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| US10108465B1 |
Automated cloud service evaluation and workload migration utilizing standardized virtual service units
An apparatus in one embodiment comprises a processing platform that includes a plurality of processing devices each comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing platform is configured to implement virtual resources of at least a first cloud-based system. The processing platform further comprises a cloud service evaluation module configured to assign a value to a given cloud service provided by the first cloud-based system in terms of a virtual service unit standardized for use across multiple cloud-based systems of different types, and a workload deployment module configured to control migration of a workload associated with the cloud service from the first cloud-based system to a second cloud-based system based at least in part on the assigned value. |
| US10108464B2 |
Managing speculative memory access requests in the presence of transactional storage accesses
In at least some embodiments, a cache memory of a data processing system receives a speculative memory access request including a target address of data speculatively requested for a processor core. In response to receipt of the speculative memory access request, transactional memory logic determines whether or not the target address of the speculative memory access request hits a store footprint of a memory transaction. In response to determining that the target address of the speculative memory access request hits a store footprint of a memory transaction, the transactional memory logic causes the cache memory to reject servicing the speculative memory access request. |
| US10108461B2 |
Management of virtual appliances in cloud-based network
Embodiments relate to instantiating and operating a virtual appliance monitor in a network cloud environment. A method includes receiving, by a virtual appliance monitor executing in a network cloud system, appliance state information representing an execution state of a virtual appliance of a set of virtual appliances instantiated in the network cloud system that the virtual appliance monitor is to monitor, wherein the virtual appliance monitor is instantiated by a cloud management server device managing the network cloud system, managing, by the virtual appliance monitor, the set of virtual appliances in view of the receiving appliance state information, and terminating, by the cloud management server device, the virtual appliance monitor and the set of virtual appliances monitored by the virtual appliance monitor when a subscription period for the virtual appliance monitor and the set of virtual appliances expires. |
| US10108460B2 |
Method and system for integrated deployment planning for virtual appliances
A method and system for integrated server-storage deployment planning for virtual appliances is provided. One implementation involves determining a performance cost in deploying the virtual appliance to different pairings of candidate host and storage subsystems. A host and storage subsystem pair is preferentially selected among the candidate pairings, a pairing of a host and storage subsystem with certain performance cost to satisfy performance requirements of the virtual appliance. Deployment planning may further involve deploying a virtual appliance on one or more appropriate spatially proximate hosts and storage subsystems that exhibit certain preferable connectivity and path capacity to satisfy the performance requirements of the virtual appliance. |
| US10108455B2 |
Methods and apparatus to manage and execute actions in computing environments based on a type of virtual compute node
Methods and apparatus to manage and execute action in computing environments are disclosed. An example system includes a virtual machine resource platform to host a virtual compute node and a resource manager to: in response to a user request associated with the virtual compute node: determine a type of the virtual compute node; determine if an installed adapter identifies a type associated with the type of the virtual compute node; and when the adapter identifies the type associated with the type of the virtual compute node, present a user selectable identification of the adapter. |
| US10108454B2 |
Managing dynamic capacitance using code scheduling
In an embodiment, a processor includes a schedule logic to schedule a set of instructions for execution in an execution logic of the processor and a power analysis logic having a first calculation logic to calculate a maximum dynamic capacitance for at least a portion of the processor and a second calculation logic to calculate a dynamic capacitance estimate for execution of the set of instructions. A rescheduling of the set of instructions may occur based on a comparison of the dynamic capacitance estimate and the maximum dynamic capacitance. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10108451B2 |
Method and apparatus for switching tasks using a displayed task stack
A method and an electronic device are provided in which, in response to a first user input, a stack of partially overlaid visual elements is displayed in response to the first user input. Each visual element corresponds to an application that is running in the electronic device and includes an index item representing the corresponding application. A second user input for selecting a visual element from the stack of partially overlaid visual elements is received through the touchscreen. An execution screen of an application corresponding to the selected visual element is displayed. |
| US10108447B2 |
Method for connecting a local virtualization infrastructure with a cloud-based virtualization infrastructure
In a computer-implemented method for connecting a local virtualization infrastructure with a cloud-based virtualization infrastructure, a first view comprising a control for connecting the local virtualization infrastructure to the cloud-based virtualization infrastructure is displayed within a graphical user interface for managing the local virtualization infrastructure. Responsive to a receiving a user selection to connect the local virtualization infrastructure to the cloud-based virtualization infrastructure, at least one workflow for effectuating a connection between the local virtualization infrastructure and the cloud-based virtualization infrastructure is displayed. Responsive to receiving a command to connect the local virtualization infrastructure to the cloud-based virtualization infrastructure at the workflow for effectuating a connection between the local virtualization infrastructure and the cloud-based virtualization infrastructure, a connection between the local virtualization infrastructure and the cloud-based virtualization infrastructure is established according to the at least one workflow. Responsive to establishing a connection between the local virtualization infrastructure and the cloud-based virtualization infrastructure, management of the local virtualization infrastructure and the cloud-based virtualization infrastructure through the graphical user interface for managing the local virtualization infrastructure is provided. |
| US10108445B2 |
Parallelization in virtual machine operation
A method of providing virtualization services includes identifying computer programs executable as a plurality of tasks, including identifying tasks from the plurality of tasks. The method includes executing the computer programs by virtual central processing units (CPUs) in a virtual machine executed on a host hardware platform and defined to provide a virtualization platform for virtualization of a target hardware platform. This includes executing the plurality of tasks other than the identified tasks by the virtual CPUs in the virtual machine executed on CPUs of the host hardware platform, and at least partially in parallel with these tasks, executing the identified tasks on additional CPUs of the host hardware platform. The target hardware platform includes one or more CPUs for execution the plurality of tasks no greater in number than the CPUs of the host hardware platform on which the plurality of tasks other than the identified tasks are executed. |
| US10108442B1 |
Optimization and affinity for hypervisor-based just-in-time translator
Systems and methods improve performance and resource-efficiency of Just-in-Time (JIT) compilation in a hypervisor-based virtualized computing environment. A user attempts to launch an application that has been previously compiled by a JIT compiler into an intermediate, platform-independent format. A JIT accelerator selects a unique function signature that identifies the application and the user's target platform. If the signature cannot be found in a repository, indicating that the application has never been run on the target platform, the accelerator generates and stores the requested executable program in shared memory and saves the signature in the repository. The system then returns to the user a pointer to the stored platform-specific executable. If multiple users of the same platform request the same application, the system recognizes an affinity among those requests identified by their shared signature, and provides each user a pointer to the same previously stored, shared executable. |
| US10108436B2 |
Techniques for bridging BIOS commands between client and host via BMC
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be an embedded-system device. The embedded-system device receives a first message including first command or data from a client. The embedded-system device triggers a BIOS of a host of the embedded-system device to communicate with the embedded-system device. The embedded-system device receives a request from the BIOS. The embedded-system device sends the first command or data to the BIOS in response to the request. |
| US10108428B2 |
Mechanism to preclude load replays dependent on long load cycles in an out-of-order processor
An apparatus including first and second reservation stations. The first reservation station dispatches a load micro instruction, and indicates on a hold bus if the load micro instruction is a specified load micro instruction directed to retrieve an operand from a prescribed resource other than on-core cache memory, where the specified load instruction requires more than a first number of clock cycles to retrieve the operand. The second reservation station is coupled to the hold bus, and dispatches one or more younger micro instructions therein that depend on the load micro instruction for execution after a number of clock cycles following dispatch of the first load micro instruction, and if it is indicated on the hold bus that the load micro instruction is the specified load micro instruction, the second reservation station is configured to stall dispatch of the one or more younger micro instructions until the load micro instruction has retrieved the operand. |
| US10108427B2 |
Mechanism to preclude load replays dependent on fuse array access in an out-of-order processor
An apparatus including first and second reservation stations. The first reservation station dispatches a load micro instruction, and indicates on a hold bus if the load micro instruction is a specified load micro instruction directed to retrieve an operand from a prescribed resource other than on-core cache memory. The second reservation station is coupled to the hold bus, and dispatches one or more younger micro instructions therein that depend on the load micro instruction for execution after a number of clock cycles following dispatch of the first load micro instruction, and if it is indicated on the hold bus that the load micro instruction is the specified load micro instruction, the second reservation station is configured to stall dispatch of the one or more younger micro instructions until the load micro instruction has retrieved the operand. The resources include a fuse array that stores configuration data. |
| US10108426B2 |
Dynamic issue masks for processor hang prevention
Embodiments include issuing dynamic issue masks for processor hang prevention. Aspects include storing an instruction in an issue queue for execution by an execution unit, the instruction including a default issue mask. Aspects further include determining whether the instruction in the issue queue is likely to be rescinded by the execution unit. Based on determining that the instruction is not likely to be rescinded by the execution unit, aspects include issuing the instruction to the execution unit with the default issue mask. Based on determining that the instruction is likely to be rescinded by the execution unit, aspects include issuing the instruction to the execution unit with a likely to be rescinded issue mask. |
| US10108423B2 |
History buffer with single snoop tag for multiple-field registers
An approach is provided in which a mapper control unit matches a result instruction tag corresponding to an executed instruction to a history buffer entry's instruction tag. The matched history buffer entry includes multiple history buffer field sets that each include a field set state indicator. The mapper control unit identifies a subset of the history buffer field sets having a valid field set state indicator and stores result data corresponding to the result instruction tag in the identified subset of history buffer field sets. In turn, the mapper control unit restores a subset of a register's fields utilizing content from the subset of history buffer field sets. |
| US10108422B2 |
Multi-thread network stack buffering of data frames
Systems, methods, apparatuses, and software for networked data systems are provided herein. In one example, a networked data processing system is presented. The system includes a processing system configured to execute an operating system that comprises a network module for handling data frames received over one or more network interfaces of the networked data processing system, the data frames directed to one or more applications. The network module is configured to establish a plurality of data buffers individually associated with application threads of the one or more applications, store associated ones of the data frames for the application threads in the data buffers as the data frames are processed through a network stack of the networked data processing system, and maintain data exclusivity locks for the plurality of data buffers and individually associate the data exclusivity locks with the application threads. |
| US10108421B2 |
Mechanism to preclude shared ram-dependent load replays in an out-of-order processor
An apparatus including first and second reservation stations. The first reservation station dispatches a load micro instruction, and indicates on a hold bus if the load micro instruction is a specified load micro instruction directed to retrieve an operand from a prescribed resource other than on-core cache memory. The second reservation station is coupled to the hold bus, and dispatches one or more younger micro instructions therein that depend on the load micro instruction for execution after a number of clock cycles following dispatch of the first load micro instruction, and if it is indicated on the hold bus that the load micro instruction is the specified load micro instruction, the second reservation station is configured to stall dispatch of the one or more younger micro instructions until the load micro instruction has retrieved the operand. The plurality of non-core resources includes a random access memory, configured to store microcode patches corresponding to the out-of-order processor which, upon initialization, accesses said random access memory to retrieve said microcode patches. |
| US10108418B2 |
Collapsing of multiple nested loops, methods, and instructions
In an embodiment, the present invention is directed to a processor including a decode logic to receive a multi-dimensional loop counter update instruction and to decode the multi-dimensional loop counter update instruction into at least one decoded instruction, and an execution logic to execute the at least one decoded instruction to update at least one loop counter value of a first operand associated with the multi-dimensional loop counter update instruction by a first amount. Methods to collapse loops using such instructions are also disclosed. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US10108412B2 |
Blocking and non-blocking firmware update
A payment service system may include a server that manages firmware updates for payment devices such as payment readers. A payment reader may access a firmware manifest including a listing of current firmware assets stored at the payment reader, and send the firmware manifest to the server. The server may compare the firmware manifest to available firmware bundles, which are ordered combinations of firmware assets that have been released for usage by payment readers. Some of the bundles may be blocking bundles, while some are non-blocking. If a payment reader is to be updated with a blocking bundle, it cannot process payments during the update. If the update is not a blocking bundle, the payment reader may continue to process payments. |
| US10108411B2 |
Systems and methods of constructing a network topology
The technology disclosed relates to sub-clustering within service clusters in real-time. In particular, it relates to accessing a network topology that records node data and connection data including processes running on numerous hosts grouped into local services on the hosts, the local services running on multiple hosts grouped into service clusters and sub-clusters of service clusters, and network connections used by the service clusters to connect the hosts grouped into service connections, wherein the node data includes software versions of the processes and process data with configuration files and clustering the multiple hosts with the service clusters into the sub-clusters based at least in part on the software versions. |
| US10108408B2 |
Converting desktop applications into cloud services
Techniques for converting desktop applications into cloud services are provided. In one embodiment, a server system can receive a representation of an application that has been extracted from an installation of the application on an end-user computing device. The representation can include a collection of files and configuration information associated with the application. The server system can then store the representation of the application in a server-side repository for deployment as a cloud service. |
| US10108407B2 |
Loading optimized local entry points for local-use-only function pointers
Embodiments relate to using a local entry point with an indirect call function. More specifically, an indirect call function configuration comprises a first application module having a target function of the indirect function call, a second application module with a symbolic reference to the target function of the indirect function call, and a third application module to originate an indirect function call. A compiler is provided to determine and indicate in the program code that the function pointer value resulting from a non-call reference of a function symbol is solely used to perform indirect calls in the same module, e.g. local-use-only. A linker or loader can read the indication the compiler made in the program code. The linker or loader use the local entry point associated with the target function if the target function is defined in the same module as the reference and is local-use-only. |
| US10108402B2 |
Persistent pointers for programs running on NVRAM based computers
In one example implementation, a method for generating persistent pointers using non-volatile random access memory (NVRAM) compiler directives in a program for NVRAM based computing systems includes generating a program including modified variables. The modified variables include NVRAM compiler directives indicative of persistent pointer type. The method further includes generating assembly code, including persistent pointer enablers, using the program including the modified variables by a compiler. Furthermore, the method includes mapping information of each NVRAM segment formed by the program with an associated physical address in NVRAM by an NVRAM driver residing in the NVRAM or main memory, maintaining an NVRAM registry including the mapped information by the NVRAM driver, determining valid virtual addresses of processes during runtime using the generated assembly code including the persistent pointer enablers and the NVRAM registry including the mapped information, and generating the persistent pointers from the valid virtual addresses during runtime. |
| US10108400B1 |
Rapid avionics development environment
An avionics development environment based on high level interpreted language for rapid creation and deployment of avionics software is disclosed. Functional modules are segregated in time and allocated segregated resources so that functional modules only interact in predictable, deterministic ways. Segregated functional modules are individually certifiable for avionics operation, and parameters necessary for certification are associated with each functional module to ensure the end application conforms to such parameters. |
| US10108395B2 |
Audio device with auditory system display and methods for use therewith
Various embodiments include, for example, an audio device that operates by selecting one of a plurality of audio files in response to user interaction with a graphical user interface. The selected one of the plurality of audio files is decoded to generate audio output signals for playback of the selected one of the plurality of audio files via an audio output device. Animated auditory system display data is generated in response to the selected one of the plurality of audio files for display via a display device, wherein the animated auditory system display data animates action of at least one simulated cochlea in response to the selected one of the plurality of audio files. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US10108393B2 |
Leaving group and smart line-in processing
An example playback device includes a first interface for receiving a first audio signal from a first audio source; a second interface for receiving a second audio signal from a second audio source; and a processor configured to: cause the playback device to playback the second audio signal; determine that the first audio signal is present at the first interface; in response to determining that the first audio signal is present at the first interface, (i) cease playback of the second audio signal being played by the playback device and (ii) cause the playback device to playback the first audio signal; receive an instruction to stop the playback device from playing the first audio signal while the first audio signal is still present at the first interface; and arm the playback device such that a subsequent presence of the first audio signal at the first interface causes the playback device to play the first audio signal. |
| US10108391B2 |
Audio data operating method and electronic device supporting the same
Methods and apparatuses of operating audio data of an electronic device are provided. A storage space is generated where decoded audio data is stored. Frames are stored in the storage space. The frames have a playable unit length that corresponds to a full length that is formed when encoded audio data is decoded. The encoded audio data is decoded from a requested playback point and the decoded audio data is stored in the storage space, upon detecting a request for playback of audio data at the requested playback point. The decoded audio data is output. |
| US10108390B2 |
Methods, systems, and media for presenting requested content on public display devices
Methods, systems, and media for presenting requested content on public display devices are provided. In some implementations a method for presenting content on a display device is provided, the method comprising: receiving a request from a mobile device to present content, including image data, on a display device; receiving a graphical representation associated with a user; receiving location information associated with the mobile device; receiving display device information associated with display devices, including location information associated with that display device; selecting, without user input, a first display device on which to present the content based on the location information associated with the mobile device and the location information associated with each of the plurality of display devices; and in response to selecting the first display device, causing both the graphical representation associated with the user of the mobile device and the content to be presented by the first display device. |
| US10108388B2 |
Display apparatus and controlling method thereof
A display apparatus and a controlling method thereof are provided. The method includes sensing a first touch, in response to the first touch being sensed, transmitting a first signal corresponding to the first touch to at least one peripheral display apparatus, receiving a second signal corresponding to a second touch from a peripheral display apparatus where the second touch corresponding to the first touch is sensed from among the at least one peripheral display apparatus, and performing communication connection with the peripheral display apparatus where the second touch is sensed, using the first signal and the second signal. |
| US10108384B1 |
Apparatus and method for sharing ink dot count information between inkjet printers connected to a network
A system tracks the exact amount of ink remaining in printhead cartridges used in printers connected to a network. Each printer stores a history of cartridges that have been used in the printer. Each cartridge stores a status indicator that indicates whether the cartridge has been used before in any printer. When a printer receives a previously-used cartridge, the printer broadcasts a request for information about that cartridge from the other printers. Each printer having the matching printhead identification number in its history reports over the network the last recorded ink dot count associated with the matching printhead identification number. The requesting printer chooses the most up-to-date response based on the highest dot count or the latest time-stamp. The requesting printer then updates its memory using the dot count from the most up-to-date response and begins counting dots from that updated count for subsequent print jobs performed using the installed cartridge. |
| US10108380B2 |
Information processing apparatus that acquires information from external apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program
An information processing apparatus includes an information holding unit that holds pieces of information acquired from an external apparatus; an execution unit that reads a partial program having specific information, among the pieces of information acquired from the external apparatus, described therein, and executes a program including the partial program with reference to the pieces of information held in the information holding unit. |
| US10108374B2 |
Memory controller for performing write transaction with stall when write buffer is full and abort when transaction spans page boundary
A memory controller receives first and second write transactions from a processor and stores write data in a memory. The memory controller includes an address comparison circuit, a buffer, a level control circuit, a command generator, and a control circuit. The address comparison circuit compares second and third addresses and outputs first and second write data when the second and third addresses are consecutive. The buffer stores the first and second write data and outputs buffered data based on a control signal. The level control circuit compares a size of the buffered data with a threshold size and the size of the buffer. The command generator causes a write transaction to be executed based on the comparison results, rather than having the processor initiate the transaction, which reduces the load on the processor, and the buffered write data is stored in the memory. |
| US10108371B2 |
Method and system for managing host memory buffer of host using non-volatile memory express (NVME) controller in solid state storage device
A solid state storage device including a non-volatile memory Express (NVMe) controller and configured to manage a Host Memory Buffer (HMB) in a host may be provided. The NVMe controller may be configured to fetch HMB descriptor entries as part of a feature command from the host, partition the HMB logically into a control buffer partition and a data buffer partition, store the HMB descriptor entries pointing to the control buffer partition within the solid state storage device as an HMB pointer list table, and write-back the HMB descriptor entries pointing to the data buffer partition into the control buffer partition of HMB. |
| US10108368B2 |
Heat map transfer in space-efficient storage
The system includes a plurality of storage volumes, a data synchronization module, a space-efficient storage module, and a heat data module. A second storage volume of the plurality of storage volumes includes a backup storage location for a first storage volume. The data synchronization module, coupled to the first storage volume and the second storage volume, provides a backup by synchronizing information from the first storage volume to the second storage volume during a synchronization event. The information includes data chunks, heat map data, and first metadata. The space-efficient storage module receives the information from the data synchronization module and allocates the information to the second storage volume in accordance with a space-efficient storage model. The heat data module reads the first metadata and the heat map data and adjusts a location of the data chunks in the second storage volume based on the heat map data. |
| US10108366B2 |
Non-volatile memory apparatus and operating method thereof
A non-volatile memory apparatus including a non-volatile storage circuit, a main memory and a controller, and an operating method thereof are provided. Each of a plurality of logical block address groups includes a plurality of logical block addresses. Each of the logical block address groups is assigned a group read-count value. An adjustment of the group read-count values is triggered by a read command of a host. When one read-count value of the group read-count values exceeds a preset range, the controller performs a scan operation to non-volatile storage blocks of the non-volatile storage circuit corresponding to a corresponding logical block address group of the read-count value, so as to check a number of error bits. The controller decides whether to perform a storage block data-moving operation to the non-volatile storage block corresponding to the corresponding logical block address group based on results of the scan operation. |
| US10108363B2 |
Storage system and notification control method
A storage system comprises multiple storage apparatuses and the multiple storage apparatuses provide a host system with a virtual volume in which multiple logical volumes are virtualized into one. When a first storage apparatus has detected a first event, the first storage apparatus changes the status of a first resource. Thereafter, the first storage apparatus sends a notice of the status change with respect to a first logical volume to a second storage apparatus comprising a second logical volume which is the basis of a virtual volume associated with the first logical volume, when the first storage apparatus has detected a second event which signifies that the host system is informed, in the future, of the status of the first resource. The second storage apparatus receives the notice and configures the status change based on the received notice. |
| US10108359B2 |
Method and system for efficient cache buffering in a system having parity arms to enable hardware acceleration
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, determining that the I/O action spans more than one strip, and based on the I/O action spanning more than one strip, allocating a cache frame anchor for a row on-demand along with a cache frame anchor for a strip to accommodate the I/O action. |
| US10108358B2 |
Synchronous input/output command
Aspects include sending a request to perform a unit of work that includes a synchronous I/O operation. The sending is from an operating system (OS) executing on a server to firmware located on the server. The synchronous I/O request includes a command request block that includes an operation code identifying the synchronous I/O operation and a identifier of a persistent storage control unit (SCU). The OS waits for the synchronous I/O to complete and the unit of work remains active during the waiting. The firmware detects that the synchronous I/O operation has completed. A command response block that includes completion status information about the synchronous I/O operation is received by the OS from the firmware. The unit of work is completed in response to the I/O operation completing. |
| US10108353B2 |
System and method for providing long-term storage for data
A system for storing files comprises a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to break a file into one or more segments; store the one or more segments in a first storage unit; and add metadata to the first storage unit so that the file can be accessed independent of a second storage unit, wherein a single namespace enables access for files stored in the first storage unit and the second storage unit. The memory is coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions. |
| US10108352B2 |
Incremental replication of a source data set
For performing incremental replication of a data set, a source data module identifies a source data set, the source data set including a set of storage locations on a source volume, a target data module that defines the target data set in response to the source data module identifying the source data set, a mapping module that stores a replication relationship table, the replication relationship table mapping the defined data set to a target data set, the target data set including a set of storage locations on a target volume, and a replication module that performs an incremental copy of data stored at the source data set based on the replication relationship. |
| US10108351B2 |
Reallocate memory pending queue based on stall
Techniques for reallocating a memory pending queue based on stalls are provided. In one aspect, it may be determined at a memory stop of a memory fabric that at least one class of memory access is stalled. It may also be determined at the memory stop of the memory fabric that there is at least one class of memory access that is not stalled. At least a portion of a memory pending queue may be reallocated from the class of memory access that is not stalled to the class of memory access that is stalled. |
| US10108348B2 |
Storage of data reference blocks and deltas in different storage devices
A data storage architecture is composed of an array of a flash memory solid state disk and a hard disk drive or any nonvolatile random access storage that are intelligently coupled by an intelligent processing unit such as a multi-core graphic processing unit. The solid state disk stores seldom-changed and mostly read reference data blocks while the hard disk drive stores compressed deltas between currently accessed I/O blocks and their corresponding reference blocks in the solid state disk so that random writes are not performed on the solid state disk during online I/O operations. The solid state disk and hard disk drive are controlled by the intelligent processing unit, which carries out high speed computations including similarity detection and delta compression/decompression. The architecture exploits the fast read performance of solid state disks and the high speed computation of graphic processing units to replace mechanical operations on hard disk drives while avoiding slow and wearing solid state drive writes. |
| US10108344B1 |
Systems, devices and methods using a solid state device as a caching medium with an SSD filtering or SSD pre-fetch algorithm
A method for determining when to load read I/O operations into an SSD cache medium for a physical storage medium of a data storage system can include maintaining an SSD filter bitmap with a plurality of bits, where each of the bits corresponds to a respective data block of the physical storage medium. The method can also include initially setting each of the bits to a first predetermined value, receiving a first read I/O operation directed to a particular data block of the physical storage medium and, in response to receiving the first read I/O operation, setting a bit corresponding to the particular data block to a second predetermined value. The method can further include receiving a second read I/O operation directed to the particular data block and, in response to receiving the second I/O operation, loading data for the particular data block into the SSD cache medium. |
| US10108337B2 |
Information handling system hybrid keyboard
An information handling system input device coordinates presentation of keyboard augmentation panels proximate a keyboard resting on a horizontally-disposed touchscreen display. The keyboard augmentation panels relate keyboard and other inputs to an application active on the information handling system to enhance end user interactions. A keyboard augmentation module tracks the keyboard position on the touchscreen display to adapt content presentation in the keyboard augmentation panels based upon expected end user inputs. In other embodiments, other physical devices are augmented to have hybrid graphical interfaces that enhance multi-hand end user interactions. |
| US10108332B2 |
Mobile terminal and method for controlling the same
Disclosed are a mobile terminal having a display unit for outputting screen information, and capable of enhancing a user's convenience related to the screen information, and a method for controlling the same. The mobile terminal includes: a touch screen configured to display screen information; and a controller configured to set a partial region among an entire region of the touch screen based on first and second touch inputs, if the first and second touch inputs applied to different points of the touch screen are maintained for a reference time without being released, and configured to execute a function related to the set partial region, if a touch input corresponding to a preset condition is applied to the touch screen while the first and second touch inputs are maintained without being released. |
| US10108329B2 |
Image handling and display in x-ray mammography and tomosynthesis
A method and system for acquiring, processing, storing, and displaying x-ray mammograms Mp tomosynthesis images Tr representative of breast slices, and x-ray tomosynthesis projection images Tp taken at different angles to a breast, where the Tr images are reconstructed from Tp images. |
| US10108327B2 |
Method and device for determining an interval via a graphical user interface
A method for determining an interval via a graphical user interface includes displaying a navigation bar. The navigation bar has a scale and a slider. The slider is configured to be movable along the scale. The scale has two handles on end faces of the slider opposite to each other longitudinally to the scale. The method further includes retaining opposite handle and adjusting the slider on the side of the dragged handle if one of the handles is dragged. The method further includes dividing the navigation bar into a core area having the slider and two edge areas if the slider falls below a predefined minimum length. The edge areas extend to both sides of the core area longitudinally to the scale and expand the scale and the slider within the core area and compressing the scale in the edge areas. |
| US10108323B2 |
Method and device for drawing a graphical user interface
A method for drawing a graphical user interface (GUI) is disclosed. The method may be implemented by a terminal. The method may comprise receiving an instruction for drawing a GUI; determining attribute data of each of graphic elements in a scalable vector graphic (SVG) document according to the received instruction, the graphic elements corresponding to the GUI; and drawing the GUI according to the determined attribute data. |
| US10108321B2 |
Interface for defining user directed partial graph execution
Executing a user defined portion of an executable graph. The method includes providing to a user a graphical representation of an executable graph, the executable graph comprising executable modules. The method further includes receiving from the user a selection of a sub-portion of the executable graph. The method further includes executing the user selected sub-portion of the graph in isolation from other portions of the executable graph. |
| US10108320B2 |
Multiple stage shy user interface
Human device interactions are improved by revealing user interface (UI) elements or functionality on a device in multiple context-dependent stages based on discerning a user's intent. Three dimensional sensors that detect the presence, position, orientation, direction, or rate of travel of a pointer with respect to a device may provide indicia of the user's intent to interact with a UI element on the device. If the user was not actively navigating on the device, then context relevant UI elements or actions that were not previously displayed may be surfaced and displayed elements may be removed. If the user then maintains or narrows their focus on or near a particular UI element that was just revealed, a second or subsequent layer of UI elements or effects may be surfaced. Subsequent deeper layers in a multi-stage shy UI hierarchy may be presented as the user interacts with the surfaced elements. |
| US10108317B2 |
Configuring process simulation data for semantic zooming
A system displays simulation data on a canvas. Software instructions stored on a memory device and executable by a processor display a first set of simulation data on a canvas, the first set of simulation data corresponding to a first zoom level of the canvas. Instructions adjust the canvas from the first zoom level to a second zoom level. Instructions display a second set of simulation data on the canvas, said displayed second set of simulation data corresponding to the second zoom level of the canvas. |
| US10108311B2 |
System and method for displaying an organization directory
Systems and methods for displaying an individual profile page in an organization directory. The method comprises storing the individual's name and start date with the organization in a database; receiving a request for displaying the individual profile page; comparing the individual's start date with the current date to determine the individual's tenure with the organization; and determining using a first type of icon to represent a first period of time and a second type of icon to represent a second period of time. |
| US10108309B2 |
Web video occlusion: a method for rendering the videos watched over multiple windows
Computer-implemented methods, computer program products and computer systems that render display of a video on a first page, that has been occluded from view by the subsequent viewing of a second page, to viewing on such subsequently viewed second page. Source location of the video is identified from source code of the first page, the identified video source is retrieved, and then it is input into source code of the second page to transfer the video to the second page. The video may then me displayed on the second page. The computer program products and computer systems both include a number of program instructions for effecting the transfer of the video from the first page to the second page for the continuous unobstructed or non-occluded viewing thereof. |
| US10108306B2 |
Systems and methods for bulk redaction of recorded data
Systems and methods for redacting information from data records are provided. Data records are recorded by recording devices, including, but not limited to, camera recording devices such as those associated with law-enforcement officers. The data records are stored in an evidence management system. In response to requests for records, including but not limited to Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) requests, the evidence management system creates redacted versions of the data records. Public access may then be provided to the redacted data records. In some embodiments, automated bulk redaction may be applied to video data records by applying a video filter to the entire visual field of the video information. In some embodiments, access to the redacted data records may be provided via a cloud storage system or via a removable computer-readable storage medium. |
| US10108302B2 |
Touch driving system with low display noise
A touch driving system with low display noise comprises a TFT layer having a plurality of display elements for display based on a display driving signal and a display pixel signal; and a touch detection device for detecting if an external object has approached based on a touch driving signal. In a first time period of a display frame, a touch and display control subsystem provides the display driving signal, the display pixel signal, and the touch driving signal to display and perform touch detection simultaneously. In the first time period, the display pixel signal is a constant signal. In a second time period of the display frame, the touch and display control subsystem only provides the display driving signal and the display pixel signal to display. |
| US10108295B2 |
Input device including sensing electrodes
An input device including a housing, a plurality of sensing electrodes, a conductive element, a sensing circuit, a control circuit, and a transmitting circuit is provided. The sensing electrodes are disposed on an inner edge of the housing. The conductive element is used for placing into the housing and is surrounded by the sensing electrodes to couple with the sensing electrodes. The sensing circuit is coupled to the sensing electrodes to scan capacitance values of the sensing electrodes and correspondingly provide raw sensing data. The control circuit is coupled to the sensing circuit to receive the raw sensing data and provide a touch operation signal according to the raw sensing data. The transmitting circuit is coupled to the control circuit and a host for transmitting the touch operation signal to the host. |
| US10108293B2 |
Touch-type input device
A controller of a touch-type input device updates baselines when capacitances of capacitors of a touch panel all remain within a predetermined capacitance range over a predetermined period. |
| US10108291B2 |
Fabrication method of an array substrate
A thin-film transistor is provided. The thin film transistor includes a substrate; an active layer configured as a channel of the thin-film transistor, wherein the active layer is a mixture of oxide semiconductor and graphene; and a source and a drain. |
| US10108290B2 |
Self-capacitive touch sensor integrated type display device and method for manufacturing the same
A touch sensing display device that includes a bank layer having a bank hole, a mesh barrier on the bank layer, and a cathode electrode of at least an organic light emitting diode (OLED). The mesh barrier is between the cathode electrode and one or more other cathode electrodes. The cathode electrode is also a touch electrode. A portion of the cathode electrode is in the bank hole and under the mesh barrier. |
| US10108289B2 |
Touch panel, display device and method of driving the same
A touch panel, a display device and a method of driving the same are provided. The touch panel, the display device and the method of driving the same, in which at least two sub receiving electrodes respectively configuring receiving electrodes insulated from each other are disposed between two sub-driving electrodes configuring one driving electrode. |
| US10108286B2 |
Auto-baseline determination for force sensing
Determining an applied force of touch on a touch device, in response to a time-varying signal generated by a force of touch sensor. Inferring a measure of force of touch in response to that signal, by determining a peak value of a time derivative of that signal, determining a fraction of that peak value, determining a force of touch corresponding to that peak value, and setting that force as a baseline value for a particular user. Responding to force of touch by the user by comparing against that baseline value. Distinguishing between users having differing baseline values. |
| US10108284B2 |
Foldable display device and method for fabricating the same
A foldable display device includes a display panel having a bent display portion and a non-bent display portion, and a touch sensing unit provided on the display panel and including a bent touch portion and a non-bent touch portion. The touch sensing unit includes a plurality of sensing electrodes, and each of the sensing electrodes comprises a conductive material having a porous structure. The porous structure resists cracking and the resulting sensing electrodes may have an optical anisotropy. Thus, the sensing electrodes may perform a polarizing function to eliminate need for a separate polarizer. |
| US10108279B2 |
Device including electrode having thickness to facilitate tracking
Devices are described herein that include an electrode having a thickness to, among other things, facilitate tracking. For example, the thickness of an electrode that is included in a device may be configured to cause a midpoint of a projection of the electrode on a sensor matrix to track a point on the device (or on a portion thereof, such as the electrode) that is closest to the sensor matrix. In another example, the thickness may be configured to cause a location of the electrode that is detected by the sensor matrix to track a point on the device (or on a portion thereof, such as the electrode) that is closest to the sensor matrix. |
| US10108277B2 |
Pointer, position detection apparatus and position detection method
A position detection apparatus of the electrostatic coupling type is provided, to detect not only a position of a pointer but also information other than the position information such as, for example, pointer pressure or side switch information. The pointer transmits two codes such that a pressure applied to a pen tip is associated with a time difference between the two codes. A position detector carries out a correlation matching operation between signals generated in reception conductors and correlation calculation codes corresponding to the two codes, to thereby detect a position on a sensor section pointed to by the pointer from a result of the correlation matching operation and based on at least one of the codes. The position detector further includes a pressure calculation circuit for detecting pressure applied to the pointer, which is associated with the time difference between the two codes, from the result of the correlation matching operation calculated by the correlation matching operation and based on the two codes. |
| US10108276B2 |
Mouse device
A mouse device includes a mouse casing, a first sensing module, a second sensing module and a switching module. The mouse casing includes a casing opening. Both of the first sensing module and the second sensing module are disposed on the switching module. Moreover, a part of the first sensing module and a part of the second sensing module are selectively exposed outside the casing opening. When the first sensing module or the second sensing module exposed outside the casing opening is rotated by the user, a switching body of the switching module is correspondingly rotated relative to the mouse casing. Consequently, a moving resolution of the mouse device is adjustable according to the practical requirements. The switching module has a simple mechanism for changing the moving resolution of the mouse device in a simple manner. |
| US10108275B2 |
Three-dimensional building blocks
Methods, systems, and products describe physical structures for interactive computer displays. A tangible, three-dimensional structure has an interior and an exterior surface. A bundle of optical fibers propagates light through the interior to the exterior surface of the three-dimensional structure. A magnet in the three-dimensional structure produces an attractive force, and a marker on the exterior surface identifies the three-dimensional structure and the magnet. |
| US10108272B1 |
Wearable device with gesture recognition module
A system includes a wearable device including a gesture recognition module configured to detect a gesture using the gesture recognition module. A wireless device is configured to implement one or more functionality types. The wearable device can wirelessly detect the wireless device and obtain a code from the wireless device. The wearable device detects a gesture and in response, transmits the code to the wireless device to cause the wireless device to implement at least one of the one or more functionality types. |
| US10108270B2 |
Real-time 3D gesture recognition and tracking system for mobile devices
The disclosure relates to a device and a method in the device for recognizing a 3D gesture. The device is connected to a sensor and has access to a database of gesture images including indexable features of normalized gesture images. The indexable features include a position and an orientation for each pixel of edge images of the normalized gesture images. The method includes capturing (110) an image of the 3D gesture via the sensor, normalizing (120) the captured image, deriving (130) indexable features from the normalized captured image, and comparing (140) the derived indexable features with the indexable features of the database using a similarity function. The method also includes determining (150) a gesture image in the database matching the 3D gesture based on the comparison. |
| US10108264B2 |
System and method for embedded cognitive state metric system
An embodiment of a method for enabling content personalization for a user based on a cognitive state of the user includes providing an interface configured to enable a third party to request cognitive state data of the user as the user interacts with a content-providing source; establishing bioelectrical contact between a biosignal detector and the user; automatically collecting a dataset from the user; generating a cognitive state metric; receiving a request from the third party for cognitive state data; transmitting the cognitive state data to the third party device; and automatically collecting a dataset from the user as the user engaged tailored content. |
| US10108261B1 |
Eye tracking based on light polarization
A head mounted display (HMD) comprises an eye tracking system configured to enable eye-tracking using polarization. The eye tracking system includes an illumination source and an eye tracking unit comprising a polarization sensitive optical detector. The one or more illumination sources are configured to illuminate an eye and generate reflections directed towards the optical detector. The eye tracking unit is configured to determine a 3D shape of the eye based on the polarization of the reflections. The determined 3D shape of the eye is used to update a stored model of the eye in response to the one or more model parameter values extracted from the determined depth map of the corneal surface. The eye tracking system determines eye tracking information based on the updated model in order to improve eye tracking performance. |
| US10108260B2 |
Vehicle control apparatus and method thereof
A vehicle control apparatus for a vehicle, and including a display configured to display image information associated with the vehicle; at least one light source configured to emit light so as to form at least one reflected light in one region of a pupil and eyeball of a user gazing at one region on the display; a memory configured to store coordinate information on each region within the vehicle and the at least one light source; at least one camera configured to obtain an image including the one region of the pupil and eyeball of the user; and a controller configured to calculate a first coordinate from a center of the pupil and calculate a second coordinate from the at least one reflected light included in the obtained image, calculate a coordinate of one point within the vehicle as a reference coordinate from prestored coordinate information of the at least one light source when a distance between the first coordinate and the second coordinate is less than a preset distance, and perform calibration on the reference coordinate for a coordinate corresponding to a direction in which the user gazes. |
| US10108259B2 |
Interaction method, interaction apparatus and user equipment
Embodiments of this application disclose an interaction method, an interaction apparatus and a user equipment, where the interaction method comprises: acquiring first gazing information of at least one eye of a user when watching a virtual presentation object on a location in a gazing direction, and second gazing information of the at least one eye of the user when watching a physical object on the location in the gazing direction; and in response to that a difference between the first gazing information and the second gazing information is out of a set error range, executing an operation. In the embodiments of this application, a presentation location of the virtual presentation object may be associated with a location of the physical object in an environment accurately and conveniently by means of gazing of the user. |
| US10108257B2 |
Electronic device, control method thereof, and storage medium
An electronic device includes a posture detection unit configured to detect a posture of the electronic device; a touch detection unit configured to detect a touch on a touch panel; a function execution unit configured not to execute a function according to a touch when a touch area on an object area of the touch panel is equal to or greater than the threshold, while, to execute a function according to the touch when the touch area on the object area is less than the threshold, regardless of a touch area on an area other than the object area being less than or equal to or greater than the threshold; and a control unit configured to control the object area of the touch panel to be made different according to the posture detected by the posture detection unit. |
| US10108256B2 |
Systems and methods for processing incoming events while performing a virtual reality session
A virtual reality (VR) system including a virtual reality display and a virtual reality host is provided. The virtual reality display is arranged for displaying a virtual environment for a virtual reality user. The virtual reality host is arranged for performing a virtual reality session to generate the virtual environment using the virtual reality display and creating a virtual interface to sync and interact with a source unit, wherein when the source unit receives an incoming event, the virtual reality host receives a notification regarding the incoming event from the source unit and provides the notification to the virtual interface to generate an alert for the notification to the screen of the virtual reality display in the virtual environment for the virtual reality user. |
| US10108254B1 |
Apparatus and method for temporal synchronization of multiple signals
A method and system include identifying a plurality of media clips pertaining to an event, for each pair of the plurality of media clips, calculating pairwise relative time offsets for pairs of media clips from the plurality of media clips, calculating, by a processing device, an inconsistency measure, in which the inconsistency measure of a pair of media clips is calculated using at least three relative time offsets and one of the at least three relative time offsets is a relative time offset of the pair of media clips, and synchronizing the plurality of media clips based on resulting calculated inconsistency measures. |
| US10108240B2 |
Power excursion warning system
A power excursion warning system includes a power system having a first slew rate. A powered component is coupled to the power system. The powered component voltage regulator has a second slew rate that is greater than the first slew rate. A powered component voltage regulator is coupled to the powered component and operable to convert a first voltage received from the power system to a second voltage that is supplied to the powered component. A power excursion warning device is coupled to the powered component voltage regulator and operable to receive a signal from the powered component voltage regulator that is associated with the second slew rate, determine that the signal indicates a power excursion that will result in the power system operating outside a predetermined range, and produce a warning signal indicative of the power excursion. |
| US10108239B2 |
Computing devices operable on recovered waste heat
Systems and methods for operating based on recovered waste heat are described. In one example, the method includes receiving recovered waste heat power and operating at least one system component of a recovered waste heat based computing device based on the recovered waste heat power, where the at least one system component is coupled to a non-volatile memory of the recovered waste heat based computing device. The method further includes preserving operational states of the at least one system component in the non-volatile memory based on a current power level associated with the recovered waste heat power. |
| US10108237B1 |
Heat dissipating device with improved cooling performance
A heat dissipating device includes a first copper plate, a second copper plate, a plurality of first heat pipes, a plurality of second heat pipes, and a heat dissipating component. Evaporating sections of the first heat pipes and the second heat pipes are clamped between and thermally connected to the first copper plate and the second copper plate. The second heat pipe, the evaporating section of the first heat pipes, the first copper plate, and the second copper plate are positioned at a bottom surface of the heat dissipating component. The second copper plate is thermally connected to the bottom surface of the heat dissipating component. Condensing sections of the first heat pipes is thermally connected to a top surface of heat dissipating component. |
| US10108234B1 |
Shielded motherboard
A shielded motherboard includes a circuit board, a first metal cover and a second metal cover. The circuit board is provided with a plurality of slots, a central processor, a chip set, a plurality of storage devices, a power supply module, a plurality of I/O ports and a plurality of connectors thereon. The first metal cover is penetrated with a plurality of openings, and a side of the first metal cover is recessed to form a notch. The first metal cover covers the circuit board. The notch exposes the central processor, the power supply module and the I/O ports, and the openings expose the slots, the chip set, the storage devices and the connectors. The second metal cover is arranged on the circuit board to shield the I/O ports. |
| US10108232B2 |
Passive cooling and EMI shielding system
An electronics enclosure is disclosed that provides passive cooling of electronic components while reducing electromagnetic interference (EMI) emissions. The electronics enclosure includes an electronics assembly with at least one electronic component and a heat sink coupled to the electronics assembly. The heat sink has a base portion configured to thermally couple to the at least one electronic component when the heat sink is coupled to the electronic assembly. The electronics enclosure also includes a conductive enclosure forming an enclosed volume around the electronics assembly. The enclosure has a first opening configured to fit around the heat sink and at least one second opening. All non-conductive passages from the volume to the external environment have at least one cross-sectional opening having a continuous conductive perimeter with a maximum linear length within the opening of less than one quarter wavelength of a determined maximum shielding frequency. |
| US10108226B2 |
Case for a portable electronic device
A case for holding portable electronic devices of variable sizes. The case extends around five sides of the device. The case comprising a back panel (1) and four side panels (2) extending away from the back panel. At least one of the side panels comprises a plurality of flexible protrusions (6) extending inwardly at an angle other than 90° from the at least one side panel, the protrusions (6) being capable of deforming inwardly by at least 0.5 mm. The side panels (2) comprise an inwardly facing flexible lip (8) formed at the end of the side panels (2) away from the back panel, the lip being angled towards the back panel (5) of the case. |
| US10108225B2 |
Terminal device with back side operation features
A terminal device includes a screen where information is displayed, an operation range configured to fully or partially cover an operation portion disposed on a back side of the screen, an operation being input from a user to the operation range, and a processor configured to convert a signal obtained from the operation input to the operation range, into a signal indicating coordinate information in an operational range of the screen, wherein the operation range is smaller in size than the operational range of the screen. |
| US10108223B2 |
Electronic device housing and assembly method
An electronic device includes at least one electronic component. The electronic device also includes a first housing of a single piece of metal. The first housing defines a length, a width, and a height that is less than both the length and the width. The housing has at least five side walls defining an internal cavity and an open end to the cavity that spans the width and height of the first housing. The electronic component is contained within the cavity. A cover is removably affixed over the open end of the housing so as to contribute to a retaining force applied on the electronic component therein. The first housing can be a base housing for a portable computer, and the cover can be a first portion of a hinge assembly. The electronic device can further include a display assembly operatively connected to the base housing by the hinge assembly. |
| US10108221B1 |
All-in-one computer
A reduced-volume all-in-one computer includes a shell, a display unit received in the shell, a supporting brace, a host adapter, and a transfer board. The display unit includes a display port. The supporting brace includes a base and a supporting member and the host adapter is received in the supporting member and integrates numerous electronic elements of a computer system. The electronic elements include a central processing unit, a memory chip, an image processor, and a memory. The transfer board in the supporting member includes a power port and a video port connecting to the display port. The transfer board is connected to the host adapter and forms a communication bridge between the host adapter and the display unit. |
| US10108220B2 |
Computer architecture having selectable, parallel and serial communication channels between processors and memory
A computer architecture provides both a parallel memory bus and serial memory bus between a processor system and memory. Latency-tolerant memory access requests are steered to the serial memory bus which operates to increase the available memory bus bandwidth on the parallel memory. The invention also provides integrated circuit computer memory suitable for this application. |
| US10108217B2 |
Systems, methods and apparatus for encouraging energy conscious behavior based on aggregated third party energy consumption
Accessing an energy management policy for a plurality of devices is described, wherein the devices are coupled with a first structure. The energy usage of the devices is monitored. An energy usage rule and energy usage is then compared. The energy management policy and energy usage is also compared. Based on the comparing, an instruction is generated to modify an energy usage profile of said device to correlate with the energy usage rule associated with the devices and the energy management policy, thereby enabling efficient energy management. |
| US10108215B2 |
Weather induced facility energy consumption characterization mechanism
A method for characterizing buildings, including retrieving a plurality of baseline energy use data sets for the buildings from a baseline data stores; generating energy use data sets for each of the buildings, each of the energy use data sets comprising energy consumption values along with corresponding time and outside temperature values, where the energy consumption values within each of the sets are shifted by one of a plurality of lag values relative to the corresponding time and outside temperature values, and where each of the plurality of lag values is different from other ones of the plurality of lag values; performing a regression analysis on the each of the plurality of energy use data sets to yield corresponding regression model parameters and a corresponding residual; determining a least valued residual from all residuals yielded by the regression engine, the least valued residual indicating a corresponding energy lag for the each of the buildings; and categorizing the buildings into types according to similar energy lags. |
| US10108213B2 |
Three-dimensional power stage and adaptive pipeline control
A digital linear voltage regulator includes a power stage (208), arranged in a hierarchical grouping of power stage units. The power stage (208) is configured to deliver power to a load (212). The digital linear voltage regulator further includes a mixed-signal controller (206), configured to control each power stage unit in the power stage (208) by conditionally adjust a number of active power stage units in the power stage (208) based on a comparison of a feedback voltage of the load (212) and a reference voltage; wherein the hierarchical grouping of power stage units comprises N levels; wherein the power stage (208) comprises a number of MN Nth level units, and an Nth level unit comprising a number of MN−1 (N−1)th level units; and wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to 3, and MN and MN−1 are integers greater than or equal to 1. |
| US10108208B2 |
System and method of rack management
A rack management method and system is disclosed. The method includes detecting the presence of a computing device releasably mounted in a frame, the detecting based on an electrical connection established between a configuration bar disposed in a rear portion of the frame and the computing device, and determining a physical location of the computing device within the frame based on the electrical connection. The method also includes retrieving management information about the computing device from a profile storage disposed within the computing device via the electrical connection and storing the management information in a management table, the management table associating the computing device with the physical location within the frame. |
| US10108205B2 |
Method and system for controlling a flow ratio controller using feed-forward adjustment
A processing device determines a plurality of initial flow setpoint commands, each of the plurality of setpoint commands corresponding to one of a plurality of valves, and sends each of the plurality of initial setpoint commands to a corresponding one of the plurality of valves. The processing device monitors the plurality of valves for a flow condition requiring and adjustment. Upon detecting the flow condition, the processing device predicts the adjustment based on previous setpoints, and determines a plurality of updated flow setpoint commands, each of which corresponds to one of the plurality of valves based on the the predicted adjustment. The processing device then sends each of the plurality of updated setpoint commands to the corresponding one of the plurality of valves. |
| US10108202B1 |
Peloton
A vehicle configured to be autonomously navigated in a peloton along a roadway, wherein the peloton comprises at least the vehicle at least one additional vehicle, is configured to determine a position of the vehicle in the peloton which reduces differences in relative driving ranges among the vehicles included in the peloton. The vehicles can dynamically adjust peloton positions while navigating to reduce driving range differences among the vehicles. The vehicle can include a power management system which enables the vehicle to be electrically coupled to a battery included in another vehicle in the peloton, so that driving range differences between the vehicles can be reduced via load sharing via the electrical connection. The vehicle can include a power connector arm which extends a power connector to couple with an interface of another vehicle. |
| US10108197B2 |
Deceleration determination of a vehicle
A current state of a vehicle can be identified. At least a minimum acceleration capability of the vehicle is determined. A desired acceleration profile to follow is determined based at least in part on the minimum acceleration capability. An acceleration of the vehicle is controlled based at least in part on the desired acceleration profile. |
| US10108196B2 |
Work machine management apparatus
A work machine management apparatus includes: a switchback point setting unit configured to set a plurality of switchback points of a work machine in a work place of a mine; a work point setting unit configured to set at least one work point of the work machine in the work place; a travel track generating unit configured to generate a plurality of target travel tracks along which the work machine travels in the work place based on a position of the at least one work point and a position of each of the plurality of switchback points; and a travel track selecting unit configured to select, among the plurality of target travel tracks, a target travel track along which the work machine travels in the work place. |
| US10108195B2 |
Gap selection method and system
A gap selection method performed by a gap selection system for a vehicle. The vehicle travels on a road having a first lane and a second lane adjacent to the first. The vehicle travels in the first lane, a first surrounding vehicle travels in the second lane, a second surrounding vehicle travels in the second lane ahead of the first surrounding vehicle with a first gap between the first and second surrounding vehicles. The method includes determining a first minimum safety margin between the first surrounding vehicle and the vehicle, determining a second minimum safety margin between the second surrounding vehicle and the vehicle, evaluating the first gap by determining a minimum limit for a longitudinal position of the vehicle, determining a maximum limit for a longitudinal position of the vehicle, and determining a lane change appropriateness value of the first gap utilizing the minimum limit and the maximum limit. |
| US10108194B1 |
Object placement verification
An example system may include a vehicle, a sensor, and a control system that may determine a target location for an object carried by the vehicle. The control system may also determine a plurality of points defining a boundary of a volume to be occupied by the object at the target location. The plurality of points may be scannable in a sequence by the sensor to scan the volume. The control system may additionally determine a respective field of visibility to each respective point. Further, the control system may determine a path for the vehicle to follow to the target location. The respective field of visibility may intersect with at least a respective portion of the determined path such that each respective point is observable by the sensor along at least the respective portion of the determined path as the vehicle moves along the determined path to the target location. |
| US10108190B2 |
Autonomous driving apparatus
An autonomous driving apparatus executes an autonomous driving control of a vehicle. When an override occurs during the autonomous driving control, switching from the autonomous driving control to manual driving is executed. A first determination condition is for determining that the autonomous driving control can be resumed, when the driver is estimated to have a continued operation intention, which is an intention to continue the manual driving, after the switching from the autonomous driving control to the manual driving is executed. A second determination condition is for determining that the autonomous driving control can be resumed, when the driver is estimated not to have the continued operation intention after the switching from the autonomous driving control to the manual driving is executed. The first determination condition is less likely to be met than the second determination condition. |
| US10108184B2 |
Production installation for a chemical or pharmaceutical product
A production installation having at least two process modules (P1, . . . , Pn) that can be connected to one another for production engineering purposes and a communication network (2), wherein each process module (P1, . . . , Pn) has an electronic device by means of which the respective process module (P1, . . . , Pn) can be connected to the communication network (2) for communications engineering purposes and is set up to control and/or regulate the respective process module (P1, . . . , Pn) to independently carry out a particular process section of the production. |
| US10108172B2 |
Spiral toolpaths for high-speed machining of polygonal pockets
A method, apparatus, and computer program product provide the ability to construct a spiral toolpath for machining solid material. A polygon with a polygonal hole in an interior is obtained. A Voronoi diagram of a set of line segments is obtained and modified to provide a modified Voronoi diagram (VD) having a cycle with one or more trees growing out. For each of the trees, a wave model is defined for a wave that starts at time t=0 on leaves on a boundary of the hole and moves through the tree to hit leaves on a boundary of the polygon at time t=1. A polyline spiral curve toolpath is created by travelling around the wave as it moves towards the boundary of the polygon. A pocket is milled in a solid piece of material by following the polyline spiral curve toolpath. |
| US10108170B2 |
Numerical controller performing reciprocal turning in complex fixed cycle
A numerical controller controls a machine tool that performs a turning on a workpiece on the basis of a cycle instruction indicated by an NC program. The machine tool includes first and second cutter holders that are mutually coupled by a coupling member, and first and second tools are mounted on the cutter holders in mutually opposing fashion. The machine tool performs a turning according to a complex fixed cycle, in a reciprocal fashion rather than unidirectionally, using the first and second tools, and when the turning by the first tool has been completed and the first tool that has performed a turning is withdrawn, it is possible to perform a turning in the opposite direction by the second tool on the opposite side. |
| US10108168B2 |
Industrial control system smart hardware monitoring
According to some embodiments of the present invention there is provided a computerized method for automatic monitoring of control systems. The method may comprise receiving electronic measurement values, measured on one or more conductors of computerized control devices, where the conductors may be a system bus conductor and/or and input-output line of a programmable logic controller. The method may comprise automatically calculating normal data patterns based on an analysis of the electronic measurement values. The method may comprise matching between new electronic measurement values measured on the computerized control devices and the normal data patterns to automatically detect abnormal data patterns. The method may comprise sending automatically an abnormal operation alert in response to the abnormal data patterns. |
| US10108167B2 |
Systems and methods for adjusting production of a well using gas injection
A system may include a monitoring device that receives data associated with one or more properties at a well. The monitoring device may determine a plurality of expected flow rates of hydrocarbons produced from the well with respect to a plurality of gas injection rates associated with the well based on the data and a hydrocarbon model. The hydrocarbon model may estimate the plurality of expected flow rates of hydrocarbons. The monitoring device may then adjust a gas injection rate at the well based on the plurality of expected flow rates of hydrocarbons. |
| US10108166B2 |
PLC functional modules for energy management functionalities
A method for programming a programmable logic controller for controlling at least one energy consumer of a machine, includes providing at least one energy consumer functional module and at least one energy control functional module in a programming device for selection by a programmer in order to program an energy management program configured to provide at least one energy management functionality for the machine. The at least one energy consumer functional module containing data specific to the at least one energy consumer. The at least one energy control functional module containing data specific to the at least one energy management functionality. |
| US10108164B2 |
Method, system and related devices for operating multiple cranes in unison
A crane control system for controlling a plurality of cranes is provided. The crane control system in some embodiments includes a master controller unit, at least one computer readable memory for storing a plurality of tokens, each token from the plurality of tokens associated with a respective crane from the plurality of cranes, and a processing unit responsive to commands inputable by an operator of the master controller unit to send the commands to individual cranes from the plurality of cranes, wherein the processing unit associates the commands with respective tokens to control the cranes associated with those tokens. The crane control system in some embodiments also includes a processing unit that is responsive to a signal indicative of a synchronization loss to issue a command to bring the plurality of cranes into a safe condition, such as an emergency stop, or a corrective action. |
| US10108157B1 |
Reducing power consumption and data transmission
Described is a method for determining when to transition devices between different states based on determined potential activity in an area near the devices. When the potential for activity near an input device is below a threshold, the device is maintained in an inactive state. When the potential for activity near the device exceeds the threshold, the device is transitioned to an active state before the potential activity can occur near the device. Likewise, when the device is in an active state, the implementations described herein provide the ability to determine when to begin and end transmission of data from the device to a remote computing resource for processing. For example, obtained video may be processed locally to determine if an activity is occurring. If an activity is occurring, relevant data is sent to a remote computing resource to determine if an action has been performed during the activity. |
| US10108149B2 |
Display device and electronic watch including the same
A display device includes a substrate having a through-hole. The display device also includes a display unit formed on the substrate and surrounding the through-hole, the display unit configured to display an image, and the display unit includes pixels. |
| US10108134B2 |
Image forming apparatus and program for image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes: a photosensitive member; a charger that charges a surface of the photosensitive member; an exposure device that forms a latent image; and a developing device that applies toner to the latent image, wherein the photosensitive member is incorporated in a detachable photosensitive member unit, and the developing device is incorporated in a detachable developing unit, the image forming apparatus including: an optimization controller that performs optimization of a charging bias of the charger and a developing bias of the developing device; and a replacement determiner that determines which of the photosensitive member unit and the developing unit is to be replaced when an optimized developing bias is out of a predetermined allowable range, wherein the replacement determiner determines that the developing unit is to be replaced, and determines that the photosensitive member unit is to be replaced. |
| US10108133B1 |
Image forming apparatus
A cleaning device includes a cleaning roller, a cleaning blade, a toner layer forming member and a regulating member. The cleaning roller comes into contact with a surface of a rotating image carrier and rotates. The cleaning blade comes into contact with the image carrier at a downstream side from the cleaning roller in a rotating direction of the image carrier and scrapes toner adhered to the image carrier. The toner layer forming member receives and collects the toner scraped by the cleaning blade and feeds the toner to the cleaning roller to form a toner layer on the cleaning roller. The regulating member comes into contact with the cleaning roller to regulate thickness of the toner layer. The regulating member is controlled so as to thicken thickness of the toner layer formed on the cleaning roller as rotating rate of the image carrier becomes slower. |
| US10108131B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes a belt, an image bearing member, a developing portion, a belt transfer portion, a steering roller, a detection portion, a cleaning blade, a control portion, and an instruction input portion. In a case where the input has been performed through the instruction input portion, the control portion executes, before starting image formation for the first time after replacement of the belt, an adjustment mode including a series of processes in which a relationship between the position in the width direction and the amount of tilting of the steering roller is adjusted, and also performs a toner supplying operation of supplying toner by transferring a toner image for supplying toner onto the belt. |
| US10108130B2 |
Developer cartridge having developer electrode
A developer cartridge attachable to a drum cartridge including a photosensitive drum is provided. The developer cartridge includes a casing configured to store toner therein, a developer roller rotatable about a first axis extending in an axial direction, and a developer electrode electrically connectable with the developer roller. The developer electrode is configured to be in contact with a first electrode of an image forming apparatus along the axial direction. In a state where the developer cartridge is attached to the drum cartridge, a portion of the developer electrode faces a surface of a lateral wall of the drum cartridge on an opposite side to a surface facing the casing. |
| US10108127B2 |
Duplex printing image forming apparatus
An image forming apparatus includes an openable/closable cover body in a main body. The cover body has a first cover member, a second cover member, an engagement member, an elastic body, and a support member. The support member rotatably supports the engagement member. The support member collides with the engagement member which is energized by the elastic body and is rotated when the cover body becomes in a closed state, to stop rotation of the engagement member. The support member is fitted on the first cover member separately from the second cover member. |
| US10108126B2 |
Image forming apparatus with an improved voltage controlled light emitter
In a sensor, a light emitter outputs light with which a toner pattern on an image carrier or a surface material of the image carrier is irradiated, and a photodetector receives reflection light from the toner pattern or the surface material. The sensor light intensity control unit provides a control voltage to the light emitter and controls light intensity thereof. The density determining unit determines a toner density on the basis of output of the photodetector. Further, the density determining unit determines a reference control voltage of the light emitter to set as a predetermined value the output of the photodetector corresponding to the reflection light from the surface material, determines a correction parameter corresponding to the reference control voltage, determines a correction amount corresponding to the correction parameter and the toner density, and corrects the toner density on the basis of the correction amount. |
| US10108118B2 |
Fusing device having a heating member with a heat source seat for mounting a heat source
A fusing device and an image forming apparatus are described in which a pressing member and a heating member of the fusing device are disposed adjacent to one another in a first direction. The heating member includes a fusing belt having a first side in contact with the pressing member, a heat source, disposed at a second side of the fusing belt, to heat the fusing belt, and a heat source seat having a concave structure in which the heat source is mountable. |
| US10108113B2 |
Image forming apparatus with switching unit to switch length of at least one of a roller pair
An image forming apparatus includes: a primary transfer unit configured to transfer a toner image formed on an image carrier onto an intermediate transfer belt through primary transfer; and a secondary transfer unit configured to transfer the toner image formed on the intermediate transfer belt onto a recording medium through secondary transfer, wherein the secondary transfer unit extends along a width direction of the recording medium and includes a roller pair and a switching unit, the roller pair being configured to nip the intermediate transfer belt and the recording medium such that the intermediate transfer belt and the recording medium are in pressure contact with each other, the switching unit being configured to switch a length of at least one of the roller pair in a shaft direction. |
| US10108109B2 |
Developing device and image forming apparatus
A developing device includes a container that contains a developer including a carrier and a toner; a transport member that is rotatably disposed in the container and that agitates and transports the developer in a rotation-axis direction thereof; a discharge outlet that has an opening in a side wall of the container facing in a direction perpendicular to the rotation-axis direction, the discharge outlet allowing the developer to be discharged to an outside of the container when a height of a surface of the developer becomes greater than a height of a lower surface of the discharge outlet; and a magnetic member that is disposed at a position that is above the lower surface of the discharge outlet and that overlaps the lower surface in an up-down direction, the magnetic member attracting a part of the developer that is lifted up by the transport member. |
| US10108108B2 |
Developing device, process cartridge, and image forming apparatus
A regulation member includes an opposed surface and a contact surface in a portion corresponding to an image forming area. The opposed surface is opposed to a developer bearing member. The contact surface protrudes from the opposed surface and has a height different from that of the opposed surface. An end seal seals a gap between a frame body, the developer bearing member, and the regulation member. The regulation member further includes an area not having the contact surface between the image forming area and a sealing area in which the regulation member and the end seal overlap. In the sealing area, a step between the opposed surface and the contact surface has a height of greater than or equal to 0 mm and not greater than 0.10 mm. |
| US10108107B2 |
Driving mechanism that controls state of motion conversion mechanism in desired state, and image forming apparatus including the same
A driving mechanism includes a first gear mechanism, a motion conversion mechanism, an actuator, and a mechanical clutch. The mechanical clutch includes an input gear that includes a plurality of engaging portions engageable with a displaced portion on a first position. The mechanical clutch switches to a connected state and a non-connected state corresponding to whether or not the engaging portions each engage with the displaced portion of the actuator. The connected state is a state where the rotational power of the first gear mechanism is transmitted to the motion conversion mechanism. The non-connected state is a state where the rotational power of the first gear mechanism is not transmitted to the motion conversion mechanism. The plurality of engaging portions are formed on a plurality of positions within a range of a default center angle less than 180 degrees in a circumferential direction of the input gear. |
| US10108105B2 |
Developing apparatus and image forming apparatus
A toner circulation and a toner reservoir are formed in the vicinity of a developing roller. A member to form a toner reservoir is movable and is stopped during at least an image-forming period. |
| US10108098B2 |
Lithography apparatus, control method therefor, and method of manufacturing article
A lithography apparatus includes an original holder configured to hold and move an original, a measurement unit configured to measure a misalignment amount of the original with respect to the original holder, and a controller configured to control movement of the original holder. The controller repeatedly performs preliminary driving for moving the original holder before performing the pattern formation. At this time, if the misalignment amount measured by the measurement unit converges to a predetermined convergence value while the preliminary driving is repeatedly performed, the controller ends the preliminary driving. |
| US10108092B2 |
Photolithography method
Provided is a photolithography method, including: a) forming a photoresist layer satisfying D=m*(λ/2n) (D is a thickness of the photoresist layer, n is a refractive index of the photoresist, λ is a wavelength of irradiated light at the time of exposure, and m is a natural number of 1 or more) on a substrate; and b) manufacturing a photoresist pattern having a ring shape by exposing the photoresist layer and developing the exposed photoresist layer using a photo mask including a transparent substrate and a plate-type metal dot contacting a light emitting surface of the transparent substrate. |
| US10108091B2 |
Photosensitive transfer material, pattern formation method, and etching method
A photosensitive transfer material including a support and a photosensitive resin composition layer, in which the photosensitive resin composition layer includes a polymer component (A) including a polymer having a constituent unit (a1) that includes a group in which an acid group is protected by an acid-decomposable group and a photoacid generator (B), and the photosensitive resin composition layer does not have an ethylenic crosslinking structure is a positive-type material, is excellent in terms of heat-resistant rectangular properties, etchant resistance, and resist peeling properties, and generates only a small amount of dust during processes; a pattern formation method, and an etching method. |
| US10108083B2 |
Lighting systems for microphones and other objects
A lighting system is provided for use with a microphone or other object to provide lighting effects during a performance. The lighting system includes light-control device comprising a light source configured to emit a light, a power source, a controller, and a projector configured to project an image onto a face of the user. The controller is advantageously configured to adjust at least one of a property of the image projected, and a property of the light emitted, optionally based on an input via a sensor. |
| US10108080B2 |
Projection type display apparatus and image display method
A projection type display apparatus including: an illumination unit that emits a plurality of color lights having a predetermined polarization direction; a plurality of optical path adjustment units that totally reflect the plurality of color lights, respectively; a plurality of optical modulation units that modulates the plurality of color lights totally reflected by the plurality of optical path adjustment units, respectively, to emit a plurality of modulated color lights; a synthesis unit that emits the plurality of modulated color lights emitted from the optical modulation units in a same direction; and a correction unit that is arranged on an optical path between the illumination unit and the synthesis unit and that changes a polarization state of light that entered the correction unit to convert light that is incident on the synthesis unit into linearly polarized light. |
| US10108079B2 |
Laser light source for a vehicle
The present invention is directed to a laser light source for a vehicle. |
| US10108075B2 |
Image projection apparatus
An image projection apparatus is configured to project light modulated by a plurality of light modulation elements and to display an image. The image projection apparatus includes a heat receiver provided to each of the plurality of light modulation elements, and to provide a heat exchange with the light modulation elements and a heat exchange with liquid, a temperature changer configured to change a temperature of the liquid that flows in the heat receiver, a pump configured to pump in and out the liquid, and a flow path configured to circulate the liquid among the pump, the temperature changer, and the heat receiver. Each temperature changer is provided for each heat changer and is provided between a corresponding heat receiver and another heat changer different from the corresponding heat receiver on the flow path. |
| US10108072B1 |
Underwater image capturing apparatus
To make it possible to control an image capturing position and its direction in water easily and flexibly through the use of a miniature unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a plurality of rotors. This is solved by an underwater image capturing apparatus including a miniature unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a plurality of rotors, a winding machine capable of delivering and winding a string-like member, and an underwater camera capable of capturing images in water, wherein the winding machine is fixed to the miniature unmanned aerial vehicle and the string-like member is connected to the underwater camera. |
| US10108069B2 |
Electromagnetic effect resistant spatial light modulator
A reconfigurable optical device includes a spatial light modulator and an optical signal generator. The spatial light modulator includes a layer of optically-sensitized carbon nanotubes, and each optically-sensitized carbon nanotube is configured to transition between a conductive state and a semiconductive state responsive to an optical signal. The optical signal generator is configured to provide the optical signal to the spatial light modulator to cause the layer of optically-sensitized carbon nanotubes to form a pattern of conductive nanotubes, the pattern of conductive nanotubes configured to modify interfering signal to form an optical vortex. |
| US10108065B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer between the first substrate and the second substrate, a black matrix on one of the first substrate and the second substrate, the black matrix defining a pixel region, a gate line on the first substrate and including a line portion, an electrode portion and a compensation portion, the compensation portion having a closed loop shape, a data line intersecting the gate line, a source electrode extending from the data line and disposed on the electrode portion of the gate line, a drain electrode including one side disposed on the electrode portion of the gate line and another side at least partially disposed on the compensation portion of the gate line, and a pixel electrode connected to the drain electrode. |
| US10108064B2 |
Liquid crystal display
A display device includes a gate line and a data line crossing the gate line. The display device further includes a first switching element and a second switching element each connected to the gate line and the data line. The display device further includes a first sub-pixel electrode and a second sub-pixel electrode connected to the first switching element and the second switching element, respectively. The display device further includes a reference voltage line for transmitting a reference voltage, a first portion of the first reference voltage line overlapping a first edge of the first sub-pixel electrode, a second portion of the first reference voltage line overlapping a second edge of the first sub-pixel electrode opposite the first edge of the first sub-pixel electrode. The display device further includes a third switching element connected to the gate line, the first sub-pixel electrode, and the reference voltage line. |
| US10108063B2 |
In-cell touch liquid crystal panel and array substrate thereof
An in-cell touch liquid crystal panel and an array substrate thereof, and the array substrate includes a glass substrate and three metal layers, and a common electrode layer that are sequentially formed on the glass substrate and are insulated with each other. A plurality of scan lines are disposed in the second metal layer, a plurality of connection wirings are disposed in the third metal layer, and a common electrode layer is divided into a plurality of touch control inductive electrodes that are electrically connected to a touch control detection chip through the connection wirings. A plurality of metal lines are disposed in the second metal layer, the metal lines and the scan lines are insulated with each other, and two ends of each metal line are electrically connected to the connection wiring. |
| US10108060B2 |
Display device
A liquid crystal display device includes a thin film transistor substrate having a pixel region and a frame region, and a color filter substrate. The frame region includes a first metal wire that surrounds the outside of the pixel region, and a second metal wire that is formed so as to surround the outside of the first metal wire. The first metal wire has at least one slit at an area overlapping with a seal material. |
| US10108059B2 |
Display substrate, liquid crystal display comprising the same, and method of manufacturing the same
A display substrate includes a base substrate having a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area; a gate line disposed on the base substrate and extending in a first direction; a data line disposed on the base substrate and extending in a second direction; a thin film transistor connected to the gate line and the data line; a color filter disposed on the thin film transistor in the display area; a pixel electrode disposed on the color filter and connected to the thin film transistor; a black matrix pattern disposed to correspond to the gate line and the data line; a black border pattern disposed in the non-display area, and including a first border pattern having a first thickness and a second border pattern having a second thickness that is less than the first thickness; and a gate metal pattern disposed below the second border pattern. |
| US10108055B2 |
Curved liquid crystal display
A curved liquid crystal display including a first substrate having a curved shape; a plurality of gate lines and data lines on the first substrate; a plurality of thin film transistors connected to the gate lines and data lines; a plurality of color filters on the thin film transistors; a plurality of pixel electrodes and common electrodes on the plurality of color filters, the plurality of pixel electrodes and common electrodes overlapping with each other with a first insulating layer therebetween; a second substrate having a curved shape, the second substrate facing the first substrate; vertical alignment layers on inner sides of the first substrate and the second substrate; and a liquid crystal layer between the vertical alignment layers, wherein liquid crystal molecules of the liquid crystal layer are aligned to be vertical to surfaces of the first substrate and the second substrate when an electric field is not formed. |
| US10108050B2 |
Photoalignment agent, liquid crystal display device including the same, and method of manufacturing the same
A photoalignment agent is provided. The photoalignment agent includes a copolymer of at least one of a cyclobutanedianhydride (CBDA) and a cyclobutanedianhydride (CBDA) derivative, and a realignment property diamine, wherein two or more aromatic rings in the realignment property diamine are connected by an ester group. |
| US10108049B2 |
Gray scale inversion reduction or prevention in liquid crystal displays
Devices and methods related to high-contrast liquid crystal displays (LCDs) are provided. For example, such an electronic device may include an LCD with two liquid crystal alignment layers not symmetric to one another and upper and lower polarizing layers respectively above and below the alignment layers. Light transmittance through the plurality of pixels may increase monotonically with gray scale voltage. The display may operate using a gray scale level 0 voltage higher than a minimum gray scale level 0 voltage capability of the display. Additionally or alternatively, liquid crystal molecular alignment axes of the two alignment layers may be offset from one another by an angle other than a multiple of 180 degrees. Additionally or alternatively, a first polarizing axis of the upper polarizing layer or a second polarizing axis of the lower polarizing layer, or both, may be neither parallel nor perpendicular to one of the liquid crystal molecular alignment axes. |
| US10108048B2 |
High transmittance PSVA liquid crystal display panel and manufacturing method thereof
A liquid crystal display panel includes an upper substrate on which a first common electrode, an insulation layer, and a second common electrode are formed, a lower substrate on which a pixel electrode is formed, and a plurality of polymer projections formed on surfaces of the second common electrode and the pixel electrode to align liquid crystal molecules. One of the first and second common electrodes is a patternized common electrode and the other is a planar common electrode. The pixel electrode is a planar electrode. In a manufacturing process, a voltage is applied to the pixel electrode and the patternized common electrode to cause the liquid crystal molecules to tilt so as to form multiple domains in each of sub-pixels. In a regular operation, a voltage is applied to the pixel electrode and the planar common electrode to make the entire pixel area to simultaneously achieve the maximum transmittance. |
| US10108046B2 |
Display device and semiconductor device containing the same
The present disclosure provides a display device having a light-emitting side and a non-light-emitting side. The display device includes a light-emitting layer; and a quantum dot sealant layer on the light-emitting side of the display device. The quantum dot sealant layer includes red quantum dots for emitting red light. |
| US10108045B2 |
Reflective diffusion lens, display apparatus having the same
This is provided a display apparatus. The display apparatus a light source configured to emit a light; and a reflective diffusion lens configured to emit a light emitted from the light source to an upper direction or a lower direction with respect to a direction perpendicular to an optical axis of the light source through an incident surface, a lateral surface, and a reflective diffusion surface. |
| US10108044B2 |
Liquid crystal display device
A liquid crystal display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, and a liquid crystal layer. The first substrate includes first wirings extending in a first direction, second wirings extending in a second direction, third wirings extending in the first direction. A center position of a width in the second direction of the third wiring disposed at boundary between blue and red pixels is displaced to a red pixel side from a center position of a width in the second direction of the first wiring disposed at boundary between the blue and red pixels. A center position of a width in the second direction of the third wiring disposed at boundary between the red and green pixels is displaced to the red pixel side from a center position of a width in the second direction of the first wiring disposed at the boundary between the red and green pixels. |
| US10108037B2 |
Display device
A display device including a back cover; a guide panel positioned at a side of the back cover, the guide panel including a seating portion and a guide wall portion; a display panel supported on the seating portion of the guide panel; a top case including a front part covering an edge portion of a front surface of the display panel and a lateral part covering the guide wall portion of the guide panel, wherein the lateral part of the top case comprises a first part and a second part, the first part being positioned more inward than the second part; a fastener that couples the top case, the guide panel, and the back cover by penetrating the first part of the top case, the guide panel and the back cover; and a rear cabinet that covers the fastener and the first part of the top case. The first part of the top case comprises a horizontal first part and a vertical first part, the horizontal first part and the vertical first part being spaced apart at a corner portion of the top case forming a gap, and an outer surface of the second part of the top case forms a continuous surface without a gap at the corner portion of the top case, and is exposed to an outside of the display device. |
| US10108034B2 |
Method of manufacturing image display device
An image display device is manufactured by: applying a liquid photo-curable resin composition having a total value of cure shrinkage ratios based on pre-curing and complete curing of 3% or more to a surface of the light-transmitting cover member or a surface of the image display member with a thickness greater than that of the light-shielding layer to cancel the step between the light-shielding layer and the light-shielding layer forming surface of the light-transmitting cover member; pre-curing the photo-curable resin composition with the irradiation of ultraviolet rays to form a pre-cured resin layer; bonding the light-transmitting cover member to the image display member such that the pre-cured resin layer is placed inside; and subjecting the pre-cured resin layer to the irradiation of ultraviolet rays to achieve the complete curing thereof. The pre-curing is conducted to obtain a cure shrinkage ratio less than 3% in the complete curing thereof. |
| US10108033B2 |
Subassemblies comprising a compressible pressure pad, methods for reducing ripple effect in a display device, and methods for improving impact absorption in a display device
A subassembly for a display device includes a display component having an outer display surface and an opposite inner surface; a compressible pressure pad including a plurality of nonwoven fibers having an average diameter of 100 micrometers or less, disposed on the inner surface of the display component; and an internal component disposed on a side of the compressible pressure pad on a side opposite the display component. Methods for reducing ripple effect and improving impact absorption in a display device are also described. |
| US10108030B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a window layer, a first display panel, and a second display panel. The window layer has at least one bent area adjacent a non-bent area. The first display panel is on a first side of the window layer at a position corresponding to the at least one bent area. The second display panel is on the first side of the window layer at a position corresponding to the non-bent area. The first display panel is in a first display area to display an image, and a first non-display area is adjacent the non-bent area and between the first display area and the non-bent area. |
| US10108022B2 |
Devices and methods for speckle reduction in scanning projectors
Devices and methods are described herein that use a first solid figure element, a polarizing beam splitter, and a second solid figure element or array of mirrors to reduce speckle in projected images. Specifically, laser light is generated and split into two portions having orthogonal polarizations. The first portion of laser light is reflected in the second solid figure element or the array of mirrors and is then spatially recombined with the second portion of laser light in the first solid figure element. The difference in path length followed by the two portions generates a temporal incoherence in the recombined laser light beam, and that temporal incoherence reduces speckle in the projected image. |
| US10108019B1 |
Projection kaleidoscope
A projection kaleidoscope has a shell, a light supply device, a rotating device, a film unit, a reflex cone, and a projecting convex lens. The light supply device is mounted in the shell and has a light-emitting part and a light converging unit. The rotating device is mounted in the shell and has a driver and a transmission connected to the driver. The film unit is mounted on the transmission of the rotating device and faces the light converging unit of the light supply device. The reflex cone is mounted on the transmission of the rotating device and faces the film unit and the projecting opening. The projecting convex lens is mounted in the shell and faces the reflex cone. The rotating device drives the film unit and the reflex cone to rotate in reverse to each other. |
| US10108017B2 |
Carbon nanoparticle infused optical mount
A passive thermal heat-pipe material comprising an optical mounting structure including heat producing electronic components is provided. Each structural component of the optical mounting structure may be at least partially comprised of a polymer including a plurality of carbon nanoparticles. In a further aspect, a method of creating an optical structure adapted to support a plurality of heat emitting components is provided. The method includes adding a percentage by concentration of carbon nanoparticles to a polymer base material, mixing the polymer base material and carbon nanoparticles uniformly, melting the mixture at high temperature, forming the melted mixture into a component of the optical structure, and cooling the formed component to solidify the component. The percentage may be between 2 and 10 percent. |
| US10108016B2 |
Headband comfort and fit adjustment mechanisms
A headband is disclosed for supporting a head-worn device with a comfortable and non-intrusive fit. In examples, the headband includes first and second loops supporting the headband on a wearer's head, and an adjustment mechanism for tightening the first and second loops. The adjustment mechanism tightens down the loops to a desired fit, at which point further actuation of the adjustment mechanism has no effect on the loops. |
| US10108012B2 |
Visors
A glare visor (13) for reducing ambient light intensity perceived by a wearer viewing a head-up display (3) employing display light (7) including a given wavelength(s) of light. The visor includes a visor body comprising optically transparent material which is partially absorbing of light of visible optical wavelengths thereby to reduce the intensity of ambient light transmitted therethrough to the wearer. A transparent optical coating (12) is formed upon a surface of the visor body which is partially transmissive of light of visible optical wavelengths amongst which it is preferentially transmissive of light of a sub-range of wavelengths for including therein the wavelength(s) of display light. This permits a perceived enhancement of contrast between display light (7) relative to ambient light (8). |
| US10108005B2 |
Optical scanner having a variable focus mirror
An optical scanner includes a substrate having a rigid body and a beam, and a layered body having multiple layers, including a lower conductive layer, a interlayer insulation film and an upper conductive layer, the layered body layered on and protruding outward from the rigid body and the beam. The layered body is patterned to form a resonance scanner portion and a vari-focal mirror, the resonance scanner portion (i) made as a part of the layered body and (ii) having an actuator part, and the vari-focal mirror made as a part of the layered body. The layered body including the resonance scanner portion and the vari-focal mirror is patterned to form a mirror driving wire. In such structure, the size of the optical scanner is reduced, and a frequency change of the resonance scanner portion due to the voltage application to the mirror driving wire is suppressed. |
| US10108001B2 |
Reflective telescope with wide field of view
Systems and methods for providing a wider FOV for a telescope system are disclosed. In one embodiment, a telescope includes a primary mirror having an orifice, where an optical path originates from an object positioned in front of the primary mirror and reflects off the primary mirror. A secondary mirror is disposed adjacent to the primary mirror, where the optical path reflects off the secondary mirror and passes through the orifice in the primary mirror. The telescope includes a set of extended field corrector optics disposed along the optical path, the extended field corrector optics positioned to reflect light incident from the secondary mirror, where the set of extended field corrector optics includes two corrector mirrors. A tertiary mirror is disposed along the optical path and adjacent to the extended field corrector optics, the tertiary mirror positioned to reflect the light incident from the extended field corrector optics. |
| US10107999B2 |
Scanning microscope
A scanning microscope includes: a varifocal lens that scans an object in an optical-axis direction of an objective; a scanner that scans the object in a direction orthogonal to the optical axis of the objective; and a controller configured to control the varifocal lens and the scanner. |
| US10107998B2 |
Optical-scanning-height measuring device
To provide an optical-scanning-height measuring device capable of quickly and highly accurately measuring the height of the surface of a measurement object while being compactly configured. In order to obtain interference light appropriate for calculation of height, an optical path length of the reference light is adjusted in the reference section 250. Movable sections 252a and 252b supported by a supporting section 251 move on linearly extending two linear guides 251g, whereby the optical path length of the reference light changes. When the optical path length of the reference light is adjusted, the movable sections 252a and 252b are moved in opposite directions each other. |
| US10107996B2 |
Wide-angle projection optical system
A wide-angle projection optical system includes, between an object side and an image side, a first optical system including a first lens group having an aperture stop and a second lens group disposed behind the aperture stop, and a second optical system including a Mangin mirror and a glass plate disposed between the second lens group and the Mangin mirror. The first and second lens groups have positive power. The first lens group provides optical characteristics to match with a light coming from the object side. The first and second lens groups are configured to form an aberrated real image. The Mangin mirror is disposed closer to the image side than others. The Mangin mirror includes a refracting surface and a reflecting surface for refracting the light two times and reflecting the light one time, thereby producing an enlarged real image on a screen. Therefore, the image quality is enhanced. |
| US10107988B2 |
Camera module
A camera module generally provided in a mobile terminal. The camera module includes a lens unit which is configured to accommodate at least one lens. An actuator unit is configured to fix the lens unit, and a base which is fixed by an adhesive to the bottom of the actuator. A printed circuit board (PCB) to which the base is fixed for thereby supplying electric power to the actuator unit. Either a corner of an outer side of the bottom of the actuator unit or a corner of an outer side of the top of the base is tapered. |
| US10107984B2 |
Optical fiber distribution system
A cable mount for fixing a strength member of a fiber optic cable to a fixture includes a front end, a rear end, and a longitudinal channel therebetween, the channel defined by upper and lower transverse walls and a vertical divider wall. The channel receives a portion of the cable. A strength member pocket receives the strength member of the cable, the pocket located on an opposite side of the divider wall from the longitudinal channel, the pocket communicating with the longitudinal channel through an opening on the divider wall. A strength member clamp fixes the strength member of the cable against axial pull. Cable management structures in the form of spools define at least one notch that communicates with the longitudinal channel for guiding optical fibers extending from a jacket either upwardly or downwardly therethrough. The cable mount also allows routing of the optical fibers through the longitudinal channel all the way from the rear end to the front end. |
| US10107983B2 |
Preferential mode coupling for enhanced traceable patch cord performance
A traceable cable and method of forming the same. The cable includes at least one data transmission element, a jacket, and a side-emitting optical fiber. The side-emitting optical fiber includes a core having a first index of refraction and a cladding having a second index of refraction that is different than the first index of refraction. The cladding substantially surrounding the core and has an exterior surface with spaced apart scattering sites penetrating the exterior surface. The scattering sites are capable of scattering light so that the scattered light is emitted from the side-emitting optical fiber at discrete locations. The core also includes one or more mode coupling features capable of changing at least some low order mode light in the side-emitting optical fiber to high order mode light, thereby increasing light emitted from the scattering sites. |
| US10107980B1 |
Optical fiber cable with rollable ribbons contained in a central tube without intended stranding
A optical fiber cable includes two or more non-twisted, rollable optical fiber ribbons within a central tube. The non-twisted, rollable optical fiber ribbons define a fiber packing density within the central tube of between 6.5 and 8.5 fibers per square millimeter. |
| US10107979B2 |
Optical cable and manufacturing method
An optical cable including a load bearing core includes a longitudinally and radially extending slot housing at least one optical fiber, wherein the slot has a width providing a low clearance for the optical fiber(s) housed therein and preventing two optical fibers being stuck to one another; and the slot has a depth equal to or lower than a radius of the core. |
| US10107978B2 |
Optical module and assembly method thereof
An optical module includes: an optical assembly, including a light receiving assembly and/or a light transmitting assembly; a printed circuit board, on which the optical assembly is mounted; an adapter, used for docking with external connectors, wherein the adapter is configured to fit the optical assembly and to be fixed to the printed circuit board, and the adapter includes a metal part and a plastic part; and a conductive shell, used for accommodating the printed circuit board, the optical assembly, and the adapter, the conductive shell being electrically connected to the metal part of the adapter. |
| US10107975B1 |
Optoelectronic assembly for optical coupling
A method for manufacturing an optoelectronic assembly includes attaching an optical die, a first lens, a second lens, and an optical fiber to a sub-mount. The sub-mount includes a plurality of passive alignment features which aid in the passive alignment of the optical die, the first lens, and the optical fiber for attachment. The second lens is actively aligned between the first lens and the optical fiber, based on a coupling efficiency with which an optical signal emitted by the optical die is coupled into the optical fiber through the first and second lenses. The active alignment of the second lens includes calibration of at least one of a position and a degree of tilt of the second lens. |
| US10107969B2 |
Field changeable fiber optic connector polarity keying with color coding
A fiber optic connector along with a tool allows for the changing of the polarity of the fiber optic connector. Keys are installed in both the top and the bottom of the fiber optic connector, one in a first position and the other in a second position. Using the tool in one back-and-forth motion, the polarity of the fiber optic connector change be changed. The keys may be colored differently to identify the polarity of the fiber optic connector. |
| US10107966B1 |
Single-mode polymer waveguide connector assembly
A method of fabricating a polymer waveguide (PWG) is presented. The method includes preparing a polymer waveguide (PWG) sheet having a surface with partially exposed cores and partially exposed cladding, the cladding covering the cores and preparing a first dicing tape, the first dicing tape being an ultraviolet (UV) cut type dicing tape defining separation lines on a back side thereof. The method further includes placing the partially exposed cores of the PWG sheet on the first dicing tape to prevent the surface of the PWG sheet from atmospheric contaminations and placing a tape side of the first dicing tape attached to the PWG sheet on a second dicing tape. |
| US10107962B2 |
Reduction of back reflections
In the examples provided herein, an apparatus has a mode converter coupled to a first waveguide to convert light propagating in a first set of spatial modes along the first waveguide to a second set of spatial modes. The apparatus also has a second waveguide coupled to the mode converter, where the second set of spatial modes propagate along the second waveguide in a first direction away from the mode converter. Further, the apparatus includes a coupler to couple a portion of the light propagating in the second set of spatial modes out of the second waveguide. Additionally, the second waveguide has an end facet away from the mode converter to reduce back reflection of the light not coupled out of the second waveguide to the first waveguide. |
| US10107959B2 |
Waveguide architecture for photonic neural component
A photonic neural component includes optical transmitters, optical receivers, inter-node waveguides formed on a board, transmitting waveguides configured to receive optical signals emitted from the optical transmitters and transmit the received optical signals to the inter-node waveguides, mirrors to partially reflect optical signals propagating on the inter-node waveguides, receiving waveguides configured to receive reflected optical signals produced by the mirrors and transmit the reflected optical signals to the optical receivers, and filters configured to apply weights to the reflected optical signals. The transmitting waveguides and receiving waveguides are formed on the board such that one of the transmitting waveguides and one of the receiving waveguides crosses one of the inter-node waveguides with a core of one of the crossing waveguides passing through a core or clad of the other. |
| US10107958B2 |
Optical module and optical transmission/reception device
A flexible substrate includes a first pad that extends from an end of the flexible substrate to a center of the flexible substrate, and at least a part of which is fixed to the first part; a second pad that extends from the end of the flexible substrate to the center at a position adjacent to the first pad, and at least a part of which is fixed to the first part; a signal line that connects a tip of the first pad and the second part and that is narrower in width than the first pad; and a coverlay that covers an area where the signal line is arranged and that includes a protrusion protruding, at a position at which the first pad is arranged, toward the end of the flexible substrate relative to the area where the signal line is arranged. |
| US10107957B2 |
Multimode optical fibers operating over an extended wavelength range and system incorporating such
According to some embodiments, a multimode optical fiber comprises a graded index glass core with refractive index Δ1, a maximum refractive index delta Δ1MAX, and a core radius between 10 and 40 microns; and cladding region surrounding the core comprising refractive index Δ4, wherein the fiber exhibits an overfilled bandwidth exhibits an overfilled bandwidth of at least 3 GHz-km at a wavelength of 850 nm and an overfilled bandwidth of at least 1.2 GHz-km at one or more wavelengths between 980 and 1060 nm. |
| US10107955B2 |
Display backlight module having double-side adhesive blocks
A display backlight module includes a light guide plate, a light source disposed on a side of the light guide plate, and at least one of a flexible printed circuit board and a backplate, such that an end of the light guide plate closest to the light source is fixed on the flexible printed circuit board or the backplate by a plurality of double-sided adhesive blocks spaced apart from each other. |
| US10107954B2 |
Electro-optical apparatus and scene apparatus each having a taper light guide element
An electro-optical apparatus including an electronic apparatus and at least one light-emitting module is provided. The electronic apparatus has a containing area. The light-emitting module is disposed in the containing area and includes at least one light-emitting element, a taper light guide element, and a strip light guide element. The light-emitting element emits at least one beam. The taper light guide element is disposed on the transmission path of the beam and has a first end and a second end opposite to each other. The taper light guide element tapers off from the first end toward the second end. The first end is adjacent to the light-emitting element. The strip light guide element is disposed on the transmission path of the beam from the taper light guide element. The second end is adjacent to the strip light guide element. A scene apparatus is also provided. |
| US10107953B2 |
Light guide unit, light source device and display apparatus
A light guide unit according to an embodiment of the present invention includes: a light guide plate having a light outgoing surface and a light reflecting surface, the reflecting surface being opposite to the light outgoing surface; a reflection sheet disposed facing the reflecting surface of the light guide plate, and a plurality of light scattering units provided between the light guide plate and the reflection sheet, the plurality of light scattering units being apart for one another along the light reflecting surface, wherein each of the plurality of light scattering units includes a scattering layer and a reflection layer formed on the scattering layer, the scattering layer being fixed on the light reflecting surface. |
| US10107948B2 |
Method and article for emitting radiation from a surface
In an embodiment, a radiation emitting device comprises a radiation emitting layer comprising a host material and a luminescent agent; and a radiation source that emits a source radiation; wherein the radiation emitting layer comprises an edge and two broad surfaces, wherein the edge has a height of d and the broad surfaces have a length L, wherein length L is greater than height d, and the ratio of L to d is greater than or equal to 10; and wherein the radiation source is coupled to the edge, wherein the source radiation is transmitted from the radiation source through the edge and excites the luminescent agent, whereafter the luminescent agent emits an emitted radiation, wherein at least a portion of the emitted radiation exits through at least one of the broad surfaces through an escape cone. |
| US10107941B2 |
Optical product, and spectacle lens and spectacles
It is an object to provide an optical product and the like which have antireflective performance, require less number of types of materials for film formation, have a simple film structure which makes film formation easy and reduces costs, and have sufficient heat resistance. In the optical product, an optical multilayer film having a five-layer structure in which SiO2 and ZrO2 are alternately layered is provided on one or both of surfaces of a base. With a layer closest to the base being a first layer, a quotient obtained by dividing a physical thickness of a fourth layer that is ZrO2 by a physical thickness of a second layer that is ZrO2 is greater than or equal to 1 and not greater than 4. |
| US10107936B2 |
Atomic interferometric accelerometer with enhanced vibrational stability
An atomic interferometric accelerometer comprises a laser that emits a pulsed beam at a first frequency, an electro-optic modulator that receives the beam, and a vacuum cell in communication with the electro-optic modulator. The electro-optic modulator outputs a first optical signal corresponding to the beam at the first frequency and a second optical signal having a second frequency different from the first frequency. The vacuum cell has a chamber for laser cooled atoms. The vacuum cell receives the optical signals such that they propagate in a direction that passes through the atoms. A piezo mirror retro-reflects the optical signals back through the vacuum cell in a counter-propagating direction. The piezo mirror is driven with substantially constant velocity during a beam pulse, thereby imparting a Doppler shift to the retro-reflected optical signals to create two non-symmetric counter-propagating lightwave pairs. One of the lightwave pairs supports interferometry while the other is non-resonant. |
| US10107933B2 |
Individual access control portal including improved correlation means between an alarm detection and the travel of an individual
An individual access control portal includes two panels or columns that define a through corridor, which panels or columns are equipped with sensors designed to detect substances or materials liable to be carried by individuals travelling through the portal, wherein the portal is equipped with a plurality of detection barriers distributed along the direction of passage through the portal and logic means attached to the plurality of barriers, firstly to determine from the series of activations of the barriers, the place and movement of an individual and secondly to establish the correlations existing between the movement of an individual and the signals output by the substance or material detection sensors. |
| US10107931B2 |
Noise measurement in a locating receiver
A method for choosing a frequency to locate an underground object. A locating receiver is provided with a display. The locating receiver scans multiple pre-selected frequencies to determine a noise level, or a signal-to-noise ratio. The locating receiver transmits the chosen frequency to a transmitter, which places the chosen frequency on the underground object to provide an optimal locating frequency. |
| US10107928B2 |
Method and device for removal of water bottom and/or geology from near-field hydrophone data
A method for removing ocean bottom and/or geology related contamination. The method includes receiving first measurements corresponding to first seismic sensors mounted on a first source array; receiving second measurements corresponding to second seismic sensors mounted away from the first source array; processing the second measurements to determine a contamination model related to the ocean bottom and geology; removing the contamination model from the first measurements to obtain cleaned data; and calculating a source signature of the first source array based on the cleaned data. |
| US10107927B2 |
Quick 4D detection seismic survey
A method for monitoring a subsurface during a 4-dimensional (4D) survey. The method includes obtaining an area of the subsurface that needs to be monitored; identifying receiver and source locations for the area and source frequencies to be emitted into the area based on demigration or inverse ray tracing; performing a light base survey for the area; performing a light monitor survey for the area; and generating an image of the area based on a comparison of (i) the light base survey, and (ii) the light monitor survey for the area. |
| US10107926B1 |
Cableless seismic acquisition with hierarchical communication protocol
A cableless seismic acquisition system that is configured to resolve the locations of a plurality of cableless seismic acquisition units (e.g., up to 1,000,000 or more) of the system at sub-meter levels of accuracy (e.g., less than 10 cm, less than 5 cm, etc.) free of many of the limitations of existing manners of determining cableless unit locations in seismic acquisition systems. While accurately determining cableless unit locations for use in mapping underground structures of interest, the disclosed cableless seismic acquisition system also limits power demands of and ultimately power consumption by the cableless units to extend serviceable deployment time of the cableless acquisition system. |
| US10107920B2 |
Sensor board for a detector module
A sensor board for a detector module is disclosed. It includes, in a stack construction, at least one reader unit and a sensor layer arranged spaced from the reader unit in the direction of the stack. A gap formed by the spacing between the sensor layer and the reader unit is filled with a cured filling material such that at least one edge region of the sensor layer is free of the filling material. Furthermore, a method is disclosed for manufacturing a corresponding sensor board, and a detector module is disclosed for an X-ray detector having a number of sensor boards which are arranged to be mutually adjacent on a module carrier. |
| US10107919B1 |
Satellite positioning system receivers with microelectromechanical systems oscillators
Apparatus and methods permit the use of a microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) oscillator in a satellite positioning system receiver, such as a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver. Techniques to ameliorate jitter or phase noise disadvantages associated with MEMS oscillators are disclosed. For example, a receiver can use one or more of the following techniques: (a) use another source of information to retrieve ephemeris information, (2) perform advanced tight coupling, and/or (3) use a phase-locked loop to clean up the jitter or phase noise of the MEMS oscillator. With respect to advanced tight coupling, an advanced tight coupling processor can include nonlinear discriminators which transform I and Q data into linear residual measurements corrupted by unbiased, additive, and white noise. It also includes an amplitude estimator configured to operate in rapidly changing, high power noise; a measurement noise variance estimator; and a linear residual smoothing filter for input to the navigation filter. |
| US10107918B2 |
Solar-powered asset tracking device for energy-efficient GPS tracking
A device may determine that a charge of a capacitor of the device, powered by solar energy, satisfies a threshold. The device may power on a first set of components of the device based on determining that the charge of the capacitor satisfies the threshold. The device may obtain ephemeris data based on powering on the first set of components. The device may power on a second set of components of the device based on obtaining the ephemeris data. The device may obtain GPS data using the ephemeris data and based on powering on the second set of components. The device may transmit the GPS data. The device may power off at least one component, of the first set of components or the second set of components, after transmitting the GPS data. |
| US10107911B1 |
Proximity sensor and mobile device using the same
A proximity sensor and a mobile device using the same are provided. The proximity sensor includes a circuit board, an emitter package, a receiver package, a plastic casing and a lens. The emitter package is disposed on the circuit board and includes an emitter and an emitter housing. The receiver package is disposed on the circuit board and includes a receiver and a receiver housing. The plastic casing covers the emitter package and the receiver package. The plastic casing includes a first opening corresponding to the emitter package and a second opening corresponding to the receiver package. The first opening has a first geometric centerline and the second opening has a second geometric centerline. The height of the emitter package is smaller than that of the receiver package, and the emitter is disposed between the first geometric centerline and the second geometric centerline. |
| US10107903B2 |
Human body security inspection apparatus
The present disclosure provides a human body security inspection apparatus, comprising: a base on which an inspected human stands; a millimeter-wave transceiver configured to perform a millimeter-wave scanning operation on the body of the inspected human standing on the base so as to detect whether or not the inspected human carries contraband and output a first signal; and a metal sensing detector arranged within the base and configured to detect whether or not there is a metallic foreign object in underside of a shoe of the inspected human and output a second signal. |
| US10107901B2 |
Acoustic signal phase rotation processor
An ultrasound imaging system includes a plurality of processing chains (2061, . . . , 206K) for a plurality of transducer element channels (1081, . . . , 108K). A processing chain of the plurality of processing chains, includes: a phase rotation processor (1141, . . . , 114K) that focuses an N-bit digital representation, of an analog RF signal received on the corresponding transducer element channel, through phase rotation through phase additions or subtractions, and outputs a focused N-bit quantized value, where N is a predetermined positive integer. |
| US10107896B2 |
Measuring device and measuring method for measuring the ambiguity function of radar signals
A measuring device for measuring a radar signal is provided. The radar signal is generated from a digital reference signal. The measuring device comprises a memory configured to store a digitized radar signal derived from the radar signal and the digital reference signal. The measuring device further comprises a radar compression filter configured to filter the digitized radar signal, resulting in a correlation of the digitized radar signal with the digital reference signal. The measuring device further comprises a frequency shifter configured to successively perform a frequency shift of either the digital reference signal or the radar signal with at least two simulated Doppler shift frequencies. |
| US10107894B2 |
Radio-wave-penetrable layer having metallic luster
Disclosed is a coating layer penetrable by radio wave and having a metallic luster. The coating layer includes a resin layer as an outmost layer to an exterior or front, a metallic texture layer formed on a rear side of the resin layer and comprising a optical film layer including metal oxides having different refractive indexes, and a germanium (Ge) layer to reflect light and a reflection layer formed on the rear side of the metallic texture layer. |
| US10107892B2 |
Systems and method for locating a signal source
A method utilizes signals received from the signal source by receivers during respective time intervals and data about a change in positions of the receivers during these time intervals. The method includes applying first processing to each of the signals received by each respective receiver to determine an accumulated phase in the signal during a respective time interval. Applying second processing to determine differential phases differences between the accumulated phases of the signals received by two or more pairs of the receivers. The phases differences are indicative of the difference between the changes of the distances of the respective receivers from the signal source during the respective time intervals. The method includes applying a third processing for determining the location of the signal source such that the relative changes between the positions of the respective receivers relative to the determined location correspond to the distance differences of the phase differences. |
| US10107891B1 |
Wireless signal localization and collection from an airborne symmetric line array network
A method and system of determining a location of a remote transmitter is provided. The method includes: receiving, with a plurality of sensors operably associated with a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), a signal emitted from a remote transmitter, the emitted signal being indicative of an actual location of the remote transmitter; estimating a first location of the remote transmitter based on the emitted signal received by the plurality of sensors, the plurality of sensors being associated with a first arrangement of the corresponding plurality of UAVs relative to the remote transmitter; changing the first arrangement of the plurality of UAVs relative to the remote transmitter to a target arrangement of the plurality of UAVs relative to the remote transmitter based on the estimation of the first location of the remote transmitter; and estimating a second location of the remote transmitter based on the target arrangement of the plurality of sensors and the corresponding plurality of UAVs relative to the remote transmitter. The second estimated location is more accurate of the actual location of the remote transmitter than the first estimated location. |
| US10107888B1 |
Vehicle status monitoring system and vehicle
A vehicle may include an integrated electronic control unit (ECU) outputting a sleep indicator signal when a plurality of electronic control units (ECUs) is switched to a sleep status, and switching to a wake-up status according to a request of a telematics terminal, collecting vehicle status information and returning the vehicle status information; and the telematics terminal requesting vehicle status information by transmitting an alive request signal when the sleep indicator signal occurs by monitoring the integrated ECU, and outputting the returned vehicle status information. |
| US10107885B2 |
Pulse detection apparatus and pulse detection method
Provided is a pulse detection apparatus and a pulse detection method less susceptible to movement of a subject and less susceptible to noise. An oscillation frequency controller is configured to cause a frequency variable oscillator to oscillate at a predetermined oscillation frequency, which is a frequency within a range assumed as a resonance frequency of a molecule of a predetermined constituent constituting the blood flowing through a human body. The oscillation frequency controller also controls an oscillation frequency based on a phase difference signal and an amplitude signal, wherein the phase difference signal indicates the phase difference between a transmission signal transmitted from an antenna to the human body and a reception signal received by the antenna, and the amplitude signal indicates the magnitude of the amplitude of the received signal. A pulse detector detects the change of the amplitude signal in an amplitude direction as a pulse signal. |
| US10107884B2 |
Automatic optimization of parallel imaging acceleration parameters
A parallel magnetic resonance imaging system (1) includes at least one radio frequency (RF) coil (10, 12) with a plurality of coil elements, a smart select unit (24), a parallel imaging parameter unit (28), and a sequence control (16). The smart select unit (24), from a pre-scan or prior scan of a subject with the at least one RF coil, constructs (60) a signal map and a plurality of noise maps based on different sets of reduction factors. The parallel imaging parameter unit (28) selects a set of reduction factors corresponding to a noise map which includes a highest signal-to-noise ratio (SNR). The sequence control (16) performs a magnetic resonance imaging scan of the subject based on the selected reduction factors. |
| US10107883B2 |
Ultrafast MRI system and method
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI), which is given the acronym ULTRA (Unlimited Trains of Radio Acquisitions), can eliminate magnetic gradient reversals and allow simultaneous MR signal acquisition from the entire object volume in each of a multitude of very small receiver coils arranged in a 3D array around the imaging volume. This permits a rate of MR signal acquisition that is greatly increased (e.g. 256 times) compared with existing techniques, with a full 3D image constructed in as little as 1 millisecond. Furthermore, noise—both audible and electrical—is substantially reduced. The advantages over conventional MRI include: 1. Clinical imaging can be completed in seconds, with good signal-to-noise ratio; 2. Signal-to-noise ratio is further increased by eliminating RF noise due to gradient switching; 3. Real-time functional MRI is possible, on millisecond timescales; 4. With single breath holds, high quality imaging of thorax and abdomen is possible. 5. ULTRA greatly reduces audible noise and vibration. |
| US10107878B2 |
Magnetic resonance imaging apparatus and antenna device
Provided is an antenna such as a TEM-type antenna and a microstrip-type antenna that has rung conductors and a shield conductor to electrically connect and use them. A holding member that maintains a shape of the shield conductor is composed by assembling ribs and thin walls. An inner holding member is a structural material. Holes are provided on at least either one of the shield conductor and the holding member adhered thereto or the inner holding member, which can adjoin conductors from the outside of the cylindrical antenna through the said holes during the antenna production. |
| US10107872B2 |
Self-calibrating magnetic field monitor
A self-calibrating magnetic field monitor is disclosed. In one embodiment, a magnetic field sensor repeatedly generates an electronic signal related to the magnetic field. In addition, a calibration module generates a relative baseline signal based on an average value of the electronic signals for a given time period. A comparator compares the electronic signal with the relative baseline signal and generating an output signal if a difference in the comparing is greater than or equal to a threshold. |
| US10107871B2 |
Monolithic three-axis magnetic field sensor and its manufacturing method
A monolithic three-axis magnetic field sensor comprises an X-axis sensor, a Y-axis sensor and a Z-axis sensor integrated into the same substrate. The X-axis sensor and the Y-axis are both referenced bridge structures. The magnetoresistive sensing elements of the reference arm are beneath the corresponding magnetic flux guides, and the magnetoresistive sensing elements are in the gaps between the corresponding magnetic flux guides. The magnetoresistive elements of these two sensors are aligned perpendicular to each other, and the magnetization directions of the pinned layer of these magnetoresistive elements are perpendicular to each other as well. The Z-axis sensor is a push-pull bridge structure. The push arms and pull arms of the magnetoresistive sensors are respectively aligned above or beneath the edges of the magnetic flux guides. The manufacturing method for this monolithic three-axis magnetic field sensor is also disclosed. |
| US10107868B2 |
Dynamic battery level indicator
An improved battery level indicator is provided. A first portion of the battery level indicator can be filled with a first color to indicate a charge level or remaining power level of a battery. A second portion of the battery level indicator can be filled with a second color to indicate a discharge level or consumed power level of the battery. As the battery power continues to be consumed, the battery level indicator re-colors both portions of the battery level indicators periodically with the first and second colors. In some implementations, a small gap portion can be displayed between the two portions described above, and the small gap portion can be filled with a third color, with a color intensity level in between the first and second colors. |
| US10107866B2 |
Battery management system for outputting signal, capable analyzing whether error has occured, and battery driving system including same
Disclosed is a battery management system for outputting a signal, capable of determining whether an error has occurred. The battery management system, according to the present invention, includes a plurality of battery management units measuring the voltage of a secondary battery and controlling the charging and discharging thereof. The battery management units output signals when the secondary battery managed thereby is overcharged or overdischarged and errors occur in the units themselves. At this time, the plurality of battery management units output the signals to lines connected in series. In the battery management system, according to the present invention, the waveforms of the signals to be output change according to the amount of current flowing in the lines connected in series. |
| US10107864B2 |
Step-time battery degradation determination
Various embodiments determine a remaining battery capacity of a battery in an energy storage battery support system. In one embodiment, a battery is operated at a state of charge which may include being charged, being discharged, and being idle. A change in the state of charge is detected after a duration of time. The amount of remaining battery capacity is calculated based upon the duration of time and the state of charge of the battery during the duration of time. The operating, detecting and calculating are repeated until the amount of remaining battery capacity reaches a predetermined value. The remaining battery capacity after the duration of time is calculated using the battery capacity at the beginning of the duration of time. The battery may be used as an energy source in an electric power distribution grid. The battery is replaced when the remaining battery capacity reaches an end-of-useful-life value. |
| US10107863B2 |
Test method for secondary battery
A test method for a secondary battery, which early detects the occurrence of the future micro short-circuiting in the screening and promotes to render the contaminant harmless while suppressing the short-circuiting between the positive and negative electrodes in the aging, is provided. This test method includes Step S12 of charging the secondary battery, Steps S13 and S14 of aging the secondary battery in a first pressed state, Step S17 of measuring a battery voltage (V1) after the aging, Step S18 of screening the secondary battery in a second pressed state with a higher pressure than in the first pressed state, and Step S19 of measuring a battery voltage (V2) after the screening. Whether the battery has the internal short-circuiting or not is determined (Step S20) based on the difference between the voltage (V1) measured in Step S17 and the voltage (V2) measured in Step S19. |
| US10107860B2 |
Bitwise rotating scan section for microelectronic chip testing and diagnostics
According to an embodiment of the present invention, a computer-implemented method for testing a microelectronic chip is described. The method may include dividing, via a processor running a scanning engine, a plurality of sections of the microelectronic chip. Each of the plurality of sections includes at least two latch sets in at least one scan chain. The method may further include determining, via the processor, based on the dividing, whether each of the plurality of sections fail a data test. The determining comprises interleaving the plurality of sections by scanning, via the processor, an alternating latch set from each scan chain in a first section, and scanning an alternating latch set from each scan chain in a second section. |
| US10107858B2 |
Digital test system
A highly flexible, compact, lightweight, and portable testing system for use with radiation testing activities. The testing system is coupled to a device under test (DUT), which can be positioned in such a way that the top of the die package is exposed to the direct ion beam during radiation testing. A variety of sensors, onboard memory systems, programmable interfaces, onboard control systems, data output devices, and different types of interfaces are also provided which provide an ability to perform testing procedures while having a maximum ability to orient the DUT and perform a wide variety of testing currently unavailable. |
| US10107857B2 |
Optical coupling device
An optical coupler device includes, on a substrate, a first light-receiving element coupled to a first light-emitting element and a second light-receiving element coupled to a second light-emitting element. First, second, and third terminals are disposed on the first substrate. A first transistor pair and a second transistor pair are disposed on the first substrate. The first transistor pair is configured to electrically connect and disconnect the first and second terminals in response to a first light signal received by the first light-receiving element. The second transistor pair is configured to electrically connect and disconnect the second and third terminals in response to a second light signal received by the second light-receiving element. |
| US10107853B2 |
Apparatus and method for inspecting PCB-mounted integrated circuits
A method and apparatus for testing the mounting of an integrated circuit on a printed circuit board using a ball grid array comprises directing an inclined laser beam from a line scan laser sensor at the integrated circuit, detecting the position of the lower edge of the integrated circuit from laser light backscattered from the integrated circuit and printed circuit board, determining through a trigonometric calculation the height of the integrated circuit above the printed circuit board following soldering of the ball grid array and comparing the height with reference data. The integrated circuit is deemed to have been successfully mounted to the printed circuit board if the height falls within a predetermined range. |
| US10107852B2 |
Interstrand short circuit testing of stator winding bars of electric machines
A method and an apparatus check a multiplicity of mutually insulated strands in a stator winding bar of an electric machine. The method includes injecting a test signal, determining a first component of the test signal, and comparing at least the first component with a reference signal in order to determine damage to insulation between individual strands of the multiplicity of strands. The apparatus includes a signal source and a measuring apparatus. The method and the apparatus are particularly suitable for checking stator winding bars as are used in a generator and/or an electric motor. |
| US10107848B2 |
Portable testing device for a traction motor sensor
A portable testing device includes a housing that encloses an electric motor and a power source. The power source is configured to provide electrical power to the electric motor. The system also includes a sensor port operatively coupled to the housing and the electric motor. The sensor port includes a converter member that is movable to adjust a depth of the sensor port. The system also includes a user interface device operatively coupled to the housing. The user interface device is configured to adjust an amount of the electrical power provided by the power source to the electric motor. The sensor port is configured to removably receive a sensor for testing operation of the sensor relative to the electric motor. |
| US10107845B2 |
Device for measuring an electric field in a conducting medium and method of calibrating such a device
A device for measuring an electric field in a conducting medium, including: two electrodes separated by a volume of an insulating material; a current measurement device; a voltage measurement device; and a switch enabling to alternately connect the current measurement device and the voltage measurement device between the electrodes. |
| US10107844B2 |
Antennas with unique electronic signature
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for manufacturing antennas with a unique signature and for identifying an antenna using its unique signature. An exemplary antenna comprises a radiating element and a ground element, between which a resistor-inductor-capacitor (RLC) circuit is connected. The RLC circuit is designed to generate a return-loss profile that serves as a unique antenna signature. The return-loss profile of the RLC circuit exhibits a resonance frequency outside the antenna's working bandwidth. |
| US10107838B2 |
Online monitoring circuit and method of the series compensation spark gap divider return circuit
The present invention provides an online monitoring circuit of the series compensation spark gap divider return circuit. Said series compensation spark gap divider return circuit includes a voltage equalization link and a voltage sampling link. Said voltage link includes the capacitor C which series said voltage equalization link. Said online monitoring circuit includes the voltage sampling input module, series compensation current input module and the compare module. Said sampling voltage input module after amplified the voltage of the two ends of the series capacitor C converts it into direct current signal. |
| US10107837B2 |
Method for producing probes for testing integrated electronic circuits
Cantilever probes are produced for use in a test apparatus of integrated electronic circuits. The probes are configured to contact corresponding terminals of the electronic circuits to be tested during a test operation. The probe bodies are formed of electrically conductive materials. On a lower portion of each probe body that, in use, is directed to the respective terminal to be contacted, an electrically conductive contact region is formed having a first hardness value equal to or greater than 300 HV; each contact region and the respective probe body form the corresponding probe. |
| US10107836B2 |
Talking test light
A hand-held electric circuit tester includes a probe. The probe includes a hollow body, a control circuit, a probe member, and a speaker. The probe member is operatively mounted in the hollow body, and is configured to contact a probe location of an electric circuit to be measured and electrically connect the probe location with the control circuit to produce a measurement. The control circuit is configured to generate a voice signal with reference to the measurement of the probe and output the voice signal to the speaker, which is configured to generate a voice output with reference to the voice signal indicative of the measurement. The probe can include a first switch for operating the probe member, a microphone for voice activation, or a second switch for selecting between different voices for the voice output, with the different voices stored in computer-readable memory. |
| US10107830B2 |
Method of forming capacitive MEMS sensor devices
A method of forming a capacitive micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) sensor device includes at least one capacitive MEMS sensor element with at least one capacitive MEMS sensor cell. A patterned dielectric layer including a thick dielectric region and a thin dielectric region is formed on a top side of a first substrate. A second substrate is bonded to the thick dielectric region to provide at least one sealed micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) cavity. The second substrate is thinned to reduce a thickness of said second substrate to provide a membrane layer. Vias are etched through the membrane layer and said thick dielectric region extending into the first substrate to form embedded vias. A dielectric liner which lines the embedded vias is formed within the first substrate. The embedded vias are filed with electrically conductive TSV filler material to form a plurality of through-substrate vias (TSVs), said plurality of TSVs extending to at least a top of said membrane layer. A patterned metal cap layer including metal caps is formed on top of said plurality of TSVs. Trenches are etched through regions of the membrane layer for releasing a first portion of the membrane layer over said MEMS cavity to provide a MEMS electrode and to define a fixed electrode. A third substrate including an inner cavity and outer protruding portions framing said inner cavity is bonded to the thick dielectric. The protruding portions are bonded to the thick dielectric region and, together with said first substrate vacuum, seals said MEMS electrode. The plurality of TSVs on a bottom side of said first substrate are exposed. |
| US10107827B1 |
Volatile organic compound sensors, and methods of making and using the same
A biomedical sensor and sensor system for analysis of breath are disclosed. The biomedical sensor can include two layers arranged to swell or contract in a plane perpendicular to an axial direction while being restricted from swelling in the axial direction. The biomedical sensor includes resistance connections to allow measurement of the resistance of each layer and a combined resistance of both layers. The sensor system can include one, two, or three or more sensors, each having a pair of electrodes separated by a gap and one or more layers of composite material located within the gap. the sensor system includes resistance circuits configured to measure changes in resistance between the electrodes. A polypyrrole/polymethyl methacrylate/polyethylene glycol composite material and method of making the same are disclosed. |
| US10107826B2 |
Immunoassay methods and reagents for decreasing nonspecific binding
Methods and kits for reducing non-specific binding in an immunoassay for PIVKA-II in a test sample are described, in which the test sample is reacted with an anti-prothrombin antibody in the presence of one or more of the following additives: skim milk, saponin, CaCl2, MgCl2, and a sulfobetaine zwitterionic detergent. |
| US10107825B2 |
System and method incorporating solid buffer
A buffered suspension includes a surfactant and a solid buffer particulate having a point of zero charge at least 1.2 pH units different that the pH of the buffered suspension. The buffered suspension can be prepared by mixing a stock solution with the solid buffer particulate and titrating. A method of preforming a pH sensitive process includes drawing the buffered suspension from a reservoir, filtering the solid buffer particulate from the buffered suspension, and applying the filtered solution to a sensor. |
| US10107815B2 |
Microplate and in vitro diagnostic kit for HPV 16/E7 oncoprotein detection and preparation method thereof
The invention relates to a microplate, an in vitro diagnostic kit for HPV type 16 E7 oncoprotein detection and a preparation method thereof. The in vitro diagnostic kit is comprised of a microplate pre-coated with an HPV type 16 E7 antibody and an HRP-labeled HPV type 16 E7 antibody with concentration of 0.05-0.4 μg/ml, wherein the amount of the antibody in each microwell of the microplate is 0.05-0.5 μg. The in vitro diagnostic kit is used for directly detecting the expression of high-risk HPV-associated oncoprotein and the expression level, and thus has a clear judgment on the infection degree of high-risk HPV, and facilitates subsequent treatment. |
| US10107814B2 |
Diagnostic method
The invention provides a method of detecting a subject suffering from, or at risk of suffering from, bladder cancer the method comprising i) providing a body fluid sample isolated from a subject; ii) isolating cells from said sample to provide a cell sample; iii) contacting the sample with a specific binding member capable of binding to a minichromosome maintenance (MCM) polypeptide(s); iv) determining the binding of said specific binding member to the cell sample; v) counting those cells in said cell sample which bound to said specific binding member to provide a cell count; vi) determining, based on the cell count, whether the subject has, or is at risk of having, bladder cancer. |
| US10107812B2 |
Methods for assaying cellular binding interactions
There are provided methods, and devices for assaying for a binding interaction between a protein, such as a monoclonal antibody, produced by a cell, and a biomolecule. The method may include retaining the cell within a chamber having an aperture; exposing the protein produced by the cell to a capture substrate, wherein the capture substrate is in fluid communication with the protein produced by the cell and wherein the capture substrate is operable to bind the protein produced by the cell; flowing a fluid volume comprising the biomolecule through the chamber via said aperture, wherein the fluid volume is in fluid communication with the capture substrate; and determining a binding interaction between the protein produced by the cell and the biomolecule. |
| US10107811B2 |
Detection of specific antigens in a population of antigens
Methods for detecting the presence or absence of, and for quantifying, one set of cells in a mixed cell population of at least two sets of cells especially Rh positive cells in a mixed population with Rh negative cells, as is found in a fetal maternal hemorrhage (FMH).The magnetic particles coated with anti-D antibodies are reacted with the Rh positive fetal cells in Rh negative maternal blood followed by a specific separation and quantifying technique.Gravitational forces or magnetic forces are used to move reacted magnetic particles to isolate, distinguish and quantify cells differentiated by antigenic composition.Rh positive cell volume is correlated to the volume of the original blood sample as an indication of the number of doses of RhIG needed to be administered to the mother to prevent subsequent Rh immunization. |
| US10107809B2 |
Glass bead flow rates to facilitate immunodiagnostic test element manufacture
A method is provided for of preparing a glass bead mixture using inert nanoparticles to improve flow rates of the glass beads for purposes of manufacturing an immunodiagnostic test element, such as a column agglutination test cassette. The immunodiagnostic test element includes a plurality of test columns including an aqueous reagent in each test column. |
| US10107808B2 |
Biosensor, cartridge storing biosensor, measurement device using biosensor
There are provided a biosensor, and a measurement device in which the biosensor is used, with which accurate puncture is enabled and reliability of measurement results are improved. The biosensor comprises an element substrate, a detector, a connection terminal, a continuity path, and a cutout. The detector is provided over the element substrate, and receives a specimen and detects a specific component contained in the specimen. The connection terminal is provided over the element substrate and acquires current corresponding to the specific component. The continuity path connects the connection terminal and the detector. The cutout is formed along the outer periphery of the detector so as to surround two or more directions of the detector. |
| US10107807B2 |
One dimensional photonic crystals for enhanced fluorescence based sensing, imaging and assays
Techniques for enhanced fluorescence include a functionalized substrate for a target optical frequency comprising a one dimensional photonic crystal that is functionalized with a bioactive target molecule that has an affinity for a particular analytic. The one dimensional photonic crystal includes a plurality of dielectric layers including a plurality of high index of refraction layers alternating with a plurality of low index of refraction layers. The thickness of each layer is within a factor of four of a wavelength of the optical frequency in the layer. For emissions from a fluorophore bound to the target molecule and excited by incident light, there is an emission intensity maximum centered at an angle independent of the direction of the incident light. |
| US10107806B2 |
Apparatus for the automatic performance of immunohaematology analysis on gel cards
The apparatus has a containing body with a flat upper functional floor for containing receptacles of reagents, diluents and samples, as well as housings for gel cards and incubators for the same; a lower floor containing receptacles for washing liquids and the collection of waste and cards and for housing the fluid control and electronic control system; a series of longitudinal and transverse guides associated with the upper part of the apparatus, suitable for carrying in suspension the moving heads of the apparatus, the heads being movable on the transverse guides; two heads, respectively for perforation and pipetting and for the transport of gel cards; two centrifuges and a gel card reader; and a folding touch screen providing information and control. |
| US10107802B2 |
Method for measuring modified nucleobase using solid phase probe, and kit for same
The present invention provides a technique that suppresses a background value of a detection signal to construct an immunoassay system that detects a modified nucleobase. Specifically, the present invention provides a method for measuring a modified nucleobase including incubating a nucleic acid sample, a capture probe, and a solid phase probe in a solution and measuring a modified nucleobase using an antibody against the modified nucleobase in the obtained solution. The present invention also provides a kit for measuring a modified nucleobase including a capture probe, a solid phase probe, and an antibody against a modified nucleobase. |
| US10107793B2 |
Method for recovering metal
A method for recovering a metal that uses a reduced amount of a chelating agent is described, where the method includes a complex forming step of forming, in a mixture, a complex between a metal in a sample and a chelating agent; a complex depositing step of depositing the complex in the mixture; and a metal recovering step of recovering the deposited complex from the mixture, thereby recovering the metal in the sample. |
| US10107792B2 |
Cell potential measuring electrode assembly and method for measuring electric potential change of cell using the same
The present invention provides a cell potential measuring electrode assembly comprising: an insulating substrate; a conductive pattern arranged in the insulating substrate; an insulating fiber having cell compatibility; and a measurement electrode. The insulating fiber is arranged on the insulating substrate. The measurement electrode has a front surface and a back surface. The back surface of the measurement electrode is in contact with the conductive pattern. The insulating fiber is not arranged on the front surface of the measurement electrode. The cell potential measuring electrode assembly according to the present invention has low impedance. The cell potential measuring electrode assembly according to the present invention is suitable to measure electric potential change of a cardiomyocyte. |
| US10107789B2 |
Multi-component fluid determination in a well bore
A fluid measurement system and method for determining component mixtures flowing in a conduit such as an oil well. The system includes a sensor wire for location in a well bore; a signal generator for injecting a high frequency signal along the wire; a data acquisition unit to record first reflected signals received from the wire; a system criteria unit to maintain a data set relevant to the system, and a processor unit operable to act upon the first reflected signals and the data set to establish an output indicative of component fluid within the well bore from which the mixture of fluids flowing within the well bore can be determined. An iterative process can be used with waveguide and probabilistic models. |
| US10107788B2 |
Multi-sensor analysis of complex geologic materials
Systems and methods for analyzing an unknown geological sample are disclosed. The system may include at least two analytical subsystems, and each of the at least two analytical subsystems provides different information about the geological sample. The data sets from various analytic subsystems are combined for further analysis, and the system includes a chemometric calibration model that relates geological attributes from analytical data previously obtained from at least two analytical techniques. A prediction engine applies the chemometric calibration model to the combined analytical information from the geological sample to predict specific geological attributes in the unknown geological sample. |
| US10107785B2 |
Quantitative liquid texture measurement apparatus and method
A photo acoustic non-destructive measurement apparatus and method for quantitatively measuring texture of a liquid. The apparatus includes a laser generating tool, an acoustic capturing device, and a data processing unit. The laser generating tool directs a laser towards a surface of a liquid contained in a container and creates pressure waves that propagate through the air and produce an acoustic signal. The acoustic capturing device records and forwards the signal to a data processing unit. The data processing unit further comprises a digital signal processing module that processes the received acoustic signal. A statistical processing module further filters the acoustic signal from the data processing unit and generates a quantitative acoustic model for texture attributes such as hardness and fracturability. The quantitative model is correlated with a qualitative texture measurement from a descriptive expert panel. Textures of liquids are quantitatively measured with the quantitative acoustic model. |
| US10107782B2 |
Method to perform limited two dimensional separation of proteins and other biologicals
A method and apparatus are provided for performing capillary isoelectric focusing followed by mobilization of the focused zones by induced hydrodynamic flow or chemical mobilization. These two dimensions of separation are integrated with real-time whole-channel electrophoresis detection and automatic sample injection to achieve a separation resolution superior to that obtainable using known orthogonal capillary two dimensional arrangements. |
| US10107781B2 |
Method for separating biological molecules and cells in solution
A method for separating a plurality of deformable objects, such as biological cells or biological supramolecules such as DNA, in a liquid medium by use of an electrophoretic technique combined with hydrodynamic forces. The deformable objects are introduced into a channel, having a flow axis and a cross section at right angles to the flow axis, with the minimum size of the cross section being less than or equal to 50 pm; A hydrodynamic flow is defined a in the channel together with the application of an electric field in the channel, making it possible to move the deformable objects in the channel according to the flow axis and to separate them along the flow axis. A device suitable for implementing this method. The electrolyte used for the electrophoretic separation may be a non-Newtonian fluid with viscoelastic properties. |
| US10107780B2 |
Dip-stick western blot
Methods, kits, and systems are provided for separating, immobilizing, and/or detecting analytes of one or more samples using dipsticks. A ‘dipstick’ is an object that can be embedded and subsequently removed from a separation medium, and to which analytes can be immobilized while the object is embedded in the separation medium. Examples of separation media include an electrophoresis gel of any format and a stationary phase for column chromatography. Embodiments of the present methods include applying a sample to a separation medium; separating analytes of the sample in the separation medium along a separation axis; immobilizing the analytes on a dipstick embedded in the separation medium; removing the dipstick from the separation medium; and detecting the analytes immobilized on the removed dipstick. |
| US10107778B2 |
System and method for detecting lysyl oxidase-like 2 protein (LOXL2) and breast cancer
A detection system for determining lysyl oxidase-like 2 protein (LOXL2) levels in a bodily sample, includes at least one reaction solution for generating H2O2 upon combination with LOXL2 in the bodily sample, the reaction solution including lysine that can be oxidatively deaminated by LOXL2 to generate α-aminoadipic-δ-semialdehyde (allysine) and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2). |
| US10107776B1 |
Glucose-sensing device with maltose blocking layer
This disclosure relates to a nanoporous composition including a number of clusters of nanoparticles dispersed in a liquid, a nanoporous layer formed of the nanoporous composition, a glucose-oxidation electrode including the nanoporous layer, and a glucose-sensing device and system including the glucose-oxidation electrode. This disclosure also relates to a method of making the nanoporous composition, the nanoporous layer, the glucose-oxidation electrode and the glucose-sensing device and system. Further, this disclosure also relates to devices, systems and methods for continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) and blood glucose monitoring (BGM). |
| US10107774B2 |
Optically interfaced fuel characteristic sensor
A sensor assembly includes a capacitive probe, a resistive element, an electronic circuit and an optical interface. A capacitance of the capacitive probe and a resistance of the resistive element are indicative of characteristics of an environment. The electronic circuit is configured to convert the capacitance and the resistance into optical data. The optical interface is configured to provide the optical data to an optical link. |
| US10107770B2 |
Portable apparatus for soil chemical characterization
The present invention determines one or more properties of a soil sample by scanning a soil sample using a visible near infrared diffuse reflectance (VisNIR) spectroradiometer, scanning the soil sample using a x-ray fluorescence (PXRF) spectrometer, receiving a diffuse reflectance spectra from the VisNIR spectroradiometer and an elemental data from the PXRF spectrometer, determining one or more properties of the soil sample using one or more processors and a predictive model that relates the diffuse reflectance spectra and the elemental data to the one or more properties, and providing the one or more properties of the soil sample to one or more input/output interface. |
| US10107769B2 |
Multimodality mineralogy segmentation system and method
A multimodality imaging system and method for mineralogy segmentation is disclosed. Image datasets of the sample are generated for one or more modalities, including x-ray and focused ion beam scanning electron microscope (FIB-SEM) modalities. Mineral maps are then created using Energy Dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX) from at least part of the sample covered by the image datasets. The EDX mineral maps are applied as a mask to the image datasets to identify and label regions of minerals within the sample. Feature vectors are then extracted from the labeled regions via feature generators such as Gabor filters. Finally, machine learning training and classification algorithms such as Random Forest are applied to the extracted feature vectors to construct a segmented image representation of the sample that classifies the minerals within the sample. |
| US10107762B2 |
Examination device
The present invention provides an inspection device that is capable of detecting foreign matter with high accuracy, the inspection device including: a light source; an electro-optic element on which light from the light source is incident and which changes a phase of the light into at least two states; and a controller. The controller corrects a phase fluctuation of the electro-optic element itself, using intensity modulation characteristics of the eletro-optic element which are obtained by changing an applied voltage that is input to the electro-optic element. |
| US10107761B2 |
Method and device for focusing in an inspection system
An inspection apparatus including: a substrate holder configured to hold a substrate; an aperture device; and an optical system configured to direct a first measurement beam of radiation onto the substrate, the first measurement beam having a first intensity distribution, and configured to direct a second focusing beam of radiation onto the substrate at a same time as the first measurement beam is directed on the substrate, the second focusing beam having a second intensity distribution, wherein at least part of the second intensity distribution is spatially separated from the first intensity distribution at least at the substrate and/or the aperture device. |
| US10107754B2 |
Blood analyzer and blood analyzing method
A blood analyzer comprises a sample preparing part configured to prepare a measurement sample from a blood sample, an staining dye and diluent, a detecting part configured to detect the fluorescent light intensity and the scattered light intensity, an output part, and an analyzing part configured to identify the population including red blood cells infected by ring-form malaria parasite based on the fluorescent light intensity and the scattered light intensity, and output to the output part the information relating to infection of Plasmodium falciparum based on the scattered light distribution of particles associated with the identified population that includes red blood cells infected by the ring-form malaria parasite. |
| US10107752B2 |
Scanning analyzer for single molecule detection and methods of use
The invention encompasses analyzers and analyzer systems that include a single molecule analyzer, methods of using the analyzer and analyzer systems to analyze samples, either for single molecules or for molecular complexes. The single molecule uses electromagnetic radiation that is translated through the sample to detect the presence or absence of a single molecule. The single molecule analyzer provided herein is useful for diagnostics because the analyzer detects single molecules with zero carryover between samples. |
| US10107750B2 |
Detecting device, detecting apparatus, and method for detecting presence of substance in container
A detecting apparatus includes a container, and a detecting device including a transmitting module and a receiving module. The transmitting module includes a light-emitting element provided at a first point of the container and operable to transmit a photo signal to propagate toward the container along an optical path. The receiving module includes a light-receiving element provided at a second point of the container and configured to receive the photo signal transmitted through the container. The receiving module is operable to determine whether a substance is present within the container based on receipt of the photo signal. An imaginary tangent plane tangent to the first point is not parallel to an imaginary tangent plane tangent to the second point. |
| US10107748B2 |
Optical sensing device for surface plasmon resonance (SPR) and optical sensing method using surface plasmon resonance (SPR)
An optical sensing device is provided, including a first polarizer, a second polarizer, wherein the first polarizer and the second polarizer have respective transmission axes aligned in orthogonal directions, an SPR sensor arrangement including an SPR sensing surface, the SPR sensor arrangement arranged to receive an incident light beam passed through a polarizer to be reflected at the SPR sensing surface and transmitted through a second polarizer to provide a transmitted light beam, a detector arrangement configured to detect the transmitted light beam, the transmitted light beam including a sensing signal and a reference signal, and a processor electrically coupled to the detector arrangement, the processor configured to perform a subtraction operation between the sensing signal and the reference signal. The optical sensing is based on a differential measurement scheme. The subtraction between the sensing signal and the reference signal cancels the common path noise and enhances the sensor resolution. |
| US10107746B2 |
System and method for immersion flow cytometry
An immersion cytometry system (200, 250) having a primary focusing optic immersed in a fluid stream (209) containing suspended particles (212). The system includes a light source (202) configured to illuminate a sensing region in the fluid stream that includes a focus of the primary optic. Light scattered and/or fluoresced from suspended particles passing through the sensing region is focused by an external tube lens on an external detector. The primary optic in one embodiment is a ball lens. In some embodiments, one or more filter/beam splitters on the optical axis reflect a portion of the signal light towards corresponding detectors, each filter being configured to reflect a preselected waveband of light. |
| US10107744B2 |
Frequency hopping spread spectrum (FHSS) fourier transform spectroscopy
Apparatus and techniques for broadband Fourier transform spectroscopy can include frequency hopping spread-spectrum spectroscopy approaches. For example, an excitation source power can be spread over a specified frequency bandwidth, such as by applying a sequence of short, transform-limited pulses to a sample. Each pulse can include a specified carrier frequency, and a corresponding bandwidth of the individual pulse can be determined by a frequency domain representation when Fourier transformed. A series of short excitation pulses can be used to create an excitation sequence, such as to deliver a specified or desired amount of power to the sample, such as by having the excitation source enabled for a time comparable to a free induction decay (FID) dephasing time. |
| US10107739B2 |
System and method for confocal raman-spectroscopic measurements of biological samples
Disclosed herein is a system, particularly a microscope system, for confocal Raman-spectroscopic measurements. The system is configured to detect minute sample amounts of microbes in a sample chamber with a lid, wherein the system is configured such that a comparably large working distance between the objective lens and the sample is sustained such that a measurement can be performed through the lid of the sample chamber. This allows for cultivating and measuring the sample in the same container. |
| US10107735B2 |
System and method for deforming and analyzing particles
A system for deforming and analyzing particles includes a substrate defining an inlet, and an outlet; a fluidic pathway fluidly coupled to the inlet and the outlet and defining a delivery region upstream of a deformation region configured to deform particles, wherein the fluidic pathway comprises a first branch configured to generate a first flow, and a second branch configured to generate a second flow that opposes the first flow, wherein an intersection of the first flow and the second flow defines the deformation region; a detection module including a sensor configured to generate a morphology dataset characterizing deformation of the particles, and a photodetector configured to generate a fluorescence dataset characterizing fluorescence of the particles; and a processor configured to output an analysis of the plurality of particles based at least in part on the deformation dataset and the fluorescent dataset for the plurality of particles. |
| US10107734B2 |
Cell analysis by mass cytometry
A combination of mutually exclusive cell-based analytical techniques can be applied to the same group of cells for analysis. The same group of cells can be prepared for analysis by each technique resulting with candidate cells targeted for mass cytometry analysis. This configuration allows for the correlation of the information between each technique to produce a matrix of multi dimension of cellular information with the same group of cells. |
| US10107733B2 |
System and method of sensor reconditioning in an exhaust aftertreatment system
The present disclosure relates to a system, apparatus, and method for reconditioning a particulate matter sensor in an exhaust aftertreatment system that will resist poisoning. The system and method includes receiving particulate matter data indicating a state of the particulate matter sensor; determining that the particulate matter sensor is in a full state based on the particulate matter data; activating a heating element of the particulate matter sensor to a multiple of intermittent temperatures that clean the sensor pre-patory to the next measurement. By this manner, many reactive chemicals are removed before they can react with and poison the sensor materials. |
| US10107732B2 |
Portable polymer tester
The present invention provides a polymer indentation method and tester that includes measuring the time taken by a polymeric material to recover a set portion of an initial deformation and use this duration as a material degradation indicator. The recovery time was found to be more sensitive to cable degradation than the specific compressive stillness (or indenter modulus) measured during the indentation phase, and this high sensitivity was achieved for both thermally aged and irradiated polymer. |
| US10107730B2 |
Drop weight tower for crack initiation in fracture mechanics samples
Drop-weight tower (110) for reproducibly initiating a crack in a material sample for fracture mechanics testing comprising a base (120) with a top surface upon which a sample holder (124) is mounted to grip a material sample, an attachment column (140) having a linear rail (142), a carriage (162) attached to the linear rail (142) and a stage (164) is attached to the carriage. The stage (164) includes a vertical rod (184) and a razor-blade holder (178). A weight is slidably mounted to the vertical rod (184). The carriage is used to adjust the height of the stage (164) relative to the material sample. A hammer (180) slides up and down the vertical rod (184) to apply consistent and reproducible force on the razor (178) that then initiates the crack in the material sample. |
| US10107729B2 |
Isolation, detection and use of biological cells
This invention relates to devices and methods for purifying, detecting and using biological cells. A variety of cell types including viable tumor, stem, immune and sperm cells can be purified from a complex biological sample using a column, including a pipette tip column. Methods of the invention can aid research, diagnosis and treatment of cancer. Purified viable cells can be detected on the column or eluted from the column and detected. Cells on a column can be used as a stationary phase for liquid chromatography. Cells may be removed, recovered and analyzed. |
| US10107725B2 |
Multi-spectral imaging including at least one common stain
A method including: providing a sample with M components to be labeled, where M>2; labeling the components with N stains, where N |
| US10107724B2 |
System for piercing a sealing membrane
The invention provides a piercing system for piercing at least one sealing membrane (18) closing off at least one cavity (14) of a receptacle, said system including a piercing member (110) configured to puncture the sealing membrane (18) and an ionizing device for removing the electrostatic charges that might be carried by said cavity (14). In accordance with the invention, said ionizing device comprises the piercing member (110) that is adapted to present ionizing properties. The invention also provides a method of piercing at least one sealing membrane (18) closing off at least one cavity (14) of a receptacle, said method comprising piercing the sealing membrane (18) in order to open up said cavity (14), and removing the electrostatic charges that might be carried by said cavity (14), wherein the sealing membrane (18) is pierced and the electrostatic charges is removed by a piercing member (110) adapted to present ionizing properties. |
| US10107719B2 |
Mass-balancing arrangement and microtome using same
A mass-balancing arrangement comprises an adjustably pre-loaded spring member (14); a pivotably mounted lever (16; 31) for compensating different inertial forces in combination with the spring member (14); a first drawing member (24) connecting a movable mass to the lever (16); a second drawing member (17) connecting the spring member (14) to the lever (16); and a first roller (15) for deflecting the first drawing member (24). The lever (16; 31) has an upper lever arm (19; 32) and a lower lever arm (20; 33), one being sector-shaped and the other cam-shaped. The upper lever arm is connected to the movable mass through the first drawing member (24), and the lower lever arm is connected to the spring (14) through the second drawing member (24). Two torques produced at the upper and lower lever arms are kept balanced. The balanced mass may be an object carriage of a microtome. |
| US10107716B2 |
Systems and methods for testing a gas turbine
Embodiments of the disclosure relate to performance testing of a gas turbine. In one embodiment, a gas turbine performance testing system can include a server, a transducer system, a signal converter, and an automated gas chromatograph. The transducer system acquires one or more functional parameters of the gas turbine and the signal converter converts the functional parameters acquired by the transducer system to gas turbine operational data. The automated gas chromatograph automatically analyzes a test sample of a natural gas that is used to operate the gas turbine. The gas turbine operational data generated by the signal converter and the analysis information obtained from the test sample are provided to the server for propagating via a communication network, to a client computer where the gas turbine operational data and the analysis information can be used to obtain a gas turbine performance test result. |
| US10107714B2 |
Merging technique for OTDR traces captured by using different settings
An Optical Time Domain Reflectometer (OTDR) tests an optical fiber by generating, transmitting, and receiving light signals from an optical fiber. The OTDR generates light signals having different characteristics and stitches these light signals into an OTDR trace. Backscatter and properties such as dynamic range effect the quality of the OTDR trace. |
| US10107712B2 |
Automated blowout preventer control and testing system
A method and apparatus for testing a blowout preventer, which includes a plurality of safety devices and an assembly of fluid control valves that are remotely actuatable to an open and closed position for controlling flow of drillings fluids into a well, includes a hydraulic power unit control valves to a test orientation. A hydrostatic test system supplies fluid under first and second test pressure and documents any pressure loss due to fluid leaks within a closed system. |
| US10107710B2 |
Mounting device for acoustic leak detection sensors
A sensor unit to detect fluid movement and/or leakage from a pipe may be attached to a mounting device that is attached to a pipe by a clamp. The mounting device may be configured to transmit vibrations from the pipe and clamp to the sensor. The sensor unit may be attached to the mount in a manner that may be performed rapidly and without tools, and which results in a connection that is not so tight as to damage the sensor, or so loose as to provide inadequate support. The sensor may be attached by connecting at least a portion of the sensor to at least a portion of the mount, using rotation of a key in a track and a latch to securely hold the sensor in the mounting device. |
| US10107704B2 |
Torque estimating device of gas compressor
A torque estimating device of a gas compressor includes a reference torque characteristic storage unit that stores a reference torque characteristic of the gas compressor as a torque characteristic of the gas compressor in a specific operation state, a torque setting unit that sets a torque corresponding to an input speed of rotation of the gas compressor and pressure of a refrigerant discharged from the gas compressor, on the basis of the reference torque characteristic stored in the reference torque characteristic storage unit, and a torque correcting unit that sets a torque at startup of the gas compressor among the torques set by the torque setting unit, by correcting the torque set by the torque setting unit, in accordance with the speed of rotation and an elapsed time from startup. |
| US10107701B2 |
Pressure sensor with differential capacitive output
A MEMS pressure sensor device is provided that can provide both a linear output with regard to external pressure, and a differential capacitance output so as to improve the signal amplitude level. These benefits are provided through use of a rotating proof mass that generates capacitive output from electrodes configured at both ends of the rotating proof mass. Sensor output can then be generated using a difference between the capacitances generated from the ends of the rotating proof mass. An additional benefit of such a configuration is that the differential capacitance output changes in a more linear fashion with respect to external pressure changes than does a capacitive output from traditional MEMS pressure sensors. |
| US10107699B2 |
Wireless enabled tension meter
A wireless-enabled tension meter is disclosed. The wireless-enabled tension meter can include a pulley arrangement through which a portion of a guiding member is routed for use during a pull of conductor through a conduit network. A tension force is exerted on the guiding member during the pull as the guiding member is pulled through the pulley arrangement. The wireless-enabled tension meter can also include a sensor for measuring the tension force, a wireless network interface, and a control module for performing operations. The operations performed by the control module can include capturing data corresponding to the tension force and causing the wireless network interface to send the data to a wireless communication device. |
| US10107691B2 |
Fabrication method for micromechanical sensors
In one approach, a method of fabricating radiation detection devices includes: forming a structural layer overlying a frontside of a substrate; forming a metallic layer overlying the structural layer; releasing each of a plurality of devices on the substrate by etching a backside of the substrate, wherein each device comprises a plate and legs attached to the plate, the legs comprising at least a portion of the metallic layer; and sealing each of the plurality of devices, the sealing comprising: attaching a transparent cavity cap to the frontside of the substrate; and attaching a radiation-transparent substrate to the backside of the substrate. |
| US10107690B2 |
Measuring temperature of metallic part under uniaxial deformation pressure by optical pyrometry
A method for preparing a metal part pressurized under isentropic, shock-type or compression-type, uniaxial deformation conditions, so as to measure the temperature of same by optical pyrometry. The method includes forming an emissive coating on a face of the metal part, having a thickness of 250 to 550 nm, and fixing an anvil-shaped window on the emissive coating. The emissive coating includes a first and a second layer of amorphous carbon, the first layer being inserted between the face of the metal part and the second layer, and having a carbon hybridization rate sp3 greater than the carbon hybridization rate sp3 of the second layer. A method for measuring, by optical pyrometry, the temperature of a metal part pressurized under isentropic, shock-type or compression-type, uniaxial deformation conditions. |
| US10107689B2 |
Infrared temperature sensor and device using infrared temperature sensor
Provided are: an infrared temperature sensor which is reduced in film deformation and achieves higher accuracy, while ensuring reliability; and a device which uses this infrared temperature sensor. An infrared temperature sensor is provided with: a film which absorbs infrared light; a case which covers and holds the film so as to form airtight spaces between itself and the film, and which is provided with a light guide part that has an opening and guides infrared light and a shielding part that has a shielding wall and shields infrared light; ventilation portion which allow air permeation between the spaces and the outside; a heat-sensitive element for infrared detection, which is arranged on the film at a position that corresponds to the light guide part; and a heat-sensitive element for temperature compensation, which is arranged on the film at a position that corresponds to the shielding part. |
| US10107688B2 |
Apparatus for measuring temperature of glass melting furnace
An apparatus for measuring the temperature of a glass melting furnace includes a glass window part which has a transparent glass window and is mounted to a temperature measurement hole of the glass melting furnace and extended outward from the glass melting furnace, and a camera part which has a thermographic camera to capture image of an inside of the glass melting furnace through the glass window part. The measuring apparatus supplies cooling gas into the through hole in upper and lower directions, thereby preventing the surface of the glass window from being covered with fumes, and confines heated gases and fumes to the glass melting furnace. |
| US10107682B1 |
Non-circular aperture reflective imager
Reflective imager sub-systems that have a non-circular entrance pupil and provide substantially increased throughput to a detecting component of a system are disclosed. |
| US10107681B2 |
Tube-type lens, optical emission spectroscopy (OES) apparatus including the tube-type lens, plasma monitoring system including the OES apparatus, and method of manufacturing semiconductor device by using the plasma monitoring system
Provided are a tube-type lens usable for accurately detecting a plasma state in a plasma process, an optical emission spectroscopy (OES) apparatus including the tube-type lens, a plasma monitoring system including the OES apparatus, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device by using the plasma monitoring system. The tube-type lens includes: a cylindrical tube; a first lens disposed at an entrance of the cylindrical tube, on which light is incident, the first lens including a central portion which prevents transmission of the light and a second lens disposed at an exit of the cylindrical tube, from which the light exits. |
| US10107676B2 |
Adaptive acoustic intensity analyzer
Systems and method for providing an audio output with an acoustic intensity analyzer. The acoustic intensity analyzer includes an acoustic intensity array, a controller, and an orientation sensor. The acoustic intensity array is fixed to the acoustic intensity analyzer. The controller is coupled to the acoustic intensity array to produce the audio output using acoustic holography based on an input from the acoustic intensity array. The controller is configured to set an aim of the acoustic holography in a selected direction. The orientation sensor is coupled to the controller and mechanically fixed to the acoustic intensity analyzer such that there is no relative movement between the orientation sensor and the acoustic intensity array. The orientation sensor detects a change in an orientation of the acoustic intensity array and provides an orientation signal to the controller for adjusting the aim of the acoustic holography to maintain the selected direction. |
| US10107671B2 |
Device for determining the filling level of a fluid
A device for determining the filling level of a fluid in a container, in particular in the oil reservoir of a vehicle, is provided. The device has at least one sensor element, at least one control unit, at least one energy source, and at least one transmitting unit for wireless transmission of measured data. The at least one energy source is a thermal generator, in particular a thermocouple. The device has at least one energy storage device. The thermal generator is configured for measuring a time-dependent temperature gradient, the thermal generator has a signal-conducting connection to the control unit, and the control unit is configured for placing the device from an energy-saving state into a ready-to-measure state. A method for determining the filling level of a fluid in a container using the device, and a vehicle with the device, in particular a motor vehicle, are also provided. |
| US10107670B2 |
Apparatus for determining and/or monitoring at least one process variable
An apparatus for determining and/or monitoring at least one process variable of a medium in a container comprising an oscillatable unit for introduction into the container; a housing, wherein the oscillatable unit is connected with the housing such that the oscillatable unit closes the housing terminally; at least one hollow space in the oscillatable unit which is accessible from an inner space formed by the housing; and a driving/receiving unit for exciting the oscillatable unit to execute mechanical oscillations and for receiving the mechanical oscillations and for transducing them into an electrical, received signal. Inventive features including that the driving/receiving unit is present in such a manner in the hollow space and that the hollow space is filled with a potting material in such a manner that the driving/receiving unit is connected via the potting material for force coupling with a wall of the hollow space. |
| US10107667B2 |
Liquid level indicating
Examples provide a series of heaters supported at different depths within the volume. A series of temperature sensors is supported at different depths within the volume. The temperature sensors output signals indicative of dissipation of heat from the heaters to indicate a level of the liquid within the volume. |
| US10107666B2 |
Water level monitoring method
A method for detecting water level in a water tank that includes a probe voltage value acquiring step comprising periodically acquiring a voltage value of a water level probe as a probe voltage value; a voltage value comparing step that compares the probe voltage value with a stored voltage threshold value, if the probe voltage value is lower than the voltage threshold value, the method determines that the water tank level is higher than the water level probe and updates the water data to be the probe voltage value, and if the probe voltage value is higher than the voltage threshold value, the method determines that the water tank level is lower than the water level probe and updates the waterless data to be the probe voltage value; and a threshold value updating step that updates the voltage threshold value in response to the water data and the waterless data. |
| US10107661B2 |
Thermal flowmeter with energy storage element
A thin-film sensor for a thermal flowmeter with at least a first substrate layer made of electrically non-conductive material, a second layer made of electrically conductive material and a cover layer to protect the resistance layer against abrasion, wherein the second layer is designed as two sensor elements, wherein at least a first of the two sensor elements is designed to introduce a heat quantity into a medium, and at least a second of the two sensor elements is designed to determine the ambient temperature, and the thin-film sensor has a gap that isolates the two sensor elements from one another. |
| US10107657B2 |
Monitoring system
A system (2) for monitoring resource flows at a number of devices (D1, D2, D3) includes a receiving unit (4) which receives data from a number of sensors (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5) configured to detect the flow rate and/or the change in the flow rate at device level, and a number of meters (M1, M2, M3) configured to measure the flow for at least a part of the devices (D1, D2, D3). The system (2) has a calculation module (8) configured to receive information from the sensors (S1, S2, S3, S4, S5) and the meters (M1, M2, M3), and the calculation module (8) includes a mathematical statistical model (38) configured to estimate and/or predict flow of resource and/or performance (e.g., activity) of at least a selection of the devices (D1, D2, D3). |
| US10107653B2 |
Sensor device and electronic apparatus
A sensor device includes a mounting member having fixation surfaces inside, and at least one electronic component directly or indirectly fixed to the fixation surfaces of the mounting member, and the mounting member constitutes a part of a casing for housing the electronic component. Further, the fixation surfaces are perpendicular to each other. |
| US10107652B2 |
Method for measuring displacements of object
The invention relates to measurement technology and is used to determine the absolute displacements of objects in metallurgy, automotive industry, warehouse and production logistics, and in the automation of production. The technical result is achieved when the following steps are performed: the displacement transducer is mounted on the object; signal sources are mounted along the trajectory of the object displacement; on each section of the trajectory, an arrangement of the signal sources is provided which is determined by changing the number of signal sources and/or the distance between any two signal sources; a signal is sent to the moving object with transducer; an output signal is received from the transducer regarding the location of the signal sources located within the measurement range; the object location is determined; furthermore, the displacement is measured at a distance exceeding the length of the active zone of the transducer. |
| US10107651B2 |
Low-complexity brillouin optical time-domain reflectometers using syb-nyquist sampling
Methods and systems for Brillouin optical time-domain reflectometry include optically filtering out non-Brillouin signals reflected from a fiber. Brillouin signals reflected from the fiber are coupled with a local oscillator to produce a Brillouin shift signals. The Brillouin shift signals are converted to an electrical domain using a photodetector. The electrical Brillouin shift signals are converted to a digital domain using a low-speed analog-to-digital converter that has a sampling rate below a Nyquist rate sufficient to fully resolve the electrical Brillouin shift signals. |
| US10107650B2 |
Systems and methods for measuring angular position of a laser beam emitter
Systems and methods for measuring the angular position of a laser beam emitter using only distance measurements. What is physically measured is a feature that is affixed to the laser beam emitter and moves with it. Respective distances which are respective functions of the azimuth and zenith angles are measured using respective position encoders. In accordance with some embodiments, the respective distances are measured using linear encoders (optical or magnetic); in accordance with other embodiments, the respective distances are measured using laser interferometer-based encoders. |
| US10107649B2 |
Test and measurement instrument using combined signals
A test and measurement instrument including a plurality of digitizers, each digitizer configured to digitize an input signal to generate a digitized signal; a signal processor configured to combine at least two of the digitized signals from the digitizers into a combined signal; and a circuit configured to receive the combined signal. |
| US10107645B2 |
Piezoelectric transducer device with flexible substrate
In an embodiment, a transducer device has a flexible substrate and a plurality of tiles coupled to the substrate. The tiles each include a plurality of piezoelectric transducer elements and a base adjoining and supporting the plurality of piezoelectric transducer elements. The substrate has disposed therein or thereon signal lines to serve as a backplane for communication to, from and/or among integrated circuitry of the tiles. In another embodiment, the integrated circuitry of the tiles are each pre-programmed to implement any of a respective plurality of operational modes. Signals exchanged with the tiles via the flexible substrate facilitate operation of the transducer device to provide a phased array of transducer elements. |
| US10107643B2 |
Message filtering based on destination, plan, intent, expectation, or route
Systems and methods for disseminating messages to a user via a mobile computing device are provided. In an embodiment, a route of the mobile computing device that includes at least a destination and one or more segments is determined, and one or more generally-broadcast messages, each corresponding to a geographic region, are received. A determination is made as to whether the mobile computing device, while traveling along the route to the destination, will traverse a particular geographic region associated with a particular generally-broadcast message of the one or more generally-broadcast messages; and if/when the mobile computing device will traverse the particular geographic region, the particular generally-broadcast message is disseminated, through the mobile computing device, to the user. |
| US10107642B2 |
Map information management and correction of geodata
A mobile communication device initiates display of a point of interest as being located at particular coordinates on a map. In response to receiving an input command from a user of the mobile communication device indicating that the particular location of the point of interest as specified by the map is incorrect, the mobile communication device forwards a communication (specifying a location of the mobile communication device and an identity of the point of interest) over a network to a map management resource. Based on feedback from the mobile communication device, the map management resource updates map data an actual location of the point of interest as opposed to an incorrect location as specified by the particular coordinates on the map. Subsequent distribution of the updated map information from the map management resource specifies the proper coordinates of the point of interest in the geographical region. |
| US10107641B2 |
Linear visualization of a driving route
A nonlinear route for traveling from a source to a destination is determined. The route includes a sequence of (i) route segments and (ii) intermediate geographic locations defining endpoints of the route segments. An initial linear visual representation of the route is generated and displayed via a user interface of a computing device. To generate the initial linear visual representation of the route, an initial subset of the intermediate geographic locations is selected. The initial subset does not include at least of the intermediate geographic locations in the sequence. Indicators of the intermediate geographic locations are positioned along a single line, and an interactive control is provided. When activated, the interactive control generates an expanded linear visual representation of the route. The expanded linear visual representation includes at least one of the intermediate geographic locations not selected for the initial linear visual representation. |
| US10107635B2 |
Method and system for determining and dynamically updating a route and driving style for passenger comfort
The disclosure provides for a method for determining a route for passenger comfort and operating a vehicle according to the determined route. To start, a set of routes from a start location to an end location may be determined. Each route includes one or more portions. For each route of the set of routes, a total motion sickness value is determined based on a sway motion sickness value, a surge motion sickness value, and a heave motion sickness value for each of the given portions. The total motion sickness value for a route reflects a likelihood that a user will experience motion sickness while in a vehicle along the route. A route may then be selected from the set of routes based on the total motion sickness value of each route of the set of routes, and the vehicle may be maneuvered according to the selected route. |
| US10107634B2 |
Vehicle system and navigation path selecting method of the same
A vehicle system includes: a battery; an input; and a processor configured to receive a user input setting a navigation destination through the input, to retrieve one or more first paths from a current location to the navigation destination, to retrieve charging stations which are able to arrive with a current drivable distance when the current drivable distance is smaller than a driving distance up to the navigation destination, to retrieve one or more second paths passing through the charging stations, to calculate a time taken to arrive at the navigation destination for each of the one or more second paths, and to select one path of the one or more second paths based on the time taken to arrive at the navigation destination. |
| US10107625B2 |
Integrated inertial sensing device
A CMOS IC substrate can include sense amplifiers, demodulation circuits and AGC loop circuit coupled to the MEMS gyroscope. The AGC loop acts in a way such that generated desired signal amplitude out of the drive signal maintains MEMS resonator velocity at a desired frequency and amplitude. The system can include charge pumps to create higher voltages as required in the system. The system can incorporate ADC to provide digital outputs that can be read via serial interface such as I2C. The system can also include temperature sensor which can be used to sense and output temperature of the chip and system and can be used to internally or externally compensate the gyroscope sensor measurements for temperature related changes. The CMOS IC substrate can be part of a system which can include a MEMS gyroscope having a MEMS sensor overlying the CMOS IC substrate. |
| US10107624B2 |
Geodetic surveying device with a microlens array
Some embodiments relate to a geodetic surveying device having a beam source for generating measurement radiation, a base defining a vertical axis, a support carrying a targeting unit and defining a tilt axis, the support being arranged on the base and rotatable relative to the base about the vertical axis, and the targeting unit being arranged rotatable relative to the support about the tilt axis, and an angle- and distance-measuring functionality. Moreover, the geodetic surveying device has an image acquisition unit for acquiring images of an object in a field of view defined by the image acquisition unit, and a control and processing unit. The image acquisition unit has at least an image sensor and a microlens array with a multiplicity of diffractive and/or refractive optical elements arranged in a defined two-dimensional manner. |
| US10107622B2 |
Go kart steering measurement tool
A go kart steering measurement tool for measuring at least one of a caster angle and a king pin angle of a front wheel steering mechanism of a go kart includes a tool body, and an axle engagement structure adapted to position the go kart steering measurement tool on an axle of the go kart, wherein the tool body has a target surface for making an impinging laser beam from a separate laser emission tool visible to a user of the go kart steering measurement tool, wherein the target surface has a first scale, including a plurality of first markings, and a second scale, including a plurality of second markings, with the first scale and the second scale having the same scaling, and wherein the first scale and the second scale are spaced apart, such that, upon the separate laser emission tool being attached to the front wheel steering mechanism and the front wheel steering mechanism being turned and the impinging laser beam moving across the target surface as a result thereof, a first measurement on the first scale and a second measurement on the second scale can be made by visual inspection, with a difference between the first measurement and the second measurement being an indication of the caster angle or of the king pin angle of a steerable stub axle of the go kart. |
| US10107616B2 |
Apparatus and method for space-division multiplexing optical coherence tomography
A space-division multiplexing optical coherence tomography apparatus and system is provided. In one embodiment, the system includes a light source, a reference arm, and a sample arm. The sample arm splits the sampling light into a plurality of sampling beams which may be scanned simultaneously onto a surface of a sample. An optical delay may be introduced into the sampling beams before scanning. A plurality of reflected light signals returned from the sample is collected. In one arrangement, the signals may be combined to produce a single reflected light signal. The reflected light signal(s) and a reference signal are combined to produce an interference signal comprising data representative of digitized images captured of the actual object. In one embodiment, a single sample arm may be used for scanning and collecting image data. A related method is also provided. |
| US10107615B2 |
Remote probe for optical measuring machine
A probe for an optical measurement system includes a probe body arranged to be adjustably mounted in a measuring machine for optically measuring a test object. A single mode fiber optically coupled within the probe body transmits a source beam having an instantaneous or sequentially established bandwidth spanning a range of wavelengths to the probe body and also transmits a measurement beam from the probe body toward a detector. An adjustable beam manipulator within the probe body spatially excludes portions of the reference beam over a progression of different size portions from being focused within the acceptance cone of the single mode fiber to more closely balance the intensities of the reflected object beam and the reflected reference beam within the measurement beam. |
| US10107603B2 |
Nock and nock receiver
An arrow nock and nock receiver assembly may include a nock and a nock receiver. The nock and nock receiver may attain relative longitudinal alignment by the engagement of a lip to a groove portion. The nock and nock receiver may attain relative longitudinal alignment by the engagement of a nock contact surface with a nock receiver contact surface. |
| US10107600B2 |
Device configuration to provide gunnery training and method of assembly
The present disclosure relates to firearm or gunnery training system. More particularly relates to a device and method for providing multiple movements of a target for firearm or gunnery practice. The device (20) comprising a frame unit (8) configured to accommodate a drive mechanism (28), which is configured to rotate a first shaft (1) within a first predetermined range of angle. The frame unit (8) comprises more than one face and at least one of the faces is configured as a base for the device (20). The device (20) further comprises a target holding bracket (6) removably connectable to a target (10) at one end (6a) and a holder mating block (5) at other end (6b). Also, an eccentric target holder (3) is removably connectable to the first shaft (1) at a first end (3a) and a holder mating block (5) at a second end (3b). The second end (3b) of the eccentric target holder (3) comprises one or more slots (3c) such that the holder mating block (5) is placed in any one of the one or more slots (3c) for orienting plane of the target (10) in at least one of parallel and perpendicular to the first shaft (1). |
| US10107597B2 |
Multi-position accessory mount
The multi-position sight mount secures two or more weapon sights to a firearm and allows each sight to be selectively rotated between a vertical “aiming” position and an offset “auxiliary” position. The sight mount is mounted atop a conventional firearms and oriented to selectively position each optical sights in line with the longitudinal axis of the firearm barrel. The sight mounting includes a rotating cylinder mounted between a pair of mounting brackets attached to the firearm. The cylinder can be manually rotated between discreet positions to selectively move each sight between a 12 o'clock “aiming” position atop the firearm and a radially offset 3 or 9 o'clock “auxiliary” position. |
| US10107591B2 |
Target marking system
A method of controlling a target marking system includes emitting a beam with a beam source associated with a target marker. The method also includes sensing movement of the target marker, and modifying operation of the beam source based on the sensed movement. Such modification changes a characteristic of the emitted beam. |
| US10107586B2 |
Vertical forward grip
The Vertical Forward Grip is a revolutionary new design, which increases shooter(s) accuracy, providing comfort to the shooter and increasing control of the weapon, while reducing fatigue to the shooter(s) overall stamina. The overall design, ergonomic feel, textured grip placement, ergonomic finger stabilization cradle and the ergonomic thumb-index finger cradle of the vertical forward grip allows the shooter(s) to remain comfortable for long periods, increasing accuracy and control, providing stabilization of the weapon and the design features are different from conventional vertical forward grip(s). Specific design features/improvements are incorporated into the vertical forward grip unlike the design of conventional vertical forward grip(s). Design features and improvements include: finger stabilization cradle, thumb-index finger cradle, textured grip placement, ergonomic grip feature (increased grip control and accuracy), quick turn-and-release base grip cap tube, quick turn-and-release cap tube to remove stored miscellaneous item(s). |
| US10107584B1 |
Cocking sled and arrow release for crossbows
An improved moveable cocking sled (5) and arrow release (7) for crossbows is described in the disclosure and illustrated in the embodiments in the drawings, where the cocking sled (5) may be latched to the crossbow string (1) and will couple to and be securely held by the arrow release (7) when the cocking sled (5) is drawn to cock the string (1). The cocking sled (5) includes two string latches (2), two latch release sears (4), two pulleys (3) for engaging corresponding ends of a cocking rope (30), and a rectangular hole (6) with a reverse-angle side tilted toward the crossbow string (1) at approximately a five degree angle. The string latches (2) each have a respective axle on which they rotate “open” and “closed”. The string latches (2) rotate “open” in response to a downward motion of their respective latch release sears (4) and rotate “closed” when moved forward by a shooter and pushed against the crossbow string (1). The illustrated crossbows include cheek guard covers (28) that rotate on the respective hinges (41) from the “open” position up to the “closed” position where they cover the cocked crossbow string (1) to prevent injury to the user's face should the crossbow string (1) malfunction or break. When a shooter's face is resting against one of the cheek guard covers (28) to aim or shoot the crossbow, the cocked string (1) latched by the cocking sled (5) is behind the front side of the shooter's face. |
| US10107583B2 |
Telematics sensors and camera activation in connection with firearm activity
Disclosed herein are apparatuses, systems, methods, and machine readable media for activating a portable camera in response to the activity of a firearm, and for implementing and using a system for identifying an individual who discharged a firearm, and for recording, assessing, identifying, and transmitting information related to the firing of a firearm, and for monitoring the status of an implement at a mount, and for using a charging device for delivering electrical power to components of a firearm. A communications channel may be established between a firearm telematics sensor and a video camera, sometimes by means of intermediary devices. A communications channel may be established between a mount (e.g., holster) telematics device and local and/or remote monitoring service components, sometimes by means of intermediary devices. When the telematics sensor detects that its associated firearm is removed from its holster, or in motion, or being discharged, it may signal the camera to initiate recording. When the telematics device detects that its associated firearm is removed from its holster, the change in status can be reported to the local and/or remote system. |
| US10107581B2 |
Firearm suppression device
The present invention pertains in general to the suppression of firearm and weapon systems to mitigate audible, visual and temperature profiles when in use. Embodiments of the invention include the use of a baffle system surrounded by a sleeve, further surrounded by an outer housing. The combination of these elements create a multi-volume device providing increased expansion volume within the device to mitigate firearm signature related to the expansion of gasses exiting the muzzle-end of a firearm. |
| US10107580B2 |
Trigger group for semi-automatic firearms
Trigger groups for semi-automatic firearms have a frame, a hammer connected to the frame and movable between a cocked position and a striking position, the hammer being biased toward the striking position, a trigger element connected to the frame and movable by a user between a forward position and a rearward position, a selector connected to the frame and movable between at least a first position and a second position, a plurality of retention facilities each operable to selectively restrain the hammer in the cocked position, and when the selector is in the first position to enable discharge of the firearm in response to movement of the trigger to the rearward position, and when the selector is in the second position to enable discharge of the firearm in response to movement of the trigger to the forward position after movement to the rearward position. |
| US10107579B2 |
Method of monitoring and trigger-locking a firearm
A method of monitoring and trigger-locking a firearm prevents unauthorized persons from firing the firearm. When a person picks up the firearm, a biometric scanner retrieves an unidentified biometric reading off of the person. The biometric scanner can be a palm-print reader and/or a fingerprint reader. If the unidentified biometric reading does not match an authorized user signature stored on a chipset of the firearm, and if the firearm has unlocked its trigger, then the firearm automatically locks its trigger. In addition, the firearm generates and broadcasts an unauthorized-use notification with a wireless communication module. If the unidentified biometric reading does match an authorized user signature stored on the chipset, and if the firearm has locked its trigger, then firearm automatically unlocks its trigger. The firearm also collects situational data from environmental sensors when the firearm discharges a round. |
| US10107563B2 |
Thermal energy storage and plant, method and use thereof
The invention provides a thermal energy storage and heat exchange unit, comprising a solid state thermal storage material, a heat transfer fluid and means for energy input and output, distinctive in that: the storage comprises at least one heat transfer container, solid state thermal storage material is arranged around the heat transfer container, and the heat transfer container contains the heat transfer fluid and the means for energy input and output, so that all heat transferring convection and conduction by the heat transfer fluid takes place within the respective heat transfer container. Method of building the thermal energy storage, plant comprising the storage, method using the plant and use of the storage or plant. |
| US10107559B2 |
Heat dissipation component
A heat dissipation component includes: a first main body having a first chamber; a second main body having a second chamber; a third main body having a third chamber; a first tubular body having a first flow way, two ends of the first tubular body being respectively connected with the first and second main bodies; and a second tubular body having a second flow way. The second tubular body is passed through the second main body and the first flow way. Two ends of the second tubular body are respectively connected with the first and third main bodies. A working fluid is filled in the first, second and third chambers. |
| US10107556B2 |
Conical heat exchanger
A heat exchanger having a conical-shaped core is disclosed. A first set of flow passages is formed between mating conical-shaped core plates, the mating plates forming plate pairs that are spaced apart from each other forming a second set of flow passages therebetween. A pair of oppositely disposed fluid openings are provided for inletting/discharging a fluid to/from the heat exchanger in a co-axial manner, the fluid openings being interconnected by a pair of fluid manifolds formed in the outer perimeter of the core, the second set of flow passages and a fluid manifold formed centrally through the heat exchanger. A second set of inlet/outlet manifolds formed within the perimeter of the core are interconnected by the first set of flow passages. Flow through the first set flow passages is peripheral around the perimeter of the conically-shaped core plates while flow through the second set of flow passages is along the angle defined by the conical-shaped plates. |
| US10107553B2 |
Heat exchanger
A heat exchanger includes a flow passage pipe that has a flat shape having a predetermined thickness, a heat medium flowing in the flow passage pipe, the heat medium exchanging heat with a heat exchange target, and an inner fin located inside the flow passage pipe. The inner fin includes a wavy fin that partitions a main passage into multiple partitioned passages, and a guide wall connected to the wavy fin. An x-direction is a lengthwise direction of the flow passage pipe, a z-direction is a thickness direction of the flow passage pipe, and a y-direction is a direction perpendicular to both the x-direction and the z-direction. The wavy fin includes a first convex portion convex to a first side in the y-direction, and a second convex portion convex to a second side in the y-direction. The wavy fin has an opening portion through which two partitioned passages adjacent to each other communicate with each other. The guide wall protrudes from the wavy fin into the partitioned passage. The heat exchanger is capable of enhancing a heat transfer and improving a thermal performance of the heat exchanger. |
| US10107552B2 |
Holding device for a heating element, and heater
A holding device for a heating element and a heater with at least one such holding device. The holding device is produced from a refractory metal or from an alloy on the basis of refractory metal, has at least two holding elements which are arranged perpendicularly or at least substantially perpendicularly to each other. A first holding element is at least partially arranged in an opening of a second holding element. |
| US10107551B2 |
Preparation of samples for XRF using flux and platinum crucible
A method of of preparing samples for XRF using a flux and a platinum crucible includes forming the flux into a free-standing crucible liner. This may be achieved by mixing lithium borate particles with a liquid to form a paste; placing the lithium borate paste onto the inner surface of a mould; and after drying removing from the mould and firing the lithium borate paste to dry the lithium borate to form a free-standing crucible liner. The liner may be placed within a platinum crucible and then a sample placed in the liner. The temperature of the crucible is raised to a sufficient temperature that any oxidation reaction takes place before taking the temperature above the melting temperature of the flux to melt the crucible liner and dissolve the sample into the flux. The crucible can then be cooled and XRF measurements made on the sample. |
| US10107550B2 |
Crucible materials
One embodiment provides an article, comprising: an inner container having a cavity, the inner container comprising a ceramic; and an outer container, the outer container comprising a susceptor; wherein at least a portion of an outer surface of the inner container is in contact with an inner surface of the outer container, and wherein the inner container is removable from the mold. Methods of melting using the present article are also provided. |
| US10107548B2 |
Heat transfer device
A heat transfer device is presented and more particularly a beverage cooling assembly comprising: one or more container holders with each having a first and a second wall with a chamber therebetween, the chamber having an inlet and an outlet and otherwise sealed, through which a circulating fluid is pumped from a reservoir, such as an ice chest; a reservoir adapter attached to the drain outlet of the ice chest and to a supply line, or a pump that is attached to the supply line that is attached to the inlet of the one or more containers, the first wall and a second wall forming a double-walled cylinder with a pocket for a beverage container. The circulating fluid is returned from the outlet of one or more container holders through a return line to the reservoir adapter and then connected to a long line placed through the reservoir adapter and then through the drain outlet of the ice chest, returning the circulating fluid to the reservoir away from the drain outlet. The first wall forms an inner cylindrical wall that is adjacent to the beverage container and is formed of a material having a low thermal resistance. The second wall forms an outer wall of the chamber surrounding the first wall is made is made of a material having a high thermal resistance and may be surrounded by an insulation layer. Distribution guides may be placed in the chamber to more effectively distribute the circulating fluid for effective heat transfer. |
| US10107547B1 |
Combined thermoelectric cooler and bottle warmer and methods thereof
A combined thermoelectric cooler and bottle warmer system for use at home and in vehicles, the system having a front and a back side, and having a lightweight and stable configuration, the system comprising: a bottle warmer/sterilizer/hot water unit located at the front of the system, the bottle warmer unit operated to heat a first bottle at temperatures ranging from ambient to 100 degrees C.; a control panel, located on the front of the system, the control panel serving to control the bottle warmer unit; a thermoelectric refrigerator unit; and a system enclosure enclosing the bottle warmer unit and the thermoelectric refrigerator unit; wherein the thermoelectric refrigerator unit and the bottle warmer unit are jointly and separately functional. |
| US10107546B2 |
Refrigerator and method of controlling the same
This disclosure is related to a refrigerator and a method of controlling the same. The refrigerator includes a dispenser passage, a water supplier for supplying sterilizing water or rinsing water to the dispenser passage, a drain for draining the sterilizing water or the rinsing water that is supplied to the dispenser passage, and a controller for performing a sterilization cycle and controlling the water supplier and the drain to perform a rinsing cycle after completing the sterilization cycle, wherein the sterilization cycle is a cycle of keeping the sterilizing water in the dispenser passage and then draining the sterilizing water, and the rinsing cycle is a cycle of supplying the rinsing water to the dispenser passage and draining the rinsing water therefrom. |
| US10107545B2 |
Air-conditioning apparatus for vehicle
An air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle includes a refrigerant heater 41 that is provided between an internal evaporator 8 and a suction side of an electric compressor 20 to be in parallel with an external evaporator 32, and heats a refrigerant which is suctioned into the electric compressor 20; and an air conditioning control apparatus 50 that determines whether the external evaporator 32 is frosted. While the air conditioning apparatus for a vehicle operates in a heating mode, when the air conditioning control apparatus 50 determines that the external evaporator 32 is frosted, a supply of the refrigerant subject to the heat exchange in an internal condenser 9 to the external evaporator 32 is stopped, and the refrigerant is supplied to the refrigerant heater 41, is heated and then, is suctioned into the electric compressor 20. |
| US10107540B2 |
Refrigerant system with liquid line to harvest line bypass
A refrigerant system includes a compressor connected to a first valve forming a harvest line, a condenser connected to the compressor by a first segment of conduit and an expansion device by a second segment of conduit with the condenser and the second segment of conduit forming a liquid line. A third segment of conduit is connected to the liquid line and the harvest line with the third segment of conduit having a second valve. The second valve allows flow of refrigerant from the liquid line to the harvest line through the third segment of conduit in an open position and the second valve blocking flow of the refrigerant from the liquid line to the harvest line through the third segment of conduit in a closed position. |
| US10107539B2 |
Refrigerator with a water and ice dispenser having an improved ice chute air seal
A refrigerator having an ice and water dispenser has a seal to sealingly engage the ice compartment when the refrigerator door is closed. The seal is flexible to accommodate manufacturing tolerance. The seal may be impregnated with a friction reducing agent to increase life of the seal. |
| US10107532B2 |
Refrigerant evaporator having a tank external refrigerant space
A refrigerant evaporator includes a first evaporation unit and a second evaporation unit disposed in series in a flow direction of fluid to be cooled by evaporating refrigerant. An intermediate tank portion through which refrigerant flows is connected to an outer surface of one tank portion of the first evaporation unit and an outer surface of one tank portion of the second evaporation unit. A tank external refrigerant space through which refrigerant flows is defined by an outer wall of the one tank portion of the first evaporation unit, an outer wall of the one tank portion of the second evaporation unit, and an outer wall of the intermediate tank portion. |
| US10107527B2 |
Field-active direct contact regenerator
Embodiments are directed to a heat pump element comprising: a thin-film polymer or ceramic material within a range of 0.1 microns-100 microns thickness, and electrodes coupled to both sides of the thin-film material to form an electroded active thin-film material, wherein the thin-film material is separated by, and in intimate contact with, a heat transfer fluid in channels within a range of 10 microns-10 millimeters thickness, in which the fluid is capable of being translated back and forth through the element by an imposed pressure field. |
| US10107519B2 |
Drain hose and air conditioner including the same
An air conditioner including a drain hose to be injection-molded is disclosed. An air conditioner includes a main body of an indoor unit, a heat exchanger disposed in the main body of the indoor unit, and a drain hose configured to discharge condensed water generated from the heat exchanger, wherein the drain hose is disposed in the main body and is injection-molded. |
| US10107513B2 |
Thermodynamic modeling for enclosures
Modeling the behavior of an enclosure for use by a control system of an HVAC system is described. A model for the enclosure that describes the enclosure's behavior for use by the control system is updated based on weather forecast data. The weather forecast data can include predictions more than 24 hours in the future, and can include predictions on temperature, humidity and/or dew point, solar output, precipitation. The model for the enclosure can also be updated based on additional information and data. The model for the enclosure can be updated based also on an enclosure model stored in a database, and/or enclosure information from a user. The model can be updated based on active testing of the enclosure which can be performed automatically or in response to user input. The testing can include heating and/or cooling the enclosure at times when the enclosure is not likely occupied. |
| US10107512B2 |
Fan coil apparatus including a humidification unit and a humidification unit
A fan coil includes a humidification unit having a water filter, a leak container, and a shut off valve. The water filter includes an inlet connectable to a source of water and a filtered water outlet in flow communication with a downstream portion of the humidification unit. The leak container includes a reservoir and a leak container water level detector. The leak container is positioned to receive water which leaks from the water filter or flow conduits leading to or from the water filter. The shut off valve is provided in the water supply conduit, and is operable between an open position and a closed position. The shut off valve is in the closed position when the leak container water level detector senses a high water level in the leak container. |
| US10107503B2 |
Cooktop with window and end plate, cooking appliance, and method for manufacturing the cooktop
A cooktop for a fixed or mobile cooking appliance, including a base plate, at least a part, or all, of a peripheral outer edge of a window not being in the plane of a peripheral outer edge of the base plate, at least one end plate which is made of different material than that of a seal and is disposed above or on the seal, at least a part of an outer surface of the seal which is located between the outer surface of the base plate and the outer surface of the window being covered by the end plate. |
| US10107499B2 |
Fuel plenum for a fuel nozzle and method of making same
A fuel plenum for a fuel nozzle assembly includes a gaseous fuel conduit, a conduit passage, and a liquid fuel conduit. Said gaseous fuel conduit received at a first end of said fuel plenum. Said fuel plenum is configured to distribute gaseous fuel received from said gaseous fuel conduit. Said conduit passage extends from the first end to a second end of said fuel plenum. Said conduit passage is at least partially defined by at least one interior wall of said fuel plenum. Said liquid fuel conduit defined by an outer wall and a portion of said liquid fuel conduit extending through said conduit passage. Said liquid fuel conduit outer wall is offset from said at least one interior wall. |
| US10107498B2 |
Injection systems for fuel and gas
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide injection systems for fuel and air. According to one embodiment, an injection system can include a mixing zone embedded within a surface of a turbine nozzle and positioned between a first outlet and a second outlet, the turbine nozzle separating a combustor of a power generation system from a turbine stage of the power generation system, wherein the first outlet is oriented substantially in opposition to the second outlet; a first injection conduit for delivering a carrier gas to the mixing zone through the first outlet; and a second injection conduit for delivering a fuel to the mixing zone through a second outlet; wherein the carrier gas and the fuel intermix within the mixing zone upon leaving the first injection conduit and the second injection conduit. |
| US10107493B2 |
All around radiation heating apparatus
The present invention provides a safer all-around radiation heating assembly than similar traditional heaters. As typical with traditional heaters, a shroud is used to surroundably cover a portable liquid propane tank. To replace the portable liquid propane tank, the shroud must be continuously raised to a predetermined height while a service person accesses the propane tank. There is a danger that if and when the shroud drops, a spark could be created resulting in igniting highly flammable escaped propane gas. The present invention overcomes dangers associated with the traditional heaters by eliminating the spark creation danger and by introducing a ventilation system to allow any leaked propane gas to escape away from the heater. |
| US10107492B2 |
Biomass-mixed, pulverized coal-fired burner and fuel combustion method
A biomass-mixed, pulverized coal-fired burner is provided, capable of burning biomass fuel as auxiliary fuel in large quantities and burning only pulverized coal when the biomass fuel is not sufficiently available. The biomass-mixed, pulverized coal-fired burner includes a biomass fuel jet nozzle that extends axially along the biomass-mixed, pulverized coal-fired burner, a fuel jet nozzle that is open midway in the biomass fuel jet nozzle, a secondary air nozzle that surrounds the fuel jet nozzle, and a tertiary air nozzle that surrounds the secondary air nozzle. A pulverized coal component in a fuel stream as a mixture of the pulverized coal fuel stream and the biomass fuel stream is distributed with a higher concentration on an outer circumferential wall side and a biomass fuel component in the fuel stream is distributed inside of the pulverized coal fuel component. |
| US10107491B2 |
Injection device and steam turbine system
An injection device for injecting injection fluid (chemicals) into piping through which fluid flows, the injection device comprising: an injection line through which the injection fluid flows, the injection line being connected to the piping; an injection pump disposed on the injection line; an extrusion line connected downstream of the injection pump and upstream of a target portion for air removal on the injection line; and an extrusion pump for feeding extrusion fluid to the extrusion line, wherein a discharge capacity of the extrusion pump is greater than a discharge capacity of the injection pump. |
| US10107487B2 |
LED light bulbs
LED light bulbs include openings in base or cover portions, and optional forced flow elements, for convective cooling. Thermally conductive optically transmissive material may be used for cooling, optionally including fins. A LED light engine may be fabricated from a substrate via planar fabrication techniques and shaped to form a substantially rigid upright support structure. Mechanical, electrical, and thermal connections may be made between a LED light engine and a LED light bulb. |
| US10107486B2 |
Light emitting diode module
Provided is a light emitting diode (LED) module. The LED module includes: a light emitting chip on a substrate; and an optical lens on the substrate configured to envelop the light emitting chip, wherein the optical lens includes a body comprising a groove receiving the light emitting chip therein and having a dome-shaped upper surface and a ring-shaped supporting portion protruding from a lower surface of the body. |
| US10107484B2 |
Lawn mower light
A lawn mower light for providing illumination while mowing a lawn in low visibility conditions. The lawn mower light is configured to be removably mounted to a lawn mower deck and includes a base having a fastener, such as a magnet on an underside thereof configured to removably affix the lawn mower light to a lawn mower deck. The base also includes a centrally located shaft having a head portion pivotally affixed thereon. The head portion includes a lighting assembly configured to provide illumination. The lighting assembly includes a power source, an activation switch, and a plurality of light sources. One of the plurality of light sources is disposed on a center point on the head portion, wherein the remaining plurality of light sources are disposed radially therearound. |
| US10107481B1 |
Lamp support stabilizer
A lamp support stabilizer has an integral, unitary body having a plate shaped base member with dual lateral tension clips extending down from the base member. An adhesive member is attached to the bottom surface of the base member. A columnar support member having an internal channel extends up from the top surface of the base member. The adhesive member with the stabilizer attached is configured to be positioned on the electrical socket, with the tension clips tightly hugging the sides of the socket. The lamp support on which LED lights are mounted is positioned within the channel located in the columnar support. |
| US10107480B1 |
Light fixture with pivoting sensor assembly
A light fixture includes one or more light modules and a sensor module coupled to a housing of the light fixture. The sensor module includes an extension arm and a sensor unit that is rotatably coupled to one end of the extension arm. The other end of the extension arm that is opposite to the end coupled to the sensor unit is pivotably coupled to the housing of the light fixture to pivotably rotate the sensor module between a first position and a second position based on a mounting of the light fixture. Further, the sensor unit is adjustable independent of the extension arm. |
| US10107479B1 |
Interchangeable lamp shade for a lighting fixture and method of assembly
An interchangeable lamp shade including an upper rigid frame. An interchangeable cover can be disposed on the upper rigid frame, the interchangeable cover having a sidewall and an upper end having an upper perimeter. An upper resilient band can be positioned on the cover and can extend along the upper perimeter of the cover. The upper rigid frame can be positioned between the upper resilient band and the sidewall of the cover, the upper resilient band resistant to twisting away from the upper rigid frame to retain the upper rigid frame between the upper resilient band and the sidewall of the cover. A method of assembling an interchangeable lamp shade of the present disclosure. |
| US10107478B1 |
Light assembly
A light assembly includes a laser light emitting diode for emitting a light beam along an axis and a diffusing assembly for deflecting the light beam substantially 360 degrees around the axis. The diffusing assembly includes a light diffuser for receiving and scattering a light beam emitted from the diode, a phosphor tube for further scattering the light emitted from the diffuser, and a mirror for returning any light with is not deflected radially through the phosphor tube back into the phosphor tube. The deflector has a reflective end surface to allow the light repeated passes thorough the phosphor tube until it escapes radially through the tube. |
| US10107474B2 |
Lens module and light emitting diode package including the same
Provided are a lens module and a light emitting diode package including the lens module, the lens module, including: a lens part; support parts extending from the outside of the lens part; and connection parts formed on the support parts, respectively. |
| US10107473B2 |
Irradiation apparatus having radiation unit
An irradiation apparatus includes a radiation unit for the emission of radiation in the form of a beam, a first microlens arrangement, downstream of the radiation unit, having a multiplicity of convergent microlenses, for dividing the beam into one partial beam per convergent microlens, and a convergent lens, downstream of the microlens arrangement, that overlays the partial beams, in an irradiated area. The microlenses have a first group and a second group. The microlenses in each group are identical, but the microlenses in the first group differ from the microlenses in the second group from their shape, size and/or focal length, so that a first region of the irradiated area, which is irradiated via the microlenses in the first group, differs from a second region of the irradiated area, which is irradiated by the microlenses in the second group, from its shape and/or its size. |
| US10107472B2 |
Luminaire with slot-mounted LED module
A luminaire has a LED module, a block structure with a cavity, a plurality of fins extending from the block structure, and a slot extending through a sidewall of the block into the cavity. The LED module is slidably received on a mounting surface of the slot and configured to project light through an aperture of the cavity. The mounting surface has an area equal to or larger than that of the aperture. |
| US10107471B2 |
Light fixture including an oriented crosslinked semi-crystalline polymer and methods of making same
Light fixtures (100, 200, 400, 500, 600, 700) are provided, including a lighting element (10, 20, 40, 50, 60, 70), an oriented crosslinked semi-crystalline polymer (12, 22, 42, 52, 62, 72) disposed adjacent to or connected to the lighting element, and a control mechanism (14, 24, 44, 64, 74). The control mechanism is in electrical communication with the lighting element (10, 20, 40, 50, 60, 70) and controls an energy output of the lighting element and a temperature of the oriented crosslinked semi-crystalline polymer (12, 22, 42, 52, 62, 72). Typically, when the control mechanism changes the temperature of the oriented crosslinked semi-crystalline polymer, the shape of the polymer changes. A method of making a light fixture (100, 200, 400, 500, 600, 700) is also provided. The method includes providing a lighting element (10, 20, 40, 50, 60, 70), forming a crosslinked semi-crystalline polymer (12, 22, 42, 52, 62, 72), and disposing the crosslinked semi-crystalline polymer adjacent to the lighting element (10, 20, 40, 50, 60, 70) or connecting the crosslinked semi-crystalline polymer to the lighting element. The method further includes electrically connecting a control mechanism (14, 24, 44, 64, 74) with the lighting element. |
| US10107470B2 |
Device for positioning a light support for an electroluminescent diode on a support element and light module for an illumination and/or signaling device comprising such a device
A device for relative positioning of two parts formed by a light support for an electroluminescent diode and a support element of this light support, comprising two pairs of interlocking reliefs, each pair comprising at least one recess on one part and at least one locating projection with a rounded form, mounted on the other part, each locating projection being intended to rest, in the assembled position, each one on the bottom of the corresponding recess in a corresponding direction of insertion.According to the invention, the positioning device is isostatic. |
| US10107465B2 |
Flagpole finial assembly
A flagpole finial assembly is provided for lighting of a flag suspended from the flagpole. The flagpole finial assembly has cover final half that is supported on a base finial half. The base finial half has a base finial half inner surface and an opposed base finial half outer surface. The base finial half is formed with a LED support wall or a plurality of LED support walls that extend into the base finial half and that define LED recesses. Each LED support wall defines a light opening into which a LED is fitted such the LED extends from the base finial half and is disposed in the LED recess. The LEDs are wired to a power cord that extends through the flagpole and exits the flagpole. The power cord is powered via a power adapter or a solar panel wired to a rechargeable battery pack. |
| US10107459B2 |
Light-emitting device with remote phosphor and recessed light emitting element
A variety of light-emitting devices are disclosed that are configured to output light provided by a light-emitting element (LEE). In general, embodiments of the light-emitting devices feature a light-emitting element disposed in a recess, a scattering element that is spaced apart from the light-emitting element and an extractor element coupled to the scattering element. |
| US10107457B2 |
Lighting apparatus
A lighting apparatus according to an embodiment includes a globe, an optical element including a scattering portion inside and transparent to visible light, and a light source disposed to be opposed to a light incident surface of the optical element. The scattering portion is disposed inside the globe. |
| US10107454B2 |
Gas supply system and correction method
In a gas supply system, a control portion acquires a first temperature and a first pressure of a gas in a fuel tank, and a first output signal value of a pressure sensor corresponding to the first pressure before gas supply, acquires a first amount of the gas in the fuel tank using a fuel tank volume, the first temperature, and the first pressure, acquires a second amount after gas supply, through integration of a measurement value obtained by a flowmeter during gas supply, acquires a second temperature, a second pressure, and a second output signal value corresponding to the second pressure after gas supply, calculates a third pressure using the fuel tank volume, the second amount, and the second temperature, and corrects a relationship between an output signal and the pressure using the first pressure, the first output signal value, the third pressure, and the second output signal value. |
| US10107449B2 |
Flip-down frame for a ceiling-mounted television
A ceiling-mounted TV frame apparatus is disclosed having a fixed frame, a pivoting frame pivotally coupled to the fixed frame, and one or more linear actuators for actuating the pivoting frame. The pivoting frame nests within the fixed frame and is coupled thereto using a hinged or otherwise pivoting bracket. |
| US10107446B2 |
Gimbal structure and gear adjusting mechanism thereof
A gimbal structure includes a support frame and a center of gravity adjusting device connected to the support frame. The support frame includes a roll-axis support, a yaw-axis vertical bar connected to the roll-axis support, and a yaw-axis horizontal bar carried on the yaw-axis vertical bar. The center of gravity adjusting device is configured to slide the yaw-axis horizontal bar relative to the yaw-axis vertical bar to adjust a center of gravity of the gimbal structure. The center of gravity adjusting device includes a quick release mechanism including a quick release buckle arranged on one side of the yaw-axis vertical bar, a slider arranged between the yaw-axis vertical bar and the yaw-axis horizontal bar, and a screw connecting the slider with the quick release buckle. |
| US10107442B2 |
Encapsulation system and kit for a length of pipe disposed underground
A kit for encapsulating a length of pipe features first and second foam sections cooperatively shaped to form a cavity with open ends in a working configuration of the foam sections for receiving the length of pipe therein. A low density foam, which is lower in density than the material of the foam sections, fills an unoccupied space in the cavity so as to provide cushioning for the length of pipe such that movement of the length of pipe within the cavity is permitted and stress on the length of pipe is reduced. The foam sections may be reinforced with reinforcing membranes carried in a main body of the respective foam section. The reinforcing membranes may act to hold the foam material of the respective section together and to prevent puncture along a full thickness of the foam sections from abrasive debris in the ground. |
| US10107438B2 |
Apparatus containing multiple sequentially used infrared heating zones for tubular articles
An apparatus for heating an elongate tubular article, such as a heat shrinkable sleeve applied around a welded pipe joint during pipeline construction. The apparatus is in the form of a frame which can be disposed around the article, the frame having a heater device having both longitudinally disposed heating zones and radially disposed heating sectors, each of which can be independently controlled. Alternatively, or in combination, the apparatus can have an air circulation system. Also, a method for shrinking a heat shrinkable sleeve comprising use of said apparatus. |
| US10107431B2 |
Flexible hose guard
Anti-kinking device to prevent kinking of a hose, the device having a neck portion having a threaded internal surface; and a mesh pattern portion connecting the neck portion and a terminal portion; wherein the mesh portion has a central axis and comprises a plurality of equally configured rectangular open spaces between each mesh pattern in a relaxed state, each mesh pattern having a plurality of rectangular inner walls, a plurality of substantially rectangular outer walls, and a plurality of opposing sidewalls connecting the inner and outer walls, the sidewalls having planar linear portions with respect to the central axis. A hose system is provided including a hose inserted through the anti-kinking device. |
| US10107429B2 |
Connection assembly comprising a motor vehicle fluid line and a connection fitting
A connection assembly comprising a motor vehicle fluid line and a connection fitting, wherein the motor vehicle fluid line includes an inner tube made of aluminum. The connection fitting is in contact with the inner tube. At least the surface of the connection fitting is made of aluminum, at least in the region of the contact surface between the connection fitting and the inner tube. |
| US10107427B2 |
Secured in place gasket for sealing plastic pipelines, method of manufacture and method of installation
A pipe sealing gasket is shown which is designed to be received within a raceway provided within a socket end of a female bell plastic pipe end which is assembled with a mating male pipe end to form a plastic pipe joint. The raceway in the female bell plastic pipe end is preformed during manufacture and the gasket is installed thereafter. The gasket has a rubber body portion which is reinforced by a hard plastic band formed as a series of integral, spaced wedges which are interconnected by a flexible ribbon. The hard plastic band acts to prevent extrusion of the gasket during a variety of pressure conditions as well as preventing displacement during field assembly. |
| US10107422B2 |
Flexible tube and insertion apparatus
A flexible tube includes a helical tube including a closely-wound region and a sparsely-wound region, and an outer tube covering an outer side of the helical tube. The closely-wound region includes a closely-wound portion to which a tight contact force is applied, the tight contact force allowing adjacent parts of a wire member adjacent along the longitudinal axis to become a tight contact state, a sparsely-wound portion which is arranged at a proximal side of the closely-wound portion, and a change portion which is arranged at a proximal side of the sparsely-wound portion and, has the tight contact force between the adjacent parts on the proximal side rather than the distal side along the longitudinal axis reduced more than the tight contact force of the closely-wound portion. |
| US10107416B2 |
Method for transmitting data for device diagnostics and implementations thereof
A method that simplifies the exchange of data to facilitate delivery of data that relates to operation of a valve assembly to a Web-based user interface over a network. In one embodiment, the method configures an apparatus to receive data about the valve assembly in a first format and to generate an output in a second format, e.g., JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format. The method may also configure the device with an architecture with multiple layers, wherein the architecture can exchange data in the JSON format between a first layer and a second layer. This architecture is configured to be lightweight as compared to the SOAP/HTTP architecture found in conventional techniques, typically deploying a Representational State Transfer (REST) structure that permits use of JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) format to communicate among the architecture layers and with the web-based user interface. |
| US10107415B1 |
Anti-backlash valve positioner
A valve positioner monitors a valve stem position by remotely sensing a magnet attached to a coupler shaft that does not penetrate a sealed enclosure surrounding the positioner. A torsion spring, which can be helical or spiral, concentrically surrounds the shaft and is fixed to the shaft and frictionally coupled to a fixed surface by a clutch ring that coaxially surrounds the spring and is vertically pressed against the fixed surface. The torsion spring thereby suppresses backlash, vibration, and chatter by maintaining a torsional force on the shaft. The clutch ring can include a notch or slot cooperative with a key tab rotationally fixed to the coupler shaft so as to limit a range of rotation of the coupler shaft. The positioner is rendered compact by the concentric arrangement of its elements, so that embodiments can be used in place of legacy positioners. |
| US10107412B2 |
Oil pump control valve
The present invention relates to an oil pump control valve that can linearly control the pressure of oil by resolving the internal residual pressure thereof and can be mounted on the exterior of a cylinder block, thereby enhancing maintenance efficiency. The oil pump control valve comprises a valve that controls the entrance and exit of oil and a solenoid that operates the valve. |
| US10107408B2 |
Temperature controlled purge valve with washer/O-ring seal stack
A temperature response valve is disclosed. The valve has a body with an outside surface and an outlet. The valve has a sleeve that partly engages the outside surface of the valve body to direct, via channels on an inner surface of the sleeve, water flowing out of the valve body outlet. The water is held into contact with part of the outer surface and expelled at a removed end of the sleeves where the channels open to the environment. The valve engages the threads on a threaded male member of an outside faucet. |
| US10107406B2 |
Ball valve with pressure relief feature
A valve assembly includes a valve body defining a main flow pathway (28) and a bypass channel (52) for bypassing the main flow pathway. A ball (20) is located in the main flow pathway and is moveable between an open position and a closed position. When the ball is in the open position, an open pathway through the ball fluidly completes the main flow pathway to provide an ordinary flow, and when the ball is in the closed position the ball blocks the main flow pathway. A pressure relief feature (50) is disposed in the bypass channel (52), and the valve body further defines a pressure relief passage (62) comprising a clearance between an outer surface of the ball (20) and the valve body. The pressure relief feature (50) permits a relief flow from the bypass channel (52) through the pressure relief passage (62) around the ball (20), and to the outlet (24) to relieve excess pressure in the connecting inlet piping (22). |
| US10107404B2 |
Linear hydraulic valve
Examples are provided that describe a linear hydraulic valve. In one example a linear valve comprises a sleeve with a plurality of ports spaced apart from each other at a distance. The plurality of ports are associated with a plurality of pressurized fluids. A spool comprising a plurality of openings that correspond to the plurality of ports is provided within the sleeve. The plurality of openings are spaced apart in a manner that enables alignment of a given opening of the plurality of openings to a given port of the plurality of ports based on a given position of the spool within the sleeve. The linear valve comprises an actuator for moving the spool in a forward or reverse linear motion along a longitudinal axis of the sleeve. The spool may be moved to a given position based on selection of a pressurized fluid of the plurality of pressurized fluids. |
| US10107403B2 |
Pinch flow regulator
A valve for regulating fluid flow includes a housing base defining a lower cavity and comprising a pinch structure within the lower cavity, a gas inlet providing external access to the lower cavity, a base fluid inlet, and a base fluid outlet. A housing cover defines an upper cavity and comprises a cover fluid inlet and a cover fluid outlet. The cover fluid inlet is in fluidic communication with the base fluid outlet between the upper cavity and the lower cavity, and the cover fluid outlet provides external access from the upper cavity. A diaphragm is disposed between the housing base and the housing cover. A pinch plate is disposed in the lower cavity and comprises a pinch point disposed opposite the pinch structure. A pinch tube is in fluidic communication between the base fluid inlet and the base fluid outlet in the lower cavity. |
| US10107402B2 |
Pressure vessel and door actuator
A door assembly for a pressure vessel includes a door, a hub for receiving the door, and an annular seal to seal therebetween. A hinge arm is coupled to the hub and to the door and is pivotable relative to the hub about a hinge axis. A door actuator having an elongate member extending along an actuator axis is spaced-apart from the hinge axis and coupled to the hub and to the hinge arm. The elongate member travels with the hinge arm when the arm pivots relative to the hub, and rotates about the actuator axis. |
| US10107401B2 |
Sealing structure
A sealing structure suppresses possible damage to a seal ring because of a backup ring. The sealing structure is characterized in that a cut portion 150 that is cut in a planar shape is formed in a backup ring 100 at one position in a circumferential direction, the cut portion 150 is configured such that a cut surface 153 is oblique to a central axis of the backup ring 100, an acute angle of angles between a surface on the high pressure side of the backup ring 100 and the cut surface 153 is set to not less than 15° and not more than 30°, and the backup ring 100 is formed of a resin material having Rockwell hardness of 100 or less, durometer hardness of 70 or less, and elastic modulus of 1.0 GPa or less. |
| US10107400B2 |
Gasket
Provided is a gasket characterized in that a perfect sealing can be achieved even under the vacuum and the high pressure operating conditions due to the insulation material embedded between the metal cores, the insulation material adhered or attached to the metal cores, or the sealing material additionally provided. |
| US10107399B2 |
Sealing joint and a method for manufacturing thereof
The invention is a method for manufacturing a sealing joint, comprising coupling a first joint element (14) and a second joint element (20) to each other, and in the course of the coupling applying a first joint element (14) being made of metal and comprising a receiving neck (15) having a receiving aperture (13), and a second joint element (20) having a connecting neck (10) with a shape fitting into the receiving neck (15), being made of plastic comprising at least 90 wt % polymer, and being provided with a protrusion (12) formed around the connecting neck (10) and having a larger periphery than the receiving aperture (13), and manufacturing out of the material of the protrusion (12) in a high-elastic state of the polymer a round-formed sealing collar (28) providing a gas-tight seal between the connecting neck (10) and the receiving neck (15) by pressing the connecting neck (10) into the receiving aperture (13) by means of a force parallel with a longitudinal axis of the receiving neck (15), and by applying the receiving neck (15) for subjecting the protrusion (12) to permanent shear deformation. The invention is furthermore a sealing joint. |
| US10107395B2 |
Transmission shift fork
The disclosed transmission shift fork has improved contact areas that engage a gear that is shifted into and out of engagement with the drive train. As a result of the improved contact areas the gear and the shift fork have a more stable alignment that reduces wear during shifting and avoids uneven wear of the parts. The shift fork has an elongated pin that is positioned inside of a biasing spring. The pin has a length that is greater than the length of a compressed biasing spring, which contributes to increased stability and reduced wear from linear movement. |
| US10107393B2 |
Method of providing virtual null position for electronic shift lever
A method of providing improved control and response to an electronic transmission range selection system comprehends providing a virtual null position for the electronic transmission range selection device including the steps of determining the current position of the shift lever, confirming the position of the shift lever, virtual Null and physical Reverse to Neutral confirmation timer thresholds are selected, the timers are incremented, a determination is made that the timers have started, a determination is made that the virtual Null timer has expired, whereupon a virtual Null request is generated. Subsequent steps determine if the physical Neutral timer has expired and command the transmission to Neutral. In related method steps, a current range of the transmission is determined, the state of a shift interlock button is determined, and certain shift changes are accepted or rejected. |
| US10107392B2 |
Control apparatus for vehicle and control method for vehicle
In a control apparatus for a vehicle, in the cases where engine torque is higher than first torque and an engine torque change amount is larger than a first torque change amount when control is shifted from complete engagement control of a lock-up clutch to deceleration slip control, an electronic control unit is configured to shift the control from the complete engagement control to acceleration slip control and then shift the control from the acceleration slip control to the deceleration slip control after the vehicle is brought into a driven state. |
| US10107391B2 |
Transmission with lockup clutch
In a transmission with a lockup clutch, in a case where zero-slip control of the lockup clutch is not established (converged) within a predetermined time, a sweep increase of a lockup clutch hydraulic pressure starts at an increase rate smaller than a normal increase rate in a case where the zero-slip control is established within the predetermined time, the increase rate until the end of the sweep increase is set to be equal to or less than the normal increase rate, and in addition, a hydraulic pressure at the time of the end of the sweep increase is set to be equal to or greater than a hydraulic pressure in a case where the zero-slip control is established within the predetermined time. With such control, in a case where the zero-slip state is not brought, suppressing the occurrence of shock when complete engagement is carried out. |
| US10107389B2 |
Hydraulic control device for automatic transmission
A hydraulic control device including: a throttle valve; a pressure regulating valve; an on/off solenoid valve of a normally open type that allows communication therethrough when not energized; and a failure circuit that, when power supply to the linear solenoid valve and the on/off solenoid valve is cut off, supplies a certain hydraulic pressure based on switching off of the on/off solenoid valve to the control oil chamber of the pressure regulating valve. |
| US10107387B2 |
Shift lever assembly with park shift assist mechanism
A park shift assist mechanism of a shift lever assembly for a vehicle is provided. The park shift assist mechanism includes a pressing portion configured to apply a pressing force and a follower configured to cause rotation of a gear shift lever from a reverse position to a park position when the gear shift lever is positioned between the reverse position and the park position in response to the pressing force being applied to the follower. |
| US10107386B2 |
Shift device
In a shift device, a shift locking mechanism drives a motor to perform locking and locking release of rotation of a knob, and an autocorrect mechanism drives the motor to change a shift position of the knob to a P position. Thus, driving of the common motor enables locking and locking release of the rotation of the knob to be performed, and enables a shift position of the knob to be changed to the P position, thereby enabling a simple configuration. |
| US10107377B2 |
Bicycle sprocket
A bicycle sprocket has a rotational center axis. The bicycle sprocket comprises a sprocket body, a plurality of sprocket teeth, and at least one chain-supporting portion. The plurality of sprocket teeth are circumferentially arranged on an outer periphery of the sprocket body. The at least one chain-supporting portion is configured to contact one of inner link plates of a bicycle chain without engaging with the bicycle chain at inner link spaces each defined between a pair of inner link plates that face each other in an axial direction parallel to the rotational center axis. The at least one chain-supporting portion is offset from the sprocket teeth in the axial direction. |
| US10107373B2 |
Differential
A differential may include a metal plate interlocking with a pinion, and at least one permanent magnet fixable to a case of the differential to generate an eddy current in the metal plate upon a relative rotation of the metal plate. |
| US10107372B2 |
Torsional vibration damper and lock-up clutch for hydrokinetic torque-coupling device, and method for making the same
A torsional vibration damper of a hydrokinetic torque-coupling device. The torsional vibration damper comprises a torque input member including first and second side plates axially spaced from and non-rotatably attached to one another, and a supporting member mounted therebetween, a unitary elastic member disposed between the first and second side plates and pivotable relative to and elastically coupled to the torque input member, and a resilient member disposed between the elastic member and the first side plate. The elastic member includes a core member rotatable relative the torque input member, and an elastic leaf integral with the core member and configured to elastically engage the supporting member. The elastic leaf has a proximal end non-moveably connected to the core member, a free distal end and a curved raceway portion disposed between the proximal and free distal ends of the at least one elastic leaf for bearing the supporting member. |
| US10107365B2 |
Planetary gear train of automatic transmission for vehicles
A planetary gear train may include first to fourth planetary gear sets having first to twelfth rotation elements; a first shaft connected with the first rotation element; a second shaft connecting the second and sixth rotation elements; a third shaft connecting the third, seventh, and tenth rotation elements; a fourth shaft connected with the fourth rotation element and a transmission housing; a fifth shaft connected with the fifth rotation element and selectively connectable with the third shaft; a sixth shaft connected with the eighth rotation element and the output shaft; a seventh shaft connected with the ninth rotation element; an eighth shaft connected with the eleventh rotation element, selectively connectable with the first shaft and the second shaft, respectively, and connected with the input shaft; and a ninth shaft connected with the twelfth rotation element and selectively connectable with the sixth shaft. |
| US10107363B2 |
Compact multi-speed planetary drive assembly
A drive assembly receives rotational power from an input shaft rotatable about a rotation axis. The drive assembly includes a drive housing to which is mounted a wheel bearing support of a wheel mount that is configured to rotate about the rotation axis on a wheel bearing assembly. A planetary set is coupled between the input shaft and the wheel mount to selectably cause rotation of the wheel mount. The planetary set substantially fits within axial borders of the wheel bearing support and within an inner radial dimension of the wheel bearing support. |
| US10107362B2 |
Drive transmission mechanism and image forming apparatus
A drive transmission mechanism includes a first gearbox including a driving source, a first gear train, a first frame configured to support one ends of a plurality of shafts of the first gear train, and a first gear cover configured to support the other ends of the shafts of the first gear train, wherein the first gear box is configured to transmit a driving force from the driving source; and a second gearbox including a second gear train, a second frame configured to support one ends of a plurality of shafts of the second gear train, and a second gear cover configured to support the other ends of the shafts of the second gear train, wherein the second gearbox is configured to receive the driving force from the driving source through the first gear train and configured to transmit the driving force. The second gearbox is fixed to the first gearbox. |
| US10107353B2 |
Nozzle plate of engine mount
A nozzle plate of an engine mount may a lower nozzle plate which has a flow path groove formed in an upper surface, and a lower opening hole that communicates with the lower liquid chamber; an upper nozzle plate which is coupled to the lower nozzle plate so as to cover an upper side of the flow path groove and form a flow path, and has an upper opening hole that communicates with the upper liquid chamber; and a membrane which is mounted such that a rim portion thereof is engaged between the lower nozzle plate and the upper nozzle plate, and upper and lower surfaces thereof are exposed through the upper opening hole and the lower opening hole, respectively. |
| US10107352B2 |
Hydraulic damper with a hydraulic stop arrangement
A hydraulic damper for a motor vehicle including a tube having a main section and a narrowed section. A main piston assembly is disposed inside the main section. A main piston rod is attached to the main piston assembly. A secondary rod is coupled with the main piston rod. A spring seat is disposed about the secondary rod. A spring engages the spring seat and preloads the spring seat. A secondary piston is disposed about and coupled with the secondary rod. The secondary piston has an axial projection and an annular projection that abuts the spring seat. The annular projection defines a plurality of axial slots. A retaining member is fixed to the secondary rod and has an outer face defining a plurality of radial slots. A sealing ring is slidably disposed about the axial projection. An annular channel is defined radially between the sealing ring and the axial projection. |
| US10107347B2 |
Dual rack and pinion rotational inerter system and method for damping movement of a flight control surface of an aircraft
There is provided a dual rack and pinion rotational inerter system for damping movement of a flight control surface of an aircraft. The system has a flexible holding structure disposed between the flight control surface and a support structure of the aircraft. The system has a dual rack and pinion assembly held by and between the flexible holding structure. The dual rack and pinion assembly has a first rack, a second rack, and a pinion engaged to and between the racks. The system has a first terminal coupled to the first rack and coupled to the flight control surface, via a pivot element, and a second terminal coupled to the second rack, and coupled to the support structure. The system has a pair of inertia wheels adjacent the flexible holding structure. The system has an axle element inserted through the inertial wheels, the flexible holding structure, and the pinion. |
| US10107346B2 |
Dry friction damped metallic material and methods of manufacturing and using same
A method and system for improving the vibration damping properties in a metal product are disclosed. The product incorporates a dry friction, layered metallic damping material having embedded therein one or more woven mesh layers comprised of wire ropes of bundled wires. The ropes may be sheathed with a thin layer of metal. The individual ropes are woven to form the mesh layer with some ropes being positioned in a first or Y direction and the other ropes being positioned in a second or X direction. One or more mesh layers are attached to a metal substrate by rolling, forming or extrusion. The parameters of the rolling, forming or extruding process can be optimized to achieve the proper embedding of the ropes into the metal plate where the ropes are locked into the metal plate with the metal material flowing over the cable outer surfaces without infiltrating between the wires. |
| US10107343B2 |
Thermoelectric energy recovery from a brake system
An exemplary brake assembly includes a brake pad, an actuator that selectively moves the brake pad to contact a rotor, and a thermoelectric generator device housed outside the brake pad. The thermoelectric generator device generates power in response to a temperature difference within the brake assembly. |
| US10107339B2 |
Clutch release bearing device
In a clutch release bearing device, an inner ring (12) of a ball bearing (10) is pressed against a diaphragm spring (40) so that a clutch is disengaged. A contact member (20) made of steel is press-fitted to the inner ring (12) so that a convex spherical protruding portion (20b) formed at an end portion of the contact member (20) is brought into contact with the diaphragm spring (40). In addition, a contact position (C) between the protruding portion (20b) and the diaphragm spring (40) is located between an extension line of an inner diameter (D1) of the inner ring (12) and an extension line of an outer diameter (D2) of the inner ring (12). |
| US10107332B2 |
Slide structure
A slide structure includes a slide rail and a slide lid. The slide rail includes guide wall portions disposed in a first direction orthogonal to a rail longitudinal direction. A first abutting portion is provided in a guide wall face, and a second abutting portion is provided at a position separated in the rail longitudinal direction relative to the first abutting portion, and separated in a second direction orthogonal to the rail longitudinal direction and the first direction. The slide lid can slide along the rail longitudinal direction between the guide wall portions. A first projecting portion abutting against a top portion of the first abutting portion is provided on one side in a sliding direction, and a second projecting portion abutting against a top portion of the second abutting portion in a state wherein the first projecting portion abuts against the first abutting portion is provided. |
| US10107330B2 |
Bearing device for a shaft, in particular of a turbocharger device
A bearing device for a shaft has at least two axially spaced-apart, radial anti-friction bearings with rolling bodies. In each of the anti-friction bearings, an inner race is formed for the rolling bodies on an inner bearing element which is connected fixedly to the shaft. An outer race is formed for the rolling bodies on an outer bearing sleeve having at least two bearing sleeve elements which are guided coaxially with respect to one another in a guide device. Each of the anti-friction bearings is assigned a separate bearing sleeve element with in each case one anti-friction bearing running surface. The guide device converts a rotation of at least one of the bearing sleeve elements about the shaft longitudinal axis into a spacing change of the two bearing sleeve elements. The axial spacing between the bearing sleeve elements can be adjusted and/or fixed and/or prestressed with spring element. |
| US10107327B2 |
Crankshaft for an internal combustion engine
A crankshaft for an internal combustion engine includes a shaft body having a body rotation axis, with at least one crank pin for coupling a connecting rod to the crankshaft. The crank pin is connected to the shaft body in an offset manner with respect to the body rotation axis by two crank arms. Each arm has an arm surface facing one to the other with the crank pin extending between the arm surfaces. At least one of the arm surfaces is provided with a protrusion extending from the arm surface and configured to avoid contact between the arm surface and the connecting rod. |
| US10107326B2 |
Anti-loosening incremental tension fastener assembly
A fastener assembly comprising a threaded component and a washer, wherein the bearing surfaces between the threaded component and washer each include helically inclined surface segments such that the clamp load exerted on the washer by the threaded component alternates between being increased and being decreased during rotation of the nut in a single direction. |
| US10107323B2 |
Barrel nut assembly
A fastener assembly for securing two components to one another. The fastener assembly includes a barrel or pin that has a radially extending hole in the barrel. The pin also has a reduced diametrical portion on at least one end to form a shoulder and possibly on both ends. The pin is inserted into a hole formed into a hollow or sandwich component. The shoulder engages against a wall on the component to orient and secure the pin in the hole. A threaded fastener is then inserted transversely through the two components to engage in the radially extending hole. The threaded fastener is then rotated to secure the two components to one another. |
| US10107319B2 |
Elastically averaged alignment systems and methods
An elastically averaged alignment system includes a threaded alignment member, a first component comprising a first inner wall defining a first alignment aperture, and a second component comprising a second inner wall defining a second alignment aperture. The first and second alignment apertures are configured to receive the threaded alignment member to couple the first component and the second component. The threaded alignment member is an elastically deformable material such that when the threaded alignment member is interferingly inserted into the first and second alignment apertures, the threaded alignment member elastically deforms to an elastically averaged final configuration to facilitate coupling and aligning the first component and the second component in a desired orientation. |
| US10107318B2 |
Apparatus for attaching a first component to a second component
The invention relates to an apparatus for attaching a first component to a second component and comprises a base element which has a thread which defines a thread axis; a connection means for direct or indirect connection with shape matching and/or material continuity of the base element to the second component; and an adjustment element which receives the first component and is in threaded engagement with the base element such that the position of the first component is adjustable relative to the second component, viewed in the direction of the thread axis, by a rotation of the adjustment element relative to the base element, with the base element and/or the adjustment element being at least partly elastically deformable such that the adjustment element receives the first component free of clearance and is in threaded engagement with the base element free of clearance. |
| US10107316B2 |
Apparatus for creating a swirling flow of fluid on horizontal plane
An apparatus for creating a swirling flow of fluid on horizontal plane comprises of transmission base (1) for creating of swirling which is in cone shape with minimal slope or round and flat base with thickness. It comprise of swirling flow creating surface (2) located symmetrically around central apex or center of transmission base (1) to create swirling flow. In between swirling creating surface (2), there is at least one penetrable slit (3) along the edge of swirling flow creating surface (2) for transmission fluid from one side of transmission base (1) to anther side to swirling flow creating surface (2) to creating swirling on the horizontal plane of apparatus. The said apparatus is installed inside the structure that needed to create swirling on horizontal plane. |
| US10107315B2 |
MEMS pressure sensors with integrated baffles
A pressure sensor system may sense the pressure of a gas or liquid. The system may include a housing that has an entry port for the gas or liquid; a pressure sensor within the housing; and a baffle positioned between the entry port and the pressure sensor. The baffle may have one or more inlets oriented to receive gas or liquid that enters the entry port; one or more outlets oriented to deliver the received gas or liquid to the pressure sensor; and one or more sealed flow channels that prevent the gas or liquid from escaping from the baffle, other than through the one or more outlets. At least one of the outlets may be located within no more than one millimeter of a location on the pressure sensor. The pressure sensor and baffle may be made at the same time during a process of depositing, pattering, etching, wafer bonding, and/or wafer thinning a series of layers using microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) technology. |
| US10107313B2 |
Rotary actuator
A rotary actuator where a thrust bearing ring is positioned at an inside of a tube assembly accommodating oil, thereby reducing abrasion and damage caused by rolling friction and improving rotary power of an axle load by increasing hydraulic pressure of a piston. The rotary actuator includes the tube assembly, a piston, an axle load assembly, and a thrust bearing ring. The tube assembly is provided with a tube spiral portion where a spiral is formed at an inner circumference surface, and is formed of a first passage where oil flows into and out and a second passage spaced apart from the first passage by a fixed distance. |
| US10107311B2 |
Hydraulic drive system for construction machine
To cope with a variety of flow rate balance required of two actuators flexibly in combined operations driving two actuators of high maximum demanded flow rates at the same time while suppressing the wasteful energy consumption caused by the throttle pressure loss in a pressure compensating valve, the arrangement is such that when the demanded flow rate of a boom cylinder 3a is lower than a prescribed flow rate, the boom cylinder 3a is driven only by hydraulic fluid delivered from a single flow type main pump 202 and when the demanded flow rate of the boom cylinder 3a is higher than the prescribed flow rate, the hydraulic fluid delivered from the single flow type main pump 202 and hydraulic fluid delivered from a first delivery port 102a of a split flow type main pump 102 are merged together and the boom cylinder 3a is driven by the merged fluids. Further, when the demanded flow rate of an arm cylinder 3b is lower than a prescribed flow rate, the arm cylinder 3b is driven only by hydraulic fluid delivered from a second delivery port 102b of the split flow type main pump 102 and when the demanded flow rate of the arm cylinder 3b is higher than the prescribed flow rate, hydraulic fluid delivered from the first delivery port 102a and hydraulic fluid delivered from the second delivery port 102b are merged together and the arm cylinder 3b is driven by the merged fluids. |
| US10107310B2 |
Hydraulic drive system
In a hydraulic drive system, first and second multi-control valves are connected to first and second hydraulic pumps. A first regulator adjusts a tilting angle of the first hydraulic pump in a manner to decrease a discharge flow rate of the first hydraulic pump in accordance with an increase in a discharge pressure of the first hydraulic pump and an increase in a first power shift pressure. A second regulator adjusts a tilting angle of the second hydraulic pump in a manner to decrease a discharge flow rate of the second hydraulic pump in accordance with an increase in a discharge pressure of the second hydraulic pump and an increase in a second power shift pressure. The first power shift pressure is set by a first proportional valve, and the second power shift pressure is set by a second proportional valve. |
| US10107309B2 |
Load sensing valve device
A compensator spool of a load sensing valve device has a pressure chamber, a compensator throttle portion, a pressure introduction chamber, a pressure introduction port, a maximum load pressure introduction chamber, and a selector valve. A groove is formed around the pressure introduction port, and a groove moves relatively to a passage communicating with an actuator so as to reduce an area of an opening of the pressure introduction port when the compensator spool moves. |
| US10107306B2 |
Housing for an axial fan
A housing for a fan or blower, in particular an axial fan, includes a wall ring (2) having an inlet nozzle section (3), an outer diffuser (6) having an inlet flow opening (7) and an outlet flow opening (8), and a holder for an electric motor (9) of the fan. The holder is arranged in an inner space of the housing. The outer diffuser (6) is formed by at least two partial ring sections that are connected to the outer circumferential surface via mechanical connection elements. The holder includes several struts (14) that are fastened to an inner circumferential surface of the outer diffuser (6) by one end, are circumferentially spaced apart, and are fastened in the edge region of the inlet flow opening (7). The struts can be installed by their other end to a motor flange (16) of the motor housing (17) of the electric motor (9). |
| US10107304B2 |
Thin fan with axial airgap
A thin fan with an axial airgap includes a base having a bottom plate, a circuit unit, a stator set, and a rotor set. The stator set includes at least one winding part, plural induced magnets connected to the winding part, and at least one winding set wound on the winding part. The rotor set includes a hub, plural blades disposed around the hub, and a permanent magnet disposed around a bottom side of the hub and above the induced magnets. The winding set is outside of the permanent magnet. A pivot shaft is between the hub and the bottom plate and includes a bearing sleeve and a rotating shaft inserted in the bearing sleeve. The winding sets are moved outside of the permanent magnet, which reduces the heights occupied by the winding sets and the PCB, facilitating the thinning of the fan. |
| US10107303B2 |
Fluid cooled server and radiator
A fluid cooled server may include a reservoir for a cooling fluid, a pump for circulating the cooling fluid between components within the server, one or more tubes for transporting the cooling fluid to a water block adjacent to a component to remove heat from the component. The cooling fluid may be transported from an outlet of the water block to an inlet of a radiator for progressively removing heat from the cooling fluid. The fluid may then be transported from an outlet of the radiator to an inlet of the reservoir. In some instances, the radiator may be sized to be included within a 1U server chassis and may include two or more cooling channels and may be dimensioned such that the radiator may have a heat exchange capacity of between about 300W to about 550W. A fan module may be sized to blow air through the radiator and/or the server chassis. |
| US10107297B2 |
Methods and system for a turbocharger
Various methods and systems are provided for a variable geometry ported shroud for a turbocharger. In one example, a compressor system includes a compressor housing defining an air inlet, a shroud, and a bypass passage, a compressor wheel housed in the compressor housing and surrounded by the shroud, only a single port passing through the shroud and fluidically coupled to the bypass passage, and a ring configured to move axially to adjust a restriction of the port. |
| US10107296B2 |
Turbocharger systems and method to prevent compressor choke
Systems and methods are provided for a turbocharger compressor, where the system may comprise: an actuatable annular disk comprising choke slots therein; an outer annular disk comprising choke slots therein; and an actuator to rotate the actuatable annular disk relative to the outer annular disk to vary alignment of the choke slots of the actuatable annular disk and the outer annular disk. The actuator may be controlled by an engine controller responsive to operating conditions of the compressor and actuated to align choke slots. Alignment of the choke slots allows air to be drawn into the impeller effectively expanding the compressor flow capacity to prevent compressor choke. |
| US10107294B2 |
Coreless donut-type motor fan for ventilation and cooling
The present invention relates to a coreless donut-type fan, and more particularly, to a coreless donut-type motor fan for ventilation and cooling, in which a rotating force is generated by wings themselves, without a separate rotational power such as a motor provided in a central portion thereof, and a through hole is formed in the central portion thereof to prevent a “wind barrier” phenomenon during rotation at a high speed, thereby maintaining smooth air flow, minimizing power consumption, in particular, preventing rotational noise due to induction of smooth rotation, and improving rotational efficiency. |
| US10107289B2 |
Bearing insert having flattened portion and fluid machine having the same
The present disclosure relates to fluid machines, especially compressors, more especially screw compressors. More particularly the present disclosure describes a fluid machine comprising at least one rotor (64), the rotor including a rotor drive shaft (68) extending from the rotor, a housing in which is mounted the rotor, and at least one bearing insert (74) which mounts around the rotor drive shaft at a first end of the rotor and which includes at least one bearing (114) within it and attaches to the housing. The present disclosure also describes bearing inserts suitable for use on such fluid machines. |
| US10107287B2 |
Balance shaft module
A balance shaft module includes a balance shaft for receiving a driving force from a crankshaft of an engine by a driving gear and rotating inside a balance shaft housing, an oil pump gear being geared with the driving gear to rotate along with the driving gear, an oil pump shaft having the oil pump gear press-fitted therein and rotating as the oil pump gear rotates, and an oil pump assembly mounted in the oil pump shaft and pumping oil as the oil pump shaft rotates, wherein a pair of support rings is provided at both side surfaces of the oil pump gear to support both side portions of the oil pump gear in the oil pump shaft. |
| US10107286B2 |
System and method for control and optimization of PCP pumped well operating parameters
A method of controlling the production efficiency of a well includes determining one or more parameters of a pump model for a pump of the well, determining an inflow rate of liquid into the well, and adjusting a pumping speed of the pump based on the one or more parameters of the pump model to maintain a outflow rate of liquid from the well at a desired fraction of the inflow rate. |
| US10107283B2 |
Industrial fluid circuits and method of controlling the industrial fluid circuits using variable speed drives on the fluid pumps of the industrial fluid circuits
An industrial fluid circulation system and method has at least one fluid circulation circuit in an industrial process, such as an HVAC system. The at least one fluid circulation circuit includes a plurality of pumps, at least two of the pumps connected in parallel to circulate a fluid through the at least one fluid circulation circuit. A separate motor drives each pump and a speed control is used to vary the speed of each motor to thereby vary the pumping capacity of each parallel connected pump. A load detector is provided to sense operating loads on the system, and each operating pump runs at one of: a predetermined equal reduced speed, a predetermined almost equal reduced speed, and a predetermined similar reduced speed, relative to a maximum speed to thereby optimize pump motor power usage in accordance with system operating loads. |
| US10107282B1 |
Articulated reciprocating counterweight
A moving counterweight that reduces lifting and lowering torque of an unbalanced load. In one embodiment, a beam pump, an articulated reciprocating counterweight extending above the effort of a class 1 lever on extended pitman arms above the lever effort at the tail bearing to structurally and continuously changes it's position in an air-arc to reduce lifting and lowering torque, by rigid-mechanical geometric re-positioning of the counterbalance effect to and fro, when the rotation is crank arms falling toward the well load, thus mechanically, continuously, favorably, and without friction re-positioning the counterweight either away from the load and fulcrum thereby increasing the counterbalance effect, or nearer to the load and fulcrum thereby decreasing the counterbalance effect, as is desirable to compensate the unbalanced downhole load, where the load in the lift direction exceeds the load in the return direction. The longer the extension of the pitman arm above the beam with the counterweight attached the greater is the counterweight effect of the counterweight deadweight. |
| US10107279B2 |
Unitary fluid flow apparatus for inflating and deflating a device
The subject invention provides a fluid flow apparatus for transporting a fluid to inflate and deflate a device including a pumping device and a housing defining a chamber, an inlet port, a fill port, and an exhaust port. A seal member is movable between a seated position closing the exhaust port and an unseated position. A motor has a shaft rotating in each of a first and second rotational direction. A clutch is disengaged from the shaft as the shaft rotates in the first rotational direction and is engaged with and rotates with the shaft as the shaft rotates in the second rotational direction. A centrifugal member is mounted and rotates with the clutch when the shaft rotates in the second rotational direction and engages the seal member to move the seal member to the unseated position for permitting the fluid within the chamber to escape through the exhaust port. |
| US10107273B2 |
Synchronization of supply flow paths
A solvent supply system for supplying a composite solvent is described. The solvent supply system comprises a first supply flow path with a first pump unit, the first supply flow path being adapted for supplying a flow of a first solvent to a mixing unit, the first pump unit operating periodically, and a second supply flow path with a second pump unit, the second supply flow path being adapted for supplying a flow of a second solvent to the mixing unit, the second pump unit operating periodically. The mixing unit is adapted for mixing the first and the second solvent and for supplying a composite solvent. The solvent supply system further comprises a control unit adapted for controlling operation of the first and the second pump unit, the control unit being adapted to prevent at least one of a predefined phase relation and a predefined frequency relation between the first pump unit and the second pump unit. |
| US10107268B1 |
Thermal energy storage and power generation systems and methods
A solar power system and materials capable of storing heat energy by thermochemical energy storage are disclosed. Thermal energy is stored as chemical potential in these materials through a reversible reduction-oxidation reaction. Thermal energy from concentrated sunlight drives a highly endothermic reduction reaction that liberates lattice oxygen from the oxide to form O2 gas, leaving energy-rich, oxygen-depleted particles. When desired, the heat is recovered as the particles are re-oxidized in an exothermic reaction upon exposure to air. The system may be integrated with a power generation system to generate power. |
| US10107267B2 |
Method for installation of a power control module in a wind power unit tower and an aggregate component
The invention relates to a method for installation of a power control module in a tower for a wind turbine. The method includes, providing a power control module (101) and providing a tower section (201). According to the invention the following steps are included in the mentioned sequence. a) providing a temporary support device (301), b) placing the power control module (101) on the temporary support device (301), c) placing the tower section (201) around the power control module (101), d) connecting the power control module (101) to the tower section (201), and e) removing the connected power control module (101) and tower section (201) from the temporary support device (301). The invention also relates to an aggregate component for a wind turbine. The component includes a power control module (101) and a tower section (201). The power control module (101) is connected to and supported by the tower section (201) in a state as a pre-fabricated and mobile component. According to the invention the power control module (101) hangs suspended in the tower section (201). |
| US10107261B2 |
System and method for reducing oscillation loads of wind turbine
A system and method for reducing oscillation loads of a wind turbine induced by high turbulence and/or combined with other environmental conditions are provided. The method includes determining at least one wind parameter at the wind turbine; monitoring an operating condition of the wind turbine; determining, by a processor, a variance of at least one of the monitored operating condition or a plurality of the wind parameters, wherein the variance is indicative of an oscillation occurring at one or more wind turbine components; determining, by a processor, an operating set point based on the variance; and, operating the wind turbine based on the operating set point when the variance indicates that the oscillation has a frequency within a certain frequency band so as to modify the frequency, wherein the modified frequency is outside of the frequency band and reduces oscillation loads occurring at the one or more wind turbine components. |
| US10107259B2 |
Control method for a wind turbine, and wind turbine
The invention relates to a method of controlling a wind turbine comprising one or more blades attached to a rotor hub, the one or more blades being arranged to pitch relative to the hub, the method comprising the steps of obtaining a blade load signal comprising data on an absolute load on the one or more blades; processing the blade load data to detect a high thrust wind event, and generating a control signal comprising a pitch contribution for affecting the blades to pitch out of the wind in response to the detected wind event. The invention also relates to a wind turbine, a control system for a wind turbine and a computer program product being adapted to enable a computer system to perform the method of the invention. |
| US10107248B2 |
Combined coolant and transmission pump motor drive for stop-start vehicle
A vehicle includes an internal combustion engine having an auto stop function, an electric pump motor drivably coupled to a transmission pump and a heat exchanger pump, and at least one controller. The controller is configured to control the pump motor to operate the transmission pump to supply hydraulic pressure to a transmission, and to operate the heat exchanger pump to provide flow from the engine to a heater core radiator in response to the engine being auto stopped. |
| US10107247B2 |
Method of suppressing cavitation in a fuel injector
A needle type fuel injector has a needle control chamber at a pressure subject to a control valve in a control valve chamber which in an opening phase is lifted from its seat to expose the control valve chamber, connecting passage, and needle control chamber to a low pressure drain and in a closing phase is urged against the seat to isolate the control valve chamber, connecting passage, and needle control chamber from the drain. The potential for cavitation at high fuel injection pressure is reduced by throttling the flow of fuel past the control valve seat when the control valve opens, thereby maintaining sufficient back pressure in the control valve chamber and upstream connecting passages. |
| US10107245B2 |
Plunger fuel pump for an internal combustion engine
A plunger fuel pump for an internal combustion engine includes a pump cylinder and a pump plunger that is axially displaceable in the pump cylinder. The plunger fuel pump has a seal with an annular basic structure arranged around the circumference of the pump plunger. The seal is produced by injection molding in an axial injection direction. |
| US10107244B2 |
Pump unit for supplying fuel, preferably diesel oil, to an internal combustion engine
A pump unit for supplying fuel, preferably diesel oil, to an internal combustion engine has at least two cylinders (10), which are formed in at least one head (9), are slidingly engaged by respective pistons (13), and communicate hydraulically with respective fuel inlets (11) in the cylinders (10) via respective interposed intake valves (15) provided with respective valve bodies (16) incorporated in the head (9); the inlets (11) of all the cylinders (10) being closed by a single cover (33) fixed to the head (9). |
| US10107242B2 |
Actuating drive for an injection valve, and injection valve
An actuating drive for an injection valve may comprise: a sleeve-shaped actuator housing; an actuator unit disposed in the housing; at least one actuator feed line; at least one connector contact; a housing unit; a cover; and a first sealing unit. The at least one actuator feed line may protrude from an end-side opening of the actuator housing. The at least one connector contact may be coupled electrically to the at least one actuator feed line and configured to be coupled electrically to a system-side connector. The housing unit may be arranged along a circumference of the actuator housing in an end-side shell surface section of the actuator housing and configured to fix the at least one connector contact in a predefined position. The cover may close a cavity defined by the housing unit and be coupled mechanically to the housing unit. The first sealing element may be arranged between the housing unit and the cover to prevent penetration of solid, liquid, or gaseous media into the cavity. |
| US10107241B2 |
Valve device and high-pressure pump using the same
A valve device is provided between a high-pressure pump and a fuel tank. A first valve member, an intermediate member and a second valve member are accommodated in a valve housing. The first valve member, which is arranged on a downstream side of the intermediate member, is biased by a first spring in a direction to a first valve seat formed in the intermediate member. The second valve member, which is arranged on an upstream side of the intermediate member, is biased by a second spring in a direction to a second valve seat formed in the intermediate member. When the first valve member is separated from the first valve seat, fuel flows in a forward direction from an upstream-side fuel passage to a downstream-side fuel passage. When the second valve member is separated from the second valve seat, the fuel flows in a reverse direction. |
| US10107236B2 |
Exhaust gas temperature regulation in a bypass duct of an exhaust gas recirculation system
An exhaust gas recirculation system is provided in a motor vehicle to pass exhaust gas out of an exhaust tract into an intake tract of a motor vehicle, said system having a cooler device and a bypass duct, wherein the bypass duct is bounded by a double wall, which can be filled with a gas to thermally insulate the bypass duct and with a liquid to cool or heat the bypass duct. A method for controlling the temperature of a bypass duct of the exhaust gas recirculation system is furthermore provided. |
| US10107235B2 |
EGR system for internal-combustion engine
In an engine, an intake duct is provided with an intercooler disposed downstream of an intake air compressor. An EGR pipe is provided with an EGR valve and an EGR cooler. An ECU determines a generation of a condensed water in the EGR cooler, the generation of the condensed water in a merging portion where a fresh air and an EGR gas merge with each other, and the generation of the condensed water in the intercooler. When it is determined that the condensed water is generated in any of these portions, the ECU performs a corresponding countermeasure for restricting the generation of the condensed water. |
| US10107232B2 |
Method for driving internal combustion engine, and air supply device
A method for driving an internal combustion engine is a method for reducing nitrogen oxides in emissions of the internal combustion engine, and includes a process of introducing air, which has a low oxygen concentration and contains no emissions, into the internal combustion engine, and a process of mixing humidifying water with a hydrocarbon fuel and injecting the mixture into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine as an emulsion fuel. |
| US10107231B2 |
Gas turbine engine with geared architecture
A geared architecture for a gas turbine engine comprises a fan shaft and a fan supported on the fan shaft and defining a bypass flow ratio greater than about six. A frame supports the fan shaft. A gear system drives the fan shaft. The gear system has a gear reduction ratio of greater than or equal to about 2.3. A torque frame at least partially supports the gear system. An input is coupled to the gear system. A downstream turbine is coupled to rotatably drive the input coupling. The downstream turbine defines a pressure ratio that is greater than about five (5). |
| US10107230B2 |
Cover member of internal combustion engine
A cover of an internal combustion engine includes a cover body to be mounted to a crankcase of the internal combustion engine. The cover body includes a through hole, a protruding part, and a plurality of first recessed grooves. The through hole is to support a shaft rotatably. The protruding part is provided above the through hole in an upward direction of the internal combustion engine and protrudes toward an inside of the cover body facing the crankcase. The protruding part includes a first upper part and a first lower part in the upward direction on an inner surface of the protruding part facing the crankcase. The plurality of first recessed grooves extend radially from the through hole so as to connect the upper part and the lower part of the protruding part. |
| US10107227B2 |
Method of forming a cylinder liner
A cylinder liner is disclosed, the cylinder liner having a smoother internal surface of an internal side than known cylinder liners. The internal surface having at least one of a reduced peak height of (Rpk) of ≤0.25 μm, a core roughness (Rk) of about 0.2 μm to about 0.6 μm, a reduced valley depth (Rvk) of about 1.2 μm to about 2.5 μm, a material ratio (Mr1) of ≤10%, and a material ratio (Mr2) of about 70% to about 90%. |
| US10107219B2 |
Method and system for engine cold-start
Methods and systems are provided for adjusting engine cranking speed, fueling, and spark initiation to increase fuel vaporization during cold-start conditions. In one example, a method may include, during engine cold-start, cranking the engine at a lower speed relative to a nominal cranking speed while injecting fuel and disabling spark for a number of engine cycles, and after the completion of the number of engine cycle increasing the cranking speed and initiating spark. |
| US10107218B2 |
Control apparatus for spark-ignition internal combustion engine
When a catalyst of an internal combustion engine is not activated, a control apparatus retards the ignition timing of a spark plug, and thereby, executes a rapid warm-up control of the catalyst. However, on this occasion, when alcohol concentration Ca is high, the control apparatus sets the ignition timing to a more advanced side than when the alcohol concentration Ca is low. When the ignition timing is set to an advanced side, opening angle θ of a throttle valve is manipulated such that command value qsjc for the quantity of the air that is filled into a combustion chamber is increased. Thereby, compared with when the command value qsjc is not increased, the quantity of the fuel that is injected from a cylinder injection valve increases, and the thermal energy of exhaust gas increases. |
| US10107217B2 |
System and method for determining engine knock
Systems and methods for detecting and controlling knock in an engine are presented. In one example, engine knock sensors are selected based on whether or not certain cylinders are activated and combusting air and fuel or deactivated and not combusting air and fuel. Output of selected knock sensors is the basis for adjusting engine spark timing. |
| US10107216B2 |
System and method for reactivating engine cylinders
Systems and methods for operating an engine with deactivating valves are presented. In one example, deactivated valves may be reactivated to increase a rate of camshaft phase indexing relative to engine crankshaft position. However, if a desired rate of camshaft indexing is low, the engine cylinders may remain deactivated based on the low rate of desired camshaft indexing. |
| US10107207B2 |
Small engine combination switch
The invention relates generally to portable internal combustion engine powered devices. Public a small engine control combination switch comprising a knob assembly, a bracket and a choke cable, knob assembly includes a fixed plate, characterized in that the fixed plate with a rail; the bracket including a first hole. The choke cable connects with the rail through the first hole. The height of the rail is gradually increased, rail pivot drives the choke cable on the top of the track moves up and down; also further includes a fuel switch, a fixed plate is provided with a rotating shaft, the shaft connecting the fuel switch. The invention through the choke point of engine control, start-up, operation and shut down control, which simplifies the traditional steps of engines, generators and other equipment, greatly simplifying the operation process, improving the operation efficiency. |
| US10107204B2 |
Compact aero-thermo model base point linear system based state estimator
Systems and methods for controlling a fluid based engineering system are disclosed. The systems and methods may include a model processor for generating a model output, the model processor including a set state module for setting dynamic states of the model processor, the dynamic states input to an open loop model based on the model operating mode. The model processor may further include an estimate state module for determining an estimated state of the model based on a prior state model output and the current state model of the open loop model, the estimate state module determining estimator gain associated with the current state model and applying the estimator gain to determine the estimated state of the model. |
| US10107200B2 |
Turbine engine thermal management
A gas turbine engine including core engine is provided. Air may enter the core engine through an inlet and travel through and engine air flowpath extending through the core engine, e.g., generally along an axial direction of the gas turbine engine. The gas turbine engine additionally includes a cooling air flowpath extending outwardly generally along the radial direction of the gas turbine engine. The cooling air flowpath extends between an inlet in flow communication with engine air flowpath and an outlet defined by an opening in an outer casing of the core engine. Moreover, the gas turbine engine includes a heat exchanger positioned at least partially within the outer casing the core engine with the cooling air flowpath extending over or through the heat exchanger. |
| US10107195B2 |
Compound cycle engine
A compound cycle engine having an output shaft; at least two rotary units each defining an internal combustion engine, a first stage turbine, and a turbocharger is discussed. The first stage turbine includes a rotor in driving engagement with the output shaft between two of the rotary units. The exhaust port of each rotary unit is in fluid communication with the flowpath of the first stage turbine upstream of its rotor. The outlet of the compressor of the turbocharger is in fluid communication with the inlet port of each rotary unit. The inlet of the second stage turbine of the turbocharger is in fluid communication with the flowpath of the first stage turbine downstream of its rotor. The first stage turbine has a lower reaction ratio than that of the second stage turbine. A method of compounding at least two rotary engines is also discussed. |
| US10107193B2 |
Reverse core gear turbofan
A gas turbine engine comprises a fan at an axially outer location, the fan rotating about an axis of rotation, delivering air into an outer bypass duct, a radially middle duct, and a radially inner core duct. Air from the inner core duct is directed into a compressor, and then flows axially in a direction back toward the fan through a combustor section, and across a core turbine section, and is then directed into the middle duct. A gear reduction drives the fan from a fan drive turbine section. A method of operating a gas turbine engine is also disclosed. |
| US10107188B2 |
Forced induction apparatus for engine
A forced induction apparatus for an engine includes a first forced induction device including a first bearing and a first oil passage that passes by the first bearing and a second forced induction device including a second bearing, a second oil passage that passes by the second bearing, and a drain passage that is in communication with the first oil passage. The second forced induction device is located below the first forced induction device, and the drain passage receives oil from the first oil passage and discharges the oil out of the second forced induction device. |
| US10107183B2 |
Eccentric planetary traction drive super-turbocharger
Disclosed are embodiments of eccentric planetary traction drives for use in a driven turbocharger. The eccentric planetary provides torque-based loading of the traction interfaces in the traction drive. A loading planet has a larger outer diameter and has translative movement when torque is applied to the traction drive so that it is forced into a wedge gap between the turbo shaft and outer ring of the planetary drive. The torque capacity of the traction drive increases with an increase of torque demand. |
| US10107173B2 |
Straddle-type vehicle
A straddle-type vehicle includes a radiator; an engine; and a passage which is provided inside the cylinder block and the cylinder head, flows a coolant from the cylinder head toward the cylinder block, and is provided with an inlet located on a rear side of the cylinder head; a pipe which flows the coolant from the radiator toward the passage, and flows the coolant from an outlet toward the radiator; and a thermostat which limits a flow of the coolant inside the pipe in a case where a temperature of the coolant is equal to or lower than a predetermined temperature, and permits the flow of the coolant in a case where the temperature is higher than the predetermined temperature, wherein the outlet is provided on a front side of the cylinder block and the thermostat is attached on a front portion of the engine. |
| US10107170B2 |
Method for validating signals generated by acoustic sensors
A method for monitoring the reductant quantity in a reservoir method is provided. The reductant is stored within the reservoir for use within an exhaust gas treatment system of a vehicle, and the reservoir comprises an acoustic sensor disposed within the reductant and capable of generating signals relating to the volume of reductant within the reservoir. The method includes generating a first signal for validation after a system wakeup, conducting a wakeup validation using a wakeup condition, wherein the wakeup condition includes determining if the first signal is within a first accuracy threshold relative to a validated signal generated during the previous operating cycle; and conducting a secondary validation for a signal generated after the first signal using one or more secondary validation conditions. The method can further comprise conducting one or more subsequent validations for one or more signals generated after the first signal. |
| US10107167B2 |
Exhaust-heat recovery apparatus
An exhaust-heat recovery apparatus includes: a circulation passage, through which a heat carrier circulates, that has a heat recovery unit evaporating the heat carrier and a condenser condensing the evaporated heat carrier; a heat carrier controller that supplies the heat carrier in a liquid phase to the circulation passage; and a determination unit, in which the heat carrier controller supplies or recovers the heat carrier when a changing rate of an internal pressure in the circulation passage or a changing rate of a temperature of the heat carrier in the circulation passage is within a predetermined range, determines a type of abnormality based on the changing rate of the internal pressure in the circulation passage or the changing rate of the temperature of the heat carrier in the circulation passage after the supplying or the recovering of the heat carrier. |
| US10107163B2 |
Exhaust gas purification apparatus for an internal combustion engine
An amount of ammonia flowing out from an SCR catalyst is reduced at the time of carrying out rich spike control to reduce an amount of NOx stored in an NSR catalyst. The NSR catalyst and the SCR catalyst are arranged in order in an exhaust passage of an internal combustion engine which is able to be operated at a lean air fuel ratio, wherein a target air fuel ratio of exhaust gas flowing into the NSR catalyst during the rich spike control is made higher within the range of a rich air fuel ratio, in the case where the outflow of ammonia from the SCR catalyst in accompany with the rich spike control is estimated or detected, than in the case where it is not estimated or detected. |
| US10107159B2 |
Internal combustion engine
An internal combustion engine includes a camshaft, a cylinder head, a head cover, a high-pressure pump, and a vacuum pump. The high-pressure pump includes a plunger that abuts against a cam provided on the camshaft. The high-pressure pump is configured to be driven by rotation of the cam such that oil that has lubricated abutting portions of the cam and the plunger collides with an inside wall of the head cover. The vacuum pump is mounted to the cylinder head. The vacuum pump is configured to draw in air from an inlet and discharge an oil mist with air from an outlet. The outlet is arranged such that the oil mist with air from the outlet is discharged into a space where an oil mist formed by a spray of oil that has collided with the inside wall of the head cover stagnates. |
| US10107156B2 |
Single lobe deactivating rocker arm
A deactivating rocker arm can include an outer arm extending between a first end and a second end. The outer arm can have a first outer side arm and a second outer side arm. The first and second outer side arms can define outer pivot axle apertures and axle slots. The inner arm can be disposed between the first and second outer side arms. The inner arm can have a first inner side arm and a second inner side arm. The first and second inner side arms can define bearing apertures. A bearing can be mounted in the bearing apertures of the inner arm and the axle slots of the outer arm. The axle slots can be configured to permit lost motion movement of the bearing. A first biasing member can be disposed on the second end of the outer arm and in biasing contact with the bearing. |
| US10107144B2 |
Thermal power plant for recovering water from exhaust gas and a method for treating recovered water of thermal power plant thereof
A thermal power plant for recovering water from exhaust gas includes a gas turbine, a heat recovery steam generator for generating steam by supplying exhaust combustion gas exhausted from the gas turbine as heat source, a water recovery system installed on the downstream side of the heat recovery steam generator, a recovered water system for supplying a part of the water recovered by the water recovery system, allowing the water to be circulating as circulating water, a feed water system for supplying the heat recovery steam generator with other part of the water recovered by the water recovery system as feed water, pH adjusting systems, and a control system for controlling the volumes of pH adjusters supplied from the first and second pH adjusting systems. |
| US10107143B2 |
Methods and apparatus to adjust hydrodynamic designs of a hydrokinetic turbine
Methods and apparatus to adjust hydrodynamic designs of a hydrokinetic turbine are disclosed herein. An example method of generating hydrodynamic power via a hydrokinetic turbine includes identifying a first characteristic of a first location in a body of water where the turbine is to be installed and determining, based on the first characteristic of the first location, a geometry of a first turbine component of the turbine. The example method includes removably coupling the first turbine component to a frame of the turbine. The example method includes positioning the turbine including the first turbine component at the first location. |
| US10107141B2 |
Seal configurations for turbine assembly and bearing compartment interfaces
The present disclosure relates to gas turbine engine and seal configurations, and components for a gas turbine engine. In one embodiment, a seal for a gas turbine engine includes a first circumferential seal, a second circumferential seal and a seal support structure configured to retain at least a portion of each of the first and second seals. The seal support structure is mounted between a turbine assembly and bearing compartment, and wherein the first and second seals provide barriers to a cavity between the turbine assembly and bearing compartment. |
| US10107134B2 |
Geared architecture to protect critical hardware during fan blade out
A turbofan engine including a fan section including a plurality of fan blades rotatable about an axis, a compressor including a plurality of compressor blades, a turbine including a plurality of turbine blades and a geared architecture driven by the turbine for driving the fan section at a speed and direction different than the turbine is disclosed. A rub strip proximate at least one of the compressor blades, the turbine blades and the fan blades slows rotation when engaged. The rub strip generates a torque opposing rotation when in an engaged condition that is between 2 and 6 times a torque encountered in a non-engaged condition. |
| US10107133B2 |
Method for the monitoring of a degree of coking at seals by a gas generator shaft
The invention relates to a method (1000) for monitoring a degree of coking at dynamic seals of a turbine engine comprising: a gas generator including a rotary shaft and an injection wheel mounted on the shaft; a fuel injection manifold designed to convey fuel to the injection wheel; and dynamic seals designed to provide a seal between the injection wheel and the fuel injection manifold. The method is characterised in that it comprises steps consisting in: measuring (1100) the rotation speed of the gas generator shaft during a turbine engine autorotation phase, and determining (1200) a degree of coking at the dynamic seals, based on changes in the measured rotation speed over time. The invention also relates to a turbine engine equipped with a monitoring system. |
| US10107132B2 |
Embedded sensor system
A magnetic communication system for a gas turbine engine may include a sensor coupled to a microcontroller. A low frequency radio-frequency identification integrated chip may be coupled to the microcontroller. A first coupling circuit may be coupled to the low frequency radio-frequency identification integrated chip and may include a first coil winding wound within a first core. The first coil winding operatively associated with a low frequency magnetic flux. |
| US10107131B2 |
Fan drive thrust balance
A gas turbine engine according to an exemplary aspect of the present disclosure includes, among other things, a fan section, a shaft including a bearing system, a turbine section in communication with the shaft, a speed change mechanism coupling the fan section to the turbine section and a biasing device configured to apply a biasing force against the shaft. |
| US10107130B2 |
Concentric shafts for remote independent variable vane actuation
An actuator system including a harmonic drive operable to drive a variable vane system of a gas turbine engine. |
| US10107129B2 |
Blade outer air seal with spring centering
A seal assembly includes a seal arc segment that has first and second seal supports. A carriage has first and second support members. The first support member supports the seal arc segment in a first ramped interface and the second support member supports the seal arc segment in a second ramped interface such that the seal arc segment is circumferentially moveable with respect to the carriage. First and second opposed springs bias the seal arc segment toward a circumferential default position. |
| US10107126B2 |
Non-contact seal assembly for rotational equipment
Assemblies are provided for rotational equipment. One of these assemblies includes a first bladed rotor assembly, a second bladed rotor assembly, a stator vane assembly, a stator structure and a seal assembly. The second bladed rotor assembly includes a rotor disk structure. The stator vane assembly is axially between the first and the second bladed rotor assemblies. The stator structure is mated with and radially within the stator vane assembly. The seal assembly is configured for sealing a gap between the stator structure and the rotor disk structure, wherein the seal assembly includes a non-contact seal. |
| US10107124B2 |
Modular instrumentation egress seal for a gas turbine engine
A modular egress seal assembly includes an annular plate with an axially extending aperture. A base plate is mountable to the annular plate. The base plate includes an aperture extending along the axis when said base plate is mounted to the annular plate thereby forming an axial passageway and a cover plate mountable to said annular plate. |
| US10107123B2 |
Sliding seal
The present disclosure relates generally to a sliding seal between two components. At least one of the two components includes a ramped surface on which the sliding seal slides during relative movement between the two components. |
| US10107121B2 |
Carbon seal assembly
A carbon seal assembly comprises an annular member adapted to be secured to a structure. An annular seal runner is sealingly mounted to a shaft to rotate therewith, with the seal runner being made of a material complementary to that of the annular member for magnetic attraction therebetween. An annular carbon seal element is mounted to the annular seal runner to rotate therewith and positioned in a gap between the annular member and the annular seal runner, the annular carbon seal element having an annular wear surface abutting against a face of the annular member. A cross-sectional area of the annular carbon seal element increases as the axial dimension of the annular seal runner decreases for at least a part of the seal. |
| US10107117B2 |
Airfoil assembly with spacer and tie-spar
An airfoil assembly includes at least one airfoil that has a hollow interior. First and second platforms are disposed between the airfoil. At least one tie-spar extends along an axis through the first platform, the hollow interior of the airfoil, and the second platform. There is a thermal expansion difference between a thermal expansion of the tie-spar in the axial direction and the combined thermal expansion of the airfoil and the first and second platform in the axial direction. At least one spacer portion is arranged on the tie-spar. The spacer portion has a thermal expansion in the axial direction that is greater than the thermal expansion difference such that the spacer portion maintains the tie-spar under tension and clamps the first and second platforms on the airfoil. |
| US10107105B2 |
Fan blade grounding tab
An airfoil for a gas turbine engine is disclosed. The airfoil may include a leading edge, a sheath on the leading edge; and a grounding element connected to the sheath. The grounding element may have a radially extending tab, and may be configured for connection to a component of the gas turbine engine to form a ground path from the sheath to the component. |
| US10107103B2 |
Rotor for a thermal turbomachine
A rotor for a thermal turbomachine, in particular a gas turbine, is configured for guiding a medium in its interior. In order to guide the medium in the interior with low flow losses, a pair of rotor disks lie on one another, of which the first of the two rotor disks of the pair has holes, in order to feed the medium from the outside into the rotor interior, and rib-shaped ribs, in order to guide the medium further in the direction of the rotational axis, and the second rotor disk of the pair being configured with the aid of an auxiliary web in such a way that the flow passages which are formed between the ribs as viewed in the circumferential direction are delimited axially at least over the large part of the radial extent of the ribs. |
| US10107102B2 |
Rotor disk assembly for a gas turbine engine
A rotor assembly for a gas turbine engine includes a rotor disk. The rotor disk includes a heat barrier feature radially inward of a rotor blade and radially outward of a rotor disk. |
| US10107096B2 |
Formation testing
Formation testing which may involve circulating mud in a pipe string from a mud pit through a port in the pipe string to a downhole diverter sub, wherein the pipe string is suspended in a wellbore extending into a subterranean formation, operating a downhole pump to pump formation fluid from the formation, wherein the formation fluid comprises gas, and mixing the pumped formation fluid with circulated mud such that a proportion of the pumped formation gas in the circulated mud is maintained below a threshold value. |
| US10107095B2 |
Apparatus and method for monitoring a fluid
A fluid monitoring apparatus includes a housing and a tracer sensor attached to an exterior of the housing. The housing has at least one flow passage for a fluid sample and a port for the tracer sensor to monitor the fluid sample in the housing. In one example, the monitoring apparatus may include a plurality of tracer sensors attached to the housing, wherein the tracer sensors are interchangeably attached to the housing. In one embodiment, the monitoring apparatus may be attached to a first well for detecting the presence of a tracer in the first well, wherein the tracer is supplied from a second well. |
| US10107089B2 |
Top drive movement measurements system and method
Top drive movement measurement system having a sensor module configured to be disposed about and couple to a component of a top drive system, a first plurality of sensors of the sensor module, wherein the first plurality of sensors is configured to detect lateral movement of the component of the top drive system, and a second plurality of sensors of the sensor module, wherein the second plurality of sensors is configured to detect one or more compression or tension forces in the component of the top drive system. |
| US10107088B2 |
Centrifugal separator for downhole pump
A separator removes solids from downhole fluid of a wellbore for intake of a downhole pump and allows the removed solids to pass out an outlet downhole of the separator. The separator handles erosion that may occur by having first and second inner bodies disposed in an outer body. The first inner body and extends from intake to a first distal end in the interior, whereas the second inner extends from adjacent an outlet to a second distal end in the interior. A space between the second distal end disposed about the first distal end allows for fluid entering an inlet of the outer housing to pass into the second inner body. A flow body disposed in the space can then produce flow in the downhole fluid separating particulate from the downhole fluid passing from the inlet, to the interior, through the defined space, and to the second passage. |
| US10107086B2 |
Remote monitoring for hydraulic fracturing equipment
A hydraulic fracturing system for fracturing a subterranean formation including a pump in communication via pump components with a wellbore that intersects the formation, and that pressurizes fluid in the wellbore, the fluid comprising a fracturing fluid slurry. The system further includes hydraulic fracturing system components for making the fracturing fluid slurry, and a monitoring system that selectively captures and transmits real time images of at least one of the hydraulic fracturing system components or pump components to enable remote monitoring of the at least one of the hydraulic fracturing system components or pump components. |
| US10107084B2 |
System and method for dedicated electric source for use in fracturing underground formations using liquid petroleum gas
The present invention provides a method and system for providing on-site electrical power to a fracturing operation, and an electrically powered fracturing system. Natural gas can be used to drive a turbine generator in the production of electrical power. A scalable, electrically powered fracturing fleet is provided to pump fluids for the fracturing operation, obviating the need for a constant supply of diesel fuel to the site and reducing the site footprint and infrastructure required for the fracturing operation, when compared with conventional systems. The treatment fluid can comprise a water-based fracturing fluid or a waterless liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) fracturing fluid. |
| US10107083B2 |
Apparatus, systems, and methods for fracturing a geological formation
The present disclosure relates, according to some embodiments, to apparatus, systems, and methods of fracturing a geological structure including the application of kinetic energy (e.g., from high velocity frack fluid) to a subterranean structure. In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to apparatus, systems, and methods for delivery of high velocity fluid to a well using a down hole valve and/or throttling system. The present disclosure relates to apparatus, systems, and methods of generating pressure using accumulators (e.g., high pressure accumulators) at the surface of a well. |
| US10107081B2 |
Method for recovery of hydrocarbon fluid
A method is described for recovery of a hydrocarbon fluid from a porous medium by injection of a fluid into the porous medium. The method includes determining a Rayleigh time on the basis of the density of the fluid and the hydrocarbon fluid, the median pore diameter of the porous medium, and surface tension between the fluid and the hydrocarbon fluid. The method includes arranging a chamber in fluid communication with the porous medium via at least one conduit, and having the chamber comprising first and second wall parts movable relative to each other. The pressure stimulation includes providing an impact pressure in the fluid to propagate to the porous medium via the conduit, wherein the impact pressure is generated by the collision process between an object arranged outside of the fluid and the first wall parts for the first wall part to impact on the fluid in the chamber. |
| US10107074B2 |
Downhole completion tool
A downhole tool and method of operation thereof is provided. The downhole tool may be configured to permit fluid communication between a combined flowbore of the casing string and the downhole tool and the subterranean formation or wellbore, or both, after a pressure test has been completed, a second threshold pressure is reached or applied, and a third threshold pressure has been applied to the downhole tool. |
| US10107072B2 |
Toe valve
A tool includes a housing between an outer wall and an inner wall that surrounds a longitudinal tool bore. First and second axially spaced ports connect the housing to the tool bore. An unlocking piston seals across the first port and an arming sleeve seals across the second port. A Locking ring is held in place by a retaining ring and prevents the arming sleeve from sliding towards the unlocking piston to open the second port. An unlocking tool bore pressure at the first port moves the unlocking piston axially to displace the retaining ring and unlock the tool. A lower, arming tool bore pressure moves the arming sleeve in the unlocked tool to open the second port and arms the tool. An actuating tool bore pressure, which is less that the unlocking pressure, actuates a valve piston via the open second port. |
| US10107071B2 |
Systems, assemblies and processes for controlling tools in a well bore
A dedicated hydraulic line for transmission of a signal device capable of generating one or more unique signals to one or more tools within a subterranean well. Each tool can be equipped with a reader device for receiving signals from and transmitting signals to the signal device. Each reader device can control operation of the tool associated therewith if the reader device is programmed to respond to signals received from the control device. Hydraulic fluid used to operate the tool can be conveyed via the dedicated hydraulic line or a separate hydraulic line. A separate hydraulic line can be used to reset the tool. |
| US10107069B2 |
Apparatus and method for recovering fluids from a well and/or injecting fluids into a well
Methods and apparatus for diverting fluids either into or from a well are described. Some embodiments include a diverter conduit that is located in a bore of a tree. The invention relates especially but not exclusively to a diverter assembly connected to a wing branch of a tree. Some embodiments allow diversion of fluids out of a tree to a subsea processing apparatus followed by the return of at least some of these fluids to the tree for recovery. Alternative embodiments provide only one flowpath and do not include the return of any fluids to the tree. Some embodiments can be retro-fitted to existing trees, which can allow the performance of a new function without having to replacing the tree. Multiple diverter assembly embodiments are also described. |
| US10107068B2 |
Treatment plug, method of anchoring and sealing the same to a structure and method of treating a formation
A treatment plug includes an anchor runnable and settable within a structure having, at least one slip movably engaged with the anchor to move radially into engagement with the structure in response to longitudinal movement of the at least one slip relative to surfaces of the treatment plug, the at least one slip being perimetrically wedged between fingers of the treatment plug that are not radially movable, at least one seal having a deformable metal member configured to radially deform into sealing engagement with the structure in response to being deformed radially outwardly, and a seat that is sealingly receptive to a plug. |
| US10107066B2 |
Anti-creep rings and configurations for single packers
In one example a tool is provided, having a body configured to expand from a first diameter to a second diameter, an outer covering for the body, the outer surface having at least one inlet to accept fluid through the outer covering into the body, the outer covering to outer proximate ends and at least two anti-creep rings abutting the outer covering at each of the outer proximate ends, wherein the anti-creep rings constrain the outer covering from movement. |
| US10107064B2 |
Changeable well seal tool
A well seal tool includes a base tubing and a seal element carried on an exterior of the base tubing. The seal element includes a polymer changeable between a compressed state and a sealing state. The seal element has a first stiffness in response to a first strain rate of the polymer and a second, substantially higher stiffness in response to a second, higher strain rate of the polymer. |
| US10107056B2 |
Core holding system
The present disclosure discloses a core holding system, comprising: a sleeve in which a cavity capable of accommodating a core is formed; an adjustment plug set comprising a plurality of adjustment plugs having grooves of different diameters, wherein any one of the adjustment plugs is dismountably connectable to the sleeve, and when the adjustment plug is mounted on the sleeve, an end of the adjustment plug having the groove is insertable into the sleeve while abutting against the core; a heating module provided to sheathe the sleeve; and a thermal insulation module provided to sheathe the heating module. Before the core is held, the operator may select a matched adjustment plug from the adjustment plug set according to a diameter of a core to be held, so that a diameter of the groove of the adjustment plug is matched with a diameter of an end of the core, thereby ensuring that the end of the core can be engaged in the groove, thus ensuring that the core holding system can stably and tightly engage the core, and preventing the held core from being shifted or loosened. |
| US10107054B2 |
Power charge having a combustible sleeve
A power charge (12) for a downhole setting tool has a sleeve (14) which defines a housing. A propellant (16) is located in the sleeve (14) in solid form and defines a first end face (20). An igniter (32) is embedded into the propellant (16) first end face (20). The igniter (32) has a main body portion (52) with an end located adjacent to the first end face (20), and an annular-shaped protrusion (48) which extends laterally outward from the main body portion (52) and into the propellant (16). The annular-shaped protrusion (48) defines a shoulder (46) which engages the propellant (16) to retain the igniter (32) within the propellant (16) at the first end face (20) of the power charge (12). The sleeve (14) is formed of a combustible material which will burn when the propellant (16) is burned. |
| US10107051B2 |
Methods and systems for tubular validation
Systems, devices, and methods include a racker device and a catwalk structurally arranged to move a tubular or stand about a drilling rig site. A sensing arrangement is cooperatively associated with at least one of the racker device and the catwalk and is configured to sense an aspect of a tubular while the tubular is being handled at the drilling rig and output a signal representative of the aspect of the tubular. A tubular validation system is configured to receive the sensed aspect of the tubular obtained by the sensing arrangement and determine a specification characteristic of the tubular based on the sensed aspect. This may be compared to specification standards to determine whether the tubular or stand should be discarded. |
| US10107047B2 |
Connection protector with a flexible gasket for a tubular component
A protector for a connection for a tubular component for drilling or operating hydrocarbon wells, provided with a distal end surface, the protector comprising an annular housing comprising a bottom, two lateral walls, outer and inner, separated from each other and in which an annular gasket is disposed, each lateral wall comprising a bottom lateral wall portion and an exterior lateral wall portion and an upper face, the two exterior lateral wall portions defining an opening with width Au and characterized in that a distance A between two bottom lateral wall portions is greater than the width Au, in a manner such as to allow a first annular gasket to be positioned then to allow said annular gasket to be retained in the annular housing. |
| US10107045B2 |
Drilling tool
The drilling tool includes a circular-cylindrical casing pipe; an annular ring bit disposed at a leading end of the casing pipe so as to be coaxial with the casing pipe and rotatable around a central axis of the casing pipe; and a pilot bit inserted into the casing pipe and has a leading end disposed at an inner peripheral part of the ring bit. The ring bit is engaged with the pilot bit in a rotational direction, and thereby is rotatable integrally with the pilot bit and is locked to the leading end of the pilot bit. Drilling tips are mounted on the leading ends of the pilot bit and the ring bit, and first drilling tips at an outermost periphery of the pilot bit and second drilling tips at an innermost periphery of the ring bit overlap each other in a rotational trajectory around the central axis. |
| US10107034B2 |
Enhanced strength spreader step for use with rope ladders
This invention relates to a spreader step for a rope ladder comprising a metal scaffold having three types of overlapping elements. There are two parallel elongate elements, two U-shaped elements, the ends of which are inserted into the ends of the parallel elongate elements, and four strengthening elements that are disposed over the other two types of elements at the site of overlap. |
| US10107031B2 |
Wing-up light-directing slat, method of production, application, and sun protection system
Light guiding slat for a sun protection system, wherein the light guiding slat is made of a band material equipped with a Fresnel reflector made by folding and/or bending the band material whereby the light guiding slat has a total height (G) which is so small that the light guiding slat has a form to be coilable with a coiling radius of 1 m or less without any substantial plastic deformation. |
| US10107030B2 |
Security gate
A gate unit includes a gate mount that can be mated with a frame bordering a doorway, hallway, or staircase. The gate unit also includes a gate mounted for pivotable movement on the gate mount between opened and closed positions. |
| US10107029B1 |
Window for disposing of garbage therethrough
An apparatus for disposing of trash, including garbage and recyclables, through a pair of adjacent trash removal windows separated by a spacer into separate outdoor trash containers without having to leave a building. Each of the pair of trash removal windows are independently raised respective one of the trash containers simultaneously with the lid of a trash container so a user can dispose of trash through the opened window into the trash container. When the window is closed the lid of the trash container is closed at the same time. |
| US10107027B1 |
Thermally enhanced multi-component window
A window includes an insulated glass unit and a frame supporting the insulated glass unit. The insulated glass unit includes a first glass pane and a second glass pane spaced from the first glass pane. A central plane extends through a pocket defined between the first glass pane and the second glass pane. The frame includes a first material visible on a first side of the window. The window also includes cladding connected to the frame. The cladding includes a second material visible on a second side of the window. The frame defines a cavity that extends between the first side and the second side and inhibits moisture from the first side contacting the second material. The window includes a thermal cavity defined by the frame and aligned with the pocket. |
| US10107025B2 |
Vehicular operation detecting apparatus
A vehicular operation detecting apparatus includes: sensors provided side by side in a vehicle, and individually outputting detection signals that change when a detection target comes into contact with or approaches the sensors; a computing unit computing a ratio value which is a value of a ratio of a first detection signal to a second detection signal, which are detection signals of a first sensor and a second sensor that are one and another one of the sensors, respectively; an operational direction detection unit detecting a direction of movement of the detection target from the first sensor toward the second sensor if the computed ratio value decreases, and detecting the direction of movement from the second sensor toward the first sensor if the computed ratio value increases; and a drive control unit controlling the driving of an opening and closing body in accordance with the detected direction of movement. |
| US10107018B2 |
Locking post with an adjustable lock rod
A locking post for a closure having a locking unit in the middle of the post. The locking unit carries a latch movable transversely of the post between locked and unlocked positions. A bottom lock rod unit is slidably mounted in the bottom part of the post. The lock rod unit has a moving block, a lock rod extending from the bottom end of the moving block, and a rigid strap extending from the top end of the moving block to the locking unit and past the latch. The lock rod unit is movable within the post to move the lock rod from an unlocked position within the post out of the bottom end of the post to a locked position and to move the strap down past the latch. The latch on the locking unit is movable transversely of the post to a locked position in the path of movement of the strap to prevent the strap from returning to is unlocked position. An adjustable connection connects the strap to its moving block in a manner to be able to adjust the length of the lock rod unit. |
| US10107006B2 |
Door knob assembly
A new door knob assembly for allowing a door to be opened easily without the need to turn a knob. The assembly includes an outside door knob and an actuating inside door knob respectively positioned within openings on the outside and inside surfaces of a door. A locking body which communicates with the door knobs is positioned in an opening on the side edge of the door. The locking body has a locking shaft with a locking head on one end which protrudes from the side edge and retracts into the door. On the other end, engagement arms are fitted with obstruction openings. A locking rod which extends in from the inside knob has a locking nut which when positioned in the obstruction openings prevents the locking head from retracting into the door. When the locking nut is moved out of the obstruction openings by actuating the inside knob the locking head can retract into the door. |
| US10107002B1 |
Automated girth fitter and shim remover
Embodiments of an automatic girth fitter system use a device or devices to automate the alignment of horizontal weld seams in both shop- and field-built tanks or vessels. The automated system device or devices may also be used to remove shims that are used to gap the horizontal weld seams and provide plate alignment prior to fitting or welding those seams. |
| US10106997B2 |
Systems and methods for removing precipitation from an exterior of a building
This disclosure relates to systems, methods and apparatuses for removing precipitation from an exterior of a building in an expedited and automated fashion. The precipitation removal system includes one or more sweeper assemblies and one or more hoisting assemblies. The sweeper assemblies are suspended from the roof, ledge or other portion of a building. The hoisting assemblies assist the sweeper assemblies with vertically traversing the exterior of the building. As a sweeper assembly vertically traverses the side of the building, precipitation that accumulates on the exterior of the building is removed. The sweeper assemblies can remove precipitation from connecting structures on the exterior of the building which are used by building maintenance personnel to perform maintenance operations on the exterior of the building. |
| US10106995B2 |
Deck for use in construction
This invention relates generally to a method for making a deck for use in construction. In one embodiment, the method includes, but is not limited to, positioning a first box tube substantially parallel to a second box tube; attaching a plate to the first box tube and the second box tube, the plate extending between the first box tube and the second box tube; coupling a hydraulic cylinder to the plate; slidably inserting a first extension member at least partially into the first box tube; slidably inserting a second extension member at least partially into the second box tube, the first and second extension members having a beam extending therebetween; coupling the hydraulic cylinder to the beam; positioning a platform having one or more wheels on the plate and over the hydraulic cylinder such that the platform is rollable relative to the plate; and attaching the platform to the beam such that the platform is operable to retractably extend beyond an edge of a floor of a building in conjunction with the first and second extension members in response to actuation of the at least one hydraulic cylinder. |
| US10106990B2 |
Hazard warning system
A flooring element is provided for a raised floor including removable flooring panels and a supporting structure with a load bearing surface. The flooring element includes a warning element operable for moving between an inactive position in which the warning element is substantially concealed by the surface and an active position in which the warning element projects beyond the surface to form a visual hazard warning indicator. The flooring element may be for example a flooring panel, a stringer, a pedestal, an insert for a pedestal or an insert for inserting between a sub-floor void and a flooring panel. |
| US10106989B2 |
Apparatus for setting objects
In at least one embodiment, a panel comprises a body portion comprising a front side, a back side and a plurality of cavities. The front side comprises a plurality of face portions and cavity openings arranged on a first plane, and a plurality of guide members. Each guide member comprises a front edge arranged on a second plane, wherein the second plane is offset from the first plane. The guide members define a plurality of spaces of predetermined volume between said first plane and said second plane. A method comprises providing the panel, applying mortar to the panel in the predetermined volumes, skimming the mortar using the guide members to guide an edge to form metered mortar pans, and pressing objects into the mortar pans. |
| US10106983B2 |
Wedge for post tensioning tendon
A wedge assembly for post tensioning concrete includes one or more wedges and a wedge ring. Each wedge includes an outer surface having a circumferential groove formed thereon. The wedge ring is adapted to fit into the groove of the wedges and retain the wedges to a strand. The wedge ring including a gap adapted to allow the wedge ring to be installed from the side of the wedges. When installed to the strand, the wedges may form a clearance fit maintained by the wedge ring. At least one wedge may include a guide adapted to assist with the separation of the wedges when installed to the strand. |
| US10106982B2 |
High strength grid member for suspended ceilings
A high-strength grid member is provided that comprises two standard Tee-shaped grid members that are vertically aligned to form an I-beam configuration with the strengthening bulbs of each being spaced apart. A plurality of clips is secured to the spaced-apart bulbs by means of fasteners to secure the two grid members together. |
| US10106981B2 |
Glass and solid wall panel system
A wall system includes a panel having a lower end, a panel assembly having an upper end, and a transition beam positioned between the panel and the panel assembly. The transition beam couples to the upper end of the panel assembly, and the transition beam defines a channel that receives the lower end of the panel to thereby couple the transition beam to the panel. The panel assembly includes a cladding panel having a rail projection, and the transition beam defines an engagement channel that receives the rail projection such that the cladding panel couples to the transition beam. |
| US10106980B2 |
Block interlocking module and system to build architectural structures
An interlocking module including a panel and one or more trapezoidal elongations extending from any of the first end face, the second end face, the first side face, the second end face, the upper face or the lower face of the panel, wherein the one or more trapezoidal elongations each include a dovetail joint. The interlocking module further including one or more members, wherein each of the one or more members emanates from each of the one or more trapezoidal elongations, and wherein each of the one or more members emanates in a perpendicular direction relative to each of the upper and the lower faces of the panel. The upper face includes a plurality of apertures, wherein each of the plurality of apertures is configured for receiving a pin from a member of a second module for interlocking the second module and a first module. The panel and the one or more members of the interlocking module define a void space for receiving a standard sized building block within the void space. |
| US10106978B1 |
Radiant barrier material for use in an attic insulation and ventilation system
A barrier material has an upper, radiant barrier layer and a lower, corrugated surface layer. The radiant barrier layer is preferably a metalized film or an aluminum sheet with an emissivity rating 0.1 or less. The metalized film is laminated to one side of a middle layer using a high, heat-resistant adhesive. The corrugated surface layer, which can receive an insulating material, is preferably a corrugated medium. The corrugated medium is laminated to the other side of the middle layer with a water-resistant adhesive. The middle layer is preferably a fire-resistant, kraft linerboard. The barrier creates an air space or plenum between an external structure and the insulating material designed to prevent heat transfer between an insulated space and the external structure. |
| US10106976B2 |
Method for producing a reinforced structure in the ground
Various methods of making a reinforced structure in the ground using a boring tool are provided. One of the methods includes providing a boring tool having a boring tube that can vibrate. The method also includes making a borehole in the ground using the boring tool while causing the boring tube to vibrate. Additionally, the method includes, when the boring tube has reached a predetermined depth, injecting a sealing grout into the boring tube that embeds the boring tube in the sealing grout. Further, the method includes detaching the boring tube from the boring tool, thereby providing a structure reinforced by the boring tube. |
| US10106975B2 |
Masonry anchor of the expansion type
A masonry anchor comprising an anchor member having a socket formed in one end, the socket being configured to receive and secure a mounting portion of a mounting fastener. |
| US10106974B2 |
Flexible manufacturing system
A flexible, multi-product, multi-technology, expandable facility for manufacturing products, such as biologicals, pharmaceuticals, or chemicals, and manufacturing processes using elements of such a facility. |
| US10106971B2 |
Tilt diverter to control storm-water
The device herein disclosed and described provides a water collection system that separates the initial flush of rainwater, which contains higher concentrations of undesirable contaminants from later received rainwater having lower concentrations of contaminants to be stored for later use or to be discharged directly to receiving bodies of water. The device contains a cistern for treating first flush rainwater, a basin for receiving water in fluid connection with the cistern and a water storage tank, a water diversion channel that diverts first flush rain water to the cistern and additional rainwater to a water storage tank, a floatation device on a connecting rod affixed to the diversion channel that acts to operate the diversion channel when the water in the cistern achieves a desired height by diverting the additional water received to the water storage tank. |
| US10106969B2 |
Toilet installation system and method
A skirted toilet base configured to be secured to a trap, the skirted toilet base having a bowl; a wall extending from the bowl; and a mounting assembly configured to secure the toilet base to the trap. The mounting assembly having a clamping member pivotally coupled to the trap, such that the clamping member can rotate about an axis of rotation relative to the trap, and an adjusting member that extends through an opening in the wall and through a bore in the clamping member. The adjusting member has a longitudinal axis that extends in a direction that is transverse to the axis of rotation, and rotation of the adjusting member about the longitudinal axis rotates the clamping member about the axis of rotation to secure the toilet base to the trap through the clamping member and the adjusting member. |
| US10106966B2 |
Air admittance valve
An air admittance valve which when subjected to a negative pressure condition vents a pipe system to an ambient environment. Generally, the air admittance valve includes a housing, a cartridge, and a sealing member. The housing includes one or more vents disposed in its wall and may be engaged with the pipe system at one end. The cartridge may have one or more inlets defining one or more inlet openings, where the one or more inlets are connected to a central chamber that has an opening with a sealing structure. The sealing member interacts with the sealing structure of the cartridge to allow one-way airflow from the central chamber to the pipe system. The cartridge and sealing member may be inserted into the housing such that the one or more inlet openings substantially align with the one or more vents in the housing. |
| US10106965B2 |
Touch spray head
A touch spray head is in connection with a water supply segment of a water supply pipe which is accommodated in a body of a faucet and includes a water channel, the touch spray head and the water supply pipe are pulled out of and retracted back to an outlet of the body, and the touch spray head contains: a casing, a positioning member, a control valve, and an actuation device. The casing includes a hole arranged thereon, the positioning member includes at least one first through orifice, and each of the at least one first through orifice communicates with the water channel and the hole. The control valve includes a movable stem configured to turn on the control valve, and the actuation device partially exposes outside the casing and is operated by a user so as to urge the movable stem of the control valve to move. |
| US10106963B2 |
Sprayhead retraction assembly
A sprayhead retraction assembly includes a hose coupled at a first end to a faucet sprayhead and at a second end to a water source. The assembly further includes a first member having a first portion that is engaged with the hose between the first and second ends of the hose. The assembly further includes a constant-force spring coupled at a first end to a second portion of the first member and coupled at a second end to a fixed surface. |
| US10106962B2 |
Multi-channel plumbing products
Novel plumbing products, including faucets, are fabricated, e.g., using metallic 3-dimensional or other 3-D printing techniques, to have complex geometries, such as multiple channels that may diverge and re-converge near the spout. The geometries of the various channels can resemble interwoven net-like patterns that define various shapes between the channels. The plumbing fixtures may be formed from one or more of stainless steels, INCONEL, brass, bronze, polycarbonate, PVC, acrylics, rigid polyolefins, PET, carbon fiber, AES, or other plumbing fitting suitable corrosion resistant materials. In some embodiments, the handles of an exemplary faucet can include the same or a similar multiple channel configuration as the spout, providing an advantageously, aesthetically pleasing faucet system. In exemplary embodiments, faucet spouts and their handles are formed so as to couple to standard faucet underbodies, standard valve platforms, or standard threaded hose/waterway connections. |
| US10106957B2 |
Device and method for controlling hydraulic pump in construction machine
Disclosed are a device and a method for controlling a hydraulic pump in a construction machine, the method including: checking whether a dynamic characteristic of an engine deviates from a predetermined permissible range when a load is applied to the hydraulic pump and a pump load reaches pump torque required by the hydraulic pump; when the dynamic characteristic of the engine deviates from the predetermined permissible range, applying a pump load to the hydraulic pump so as to increase the pump torque to predetermined torque with a predetermined change rate; collecting information which is generated when the pump load is applied; generating a new torque change rate map by generating a torque change rate for each load section based on the information collected in the information collecting step; and updating an existing torque change rate map to the new torque change rate map generated in the map data generating step. |