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| US10012995B2 |
Autonomous vehicle routing and navigation using passenger docking locations
A method and apparatus for autonomous vehicle routing and navigation using passenger docking locations are disclosed. Autonomous vehicle routing and navigation using passenger docking locations may include an autonomous vehicle identifying map information representing a vehicle transportation network, the vehicle transportation network including a primary destination and a docking location, wherein identifying the map information includes identifying the map information such that the map information includes docking location information representing the docking location. The autonomous vehicle may identify the docking location as a target docking location for the primary destination based on the map information, generate, based on the map information, route information representing a route for the autonomous vehicle to traverse the vehicle transportation network from an origin in the vehicle transportation network to the target docking location, and traverse the vehicle transportation network from the origin to the target docking location in accordance with the route information. |
| US10012990B2 |
Optimizing timing for configuring an autonomous vehicle
An autonomous vehicle (AV) can receive a pick-up location from a backend transport facilitation system to service a pick-up request from a requesting user. The AV can further process sensor data from a sensor array of the AV to dynamically identify potential hazards while autonomously operating the AV along a current route to the pick-up location. The AV can receiving, from the backend transport facilitation system, a set of configuration instructions to configure adjustable components of an interior of the AV based on comfort preferences of the requesting user, and determine an optimal timing schedule to implement each of the set of configuration instructions. Thus, the AV can execute the set of configuration instructions based on the optimal timing schedule to configure the adjustable components of the configurable interior system prior to arriving at the pick-up location. |
| US10012986B2 |
Method for autonomously parking a motor vehicle for head-in, tail-in, and parallel parking spots
A method for autonomously parking a motor vehicle in various types of parking spots includes the steps of receiving a map of a parking area, locating the motor vehicle within the parking area, selecting a parking spot within the parking area, generating a node tree from the location of the motor vehicle to the parking spot, selecting a path from the node tree, wherein the path connects the location of the motor vehicle to the parking spot, autonomously driving the motor vehicle along the path from the location of the motor vehicle to an intermediate location on the path, and performing a parking maneuver into the parking spot from the intermediate location. The parking maneuver may be a head-in, tail-in, or parallel parking maneuver. |
| US10012985B2 |
Self-propelled device for interpreting input from a controller device
A self-propelled device operates to interpret an input corresponding to a set of actions that are performed on a controller device. |
| US10012982B2 |
System and method for focus and context views for telepresence and robotic teleoperation
Example implementations include a system and method for providing a focus and context view for a movable apparatus. The focus view is indicated in a central portion of the display, and a context view is warped around the focus portion of the display to provide context. In example implementations, selection of another portion to render as the focus portion causes the movable apparatus to orient itself to the focus portion as the forward direction. |
| US10012981B2 |
Self-calibrating sensors and actuators for unmanned vehicles
An apparatus, method, and system of self-calibrating sensors and actuators for unmanned vehicles is provided, which includes an unmanned vehicle comprising: a chassis; a propulsion system; one or more sensors configured to sense features around the chassis; a memory; a communication interface; and a processor configured to: operate the propulsion system in a guided calibration mode; automatically switch operation of the propulsion system to an autonomous calibration mode when a degree of certainty on a calibration of one or more of sensor data and a position of the chassis is above a first threshold value associated with safe operation of the propulsion system in the autonomous calibration mode; thereafter, operate the propulsion system in the autonomous calibration mode; and, automatically switch operation of the propulsion system to an operational mode when the degree of certainty is above a second threshold value greater than the first threshold value. |
| US10012979B2 |
Emulated industrial control execution rate scaling
A host system which executes an emulation environment for modelling a logical behavior of an industrial control device may execute a clock management module to scale execution time in the emulation environment to more accurately reflect execution time of the industrial control device. The clock management module may operate to receive repeatable ticks based on a real time clock of the host system. The repeatable ticks may be used to measure execution of a portion of an industrial control program in the emulation environment, which measure may be compared to a reference value for executing the same portion on the industrial control device. The host system may then temporarily stall execution in the emulation environment to match execution on the industrial control device. |
| US10012971B2 |
System, retrofit module and method for monitoring a current operational state of a program-controlled domestic appliance
A current operational state of a program-controlled domestic appliance is monitored while it carries out an operating process. The monitoring system includes a retrofit module and a communication device separate from the retrofit module and from the domestic appliance. The retrofit module has a fastening arrangement for releasable fastening on an outer face of an appliance housing, a data exchange unit for wireless communication, and a sensor arrangement with a magnetic field sensor that detects a magnetic field that is generated by a drive motor of the domestic appliance and that penetrates outwards through the appliance housing. The system determines the current operational state of the domestic appliance with the aid of detected measured values of the magnetic field and outputs the state via the communication device. |
| US10012970B2 |
Board production state monitoring system
A board production state monitoring system including a camera unit that is disposed in a board work machine which carries out predetermined work for a board, that images a progress of the work by using a moving image, and that outputs moving image data; a data operation unit that receives, stores, and displays the moving image data; a trigger factor detection unit that detects at least one of a change factor in which working conditions of the work are changed inside the board work machine and a sign of error occurrence which shows that a working error may occur in the work, as a trigger factor; and an imaging start device for causing the camera unit to start moving image capturing if the trigger factor detection unit detects the trigger factor, and for causing the data operation unit to temporarily store the moving image data, is provided. |
| US10012968B2 |
Server device, server control method, and program
A server device having a plurality of server modules and a plurality of cooling fans in a chassis includes: a control unit configured to control the server modules and the cooling fans, which can be placed in predetermined positions. The control unit is configured to decide a server module and a cooling fan to become targets of operation status control from among the server modules and the cooling fans, on a basis of location information showing locations of the server modules and the cooling fans. |
| US10012964B2 |
Method and device for geoposition-based control of systems affected by delays
Method and device for controlling a system state of a stationary system affected by delays as a function of a variable geoposition of a person, wherein the system is to have reached a predefined presence state when the person arrives at the location of the system. The method comprises: determining the geoposition of the person; estimating the time period needed by the person from the determined geoposition until arrival at the location of the system; and specifying a reference state for changing the current system state, wherein the reference state for reaching the presence state within the estimated time period is determined as a function of the predefined presence state, the performance capability of the system and the estimated time period. The device comprises similarly designed means for determining the geoposition, estimating the time period and specifying the reference state. |
| US10012960B2 |
Watch
A watch including: a rear cover; a dial fixedly connected with the rear cover, the dial and the rear cover defining a first cavity; a transparent touch screen located on a side of the dial facing away from the rear cover and fixedly connected with the dial, the transparent touch screen and the dial defining a second cavity; at least one pointer located in the second cavity and being rotatable relative to the dial; and a driving system located in the first cavity and configured to drive the at least one pointer to rotate and the transparent touch screen to operate. |
| US10012957B2 |
Time measurement device
A time measurement device measures a time interval between input timings of first and second pulsed target signals. The device includes: a processor; a number-of-periods detector that detects, by using a clock signal with a predetermined clock frequency and a predetermined clock period, the time interval in units of the clock period; and a phase detection unit including a band-pass filter. The band-pass filter receives at least one of the first and second target signals as a filtering target signal and extracts a signal component of the clock frequency from the filtering target signal. The phase detection unit detects a phase difference between the extracted signal and the clock signal. The processor derives, by using a result detected by the number-of-periods detector and the detected phase difference, the time interval at a resolution finer than the clock period. |
| US10012953B2 |
Method of reconstructing a holographic image and apparatus therefor
An apparatus for, and method of, image reconstruction. The method includes first breaking a holographic image into a plurality of interlaced sample sets corresponding to color separation images; and independently sampling, filtering, and reconstructing all sets. The resulting demodulated images contain no fringes. Notably, range-clipped tonal rendering curves are used to choose pixel regions of the demodulated images that will replace saturated regions. The image is reconstructed by integrating all un-saturated images into one. |
| US10012952B2 |
Image forming apparatus for controlling amount of air flow flowing to heat unit in fixing device
A fixing device includes: a heat unit extending in an axial direction and comprising a heater, the heat unit having a central region in the axial direction and an end region outside of the central region; an opponent member to face the heat unit; and a cover positioned opposite to the opponent member with respect to the heat unit. The cover has: a central cover portion positioned to face the central region and spaced away from the central region by a reference distance; and a side cover portion positioned to face the end region and movable between a first position providing a first distance from the heat unit and a second position providing a second distance from the heat unit, the first distance being not more than the reference distance, and the second distance being greater than the reference distance. |
| US10012950B2 |
Image forming apparatus
A printer 100 includes a housing, an image forming unit 120H, a body unit 150, positioning mechanisms and a lock lever 50. The positioning mechanism includes a unit biasing spring and a biasing projection, and positions the image forming unit 120H by biasing the image forming unit 120H mounted at a first position in the housing. The lock lever 50 is pivotably provided on the image forming unit 120H. The lock lever 50 can change the posture thereof between a first posture for locking the image forming unit 120H at the first position and a second posture for unlocking the image forming unit 120H and allowing the image forming unit 120H to be removed from the housing. |
| US10012949B1 |
Developing cartridge capable of detecting specification thereof
A developing cartridge has a casing accommodating toner therein; a developing roller rotatable about a first axis extending an axial direction; a cam electrically connected to the developing roller and rotatable about a second axis extending the axial direction from a first position to a second position, the cam being positioned at a third position distant from the casing by a first distance in the axial direction at the first position, and the cam being positioned at a fourth position distant from the casing by a second distance at the second position in the axial direction, the second distance being greater than the first distance; and a gear rotatable about the second axis, the gear engaging with the cam in a case where the cam is at the first position, and the gear disengaging from the cam in a case where the cam is at the second position. |
| US10012948B2 |
Image forming apparatus, lock device, lock unit
A biasing portion biases a restricting portion in a direction opposite to a direction in which a drive source drives the restricting portion. Each of a lock cover and the restricting portion includes an engaging portion that has a contact surface, and when the lock cover is closed, the contact surfaces of the lock cover and the restricting portion are engaged with each other while facing each other. The contact surfaces of the lock cover and the restricting portion are not parallel to each other in a state where the lock cover is closed, and as the lock cover is displaced in an opening direction of the lock cover when the drive source is not driving the restricting portion, one or both of the engaging portions are bent and the contact surfaces become parallel to each other. |
| US10012946B2 |
Image forming apparatus, lock device, lock unit
A lock device includes a lock cover, a restricting portion, a drive source, a biasing portion, and a pressing portion. The lock cover is opened and closed when a developer storing portion storing developer is attached or detached. The restricting portion, when the lock cover is closed, is engaged with the lock cover in such a way as to restrict the lock cover from being opened. The drive source drives the restricting portion in such a way as to release an engagement between the restricting portion and the lock cover. The biasing portion biases the restricting portion in a direction opposite to a direction in which the drive source drives the restricting portion. The pressing portion presses the lock cover in an opening direction in conjunction with an operation of the drive source to release the engagement between the restricting portion and the lock cover. |
| US10012943B2 |
Fixing device provided with a plurality of heaters
A fixing device includes: first and second heaters; a frame; and first and second terminals. The frame includes first and second fixing surfaces. The first terminal is electrically-connected to the first heater and includes: a first plate-shaped portion including a first fixed portion fixed to the first fixing surface. The second terminal is electrically-connected to the second heater and includes: a second plate-shaped portion including a second fixed portion fixed to the second fixing surface; and a first electrical connection portion electrically-connected to a power source and including: a first intermediate portion bent from the second plate-shaped portion and extending in a first direction connecting the second fixed portion and the second fixing surface; and a first tip portion. The first intermediate portion has: a first end connected to the second plate-shaped portion; and a second end from which the first tip portion extends along the first plate-shaped portion. |
| US10012939B2 |
Image forming apparatus and program product used in the image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming device configured to form a first image on a first side of a recording medium and a second image on a second side of the recording medium, a position detector configured to detect respective positions of the first and second images, and a controller configured to perform, based on detection results obtained by the position detector, at least one of an image position correction by matching the first and second images and a magnification error correction by calculating and correcting a magnification error of one of the first and second images relative to the other. A program product used in the image forming apparatus includes a method of forming the first image and the second image, detecting the respective positions of the first and second images, and matching a position or a size of the first and second images. |
| US10012938B2 |
Illumination optical system, and spectrophotometric apparatus and image forming apparatus including the same
Provided is an illumination optical system includes: a light source; and a light guiding member configured to guide a light flux emitted from the light source to an illuminated surface, the light guiding member having: an incident surface into which the light flux from the light source enters; an ellipsoidal reflection surface configured to reflect the light flux from the incident surface; and an exit surface from which the light flux reflected by the ellipsoidal reflection surface exits, in which the light source is arranged so as to be separated from a first focal point of the ellipsoidal reflection surface at a position farther from the illuminated surface, in a direction perpendicular to a light emitting surface of the light source. |
| US10012937B2 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus including a fixing belt, a presser, and a gap retainer
A fixing device includes a fixing belt that is endless and rotatable in a rotation direction and a nip former stretching the fixing belt. A pressure rotator presses against the nip former via the fixing belt to form a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the pressure rotator, through which a recording medium is conveyed. A presser is disposed downstream from an exit of the fixing nip in a recording medium conveyance direction. The presser brings the fixing belt into contact with the pressure rotator. A gap retainer contacts the nip former and is coupled to the presser to retain isolation of the presser from the nip former. |
| US10012936B2 |
Fixing device and image forming apparatus
A fixing device includes a fixing belt that is endless and rotatable in a rotation direction and a nip former stretching the fixing belt and including an elastic layer as a surface layer. A pressure rotator presses against the nip former via the fixing belt to form a fixing nip between the fixing belt and the pressure rotator, through which a recording medium is conveyed. A presser is disposed downstream from an exit of the fixing nip in a recording medium conveyance direction. The presser brings the fixing belt into contact with the pressure rotator. |
| US10012935B2 |
Image fixing apparatus
An image fixing apparatus includes a cylindrical rotatable member including an electroconductive layer and having a hole at least at one of longitudinal end portions, a driving member engaged with the longitudinal end portion to rotate the rotatable member and including a claw engaged with the hole, a coil provided inside the rotatable member for forming an alternating magnetic field for heat generation of the electroconductive layer, and a magnetic core. The rotatable member generates heat by a current flowing in a circumferential direction of the rotatable member induced in the electroconductive layer in the magnetic field. The rotatable member is provided with a slot at the longitudinal end, the slot being disposed at a position different from a position of the hole with respect to the circumferential direction of the rotatable member and overlapping the hole with respect to a longitudinal direction of the rotatable member. |
| US10012932B2 |
Image forming apparatus incorporating fixing device
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing device to fix a toner image onto a recording medium, a voltmeter to measure an input voltage from an external source, and a controller operatively connected to the fixing device and the voltmeter. The fixing device includes an endless, fixing rotator formed into a loop, a heater to heat the fixing rotator, a pressure pad disposed inside the loop, and a pressure rotator disposed opposite the pressure pad via the fixing rotator to press the fixing rotator against the pressure pad to form a fixing nip between the fixing rotator and the pressure rotator, through which the recording medium bearing the toner image is conveyed. The controller controls a heating operation of the heater and a fixing operation of the fixing device to fix the toner image onto the recording medium, based on the input voltage measured by the voltmeter. |
| US10012931B2 |
Image forming apparatus, method for controlling fixing device and storage medium
An image forming apparatus including: a fixing device including a heater and a temperature sensor, and a controller configured to execute: first heater control processing including: first processing of driving the heater with a predetermined energization ratio for a first time period independently of the detected temperature of the temperature sensor; second processing of stopping the driving of the heater for a second time period independently of the detected temperature of the temperature sensor; the second processing being executed when the first processing has ended, comparison processing of comparing a detected temperature of the temperature sensor with a reference temperature, which is executed when the second processing has ended; and first determination processing of determining whether to execute the first processing again based on the result of the comparison processing which has been executed when the second processing had ended. |
| US10012930B2 |
Image forming apparatus having controlled driving force
A toner supply unit for use in an image forming apparatus includes a main body, a driving device supplying a driving force, a controller to control the driving force, and a toner bottle containing toner, dismountably mounted to a mounting portion, and including a discharging portion for discharging the toner. A movable shutter member on the toner bottle moves between a closing position and an opening position for opening the discharging portion, and a bottle gear is provided on the toner bottle and receives the driving force. The driving force supplied to the bottle gear when a discharging mechanism first discharges the predetermined amount of toner from the discharging portion after the shutter member moves to the opening position is smaller than the driving force supplied to the bottle gear during moving of the shutter member to the opening position. |
| US10012929B2 |
Imaging cartridge chip, imaging cartridge, and method for switching imaging cartridge chip serial number
An imaging cartridge chip includes a communication module for providing data communication between the imaging cartridge chip and an imaging device; a non-volatile data storage module for storing at least two different serial numbers; a volatile temporary data storage module connecting between the communication module and the non-volatile data storage module and including at least two temporary data storage units; and a control module. The control module is configured to load different serial numbers into corresponding temporary data storage units; to send a serial number in a selected temporary data storage unit to the imaging device; to determine whether the serial number sent to the imaging device passes a legitimacy verification of the imaging device; and when the serial number sent to the imaging device does not pass the legitimacy verification, to send a serial number in another temporary data storage unit to the imaging device. |
| US10012927B2 |
Developing roller including roller body with simplified structure without a coating film
A developing roller is provided, which includes a roller body having a simplified structure without a coating film and yet having a higher wear resistance. The developing roller (1) includes a roller body (2) made of a crosslinked product of a rubber composition containing a rubber component including 20 to 50 parts by mass of ECO and/or GECO as an ion conductive rubber and 50 to 80 parts by mass of NBIR based on 100 parts by mass of the overall rubber component, and an oxide film (6) formed in an outer peripheral surface (5) of the roller body (2) by irradiation with ultraviolet radiation or the like. |
| US10012920B2 |
Toner and method of producing toner
An object of the present invention is to provide a toner that exhibits high levels of the low-temperature fixability, storability, and charging performance all at the same time. The toner of the present invention is a toner that has a toner particle comprising a crystalline resin and an amorphous resin, the toner being characterized in that the toner satisfies 0.00≤(Wt2/Wt1)≤0.50; the toner particle has a matrix-domain structure in which domains of the crystalline resin are present in a matrix of the amorphous resin; at least 90 number % of the crystalline resin domains are domains with a diameter from 0.05 μm to 0.50 μm; and SF1 for the crystalline resin domains is from 100 to 130. |
| US10012919B2 |
Toner, developing apparatus, and image-forming apparatus
A toner comprising a toner particle containing a binder resin, a colorant, an amorphous polyester, and a crystalline polyester, wherein the binder resin contains a vinyl resin; the amorphous polyester has a monomer unit derived from a linear aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 6 to 12 carbons, and a monomer unit derived from a dialcohol; the content of the monomer unit derived from a linear aliphatic dicarboxylic acid having 6 to 12 carbons is 10 to 50 mol % with reference to the total monomer units derived from a carboxylic acid in the amorphous polyester; and in a cross section of the toner particle, the vinyl resin constitutes a matrix and the amorphous polyester constitutes domains, and the crystalline polyester is present in the interior of the domains. |
| US10012917B2 |
Toner
There is provided a toner comprising a binder resin, a wax, a charge control resin and a colorant. As a result of gas chromatography analysis, a first total amount of components detected in a range of a peak detecting time of hydrocarbons having 5 to 9 carbons is 500 ppm or less in terms of styrene; a second total amount of components detected in a range of a peak detecting time of hydrocarbons having 10 to 18 carbons is 5,000 ppm or less in terms of styrene; and an amount of a component corresponding to a maximum peak of peaks of hydrocarbons having 10 to 18 carbons is 3,000 ppm or less in terms of styrene. |
| US10012915B2 |
Electrophotographic photosensitive member, process cartridge and electrophotographic apparatus, and chlorogallium phthalocyanine crystal and method for producing the same
An electrophotographic photosensitive member includes a support and a photosensitive layer in this order. The photosensitive layer contains a chlorogallium phthalocyanine crystal obtained by mixing a hydroxygallium phthalocyanine crystal and an aqueous hydrochloric acid solution. |
| US10012908B2 |
Extreme ultraviolet reflective element with multilayer stack and method of manufacturing thereof
An apparatus and method of manufacture of an extreme ultraviolet reflective element includes: a substrate; a multilayer stack on the substrate, the multilayer stack includes a plurality of reflective layer pairs having a first reflective layer formed from silicon and a second reflective layer formed from niobium or niobium carbide for forming a Bragg reflector; and a capping layer on and over the multilayer stack for protecting the multilayer stack by reducing oxidation and mechanical erosion. |
| US10012907B2 |
Optical system of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus
An optical system of a microlithographic projection exposure apparatus designed for an operating wavelength of at least 150 nm. In one disclosed aspect, the optical system includes an element (11, 21) producing an angular distribution for light incident during the operation of the optical system and a fly's eye condenser (200, 400, 500) which includes two arrangements (210, 220, 410, 420, 510, 520) following one another in the light propagation direction and made of beam-deflecting optical elements (211-213, 221-223, 411-413, 421-423, 511-513, 521-523), which produce a multiplicity of optical channels. No optical element with refractive power is arranged in the beam path between the element (11, 21) producing an angular distribution and the fly's eye condenser (200, 400, 500). |
| US10012904B2 |
Lithographic printing plate precursors and coating
A coating for use with a hydrophilic sheet substrate to form a lithographic printing plate precursor, including at least one Compound A silane compound and at least one Compound B phosphinic acid or organic derivative thereof. Compounds A and B experience a synergistic interaction which substantially increases adhesion to the substrate of areas imaged by radiation. The resulting plate is exhibits high on-press durability suitable for high volume commercial uses without a preheat step prior to development, even when imaged with lower levels of radiation such as violet lasers. A method of preparing a lithographic printing plate includes imagewise exposing the coating on a surface of a hydrophilic substrate to violet radiation and developing in an alkaline aqueous solution without preheating. |
| US10012903B2 |
Resist composition and pattern forming process
A resist composition is provided comprising a polymer comprising recurring units (a) having a succinimide structure and recurring units (b) containing a group capable of polarity switch with the aid of acid. The resist composition suppresses acid diffusion, exhibits a high resolution, and forms a pattern of satisfactory profile with low edge roughness. |
| US10012899B2 |
Graphene pellicle for extreme ultraviolet lithography
A method includes depositing a first material layer over a first substrate; and depositing a graphene layer over the first material layer. The method further includes depositing an amorphous silicon layer over the graphene layer and bonding the amorphous silicon layer to a second substrate, thereby forming an assembly. The method further includes annealing the assembly, thereby converting the amorphous silicon layer to a silicon oxide layer. The method further includes removing the first substrate from the assembly and removing the first material layer from the assembly, thereby exposing the graphene layer. |
| US10012889B2 |
Electronic apparatus having seal construction at matching section of external members
An electronic apparatus which is capable of reducing the number of parts and assembling man-hours of a seal construction of an matching section of external covers, and making seal performance stable while realizing downsizing of the apparatus. The electronic apparatus has a first external cover, a second external cover abutting to the first external cover through a matching section, a seal member disposed at the matching section, a gap disposed at the matching section on an external side of the electronic apparatus with respect to the seal member, and a third external cover fitted to the first external cover and the second external cover so as to partially cover the seal member. The seal member has, at a part of the gap partially covered by the third external cover, a protruding portion abutting to the third external cover to seal the part of the gap. |
| US10012883B2 |
Semiconductor device including a silicon nitride dielectric layer and method for producing same
A semiconductor device (100A) includes a substrate (11); a TFT (10A) supported on the substrate, the TFT including an oxide semiconductor layer (16); an organic insulating layer (24) covering the TFT; a lower layer electrode (32) on the organic insulating layer; a dielectric layer (34) on the lower layer electrode; an upper layer electrode on the dielectric layer; and an upper layer electrode (36) including a portion opposing the lower layer electrode via the dielectric layer. The dielectric layer is a silicon nitride film having a hydrogen content of 5.33×1021 atoms/cm3 or less. |
| US10012882B2 |
Liquid crystal display panel
A liquid crystal display panel and a method for manufacturing the same are disclosed. The liquid crystal display panel comprises a data driving module; data lines arranged in an active area in parallel with one another; and data wirings arranged in a fanout area, one end of each data wiring being connected with an output end of said data driving module, the other end thereof being connected with a data line of said active area, wherein the data lines in said active area are arranged to have different widths. |
| US10012879B2 |
Array substrate, method of fabricating the same and liquid crystal display panel
An array substrate is disclosed. The array substrate includes a substrate, a first film layer on a side surface of the substrate, an insulation layer on the side surface of the substrate, an electrostatic charge dispersion layer on the side surface of the substrate, and a second film layer arranged on the side surface of the substrate. The first film layer, the insulation layer, the electrostatic charge dispersion layer, and the second film layer are sequentially arranged on the substrate. In addition, the insulation layer and the electrostatic charge dispersion layer include via holes, the second film layer is electrically connected with the first film layer through the via holes, and the electrostatic charge dispersion layer is in a same profile as the second film layer. |
| US10012876B2 |
Blue phase liquid crystal display panel having identical phase delay in reflective display region and transmissive display region and liquid crystal display device of the same
A blue phase liquid crystal display panel and a liquid crystal display device. The panel and the device include a first substrate and a second substrate which are disposed at an interval and are parallel, and blue phase liquid crystals disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate, wherein, the first substrate includes a first base, the second substrate includes a second base, and the blue phase liquid crystal display panel includes a transmissive display region having multiple first base platforms, multiple first electrodes, each of the first electrodes is disposed on each of the first base platform, and second electrodes disposed on the first base and the second base; and a reflective display region having fourth electrodes only disposed on the second base, wherein the first substrate is provided with a reflective layer corresponding to the reflective display region, when lights respectively pass through the transmissive display region and the reflective display region, phase delays of the lights are identical. |
| US10012874B2 |
Display panel and display device
A display panel comprises a first substrate, a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first and second substrates, and a pixel array disposed on the first substrate and including at least one pixel, which includes a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer and an insulation layer disposed between the first and second electrode layers. The second electrode layer has n electrode portions, the electrode portions are spaced from each other and disposed along a first direction, an electrode width of one of the electrode portions along the first direction is denoted by W (μm), the maximum width of a light-emitting area of the pixel along the first direction is denoted by Ax (μm), and the equation is satisfied as below: 1 2 × ( 10 × Ax 3 × W - 1 ) - 1 ≦ n ≦ 1 2 × ( 10 × Ax 3 × W - 1 ) + 1 wherein, n is a positive integer, 0.05 |
| US10012873B2 |
Display panel
A display panel is divided into a first region and a second region located outside the first region, and includes a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel, a plurality of scan lines, a first common line, a second common line, and a black matrix. In the first sub-pixel, a first distance exists between the first common line and a neighboring scan line along a second direction. In the second sub-pixel, a second distance exists between the second common line and a neighboring scan line along the second direction, and the first distance is not equal to the second distance. The black matrix has a plurality of holes, including a first hole and a second hole. The first hole exposes the first sub-pixel and the first common line located in the first region. The second hole exposes the second sub-pixel and the second common line located in the second region. |
| US10012870B2 |
Alignment device and manufacturing method of alignment film and display substrate
This disclosure discloses an alignment device and a method of manufacturing an alignment film, and a display substrate. The alignment device comprises a first exposure chamber that contains a first light box and a light-shielding plate for blocking light emitted from the first light box from irradiating the alignment region of the alignment film. The light emitted from the first light box is used to irradiate a non-alignment region so as to eliminate the alignment film in the non-alignment region. |
| US10012868B2 |
Polymerizable compound, polymer, polymerizable composition, film, and half mirror for displaying projection image
The present invention provides a polymerizable compound denoted by Formula (I): in the formula, Z1 and Z2 represent an arylene group, and the like, m represents 1 or 2, n represents an integer of 0 or 1, and when m is 2, n is 0, L1, L2, L3, and L4 each independently represent a linking group such as —C(═O)O— and —OC(═O)—, T3 represents -Sp4-R4, X represents —O—, and the like, r represents 1 to 4, Sp1, Sp2, Sp3, Sp4, and Sp5 each independently represent a single bond or a linking group, R1 and R2 each independently represent a polymerizable group, and R3, R4, and R5 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, a polymerizable group, or the like; a polymerizable composition containing the polymerizable compound described above; a film formed of the polymerizable composition described above; and a half mirror for displaying a projection image including the film described above. |
| US10012865B2 |
Transflective liquid crystal display device and method of forming the same
A transflective LCD device and a method of forming the same are proposed. The transflective LCD includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a first alignment film, a second alignment film and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate and the second substrate are divided into a transmissive area and a reflective area, in which areas of the first alignment film and the second alignment film are configured respectively by different aligning angles. The liquid crystal molecules in the liquid crystal layer corresponding to the transmissive area and the reflective area are tilted by different pretilt angles. Therefore, light going one-way through the liquid crystal layer corresponding to the transmissive area generates the same phase retardation as making a round-trip through the liquid crystal layer corresponding to the reflective area. The present invention can simplify technical difficulties, and reduce occurrences of poor rubbing and dark-state light leakage. |
| US10012864B2 |
Apparatus, system, and method for developing photos from digital images
An apparatus for developing a photographic image includes a housing, a light source and a liquid crystal display (LCD) panel. The light source is disposed on a first wall of or inside the housing and configured to emit light inside the housing. The LCD panel having a front side and a back side is disposed on a second wall or inside the housing. The LCD panel is configured to display a digital image on the front side upon illumination of the light toward the back side and to expose a photographic media disposed in close proximity to or contacting the front side of the LCD panel. A method for developing a photographic image is also provided. The photographic media can be developed into a photographic image after exposure using the LCD panel. |
| US10012860B2 |
Polarizers and the manufacturing methods thereof, and liquid crystal panels
A polarizer includes a polarizer base and a plurality of protrusive microstructures being arranged on the polarizer base. The microstructure includes at least two layers of curing-light or thermosetting resin materials. The manufacturing method of the curing-light or thermosetting resin materials includes: providing a polarizer base and coating at least two layers of curing-light or thermosetting resin materials on the polarizer base; and arranging a plurality of lighting dots or heating dots on the curing-light or thermosetting resin materials such that the curing-light or thermosetting resin materials shrink and the lighting dots or heating dots are centers of the shrinkage to form a plurality of protrusive microstructures. In addition, a liquid crystal panel includes the above-mentioned polarizer. |
| US10012859B2 |
Display device having improved transmittance characteristics
A display device including: a substrate including first, second, and third pixel areas; a plurality of pixel electrodes positioned on the substrate within each of the first, second, and third pixel areas; and a plurality of roof layers each facing a respective one of the pixel electrodes, ones of the roof layers positioned to be spaced apart from respective ones of the pixel electrodes with a plurality of microcavities therebetween, the microcavities positioned to correspond to each of the first, second, and third pixel areas. The roof layer includes first and second color filter layers positioned corresponding to the first pixel area and the second pixel area and a third color filter layer positioned below the liquid crystal layer, and a cell gap of the microcavity corresponding to the third pixel area is smaller than cell gaps of the microcavities corresponding to the first and second pixel areas. |
| US10012857B2 |
Display apparatus including a prism module
A display apparatus includes a display device and a prism module. The display device has a display area and a frame area surrounding the display area. The prism module is disposed above the frame area. The prism module includes a plurality of first prism sets and at least one second prism set. The first prism sets are respectively disposed beside a plurality of edges of the display area. The second prism set is disposed beside at least one corner of the display area, and the second prism set is adjacent to the first prism sets. The second prism set includes a plurality of prisms, and the prisms are arranged in a direction away from the corner of the display area. The extending direction of each of the prisms of the second prism set is inclined with respect to the edges of the display area which are adjacent to the corner. |
| US10012853B2 |
Flexible substrate bonding method
The present invention relates to a flexible substrate bonding method and, more particularly, to a bonding method for bonding a flexible substrate to a carrier substrate in order to facilitate handling of the flexible substrate. To this end, the present invention provides a flexible substrate bonding method comprising: a substrate preparation step for preparing a carrier substrate and a flexible substrate; and a bonding step for bonding the carrier substrate to the flexible substrate, which rotates by being wound around a rotation roll, while moving the carrier substrate by a transfer unit, wherein the bonding step includes bringing one edge of the flexible substrate into contact with the carrier substrate, and then gradually bonding the flexible substrate to the carrier substrate in a direction from one side to the other side. |
| US10012851B2 |
Optical modulating device having gate structure
An optical modulating device includes a permittivity change layer having a variable permittivity, a dielectric layer disposed on the permittivity change layer, a nanoantenna disposed on the dielectric layer, and a light-emitting structure disposed adjacent to the permittivity change layer. |
| US10012844B2 |
Variable focal backlighting
A backlight unit includes a waveguide assembly having a first wedge and a birefringent wedge disposed adjacent to, and arranged nose-to-tail with, the first wedge, to define an interface of the waveguide assembly. The birefringent wedge has different indices of refraction for light propagating through the waveguide assembly in first and second polarization states. The first wedge is configured to propagate the light in the second polarization state at a different speed than the birefringent wedge. A liquid crystal layer is configured to selectively switch the light between the first and second polarization states. |
| US10012843B2 |
Compact and effective beam absorber for frequency converted laser
A light beam separating and absorbing element includes a mirror that receives first and second light beams incident on a first surface, and the mirror is configured to transmit the first light beam and reflect the second light beam. A beam absorber receives the first light beam transmitted through the mirror, and absorbs a first light portion of the transmitted first light beam after the first light beam has been transmitted through the mirror. The beam absorber scatters a second portion of the first light beam, and the beam absorber and mirror are positioned such that at least a portion of the scattered light is incident on a second surface of the mirror. Transmissivity of the mirror for the scattered light incident on the second mirror surface may be lower as compared to transmissivity for the first light beam incident on the first mirror surface to enhance separation of the first and second light beams. |
| US10012839B2 |
Spectacle lens for a display device that can be fitted on the head of a user and generates an image
A first side of the outer shell of a spectacle lens faces away from the inner shell and forms the front side of the spectacle lens, and the first side of the inner shell faces away from the outer shell and forms the rear side of the spectacle lens. The outer shell includes the coupling-in section, the light guiding channel and the coupling-out section. The inner shell includes an opening which extends from the second side of the inner shell, which faces towards the outer shell, in the direction of the rear side and in which the light guiding channel sits. The coupling-out section lies next to the opening such that the light bundles coupled out by the coupling-out section enter the inner shell via the second side of the inner shell, run through the inner shell and leave the inner shell via the rear side. |
| US10012838B2 |
Compact optical system with improved contrast uniformity
An optical system for a head-worn computer may include a light source positioned within the head-worn computer and adapted to project non-polarized illuminating light towards a partially reflective partially transmissive surface such that the illuminating light reflects through a field lens and towards a reflective display and a polarizing film adjacent to a surface of the reflective display that polarizes the illuminating light after it passes through the field lens. The illuminating light reflects off a surface of the reflective display, forming image light which is then analyzed by the polarizing film prior to being transmitted through the field lens and then through the partially reflective partially transmissive surface to a non-polarizing lower display optical system adapted to present the image light to an eye of a user wearing the head-worn computer. |
| US10012835B2 |
Image display device
Provided is an image display device with a see-through type display capable of inhibiting the reduction of the visibility of a background seen through a screen due to light emission from bright spots resulting from scratches and stains on a light guiding plate. In this image display device, a liquid crystal panel 30, a light guiding plate 45 with a light source 40 attached thereto, and a transparent plate 20 are disposed, from the display surface (front) side to the rear side, so as to be parallel to one another, and therefore, the surface of the light guiding plate 45 is inhibited from being scratched or stained by the transparent plate 20. Thus, the visibility of the image display device 100 is prevented from being reduced by bright spots. |
| US10012834B2 |
Exit pupil-forming display with reconvergent sheet
A display includes a source that establishes an exit pupil of far field content, a reconvergent sheet disposed along an optical axis to receive light of the far field content, the reconvergent sheet being configured to reconverge the far field content in position space, a reflective surface disposed along the optical axis for reflection of light of the position space back through the reconvergent sheet after reflection off of the reflective surface to re-form the exit pupil of the far field content, and a splitter disposed along the optical axis between the source and the reconvergent sheet and configured to redirect light exhibiting the re-formed exit pupil in a direction offset from the optical axis. |
| US10012832B2 |
Automatic lens design using off-the-shelf components
A system that comprises a receiver port to receive lens system design specifications; and a processor to: select a lens system type that includes one or more preliminary lenses, the selecting based, at least in part, on the lens system design specifications; from a lens database, select one or more catalog lenses to add to or replace the one or more preliminary lenses of the lens system type to construct a lens system; vary distances between or among the one or more catalog lenses and/or the one or more preliminary lenses of the lens system; and as the distances vary, determine optical behavior of the lens system. |
| US10012831B2 |
Optical monitoring of scan parameters
Scanning apparatus includes a transmitter, which is configured to emit a beam comprising pulses of light, and a scanner, which is configured to scan the beam along a scan axis over a specified angular range. A scattering line extends across a path of the scanned beam. A receiver is configured to receive the light scattered from the scattering line and to generate an output indicative of an intensity of the scattered light. A controller is coupled to process the output of the receiver so as to monitor operation of the scanner. |
| US10012830B2 |
Optical scanning device and image forming apparatus
An optical scanning device includes plural light sources, a light deflector including a deflecting-reflecting surface, and a scanning optical system including plural folding mirrors and plural scanning lenses, wherein the plural scanning lenses have the same shape, at least one of an optical surface at the incidence side and an optical surface at the emission side has an asymmetric shape with respect to a sub-scanning direction, and has an asymmetric shape in the sub-scanning direction with respect to the main scanning direction, and a difference in a number of folding mirrors disposed between the corresponding scanning lens and the light deflector between light incident on the light deflector from a direction inclined to one side relative to a virtual surface including a normal line of the deflecting-reflecting surface and light incident on the light deflector from a direction inclined to the other side is an odd number. |
| US10012828B2 |
Assembly body for micromirror chips, mirror device and production method for a mirror device
An assembly body for micromirror chips that partly encloses an internal cavity, the assembly body including at two sides oriented away from one another, at least one respective partial outer wall that is fashioned transparent for a specified spectrum, and the assembly body having at least one first outer opening on which a first micromirror chip can be attached, and a second outer opening on which a second micromirror chip can be attached, in such a way that a light beam passing through the first partial outer wall is capable of being deflected by the first micromirror chip onto the second micromirror chip, and is capable of being deflected by the second micromirror chip through the second partial outer wall. A mirror device and a production method for a mirror device are also described. |
| US10012824B2 |
Optical device and method of controlling direction of light from optical device
Provided are an optical device and a method of controlling the direction of light from an optical device. The optical device includes: a substrate; a metal layer on the substrate; a first slot which is provided in the metal layer; and at least one light source provided in the first slot, wherein light is emitted from the at least one light source in the direction of the top part of the first slot or the bottom part of the first slot. |
| US10012823B2 |
Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus including the same
Provided is a zoom lens, including, in order from an object side to an image side: a first lens unit having a positive refractive power; a second lens unit having a negative refractive power; and a third lens unit having a positive refractive power. In the zoom lens, during zooming, the first lens unit is configured not to move, and the second lens unit and the third lens unit are configured to move along mutually different loci, and a focal length (fw) of the zoom lens at a wide angle end, a focal length (ft) of the zoom lens at a telephoto end, a focal length (f2) of the second lens unit, and a focal length (f3) of the third lens unit are appropriately set. |
| US10012820B2 |
Imaging lens
An imaging lens includes a first lens group and a second lens group, arranged in this order from an object side to an image plane side. The first lens group includes a first lens having positive refractive power, a second lens having positive refractive power, and a third lens. The second lens group includes a fourth lens, a fifth lens having negative refractive power, and a sixth lens. The sixth lens has a concave surface facing the object side near an optical axis thereof. |
| US10012817B2 |
Lens barrel and imaging device equipped with the lens barrel
A lens barrel in the present disclosure includes: a lens frame; a movable lens held in the lens frame; a guide member that moves the lens frame in a first direction; a driver including a drive coil and a magnet that move the lens frame with electric power being supplied to the driver; a drive circuit that drives the driver; and a switching circuit that short-circuits ends of the drive coil when the drive circuit is in a non-energized state. |
| US10012815B2 |
Projection optical system and projection type display apparatus using the same
A projection optical system includes a first lens unit that moves in a direction of an optical axis in adjusting an amount of field curvature and a second lens unit located closer to a reduction side than the first lens unit. The first lens unit includes an aspherical lens satisfying predetermined conditional equations. |
| US10012806B2 |
Methods of forming a fiber coupling device and fiber coupling device
The application provides methods of forming a fiber coupling device comprising a substrate, the substrate having a substrate surface and at least one optoelectronic and/or photonic element, and further comprising at least one fiber coupling alignment structure that is optically transmissive. One method comprises a) applying a polymerizable material to the substrate surface, b) selectively polymerizing, using a method of 3D lithography, a region of the polymerizable material so as to convert the region of the polymerizable material into a polymer material, thereby forming at least one fiber coupling alignment structure, and c) cleaning the substrate and the polymer material from remaining non-polymerized polymerizable material, thereby exposing the at least one fiber coupling alignment structure of the fiber coupling device. |
| US10012801B2 |
Optical fiber connector
A fiber connector is provided. In exemplary embodiments, a fiber connector may comprise an outer housing for securing a fiber cable within the housing, the housing comprising a top wall; a bottom wall disposed opposite the top side wall; a right side wall and a left side wall, each side wall having a through opening formed to receive a latch, the side walls comprising a straight portion for maintaining the latch within the through opening; and a pair of release members slidably coupled with the side walls, each release member comprising a release mechanism for releasing the fiber connector from the latch by sliding along the side walls and forcing the latch out of the through openings with the release mechanism. |
| US10012795B2 |
Multi-mode interference coupler
An optimized SOI 2×2 multimode interference (MMI) coupler is designed by use of the particle swarm optimization (PSO) algorithm. Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) simulation shows that, within a footprint of 9.4×1.6 μm2, <0.1 dB power unbalance and <1 degree phase error are achieved across the entire C-band. The excess loss of the device is <0.2 dB. |
| US10012794B2 |
Phase dependent multimode interference device for coupled cavity lasers
A 3×3 multi-mode interference coupling device having a length L and a width W, a center input port between a pair of outer input ports, where each outer input port is displaced from the center input port by a distance W/3, and a center output port between a pair of outer output ports, where each outer output port is displaced from the center output port by a distance W/3, where the device is supports Cbar, Ccen, and a Cx coupling coefficients therein, when the outer input ports are equally excited with an input signal having a 180° phase difference, Ccen from each outer input port destructively interferes when the propagation length L is an integer number of Lπ/2, where the device outputs equal intensity laser modes from each outer output port when the propagation length is an integer multiple of Lπ/2. |
| US10012793B2 |
Asymmetric optical mixer system
An optical network having at least one star coupler comprising transmit and receive optical mixers which are respectively optically coupled to transmitters and receivers of a plurality of optical-electrical media converters. Each optical-electrical media converter comprises a respective receiver optically coupled to the receive optical mixer by way of plastic optical fibers and a respective transmitter optically coupled to the transmit optical mixer by way of plastic optical fibers. The output plastic optical fibers attached to an output face of the receive optical mixer have a diameter less than the diameter of the input plastic optical fibers attached to an input face of the receive optical mixer. |
| US10012792B2 |
Three-dimensional integrated photonic structure with improved optical properties
An integrated electronic device includes a substrate having an opening extending therethrough. The substrate includes an interconnection network, and connections coupled to the interconnection network. The connections are to be fixed on a printed circuit board. An integrated photonic module is electrically connected to the substrate, with a portion of the integrated photonic module in front of or overlapping the opening of the substrate. An integrated electronic module is electrically connected to the photonic module, and extends at least partly into the opening of the substrate. The electronic module and the substrate may be electrically connected onto the same face of the photonic module. |
| US10012791B2 |
Rubber frame, backlight module and display device
A rubber frame, a backlight module and a display device are provided by the present disclosure, the rubber frame is applied to the backlight module and includes a soft rubber body. The soft rubber body includes a first section, a second section, a third section and a fourth section. At least one section is provided with a first fixing portion configured to fix a display panel. |
| US10012789B2 |
Laminate film, backlight unit, and liquid crystal display device
A laminate film includes a gas barrier film having a barrier layer and a support which supports the barrier layer stacked on one surface of an optical functional layer, in which the gas barrier film and the optical functional layer satisfy the following adhesion force conditions: an adhesion force between the support and the barrier layer is smaller than an adhesion force between the optical functional layer and the barrier layer, and an adhesion force between the support and the barrier layer is an adhesion force enabling peeling. |
| US10012782B2 |
Backlight apparatus and display apparatus having the same
Disclosed herein are a backlight apparatus and a display apparatus having a light guide plate that includes light guide patterns in a waveform shape. |
| US10012780B2 |
Light-emitting device including photoluminescent layer
A light-emitting device includes a photoluminescent layer and a light-transmissive layer located on the photoluminescent layer. At least one of the photoluminescent layer and the light-transmissive layer has a submicron structure having at least projections or recesses arranged perpendicular to the thickness direction of the photoluminescent layer. At least one of the photoluminescent layer and the light-transmissive layer has a light emitting surface. The first light has a wavelength λa in air. A distance Dint between adjacent projections or recesses and a refractive index nwav-a of the photoluminescent layer for the first light satisfy λa/nwav-a |
| US10012778B2 |
Stress-resistant component for use with quantum dots
A glass tube including quantum dots in a polymerized matrix is described. An optical component and other products including such glass tube, a composition including quantum dots, and methods are also disclosed. |
| US10012776B2 |
Optical filters, methods of manufacture, and methods of use
An optical filter includes a first film having an upper surface, a lower surface, a first side, and a second side. A second film is included that has an upper surface, a lower surface, a first side, and a second side. A third film is included that has an upper surface, a lower surface, a first side, and a second side. The first side of the first film is connected to the second side of the second film. The first side of the second film is connected to the second side of the third film. The lower surface of the first film is optically adjacent to the upper surface of the second film. The lower surface of the second film is optically adjacent to the upper surface of the third film. Methods of manufacture and use are also described. |
| US10012772B2 |
Polarizing plate and image display apparatus comprising same
The present invention relates to a polarizing plate including: a polarizer; and a protective layer formed on at least one surface of the polarizer, in which the protective layer is a cured product of a radical curable composition including: (A) a radical polymerizable compound including at least one hydrophilic functional group in a molecule thereof; (B) a multifunctional (meth)acrylic compound; (C) a phosphate compound including one or two (meth)acryl groups in a molecule thereof; and (D) a radical initiator, and an image display device including the same. |
| US10012771B2 |
Polarizing plate and display device comprising same
Provided are a polarizing plate including a polarizing film and protective films provided on both sides of the polarizing film and a display device including the same. |
| US10012768B2 |
Optical material, optical element, and method for manufacturing same
An optical material which has a relative permeability different from 1 to light having a wavelength in, for example, the infrared region or shorter than the infrared region and which is stable in structure, and a liquid and a solid (optical element) using the optical material. The optical material is a powder used as a component of a liquid or solid to which an illuminating light is irradiated, and includes a large number of resonating elements which constitute the powder and each of which is formed of a conductor having a width approximately same as or smaller than a wavelength of the illumination light, and a protective film which is formed of a disc-shaped insulator, wherein an entire surface of each of the split-rind resonators is covered by the protective film. |
| US10012764B2 |
System and method for determining retained hydrocarbon fluid
A computer-implemented method for determining an amount of hydrocarbon fluid present in a rock of a hydrocarbon-producing reservoir is provided. The rock comprises organic matter and porous and permeable inorganic matter. The method comprises the steps of receiving data relating to chemical and kinetic properties of the organic matter, rock lithology data, rock thickness and reservoir temperature and pressure data, inputting the received data into a computer-implemented model, and operating the model. The model operates to a) simulate hydrocarbon fluid generation in the rock based on the input data and thereby determine an amount of generated hydrocarbon fluid, b) generate predicted data, and c) determine a total amount of hydrocarbon fluid present in the rock based on the predicted data. The generated predicted data is indicative of i) an amount of the generated hydrocarbon fluid adsorbed onto a surface of the organic matter within the rock, ii) an amount of the generated hydrocarbon fluid present in the pores of the organic matter by determining the porosity of the organic matter, based on the chemical and kinetic properties of the organic matter, and iii) an amount of the generated hydrocarbon fluid present in the pores of the inorganic matter by determining the porosity of the inorganic matter, based on the rock lithology data. A corresponding system, a computer program and a computer readable medium are also provided. |
| US10012760B2 |
Heat source-free fiber positioning and orienting system for seepage of submerged or partially-submerged structures and monitoring method thereof
A heat source-free fiber positioning and orienting system for seepage of submerged or partially submerged structures and monitoring method thereof includes a plurality of seepage monitoring devices connected through rotary supports. The seepage monitoring devices include first seepage monitoring units symmetrically distributed on the front and back and second seepage monitoring units symmetrically distributed on left and right. Seepage monitoring fibers are distributed in the first seepage monitoring units and the second seepage monitoring units, and the seepage conditions of the submerged or partially submerged structures are monitored through the seepage monitoring fibers. The heat source-free fiber positioning and orienting system for the seepage of submerged or partially submerged structures has the characteristics of no heating, distribution manner, multiple orientations and synchronicity or the like. |
| US10012759B2 |
Downhole sensing using parametric amplification with squeezed or entangled light for internal mode input
A downhole sensing system includes an optical sensor that provides a light signal with at least one attribute related to a downhole parameter. The system also includes a parametric amplification module that amplifies the light signal using squeezed or entangled light for internal mode input. The system also includes a processing unit that determines a value for the downhole parameter based on the amplified light signal. |
| US10012758B2 |
Solid state lasers
Solid state lasers are disclosed herein. An example laser disclosed herein includes a monolithic body having a first end and a second end. The monolithic body includes a first reflector disposed on the first end, a second reflector disposed on the second end, and a solid state gain medium and a Q-switch disposed between the first reflector and the second reflector. The example laser also includes a pump source to cause a population inversion in the solid state gain medium to cause the monolithic body to output a laser pulse. Various applications of the solid state laser are also disclosed herein. |
| US10012757B2 |
Method and apparatus for measuring a local acceleration of gravity
An apparatus and method for measuring a local acceleration of gravity includes releasing a ferrous rod having a regular alternating pattern of reflective and non-reflective portions on a surface thereof from an electromagnetic holder so that the rod falls with a substantially vertical acceleration and substantially no angular velocity about a center of mass of the rod. The falling rod is illuminated with a light emitting diode (LED) configured to emit infrared (IR) light, and IR light emitted by the LED and reflected by the falling rod is detected with a photodiode. A two-state signal is generated corresponding to an illumination state of the photodiode by the reflected IR light. Times of transitions between the two states in the generated signal are calculated to determine kinematic data, and the kinematic data is fitted to a predetermined curve to calculate a local acceleration of gravity. |
| US10012756B2 |
Method for using neutron interaction cross section to interpret neutron measurements
A method for determining a petrophysical property of a formation includes detecting radiation events resulting from imparting neutrons into the formation at an energy level of at least 1 MeV. The petrophysical property is determined from an elastic scattering cross section of the formation. The elastic scattering cross section is related to a number of detected radiation events. |
| US10012748B2 |
Resource production forecasting
A method can include providing a trained neural network; providing a set of production values where the set includes, for example, a cumulative production value for an interval, an average production value for the interval, a first production value for the interval and a last production value for the interval; and predicting at least one production value for a subsequent interval based at least in part on the trained neural network and the provided set of production values. Various other apparatuses, systems, methods, etc., are also disclosed. |
| US10012747B2 |
Device and method for joint 3-dimensional deghosting of multiple vintages
Computing device, computer instructions and method for jointly deghosting first and second 3-dimensional (3D) seismic vintages of a same subsurface. The method includes receiving the first 3D vintage; receiving the second 3D vintage, wherein the second 3D vintage is taken later in time than the first 3D vintage, over the same subsurface; jointly deghosting the first and second 3D vintages based on a common ghost-free model U0, a first vintage ghost-free model Ub, and a second vintage ghost-free model Um; and generating an image of the subsurface indicative of changes between the first and second 3D vintages based on the common ghost-free model U0. |
| US10012746B2 |
Systems and methods for pre-correlation noise attentuation using random sweeps in seismic data processing
A method for attenuating noise in seismic data signals is described wherein seismic signals are transmitted using a pseudo-random frequency sweep signal. Noise is then attenuated from the resulting, acquired seismic data on pre-phase subtraction basis, e.g., before correlating or de-convolving the acquired seismic data. In this way, repetitions associated with, for example, diversity stacking techniques can be avoided. |
| US10012745B2 |
Orthogonal source and receiver encoding
Method for performing simultaneous encoded-source inversion of geophysical data to estimate parameters of a physical property model (41), especially adapted for surveys without fixed-receiver acquisition geometry, such as marine seismic surveys with moving source and receivers. The encoding functions (32) used on the sources to generate one or more simultaneous encoded-source gathers of data (35), as well as to simulate the same (34), are orthogonal or pseudo-orthogonal with respect to cross-correlation. In addition, receivers are also encoded, with the receiver encoding being designed to make a given receiver less sensitive to sources to which it was not listening during the survey (38). The encoding functions may be temporal bandpass filters differing one from another by central frequency, phase, or both. Efficiency of the method may be further improved by grouping several sources into a super-source, grouping the corresponding gathers into a super-gather, and then applying the above encoding strategy. |
| US10012744B2 |
Imaging device using a close proximity tag to configure a wireless local area network (LAN) transceiver
Technology is described for imaging device (e.g., x-ray detector) that includes a tag reader. In one example, the imaging device includes a imaging matrix of pixel detector elements, a wireless local area network (LAN) transceiver, a tag reader, and a controller. Each pixel detector element is configured to detect photon energy. The wireless LAN transceiver is configured to transmit imaging matrix data to at least one wireless access point (WAP). The tag reader is configured to read WAP configuration data from a close proximity tag. The controller is coupled to the imaging matrix, the wireless LAN transceiver, and the tag reader. The controller is configured to initialize the wireless LAN transceiver for communication with a specified WAP using the WAP configuration data. The at least one WAP includes the specified WAP. |
| US10012740B2 |
Real time nuclear isotope detection
A radioisotope generator that releases a daughter radioisotope from radioactive decay of a corresponding parent isotope, such as a 82Sr/82Rb radioisotope generator or 68Ge/68Ga radioisotope generator, may be used to generate radioisotopes for medical imaging applications. In some examples, a gamma ray detector is positioned to detect gamma rays emanating from radioactive eluate flowing from the generator. Based on the detected gamma rays, an activity of the daughter radioisotope in the eluate and an activity of the parent radioisotope in the eluate may be determined. Depending on the application, the activity of the daughter radioisotope and the activity of the parent radioisotope may be determined in substantially real time, e.g., so that the eluate can be diverted from patient dosing based on determined activity information for the eluate. |
| US10012738B2 |
Positioning method and positioning apparatus using satellite positioning system
A positioning signal from a satellite positioning system is received at a mobile station, correction information from a reference station is used, a pseudo distance observation formula using a code and a phase distance observation formula using a carrier wave are used to perform positioning using single frequency at the mobile station, and these observation formulas are expressed by a satellite clock error, clock errors at the reference station and the mobile station, a ionospheric delay and a tropospheric delay, and a code bias and a phase bias of single frequency at the reference station, the mobile station and a satellite. |
| US10012737B2 |
Method for estimating the level of error in satellite geolocation measurements and for monitoring the reliability of said estimations and associated device
In the field of satellite global navigation, a method is provided for estimating the level of error in global navigation satellite measurements and for ensuring the reliability of these estimations, implemented by a global navigation device in which local errors are detected by said global navigation device and errors associated with the satellites are detected by a ground segment. |
| US10012735B1 |
GPS offset calibrations for UAVs
An unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) assessment and reporting system may conduct micro scans of a wide variety of property types. A site identification system may allow for identification of a point or points of interest to be scanned via the micro scans. A coordinate offset system may calculate a coordinate offset of location coordinates from a satellite-based mapping system relative to real-time coordinate readings from an on-site UAV. Satellite-based location coordinates for the identified point(s) of interest may be adjusted based on the calculated coordinate offset to enhance the scanning itself, data association, visualization of scan data, and/or reporting of scan data. |
| US10012734B2 |
Devices, systems, and methods for real time tracking of an object
In one general aspect, a system for determining a motion of an object includes a laser system configured to generate range and velocity measurements of a plurality of points on the object and a processor. The processor is configured to determine, from the range and velocity measurements of the plurality of points on the object, a rotation of the object. In some aspects, the processor is also configured to determine, from the range and velocity measurements of the plurality of points on the object and the rotation of the object, a distance moved by the object between a first time and a second time. |
| US10012732B2 |
Lidar system
A lidar system with a pulsed laser diode to produce a plurality of optical seed pulses of light at one or more operating wavelengths between approximately 1400 nm and approximately 1600 nm. The lidar system may also include one or more optical amplifiers to amplify the optical seed pulses to produce a plurality of output optical pulses. Each optical amplifier may produce an amount of amplified spontaneous emission (ASE), and the output optical pulses may have characteristics comprising: a pulse repetition frequency of less than or equal to 100 MHz; a pulse duration of less than or equal to 20 nanoseconds; and a duty cycle of less than or equal to 1%. The lidar system may also include one or more optical filters to attenuate the ASE and a receiver to detect at least a portion of the output optical pulses scattered by a target located a distance. |
| US10012730B1 |
Systems and methods for combined motion and distance sensing
A system and method are provided for detecting motion and calculating distance to a moving object by a sensor device. The sensor device includes: a transducer device configured to transmit a first signal and receive a second signal, wherein the second signal comprises a reflection from a moving object; a motion processing unit configured to receive and process data corresponding to the second signal, and, based on the processing corresponding to the second signal, the transducer device is configured to transmit a third signal and receive a reflected fourth signal; and the distance processing unit is configured to process the data corresponding to the fourth signal to determine a distance between the sensor device and the moving object, wherein the distance processing unit is turned off when the motion processing unit is processing data and vice versa. |
| US10012723B2 |
Modular LIDAR system
A modular LIDAR system may be formed of multiple LIDAR components. Each LIDAR component may include a laser emitter and a laser detector configured in a frame. Multiple LIDAR components may be arranged on a rotatable swivel housing. The rotatable housing may rotate about a first axis that is perpendicular to a plane defined by a mounting base. The multiple LIDAR components may be aimed outward from the swivel housing at different directions, which may range up to 90 degrees or up to 180 degrees in separation in some embodiments. When the rotatable housing is rotated completely around the first axis, the multiple LIDAR components may scan a first field of view of 360 degrees around the first axis and may scan a second field of view of substantially 180 degrees about a second axis. The modular LIDAR system may be implemented with an aircraft for navigational purposes. |
| US10012719B2 |
E911 locating by nearby proxy device location
A method for determining the location of a mobile device that has placed an emergency call includes determining that an emergency call has been made by a mobile device having a wireless radio and receiving, from the mobile device, an identifier of a first device detected by the wireless radio. If the first device is not fixed, the method includes sending a first location request to the first device to determine a first location of the first device. The method also includes determining a location of the mobile device based upon the first location and providing the mobile device location to a recipient of the emergency call. |
| US10012718B2 |
Protective device with automated self-test
The present invention is directed to an electrical wiring device that includes a test circuit that is configured to generate a recurring simulated fault signal. A detection circuit is configured to generate a test detection signal in response to the recurring simulated fault signal. An end-of-life monitor circuit is configured to generate an end-of-life detection signal if the test detection signal is not generated within a first predetermined period of time. At least one indicator is configured to emit an indication signal in response to the end-of-life detection signal. A response mechanism is configured to decouple the plurality of line terminals from the plurality of load terminals after a second predetermined period of time has elapsed following the end-of-life detection signal. |
| US10012717B2 |
Spatially varying coil compression in magnetic resonance image reconstruction
A method for performing a magnetic resonance image reconstruction with spatially varying coil compression includes using a non-Cartesian acquisition scheme to acquire a multi-coil k-space dataset fully sampled along a fully sampled direction and decoupling the multi-coil k-space dataset along the fully sampled direction to yield a plurality of uncompressed coil data matrices. The plurality of uncompressed coil data matrices are compressed to yield a plurality of virtual coil data matrices which are aligned along the fully sampled direction to yield a plurality of aligned virtual coil data matrices. The aligned virtual coil data matrices are coupled along the fully sampled direction to yield a compressed multi-coil k-space dataset. Intensity values in the plurality of aligned virtual coil data matrices are normalized based on the plurality of uncompressed coil data matrices and an image is reconstructed using the compressed multi-coil k-space dataset. |
| US10012706B2 |
Identification of molecules based on frequency responses using electromagnetic write-heads and magneto-resistive sensors
The invention relates to the identification of molecules using an apparatus which includes: a head module comprising: an electromagnetic write-head configured to magnetically excite the molecule to be identified with an alternating magnetic field; and a magneto-resistive read sensor for measuring a resonant response of the magnetically excited molecule to be identified. The apparatus also includes a processor coupled to the magneto-resistive sensor, the processor being configured to compare the resonant response to a table of known resonant responses to identify a chemical composition of the molecule to be identified. |
| US10012702B2 |
Multi-phase power meter configured for monitoring generator battery voltage
Disclosed herein are embodiments of systems and methods for determining the state of health of a generator battery set and its ability to supply generator starter motor with start-up energy by capturing a profile of voltage across terminals of the battery during a supply of electrical energy from the battery to the starter and comparing the captured voltage profile to a reference voltage profile to determine if a difference between the captured voltage profile and reference voltage profile exceeds an acceptable amount. |
| US10012697B2 |
Failure prediction device and method for vacuum circuit breakers
A component monitoring system structured to monitor circuit breaker assembly component characteristics is provided. The component monitoring system includes a record assembly, a number of impulse sensor assemblies, a comparison assembly, and an output assembly. The record assembly includes selected nominal data for a selected circuit breaker component. The impulse sensor assemblies are structured to measure a number of actual component characteristics for a substantial portion of the circuit breaker assembly and to transmit actual component characteristic output data. The comparison assembly is structured to receive an electronic signal from the record assembly and the impulse sensor assemblies, to compare each impulse sensor assembly actual component characteristic output data to the selected nominal data and to provide an indication signal as to whether the impulse sensor assembly output data is acceptable when compared to the selected nominal data. The output assembly includes a communication assembly and an output device. |
| US10012696B2 |
Battery-assisted safety circuit monitoring system
A monitoring system for transport installations for persons, which installations are arranged as elevator, escalator or moving walkway, includes at least one interrogation device and at least one safety switch, which switch is connected with the interrogation device by an electrical safety circuit and which monitors a door lock of the transport installation for persons. An independent energy supply device supplies power to the interrogation device. |
| US10012689B2 |
Method of inspecting a specimen and system thereof
There is provided an inspection system for inspecting a specimen, an inspection unit capable to operate in conjunction with an inspection machine unit, a die layout clipping unit, methods of inspecting a specimen, and a method of providing a die layout clip. The method of inspecting a specimen comprises: obtaining location information indicative of coordinates of a potential defect of interest revealed in the specimen and of one or more inspected layers corresponding to the potential defect of interest; sending to a die layout clipping unit a first data indicative of the location information and dimensions of an inspection area containing the potential defect of interest; receiving a die layout clip generated in accordance with the first data; specifying at least one inspection algorithm of the inspection area using information comprised in the die layout clip; and enabling inspection of the inspection area using the specified inspection algorithm. |
| US10012688B2 |
Discharge occurrence status evaluation device and evaluation method
The present invention evaluates the status of discharge or dielectric breakdown having occurred as a result of application of an impulse voltage or current to a test sample by an electrostatic discharge tester. An electromagnetic wave antenna measures a radiation electromagnetic wave signal generated from the electrostatic discharge tester when the electrostatic discharge tester is driven and a radiation electromagnetic wave signal generated from the test sample when discharge or dielectric breakdown occurs. An evaluation section main body obtains and displays a dielectric breakdown occurrence timing TFO after application of the voltage and a dielectric breakdown voltage VFO. The dielectric breakdown occurrence timing TFO is obtained from the time difference between an applied voltage generation time obtained from the radiation electromagnetic wave signal generated when the electrostatic discharge tester was driven and a discharge generation time obtained from the radiation electromagnetic wave signal generated when dielectric breakdown occurred. |
| US10012687B2 |
Methods, apparatus and system for TDDB testing
At least one method and system disclosed herein involves performing a time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) on a plurality of devices. A first device and a second device are provided for testing. A test signal is provided for performing a time-dependent dielectric breakdown (TDDB) test on the first and second devices. A selection signal for selecting said first and second devices for performing said TDDB test. The first and second devices are arranged in series with a first resistor such that based upon said selecting, the test signal is applied substantially simultaneously to the first and second devices through the first resistor. A determination is made as to whether a breakdown and/or a failure of at least one of the first and second devices has occurred based upon a change in voltage across the first resistor. |
| US10012680B2 |
AC input signal detection
Techniques for AC input signal detection, whereby a method for AC input signal detection may include: sampling an input signal at a sampling rate, where the input signal is based on an AC signal; comparing the input signal with a threshold signal, determining a first value in case the input signal is larger than the threshold signal; determining at least one second value in case the input signal is smaller than the threshold signal; increasing the sampling rate in case a predefined number of consecutive first values is determined; and decreasing the sampling rate in case the at least one second value is determined. |
| US10012675B2 |
Nanometer standard prototype and method for manufacturing nanometer standard prototype
A standard sample (72) that is a nanometer standard prototype, having a standard length that serves as a length reference, includes a SiC layer in which a step-terrace structure is formed. The height of a step, used as the standard length, is equal to the height of a full unit that corresponds to one periodic of a stack of SiC molecules in a stack direction or equal to the height of a half unit that corresponds to one-half periodic of the stack of SiC molecules in the stack direction. In a microscope such as an STM to be measured in a high-temperature vacuum environment, heating in a vacuum furnace enables surface reconstruction with ordered atomic arrangement, while removing a natural oxide film from the surface, so that accuracy of the height of the step is not degraded. Accordingly, a standard sample usable under a high-temperature vacuum is achieved. |
| US10012672B2 |
Moving state detecting device
To accurately calculate an attached angle of an accelerometer and accurately correct an acceleration that is obtained from the accelerometer: a frequency analyzing module of an acceleration corrector divides a sensor coordinate system acceleration into a bias frequency component, a gravity frequency component, a movement acceleration frequency component, and a noise frequency component, through a wavelet transform. The frequency analyzing module outputs a sum component of the gravity frequency component and the movement acceleration frequency component to an attached angle estimating module and a correcting operation module. The attached angle estimating module estimation-calculates the attached angle of an accelerometer and outputs it to the correcting operation module. The correcting operation module corrects the acceleration, which is including of the sum component of the gravity frequency component and the movement acceleration frequency component, based on the estimation-calculated attached angle to calculate a movable body coordinate system acceleration. |
| US10012669B2 |
Device and method for determining a state of an object which is to be monitored
A device and a method for determining states of an object to be monitored, such as a window or a door. The measurement values of a plurality of sensors, in particular a magnetometer and an acceleration sensor, are merged and are evaluated together. For the determination of a new state from a group of predefined states, only state transitions that are actually possible are taken into account. State transitions that are not possible or are not allowed are not taken into account. |
| US10012667B2 |
Methods and systems for airborne vehicle wind depiction
Methods and systems for depicting a wind force exerted on an airborne vehicle are provided herein. The method includes receiving, by a processor, wind data measured by one or more airborne vehicles and position data associated with the one or more airborne vehicles. The method also includes generating, by the processor, a map display depicting a position of each of the one or more airborne vehicles based on the received position data. The method further includes generating a vehicle symbol on the map display for each of the one or more airborne vehicles. The vehicle symbol includes a vehicle indicator and a wind indicator. The wind indicator includes a symbol indicating a speed and a direction of wind exerted on the vehicle. |
| US10012664B2 |
Systems and methods for fluid and component handling
Systems and methods are provided for sample processing. A device may be provided, capable of receiving the sample, and performing one or more of a sample preparation, sample assay, and detection step. The device may be capable of performing multiple assays. The device may comprise one or more modules that may be capable of performing one or more of a sample preparation, sample assay, and detection step. The device may be capable of performing the steps using a small volume of sample. |
| US10012662B2 |
Incubator, schedule management method, and program
An input section of an incubator accepts, from a user, a first input selecting a specified incubation container which registers an observing schedule, and a second input specifying an imaging condition of the specified incubation container in an observing sequence. A calculating section calculates, according to the above-mentioned imaging condition, an observing duration of the specified incubation container from a first data relating to a carrying period of an incubation container and a second data with regard to an imaging duration. A schedule management section extracts, based on a schedule data, a registrable time zone in which an observing sequence of the specified incubation container can be executed without overlapping with previously registered observing schedules, and outputs to display the registrable time zone for presentation to the user. |
| US10012654B2 |
Biomarkers in inflammatory bowel disease
The present invention provides a method of determining whether a patient with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) and who has been treated with anti TNFα therapy is in immunological remission (IR), said method comprising determining the level of a cytokine selected from TNFα, IL-17 and IFN-y in a Gl mucosal sample from said patient. Also provided are methods of prognosis and treatment using said method of determination, in particular discontinuing treatment if said patient is in IR and continuing treatment if said patient is not in IR. |
| US10012653B2 |
Nanoparticles for targeting acid tumor microenvironments
A composition is disclosed which is capable of being used for detection, comprising a noble metal nanoparticle. The inventive compositions exhibit little interaction with serum proteins while exhibiting pH-dependent adsorption onto live cell membranes. The nanoparticles of the claimed invention are capable of interacting with cell membranes, which in turn permits the advantages of nanoparticle bio-imaging to be extended to many pH dependent biological processes such as targeting acidic tumor microenvironment. |
| US10012652B2 |
Screening method
This invention relates to a novel screening method that identifies simple molecular markers that are predictive of whether a particular disease condition is responsive to a specific treatment. Also, a method of diagnosing the susceptibility of an individual suffering from a disease to treatment with an HDAC inhibitor is provided. Also provided is a method of treating a proliferative disease or a condition which involves a change in cell differentiation or growth rate in a patient. |
| US10012650B2 |
Assays for BTK inhibitors
The present invention relates to BTK occupancy assays. |
| US10012649B2 |
Detection method of mammary gland disease
The object of the present invention is to provide an early mastitis detection method that can detect mastitis easily and quickly when compared to the prior methods and also a biomarker to be used with the method.The object can be solved by a method of examining a mammary gland disease by using the level of cyclophilin A in a mammary gland or in milk as indicator. More specifically, the object can be a method of examining a mammary gland disease comprising steps (1) and (2) listed below; (1) a step of detecting cyclophilin A in the milk collected from an udder or an udder quarter of a subject and thereby determining the cyclophilin A level in the milk; and (2) a step of determining the onset of a mammary gland disease or the possibility of onset of a mammary gland disease in the udder or the udder quarter of the subject on the basis of the cyclophilin A level in the milk. |
| US10012646B2 |
Sensing chip
A sensing chip including a substrate, a plurality of metal nanostructures, a first surface modified layer and a second surface modified layer is provided. The metal nanostructures are disposed on the substrate. The first surface modified layer is disposed on a surface of the metal nanostructures, wherein the first surface modified layer includes a plurality of thiol group-containing molecules. The second surface modified layer is disposed on a surface of the substrate, wherein the second surface modified layer includes a plurality of silyl group-containing molecules. |
| US10012644B2 |
Sensor, detection method, detection system, and detection device
In an aspect, a sensor includes a combining portion that combines with a second substance having a molecular weight larger than a molecular weight of a first substance. Further, in an aspect, the sensor includes a substrate including a surface on which the combining portion is disposed. The combining portion detects whether or not the first substance is included in an analyte that has come into contact with both an aptamer and the second substance. The aptamer includes a first combining part for the first substance and a second combining part for the second substance and is combined with either of the first substance and the second substance. |
| US10012641B2 |
G-protein-coupled-receptor-22-transformed cell lines and methods of use thereof to identify binding compounds
Disclosed herein are cell lines transformed to express G-Protein Coupled Receptor GPCR22 and uses thereof for identifying guanosine analogs and/or other ligands to the receptor. In particular, techniques for transforming Drosophila Schneider 2 cells and human astrocytoma 1321N1 cell to express GPCR22 are disclosed as well as transformed cells lines. The transformed cell lines of the instant disclosure may be useful in identifying guanosine analogs and functional equivalents thereof. |
| US10012638B2 |
Rapid measurement of formed blood component sedimentation rate from small sample volumes
Devices and methods are described for measuring formed blood component sedimentation rate. Some of the methods may use (1) centrifugal techniques for separating red blood cells from plasma and (2) video and/or still imaging capability. Both may be used alone or in combination to accelerate formed blood component sedimentation and to measure its rate. In one example, the method may advantageously enable rapid measurement of sedimentation rate using small blood sample volumes. Automated image analysis can be used to determine both sedimentation rate and hematocrit. Automated techniques may be used to compensate for effects of hematocrit on uncorrected sedimentation rate data. |
| US10012636B2 |
Label-free monitoring of excitation-contraction coupling and excitable cells using impedance based systems with millisecond time resolution
A system for monitoring impedance of excitable cells in vitro, which includes a device for monitoring cell-substrate impedance at 20 millisecond resolution, which includes a nonconductive substrate with one or more electrode arrays fabricated in one or more wells, wherein cell attachment on the substrate can result in a detectable change in impedance between electrodes within each electrode array; an impedance analyzer capable of impedance measurement at 20 millisecond time resolution; electronic circuitry that can engage said device and selectively connect said two or more electrode arrays of said device to said impedance analyzer; and a software program that controls said electronic circuitry and records and analyzes data obtained from said impedance analyzer. |
| US10012629B2 |
Gas monitoring system and gas monitoring method
A gas monitoring system and a gas monitoring method make it possible to identify plural gas sensors having a single specification and which are connected to one trunk line. Trunk line connectors have identification configurations for allowing information concerning positions where the trunk line connectors to be identified are arranged. Hydrogen sensors have a single specification (the same specification). When connectors of the hydrogen sensors are fitted to the trunk line connectors, the hydrogen sensors store the sensor IDs, which are assigned to the hydrogen sensors, in memory units based on the identification configurations of the trunk line connectors. |
| US10012628B2 |
Multifunctional particle analysis device and method of calibrating the same
A multifunctional particle analysis device includes a particle measuring device and a particle composition analysis device. Calibration particles for which at least the number, size, and composition thereof are known are input to the particle measuring device and the particle composition analysis device and analyzed. The sensitivity of the particle measuring device is calibrated in accordance with the number and size of the calibration particles as measured by the particle measuring device, and the sensitivity of the particle composition analysis device is calibrated in accordance with the mass composition of the calibration particles as measured by the particle composition analysis device. Moreover, the irradiation axis of particles that enter the particle composition analysis device relative to a capturing unit is calibrated in accordance with a state in which the calibration particles are captured on the capturing unit of the particle composition analysis device. |
| US10012626B2 |
Apparatus for determining a value that represents the amount of a liquid and its use
An apparatus for determining a value that represents an amount of liquid in a vessel, wherein the vessel is configured to be a tube or a cuvette. The vessel for the liquid is basically transparent, with at least one radiation unit, that is arranged alongside the longitudinal axis of the vessel and that radiates light into the vessel, as well as at least one light detector with at least one light receiver that is assigned to the radiation unit and that receives the light that is coming through the vessel and forwards it to the light detector. The apparatus comprises a data processing unit that determines the value that represents the amount of the liquid in the vessel from the light that was detected by the light detector. The apparatus is characterized in that the light detector detects the sum total of the light that was radiated through the vessel and was received by all light receivers. Furthermore, the invention relates to the use of the apparatus in an analyzer. |
| US10012623B2 |
Apparatus and method for mitigation of alterations in mass spectrometry in the presence of hydrogen
Gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer comprising an ion source, the walls of which are realized or covered with at least one layer of graphene. Thus realized, the gas chromato graph-mass spectrometer proves to be particularly suited to the analysis samples containing hydrogen in addition to the substances to be analyzed. This situation generally occurs when the mass spectrometer is coupled to a gas chromatograph that utilizes hydrogen as the carrier gas. |
| US10012621B2 |
Sealed fluidic component comprising a composite material of different paek materials
A sealed fluidic component for use in a fluidic flow path is made by providing a composite material comprising a first material and a second material, wherein the first material and the second material are different PAEK materials with the first material having a lower melting point than the second material. The composite material is heated to provide a sealing by the first material. |
| US10012620B1 |
Chromatography sample introduction device
A disposable chromatography sample introduction device includes a stylus with a holder and a tubular stem extending from one end of the holder containing porous sample-holding material. The stylus has a pair of spaced openings permitting fluid flow therethrough. An injector housing includes an insertion port for receiving the stylus, a seal, an inlet port for communicating with one stylus opening, and an outlet port for communicating with the other stylus opening. When the stem is immersed in a sample, sample enters the stem by capillary action. Thereafter, the stylus is inserted into the housing insertion port where mobile phase flowing from inlet port to outlet port passes through the stem extracting sample. The holder has a finger grip and an external thread that engages a complementary injector housing thread to secure the holder when the stylus is inserted therein. |
| US10012619B2 |
Imaging apparatus, ultrasonic imaging apparatus, method of processing an image, and method of processing an ultrasonic image
A method of processing an image, including estimating a point spread function (PSF) of an acquired image, and performing image restoration on the acquired image using the estimated PSF based on a generalized Gaussian model using inverse filter frequency domain so as to perform image restoration at high speed and to prevent a halo effect. The method provides high speed processing while preventing a halo effect. The apparatus includes an ultrasonic imaging apparatus including: an ultrasonic probe to irradiate an object with ultrasonic waves and to receive ultrasonic echo waves reflected from the object; a beamformer configured to perform beam forming based on the ultrasonic echo waves received by the ultrasonic probe; an image restorer configured to restore the image beam formed by the beamformer based on a generalized Gaussian model; and an postprocessor configured to suppress noise and aliasing which are produced in the process of restoring the image. |
| US10012616B2 |
Acoustic emission system and method for predicting explosions in dissolving tank
The present disclosure describes a system for predicting explosions in a dissolving tank. The system includes acoustic emission sensors placed in or around the dissolving tank. By filtering the recorded frequencies to the range which is most sensitive for desired explosions “fingerprints,” it is possible to predict a smelt influx before the smelt influx occurs as well as program response actions to prevent compromising explosions. |
| US10012612B2 |
Gas sensor element and gas sensor
An inside lead portion of a gas sensor element has a lanthanum zirconate layer arranged between an electrically conductive oxide layer and a solid electrolyte member. Meanwhile, an inside detection electrode portion of the gas sensor element is formed such that (i) no lanthanum zirconate layer is formed between an electrically conductive oxide layer and the solid electrolyte member, or (ii) a lanthanum zirconate layer thinner than the lanthanum zirconate layer of the inside lead portion is formed between the electrically conductive oxide layer and the solid electrolyte member. |
| US10012611B2 |
Gas sensor element and gas sensor
A gas sensor element (120) configured as a laminate of an oxygen pump cell (135) and an oxygen concentration detection cell (150) with a spacer (145) sandwiched therebetween. The spacer (145) has a gas detecting chamber (145c) formed therein and electrodes (138) and (152) of the cells (135) and (150), respectively, facing the chamber (145c). A leakage section (148) is faces the gas detecting chamber (145c) (measuring chamber). |
| US10012607B2 |
Determination of the remoteness of an event of a man made object creation for protection against falsification
A method is provided to determine a remoteness of an event of creation of a man-made object made of a cellulose-containing material or a man-made object having on its surface fragments made of a cellulose-containing material and having surface areas with no coating and areas with a coating by means of measured and calculated relative changes of the cellulose parameters in surface layer of the cellulose-containing material at some pair of said surface areas with no coating and under the coating at the moment of study starting and at the moment after a predetermined time interval sufficient for any changes of said cellulose parameters being taken place and calculate the remoteness of an event of creation of a man-made object or its surface fragments according to the time point when there were no said relative changes. |
| US10012594B2 |
Coliphage biosensor
Disclosed are methods, apparatuses, and genetically modified bacteria that may be used to detect bacteriophages in a sample. In some embodiments, a rapid detection test is disclosed to test for the presence of coliphages which may indicate the presence of human or animal waste contamination in water samples. |
| US10012588B2 |
Apparatus and method for customized hair-coloring
An apparatus and method for customized hair-coloring is disclosed. In some embodiments the method comprises: a. performing a plurality of light-scattering measurements upon a sample of hair such that for each light-scattering measurement, the sample of hair is illuminated from a different respective direction; b. comparing the results of the light-scattering measurements; c. in accordance with results of the comparing, computing an initial damage-state of hair of the sample by comparing the results of the light-scattering measurements; d. obtaining an initial color-state of the hair of the sample; and e. computing a hair-coloring composition that is predicted to transform the hair sample from the initial color-state to a target color-state such that in response to a determining of a greater (lesser) extent of initial damage, a concentration of artificial-colorant(s) within the computed coloring composition is reduced (increased). |
| US10012587B2 |
Method for characterising a product by means of topological spectral analysis
The invention relates to a method for generating and optimizing a bank of spectral data that can be used in a method for characterizing a target product by means of topological spectral analysis based on a limited number of available standards, the method consisting of a first step of performing the same spectral analysis on the standards, and, from the spectra obtained, forming a bank of spectral data A at multiple wavelengths and/or wavelength ranges. |
| US10012586B2 |
Carbon isotope analysis device and carbon isotope analysis method
A method and apparatus for analyzing carbon isotope 14C is provided. A carbon isotope analyzer including an isotopic carbon dioxide generator to generate isotopic carbon dioxide from a carbon isotope; a spectrometer including an optical resonator having a pair of mirrors, and a photodetector to determine the intensity of light transmitted from the optical resonator; and a light generator including a light source, a first optical fiber to transmit a light beam from the light source, a second optical fiber for wavelength conversion, the second optical fiber branching from the first optical fiber at a point and combining with the first optical fiber at another point downstream of the branching point, and a non-linear optical crystal to generate light having the absorption wavelength of the isotopic carbon dioxide on the basis of the difference in frequency between light beams transmitted through the optical crystal. |
| US10012585B2 |
Gas sampling cell
A sensor for detecting concentration of a component in a breath sample including a gas sampling cell having an inlet, an outlet, a light source, a first light detector, a sampling channel configured to receive gas samples from the inlet; the sampling channel defining a light path between said light source and said first light detector; and a volume occupying material located within the sampling channel, the volume occupying material having an absorption coefficient for mid-infra-red light below 0.5 cm−1 at room temperature. |
| US10012584B2 |
System and method for determining solute concentration in a colored liquid sample
The present invention relates to a method and system, particularly a mobile device, configured for determining the solute concentrations in a colored liquid sample, which is based on imaging of the sample and standards of known concentrations of solute, and determining the concentration of the sample on the basis of processing the images and the color values that they provide. |
| US10012583B2 |
Reflection properties measuring device and manufacturing method for polarizing plates used in same
A reflection property measuring device comprising illumination light and reflected light polarizing plates held by a holder in a mutually superposed state in a thickness direction thereof, wherein the holder has a fittingly-holding portion for setting a held posture, and each of the polarizing plates has a fitting portion fittable to the fittingly-holding portion. The fitting portions of the polarizing plates are provided at positions allowing the polarizing plates to be held by the holder in respective postures where polarizing directions thereof intersect orthogonally. A manufacturing method is disclosed for polarizing plates used in the device, wherein the illumination light and reflected light polarizing plates are manufactured in such a manner as to be punched out from the same polarizing plate material. |
| US10012580B2 |
Apparatus and method for measurements of growth or dissolution kinetics of colloidal particles
A system for determining the growth/dissolution rate of colloidal particles is disclosed and includes multiple light sources and multiple sensors. A light source is constructed to emit a beam of electromagnetic radiation at a specimen chamber that holds the colloidal particles. The chamber allows a portion of the combined beam to scatter perpendicularly or at some other angle to the combined beam. The scattered portion of the beam is directed to a sensor that detects electromagnetic radiation. The sensor is connected to processor that activates the light source and obtains an image from the sensor. Multiple images are taken at a time interval and for each image taken, and a total image intensity level is calculated and normalized. A formula is then calculated that fits the normalized values over time and a slope is determined from the formula. |
| US10012578B2 |
Particulate matter sensor
A particulate matter sensor includes a cartridge having an opening, and a substrate disposed inside the cartridge. A conductor is in contact with one surface of the substrate, has a plurality of penetration holes through a flow direction of the exhaust gas, and includes a plurality of cells formed therein with an electrode layer. The particulate matter sensor detects a particulate matter included in the exhaust gas based on a variation of resistance or capacitance. |
| US10012577B2 |
Rock hollow cylinder torsional shear apparatus
The present invention belongs to the technical field of rock mechanics testing equipment, and discloses a rock hollow cylinder torsional shear apparatus which includes a frame, a lifting device, a bottom seat, a confining pressure barrel, an upper seat, a force transmission shaft, a force transmission shaft holder, a torque application structure and a controller. The present invention provides a torsional shear apparatus capable of avoiding mutual interference between axial force application and torque force application. |
| US10012576B2 |
In-situ testing equipment for testing micromechanical properties of material in multi-load and multi-physical field coupled condition
An in-situ testing equipment for testing micromechanical properties of a material in a multi-load and multi-physical field coupled condition is disclosed. The equipment comprises a frame supporting module, a tension/compression-low cycle fatigue module, a torsioning module (21), a three-point bending module (6), an impressing module (33), a thermal field and magnetic field application module (34), an in-situ observation module (32) and a clamp body module (22). The testing equipment is capable of realizing applications of five different types of loads including tension/compression, low cycle fatigue, torsion, bending and impressing, performing an intensive study on micromechanical properties of the material in the multi-load and multi-physical field coupled condition by using built-in electric, thermal and magnetic application modules and the in-situ observation module, and acquiring relations between deformation behavior, mechanism of damage, performance weakening of the material, applied loads and material properties. |
| US10012567B2 |
Microtome chuck with light source
A microtome chuck including a mounting portion having a mating surface operable to removably attach the mounting portion to a sample sectioning device, and an electrical contact operable to electrically connect the mounting portion to a power source. The chuck further including a sample receiving portion coupled to the mounting portion, the sample receiving portion having a sample receiving surface dimensioned to receive a sample, a light source coupled to the sample receiving portion, the light source operable to emit a light from the sample receiving surface and through a sample positioned along the sample receiving surface, and circuitry electrically connecting the light source to the electrical contact of the mounting portion. |
| US10012565B2 |
Flowline production equipment for motor running test
The invention discloses a motor running test line, comprising a plurality of motor placing plates, a rack and a plurality of station frames; the rack is provided with an inlet end, and the station frame is provided with an outlet end; the rack is provided with a rack slide rail which makes it possible for motor placing plates to slide thereon, each station frame is provided with a station frame slide rail which makes it possible for motor placing plates to slide thereon, and one end of each station frame is communicated to the rack slide rail, respectively; each station frame is provided with a plurality of stations, each station is equipped with a set of motor running test equipment, and the motor running test equipment comprises an equipment body, a running switch and a motor wiring terminal; and the equipment body is equipped with a timing device. |
| US10012564B2 |
MPO switch, fiber test device, system and kit
An MPO switch device that includes a first input/output port and a second input/output port, a MPO port, a plurality of switches disposed between the first input/output port and the second input/output port, and a switch control for controlling the position of each of the switches to direct light through a desired return path. The plurality of switches are arranged and connected together by non-blocking connections that allow simultaneous testing of all common 1 GB, 10 GB, and 40 GB transmit and receive fiber pair paths. |
| US10012563B1 |
Polarity test of fiber arrays based on electronically switched optical signals
A design of optical testing device or system for fiber arrays is disclosed. According to one aspect of the invention, an array of light sources and an array of detectors are disclosed. One of the light sources is controlled to be turned on to test a designated fiber in an array of fibers being tested for connection issues. A microcontroller is configured to determine which one of the detectors is detecting a light beam from one of the light sources, and mark a channel of the array of fibers accordingly depending on if the one of the detectors is supposed to detect the light beam; if another one of the detectors detects the light beam; or if none of the detectors detects the light beam. |
| US10012562B2 |
Method for determining time-delayed changes of temperature-dependent or stress-dependent physical quantities of a glass or a glass ceramic
The invention generally relates to manufacturing or providing of glass or glass ceramic products. The invention is based on the object to allow for providing glass or glass ceramic products having very accurately characterized thermo-mechanical properties. For this purpose, a deformation of the glass or glass ceramic material is measured at least twice as a function of time with different rates of change in temperature or a mechanical stress. Based on the measurements, relaxation times and weighting factors are determined by modelling. Then, based on the relaxation times and weighting factors related to the distribution of relaxation processes occurring in the product, a time-delayed change of a temperature-dependent or stress-dependent physical quantity, such as thermal expansion or refractive index, is calculated as a function of a predefined temperature change or stress change. The invention is used for selecting during manufacturing suitable glass products exhibiting selected time-delayed properties. |
| US10012561B2 |
Integrity testing of storage tank structure using robotic ultrasound
An objective of this invention is to provided apparatus and methods to test the integrity of empty and full tanks. Another object of this invention is to provide a granular inspection of the tank. Another object of this invention is to provide precision positioning information of sample points. Another object of this invention is to provide automated inspection pattern and correction. Another object of this invention is to minimize hazardous working conditions. |
| US10012556B1 |
Systems and methods for measuring clamping pressure in a steering knuckle manufacturing device
A method for testing a steering knuckle manufacturing device is provided. The method includes coupling a clamp testing steering knuckle that includes one or more pressure sensors to the steering knuckle manufacturing device using one or more clamps of the steering knuckle manufacturing device. The clamp testing steering knuckle includes a steering knuckle workpiece and the one or more pressure sensors coupled to the steering knuckle workpiece. The one or more clamps apply a clamping pressure to the clamp testing steering knuckle such that the one or more pressure sensors generate a pressure signal corresponding to the clamping pressure applied by the one or more clamps to the clamp testing steering knuckle. The clamping pressure applied by the one or more clamps is determined based on the pressure signal received from the one or more pressure sensors. |
| US10012552B2 |
Systems and methods for monitoring component strain
A system for monitoring a component is provided. The system may include a strain sensor configured on the component, an electrical field scanner for analyzing the strain sensor, and a processor in operable communication with the electrical field scanner. The processor may be operable for measuring an electrical field value across the strain sensor along a mutually-orthogonal X-axis and Y-axis to obtain a data point set. The processor may further be operable for assembling a field profile of the strain sensor based on the data point set. Methods of using the system are also provided. |
| US10012549B2 |
Device, system and method for determining the temperature and orientation of a medium
A device, system and method for remotely determining the temperature and orientation of at least one medium is provided. The device may form a body adapted to penetrate a medium, wherein the body houses a thermal sensor, an accelerometer sensor, a gyroscopic sensor, each electronically connected to a wireless transmitter extending from the body. The plurality of sensors may be adapted to determine the continuous temperature, relative position and orientation of the penetrated medium, all relative to time, while the wireless transmitter is adapted to transmit the plurality such determinations to at least one remote device. The resulting system enables a user to remotely monitoring a level of doneness for a plurality of media in terms of their respective temperatures, orientations, and positioning relative to the time spent on or in at least one heating element. |
| US10012546B2 |
Temperature detection systems and methods for railway applications
A temperature detection system for railway applications is provided. The system may include at least one infrared (IR) sensing element configured to detect IR signals emitted by a rail or a railcar, and a controller in communication with the at least one IR sensing element. The controller may be configured to receive the IR signals from the at least one IR sensing element, extract IR data corresponding to at least one of a rail and an undercarriage of the railcar from the IR signals, and generate a characteristic thermal profile of at least one of an ambient temperature and a rail temperature based on the IR data. |
| US10012543B1 |
Enhanced co-registered optical systems
An imaging optical system including a plurality of imaging optical sub-systems, each having at least one optical element and receiving light from a source, and a plurality of spectrometer optical sub-systems, each spectrometer optical sub-system receiving light from at least one of the imaging optical sub-systems, each imaging optical sub-system and spectrometer optical sub-system combination having a spatial distortion characteristic, each spatial distortion characteristic having a predetermined relationship to the other spatial distortion characteristics. |
| US10012542B2 |
Fabry-Perot spectral image measurement
A system for wide-range spectral measurement includes one or more broadband sources, an adjustable Fabry-Perot etalon, and a detector. The one or more broadband sources is to illuminate a sample, wherein the one or more broadband sources have a short broadband source coherence length. The adjustable Fabry-Perot etalon is to optically process the reflected light to extract spectral information with fine spectral resolution. The detector is to detect reflected light from the sample, wherein the reflected light is comprised of multiple narrow-band subsets of the illumination light having long coherence lengths and is optically processed using a plurality of settings for the adjustable Fabry-Perot etalon, and wherein the plurality of settings includes a separation of the Fabry-Perot etalon plates that is greater than the broadband source coherence length. |
| US10012539B2 |
Bragg grating, and spectroscopy device including the Bragg grating
Provided are a Bragg grating and a spectroscopy device including the same. The Bragg grating is disposed at each of opposite ends of a resonator for reflecting light of a certain wavelength band and includes a core member extending from a waveguide of the resonator in a lengthwise direction of the waveguide; a plurality of first refractive members protruding from the core member and spaced apart from each other along the lengthwise direction; and a second refractive member filling spaces between the first refractive members and having a refractive index different from a refractive index of the first refractive members. |
| US10012538B2 |
Spectroscope and method for producing spectroscope
A spectrometer includes a light detection element having a substrate made of a semiconductor material, a light passing part provided in the substrate, and a light detection part put in the substrate, a support having a base wall part opposing the light detection element, and side wall parts integrally formed with the base wall part, the light detection element being fixed to the side wall parts, the support being provided with a wiring electrically connected to the light detection part, and a dispersive part provided on a surface of the base wall part on a side of a space. An end part of the wiring is connected to a terminal of the light detection element. An end part of the wiring is positioned on a surface in the base wall part on an opposite side from the side of the space. |
| US10012534B2 |
Photodetection circuit having at least one counter operative in response to a mode switching circuit and operating method thereof
A photodetection circuit includes an avalanche photodiode and a mode switching circuit that may be configured to selectively switch an operating mode of the photodetection circuit between linear mode and Geiger mode. The photodetection circuit may further include a quenching circuit configured to quench and reset the avalanche photodiode in response to an avalanche event when the photodetection circuit is operated in Geiger mode. The photodetection circuit may additionally include an integration circuit configured to integrate photocurrent output by the photodiode and generate integrated charge units when the photodetection circuit is operated in linear mode. The photodetection circuit may also include a counter configured to count pulses output by the avalanche photodiode when the photodetection circuit is operated in Geiger mode and to count integrated charge units generated by the integration circuit when the photodetection circuit is operated in linear mode. |
| US10012532B2 |
Optical detector
An optical detector (110) is disclosed, the optical detector (110) comprising: at least one spatial light modulator (114) being adapted to modify at least one property of a light beam (136) in a spatially resolved fashion, having a matrix (132) of pixels (134), each pixel (134) being controllable to individually modify the at least one optical property of a portion of the light beam (136) passing the pixel (134); at least one optical sensor (116) adapted to detect the light beam (136) after passing the matrix (132) of pixels (134) of the spatial light modulator (114) and to generate at least one sensor signal; at least one modulator device (118) adapted for periodically controlling at least two of the pixels (134) with different modulation frequencies; and at least one evaluation device (120) adapted for performing a frequency analysis in order to determine signal components of the sensor signal for the modulation frequencies. |
| US10012531B2 |
Laser source direction finding under non-uniform illumination conditions
Techniques are provided for estimating the direction of a laser source under non-uniform illumination conditions such as laser speckle. An example system may include a detector array comprising sensors configured to detect the amplitude of the received laser signal. The sensors are disposed on the array at unique orientation angles relative to each other. The sensor size is selected based on the speckle pattern of the laser signal such that the sensors are small enough to be uniformly illuminated by the laser signal in the presence of speckle. The system also includes an amplitude ratio calculation circuit configured to calculate ratios of the amplitudes between each of two sensors of one or more pairs of sensors. The system further includes an angle of arrival calculation circuit configured to estimate the direction of the source of the laser signal based on the calculated ratios and the orientation angles of the sensors. |
| US10012529B2 |
Earhealth monitoring system and method II
Methods of operating an audio device are provided. A method includes measuring sound pressure levels (SPLECM) for acoustic energy received by an ear canal microphone (ECM) during a time increment Δt; and calculating a SPL_DoseΔt during the time increment Δt using SPLECM. |
| US10012526B2 |
Windshield washer fluid vending system with portable excess fluid containers
A bulk windshield washer fluid vending system. The system includes a storage tank for storing fluid, a controller communicatively connected to the fluid storage tank for managing flow of fluid from the fluid storage tank, a fluid flow line connected to the controller, and a vending mechanism connected to the fluid flow line and disposed at a predetermined location remote from the fluid storage tank for actuation by a customer. |
| US10012517B2 |
Method and system for calibrating components of an inertial measurement unit (IMU) using scene-captured data
A method and a system for calibrating an inertial measurement unit (IMU) via images of a calibration target are provided herein. The method may include: measuring parameters via an IMU; capturing a plurality of calibration images of a scene that contains at least one calibration target, wherein the calibration images are taken from different locations and/or orientations, wherein each of the calibration images shares a common calibration target with at least one other calibration image; calculating, based on the at least one common calibration target, a position and orientation of the sensing device relative to the calibration target, for each location of the capturing of the calibration images; and calibrating the IMU by comparing relative motion between two of the calibration images based on the calculated relative position and orientation, to measurements of the parameters taken by the IMU in time ranges corresponding to the at least two calibration images. |
| US10012513B2 |
Computing method for ridesharing paths, computing apparatus and recording medium using the same
A computing method for ridesharing paths, a computing apparatus and a recording medium using the same are provided. This invention finds the ridesharing paths out from the target trajectory which have ridesharing relationship with a plurality of candidate trajectories. People on the ridesharing paths can share a ride on a part of or whole target trajectory. In the computing method, a trajectory is transformed into a sequence of blocks. After target trajectory and a plurality of the candidate trajectories are transformed, it is determined whether each of the blocks of the candidate trajectories overlaps with at least one of the blocks of the target trajectory. Then, ridesharing paths are calculated according the screened candidate trajectories. This method is many-to-one method which compares a plurality of the candidate trajectories to one target trajectory at one time. |
| US10012511B2 |
Method and apparatus for predicting destinations
Embodiments of the invention relate to a computer-implemented method of predicting a destination of a user of a mobile device, comprising selecting one or more geographic locations as a group of possible destinations based on a first location of the mobile device, determining a route from the first location to each of the geographic locations of the group of possible destinations according to one or more route planning criteria and digital map data, and updating the group of possible destinations based upon a second location of the mobile device and a change in an attribute of a route between the second location and each geographic location of the group of possible destinations. |
| US10012510B2 |
Data mining in a digital map database to identify decreasing radius of curvature along roads and enabling precautionary actions in a vehicle
Disclosed is a feature for a vehicle that enables taking precautionary actions in response to conditions on the road network around or ahead of the vehicle, in particular, a curved portion of a road where the curvature increases between adjacent curved sections. A database that represents the road network is used to determine locations where curvature between adjacent curved sections increases. Then, precautionary action data is added to the database to indicate a location at which a precautionary action is to be taken about the location where curvature increases. A precautionary action system installed in a vehicle uses this database, or a database derived therefrom, in combination with a positioning system to determine when the vehicle is at a location that corresponds to the location of a precautionary action. When the vehicle is at such a location, a precautionary action is taken by a vehicle system as the vehicle is approaching a location where the curvature increases. |
| US10012509B2 |
Utilizing camera to assist with indoor pedestrian navigation
A method for estimating the location of a mobile device in an indoor facility is disclosed. The method includes receiving a first sequence of image frames captured by a first camera, the first sequence of image frames being captured when the first camera is substantially faced toward a ceiling of the indoor facility; for each pair of consecutive image frames in the first sequence: identifying a transformation between the pair of image frames, and correlating the transformation with an estimated change in position of the mobile device; obtaining a first sequence of displacements based on the estimated changes in position of the mobile device for the pairs of consecutive image frames in the first sequence; and determining the current location of the mobile device within the indoor facility based on an initial location of the mobile device and the first sequence of displacements. |
| US10012508B2 |
Providing directions to a location in a facility
In one aspect, a device includes a processor, a position receiver, and storage bearing instructions. The instructions are executable by the processor to receive from the position receiver data indicating a location of the device. The instructions are also executable to receive a map of a facility, present on the device at least a portion of the map, receive a selection of a destination indicated on the map, and at least in part based on the selection and the data indicating the location of the device, present on the device directions to the destination in the facility. |
| US10012507B2 |
Apparatus and method for providing map data and system thereof
A system and a method are provided that are capable of providing map data for supporting a variety of user network environments and selecting data zones freely. A navigation terminal includes a reception unit adapted to receive a file in which map data of a specific zone is stored, from a map provision server; and an execution unit adapted to execute a navigation function on the specific zone using the file. The file is produced by an individual unit with respect to each of geographic areas divided by a mesh unit having a variable size. The size of the mesh unit is decided according to the amount of information included in the geographic area such that the file has an equalized size. |
| US10012505B2 |
Wearable system for providing walking directions
A wearable computing device includes an input device, a global positioning system (GPS) sensor, an inertial measurement unit (IMU), a camera, and a memory that is designed to store a database of landmarks and corresponding locations. The device includes a mobile processor that is designed to receive first user input indicating that the user is traveling from a starting location to a destination location and second user input indicating that new landmarks are present. The processor is designed to determine locations of the new landmarks based on the current location, the inertial measurement data, and/or the detected image data. The processor is designed to update the database to include the new landmarks and corresponding locations. The processor is designed to update the database to include an ordered list of landmarks including the new landmarks in order of their appearance from the starting location to the destination location. |
| US10012502B2 |
Methods resolving the elevation of a tracked personnel or assets
Methods and systems are described for determining the elevation of tracked personnel or assets (trackees) that can take input from mounted sensors on each trackee (including barometric, inertial, magnetometer, radio frequency ranging and signal strength, light and GPS sensors), external constraints (including ranging constraints, feature constraints, and user corrections), and terrain elevation data. An example implementation of this method for determining elevation of persons on foot is described. But this method is not limited to computing elevation of personnel or to on foot movements. |
| US10012499B2 |
Wheel alignment systems and methods
Systems, devices, and methods for analyzing the alignment of at least one wheel of a vehicle using a non-contact locating system. Systems can include a tie rod with a three-dimensional target that is used by a non-contact measuring instrument to determine the position of the target in three dimensional space. The target may be pyramidal in shape. The position of the target may be indicative of a desired wheel alignment. |
| US10012493B2 |
Device and method for detecting position of object
An electronic device for detecting a position of an object is disclosed, The electronic device includes an optical source configured to emit light to a detection area, a light concentrator configured to concentrate light reflected by a target object located in a detection area, a light receiver configured to receive through photodiodes the reflected light concentrated by the light concentrator and to output a light quantity pattern of the reflected light, and a processor configured to determine the position of the target object based on the light quantity pattern of the reflected light. |
| US10012489B2 |
Tape measure
A tape measure includes a spool, a housing defining an opening, where the spool is rotatably coupled to the housing, and a blade including a first end and a second end, where the first end is connected to the spool and the second end is movable through the opening between a retracted position and an extended position. The manually retractable tape measure further includes a cleaning assembly positioned within the housing adjacent the opening such that the cleaning assembly is in contact with the blade to push away debris from the blade as the blade moves between the retracted position and the extended position. |
| US10012486B2 |
Broadhead collars
Collars are provided for broadheads. In some embodiments, the collars are shock collars with frangible tabs which restrain the blades of an expandable broadhead during flight, stabilizing the flight path of the expandable broadhead. The frangible tabs break off of the shock collar upon impact, allowing the blades of the expandable broadhead to deploy and increase the size of the entrance hole made in the target. In some embodiments, the collars center a ferrule of a broadhead within an insert of an arrow. |
| US10012483B1 |
Method for recovery of firearm-discharged pellets
A sheet material characterized by an ability to capture and retain generally-spherical firearm-discharged pellets when struck thereby. The sheet material basically comprises a forward strike face, a rearward back face, and an embedment region therebetween. The strike face is penetrable by the pellets, and the sheet material has a structure adapted to disperse kinetic energy in the pellets upon penetration to cause the pellets to embed within the embedment region without exiting the rearward back face. The sheet material may advantageously be deployed as a curtain at a firearm shooting range in a selected disposition to capture and retain firearm-discharged pellets, thereby to abate environmental contamination from pellets collecting on the grounds of shooting ranges. |
| US10012481B2 |
Method for performing exo-atmospheric missile's interception trial
An inflatable dummy target fittable into a carrier missile capable of being released from the carrier missile during exo-atmospheric flight; upon release, the dummy target or portion thereof is capable of being inflated and manifest characteristics that resemble GTG missile characteristics, wherein the GTG missile characteristics include IR signature, RF signature and GTG missile. |
| US10012480B2 |
Ballistic resistant panel for vehicle door
A ballistic resistant panel can be configured to be quickly and easily installed in a vehicle door. The ballistic resistant panel can include a plurality of ballistic sheets arranged in a stack. The stack can have an outer perimeter sized to fit within a cavity of the vehicle door. The panel can include a cover disposed over the stack, and the cover can be sealed around a perimeter of the stack to form a waterproof barrier that prevents moisture from reaching and altering the performance of the ballistic sheets. At least one anti-wear strip can be adhered to an outer surface of the cover. The anti-wear strip can provide a low friction surface that protects the panel from damage caused by moving internal door components, such as moving window components that repeatedly rub against the panel. |
| US10012472B2 |
Mount for fiber optic crossbow sight
A mount for a crossbow adjustable multiple fiber optic sight with a sight housing and having a plurality of adjustable sight pins. A graduated elevation scale is secured to the sight housing and a graduated slide scale with adjustable clamps is secured to the graduated elevation scale. A mounting bracket having a first base mount is mounted on a cross bow riser and a second base mount is connected to and extends upwardly from the base mount. A bracket fastener is attached to the vertical base mount and has an upper clamping surface and a second horizontal bracket fastener is positioned below the first horizontal bracket panel and including a lower clamping surface. An adjuster screw clamps the two bracket fasteners together so that they are able to clamp onto the graduated slide scale and hold it in an adjusted position with the adjusting screw. |
| US10012468B1 |
Self-centering anti-dry fire device for a crossbow
A self-centering anti-dry fire device for a crossbow n improved crossbow lock mechanism assembly includes a trigger housing, a string latch, a seer lever, a combination arrow self-centering anti-dry fire and seer lock lever, a trigger and a safety slide bar. An arrow cavity is formed in a top of the combination arrow self-centering anti-dry fire and seer lock lever. A cross section of the arrow cavity may have a “V” shape, a curved shape, a notch shape or any other suitable shape. The arrow cavity ensures that the arrow shaft is centered relative to a centerline of a barrel of the crossbow. |
| US10012467B2 |
Archer release
An archer release aid includes an engagement mechanism that is operated by a thumb or finger of an archer to engage and retain a bow string or attachment thereto such as a D-loop. The engagement mechanism may be biased so that when the archer releases pressure on the actuator, the engagement mechanism disengages the bow string. A locking mechanism may be operated by another finger of the archer, such as the little finger, to lock the engagement mechanism in the engaged position. The release aid allows muscle relaxation, rather than muscle tension, to be the final triggering mechanism. |
| US10012465B1 |
Modular device support system
A modular device support system including a top body for attaching to any device needing support and a main body capable of connecting to the top body. The main body has two attachment pivots connected to opposing side walls, the attachment pivots may be pivotably mounted to the opposing side walls so that each attachment pivot can be adjustably positioned in at least one position of a plurality of positions. At least one accessory can connect to the attachment pivots. |
| US10012463B2 |
Firearm magazine release assist device
A firearm magazine assisted release device is provided. The release device comprises a spring secured with or integrated into a firearm. The spring is biased when a magazine is locked into a firearm, such that when the magazine release button is pressed stored potential energy is released as expansive kinetic energy, ejecting the magazine from the firearm. |
| US10012461B2 |
Ambidextrous charging handle
A charging handle for a rifle has a grip that is pivotable and slidable on a base connected to a bolt carrier through a rod. A latch mounted on the base engages the receiver of the rifle. The latch is pivotable on the base to release the charging handle from the receiver when cocking the bolt carrier. Pivoting of the latch is effected through a cam attached to the grip. The cam contacts a cam follower on the latch. Both pivoting and sliding motion of the grip relative to the base pivot the latch to effect release of the charging handle from the receiver. |
| US10012456B2 |
Firearm having a dual cam, cock on close bolt action and a low creep sear and step trigger assembly
A bolt action firearm that cocks the firing pin upon closing the bolt and includes a cam pin for a high velocity rimfire cartridge. In one embodiment, actuating the main spring while closing the bolt, instead of while opening the bolt, provides added safety against misfiring. A safety system is provided for the trigger mechanism and a robust connecting system for the stock. |
| US10012451B2 |
Thermal energy storage systems including a shipping container, a heat exchange apparatus, and a phase change material
A thermal energy storage system includes a container and a heat exchange apparatus disposed within the container. The heat exchange apparatus includes a tank, a manifold at least partially disposed within the tank, and a phase change material disposed within the tank and in thermal contact with the manifold. |
| US10012444B2 |
Multiple opening counter-flow plate exchanger and method of making
A multiple opening, counter-flow plate type exchanger is manufactured by repeatedly folding and joining one strip of membrane to form a core composed of a multitude of membrane layers with a plurality of inlet and outlet openings or fluid passageways configured in an alternating counter-flow arrangement. Methods for manufacturing such multiple opening cores are described. An integrated, modular, and stackable plastic manifold that is formed by ultrasonically welding plastic sheet stock is described. Multiple opening cores comprising water-permeable membranes can be used in a variety of applications, including heat and water vapor exchangers. In particular, they can be incorporated into energy recovery ventilators (ERVs) for exchanging heat and water vapor between air streams directed into and out of buildings, automobiles, or other Industrial processes. |
| US10012438B2 |
Method and apparatus for argon recovery in a cryogenic air separation unit integrated with a pressure swing adsorption system
A method and apparatus for argon recovery in which an impure argon stream is separated from air within a cryogenic air separation unit having a divided wall argon rejection/rectification column. The resulting argon stream is subsequently recovered and purified within an integrated pressure swing adsorption system to produce product grade argon. |
| US10012436B2 |
Multiple pass, parallel flow downcomer tray for a mass transfer column
A multiple pass, parallel flow downcomer tray for a mass transfer column and method for liquid-vapor contacting in a mass transfer column is provided. The multiple pass, parallel flow downcomer tray has at least four mass transfer decks configured to provide contact between an ascending vapor passing upward through apertures on the tray surface and a traversing liquid on the tray surface. The tray further includes a central downcomers disposed near a central axis of the tray and two or more peripheral downcomers disposed near the edge of the tray and spaced apart from the central axis, wherein at least two of the four mass transfer decks are configured to discharge the traversing liquid into the peripheral downcomers and two of the four mass transfer decks are configured to discharge the traversing liquid into the central downcomer. |
| US10012433B2 |
Method for ethane liquefaction with demethanization
The process for liquefying a gaseous stream received from a pipeline that is comprised predominantly of ethane and a relatively small amount of other components by using a mixed refrigerant loop incorporating heavy hydrocarbons, as well as a distillation column to remove constituents lighter than ethane. |
| US10012427B2 |
Refrigerator and refrigerator manufacturing method
A refrigerator is disclosed including a refrigerator compartment configured to store food, and a door configured to selectively open and close the refrigerator compartment. The door includes a first frame disposed on a front surface and side surfaces of the door, and second frames connected to a top and a bottom of the first frame, where the first frame and/or the second frames including fixing portions configured to fix the first frame to the second frames. A manufacturing method for efficiently manufacturing a refrigerator is also disclosed. |
| US10012426B2 |
Refrigerator, door assembly therefor, and method for producing door assembly
A door assembly configured to open and close a storage compartment of a refrigerator. A refrigerator including a body; a storage compartment placed inside of the body and provided with an open front side, and a door assembly configured to open and close the open front side of the storage compartment. The door assembly includes a front panel forming a front side and opposite sides of the door assembly, a rear panel coupled to the opposite sides of the front panel in a rear side of the front panel, a door cap configured to cover an upper side or a lower side of the door assembly, and a connection member provided with a first connection unit coupled to the front panel and a second connection unit coupled to the door cap. |
| US10012419B2 |
Heat-pump system
Provided is a heat-pump system including a plurality of compressors, wherein the plurality of compressors includes a first compressor and a second compressor that compress refrigerant, an oil separator provided on a discharge side of the plurality of compressors to separate oil mixed with refrigerant compressed by the plurality of compressors, an oil separation pipe extended from the oil separator to allow the plurality of compressors to recover oil, and a compressor side oil balance pipe extended from the second compressor to allow the first compressor to recover oil stored in the second compressor. |
| US10012417B2 |
Thermoelectric refrigeration system control scheme for high efficiency performance
A method of controlling a heat exchanger including thermoelectric coolers to maintain set point temperature of a chamber. The method includes receiving temperature data indicative of a temperature of the chamber and selectively controlling two or more subsets of thermoelectric coolers based on the temperature of the chamber. Selectively controlling the two or more subsets includes operating each thermoelectric cooler in a first subset at or near the point where the coefficient of performance is maximized (QCOPmax) by providing a current or voltage with amplitude corresponding to QCOPmax (ICOPmax, VCOPmax) when the temperature of the chamber is within a predefined steady state range including the set point temperature. |
| US10012413B2 |
Heat exchanger
An improved heat exchange system comprising a housing (66) having an upper portion (22), a middle portion (23), and a lower portion (24), a heat exchange conduit (25) transmitting a fluid from a fluid input (26) to a fluid output (27) through the upper zone, the transitional zone and the lower zone, a burner (28) configured and arranged to produce combustion flue gases that can flow through at least a portion of the upper zone, the transitional zone and the lower zone, a baffle (30) disposed in the lower portion of the housing, and a gas flow diverter (40) disposed above the baffle and at least partially in the transitional zone. The gas flow diverter is configured and arranged to divert the flue gas into multiple flow paths. |
| US10012410B2 |
Sound dampening apparatus for HVAC air filters and methods of use
A sound dampening apparatus and associated methods of use are disclosed for dampening or otherwise preventing impact noises between an HVAC air filter and a cavity of an air duct in which the air filter is positioned. In at least one embodiment, the apparatus provides a base portion engagable with a lower end of the cavity. An opposing support portion of the apparatus is configured for selectively contacting a lower face of the air filter and supporting the air filter thereon. An at least one selectively compressible spring member extends between and interconnects the base portion and the support portion. Thus, with the air filter positioned between the support portion and an upper end of the cavity, and air flowing through the cavity in a substantially upward direction, the support portion prevents the air filter from impacting the lower end of the cavity upon cessation of said air flow. |
| US10012407B2 |
Heating controls and methods for an environmental control system
Embodiments of the invention describe thermostats that use model predictive controls and related methods. A method of controlling a thermostat using a model predictive control may involve determining a parameterized model. The parameterized model may be used to predicted ambient temperature values for an enclosure. A set of radiant heating system control strategies may be selected for evaluation to determine an optimal control strategy from the set of control strategies. To determine the optimal control strategy, a predictive algorithm may be executed, in which each control strategy is applied to the parameterized model to predict an ambient temperature trajectory and each ambient temperature trajectory is processed in view of a predetermined assessment function. Processing the ambient temperature trajectory in this manner may involve minimizing a cost value associated with the ambient temperature trajectory. The radiant heating system may subsequently be controlled according to the selected optimal control strategy. |
| US10012406B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling temperature
The present disclosure relates to a sensor network, Machine Type Communication (MTC), Machine-to-Machine (M2M) communication, and technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the above technologies, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method for controlling temperature in a temperature controlling system is provided. The method includes determining occupancy or non-occupancy of a user in a space subject to setback control; when the user's non-occupancy is determined, determining whether to start the setback control based on probability distribution of a non-occupancy period that are predetermined; when it is determined to start the setback control, determining the user's target temperature based on previously collected data; calculating a setback temperature based on the target temperature; and performing the setback control according to the calculated setback temperature. |
| US10012399B2 |
Window-type air conditioning system with water cooling unit
A window-type air conditioning system includes an outer housing having an indoor compartment, an outdoor compartment, and a water tank, a fan assembly, a compressor unit, an evaporator unit, and a water cooling unit. The water cooling unit includes a pumping device provided in the water tank, a top water collection basin for collecting the cooling water from the pumping device, a fill material unit provided underneath the top water collection basin, a bottom water collection basin provided underneath the fill material unit, and at least one heat exchanging pipe immersed in the cooling water. The cooling water collected in the bottom water collection tank is arranged to be guided to flow back into the top water collection basin, while a predetermined amount of refrigerant is arranged to flow through the heat exchanging pipe for performing heat exchanging process with the cooling water. |
| US10012397B2 |
Indoor unit
When a front panel moves away from a front surface of a casing, a central part of the front panel is warped. An indoor unit of the present invention includes a casing, a front panel provided forward of the casing, and a drive mechanism moving the front panel away from the front surface of the casing. The front panel is curved so that its central part protrudes forward. The drive mechanism moves the front panel in a substantially horizontal direction. |
| US10012393B2 |
Combined hot water and space heating and conditioning system including heat pump
A combined water heating, space heating and space cooling system configured to provide hot water to a point of demand and heat or cool a space. The system comprises a heat pump operably connected to the space, a water flow loop including a main heat exchanger, a fluid mover for moving a fluid configured to flow within the flow loop, an air-to-water heat exchanger, a burner adapted to heat the fluid, a blower having an air inlet end and an air outlet end, wherein the blower is adapted to move air through the air-to-water heat exchanger and operably connected to the main heat exchanger and a secondary heat exchanger operably connecting the flow loop and the heat pump. The air-to-water heat exchanger is disposed on the air inlet end and the main heat exchanger is disposed on the air outlet end. |
| US10012392B2 |
Oven appliance
An oven appliance includes a baking stone positioned within a housing at a bottom portion of a cooking chamber. An inlet of an air duct is positioned at a front portion of the housing, and an outlet of the air duct is positioned at a rear portion of the housing and is contiguous with ambient air about the housing. An air handler is configured for urging the ambient air about the housing through the air duct. |
| US10012386B2 |
Local improvement of the mixture of air and fuel in burners comprising swirl generators having blade ends that are crossed in the outer region
A burner having an air supply and a premix channel having an essentially annular cross-section, through which air and fuel flow during operation, and which is formed of an outer shell (5) and a hub (6). A plurality of swirl blades (7) arranged in the burner extend from the hub (6) to the outer shell (7) in a radial direction. Each blade's surface (11) is provided with a deflection in a radial outer region of the swirl blade (7), a downstream flow angle (α) to a main flow direction (13) increases at least once and decreases at least once in a radial direction at an outflow end (12) of the deflection surface (11). |
| US10012384B2 |
Gas flow controller including over-pressure protection features
A gas flow controller for use in a gas-fired apparatus including a pilot burner and a main burner is provided. The controller includes a housing defining a diaphragm chamber, a pilot valve operable to open and close a first fluid flow path between a gas supply inlet of the gas flow controller and the diaphragm chamber, and a main burner valve operable to open and close a second fluid flow path between the gas supply inlet and the main burner. The main burner valve includes a diaphragm that is disposed within the diaphragm chamber and includes a central portion and an annular outer portion. The outer portion is configured to deflect into engagement with the housing to close a third fluid flow path in response to an over-pressure condition at the gas supply inlet. |
| US10012383B2 |
Exhaust structure for water heater
A water heater heats water with a combustion gas. An exhaust tube includes one end portion and the other end portion, is connected to the water heater at one end portion, and inside thereof is defined as an emission path for the combustion gas. An exhaust pipe is greater in outer diameter than the exhaust tube, and a part of the exhaust tube on a side of the other end portion is introduced in the inside thereof. An exhaust terminal is attached to an end portion of the exhaust pipe and has an exhaust port for exhausting the combustion gas to the outside. An exhaust straightening member is attached to the other end portion of the exhaust tube and has an opening portion for allowing the combustion gas to flow out toward the exhaust port. |
| US10012377B2 |
Display device
A display device is disclosed. The display device includes a display panel, a rear case positioned in a rear of the display panel, and of which a back surface is exposed to the outside, a backlight unit positioned between the display panel and the rear case and providing the display panel with light, a plurality of ribs extended from a front surface of the rear case and contacting at least a portion of the backlight unit, a boss forwardly extended from the front surface of the rear case, and a controller positioned between the backlight unit and the rear case and coupled with the boss. |
| US10012376B2 |
LED flashlight with improved heat sink
One electrical lead from an LED package is soldered to an inner electrically conductive member positioned and electrically isolated from an outer electrically conductive member by electrically insulating material while a second electrical lead and a neutral lead from the LED are soldered to the outer electrically conductive member so that heat is transferred from an LED die within the LED package to the outer electrically conductive member and then to a thermally conductive outer casing with a thermal path that minimizes thermal resistance. |
| US10012374B2 |
Lamp structure
The present invention discloses a lamp structure. An accommodating cavity is provided for disposing a lamp board. An insulating unit seals the opening of the accommodating cavity for preventing accidental electric shocks when a user cleans or maintains the lamp structure. Placing the lamp board inside the accommodating cavity, the space occupied by the lamp board on the base may be saved. The insulating unit may prevent foreign matters or water from contacting the lamp board and resulting in short circuit or failure in the lamp board. One or more heat dissipating unit may be disposed in the accommodating cavity and used as the heat dissipating structure for the lamp board. A recess may be disposed on an inner side of the accommodating cavity. The recess communicates with the accommodating cavity. A capacitor may be disposed in the recess and connected electrically to the lamp board. |
| US10012373B2 |
Mounting base for an electrical component having a housing with a groove with a convergent bottom for crimping an electrical wire
A base for a wired electrical component, including: a cavity receiving the electrical component including at least one electrical crimp contact; and at least one groove configured to receive an electrical wire to be connected to the electrical component. The at least one groove includes, in a transverse cross-section: a portion shaped to receive an electrical wire; and a converging base acting as a crimping die when the electrical crimp contact is inserted in the groove. A lighting module includes such a base, a method creates and mounts, on a corresponding mounting, a module including such a base, and a garment includes at least one module that includes such a base. |
| US10012371B2 |
Solid state lighting apparatus including isolated solid state lighting driver circuits and related solid state lighting covers, housings, and lenses
A solid state lighting apparatus can include an electrical connector that is configured to couple to a standardized electrical fixture, where the electrical connector provides a recess therein. A cover can be coupled to the electrical connector to cover the recess and a solid state lighting driver circuit can be located beneath the cover. A solid state lighting housing, that is separate from the electrical connector and the cover, can be configured to house a solid state light emitting device and at least one flexible wire can electrically couple the solid state lighting driver circuit to the solid state light emitting device. |
| US10012370B2 |
Lighting system having a mounting device
Lighting system including mounting body, lever-locking bracket, and lighting module. Mounting body has first end spaced apart along longitudinal axis from second end. Lever-locking bracket includes bracket body and lever actuator. Lever-locking bracket is pivotally connected with first end of mounting body by flange retained in alignment with aperture of mounting body communicating with cavity inside mounting body. Lighting module has semiconductor light-emitting device in housing, and has mounting arm pivotally connected with lever-locking bracket by first pivot joint for rotation of lighting module to plurality of primary positions around first pivot axis. Flange of the lever-locking bracket forms part of second pivot joint for rotation of lighting module to plurality of secondary positions around second pivot axis. Lever-locking bracket is configured for simultaneously locking lighting module at primary position and secondary position by movement of lever actuator from an unlocked position to locked position. |
| US10012366B2 |
Pot light assembly
A pot light assembly includes a rail and a pot light housing for housing a pot light. The rail has end portions for resting on upwardly facing surfaces of a pair of ceiling joists and a central portion between the end portions. The central portion is secured to a side wall at a top portion of the housing for supporting the housing between the ceiling joists. The pot light assembly further includes a pair of fastening brackets for securing the rail to the ceiling joists. Each bracket has a fastening plate positioned below the rail. The fastening plates have respective fastening holes through which a fastener can be secured to respective ceiling joists to fasten the fastening plates to the ceiling joists. |
| US10012364B2 |
Light diffuser casing
The invention relates to a light diffuser casing comprising an enclosure defining a cavity and provided with a closable opening configured to enable a headlamp to be inserted inside the casing. A light diffuser is arranged in the casing to receive a light beam coming from the headlamp and to make said beam diffuse on the enclosure. The light diffuser is made from a translucent or transparent material so that said beam passes through it, and the enclosure is made from a translucent material. The invention also relates to a method for using the casing. |
| US10012363B2 |
Light-emitting device
An embodiment of the present invention discloses a light-emitting device. The light-emitting device includes a light source configured to emit a first light at a first high temperature; and an optical element, distant from the light source, configured to generate a second light in response to an irradiation of the first light, and reach a second high temperature higher than the first high temperature under the irradiation of the first light. |
| US10012362B2 |
Glass-ceramic article comprising a luminous color display
The present invention relates to an article having at least one colored luminous region, in particular a display, said article comprising at least one glass-ceramic substrate having a luminous transmission ranging from 0.8% to 40% and an optical transmission of at least 0.1% for at least one wavelength in the range extending from 420 to 780 nm, at least one light source and at least one inkjet filter of thickness comprised between 1 and 50 μm, so as to form at least one colored luminous region, in particular a display, in at least one region of the glass-ceramic substrate. |
| US10012356B1 |
Light-redirecting optical daylighting system
Light-redirecting optical system for building fenestrations, such as glass doors and windows, storefront glazing systems, and curtain walls, that can collect and redirect daylight into the interior of a building. The light-redirecting optical system includes an outward-facing light-redirecting optical surface and an inward-facing light-redirecting surface. The outward-facing light-redirecting optical surface collects and redirects daylight mostly upward toward the inward-facing light-redirecting surface. The inward-facing light-redirecting surface receives the redirected daylight and further redirects it into the interior environment at pre-determined angles; so that all specular rays of light are at or above the horizon for a wide range of incident angles of daylight striking the outward-facing light-redirecting optical surface. The light-redirecting optical surfaces can be fabricated on a film or flexible substrate that may be directly applied to glass, acrylic, or other glazing surfaces. Alternatively, the light-redirecting optical surfaces may be fabricated directly on the glazing surfaces. |
| US10012355B2 |
Combination retrofit and new construction troffer light fixture systems and methods
A light fixture is configured for use in either retrofitting an existing troffer light fixture or for use in new construction. The light fixture includes a self-supporting adaptor bracket configured to rest on a T-bar of a ceiling system and further configured to optionally receive a housing of the existing troffer light fixture. The light fixture further includes a door assembly including a latch configured to engage a latch surface of the adaptor bracket, a hinge configured to interface with a slot of the adaptor bracket, a housing including the latch and the hinge, and a light source within the housing. |
| US10012351B2 |
LED lamp and method for manufacturing the same
A light emitting diode (LED) lamp includes a lamp housing formed of a pair of housing members connected to each other in a horizontal direction. A printed circuit board (PCB) is detachably connected to an inside of the lamp housing, and includes at least one LED mounted to one surface of the PCB. A power supply unit (PSU) is electrically connected with the PCB in the lamp housing to supply power to the PCB. |
| US10012349B2 |
Liquefied natural gas filling device
An LNG filling apparatus that can safely fill LNG in LNG vehicles. A filling apparatus 1 for filling LNG in an in-vehicle tank, the apparatus 1 having a housing 2, a recovery hose 41 and a filling hose 51 separately led from the housing, a recovery mechanism 4 for recovering a natural gas from the in-vehicle tank via the recovery hose, and a filling mechanism 5 for filling LNG to the in-vehicle tank via the filling hose. Separately leading the recovery hose and the filling hose from the housing with these hoses in close proximity to each other allows a range capable of filling that is the overlap range between a connectable range of the recovery hose and a connectable range of the filling hose to be enlarged. A single hose led from the housing can be used for both of the recovery of the natural gas and the filling of the LNG, which prevents tangle of hoses with each other, and enables to fill the LNG in the in-vehicle tank safely. |
| US10012348B2 |
Alternative core material based vacuum insulated panels
A vacuum insulated panel (VIP) and a method of manufacturing a VIP includes a rigid core material having high insulation and low conductivity properties. The rigid core may be made of an inorganic material that effectively mimics a porous silica core material. The core material includes large particles of an inorganic material having a diameter in a range of 10 μm to 50 μm. A portion of these large particles may be ground into small particles having a diameter of less than 1 μm. The small particles are mixed with a portion of the large particles to form a core material which is then mixed with a fiber skeleton and compacted under vacuum along with a fibrous skeleton for structure. The resulting structure provides a porosity ranging from 10 nm to 1 μm in diameter. |
| US10012345B2 |
Method and apparatus for an icemaker adapter
An adapter that integrates an icemaker with a beverage dispenser includes a base defining a passage therethrough and at least a first bracket. The base includes a first rail and a second rail, and a top of the base may support thereon at least a portion of the icemaker. The first bracket includes a first rail engagement member engageable with the first rail and a second rail engagement member engageable with the second rail. The bracket inserts within the passage of the base such that the first rail element member engages the first rail and the second rail engagement member engages the second rail. The bracket is movable along the first and second rails to accommodate icemakers having different dimensions. |
| US10012343B2 |
Pallet stacking board construction
A pallet stacking board comprising a laminate structure is provided in which a non-woven polypropylene geotextile fabric material is used to create a suitably shaped bag in which a rigid or semi-rigid polyurethane material is injected, and allowed to react and cure. The upper and lower exterior surfaces of the pallet stacking board are coated with a non-slip material which is preferably provided by a polyurethane coating material so as to provide a textured finish. The pallet stacking boards provide desirable non-slip properties while being readily manufactured using automated procedures. |
| US10012336B2 |
Connector assembly with at least one connector and at least one media line
Connector assembly, and/or motor-vehicle connector assembly, with at least one connector and at least one media line connected to the connector. The media line is electrically heated, a heat-conducting element being arranged in the transition region between connector and media line. The heat-conducting element extends with a first heat-conducting section into the media line and with a second heat-conducting section into the connector. By means of the electric heating of the media line, the heat-conducting element is heated, and/or indirectly heated, and in particular is heated and/or indirectly heated as far as the region of the connector. |
| US10012335B2 |
Quick connection arrangement for detachably connecting a medium line to a connecting piece
A quick connection arrangement is for detachably connecting a medium line by way of a (SAE) connecting piece, comprising a housing having an opening for receiving the medium line, and a connecting piece opening for receiving the (SAE) connecting piece, so that between the medium line and the (SAE) connecting piece, a medium can be guided through the housing. The quick connection arrangement further comprises a locking body for locking the (SAE) connecting piece in the connecting piece opening, which is essentially arranged inside the connecting piece opening and provided with at least two, essentially radially acting locking elements for locking the (SAE) connecting piece in the connecting piece opening in a longitudinal direction (A). The locking body is further provided with at least two, essentially radially acting unlocking elements, configured to make it possible to undo the locking of the (SAE) connecting piece by the locking elements when actuated. |
| US10012334B2 |
Structure for attaching pressure detector
An attachment structure for a pressure detector that is such that the pressure detector is attached in an airtight manner within an insertion hole of an attachment tool main body attached to a mechanical device or pipelines, with a pipe, a gasket presser, a gasket, a split ring, and a bonnet. The configuration is such that the gasket presser and the split ring are inserted into the insertion hole of the attachment tool main body, the bonnet is inserted into the insertion hole, the bonnet is fastened to the attachment tool main body side, the gasket presser and the gasket are pressed by the split ring, and sealing portions are formed between the bottom surface of the insertion hole and one end surface of the gasket and between the tip end surface of the gasket restraint and the other end surface of the gasket. |
| US10012332B2 |
Tubular threaded joint having improved high-torque makeup properties
A tubular threaded joint has a pin and a box. Each having a contact surface comprising a threaded portion and an unthreaded metal contact portion including a seal portion and a shoulder portion. A solid lubricating coating having a relatively high Knoop hardness is formed on a portion including the shoulder portion of the contact surface, such as the unthreaded metal contact portion including the shoulder portion and the seal portion, of at least one of the pin and the box. A solid lubricating coating having a relatively low Knoop hardness is formed at least on the remaining portion of the contact surface, such as the threaded portion. The threaded joint has excellent galling resistance, gas tightness, and rust preventing properties. The joint does not readily undergo yielding of shoulder portions even when made up with a high torque, thereby making it possible to perform makeup in a stable manner. |
| US10012330B1 |
Orbital cable holder systems and methods
Systems and methods are provided for cable routing, such as within vehicles or structures. In certain examples, a cable holder is disclosed that includes one or more loop members with an interior groove and a rotatable cable holding member disposed within the interior groove. The rotatable cable holding member can be configured to rotate to decrease bends and/or stresses within the cable that the rotatable cable holding member is holding. Additionally, the rotatable cable holding member can be configured so that the cable held is perpendicular to the support for the cable. |
| US10012324B2 |
Pressure independent control valve
A flow control valve including a main valve and a pilot valve for controlling a piston of the main valve. The pilot valve is controlled in part with relatively high pressure fluid ported from a high pressure port and relatively low pressure fluid ported from a low pressure port. |
| US10012317B2 |
Isolation valve with a dead chamber
An isolation valve includes a dead chamber, including a body with a fluid-passing conduit, a device for obturating the fluid passage in the conduit, which may be actuated between a fluid-passing position and a position for obturating the fluid passage in the conduit. In its obturation position, the obturation device forms a dead chamber. A wall of the obturation device comprises a through-hole, in which is positioned a device for decompression of the dead chamber. A hydrocarbon transport facility includes at least two pipes connected through such an isolation valve with a dead chamber. |
| US10012316B2 |
Slide valve
A slide valve comprises: a casing having a pair of facing flow channels; a slide plate inserted into and removed from a space between the flow channels; and an annular sealing body slidingly moving in a facing direction of the flow channels inside the casing and coming into contact with the slide plate inserted between the flow channels to bring the slide valve into a closed state. A first sealing member sealing a gap between the sealing body and the inner peripheral wall surface is disposed on an inner peripheral surface of the annular sealing body and a second sealing member sealing a gap between the sealing body and the outer peripheral wall surface is formed on an outer peripheral surface of the annular sealing body. |
| US10012314B2 |
Snap together u-shaped cup seal
A U-shaped cup seal comprises an inner wall, an outer wall spaced apart from the inner wall, a base connecting the inner wall and the outer wall, a first and having a tab, and a tab receiving second end. |
| US10012312B2 |
Speed change apparatus for vehicle
A speed change apparatus includes a transmission, a change mechanism configured to move a gear or gears so as to change gear position, a force accumulation mechanism which includes a shift spindle and a force accumulation spring. The shift spindle is provided, in a rotatable manner, with a master arm configured to operate the change mechanism. A return spring is configured to bias the master arm toward a neutral position. A sub return spring, separate from the return spring and which directly biases the shift spindle toward the neutral position, is provided between the shift spindle and a case member. |
| US10012308B2 |
Apparatus and method for controlling electric oil pump
An apparatus for controlling an electric oil pump (EOP) includes a controller calculating first revolutions per minute (RPM), second RPM and third RPM, the first RPM being EOP RPM required for control of a brake in a transmission, the second RPM being EOP RPM required for cooling of a plurality of motors, and the third RPM being EOP RPM required for lubrication of the plurality of motors, the controller comparing the second RPM with the third RPM and driving the EOP at an RPM obtained by adding the first RPM to the greater of the second RPM and the third RPM. |
| US10012301B2 |
Differential locking mechanism
In a differential locking mechanism, a first differential side gear is fixed on a first axle, a second differential side gear is fixed on a second axle, and a bull gear including an engagement part is disposed between the first and second side gears. A cylindrical part is provided on the first differential side gear unrotatably relative to the first differential side gear, and includes a circumferential portion surrounding the first differential side gear. A differential locking slider is fitted on the circumferential portion of the cylindrical part unrotatably relative to the cylindrical part and axially slidably. The differential locking slider is slidable in a direction to engage its engagement part with the engagement part of the bull gear, and in another direction to disengage its engagement part from the engagement part of the bull gear. |
| US10012300B2 |
Clutched component
The present teachings provide for a clutched component including a first member, a second member, and a clutch. The first member can have an output portion. The second member can have an input portion that is disposed within the output portion. The clutch can include a plurality of first lock members and a control member for coordinating radially inward movement of the first lock members to drivingly couple the output portion and the input portion. |
| US10012293B2 |
Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicles
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle is disclosed. The planetary gear train provides ten forward speed stages and one reverse speed stage by combining four planetary gear sets with seven control elements. The planetary gear train includes an input shaft, an output shaft, four planetary gear sets, eight shafts interconnecting rotation elements of the four planetary gear sets, four clutches, and three brakes for controlling operation of the planetary gear train. The planetary gear train is configured to have a gear ratio span greater than 10.0 while securing linearity of step ratios of shift stages. |
| US10012292B2 |
Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicles
A planetary gear train of an automatic transmission for a vehicle may include an input shaft for receiving an engine torque, an output shaft for outputting a shifted torque, a first planetary gear set, a second planetary gear set, a third planetary gear set, a fourth planetary gear set, six control elements, a first connecting member directly connected with a transmission housing, a second connecting member selectively connectable with the transmission housing, a third connecting member selectively connectable with the input shaft, a fourth connecting member directly connected with the input shaft, a fifth connecting member selectively connectable with the transmission housing, a sixth connecting member selectively connectable with the input shaft, and selectively connectable with the transmission housing, a seventh connecting member directly connected with the output shaft, and an eighth connecting member selectively connectable with the input shaft. |
| US10012288B2 |
Glue-on attachable flywheel weight
A glue-on attachable flywheel weight adds rotational mass to a flywheel allowing for a vehicle operator to alter the power characteristics of an engine. Different flywheels require different shapes of attachable weights. The attachable weights can be machined to fit a multitude of different flywheels to add the rotational mass. Applying an adhesive secures the weight onto the flywheel and adds the rotational mass in a user-friendly convenient manner. |
| US10012285B2 |
Reciprocal rotation mechanism of engine
In order to reduce bending vibration of a connecting rod, a dynamic absorber (50) configured to reduce the bending vibration of the connecting rod (10) is provided on a piston (1). |
| US10012284B2 |
Method for fastening a rebound stop to a piston rod of a vibration damper
A method for fastening a rebound stop to a piston rod of a vibration damper positioned at a piston rod and axially supported with a first tool. A second tool component having a press-in surface that presses the tubular portion of the rebound stop into the circumferential groove of the piston rod. The first and the second tool carry out an movement toward one another. At least one tool presses the tubular portion of the rebound stop into the circumferential groove of the piston rod. The pitch angle of the press-in surface varies over the axial longitudinal extension of the press-in surface. As the distance between the tools decreases, the force ratio between the axially directed pressing force and the radially directed pressing force changes such that the axially directed pressing force decreases and the radially directed pressing force increases. |
| US10012283B2 |
Shock absorber and vehicle using the same
A minimum length-side property in which an extension-side damping coefficient signifies a hard state in a range (Aa0) where the piston rod enters further inside the cylinder than a minimum length-side predetermined position (Sa1), and a maximum length-side property in which the extension-side damping coefficient signifies a soft state in a range (Aa4) where the piston rod extends further outside the cylinder than a maximum length-side predetermined position (Sa4) are included. An extension-side damping force property between the minimum length-side predetermined position (Sa1) and the maximum length-side predetermined position (Sa4) includes a part (Sa1 to Sa2, Sa3 to Sa4) in which a damping coefficient change rate with respect to a stroke of the piston rod is large and a part (Sa2 to Sa3) in which the damping coefficient change rate is small. At least when the piston rod strokes to the extension side from the minimum length-side predetermined position (Sa1), the damping coefficient change rate is allowed to be large. |
| US10012278B2 |
Friction ring body for a rail wheel brake and rail wheel brake
In order to devise a friction ring body for arrangement on the wheel web of a rail wheel for a rail vehicle for forming a rail wheel brake that can be easily produced, it is proposed that the friction ring body has a friction ring cut out of a flat metal material and a plurality of attachment bodies provided on the friction ring by means of an integrally bonding connection process. |
| US10012276B2 |
System and method for electrically controllable transmissions
Systems and methods are shown for electrically controllably transmitting power from a motor involving electrically controllably coupling the first input hub to a shuttle so that power is transmitted from the first input hub to the shuttle, providing for one-way rotation between the shuttle and a stationary chassis, and coupling the shuttle to an output hub with a spring such that energy is stored and released from the spring as the output hub rotates. Examples are shown that include controlling engaged and disengaged time intervals of the first input hub and shuttle to maintain a torque level at the output hub, such as by utilizing pulse width modulation or pulse frequency modulation. Examples are also shown involving electroadhesively coupling the first input hub to the shuttle. |
| US10012271B2 |
Clutch device
A clutch device includes an outer member including a cylindrical part having an inner peripheral surface provided with outer projections extending in an axial direction; an inner member rotatable relative to the outer member; an outer friction member engaging with the outer projections such that the outer friction member is movable in the axial direction and rotation of the outer friction member relative to the outer member is restricted; an inner friction member whose rotation relative to the inner member is restricted, and which generates a frictional force between the inner and outer friction members; and a lubricating oil sealed in a clutch chamber located between the outer member and the inner member. The outer member is provided with an oil pocket recessed to a position outward of a bottom surface of a recessed part located between a pair of adjacent outer projections among the outer projections. |
| US10012268B1 |
Torque limiting wedge clutch
A clutch includes a hub and a carrier supported for rotation about a common axis. The carrier has a fixed portion and a sliding member that cooperate to define a groove. Movement of the sliding member changes a width of the groove. The clutch further includes a disk having a first edge disposed on the hub and a second edge disposed in the groove. The disk frictionally engages between the hub and the carrier when the clutch is locked. The sliding member is biased such that the groove has a first width for a first range of torques between the disk and the groove and a second width that is greater than the first width for a second range of torques between the disk and the groove that is greater than the first range of torques. |
| US10012267B2 |
Resolver bearing, resolver stator, and method for producing same
A resolver bearing with an angle sensor to detect the angular position of the bearing rings. The angle sensor includes an annular resolver stator connected to one of the bearing rings and includes a transmission coil and a receiving coil designed as printed circuits on a multilayer printed circuit board. The transmission coil is arranged at least partly within a U-shaped shell core, and the receiving coil is arranged at least partly within and at least partly outside of the shell core. The angle sensor also has a resolver rotor rotationally fixed to the other of the two bearing rings and includes magnetically conductive components. The resolver rotor is arranged at least partly within the U-shaped shell core. A signal can be transmitted between the transmission coil and the receiving coil via a magnetic circuit. An angular position-dependent variable reluctance in the magnetic circuit can be specified by the resolver rotor. The shell core is made of magnetically conductive structures integrated into the multilayer printed circuit board. |
| US10012266B1 |
Ball bearing with cage having rattle reduction feature and method thereof
A bearing, including: an axis of rotation; an outer ring; an inner ring located radially inward of the outer ring; a cage including at least one protrusion extending in a radial direction; a ball disposed in the cage; and at least one recess. The outer ring includes a recess included in the at least one recess and a protrusion included in the at least one protrusion is located in the recess. The inner ring includes a recess included in the at least one recess and a protrusion included in the at least one protrusion is located in the recess. |
| US10012265B2 |
Corrosion resistant bearing material
In one aspect, the present invention resides in an edge flap arrangement for an aircraft wing that has a main flap element and an actuator for moving the main flap element relative to the wing, a linkage arrangement that supports the main flap element from the aircraft wing for movement relative to the wing, the linkage arrangement including a drop link and a hinge point. The fixed strut and the drop link are pivotally connected by the hinge point. The hinge point includes a bearing. The bearing is an hourglass bearing assembly that has an inner raceway outer raceway. The outer raceway is positioned around the inner raceway. A plurality of rollers is disposed between the inner raceway and the outer raceway. The plurality of rollers, the outer raceway and/or the inner raceway are manufactured from CREN and/or CRES. |
| US10012263B2 |
Rotors for rotating machines with hollow fiber-reinforced composite shaft
Rotating machines and rotors therefor are disclosed. The bearings may be magnetic bearings configured to magnetically levitate the rotor. The rotors may include a hollow fiber-reinforced composite shaft and a magnetic bearing rotor core disposed on the shaft and configured for use with the magnetic bearing. In some examples, the rotating machines may be electrical machines. |
| US10012260B2 |
Crankshaft for reciprocating engine
A crankshaft includes: journals that define a central axis of rotation; crank pins that are eccentric with respect to the journals; and crank arms for connecting the journals and the crank pins, wherein each of the crank arms or at least one of the crank arms integrally includes a counterweight. The crank arms have a recess in a surface adjacent to a corresponding one of the journals, the recess disposed inward of a peripheral region along a periphery of the surface, the recess disposed along the peripheral region. With this configuration, it is possible to provide a crankshaft which has reduced weight and increased torsional rigidity in combination with increased flexural rigidity. |
| US10012258B2 |
Locking device for a threaded fastener
A locking device for a component having at least one and preferably two threaded fasteners is provided. The device includes a first clamping section configured to be secured around a first threaded fastener, and a second clamping section at a spaced location from the first clamping section arranged to be secured around a further element relative to which the first fastener is rotational. The second element may be a second threaded fastener, or a fixed feature such as the body of a pipe coupling. A bridging element is also provided that connects the two clamping sections and prevents rotation of the first and second clamping sections relative to each other. The clamping sections are configured to surround, compress and/or deform against the circumferential surface of a part of the fastener, which may be a nut or a bolt head, such that the clamping section is rotationally fixed relative to the fastener. |
| US10012255B2 |
Trapeze hanger system including trapeze hanger fitting
A trapeze hanger fitting includes a strut connecting portion configured for insertion into an open interior of a strut through an open longitudinal end of the strut to connect the trapeze hanger fitting to the strut. A rod securement portion is connected to the strut connecting portion and configured for securement to a rod to secure the trapeze hanger fitting to the rod. The rod securement portion is configured to be disposed outside the open interior of the strut and longitudinally outward from the open longitudinal end of the strut when the strut connecting portion is inserted into the open interior of the strut. |
| US10012249B2 |
Constructional assembly and method for making it
An assembly of a first and second constructional part is provided, wherein the first constructional part has a first end and an opposite second end connected by a central part extending substantially perpendicularly to a surface of the second constructional part. The first end of the first constructional part is connected to said surface of the second constructional part with an encapsulating material at least partly surrounding said first end and adhering to said surface of the second constructional part. The first constructional part between its first and second ends is provided with at least one protruding part. The first constructional part in contact the encapsulating material is provided with a flange of which the vertical projection on said surface of the second constructive part completely covers the vertical projection of the protruding part on said surface. A method for making the assembly is provided. |
| US10012247B2 |
Variable booster for hybrid pneumatic regenerative system
A variable booster device of a pneumatic regenerative system of a motorized vehicle is in fluid communication with a pneumatic device of the system. The variable booster device includes a main body and a plate slidingly coupled to the main body. The main body includes an inlet, an outlet, and an interior cavity. The plate is reconfigurable between a first configuration, where the outlet is a first size, and a second configuration, where the outlet is a second size. The variable booster device pressurizes the air a first amount when the plate is in the first configuration and pressurizes the air a second amount when the plate is in the second configuration, where the second amount is greater than the first amount. Disposed within the interior cavity is a first helical screw rotor and a second helical screw rotor. The two helical screw rotors are intermeshed with one another. The pressurized air is fed from the outlet of the variable booster device to the pneumatic device of the pneumatic regenerative system to be further pressurized by the pneumatic device and then stored for later use in the system. |
| US10012246B2 |
Failsafe deployment feature for actuator
A linear actuator includes a fixed first end, a second end movable linearly along a central axis of the actuator, an inner cylinder configured to urge axial movement of the second end, and a piston assembly including a piston rod located inside of the inner cylinder. One or more locking pawls are located in pawl openings in the piston rod. The one or more locking pawls are selectably engagable with the inner cylinder to prevent relative motion of the piston rod and the inner cylinder. A lockbolt selectably releases the one or more locking pawls from engagement with the inner cylinder and includes an antilock pin engagable with a pawl opening in the one or more locking pawls to urge the one or more locking pawls away from the inner cylinder with axial movement of the lockbolt. |
| US10012244B2 |
Hydraulic hose end expansion chamber
A hydraulic hose end expansion chamber preferably includes a tube, a first end plate, a second end plate, a threaded nipple, an o-ring and a drain screw. The threaded nipple is attached to the first end plate. The threaded nipple is threadably engaged with a threaded hole in a female hydraulic quick disconnect coupler. The first end plate is attached to a first end of the tube. A threaded hole is formed through the second end plate to threadably receive the drain screw. The o-ring is pushed on to the threaded shaft. The second end plate is attached to a second end of the tube. An L-shaped handle is preferably attached to the second end of the tube. A second embodiment of the hydraulic hose end expansion chamber includes a compression spring with a piston. A third embodiment of the hydraulic hose end expansion chamber includes a nitrogen filled bladder. |
| US10012240B2 |
Compressor rotor with anti-vortex fins
A compressor rotor of a gas turbine engine includes a rotor body having a face adapted to face an adjacent rotor. The rotor body extends radially between an outer peripheral rim surface and an inner rim surface. The inner rim surface defines a bore of the rotor body. A plurality of blades extends radially from the outer peripheral rim surface. A plurality of anti-vortex fins extends axially from the face of the rotor body facing the adjacent rotor. The plurality of anti-vortex fins forms a plurality of open radial passageways. The plurality of anti-vortex fins extends axially to a predetermined thickness such that, when assembled with the second rotor, axial extremities of the plurality of anti-vortex fins being in close proximity with the adjacent rotor and the adjacent rotor closes the radial passageways. A method of providing a first rotor for assembly with a second facing rotor of a compressor rotor assembly is also presented. |
| US10012239B2 |
Airfoil shape for sixth stage compressor stator vane
A system is provided, including an airfoil. The airfoil includes a first suction portion of a nominal airfoil profile substantially in accordance with Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z of a suction side as set forth in TABLE I to a maximum of three decimal places, wherein the X and Y values of the suction side are coordinate values that couple together to define suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile at each Z coordinate value, the suction side sections of the first suction portion of the nominal airfoil profile are coupled together to define the first suction portion, the airfoil includes an airfoil length along a Z axis, the first suction portion comprises a first portion length along the Z axis, the first portion length is less than or equal to the airfoil length, and the Cartesian coordinate values of X, Y, and Z are non-dimensional values convertible to dimensional distances. |
| US10012229B2 |
Diaphragm compressor system and method
A roll-diaphragm compressor and a roll-diaphragm compressors system, including methods for manufacturing and using same. The roll-diaphragm compressor includes a compressor body having a concave portion that defines a rounded interface wall and an apex portion adjacent to the concave portion that comprises an inlet and outlet port. The roll-diaphragm compressor also includes a flexible roll-diaphragm coupled to the compressor body about a compressor body edge and a compression chamber defined by the concave portion, apex portion and roll-diaphragm. The roll-diaphragm compressor further includes a piston head rigidly coupled to a central portion of the roll-diaphragm and configured to drive the roll-diaphragm to a first configuration where the roll-diaphragm engages the interface wall as part of a compression cycle. |
| US10012224B2 |
Crank circular sliding block mechanism, parts thereof, and equipment therefrom
A crank circular slider mechanism includes a crankshaft having at least one crank pin; at least one circular slider with an eccentric hole which fits over the crank pin; at least one reciprocating element with a circular slider-receiving hole, which receives the circular slider in a rotatable manner; and at least one dynamic balance rotary block with an eccentric hole that fits over the crank pin. The dynamic balance rotary block and the adjacent circular slider are fixed together. By means of proper selection of a mounting place and a mass of the dynamic balance rotary block, the mechanism can convert reciprocating inertia of the reciprocating element into rotation inertia so as to obtain a balancing effect. An internal combustion engine and a compressor may be equipped with the crank circular slider mechanism. |
| US10012222B2 |
Suction muffler located inside a piston of a linear compressor
The compressor comprises a movable assembly carrying a suction muffler and formed by: a piston (10) having a skirt (11) with an open rear end (11a) and a closed front end (11b) which carries a suction valve (50); and an actuator. The suction muffler comprises: a first and a second tubular insert (61, 62) defining a first and a second chamber (C1, C2) and having confronting open ends (61a, 62a) spaced from each other, and closed opposite ends (61b, 62b) respectively affixed to a top wall (12) of the piston (10) and to the actuator; a third tubular insert (63) internally lining the skirt (11); and an annular passage (15), between the third and the second tubular inserts (63, 62), open to the first and second chambers (C1, C2), and communicating the open rear end (11a) of the skirt (11) with the suction valve (50). |
| US10012220B2 |
Magnetically driven pump arrangement having a micropump with forced flushing, and operating method
A pump arrangement is disclosed including a magnetically drivable micropump for pumping a liquid pumping medium, a bearing carrier as a base part, and an outer magnet and an inner magnet which transmit a torque to the micropump via an axial shaft. Three radial bearing pieces for the rotational mounting (guidance) of the shaft and of the micropump are positioned and fixed in the bearing carrier. The micropump is held in an eccentric bearing by a cover arranged at an end. A duct structure for a forced flow is provided including at least one radial duct portion in the cover and an axial duct portion in the bearing carrier to flush and/or to lubricate the bearings actively with the pumping medium. One of the bearings is arranged closer to the inner magnet and/or another of the bearings is arranged closer to the micropump. |
| US10012215B2 |
Method for measuring a rotor-blade angle
The invention relates to a method for capturing a blade angle of a rotor blade of a rotor of a wind turbine, comprising the steps disposing and aligning a contactless measuring device in front of the wind turbine, aligning the wind turbine in its azimuth position in relation to the measuring device, rotating the rotor of the wind turbine, sampling and capturing the profile of the rotor blade, or a part thereof, at a predefined height, by means of the contactless measuring device, and determining the blade angle of the rotor blade from the data recorded during the sampling of the profile. |
| US10012212B2 |
Sensor assembly for a wind turbine bearing and related system and method
A bearing for a wind turbine may generally include an outer race, an inner race and a plurality of roller elements positioned radially between the inner and outer races, with the roller elements including a first roller element and a second roller element. The bearing may also include a sensor assembly having a load sensor positioned between the first and second roller elements. When the sensor assembly is compressed between the first and second roller elements during operation of the wind turbine, the load sensor is configured to detect a compressive load transferred through the sensor assembly. |
| US10012211B2 |
Absorber for a wind turbine
A wind turbine including a rotatable part, at least one absorber element secured to the rotatable part within an interior of the wind turbine, the at least one absorber element at least partly comprising lubricant absorbing material, wherein the absorber element is configured to absorb emerging lubricant inside the wind turbine is provided. Further, a rotor hub for a wind turbine, an absorber element for a wind turbine and a method for maintaining a clean environment in a wind turbine is also provided. |
| US10012210B2 |
Horizontal-axis wind turbine using airfoil blades with uniform width and thickness
A horizontal-axis wind turbine using airfoil blades with uniform in width and thickness, comprising a tower installed vertically from ground surface, a nacelle rotatable connected to center of a vertical axis on top of the tower, a rotating body axially bonded to the nacelle, and one or more blades connecting and forming a pitch angle on the outer periphery of the rotating body, and the blade having an airfoil shape and having uniform in width and thickness in a longitudinal direction and generating torque from lift about a tip of the blade is provided. |
| US10012205B2 |
Gas fuel engine spark plug failure detection
A system for detecting spark plug failures in an engine is provided. The system may include one or more sensor devices coupled to the engine and configured to measure engine data, a controller in communication with the sensor devices, and an output device. The controller may be configured to determine at least a misfire count, a secondary transformer voltage, and an exhaust port temperature based on the engine data, identify a fault condition based on one or more of the misfire count, the secondary transformer voltage, and the exhaust port temperature, and perform a corrective action responsive to the fault condition. The output device may be configured to generate a notification corresponding to the fault condition. |
| US10012201B1 |
Method for controlling a stop/start vehicle
A method for allowing or prohibiting automatic engine stopping and starting is presented. In one example, an engine cranking time is predicted and compared to a threshold value to determine whether or not automatic engine stopping and starting is to be allowed or prohibited. The predicted engine cranking time is a metric for judging whether or not vehicle occupants might find a possible subsequent vehicle operation delay objectionable due to an engine starting event. |
| US10012198B2 |
Test procedure for high-pressure pumps
A method for testing a high-pressure pump, particularly a high-pressure pump which is provided to inject fuel into a combustion engine, the method including filling the high-pressure pump with a fluid prior to switching it on. |
| US10012196B1 |
Duct structure for fuel injector assembly
A duct structure for a fuel injector assembly of an engine includes a first ring structure, a plurality of ducts, a plurality of posts, and an engagement structure. The fuel injector assembly includes a fuel injector having a plurality of orifices to discharge fuel. The first ring structure is configured to be coupled to a cylinder head of the engine, and defines a central axis. The ducts are circularly arrayed around the central axis, and are configured to provide passages to the fuel discharged from the fuel injector. The posts connect the ducts to the first ring structure. Further, the engagement structure is configured to engage with the fuel injector to align the ducts with the orifices such that each of the plurality of ducts is configured to receive fuel discharged from a corresponding one of the plurality of orifices. |
| US10012191B2 |
Fuel injector wiring harness tray
A tray configured to support a fuel injector wiring harness is disclosed. The tray may include a first end, a second end opposite the first end, a bottom wall extending between the first end and the second end, and the bottom wall may be configured to support the fuel injector wiring harness above a rocker arm support. Moreover, the tray may include a tab outwardly extending from the tray, and the tab may include a top surface, a bottom surface opposite the top surface, and an aperture extending between the top surface and the bottom surface. The aperture may be configured to circumscribe a stud upwardly extending from the rocker arm support. |
| US10012190B2 |
Pump cover
A pump cover for a fuel pump is located at a position lateral to the fuel pump. The fuel pump is disposed on a cylinder head of an engine. The pump cover includes a plate and a rib. The plate is fixed to a side surface of the engine. The plate extends to a position lateral to the fuel pump disposed on the cylinder head. The rib protrudes from the plate, and is located superjacent to a pump mounting surface defined on the cylinder head. |
| US10012187B1 |
Charge motion control valve
Methods and systems are provided for a charge motion control valve mounted within a flow passage in an intake manifold coupled to an engine. In one example design, a control valve comprises a valve plate with a pivot axis mounted in a body coupled to a manifold runner, the plate having a rear portion overhanging the pivot; and a first sealing surface in the manifold runner to receive a surface of the rear portion of the valve plate when fully opened; and a second sealing surface in the body to receive an opposite surface of the rear portion of the valve plate when fully closed. In this way, the valve plate may be adjusted to block a portion of a flow passage within the body to minimize air leakages at a periphery of the passage while redirecting air flow to create swirl motion downstream of the valve plate. |
| US10012184B2 |
EGR device having diffuser and EGR mixer for EGR device
An EGR device includes a housing and an inner pipe. The housing has an outer pipe. The inner pipe is accommodated in the outer pipe. The inner pipe defines an inner passage internally and defines an annular passage externally with the outer pipe. The inner pipe has through holes communicating the inner passage with the annular passage. At least one diffuser is equipped to the through holes. The diffuser is projected radially inward. |
| US10012183B2 |
System and methods for purging residual exhaust and uncombusted fuel to an exhaust catalyst
A method for an engine is provided. Following an engine-off event, engine cylinders are sequentially positioned with an intake valve open and an exhaust valve open. The contents of the engine cylinder are then purged to an exhaust catalyst. In this way, existing vehicle hardware may be used to evacuate residual hydrocarbons and uncombusted fuel to the exhaust catalyst, provided the catalyst remains above the light-off temperature. |
| US10012180B2 |
Evaporated fuel processing device
An evaporated fuel processing device has a canister, a vapor passage, a purge passage, a shutoff valve, a storage device and a control device. The canister includes an adsorbent material that adsorbs evaporated fuel generated in a fuel tank. The vapor passage connects the canister and the fuel tank. The purge passage connects the canister and an intake passage of an engine. The shutoff valve is provided in the vapor passage, and adjusts flow rate of gas flowing through the vapor passage. The storage device stores in advance a reference value for the shutoff valve corresponding to internal pressure of the fuel tank. The shutoff valve is controlled based on the reference value, which is obtained from the internal pressure of the fuel tank, and pressure release control is performed on the fuel tank. |
| US10012178B2 |
Injector, in particular an injector for gaseous fuels
An injector, in particular a blow-in injector for gaseous fuel, including a first sealing element and a second sealing element, and in the closed state of the injector a first sealing region is configured between the first and second sealing element, at least one of the sealing elements having an elastic deformation region, the elastic deformation region being set apart from the sealing region between the first and second sealing element. |
| US10012169B2 |
Method and device for diagnosing a component in a gas-routing system of an engine system having a combustion engine
A method for diagnosing a component in a gas-routing system of a supercharged combustion engine having an electrically operable compressor, the method including activating the electrically operable compressor after the combustion engine has been shut off, opening a flow path through the gas-routing system, measuring a state variable in the gas-routing system, and detecting a fault of the component as a function of the measured state variable. |
| US10012166B1 |
System and method for diagnosing a postive crankcase ventilation valve
Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing a positive crankcase valve during a vehicle key-off event. In one example, a method may include controlling a fluid flow from a crankcase of an engine to an intake manifold of the engine via a positive crankcase ventilation valve, and indicating whether the positive crankcase valve is stuck open responsive to spinning the engine unfueled in a reverse direction, and indicating whether the positive crankcase valve is stuck closed responsive to spinning the engine fueled but without spark in a forward direction. In this way, functionality of a positive crankcase ventilation valve may be diagnosed effectively during key-off conditions, which may prevent or reduce engine complications arising from a stuck open or stuck closed positive crankcase valve. |
| US10012163B2 |
Electronic control unit
In an electronic control unit, a basic injection quantity calculation part calculates a basic injection quantity value as a target of fuel value, which an injector injects, by using an actual accelerator operation angle value, an actual engine rotation speed value and at least one of an actual vehicle speed value and an actual acceleration value. When the actual vehicle speed value or the acceleration value deviates largely from the estimated value, a correction value calculation part calculates an injection quantity correction value for the basic injection quantity value and a final injection quantity calculation part calculates a final injection quantity value by correcting the basic injection quantity value with the correction value. A driving control part controls driving of the injector so that the injector injects fuel of the final injection quantity value determined by correcting the basic injection quantity value with the correction value. |
| US10012160B2 |
Control device and control method of engine
It is possible to prevent the stability of an engine from deteriorating even when degrees of changes over time of injection characteristics are different in each fuel injection valve. An inter-cylinder air-fuel ratio variation detection unit 1100 calculates an air-fuel ratio variation index (Ind_imb) which indicates a degree of variation in an air-fuel ratio between cylinders from an exhaust air-fuel ratio, engine rotation speed, or the like. Unlike in a case where the air-fuel ratio variation index (Ind_imb) is lower than a set value, when the air-fuel ratio variation index (Ind_imb) is higher than the set value, a fuel injection pulse width limitation unit 2100 sets a (allowable) minimum value (Min_TI) of a fuel injection pulse width so as to be greater. In addition, a fuel injection pulse width calculation unit 3100 calculates fuel injection pulse widths (TI_1, TI_2, TI_3, and TI_4) of cylinders so as not to be lower than the minimum value (Min_TI). |
| US10012155B2 |
Combustion pressure feedback based engine control with variable resolution sampling windows
A system for controlling an internal combustion engine has an in-cylinder pressure sensor, a crank angle sensor and a controller coupled to receive inputs from the pressure sensor and crank angle sensor. The controller is configured to convert the cylinder pressure input into a combustion metric indicative of the combustion occurring in the measured cylinder and control fuel input and timing into the engine based on the combustion metric. The controller samples the in-cylinder pressure sensor at a high frequency during critical combustion events and at a lower frequency during the non-critical cylinder conditions. |
| US10012147B2 |
Apparatus and method for air particle separator in gas turbine engine
An engine and particle decelerator is provided herein. The engine having: an inlet opening for directing air towards a compressor of the engine; and a particle decelerator located between the inlet opening and the compressor such that air travelling towards the compressor from the inlet opening must travel through the particle decelerator and wherein an area of the particle decelerator is greater than an inlet and an outlet of the particle decelerator. |
| US10012141B2 |
Apparatus, systems, and methods to address evaporative cooling and wet compression for engine thermal management
An apparatus including a reciprocating internal combustion engine with at least one piston and cylinder set and an intake stream; at least one liquid atomizer in fluid communication with the intake stream operable to provide a plurality of liquid droplets with a diameter less than 5 μm to the intake stream; and a controller where the controller is able to adjust an index of compression for the engine by: calculating a wet compression level in response to an engine operating limit and adjusting the at least one liquid atomizer in response to the wet compression level. |
| US10012133B1 |
Method and system for maintaining an engine coolant level
Methods and systems are provided for maintaining a desired engine coolant level and a relative glycol amount in the engine coolant by using water sourced from on-board vehicle systems. In one example, a method may include supplying water to the engine coolant reservoir in response to the engine coolant level decreasing below a threshold. Also, a relative glycol amount in the coolant may be maintained at a threshold amount by adding water to the coolant in response to a relative glycol increasing above the threshold. |
| US10012131B2 |
Controlling a coolant pump and/or control valve of a cooling system for an internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle
The present disclosure relates to a method for determining an actuating value for a coolant pump or a control valve of a cooling system for an infernal combustion engine of a motor vehicle. In particular, a pre-control value for ascertaining the actuating value is determined in a first determination mode based on a prescribed first allocation as a function of an output variable of the infernal combustion engine and a temperature difference of a heat exchanger of the cooling system. |
| US10012127B2 |
Methods of using gas sensors
Methods for monitoring the performance of an oxidizing catalyst device are provided. Methods can include treating an exhaust gas stream with the oxidizing catalyst device, determining a reference liberated oxygen (LO) species measurement of the exhaust gas stream, measuring a downstream LO species measurement of the exhaust gas stream using a NOx sensor in a catalyst inactive mode, and determining a LO species differential. The downstream NOx sensor can comprise an amperometric sensor and include a NO2 selective reduction catalyst. Methods for using an amperometric NOx sensor utilizing an NO2 selective reduction catalyst are also provided, and include operating the NOx sensor in a catalyst active mode to generate a first LO species measurement, operating the NOx sensor in a catalyst inactive mode to generate a second LO species measurement, and comparing the first LO species measurement to the second LO species measurement to determine a LO species differential. |
| US10012122B2 |
System and method for regulating exhaust emissions
An exhaust gas treatment system for an internal combustion engine includes an exhaust gas pathway configured to receive exhaust gas from the internal combustion engine, a first ammonia injector configured to inject ammonia into the exhaust gas pathway at a first rate, and a first treatment element positioned downstream of the first ammonia injector. A second ammonia injector is positioned downstream of the first treatment element. The second ammonia injector is configured to inject ammonia into the exhaust gas pathway at a second rate. A controller is configured to estimate an amount of particulate present in the exhaust gas and adjust at least one of the first rate or the second rate based on the estimate. |
| US10012120B2 |
Apparatus and method for regenerating diesel particular matter filter
An apparatus for regenerating a diesel particular matter filter includes an outdoor temperature sensor for detecting an outdoor temperature, a water temperature sensor for detecting a cooling water temperature of an engine, an air heater for heating intake air of the engine, a relay temperature sensor for detecting a heater relay temperature, a controller for generating and outputting a signal for controlling a heater relay to activate or deactivate the air heater and a signal for controlling a cooling fan to be operated based on detection values input from the outdoor temperature sensor, the water temperature sensor and the relay temperature sensor, a heater relay configured to be turned on and off depending on the control signal output from the controller to operate or stop the air heater, and a cooling fan configured to be selectively operated depending on the control signal output from the controller and ventilate air for cooling the heater relay upon the operation. |
| US10012119B1 |
Positive crankcase ventilation gas diversion and reclamation system
A positive crankcase ventilation gas diversion and reclamation system comprises a positive crankcase ventilation gas diversion line to divert oil laden positive crankcase ventilation gases from the air intake manifold of an internal combustion engine. A positive crankcase ventilation gas diversion line directs oil laden positive crankcase ventilation gases into a vapor headspace of a fuel tank. A pressure sensor measures a vapor pressure in a vapor headspace of a fuel tank, and a fuel tank vent valve is operative with a fuel tank vent line. A controller actuates the fuel tank vent valve into an open position and discharges fuel enriched vapor to the air intake manifold of the internal combustion engine. A method permits diverting positive crankcase ventilation gasses from the air intake manifold of an engine, and reclaiming oil laden fuel components and/or particulates from positive crankcase ventilation gasses. |
| US10012111B2 |
Shroud segment retainer
A gas turbine, including: axially adjacent first and second components each having a gas path facing surface within an engine casing, inter-component cavity located between first and second components on the gas path outboard side, an axial-restrictor within the inter component cavity for restricting movement of the first or second component relative to at least one other first and second component or engine casing, wherein the axial-restrictor is radially located in the engine casing or other first and second component and includes a radially facing surface; a retaining element, including a body having circumferential length extending around the gas turbine engine and axial length extending between axially adjacent first and second components when in use; an obstructing portion between the radially facing surface of the axial-restrictor and opposing second radial surface of the other first or second component or engine casing to restrict radial movement of in use axial-restrictor. |
| US10012105B2 |
Blade arrangement of a jet engine or an aircraft propeller
A blade arrangement of a jet engine or an aircraft propeller including a blade with a root portion and an aerofoil portion, wherein the aerofoil portion includes a suction side and a pressure side. The blade arrangement further includes a retention structure that is configured to radially retain the blade in case of a structural blade failure, wherein the retention structure is secured to the root portion and/or to a structure adjacent to the root portion and extends in the radial direction along the suction side and along the pressure side of the aerofoil portion. The retention structure forms a loop that runs at least around the root portion, along the suction side and along the pressure side of the blade. |
| US10012103B2 |
Guide vane
A gas turbine engine variable guide vane has a fixed portion on an upstream side, a movable flap on a downstream side and a transfer slot between a fixed portion trailing surface and a movable flap leading surface. The movable flap has opposite pressure and suction sides along a chord line between leading and trailing edges, and is rotatable about an axis along a movable flap span over a range of angular positions between open and closed. The trailing surface has a substantially U-shaped profile with first and second branches respectively partially around the pressure and suction sides. The transfer slot has inlet and exhaust ports respectively on the pressure and suction sides. In the closed position the suction side contacts the second branch closing the exhaust port, and in the open position the second branch directs a first air flow through the transfer slot tangentially over the suction surface. |
| US10012101B2 |
Seal system for a gas turbine
The invention pertains to a seal system for a passage between a turbine stator and a turbine rotor, including: a first arm extending radially outwards from the turbine rotor and toward the first seal arranged on the stator, and terminating short of the first seal thereby creating a first gap between the first seal and the first arm. The seal system further includes a second seal arranged on the turbine stator, and a second arm extending axially from the turbine rotor towards the second seal base, and terminating short of the second seal thereby creating a second gap between the second seal and the second arm. The invention further refers to a gas turbine including such a seal system. |
| US10012100B2 |
Turbine shroud with tubular runner-locating inserts
A turbine shroud for a gas turbine engine includes a carrier and a blade track. The blade track includes an annular runner and a plurality of inserts that extend radially outward away from the annular runner. The inserts extend through the carrier to couple the annular runner with the carrier. |
| US10012099B2 |
Thin seal for an engine
Aspects of the disclosure are directed to a seal configured to interface with at least a first component and a second component of a gas turbine engine. A method for forming the seal includes obtaining an ingot of a fine grained, or a coarse grained, or a columnar grained or a single crystal material from a precipitation hardened nickel base superalloy containing at least 40% by volume of the precipitate of the form Ni3(Al, X), where X is a metallic or refractory element, and processing the ingot to generate a sheet of the material, where the sheet has a thickness within a range of 0.010 inches and 0.050 inches inclusive. |
| US10012095B2 |
Abrasive coating and manufacture and use methods
A method for applying an abrasive comprises: applying, to a substrate, the integral combination of: a self-braze material; an abrasive; and a matrix in which the abrasive is at least partially embedded; and heating to cause the self-braze material to braze to the substrate. The heating leaves at least a portion of the self-braze material with a composition comprising, in weight percent: cobalt 2.5-13.5; chromium 12-27; aluminum 5-7; yttrium 0.0-1.0; hafnium 0.0-1.0; silicon 1.0-3.0; tantalum 0.0-4.5; tungsten 0.0-6.5; rhenium 0.0-2.0; molybdenum 0.1-1.0; and the balance nickel. |
| US10012092B2 |
Low turn loss baffle flow diverter
An airfoil according to an example of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an airfoil body having an internal passage for conveying a fluid flow. The internal passage includes first and second passage sections coupled at a turn section. A baffle includes a body arranged in the second passage section to define two cooling flow paths, and a first wedge region extends from the body into the first passage section such that the fluid flow is directed through the turn section between the first passage section and the two cooling flow paths. |
| US10012091B2 |
Cooling structure for hot-gas path components with methods of fabrication
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide components for hot gas path (HGP) components and methods of forming the same. A structure according to the present disclosure can include: an HGP component extending radially from a rotor axis of a turbomachine, the HGP component including a tapered edge; a plurality of first passages in fluid communication with a preliminary cooling zone of the HGP component, and extending through a sidewall positioned between the preliminary cooling zone and the tapered edge; and a plurality of second passages extending through at least the tapered edge, wherein each of the plurality of second passages is in fluid communication with the flow path for the operative fluid and at least one passage of the plurality of first passages, and wherein at least one of the plurality of second passages is radially displaced from each passage of the plurality of first passages. |
| US10012090B2 |
Airfoil cooling apparatus
An airfoil for a gas turbine engine, the airfoil includes a wall that has a leading edge and a trailing edge and at least partially defining a boundary of a leading edge cavity radially along the leading edge. A cooling jet structure is operatively associated with a portion of the wall proximate the leading edge and is configured to direct a cooling fluid tangent to the portion of the wall. |
| US10012089B2 |
Airfoil tip pocket with augmentation features
A component according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, an airfoil that includes a pressure sidewall and a suction sidewall that meet together at both a leading edge and a trailing edge. The airfoil extends to a tip. A tip pocket is formed in the tip and terminates prior to the trailing edge. A heat transfer augmentation device is formed in the tip pocket. |
| US10012087B2 |
Gas turbine including a contoured end wall section of a rotor blade
The object of the invention is to suppress development of a secondary current whirl in the vicinity of a rotor blade front edge of a gas turbine even when a cooling refrigerant is mixed in from the front edge of an end wall section of the rotor blade. In a gas turbine rotor blade 4 including a wing shape section 12 formed of a negative pressure surface 12d extending from a front edge 12a to a rear edge 12b, a pressure surface 12c opposing the negative pressure surface 12d and extending from the front edge 12a to the rear edge 12b, and a tip surface 13 surrounded by the top end of the negative pressure surface 12d and the top end of the pressure surface 12c, and an end wall section 10 connected to the bottom end of the negative pressure surface 12d and the bottom end of the pressure surface 12c, the rotor blade has a convex shape in positions constituting the negative pressure surface 12d side and the front edge 12a side of the end wall section 10, and the rotor blade has a concave shape in positions constituting the pressure surface 12c side and the front edge 12a side of the end wall section 10. |
| US10012086B2 |
Gas turbine engine airfoil profile
An example airfoil includes an airfoil body with a leading edge and a trailing edge joined by a pressure side and a suction side to provide an external airfoil surface extending in a radial direction from at least one platform. The external airfoil surface is formed in substantial conformance with multiple cross-sectional profiles of the airfoil described by a set of Cartesian coordinates set forth in Table 1. The Cartesian coordinates are provided by an axial coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, a circumferential coordinate scaled by a local axial chord, and a span location. The local axial chord corresponds to a width of the airfoil between the leading edge and the trailing edge at the span location, and the Cartesian coordinates in Table 1 have a tolerance relative to the specified coordinates of up to +0.050 inches (+1.27 mm). |
| US10012078B2 |
Method of applying a thin spray-on liner and robotic applicator therefor
A method and system for applying a liner material to a contoured surface, such as an exposed rock face in an underground hard rock mine, is disclosed. Locations of a plurality of spatially distributed surface grid points on the contoured surface may be detected so as to generate a representative topographical profile of the contoured surface. Based on the plurality of surface grid points, a spray path for a liner application device configured to emit a spray of the liner material may be determined. In some cases, the spray path may have a trajectory that follows the topographical profile of the contoured surface offset therefrom within a spray range of the liner application device. Liner material may then be sprayed onto the contoured surface while controlling the liner application device to undertake at least one pass of the spray path. |
| US10012071B2 |
Differential method for equitable allocation of hydrocarbon component yields using phase behavior process models
A method for equitable allocation of hydrocarbon component yields which uses the output of process modeling of the hydrocarbon processing system with the individual source streams commingled into a single inlet stream to create a differential value table which can be used to provide the allocation of output product to the individual source streams that are accountable for the individual component yield. |
| US10012070B2 |
System and method for measuring gaps using an opto-analytical device
In one embodiment, a method includes drilling a wellbore in a formation with a drilling tool. The method further includes receiving electromagnetic radiation using an opto-analytical device coupled to the drilling tool. The method also includes determining a distance between a portion of the drilling tool and the formation based on the received electromagnetic radiation. |
| US10012065B2 |
Hydrophobic surface treatment for use in subterranean formation operations
Methods including preparing a silanization composition comprising an aqueous base fluid and an alkyltrialkoxysilane; coating the silanization composition at least partially onto proppant particulates, thereby forming coated proppant particulates, wherein the silanization composition imparts hydrophobicity to the proppant particulates; and introducing the coated proppant particulates into a subterranean formation. The alkyltrialkoxysilane in the silanization composition may have the formula R1(OR2)3Si, where R1 is a C8 to C22 alkyl chain and R2 is an alkyl group selected from the group consisting of methyl, ethyl, butyl, tert-butyl, isopropyl, and any combination thereof. |
| US10012064B2 |
Gas diverter for well and reservoir stimulation
The disclosure provides fracturing methods having advantage over current fracturing methods. The disclosed fracturing methods can change the fracture gradient of the downhole subterranean formation. For example, one or more of the fracture gradients of the low and high stress zones of the downhole subterranean formation can be changed. Furthermore, in relation to current practices, the methods can decrease the extent and/or degree of fracturing within low stress downhole formations and increase the degree of fracturing within high stress formations. |
| US10012054B2 |
Downhole logging tool cooling device
A downhole tool cooling device (2) is described, wherein a downhole tool (1) is thermally coupled to a rechargeable cold source (21) comprising a solid cold source body (211) being contained in an insulated cooling medium vessel (22), and wherein the downhole tool (1) is thermally coupled to the cold source (21) by means of a cooling circuit (23) comprising a first heat exchanger (11) arranged at the downhole tool (1) and in a fluid communicating manner being interconnected with a second heat exchanger (231) arranged in the solid cold source body (211), wherein a refrigeration system (5) is thermally coupled to the cold source (21) during a downhole operation of the cooling device (2). Furthermore is described a method for cooling a downhole tool (1). Also is described use of a pre-cooled solid cold source body (211) contained in an insulated cooling medium vessel (22) as a cold source (21) for a cooling circuit (23) being thermally coupled to a downhole tool (1) being in the need of cooling during downhole operations. |
| US10012052B2 |
Downhole tool device and method for using the same
A downhole tool is arranged for connection to a fluid-carrying string. The downhole tool includes: a first reversibly expandable sealing element; a second reversibly expandable sealing element placed at an axial distance from the first reversibly expandable sealing element; one or more fluid ports positioned between the two reversibly expandable sealing elements and arranged to be put in fluid communication with the fluid-carrying string; a first anchoring device arranged to engage a pipe body in a well; and one or more electromotors arranged at least to operate the two reversibly expandable sealing elements and the first anchoring device. The downhole tool further includes a first mechanically activatable release mechanism arranged at least to disengage the first anchoring device from the pipe body. A method is for utilizing a downhole tool. |
| US10012047B1 |
Method and system for wellbore debris removal
A method and apparatus for removing debris from a wellbore, comprising providing a surface pump for supplying a fluid stream, a work string fluidly connected to the surface pump for passing the fluid stream from the surface pump, a tool body fluidly connected to the work string, including a plurality of tool body exit ports for passing the fluid stream from the work string into an annular space of the wellbore, and a collection chamber fluidly connected to and downhole from the tool body, for accepting uphole flow of the fluid stream including entrained wellbore debris. The fluid stream including entrained wellbore debris is drawn upward through the collection chamber, and the fluid stream from the work string and the fluid stream from the collection chamber are passed into the annular space of the wellbore. In addition, a cartridge may be inserted into the tool body. |
| US10012041B2 |
Drill rod tallying system and method
An apparatus and method automatically tally drill string rods for use with a drilling machine. The machine comprises a rack and a rotary drive configured for longitudinal displacement between first and second longitudinal positions. A sensor system is configured to monitor the machine to detect a clamping force applied to rotationally immobilize the drill string and to detect a break-out torque generated by the rotary drive, detect a first longitudinal position of the rotary drive whereat the break-out torque is generated, and detect a second longitudinal position of the rotary drive whereat a make-up torque is generated by the rotary drive. A controller is configured to prevent release of the clamping force until the make-up torque is detected, and automatically enable release of the clamping force after the make-up torque is detected and, concordantly, to update a drill rod tally only when the first and second longitudinal positions are different. |
| US10012040B2 |
Methods of using oilfield lift caps and combination tools
A modular tool body having upper and lower sections, a pair of longitudinal members define a central open region, the longitudinal members joined at one end having a lifting feature formed therein configured to accept a manipulator. The lifting feature is positioned such that when the modular tool body and a rig tool connected thereto are lifted by the manipulator, they are easily moved over, aligned with, and connected with a working drillpipe or other rig tool while minimizing possibility of the manipulator slipping off. The lower section includes a threaded end mating with a mating end of a rig tool, a central longitudinal bore, and an upper end formed to accept the lower ends of the longitudinal members of the upper section. Elongate slots in each longitudinal member define one or more manipulating handles. A pair of generally horizontal hand holds may be formed in each longitudinal member. |
| US10012039B2 |
Tubular handling system
A tubular handling system comprising a catwalk having a trough, a tailing member coupled to the trough, and a catcher coupled to the tailing member. The catcher is moveable relative to the tailing member. The system further includes a support structure coupled to the tailing member at one end and coupled to the trough at an opposite end. The support structure is configured to move the tailing member relative to the trough to guide a tubular from a substantially horizontal or slightly angled position to a substantially vertical position. |
| US10012038B2 |
Pipe handling apparatus and methods
A pipe handling system comprises a carriage having an upper surface adapted to support a tubular. The carriage comprises a first section and a second section. The first and second sections are pivotally coupled together for rotation about a pivot axis. The carriage is movable relative to a base and configured such that the leading end of the carriage is elevated as the carriage is advanced. An actuator is coupled between the first and second sections. The actuator is operable to pivot the second section relative to the first section about the pivot axis. In some embodiments the carriage is configured with a positive kink to deliver tubulars to a rig floor and with a negative kink to deliver tubulars to an online or offline stand building system. In some embodiments a live surface on the carriage is controllable to reduce or eliminate swinging of tubulars as they are transferred to or from the drill rig. |
| US10012037B2 |
Heave compensation method
A method of heave compensation between a floating installation, which has a drilling floor, and at least a riser or a pipe extending down towards, possibly through, a blowout preventer, the method including the steps of—installing an electromechanical actuator with attachment points, in the form of an end cap and an anchoring point, between the floating installation and a suspension device for the riser or the pipe; connecting the electromechanical actuator to a power supply and a control system; and heave-compensating for the relative displacement between the floating installation and the riser or the pipe by letting the control system adjust the length and power output of the electromechanical actuator. |
| US10012035B2 |
Easy-start centralizer with asymetrical bow springs
A centralizer having asymmetrical bow springs defining a more gradual lead-in angle and a steeper retreat angle to reduce the required insertion and running forces. The centralizer comprises two end bands and a plurality of bow springs connecting the two shaped to gradually contact the surrounding hole or well casing. The bow springs are arranged such that a least two of them are asymmetric and positioned such that the apex of each is the same distance from an end band. |
| US10012033B2 |
Connection apparatus for coiled tubing and method of attaching same
This disclosure is directed to a connector apparatus for a semi-flexible tubing. The connector apparatus includes an inner sub having a first end disposable within a semi-flexible tubing and a second end connectable to various other downhole tools. The first end of the inner sub includes at least one depression disposed thereon that is generally alignable with at least one depression disposed on the semi-flexible tubing. The connector apparatus also includes an external sleeve disposable outside of the semi-flexible tubing. The external sleeve having at least one opening disposed therein generally aligned with the at least one depression in the first end of the inner sub. This disclosure is also directed to a method of installing the connector apparatus on a semi-flexible tubing and a method of running the semi-flexible tubing and a downhole tool into a wellbore via the connector apparatus disclosed herein. |
| US10012030B2 |
Abrasive articles and earth-boring tools
An abrasive article includes a polycrystalline material comprising abrasive grains and a filler material selected from the group of materials consisting of tungstate, molybdate, vanadate, and a combination thereof. Earth-boring tools comprise a bit body and a cutting element carried by the bit body. The cutting element comprises a polycrystalline material comprising abrasive grains, a catalyst material, and a filler material selected from the group of materials consisting of tungstate, molybdate, vanadate, and a combination thereof. |
| US10012024B2 |
Control valve
A control valve for controlling flow of a pressure fluid in a breaking device includes a sleeve-like control valve having at least one opening enabling flow of the pressure fluid through the opening. The at least one opening includes at least one wall, at least a part of which is not arranged in a direction parallel to a radial direction of the control valve extending through the middle point of the cross section of the opening on the outer circumference of the control valve, such that the pressure fluid flowing through the opening may be arranged to rotate the control valve about the longitudinal axis of the control valve. |
| US10012023B2 |
Rotatable wireline tool of enhanced hydraulic drive consistency
A rotatable downhole cutting tool configured for enhanced drive consistency in low power circumstances. The tool is equipped with a hydraulic axial drive actuator suitable for use in wireline deployment. The actuator itself includes a reciprocating piston with a ball screw that threadably interfaces a ball nut for dampening the axial drive imparted by the piston. As such, even though hydraulically driven at generally well under about 10 horsepower, bounce in the axial drive is substantially eliminated. |
| US10012022B1 |
Step adaptor for transitioning between sections of an extension ladder
The problem of traversing the offset area between the fly section and the base section of an extension ladder is solved by a step adaptor of the subject invention. A step adaptor can have two or more steps which can be progressively narrower in depth. The step adaptor can be placed on the first available rung just below the fly section. The progressively narrower depth of the steps of a step adaptor create a transition zone in the offset area that reduces the abrupt change in distance between the rungs in the fly section and the rungs in the base section. |
| US10012016B2 |
Top-hung casement window
The present invention is applicable to the field of door and window technologies, and provides a top-hung casement window, including a window frame, a casement sash, and a hinge assembly. The hinge assembly includes a first hinge, a second hinge, a pivot, a connecting piece, a swing part, and a vertical limiting part. During the turning of the casement sash, the swing part swings only around the vertical limiting part, with a limited motion space. Therefore, the swing part and the casement do not shake easily. When the casement sash is open, the position of the vertical limiting part and casement sash does not change. Because all force of gravity of the casement sash is transferred to the window frame through the vertical limiting part, the bottom of the casement sash does not rub the window frame, avoiding generation of noise and abrasion of components of the hung window. |
| US10012013B2 |
Lock for a flap or door
The invention relates to a door lock or flap lock comprising a locking mechanism that consists of a latch (1) and at least one pawl (2) for locking the latch (1). The locking surface of the pawl is so narrow that even slight pivoting movements are sufficient to unlock a locked locking mechanism, thus allowing for a reduction in volume and weight. |
| US10012009B2 |
Electric lock device for furniture and storage
An electric lock device for furniture or storage has an RFID transmitter/receiver for communication with portable data carriers. A controller detects a data carrier nearby, reads a set of data from it, and determines if the data carrier is at least an access requesting or function determining type. If access requesting, the controller retrieves identity information from the read set of data, compares the identity information to stored reference information, and controls an electric activator for a securing member. If function determining, the controller retrieves function determining information from the read set of data and performs any of the following: switching to any of a plurality of operational modes having different principles for access control; reading an operational status; or setting an operational parameter. At least one of these actions is variable controlled and based on a variable value in the function determining information. |
| US10012004B2 |
Multi-axial mast positioning system
A multi-axial telescoping support structure positioning system includes a frame having first and second opposed vertical sections. An axle is rotatably coupled to the first vertical section of the frame. A first rotary actuator has a first end mounted to the second vertical section of the frame and a second end rotatable with respect to the first end attached to the axle to rotate the axle. A telescoping support structure has a plurality of telescoping sections extendable from a base section along a longitudinal axis. A second rotary actuator is attached to the base section of the telescoping support structure at an intermediate position along the length of the base section and to the axle at a position between the first and second vertical sections of the frame to tilt the telescoping support structure about a tilt axis aligned perpendicular to the longitudinal axis of the telescoping support structure. |
| US10011999B2 |
Method for finishing a surface using a grouting pan
Methods and apparatus are provided for finishing a composite floor. The apparatus includes a grouting pan configured to be affixed to the rotating head of a finishing machine. The grouting pan has a planar bottom surface and a curved sidewall. Grouting pans are rotated over a prepped surface such that the curved sidewalls trowel the mortar onto the rough composite surface and the bottom surface which is in contact with the prepped floor forces the mortar into the surface voids such that a grouted surface. |
| US10011998B1 |
Modular patio assembly
A module patio assembly includes a groundsheet formed of landscape fabric, parallel wooden sleepers connected to and extending transversely of the groundsheet, and parallel row of prefabricated deck tiles mounted on the sleepers. Cooperating hook and eye fasteners are provided on the top surfaces of the sleepers and on the bottom surfaces of the deck tiles for securing the deck tiles to the sleepers. |
| US10011997B1 |
System and method for mounting wall panels to a wall
A system for mounting wall panels to an existing wall, including a plurality of fastening extrusions, each fastening extrusion including a base section adapted to be secured to the existing wall, at least one retaining wall extending at an angle from the base section, and a holding member on each retaining wall for holding one end of a wall panel to a respective the fastening extrusion; and wherein at least some adjacent retaining walls have different heights from each other so as to impart a three-dimensional appearance to the wall panels mounted to the existing wall. |
| US10011996B1 |
Wall cladding system
Disclosed is a section of wall cladding comprises of a panel comprising a front side and a back side, a front hem at a top of the panel formed from a portion of material turned toward the front side of the panel and downward, and a rear hem at a bottom of the panel formed from a portion of material turned toward the back side of the panel and upward. The section of wall cladding can be t-shaped or any other shape to depending on the desired aesthetics. |
| US10011995B2 |
Building siding method and apparatus
A system for providing siding to a building is disclosed. The system utilizes components which have their own brackets with attachment flanges in order to connect directly to an exterior wall of the building. The brackets contain their own integrated water control systems, which co-act with those of other components to control and direct water into vertical channels and out from behind the siding system. These flanges double as self-contained flashing. In all the system presents a roof-to-foundation siding system that is self-contained and fully transitional from one piece to another. |
| US10011994B1 |
Flat roof fastening system
A flat roof washer and heat welding installation system (1) for securing rigid roofing panels and overlaying membranes to a flat roof truss system comprising one or more wheeled carts having a plurality of screw guns (12) and/or heat welding heads (16) arranged in grid patterns to allow for quick and even installation of screwed washers and heat welds on a flat roof. |
| US10011989B2 |
Composite building panel
Composite building panels and a method for manufacturing a composite building panel are disclosed. A preferred embodiment of a composite building panel comprises a cold rolled steel frame and at least one reinforcing stud. The stud of the preferred embodiment is located within the space defined by the frame and coupled to the frame at the stud's base. The exemplary stud comprises two flanges extending from the base. The flanges of the preferred stud each have a lip at an end distal to the base bent toward each other. Experiments show that the lips on the flanges of the reinforcing studs significantly increase the structural strength of a composite building panel. An alternate preferred embodiment of another composite building panel comprises two boards and at least one reinforcing stud. The exemplary boards face opposite directions, are coupled to each other, and form a space between the two boards. |
| US10011986B2 |
Lighting assembly
A lighting system for ceiling grid systems advantageously uses a grid member designed to cooperate with a strip light to secure the strip light generally aligned beneath the grid system. The grid system can be initially installed with the cooperating grid members at specified locations. The strip lights can then be installed to the grid system. This arrangement simplifies installation particularly installations in commercial type spaces and larger scale architectural projects. |
| US10011980B1 |
Foundation floor system and associated transport apparatus
A foundation floor system and associated transport apparatus for use in combination with a transport vehicle and an on-site foundation includes a frame, the frame including opposing I-beams each having an upper flange; a plurality of bar joists each extending perpendicularly between the opposing I-beams; each of the plurality of bar joists being in parallel alignment relative to each other and having first and second ends secured to corresponding ones of the opposing I-beams; first and second tube beams each being located interiorly adjacent to a respective one of the opposing I-beams beneath the upper flange, each of the first and second tube beams surrounding an end channel; and wherein the frame forms a surface that is sized and configured for receipt of a building structure; and a transport apparatus that is configured for transporting the frame thereon, and the transport apparatus including a tongue adapter and an axle adapter. |
| US10011979B1 |
House having aluminum alloy structure
A house has an aluminum alloy structure with a mounting connection structure of aluminum wallboards, aluminum roof panels, aluminum floor panels and corner connecting materials. Connecting parts of the aluminum wallboards, the aluminum roof panels, the aluminum floor panels and the corner connecting materials are provided with convex and concave retaining grooves. The aluminum wallboards, the aluminum roof panels, the aluminum floor panels and the corner connecting materials are embedded with one another in mounting connection and then fixed by bolts or screws. The integral connection structure of various components has higher anti-bending performance, anti-torque performance, anti-impact performance and stability, reduces or avoids the use of bottom crossbeams, upright columns and ring beams, and increases the utilization space of the house. Aluminum surface eaves are designed to enhance the waterproof performance of wall surfaces of the house and also enhance the artistic performance of the house. The house having the aluminum alloy structure has the characteristics of good waterproof performance and convenience in mounting while saving a sealing material. |
| US10011977B2 |
Lock assembly for an excavator wear member
A lock assembly, and wear assemblies including wear parts incorporating the lock assembly, having a locking pin with a dowel extending outwardly that is received in a slot of a retaining member. The slot of the retaining member has a narrowed section which is narrowed to a width that is less than the cross sectional dimension of the part of the dowel that is received in the narrowed section. In use, the locking pin is rotated and the dowel traverses the slot of the retaining member including passing through, or at least being received by, the narrowed section of the slot. The slot may optionally have a seat that receives the dowel after passing through the narrowed section. |
| US10011973B1 |
Column demolishing tool
A tool for demolishing a column, including a tool frame defining an interior work space. The interior work space is sized and shaped to at least partially surround a portion of the column. A support frame is disposed in the interior work space of the tool frame, the support frame including a tool support that is displaceable within the interior work space. A milling tool is rotatably disposed on the support frame and displaceable therewith to engage the column when the tool frame is positioned around the portion of the column. A hydraulic cylinder is attached between the tool frame and the support frame and configured to forcibly displace the support frame and milling tool within the interior work space. A motor is configured to rotate the milling tool. |
| US10011972B2 |
Adjustable earth shaping blade and earth shaping apparatus
An adjustable earth shaping blade comprises a center section and at least one side section pivotally attached to the center section at an oblique angle. The side section may be moved forwards or backwards in order to change the profile of the contacting edge of the adjustable earth shaping blade. |
| US10011971B1 |
Manhole inserts and manhole insert gasket fabrication methods
Methods of fabricating a manhole insert gasket on a manhole insert flange of a manhole insert include fabricating a gasket mold, inverting a manhole insert having a manhole insert flange, placing the manhole insert on the gasket mold with a mold space overlying the manhole insert flange, preparing a gasket material, placing the gasket material in the mold space, finishing the manhole insert gasket by curing the gasket material and removing the manhole insert from the gasket mold. Manhole inserts having a manhole insert gasket characterized by enhanced sealing capability and longevity are also disclosed. |
| US10011962B2 |
Method of enlarging the space beneath a masonry arch bridge, and a masonry arch bridge
A method of enlarging the space beneath a masonry arch bridge which includes a masonry arch and a spandrel wall at each end of the masonry arch includes forming a movable portion of the masonry arch bridge by cutting the spandrel walls to form a cut on each side of the masonry arch. A lifting force is applied to the masonry arch to raise the masonry arch to a raised position. The masonry arch is then secured in the raised position. |
| US10011961B2 |
Mobile crossing structure
A movable and dynamic work after construction linking two points separated by a natural or man-made obstacle, allows the permanent crossing of this obstacle. The work includes a deformable apron (1) which extends between said two points. The work comprises a set of elongated elements (2, 3). An assembly of several pairs of elements (2, 3) is disposed along the apron (1). The work comprises drive means (8) disposed at one end or at both ends of said work for adjusting the apron (1) lengthwise. The drive means (8) are arranged so that, when the means (8) are actuated, they drive the assembly of the pairs of elements (2, 3), so as to bulge the central portion of the apron (1) when the means (8) are actuated. |
| US10011952B2 |
Wear protection coating based on a synthetic resin matrix, method for the production thereof and use thereof
The invention relates to a wear protection layer comprising a mixture of non-uniform transparent hard material particles, which are stored in a matrix material and which comprise a Mohs hardness of at least 6 and transparent solid material particles, wherein the transparent solid material particles encompass a bi-modal grain size distribution. The invention also relates to a method for producing a wear protection layer as well as the use thereof for producing wear protection surfaces, in particular surfaces on wood fiber boards, which are provided with a a décor. |
| US10011950B2 |
Papermaking felt and manufacturing method thereof
There is provided a papermaking felt comprising a base fabric layer and at least one batt layer integrated with the base fabric layer, wherein the base fabric comprises at least one layer formed by spirally winding a band-shaped body having a width smaller than a width of the papermaking felt and having a plurality of ground warp yarns, a plurality of ground weft yarns, a first side edge, and a second side edge in such a manner that the first side edge and the second side edge are adjacent and thereby joining the side edges together; and a plurality of marks is arranged at regular intervals in a warp direction of the band-shaped body. |
| US10011941B2 |
Washing machine appliance with a bulk dispense reservoir
A washing machine appliance includes a reservoir having a height along a vertical direction. The height of the reservoir is no greater than six inches. A supply conduit extends between the reservoir and a Venturi pump. The Venturi pump is coupled to the supply conduit such that the Venturi pump draws fluid additive from the reservoir when a water valve is open and water flows through the Venturi pump. |
| US10011940B2 |
Household appliance for the care of laundry items with a dispensing tray and a suds container
The invention relates to a household appliance (1) for the care of laundry items, with a dispensing tray (8a) and a suds container (2), which is connected to the dispensing tray (8a) via at least one supply duct (4a, 4b), wherein a vapour barrier device (17a, 17b) is formed in a curved line section (18a, 18b) in the supply duct (4a, 4b), wherein a ventilating channel (22) is formed in the line section (18a, 18b) and opens into a first end (19) of the line section (18a, 18b) and is separated at the first end (19) from a supply channel (21), associated with the vapour barrier device (17a, 17b), for supplying liquid medium from the dispensing tray (8a) to the suds container (2). |
| US10011937B2 |
Laundry treating appliance and method of assembly
A laundry treating appliance for treating laundry according to an automatic cycle of operation includes a chassis defining an interior, a tub provided within the interior, a drum provided within the tub, a motor mounted to the tub and having a drive shaft drivingly coupled to the drum to selectively rotate the drum about the longitudinal axis, a suspension system, and at least one counterweight, wherein the suspension system and the at least one counterweight are configured such that the capacity efficiency of the laundry treating appliance is greater than 45%. |
| US10011934B2 |
Washing machine and control method thereof
Disclosed herein are a washing machine and a control method thereof. The control method effectively transmits high-concentration wash liquid to laundry, while minimizing the amount of water used, through washing using bubbles, and maximizes the increase in volume of the wash liquid rubbed on the inner circumferential surface of the drum using the generation of bubbles and the rotation of the drum to raise the water level of the wash liquid without additional water. |
| US10011932B2 |
Tufting machine drive system
A tufting machine has a needle bar for carrying a plurality of needles for reciprocating into and out of a base material. A sliding needle bar shift mechanism may shift the needle bar laterally according to a pattern. The needle bar is mounted for reciprocation and for lateral movement relative to the direction of reciprocation by a drive system including a first directional drive component having a foot secured to a respective push rod of the tufting machine and a second directional drive component connected to the shift mechanism. The first and second drive components will connect to the needle bar through linear bearings or bushings so that the motion of the needle bar in multiple different directions is controlled while permitting greater machine operating and needle bar shifting speeds. |
| US10011931B2 |
Methods, processes, and apparatuses for producing dyed and welded substrates
A dyeing and welding process may be configured to convert a substrate into a welded substrate having at least some color imparted thereto via a dye and/or coloring agent by applying a process solvent having a dye and/or coloring agent therein to the substrate, wherein the process solvent interrupts one or more intermolecular force between one or more component in the substrate. The substrate may be configured as a natural fiber, such as cellulose, hemicelluloses, and silk. The process solvent may include a binder, such as dissolved biopolymer (e.g., cellulose). After application of a process solvent comprised of a dye and/or coloring agent, the substrate may be exposed to a second application of a process solvent comprised of a binder, which second application may occur before or after a process temperature/pressure zone, process solvent recovery zone, and/or drying zone. |
| US10011929B2 |
Nonwoven substrate comprising fibers comprising an engineering thermoplastic polymer
A nonwoven substrate comprising a polyolefin and an engineering thermoplastic polymer. The engineering thermoplastic polymer may be present in the nonwoven substrate at a level of between about 1% and about 20% by weight of the nonwoven substrate. The layer of fibers is free of a compatibilizer. |
| US10011927B2 |
Stitch-size controllable knitting machine, and manufacturing method of knitted fabric
A circular knitting machine includes sinkers and selector jacks corresponding thereto that are provided as separate components. The selector jacks are arranged radially outside the sinkers, and are provided with selector butts such that the selector butts of circumferentially adjacent selector jacks are arranged at different radial positions. An actuator that acts on the selector butts is arranged radially outside the cylinder. The circular knitting machine prevents a failure of sinker selection, while increasing a rotation speed of a cylinder holding knitting needles. |
| US10011922B2 |
Core-shell morphology of composite filaments for use in extrusion-based additive manufacturing systems
A consumable filament for use in an extrusion-based additive manufacturing system, where the consumable filament comprises a core portion of a matrix of a first base polymer and particles dispersed within the matrix, and a shell portion comprising a same or a different base polymer. The consumable filament is configured to be melted and extruded to form roads of a plurality of solidified layers of a three-dimensional part, and where the roads at least partially retain cross-sectional profiles corresponding to the core portion and the shell portion of the consumable filament and retain the particles within the roads of the printed part and do not penetrate the outer surface of the shell portion. |
| US10011920B2 |
Low-temperature selective epitaxial growth of silicon for device integration
An epitaxy method includes providing an exposed crystalline region of a substrate material. Silicon is epitaxially deposited on the substrate material in a low temperature process wherein a deposition temperature is less than 500 degrees Celsius. A source gas is diluted with a dilution gas with a gas ratio of dilution gas to source gas of less than 1000. |
| US10011918B2 |
Apparatus and process of electro-chemical plating
An electro-chemical plating process begins with supplying a supercritical fluid into an electroplating solution to be deposited, and a bias is applied between a substrate and an electrode, which is located in the electroplating solution. The substrate is placed into the electroplating solution to deposit a material on the substrate. |
| US10011917B2 |
Control of current density in an electroplating apparatus
Various embodiments herein relate to methods and apparatus for electroplating metal onto substrates. In various cases, a reference electrode may be modified to promote improved electroplating results. The modifications may relate to one or more of the reference electrode's shape, position, relative conductivity compared to the electrolyte, or other design feature. In some particular examples the reference electrode may be dynamically changeable, for example having a changeable shape and/or position. In a particular example the reference electrode may be made of multiple segments. The techniques described herein may be combined as desired for individual applications. |
| US10011916B2 |
Superhydrophobic anodized metals and method of making same
Methods for producing a superhydrophobic anodized surface including anodizing a surface of a substrate in an anodization acid to form a plurality of pores, etching the surface with an etchant to widen an edge of each of the plurality of pores; repeatedly anodizing the surface in the anodization acid and etching the surface with the etchant until the edges of the plurality of pores overlap to form a plurality of nano-sharp ridges, and coating the surface with a hydrophobic polymer to render the surface superhydrophobic, such that the surface exhibits a contact angle of at least 150 degrees with a drop of water. Articles including a surface having a series of nano-sharp pore ridges defined by a series of pores and a sub-μm thick layer of a hydrophobic polymer on said surface. |
| US10011914B2 |
Copper electrodeposition bath containing an electrochemically inert cation
The present invention relates to an electrolyte composition for depositing copper on metal substrates. The composition contains a combination of two aromatic amines and an electrochemically inert cation. This electrolyte makes it possible to increase the copper nucleation density. It also allows bottom-up filling in trenches that have a very small opening dimension, typically lower than 40 nm. |
| US10011909B2 |
Method and system for hydrogen production and a method of integrating the hydrogen production with an engine
In an embodiment, a method comprises adding a methanol feed stream from a source methanol reservoir to a loop; wherein the loop comprises an electrolyzer, a base methanol reservoir, an electrolyzer inlet stream that directs a methanol mixture from the base methanol reservoir to the electrolyzer, and a methanol carbon dioxide stream that directs an unreacted methanol from the electrolyzer to the base methanol reservoir; and maintaining a methanol concentration in the base methanol reservoir through the opening and closing of a purge valve that allows a purge stream to flow from the base methanol reservoir to the source methanol reservoir and through the opening and closing of a feed valve that allows the methanol feed stream to flow from the source methanol reservoir into the loop. A product hydrogen stream can be recovered for use in an engine. |
| US10011905B2 |
Automatic supply device for an industrial metal vapor generator
The present invention relates to a facility for the continuous vacuum deposition of a metal coating on a substrate in motion, comprising a vacuum deposition enclosure (24), at least one vapor jet deposition head (25,26) connected to an evaporator pot (9) designed to contain the coating metal in liquid form (11), through a vapor supply pipe (20) provided with a distribution valve (19), and a melting furnace (1) for said metal, said furnace being at atmospheric pressure, located below the lowest portion of the evaporator pot (9) and connected to the evaporator pot (9) by at least one automatic supply pipe (8) of the evaporator pot (9) provided with a supply pump (6) and by at least one liquid metal return pipe (8A,18) optionally provided with a valve (16,17), regulating means for the supply pump (6) further being present to regulate a determined liquid metal level in the evaporator pot (9), characterized in that it comprises, in each said supply and return pipes (8; 8A,18), a so-called heat valve area (7,13,15) provided with a heating device and a cooling device to obtain a regulated temperature, independent of that of the melting furnace (1), that prevailing in the remaining portion of said pipes (8,8A,18) and in the evaporator pipe (9), to melt or solidify the metal found in that location. |
| US10011903B2 |
Manganese-containing film forming compositions, their synthesis, and use in film deposition
Manganese-containing film forming compositions, their preparation, and their use for the vapor deposition of films are disclosed. The manganese-containing film forming compositions comprise silylamide-containing precursors, particularly {Mn[N(SiMe2Et)2]2}2. |
| US10011902B1 |
Process for fabricating composite parts by low melting point impregnation
A method of fabricating a composite material part, the method including making a consolidated fiber preform, the fibers of the preform being carbon or ceramic fibers and being coated with an interphase; obtaining a consolidated and partially densified fiber preform, the partial densification comprising using chemical vapor infiltration to form a first matrix phase on the interphase; and continuing densification of the fiber preform by infiltrating an infiltration composition containing at least silicon and at least one other element suitable for lowering the melting temperature of the infiltration composition to a temperature less than or equal to 1150° C. |
| US10011901B2 |
Vapor deposition method and vapor deposition apparatus
A vapor deposition method supplies a material gas onto a substrate while heating the substrate by a heater to sequentially form a plurality of films with vapor deposition, grows the film under a constant output control, which keeps an output of the heater at a predetermined output in each of the plurality of films, until a total film thickness of the films formed on the substrate reaches a threshold value, and grows the film under a temperature feedback control, which controls the output of the heater such that a temperature of the substrate measured by a radiation thermometer becomes a predetermined temperature, after the total film thickness reaches the threshold value. |
| US10011899B2 |
Deposition apparatus
A deposition apparatus comprises a target unit, an anode unit into which electrons emitted from the target unit flow, a striker configured to come into contact with the target unit to render the target unit and the anode unit conductive, so as to cause arc discharge between the target unit and the anode unit, a striker driving unit configured to drive the striker in one of a direction toward the target unit and a direction to retract from the target unit, a power supply unit configured to supply power to the target unit and the anode unit, and a control unit configured to control the striker driving unit and the power supply unit. The control unit supplies the power to the target unit and the anode unit after bringing the striker into contact with the target unit. |
| US10011898B2 |
Crucible device
A crucible device comprises a crucible body configured to store evaporation material, with an opening disposed therein; a crucible cover which matches the opening of the crucible body and which forms a hermetic space in cooperation with the crucible body when being in a closed state and opens the opening of the crucible body when being in an open state; a driving mechanism comprising a housing with a cavity therein and a piston disposed within the cavity, the cavity being divided by the piston into a closed chamber and an open chamber by the piston, the open chamber being in communication with outside of the cavity through a cavity opening of the cavity, the closed chamber storing gas therein, the piston being connected with the crucible cover by a transmission mechanism, the piston being moved within the cavity in accordance with change of pressure in the open chamber, thereby driving the crucible cover to switch between the open state and the closed state. |
| US10011897B2 |
Method and device for hot-dip coating a metal strip with a metal covering
The invention relates to a device and a method for hot-dip coating a metal strip with a metal covering, wherein the metal strip is directed continuously through a melt bath, wherein the thickness of the metal covering present on the metal strip when it leaves the melt bath is adjusted by means of a scraping device, and wherein slag which is present on the melt bath is driven away from the metal strip leaving the melt bath by means of a gas flow. To prevent slag from coming into contact with the metal strip leaving the melt bath, the invention drives away the slag from the metal strip by means of at least one nozzle which is arranged in close proximity to the metal strip, that a gas flow which extends over the width of the metal strip is directed onto the surface of the melt bath. |
| US10011895B2 |
Assembly fabrication and modification of elasticity in materials
A fabricator resource receives an assembly including a first portion of material and a second portion of material. Initially, the first portion of material in the assembly may have a different modulus of elasticity than the second portion of material. The fabricator resource exposes the assembly to one or more heating/cooling cycles. Exposure of the assembly to the one or more heating/cooling cycles modifies a modulus of elasticity of the first portion of material and a modulus of elasticity of the second portion of material to desired target values (such as substantially same or different values). |
| US10011893B2 |
Ferritic/martensitic oxide dispersion strengthened steel with enhanced creep resistance and method of manufacturing the same
Provided are a ferritic/martensitic oxide dispersion strengthened steel with increased high temperature creep resistance, including 0.02 to 0.2 wt % of carbon (C), 8 to 12 wt % of chromium (Cr), 0.1 to 0.5 wt % of yttria (Y2O3), 0.2 to 2 wt % of molybdenum (Mo), 0.01 to 0.5 wt % of titanium (Ti), 0.01 to 1 wt % of manganese (Mn), 0.01 to 0.3 wt % of vanadium (V), 0 to 0.3 wt % of zirconium (Zr), 0 to 0.5 wt % of nickel (Ni), and the remaining content of iron (Fe), and a method of manufacturing the same. The ferritic/martensitic oxide dispersion strengthened steel may be useful as a material for core structural components of a nuclear power system, ultra supercritical pressure steam generator components of a thermal power plant, or engine components of an airplane due to a high tensile strength at 700° C. and excellent creep resistance. |
| US10011891B2 |
Methods for concentrating rare-earth metals in phosphogypsum and removing thereof from wet process phosphoric acid
The present invention relates to a method for producing rare-earth metals (REM) compounds by complex processing of apatite, in particularly to a method for concentrating rare-earth metals (REM) in phosphogypsum, where to a process of decomposition of the REM containing raw phosphate material with sulphuric acid, a sodium salt in the amount of 0.25-5.0 kg in terms of Na2O or a potassium salts in the amount of 0.25-5.0 kg in terms of K2O or a mixture thereof in the amount of 0.25-5 kg in terms of Na2O and K2O to 1 kg of REM (in terms of Ln2O3 present in raw phosphate material) is added. The yield of REM transfer into phosphogypsum is up to 98%. |
| US10011883B2 |
Causative agents and diagnostic methods relating to rheumatoid arthritis
Methods, reagents and compositions thereof for predicting RA onset in susceptible individuals, diagnosing RA onset, and/or evaluating efficacy of a therapeutic regimen for treating RA are described herein. Determining the amount of a particular bacterial species comprising SEQ ID NO: 1, SEQ ID NO: 2, or SEQ ID NO: 3 (SEQ ID NO: 1+ bacteria) serves as a biomarker for the above indications. |
| US10011881B2 |
Alternative splicing variant of OATP1B3 mRNA
[PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED]An object of the present invention is to provide a novel tumor marker and use thereof. In more detail, the present invention provides a novel tumor marker, a method for measuring said tumor marker and a measurement kit, a method for detecting cancer using the same, a kit for detecting cancer, a method for screening a preventive and/or therapeutic agent for cancer, as well as a medicament such as cancer vaccine.[SOLUTION]According to the present invention, a method for measuring an alternative splicing variant of OATP1B3 mRNA in a sample to be examined is provided. Said measurement method comprises measuring mRNA comprising a nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 1 in the sequence listing table in a sample to be examined isolated from living organism with differentiation from a mRNA comprising a nucleotide sequence represented by SEQ ID NO: 2. Said measurement method is useful for detecting cancer or screening a preventive and/or therapeutic agent. |
| US10011880B2 |
Serum/plasma MicroRNAs and uses thereof
MicroRNAs are provided for evaluating the physiological and/or pathological condition of a subject; and a kit thereof is provided for evaluating the physiological and/or pathological condition of a subject, wherein the kit contains the tools for determining all detectable microRNAs that stably existing in the serum/plasma of a subject; and a biochip for evaluating the physiological and/or pathological condition of a subject, wherein the biochip contains the components for determining all detectable microRNAs stably existing in the serum/plasma of a subject. The aforementioned combination, method, kit and biochip can be used for diagnosis as well as differentially diagnosis of diseases including various tumors. |
| US10011877B2 |
Treatment of bladder cancer to overcome chemoresistance
The disclosure demonstrates the correlation of the methylation status of the miR-193a gene and the expression level of the miR-193a-3p transcript with the resistance of bladder cancer cells to certain chemotherapeutic drugs including pirarubicin (Pi), pacilitaxol (Pa), adriamycin (Ad), epirubicin hydrochloride (EH), and cispaltin (Ci), but not others (e.g, hydroxycamptothecin (Hy), gemcitabine (Ge) and mitomycin (Mi)). Further, the disclosure identifies seven target genes (SRSF2, PLAU, HIC2, LOXL4, HOXC9, PSEN1, and ING5) that are directly regulated by miR-193a-3p. The methylation/expression status of miR-193a-3p alone or in combination of the expression level of the target genes can serve as valuable indicators for chemotherapy outcome of a bladder cancer patient with a corresponding chemotherapeutic drug, and can be drug targets for sensitizing a bladder cancer patient for that drug. |
| US10011873B2 |
Diagnostic miRNA markers for Parkinson disease
The invention relates to methods for diagnosing Parkinson's Disease PAD) with miRNA markers. Towards the identification of biomarkers for diagnosis of PD, a comprehensive analysis of miRNA expression patterns was obtained. Significantly deregulated miRNAs were identified. |
| US10011872B1 |
Methods and systems for processing polynucleotides
The present disclosure provides compositions, methods, systems, and devices for polynucleotide processing. Such polynucleotide processing may be useful for a variety of applications, including polynucleotide sequencing. |
| US10011869B2 |
Selective amplification of overlapping amplicons
The present invention relates to a scalable multiplex PCR method that can simultaneously amplify overlapping amplicons without the drawbacks of conventional multiplex PCR. The method selectively amplifying target nucleic acid fragments having an overlapping region. The method comprises the steps of: obtaining a first nucleic acid sequence comprising a first tag t2 and a first forward primer F1, obtaining a second nucleic acid sequence comprising a second tag t1 and a first reverse primer R1, obtaining a third nucleic acid sequence comprising the second tag t1 and a second forward primer F2, obtaining a fourth nucleic acid sequence comprising a third tag t3 and a second reverse primer R2, wherein each primer is a gene-specific primer; performing initial cycles of PCR; and then performing later cycles of PCR at higher annealing temperatures to obtain amplification products. |
| US10011868B2 |
Reactivity-dependent and interaction-dependent PCR
Methods, reagents, compositions, and kits for reactivity-dependent polymerase chain reaction (RD-PCR) and interaction-dependent polymerase chain reaction (ID-PCR) are provided herein. RD-PCR is a technique useful for determining whether a reactive moiety can form a covalent bond to a target reactive moiety, for example, in screening a library of candidate reactive moieties for reactivity with a target reactive moiety, and in identifying an enzyme substrate, for example, in protease substrate profiling. ID-PCR is a technique useful for determining whether a ligand can non-covalently bind to a target molecule, for example, in screening a library of candidate ligands for non-covalent interaction with a target molecule. RD-PCR and ID-PCR are also useful in detecting the presence of an analyte or an environmental condition. |
| US10011866B2 |
Nucleic acid ligation systems and methods
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for nucleic acid ligation. In particular, the present disclosure provides oligonucleotide adaptors for use in nucleic acid ligation reactions. |
| US10011864B2 |
Multidimensional microdissection and morphological reconstruction of genomic or proteomic expression activity
A method of morphological reconstruction of biological activity in a tissue sample maps biological data resulting from analysis of tissue samples onto a 3-D morphological rendering of the biological sample. Each slice in a set of histological slices, indexed by a first index, is micro dissected into micro samples indexed by a pair of first and second indices. The indices are utilized to spatially map biological data to the 3-D rendering. |
| US10011862B2 |
Method for relative quantification of changes in DNA methylation, using combined nuclease, ligation, and polymerase reactions
The present invention is directed to methods for identifying the presence of one or more methylated or unmethylated target nucleotide sequences in a sample that involve a nuclease-ligation reaction. In some embodiments, the ligation products formed in the nuclease-ligation process of the present invention are subsequently amplified using a polymerase chain reaction. The ligated product sequences or extension products thereof are detected, and the presence of one or more methylated or unmethylated target nucleotide sequences in the sample is identified based on the detection. |
| US10011861B2 |
Cleavable hairpin primers
Nucleic acid constructs and methods that provide superior prevention of primer-dimers and other artifacts of false priming events are disclosed. In particular, there is disclosed a hairpin primer having a target-specific primer region, wherein the target-specific region comprises a target-binding dependent cleavage sequence; a first stem forming region 5′ of the target-specific primer region; and a second stem forming region 3′ of the target-specific primer region, wherein the second stem forming region is complementary to the first stem forming region. Methods of using the hairpin primer to amplify a target nucleic acid are also disclosed. |
| US10011858B2 |
Methods for producing polypeptides by regulating polypeptide association
In the course of the present invention, it was discovered that one could regulate association between polypeptides by modifying amino acid residues that form the interface during the association to amino acids carrying the same type of charge. In this context, the present invention enables efficient formation of heterologous molecules. For example, the present invention can be suitably applied to the preparation of bispecific antibodies. |
| US10011854B2 |
Fatty acid productivity
The present disclosure relates to an engineered microbe capable of improved productivity of fatty acid or fatty acid derivative. An NAD+-dependent 3-oxoacyl-ACP reductase or NAD+-dependent 3-oxoacyl-CoA reductase replaces or supplements the native NADP+-dependent 3-oxoacyl-ACP reductase so as to utilize the higher availability of NAD+ rather than NADP+ in the cell. Higher production, yield and titer of fatty acids are therefore obtained. Such microbes can be combined with other mutations to further improve yield of fatty acids or fatty acid derivatives. |
| US10011852B2 |
Method for producing methane by means of aerobic co-culture of anaerobic micro-organisms
The present invention relates to the biological production of methane (Biogas) by co-culture in an aerobic atmosphere of a methanogenic bacterium and of an anaerobic bacterium capable of producing hydrogen, in a culture medium comprising or being supplemented with carbohydrate compound(s), notably starch and/or sugars, and supplemented with antioxidant compound(s). |
| US10011851B2 |
Method for digesting a biomass comprising lignin together with cellulose and/or hemicellulose
The invention relates to a method for digesting a biomass comprising, lignin, cellulose, and hemicellulose, comprising the steps of: (a) contacting the biomass with a first solvent for dissolving the cellulose and/or the hemicellulose, (b) contacting the dissolved cellulose and/or hemicellulose with a precipitant for forming a precipitate comprising cellulose and/or hemicellulose and residual lignin, wherein the precipitant is selected from the group consisting of alkanes, ethers, and esters; and (c) contacting the precipitate with a second solvent for removing residual lignin from the precipitate. The invention further relates to an apparatus for performing such a method. |
| US10011849B1 |
Nucleic acid-guided nucleases
Disclosed herein are nucleic acid-guided nucleases, guide nucleic acids, and targetable nuclease systems, and methods of use. Disclosed herein are engineered non-naturally occurring nucleic acid-guided nucleases, guide nucleic acids, and targetable nuclease systems, and methods of use. Targetable nuclease systems can be used to edit genetic targets, including recursive genetic engineering and trackable genetic engineering methods. |
| US10011844B2 |
Biological indicator
This invention relates to a biological indicator derived from a composition comprising: a host organism comprising a spore forming bacteria; a reporter gene for producing an indicator enzyme; a regulatory gene; and a vehicle for inserting the reporter gene and the regulatory gene in the host organism; the host organism bearing a transposable genetic element in its genome for inserting an insertion sequence in the regulatory gene; the insertion sequence comprising a transposase, a pair of terminal inverted repeat sequences, and at least one open reading frame for expressing the transposase. The vehicle may be taken up by the host organism. The insertion sequence may be inserted in the regulatory gene. The host organism may undergo sporulation to form the biological indicator. A process and an apparatus for using the biological indicator are disclosed. |
| US10011840B2 |
Engineering of multi-carbon substrate utilization pathways in methanotrophic bacteria
The present disclosure relates to genetically engineered methanotrophic bacteria with the capability of growing on a multi-carbon substrate (e.g., glycerol) as a primary or sole carbon source and methods for growing methanotrophic bacteria on the multi-carbon substrate. |
| US10011838B2 |
Yeast strain and microbial method for production of pentacyclic triterpenes and/or triterpenoids
The invention relates to a yeast strain and to a method for microbial production of pentacyclic triterpenes and/or triterpenoids in yeast. More particularly, the invention relates to a modified yeast strain for production of pentacyclic triterpenoids comprising at least one copy of a gene for encoding an oxidosqualene cyclase, at least one copy of a gene for encoding an NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase and/or at least one copy of a gene for encoding a cytochrome P450 monooxygenase. |
| US10011836B2 |
Methods and compositions for selecting siRNA of improved functionality
Efficient sequence specific gene silencing is possible through the use of siRNA technology. Be selecting particular siRNAs by rational design, one can maximize the generation of an effective gene silencing reagent, as well as methods for silencing genes. Methods compositions, and kits generated through rational design of siRNAs are disclosed, including those directed to the nucleotide sequences for F12. |
| US10011835B2 |
miRNAs as novel therapeutic targets and diagnostic biomarkers for parkinson's disease
The disclosure provides pharmaceutical compositions including an oligonucleotide that down-regulates the over-expression of at least one miRNA of SEQ ID NOs: 1-283. The oligonucleotide may be complementary to the nucleotide sequence of at least one of SEQ ID NOs: 1-283, or hybridizes under stringent conditions to a nucleotide sequence of at least one of SEQ ID NOs: 1-283. Further provided are methods of diagnosing Parkinson's Disease (PD) in a subject. The methods may include detecting the level of expression of at least one miRNA of SEQ ID NOs: 1-283 in a biological sample from the subject, and comparing the level of expression in the sample to the level of expression in a reference. Further provided are methods for treating, preventing, or reducing the risk of PD. Kits are also provided. |
| US10011823B2 |
Engineered botulinum neurotoxin
The present invention provides a novel modified BoNT/E catalytic domain and methods of use thereof. In one embodiment, the light chain residue 224, or a residue corresponding to residue 224, of the modified BoNT/E catalytic domain has been altered to be aspartic acid or glutamic acid. The modified catalytic domain cleaves SNAP23 but does not cleave SNAP29 or SNAP47, providing novel methods of treating diseases including without limitation, asthma, CF, chronic obstructive pulmonary, gastric acid efflux and inflammation, immune disorders with a cytokine component or cancers with a cytokine component. |
| US10011821B2 |
Melleolide-biosynthesis gene cluster and its applications
The present invention relates to the production of hydroxylated protoilludenes and/or sesquiterpenoid protoilludene-type aryl esters using newly identified genes that can be employed. The present invention accordingly relates to a host microorganism that has been transformed with the newly identified nucleotide sequences and to methods employing the transformed microorganism. |
| US10011813B2 |
Methane oxidation methods and compositions
The disclosure provides devices and methods to produce electrical energy from microorganisms capable of metabolizing methane. |
| US10011812B2 |
Culture control method, cell culture apparatus, and apparatus for evaluation of cellular characteristics
This invention provides a culture control method and a cell culture apparatus that enable stable cell culture by regulating shear stress to be applied to cells within an adequate range. With the application of such culture control method and cell culture apparatus, cell culture is performed under agitation culture conditions in which the shear stress distribution is 0.5 Pa to 20 Pa in 80% or more of the culture vessel by volume. |
| US10011810B2 |
Method for producing beer-taste beverage
A method for producing a beer-taste beverage characterized in that the method includes adding a hop selected based on hop plant age; and a method for adjusting aroma and taste of a beer-taste beverage, characterized by the use of a hop selected based on hop plant age. According to the present invention, characteristics of aroma and taste attributable from different hops can be made into different ones by using hops of different plant age. In addition, crops of different hop plant age having their own characteristics are properly blended, whereby a beer-taste beverage having preferred characteristics and intensities of aromas, and taste can be provided. |
| US10011808B2 |
Multiuse, enzymatic detergent and methods of stabilizing a use solution
Stabilized use solutions of low phosphorus, alkali metal carbonate detergents employing enzymes for cleaning compositions are disclosed. In particular, the present invention is a composition for, and method of, removing soils, preventing redeposition of protein soils and reducing foam, using stabilized enzyme cleaning compositions, namely use solutions of the same. |
| US10011805B2 |
Candle wick and wick clip
A candle wick includes a first portion oriented perpendicular to a second portion to form a candle wick with a plus-shaped configuration. A wick clip includes a first slot oriented perpendicular to a second slot to form a wick clip plus-shaped configuration sized to receive the plus-shaped configuration of the candle wick. The first slot of the wick clip is configured to receive the first portion of the candle wick, and the second slot of the wick clip is configured to receive the second portion of the candle wick. The candle wick and wick clip form a clip assembly. A candle comprises a plus-shaped candle wick held in place by a wick clip. |
| US10011803B2 |
Viscosity index improver concentrates
A viscosity index improver containing, in diluent oil, one or more optionally functionalized linear block copolymers having at least one block derived from alkenyl arene covalently linked to at least one block derived from diene in an amount that is greater than the critical overlap concentration (ch*), in mass %, for the linear block copolymers in the diluent oil; and ester base stock and/or at least one star (or radial) polymer, the star polymer being present in an amount such that the c/ch* value of the star polymer in the concentrate falls within the range of from 0.01 to about 1.6, wherein c is the concentration in mass % of star polymer in the concentrate and ch* is the critical overlap concentration in mass % for the star polymer in the diluent oil used to form the concentrate. |
| US10011800B2 |
Slips surface based on metal-containing compound
A method of preparing an article having a slippery surface includes providing a metal-containing surface, chemically modifying the metal-containing surface to roughen the metal-containing surface, and disposing a lubricating layer on the roughened metal-containing surface, wherein the lubricating layer is substantially stabilized on the roughened metal-containing surface. |
| US10011796B2 |
Method for extracting natural gas liquids from natural gas using an adsorbent media comprising a cross-linked macroporous polymer
A method is disclosed for the separation of ethane and heavier hydrocarbons or propane and heavier hydrocarbons from natural gas to provide a methane-rich natural gas stream and less volatile natural gas liquids (NGLs). This method provides for passing a natural gas feedstream though a regenerable adsorbent media which adsorbs the NGLs to provides the methane rich natural gas product. The regenerable adsorbent media of the present invention is a cross-linked macroporous polymeric adsorbent media. |
| US10011785B2 |
Integrated process for producing hydrocarbons
The present invention relates to an integrated process for producing hydrocarbons, wherein feedstock originating from renewable sources is subjected to catalytic hydroprocessing followed by separation of an aqueous component, a heavy component, and a light component, separating carbon dioxide and hydrogen sulfide from said light component to obtain a recycle stream, followed by dividing the recycle stream to a first recycle stream and a second recycle stream, directing the first recycle stream to the hydroprocessing system, and the second recycle stream to a hydrogen plant, where the light component is converted to hydrogen, and directing the hydrogen to the hydroprocessing system. |
| US10011781B2 |
Methods of reducing phosphorus content in liquid hydrocarbons
Provided herein are methods of reducing phosphorus content of a liquid hydrocarbon. The liquid hydrocarbon may be contacted with a catalyst that includes copper (II) oxide to produce a low-phosphorus liquid hydrocarbon. |
| US10011776B2 |
Multi-structured reactor made of monolithic adjacent thermoconductive bodies for chemical processes with a high heat exchange
A multi-structured tubular element for producing a reactor for effecting exothermic/endothermic chemical reactions, comprises two or more monolithic thermoconductive bodies, assembled together so that each has a part of the side surface interfaced with the side surface of one or more monolithic thermoconductive bodies adjacent thereto, so as to form as a whole, a honeycomb structure containing a plurality of longitudinal channels extending from one end to the other of said tubular element, suitable for being filled with a granular catalytic solid. |
| US10011775B2 |
Oil purifying apparatus
In order to improve heat recovery efficiency in purifying oil from an organic substance using superheated steam, the present invention provides an oil purifying apparatus for thermally decomposing an organic substance with superheated steam and purifying oil from gas components generated by thermal decomposition, which includes: a heat treatment container for storing the organic substance; and a superheated steam generating part for generating the superheated steam to be supplied into the heat treatment container, and the superheated steam generating part is provided in the heat treatment container. |
| US10011774B2 |
Reactor vessel, system and method for removing and recovering volatilizing contaminants from contaminated materials
The invention relates to a reactor, a system and a method for treating and recovery of liquid and/or solid waste materials and by-products from industrial manufacturing and production operations, such as volatilizing organic compounds, by converting these materials into valuable materials which could be recycled and re-used, while at the same time minimizing any residue for final disposal to landfill or incineration. The invention includes an insulated, magnetic, electrically conductive reactor vessel [10] for receiving and treating a contaminated load, the reactor being characterized therein that it is operated under pyrolysis conditions and is heated by radio frequency induction of eddy currents into the reactor vessel [10]. |
| US10011768B2 |
Phosphor, light-emitting device, illumination device and image display device
A phosphor comprising a crystalline phase having a composition expressed by Formula [1] below, a crystal system of the phosphor being a hexagonal crystal system, MmAaAlbSicN40 [1] (in Formula [1] M denotes an activating element, A denotes one or more types of elements selected from the group consisting of alkaline earth metal elements, and m, a, b and c denote values that satisfy expressions below independent from each other 0 |
| US10011763B2 |
Methods to deliver fluids on a well site with variable solids concentration from solid slurries
A storable composition for oilfield application including a slurry of a carrier fluid and a particulate blend made of proppant; the particulate blend comprising at least a first amount of particulates having a first average particle size between about 100 and 5000 μm and at least a second amount of particulates having a second average particle size between about three and twenty times smaller than the first average particle size; such that a packed volume fraction of the particulate blend exceeds 0.74 and the particulate blend volume is sufficient to substantially avoid settling of the particulate in the carrier fluid. |
| US10011761B2 |
Polymeric surfactant containing a protein head group and lipid tail group
A treatment fluid comprising: a base fluid; and a surfactant, wherein the surfactant: (i) is a polymer; and (ii) comprises a hydrophilic head group and a hydrophobic tail group, wherein the hydrophilic head group comprises a protein, and wherein the hydrophobic tail group comprises a lipid. A method of treating a subterranean formation comprising: introducing the treatment fluid into a well, wherein the well penetrates the subterranean formation. |
| US10011760B2 |
Polymer-enhanced surfactant flooding for permeable carbonates
A method for increasing oil production in a carbonate reservoir by incorporating a saline solution injection including a saline soluble surfactant and a saline soluble polymer. The method provides for increased oil production as compared to conventional waterflooding techniques. |
| US10011758B2 |
Aliphatic polycarbonate-based surface active agents
The present invention encompasses surface active agents useful in liquid or supercritical CO2 applications. The surface active agents comprise compounds containing a hydrocarbon segment and an aliphatic polycarbonate segment: The invention also provides methods of making the surface active agents and of using them in supercritical CO2 applications. |
| US10011754B2 |
Method of improving nitrate salt compositions by means of nitric acid for use as heat transfer medium or heat storage medium
Method of maintaining or widening the long-term operating temperature range of a heat transfer medium and/or heat storage medium comprising a nitrate salt composition selected from the group consisting of alkali metal nitrate and alkaline earth metal nitrate and optionally alkali metal nitrite and alkaline earth metal nitrite, wherein the nitrate salt composition is brought into contact with an additive comprising the components nitric acid and/or nitrous acid and oxygen-comprising gas having an oxygen partial pressure which is equal to or greater than that in air and/or oxygen-generating compounds and optionally nitrogen oxides and/or compounds which generate further nitrogen oxide. |
| US10011752B2 |
Production method for polishing-material particles
A production method for polishing-material particles, comprising: forming an inner layer having, as a main component thereof, a salt of at least one element selected from Al, Sc, Ti, V, Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, Zr, In, Sn, Y, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yb, Lu, W, Bi, Th, and the alkali earth metals; adding a prepared aqueous solution, at a prescribed time, to a reaction solution in which the salt formed from the element is dispersed, to form an outer layer on the outer side of the inner layer; using solid-liquid separation to separate a polishing-material-particle precursor from the reaction solution, and the polishing-material-particle precursor is baked; and the percentage of Ce in the reaction solution in which the surface of the outer layer is formed is in the range of 60-90 mol % inclusive. |
| US10011750B2 |
Highly elastic aqueous adhesive composition and method of surface-treating molded article using the same
Disclosed are a adhesive composition and a method of surface-treating a molded article using the same. In particular, the adhesive composition may be eco-friendly because smell and VOC generation from the organic solvent are reduced by adding a water-dilutable polyurethane resin having a hydroxyl group to a waterborne polyurethane resin, thereby improving properties such as elastic recoverability and scratch resistance while satisfying conventional properties. |
| US10011745B2 |
Thermosetting adhesive composition and thermosetting adhesive sheet
A thermosetting adhesive composition and thermosetting adhesive sheet capable of obtaining stable conductivity even in high-temperature environments or high-temperature/high-humidity environments are provided. The thermosetting adhesive sheet comprises an acrylic copolymer obtained by copolymerizing 55 to 80 wt % of alkyl (meth)acrylate, 15 to 30 wt % of acrylonitrile, and 5 to 15 wt % of glycidyl methacrylate; an epoxy resin; an epoxy resin curing agent; and a dendritic conductive filler having a tap density of 1.0 to 1.8 g/cm3. Thereby, thermal expansion after curing is suppressed, and electrical contacts of the conductive filler are increased, allowing stable conductivity to be obtained even in high-temperature environments or high-temperature/high-humidity environments. |
| US10011744B2 |
Hot melt adhesive composition based on a blend of propylene copolymers prepared using single-site catalysts and methods for using same
A hot melt adhesive composition comprises a polymer blend based on a low molecular weight semicrystalline propylene based polymer and a high molecular weight essentially amorphous propylene based polymer, both of which are prepared by using single-site catalysts. The composition further contains a compatible tackifier, a plasticizer, an antioxidant, and optionally a wax, a filler, a colorant, a UV absorber, another polymer, or combinations thereof. The hot melt composition has low viscosity ranging from 500 mPa·s to 35,000 mPa·s at 177° C. and is useful for a variety of industrial applications where bonding of low surface energy substrates is encountered, including disposable nonwoven hygienic articles, labeling and other assembly applications. Particularly preferred applications include nonwoven disposable diaper and feminine sanitary napkin construction, diaper and adult incontinent brief elastic attachment, diaper and napkin core stabilization, diaper backsheet lamination, industrial filter material conversion, and surgical gown and surgical drape assemblies. |
| US10011736B2 |
Powder coating compositions capable of having a substantially non-zinc containing primer
Corrosion and chip-resistant coatings for high tensile steel components, such as automotive coil springs, can be formed from a coating composition comprising a primer having an epoxy resin with the proviso that the epoxy resin does not have an EEW of about 860 to about 930, a polyhydroxyl functional phenolic curing agent having a HEW of about 200 to about 500, and a platy filler. The primer contains less than 20 wt % zinc. The topcoat includes an epoxy resin having an epoxy equivalent weight of about 450 to about 1400, an elastomer-modified epoxy resin having an epoxy equivalent weight of about 1000 to about 1600, a foaming agent and a reinforcing fiber. |
| US10011735B2 |
Diurethane (meth)acrylate-silane compositions and articles including the same
Diurethane (meth)acrylate-silane precursor compounds prepared by reacting a primary or secondary aminosilane with a cyclic carbonate to yield a hydroxylalkylene-carbamoylalkylene-alkoxysilanes (referred to as a “hydroxylcarbamoylsilane”), which is reacted with a (meth)acrylated material having isocyanate functionality, either neat or in solvent, and optionally with a catalyst, such as a tin compound. Also described are articles including a substrate, a base (co)polymer layer on a major surface of the substrate, an oxide layer on the base (co)polymer layer; and a protective (co)polymer layer on the oxide layer, the protective (co)polymer layer including the reaction product of at least one diurethane (meth)acrylate-silane precursor compound. The substrate may be a (co)polymer film or an electronic device such as an organic light emitting device, electrophoretic light emitting device, liquid crystal display, thin film transistor, or combination thereof. Methods of making the diurethane (meth)acrylate-silane and their use in composite films and electronic devices are described. |
| US10011727B2 |
Tailored dispersion and formation of integrated particle systems via pH responsive groups
This invention provides methods and technology related to increased hiding power of a coating through mediating the interaction of the pigment with other system components including but not limited to other pigment particles, latex paint particles, latex binding particles, and organic or inorganic hollow particles. Organization and spacing are tailored via pH sensitive functionalities hosted on ligands or polymeric spacers that are located at/within the surface of one of the components. |
| US10011726B2 |
Filler of sealant, method for manufacturing the same and composite material
Disclosed is a filler of a sealant a filler of a sealant and a method for manufacturing the same and a composite sealant. The filler of the sealant includes a filling material and a catalyst wrapped around the filling material. The catalyst includes a material provided to melt and generate a thermal reaction when a predetermined temperature threshold is exceeded. The predetermined temperature threshold is a minimum temperature at which the sealant is subject to thermocuring. A melting point of the filling material is higher than a maximal temperature during the thermocuring of the sealant. In the filler of the sealant, it is not necessary to change an initial composition and content of the sealant, the catalyst wrapped around the filling material is heated, and then melts and generates a thermal reaction to accelerate curing efficiency of the sealant during a thermocuring of the composite sealant. Therefore, a curing time of the composite sealant is shortened and a risk of liquid crystals to be contaminated is decreased. |
| US10011722B2 |
Methods and systems for producing ethanol based warm foam mix asphalt
Methods and systems for producing warm foam mix asphalt are disclosed. In some embodiments, the methods include the following: injecting an ethanol additive into asphalt binder having a temperature below the auto ignition point of ethanol to form a foamed asphalt stream; adding the foamed asphalt stream to a mixing zone; adding at least one of aggregate and reclaimed asphalt pavement to the mixing zone; adding a foaming agent to the mixing chamber; heating at least one of the mixing zone and the at least one of aggregate and reclaimed asphalt pavement; mixing the foamed asphalt stream and the at least one of aggregate and reclaimed asphalt pavement to form a warm foam mix asphalt; collecting emissions from the mixing zone, the emissions including ethanol vapors; and recycling the emissions to the mixing zone. |
| US10011720B2 |
Silicone-based encapsulating material composition and semiconductor light-emitting device
A silicone-based encapsulating material composition contains a bifunctional thermosetting silicone resin (A), a multifunctional thermosetting silicone resin having a hydroxyl group (B), and a curing catalyst (C). In the composition, a weight-average molecular weight of the component (A) is 300 to 4,500, a mass ratio of the component (B) relative to a total mass of the component (A) and the component (B) is 0.5% by mass or more and less than 100% by mass, an average functional number of the component (B) is 2.5 to 3.5, and the repeating units constituting the component (B) which are trifunctional account for 50% by mass or more relative to a total mass of the component (B). A visible light transmittance measured at an optical path length of 1 cm and a wavelength of 600 nm is 70% or higher. |
| US10011715B2 |
Polyester resin composition, manufacturing method therefor, and camera module containing said polyester resin composition
The purpose of the present invention is to provide a polyester resin with improved mechanical properties, molding performance, and, preferably, fire retardancy. This polyester resin composition contains the following: a polyester resin (A) that has a melting point or glass transition temperature of at least 250° C.; a thermoplastic resin (B) that has an olefin-derived constitutional unit and an aromatic hydrocarbon structure and has an intrinsic viscosity ([η]), as measured in decalin at 135° C., of 0.04 to 1.0 dl/g; and a copolymer (C) that has an olefin-derived constitutional unit, an α,β-unsaturated-carboxylic-ester-derived constitutional unit, and a cyclic oxy-hydrocarbon structure. |
| US10011714B2 |
Monolayer carbon dioxide barrier PET bottles
Disclosed herein are articles comprising polymer compositions that can provide a barrier to carbon dioxide diffusion. The disclosed polymer compositions can be utilized in packaging to retard or prevent the diffusion of carbon dioxide out of a carbonated liquid, inter alia, a carbonated soft drink. This abstract is intended as a scanning tool for purposes of searching in the particular art and is not intended to be limiting of the present invention. |
| US10011712B2 |
Hydrogel composition for a mask base and method for manufacturing a hydrogel using same
A hydrogel composition includes 0.1 to 10 wt % of a cross-linking agent, 0.2 to 6 wt % of a gelling polymer, 0.5 to 20 wt % of a polyhydric alcohol, and 70 to 90 wt % of purified water to maintain a form without a supporter, be stable without fluidization even when a hydrogel is immersed in cosmetics or pharmaceuticals, and allow the cosmetics or the pharmaceuticals to be uniformly delivered to skin. |
| US10011711B2 |
Polymer compositions comprising cross-linked polymers comprising boronic ester functions enabling exchange reactions, process for preparing them and their use
The object of the invention is a polymer composition including cross-linked polymers, which contain boronic ester functions enabling exchange reactions, as well as free monofunctional boronic esters. This composition originates from the polymerization of precursor monomers to thermoplastic polymers including at least one pending boronic ester group, the pending boronic ester group not containing any polymerizable groups, and cross-linking agent comprising at least one boronic ester group. This enables the formation of a network of cross-linked polymers containing pending functions and cross-links that are exchangeable by boronic ester metathesis reactions. Another object of the invention is processes for preparing this composition and materials and formulations comprising this composition. |
| US10011706B2 |
System and method for synthesis of POSS-graphene oxide derivatives as effective fillers for developing high performance composites
According to an embodiment, a method for grafting POSS (polyhedral silsesquioxane) nanomaterial to graphene oxide is described for use in preparation of high performance composite materials. In another embodiment, amine functionalized graphene oxide may be particularly suitable. In this embodiment, POSS molecules grafted to amine functionalized graphene oxide are synthesized by reacting graphene oxide with different POSS molecules. The amine functionalized graphene oxide may be dissolved in a solvent and the reaction may include the presence of a catalyst. The resultant POSS grafted graphene oxide/POSS grafted amine functionalized graphene oxide may be mixed with a resin (epoxy) in a masterbatch. The masterbatch may then be packaged and sold. The masterbatch material may then be introduced into the interlaminar area of graphite/epoxy composites. Biodegradability and interlaminar fracture toughness testing results from the use of epoxy based nanocomposites containing POSS modified graphene oxide polymer are expected to improve. |
| US10011705B2 |
Alumina compositions and methods for producing same
A method of producing functionalized surface-modified alumina by adding an organic modifier comprising acrylic acid to alumina and drying the alumina to covalently bond the organic modifier to the surface of the alumina. The functionalized surface-modified alumina being uniformly dispersible in organic polymer to form single crystallites of functionalized surface-modified alumina in the polymer. |
| US10011702B2 |
Wear-protection layer with ellipsoidal solid material particles
A wear protection layer comprising ellipsoidal solid particles, wherein the ellipsoidal solid particles have the shape of a spheroid or a triaxial ellipsoid. A method for manufacturing a wall, ceiling or floor panel, comprising the steps of providing a plate-shaped carrier, applying a decorative layer onto the carrier, and applying a wear protection layer onto the decorative layer, wherein for applying the wear protection layer a heat and/or radiation curable monomer and/or oligomer composition comprising ellipsoidal solid particles is applied which is at least partially cured by heat and/or irradiation of electromagnetic radiation of a suitable wavelength. |
| US10011701B2 |
Fluorosilicone rubber composition
A fluorosilicone rubber composition is provided comprising (A) a fluorosilicone gum having an aliphatic unsaturated monovalent hydrocarbon group content of 0.03-1 mol % based on the total of monovalent hydrocarbon groups and a residual alkali metal content of up to 20 ppm, (B) reinforcing silica having a specific surface area of 50-100 m2/g, and (C) an organic peroxide catalyst. The composition is molded into silicone rubber parts which are improved in compression set even after immersion in ε-caprolactam. |
| US10011699B2 |
Inductively curable composition
An inductively curable thermoset compositions comprising a thermoset resin and, dispersed therein, susceptor particles and surface modified silica particles is described. |
| US10011695B2 |
Prepreg
Provided is a prepreg including: a fiber layer containing unidirectionally arranged carbon fibers impregnated with a first thermosetting resin; and a resin layer disposed on at least one side of the fiber layer and containing a second thermosetting resin and a thermoplastic resin that is insoluble in the second thermosetting resin. The prepreg is configured such that the areal weight of fibers and the weight fraction of resin in the prepreg are 120 to 300 g/m2 and 25 to 50 mass %, respectively, and in the case where a plurality of prepregs are laid up, and the coefficient of interlayer friction is measured every 10° C. in a temperature range of 40 to 100° C. at a pull-out speed of 0.2 mm/min under a perpendicular stress of 0.8 bar, the temperature at which the coefficient of interlayer friction is 0.02 or less is present within a temperature range of 40 to 100° C. The prepreg exhibits high impact strength when formed into a fiber-reinforced plastic suitable for an aircraft structural member, and the prepreg also has excellent drapeability when a prepreg laminate is made to conform to a three dimensional shape. |
| US10011687B2 |
Hydrophilic organosilanes
The present disclosure relates to compositions comprising: an organosilane having the formula: (R1)(3-n) (R2O)nSiR3O(CH2CH2O)a(C3H6O)b R4 wherein: n is 1 or 2; a≥1, b may vary from 0 to 30, with the proviso a≥b; R1 is a hydrocarbon group containing 1 to 12 carbon atoms; R2 is hydrogen or an alkyl group containing 1 to 6 carbon atoms; R3 is a divalent hydrocarbon group containing 2 to 12 carbon atoms; and R4 is hydrogen, R1, or an acetyl group; and at least one of a thermoplastic resin, a thermoset resin, and an elastomer. The present organosilane compositions may be useful for treating various surfaces to render them, among other things, more hydrophilic. |
| US10011686B2 |
Viscoelastic silicone rubber compositions
The invention provides for new viscoelastic silicone rubbers and compositions and methods for making and using them. The invention provides for viscoelastic silicone rubbers that are stiffer on short timescales than they are on long timescales. When subjected to brief stresses, they are relatively stiff and elastic, and they resist changing shapes. When subjected to sustain stresses, however, they are relatively soft and accommodating, and they gradually change shapes. When those stresses are removed, they gradually return to their original shapes. These viscoelastic silicone rubbers resist compression set and they are extremely resilient in response to sudden impacts. They can be dense rubbers, foam rubbers, and particles. |
| US10011684B2 |
Arylamine polymer, method for producing the same, ink composition, film, electronic device, organic thin-film transistor, and display device
A polymer containing a repeating unit expressed by General Formula (I): where Ar1 represents a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group; Ar2 and Ar3 independently represent a divalent group of a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group; and R1 and R2 each independently represent a hydrogen atom, substituted or unsubstituted alkyl group, or substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon group. |
| US10011682B2 |
Method of preparing carboxylic acid functionalized polymers
Methods for preparing water soluble, non-peptidic polymers carrying carboxyl functional groups, particularly carboxylic acid functionalized poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG) polymers are disclosed, as are the products of these methods. In general, an ester reagent R(C═O)OR′, wherein R′ is a tertiary group and R comprises a functional group X, is reacted with a water soluble, non-peptidic polymer POLY-Y, where Y is a functional group which reacts with X to form a covalent bond, to form a tertiary ester of the polymer, which is then treated with a strong base in aqueous solution, to form a carboxylate salt of the polymer. Typically, this carboxylate salt is then treated with an inorganic acid in aqueous solution, to convert the carboxylate salt to a carboxylic acid, thereby forming a carboxylic acid functionalized polymer. |
| US10011679B2 |
Modified amine curing agents, their preparation and use in curable compositions
A method for producing a modified form of an aromatic amine compound represented by the following structure I: where A is an amine group —NHR, R is independently selected from hydrogen, linear and branched alkyl groups having 1 to 6 carbon atoms, preferably A is NH2; X is a halogen selected from Cl, Br, F, I, and At, or hydrogen (H). The method includes heating the aromatic amine compound, in its initial crystalline form, to a temperature above its melting point in order to obtain a molten material, then cooling the molten material to a temperature below the melting point of the crystalline compound so as to produce an amorphous, glassy form of the aromatic amine compound. The modified aromatic amine compound is suitable as a curing agent in resin compositions that are used for fabricating fiber-reinforced composites. |
| US10011678B2 |
Cationic alkyd resins
The invention relates to a binder resin which is a plastified epoxide-amine adduct P comprising an adduct EA made of epoxide resins E and amines A, optionally modified by incorporation of unsaturated fatty acids F′, which adduct is plastified by incorporation of a fatty acid amide M, or a mixture M′ of the said fatty acid amide M with a glyceride mixture GX which is a mixture of at least two glycerides selected from the group consisting of a triglyceride GT, a diglyceride GD, and a monoglyceride GM, to a process for its preparation, and to a method of use thereof as primer for wood, mineral, and metal substrates. |
| US10011676B2 |
Compound containing phenolic hydroxyl group, phenolic resin, curable composition, cured product thereof, semiconductor sealing material, and printed circuit board
There are provided a compound containing a phenolic hydroxyl group, which exhibits excellent heat resistance and excellent flame retardancy in terms of a cured product thereof, a phenolic resin including the same, a curable composition and a cured product thereof, a semiconductor sealing material, and a printed circuit board. The compound containing a phenolic hydroxyl group has a molecular structure represented by the following General Formula (I): wherein X is a structural site represented by the following Structural Formula (x1) or (x2); in Formula (x1) or (x2), k is an integer of 1 to 3, m is 1 or 2, Ar is a structural site represented by the following Structural Formula (Ar1), and in a case where when k or m is 2 or greater, a plurality of Ar's may be the same as or different from each other; wherein p is 1 or 2. |
| US10011673B2 |
Impact modified thermoplastic composition
The present invention relates to thermoplastic compositions comprising as impact modifier a rubber containing graft polymer prepared by the process of emulsion polymerization and recovered by a special process controlling and adjusting the pH value, the use of the thermoplastic compositions in the production of molded bodies, and to the molded, bodies themselves. The present invention relates also to thermoplastic compositions comprising a polymeric impact modifier with a core-shell structure made by a multistage process and recovered by a special process controlling and adjusting the pH value comprising at least one gradient polymer the use of the thermoplastic compositions in the production of molded bodies, and to the molded, bodies themselves. |
| US10011671B2 |
Adhesive
The object of the present invention is to provide a novel adhesive. The characteristics of the present invention is an adhesive comprising an organic polymer having a main chain formed by a water-soluble polymer unit, and a hydrophilic organic group and a self-assembling group bonded to the water-soluble polymer unit; and a curing agent. |
| US10011670B2 |
2,3,3,3-tetrafluoro-1-propene as diluent for the preparation of novel butyl rubbers
The invention relates to an efficient polymerization process and its use to produce novel copolymers with a specific micro structure. In particular, the invention relates to butyl rubbers with novel micro structure, preferably those obtainable by copolymerization of monomer mixtures comprising isobutylene and isoprene in diluents comprising 2,3,3,3 -tetrafluoro-1-propene. In a further aspect the invention relates to halogenated copolymers obtainable from such novel copolymers by halogenation. |
| US10011662B2 |
Downstream process for purifying polysaccharides
The present invention relates to a novel process for purifying bacterial polysaccharide. It is an efficient and scalable process for removing impurities from Neisseria meningitidis serogroup C (Men-C) polysaccharide which is capable of being used as such in a derivatized form or linked to other molecules, for the preparation of vaccines, more particularly conjugate vaccines for N. meningitidis infection. |
| US10011659B2 |
Compositions and methods for treating cancer resistant to a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI)
Methods of treating a subject having cancer exhibiting a resistance to a tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) are provided. Accordingly, there is provided a method comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of antibodies comprising an anti-EGFR antibody, an anti-HER2 antibody and an anti-HER3 antibody. Also provided are compositions and articles of manufacture for treating cancer resistance to a TKI. Also provided are methods of treating non-resistant tumors. |
| US10011657B2 |
Anti-CS1 antibodies and antibody drug conjugates
The present disclosure provides antibodies and antibody drug conjugates that bind human CS1 and their uses to treat subjects diagnosed with a plasma cell neoplasm, for example, multiple myeloma. |
| US10011647B2 |
IL-33 antagonists and uses thereof
The present invention provides interleukin-33 (IL-33) antagonists comprising one or more IL-33-binding domains and one or more multimerizing domains and methods of using the same. According to certain embodiments of the invention, the IL-33-binding domains can comprise an IL-33-binding portion of an ST2 protein and/or an extracellular portion of an IL-1RAcP protein. The IL-33 antagonists of the invention are useful for the treatment of diseases and disorders associated with IL-33 signaling and/or IL-33 cellular expression, such as infectious diseases, inflammatory diseases, allergic diseases and fibrotic diseases. |
| US10011643B2 |
Freeze-dried preparation containing high-purity PTH and method for producing same
[Problem] Provided is a freeze-dried preparation containing high-purity PTH peptide and a method for the production thereof. Also provided is a test method for PTH analogs to confirm the purity of a freeze-dried preparation containing PTH peptide, and the like.[Solution] In the present invention, the presence of PTH analogs produced during the manufacturing process of a freeze-dried preparation containing PTH peptide was confirmed. The production of these PTH analogs was also discovered to be markedly prevented or reduced by controlling exposure of the solution containing PTH peptide and the like to air environments within a pharmaceutical production facility. |
| US10011641B2 |
ABD binding polypeptide
The disclosure provides an ABD binding polypeptide comprising an ABD binding motif BM, which motif consists of an amino acid sequence selected from EX2X3X4AX6X7EIX10X11LPNLX16X17X18QX20X21AFIX25X26LX28D (SEQ ID NO: 166) and amino acid sequences with at least 89 % identity thereto. |
| US10011639B2 |
Peptidomimetic compounds
The present invention relates to inhibitors of protein-protein interactions (PPI). Specifically, the present invention relates to a structural informatics approach to designing peptidomimetic macrocycles containing an amino acid “warhead” for ligand-directed covalent modification of cysteine and lysine-containing proteins for the treatment of diseases such as cancer. Further included is the targeting of components of the BCL2 signaling pathway, specifically BCL2-A1 and MCL-1. |
| US10011638B2 |
PTEN antagonist peptides and methods of using the same
The presently disclosed subject matter relates to antagonists of PTEN and methods of using the same. In particular, the presently disclosed subject matter provides for PTEN antagonist peptides for use in treating central nervous system disorders. In an exemplary embodiment, the presently disclosed subject matter provides methods for promoting nerve fiber growth in a subject by administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of a PTEN antagonist peptide. |
| US10011635B2 |
Cyclic peptide conjugates and methods of use
The present invention concerns cyclic compounds, compositions comprising the cyclic compounds, linkers, a method of preparing a carrying agent:cyclic compound adduct, a method for treating disorders such as proliferation disorders (e.g., malignancies), bone deficiency diseases, and autoimmune diseases, and a method for suppressing the growth of, or inducing apoptosis in, cells (e.g., malignant cells). |
| US10011634B2 |
Inhibitors of beta integrin-G protein alpha subunit binding interactions
Provided herein are compounds that inhibit a binding interaction between a β integrin and a G protein subunit, as well as compositions, e.g., pharmaceutical compositions, comprising the same, and related kits. In some embodiments, the compound is an antibody or antibody analog, and, in other embodiments, the compound is a peptide or peptide analog. Also provided are methods of using the compounds, including methods of treating or preventing a medical condition, such as stroke, heart attack, cancer, or inflammation. |
| US10011632B2 |
PSMA imaging agents
Compounds for targeting and agents for imaging, Prostate-specific membrane antigen (PSMA) are disclosed. Methods of synthesizing compounds and imaging agents, as well as methods for imaging PSMA are also disclosed. The imaging agents disclosed are suitable for PET and SPECT imaging. |
| US10011630B2 |
Cyclic dinucleotides for cytokine induction
A cyclic dinucleotide compound of Formula (I): wherein X1 is H or F; X2 is H or F; at least one among X1 and X2 is a fluorine atom; Z is OH, OR1, SH or SR1, wherein: R1 is Na or NH4, or R1 is an enzyme-labile group which provides OH or SH in vivo such as pivaloyloxymethyl; B1 and B2 are bases chosen from Adenine, Hypoxanthine or Guanine, and B1 is a different base than B2 and a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof. Pharmaceutical compositions including the cyclic dinucleotide, as well as their use in the treatment of a bacterial infection, a viral infection or a cancer are also described. |
| US10011627B2 |
C-aryl glucoside derivative, preparation methods thereof, and medical applications thereof
C-aryl glucoside derivatives, preparation methods thereof, and medical applications thereof are described. Specifically, compounds represented by formula I, and, tautomers, enantiomers, diastereomers, racemates, and pharmaceutically acceptable salts of the compounds, preparation methods thereof, pharmaceutical compositions containing the compounds, and applications thereof are described. Compounds of formula (I) are useful as therapeutic agents, and particularly as sodium-dependent glucose contransporter protein (SGLT) inhibitors. |
| US10011620B2 |
Lipophenol compounds and uses thereof
The present invention relates to a compound of formula (I) wherein: i is 0 or 1; j is 0 or 1; k is 0 or 1; R1 and R2 are in particular H, (C1-C12)alkyl, or a group of formula C(O)R; R is a, linear or branched, alkyl radical, comprising at least 19 carbon atoms; R3 is H and k=0 when j=1; or, when j=0, R3 is —C(O)R or -L-C(O)R; L, U and L″ are linkers; wherein, when j=0, at least one of the groups R1; R2 and R3 comprises a radical R. |
| US10011617B2 |
Isocyanate derived organosilanes
The invention relates to isocyanate derived organosilanes and the use thereof. The isocyanate derived organosilanes can be reacted with inorganic substrates, such as oxide particles, to result in a surface modified inorganic substrate. |
| US10011615B2 |
Heterobicyclo-substituted [1,2,4]triazolo[1,5-c]quinazolin-5-amine compounds with A2A anatagonist properties
Disclosed are compounds of Formula G1: where “RG3”. “Rd1” to “Rd4”, “n”, “m”, “p”, “W”, “X”, “Y”, and “Z” are defined herein, which compounds are antagonists of A2A receptor. Disclosed herein also are uses of the compounds described herein as antagonists of the A2A receptor in the potential treatment or prevention of neurological disorders and diseases in which A2A receptors are involved. Disclosed herein also are pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds and uses of these pharmaceutical compositions. |
| US10011614B2 |
Bis-β-carboline compound and preparation method, pharmaceutical composition and use thereof
Disclosed in the present invention are a bis-β-carboline compound and a preparation method, a pharmaceutical composition and the use thereof. In particular, the bis-β-carboline compound and a pharmaceutical salt thereof are described as general formula I, and the bis-β-carboline compound is prepared through the condensation of β-carboline intermediate and dihaloalkane. Also disclosed in the present invention are a pharmaceutical composition comprising an effective dose of the bis-β-carboline compound as shown in formula I and a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, and the use of the bis-β-carboline compound in preparing drugs resistant to tumors such as melanoma, stomach cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, kidney cancer, liver cancer, oral epidermoid carcinoma, cervical cancer, ovarian cancer, pancreatic cancer, prostate cancer, and colon cancer. |
| US10011613B2 |
Polycyclic pyridone derivative having integrase inhibitory activity
The present invention relates to a novel compound having an antiviral effect, more specifically, a pyridone derivative having HIV integrase inhibitory activity, and a medicament containing the same, in particular, an anti-HIV agent. The compound of the present invention has integrase inhibitory activity and/or cell proliferation inhibitory activity against viruses, in particular, HIV and drug-resistant strains thereof. Thus, the compound is useful in preventing or treating various diseases, viral infections (for example, AIDS), and the like in which integrase participates. |
| US10011611B2 |
Histone deacetylase inhibitors and methods for use thereof
The present invention relates to methods of modulating (for example inhibiting) activity of histone deacetylases (HDACs) and/or treating HDACs-associated diseases including, for example, cancers, inflammatory disorders, neurodegenerative disorders, etc. The invention also provides novel compounds and compositions thereof, methods of preparation of the same, as well as methods of use of the same for inhibition of HDACs and/or treatment of HDAC-associated diseases. |
| US10011606B2 |
Imidazopyrazinones as PDE1 inhibitors
The present invention provides imidazopyrazinones as PDE1 inhibitors and their use as a medicament, in particular for the treatment of neurodegenerative disorders and psychiatric disorders. |
| US10011598B2 |
Small molecules targeting repeat r(CGG) sequences
The invention provides a series of bioactive small molecules that target expanded r(CGG) repeats, termed r(CGG)exp, that causes Fragile X-associated Tremor Ataxia Syndrome (FXTAS). The compound was identified by using information on the chemotypes and RNA motifs that interact. Specifically, 9-hydroxy-5,11-dimethyl-2-(2-(piperidin-1-yl)ethyl)-6H-pyrido[4,3-b]carbazol-2-ium, binds the 5′CGG/3′GGC motifs in r(CGG)exp and disrupts a toxic r(CGG)exp-protein complex. Specifically, dimeric compounds incorporating two 9-hydroxyellipticine analog structures can even more potently bind the 5′CGG/3′GGC motifs in r(CGG)exp and disrupts a toxic r(CGG)exp-protein complex. Structure-activity relationships (SAR) studies determined that the alkylated pyridyl and phenolic side chains are important chemotypes that drive molecular recognition of r(CGG) repeats, such as r(CGG)exp. Importantly, the compound is efficacious in FXTAS model cellular systems as evidenced by its ability to improve FXTAS-associated pre-mRNA splicing defects and to reduce the size and number of r(CGG)exp-protein aggregates. |
| US10011597B2 |
Derivatives of 2-(1,2,4-triazol-3-ylsulfanyl)-N-1,3,4-thiadiazol-2-yl acetamide which are useful for the treatment of inter alia diabetes
Disclosed are compounds, pharmaceutical compositions and methods for modulating aquaporin 9. |
| US10011595B2 |
Ethyldiamine orexin receptor antagonists
The present invention is directed to ethyldiamne compounds which are antagonists of orexin receptors. Such compounds are of the general structural formula I: The present invention is also directed to uses of the compounds described herein in the potential treatment or prevention of neurological and psychiatric disorders and diseases in which orexin receptors are involved. The present invention is also directed to pharmaceutical compositions comprising these compounds. The present invention is also directed to uses of these compositions in the potential prevention or treatment of such diseases in which orexin receptors are involved. |
| US10011594B2 |
4-hydroxy-3-(heteroaryl)pyridine-2-one APJ agonists
The present invention provides compounds of Formula (I): wherein all variables are as defined in the specification, and compositions comprising any of such novel compounds. These compounds are APJ agonists which may be used as medicaments. |
| US10011591B2 |
Crystalline form of afatinib dimaleate
The present invention provides a crystalline Form I of afatinib dimaleate, its process for preparation and pharmaceutical composition thereof, and its use in the treatment of metastatic non-small cell lung cancer. |
| US10011583B2 |
Inhibitors 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 as exemplified as follows, 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. |
| US10011582B2 |
Substituted delta-lactones and methods of preparing same
The invention relates to substituted delta-lactones as well as to processes for synthesizing them, e.g., using fatty acids as starting material. |
| US10011577B2 |
Methods for producing 5-(halomethyl)furfural
The present disclosure provides methods to produce 5-(halomethyl)furfural, including 5-(chloromethyl)furfural, by acid-catalyzed conversion of C6 saccharides, including isomers thereof, polymers thereof, and certain derivatives thereof. The methods make use of acids with lower concentrations, and allows for conversion of sugars into 5-(halomethyl)furfural at higher temperatures and faster reaction or residence times. |
| US10011575B2 |
Method for fabricating titanium-containing silicon oxide material and application of the same
A method for fabricating a titanium-containing silicon oxide material and an application of the same are disclosed. The method needn't use a template but directly use an amorphous silicon dioxide and a titanium source as the reactants. The reactants are mixed with a solvent and react in the solvent. The suspension generated by the reaction is processed by solid-liquid separation, flushing and drying to obtain a titanium-containing silicon oxide material. The method features a simplified fabrication process and a low fabrication cost. The titanium-containing silicon oxide material fabricated by the method has a superior catalytic activity, able to catalyze an epoxidation reaction of an olefin-group compound to generate an epoxide. |
| US10011574B2 |
Glutaminase inhibitors and method of use
Compounds and compositions comprising compounds that inhibit glutaminase are described herein. Also described herein are methods of using the compounds that inhibit glutaminase in the treatment of cancer. |
| US10011566B2 |
Compounds
The present specification provides a compound of formula (I): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof; a process for preparing such a compound; and to the use of such a compound in the treatment of an RORγ and/or RORγt mediated disease state. |
| US10011562B2 |
Long-chain dimethylaniline derivative compounds, their preparation methods, self-assembled textures, and uses thereof
The present invention relates to long-chain dimethylaniline derivative compounds, their preparation methods, self-assembled texture, and uses thereof. Said compounds show ultralong acting anaesthetic effect, and belong to N-diethylaminoacetyl-2,6-dimethylaniline compounds, having a structure according to formula (I). Said compounds may self-assemble into micelle or gel in an aqueous solvent, and exert an in vivo elongated local anesthetic actions. Local anesthesia and/or analgesic activity can last more than 72 hours. The biomaterials can self-assemble into micelles or gels in water and have local anesthetic effect, as well as can further be used as the coating of medicinal bioactive molecules for treatment of pain, itching and the like and/or the drug carriers, together with as pharmaceutical adjuvants for delivery system. Thus, said materials have a favorable perspective. |
| US10011561B2 |
Thickening/stabilizing agent and thickened/stabilized composition using the same
A compound that thickens and/or gelatinizes a fluid organic substance to a desired viscosity, or uniformly stabilizes a composition containing the fluid organic substance. Also, a thickening/stabilizing agent including the compound, a thickened/stabilized composition including the thickening/stabilizing agent and a fluid organic substance, and a method for producing the composition. The compound according to the present invention is represented by Formula (1): (R2—HNOC)4-n—R1—(CONH—R3)n (1) where R1 is a group resulting from removing four hydrogen atoms from the structural formula of an aromatic hydrocarbon or cyclohexane, R2 is, independently in each occurrence, an aliphatic hydrocarbon group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms, R3 is, independently in each occurrence, an aliphatic hydrocarbon group containing 6 or more carbon atoms, and n is an integer of 1 to 3. |
| US10011560B2 |
Alternative process for the purification of an intermediate in the synthesis of non-ionic X-ray contrast agents
Alternative continuous downstream processes for the production of 5-acetamido-N,N′-bis(2,3-dihydroxypropyl)-2,4,6-triiodoisophthalamide (“Compound A”) are described. Compound A is a key intermediate in the production of iodixanol and iohexol, which are two of the biggest commercially available non-ionic x-ray contrast media agents. |
| US10011547B2 |
Process for the functionalization of heteroalkanes and arenes
Provided are methods and materials for the functionalization of a heteroalkane or arene using an oxidizing electrophile as a stoichiometric agent or catalyst. The reaction involves the replacement of a hydrogen atom on an sp3-hybridized carbon atom of the heteroalkane or of a hydrogen atom on an sp2-hybridized carbon atom of the arene. A main group element organometallic intermediate is formed that undergoes further conversion to a functionalized heteroalkane or arene. |
| US10011542B2 |
Methods of measuring pH in refinery streams
At least one pH-sensitive component may contact a refinery stream for measuring the pH of the refinery stream. A light from a light source may be emitted onto the pH-sensitive component, and a detector may detect a first luminescence or color change of chromophore measurement radiated from the pH-sensitive component. A first pH of the refinery stream may be determined from the first luminescence or color change of chromophore measurement. |
| US10011539B2 |
Process for conversion of acyclic C5 compounds to cyclic C5 compounds and catalyst composition for use therein
Disclosed is a process for the conversion of acyclic C5 feedstock to a product comprising cyclic C5 compounds, such as, for example, cyclopentadiene, and catalyst compositions for use in such process. The process comprises the steps of contacting said feedstock and, optionally, hydrogen under acyclic C5 conversion conditions in the presence of a catalyst composition to form said product. The catalyst composition comprising a microporous crystalline aluminosilicate having a constraint index in the range of 3 to 12, a Group 10 metal, and, optionally, a Group 11 metal, in combination with a Group 1 alkali metal and/or a Group 2 alkaline earth metal. |
| US10011538B2 |
Method of making aromatic hydrocarbons
A method for the purification of an aromatic hydrocarbon process stream having phenol therein is disclosed. Aspects of the method include contacting at least a portion of the aromatic hydrocarbon process stream with a hydrogenation catalyst under hydrogenation conditions to provide a hydrogenation effluent having a lower concentration of phenol than said aromatic hydrocarbon process stream. |
| US10011536B1 |
Encapsulated sustained release urea fertilizer
The encapsulated sustained release urea fertilizer is a urea fertilizer and a stabilizer encapsulated in fumed silica. The stabilizer may be a gellan gum hydrogel or biochar. The encapsulated sustained release urea fertilizer allows for both immediate and sustained nitrogen release over time and displays reduced nitrogen volatilization and increased water holding capacity. |
| US10011533B2 |
Porcelain composition with nanosized ceramic oxides
The present invention is related to the development of a new formulation of electrical grade porcelain having improved mechanical and dielectric characteristics, and whose primary application is in electrical components, such as electric insulators. This invention has as its main object to provide a new alternative to increase the final properties of an electrical grade porcelain, which is related to the incorporation of suitable concentrations of nanosized ceramic oxides, as part of the initial composition of porcelain paste. This new nanotechnology alternative favors an increase in the final properties of electrical grade porcelain, such as flexural strength or cold rupture modulus, as well as dielectric strength, which is due to the incorporation of ceramic oxides such as alumina (α-Al2O3) and zirconia (ZrO2), in micrometer scale (i.e., less than 100 nanometers), favorably modify the microstructure of the base porcelain. Mechanical strength, specifically the flexural strength at three points, of the porcelain compositions of the present invention is up to 38% greater than a silica based conventional porcelain composition. Furthermore, the insulating ability of the composition of this invention is up to 30% above the value of the reference siliceous porcelain. Another important aspect of this invention is based on the concept that the ceramic nano-oxides of (α-Al2O3) and zirconia (ZrO2) strengthen the microstructure of siliceous porcelain, since the amount of crystalline phase increases and therefore the amorphous phase is reduced. Furthermore, the ceramic nano-oxides favor the increase in the concentration of the crystalline mullite phase (3Al2O3.2SiO2) in the microstructure, which is known to benefit the mechanical performance of triaxial porcelains. |
| US10011530B2 |
Geopolymer coating and mortar
Use of a geopolymer in a coating composition for a building construction component, a coated component for use in building construction wherein the coating comprises a geopolymer, a method of coating a component comprising applying a curable geopolymer mixture to a surface of the component and curing the mixture to form a cured geopolymer coating, and the use of a geopolymer as a mortar. |
| US10011529B2 |
Ultra-high performance concrete
A hydraulic composition includes in relative parts by mass with respect to the cement 100 parts of cement the particles of which have a BET specific surface area comprised from 1.20 to 5 m2/g; 32 to 42 parts of water; 5 to 50 parts of a mineral addition A1 the particles of which have a D50 less than or equal to 6 μm and selected from silica fume, metakaolin, slag, pozzolans or mixtures thereof; 90 to 230 parts of sand the particles of which have a D50 greater than or equal to 50 μm and a D90 less than or equal to 3 mm; 0.0001 to 10 parts of a superplasticizer, the active material concentration of which is 15% by mass. |
| US10011527B2 |
Integrated process for the production of clinker with treatment of bypass dusts produced by the kiln
It is described an integrated process for the production of clinker by dry process, with treatment in continuous of by-pass dusts produced by the kiln, wherein the solid matter to treat consists of bypass dusts of a clinker production process, containing compounds of chloride, sodium, potassium and sulphur, such a process comprising the following steps: a) extraction of the bypass dusts directly from the phase of quench, without intermediate storage, at a temperature comprised between 150 and 200° C., with a moisture content varying from 0.1 to 3% by weight, preferably from 0.1 to 0.5% by weight, and with a quantity of calcium carbonate lower than 55% by weight; b) mixing of said dusts coming from step a), within a maximum time comprised between 2 and 10 minutes, preferably lower than about 5 minutes, with water up to a water/dusts ratio varying from 2:1 to 4:1, preferably from 2.5:1 to 3.5:1, in a way to obtain a mixture with a moisture content comprised between 45 and 75% by weight, preferably between 50% and 55% by weight, even more preferably equal to about 50% by weight; c) mechanical stirring of the mixture diluted up to complete dissolution of the soluble salts; d) mechanical separation of the mixture so diluted in a liquid fraction containing water and soluble salts and in a solid fraction in form of cake or crust. |
| US10011523B2 |
Method of powder coating glass to block visible and nonvisible light
Systems and methods of powder coating glass to block light are described herein. The method includes preheating a glass item and applying two or three coats of powder, alternating with heating at desired temperatures and/or for a set time. The glass article may be a glass window or a container for holding items that must be stored or transported without being exposed to light. |
| US10011521B2 |
Colored glass plate and method for manufacturing same
To provide a colored glass plate of which the mass ratio of divalent iron as calculated as Fe2O3 to total iron as calculated as Fe2O3 can be stably maintained at a high level while amber coloring derived from salt cake (Na2SO4) is suppressed by reducing the amount of salt cake used as a refining agent, and which has less bubbles regardless of a small amount of total sulfur as calculated as SO3. A colored glass plate which is made of alkali-containing silica glass containing iron, tin and sulfur, wherein, as represented by mass % based on oxides, the proportion of total sulfur as calculated as SO3 is less than 0.025%, the proportion of divalent iron as calculated as Fe2O3 to total iron as calculated as Fe2O3 is at least 45%, the proportion of divalent tin as calculated as SnO2 to total tin as calculated as SnO2 is at least 0.1% as represented by mol %, and β-OH is at least 0.15 mm−1. |
| US10011514B2 |
Apparatus for positioning glass sheets for forming
Apparatus (54) for positioning performed glass sheets for further forming includes positioners (55) that are moved slower than the speed of glass sheet conveyance to provide rotational adjustment of a glass sheet into alignment above a forming mold (52) under the operation of a controller (78). The forming mold (52) is moved upwardly for the forming in a pressing manner against a downwardly facing upper mold (58). |
| US10011513B2 |
Apparatuses and methods for forming hollow spheres
Apparatuses and methods of forming hollow spheres are provided. Hollow sphere forming apparatus incorporate a bubble forming nozzle assembly in which outlets for gas and liquid materials are disposed substantially coaxially. The relative positions of the gas and liquid outlets are adjustable in at least one dimension (e.g., axially, radially or angularly relative to each other), such that a more uniform annular exit region for the gas and liquid outlets may be configured, such that more symmetric bubbles may be formed thus reducing the rejection rate in solidified bubbles due to asymmetry or decentering of entrapped gas. |
| US10011510B2 |
Melter having a submerged combustion burner, method using the burner and use of the burner
The claims define a submerged combustion melter comprising a submerged combustion burner (1) comprising three concentric tubes, all being closed at one end and open at the same opposite end, the internal tube (3) being connected to a source of oxygen containing gas (7), the middle tube (9) surrounding the internal tube (3) being connected to a source of fuel gas (11), and the outer tube (15) being connected to a source (19) of oxygen containing gas. The claims are also directed to a method of introducing a flame and/or combustion products into a melt from a submerged combustion burner and also directed to the use of the burner as a submerged combustion burner in a melter. |