection groove, a first guide groove, and a second guide groove. The fitting member includes a first section, a second section, a second accommodation groove, a polygonal hole, and a peripheral trough. The hollow body further includes at least one fixing element, the first spring abuts against a stepped connection portion of the first guide groove and the second guide groove and the second section of the fitting member. The operation bar includes a polygonal extension and a peripheral rib. The second spring abuts against a bottom of the second guide groove, and a second end of the second spring pushes the polygonal extension of the operation bar to extend out of the second accommodation groove. |
| US10625398B2 |
Centering machine for workpieces, particularly optical lenses
A cooling lubricant supply device for supply of a cooling lubricant to a grinding wheel is rotatably mounted as a tool on a grinding spindle of a processing unit in a grinding machine. The device has a feed shoe, which is mounted at least indirectly on a grinding spindle housing and seated on a circumferential surface of the grinding wheel and which has a seating surface facing the grinding wheel. The seating surface has a shape substantially complementary with the circumferential surface of the grinding wheel and is provided centrally with a pocket-like recess into which the cooling lubricant can be fed under pressure. A spring mechanism is provided, by which the feed shoe is biased with the seating surface thereof against the circumferential surface of the grinding wheel. |
| US10625395B2 |
Substrate polishing apparatus
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a substrate polishing apparatus is provided. The substrate polishing apparatus includes a turntable for supporting a polishing pad, a dresser that dresses the polishing pad, a dresser drive module that presses the dresser against the polishing pad and rotates the dresser, a support member that supports the dresser drive module, and a plurality of force sensors which are provided between the dresser drive module and the support member and each of which outputs information related to each of forces in three axis directions. |
| US10625391B2 |
Non-porous molded article for polishing layer, polishing pad, and polishing method
Disclosed is a non-porous molded article for a polishing layer, the non-porous molded article including a thermoplastic polyurethane, wherein the thermoplastic polyurethane has a maximum value of a loss tangent (tan δ) in a range of −70 to −50° C. of 4.00×10−2 or less. Preferably, the thermoplastic polyurethane is obtained by polymerization of a polymer diol having a number average molecular weight of 650 to 1400, an organic diisocyanate, and a chain extender, and a content ratio of nitrogen derived from an isocyanate group of the organic diisocyanate is 5.7 to 6.5 mass %. |
| US10625388B2 |
Device for removing tool joint edge burrs of wheel
A device for removing tool joint edge burrs on a cap slot edge and an outer rim of a vehicle wheel includes a vehicle wheel positioning system and a cutter system. The vehicle wheel positioning system is used to make a rotating center of a cap seam allowance superposed with that of the cutter system. The cutter system includes a pyramid cutter and four blades, the pyramid cutter is used to remove burrs on the cap slot edge of the vehicle wheel, and the four blades are used to remove burrs on the outer rim of the vehicle wheel. |
| US10625385B2 |
Spindle unit for turning and milling machines
A spindle unit for machine tools that includes a working spindle rotationally bearing-mounted in axially spaced spindle bearings in a spindle case, and an electric driving motor. The working spindle includes at its head side a clamping device for a tool and at its rear side a non-rotating ring cylinder for activating said clamping device via a rotating tie rod, and rotational bushing for supplying said tool with cooling and/or lubricating agents through a hydraulic conduit extending longitudinally through said working spindle. At least a segment of the non-rotating ring cylinder may be received in the rear end portion of said working spindle. |
| US10625384B2 |
Spindle apparatus and operating method thereof
A spindle apparatus according to the present disclosure includes a housing, a spindle rotatably installed in the housing, a tool releasably engaged with one end of the spindle and having an insert tip movable in a radial direction of the tool, a first draw-bar movably mounted in the spindle, and a second draw-bar movably mounted in the first draw-bar. The tool and one end of the first draw-bar are releasably engaged with the one end of the spindle by a movement of the first draw-bar, and the insert tip is configured to move in the radial direction by a movement of the second draw-bar. |
| US10625377B2 |
Bonding member and method for manufacturing bonding member
A bonding member having a container between a first foil and a second foil. The container includes metal particles having a melting point higher than a melting point of the first foil and a melting point of the second foil, a film material in which the metal particles are dispersed, and intermetallic compounds formed by a reaction between the first foil or the second foil and the metal particles. The first foil and the metal particles are bonded with the intermetallic compound interposed therebetween, and the second foil and the metal particles are bonded with the intermetallic compound interposed therebetween. |
| US10625375B2 |
Laser processing method, apparatus for sapphire and storage medium
A laser processing method for a sapphire includes: acquiring an image of the sapphire during processing; performing an edge detection to the image to acquire a coordinate of a crack; determining an offset parameter according to the coordinate of the crack; adjusting a laser processing position according to the offset parameter; and further processing the sapphire in accordance with the adjusted laser processing position. |
| US10625373B2 |
Optical arrangements for processing a workpiece
Optical arrangements for processing a workpiece include a fiber laser arrangement for emitting laser radiation, a fiber arrangement directly coupled to the fiber laser arrangement and configured to guide the laser radiation in a direction to the workpiece to be processed, the fiber arrangement including a transport fiber having a fiber core and at least one fiber cladding surrounding the fiber core, and at least one coupling device for coupling a portion of the laser radiation guided in the fiber arrangement into at least one fiber cladding of the transport fiber. The coupling device has a spectral bandwidth of at least the same magnitude as a spectral bandwidth of the laser radiation. The fiber laser arrangement is configured to change a beam profile of the guided laser radiation to shift the spectral bandwidth of the laser radiation relative to the spectral bandwidth of the coupling device. |
| US10625369B2 |
Welding electrode unit
A welding electrode unit includes a repositioning device that is movable. The repositioning device includes an energy storage device by way of which a welding electrode is connected directly or indirectly with the energy storage device can have a force applied to it for the purpose of a repositioning movement. The repositioning device is movable into a welding position by way of a forward movement and can be locked in the welding position. |
| US10625360B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing welding type power
A method and apparatus for providing welding-type power includes receiving an input that may be either a single or a three phase input voltage. Three power modules, each having a single phase boost power circuit, and an output circuit process the input power. A weld output circuit receives and combines the outputs of the three power modules. An input power distribution module connects the three power modules such that each receives a unique single phase power signal. A controller controls the three power modules and the input power distribution module. |
| US10625357B2 |
Braze repair of turbomachine engine component
System (10) and methods (1000) for structural braze repair of high gamma prime nickel base gas turbine components (1). The system may include a controller (200) operably connected to a heating system (100), e.g., a vacuum furnace, for controlling heat temperatures of the furnace for a specified or predetermined time period. A damaged component is placed in the furnace and heated to a first temperature, which is held for the specified time period before being cooled to about room temperature. The component is then heated to a second temperature higher than the first temperature, which is held for a second time period before being cooled again to about room temperature. After cooling the component may be braze repaired at a third temperature equal to or higher than the previous temperatures for a third time period. |
| US10625356B2 |
Electrical connection tape
A thermal managing electrical connection tape includes a carrier film and a composition including solder powder, with the composition being applied to the carrier film. The composition includes a soldering flux having the solder powder disposed therein. The composition contains between about 50 wt % and about 70 wt % soldering flux. The composition further contains between about 30 wt % and about 50 wt % solder powder. A method of fabricating a thermal managing electrical connection tape includes providing a composition including at least one of a soldering flux and epoxy and/or acrylic, adding a solder powder to the composition, casting the composition on a carrier film, drying the carrier film in a drying furnace to form a dried tape, and cutting the dried tape to a desired width to form a thermal managing electrical connection tape. |
| US10625351B2 |
Milling tool
A milling tool for cyclo-palloid toothing has a holder and multiple first cutting plates. and includes a clamping portion for clamping the holder and a holder head, which projects radially compared to the clamping portion in the front end and on which there are multiple first cutting plate receptacles. The first cutting plates are fastened in the first cutting plate receptacles, and project radially outward, wherein the radially outermost points of the first cutting plates lie in each case on a common circle, the center point of which lies on the center axis of the holder. The first cutting plates are arranged at an angle to an orthogonal plane which is orthogonal to the holder center axis. Multiple first partly conical surfaces are provided on a top side of the holder head. Multiple second partly conical surfaces are provided on an end side of the holder head. |
| US10625346B2 |
Adjustable pipe center and method
An adjustable pipe center; the lathe-center may be useful for supporting the end of a rotating workpiece having a hollow along an axis upon which the workpiece is rotating. The adjustable pipe center includes a shaft, a center-head having keyways, a plurality of bearing-fins, and a plurality of power-screws. The center-head is fixed to the shaft and is able to fit within the hollow of the workpiece. The plurality of bearing-fins is able to fit and slide within the keyways, with each having a bearing-surface for contacting the workpiece. The bearing-surface is disposed at an angle to the shaft-axis between zero and ninety degrees. The bearing-fins may be translated, functioning as an inclined plane to displace a workpiece resting against it. When the bearing-fins are collectively translated as desired, it may laterally adjust the position of the workpiece-axis relative to the shaft-axis. |
| US10625344B2 |
Method for producing copper particles, copper particles, and copper paste
A method for producing copper particles includes a preparation step and a heating step. In the preparation step, a copper compound, a salt of a main group metal, and a polyhydric alcohol are prepared. In the heating step, a mixture of the copper compound, the salt of the main group metal, and the polyhydric alcohol is heated. Preferably, the main group metal is at least one selected from the group consisting of lithium, beryllium, sodium, magnesium, aluminum, potassium, calcium, zinc, gallium, germanium, rubidium, strontium, cadmium, indium, tin, antimony, cesium, and barium. |
| US10625340B2 |
Metal 3D printer
A metal 3-D printer includes a powder layer formation device having a blade for planarizing metal powder, a table driving device lowering a table by a predetermined lowering distance in anticipation of a formation of a powder layer, a laser irradiating device irradiating a laser beam at the powder layer to form a sintered layer having a predetermined upper surface region, a numerical control apparatus controlling the powder layer formation device, the table driving device, the laser irradiating device and a machining apparatus. When the blade collides with an obstacle formed on an upper most sintered layer, an end mill is lowered according to a predetermined lowering distance such that a lower end of the end mill is lower than an upper surface of the powder layer, and moves the end mill across a predetermined upper surface region of the uppermost sintered layer to remove the obstacle. |