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| US10078763B2 |
Programmable unit for metadata processing
A system and method for metadata processing that can be used to encode an arbitrary number of security policies for code running on a stored-program processor. This disclosure adds metadata to every word in the system and adds a metadata processing unit that works in parallel with data flow to enforce an arbitrary set of policies, such that metadata is unbounded and software programmable to be applicable to a wide range of metadata processing policies. This instant disclosure is applicable to a wide range of uses including safety, security, and synchronization. |
| US10078761B2 |
System and method for privacy-aware information extraction and validation
Disclosed herein is a system to validate information about a user, or users, derived from publicly-accessible data. The system comprises a validation system that uses private data about the user to validate the user information derived from the publicly-accessible data. The validation system may receive a validation request in connection with an inconclusive result derived from the publicly-accessible data. |
| US10078760B1 |
Graph-based inference of confidential data insights
In an example, a weighted directed graph data structure is constructed from position information and position transition information, the weighted directed graph data structure comprising a plurality of nodes, with each node corresponding to a position in the position information, and a plurality of directed edges between the plurality of nodes, with each directed edge corresponding to a transition occurring from a position corresponding to a node at a beginning of the directed edge to a position corresponding to a node at an end of the directed edge. A value is assigned to each node based on one or more confidential data values associated with a position corresponding to the node. A weight is assigned to each directed edge based on a number of members that transitioned positions on either side of the edge. The values in each node are then updated repeatedly based on neighbor node values until convergence occurs. |
| US10078754B1 |
Volume cryptographic key management
Techniques for providing cryptographic keys for encrypted system volumes on machine instances in virtualized and/or distributed systems are described herein. At a time after detecting the requirement for a cryptographic key by a virtual machine instance, one or more computer system entities within a computer system invoke one or more computer system capabilities at least to create one or more virtual hardware devices capable of representing or providing appropriate cryptographic keys. The virtual hardware devices are connected to the machine instance under the control of the computer system so that the encrypted system volumes may be used. After the cryptographic key is no longer needed, it is detached from the machine instance. |
| US10078753B2 |
Advanced threat protection cross-product security controller
A system for securing electronic devices includes a processor, non-transitory machine readable storage medium communicatively coupled to the processor, and a security controller. The security controller includes computer-executable instructions on the medium that are readable by the processor. The security controller is configured to determine a suspicious file from a client using security applications, identify whether the suspicious file has been encountered by other clients using the security applications, calculate a time range for which the suspicious file has been present on the clients, determine resources accessed by the suspicious file during the time range, and create a visualization of the suspicious file, a relationship between the suspicious file and the clients, the time range, and the resources accessed by the suspicious file during the time range. |
| US10078752B2 |
Continuous malicious software identification through responsive machine learning
A security system and method secures and responds to security threats in a computer having a CPU, a Kernel/OS, and software applications. A low-level data collector intercepts a selection of first tier calls between the CPU and Kernel/OS, and stores associated first tier call IDs. A Kernel module intercepts a selection of second tier calls between applications and the Kernel/OS, and stores associated second tier call IDs. An Analytic Engine maps the stored first and second tier call IDs to a rulebase containing patterns of security threats, to generate a threat analysis, and then responds to the threat analysis. The Analytic Engine enlarges or contracts the selection of first and second tier calls to increase or decrease specificity of the threat analysis. A Management Module generates user interfaces accessible remotely by a user device, to update the rulebase and configure the low-level collector, the Kernel module, and the Analytic Engine. |
| US10078749B2 |
Authentication and control of encryption keys
An apparatus, a method, and a system are presented in which the apparatus includes an interface control circuit that may be configured to receive a message including a cryptographic keyword and a policy value. The policy value may include one or more data bits indicative of one or more policies that define allowable usage of the cryptographic keyword. The apparatus also includes a security circuit that may be configured to extract the cryptographic keyword and the policy value from the message, and to apply at least one policy of the one or more policies to usage of the cryptographic keyword in response to a determination that an authentication of the message succeeded. |
| US10078748B2 |
Unlock and recovery for encrypted devices
A computing device can perform operations to unlock encrypted volumes of the computing device while the computing device is in a recovery environment. In some examples, the computing device can work in conjunction with a test computing device to unlock the encrypted volumes using an unlock token and a PIN. In other examples, the computing device can perform operations without a test computing device. For example, the computing device can, while in the recovery environment, use credentials associated with a user of the computing device to obtain a recovery password to unlock keys for interpreting the encrypted volumes. In some examples, the computing device can use a shortened recovery password in conjunction with anti-hammering capabilities of a Trusted Platform Module in order to unlock keys for interpreting the encrypted volumes. These and other operations can facilitate secure unlock of volumes of encrypted data on a consumer device. |
| US10078743B1 |
Cross identification of users in cyber space and physical world
A method for using a user device. The method includes obtaining, during a fingerprint learning phase, a historical portion of user activity data associated with user activity of a user using the user device, analyzing, by a computer processor of the user device, the historical portion to generate a fingerprint of the user, wherein the fingerprint represents characteristics of the user activity, obtaining, during a fingerprint matching phase subsequent to the fingerprint learning phase, an ongoing portion of the user activity data, analyzing, by the computer processor and based on the fingerprint, the ongoing portion to determine a match, wherein the match is determined at a time point within the fingerprint matching phase, and unlocking, by the computer processor and in response to determining the match, a locked data item for access, therein the locked data item is stored on the user device. The locked data item is associated to the user owning, assigned to, or normally and legitimately using the user device. In one embodiment, once unlocked the data item can be used to authenticate the user associated to it, i.e., the user owning, assigned to, or normally and legitimately using the user device on which the data item is stored. |
| US10078741B2 |
Two-way authentication in single password with agent
Systems and methods for enabling user authentication using a first computing device (e.g., a tablet computer) for providing user credentials including an obfuscated password to an application server for authenticating the user credentials and a second computing device different from the first computing device (e.g., a mobile phone) for generating the obfuscated password are described. In some cases, the first computing device may request a login page for accessing a protected resource (e.g., an electronic file) from the application server, which may generate a user specific grid for the login page and send the login page including the user specific grid to the first computing device. The user specific grid may include a plurality of symbols (e.g., alphanumeric characters) associated with a password. The second computing device may generate the obfuscated password using the plurality of symbols entered by a user of the second computing device. |
| US10078740B2 |
Method to fetch functionality across applications
A method and system for fetching functionalities across various user interfaces and providing, for execution, instructions to invoke a function that is not present at a particular user interface are disclosed. The method implemented in the system can include receiving i) data identifying a first function associated with a first user interface, and ii) instructions for invoking the first function in one or more user interfaces; receiving, from a second user interface, a request for invoking the first function; selecting, using a processor, an instruction configured to invoke the first function in the second user interface; transmitting the instruction to the second user interface; and invoking, using the transmitted instruction, the first function in an application associated with the second user interface. |
| US10078737B2 |
System and method for securely retrieving and playing digital media
A system for securely downloading and playing coherent digital content such as music and preventing its play by unauthorized users. The system may include mass server/storage devices for receiving and storing digital content having predetermined gaps; and client devices communicating with the server/storage devices, and providing authorization to proceed. During playing of the digital content by the client devices, the missing gaps may be filled into the appropriate places, to allow the play of the coherent digital content. |
| US10078733B2 |
System and methods for nutrition monitoring
An apparatus comprising a natural language processor, a mapper, a string comparator, a nutrient calculator, and a diet planning module, the diet planning module configured to generate a diet action control, the diet action control comprising instructions to operate the client device to perform a diet change recommendation on the client device, and apply the diet action control to the client device. |
| US10078730B2 |
Point-of-care testing system
A point of care (POC) testing system and a method for configuration of a POC testing system are disclosed that provide a workflow solution for the configuration management of POC analyzers. The POC system and method provide for convenient assisted workflows that enable efficient replacement of POC analyzers and enable traceable relocation of POC analyzers within, for example, a hospital. |
| US10078725B2 |
Methods and techniques for collecting, reporting and managing ionizing radiation dose
Provided is a method of collecting and managing information relating to medical diagnostic procedures which includes collecting objective information about a plurality of procedures and subjective information about the results of those procedures. The objective information provides information about the parameters of the procedure and the patient who underwent the procedure while the subjective information includes an assessment of the quality of the results of the procedure. This information can be stored in a database. The database can be accessed and the information therein used in connection with understanding the results of past procedures and planning for future procedures. |
| US10078717B1 |
Systems and methods for estimating performance characteristics of hardware implementations of executable models
Systems and methods automatically generate optimized hardware description language code for a model created in a modeling environment. A training tool selects and provides scripts to a hardware synthesis tool chain that direct the tool chain to synthesize hardware components for core components of the modeling environment. A report generated by the tool chain is evaluated to extract performance data for the core components, and the performance data is stored in a library. An optimization tool estimates the performance of the model using the performance data in the library. Based on the performance estimate and an analysis of the model, the optimization tool selects an optimization technique which it applies to the model generating a revised. Estimating performance, and selecting and applying optimizations may be repeated until a performance constraint is satisfied or a termination criterion is met. |
| US10078712B2 |
Digital proxy simulation of robotic hardware
A computer-implemented method, computer program product, and computing system is provided for a digital proxy simulation of robotic hardware. In an implementation, a method may include creating a digital proxy simulation for a robotic hardware wherein the digital simulation and the robotic hardware may share a network interface. a user may be provided with an option to switch between the robotic hardware and the digital proxy simulation. The switch may be executed, upon receiving a user selection, between the robotic hardware and the digital proxy simulation, wherein executing the switch includes transferring input and output signals between the digital proxy simulation and the robotic hardware. |
| US10078710B2 |
Distributed data set storage and analysis reproducibility
An apparatus includes a processor and a storage storing instructions causing the processor to: maintain a federated area; receive a request to perform a job flow with a data set from a remote device; retrieve a job flow definition specifying the tasks of the job flow from the federated area; determine whether there is an instance log in the federated area generated by a previous performance of the job flow with the data set; in response to there being such an instance log, retrieve the version specified in the instance log of each task routine for each task from the federated area; in response to there being no such instance log, retrieve the most recent version of each task routine; perform the job flow with the retrieved versions of the task routines and the data set to generate a result report; and provide the result report to the remote device. |
| US10078707B2 |
Digital image and content display systems and methods
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for displaying images and contextually relevant content on a digital content platform, such as a web page. In one embodiment, for example, the systems and methods include receiving a request for content call from an end-user device, identifying content that is contextually relevant to the image, delivering the content to the end-user device, and delivering a computer-readable instruction that causes the end-user device to perform an animation that displays the content in a spatial relationship with respect to the image as originally published. The spatial relationship is defined such that the content appears to be displayed on a backside of the image. |
| US10078701B2 |
Associating related threads in a question and answer session
A computer detects a question from a participant and determines whether the question is marked to be directed to a particular participant. If marked, the question is directed towards the particular participant, otherwise the question is transmitted to all participants of the web conference. If the computer does not detect an answer to the question from a participant, the participants are reminded of the unanswered question. If the computer detects an answer from a participant, the computer determines whether the answer has been marked by the answering participant as related to another question and answer thread. The computer moves the question and answer to the related thread if marked as related, otherwise the question and answer are saved as a new thread. The entirety of the web conference threads are then saved by the computer in an organized database. |
| US10078699B2 |
Field mappings for properties to facilitate object inheritance
A method includes receiving a request for a property of an object, where the property has a property type and includes a property value and a property name, and the property does not conform to a property specification for the property type. The method also includes determining a field mapping for the property of the object, where the field mapping is derived from the property specification, and accessing the property of the object. The method further includes modifying the property of the object according to the field mapping. The method also includes providing as a response to the request the property of the object as modified according to the field mapping. |
| US10078698B2 |
Identifying client states
A method for identifying client states, receives a set of paths representative of a document object model (DOM) associated with a web page of a rich internet application and for each path in the set of paths received, extracts a subtree, as subtree X, for a current path. The method traverses all known sub-paths under the current path and delete corresponding subtrees from subtree X and reads contents of and determines states of subtree X to form a state X. The state X is added to a set of current states and responsive to a determination no more paths exist, returns the set of current states of the rich internet application. |
| US10078696B1 |
Relevant social searching and user centric data analysis via user and peer group parameters via a dynamic interface
A system and method that enables the user to search and identify meaningful and relevant information, based upon the weighted, custom parameters provided by the user and parameters or rules defined by the community of users as a group, with the option of utilizing user profile information to tune or detune searching, comparing or contrasting, and predicting. User profile information is collected and organized with data and feedback collected from other users. The results are then tailored to a weighted, cumulative summary result, for display that benefits the contributing user and subsequent future community or user group associations (UGA). The methods provide a summary, or result, that can be tailored specifically to the user based upon weighted rules (algorithms) and parameters defined by the user (or a user group as a whole), and the weighted rules and parameters defined as meaningful by the user (group). |
| US10078690B2 |
Method and device for presenting content
It is provided a method for triggering an action on a second device. It comprises the steps of obtaining audio of a multimedia content presented on a first device; comparing the obtained audio with reference audio data in a database; if finding the obtained audio exists in the database containing reference audio, determining an action corresponding to the matched reference audio; and triggering the action in the second device. |
| US10078689B2 |
Labeling/naming of themes
The disclosed solution uses machine learning-based methods to improve the knowledge extraction process in a specific domain or business environment. By formulizing a specific company's internal knowledge and terminology, the ontology programming accounts for linguistic meaning to surface relevant and important content for analysis. For example, the disclosed ontology programming adapts to the language used in a specific domain, including linguistic patterns and properties, such as word order, relationships between terms, and syntactical variations. Based on the self-training mechanism developed by the inventors, the ontology programming automatically trains itself to understand the domain or environment of the communication data by processing and analyzing a defined corpus of communication data. |
| US10078688B2 |
Evaluating text classifier parameters based on semantic features
Systems and methods for evaluating text classifier parameters based on semantic features. An example method comprises: performing a semantico-syntactic analysis of a natural language text of a corpus of natural language texts to produce a semantic structure representing a set of semantic classes; identifying a natural language text feature to be extracted using a set of values of a plurality of feature extraction parameters; partitioning the corpus of natural language texts into a training data set comprising a first plurality of natural language texts and a validation data set comprising a second plurality of natural language texts; determining, in view of the category of the training data set, the set of values of the feature extraction parameters; validating the set of values of the feature extraction parameters using the validation data set. |
| US10078687B2 |
Deletion of elements from a probabilistic data structure
A computer system receives a request to remove an entry from a probabilistic data structure. In response to the request, the computer system queries the probabilistic data structure to determine a current iteration value for the entry within the probabilistic data structure. The current iteration value indicates a state of the entry such that a first state corresponds to the entry being a member of a set and a second state corresponds to the absence of the entry from the set. As a result of the current iteration value denoting that the entry is a member of the set, the computer system increments the current iteration value to generate a new iteration value that corresponds to the absence of the entry from the set. The computer system uses the new iteration value and the entry to generate a new output value that is then added to the probabilistic data structure. |
| US10078686B2 |
Combination filter for search query suggestions
There is disclosed a method and a system for generating a search query completion suggestion. The method comprises receiving at least a portion of a search query and determining a first query component therein. A suggested second query component related to the first query component is generated, the search query completion suggestion containing the first query component and the suggested second query component. A list of potentially banned words is accessed to determine if the first query component matches any of the potentially banned words maintained therein. It is then determined if the potentially banned word is associated with a ban marker or an unban marker. A list of ban or unban markers respectively is accessed to determine if the suggested second query component matches any of the ban or unban markers maintained therein, the search query completion suggestion being generated or not generated accordingly. |
| US10078680B2 |
Method for streaming transactions in database cluster
A method for use in a database cluster is provided. A transaction is received at a first node of the database cluster. The transaction is executed at the first node, wherein the transaction produces a plurality of replication events. The plurality of replication events of the transaction are divided into a plurality of fragments, each of which comprises one or more replication events. Subsequently, a set of fragment-specific parameters is assigned to each of the plurality of fragments. The plurality of fragments are then communicated to a second node of the database cluster, one by one, as soon as they are prepared in the first node. A transaction is established in the second node to apply the arriving fragments. With this streaming replication method, the replication of the transaction in the first node, can begin early, before the transaction commits in the first node. This will even out the delay of large transaction replication. |
| US10078679B1 |
Verifying the validity and status of data from disparate sources
Resolving a discrepancy between disparate data sources is disclosed. Listing data for an item for sale is received from a plurality of disparate data sources. The listing data is compared with reliable listing data from a reliable data source. It is determined whether there is a discrepancy between the listing data and the reliable listing data. In the event there is a discrepancy between the listing data and the reliable listing data, at least a portion of the listing data is filtered. |
| US10078669B2 |
Data compression system
The system includes a correlation extraction means for extracting at least one candidate for a correlation from a collected given data set, based on a relationship between units of data in the given data set; a correlation verification means for verifying whether or not the units of data in the given data set satisfy the correlation extracted by the correlation extraction means; and a data compression means for compressing the given data set with use of the correlation, based on the result of verification by the correlation verification means. |
| US10078667B2 |
Normalizing non-numeric features of files
Embodiments include method, computer program products and apparatuses for normalizing non-numeric features of files and corresponding apparatus. Aspects include segmenting at least one pair of positive instances of a non-numeric feature of a file into a number of tokens and -comparing the tokens in the at least one pair of positive instances to obtain matching tokens. Aspects also include calculating weights of their matching the file, for the matching tokens, and storing the tokens and their weights in a token base. |
| US10078666B2 |
Normalizing non-numeric features of files
Embodiments include method, computer program products and apparatuses for normalizing non-numeric features of files and corresponding apparatus. Aspects include segmenting at least one pair of positive instances of a non-numeric feature of a file into a number of tokens and comparing the tokens in the at least one pair of positive instances to obtain matching tokens. Aspects also include calculating weights of their matching the file, for the matching tokens, and storing the tokens and their weights in a token base. |
| US10078664B2 |
Searching for and finding data across industrial time series data
A system and method for searching for and finding data across industrial time-series data is disclosed. A computer system receives a search query from a client system. The computer system accesses a database including a plurality of stored time-series data sets. For each stored time-series data set, the computer system determines whether the stored time-series data set includes one or more sections that match the received search query. In accordance with a determination that two or more of stored time-series data sets include at least one section that matches the received search query, the computer system determines whether the matching sections in each stored time-series data set have overlapping time periods. In accordance with a determination that the matching sections in each time-series data set have overlapping time periods, the computer system identifies a particular event that occurred during the overlapping time periods. |
| US10078661B1 |
Relevance model for session search
A session search relevance model identifies a user's dynamic information need based on a feedback model and a session relevance model. The feedback model is based on query changes in the session search and user interest in particular documents presented throughout the session search. The relevance model modifies a user's current query to retrieve documents most relevant to a user's information need. |
| US10078660B2 |
Methods and systems for presenting online content elements based on information known to a service provider
Methods and systems for presenting online content elements based on information known to a service provider. One of the methods is a method for presenting online content at a communication apparatus, the communication apparatus being assigned an identifier. The method comprises: obtaining information that pertains to a profile associated with the identifier and provided by a service provider involved in assigning the identifier to the communication apparatus; determining an online content element to be presented at the communication apparatus based on the information; and causing the communication apparatus to present the online content element. Another one of the methods is a method for facilitating determination of online content to be presented at a communication apparatus. Servers for implementing the methods are also provided. |
| US10078658B2 |
Systems and methods for electronic data distribution
A computer-implemented method is disclosed that comprises receiving, at a data provider computing system, a data contribution from a client device associated with a user, and based on the received data contribution, determining a user identifier that uniquely identifies the user. The method comprises performing a data validation operation to validate the data contribution. The method comprises, based on validating the data contribution, storing the data contribution in association with the user identifier. Further, the method comprises receiving a data request from a data consuming system. Based on the data request, the stored data contribution is identified and distributed to the data consuming system. Based on distribution of the data contribution to the data consuming system, a distribution value associated with the data contribution is generated. An indication of the distribution value is stored in association with the user identifier. |
| US10078657B2 |
Detection of data replication consistency
A method, system, and computer program product for detecting consistency between first and second data replicas is provided. Detecting consistency between data replicas includes acquiring first characteristic information of a first data replica and second characteristic information of a second data replica, the first and second characteristic information being associated with keys of the respective first and second data replicas. Detecting consistency between data replicas further include determining, based on a predetermined threshold value of a number of determination times, whether the first characteristic information is identical to the second characteristic information of the second data replica. In response to the determining that the first characteristic information and the second characteristic information are identical, whether the first data replica is consistent with the second data replica may then be confirmed. |
| US10078656B1 |
Unmodifiable data in a storage service
An object-based data storage system receives a request to create a logical data container subject to a condition that data objects are to be unmodifiable until after a specified amount of time has transpired. During the amount of time, the object-based data storage system may deny any requests to modify the data objects stored in the logical data container while allowing read-only access to the data objects. After the amount of time has transpired, the object-based data storage system may be configured to allow a customer to modify or delete any data objects stored within the logical data container. Alternatively, the object-based data storage system may be configured to delete the data objects automatically after the amount of time has transpired for the data objects. |
| US10078655B2 |
Reconciling sensor data in a database
A computer-implemented method for storing and reconciling in a database sensor data from a plurality of sensors, the method comprising: repetitively receiving data sets for the plurality of sensors, each data set comprising sensor data detected by at least one of the plurality of sensors from a source during a sensing event, wherein a source identifier identifies the source, a sensor identifier identifies the at least one of the plurality of sensors, and wherein the sensor identifiers of at least two of the received data sets are different from each other, while both data sets comprise the same source identifier. |
| US10078644B1 |
Apparatus and methods for manipulating multicamera content using content proxy
Content proxy may be obtained. Content may include video captured by an action camera. Content proxy may include metadata information obtained contemporaneous with the content and stored in a session container. Content proxy may include lower data rate version of the content (thumbnails). Content proxy information may be viewed and/or analyzed in order to obtain one or more highlights. Content portion corresponding to the highlight may be obtained. Multiple versions of content proxy obtained by multiple cameras may be used to identify, display, and/or share content portions in a multi-camera/multiuser applications. |
| US10078639B1 |
Cluster file system comprising data mover modules having associated quota manager for managing back-end user quotas
A cluster file system comprises a front-end file system, a back-end file system, data mover modules arranged between the front-end and back-end file systems, and a quota manager associated with at least a given one of data mover modules. The data mover modules are configured to control archiving of data between the front-end file system and the back-end file system for respective users based at least in part on respective user quotas established by the quota manager and identifying corresponding portions of the back-end file system available to the users. The front-end file system may comprise archive directories configured for respective ones of the users, with the data mover modules being configured to archive a given file from the front-end file system in the back-end file system responsive to a link to that file being stored in a corresponding one of the archive directories of the front-end file system. |
| US10078636B2 |
Providing a human-sense perceivable representation of an aspect of an event
A method and system presents a sensory trait to a person for providing a human-sense perceivable representation of an aspect of an event. Information associated with an event can be received which has a first aspect being perceivable by a human via a first human sense at a distance from the event. A second aspect of the event is imperceivable by the human via a second human sense at the distance from the event. A query can be sent to a database for a representation of the first aspect of the event. A response to the query can be received which identifies the representation of the second aspect. The representation of the second aspect can be outputted in a manner that is perceivable by the human via the second human sense, while the human perceives the first aspect via the first human sense at the distance from the event. |
| US10078630B1 |
Multilingual content management
Disclosed aspects relate to multilingual content management. A set of language usage data for a set of languages may be ingested from a set of mobile computing devices by a multilingual content management engine. A language profile for a group of users that indicates relative usage of the set of languages with respect to the group of users by may determined by the multilingual content management engine using the set of language usage data for the set of languages. A multilingual message may be generated based on the language profile for the group of users by the multilingual content management engine. The multilingual message may be provided to the group of users by the multilingual content management engine. |
| US10078629B2 |
Tabular data compilation
One or more table content documents (TCDs) can be constructed for a set of tabular data or portion thereof. A set of query features corresponding to a question can be matched to one or more TCDs. A respective candidate answer can be generated for each of the one or more TCDs having a set of features matching the set of query features above a threshold. Zero or more candidate answers can be output to a user consumable data object. |
| US10078628B2 |
Annotation-based dependency calculations
Media, method and system for creating software capable of performing the steps necessary to prepare a complex form, and more particularly to the use of annotations to specify dependency information for the fields of the form. Embodiments of the invention break down the logic of complex forms into the much simpler logic of individual form fields, greatly simplifying the implementation of the overall logic by allowing individual fields to be worked on independently, with clear delineation of structure and function between them. Embodiments of the invention further allow a user to specify the immediate precursors for a field, and then automatically determine a global calculation order for all fields that ensures that all of the precursor fields for each field being calculated have been previously calculated before that field is calculated. |
| US10078626B1 |
Automated layout testing of content
Described herein are systems and methods for automatically verifying layout of content such as web pages, e-books, and so forth which comprise a markup language. The content is rendered in a headless browser without presentation to a display to generate a document object model (“DOM”) for the content. The DOM is used to generate a DOM vector array which may be analyzed to determine layout errors such as blocks of content overlaying one another, improper placement of critical elements, and so forth. |
| US10078625B1 |
Indexing stored documents based on removed unique values
Embodiments provide techniques for identifying unique data elements in data record, removing the unique data elements from the record, storing the record, and employing the removed, unique data as a key in an index into the data storage. When the record is retrieved based on the key in the index, the removed unique data elements is restored. Removal of the unique data elements from the records may enable more efficient compression of the records using compression algorithms that employ an external reference dictionary. In some embodiments, a combination of multiple, removed data elements may be employed as a key. In some embodiments, the removal and use of the unique data as an index key proceeds in a manner that is transparent to the data consuming user, process, or device. |
| US10078623B2 |
Hyperlink with graphical cue
A system, method, and computer program product are provided for causing display of a first set of representations of a first set of hyperlinks. In operation, a first input from a user is received indicating a selection of one of the first set of hyperlink representations and causes, in response to receiving the first input, display of a second set of representations of a second set of hyperlinks. Further, a second input from the user is received indicating a selection of one of the second set of hyperlink representations, and causes, in response to receiving the second input, navigation to a destination specified by the selected one of the second set of hyperlink representations. |
| US10078622B2 |
Image processing apparatus capable of merging character strings with original image, control method therefor, and storage medium
An image processing apparatus which is capable of merging character strings with an original image without causing garbling. A first storage unit stores first character codes corresponding to a first language in accordance with administrator's input. A second storage unit stores a second character codes corresponding to a second character in accordance with login user's input. A reading unit reads an original image in accordance with login user's input. A generation unit generates a first character image corresponding to the first language on the basis of the first character codes and generates a second character image corresponding to the second language on the basis of the second character codes. A printing unit carries out a printing process based on the first character image, the second character image and the original image. |
| US10078618B2 |
Accessing shared content using collaboration attribute partitioning
Systems for managing shared content in a cloud-based service platform. A method commences upon identifying one or more storage devices that store one or more content objects. The storage devices may be partitioned into geographically distant locations. A first partition in one geography is associated with a first set of content objects and a second partition is associated with a second set of content objects. An inviter-collaborator generates a set of outgoing collaboration attributes pertaining to a shared content object from the first partition. The outgoing collaboration attributes are stored on the inviter's partition. An invitee-collaborator accepts the invitation and generates a set of incoming collaboration attributes that derive from the set of outgoing collaboration attributes. The set of incoming collaboration attributes are stored on the invitee's partition. The invitations can be sent and received through operation of a web application that facilitates offering invitations and acceptance of those invitations. |
| US10078614B2 |
Systems and methods of data transfer
Data transfer between a data storage device and a peripheral device bypasses an application processor that is coupled to the data storage device and to the peripheral device. In one embodiment, the data storage device includes a memory controller configured to receive, from an application processor, a message indicating a set of logical addresses and a data transfer identifier corresponding to the set of logical addresses. The memory controller is responsive to a request for memory access that includes the data transfer identifier and that is received from a peripheral device. The memory controller is configured to respond to the request by performing a memory access operation based on the set of logical addresses. |
| US10078611B1 |
Smart handling of input/output interrupts
Aspects include computing devices and methods implemented by computing devices for smart of handling input/output interrupts associated with device setting levels. Various aspects may include receiving a hardware input/output interrupt from a hardware interface, updating an adjusted feature setting level, determining whether the adjusted feature setting level equals a feature setting level limit, and changing an interrupt service routine address stored at a first location of a hardware input/output register corresponding with an interrupt service routine associated with the hardware input/output interrupt to a first data in response to determining that the adjusted feature setting level of the computing device equals the adjusted feature setting level limit. |
| US10078610B2 |
System and method for optimized thermal control for management controller offline
An information handling system (IHS) includes functional components that are housed within a chassis and interconnected in a configuration of one or more servers to operate as a fully functional IHS. An infrastructure system includes a power throttle module to limit power usage by the functional components and/or a fan module to cool the functional components. An access controller is provided in communication with a sensor which dynamically receives data related to a thermal load that is created by the functional components. A management controller responds to the data being available by controlling the infrastructure system to operate at a level that corresponds to the thermal load indicated by the data. In response to going offline, the management controller controls the infrastructure system to operate at an upper level that corresponds to an estimated thermal load predicated on an in-system power characterization of the configuration of the functional computer components. |
| US10078609B1 |
Virtualizing a non-USB device as a USB device
A non-USB device can be virtualized as a USB device. When a non-USB device is connected to a client terminal, a filter driver can be employed to cause the non-USB device to be treated as a USB device to thereby allow the device to be redirected using USB device redirection techniques. When an I/O request is sent to the redirected device, the request will be in USB format since the server-side components will view the redirected device as a USB device. Then, the I/O request can be converted from the USB format into a format suitable for the non-USB device. Any response generated by the non-USB device can be converted to USB format in a similar manner. As a result, non-USB devices can be redirected without altering any of the existing server-side VDI components. |
| US10078607B2 |
Buffer management method and apparatus for universal serial bus communication in wireless environment
The present disclosure provides a method for managing buffers of a device for Universal Serial Bus (USB) communication in a wireless environment. The method includes determining respective current data storage levels of transmit buffers that store different types of data for USB communication; comparing the respective current data storage levels of the transmit buffers with corresponding respective predetermined threshold levels; and controlling an input rate or output rate of a first transmit buffer if it is determined based on the comparison that the first transmit buffer has a current data storage level that exceeds a predetermined threshold level. |
| US10078605B2 |
Multiple-interrupt propagation scheme in a network ASIC
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to a multiple-interrupt propagation scheme, which is an automated mechanism for the specification and creation of interrupts. Interrupts originating at leaf nodes of a network chip are categorized into different service levels according to their interrupt types and are propagated to a master of the network chip via a manager. For each interrupt, depending on its service level, the manager either instantaneously propagates the interrupt or delays propagation of the interrupt to the master. The master forwards the interrupts to different destinations. A destination can be a processing element that is located on the network chip or externally on a different chip. |
| US10078604B1 |
Interrupt coalescing
In an embodiment of the invention, a method comprises: collecting a plurality of interrupts and servicing coalesced active interrupts to a processor if an interrupt count limit has occurred or if a timeout count has expired. In another embodiment of the invention, an apparatus comprises: an interrupt controller configured to collect a plurality of interrupts and configured to service coalesced active interrupts to a processor if an interrupt count limit has occurred or if a timeout count has expired. In yet another embodiment of the invention, an article of manufacture comprises: a non-transient computer-readable medium having stored thereon instructions that permit a method comprising: collecting a plurality of interrupts and servicing coalesced active interrupts to a processor if an interrupt count limit has occurred or if a timeout count has expired. |
| US10078603B2 |
MSI events using dynamic memory monitoring
A method and system for managing message-signaled interrupt-based events sent from an event source to a host or a guest is disclosed. A central processing unit instructs an event source to write a message-signaled interrupt to a designated address of a random access memory of the host. The host or a guest of the central processing unit executes a memory monitoring instruction to the designated address. The host or the guest enters a wait state. The host or the guest detects a write of the message-signaled interrupt by the event source to the designated address, the message-signaled interrupt comprising data items pertaining to an event to be performed. The host or the guest exits from the wait state. The host or the guest performs an atomic operation with respect to the event based on the data items in the message-signaled interrupt. |
| US10078602B2 |
Information processing apparatus, memory controller, and memory control method
An information processing apparatus includes: a memory device configured to store data; an arithmetic processor configured to issue a request to be transmitted to the memory device; and a memory controller including: a buffer configured to store one or more unselected requests that are issued by the arithmetic processing processor and are not selected; a history register configured to hold one or more addresses for one or more transmitted requests that have been transmitted to the memory device; and a selection unit configured to select, from the one or more unselected requests stored in the buffer, a target request to be transmitted to the memory device based on the one or more addresses stored in the history register and transmit the target request to the memory device. |
| US10078592B2 |
Resolving multi-core shared cache access conflicts
Preventing request conflicts within microprocessors and/or computer systems. More particularly, embodiments of the invention relate to a technique to manage request conflicts within a processor and/or computer system in which a number of accesses may be made to a particular cache or group of caches shared amongst a set of cores or processors or agents. |
| US10078589B2 |
Enforcing data protection in an interconnect
Interconnect circuitry and a method of operating the interconnect circuitry are provided, where the interconnect circuitry is suitable to couple at least two master devices to a memory, each comprising a local cache. Any access to the memory mediated by the interconnect circuitry is policed by a memory protection controller situated between the interconnect circuitry and the memory. The interconnect circuitry modifies a coherency type associated with a memory transaction received from one of the master devices to a type which ensures that when a modified version of a copy of a transaction target specified by the issuing master device is stored in a local cache of another master device an access to the transaction target in the memory must take place and therefore must be policed by the memory protection controller. |
| US10078588B2 |
Using leases for entries in a translation lookaside buffer
The described embodiments include a computing device with two or more translation lookaside buffers (TLB) that performs operations for handling entries in the TLBs. During operation, the computing device maintains lease values for entries in the TLBs, the lease values representing times until leases for the entries expire, wherein a given entry in the TLB is invalid when the associated lease has expired. The computing device uses the lease value to control operations that are allowed to be performed using information from the entries in the TLBs. In addition, the computing device maintains, in a page table, longest lease values for page table entries indicating when corresponding longest leases for entries in TLBs expire. The longest lease values are used to determine when and if a TLB shootdown is to be performed. |
| US10078586B2 |
Out-of-range reference detection device, method, and recording medium
An out-of-range reference detection method according to an exemplary aspect of the invention includes: acquiring a mask value corresponding to a base address register number of a predetermined effective address from a mask value storage unit storing correspondence relationships between the base address register number of a base address register storing a base address of a segment and the mask value showing a size of a memory that can be continuously referred to from the base address, determining whether or not the effective address is outside the range of the mask value, and outputting a result of the determination. |
| US10078585B2 |
Creating a dynamic address translation with translation exception qualifiers
An enhanced dynamic address translation facility product is created such that, in one embodiment, a virtual address to be translated and an initial origin address of a translation table of the hierarchy of translation tables are obtained. Dynamic address translation of the virtual address proceeds. In response to a translation interruption having occurred during dynamic address translation, bits are stored in a translation exception qualifier (TXQ) field to indicate that the exception was either a host DAT exception having occurred while running a host program or a host DAT exception having occurred while running a guest program. The TXQ is further capable of indicating that the exception was associated with a host virtual address derived from a guest page frame real address or a guest segment frame absolute address. The TXQ is further capable of indicating that a larger or smaller host frame size is preferred to back a guest frame. |
| US10078581B2 |
Processor with instruction cache that performs zero clock retires
A method of retiring cache lines from a response buffer array to an icache array of a processor including providing sequential addresses to the icache array and to a response buffer array during successive clock cycles, detecting a first address hitting the response buffer array during a first clock cycle, during a second clock cycle that follows the first clock cycle, performing a first zero clock retire to write a first cache line from the response buffer array to the icache array, and during the second clock cycle, bypassing a second address which is one of the sequential addresses. The second address is bypassed given the assumption that it will likely hit the response buffer array in a subsequent cycle. If the second address missed the response buffer array, the bypassed address is replayed with a slight time penalty, which is outweighed by the time savings of zero clock retires. |
| US10078580B2 |
Operations to avoid wrapped mobile application operational errors due to interference from wrapper logic components
A method on a processor of an application wrapper computer includes, for each of a plurality of features of an application program in an application package, associating a wrapper component with the feature, identifying a location of the feature in the application program, and identifying from a portion of the application program at the location whether the feature will have an operational error during execution responsive to a request from the feature for access to a resource of a user device being blocked by the wrapper component. For each of the plurality of features, the method further responds to an operational error being identified by identifying content of an acceptable response to the request to avoid the operational error, and modifying the wrapper component to provide the content of the acceptable response to the request when the wrapper component is blocking the request from accessing the resource. |
| US10078578B2 |
Analytically selecting which tests are to be executed in a continuous delivery process
A method, system and computer program product for analytically selecting which tests are to be executed in a continuous delivery process. An analytics processing system constructs a code dependency tree to analyze the tests that are affected by changes in code after a new build is generated. After analyzing the code dependency tree, the system eliminates those tests in the code dependency tree that do not depend on the changed code. The system then analyzes the historical execution records for those tests that have not been eliminated for execution to obtain an execution rate and a failure rate for those tests. A score is generated for each of the tests from the code dependency tree that were not eliminated for execution based on the historical execution rate and failure rate of the test. Tests that have a score that exceeds a threshold are included for execution. |
| US10078574B2 |
Methods and systems for isolating software components
A software testing system operative to test a software application comprising a plurality of software components, at least some of which are highly coupled hence unable to support a dependency injection, each software component operative to perform a function, the system comprising apparatus for at least partially isolating, from within the software application, at least one highly coupled software component which performs a given function, and apparatus for testing at least the at least partially isolated highly coupled software component. |
| US10078572B1 |
Abnormal timing breakpoints
Embodiments of the present invention provide a system, method, and program product for an abnormal timing breakpoints. A computer determines a code section, wherein the code section is part of computer code edited by a user. The computer determines an expected timeframe and an expected count for the code section, wherein the expected timeframe represents a predicted time to execute the code section, and wherein the expected execution count represent a predicted number of executions of the code section. The computer determines that an execution of the code section is abnormal based on one or more of: determining a current execution time is greater than the expected timeframe, and determining a current execution count is greater than the expected count. The computer halting the execution of the code section based on determining that the execution of the code section is abnormal and displays the abnormal code section. |
| US10078568B1 |
Debugging a computing device
A system includes a host debugger to carry out a debugging flow on a computing device and a debug controller to couple the host debugger to the computing device. The debug controller receives a bit stream from the host debugger, converts the incoming bit stream into a command according to a protocol, determines whether the command is a first-stage read command or a second-stage read command, and issues the first-stage read command to a data path of the computing device. If the command is a second-stage read command, the debug controller causes a reservation register of the debug controller to provide a data value or status indication to the host debugger through the interface. The reservation register contains read data returned by the first-stage read command and, in response to the second-stage read command, provides a status indication when the first-stage read command has not yet returned read data. |
| US10078567B2 |
Implementing fault tolerance in computer system memory
A method of implementing fault tolerance in computer memory includes translating a logical address to a first physical address for a first memory location in the computer memory. The computer memory includes redundant memory locations. A second memory location selected from the redundant memory locations is used instead of the first memory location in response to information characterizing the first memory location as faulty. Also, error correction coding (ECC) is performed at least two times on data written to the computer memory and read from the computer memory; the ECC is performed in the computer memory and outside the computer memory. Furthermore, in response to identifying a defective first pin on a memory module, an input from the defective pin is routed to a redundant second pin on the module, and an output from the second pin is routed to a destination on the memory module. |
| US10078565B1 |
Error recovery for redundant processing circuits
Methods and circuits are disclosed for error recovery in redundant processing systems. Respective instances of a software program are executed in lockstep on redundant processing circuits. Using a control circuit, in response to detecting a non-fatal error, an interrupt is generated and non-functioning ones of the processing circuits are disabled. The interrupt is serviced using the functional processing circuits operating in lockstep. In servicing the interrupt, a processing state of the processing circuits is stored and a reset of the processing circuits is triggered. Following the reset, the processing circuits are configured to operate in lockstep. The state of the processing circuits is restored to the stored processing state and a return from the interrupt is signaled. In response to the signaled return from interrupt, execution of the software program is resumed on the processing circuits in lockstep at a point at which the non-fatal error was detected. |
| US10078562B2 |
Transactional distributed lifecycle management of diverse application data structures
A state manager provides transactional distributed lifecycle management of a group of different application-level state providers, namely, differently structured application program data structures. The state providers are atomic with respect to one another. The state provider is replicated to one or more secondary nodes of a distributed network. The state providers are persistent despite one or more node operational failures. State provider lifecycle operations include creation of a transactional distributed state provider as a member of a group of different application-level state providers which include differently structured application program data structures, deletion of a previously created transactional distributed state provider, and/or enumeration of any previously created transactional distributed state providers. A given state provider may be read or written by one or more applications. Implementation restrictions and other avoidance conditions are satisfied in particular cases. |
| US10078560B2 |
Using run time and historical customer profiling and analytics to determine customer disaster recovery vs. production differences, and to enhance customer disaster recovery readiness and effectiveness
Aspects of the present invention include a method, system and computer program product. The method includes a processor setting one or more characteristics related to customer production; collecting customer production data; modeling a customer disaster recovery workload in relation to a corresponding customer production workload; collecting customer disaster recovery data; comparing the customer disaster recovery data to the customer production data; determining that at least one difference exists between the customer disaster recovery data and the customer production data; and determining from the at least one difference between the customer disaster recovery data and the customer production data, one or more ineffective customer disaster recovery resources and updating the one or more ineffective customer disaster recovery resources. |
| US10078559B2 |
System and method for input data fault recovery in a massively parallel real time computing system
A massively parallel real-time computing system receives input data events across many compute nodes, each with a processing algorithm in its processing pipeline. An Event Manager is placed before the algorithm processing pipelines, receives metadata about each incoming event, and collects and organizes it in a database. A fast histogram compares the metadata about each event to that of all the other events, in a processing interval. For sufficiently matching metadata, the events are forwarded to the processing nodes as “regular” events for processing. If the metadata for a processing interval does not match sufficiently, the histogram decides which events are the “correct” events and which events are “incorrect.” The “correct” events are sent on for processing and the “incorrect” events are combined with the “correct” metadata and sent back to the processing nodes to supplement or modify their incoming data to match the other nodes' expectations. |
| US10078551B2 |
Streaming engine with error detection, correction and restart
This invention is a streaming engine employed in a digital signal processor. A fixed data stream sequence including plural nested loops is specified by a control register. The streaming engine includes an address generator producing addresses of data elements and a steam head register storing data elements next to be supplied as operands. The streaming engine fetches stream data ahead of use by the central processing unit core in a stream buffer. Parity bits are formed upon storage of data in the stream buffer which are stored with the corresponding data. Upon transfer to the stream head register a second parity is calculated and compared with the stored parity. The streaming engine signals a parity fault if the parities do not match. The streaming engine preferably restarts fetching the data stream at the data element generating a parity fault. |
| US10078549B2 |
Maintaining hole boundary information for restoring snapshots from parity
Exemplary methods, apparatuses, and systems maintain hole boundary information by calculating a block attribute parity value. For example, a request is received to write to a first block of a stripe of data. A block attribute of a second block is determined. The block attribute of the second block indicates whether the second block includes written data or is a hole. A block attribute parity value is calculated based upon both the block attribute of the first block and the block attribute of the second block. The block attribute of the first block indicates the first block includes written data based upon the received request. The block attribute parity value and the data parity value are stored on one of the physical storage devices in response to the received write request. As a result, if a disk is lost, holes can be recovered using the block attribute parity value. |
| US10078548B2 |
Memory controller, semiconductor device and method of controlling semiconductor device
According to one embodiment, a memory controller controlling write to and read from a 3D NAND flash memory including a plurality of blocks, one block being constituted by a plurality of pages stacked in a depth direction includes a frame generator that generates frame data including an error detecting code or an error correcting code, and a frame divider that divides the frame data to generate a plurality of divided frames including a first divided frame and a second divided frame. The first divided frame and the second divided frame are written into different pages from one another. |
| US10078547B2 |
Predictive caching for check word snooping in high performance FICON
Technical solutions are described for computing data check word for a host request for an I/O processing operation at a host computer system that communicates with a control unit. An example method includes obtaining information for a first I/O operation at a channel subsystem in the host computer system, and accessing an address control word (ACW) of the first I/O operation. The ACW is stored in the local channel memory, and the ACW includes a first data check seed-value. The method also includes computing a first data check word based on the first data check seed-value from the ACW. The method also includes obtaining information for a second I/O operation at the channel subsystem, and in response to the second i/o operation corresponding to said ACW of the first I/O operation, computing a second data check word based on a second data check seed-value from a cache memory. |
| US10078545B2 |
Resilient analytical model in a data streaming application
An approach for restoring an analytical model in a data streaming application which involves creating a plurality of data buffers for holding data submitted to the data streaming application, wherein the data streaming application comprises a first analytical model, persisting one or more parameters and/or internal state variables associated with the first analytical model, persisting the plurality of data buffers, retrieving a plurality of persisted data buffers and the one or more parameters and/or internal state variables responsive to a failure of the data streaming application, creating a second analytical model associated with the data streaming application and initializing the second analytical model with the one or more parameters and/or more internal state variables, and submitting data, associated with the plurality of persisted data buffers, to the data streaming application for training the second analytical model to be a close approximation of the first analytical model. |
| US10078544B2 |
Apparatus and method for an on-chip reliability controller
An apparatus and method are described for an on-chip reliability controller. For example, one embodiment of a processor comprises: a set of one or more cores to execute instructions and process data; a reliability controller to perform one or more self-test/diagnostic operations, the reliability controller to aggregate reliability data resulting from the self-test/diagnostic operations; a reliability estimator integral to the reliability controller to use the aggregated reliability data to perform a probability analysis to determine reliability estimates for one or more components of the processor; and a control unit integral to the reliability controller to adjust one or more variables and/or circuitry related to operation of the processor responsive to the reliability estimates. |
| US10078543B2 |
Correctable error filtering for input/output subsystem
A switched fabric hierarchy (e.g., a PCIe hierarchy) may utilize hardware, firmware, and/or software for filtering duplicative or otherwise undesirable correctable error messages from reaching a root complex. An operating system of the root complex may detect a persistent stream or storm of correctable errors from a particular endpoint and activate filtering of correctable errors from that endpoint. A filtering device may receive filtering commands and parameters from the operating system, implement the filtering, and monitor further correctable errors from the offending device. While an offending device is being filtered, correctable error messages from the offending device may be masked from the operating system, while correctable error messages from other devices in the switched fabric hierarchy may be transmitted. At such time as the filtering device may detect that conditions for ending filtering of a device are met, the filtering device may cease filtering of the offending device and return monitoring responsibilities to the operating system. |
| US10078541B2 |
Validate written data
Data and a first error detection code related to the data is received. That the received data is written correctly to a memory is validated based on the first error detection code and/or a comparison of the written data to the received data. An alert is generated if it is determined that the written data is incorrect. |
| US10078536B2 |
Cloud-based build service
Building binary packages for software products, particularly large-scale software products, is a highly computation intensive process. Thus, it is desirable to distribute the workload over a large number of computing nodes so as to have the build process complete in an optimal period of time. One environment providing compute resources that can be utilized for a highly available and dynamically scalable distributed build process is an elastic compute cloud. In such an environment, virtual machines can be instantiated and destroyed as the resource requirements of the build process dictate. This has the advantage that dedicated hardware is unneeded, and excess capacity on the hardware employed can be employed for other computation tasks when the build process is idle. Presented herein are systems, methods and computer storage media for distributing a highly available and scalable build service, suitable for use in an elastic compute environment or other distributed environment. |
| US10078535B2 |
Network service infrastructure management system and method of operation
A network service infrastructure management system includes a computing system that communicates with a network service computing device to receive a request to generate a network service comprising one or more network node functions. Based on the request the computing system communicates with an operating system of the network service computing device to instantiate one or more tasks corresponding to the one or more network node functions in which each task is instantiated at a level of workload capability specified for its respective network node function. Once instantiated, the computing system may then launch each network node function on its respective task. |
| US10078534B2 |
Network-aware workload placement in a data center
Embodiments include determining computing resources within one or more data centers onto which a virtual workload can be deployed. Network state data is determined for a plurality of network resources within a network fabric of a data center. For each of the plurality of computing resources, embodiments determine a respective suitability value describing a fitness of the respective physical server for deploying at least a portion of the virtual workload. Such a determination includes determining a respective at least one of the plurality of network resources within the at least one network fabric corresponding to the respective computing resource and determining a current workload of the at least one network resource, based on the network state data. Upon selecting one or more computing resources of the plurality of computing resources based on the determined suitability values, embodiments deploy the virtual workload onto the selected one or more computing resources. |
| US10078527B2 |
Securing a managed forwarding element that operates within a data compute node
Some embodiments provide a method for securing a managed forwarding element (MFE) that operates in a data compute node (DCN) executing in a host machine. The method receives a notification that the MFE is loaded on the DCN. The MFE is for implementing a set of logical forwarding elements of a logical network that logically connects the DCN to several other DCNs. The method secures the MFE by isolating, in a physical memory of the host machine, executable code and data of the MFE from executable code and data of other applications that execute in the DCN. |
| US10078524B2 |
Secure configuration of a headless networking device
The secure configuration of a headless networking device is described. A label associated with the headless networking device is scanned and a public key is determined. scanning a label associated with a networking device. A configuration process is initiated for the networking device using the public key associated with the networking device that was determined based on the scanned label. |
| US10078520B1 |
Calculating wait time for batch scheduler jobs
Computer programs and computer-implemented techniques are described here for predicting when jobs in the queue of a batch scheduler will be completed. More specifically, various embodiments are described herein that relate to mechanisms for predicting the wait time and/or the estimated time to completion for jobs that are to be executed by a software asset management platform. For example, heuristics and algorithms could be used to discover when execution of a job is likely to begin and/or end. The estimated time to completion for a given job can be estimated by summing the expected execution time of the given job and the expected execution times of any jobs to be executed prior to the given job, while the wait time for a given job can be estimated by summing the expected execution times of any jobs to be executed prior to the given job. |
| US10078512B2 |
Processing denormal numbers in FMA hardware
A microprocessor includes FMA execution logic that determines whether to accumulate an accumulator operand C to the partial products of multiplier and multiplicand operands A and B in the partial product adder or in a second accumulation stage. The logic calculates an exponent delta of Aexp+Bexp−Cexp and determines the number of leading zeroes in C, if C is denormal. The microprocessor accumulates C with the partial products of A and B when the accumulation of C to the product of A and B could result in mass cancellation, when ExpDelta is greater than or equal to −K (where K is related to a width of a datapath in the partial product adder), and when a C is denormal and its number of leading zeroes plus K exceeds −ExpDelta. The strategic use of resources in the partial product adder and second accumulation stage reduces latency. |
| US10078511B2 |
Generating and managing applications using any number of different platforms
At least one application is received from a user. The at least one application is stored on a communication platform. A catalog is received. The catalog includes at least one service. Each service of the at least one service is associated with a platform. An indication of a selection, from the user, is received. The selection comprises a first service associated with a first platform, and a second service associated with a second platform. The first service stores the at least one application from the user. The second service runs the at least one application from the user. Responsive to receiving the indication, the at least one application is deployed to the indicated first platform. Additionally, responsive to receiving the indication, a service bridge from the communication platform to the second platform is deployed. The at least one application is run, on the first platform utilizing the service bridge. |
| US10078510B1 |
Late-stage software feature reduction tool for security and performance
In general, the techniques of this disclosure describe a method that includes receiving, by a computing device, a user interaction for identifying one or more undesired features of a software program to be removed. The software program is provisioned on the computing device as a software binary. The method further including identifying, by the computing device, one or more execution paths of the software binary that implement the one or more undesired features. Identifying the one or more execution paths includes outputting an indication directing the user to interact with the one or more undesired features, generating undesired feature information of an execution log, and determining the one or more execution paths using the execution log. The method further includes removing, by the computing device, the one or more execution paths to generate a modified software binary. |
| US10078501B2 |
Domain specific language modeling framework in a development environment
A computing system comprises, in one example, a user interface component and a domain specific language (DSL) type generation system configured to control the user interface component to display type generation user input mechanisms, detect user actuation of the type generation user input mechanisms, and, in response to the detected user actuation, generate a set of DSL types and relations between types in the set, and wherein the domain specific language type generation system is configured to output the set of DSL types and relations for use in a use environment. |
| US10078495B2 |
Method and apparatus for generating source-independent quantum random number
A method and an apparatus for generating a source-independent quantum random number are disclosed. The method includes: receiving by a receiver a photon signal sent by a source and converting by the receiver a multi-photon signal contained in the photon signal into a single-photon signal equivalent to the multi-photon signal; modulating a single-photon signal in an X basis or a Z basis, and performing a projection measurement on the X basis or the Z basis randomly; calculating an error rate of the source according to a measurement result of the Z basis; obtaining a partially random binary string according to a measurement result of the X basis; and obtaining and processing a minimal entropy of the partially random binary string so as to obtain a completely random binary string. |
| US10078494B2 |
Secure true random number generation using 1.5-T transistor flash memory
This disclosure relates generally to physically unclonable function (PUF) circuitry along with methods of generating numbers. In one embodiment, the PUF circuitry includes a memory, a memory control circuitry, and whitening circuitry. To reduce or eliminate the systematic bias from the array, whitening circuitry is configured to generate a random number comprising random number bits in response to the memory control circuit implementing at least one sequence of memory cycles on the array of the memory cells in the memory. The whitening circuitry is configured to provide the random number bits of the random number based on the variable bit states stored by the array of the memory cells. On average the whitening circuitry is configured to provide approximately half of the random number bits in the first bit state and half of random number bits in a second bit state. |
| US10078492B2 |
Generating pseudo-random numbers using cellular automata
A method for using cellular automata to generate quality pseudo-random numbers, which may be used in cryptographic and other applications. A cellular automaton is a decentralized computing model that enables the performance of complex computations with the help of only local information. In general, cellular automata comprise a plurality of identical basic memory building blocks that are discrete in time and space, where the structure evolves over time according to a local transition rule. Cellular automata can be used in information security as an alternative for classic Feedback Shift Registers (FSRs) for pseudo-random sequence generation. The outputs of a pair of linear FSRs (LFSRs) act as continuous inputs to the two boundaries of a one-dimensional or two-dimensional elementary cellular automata. |
| US10078491B2 |
Software configurable aircraft audio control panels
Software configurable aircraft audio control panels (ACPs) and methods for configuring such ACPs are disclosed. An ACP in accordance with the inventive concepts disclosed herein may include a display configured to provide a visual indication of a list of available voice channels and a list of navigation channels. The aircraft audio control panel may also include a plurality of channel-independent hardware control elements configured to receive a channel selection input from a user. The aircraft audio control panel may further include at least one processor in communication with the display and the plurality of channel-independent hardware control elements, the at least one processor configured to process the channel selection input and update the visual indication of the list of available voice channels and the list of navigation channels based on the channel selection input. |
| US10078487B2 |
Context-sensitive handling of interruptions
A list of notification items is received, the list including a plurality of notification items, wherein each respective one of the plurality of notification items is associated with a respective urgency value. An information item is detected. In some implementations, the information item is a communication (e.g., an email). In some implementations, the information item is a change in context of a user. Upon determining that the information item is relevant to the urgency value of the first notification item, the urgency value of the first notification item is adjusted. Upon determining that the adjusted urgency value satisfies the predetermined threshold, a first audio prompt is provided to a user. |
| US10078484B2 |
Multivision display control device and multivision system
An operating section receives a first operation relating to a group display position that is a position of display videos formed by a plurality of videos belonging to a video group on a multivision screen, and a group display size that is a size of the display videos. A display controller determines video display positions that are positions of the plurality of videos on the plurality of display screens and video display sizes that are sizes of the videos based on the group display position and the group display size, display information including sizes and positions of a plurality of display screens, and a relative position and a relative size of the plurality of videos in the video groups, generates video signals for the plurality of displays based on the video display positions and the video display sizes, and outputs the video signals to the plurality of displays. |
| US10078481B2 |
Secondary display mechanism
A computing device is described. The computing device a processor, a bus coupled to the processor, a graphics display device, coupled to the bus, to display graphics data, an interactive display device, coupled to the bus, to display bitmap image data and a manager module to manage the bitmap image data and transmit the bitmap image data to the interactive display device. |
| US10078480B1 |
Image forming apparatus and control method for image forming apparatus
The image forming apparatus includes a communication unit, a sheet feed unit, a printing part, a storage unit, an operation part, and a control unit. With an economy mode set, the control unit selects, as first document data, one piece of document data out of document data stored in the storage unit. The control unit makes a comparison between the first document data and newly received second document data. The control unit recognizes a missing portion that is present in the second document data but absent in the first document data. The control unit generates missing-and-added image data for printing of only the missing portion. The control unit instructs for feeding sheets of a set printed matter based on the first document data and for executing printing based on the missing-and-added image data. |
| US10078478B2 |
Merging print data and metadata for a print job processed in a print workflow
Systems and methods are provided for merging print data and metadata for a print job processed in a print workflow. One system is a print server that monitors an input device that receives print files and metadata files, groups at least one print file and at least one metadata file into a batch based on a predetermined pattern defined for the input device, and initiates processing of the batch as a print job in a print workflow in response to a determination that the batch meets a threshold condition. A step of the print workflow is configured to merge document properties from the at least one print file and the at least one metadata file into a single document properties file. Subsequent steps in the print workflow process the print job according to the single document properties file. |
| US10078474B1 |
Method of maintaining list of scratch volumes in shared filesystems across multiple nodes
In one embodiment, a method of updating a list of available scratchfiles at a node accessing a filesystem includes determining whether the node should update the list of available scratchfiles on the filesystem. If the node should update the list of available scratchfiles of the filesystem, the method updates the list of available scratchfiles on the filesystem. In one embodiment, the method may determine whether the list of available scratchfiles on the filesystem should be updated by determining whether another node is currently updating its scratch list for the filesystem. If it is not, then the method may further determine whether the filesystem has added a scratch volume since a previous update of the list of available scratchfiles at the node. |
| US10078472B2 |
Rebuilding encoded data slices in a dispersed storage network
A method for a computing device to rebuild a plurality of to-be rebuilt encoded data slices in a dispersed storage network (DSN) begins with the computing device, for each set of encoded data slices of a plurality of sets of encoded data slices that includes at least one of the plurality of to-be rebuilt encoded data slices, determining a cumulative memory health for memory devices of storage units storing other encoded data slices of the respective set of encoded data slices and determining a probability of data loss. The method continues with the computing device prioritizing rebuilding based on the probability of data loss for each set of encoded data slices and rebuilding, in accordance with the prioritizing, a first to-be rebuilt encoded data slice of the plurality of to-be rebuilt encoded data slices to produce a first rebuilt encoded data slice. |
| US10078463B1 |
Dynamic memory reallocation for match-action packet processing
A pool of unit memories is provided in order to flexibly allocate memory capacity to implement various tables and/or logical memories such as those for implementing an OpenFlow switch. The pool is structured with routing resources for allowing flexible allocation and reallocation of memory capacity to the various tables. The unit memories and logical units in the pool are interconnected by a set of horizontal routing resources and a set of vertical routing resources. |
| US10078461B1 |
Partial data replay in a distributed memory buffer system
A host divides a dataset into stripes and sends the stripes to respective data chips of a distributed memory buffer system, where the data chips buffer the respective slices. Each data chip can buffer stripes from multiple datasets. Through the use of: (i) error detection methods; (ii) tagging the stripes for identification; and (iii) acknowledgement responses from the data chips, the host keeps track of the status of each slice at the data chips. If errors are detected for a given stripe, the host resends the stripe in the next store cycle, concurrently with stripes for the next dataset. Once all stripes have been received error-free across all the data chips, the host issues a store command which triggers the data chips to move the respective stripes from buffer to memory. |
| US10078460B2 |
Memory controller utilizing scatter gather list techniques
A system and method for efficient cache buffering are provided. The disclosed method includes receiving a host command from a host, extracting command information from the host command, determining an Input/Output (I/O) action to be taken in connection with the host command, identifying a particular memory module from among a plurality of memory modules to execute the I/O action, generating an accelerated I/O message for transmission to the particular memory module, the accelerated I/O message comprising at least one Internal Scatter Gather List (ISGL) having a plurality of Scatter Gather Extents (SGEs) that enable the particular memory module to execute the I/O action solely based on the at least one ISGL, and transmitting the accelerated I/O message to the particular memory module. |
| US10078454B2 |
Access to storage resources using a virtual storage appliance
Methods and systems for improved access to storage resources include installing a virtual storage appliance as a virtual machine on a hypervisor. The virtual storage appliance installs itself as a virtual PCI-E device and communicates with guest operating systems of the hypervisor using direct memory access via a PCI-E non-transparent bridge. The storage virtual appliance provides access to local and external storage resources with very high performance to applications running under the guest operating system, thereby overcoming performance barriers associated with native hypervisor driver models. |
| US10078453B1 |
Storage system, computer program product, and method for managing a hybrid memory device system
Provided are a computer program product, system and method for managing read/write operations in a hybrid memory device system. Determinations are made of an available physical address in a first memory device for a data block to allocate for metadata for a file or directory in a file system and a first logical address corresponding to the available physical address in a first range of logical addresses. Determinations are made of an available physical address in a second memory device for a data block to allocate for the file or directory in the file system and a second logical address corresponding to the available physical address in the second memory device in a second range of logical addresses. The second logical address is used to access the data block allocated to the file or directory in the file system. |
| US10078451B1 |
Deduplicating data based on boundary identification
Among other things, we describe a technique used in data deduplication that includes receiving a single data file designated to be written to a file storage system configured to store data in the form of blocks. The technique also includes identifying boundaries between portions of data within the single data file, and providing an indication to the file storage system to allocate blocks to the single data file based on the identified boundaries. Each block is allocated to, at most, one of the portions of data. The technique could also be used with objects instead of files. |
| US10078450B2 |
Handling movement of a physical drive
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for handling the movement of a physical drive by generating a provision drive for a physical drive that is moved; establishing a connection from the provision drive to the physical drive; and updating the provision drive via the connection according to location information of the physical drive. |
| US10078448B2 |
Electronic devices and memory management methods thereof
Electronic devices and memory management methods thereof are provided. Memory management methods may include setting page data of a nonvolatile memory as a read/write mode, copying the page data of the nonvolatile memory to a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) and setting the page data of the DRAM copied from the nonvolatile memory as a read only mode. |
| US10078446B2 |
Release requesting method and parallel computing apparatus
A processor of a parallel computing apparatus accumulates first release requests that are outputted, each of which requests releasing of a storage region that stores management information of a buffer storing data subjected to inter-process communication. Each of the first release requests includes one identifier of the storage region to be released. When the number of accumulated first release requests has reached a threshold, the processor selects first release requests, that request releasing of storage regions of management information that is not presently being used, out of the accumulated first release requests starting from a first release request with an oldest output time as first release requests to be executed. The processor then outputs a single second release request that collectively requests releasing of storage regions of management information indicated in the first release requests to be executed. |
| US10078443B2 |
Control system for virtual mouse and control method thereof
A control method for virtual mouse is provided. The control method is run on an electronic device. The control method includes a plurality of steps. Control a touch unit of the electronic device to display a user interface, a virtual mouse and a cursor on the user interface. Recognize a slide gesture dragging the virtual mouse. Compare the slide gesture with a plurality of predefined gestures stored in a storage unit of the electronic device. Obtain a control order corresponding to one of the plurality of predefined gestures when the slide gesture is the same as the one of the plurality of predefined gestures. Control the cursor to move a motion vector according to the control order. Recognize a click gesture clicking the virtual mouse. Control the electronic device to activate an application program or enter into a link of a text or a picture. |
| US10078442B2 |
Device, method, and graphical user interface for determining whether to scroll or select content based on an intensity theshold
An electronic device with a display, a touch-sensitive surface and one or more intensity sensors displays content. While a focus selector is over the content, the device detects a gesture on the touch-sensitive surface, the gesture including a first contact on the touch-sensitive surface and movement of the first contact across the touch-sensitive surface that corresponds to movement of the focus selector on the display. In response to detecting the gesture, when the contact has an intensity below a selection intensity threshold, the device scrolls the content on the display in accordance with the movement of the focus selector on the display without selecting the content. In response to detecting the gesture, when the contact has an intensity above the selection intensity threshold, the device selects at least a portion of the content in accordance with the movement of the focus selector over the content. |
| US10078441B2 |
Electronic apparatus and method for controlling display displaying content to which effects is applied
An electronic apparatus and a method for controlling a display that displays content is provided. The method includes displaying content, detecting an input corresponding to the displayed content, determining an emotional level based on the detected input, and applying an emotional effect corresponding to the determined emotional level to the displayed content, and displaying the emotional effect on the displayed content. |
| US10078434B2 |
Method and apparatus for taking screenshot of screen of application in mobile terminal
The present invention relates to the field of mobile terminals and discloses a method and an apparatus for taking a screenshot of a screen of an application. An instruction is received for closing a screen of a designated application. A designated area of the screen of the designated application is captured to obtain a screenshot of the designated area. The screenshot of the designated area is saved and the screen of the designated application is closed. |
| US10078432B2 |
Devices and methods for user interface presentation and navigation
The present disclosure relates to presenting a graphical user interface for navigating and browsing content. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting one or more interface commands for navigating the graphical user interface and one or more content titles associated with an index table, analyzing the one or more interface commands for navigating the graphical user interface and the one or more content titles associated with the index table, and updating presentation of the graphical user interface based on the analyzing, wherein the graphical user interface is updated to display graphical elements based on a subset of the content titles associated with the index table and wherein navigation of the graphical user interface is modified to provide increased navigational speed for the graphical user interface. The method may also include receiving a selection for an index table and updating the graphical user interface based on the selection. |
| US10078431B1 |
Social networking based on nearby neighborhoods
Disclosed embodiments relate to a system and a method of managing an online social network having a plurality of neighborhoods. The system may receive a location from a user, and select, based on the location, a neighborhood from the plurality of neighborhoods. The system may further assign the user to the selected neighborhood and grant the user access to communications by users assigned to the selected neighborhood. In an embodiment, a computer-implemented method comprises creating and storing in computer data storage neighborhood data defining a plurality of geographical neighborhoods based upon a plurality of vertices or boundaries; using a computer, for each particular neighborhood among the plurality of neighborhoods, determining one or more nearby neighborhoods is associated with a geographical area proximate to the particular neighborhood; using the computer, receiving from a second computer that is associated with a user account, activation input specifying selections of one or more nearby neighborhoods as activated in association with the particular user account, wherein the activation input specifies fewer than all the one or more nearby neighborhoods; updating a database coupled to the computer to associate the selections of one or more nearby neighborhoods as activated in association with the particular user account; using the computer, receiving a request from the second computer to perform any of displaying a map page that includes the nearby neighborhoods, displaying a feed of messages, and creating a new message; using the computer, in response to the request, performing causing the displaying the map page that includes the nearby neighborhoods, causing displaying the feed of messages, or the creating the new message based upon only the selections of the one or more nearby neighborhoods as activated in association with the particular user account. |
| US10078428B2 |
Placement of virtual machines on physical hosts based on collocation rules
Placement of virtual machines on physical hosts is based on collocation rules with situational enforcement policies set by a system administrator to increase flexibility in rule enforcement and to more efficiently utilize system resources. A scheduler mechanism allows a system administrator to select different collocation rules and situational enforcement policies for a group of virtual machines. The scheduler mechanism utilizes the collocation rules and the situational enforcement policies to place the virtual machines. |
| US10078426B2 |
Electronic apparatus, method for executing application, and computer-readable recording medium
A portable electronic device is provided. The portable electronic device includes a display, a memory to store a first set of applications and a second set of applications, the first set of applications and the second set of applications to be executed in a first operation mode and a second operation mode of a same operating system, respectively, and a processor. The processor is adapted to display a background screen and a first icon via the display, at least temporarily, while the portable electronic device is operated in the first operation mode, identify a first input received with respect to the first icon, display one or more rectangular indications on a first portion of the background screen based at least in part on the first input, each of the one or more rectangular indications indicative of an application of one or more of the second set of applications, identify a dragging input received with respect to a rectangular indication selected from the one or more rectangular indications, display a second icon corresponding to a respective application of the one or more of the second set of applications indicated by the selected rectangular indication on a second portion of the background screen where the dragging input is released, and execute the respective application based at least in part on a second input received with respect to the second icon. |
| US10078425B2 |
Strong authentication via distributed stations
In various embodiments, authentication stations are distributed within a facility, particularly in spaces where mobile devices are predominantly used—e.g., a hospital's emergency department. Each such station includes a series of authentication devices. Mobile device may run applications for locating the nearest such station and, in some embodiments, pair wirelessly with the station so that authentication thereon will accord a user access to the desired resource via a mobile device. |
| US10078424B2 |
Recognition and display of reading progress
A computer-implemented method is disclosed. In the method, a start position of an item list comprising a plurality of items is determined in response to a session-in event. An end position of the item list is determined in response to a session-out event. The reviewed sub-list and unreviewed sub-list are differently displayed. The reviewed sub-list is at least a part of the item list and comprises items from the start position to the end position in the item list. The unreviewed sub-list comprises items outside the reviewed sub-list. |
| US10078423B2 |
Device associated with a vehicle and having a spelling system with a completion suggestion
An operating unit is used to choose least alphanumeric characters and/or symbols and to combine them to form a character group. A display device displays selectable characters in a selection field and displays selected characters in an one input field. Data is stored in a storage unit. A data processing unit selects data from the data stored in the storage unit according to predefinable criteria, taking into consideration a chosen character and previously selected characters. A completion suggestion with at least one completion element is displayed in close proximity to the chosen character in the selection field, insofar as a possible completion of the chosen character and the previously selected characters. The completion element is choosable by a user by the operating unit, and a chosen completion element can be selected by a user by the operating unit. |
| US10078419B2 |
Method for operating a universal plug and play AV system, respective system and control device
The method relates to a Universal Plug and Play AV system, which comprises a media server included in a server device having a digital interface, to which a removable storage device is coupled, a media renderer included in a display device and a control point included in a control device for controlling the server device and the display device via Universal Plug and Play AV actions. The method comprises the steps of arranging an unmount icon in the display of the control device, unmounting the storage device in case said unmount icon is operated, and providing a feedback on the display device and/or the control device after said unmount action was performed on the server device. |
| US10078418B2 |
Hardware management and reconstruction using visual graphics
In an approach for updating instructions of machine repairs to a user interface, a processor populates a quantity of machine components used to construct a machine model. A processor receives the machine model constructed from the quantity of machine components. A processor couples the machine model with a set of vital product data. A processor associates a set of instructions for a repair procedure with the machine model and the vital product data file. A processor generates a visual representation of the repair procedure specific to the machine model. |
| US10078413B2 |
Graphical association of task bar entries with corresponding desktop locations
Embodiments of the present invention address deficiencies of the art in respect to task bar management and provide a method, system and computer program product for graphical association of task bar entries. In one embodiment of the invention, a method for graphically associating a window with a task bar entry in a windowing operating system GUI can be provided. The method can include rendering multiple windows in a z-space sequence in a desktop of the windowing operating system graphical user interface and detecting a proximity event for an entry in a task bar for the windowing operating system graphical user interface. In response to detecting the proximity event, a corresponding one of the windows in the desktop can be highlighted without re-ordering the z-space sequence. |
| US10078407B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate including a scanning line, a control line, a control electrode, a signal line, a pixel electrode, a first switching element, and a second switching element. The first switching element includes a first semiconductor layer, a first gate electrode, and a first insulating film. The second switching element includes a second semiconductor layer, a second gate electrode, and a second insulating film. The control electrode is overlapped with the second gate electrode. |
| US10078406B2 |
Capacitive side position extrapolation
A method for capacitive sensing includes acquiring a mutual capacitive measurement including effects of sensing signals of a sensing region, and acquiring an absolute capacitive measurement including effects of the sensing signals. The method further includes performing a comparison of the mutual capacitive measurement and the absolute capacitive measurement, and detecting a presence of an input object proximate to a side surface of an input device based on the comparison. The side surface is at least substantially orthogonal to the sensing region on the input device. The method further includes reporting the presence of the input object. |
| US10078404B2 |
Touch screen panel and touch sensing apparatus having the same
A touch screen panel includes a first touch electrode part, a second touch electrode part, a first touch router, a second touch router and plural third touch routers. The first touch electrode part includes plural first touch units. The second touch electrode part is substantially parallel to the first touch electrode part. The second touch electrode part includes plural second touch units. The first touch router is disposed adjacent to the first touch electrode part and is connected to one of an even-numbered first touch unit and an odd-numbered first touch unit of the first touch units. The second touch router is disposed adjacent to the first touch electrode part and is connected to the other of the even-numbered first touch unit and the odd-numbered first touch unit of the first touch units. The third touch routers are connected to each of the second touch units, respectively. |
| US10078395B2 |
Differential sensing in touch screen controller with improved noise rejection
Disclosed herein is an electronic device including a display layer generating display noise based on scanning thereof and a sensing layer including a plurality of sense lines. The display noise is capacitively coupled from the display layer to each of the plurality of sense lines of the sensing layer. A differential charge converter circuit has first and second differential inputs respectively coupled to corresponding ones of the plurality of sense lines, and first and second reference inputs. The first and second reference inputs of the differential charge converter circuit are coupled to voltage references during a reset period, and are decoupled from the voltage references during a scan period. |
| US10078393B2 |
Touch detection device, display device with touch detection function, and cover member
A touch detection device includes a substrate, a plurality of drive electrodes arranged on a plane parallel to the substrate and in a first region in which an image is displayed, and a plurality of touch detection electrodes configured to generate a capacitance between the touch detection electrodes and the drive electrodes. At least one touch detection electrode among the touch detection electrodes includes a first part arranged in the first region and a second part arranged in a second region adjacent to the first region. The drive electrodes are sequentially supplied with the first drive signal to detect a conducting body in contact with or close to the first region in a first touch detection mode, and the touch detection electrodes are supplied with a second drive signal to detect a conducting body in contact with or close to the second region in a second touch detection mode. |
| US10078392B2 |
Low loading driving method, driver integrated circuit applying the method, and touch display system
A driver integrated circuit (IC) is arranged to selectively operate in a display mode and a touch-sensing mode when the driver IC is coupled to a touch display panel. When the driver IC operates in the display mode, the driver IC controls a plurality of common voltage lines of the touch display panel to have a common voltage. When the driver IC operates in the touch-sensing mode, the driver IC controls a first source line of the touch display panel which corresponds to a specific common voltage line, or controls a neighboring common voltage line of the specific common voltage line, to have a first signal pattern the same as the first signal pattern on the specific voltage line or to be floating, wherein the specific common voltage line is arranged to detect touch currently. |
| US10078391B2 |
Touch screen interface with feedback
The invention relates to a method and an electric device comprising a screen, cooperating with said screen a sensor for detecting a presence of an object on or close to said screen, a controller and a feedback element. The controller is configured to interpret said presence of the object and calculate a force value and control said feedback element to provide a feedback with respect to the force value. |
| US10078380B2 |
Systems, devices and methods for managing glucose levels
Systems, devices and methods for the management of glucose levels in the body of patient featuring user interface input mechanisms configured to provide haptic feedback to the user are provided. |
| US10078372B2 |
Performing an action associated with a motion based input
A method implemented by a computing device having a memory and a motion sensor detection sensor is disclosed. The memory stores an input model associated with a gesture input. The method includes detecting a motion of the computing device; matching the detected motion with the input model; and determining a confidence level associated with the match. If the confidence level is above a pre-determined threshold, an action associated with the gesture input is performed automatically by the processor; and if the confidence level is below the pre-determined threshold, the action is performed by the processor responsive to receiving a positive confirmation of the gesture input. |
| US10078369B2 |
Tactile-sensation transmitting device, terminal device, and tactile-sensation transmitting method
A terminal device includes a touch panel and excitation piezoelectric elements. The excitation piezoelectric elements are attached to a touch panel, and generate standing-wave vibration in the touch panel to give a user a tactile sensation when the user has performed a touch operation on the touch panel. The terminal device further includes a pressurization piezoelectric element that is attached to the inner side of the touch panel than the excitation piezoelectric elements, and pressurizes the touch panel thereby changing the vibration mode of the standing-wave vibration including the position of antinodes of the standing-wave vibration. |
| US10078366B2 |
Head-mountable apparatus and system
A head mountable display (HMD) is provided that has a head motion detection function and one or more operations that depend upon detected head motion. Detected head motion is stored as motion data in memory. The way in which detected head motion is applied to a current operation depends upon the stored motion data. In one embodiment, the HMD includes a gaze detector configured to detect eye orientation of a user of the user so as to detect image regions at which the user is looking, and a detector configured to detect item data indicative of items represented by the detected image regions. |
| US10078357B2 |
Power gating functional units of a processor
In one embodiment, the present invention includes an apparatus having a core including functional units each to execute instructions of a target instruction set architecture (ISA) and a power controller to control a power mode of a first functional unit responsive to a power identification field of a power instruction of a power region of a code block to be executed on the core. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10078350B2 |
Button retention, assembly, and water sealing
A sealed physical button for use with a portable electronic device that effectively presents ingress of liquids. Embodiments include a button cap having flange portions that interlock with complementary flanges from a button retainer. The button cap may also include a downward oriented central post, proportioned and oriented to interface with the top surface of a button attached to a bracket. The button retainer may include an aperture sized and positioned to receive the central post of the button cap. The button retainer may rest on a shelf within the electronic device housing such that the shelf interposes the bracket and the retainer to form a rigid seal. |
| US10078348B1 |
Mobile device with size-adjustable screen
A mobile device with display screen of more than one size includes a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a main screen and a first gyroscope sensor. The main screen is located on a front surface of the first portion. The second portion includes an auxiliary screen and a second gyroscope sensor. The auxiliary screen is located on a front surface of the second portion. The first and second portions are pivotally connected to each other and can be folded or unfolded. The first and second gyroscope sensors can determine the folded and unfolded states of the first and second portions so as to switch the mobile device into a single screen mode of the main screen or a dual screen mode of the main and auxiliary screens. |
| US10078345B2 |
Digital book
A digital book includes a casing adapted to fold open and shut like a book and having a folding axis, a main part, and a secondary part, together forming a book back part. A display unit consists of at least two parts arranged such that when the casing is folded out, the main part and the secondary part are each presented with at least one screen each, like pages of a book. A control unit has means for receiving, storing, processing, and reproducing information, and an operating unit has operating elements for using the digital book as a device for receiving/processing/reproducing information. A supply unit has a receiving opening and a guide and supply pin, by means of which the digital book can be plugged in when the casing is folded shut, for inputting and outputting information, for supplying energy, and for storing the digital book. |
| US10078340B2 |
Micro channel device temperature control
A micro channel device processing apparatus includes a heating/cooling chamber configured to receive at least a sub-portion of a micro channel device and a fluid control system that controls a flow of a heating/cooling fluid in the chamber. A method includes controlling a temperature of a sample carried by a micro channel device installed in a micro channel device processing apparatus via a heating/cooling chamber of the processing apparatus. A micro channel device processing apparatus includes a heating/cooling chamber configured to receive a micro channel device carrying a sample and means for controlling a temperature of the sample in the chamber. |
| US10078335B2 |
Ray tracing for hidden obstacle detection
Ray tracing can be used to detect hidden obstacles in an external environment of a vehicle. An outbound sensor signal can be transmitted into an external environment of the vehicle. The outbound sensor signal can be a LIDAR sensor signal. If a return sensor signal is not received for the outbound sensor signal, it can be determined whether an obstacle is located along a projected path of the outbound sensor signal. Such a determination can be made using one or more maps, such as a terrain map and/or a static obstacle map. Responsive to determining that an obstacle is located along the projected path of the outbound sensor signal, a driving maneuver for the vehicle relative to the obstacle can be determined. The vehicle can be caused to implement the determined driving maneuver. |
| US10078330B2 |
Coordinating robotic apparatus deliveries
A method and system for automatically supplying parts for an assembly line is provided. The method includes generating and executing an action plan specifying movements associated with a robotic apparatus associated with the assembly line, items required for the assembly line, and a vehicle associated with providing the items for the robotic apparatus. The vehicle is directed to a location comprising the items and a first item is selected and retrieved upon arriving at the location. A measured weight of the first item is compared to a predetermined maximum weight threshold for delivery by the vehicle and a resulting delivery process with respect to the vehicle, first item, and robotic apparatus is executed. A notification indicating details associated with the delivery process is transmitted to the robotic apparatus. |
| US10078319B2 |
HVAC schedule establishment in an intelligent, network-connected thermostat
HVAC schedules may be programmed for a thermostat using a combination of pre-existing schedules or templates and automated schedule learning. For example, a pre-existing schedule may be initiated on the thermostat and the automated schedule learning may be used to update the pre-existing schedule based on users' interactions with the thermostat. The preexisting HVAC schedules may be stored on a device or received from a social networking service or another online service that includes shared HVAC schedules. |
| US10078311B1 |
Digital input device for smart device
A digital device and a method of forming a digital device. The digital device includes a body, circuitry and a folding assembly. The body is provided with a body having a pointer end and a tail end opposite the pointer end. Circuitry is disposed within the body for sending or receiving signals representing a position of the pointer end relative to a signal receiving surface disposed on a watch. A folding assembly integral with the body permits the body to fold from a linear shape to a folded shape adapted to circumscribe at least a portion of a watch band. The body may be formed with a plurality of hinges interconnecting a plurality of segments of the body, wherein the plurality of hinges connects the body segments to permit the body to pivot from the linear shape to a geometric shape adapted to circumscribe a portion of the watch band. |
| US10078310B2 |
Timepiece comprising a device for switching a mechanism of said timepiece
The vertical coupling/uncoupling device includes a switching member and a control member, the latter being arranged to pivot about an axis of rotation to be able to be driven in rotation step-by-step successively into a plurality of distinct angular positions. The control member and the switching member respectively include a first magnetic structure and a second magnetic structure arranged to exhibit a magnet interaction therebetween. These first and second magnetic structures are arranged such that, depending on the angular position of the control member, a first magnetic force or a second magnetic force is produced, these first and second magnetic forces being oriented along said axis of rotation but in opposite directions. The switching member is subjected to an alternate movement between its first and second stable axial positions when the second magnetic structure is driven in rotation step-by-step in said given direction of rotation. |
| US10078305B2 |
Method for phase retrieval to reduce a sampling requirement when imaging a dynamic process
A method for retrieving phase information in a coherent diffraction imaging process includes acquiring a plurality of 3D data sets, each 3D data set corresponding to one of a plurality of time states, and reconstructing a 3D image of the object at a given time state using the 3D data set from all of the time states. Each 3D data set is acquired by: illuminating an object positioned in a first position with a coherent beam; measuring a first 2D diffraction pattern using an area detector; rotating the object around a tilt axis thereof to a second position that is different from the first position; re-illuminating the object positioned in the second position with the coherent beam; re-measuring a second 2D diffraction pattern using the area detector; and repeating the rotating, re-illuminating and re-measuring steps such that each 3D data set includes a predetermined number of diffraction patterns. |
| US10078304B1 |
Systems and methods for fabricating variable digital optical images by printing directly on generic optical matrices
Variable digital optical images may be fabricated using generic optical matrices. A generic optical matrix may have pixels corresponding to color and sub-pixels corresponding to non-color effects. The pixels may include first pixels corresponding to a first color and second pixels corresponding to a second color. The sub-pixels may include first sub-pixels corresponding to a first non-color effect and second sub-pixels corresponding to a second non-color effect. Individual ones of the pixels and/or sub-pixels of the generic optical matrix may be obliterated according to a negative while remaining pixels and/or sub-pixels may be preserved. The remaining pixels and/or sub-pixels may form an optical image corresponding to a base image. The optical image may be colored based on the remaining pixels. The optical image may exhibit non-color effects corresponding to the remaining sub-pixels. The optical image may comprise a hologram or a stereo image. |
| US10078298B2 |
Image forming apparatus and fixing apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a fixing unit having a heating member, a temperature detection member detecting a temperature of the heating member, a control unit controlling power to be supplied to a heater, and an acquisition unit that acquires toner density information of the toner image to be formed on the recording material, wherein the acquisition unit acquires first toner density information in a predetermined area which is a portion of a maximum image formation area of the recording material and second toner density information in the maximum image formation area, and the predetermined area is an area including an area of the recording material corresponding to a detected area of the heating member detected by the temperature detection member, wherein the control unit sets the target temperature based on the first toner density information and the second toner density information. |
| US10078297B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus for forming a toner image on a recording material. The image forming apparatus includes an image forming portion to form the toner image on the recording material, and a fixing portion to fix, at a nip, the toner image on the recording material by feeding and heating the recording material on which the toner image is formed. The fixing portion includes a roller having an outer surface that has electroconductivity, a rotatable member that forms the nip and is in contact with the roller, and a casing having electroconductivity. An electrical insulating member is positioned (i) nearest to the outer surface of the roller, and (ii) between the inner surface of the casing and the outer surface of the roller. The electrical insulating member does not directly or indirectly contact the outer surface of the roller, and is provided with a water-absorbing member. |
| US10078296B2 |
Intermediate transfer member for image forming apparatus, method of manufacturing the same and image forming apparatus
A member for an image forming apparatus includes a surface layer including a block copolymer, wherein the block copolymer includes a polyamide block and a polyether block and the composition ratio of the polyether block to the polyamide block is from 0.2 to 1.5. |
| US10078284B2 |
Toner
A developer having low-temperature fixability and storage stability, and capable of prolonging the service life is provided. A toner includes a coloring agent, an amorphous polyester, a crystal line polyester, ester wax containing multiple ester compounds, each having a carbon number selected from 32 to 54, and hydrophobic silica having an average primary particle diameter of 8 to 35 nm. When the ion intensity ratio of each ester compound having a different carbon number is expressed as percentage, the content (a) of the ester compound having a carbon number of (Cn) showing the maximum intensity ratio is from 20 to 55% by weight of the entire ester wax, the sum (g) of the content (e) of the ester compound having a carbon number of (Cn+2) and the content (f) of the ester compound having a carbon number of (Cn+4) satisfies the following formula: 0.065≤g/a≤0.200. |
| US10078283B2 |
Toner for developing electrostatic images
Provided is a toner for developing electrostatic images containing a toner particle. The toner particle contains a binder resin and a release agent. The binder resin contains a vinyl resin component and a crystalline polyester resin component. The vinyl resin component has a structural unit derived from an alkyl (meth)acrylate monomer represented by Formula (1): H2C═CR1—COOR2 Formula (1): In Formula (1), R1 represents a hydrogen atom or a methyl group, and R2 represents an alkyl group having 8 to 22 carbon atoms. The crystalline polyester resin component satisfies Formula (2): 5≤|Cacid−Calcohol|≤12 Formula (2): In Formula (2), Calcohol represents the number of carbon atoms of the main chain of a structural unit derived from a polyhydric alcohol and Cacid represents the number of carbon atoms of the main chain of a structural unit derived from a polyvalent carboxylic acid. |
| US10078282B2 |
Toner compositions and processes
Disclosed are toner compositions that include an amorphous polyester resin, a crystalline polyester resin, a colorant and a wax, and where the amorphous polyester resin contains in excess of zero weight percent of dodecylsuccinic anhydride to less than 16 weight percent of dodecylsuccinic anhydride, or where the amorphous polyester resin contains in excess of zero weight percent of dodecylsuccinic acid to less than 16 weight percent of dodecylsuccinic acid. |
| US10078281B2 |
Toner and method for producing toner
A toner having a toner particle containing a resin component, wherein the resin component contains an olefin copolymer having ester group and the like, which has a unit (1), and a unit Y2 that is at least one selected from (2) and (3), the content of the copolymer in the resin component is at least 50 mass % with respect to the total mass of the resin component, and the content of the monomer unit Y2 is 3 to 35 mass % with respect to the total mass of the copolymer; in formulas (1) to (3), R1, R2 and R4 each independently represent H or CH3, and R3 and R5 each independently represent CH3 or C2H5. |
| US10078274B2 |
Method and arrangement for handling and processing substrates
The invention relates to a substrate handling and exposure arrangement comprising a plurality of lithography apparatus, a clamp preparation unit for clamping a wafer on a wafer support structure, a wafer track, wherein the clamp preparation unit is configured for accepting a wafer from the wafer track, and an additional wafer track for transferring the clamp towards the plurality of lithography apparatus. |
| US10078273B2 |
Lithographic apparatus with data processing apparatus
A lithographic apparatus applies a pattern onto a substrate using an optical projection system. The apparatus includes an optical level sensor and an associated processor for obtaining a height map of the substrate surface prior to applying the pattern. A controller uses the height map to control focusing with respect to the projection system when applying the pattern. The processor is further arranged to use information relating to processing previously applied to the substrate to define at least first and second regions of the substrate and to vary the manner in which the measurement signals are used to control the focusing, between the first and second regions. For example, an algorithm to calculate height values from optical measurement signals can be varied according to differences in known structure and/or materials. Measurements from certain regions can be selectively excluded from calculation of the height map and/or from use in the focusing. |
| US10078263B2 |
Underlayer composition and method of imaging underlayer composition
A method of forming a pattern comprises diffusing an acid formed by irradiating a portion of a photosensitive layer, into an underlayer comprising an acid sensitive copolymer having acid decomposable groups and attachment groups covalently bonded to the surface of the substrate and/or forming an interpolymer crosslink. Diffusing comprises heating the underlayer and photosensitive layer. The acid sensitive group reacts with the diffused acid to form a polar region on the underlayer, with the shape of the pattern. The photosensitive layer is removed, forming a self-assembling layer comprising a block copolymer having a first block with an affinity for the polar region, and a second block having less affinity for the polar region. The first block forms a domain aligned to the polar region, and the second block forms another domain aligned to the first. Removing either domain exposes a portion of the underlayer. |
| US10078262B2 |
Patterning devices using branched fluorinated photopolymers
A fluorinated photopolymer composition is disclosed having a branched copolymer provided in a fluorinated solvent. The copolymer includes a branching unit, a first repeating unit having a fluorine-containing group, and a second repeating unit having a solubility-altering reactive group. The branched fluorinated photopolymer composition is particularly suited for the fabrication of organic electronic and bioelectronic devices, or other devices having sensitive active organic materials. |
| US10078257B2 |
Oscillating lens module and projector
The invention discloses an oscillating lens module and a projector. The oscillating lens module includes a frame, a first coil, a lens, and a second coil. The first coil and the second coil are connected to the frame and located in a magnetic field, wherein the first coil and the second coil are adapted to be electrified and to oscillate about a first axis and a second axis respectively via the magnetic field. The lens is connected to the first coil, wherein the lens is adapted to oscillate along with the first coil. An oscillation phase of the second coil is opposite to an oscillation phase of the first coil, such that forces applied on the frame by the first coil and the second coil are counterbalanced, so as to prevent the oscillating lens module from over vibrating which makes projection images shake and makes noise. |
| US10078252B2 |
Electrochromic multi-layer devices with composite current modulating structure
A multi-layer device comprising a first substrate, a first electrically conductive layer and a first current modulating structure on a surface thereof, the first current modulating structure comprising a composite of a resistive material and a patterned insulating material, the first current modulating structure having a cross-layer resistance to the flow of electrical current through the first current modulating structure that varies as a function of position. |
| US10078251B2 |
Array substrate and display apparatus
An array substrate and a display apparatus are provided according to embodiments of the disclosure. A pixel unit includes a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode, the first sub-pixel electrode is connected to a drain of the first TFT, and the second sub-pixel electrode is connected to a drain of the second TFT, a resistance between a source of the first TFT and the data line connected to the first TFT is greater than a resistance between a source of the second TFT and the data line connected to the second TFT, and/or, a resistance between the drain of the first TFT and the first sub-pixel electrode is greater than a resistance between the drain of the second TFT and the second sub-pixel electrode. |
| US10078249B2 |
Liquid crystal display
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a liquid crystal display including: a first substrate; a first polarizer disposed above or below the first substrate and having a first polarization axis; a passivation layer disposed on a data line; a unit pixel electrode that is disposed on the data line and includes a horizontal stem and a vertical stem crossing each other and a plurality of minute branch electrodes extending from the stems; a protrusion portion disposed on the passivation layer, surrounding an edge of the unit pixel electrode, and extending in a direction that forms an acute angle with the first polarization axis; and a liquid crystal layer formed on the first substrate and including liquid crystal molecules. |
| US10078248B2 |
Liquid crystal display and manufacturing method thereof
A liquid crystal display according to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure includes: a substrate; a thin film transistor disposed on the substrate; a pixel electrode connected to the thin film transistor; a roof layer facing the pixel electrode; a liquid crystal layer including liquid crystal molecules disposed in a plurality of cavities between the pixel electrode and the roof layer; and wherein the roof layer comprises a partition, which extends substantially parallel to a gate line connected to the thin film transistor. |
| US10078245B2 |
Light flux controlling member having a recessed incidence surface and annular groove, light-emitting device, surface light source device and display device
A light flux controlling member includes an incidence surface, an emission surface, and an annular groove part. The annular groove part includes a first internal surface and a second internal surface. The second internal surface protrudes from a virtual line connecting an outer and inner end portions toward an opening side of the annular groove part; and, when an angle on the annular groove part side of two angles between a tangent to an arbitrary point of the second internal surface and the central axis is an inclination angle at the arbitrary point of the second internal surface in the cross section including the central axis, an inclination angle at the inner end portion is smaller than an inclination angle at the outer end portion, and an inclination angle of the second internal surface increases as a distance from the central axis increases. |
| US10078241B2 |
Liquid crystal display apparatus and color filter thereof
A scan driving method for a display panel is disclosed. The color filter includes a plurality of color filter units and a black matrix layer. The color filter units are arranged in a matrix form, and the position of each color filter unit corresponds to that of a sub-pixel unit of a liquid crystal display apparatus. The black matrix layer is formed between the color filter units, and a cross section of the black matrix layer between two adjacent color filter units has an upper portion with a larger width and a lower portion with a smaller width. |
| US10078239B2 |
Sensor-equipped display device
Provided is a sensor-equipped display device (1) that includes: a first substrate (20a); a second substrate (20b) opposed to the first substrate (20a); a liquid crystal layer (LC); a plurality of first lines (15) extending in a first direction in a pixel area (AA); second lines extending in a second direction that is different from the first direction; pixel switching elements that are provided for pixels, respectively, and are connected to the first lines and the second lines; a plurality of sensor electrodes (SE, DL) provided at positions that overlap the pixel area on at least one of the first substrate and the second substrate, for detecting the contact or approach of the object; and a plurality of sensor lead-out lines that are provided in parallel to the first lines or the second lines in the pixel area on the first substrate, and are connected to the sensor electrodes, respectively. |
| US10078238B2 |
Display device
According to one embodiment, there is provided a display device including a display module and a cover member, bonded together by a photosensitive resin layer. A portion of the photosensitive resin layer that is located behind a light-shielding portion (in other words, located in a shaded portion) with respect to the light for curing the photosensitive resin is cured. |
| US10078232B1 |
Advanced optical modulation generation by combining orthogonal polarized optical signals
Optical modulators and modulation techniques for advanced optical modulation formats are described. An optical modulator may include two optical modulators in parallel optical paths, and optical powers in the two paths may be unequal. Polarization in the two paths may be orthogonal, and modulated outputs from each path may be combined to produce multilevel modulation formats. |
| US10078228B2 |
Three-dimensional imaging system
A three-dimensional imaging system relies on effective native image resolution reduction in order to provide an array of pixel clusters, or voxels, with each pixel of the voxel representing a pixel of the image from a unique viewing angle. A 16-megapixel screen having 16-pixel voxels results in a screen having an image capacity downgraded to a 1-megapixel screen capable of showing sixteen different viewing angles. The system can be set up as a rear-projection screen or as a reflective screen illuminated by a front projector. The invention is best implemented with projectors and screens that represent all colors at a single physical location, such as a 3-panel LCD color-combinant projector or a DLP projector, either single or triple chip type. When the RGB sub-pixels are non-coincident, the viewers will see color artifacts that detract from the viewing experience. |
| US10078227B2 |
Autostereoscopic display screen and autostereoscopic display device using the same
An autostereoscopic display screen includes a light-deflecting component and a double-sided lenticular lens. The light-deflecting component is configured to deflect a light beam towards multiple directions. The double-sided lenticular lens includes a first cylindrical lens array, a second cylindrical lens array, and a central portion. The first cylindrical lens array includes first cylindrical lenses, in which each of the first cylindrical lenses has a first length in a first axial direction. The second cylindrical lens array includes second cylindrical lenses and at least one third cylindrical lens. The second cylindrical lenses have a second length in the first axial direction and the third cylindrical lens has a third length in the first axial direction, in which the first length is greater than the second length and the second length is greater than the third length. The central portion is disposed between the first and second cylindrical lens arrays. |
| US10078220B2 |
Wearable heads-up display with integrated eye tracker
Systems, devices, and methods that integrate eye tracking capability into scanning laser projector (“SLP”)-based wearable heads-up displays are described. At least one narrow waveband laser diode is used in an SLP to define one or more portion(s) of a visible image. At least one corresponding narrow waveband photodetector is aligned to detect reflections of the portion(s) of the image from features of the eye. A holographic optical element (“HOE”) may be used to combine the image and environmental light into the user's “field of view.” Three narrow waveband photodetectors each responsive to a respective one of three narrow wavebands output by the RGB laser diodes of an RGB SLP are aligned to detect reflections of a projected RGB image from features of the eye. |
| US10078215B2 |
Shutter assembly for a luminescence-based sample analyzer
A shutter assembly includes a first shutter blade having a first toothed arm extending therefrom and a first light transmitting aperture therein, and a second shutter blade positioned adjacent and parallel to the first shutter blade. The second shutter blade has a second toothed arm extending therefrom and a second light transmitting aperture therein. The first and second shutter blades are supported to allow parallel linear motion. A motor gear is disposed between, and meshed with, the first and second toothed arms such that rotation of the gear causes the first and second shutter blades to move linearly in opposite directions between an open position in which the first and second light transmitting apertures are in an overlapping relationship with respect to one another, and a closed position in which the first and second light transmitting apertures are in a non-overlapping relationship with respect to one another. |
| US10078214B2 |
Light source module, projection device, and driving methods thereof
The invention discloses a light source module, a projection device and driving methods thereof, wherein a wavelength conversion device of the light source module has at least one wavelength conversion area for converting a blue beam provided by a blue light source into a converted beam, and the converted beam is transmitted to a wavelength selection element so that a first green beam is obtained by the wavelength selection element from at least a portion of the converted beam. According to the blue light source, a red light source, the wavelength conversion device and the wavelength selection element, the light source module provides an illumination beam corresponding to a first display mode or a second display mode. |
| US10078213B1 |
Liquid duct for an electrowetting display
A method for fabricating an electrowetting display may include depositing a sacrificial layer on a support plate, etching portions of the sacrificial layer to form liquid duct forms on the support plate, depositing a photoresist layer on the liquid duct forms and the support plate, etching portions of the photoresist layer to form a spacer grid, and removing the liquid duct forms to form liquid ducts between the support plate and the portions of the spacer grid. |
| US10078210B2 |
Light source apparatus
A light source apparatus includes a main unit, light source modules attachable to and detachable from the main unit, and storage mediums storing characteristic information of the light source modules. Each light source module includes at least one light source and a light connection part to be optically connected to the main unit. The main unit includes entrance parts to be optically connected to the light connection parts of the connected light source modules, a light combining unit to combine light entering the entrance parts, at least one exit part to cause light combined by the light combining unit to exit, and an exit light characteristic deriving unit to derive characteristic information of achievable exit light based on characteristic information of the light source modules stored in the storage mediums. |
| US10078208B2 |
Portable telescope
A portable telescope that takes advantage of an offset optical pathway between the objective tube and eyepiece tube that allows adjustment of the eyepiece height independent of the objective tube elevation. A user-friendly, motorized, interactive, self-calibrating portable telescope with an offset optical path. |
| US10078207B2 |
Systems and methods for image magnification using relative movement between an image sensor and a lens assembly
The present specification describes a novel system for dynamically modifying the magnification power of optical devices used in high performance and critical applications such as medical procedures. The present specification describes an optical imaging system having a magnification control system connected to a sensor device for enabling movement of sensor device with respect to a lens assembly of the imaging system, wherein distance between the sensor device and the lens assembly is altered to enable different levels of magnification capability. |
| US10078204B2 |
Non-destructive 3-dimensional chemical imaging of photo-resist material
Embodiments include devices, systems and processes for using a combined confocal Raman microscope for inspecting a photo resist film material layer formed on the top surface of a layer of a substrate package, to detect border defects between regions of light exposed (e.g., cured) and unexposed (e.g., uncured) resist film material. Use of the confocal Raman microscope may provide a 3D photo-resist chemical imaging and characterization technique based on combining (1) Raman spectroscopy to identify the borders between regions of light exposed and unexposed resist along XY planes, with (2) Confocal imaging to select a Z-height of the XY planes scanned. Such detection provides fast, high resolution, non-destructive in-line inspection, and improves technical development of polymerization profiles of the resist film material. |
| US10078202B2 |
Zoom lens and image pickup apparatus including the same
Provided is a zoom lens, including: a front lens group only including one or more positive lens unit; a magnification-varying lens unit consisting of a negative lens unit which moves during zooming; and a positive rear lens group including a plurality of lens units, in which an interval between adjacent lens units is changed during zooming, in which front lens group includes a positive focusing unit La, in which rear lens group includes a focusing unit Lb, in which focusing unit La moves toward object side and focusing unit Lb moves toward one of object side and image side, during focusing from infinity to close distance, and a movement amount of focusing unit La at a wide angle end during focusing from infinity to closest distance, and a movement amount of focusing unit La at a telephoto end during focusing from infinity to closest distance are each appropriately set. |
| US10078200B2 |
Optical image capturing system
An optical image capturing system includes, along the optical axis in order from an object side to an image side, a first lens, a second lens, a third lens, a fourth lens, a fifth lens, a sixth lens, and a seventh lens. At least one lens among the first to the sixth lenses has positive refractive force. The seventh lens can have negative refractive force, wherein both surfaces thereof are aspheric, and at least one surface thereof has an inflection point. The lenses in the optical image capturing system which have refractive power include the first to the seventh lenses. The optical image capturing system can increase aperture value and improve the imaging quality for use in compact cameras. |
| US10078197B2 |
Foam sandwich reflector
A foam sandwich reflector and a method for making a foam sandwich reflector. The reflector and method incorporate a foam slab having a top and bottom surface. Each of the top and bottom surface of the foam slab have a coating of an adhesive layer. The adhesive coating on the bottom surface of the foam slab is a lower bonding layer that bonds the foam slab to the bottom high modulus layer. The adhesive coating on the top surface of the foam slab is an upper bonding layer that bonds the foam slab to the top high modulus layer; bottom high modulus layer composed of a metal, e.g., aluminum or steel. The reflector and method also include an optically smooth, highly reflective high modulus layer. The reflector is curved in one dimension, and the curve is configured to concentrate light when the reflector is in use. |
| US10078196B2 |
Camera module including multi-lens and electronic device having the same
A camera and an electronic device are provided. The camera or the electronic device generally includes a plurality of lens barrels configured to include a plurality of lenses, and a moving frame. The moving frame is configured to launch the plurality of lens barrels, move the plurality of lens barrels in an optical axis direction, and move the plurality of lens barrels in a direction at least one of a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the optical axis. The camera or the electronic device may further include a fixed frame configured to movably support the moving frame, and a base. The base is configured to fix the fixed frame and includes a plurality of image sensors displaced from the plurality of lenses in the optical axis direction. |
| US10078191B2 |
Optical fiber cable with internal periodic coupling structure
An optical cable is provided. The optical cable includes a tubular, elongate body having an inner surface defining a cavity extending between first and second ends of the elongate body and an optical transmission element located with the cavity. The optical cable includes a coupling or bonding structure non-permanently and non-rigidly joining the outer surface of the optical transmission element to the elongate body at a plurality of periodic contact zones such that relative movement between the optical transmission element and the elongate body is resisted. |
| US10078190B2 |
Multi-core optical cable to photonic circuit coupler
An optical device includes an array of optical grating couplers and a plurality of single-core fiber couplers located over a planar substrate. The optical grating couplers of the array are located to optically couple in a one-to-one manner to optical cores of a multi-core fiber or optical cable having an end located adjacent to the surface. Each single-core fiber coupler includes a planar optical waveguide connecting a corresponding one of the optical couplers of the array to an edge of the substrate. |
| US10078189B2 |
Optical module
An optical module includes a lens sheet having one or more lenses, a substrate having a photoelectric conversion device mounted on a first face thereof and having a first penetrating hole formed therethrough between the photoelectric conversion device and the one or more lenses, and an adhesive layer configured to bond a face of the lens sheet to a second face of the substrate, wherein the adhesive layer has a second penetrating hole formed therethrough between the one or more lenses and the photoelectric conversion device, and a pathway is provided to connect a space constituted by the first penetrating hole and the second penetrating hole to an outside of the space. |
| US10078186B1 |
Fiber optic connector
A fiber optic connector includes a carrier unit and two insertion units. The carrier unit includes a carrier body that defines two spaced-apart receiving spaces extending therethrough. Each receiving space has an opening formed in one side opposite to the other receiving space. Each insertion unit is configured to have an optical fiber extending therethrough, and is removably inserted into a respective receiving space through the opening so as to be disposed in a first or second position. Each insertion unit is rotated 180 degrees to change its position from the first to the second position or vice versa for polarity reversal. A sleeve unit is removably sleeved on the carrier body and covers the openings of the receiving spaces when sleeved on the carrier body. |
| US10078184B2 |
Integrated lens-array-on-substrate for optical coupling system and fabrication method thereof
An imprinting method for forming an integrated optical coupling device on wafer level may include: providing a substrate, with a reflection coating disposed thereon; providing an imprinting mold, with void regions shaped according to a designed lens profile; forming a molding material on the substrate; pressing the imprinting mold on the molding material on the substrate; curing the molding material into a cured molding material; removing the imprinting mold; depositing an anti-reflection film on the cured molding material; and dicing to form an integrated optical coupling device. |
| US10078183B2 |
Waveguide structures used in phonotics chip packaging
The disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to waveguide structures used in phonotics chip packaging and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a first die comprising photonics functions including a waveguide structure; a second die bonded to the first die and comprising CMOS logic functions; and an optical fiber optically coupled to the waveguide structure and positioned within a cavity formed in the second die. |
| US10078182B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for manufacturing the same
When an optical waveguide is formed, an area of an opening of a resist mask is equal to an area of a semiconductor layer for a dummy pattern exposed from the resist mask, and the semiconductor layer for the dummy pattern exposed from the resist mask has a uniform thickness in a region in which the dummy pattern is formed. As a result, an effective pattern density does not change in etching the semiconductor layer for the dummy pattern, and accordingly, it is possible to form a rib-shaped optical waveguide having desired dimensions and a desired shape. |
| US10078181B2 |
Robust fiber cell for atomic and molecular sensing
A robust, rugged, and small hybrid fiber for use in reference chambers was created using a Hollow-Core Photonic Bandgap Fiber (HCPBF). The hybrid fiber and associated chamber apparatus is amenable to mass production and can be used for wavelengths of light from 400 nm to 2000 nm. The apparatus and method of making thereof is described herein. |
| US10078177B2 |
Backlight module and display device
The present invention provides a backlight module, including a plastic frame, a light guide plate, a reflective sheet, a backlight lamp and an optical film, wherein the light guide plate and the optical film are sequentially overlapped and disposed on the reflective sheet; the plastic frame surrounds the light guide plate and the optical film, and a peripheral edge of the plastic frame is provided and received with the backlight lamp; the backlight module also includes a quantum dot film; an inner circumferential surface of the plastic frame is provided with a green compensation layer; the backlight lamp is located between a light incident surface of the light guide plate and the plastic frame; the quantum dot film is overlapped on the light guide plate, and is located between the light guide plate and the optical film. A display panel is also disclosed. |
| US10078173B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a backlight unit and a display panel disposed on the backlight unit. The backlight unit includes a light guide plate including a plurality of charged particles, a light source unit disposed at a side of the light guide plate and providing light to the light guide plate, and a transparent electrode disposed under the light guide plate. Each of the plurality of charged particles includes first and second charged portions which have charge values of which polarities are different from each other. The first charged portion reflects the light received from the light source unit, and the second charged portion absorbs the light received from the light source unit. Positions of the first and second charged portions of each of the plurality of charged particles are controlled based on a voltage applied to the transparent electrode. |
| US10078172B2 |
Prism plate, display device having the same, and method of manufacturing prism plate
A display device includes a display panel and a backlight unit which provides light to the display panel. The backlight unit includes a light source which emits the light, a light guide plate which guides the light emitted from the light source toward the display panel, and a prism plate. The prism plate includes a base film disposed on the light guide plate and a plurality of prisms disposed on the base film. Each of the prisms has an isosceles trapezoidal section, two base angles of which are obtuse angles, when viewed from a cross-sectional view in a width direction. |
| US10078171B2 |
Back light unit and display apparatus including the same
Disclosed herein are a back light unit including a quantum dot sheet capable of recycling light converted by quantum dots, and a display apparatus including the back light unit. The back light unit according to an example includes: a light source; and a quantum dot sheet configured to convert light generated in the light source into white light, wherein the quantum dot sheet includes a fluorescent member including quantum dots; a first barrier film disposed on the rear surface of the fluorescent member; and a second barrier film disposed on the front surface of the fluorescent member, and having a predetermined reflectivity to reflect the white light converted by the fluorescent member backward toward the fluorescent member. |
| US10078170B2 |
Light conversion member and display apparatus including the same
A light conversion member includes a base substrate, a first light conversion layer disposed on the base substrate and including a plurality of first quantum dots that converts first light into light with a first color, a second light conversion layer disposed between the base substrate and the first light conversion layer and including a plurality of second quantum dots that converts the first light into light with a second color. Each of the first quantum dots includes a first core that converts the first light into light with the first color; a first shell surrounding the first core and including an organic material; and a second shell surrounding the first shell and including an inorganic material. |
| US10078165B2 |
Polarizing unit and organic light emitting diode display including the same
A polarization unit includes a plurality of retardation layers that each have a different retardation value, a polarization layer positioned above the plurality of retardation layers, a first compensation layer positioned between the polarization layer and the plurality of retardation layers, and a second compensation layer positioned below the plurality of retardation layers. |
| US10078163B2 |
Polarizing plate and method for producing polarizing plate
The present invention is to provide a polarizing plate including an alignment layer applicable to various types of substrates, and having excellent light polarization properties. A polarizing plate 1 of the present invention includes an alignment layer 3, and a polarizing layer 4 disposed on the alignment layer 3, and containing an organic dye having lyotropic liquid crystallinity, wherein the organic dye in the polarizing, layer 4 is in a form of supramolecular aggregates, and the alignment layer 3 contains a cycloolefin based resin. |
| US10078161B2 |
Optical film and digital pen system using the same
An optical film and a digital pen system using the same are provided. The optical film includes a film layer including a fine structure, a coating layer coated on the fine structure and having an infrared ray scattering property, and a matching layer laminated above or below the film layer and having a refractive index matching a refractive index of the fine structure within a predetermined error range. |
| US10078157B2 |
Irrigation gauge device
A water collection device is described. In one embodiment, a water collection device includes a collection tube having an inner wall, an open mouth at its upper end, and a closed bottom end, the bottom end including an upwardly projecting sidewall defining an interior projection at least partly spaced apart from the inner wall. The water collection device also includes a float within the collection tube. The float has an upper end and a lower end, the lower end having an axial bore sized to fit over the interior projection defined by the upwardly projecting sidewall. |
| US10078153B2 |
Method of controlling sensor system
A method of controlling a sensor system of an embodiment is a method of controlling a sensor system that includes a plurality of sensors to acquire a physical quantity according to existence of an object to be detected and that determines whether there is the object to be detected based on a sensing level that is the physical quantity multiplied by a gain parameter, the method including: adjusting the gain parameter in such a manner that the sensing level is equalized among the plurality of sensors in a case where there is no workpiece in a detection range of any of the plurality of sensors. |
| US10078151B2 |
Method for detecting and identifying nuclear material in a container and radiation monitoring arrangement for conducting the method
The invention relates to an improved method for detecting and possibly identifying and/or characterizing nuclear and/or radiological material in a container, vehicle, or on a person, comprising the steps of: a. providing at least one detector, which is capable of detecting radiation events being interrelated to nuclear or radiological material; b. bringing the at least one detector in the vicinity of the container, vehicle or person to be monitored; c. detecting radiation events being interrelated to the container, vehicle or person to be monitored; d. assigning each detected radiation event an individual time stamp in order to generate a time pattern of the detected radiation events; and e. analyzing the time pattern with respect to time correlation structures in order to identify a presence and/or characteristics of the nuclear or radiological material. |
| US10078149B2 |
Buried object locators with dodecahedral antenna nodes
Systems for locating hidden utilities including a portable locator with a dodecahedral antenna node are disclosed. |
| US10078147B2 |
Detector
Various embodiments are described that relate to a detector. The detector can include a loop functioning at a high frequency that emits a magnetic field. The magnetic field can be retrieved and a comparison can be made between the emitted magnetic field and the retrieved magnetic field. If there is substantially little difference between the emitted and retrieved field, then a determination can be that no object is present. Conversely, if there is a substantial difference between the emitted and retrieved field, then the determination can be that an object is present and thus the object is detected. If the object is present, the returned magnetic field can be further analyzed to determine the type of object that is detected. |
| US10078143B2 |
Solid state photomultiplier with wide temperature range of operation
A solid state photomultiplier includes at least one microcell configured to generate an initial analog signal when exposed to optical photons. The solid state photomultiplier further includes a quench circuit electrically coupled with the at least one microcell. The quench circuit includes at least one quench resistor configured to exhibit a substantially constant temperature coefficient of resistance over a selected temperature range. |
| US10078142B2 |
Sensor integrated metal dielectric filters for solar-blind silicon ultraviolet detectors
A filter for electromagnetic radiation including one or more dielectric spacer regions and one or more reflective regions integrated on a semiconductor substrate, the semiconductor substrate including a semiconductor photodetector, such that the filter transmits ultraviolet radiation to the semiconductor photodetector, the ultraviolet radiation having a range of wavelengths, and the filter suppresses transmission of electromagnetic radiation, having wavelengths outside the range of wavelengths, to the semiconductor photodetector. |
| US10078133B2 |
Method and system for ladar transmission with closed loop feedback control of dynamic scan patterns
Various embodiments are disclosed for improved scanning ladar transmission, including but not limited to an example embodiment where closed loop feedback control is used to finely control mirror scan positions. |
| US10078131B2 |
Method and apparatus for FMCW radar processing
The disclosure provides a radar apparatus. The radar apparatus includes a transmitter that transmits a first chirp. The first chirp is scattered by one or more obstacles to generate a first plurality of scattered signals. A plurality of receivers receives the first plurality of scattered signals. Each receiver of the plurality of receivers generates a digital signal in response to a scattered signal of the first plurality of scattered signals. A processor is coupled to the plurality of receivers and receives the digital signals from the plurality of receivers. The processor performs range FFT (fast fourier transform) and angle FFT on the digital signals received from the plurality of receivers to generate a first matrix of complex samples. |
| US10078130B1 |
Method for transmitting and receiving radar signals while blocking reception of self generated signals
A method and apparatus which enables a facility or entity such as ships, airplanes, satellites, and land based sites, that transmits and receives radar signals to receive any incoming radar signal, or any electromagnetic signals in the frequency range of 1 Ghz-30 Ghz, while blocking reception of any signals generated by the facility or entity itself. The method comprises transmitting a primary signal from an rf generator; providing a second signal which is synchronized with the primary signal matching in both phase and amplitude, but with a phase difference of 180 degrees so that the two signals sum to zero. The second signal travels through a voltage controlled attenuator and thru a voltage controlled phase shifter. Combining in a combiner the second signal with a signal radiated by a transmitting antenna and received by a receiving antenna that connects into a transmission enabling mechanism, and then transmitting the combined signal to a detector apparatus. |
| US10078129B2 |
Signal processing device
A signal processing device (2) includes an amplifier (3), an A/D converter (4) and a signal processor (5). The amplifier (3) amplifies a sensor signal that is supplied from a radio wave sensor (1) and depends on a motion of an object. The A/D converter (4) converts the sensor signal amplified by the amplifier (3) into a digital sensor signal. The signal processor (5) converts the sensor signal output from the A/D converter (4) into a frequency-domain sensor signal by Discrete Cosine Transform processing, estimates a background signal contained in the frequency-domain sensor signal, based on an error signal obtained from the sensor signal and a reference signal which is white noise, and determines a filter coefficient according to the estimated background signal, thereby operating as an adaptive filter for removing the background signal from the sensor signal in the frequency domain. |
| US10078128B2 |
Digital receiver techniques in radar detectors
A method and apparatus are provided for detecting a RADAR signal. RADAR channel data in a frequency range is received, where the frequency range is divided into a plurality of equally wide channels. The received RADAR channel data is digitally processed and analyzed to identify a signal in the RADAR channel data in the frequency range. The frequency range is advanced to a next channel of the plurality of channels, where the frequency range of the next channel of the plurality of channels is non-sequential with the frequency range of the first channel. The steps of receiving, processing, and analyzing are repeated for the next channel of the plurality of channels. |
| US10078126B2 |
Method, system and apparatus for a low-power location measurement responder
In accordance with some embodiments, one or more low-power responder nodes may be utilized to provide better and lower cost coverage for fine timing measurement (FTM) requests. By advertising its availability to receive and respond to FTM requests, a low-power responder node may enter a low-power or deep sleep mode during times of unavailability. A low-power responder node may be powered by a battery, reducing the cost and deployment of nodes in a location determination network. |
| US10078125B2 |
Beacon security
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods that include a beacon that includes an antenna; data storage configured to store a code that is calculated according to an algorithm and based on a first variable, the first variable being defined according to a first interval of time; and a processor configured to cause the code to be emitted by the beacon. |
| US10078117B2 |
Magnetic field sensors and methods using mixing in a magnetoresistance element
A magnetic field sensor and an associated method use one or more magnetoresistance elements driven with an AC mixing current and experiencing an AC mixing magnetic field to generate a DC voltage signal or a DC voltage signal component related to a slope of a transfer curve of the one or more magnetoresistance elements. |
| US10078114B2 |
Test point circuit, scan flip-flop for sequential test, semiconductor device and design device
It is possible to reduce the number of test point circuits to be inserted necessary to accomplish a target fault coverage, to suppress an increase in an area overhead, and to reduce a test time. A test point circuit according to an embodiment constitutes a scan chain, and captures, in one capture operation period of a clock sequential test, a first operation result in a second capture clock that comes after a first capture clock, the first operation result having been captured by a test point circuit at a previous stage or a last stage of the scan chain in the first capture clock. |
| US10078113B1 |
Methods and circuits for debugging data bus communications
Various example implementations are directed to circuits and methods for debugging logic circuits utilizing a data bus for communication. According to an example implementation, an apparatus includes a logic circuit configured to communicate data over a data bus according to a communication protocol. The apparatus also includes a logic analyzer circuit coupled to the data bus. The logic analyzer circuit is configured to capture, in response to a control signal, samples of data signals communicated on the data bus. The logic analyzer circuit determines respective pairs of start and end positions of the data transactions in the captured samples. The logic analyzer circuit outputs the samples of the data signals and a set of metadata including the determined pairs of start and end positions of data transactions in the samples. |
| US10078110B2 |
Short circuit detecting device of stacked memory chips and method thereof
Disclosed are a method and a device for detecting a short circuit between adjacent micro-bumps. The method includes setting outputs of a pull-up driver and a pull-down driver of a data output circuit connected with a micro-bump to be suitable for a test type and determining whether a short circuit is generated. |
| US10078105B2 |
Electrical system with arc fault detection
A unique electrical system includes a first electrical component and a second electrical component. A conductor electrically couples the first electrical component with the second electrical component. A sensor is constructed to sense an AC power flow in the conductor and output an AC signal proportional to the AC power flow. A band-pass filter is in electrical communication with the sensor and constructed to receive and filter the AC signal and to generate an AC voltage proportional on the AC signal. A controller is in electrical communication with the band-pass filter, and is operative to receive and sample the AC voltage. The controller is configured to execute program instructions to sum sequential AC voltage values received from the band-pass filter over a sample time period, and to determine whether an arc fault has occurred based on the summed AC voltage values. |
| US10078099B2 |
Methods and systems for aligning a mobile device to a vehicle
A method of determining vehicle acceleration information includes obtaining a plurality of movement measurements from a mobile device in a vehicle, and determining a plurality of gravity vectors, each of the plurality of gravity vectors associated with at least two of the plurality of movement measurements. The method further includes removing a movement measurement from the plurality of movement measurements using the plurality of gravity vectors to provide a set of remaining movement measurements. An acceleration measurement for the vehicle is determined using the remaining movement measurements. |
| US10078093B2 |
System for improved tissue handling and in line analysis of the tissue
A system for analysis of biopsy samples includes a tissue sample transport mechanism linking a biopsy sample excision tool to a tissue sample holder disposed in a staging area of an analysis unit. The tissue sample is automatically transported from the excision tool to the specimen holder, where the tissue sample is analyzed in the staging area of the analysis unit. The transport mechanism may include tubing and a vacuum source. The tissue sample holder may be configured to slow or temporarily stop a tissue sample for individual analysis, or collect multiple tissue samples for analysis as a group. A tissue sample sorting mechanism may be employed that allows separation of specimens that can be correlated to the analysis. |
| US10078090B2 |
SAB as a biomarker for degenerative diseases and therapeutic sensitivity in cancers
The current invention pertains to a method of diagnosing a disease or identifying an increased likelihood of developing the disease in a subject. The method comprises determining the level of Src homology 3 domain binding protein 5 (SH3BP5 or SAB) or the RNA encoding SAB protein in a biological sample obtained from the subject and identifying the subject as having the disease or having an increased likelihood of developing the disease if the biological sample obtained from the subject has an altered level of SAB protein or the RNA encoding SAB protein relative to a control sample. The methods of the current invention can be practiced to diagnose and treat a systemic degenerative disease, a neurodegenerative disease, obesity, diabetes, a cancer, or an aging related disease. The invention also provides a kit for diagnosing a disease or diagnosing an increased likelihood of developing the disease in a subject. |
| US10078079B2 |
Device for detecting an analyte
This invention relates to a device for detecting an analyte in a sample comprising: a radiation source adapted to generate a series of pulses of electromagnetic radiation; a transducer having a pyroelectric or piezoelectric element and electrodes which is capable of transducing energy generated by non-radiative decay into an electrical signal; a detector which is capable of detecting the electrical signal generated by the transducer; a first reagent proximal to the transducer, the first reagent having a binding site which is capable of binding a labelled reagent proportionally to the concentration of the analyte in the sample, which labelled reagent being capable of absorbing the electromagnetic radiation generated by the radiation source to generate energy by non-radiative decay; a second reagent proximal to the transducer, the second reagent having a lower affinity for the labelled reagent under the conditions of the assay than the first reagent; and a third reagent proximal to the transducer, the third reagent having a binding site which is capable of binding the labelled reagent, wherein the third reagent has an affinity for the labelled reagent which is less influenced than the first reagent by the concentration of the analyte or the complex or derivative of the analyte. |
| US10078077B2 |
Apparatus for automated determining of at least two different process parameters
An apparatus for automated determining of at least two different process parameters of a process liquid of a process, especially a bioprocess, comprising: a first measuring cell, which is embodied to provide a first measurement signal dependent on a first process parameter of a first sample of the process liquid; a second measuring cell, which is embodied to provide a second measurement signal dependent on a second process parameter of a second sample of the process liquid; and a control and evaluation system, which serves for monitoring and/or controlling the process, and which is embodied to receive and to process the first and second measurement signals, especially based on the first measurement signal to determine a measured value of the first process parameter and based on the second measurement signal to determine a measured value of the second process parameter; wherein the first measurement signal and the second measurement signal serve different functions in the context of the monitoring and/or controlling of the process. The first process parameter can be a control parameter (critical process parameter, CPP), and the second process parameter can be a product quality parameter (critical quality attribute, CQA) of the process. |
| US10078076B2 |
Immune monitoring to predict and prevent infection
Methods of evaluating the risk of infection after transplantation or immunosuppression in a subject are provided. Methods of determining whether a subject should be treated prophylactically with an anti-microbial agent are also provided herein. Kits for performing the methods described herein are also provided. |
| US10078074B2 |
Portable metabolic analyzer system
A system for measuring and tracking metabolic rate, physical activity and calorie intake. The metabolic rate is measured with a design that features an adaptive sampling mechanism for accurate breath sample collection, optimized flow rate measurement for minimizing backpressure while maximizing accuracy, humidity regulation and water condensation reduction mechanism for reliable performance, as well as breath temperature measurement for volume and humidity corrections. The system further comprises an improved algorithm for determining physical activity such as related energy expenditure, and a mechanism for tracking changes in food intake over time. |
| US10078066B2 |
Devices and methods for contactless dielectrophoresis for cell or particle manipulation
Devices and methods for performing dielectrophoresis are described. The devices contain sample channel which is separated by physical barriers from electrode channels which receive electrodes. The devices and methods may be used for the separation and analysis of particles in solution, including the separation and isolation of cells of a specific type. As the electrodes do not make contact with the sample, electrode fouling is avoided and sample integrity is better maintained. |
| US10078061B2 |
Flow-measuring differential calorimeter
A differential calorimeter with flux measurement to measure a heat flux emitted by radioactive materials contained in a container, including: a measurement cell including measurement plates distributed around a container reception containment; and a reference cell including reference plates and a reference sample. The reference plates are placed behind the measurement plates from the container when the container is in the reception containment and the reference sample is under the reception containment. |
| US10078059B2 |
Nitride crystal, nitride crystal substrate, epilayer-containing nitride crystal substrate, semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
A nitride crystal is characterized in that, in connection with plane spacing of arbitrary specific parallel crystal lattice planes of the nitride crystal obtained from X-ray diffraction measurement performed with variation of X-ray penetration depth from a surface of the crystal while X-ray diffraction conditions of the specific parallel crystal lattice planes are satisfied, a uniform distortion at a surface layer of the crystal represented by a value of |d1−d2|/d2 obtained from the plane spacing d1 at the X-ray penetration depth of 0.3 μm and the plane spacing d2 at the X-ray penetration depth of 5 μm is equal to or lower than 2.1×10−3. The above configuration provides the nitride crystal having a crystal surface layer that is evaluated directly and reliably without breaking the crystal so that it can be used in a preferred fashion as a substrate for a semiconductor device as well as the nitride crystal substrate, an epilayer-containing nitride crystal substrate, a semiconductor device and a method of manufacturing the same. |
| US10078057B2 |
Data processing in a tomographic imaging apparatus
A method of investigating a specimen using a tomographic imaging apparatus, by performing, in multiple iterations, the following steps: (i) Using a Back Projection technique to produce an initial tomogram from a set of initial images; (ii) Subjecting said initial tomogram to a mathematical filtering operation, thereby producing an adjusted tomogram; (iii) Using a Forward Projection technique on said adjusted tomogram to dissociate it into a set of calculated images; (iv) Repeating steps (i)-(iii) until said calculated images satisfy an acceptance criterion. |
| US10078056B2 |
X-ray product quality online inspection device
An X-ray product quality online inspection device of the present invention comprises: a distributed X-ray source having a plurality of targets and being able to generate X-rays for irradiating an inspected product from the plurality of targets in a predetermined sequence; a detector for receiving the X-rays generated by the distributed X-ray source and outputting a signal representing characteristics of the received X-rays; a transport device which is located between the distributed X-ray source and the detector for carrying the inspected product to pass through an X-ray radiation region, wherein the transport device is arranged as a continuous transport mechanism which matches a production line of the inspected product; and a power supply and control device, which is used to supply power to and control the X-ray product quality online inspection device. |
| US10078055B2 |
LED strobe
A strobe light system for use with a camera, the strobe light system including an LED light source, a triggering signal input for the reception of a triggering signal, an electrical power source and a control circuit. The control circuit is coupled to the LED light source. The control circuit has a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor, the second transistor and the LED are electrically in series with the electrical power source. The first transistor is controlled to establish an electrical power level that is to be conducted through the LED. The second transistor being subject to the triggering signal to thereby electrically conduct for a predetermined amount of time thereby establishing an electrical current pulse through the LED. |
| US10078054B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting nitric oxide
A system and method is provided for detection at least one of nitrite (NO2), nitric oxide (NO), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), and other nitrogen oxides (NOx) on a substrate, such as skin. According to one aspect, a diagnostic device for measuring a concentration of at least one of nitrite (NO2), nitrogen dioxide (NO2), nitric oxide (NO), and other nitrogen oxides (NOx) on a substrate comprises a patch comprising at least one chemical compound capable of reacting with the at least one of nitrite, nitrogen dioxide, nitric oxide, and other nitrogen oxides to provide an indicator. |
| US10078047B2 |
Measuring vessel for spectrometry measurement apparatus
A measuring vessel in which a gas to be analyzed by spectrometry is intended to flow, the vessel being in the form of a hollow tube provided with a reflective material forming an optical-reflection layer, including a hollow tube is produced from a non-metallic material, and a removable supple optical article is applied against the internal surface of the hollow tube, the article including a supple flexible support, one face of the support being covered with a reflective metal material, the article being inserted in the tube so that the reflective metal material forms the optical-reflection layer. |
| US10078046B2 |
T-peel test fixture
T-peel test fixture for a vertical test machine. The test fixture includes an upper grip for holding an arm of a peel specimen that has a hangover tail and a lower grip for holding the other arm of the peel specimen. A first rack is connected to a support hanger. The upper grip and the first rack move in a vertical direction at a selected speed. A second rack including a support plate located to support the specimen hangover tail is driven in the vertical direction at one-half the selected speed. The fixture thus supports the hangover tail so that symmetry is maintained with respect to gravity to suppress the interfering effect of gravity on a peel test. |
| US10078044B2 |
Method and arrangement for determining at least one pore-related parameter of a porous material
A method for determining at least one pore-related parameter of a porous material is provided. The method includes supplying a volatile liquid into a chamber, placing a porous material within the chamber, spaced apart from and over the volatile liquid, determining an effective mass of the chamber over a period of time, and determining at least one pore-related parameter of the porous material based on the effective mass determined. An arrangement for determining at least one pore-related parameter of a porous material is also provided. |
| US10078043B2 |
Method and system for exhaust particulate matter sensing
Methods and systems are provided for a particulate matter sensor positioned downstream of a diesel particulate filter in an exhaust system. In one example, a particulate matter sensor may include an outer non-perforated tube including a plurality of negative electrodes formed along the inner surface, a guiding tube including a perforated central element and an inner tube, the central element including a plurality of positive electrodes formed along the outer surface. By forming the electrodes on different cylindrical surfaces, and separating the electrodes by a gap, a more uniform electric field may be generated in the gap between the electrodes, thereby boosting soot capture and increasing particulate matter sensor sensitivity. |
| US10078037B2 |
Signal based sample preparation
Described is a system and method for detecting whether a biological event has occurred in a cellular sample, and then activating a fluidics system to fix the cell at the point in time with the event occurred. In one example, a sample preparation system includes a camera linked to a confocal microscope that is interrogating a cellular sample. Once a detectable event, such as a binding event, has occurred, the sample preparation system releases a fixative to fix the cell at the point in time when the event was detected. |
| US10078035B2 |
Post-probe upstream metering pump for insuring NGL phase change completion in sample conditioning
A post-probe upstream metering pump for insuring phase change completion of a multi-phase fluid such as Natural Gas Liquid (NGL) in a sample conditioning system having a pipeline sample take-off probe for fluid extraction, a sample conditioning unit for conditioning the extracted fluid to a select range of temperature and pressure for analysis of the fluid sample by an associated analyzer without dew point dropout or phase separation, and a metering pump disposed in-line between the sample take-off probe and the sample conditioning unit to pressurize the fluid sample to condense into a substantially fully liquid phase and to reduce lag time between extraction and fluid sample conditioning. |
| US10078031B2 |
Compliant leak detection system
Compliant leak detection system. The system includes structure adapted to support at least two rows of leak detection leaves, each leak detection leaf supported by an arm pivotally attached to the structure and urged outwardly by a torsion spring into contact with a pipe wall so as to adjust for changes in pipe diameter. The leak detection leaf includes a rigid support and a flexible member such that suction from a leak will cause the flexible member to contact the pipe wall and put a drag force on the structure. An axial force transmitting drum measures the drag force to indicate presence of a leak. |
| US10078029B2 |
System for testing an article wrapped with an overwrap and associated method
A testing system is provided for an article wrapped with an overwrap. The testing system includes first and second receptacle portions cooperating to define a test receptacle having a test fixture therein. The test receptacle is configured to receive the wrapped article. The test fixture is configured to form a seal with the test fixture about a perimeter thereof and to draw a portion of the overwrap away from the article in response to a suction applied in association with the test fixture. A piercing device is configured to form an orifice in the overwrap, within the perimeter, and a fluid between the overwrap and the article, through the orifice, from a fluid source. A pressure and/or a fluid flow change within the test receptacle, externally to the overwrap, is measured with a measuring device to determine whether there is leakage in the overwrap. An associated method is also provided. |
| US10078026B2 |
Multi-component force-torque sensing device with reduced cross-talk for twist-compression testing machine
A multi-component force-torque sensing device contains force- and torque-sensitive elements mounted on a common base so that the axis of rotation of the measured torque coincides with the direction of action of the force being measured. The force and the torque are applied to a test specimen holder simultaneously. For reducing cross-talk between the sensitive elements installed on the base the test specimen holder is connected to the sensitive elements via a cross-talk reducing member with respective adapters which translate the force and the torque to the sensitive elements independently, without affecting or disturbing each other measurements. |
| US10078023B2 |
Plasmonic nanoparticle-based colorimetric stress memory sensor
The development of a stress-responsive colorimetric film that can memorize the stress it has experienced is disclosed. The system can use the plasmonic shift associated with the disassembly of one-dimensional plasmonic nanoparticle chains driven by the plastic deformation of the surrounding polymer matrix. By modifying the plasticity of the polymer, the plasmonic shift and colorimetric change can respond to a large range of stresses. The pressure indicating film can be used to capture and record the pressure distribution and magnitude between two contacting or impacting surfaces by outputting color information. |
| US10078021B2 |
Body core temperature measurement
An apparatus for measuring body core temperature includes a light guide. The light guide can be coupled to an earpiece, or it can be a standalone device. The apparatus also includes a sensor positioned at one end of the light guide, and a processor coupled to the sensor. The sensor is operable to sense infrared radiation from an infrared source at the opposite end of the light guide. The processor is operable to determine a temperature of the infrared source at the opposite end of the light guide via a transfer function that correlates a measurement of the infrared radiation observed by the sensor and an effect of radiation of the light guide. |
| US10078018B2 |
Temperature detection apparatus and rotation angle detection apparatus
A temperature detection apparatus and a rotation angle detection apparatus are provided that allow a temperature of a resolver to be calculated in real time. A rotation angle detection apparatus (10) (temperature detection apparatus) includes a resolver (20) with an excitation coil and output coils wound thereon, the excitation coil being subjected to an excitation voltage (VA) and the output coil outputting voltage signals (VB, VC) corresponding to the excitation voltage (VA), and a temperature calculation circuit (sensor microcomputer (32)) that detects a phase of the excitation voltage (VA) and that detects a phase of an excitation current (IA). The temperature calculation circuit (sensor microcomputer (32)) calculates a temperature of the resolver (20) based on a phase difference between the excitation voltage (VA) and the excitation current (IA). |
| US10078015B2 |
Temperature detection circuit and semiconductor device
Provided is a temperature detection circuit having less manufacturing fluctuations in detection temperature and capable of easily adjusting the manufacturing fluctuations in detection temperature. The temperature detection circuit includes: a constant current circuit configured to output a constant current; a voltage-controlled current circuit, which is controlled by a voltage output from a heat sensitive element and is configured to output a current corresponding to temperature; and a current comparator configured to compare the constant current and the current corresponding to temperature, and output a detection signal indicating that a predetermined temperature is detected. Temperature characteristics of the constant current circuit and temperature characteristics of the voltage-controlled current circuit have a correlation with each other. The temperature detection circuit is configured to detect temperature based on a result of comparing the output current of the constant current circuit and the output current of the voltage-controlled current circuit. |
| US10078013B2 |
Systems and methods using multi-wavelength single-pulse Raman spectroscopy
The invention provides methods and apparatus comprising a multi-wavelength laser source that uses a single unfocused pulse of a low intensity but high power laser over a large sample area to collect Raman scattered collimated light, which is then Rayleigh filtered and focused using a singlet lens into a stacked fiber bundle connected to a customized spectrograph, which separates the individual spectra from the scattered wavelengths using a hybrid diffraction grating for collection onto spectra-specific sections of an array photodetector to measure spectral intensity and thereby identify one or more compounds in the sample. |
| US10078006B2 |
Wide-band acoustic holography
A method of determining a property of a sound field from a plurality of measured sound field parameters, the method comprising: receiving a plurality of measured sound field parameters each indicative of a sound field parameter measured by a sensor of an array of sensors, the sensor being positioned at a measurement position; providing a model of a sound field, the model comprising a set of elementary waves and having associated with it a set of model parameters; computing, from the model, computed values of the sound field parameter at each of the measurement positions and as a function of said model parameters; determining a set of parameter values of the model parameters so as to reduce an error measure by performing an iterative minimization process including a plurality of iterations, the error measure comprising an error term operable to compare the computed and the measured sound field parameters; computing the property of the sound field from the determined set of model parameters. |
| US10078000B2 |
Method and device for determining the filling mass of a cryogenically stored gas in a container
A method for determining a filling mass in a thermally insulated container for a cryogenically stored gas includes determining the filling mass using a known container volume and a calculated density of the gas content of the container. A temperature sensor is used for measuring a mixing temperature of liquid and gaseous phases, where the liquid phase is extracted via a first extraction supply line at the geodetically lowest point, and the gaseous phase is extracted via a second extraction supply line at the geodetically highest point. Downstream of the extraction points, after a convergence of the first and the second extraction supply line, the temperature sensor is placed where a complete and thorough mixing of the liquid and the gaseous phase of the gas from the first and second extraction supply line has already taken place. |
| US10077990B2 |
Fixation structure and resolver stator
A knock pin (50) is inserted into a knock hole (54) of an electric motor case (18) to which a resolver stator (30) is fixed. The resolver stator (30) is positioned by engaging the knock pin (50) with an engagement groove (56). The resolver stator (30) includes a stop portion (58) at a position opposed to a rear end of the knock pin (50) in its insertion direction. When the knock pin (50) is about to fall off from the knock hole (54), the stop portion (58) prevents its movement, thereby preventing the falling off. |
| US10077988B2 |
Systems and methods relating to ad/content targeting for map route options based on personalization and user data
The present invention provides methods and systems for incorporating user information such as a user's errands, tasks, and/or online behavior in determining a preferred route between an origin and a destination using a web map planning service. Potential advertisers can use the user information to target particular users who are traveling near a particular route to give users various options to optimize their travel plans. |
| US10077987B2 |
Dynamically integrating offline and online data in a geographic application
A request for navigation directions for travelling from a source location to a destination location is received. Using data that was stored in a memory of a computing device prior to the request, first navigation directions for travelling from the source location to the destination location are generated, and a request for navigation directions for travelling from the source location to the destination location is transmitted to an online server. After second navigation directions for travelling from the source to the destination are received, it is determined whether a difference between the first navigation directions and the second navigation directions exceeds a threshold level. When the difference between the first navigation directions and the second directions route does not exceed the threshold level, the second navigation directions are merged into the first navigation directions. |
| US10077977B2 |
Method and jig for measuring angle
This angle measurement method is a method of measuring an angle of a variable vane of an axial flow fluid machine including a vane main body which is disposed inside of a casing, and an arm which is disposed outside of the casing and rotates integrally with the vane main body, and includes: a jig mounting step of mounting a measurement jig configured to measure an angle of the vane main body on the arm in a fixed posture in a rotation direction of the arm; and a measurement step of measuring a relative angle between a predetermined angle reference surface intersecting the rotation direction of the arm and at least a portion of the measurement jig. |
| US10077973B2 |
Ballistic shield for a firearm
A ballistic shield apparatus for a weapon includes: a flexible ballistic shield made of penetration-resistant material, the ballistic shield having opposed front and rear faces, spaced-apart side edges connecting spaced-apart top and bottom edges, and a central area bounded by the side edges; one or more flexible securing members extending laterally outward from each of the side edges, each of the one or more flexible securing members including a releasable connector disposed on a distal portion thereof; and at least one releasable connector disposed on the ballistic shield, the releasable connectors collectively configured such that the distal portion of each of the one or more flexible securing members can be releasably secured to the central area of the ballistic shield, or to a distal portion of one of the one or more flexible securing members. |
| US10077970B2 |
System and method for stores communications
A system for transferring power and/or data between a host and a store over a single-wire umbilical cable is herein described. The system comprises a host-store interface configured to allow the transfer of both power and data between the host and a store in operative communication therewith. The store comprises a microcontroller and memory operatively coupled thereto, allowing the microcontroller to be powered on and to receive and store data sent by the host in its memory through a single-wire without requiring additional electronic systems that the store may comprise to also be powered on. This data may later be incorporated into pre-programmed systems onboard the store at full power-on, thereby enabling the reprogramming of the store without powering it on prior to launch. |
| US10077969B1 |
Firearm training system
A system trains usage of a firearm and includes an end unit, a processing subsystem, and a control subsystem remotely located from the end unit. The end unit includes an image sensor that is positioned against a target that has a bar code. The image sensor defines a field of view of a scene that includes the target, and the bar code stores encoded information that defines a target coverage zone. The system selectively operates in a first mode and a second mode according to input from the control subsystem. In the first mode the end unit scans the bar code to extract the target coverage zone. In the second mode the image sensor captures a series of images of the target coverage zone, and the processing subsystem analyzes regions of the captured series of images to determine a strike, by a projectile of the firearm, on the target. |
| US10077967B1 |
Tactile biofeedback reference attachment
A tactile reference attachment for releasable attachment to a sports equipment handle to provides a user with tactile biofeedback. includes a tactile reference feature that extends longitudinally along an exterior body surface and is formed with dimensions specifically tailored to harness the user's natural attributes of sensibility, proprioception, and neuromuscular memory to improve a user's accuracy. The tactile reference attachment includes a flexible primary substrate having a plurality of attachment perimeter edges, an exterior surface, an interior surface having an adhesive, a thickness of no more than 4 mm, and at least a first tactile reference indentation having a plurality of perimeter edges, an indentation width of at least 2.0 millimeters and no greater than 5.0 millimeters, an indentation depth of at least 0.5 millimeters and no greater than the indentation width, and an indentation length that is at least five times the indentation width. |
| US10077958B2 |
Recoil spring for a firearm
A firearm includes a receiver for housing a trigger mechanism. The receiver is attached to a firearm barrel, and the receiver includes a bolt carrier that is configured to reciprocate therein. The firearm includes a recoil spring that has a first end and a second end, and the first end interfaces with the bolt carrier. The recoil spring further includes a dampened portion positioned between the first and second ends. The dampened portion has a plurality of dead spring coils. The firearm also includes a spring retainer that is configured to retain the recoil spring within the firearm. |
| US10077956B2 |
Heat exchanger with enhanced airflow
Systems, apparatuses, and methods described herein are directed to a heat exchange tube structure and an arrangement of heat exchange tubes that enhance or help promote fluid flow through a heat exchanger. Bend portions of heat exchange tubes may be structured and configured to allow for gaps so that fluid may pass an assembly of the heat exchange tubes. The heat exchange tubes may be arranged to expose the air gaps at the bend portions of the heat exchange tubes to promote fluid flow. |
| US10077953B2 |
Stacking-type header, heat exchanger, and air-conditioning apparatus
A stacking-type header includes: a first plate-shaped unit and a second plate-shaped unit having a distribution flow passage that includes a branching flow passage including: an opening port; a first straight-line part parallel to a gravity direction and having a lower end communicating with the opening port through a first connecting part; and a second straight-line part parallel to the gravity direction and having an upper end communicating with the opening port through a second connecting part, in which at least a part of the first and second connecting parts are not parallel to the gravity direction, and in which the refrigerant flows into the branching flow passage through the opening port, and flows out from the branching flow passage through each of an upper end of the first straight-line part-and a lower end of the second straight-line part. |
| US10077952B2 |
Manifold structure for re-directing a fluid stream
A manifold structure for re-directing a fluid stream between first and second ends of a manifold cavity for delivering or discharging a fluid to or from a corresponding fluid transmitting device, such as a heat exchanger is disclosed. In particular, a a flow box enclosing a fluid transmitting device is disclosed wherein an incoming or outgoing fluid is re-directed between first and second directions when being delivered to or discharged from the enclosed fluid transmitting device In one embodiment, the manifold structure includes a first curved surface having a concave curvature for redirecting a fluid stream from a first direction to a second direction. In another embodiment, the manifold structure includes a second curved surface having a convex curvature that is disposed in facing, spaced-apart relationship to the first curved surface, the first and second curved surfaces together inducing swirling movement into the incoming or outgoing fluid stream. |
| US10077949B2 |
Heat accumulator and method for operating a heat accumulator
A heat accumulator having a housing to receive a heat storage medium, a heat storage medium received in the housing, and a heat exchanger, in which a heat carrier fluid can be transported and which is arranged so that heat can be transferred from the heat storage medium to the heat carrier fluid. The heat accumulator comprises an electrical heating means which is configured to convert electrical energy into heat energy. The electrical heating means is arranged so that it heats the heat storage medium during operation, wherein the heat storage medium heated by the electrical heating means is a metal. In addition a corresponding method is disclosed. |
| US10077947B2 |
Cooling assembly and method for manufacturing the same
A cooling assembly comprising a plurality of fin elements stacked in a stack direction, a plurality of coolant channels each located between adjacent fin elements and extending in a coolant channel direction perpendicular to the stack direction, a first heat transfer surface adapted to be in contact with a heat generating element, and a second heat transfer surface spaced apart from the first heat transfer surface, the plurality of fin elements and the plurality of coolant channels being located between the first heat transfer surface and the second heat transfer surface. Each of the fin elements comprises a pulsating heat pipe embedded therein, a main pulsating direction of each of the pulsating heat pipes being substantially parallel to a normal of the first heat transfer surface. |
| US10077946B2 |
Three-dimensional heat conducting structure and manufacturing method thereof
In a three-dimensional heat conducting structure and its manufacturing method, the manufacturing method includes the steps of (a) providing a vapor chamber having at least one insert hole; (b) providing a heat pipe having an open end, and inserting the open end into the insert hole; (c) providing a support ring, and sheathing the support ring on a joint position of the heat pipe and the vapor chamber; and (d) providing a soldering means, and applying the soldering means between the support ring and the heat pipe. |
| US10077945B2 |
Heat dissipation device
A heat dissipation device includes a first and a second housing, at least one pipe, and a working fluid. The first and the second housing internally respectively defines a first and a second chamber, in which a first and a second wick structure is respectively formed, and has at least one first and second opening communicated with the first and the second chamber respectively. The pipe has a pipe body, and a first and second extended portion, which respectively has a first and a second open end, and a first and a second through opening, and is inserted into and connected to the first and the second chamber via the first and the second opening respectively. The pipe internally defines a pipe chamber, in which a pipe wick structure is formed. The working fluid is provided in the first and the second, and the pipe chamber. |
| US10077940B2 |
Top submerged injection lance for enhanced submerged combustion
A lance for top submerged lancing injection in a pyro-metallurgical operation, wherein the lance has at least two substantially concentric pipes, with an annular passage for oxygen-containing gas defined between an outermost one of the pipes and a next adjacent pipe and a further passage for fuel defined within an innermost one of the pipes; the outermost pipe has a lower part of its length, from a submergible lower outlet end of the lance, by which the outermost pipe extends beyond an outlet end of the or each other pipe to define between the outlet end of the outermost pipe and the outlet end of the or each other pipe a chamber with which the passage for oxygen-containing gas communicates; and the lance further includes a defined gas flow-modifying device that is disposed in a lower end section of the passage for oxygen-containing gas. |
| US10077939B2 |
To direct air to media
Apparatus for directing air to media. The apparatus including an impinging plate having an array of orifices. The orifices are arranged in a plurality of rows oblique to the direction of motion of the media, and are also arranged to provide air to the media. |
| US10077935B2 |
Shelf assembly for a refrigerator or freezer
A shelf assembly for a refrigerator or freezer includes a receiving plate for receiving objects, a holding arrangement which is joined to the receiving plate to form a structural unit and by means of which the shelf assembly can be mounted in a cooling or freezing space of the refrigerator or freezer on delimiting walls of the cooling or freezing space, and an electrical consumer such as a lighting module. The holding arrangement has a holding element which is arranged in the region of a side edge of the receiving plate, extends along the side edge and is made at least in part of an electrically conducting metal material. The shelf assembly forms a power supply path via the metal material where the power supply path includes an electrically conducting element that extends into a cutout in the holding element and in electrically conducting contact with the holding element. |
| US10077931B2 |
Cooler or cooler insert and methods of fabrication thereof
An insert configured to be disposed in a receptacle, the insert comprising a bottom surface, a first top surface, a second top surface, the second top surface being located further from the bottom surface than the first top surface in a first direction, the first direction being orthogonal to the bottom surface, and a chamber, the chamber residing between the first top surface and the bottom surface and the second top surface and the bottom surface, the chamber being configured to hold a liquid, is provided. An associated method is also provided. |
| US10077930B2 |
Air-conditioning apparatus and air-conditioning system
An air-conditioning apparatus and an air-conditioning system including a first unit including a compressor and a first heat exchanger, and a plurality of second units that each include a second heat exchanger. Each of the plurality of second units connect to the first unit via a plurality of branched pipes and a plurality of valves. The air-conditioning apparatus and air-conditioning system also include a storage unit that stores connection information indicating a relationship of connection between the plurality of second units and the plurality of branched pipes, and a control unit that detects whether the connection information includes a closed path pipe. |
| US10077929B2 |
Movement of electronic expansion valve
Embodiments are directed to receiving, by a device comprising a processor, an indication that an air conditioning unit should turn on, commanding, by the device, a valve to open a specified extent based on the received indication, and subsequent to the valve opening to the specified extent, powering-on a piece of equipment that has an impact on refrigerant flow in the air conditioning unit. |
| US10077921B2 |
Re-reflecting paraboloid dish collector
The present invention relates to an improved solar energy concentrating system. The system comprises a dual axis sun tracking paraboloid dish collector on a polar mount, with a re-reflecting mirror in top of the paraboloid dish, which reflects the concentrated solar irradiation into an opening in the paraboloid dish into a light pipe and with a movable third mirror redirects the light into a second light pipe along the polar axis, which with a fourth fixed mirror, sends the concentrated solar irradiation into a third light pipe to the cavity receiver. The invention replaces the need of flexible connectors to accommodate the movement of the mirror, with a combination of mirrors and light pipes, transferring the solar irradiation to a cavity-receiver. Dual axis tracking systems can capture more solar energy, on a more constant basis throughout the day and the year, and by reflecting directly into the cavity-receiver, thermal losses are minimized. |
| US10077919B2 |
Storage boiler
A storage boiler, a tank of which has a first chamber for housing a given quantity of water; an inlet for feeding water into the first chamber; an outlet for discharging water from the tank; and a first resistor fitted inside the first chamber to heat the water inside the first chamber to, and keep it at, a standby first temperature; the first chamber housing a tubular body, which houses a second chamber communicating with the first chamber and with the outlet, and housing a second resistor selectively activatable to heat the water flowing through the second chamber to a dispensing second temperature higher than the first temperature. |
| US10077912B2 |
Dehumidifier and method for controlling operation of dehumidifier
The dehumidifier, according to one embodiment of the present invention, comprises: a variable compressor which varies the rotation speed of a driving shaft according to an input control signal and adjusts an amount of a refrigerant gas compressed by the rotation of the driving shaft; a condenser for liquefying the compressed refrigerant gas received from the variable compressor; a heat exchanger for cooling flown air by vaporizing the liquefied refrigerant gas, and condensing vapors of the flown air into water to remove the water by using the cooling air; a blower fan for supplying outside air to the heat exchanger by forming an air flow according to the driving speed of a blower motor; and a control unit for generating the control signal according to the input signal so as to adjust the rotation speed of the driving shaft. |
| US10077909B2 |
Outdoor unit of air conditioner
An outdoor unit of an air conditioner according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a case; and a control box installed in the case, wherein a stepped portion protrudes from an upper surface of the control box, and a plurality of air outlet ports are formed at the stepped portion. |
| US10077904B2 |
Wood pellet burner assembly
There is provided a wood pellet burner assembly for a wood pellet boiler, not shown. There is a fixed and easily removable fuel apertured grate mounted above and spaced apart from a base wall forming part of a main support enclosure. A movable scraper subassembly carrying an apertured flame tube is provided which can be moved in and out of the main support enclosure to perform a scraping action on the fixed fuel apertured grate to deliver ash and clinker which have not fallen through the grate during combustion off the grate out of the main support enclosure. This cleaning operation can be carried out at suitable preset time intervals. |
| US10077901B2 |
Gas cooktop and appliance comprising such a gas cooktop
The underlying invention in particular is directed to a gas cooktop (1) comprising a cooking area with at least one concentric gas burner (2, 3), wherein at least one of the gas burners (3) of the cooking area is mounted at an off-center position to a platform (4, 7, 16) rotatably attached to the gas cooktop (1) within the cooking area, wherein the platform (4) is mechanically coupled to a drive arrangement in which an actuator is mechanically coupled via a transmission with the platform (4) so as to enable remote actuation of rotation of the rotatable platform (4) via the drive arrangement. |
| US10077898B2 |
Combustion engine for burning a fuel mixture of water and alcohol
An example of the combustion engine includes a central chimney having a bottom end located adjacent a combustible fuel mixture of water and alcohol. A turbine has a top side with top side hole positioned around the chimney. A generally conical turbine insulator is positioned above the turbine and around the chimney. A generally conical deflector positioned above the insulator and around a top end of the chimney. The generally conical deflector is inverted relative to the generally conical turbine insulator. |
| US10077895B1 |
Multi-function floodlight
A multi-function floodlight includes: a heat sink comprising a main body, and a plurality of heat dissipating fins mounted on the heat sink; a heat dissipating cover enclosing the heat sink; a bracket rotatably connected to the heat dissipating cover; an upper cap covering a top of the heat dissipating cover; a light transmitting lower cap covering a bottom of the heat dissipating cover, a waterproof gasket is provided between the light transmitting lower cap and the main body, the main body and the light transmitting lower cap cooperatively define a containing chamber; a light emitting assembly mounted on the heat sink, the light emitting assembly is received in the containing chamber; a driver mounted on the plurality of heat dissipating fins and electrically coupled to the light emitting assembly; and an emergency battery mounted on the plurality of heat dissipating fins. |
| US10077893B1 |
Removable anchoring system and uses thereof
In various implementations, an anchoring system may include one or more anchors. An anchor may include a first coupling member, a second coupling member, and a plate. The anchor may be coupleable to other anchors and/or objects. The anchoring system may be used to secure an object to a location. |
| US10077887B2 |
Light emitting apparatus and illumination apparatus including the same
A light emitting apparatus is provided. The light emitting apparatus may include a light source device that emits a plurality of laser beams in parallel, a light transmission device that gathers the plurality of laser beams emitted from the light source device into a single beam and outputs the single beam to a focus, a wavelength conversion device that converts the wavelength of the single beam on the focus, and a housing to receive the light source device, the light transmission device, and the wavelength conversion device. |
| US10077886B2 |
Hybrid light bulbs using combinations of remote phosphor LEDS and direct emitting LEDS
A light source suitable for general lighting applications combines at least one remote phosphor LED and at least one direct emitting LED in a single unit. Both the remote phosphor LED and the direct emitting LED are carried by a base and covered by a bulb or other suitable cover member, which may be light-diffusing. The remote phosphor LED includes a first LED, a phosphor layer, and a first dichroic reflector. Excitation light from the first LED is reflected by the first dichroic reflector onto the phosphor layer to generate phosphor light, which is substantially transmitted by the first dichroic reflector. At least some light from the direct emitting LED propagates to the cover member without passing through any dichroic reflector, including the first dichroic reflector. The light source may provide white light output using relatively small amounts of phosphor material. |
| US10077885B2 |
Iris diaphragm system
An iris diaphragm comprises a stationary ring, a rotatable adjusting ring, and a plurality of shutter blades. The plurality of shutter blades forms a diaphragm aperture inside the stationary ring and rotation of the adjusting ring moves the shutter blades inside the stationary ring whereby the size of the diaphragm aperture can be changed. The shutter blades are formed as a flat opaque surface and at least one of the shutter blades comprises at least one transparent region formed in said opaque surface. A light fixture comprises such iris diaphragm arranged between a light source generating a light beam and an optical assembly configured to project the light beam along an optical axis. |
| US10077884B2 |
Artificial lighting system for simulating natural lighting
A system for illuminating an environment with light that simulates natural light includes: a first light source which emits a beam of visible light; a diffused-light generator delimited by an inner surface, which receives the light beam, and an outer surface, the diffused-light generator being at least partially transparent to a long wavelength component of the beam of visible light. The diffused-light generator transmits diffused light from a short wavelength component of the beam of visible light, through the outer surface, the correlated color temperature of the transmitted light being lower than the CCT of the visible diffused light. The lighting system includes a dark box which hosts the first light source and is optically coupled to the environment via the diffused-light generator. |
| US10077883B2 |
Illumination device with optical units including spiral structure optical unit and illumination device having the same
An illumination device includes an optical component and a light-emitting module. The optical component includes a light-transmitting body, a first optical unit, and a second optical unit. The first optical unit has a light input surface and a plurality of surrounding structures surrounding the light input surface and arranged in a pattern of concentric circles, and each surrounding structure has a first surrounding surface and a second surrounding surface. The second optical unit has a spiral structure surrounding the light output surface of the light-transmitting body and a surrounding frame surrounding the light output surface of the light-transmitting body and the spiral structure, and a relative height from a topmost surface of the spiral structure to the light output surface of the light-transmitting body is increased gradually from inner to outer. The light-emitting module is disposed under the light input surface of the first optical unit. |
| US10077880B1 |
Screen printed shield
A shield for a lighting fixture includes a panel that is optically transparent and a screen attached to the panel. The screen has opaque segments, where the opaque segments have gaps therebetween. The screen is screen printed onto the panel. The opaque segments are distributed on the panel in a pattern. |
| US10077878B2 |
Vehicle lighting apparatus with Fresnel lens and convex lens array
Fresnel lenses are arranged between a board and an outer lens in such a manner as to face at least one of LED chips. The Fresnel lenses are arranged close to a center of the outer lens in front view. Convex and dome-shaped lenses are arranged between the board and the outer lens in such a manner as to face other light sources of the LED chips. The dome-shaped lenses are arranged more radially outward than the Fresnel lenses in front view. Rear surface 89a of the dome-shaped lenses are arranged to be offset toward the LED chips relative to rear surfaces of the Fresnel lenses. |
| US10077877B2 |
Lighting device with integral acoustic dampening
A lighting fixture includes a surround formed to receive a tile therein, the surround having an outward facing side. The surround includes tabs that permit suspension of the surround in a ceiling grid. A light emitting diode (LED) is mounted on the outward facing side of the surround. A driver is connected to the LED to provide power to the LED for directing light from the outward facing side. |
| US10077876B2 |
Flexible illuminating flat cable structure
The present disclosure provides a flexible illuminating flat cable structure including a connector, a circuit board, a plurality of external signal lines, a first illuminating unit, a shell, signal lines, a fiber cable, and a transparent coat. The connector connects to an electronic device. The circuit board includes contact welds, signal line welds, a first illuminating unit weld, controller welds, and a external signal line welds. The external signal lines conducts a power signal and a control signal. The controller generates a power control signal according to the power signal and the control signal sent from the external signal lines. The first illuminating unit generates lights according the power control signal. The shell includes an illuminating mark corresponding to the first illuminating unit. The signal lines transmit data signals. The fiber cable transmits lights. |
| US10077873B2 |
Determining fluid leakage volume in pipelines
A method and an apparatus for determining leakage volume of fluid in transportation pipelines are provided. The method comprises: obtaining the negative pressure wave signals detected by at least two pressure sensors arranged on the pipeline; determining the pressure signal at the leakage location based on the negative pressure wave signals; determining the leakage rate during a leakage period based on the pressure signal at the leakage location according to a leakage model; and determining the leakage volume of the fluid in the pipeline based on the leakage rate and the leakage period. The apparatus provided corresponds to the method described above. By using the method and apparatus described above, the leakage volume of the transportation pipelines can be obtained to help understand the leakage profile of the pipelines and thus reduce losses (FIG. 1). |
| US10077872B2 |
Compressed gas filling method and system
Systems and methods for completely filling a storage vessel with a fuel gas. One method includes flowing the fuel gas along a fluid conduit in fluid communication with the storage vessel and actuating a valve disposed along the fluid conduit to provide a predetermined difference between the pressure of the fuel gas upstream of the valve and the pressure of the fuel gas downstream of the control valve. The predetermined difference is selected such that the temperature of the fuel gas is reduced to a predetermined temperature after passing through the valve. The method further includes dispensing the fuel gas into the storage vessel at a first mass flow rate. |
| US10077868B2 |
Truss adapter for mounting objects on space frame truss
Devices for mounting objects on space frame truss or other structural members are provided. |
| US10077867B2 |
Carabiner with variable mounting positions relative to a fixed support
A carabiner that provides for variable mounting positions relative to a stationary environmental support. The carabiner includes a loop including a gate movable to pass objects to the interior of the loop, and a mounting enabling connection of the carabiner to an environmental object while maintaining orientation of the loop relative to the environmental object. The mounting locks the loop in different orientations relative to the environmental object. The mounting may include a plurality of sockets for receiving rods, and a setscrew to lock a rod within the socket. |
| US10077860B2 |
Inerting gas vent assembly, inerting system using the gas vent assembly and method of inerting a fire protection sprinkler system
A fire protection sprinkler system and method of inerting a fire protection sprinkler system includes connecting an inerting system to the piping network of a fire protection sprinkler system having a piping network and at least one sprinkler head connected with the piping network. The inerting system includes an inert gas source that is adapted to supply inert gas to the piping network and an inerting gas vent assembly. The gas vent assembly has a gas vent adapted to discharge gas, a solenoid and a control. The solenoid is adapted to selectively open the gas vent and to close the gas vent. The gas vent discharges gas when the solenoid opens the gas vent and does not discharge gas when the solenoid closes the gas vent. The control is adapted to operate the solenoid in a manner that allows the gas vent to discharge gas for a limited amount of time. |
| US10077859B2 |
Compression connection
A system for the automated compression connection of fluidic components includes receiving hardware configured to align an insert placed therein: an interchangeable plug-and-play consumable insert configured for automated connection to the receiving hardware: a drive force mechanism: and at least one mechanical support wherein the drive force mechanism is configured to apply a substantially axial drive force opposed by the at least one mechanical support to align and compress the insert to create a leak-resistant seal between the insert and the receiving hardware, such that the system provides automated alignment and sealing of the insert. |
| US10077855B2 |
Method of lining pipe with high strength liner, high strength liner, and pipe lined with high strength liner
A liner tube for lining a pipe and pipe lining method. Liner material that includes a strength layer and felt backing layer forms the liner tube. The strength layer includes chopped strands of fiber oriented generally parallel to one another and distributed along the strength layer. The felt backing layer can be needle punched to the strength layer. Joining structure can connect opposite longitudinal edge margins of the liner material to form a tube shape. The liner tube is impregnated with a curable polymer, positioned in the pipe, and cured to form the liner. The liner stretches radially when it is positioned in the pipe. As the liner stretches, the strength layer remains fixed to the felt backing and the width of the overlapping edge margins does not decrease. |
| US10077853B2 |
Hose carrier
A compound roller assembly is provided for carrying a hose reducing friction of hoses on various surfaces. The roller assembly comprises a primary roller assembly comprising a first frame element, a central channel with a channel axis, an opening allowing placement over the hose or conduit. Appendages extend from the frame element radially outward. A plurality of axle rods are engaged with the appendages, enabling the rollers to roll on the axle rods. A secondary roller assembly, identical to the primary roller assembly, placed over the hose or conduit with the secondary roller assembly rotated around the central axis, the second end of the primary roller assembly joining by a mechanical interface securely to a compatible mechanical interface, to the first end of the secondary roller assembly, such that the compound roller assembly encompasses the hose. |
| US10077844B2 |
Gate valve and seat insert for a gate valve
A gate valve and a seat insert for a gate valve having a valve body, which may be used for hydrocarbon well fracturing operations with a fracturing fluid, or “frac fluid”, includes a seat pocket for receipt of the seat insert and a seat, which seat insert may include a tubular member having a first and a second seat insert end face, the first and second seat insert end faces each include at least one annular seal, and the seat insert is disposed in the seat pocket with the first seat insert end face sealed against the valve body and the second seat insert end face sealed against the seat. |
| US10077842B2 |
Sealing ring
The invention relates to a sealing ring (1) for sealing a piston rod comprising a retaining ring (2) having a circular inside diameter (M1) and a center axis (M) and comprising a plurality of sealing segments (3), which are supported in the retaining ring (2) in such a way that the sealing segments can be moved in a direction radial to the center axis (M), wherein each sealing segment (3) has a sealing surface (3a) that is oriented toward the center axis (M) and that extends in a curved manner in a circumferential direction (U) with respect to the center axis (M), and wherein each sealing segment (3) has two lateral sealing-segment guiding surfaces (3b) extending parallel to each other, wherein the sealing surface (3a) ends at one of the two sealing-segment guiding surfaces (3b) at both ends, and wherein the retaining ring (2) comprises a plurality of guiding segments (2a) arranged at a distance from each other in the circumferential direction (U), wherein each two guiding segments (2a) following each other in the circumferential direction (U) have guiding surfaces (2b, 2c) that face each other and that extend parallel to each other, said guiding surfaces being arranged at a distance from each other in such a way and being designed in such a way that, by means of the sealing-segment guiding surfaces (3b) of the sealing segment, the sealing segment (3) is guided on the two lateral guiding surfaces (2b, 2c) and is supported on the two lateral guiding surfaces in such a way that the sealing segment can be moved in the radial direction (R), wherein guiding segments (2a) and sealing segments (3) are arranged in succession in the circumferential direction (U). |
| US10077840B2 |
Static gasket and method of construction thereof
A metal static gasket and method of construction thereof is provided. The gasket includes at least one metal layer. The at least one metal layer has opposite sides with at least one through opening extending through the opposite sides configured to register with an opening to be sealed and at least one raised annular seal bead extending at least in part about the at least one through opening. At least one protrusion extends outwardly from at least one of the sides, wherein the at least one protrusion prevents complete flattening of the at least one seal bead. The at least one protrusion has a plurality of discrete layers of metal deposited on one another via an additive manufacture process, wherein the protrusion is formed having a hollow region extending therein. |
| US10077837B2 |
Control device and control method for continuously variable transmission
A control device for a continuously variable transmission, which sets a target input rotational speed, or a target value of an input rotational speed of the continuously variable transmission mounted on a vehicle, such that a speed ratio is changed in a stepped manner and which controls the continuously variable transmission such that the input rotational speed becomes equal to the target input rotational speed. |
| US10077831B2 |
Component for a planetary gear train
A component for a planetary gear train, which is cast as one piece, includes a planetary carrier and a hollow-cast hollow shaft arranged in a coaxial manner on the planetary carrier. A chamber of the hollow shaft is accessible through an opening on at least one axial end of the hollow shaft. On an outer periphery thereof, the hollow shaft supports at least one connecting element suitable for forming a shaft-hub connection. |
| US10077829B2 |
Strain wave gear system
A strain wave gear system (10) includes first and second sets of ball bearings (80, 82) located intermediate a flange (84) and a retainer plate (88) rotatable with an output (54) and a radially oriented flat disc (74) of the input including strain relief (76). Strain relief (76) is a helical slot in a coupling (70) located radially within the wave generator (94) and the ring gear (22). The ring gear (22) is sealed by a sealing system including sealant (42) forced by a protrusion (34) of the cap (24) entering into a cavity (36) through a channel (40) into a relief volume (38) of the housing (12). The bearing (48) rotatably mounting the housing (12) to the output (54) is lubricated by a lubricating system including plungers (110) threadably received in axial bores (102) intersecting with radial bores (104) in communication with radial holes (47) of the bearing (48). |
| US10077827B2 |
Lockup apparatus for torque converter
A lockup apparatus for a torque converter, which has a drive plate, a driven plate and damper springs connecting the drive plate and the driven plate in a rotating direction, is provided. Each damper spring has a pair of divided parts. An equalizer plate as an intermediate member is arranged so as to slide rotatably on bearing parts of the drive plate, and supporting parts fixed to the equalizer plate are arranged between the divided parts of the damper springs. A bearing part of the drive plate has an outer peripheral surface having an arc shape with a center or a curvature which is offset from a center of an arc shape of an inner peripheral surface of the equalizer plate. |
| US10077825B2 |
Tensioner with spring force control
A tensioner for tensioning a chain or belt span which uses two pistons. The movement of the two pistons may be coupled together. The first piston provides damping to the chain span and a second piston provides variable, dominant and automatically adjusting spring force to the chain span. The tensioner automatically adjusts the mean tension force to keep the chain or belt tension as low as possible without sacrificing chain or belt control, significantly improving drive efficiency at new chain or belt conditions and conditions with dynamic loads. |
| US10077820B2 |
Structure of semi-active mount
A semi-active mount structure may include a nozzle plate mounted between an insulator and a diaphragm, to divide an interior of a main case into an upper fluid chamber and a lower fluid chamber, the nozzle plate being formed with first and second fluid passages, a plunger mounted in a housing coupled to a lower surface of the diaphragm such that the plunger is vertically movable, the plunger opening or closing the second fluid passage in accordance with application of electric power to a coil, a valve spring disposed between the plunger and the housing, to apply elastic force to the plunger, the valve spring dividing a space defined between the diaphragm and the coil into an upper space and a lower space, and a valve mounted at a vent hole drilled at one side of the housing for air to be introduced into or discharged from the lower space. |
| US10077814B2 |
Hydrodynamic machine and dynamic pressure pump therefor
A hydrodynamic machine contains a bladed primary wheel driven by a rotary shaft and a bladed secondary wheel, which together form a work chamber filled with a working medium. The machine has a pressure pump for delivering a working medium from the work chamber. The pressure pump has a first inlet, which projects into the work chamber, and has a first inlet opening which is aligned with the rotary shaft in the circumferential direction. The pressure pump has a second inlet which projects into the work chamber and has a second inlet opening which is aligned to the rotary shaft in the circumferential direction opposite to the first inlet opening. The first and second inlets are joined to a common working medium channel behind the two inlet openings. The first and second inlets extend adjacent to each other in the same flow direction separated by a separation wall. |
| US10077813B2 |
Shift control method for DCT vehicle
A shift control method for a DCT vehicle, which adjusts a time required to shift gears through clutch control in a DCT. The shift control method includes controlling a release-side clutch such that the release-side clutch is partially disengaged by a controller when gear shifting is initiated in a state in which an accelerator pedal is not pressed, performing synchronization control by partially applying an apply-side clutch torque in an initial stage of synchronization such that an engine rotational speed follows and synchronizes an apply-side input shaft speed, and partially applying a release-side clutch torque in a last stage of synchronization by the controller, and performing torque hand-over control such that an apply-side clutch is engaged while the release-side clutch is disengaged by the controller, after performing the synchronization control. |
| US10077812B2 |
Electromagnetic clutch assembly
An electromagnetic clutch assembly includes a rotor assembly operable to rotate about an axis. The electromagnetic clutch assembly also includes an armature assembly operable to rotate about the axis. The electromagnetic clutch assembly also includes an electromagnetic coupling system operable to generate a magnetic field. The magnetic field induces the rotor assembly and the armature assembly against one another along the axis for frictional engagement such that the rotor assembly and the armature assembly rotate together. The electromagnetic clutch assembly also includes an air gap defined between the rotor assembly and the armature assembly when the rotor assembly and the armature assembly are in frictional engagement. In another implementation, at least one plate is positioned between the rotor assembly and the armature assembly such that magnetic flux passes through the at least one plate. The plate is formed from a mixture of powdered metal and solid lubricant. |
| US10077804B2 |
Bearing for rotary control valve
A thrust bearing for use with a rotary valve is provided. The thrust bearing includes a journal portion and a thrust portion. The journal portion is sized to be disposed between a valve body of the rotary valve and a drive shaft of the rotary valve. The thrust portion is sized to be disposed between the valve body and a control member disposed within the valve body and movable relative to a valve seat disposed within the valve body via a drive shaft to control fluid flow through the valve body. The thrust portion includes a flat surface adapted to engage a corresponding flat surface of the valve body when the bearing is subject to a combined thrust and torsional load via the drive shaft, such that the bearing can accommodate the combined thrust and torsional load. |
| US10077803B2 |
Ball-socket type tilting pad journal bearing
A ball-socket type tilting pad journal bearing configured to reduce friction between a tilting pad and a pivot includes a housing body, a plurality of tilting pads disposed inside the housing body, and a plurality of pivots fixed on an inner surface of the housing body. An oil collection unit for collecting oil is provided in at least one of an outer circumferential surface of each of the pivots and a socket of each of the tilting pads. |
| US10077802B2 |
Tilting pad journal bearing assembly
A tilting pad (80, 180) (TP) journal bearing (30, 32, 132) is used to support a rotating assembly of a turbocharger (10). The TP journal bearing (30, 32, 132) includes a cylindrical outer ring (60, 160) and tilting pads (80, 180) disposed within the outer ring (60, 160). The tilting pads (80, 180) are formed separately from the outer ring (60, 160) and secured thereto during assembly. |
| US10077786B2 |
Inlet sieve for self-priming floating pumps
An inlet sieve for a self-priming floating pump features a bottom wall that is carried in a position that underlies the inlet of the self-priming floating pump at a distance therebelow with the inlet of the pump aligned with an axis that passes through the bottom wall of the sieve. A perforated outer wall of the sieve stands upward from a top side of the bottom wall and extends about the axis. The bottom wall features an outer area that spans inwardly from the perforated outer wall toward the axis, and a protuberance that bulges upwardly from the outer area to an apex of the protuberance that is situated at the axis. Water flowing inwardly toward the protuberance from different radial directions is directed smoothly upward into the inlet of the pump with minimal turbulence in order to optimize the performance of the pump. |
| US10077782B2 |
Adaptive blade tip seal assembly
A high-efficiency compressor section (10) for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The compressor section includes a vane carrier (12) adapted to hold ring segment assemblies (16) that provide optimized blade tip gaps (28,29) during a variety of operating conditions. The ring segment assemblies include backing elements (30) and tip-facing, elements (32) urged into a preferred orientation by biasing elements (40) that maintain contact along engagement surfaces (44,46). The backing and tip-facing, elements have thermal properties sufficiently different to allow relative growth and geometric properties strategically selected to strategically form an interface gap therebetween (42) resulting in blade tip gaps that are dynamically adjusted operation. |
| US10077781B2 |
Electric pump having plastic circuit housing
A metal pump housing includes a shaft support hole for supporting a middle part of a rotary shaft. The rotary shaft includes a first end on which a pump operating portion is provided and a second end on which a motor rotor is provided. A metal motor case is fixed to a part of the pump housing that is at a side of the second end. The motor case accommodates a motor section including a motor stator and a motor rotor. A plastic circuit case member is fixed to a part of the motor case that is opposite to the part to which the pump housing is fixed. A circuit substrate for controlling the motor section is fixed to the circuit case member and is separate from the motor case. |
| US10077778B2 |
Multistage centrifugal compressor
A multistage centrifugal compressor includes a rotating shaft; a first impeller and a second impeller fixed to the rotating shaft; and a casing configured to surround the rotating shaft and the first and second impellers, that forms a first diffuser channel allowing the flowing through of a fluid which is discharged from the first impeller, that forms a first return channel, that forms a second diffuser channel allowing the flowing through of the fluid which is discharged from the second impeller, that forms a second return channel, wherein the first impeller is disposed adjacent to the second impeller in the axial direction of the rotating shaft, in the first diffuser channel, a vaneless diffuser is disposed, and in the second diffuser channel, a vaned diffuser having multiple vanes is disposed. |
| US10077771B2 |
Integral mounting system on axial reciprocating pumps
A displacement pump includes a pump rod having a load concentrating feature extending from the head of the pump rod. The head of the pump rod is received within a slot of a drive link, and the drive link is configured to contact the load concentrating feature. Having the drive link contact the smaller diameter load concentrating feature reduces the misalignment between the driving force and the center of the pump rod and thereby reduces side-loading experienced by the pump rod. The displacement pump is configured to be used in a fluid dispensing system. |
| US10077767B2 |
Uterine distension fluid management system with peristaltic pumps
A pump cartridge for mounting on a drive rotor includes a roller assembly having first and second hubs maintained in a spaced apart relationship and defining an axis, and a plurality of planetary rollers arranged in a circumferentially spaced orientation about the axis, the rollers mounted to the hubs displacement radially outward. One or more compressible tubing lines are interposed between the rollers and an interior wall of the pump cartridge housing. The housing and the first and second hubs collectively define a passageway through which a spreader on the drive rotor extends and may be rotated relative to the roller assembly to displace the rollers radially outward to thereby compress the tubing lines against the interior wall. A coupling feature on the first hub engages a roller driving feature of the rotor, so that rotation of the rotor causes rotation of the roller assembly about the axis. |
| US10077766B2 |
Pumping cassette
A pumping cassette including a housing having at least two inlet fluid lines and at least two outlet fluid lines. At least one balancing pod within the housing and in fluid connection with the fluid paths. The balancing pod balances the flow of a first fluid and the flow of a second fluid such that the volume of the first fluid equals the volume of the second fluid. The balancing pod also includes a membrane that forms two balancing chambers. Also included in the cassette is at least two reciprocating pressure displacement membrane pumps. The pumps are within the housing and they pump the fluid from a fluid inlet to a fluid outlet line and pump the second fluid from a fluid inlet to a fluid outlet. |
| US10077765B2 |
Inflator having an enhanced cooling effect on a motor thereof
An inflator includes a box and a compressor unit installed in the box. The box is composed of a cover and a base, which are respectively provided with upper and lower airflow-guiding members, which can quickly guide the air current generated by a cooling fan of the compressor unit to enter the motor's housing via two openings of the housing and to flow out of the motor's housing via downstream through holes of the housing, thus dissipating the heat generated by a rotor assembly in the motor, so that heat is not easy to accumulate in the motor, so that maximum power output of the motor can be achieved, and the performance and service life of the motor can be increased. |
| US10077764B2 |
Cart and method for dispensing liquid color
A moveable scale for weighing containers of liquid color, having a weighing tray that may be moved from a weighing position to a non-weighing position. When in the non-weighing position, the weighing tray is low to the ground, allowing for easy loading and unloading. When in the weighing position, force is sensed by one or more load cells located between the weighing tray and a scale assembly, which allows accurate measurement of the weight container and its contents. |
| US10077762B2 |
Power generation device and rotating portion support structure
A power generation device includes a main shaft rotated by an external force, a speed-up gear, a high-speed shaft, a rolling bearing, a power generator, and a one-way clutch disposed between the output gear and the high-speed shaft. In a state where the main shaft is rotating in a positive direction, the one-way clutch integrally rotatably connects the output gear and the high-speed shaft to each other if a rotational speed of the output gear exceeds a rotational speed of the high-speed shaft, and breaks connection between the output gear and the high-speed shaft if the rotational speed of the output gear becomes lower than the rotational speed of the high-speed shaft. |
| US10077758B2 |
Corrugated pre-cured laminate plates for use within wind turbine rotor blades
A pre-cured laminate plate for use within a component of a wind turbine rotor blade may generally include a plate body extending in a thickness direction between a first side and a second side and in a widthwise direction between a first end and a second end. The plate body may define a plate thickness between the first and second sides. The pre-cured laminate plate may also include a plurality of channels formed in the plate body between the first and second ends. Each channel may extend in the thickness direction between a top end that is open along the first side of the plate body and a bottom end that terminates at a location between the first and second sides of the plate body such that the plate body defines a reduced thickness between the bottom end of each channel and the second side of the plate body. |
| US10077756B2 |
Hydrokinetic system
A hydrokinetic system for generating electricity from hydropower, the system comprising a floatable or floating structure for mooring, the structure comprising: a generally horizontal rotor (12); a deflector (13, 15) for deflecting impinging water to an undershoot flow-path and to an overtopping flow-path to rotate the rotor; and a generator for generating electricity from rotation of the rotor. Networking of the system is also described, as is an anchor for mooring and a method of mooring. |
| US10077754B2 |
Ignition plug and internal-combustion engine
Provided is an ignition plug (15) that has an antenna (54) for emitting high-frequency EM waves to combustion chamber (20) of an internal combustion engine (10), wherein the propagation velocity of the flame is augmented using the high-frequency EM waves emitted from the antenna (54). The ignition plug (15) has an ignition plug body (30) and an antenna (54). The antenna (54) is located on the front-tip side surface of the cylindrical second conductive member (33) within the ignition plug body (30), which accommodates a rod-shaped first conductive member (31) and cylindrical insulation (32) surrounding the first conductive member (31). |
| US10077750B2 |
Method for operating a direct-injection internal combustion engine, and applied-ignition internal combustion engine for carrying out such a method
Systems and methods are provided for operation of fuel injectors within an applied-ignition, direct-injection internal combustion engine. In one example, a needle of a fuel injector is moved from a retracted position to an extended position relative to a plurality of injection holes of a nozzle of the fuel injector, with at least one injection hole being separated from a fuel supply system earlier than each other injection hole. In a partially retracted position, fuel flow along a first side of the needle is decreased relative to fuel flow along a second side of the needle. |
| US10077745B2 |
Intake air heating system for a vehicle
An intake air heating system for a vehicle includes an electrical switching device configured to selectively connect a battery of the vehicle to a heater coil in contact with intake air of the vehicle. The intake air heating system includes a control circuit configured to, in response to an enable signal from an engine controller, drive the electrical switching device to connect the battery to the heater coil at full current. The control circuit is configured to measure a resistance of the heater coil indicative of a temperature of the heater coil. The control circuit is configured to, in response to the temperature of the heater coil exceeding a desired temperature value, modulate the electrical switching device to reduce current from the battery of the vehicle to the heater coil. |
| US10077743B2 |
Hot gas valve
A hot gas valve has a housing, in which a gas duct is formed with an inlet and an outlet, and a valve device for controlling the fluid flow through the gas duct. The housing has at least one cooling duct for liquid cooling of the housing, wherein the gas duct is shielded with respect to the housing by means of a thermal shield, which consists of a material which has a greater thermal stability than the material of which the housing consists. The valve device has a closure body situated in the gas duct, which closure body is held on a valve shaft mounted in the housing by means of at least one bearing. The bearing may consists of a material having good thermal conductivity. The valve shaft is sealed by an elastomer shaft sealing ring on the side of the bearing facing away from the gas duct. |
| US10077736B2 |
Heat retention member for cylinder bore wall, internal combustion engine, and automobile
A cylinder bore wall insulating member has a contact surface that comes in contact with a wall surface of a cylinder bore wall that forms a cylinder block of an internal combustion engine and defines a groove-like coolant passage. An internal combustion engine in which the cylinder bore wall has a uniform temperature may be obtained using the insulating member. |
| US10077735B2 |
Captured engine cylinder sleeve and coating
A cylinder sleeve having an appendage that projects downwardly into the engine block coaxial with the sleeve face, but positioned distal from the sleeve face, such that a finger of engine material exists between the sleeve appendage and the sleeve perimeter, and an extreme wear coating formable on the sleeve face. |
| US10077734B2 |
High-pressure injection device for an internal combustion engine
A high-pressure injection device for an internal combustion engine to which engine segment times are assigned, having a high-pressure pump, a rail connected to the high-pressure pump via a high-pressure fuel line, at least one injector, a digital pressure reduction valve connected to the rail, a fuel return line connected to the pressure reduction valve, and a control unit. The control unit is configured to switch the pressure reduction valve into the transmissive state only in predetermined engine segment times, and to maintain said transmissive state of the pressure reduction valve for a time period which is greater than the duration of one engine segment time. |
| US10077728B1 |
Engine pump loss control to improve battery system charging and overall vehicle efficiency
Techniques for a mild hybrid vehicle utilize a control system for detecting a deceleration fuel shutoff (DFSO) event where fueling to an engine is disabled and in response to detecting the DFSO event: determining a desired pumping loss for the engine based on a parameter of a battery system, the desired pumping loss corresponding to a desired amount of electrical energy that a motor generator unit (MGU) of a belt-driven starter generator (BSG) system will generate to charge the battery system; commanding a throttle valve of the engine to an initial position determined based on the desired engine pumping loss and a speed of the engine; estimating an actual pumping loss of the engine based on an estimated airflow into the engine; and adjusting the position of the throttle valve based on a difference between the desired and actual engine pumping losses. |
| US10077727B2 |
Engine control systems and methods for nitrogen oxide reduction
A fuel control module controls fuel injection of an engine based on a predetermined lean air/fuel ratio. The predetermined lean air/fuel ratio is fuel lean relative to a stoichiometric air/fuel ratio for the fuel. A cylinder control module selectively deactivates opening of intake and exhaust valves of M cylinders of the engine to increase removal of nitrogen oxide (NOx) from exhaust. M is an integer greater than 0 and less than a total number of cylinders of the engine. The fuel control module further: disables fueling of the M cylinders while opening of the intake and exhaust valves of the M cylinders is deactivated; and, while fueling of the M cylinders is disabled and opening of the intake and exhaust valves of the M cylinders is deactivated, controls fuel injection of other cylinders based on a predetermined rich air/fuel ratio that is fuel rich relative to the stoichiometric air/fuel ratio. |
| US10077726B2 |
System and method to activate and deactivate engine cylinders
Systems and methods for determining when one or more cylinders of an engine may be activated or deactivated are presented. In one example, an actual total number of active cylinder modes may be increased in response to engine speed and load. Further, dimensions of an engine cylinder mode region of an engine cylinder activation may be adjusted responsive to a change in mass of a vehicle. |
| US10077724B1 |
Methods and systems for a fuel injector
Methods and systems are provided for a fuel injector coupled to mixing passages for entraining combustion chamber gases with a fuel injection to decrease formation of soot throughout a range of engine operating parameters. In one example, a method includes decreasing a combustion chamber temperature in response to an amount of sensed light. |
| US10077723B1 |
Apparatus and method for compensating for fuel injection quantity in engine of vehicle
Provided are an apparatus and a method for compensating for a fuel injection quantity in an engine of a vehicle. The apparatus for compensating for a fuel injection quantity may include: an information collector collecting status information of the vehicle; an oxygen sensor outputting a voltage corresponding to a concentration of oxygen in exhaust gases; a high pass filter (HPF) filtering the output voltage of the oxygen sensor; and a controller generating a reference value on the basis of the status information of the vehicle. In particular, the controller calculates an offset using the reference value and a signal obtained by high-pass filtering the output voltage, and compensates for a fuel injection quantity in each individual cylinder of the engine of the vehicle on the basis of the offset. |
| US10077722B2 |
Control of engine EGR with backpressure control valve
A method of controlling engine internal exhaust gas recirculation may include estimating a flow restriction through a diesel particulate filter in an exhaust system of an engine assembly and adjusting a backpressure control valve in the exhaust system downstream of the diesel particulate filter based on the flow restriction. A controlled amount of internal exhaust gas recirculation may be provided to the engine assembly based on adjusting the backpressure control valve. |
| US10077721B2 |
System and method for controlling valve timing of continuous variable valve duration engine
The present disclosure provides a system and a method for controlling valve timing of a continuous variable valve duration engine. The method includes: classifying control regions based on engine speed and load; retarding intake valve closing (IVC) timing, applying a long duration to an exhaust valve, and limiting a valve overlap in a first control region; advancing the IVC timing, applying the long duration to the exhaust valve, and controlling the valve overlap in a second control region; applying the long duration to the exhaust valve and advancing the IVC timing in a third control region; controlling a throttle valve to be fully opened and applying a short duration to the exhaust valve in a fourth control region; and controlling the throttle valve to be fully opened, applying the long duration to the exhaust valve, and retarding the IVC timing in a fifth control region. |
| US10077720B2 |
Control apparatus for a gas-turbine aeroengine
An apparatus for controlling a gas-turbine aeroengine is configured to calculate a fuel command to supply fuel based on a calculated desired rotational speed of a low-pressure turbine calculated from an operation angle of a thrust lever installed at an aircraft cockpit pilot's seat, determines whether it is a time point for outputting a command to open/close a bleed-off valve equipped at a high-pressure compressor connected to a high-pressure turbine and to supply the fuel command based on the time point when it is determined to be the time point for outputting the command to open/close the bleed-off valve. |
| US10077719B2 |
Device and method for bleeding compressor air in a turbofan engine
A device for bleeding compressor air in a turbofan engine includes a low-pressure compressor of a primary duct, a fan stator arranged in a secondary duct downstream of a fan, and an arrangement for discharging compressor air from the low-pressure compressor into the secondary duct. The arrangement includes air guiding devices to guide compressor air into the secondary duct upstream of the fan stator relative to the flow direction in the secondary duct, past the stator vanes of the fan stator in a separate duct in the axial direction and is only mixed with the air of the secondary duct downstream of the fan stator. The separate duct is formed by a plurality of hollow structures extending in the longitudinal direction each between two adjacent stator vanes of the fan stator, with the hollow structures having a closed circumference in cross-section. |
| US10077717B2 |
Corrosion and abrasion resistant coating
A gearbox adapted for use with a gas turbine engine and a method for making the same are disclosed herein. The gearbox comprising a housing made from a magnesium alloy, and an aluminum oxide coating on the magnesium alloy housing. The aluminum oxide coating may inhibit corrosion of the housing, and may have a nano-microcrystalline structure that defines an inner region bonded directly to the housing and an outer region spaced apart from the housing. |
| US10077716B2 |
Gas turbine engine coupling stack
The present disclosure relates generally a system for preventing relative rotation between three components. The three components include tabs and slots such that at least one first tab and at least one second tab on one component is disposed within at least one slot formed in the other two components to prevent relative rotation between any two of the three components. |
| US10077706B2 |
Thermostat assembly with variable valve seat
A thermostat for controlling flow of a coolant fluid through an aperture, the thermostat including a temperature sensitive valve for controlling the opening and closing of the aperture, the temperature sensitive valve including: a valve body having a heat sensitive material and a displaceable pin; a flange configured to seal off the aperture when the temperature sensitive valve is closed; a support member and a flexible member located between the flange and the support member; the thermostat further including a valve seat and a control piston configured to control the position of the valve seat within the thermostat. |
| US10077704B2 |
Catalytic converter
In a catalytic converter having a catalyst support that generates heat by being energized, short circuiting due to soot within exhaust is suppressed. A catalyst support is provided in a range of a glass coat layer that is provided on an inner surface of a tube body. A maximum diameter portion of an upstream side reduced diameter member and a maximum diameter portion of a downstream tube are positioned in the range of the glass coat layer. |
| US10077703B2 |
Exhaust heat recovery device structure
An exhaust heat recovery device structure that includes: an exhaust heat recovery device main body that is disposed at an inner side of a floor tunnel formed at a vehicle transverse direction central portion of a floor panel, the exhaust heat recovery device main body carrying out heat exchange between cooling water and gas that is generated at an internal combustion engine of a vehicle; and a metal pipe that extends-out from the exhaust heat recovery device main body, the metal pipe being connected to one end of a resin hose whose another end is connected to the internal combustion engine, the connected portion that connects the metal pipe with the resin hose being provided to the metal pipe further toward a vehicle lower side than the exhaust heat recovery device main body, is provided. |
| US10077702B2 |
In-line flow diverter
An exhaust gas treatment system for reducing emissions from an engine includes an exhaust conduit adapted to supply an exhaust stream from the engine to an exhaust treatment device. The conduit includes an aperture. An injector injects a reagent through the aperture and into the exhaust stream. A flow modifier is positioned within the exhaust conduit upstream of the injector. The flow modifier increases the velocity of the exhaust gas at a predetermined location within the conduit relative to the injected reagent. |
| US10077700B2 |
Method for checking the plausibility of a NOx sensor in an SCR catalytic converter system
In the case of a method for checking the plausibility of a NOx sensor (62; 63) in an SCR catalytic converter system having at least one first SCR catalytic converter device (20) and having at least one second SCR catalytic converter device (30) and having in each case one dosing point (40, 50) for a reducing agent solution for the SCR catalytic converter devices (20, 30) upstream of the respective SCR catalytic converter device, the NOx sensor (62) to be checked for plausibility is situated either between the first SCR catalytic converter device (20) and the second SCR catalytic converter device (30), or the NOx sensor (63) to be checked for plausibility is situated downstream of the second SCR catalytic converter device (30). |
| US10077699B2 |
Exhaust purifying system
An exhaust purification system can prevent a NH3 slip caused by an excessive injection of urea water, and includes: an SCR that purifies NOx contained in an exhaust gas using ammonia, as a reducing agent, produced from urea water; a urea water injection device that injects the urea water into an exhaust passage upstream from the SCR; an estimated-adsorption-amount calculation unit that calculates an estimated adsorption amount of the ammonia adsorbed in the SCR; an injection control unit that executes an injection control of the urea water injection device based on the estimated adsorption amount; and an estimated-adsorption-amount change unit that changes the estimated adsorption amount used for the injection control into a value increased or decreased by a predetermined amount when a predetermined condition is established that can cause a difference between an actual adsorption amount of the ammonia adsorbed in the SCR and the estimated adsorption amount. |
| US10077698B2 |
Selective catalytic reduction system, selective catalytic reduction sensor, and level sensor
A selective catalytic reduction system includes a selective catalytic reduction device on an exhaust pipe of an engine, a urea solution tank that stores a urea solution, a float-type urea solution level sensor in the urea solution tank, a dosing valve on the exhaust pipe upstream of the selective catalytic reduction device, a urea solution injection control section that controls an amount of urea solution to be injected through the dosing valve in accordance with an amount of NOx discharged from the engine, an inclination sensor that detects an inclination angle of the urea solution tank relative to horizontal, and an inclination angle correcting section that corrects a liquid level of the urea solution, the liquid level being detected by a detection unit from the position of a float, with the inclination angle detected by the inclination sensor. |
| US10077697B2 |
System and method for controlling an engine that includes low pressure EGR
Methods and systems for operating an engine that includes a low pressure EGR passage and a selective reduction catalyst are disclosed. In one example, an actuator is adjusted in response to a NOx mass flow rate in the low pressure EGR passage. |
| US10077694B2 |
Power generation system exhaust cooling
An airflow control system for a combined cycle turbomachine system according to an embodiment includes: an airflow generation system for attachment to a rotatable shaft of a gas turbine system, the airflow generation system drawing in an excess flow of air through an air intake section; a mixing area for receiving an exhaust gas stream produced by the gas turbine system; an air extraction system for extracting a first portion of the excess flow of air to provide bypass air, and for diverting the bypass air into the mixing area to reduce a temperature of the exhaust gas stream; diverting a second portion of the excess flow of air into the compressor component; and in response to an increase in a temperature of the air, increasing the second portion of the excess flow of air diverted into the compressor component. |
| US10077692B2 |
Use of a lubricant in a mounting mat, method for making such a mat and mounting mat
The invention refers to the use of lubricants in a mounting mat, wherein the mounting mat is made for mounting a pollution control element into a housing, to reduce the cold peak pressure or compression of the mounting mat, the mounting mat comprising: —a non-woven mat of inorganic fibers, wherein—the lubricants are distributed in the mat, and wherein—the lubricants belong to a group consisting of: —saturated hydrocarbons (linear and/or branched and/or cyclic, —olefinically unsaturated hydrocarbons (linear and/or branched and/or cyclic), —fatty alcohols and fatty acids (linear and/or branched and saturated and/or olefinically unsaturated),—carboxylic acid esters—carbonic acid esters and/or —silicone oils and/or organofunctional silanes, silioxanes. |
| US10077690B2 |
Multiple variable valve lift apparatus
A multiple variable valve lift apparatus may include a moving cam formed in a hollow cylindrical shape into which a camshaft is inserted. In particular, the moving cam rotates together with the camshaft, moves in an axial direction of the camshaft, and includes a cam guide protrusion and a plurality of cams realizing different valve lift with each other. Moreover, the apparatus includes: an operating unit selectively guiding the cam guide protrusion; a controller controlling the operating unit; a valve opening/closing unit contacting with any one cam of the cams; and at least two pins disposed at the operating unit so as to guide the cam guide protrusion. The cam guide protrusion includes an inserted portion being selectively inserted between the pins and a shift portion. |
| US10077687B2 |
Desmodromic valve systems and methods of operation thereof
An assembly for coupling a valve stem to an actuating member of an actuator in a desmodromic valve actuation mechanism comprises a spherical bearing having two portions each of which defines a respective bearing surface which is complementary to the bearing surface defined by the other portion, at least one of the surfaces being part spherical, one of the portions being arranged to be coupled to the actuating member and the other portion being arranged to be coupled to the valve stem; and a resilient arrangement which exerts a biasing force on one of the bearing portions and provides resilience in the coupling provided by the assembly between the valve stem and actuating member. |
| US10077686B2 |
Pushrod assembly
A pushrod assembly for an internal combustion engine comprises a pushrod having a first end and a second end, the first end being configured to receive valve actuation motions from a valve actuation motion source and the second end being configured to impart the valve actuation motions to a valve train component. The pushrod includes a resilient element engagement feature. The pushrod assembly includes a fixed support and a resilient element operatively connected to the resilient element engagement feature and the fixed support. The resilient element is configured to bias the pushrod, via the resilient element engagement feature, toward the valve actuation motion source. An internal combustion engine may comprise the pushrod assembly described herein. A follower assembly may be provided to maintain contact between second end of the pushrod and the valve train component. |
| US10077685B2 |
Apparatus and method for the material-removing processing of an adjustable camshaft
The invention relates to a method for the material-removing processing of an adjustable camshaft which has a shaft body, wherein at least a first component of the camshaft can move axially and/or in the circumferential direction with respect to the shaft body, wherein a gap which permits the movement is provided between the shaft body and the first component, and wherein in order to protect the first moveable component during the material-removing processing a protection apparatus which has at least one fluid duct is placed on the shaft body and fluid is applied to it. According to the invention, the protection apparatus is arranged laterally with respect to the first moveable component in such a way that at least some of the fluid is directed laterally onto the first component and into an intermediate space between the protection apparatus and the first component, and wherein the first component is exposed in the radial direction. The subject-matter of the invention is also an arrangement for carrying out the method. |
| US10077680B2 |
Blade outer air seal assembly and support
An blade outer air seal support assembly includes a main support member configured to support a blade outer air seal. The main support member extends generally axially between a leading edge portion and a trailing edge portion. The leading edge portion is configured to be slidably received within a groove established by the blade outer air seal. A support tab extends radially inward from the main support member toward the blade outer air seal. The support tab configured to contact an extension of the blade outer air seal to limit relative axial movement of the blade outer air seal. A gusset spans between the support tab and the main support member. |
| US10077677B2 |
Holding device of a cooling tube for a turbojet casing
A holding device of a cooling tube for a turbojet casing, the holding device including a first plate configured to be arranged in integral contact with a turbojet casing; a second plate, the first and second plates having a gap therebetween; a first spacer and the second spacer which are arranged between the first plate and the second plate and defining the gap between the first and second plates, the first and second spacers having a spacing therebetween suitable for passing the cooling tube. |
| US10077675B2 |
Fluid system
A fluid system comprising a surface that is fluid washed in use by a fluid flow travelling substantially parallel to the surface is disclosed. The system has a first port through the surface and a second port through the surface, the first and second ports having respective first and second port inlets that are substantially flush with the fluid washed surface. The first and second port inlets are stacked in a direction parallel to the normal flow of fluid over the fluid washed surface such that the first port is upstream of the second port and fluid travelling closer to the fluid-washed surface entering into the first port tends to entrain fluid travelling further from the fluid-washed surface for entry into the second port. |
| US10077669B2 |
Non-metallic engine case inlet compression seal for a gas turbine engine
A non-metallic engine case inlet compression seal for a gas turbine engine includes a non-metallic longitudinal leg section that extends from the non-metallic arcuate interface section and a non-metallic mount flange section that extends from the longitudinal leg section. |
| US10077668B2 |
Gas turbine engine
In a gas turbine engine, an annular intermediate-temperature space is formed by a first partition member extending from an inner platform radially inward and a second partition member having a radially inner end portion fixed to the first partition member and a radially outer end portion facing the inner platform, the inner platform being connected to radially inner ends of nozzle guide vanes of a turbine, and the intermediate-temperature space overlapping with the inner platform over substantially its axial entire length. The low-temperature space, supplied with a low-temperature air from a compressor, is formed on a radially inside of the second partition member. Therefore, a temperature of the intermediate-temperature space is maintained at an intermediate temperature between those of a combustion gas and the air, reducing a temperature difference of the inner platform from an outer platform and the vanes to reduce a thermal stress. |
| US10077667B2 |
Turbine airfoil film cooling holes
A turbomachinery component includes an airfoil section with a cooling passage extending within the airfoil section. A wall is defined between the cooling passage and an exterior surface of the airfoil. At least one row of cooling holes is positioned along a cooling portion of the external wall proximate a leading edge of the airfoil for fluid communication between the cooling passage and the exterior surface of the airfoil. The cooling portion of the airfoil wall is thicker than an average adjacent airfoil wall thickness. |
| US10077666B2 |
Method and assembly for reducing secondary heat in a gas turbine engine
A turbine section includes a rotor assembly which includes an internal cooling passage. A segmented seal is adjacent the rotor assembly and includes a fluid passage that is in fluid communication with the internal cooling passage. |
| US10077664B2 |
Gas turbine engine component having engineered vascular structure
A component according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a wall and a vascular engineered lattice structure formed inside of the wall. The vascular engineered lattice structure includes a plurality of nodes, a plurality of branches that extend between the plurality of nodes, and a plurality of passages extending between the plurality of nodes and the plurality of passages. Further, at least one of the branches is non-circular in cross-section. |
| US10077663B2 |
Gas turbine engine rotor stack assembly
A rotor stack assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a first rotor assembly and a second rotor assembly axially downstream from the first rotor assembly. The first rotor assembly and the second rotor assembly include a rim, a bore and a web that extends between the rim and the bore. A tie shaft is positioned radially inward of the bores. The tie shaft maintains a compressive load on the first rotor assembly and the second rotor assembly. The compressive load is communicated through a first load path of the first rotor assembly and a second load path of the second rotor assembly. At least one of the first load path and the second load path is radially inboard of the rims. |
| US10077662B2 |
Rotor for a thermal turbomachine
A rotor for a thermal turbomachine, in particular a gas turbine, is designed to conduct a medium, such as compressor air, in the interior of the gas turbine. In order to conduct the medium in the interior with low flow losses and at the same time to specify a rotor that can be produced comparatively simply and economically, a separately produced blade wheel is arranged between the mutually adjacent hub regions of the two rotor discs. The first side of said blade wheel lies against the hub region of the second rotor disc and the second side opposite the first side has a number of ribs, which extend from radially outside to radially inside. |
| US10077657B2 |
Compound-type tunneling shield
A tunnel boring apparatus includes a shield body and a cutting disc provided at a front portion of the shield body. The tunnel boring apparatus includes a high pressure liquid device, which includes a liquid storage tank for storing a predetermined amount of liquid, a pressure raising device for increasing a pressure of the liquid, and a plurality of nozzles. The pressing raising device is connected to the liquid storage tank, and to a central rotating head through a first guiding pipeline. The nozzles are provided on the cutting disc, and are connected to the central rotating head through a second guiding pipeline. |
| US10077656B1 |
In-situ cultivation system of deep-sea hydrothermal metallic sulfide deposits
An in-situ cultivation system of a deep-sea hydrothermal metallic sulfide deposits includes a hydrothermal metallic sulfide deposit mound body, a well casing, a well head control flow guide device, a fluid mixing control hood; the hydrothermal metallic sulfide deposit mound body includes a confining bed, a hydrothermal fluid enriching bed and mound body bedrock; perforations are formed at casing wall of the well casing; the well head flow control device is provided at top of the well casing; a lower opening is formed at bottom of the fluid mixing control hood and is sleeved on four sides of the top of the well casing; an upper opening is formed at top of the fluid mixing control hood; a plurality of fluid holes are formed at a lateral wall of the fluid mixing control hood; and a sulfide coating is applied to inner wall of the fluid mixing control hood. |
| US10077652B2 |
Mud pulser with high speed, low power input hydraulic actuator
A method of modulating information on pressure fluctuations transmitted via a tubular string can include applying pressure to a piston, thereby axially displacing the piston, axially displacing and rotating an intermediate sleeve in response to the piston displacement, rotating an output member in response to the axial displacement and rotation of the intermediate sleeve, and rotating a variable flow restrictor rotor relative to a stator, the rotor being connected to the output member. A mud pulser can include a variable flow restrictor, and an actuator which operates the flow restrictor and modulates information on pressure fluctuations produced by the flow restrictor, the actuator including a piston which displaces axially in response to a pressure differential, an intermediate sleeve which is both rotated and displaced axially by the piston, and an output member which is rotated by both rotation and axial displacement of the intermediate sleeve. |
| US10077651B2 |
Methods and systems for optical links in downhole oil well operations
A system including a transmitter mounted inside a pressure bulkhead of a drill tool transmitting a light at a first wavelength is provided. The system includes a receiver mounted inside the pressure bulkhead to detect a second light at a second wavelength. The system also includes a wavelength multiplex unit positioned within the first pressure bulkhead for coupling the light at the first wavelength and the light at the second wavelength with an optical coupler. The optical coupler provides the light at the first wavelength to an external medium via a pressure resistant window and receives the light at the second wavelength from the external medium via the pressure resistant window. A method of using the above system to transmit and receive messages in a downhole optical link is also provided. |
| US10077648B2 |
System and method for providing a continuous wellbore survey
Systems and methods are provided for producing a continuous survey of a previously drilled portion of a wellbore. The method includes receiving a plurality of stationary survey measurements taken at a corresponding plurality of locations along the portion of the wellbore. The method further includes receiving at least one continuous survey including a plurality of continuous survey measurements taken between a pair of stationary survey measurements of the plurality of stationary survey measurements. The method further includes combining the plurality of stationary survey measurements and the plurality of continuous survey measurements to produce the continuous survey of the portion of the wellbore. |
| US10077646B2 |
Closed loop hydrocarbon extraction system and a method for operating the same
A system includes a downhole rotary separator located within the well formation and configured to generate a hydrocarbon rich stream and a first water stream from a well fluid obtained from a production zone. The system also includes an electrical submersible pump disposed within the well formation and operatively coupled to the downhole rotary separator, wherein the electrical submersible pump is configured to transfer the hydrocarbon rich stream to a surface of the earth. The system further includes a surface separator located on the surface of earth and operatively coupled to generate oil and a second water stream from the hydrocarbon rich stream. The system also includes a hydraulic motor disposed within the well formation and operatively coupled to the downhole rotary separator, wherein the hydraulic motor is configured to drive the downhole rotary separator using a drive fluid comprising the hydrocarbon rich stream or the second water stream. |
| US10077642B2 |
Gas compression system for wellbore injection, and method for optimizing gas injection
A gas compression optimization system and a method for optimizing gas injection rate in support of a gas lift operation. The optimization system is designed to control a rate of gas injection in connection with a gas lift system in a wellbore. The system includes a string of production tubing, and an annular region around the production tubing. The system also comprises a production line at the surface. The system further includes a pressure transducer that is configured to determine a differential pressure across an orifice plate placed along the production line. The system additionally includes a gas injection line. The gas injection line is at the surface, and is configured to inject a compressible fluid into the annular region. The system additionally includes a controller which is configured to control the injection of the compressible fluid into the annular region in response to differential pressure signals. |
| US10077639B2 |
Methods and systems for non-physical attribute management in reservoir simulation
A disclosed method for a hydrocarbon production system includes collecting production system data. The method also includes performing a simulation based on the collected data, a fluid model, and a fully-coupled set of equations. The method also includes expediting convergence of a solution for the simulation by reducing occurrences of non-physical attributes during the simulation. The method also includes storing control parameters determined for the solution for use with the production system. |
| US10077636B2 |
Use of nanoparticles in cleaning well bores
Embodiments relate to removing residue from a well bore and well bore equipment with a treatment fluid composition, and in some embodiments, to treatment fluid compositions that comprise nanoparticles. An embodiment provides a method of removing drilling fluid residue from the surfaces of well equipment. The method comprising: applying a solid nanoparticle film to at least a portion of the surfaces of the well equipment with a treatment fluid comprising solid nanoparticles; and allowing the solid nanoparticles to interact with the surfaces of the well equipment and the drilling fluid residue adhered to the surfaces of the well equipment to remove at least a portion of the drilling fluid residue from the surfaces of the well equipment. |
| US10077634B2 |
Magnetic deposition prevention subassembly and method of use
An apparatus and method for controlling and/or minimizing the formation or accumulation of unwanted deposits on the inside of fluid flow paths by employing at various locations along the path an assembly of permanent magnets oriented such that the fluid flow is preferably from the North magnetic pole to the South magnetic pole. The apparatus including an upper portion and a lower portion with a cylindrical magnet disposed on the surface of the upper portion. The lower portion includes a safety shelf to prevent compression of the magnet by the upper portion and the lower portion. |
| US10077633B2 |
Downhole apparatus and method
A downhole tool (32) comprises a tool housing (34) defining a central bore (35) and including a fluid port (20), and a valve member (40) mounted within the housing (34) and being moveable from a closed position in which the fluid port (20) is blocked to an open position in which the fluid port (20) is opened. The tool (32) further comprises a catching arrangement (41) mounted within the housing (34) and comprising one or more radially moveable seat members (106), and being configurable from a free configuration in which the seat members (106) permit an object (48) to pass through the tool (32), to a catching configuration in which the seat members (106) catch an object (48) passing through the tool (32). |
| US10077628B2 |
Tool and method for fracturing a wellbore
A fracturing tool is used for hydraulically fracturing multiple stages of a well bore with treatment fluid. The tool includes a tubular housing retaining a longitudinally sliding sleeve which moves between a first position concealing fluid ports in the tubular housing and a second position in which the ports are uncovered. A deformable seat disposed in the sliding sleeve cooperates with an actuating member which is directed downwardly through a fracturing string locating a plurality of tools therein associated with respective stages of an isolated zone to sequentially uncover the fluid ports. Disposed in the fluid ports are burst plugs arranged to open when exposed to a threshold pressure. All uncovered burst plugs of the tools within the isolated zone can thus be sequentially uncovered and then opened when exposed to the threshold pressure to permit the treatment fluid to exit from the housing into the surrounding well bore. |
| US10077616B2 |
Wiper and seal assembly for a pump
A tubing pump includes a seal housing insertable into a production string of tubing with a seal assembly mounted in an interior of the seal housing. The assembly includes at least an upper seal and seal holder and a lower seal and seal holder, each seal energizable by fluid to provide a fluid-tight seal around a reciprocating tubular member. The seals and holders are isolated from each other in a manner whereby the lower seal remains un-energized until the seal above it fails. |
| US10077612B2 |
Screw joint for steel pipe
In a screw joint for a steel pipe, a taper angle of a tapered surface of a pin is substantially the same as a taper angle of a tapered surface of a box. In addition, the pin and the box interfere with each other in a radial direction while a seal surface of the pin and a seal surface of the box contact each other in a process of make-up between a male screw portion and a female screw portion, and at least apart of the seal surface of the pin comes into close contact with at least a part of the seal surface of the box over the entire circumference. Moreover, a contact pressure amplification mechanism, which increases a contact pressure between the seal surface of the pin and the seal surface of the box at the completion of the make-up, is further provided. |
| US10077611B2 |
Fracturing tube system
A fracturing tube system for introducing into a borehole in order to carry out a hydraulic and/or pneumatic fracturing process, including a plurality of tube lines. The fracturing tube system is to be designed such that it can be produced in a simpler and more economical manner and such that a variable total length of the fracturing tube system can be introduced into a borehole with little effort. This is achieved in that the fracturing tube system has at least one traction cable, multiple coupling devices which can be removably attached to the at least one traction cable, and multiple tube sections which are separate from one another and which can be coupled to the coupling devices in a pressure-tight manner and thus form the tube lines as a whole. A pressure-tight releasable connection of the tube sections to feedthroughs of the coupling device can be achieved so that fluid can be conducted from one tube section into a subsequent tube section through the feedthrough in the coupling device in a tube-free manner. |
| US10077605B2 |
Components and motors for downhole tools and methods of applying hardfacing to surfaces thereof
A component for a downhole tool includes a rotor and a hardfacing precursor. The hardfacing precursor includes a polymeric material, hard particles, and a metal. A hydraulic drilling motor includes a stator, a rotor, and a sintered hardfacing material on an outer surface of the rotor or an inner surface of the stator. Methods of applying hardfacing to surfaces include forming a paste of hard particles, metal matrix particles, a polymeric material, and a solvent. The solvent is removed from the paste to form a sheet, which is applied to a surface and heated. A component for a downhole tool includes a first hardfacing material, a second hardfacing material over the first hardfacing material and defining a plurality of pores, and a metal disposed within at least some of the pores. The metal has a melting point lower than a melting point of the second hardfacing material. |
| US10077603B2 |
Threaded connection
A threaded connection for tubing having a pin connection with external, tapered buttress type threads, preferably with a one inch per foot thread taper, the pin threaded portion having seven threads per inch. The connection also includes a box connection having complementary internal threads threadedly engaging the pin, the box connection having a comparable pitch and thread taper. |
| US10077598B2 |
Versatile hybrid window system
An extrusion for a multiple configuration window base frame is disclosed. In one aspect, the frame includes a main body defining an interior-side surface and an opposite opening-side surface extending between first and second ends. To facilitate use with different window types, part or all of the opening-side surface can be formed in a parallel arrangement with the interior-side surface. The frame can include a first attachment arrangement located proximate the main body first end that is configured for attachment to one or more cladding members. In one aspect, the first attachment arrangement includes a first clip member having a first outer portion and a first inner portion that define a first female receiving area and having a first overhang portion extending at least partially across the female receiving area to enable a snap-fit connection between the main body and the cladding member. |
| US10077596B2 |
Smoke or fire barrier
The present invention relates to a smoke or fire barrier for closing an opening in a building, the barrier including: a curtain for closing the opening; means arrangeable at a head of the opening for deploying the curtain and for retracting the curtain; guide means at sides of the opening for retaining edges of the curtain after deployment and for reducing flow of smoke past the edges of the curtain, the guide means including: a pair of jaws for holding the edges of the deployed curtain, at least one of the jaws being movable towards the other and means for moving the or each movable jaw after deployment of the curtain. |
| US10077594B2 |
Fitting for pressing a sliding wing onto a fixed enclosure
A displacement arrangement for displacing a sliding leaf of a window or a door relative to a fixed surround of the window or the door in a direction which is transverse relative to a main plane of the window or the door includes an actuation mechanism arranged on the leaf that is movable with at least one portion in a circumferential direction of a rebate, a first control element arranged on the portion of the actuation mechanism and a second control element arranged on a guiding member, where the guiding member is guided on a fixed surround and arranged on the leaf to be movable transversely relative to the circumferential direction of the rebate. |
| US10077592B1 |
Console box
A console box includes a box body that includes an opening portion, a lid supported by a hinge shaft on the box body, and an opening/closing mechanism that tilts the lid. The opening/closing mechanism includes a main rack that includes an engaging portion and a sub-rack that includes an engaged portion. When the lid is tilted between an opened position and a closed position, the engaged portion engages the engaging portion and restricts sliding of the sub-rack on the main rack. When the lid is further tilted from the closed position in a closing direction in which the lid closes the opening portion and when the lid is further tilted from the opened position in an opening direction in which the lid opens the opening portion, the engaged portion is disengaged from the engaging portion to cancel the restriction imposed on the sub-rack by the main rack. |
| US10077589B2 |
Door catch
Disclosed is a door catch that can help to prevent door sag, especially for heavy or tall residential or commercial doors, and provides for post-installation catch tension adjustment without removal or adjustment of mounting members. In one aspect, the door catch can include a ball catch base, a threaded ball plunger assembly, a catch bumper, and a bumper base. In another aspect, the catch bumper and the bumper base can optionally be combined into a single catch bar bracket. The ball plunger assembly is adjustably mounted within a threaded aperture of ball catch base. A ball captive in one end of the ball plunger assembly engages a detent in the catch bumper, or catch bar bracket, providing friction to hold the door open. The position of the ball plunger assembly can be adjusted vertically to increase or decrease the tension between the detent and the ball plunger assembly. |
| US10077587B2 |
Breakaway gate assembly, and related components, systems, and methods
A breakaway gate assembly includes a hinge subassembly rotatably mounted to a vertical hinge post, and a gate subassembly removably mounted to the hinge subassembly. The gate subassembly includes a gate body and a plurality of standoff features coupled thereto. The hinge subassembly comprises a vertical mounting plate forming a plurality of apertures configured to receive and secure a respective plurality of standoff features. Each of the plurality of apertures comprises a wide portion for receiving a head portion of one of the standoff features, and a narrow portion below the wide portion for receiving a stem portion of a respective standoff feature to position a portion of the vertical mounting plate between the vertical mounting surface and the respective bearing surface. The hinge subassembly also comprises a plurality of hinge rings coupled to the first plate surface, the plurality of hinge rings rotatably disposed around the vertical hinge post. |
| US10077586B2 |
Door locking device for debris tank
A door locking device for hydro excavation equipment. The door locking device includes a grapple support housing secured to a door of a debris tank, a lower gripping jaw having a lower pin defining a lower axis about which the lower gripping jaw is configured to rotate, and an upper gripping jaw having an upper pin defining an upper axis about which the upper gripping jaw is configured to rotate. The locking device also includes a yoke having a first end coupled to proximate ends of the lower and upper gripping jaw, and an actuator coupled to a second end of the yoke and configured to extend and retract the yoke to cause the lower and upper gripping jaws to rotate in response thereto about the lower axis and the upper axis, respectively. |
| US10077585B2 |
Tailgate inner handle assembly and method of moving grip member of the same
A tailgate inner handle assembly may include a grip member being movable in a lower end of a tailgate, an actuator moving the grip member to a first position when the tailgate is opened and moving the grip member to a second position the tailgate is closed, and at least one driving wires driving the actuator when opening and closing the tailgate. |
| US10077581B2 |
Vehicle latch activation system and motor vehicle comprising such vehicle latch activation system
The vehicle latch activation system (106) comprises: a bracket (108); an activation element (110) intended to activate a latch (102) by moving with respect to the bracket (108) from an initial position to a final position, wherein a collision (136) on the bracket (108) along a collision direction may cause the activation element (110) to move from its initial position to its final position; and a blocking element (140) intended to move with respect to the bracket (108) as a result of the collision (136), from a disengaged position in which the blocking element (140) allows the activation element (110) to reach its final position, to an intercepting position in which the blocking element (140) is intended to block the activation element (110) at a first intermediate blocked position located between the initial position and the final position of the activation element (110). When moving from its disengaged position to its intercepting position, the blocking element (140) is intended to pass by one or several successive intermediate intercepting positions in which the blocking element (140) is intended to block the activation element (110) at respective successive other intermediate blocked positions following each other towards the first intermediate blocked position. |
| US10077579B2 |
Rod holder mounting system
A rod holder mounting system including first and second mounting bracket sub-assemblies adapted to couple to first and second opposing ends of a rod holder sub-assembly. The first and second mounting bracket sub-assemblies respectively couple to first and second opposing ones of a vehicle's existing tie down bracket coupling locations, existing tie down brackets, or a tool box, and the rod holder sub-assembly includes a cross bar with rod holder tubes and first and second locking systems adapted to removably couple the cross bar to the first and second mounting bracket sub-assemblies, respectively. The rod holder mounting system allows for the transportation of fishing rods and reels in a vehicle and locks both the rod holder sub-assembly to the vehicle and the rods and reels to the mounting system. |
| US10077578B2 |
Lock for left or right hand operation
The present disclosure relates to a lock (1) for a door comprising a housing (10) having a circular opening (11) in which a radial protrusion (12) is arranged, and a guide ring (20) arranged in the opening. The guide ring comprises a left locking means (22, 24) and a right locking means (22, 26). The radial protrusion is in a first position of the guide ring located between the left locking means and the right locking means on the guide ring. The guide ring is configured to be rotatable from the first position in a first direction (L) into a left locking position such that the protrusion engages with the left locking means so as to lock the guide ring relative to the housing, and configured to be rotatable from the first position in a second direction (R), opposite the first direction, into a right locking position such that the protrusion engages with the right locking means so as to lock the guide ring relative to the housing. A lock which after arrangement to a door may be configured for left or right hand operation is thereby provided. |
| US10077576B1 |
Vehicle keypad illumination assembly and method
An exemplary vehicle keypad assembly includes, among other things a virtual button having a first area and a second area, a first phosphor between the first area and a light source, and a different, second phosphor between the second area and the light source. An exemplary vehicle keypad illumination method includes, among other things, selectively illuminating a first area of a keypad in one of a plurality of different colors while illuminating a different, second area of the keypad in a single color. |
| US10077575B2 |
Door lock extender and method of use
A door lock extender and method of using the door lock extender in connection with a control panel box. The door lock extender includes an extender base having a lock slot for accepting a tang latch of a lock and an extender latch that is configured to engage a catch member of a control panel box. In use, the tang latch of the lock is inserted into the lock slot of the extender base. The extender latch engages the catch member on a housing of the control panel box locking a door to the housing while providing sufficient clearance for passage of a cable between the door and the housing. |
| US10077574B1 |
Hard shell rooftop tent with utility rails
A tent system with utility rails is described. The hard shell tent system may include a first shell member, second shell member, utility rails, and an articulating mechanism. The first shell member may be adapted to mount to a roof of a vehicle. The second shell member may be adapted to mate with the first shell member and define an interior cavity when the tent system is in a closed position. The utility rails may be coupled to the second shell member and adapted to support items on top of the second shell member. The articulating mechanism may couple the first shell member to the second shell member and may transfer a weight of the second shell member and the utility rails to a roof of the vehicle when the tent system is in the open position. |
| US10077567B2 |
Method for reinforcing and calibrating a pipe portion
A method and a device for producing an outer pipe of a telescope-like support, for reasons of weight and stability, is produced from a standardized zinc-coated steel pipe having a large outer diameter and a small wall thickness. Also included is the telescope-like support and the outer pipe which is contained therein. A pipe portion of the outer pipe is expanded in the method with a punch and subsequently tapered to the original outer diameter again with a ring. A reinforcement of the pipe portion and a calibration of the outer diameter of the pipe portion are thereby achieved. An outer thread can be rolled on the pipe portion. |
| US10077565B2 |
Edge overlay for layered insulative blanket
A heavy duty layered blanket having application in construction applications is disclosed. It includes an overlay around one or more edges of the blanket which resists tearing and wear. The overlay helps to assure that the layers of the blanket stay in place when placed in use, especially in heavy duty construction applications such as for curing concrete. Selective openings in the overlay facilitate attachment of multiple blankets to each other and related facilities, such as scaffolding. |
| US10077561B1 |
Siding corner cover
The corner cover for a trim member of a building wall siding or cladding may have first and second panels each with opposed substantially planar faces inclined at an included substantially right angle to each other with a longitudinally extending vertex. Each panel may have a substantially linear bottom end extending substantially perpendicular to the longitudinal vertex. The lower portion of each panel may have a first edge portion spaced from and extending substantially parallel to the longitudinally extending vertex and an upper portion with a second outer edge portion at least in part spaced from and closer to the longitudinally extending vertex than the first edge portion and at least in part may be inclined to both the bottom and first edge portions of its associated panel. |
| US10077557B2 |
Corner piece for rain gutters and method of manufacture
A corner piece for a rainwater gutter system having an angled front wall extending at a 45 degree angle to increase the amount of water able to be collected by the corner piece, with each end of a main section of the front wall having an angled out wing section slidably receiving an end of one of the straight gutter sections. The manufacturing method minimizes scrap by the shape of a blank used to form the corner piece. |
| US10077556B2 |
Residential or commercial integrated see-through eaves and downspout gutter system
The present invention is a gutter system comprising at least a gutter section and one or more downspout sections. It may further incorporate one or more elbow sections. Each of the gutter, downspout and elbow sections may incorporate at least one see-through section. Such see-through sections allow for the monitoring of the rainwater flow and debris in the gutter system. This monitoring facilitates detection of the exact spot of where debris collects in the gutter system, so that blockages in the gutter system can be predicted and prevented, debris build-up in the gutter system can be cleaned, and the gutter system can be repaired. Rainwater runoff can flow through the gutter system, and unnecessary cleaning of the gutter system, and the cost thereof, can be avoided. The elbow sections may incorporate an access port for access to the interior of the elbow, to permit the removal of debris therefrom. |
| US10077555B2 |
Roofing elements and system
An improved roofing system including a batten assembly comprising support battens and clips. The clips are made of metal wire having one portion shaped to retain roof outer coverings and a further portion shaped to secure the clip to the batten by spring torsion force of part of the clip acting against the batten. |
| US10077554B2 |
Corrosion protection of cables in a concrete structure
Steel reinforcing cables in concrete are protected against corrosion by injecting a carrier fluid and corrosion inhibitors into interstitial spaces between the wires of the cable at a first location along the cable and causing the fluid to pass through the interstitial spaces between the wires of the cable to a second location along the cable. The cable comprises an array of wires confined together and intimately surrounded by a covering material which is engaged with a periphery of the cable so that there are insufficient interconnected spaces between the cable and the covering material to allow passage of fluid longitudinally along the cable outside the cable itself. The method can be used with pre-stressed concrete, with post-tensioned bonded cables and with extruded un-bonded mono-strand cables. |
| US10077552B2 |
Gypsum panels, systems, and methods
Gypsum panels, sheathing systems, and methods of making and using the same are provided. A gypsum panel includes a gypsum core associated with a first fiberglass mat having a continuous barrier coating, the coating penetrating a portion of the first fiberglass mat opposite the gypsum core, wherein gypsum penetrates a remaining fibrous portion of the first fiberglass mat such that voids in the first fiberglass mat are substantially eliminated. A building sheathing system includes at least two gypsum panels and a seaming component to provide a seam at an interface between the gypsum panels. |
| US10077548B2 |
Toilet tank lever for different toilets
A toilet tank lever may comprise a flush handle, a first connecting rod and a second connecting rod. The flush handle is configured for flushing toilet, and a column protrudes from an inner surface thereof. The first connecting rod has a fixed section and a lever section, and the second connecting rod comprises a first end and a second end. The first connecting rod and the second connecting rod are pivotally connected with an adjustable included angle such that the toilet tank lever of the present invention is configured to be applied to different types of toilet water tanks, thereby improving the practicability thereof. |
| US10077545B2 |
Dual-adjustment flow limiting device
A dual-adjustment flow limiting device includes an outer shell, an inner shell, a flow limiting member, and an adjustment mechanism. The outer shell defines a plurality of external ports. The inner shell defines a flow chamber and a plurality of internal ports communicating with the flow chamber and is fitted into the outer shell such that a communicating area is formed between the internal and external ports. The flow limiting member is disposed in the flow chamber of the inner shell and can be deformed in response to the pressure of a water flow entering the flow chamber to partially block the internal ports, so that the water flow entering the flow chamber can be restricted. The adjustment mechanism is provided at the outer and inner shells to adjust the communicating area, so that the water flow can be further restricted. |
| US10077544B2 |
Drinking water supply device
A drinking water supply device may include a first channel configured to channel water, a water discharge pipe coupled to the rear end of the first channel configured to discharge the drinking water, a first connection pipe connecting the first channel and the water discharge pipe, a second channel configured to supply minerals to the first connection pipe, the second channel provided with a pressure sensor and a mineral supply valve, a mineral container configured to communicate with the first connection pipe via the second channel and configured to store condensed minerals, a pump configured to pressurize the interior of the mineral container to discharge the condensed minerals out of the mineral container, and a controller configured to control the mineral supply valve to open for a first predetermined time and then close according to a water discharge signal. |
| US10077541B2 |
Movable pipeline-support and support assembly thereof
The disclosure relates to the construction of a support for above-ground pipelines and can be used for laying pipelines in in permafrost and on slopes. The result of the support is uniform distribution of the load from the pipeline to a bedding cradle, displacement of a movable part in response to predetermined conditions, and prevention of deformation due to soil heaving. The result is achieved due to inclusion of moving and fixed parts. The movable part includes a semi-cylindrical cradle with two semi-annular frames on the outside of the cradle, detachable half-yokes fix the pipe in the cradle, side cheeks welded to the frame and movably fixed to the tower base by a hinged joint, and a base slidably positioned on a stationary surface of the support. The objective is also solved using a support assembly being structurally different than prior art supports, as described herein. |
| US10077540B2 |
Corrosion-resistant fluid membrane
A corrosion-resistant cover system, having a corrosion-resistant cover structured and configured to be arrangeable around an object having one or more metallic surfaces that are susceptible to corrosion. The corrosion-resistant cover is operable to provide increased corrosion resistance to the object by preventing contact between the one or more metallic surfaces and ambient conditions exterior to the corrosion-resistant cover. |
| US10077532B2 |
Rail plate dropping apparatus
A rail plate dropping apparatus is provided, including a plate magazine having an upper end and a lower end and constructed and arranged for retaining at least one rail tie plate, a locating portion connected at the upper end and constructed and arranged for reciprocally positioning the magazine between a raised, travel position and a lowered work position, and an ejector mounted in operational relationship relative to the lower end of the magazine and configured for ejecting the plates sequentially from the magazine. |
| US10077531B2 |
Improving drainage of paper pulp
The use of GH61 polypeptides in the treatment of pulp, for improving the freeness of the pulp, and/or for improving the short span compression strength of paper materials made from the pulp, such as paper, linerboard, corrugated paperboard, tissue, towels, corrugated containers and boxes. |
| US10077529B2 |
Garment processing apparatus
A garment processing apparatus including: a duct provided at an upper part of a drum, configured to form a flow passage passing through a heat exchanger installed at the inside, and having an inclined bottom surface; a fan motor installed at the duct to move air inside the duct; a condensed water discharge tray provided at a bottom surface of the duct, wherein condensed water generated from air passing through the heat exchanger is collected in the condensed water discharge tray; a drain installed at a lower part of the drum and configured to discharge the condensed water collected in the condensed water discharge tray to the outside; and a condensed water discharge pipe connecting the condensed water discharge tray and the drain to allow the condensed water to flow, wherein the condensed water collected in the condensed water discharge tray prevents a backflow of fluid from the drain tray to the condensed water discharge part through the condensed water discharge pipe caused by a pressure difference generated by a drive of the fan motor. |
| US10077527B2 |
Liquid sensing apparatus, detergent supply apparatus, and washing machine having the same
A detergent supply apparatus, and a washing machine including the same. The washing machine includes the detergent supply apparatus which includes a detergent container accommodating housing installed in the cabinet and having an opening in the front portion of the cabinet, a detergent container configured to store the detergent and to be removably inserted into the detergent container accommodating housing through the opening of the detergent container accommodating housing, a pump unit installed outside the detergent container, and configured to pump the detergent stored in the detergent container to the detergent container accommodating housing, and a connector unit configured to supply power to the pump unit, and including a first body attached on an outer portion of the pump unit and a second body attached on the detergent container accommodating housing, the first body is electrically connected to the second body by being removably attached to the second body. |
| US10077521B2 |
Washing machine
A washing machine capable of reducing power consumption comprising: a substantially bottomed cylindrical washing tank; a rotary wing rotatably and freely arranged at a bottom of the washing tank; and a driving unit for rotatably driving the rotary wing by being powered by electricity. The rotary wing is formed in a disc shape and centered on a rotary axis (Ra), and a plurality of stirring blades radially extending towards an outer circumference are arranged on a surface of the rotary wing. A center (Cw) of these stirring blades is set at a position more misplaced towards an outer diameter direction than the rotary axis (Ra), and a protrusion part more protruded towards an axial direction of the rotary axis (Ra) than the stirring blades is arranged at the center (Cw) of the plurality of stirring blades. |
| US10077520B2 |
Washing machine with pulsator and planetary gear device
Disclosed is a washing machine including an inner tub in which fabrics are accommodated, a fixing hub installed to the inner tub, a rotating shaft configured to penetrate the inner tub and the fixing hub, a sun gear installed to the rotating shaft and having a lower gear portion and an upper pulsator coupling portion, an inner pulsator coupled to the pulsator coupling portion, a plurality of planetary gears engaged with the gear portion and rotatably arranged on the fixing hub, a ring gear having an inner circumferential surface engaged with the planetary gears, a gear box coupled to the ring gear, and an outer pulsator coupled to the gear box, the outer pulsator being larger than the inner pulsator. As the inner pulsator and outer pulsator are rotated at different rates of rotation, complex 3D water stream may be created in the inner tub, resulting in enhanced washing ability. |
| US10077519B2 |
Pant fabric expanding method and apparatus
Disclosed herein is an inflatable object including a main body, a first bulge extending from the main body and a second bulge extending from the main body. The inflatable object is receivable within a pair of pants such that the first and second bulges are each configured to expand within a thigh portion of the pair of pants and the main body is configured to expand within a hip portion of the pair of pants. Further, the inflatable object is made of an impermeable, elastic material that is capable of enduring a pressure that will stretch the pair of pants such that the pair of pants retains its stretched dimensions after deflation of the inflatable object. Furthermore, a method for expanding pants is disclosed that includes inserting an inflatable object within a garment, inflating the inflatable object, retaining the inflatable object within the garment, and stretching the garment with the inflatable object such that the garment retains its stretched dimensions after deflation of the inflatable object. |
| US10077518B2 |
Crimped conjugated fiber and nonwoven fabric comprising the same
A crimped conjugated fiber having a cross-sectional configuration wherein: a cross section of the fiber comprises at least a portion (a) comprising a propylene polymer (A) and a portion (b) comprising a propylene polymer (B), the mass ratio of the portion (a) and the portion (b) is in the range of 10:90 to 55:45, the propylene polymer (A) has Mz/Mw (A) and the propylene polymer (B) has Mz/Mw (B) wherein the difference thereof is in the range of 0.30 to 2.2, the absolute value difference of the melting points of the propylene polymer (A) and the propylene polymer (B) is in the range of 0 to 10° C., and the ratio of MFR (A) of the propylene polymer (A) to MFR (B) of the propylene polymer (B) is in the range of 0.8 to 1.2. A nonwoven fabric of crimped conjugated fiber is also provided. |
| US10077517B2 |
Textile product having thinned regions
Embodiments described herein may take the form of a textile fabric, including: a first region defined by a first plurality of textile fibers; a second region adjacent the first region and being formed from a second plurality of textile fibers and a hot melt material adjacent the second plurality of textile fibers; wherein the first region is free of hot melt material. Other embodiments may take the form of a method for fabricating a textile product, including the operations of: applying heat to a textile having associated hot melt fibers, thereby melting the hot melt fibers; modifying a mechanical property of a portion of the textile by introducing a solvent to the textile; and stopping an action of the solvent on the textile when the mechanical property reaches a target. |
| US10077514B2 |
Method for forming fall-plate weave by using groove pin warp knitting machine based on servo driving
A method for knitting fall-plate structures on warp-knitting machines, including: the fall-plate guide bar makes an overlap when the groove needle bar is going upward and the previous loop is held by the sinker bar; the groove needle bar and the tongue bar simultaneously go downward but these two items are kept not closed, and the overlapped yarn and the previous loop are slipping inside together; the groove needle bar go upward again while both the fall-plate yarn and the previous loop are held by the sinker bar, making the two yarns slip out of the groove needle. Meanwhile, a ground guide bar makes an overlap, finishing lapping. When moving the groove needle bar downward for a second time, retreating the old loop and the pressed yarn; forming a new loop, by the ground yarn; placing the pressed yarn under the new loop; and forming the fall-plate structures. |
| US10077504B2 |
Plating apparatus
A plating apparatus is described. The apparatus includes: a substrate holder configured to hold a substrate in a vertical position; at least one processing bath configured to process the substrate held by the substrate holder; a transporter configured to grip and horizontally transport the substrate holder; at least one lifter configured to receive the substrate holder from the transporter, lower the substrate holder to place the substrate holder in the processing bath, elevate the substrate holder from the processing bath after processing of the substrate, and transfer the substrate holder to the transporter; and a controller configured to control operations of the transporter and the lifter. |
| US10077503B2 |
Plated resin product and method for manufacturing plated resin product
A plated resin product includes a resin base including main plated portions and an auxiliary plated portion and metal films respectively arranged on the main plated portions and the auxiliary plated portion. The main plated portions are arranged next to one another. One of the two main plated portions located at two ends in a direction in which the main plated portions are arranged includes an edge at a portion located at a side of the main plated portion that is far from an adjacent one of the main plated portions. The auxiliary plated portion is located farther from the adjacent main plated portion than the main plated portion including the edge and spaced apart from that main plated portion. The metal film on the auxiliary plated portion is located at a section of the auxiliary plated portion that is non-visible when the product is viewed from the front. |
| US10077500B2 |
Water splitting catalyst, and method for producing oxygen and hydrogen using the same
Provided is a catalyst that exhibits a high catalyst activity in a water oxidation reaction within a neutral range. A water splitting catalyst comprises at least one 3d-block transition metal element selected from manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, and copper or a compound containing the element, and a base and/or a carbonate having a pKa of 8 or less. |
| US10077496B2 |
Sputtering target and method for making the same
A sputtering target includes an indium cerium zinc oxide represented by In2CexZnO4+2x, wherein x=0.5˜2. A method for making a sputtering target includes steps of: mixing indium oxide (In2O3) powder, cerium oxide (CeO2) powder, and zinc oxide (ZnO) powder to form a mixture, a molar ratio of indium (In), cerium (Ce), and zinc (Zn) as In:Ce:Zn in the mixture is 2:(0.5 to 2):1; and sintering the mixture at a temperature in a range from about 1250° C. to about 1650° C. |
| US10077494B2 |
Process for forming diffusion coating on substrate
A process for forming a diffusion coating on a substrate is disclosed, including preparing a slurry including a donor metal powder, an activator powder, and a binder, and applying the slurry to the substrate. The slurry is dried on the substrate, forming a slurry layer on the substrate. A covering composition is applied over the slurry layer, and the covering composition is dried, forming at least one covering layer enclosing the slurry layer against the substrate. The slurry layer and the at least one covering layer are heated to form the diffusion coating on the substrate, the diffusion coating including an additive layer and an interdiffusion zone disposed between the substrate and the additive layer. |
| US10077489B2 |
Steel sheet for soft-nitriding and method for manufacturing the same
A steel sheet for soft-nitriding has a composition containing: C: 0.05% or more to 0.10% or less; Si: 0.5% or less; Mn: 0.7% or more to 1.5% or less; P: 0.05% or less; S: 0.01% or less; Al: 0.01% or more to 0.06% or less; Cr: 0.5% or more to 1.5% or less; Nb: 0.005% or more to 0.025% or less; and N: 0.005% or less, on a mass percent basis, such that C and Nb satisfy 0.10≤Nb/C≤0.30 (where C and Nb are respective contents of the elements (by mass %)), wherein balance comprises Fe and incidental impurities, and a microstructure that is a complex-phase microstructure containing ferrite and pearlite, and the microstructure having a ratio of a microstructure other than the ferrite and the pearlite of 1% or less, and the microstructure having a ratio of polygonal ferrite in the ferrite of less than 50%. |
| US10077480B2 |
Nucleic acid probes and methods for detecting plasmodium parasites
This invention relates to novel nucleic acid probes and methods for detecting Plasmodium parasites as well as detecting different Plasmodium parasites selectively from one another. |
| US10077479B2 |
Fusion gene as therapeutic target in proliferative diseases
The present invention relates to a new fusion gene, KIAA0368-ROBO2, and the use thereof in methods for diagnosing cancer, in particular a glioblastoma in a subject, wherein the presence and/or expression of said fusion gene in a sample derived from said subject is determined, and wherein the presence or expression of said fusion gene is attributed to the presence of a glioblastoma in said patient. Also methods for the identification of compounds useful in the medical intervention of glioma, in particular glioblastoma, are provided. Accordingly, the present invention also relates to diagnostic means as well as to the medical intervention in cancer, like glioma and in particular glioblastoma. The invention further relates to the use of the fusion gene for diagnosing and/monitoring of tumor progression, preferably of the progression of brain tumors, as well as for the subclassification of brain tumors and other proliferative diseases. The invention further provides a method for determining whether a subject suffering from a proliferative disease is susceptible to treatment with an inhibitor of the activity of the KIAA0368-ROBO2 fusion protein. |
| US10077478B2 |
Determining paired immune receptor chains from frequency matched subunits
The invention is directed to methods for determining nucleic acids that encode immune receptor chains originating from the same cell, that is, paired immune receptor chains. Methods of the invention comprise high-throughput sequencing of rearranged nucleic acids encoding immune receptors from one or more samples of lymphocytes. In one aspect, from a plurality of subsets of a sample, nucleic acids encoding separate chains of a pair are separately sequenced, wherein the size of the sample and the number of subsets are selected so that the distribution of lymphocytes approximates a binomial model. Paired chains are determined by identifying pairs that appear together or that are entirely absent in the subsets. |
| US10077477B2 |
Serum/plasma MicroRNAs and uses thereof
This invention provides a combination of microRNAs for evaluating the physiological and/or pathological condition of a subject, wherein the combination comprises all detectable microRNAs stably existing in the serum/plasma of a subject; and a method for evaluating the physiological and/or pathological condition of a subject, wherein the method includes determining all detectable microRNAs stably existing in the serum/plasma of a subject; and a kit 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; various acute/chronic infectious diseases, e.g. viral diseases such as viral influenza, viral hepatitis, AIDS, SARS, bacterial diseases such as tuberculosis, bacterial pneumonia, and other acute/chronic infectious diseases caused by various pathogenic microorganisms; other acute/chronic diseases such as diseases of respiratory system, diseases of immune system, diseases of blood and hematopoietic system, diseases of circulatory system such as cardio-cerebrovascular diseases, metabolic diseases of endocrine system, diseases of digestive system, diseases of nervous system, diseases of urinary system, diseases of reproductive system and diseases of locomotor system, prediction of complications occurrence and malignant diseases relapse, evaluation of therapeutic effects, screening of pharmaceutical active ingredients, assessment of drug efficacy as well as forensic authentication and prohibited drug inspection and the like, possessing a number of advantages such as extensive detection spectrum, high sensitivity, low cost, convenience for sampling, ease for sample preservation, etc. The said method can be widely used in work related to general survey of diseases and so on, improve the low-specificity and low-sensitivity caused by individual differences which single markers are difficult to overcome, significantly increasing the clinical detection rate of diseases, all of which make it become an effective means for diagnosing diseases in an early phase. |
| US10077476B2 |
Process and molecular biomarker
A process and molecular biomarker for platelets stored in blood banks provides for efficient verification of which platelet concentrate bags are in good condition for transfusion by measuring, by real-time polymerase chain reaction, expression levels of hsa-miR-127 and hsa-miR-320a microRNAs as the first process and biomarker predictor of platelet's cell aging during storage and the consequent presence of storage lesions as a quality test of these bags. |
| US10077475B2 |
FRET-based analytes detection and related methods and systems
FRET-based analytes detection and related methods and systems are described where a pair of FRET labeled primers and/or oligonucleotides are used that are specific for target sequences located at a distance up to four time the Förster distance of the FRET chromophores presented on the FRET labeled primers and/or oligonucleotides one with respect to the other in one or more polynucleotide analyte; in particular the pair of FRET labeled primers and/or oligonucleotides is combined with a sample and subjected to one or more polynucleotide amplification reactions before measuring FRET signals from at least one FRET chromophore. |
| US10077474B2 |
Method of designing primers, method of detecting single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), method of distinguishing SNPs, and related primers, detectable oligonucleotides, and kits
A method of designing a primer for detecting a single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP), a method of detecting an SNP, a method of distinguishing SNPs, primers, detectable oligonucleotides, and kits. |
| US10077471B2 |
Enzyme-pore constructs
The invention relates to constructs comprising a transmembrane protein pore subunit and a nucleic acid handling enzyme. The pore subunit is covalently attached to the enzyme such that both the subunit and enzyme retain their activity. The constructs can be used to generate transmembrane protein pores having a nucleic acid handling enzyme attached thereto. Such pores are particularly useful for sequencing nucleic acids. The enzyme handles the nucleic acid in such a way that the pore can detect its component nucleotides by stochastic sensing. |
| US10077470B2 |
Nucleic acid sequencing methods and systems
The present disclosure provides compositions, methods and systems for sequencing a template nucleic acid using a polymerase based, nucleic acid binding reaction involving examination of the interaction between a polymerase and template nucleic acid in the presence of one or more unlabeled nucleotides. The methods rely, in part, on identifying a base of a template nucleic acid during nucleic acid synthesis by controlling the sequencing reaction conditions. Template nucleic acid bases may be identified during an examination step followed by an optional incorporation step. |
| US10077462B2 |
Microfluidic microbe detection and isolation
A method and microfluidic device useful for isolating microbes from a blood sample which includes introducing the blood sample into the sample inlet of a spiral microfluidic device; and introducing a second fluid into the sheath inlet of the microfluidic device, wherein the spiral channel terminates in a microbe outlet and a waste outlet, and wherein the spiral channel includes a length, height, and a width that define an aspect ratio adapted to isolate any microbes present in the sample along a first portion of the spiral channel terminating at the microbe outlet, and to isolate red blood cells and leukocytes along a second portion of the spiral channel terminating at the waste outlet; and collecting the microbes from the microbe outlet, thereby isolating the microbes. |
| US10077461B2 |
Method for characterizing at least one microorganism by means of mass spectrometry
A method for characterizing at least one microorganism from a sample includes identifying the at least one microorganism and determining the properties of typing, potential resistance to at least one antimicrobial, and virulence factor. The properties of typing, resistance to at least one antimicrobial, and virulence factor for the at least one microorganism are determined by implementing mass spectrometry using proteins, peptides and/or metabolites as markers of the properties of typing, resistance to at least one antimicrobial, and virulence factor. |
| US10077460B2 |
Method for awakening silent gene clusters in bacteria and discovery of cryptic metabolites
The majority of clinically used antibiotics and anticancer agents are derived from bacterial small molecules. These molecules are produced by dedicated biosynthetic gene clusters, sets of genes that are responsible for the step-wise generation of the target small molecule. Recent investigations have indicated, to the surprise of many experts, that the majority of these biosynthetic genes are inactive or ‘silent’ for unknown reasons. Thus under typical bacterial culturing conditions, these genes are not expressed and consequently the bioactive small molecule products are not synthesized. Disclosed is a method for high throughput screening of elicitors of cryptic metabolites, a method for producing cryptic metabolites, and a new family of cryptic metabolites, the acybolins, as well as their complete structural elucidation. |
| US10077459B2 |
Cell-free protein expression using rolling circle amplification product
Methods for in vitro transcription and translation from an RCA product are provided. The methods comprise providing a double-stranded RCA product, wherein the double-stranded RCA product consists essentially of tandem repeats of a minimalistic expression sequence. The methods further comprise expressing a protein from the double-stranded RCA product in a cell-free expression system. |
| US10077458B2 |
Microbiological process
A process for the microbial synthesis of migalastat, specifically a process for the production of migalastat comprising culturing a microorganism under conditions such that at least one imino sugar is produced and detecting and/or isolating an imino sugar produced by said microorganism, and the microorganisms used in this process. The invention also comprises migalastat produced according to the above method and pharmaceutical compositions and uses thereof. |
| US10077454B1 |
Tandem biochemical and thermochemical conversion of algal biomass
The present invention relates to methods and system configured to convert algal biomass into biofuels, alcohols, nutrients, biochar, chemical building block compounds, and/or other useful by-products. Exemplary methods include an integrated biochemical and thermochemical process that provides high purity biofuels and mixed alcohols, while minimizing waste and/or maximizing efficiency. |
| US10077453B2 |
CAS9 proteins including ligand-dependent inteins
Some aspects of this disclosure provide compositions, methods, systems, and kits for controlling the activity of RNA-programmable endonucleases, such as Cas9, or for controlling the activity of proteins comprising a Cas9 variant fused to a functional effector domain, such as a nuclease, nickase, recombinase, deaminase, transcriptional activator, transcriptional repressor, or epigenetic modifying domain. For example, the inventive proteins provided comprise a ligand-dependent intein, the presence of which inhibits one or more activities of the protein (e.g., gRNA binding, enzymatic activity, target DNA binding). The binding of a ligand to the intein results in self-excision of the intein, restoring the activity of the protein. |
| US10077452B2 |
rAAV-based compositions and methods
The invention relates to isolated nucleic acids and rAAV-based compositions, methods and kits useful for treating genetic diseases (e.g., alpha-1 antitrypsin deficiency). |
| US10077451B2 |
Methods and compositions for plant pest control
The present invention provides methods and compositions to improve fungal disease resistance and/or nematode resistance in various crop plants. The present invention also provides for combinations of compositions and methods to improve fungal disease resistance and/or nematode resistance in various crop plants. Powdery mildews are fungal diseases that affect a wide range of plants including cereals, grasses, vegetables, ornamentals, weeds, shrubs, fruit trees, broad-leaved shade and forest trees, that is caused by different species of fungi in the order Erysiphales. |
| US10077444B2 |
Compositions and methods for inhibiting expression of the LECT2 gene
The invention relates to double-stranded ribonucleic acid (dsRNA) compositions targeting the LECT2 gene, and methods of using such dsRNA compositions to alter (e.g., inhibit) expression of LECT2. |
| US10077442B2 |
Bioactive renal cells
The present invention concerns bioactive renal cell populations, renal cell constructs, and methods of making and using the same. |
| US10077434B2 |
Non-fucosylated protein and methods thereof
The present disclosure relates to developing cell lines where specific biological pathways are modified, particularly by modifications in the enzymes of the cell. The present disclosure develops protein expression systems wherein specific modification of glycan chain of the protein is achieved, which produces non-fucosylated proteins, including non-fucosylated antibodies. The non-fucosylated proteins are used in developing therapeutic monoclonal antibodies and biomarkers, and in diagnosis and prognosis of various diseases. The present disclosure employs the Transcription Activator like Effector Nuclease (TALEN) technology for inactivating fucosylation in a cell. |
| US10077433B2 |
Permuted and nonpermuted luciferase biosensors
A modified luciferase protein which is a sensor for molecules including cAMP, cGMP, calcium, chelators thereof, kinases, or phosphatases is provided. Also provided is a circularly permuted anthozoan luciferase protein and a decapod crustacean luciferase protein, optionally containing one or more heterologous amino acid sequences, at least one of which directly or indirectly interacts with a molecule of interest. Further provided is a modified anthozoan luciferase protein and a decapod crustacean luciferase protein containing an insertion of one or more heterologous amino acid sequences, at least one of which directly or indirectly interacts with a molecule of interest. |
| US10077423B2 |
Compartmented cryopreservation container and uses thereof
Described are medical products, methods, and cryogenic bags or other containers suitable for storing and/or transporting and/or processing cellular compositions and other related materials. In certain aspects, the contents of such cryogenic bags may be warmed, mixed, and applied to a patient. Medical products described herein find particular use in treating diseased and/or damaged tissue such as in wound repair and/or bone repair. Related methods of manufacture are also described. |
| US10077422B2 |
Microalgae harvesting using stimuli-sensitive hydrogels
A harvesting device and methods of harvesting (i.e., dewatering) algae are described. The harvesting device and methods involve the use of stimuli-sensitive hydrogels. |
| US10077420B2 |
Cell and tissue culture container
The invention generally relates to containers for cell and tissue culturing with multiple compartments in fluid communication with each other to provide a common culture environment in each of the compartments while maintaining physical separation of cells and tissue therein. The invention further relates to culture containers providing a sterile culture environment with detachably coupleable lids and open access to each compartment within a container. |
| US10077418B2 |
Method for improved rate and control of beverage carbonation with automatic shut-off
A system and method for carbonating a beverage is shown. The system includes a saturation tank having a gas head space of CO2, a carbonation tank, and a beverage supply system to pass the beverage between the saturation tank and the carbonation tank. A beverage supersaturated with CO2 from the head space is formed in the saturation tank. The supersaturated beverage is passed from the saturation tank to the carbonation tank. Once the amount of CO2 added to the beverage exceeds saturation, some of the CO2 escapes from solution from the beverage and the pressure in the carbonation tank increases. Once the pressure within the carbonation tank reaches a pre-defined pressure for the desired volume CO2/volume beverage, a pump supplying the beverage to the saturation tank is shut-off and the inlet and outlet valves of the carbonation tank are closed. |
| US10077417B2 |
Cleaning composition comprising an alkyl hydroxybutyrate and method of cleaning air intake valve deposits
A cleaning composition is particularly suited for cleaning dirty intake valves. The cleaning composition includes a high solvency surfactant/solvent which has a Kb greater than 100 or polar Hansen solubility parameter greater than 6. The surfactant/solvent is combined with a carrier such as water or an organic carrier and a surfactant. A wetting agent may also be employed. The cleaning composition is added to the intake air as a mist as the engine is running. Aqueous and non-aqueous versions are disclosed. |
| US10077414B2 |
Fragrance compositions containing isomeric alkoxynonenols
A composition containing at least one isomeric alkoxynonenol, in particular, isomeric 8-alkoxy-4,8-dimethylnon-1-en-3-ol, in an amount effective to impart a fragrance to the composition. A fragrance composition containing at least one isomeric alkoxynonenol in an amount effective to impart a fragrance to the composition. A consumer product containing the fragrance composition having at least one isomeric alkoxynonenol in an amount effective to impart a fragrance to the composition. A method of imparting a fragrance to a consumer product by adding to the consumer product a fragrance composition containing at least one isomeric alkoxynonenol in an amount effective to impart a fragrance to the consumer product. |
| US10077412B2 |
Viscosity modifier for lubricating oils, additive composition for lubricating oils, and lubricating oil composition
Provided are a viscosity modifier for lubricating oils for obtaining an additive composition for lubricating oils having excellent fluidity in a wide temperature range from low temperature to high temperature; and said additive composition for lubricating oils. Further provided are a viscosity modifier for lubricating oils for obtaining a lubricating oil composition capable of reducing viscosity in good balance in a wide temperature range from low temperature to high temperature; and said lubricating oil composition. The viscosity modifier for lubricating oils includes an ethylene α-olefin copolymer (A) which includes 30 to 50 mole % of structural units derived from at least one α-olefin selected from α-olefins having 4 and 5 carbon atoms and 50 to 70 mole % of structural units derived from ethylene (with the proviso that the total of all structural units of said copolymer is 100 mole %) and which satisfies specific requirements (a), (b), and (c). |
| US10077410B2 |
Synergistic lubricating oil composition containing mixture of antioxidants
Disclosed is a lubricating oil composition comprising an oil of lubricating viscosity and an oil soluble synergistic mixture of antioxidants, said mixture comprising: a) a hindered amine antioxidant according to formula (I) wherein each R1 is independently selected from a substituted or unsubstituted, branched or linear, C1-C20 hydrocarbyl group; R2 is selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom or a, substituted or unsubstituted, branched or linear, C1-C20 hydrocarbyl group; each R3 is independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom or a, substituted or unsubstituted, branched or linear, C1-C20 hydrocarbyl group; each R4 is independently selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom or a, substituted or unsubstituted, branched or linear, C1-C20 hydrocarbyl group; n is an integer from 1 to 4; and m is an integer from 1 to 5; and b) a molybdenum succinimide complex. |
| US10077408B1 |
Fire enhancement device
Fire enhancement devices and methods for manufacturing and using the same are disclosed. The fire enhancement devices may include wax, cotton fibers, cotton seeds, ground cotton plant material, gum resin, and/or a wick. The fire enhancement devices may be manufactured by placing one or more layers of cotton fibers and cotton seeds, pouring a mixture of the cotton plant material and gum resin over at least one of the layers, pouring melted wax over the layers, and adding a wick. |
| US10077405B2 |
Petroleum crude oil desalting process and unit
An improved method and process unit for desalting petroleum crude oils in which a portion of the stable emulsion layer which forms in the desalter vessel is withdrawn from the desalter and diluted with a liquid diluent, typically oil or water or both to destabilize the emulsion which is then separated into separate oil and water phases. |
| US10077401B2 |
Polymerizable compound, polymerizable composition and liquid crystal display device
A polymerizable compound having high polymerization reactivity, a high conversion ratio and high solubility in a liquid crystal composition, a polymerizable composition containing the compound, a liquid crystal composite prepared from the composition and a liquid crystal display device having the composite are shown. The polymerizable compound has three or four rings in a serial arrangement and not being mutually condensed, and has three or more polymerizable groups among which at least one is bonded with a ring which is not an either terminal of the three or four rings. The polymerizable composition contains the above polymerizable compound and a liquid crystal composition. The liquid crystal composite is prepared from the above polymerizable composition, and the liquid crystal display device has the liquid crystal composite. |
| US10077397B2 |
Wellbore servicing materials and methods of making and using same
A method of servicing a wellbore in a subterranean formation comprising placing a wellbore servicing fluid in the wellbore and/or subterranean formation, wherein the wellbore servicing fluid comprises a hydrophobically modified relative permeability modifier, an oxygenated alkylating agent, and an aqueous base fluid, and allowing the wellbore servicing fluid to modify the permeability of at least a portion of the wellbore and/or subterranean formation. |
| US10077392B2 |
Defoaming compositions
Cement compositions and processes for reducing air entrainment in a cement composition generally include mixing a hydraulic cement with a defoamer compositions including one or more organic acid ester polymers selected from an organic acid ester of polyethylene oxide polymer, an organic acid ester of polypropylene oxide polymer, and a mixture thereof. The compositions may further comprise an organic acid ester of an ethylene oxide-propylene oxide block copolymer. |
| US10077390B2 |
Working fluid and manufacturing method of metal particles
A working fluid in cooperation with a solar thermal system comprises a heat conduction medium and a plurality of metal particles mixed in the heat conduction medium. Each of the metal particles includes a metal particle and a protection layer, and the protection layer is an oxide and covers the metal particle. A manufacturing method of metal particles is also disclosed. |
| US10077380B2 |
Polishing composition
Proposed is a polishing composition including hydroxyethyl cellulose, water and abrasive grains, wherein the hydroxyethyl cellulose has a molecular weight of 500,000 or more and 1,500,000 or less, and the mass ratio of the hydroxyethyl cellulose to the abrasive grains is 0.0075 or more and 0.025 or less. |
| US10077374B2 |
Methods for making coating compositions having predetermined VOC contents, methods for making systems for producing such coating compositions, and temperature adjusters for making such coating compositions
A method of making a coating composition includes selecting a temperature adjuster from a plurality of temperature adjusters based on an ambient temperature at which application of the coating composition is to occur. The temperature adjuster contains a resin and a solvent. The resin, the solvent, and/or amounts of the resin and the solvent are based on the ambient temperature. The temperature adjuster contains no less than about 1% solids. The method includes combining a paint with the temperature adjuster. The paint contains a resin and a solvent. The method includes mixing the temperature adjuster and the paint to form the coating composition, wherein the coating composition has no more than a predetermined total VOC content, wherein the predetermined total VOC content is about 1.2 kilograms per liter. |
| US10077371B2 |
Ink set and recording method
An ink set includes: a first ink containing a first anion which is at least one selected from the group consisting of a nitrate ion, an acetate ion, an acrylic acid ion, a formic acid ion, and a methacrylic acid ion; and a second ink containing a second anion which is at least one selected from the group consisting of a sulfate ion, a phosphate ion, and an oxalate ion, wherein the first ink satisfies the following condition (A) and condition (B) and the second ink satisfies the following condition (C) and condition (D): X1≥50 Condition (A): X1/(X1+X2)>0.6 Condition (B): X1: concentration of the first anion in the first ink (ppm) X2: concentration of the second anion in the first ink (ppm) Y2≥40 Condition (C): Y1/(Y1+Y2)<0.6 Condition (D): Y1: concentration of the first anion in the second ink (ppm) Y2: concentration of the second anion in the second ink (ppm). |
| US10077367B2 |
Coated metal plate and exterior building material
This coated metal plate is a chromate-free coated metal plate for exterior applications, which comprises a metal plate and a coating film that is arranged on the metal plate. The coating film contains 0.2-15 vol % of porous particles as a gloss control agent, and contains 0.2-15 vol % of primary particles as a matting agent. If R1 (μm) is the number average particle diameter of the gloss control agent, R2 (μm) is the number average particle diameter of the matting agent, T (μm) is the film thickness of the coating film, σ1 (μm) is the standard deviation of the number-based particle size distribution of the gloss control agent and σ2 (μm) is the standard deviation of the number-based particle size distribution of the matting agent, the coated metal plate satisfies the following formulae. (R1+2σ1)/T≤0.7 R1≥2.0 2.0≤(R2+2σ2)/T≤7.0 13≤T≤20. |
| US10077363B2 |
Fibrous structured amorphous silica including precipitated calcium carbonate and compositions of matter made therewith
A nano-composite structure. A synthetic nano-composite is described having a first component including a fibrous structured amorphous silica structure, and a second component including a precipitated calcium carbonate structure developed by pressure carbonation. The nano-composite may be useful for fillers in paints and coatings. Also, the nano-composite may be useful in coatings used in the manufacture of paper products. |
| US10077362B2 |
Chromophores for photochromic compositions useful for three dimensional display applications
Described herein are novel azo-benzene type chromophores. The chromophores are useful in photochromic compositions comprising a polymer matrix and a chromophore, wherein the chromophore is a novel azo-benzene type structure. The photochromic composition is photoresponsive upon irradiation by at least one wavelength of laser light across the visible light spectrum. Photochromic devices which comprise the novel azo-benzene type chromophore compound show significantly higher photoinduced birefringence, higher diffraction efficiency, and brighter images than devices that comprise well known azo-benzene chromophores. The photochromic composition may include a liquid crystal. |
| US10077361B2 |
Surface physical property modifier composition, thermoplastic resin composition containing same, and resin molded article therefrom
A surface physical property modifier composition includes (A) a wax, (B) a vinyl (co)polymer, and (C) an aliphatic hydrocarbon having a carbon number of 5 to 14. Component (A) is set to be at least one selected from the group consisting of (a1) paraffin wax, (a2) microcrystalline wax, (a3) Fischer-Tropsch wax, and (a4) polyethylene wax, and component (B) is produced from at least one of (b1) a (meth)acrylonitrile, (b2) a (meth)acrylic acid having a carbon number of 1 to 4, (b3) a hydroxyethyl (meth)acrylate or hydroxypropyl (meth)acrylate, (b4) styrene, and (b5) predetermined (meth)acrylic acid alkyl esters. Component (A) is 50 to 98 parts by mass relative to 100 parts by mass of the total of (A) and (B), and component (C) is 0.001 to 1 percent by mass relative to the total amount of (A). |
| US10077358B2 |
Ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer resin composition and method for producing same
A resin composition comprising a modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) and an unmodified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (B), wherein the modified ethylene-vinyl alcohol copolymer (A) is represented by a following formula (I), contents (mol %) of a, b, and c based on the total monomer units satisfy following formulae (1) to (3), and a degree of saponification is not less than 80 mol %, thereby providing a resin composition that is excellent in a barrier property, impact resistance, and secondary processability and moreover excellent in productivity. 18≤a≤55 (1) 0.01≤c≤20 (2) [100−(a+c)]×0.9≤b≤[100−(a+c)] (3). |
| US10077351B2 |
Graphene dispersion and graphene reinforced polymer
A graphene dispersion includes a graphene material and a polymerizable monomer. The polymerizable monomer has a structure including the first part and the second part. The first part is at one end of the structure and includes at least one benzene ring, and the second part is at another end of the structure and has polarity. |
| US10077350B2 |
Process for devulcanizing rubber
A process for devulcanizing EPDM rubber comprising the step of introducing sulfur-cured EPDM to an extruder, introducing from about 0.5 to about 20 wt % scavenging agent, based upon the total weight of the EPDM and scavenging agent, and mixing and masticating the EPDM at a temperature sufficient to at least partially devulcanize the sulfur-cured EPDM. |
| US10077347B2 |
Barrier film and method for preparing the same
Provided are a barrier film and a method for preparing the same. Particularly, the barrier film is applied to an organic or inorganic phosphor, a display, or a photovoltaic device to effective block chemical materials such as water or oxygen, protect an electronic device therein, and maintain excellent optical characteristics. |
| US10077346B2 |
Method for coating a support with a dispersion based on an acrylic polymer and a cross-linking agent
A method for coating a support with an adhesion primer for improving the connection between the support and an active outer layer. To this end, the coating of the support with a layer of adhesion primer is carried out with an aqueous dispersion including (i) particles of at least one acrylic and/or methacrylic polymer having either a gel content of less than 50 wt. % and an acrylic and/or methacrylic acid copolymer content of at least 10 wt. %, or a gel content of at least 50 wt. %, and (ii) at least one cross-linking agent in an aqueous solution, that can allow interfacial cross-linking and leads to a residual content of free acid functions of the surface copolymer(s) of at least 5 wt. %. |
| US10077343B2 |
Process to produce elastomeric compositions comprising cellulose ester additives
A process for producing elastomeric composition is provided comprising mixing at least one elastomer, at least one cellulose ester additive, at least one methylene acceptor, at least one methylene donor, and optionally, at least one filler; wherein the cellulose ester additive comprises at least one cellulose ester. The cellulose ester additive can also comprise at least one compatibilizer and/or plasticizer. |
| US10077342B2 |
Elastomeric compositions comprising cellulose ester additives
An elastomeric composition is provided comprising at least one elastomer, at least one cellulose ester additive, at least one methylene acceptor, at least one methylene donor, and optionally, at least one filler; wherein the cellulose ester additive comprises at least one cellulose ester. The cellulose ester additive can also comprise at least one compatibilizer and/or plasticizer. |
| US10077340B2 |
Poly(beta-methyl-delta-valerolactone) block polymers
Block copolymers include a poly β-methyl-δ-valerolactone (PMVL) block. The PMVL blocks can be formed from biosynthesized β-methyl-δ-valerolactone (MVL). The PMVL block may be formed from biosynthesized β-methyl-δ-valerolactone (MVL) with a 14C/12C ratio greater than zero. The block copolymers can include hard blocks. The block copolymers can be thermoplastic elastomers. The block copolymers may include a polylactic acid (PLA) block. |
| US10077337B2 |
Polyimide, resin film, and metal-clad laminate
A resin film, in which at least one of polyimide layers is a non-thermoplastic polyimide layer having a linear thermal expansion coefficient of 1×10−6 to 30×10−6 (1/K), is shown. The non-thermoplastic polyimide layer is composed of a polyimide which is produced by reacting an anhydride component containing an aromatic tetracarboxylic anhydride with a diamine component, wherein the diamine component contains both a dimer acid-type diamine produced by replacing each of two terminal carboxyl groups in a dimer acid with a primary aminomethyl or amino group and an aromatic diamine, and the dimer acid-type diamine is contained in an amount of 1 to 15 mol % relative to the whole diamine component. |
| US10077336B2 |
Functionalized highly branched melamine-polyamine polymers
The present invention relates to a method for producing amphiphilic functionalized highly branched melamine-polyamine polymers by condensing melamine and optionally a melamine derivate having at least one different amine having at least two primary amino groups and optionally also with urea and/or at least one urea derivative and/or with at least one at least difunctional diisocyanate or polyisocyanate and/or at least one carbolic acid having at least two carboxyl groups or at least one derivative thereof, optionally quaternizing a portion of the amino groups of the polymer thereby obtained, reacting the polymer thus obtained with at least one compound capable of undergoing a condensation or addition reaction with amino groups, and optionally quaternizing at least part of the amino groups of the polymer obtained in the first step. The invention further relates to the amphiphilic functionalized highly branched melamine-polyamine polymers that can be obtained by the method according to the invention, and to the use thereof as surface active agents. |
| US10077333B2 |
Renewably derived polyesters and methods of making and using the same
Polyester compositions are disclosed herein, as well as methods of making and using such polyesters. In some embodiments, the polyesters are formed from monomers derived from natural oils. In some embodiments, the polyesters have lower glass transition temperatures than polyesters of comparable molecular weight. |
| US10077329B1 |
Method of producing polyurethane dispersion by solvent free process
A method of producing PUD by a solvent free process includes drying polyol in vacuum; placing the dried polyol and DMBA in a reaction vessel to mix until a first mixture becomes transparent; adding diisocyanate which having functional group of isocyanate (—NCO) to the first mixture to react until —NCO terminated first prepolymer is formed; decreasing temperature of the —NCO terminated first prepolymer to 65° C.; adding a neutralizing agent to the —NCO terminated first prepolymer until —NCO terminated second prepolymer is formed; adding the remaining diisocyanate having isocyanate functional group to the —NCO terminated second prepolymer to form a second mixture; adding deionized water to the second mixture to form prepolymer dispersion; and adding chain extension agent to the prepolymer dispersion to rotate at a range of 200 to 2,000 rpm for chain extension for 1-3 hours until solid content 40.0 wt. % solvent free PUD is produced. |
| US10077326B2 |
Copolymer having high multiolefin content
A copolymer has high levels of multolefin incorporation. A process for producing the copolymer having high levels of multiolefin incorporation involves contacting at least one isoolefin monomer with at least one multiolefin and/or β-pinene monomer in the presence of at least one Lewis acid and at least one initiator in a diluent. The diluent contains a hydrofluor-Mated olefin (HFO) comprising at least three carbon atoms and at least three fluorine atoms. Hydrofluorinated olefins used in the present invention are better diluents for butyl slurry cationic polymerization than saturated hydro-fluorocarbons. |
| US10077325B2 |
Silica supports with high aluminoxane loading capability
Olefin polymerization catalyst systems having high aluminoxane loading and methods for making and using them are disclosed herein. |
| US10077324B2 |
Polymers, preparation and use thereof
The present teachings provide novel polymers, and methods of preparing and using thereof. The novel polymers each includes a sulfide, sulfonyl, or sulfonyl bond. The novel polymer are used to make polycations and/or polyanions, which can be used, for example, to produce adhesive complex coacervates. |
| US10077321B2 |
Method for manufacturing a shaped crosslinked hyaluronic acid product
A method for manufacturing a shaped cross-linked hyaluronic acid product, the method including the step of subjecting a non-cross-linked precipitated hyaluronic acid substrate in a desired shape to a single cross-linking reaction in a liquid medium having a pH of 11.5 or higher and including one or more polyfunctional cross-linking agent(s) and an amount of one or more organic solvent(s) giving precipitating conditions for hyaluronic acid, under suitable conditions to obtain a precipitated, shaped cross-linked hyaluronic acid product having a degree of modification of 1-40 cross-linking agent units per 1000 disaccharide units. |
| US10077320B2 |
Process for preparing a cross-linked hyaluronic acid product
Efficient cross-linking of hyaluronic acid (HA) is provided by a manufacturing process. In the process, HA is activated by an initial cross-linking in an aqueous solution. Unreacted cross-linking agent is removed from the activated HA. Cross-linking of the activated HA is finalized, without addition of any additional cross-linking agent, in a suspension of a liquid precipitating medium and the activated HA in precipitated form. The resulting cross-linked HA products exhibit high effective cross-linker ratio and other favorable properties, making the products useful as implants and in medical and cosmetic surgery. |
| US10077313B2 |
Anti-CD123 antibodies and conjugates and derivatives thereof
The present invention generally relates to antibodies, antigen-binding fragments thereof, polypeptides, and immunoconjugates that bind to CD123 antigen (the α chain of the interleukine 3 receptor, or IL-3Rα). The present invention also relates to methods of using such CD123-binding molecules for diagnosing and treating diseases, such as B-cell malignancies. |
| US10077312B2 |
CD3 and IL-23 receptor binding bispecific constructs and their use in the treatment of various diseases
The present invention relates to bispecific constructs that specifically bind to immune effector cells and, simultaneously, to IL23R-carrying target cells, as well as nucleic acids, vectors, host cells, pharmaceutical compositions, and methods of production and use thereof, including such bispecific constructs for use in treating inflammatory and/or autoimmune diseases and/or cancer. |
| US10077305B2 |
Antibodies against PD-1 and uses thereof
The present invention provides antibodies and antigen-binding fragments that specifically bind PD-1 (Programmed Death 1), thereby modulating immune responses in general, and those mediated by TcR and CD28, in particular. The disclosed compositions and methods may be used for example, in treating autoimmune diseases, inflammatory disorders, allergies, transplant rejection, cancer and other immune system disorders. |
| US10077302B2 |
Method of inhibiting human IL-1 beta by administering an antibody to human IL-1 beta
The present invention relates to anti-IL-1 beta binding members and in particular to monovalent high potency IL-1 beta-binding antibody fragments being highly stable and soluble. Such binding members may be used in the treatment of inflammatory and other diseases as well as in diagnostics. Also provided are related nucleic acids, vectors, cells, and compositions. |
| US10077298B2 |
Engineered immunoglobulin heavy chain-light chain pairs and uses thereof
The present invention provides heterodimer pairs that can comprise a first heterodimer and a second heterodimer wherein each heterodimer comprises an immunoglobulin heavy chain or fragment thereof and an immunoglobulin light chain or fragment thereof. At least one of the heterodimers can comprise one or more amino acid modifications in the CH1 and/or CL domains, one or more amino acid modifications in the VH and/or VL domains, or a combination thereof. The modified amino acid(s) can be part of the interface between the light chain and heavy chain and are typically modified to create preferential pairing between each heavy chain and a desired light chain such that when the two heavy chains and two light chains of the heterodimer pair are co-expressed in a cell, the heavy chain of the first heterodimer preferentially pairs with one of the light chains rather than the other. Likewise, the heavy chain of the second heterodimer typically preferentially pairs with the second light chain rather than first. |
| US10077297B2 |
Fc fusion high affinity IgE receptor α-chain
Provided is an Fc fusion high affinity IgE receptor α-chain having excellent stability at low pH.An Fc fusion protein comprising: (i) a high affinity IgE receptor α-chain; and (ii) an Fc region of IgG1, wherein a linker fragment region between the (i) and the (ii) is the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 2. |
| US10077296B2 |
Methods and compositions for the treatment and prevention of cancer
The instant invention provides compositions for the treatment of cancer. Specifically, the invention provides polypeptides and nucleic acid molecules comprising tumor-associated embryonic antigens, e.g., OFA-iLRP, and chemoattractant ligands, e.g., a proinflammatory chemokine such as MIP3α/CCL20 or β-defensin mDF2β. The invention further provides cancer vaccines and methods for treating subjects having, or at risk of developing, cancer. |
| US10077289B2 |
Cyclosporins modified on the MeBmt sidechain by heterocyclic rings
The present invention relates to novel cyclosporin analogs, processes for preparing them, pharmaceutical compositions containing them, and methods for using these analogs and the compositions containing them for the treatment of medical conditions, including but not limited to ocular conditions such as dry eye. |
| US10077288B2 |
Hydroxystatin derivatives for the treatment of arthrosis
The present invention relates to compounds of the formula (I) and in particular to medicaments comprising at least one compound of the formula (I) for use in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of physiological and/or pathophysiological conditions in the triggering of which cathepsin D is involved, in particular for use in the treatment and/or prophylaxis of arthrosis, traumatic cartilage injuries arthritis, pain, allodynia or hyperalgesia. |
| US10077287B2 |
Tubulysin analogs and methods of making and use
Tubulysin analogs of the formula (I) where R1, R2 R3, R4, R5, R6, R7, and Y are as defined herein, are anti-mitotic agents that can be used in the treatment of cancer, especially when conjugated to a targeting moiety. |
| US10077286B2 |
Method for removal of triglycerides in lipoproteins other than low-density lipoproteins
Disclosed is a method for selectively eliminating triglycerides in lipoproteins other than low density lipoprotein, which method allows one to provide a method for directly and differentially quantifying LDL-TG in a sample with excellent simplicity, specificity and accuracy using an automated analyzer or the like without performing a laborious operation of pretreatment such as centrifugation or electrophoresis. The method for eliminating triglycerides in lipoproteins other than low density lipoproteins includes allowing lipoprotein lipase, cholesterol esterase, glycerol kinase and glycerol-3-phosphate oxidase to act on a sample in the presence of a surfactant that acts on lipoproteins other than low density lipoprotein and/or a surfactant having LDL-protecting action, and eliminating hydrogen peroxide produced thereby. |
| US10077285B2 |
Enhanced functionality and delivery of a protein from a porous substrate
Compositions, methods, articles of manufacture, and kits are provided for storage and delivery of proteins. |